Forgeries Being Sold in Shangha; habit of purchasing Macao Readers who may be in_ the
lottery tickets are warned that forgeries are at present being disposed of in Shanghai. A sample in the possession of the police is that of the Santa Gasa de Misericordia de Macao, a fairly good representation of the original but clumsy in important detail. The genuine tickets are printed entirely in Portuguese, and are priced at 50 avos, whereas the forgeries have the dates printed in English and the price is given as 30 cents. It is scarcely likely that foreigners will be deceived by so faulty an imitation, but doubtless unsuspecting. Chinese are. helping the swindlers to pay printing expenses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.