With the closing of the year there hus been the usual sweeping up of the the floor of the treasury in Canton to raise the necessary funds for the re~ payment of the indemnity on the Boxer rising to Great Britain and' Germany. The current payment amounted to twenty-five lacs of dollars. I see from the native papers that n0 less than four different sources have been laid under demand in order that this sum may be raised. The money was raised, however, and has been sent on to Peking. Ihe land tax, the sult tax, the ordinary revenue, and rebates from the per anal salaries of the offcials. each according to its ability, contributed towards the general sam.
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