The Theatre Nuisance.
From Our Own Correspondent, Kashing (Chekiang), June 29.
We have all been much interested in the case of the foreign firm attempting to do business in this interior city, which is not an open port. I wrote you that the foreigners had had to leave and that the rented house had been officially sealed. I learn now that the seals been removed by the official. It is said that he hesitated very much to do it because the "people," or some local society, objected to it. The seals were kept on until a telegram from Peking, or at least from the authorities there, probably through Shanghai, came ordering the seals to be taken off, when no lens roles off they had to c-me. I understand that the goods have all been disposed of. Whether the case is settled or not it is difficult to find out.
It is reported that the biggest nuisance that ever was in Kashing, the theatre outside the North Gate of the city, is to be reopened on Monday. It was closed and officially sealed by the officials under the old and much despised Manchu regime because it brought so many bad characters to the city and gave the place " bad name. Not only ix it to be opened with the consent of
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