Kaifeng, Jan. 14.
From the first day of this month the likin ofice that had to do with collections on post office parcels has been closed. This office has been a soures of constant annoyance. to merchants who have relied a good ideal on the postal service through [these last months of severed communications when no goods were possible by truck, The prompt. closure of this office, which is of course, but a department of the regular inland revenue system, on the last day of 1990 led us to expect that Nanking's wish to do away with likin was to be observed in this Since the beginning of the year certain well known transport company took charge of several Jcases of household goods for. ships ment to Tientsin. Of these goods three cases were of box spring beds lon which the consignee was charged the staggering sum of $151, When Ihe, quite naturally protested ' the leharge he was told that half the Jamount was for the "ti hue sheet"—"local goods tax"—office, That, by the way, has always been the name by which [been known in this city.
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