Meanwhile the price of rice has greatly declined. "Eighteen shops Actually selling the rice were at frst able to dispose of 80. bays each of 100 kilos each, The big drop in the price of the past week found the market price of 'm= orted broken rice only one oF two dollars more' than the price at the reheap sale, resulting 3 falling off in the mumber of people buying the cereal at the cheap sate. Tt is anti pated, however, that. the total of 9,000 hhaxs of imported broken vice sold at the cheap sate will be sold by the time the sale' terminates, As each purchaser at the cheap sale can only buy one dollar's worth of the rice at a time the total num= ber of persons buying this rice when the sale closes would be approxi= imately. 750,000, Mei Pao" Suspends Publication Shanghai, Publication of the "fa Mei Pao, morning Chinese edition of—the Shanghai Evening Post and. Mercury" ceased yesterday, due, it is believed, to financial difieulles. The wslition of the "paper, the Wen Pao," will continue to sta), not being affected inieulties of the other. INF.
Chang, who was assassin a few days ago, was prominent ireetor of the paper, although it teal yesterday. that his death, rho connection with the present
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