The Customs Funds: Inqniries:
From Canton: Will There Be Money to Carry on?
My, Yau Yui: ping, Diveotor of the Board of Conservancy Works of Kuangtung, wont to seo tthe! foreign consuls in Shameen on March 21 to discuss the matter of turning Canton's share of the Customs surplus, or a portion of it, to the Board of Consarvaney in this province, says the "Canton Gazette." The ' director declared that owing to the financial siringency of the local, Government, money is_not obtainable for the Board, He had tried: his utmost to make various improvements in the waterways of the province, but he found that there was nob sufficient money to finance the Mir. Yau also pointed ow shat it is wiser ta: spend the Customs surplus in this important work than for any other purpose, as it WiT] be most beneficial to the [tres] and properties of tha people of the province.
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