The holiday fever is already making itself felt, Chinese all" being engaged in settling their accounts, and making purchases to spend the holidays in the olden style. In consequence of this, prices of all foodstuffs on the market have gone up from twenty to 30 rer cent. especially in Jcrabs, lobsters and guide. The foreign Danks and offices will be closed for two days, the railway offices for three fand the government offices for a full week, while some of the large Manchu stores will not open for fortnight.
Though the weather has been exceedingly cold, there is a Yali temperature to-day which rather! predicts good weather for the holiday, season, enabling the public to drive about the city in open vehicles with out fear of having their ears frost-Ditten, Manchu shipowners _state that there is nothing like the purchasing of goods at present as there was before the new siyle New Year and Christmas, this pointing to the fact that It was the Russian railway servants who spent so ranch at that time, having been paid large' sums of money for pensions, ete.
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