thing making for increased prosperity is welcome with the price of rice still souring, Tt, has now reached almost $15. a picul, and it is rumoured that rice, riots will soon take place unless the'price conies down, According to Chinese although all other forms of pillage are Meg, rice voting under sufficient prove condoned, and one can but be glad that the poor have some legal redress under otherwise impossible circumstances. It has been proposed to bring in 200,000 piculs Saigon rice in order to bring down the price and ts provide for mediate needs,
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