reports that Dr, Wellington Koo negotiating with the Chinese Bank-
(aye of Hook Clift, Seaview, Tale Wiehe for 30 Yea Feavley: Mifuislers' Association to float "two his' Amwell Hiests "husband of. the Tatejloans with the additional Customs! ren Florence Bavclay, author The Rerary® end numerous revenue and the balance of German "of bonds as thei security." The tele-sparke) net personaly £4808) The grent thing is net that the Rev. Mr. Barclay was for 30 years vicar, but that his wife wrote the "Rosary." Of course the will would ave been mentioned in the papers in any ease, but there is an added interest in' the fact of this very. popular production, And what would have been of really more outstanding importance woul have been a record of what the authoress made out of it. Probate records fre, however, more often than not Uicappointing in that respect, As a role suthers do nep make any amount of money out of their For instance, while Mr. Motehinson is believed to have col lected some £30,000 by the sale of his novel, "If Winter Comes," the average contributor to fiction never makes a living out of it. But we have wandered off the subject, for in the same list og that from w we have taken the above we find 1 coal merchant leaving £7,000 odd, gram added: "It is reported that the! negotiations are making good progress." Now by a happy_eoinc Gence, in Mr. Rodney Gilbert's article which we publish to-day, there is an account of another recent attempt to float a loan on. the security of the German Boxer Indemnity and what it would have meant. When the—-Kuominchun General Lu Chung-lin fell back upon Peking before the slvance of the!
he appointed a man_named inister of Finance de remembered for his attempts to oust Sir Francis Aglen from the Customs and Sir Ernest Wilton from the Salt Gabelle) and structed him to raise money by any means. Mr, Gilbert says:—
The first scheme which Ho. Teb-ti Contes teescue aod te previde a seeusity. Ly nereasing the som, In our columns elsewhere we ported how a house in Yo Yuen Read bad been victimized by an undoubtedly very expert burglar,
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