We are informed by the. Commissioner of Customs that he has been' officially notified that the Inspector-General has sent no despatch to the Cabinet demanding that a portion of the Customs surplus be used as a sinking fund for the consolidation of domestic loans, as reported in a Peking telegram of the 20th instant. The question of sinking fund priority in respect to the entire surplus was settled by a Mandate of 192 The question now under consid tion is merely a matter of procedure regarding the manner in which the surplus shall be drawn.
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