Canton, August 22.
All of the several hundred whole~ sale fruit houses in Canton have suspended business, tand as soon as their stocks on hand are <le~ pleted, every wholesale vegetable establishment and salt fish house Will follow suit. Asfood shortage: is, Yo be brought about as a lesson to the officials who have tried to add to the assets of the municipality at the expense of these dealers. Already bananas, persimmons, and other fruits of the scazon have ome scarce, and as soon as the Fetail shops' and stands have sold out their "left-overs," fresh fruits will be as rare as the proverbial hhen's tooth,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.