To the Editor of the "Norru-Catya Dauty News."
Sin,—It is quite evident many more piece-goods dealers intend to evade their obligations by leaving the settlement and return in a few once again ruin the market and, incidentally, the good name which the old dealer holds throughout the world as a man of honour. Is it not possible for legislation passed whereby any of those dealers who return will be treated as one who returns after expulsion? T feel sure such legislation would have a very good effect on those who are standing on the brink at the present moment.
Lam, etc., Hoe. Shanghai, July 29.
AccorpixG to the "Kuling latin" on Tuesday afternoon of last week a Chinese woman weighing 450 pounds was carried up the mountain by 16 coolies. In to her own avoirdupois ried with her some $30,000 worth of gold bars;. two suit eases full of dollar notes and jewellery. She is the mother of one of the leading Hankow compradores and was transporting herself and her valuables toa place of safety." 430 lb! Someone has been overdoing things.
ScaIxse. Abbott of Central Police Station attended the band concert in the Public Gardens in plain clothes on Wednesday night, and as policemen sometimes do he mixed pleasure with duty. He arrested J. Ismael, said to be of Arabian parentage' and born in Hongkong, and Biggo Pidscrup, a Dane, charging both with begging, one having accosted the inspector asking for alms. Ismacl at the British Police Court on Thursday said he was a ship's greaser profession, and Pidscrup at the Danish Consular Court said he was a fireman, Both admitted they had no fixed place of abode, and both were discharged with ' warnings
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