TARIFF REVISION, reports that the Cabinet Coancil on Tarsday adopted the now tariff Bill. It is not intended to check imports by higher duties on foreign articles. The Bill revises or abolishes horta la vogue under the conreatiooal tariff, so hampers development of domestic indus favouring refined articles at the ex ie industries an relistributes the burden of daty more impartially. In general the Bill adopts the principle of ad valorem daties, instead of the specidi daties hitherto la operation, though it permits the latter io sine cases, increases the i from 580 to 635, aod farther sabdivides them each into a few sections, la order to facilitate the taxation, The existing rates range from six.y to five per cent, bat the new rates enhance the highest daties, la order to widen the scope of impos The new tariff will be submitted tothe Diet upon its re-opening on the 21st instant and will be eaforcas from 1911.
THE OMINCHOW-AIGUR RAILITAY, The " Jiji" qa that the pri-constraction the Aigun-Chinyy has not yet been secured by the British-Aimerican syndicate. Io the event of the privilege being given to the syndicate, China ought to notify Japan to that effect, in view of the fact that a portion of the railway will run parallel to the South Manchuria Railway. The Director emphasized the fact that even if the pri lege be granted to the syndicate, the work of constrnctiog a har boat at Clifachow will prove great undertaitiog, and it will only be after the lapse of thebe or five years that the Aigay-Chinchow Railway will compete with the South Mancharia Railway. On the completion of the South Mancharia Railway: will be jeopardized, bat no sack snxtietymeed be entertained, for the reason' that the relations between the South Manchuria Railway and the mercbaota in Maocharin have already beea firmly established.
CHINESE. NEWS, (Translated from the Chinese Press.)
The Ministry of Edocation has decided that girl students shal! be forbidden to adopt foreign costumes, also that their badges should teither be made of gold or silver. Students in primary girl schools should wear the ordinary household dress, The Commission of Constitutional Reforms has telegraphed to the Chinese Ministers accredited to foreign count tien, ioqairing if the Nationality Laws lately promulgated were practical, and it Chinese and foreigaete were abiding by them.
The Goveroment intends to submit memorial to the Throne to ask that orders be given to the Yoch'asnpe and the Ministry to consider the émployment of police for the protection of "and mines.
Shares of the Communication Bank ander the Yoch'aanpa have' rise from Tls. 50 to Tis, 75 while' those of the Te Ching Government Bank have risen from Tia. 50 to Tha, 115.
'The Hupeh Railway Representatives gain called on the Waiwupa'a Yavh'nanpa, urging them to canodl' the preliminary loan agreement.
It has been decided thet the Grand Coancil shall be converted into Cabinet next year and a Treasury Department will aln> be set up under the charge of the Grand Councillors, It i stated that the northerd srotion of the Tieotsia-Pakoa Railway has 'A Decres has -been issued ordering the new Codes of Law to be clarood next year, 'A report says that Director-General will again be appointed (b the In compliance with the request of the American stated that the Agreement for the loan of Tls. 50,000,000 from America for building the Chiachou-Taomantu Railway has been si the National Debt in Chios, The Prioce Regent has ordered the Grand Council to deliberate ov the snewer to be given to the petitiotfor the opening of Parliament without del Shen Yue-pei, Assistant Director of the Tientsin-Pakon Raitway, who was recently in Shanghsi, was received in audience by the Regent last Saturday and reported on the eohditoas
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