$24,000,000 Worth of Yuan and Bars Loaded Another shipment of silver, valued approximately at, $24,000,000, will be taken {o the United States by the s. President MeKinley, which sailed for Seattle on June 10. The consign ment, consisting of Chinese yuan and Bars, is the fourth to leave port fol-owing the conclusion of the monetary agreement—between the Chinese delegates and the US. Treasury Department The silver bars, 10,000 in number, of $1,000 each, were carried from the Vault of the Central Bank of China to Kiukiang Read jolty by lorries, while approximately 2,800 boxes of Chinese yuan were taken from the vault of the Bank of Communications. They were loaded on barges and taken 10 the Dollar liner tied up at Nos. 12 and 13 lower buoys.
"This brings the total amount of silver to leave this country since the monetary agreement to about $09,000, '000. The third consignment left in the s. General Sherman, the Council was represented by Mr.
Fessenden, Secretary-General, and number of representatives of various Departments who have been more particularly associated with the work the Public Works Department.
'The complete list of invitations 10 the-dinner' was as follows:
London, June 11.
A significant benefaction of a kind hitherto not represented "in the Ubrary was announced to-day by the Ubrarian of Cambridge University, consists of the archives Messrs. Jardine, Matheson which have survived almost intact since 1819 and "from "which possible to study the opening of China to western civilization during the 19th century.'—Reuter,
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