What about the necromancers and fortune tellers? The time has come for their exit from the stage, but they still remain. They have, pointed ovt to the authorities successfully that they cannot obey the instruction to adopt some other, means of livelihood as they have no outfit beyond a table and x stool, few cards and perhaps a cage full of birds, an ink slab and a ready tongue." They have also' pointed out that the people ask for services. So the police authorities have decided to be lenient. have registered before the beginning of Jung and demonstrated that they jonas will be ally others there tricks, have labelled these they themselves, they are humbugs, and people at large believe that they are not the Chinese news-wers there is a good deal of in-motion over the discovery of the fact that the Anti-Opium Bureait has gathered about $2,000,000 fines and opium can still be bought by anyone who can pay for it. Special investigators from Nanking, have arrived te inquire into this The same papers assert that the audit of the accounts of the Hankow Branch of the Chinese-American, Bank shows resume bu for the present, but the Minister for Finance is. being urged to give his personal attention to this matter and help the merchants to avoid further losses.
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