Reported Proposal in Peking to Hold a Lottery Peking, Mar. 11.
The vernacular papers state that the financial wivisers to the Ministry of finance are preposing that 'a lottery should be held, under the auspices of the Government, with prizes of $100,000, $80,000, $50,000 and $20,000. Altogether, the newspapers declare, 60 per cent. will go to prizes and 20 per cent. to expenses, leaving 20 per cent. for the Government to tied over the Dragon Festival—Reuter, New Tax on Chibli Firms Tientsin, Mar, 14.
In pursuit of atill more funds for his war coffers Tupan Chu Vu-pu has imposed a new tax on Chihli cotton trans (firms) which, for the purposes of the taxation, have been divided into four categories. It is reported that so far $200,000 have been collected from the trans, which number 28.—Reutel
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