What will actually be done about the Canton tax seems to be still the subject of the usual international correspondence. There can be no doubt, however, about opinion on the subject in the Legatio felt that unless the impositi new tax is successfully resisted, there ig nothing that the Chinese official cate cannot do with the treaties and therefore nothing that they will not do.
Wuex their vietimg dared resist their depredations, five armed robbers who ware engaged in. tobbing a general shop in Ward Road shortly before seven o'clock on Mon-dey evening ran amok with their revolvers and staged a miniat wild west show for some Seconds. It is estimated that they fired least eight shots, some of which struck: an assistant, wounding" hin badly that it is extremely doubt-if he will live, A few hours later the same night, another gang of five, probably the same, robbed the inmates of a dwelling house at Wayside of $126 worth of property. On'v this occasion there was no Fosist-and consequently no shots were fred. Two men have been at-
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