The Archive · 1938

Sixty Dears Ago

From Tie "Norra-Cuina Dairy News" or Marcy 9, 1878

A meeting was held at the Club last evening, to consider the adi of adopting a system of weighing tea here to correspond with that at the Port of London; that is to say that upon every Package of tea grossing 25lb, and upwards, an allowance of lib. be made by the seller to the buyer. The feeling Was unanimous in favour of such a rule, and it was resolved to press the matier upon the attention of the Cham ber of Commerce. first, steamships of the season has been so severe that we fancy it is more than likely they will have Still to Wait some days before they can enter the Peiho. Betting as to the date of their arrival off the Settlement varies

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