Some days ago, a meeting was beld at the Cotton Dealers' Guild at Nantao, Shanghai, to discuss methods of suppressing the evil practice of watering cotton by the producers or by postmen. A great many pereans appeared to have pissed some rather the way. the Cotton was performed, and it was stated that the Japanese bad been much more tion office established not very long ago Mr. Cheng Yin-yean, the proprietor of the Ta Long Cotton firm and the elected head of the cotton business, had taken to heart the adverse opinion which he ro-garded as a discreditable reflexion upon welt. He is reported to have mixed some opiam in his drank it. When what he had done, it is late and he died.
March 18,
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