CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888 — Page 174

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with the new of the people

а

although considerable

matter of

moment is.

dary importance.

of secondary

only of Dunning

were

Mikin

last year given

Kerosene

increasing

orders

- a heavy

that a

should be paid

on

with the idea of

and

the price restricting the trade; but the American Minister went to

the Toung li yamên

a

noise

that a

y

made with the result

letter was received

the Gamen calling

from the

for particulars

on

the

subject, to which, it will

be found, in May

a reply.

last.

was sent

By

By

Treaty foreign

merchants are not allowed

to trade in salt petre &

munitions of war,

Other

in

are

rice &

grain,

which

connected with the

or

food supply of the people.

These

are

Chinese

in

goods as yet Treaty o stipulations prohibit foreign morchants from tracking them. With regard foreign goods, therefore,

which

are

to

highly dangerous

to the people, a country

which

is on

such a

friendly

footing should not, for the rake of gain, do anything that would prove injusions.

h.

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