A drop in the premium on Hong-Kong. cheques sold locally is taken to indicate the belief in the approaching end of the boycott, The Chinese papers print a letter from the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Amoy to the Police her ying that he is instructed by the eking Government, at the instance of the British Minister, to inquire into the circumstances of the confiseation of the—Anglo-Chinese College. The police instruct the sub-office in whose district the College is situated to make a return, It seems scarcely likely that will deal adequately with the matter!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.