From THE "NoRTH-CHINA Dany News"
OF JANUARY 12, 1869
From Chefoo:—The old underhand plan is being resorted to, we hear. to get rid ofthe miners at this place. "The Taotai dare not drive away the foreign miners, but tries to force them io retire by preventing Chinese from buying the erg; and as foreigners cannot buy it io make any use of it, ihe miners cannot find any purchaser for it. Otherwise, so far as any attempt io use force goes, the menacing notification issued some months ago, has been a dead letter. The cold. weather, we imagine, has lately supplemented the machinations of the officials, and effectually stopped operations. Otherwise, at the time our correspondent wrote (December 18. our letter has been delayed somewhere the miners were holding on to their newly discovered lead mines, in the hope of things improving. We are glad to hear that a Committee is being formed in London for the promotion of mining and railways in China, with a view to influence the Foreign Office in a direction opposed to the policy laid down in Art. VIII of the new American treat; To the Editor of the "Norrn-Cuma DAILY "NEWS"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.