Dr. Agnew arrived in the city from IChengtu over one week ago, Wisely the is retaining his chair-coolles to carry him back as the chair-shops in Tachienlu are now asking © ransom {for chairmen. Coming along the road Jother travellers going in the opposite Jdirection offered Dr. Agnew's chalr~ men $5 per day if they would carry them back to Yachow.
When Peter Goullart left some tims Jago for Yachow the chairmen de-of manded $3.
'A box of miserable matches, one Jot which in every five gives" you +|sotistaction, costs 15 cents. A package of six candles, very thin and very weak, is sold for $4. Sugar—and some people swear there is corn meal jin itis now being sold at $2.60 1 Jeatty. We have two sources of salt one is in the Land of the Lamas and the other in the Land of Sinim, Chinese salt is $1.50 per catty and the Tibetan salt, pius a lot of tough, Jyak hair is only $1, Transportation Rev, T, C, Wu, General Secretar the Chinese Mission to Lepers, hi Just returned via Tsingtao after mak~ Ing an. extensive tour in Shantung now four well. or~ segregating about per cent, of the of leprosy which are know. to be in existence in that province, Mr, Wu was the principal speaker at" the first Provincial Leprosy Conference of Shantung held at Cheeloo University, Tsinan, on May 10, Menor banks of the local Chinese Bankers Asoelation and the Native Bankers Association have been in= structed by the Ministry' of Finance of the Chinese' National Govern ment in Chungking to refuse any mortgage on the security of Bills Lading, says the "Sin "Wan Pao. This will check further hoarding of foodstuffs, The two associations will advise the member banks faecepting any further mortgage involving daily necessaries such food, coal, cotton textiles, soap, matches, ete,, the report says,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.