The Egyptian Government have. dedicated a special issue of postage stamps to the International Congress of Cotton Spinners, held Cairo last month. The stamps, issue, "which appeared on. January 24, is reported to be a comparatively largo one, and, with the disastrous example of Port. Fuad before them, the postal authorities limited the sale to 50 copies of any one value at a time. They' will cease to be: valid for postage and after April 24, British traders in the Par East thers will be very little trade for any of them.
T may add that the Cantonese seem jo have representatives all oven Europe and that they possess plenty of money, which shows that they must have been squeezing Chinesat business men to some: very considee~ able extent,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.