Local Chinese are hoping that the heavy rains will cause some change in the rice situation, but say that fat least a week's rain is necessary. hetero things will become normal, I the rain continues, the autumn crop is assured, and it is hoped that the price of rice may decrease in the near future, One of the pretexts of Teal rice dealers is that the present high cost of the grain is due to the luck of rain in the interior, the farmers being foreed to use artificial irrigation in order to keep their crops from being completely ruined. civil jurisdiction, Chinese omcials displayed an alarming unconcern for In the old Mixed Court the system' was introduced of having foreign con sular representatives oF assessors sitting jointly and later watching the proceedings with the Judges, in. for-ign eases where their respective nations were involved. The court was named the Mixed Court because of the mixed foreign and Chinese cases which it dealt with. It derived its authority from the Peking, Government.
Alter a somewhat eventful career the name of the court was changed to the Provisional Court, $0 called be cause of a provisional agree mer between the Chinese and the foreign Powers whereby its status was changed. The new court received its authority and was placed under the control of the Kiangsu Provincial Government who appointed all its presidents,
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