(0) On the same page we find very stale "news" about the old "cash", which, we are told, is called also "Zin," Probably the word should read "Wen"
"Chien." Moreover, we are told that "It (the cash) is used for all retail transactions; the wages of labour are nearly always. paid in ud the ordinary transactions of tically all conducted medium of cash", This information has had rome founda-n fact 20 years asco. But we have seen the old ded by the copper cent; has been debased depreciated to so that the Besides quantities of the old cash were cole cents. huge Tected and melted down in 1915, 80 that the amount in actual circulation at present is trifling.
(c) Under the heading hai Tael." on page is wssert~ ed that "for transactions in foreign ver the weight is 579.85 grains". This contention is mi weight indicated jon tael, and not the "In North and Mid=
China foreign coins are used the housekeeping money of forei ers. The same weight of the iden-coin is worth at Shanghai anything from 2 per cent. to 5 per cent. more that at Ca ton, irrespective of the value being expressed in gold, in silver taels, or in commodities This assertion sounds like an echo from grandfather's time.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.