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CANON SI NEW TA THU
LEADS TO STRIKE. OF
FLOUR DEALERS. Following the strike of the karotene deulers another important branch of business has been temporarily cuspended in Canton on account of the intruduotion of a
For the past Dew tax.
flour has boon few days no shipped from Hongkong, for the simple reason that the dealers in Canton refuse to take delivery: they prefer to stop business rather than be subject to what, they consider, an unjust tax.
up,
The Canton Government has,
the apparently, almost reached end of its tether in finding the wherewithal to meet the seemingly of funds, as insatiable need
tho various shown by
now 1of kax introduced re- forme cently. Their latest plan is to inaugurate a department to tax flour imported into Canton and they have actually set up a prica! of $8,000 for the monopoly. It appeared that the monopoly was obtained by a syndicate known as the Wing Hong Company, and a set of regulations framed in addition to a sebedule rate of tax which varies from 15 cents por bag on foreign flour to 60 cents for each pical of other kinds of flour. The first regulation requires firms importing four to send their gouda! to the tax-paying depot, where a tax-paid label will be issued before the removal of the floor is allow o! this jed. Any infraction
regulation will involve confiscation of the goods, in addition to a fine three times the value of the goods. The third regulation authoriser deputies of the monopolist to enter shops with the police to inspect their stocks.
Official approval of the regula tions having heen obtained, the monopolist formally began business on April 20, but was destined toi meet with disappointment, as the subsequent course of events proved. When the 20W tax became Canton dealers known the
On the immediately took action.
day the new tax was enforced about 10,000 bags of four were shipped to Canton, but all these were sent back to Hongkong owing to the refusal of the consignees to take delivery. Since then no further shipments have been sent from Hongkong.
Tax Must Be Abolished.
A letter received in Hongkong from the Canton Flour Dealers' Association stated that the dealers secure the were determined to abolition of the tax, and until this had been accomplished business: would be suspended. The lotter requested the Hongkong merchants to cease sending supplies until further notice. The letter added: Flour has hitherto been exempted from tax, and it is unreasonable and unjust that the exemption should be withdrawn, especially in view the fact that last year. when the tax was first proposed, the merchants were assured that the matter would be dropped for cver,"
As in the oil strike, which has not been pottled, the four mer- chanta of Canton have the sincere sympathy of the Hongkong firms. A largely attended meeting of Hongkong four dealers was held on Thursday, at which the unanimous decision was reached that no sup- plies should be sent to Canton until the Chinese Government can- celled the tax.
THE NEW ADMIRAL.
H.E'S RETURN CALL H. M. S. Carlisle fired a 17 gun saluto yesterday to mark the retura call paid to Rear Admiral D.M. Anderson, temporarily command- ing the China Squadron, by H. E. the Governor. At ten o'clock Admiral Anderson, together with Commodore Lake, Flag Lieut. Dangerfield, bis Secretary, Pay Lieut-Commander Symes and Paymaster Lieut. Porter, accom- panied Capt. G. Noville, R.M.L.I., A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor, to Government House.
The call was returned shortly afterwards by His Excellency the Governor and Capt. Neville A.D.C., there being a guard of honour of marines as they embarkod for the Petersfield
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