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bren sitting for

given

has

Bone

time past

પ્રે

the

its award

On

claime for compensation of : the residents in the European settlement at Canton for damage

property in the riots of September, 1883.

done to their

2.

The total amount_

claimed was $194,734, while the

sums allowed in com

compensation are in the aggregate #156,500; the deductions made by the Commission averaging, therefore, about 30 per cent. On the whole,

the

the awards are

generally considered by impartial

persone to be satisfactory; for

in this, as in all similar cases,

many of

the claims were

doubtless exaggerated.

3.

Now that this

troublesome business has been

prastically settled, it is hoped that the Chinese authorities will

lay

to heart the lesson that it ought to teach them, vir:

that when riotous attacks

this description are made-

of

on

foreigners,