Sole Agents for the Again one of the most important of these depends upon the May 30 riot, following upon which the largest Chinese stores which normally have a considerable foreign clientele closed their doors. Then when they opened them complaints were made by customers on various scores, which we need not go into now, but the general effect was to induce the larger part of this foreign clientele to transfer, fat least temporarily, their custom to foreign shops. In one respect these latter undoubtedly gained, but in some cases this only offset losses sustained in another direction. Certain of these foreign firms make a speciality of importing goods largely for Chinese consumption—nick-nocks, odds and ends and the like—and for the time being this trade vanished. It was a temporary disappearance, however, and the former Chinese trade has been in process of gradual resumption.
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