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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND

LONGBOYR GAZETTE

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

N°. 85 VOL II

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency Sir Hanay, PortING: G: 0. mis pleased to publish the follo Letters for general information.

By order

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and other bon

you are requested to.

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in the case of the

and the deckton oʻ

to those who are intere

RICHARD W

I have the honor to

Gentlemen,

- Your most obdi, huupble Bervant

A. MA

To rus British Mzachants in China,

· CREBITORS OF, the Late Hinotár Hong,

No. 135,

Macao, 91st March, 1913.

Price 314 monthly

Or 12 8 yearly

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known of the economical condition of China fde is known does not promise an immediate

triticis the great staple of China-the point à all the merosntile speculations of the Chi........

line of business which gives form and their other enterprises. Mr. M'CULLOCH, his habitual accuracy, says that China for raising unlimited quantifies of tea.

of ten in China in limited to the pro. between the 24th and 333 parallels of and even within this range all places of growing tea, or tea of a high quality, than the whole valley of the Rhine is it for or it to produce Johannisberger. The tea- of Chins consist of two groups. The Wes- comprises portions (not the whole) of the nces -- Kiang nan, Kiang-si, Che-kiang, and ten, one district of Honan, and one of Hooruang, these tos-districts lies on the Northside tse-kiang, and they stop short of the most part of Fo-kien. The Eastern group of the tea districts lies between 27 and 80 degrees the very utmost 31 degrees North, and is now more than from 200 to 250 miles in breadth It group that the growth of the finer toss is ex clusively confined, and even here they succeed only in some favoured spots The Western group embraces tics in Yunan, Setchuen, and Koeitchoo,

in the upper valley of the

affluents) and extends beyond the einpire, Bouthward into Tonquin estward as far an Assam This xtensive than the Western group

thinly scattered, the ter nd the nature of a coun places such as to render it bable, that its quality

tse.

Gentlemen,

Wiru referen

date, I am now dire

that Sir Henry Pottinger

Claims against the

Rod Mowyur,

them from the monies about to be

tue of the Treaty, from the Provincial Govern- ment of Canton, in the proportion which such Claims, and those of the Hingiae Hong, may bear to the forthcoming Instalments.

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As soon as the Capital of Kingqua's debt is dis- pire, charged, arrangements will be made (and pro- mulgated) for adjusting the accumulated Interes

on it.

With respect to Mowqua's debt, His Excellency has desired ine to state to you, that after having given the question the most careful consideration, he can by no means recognize, or admit, the prin

on

ciple that Interes*** Portion of the Capital

por

can be demanded single hour after such tion shall be discharged, and therefore any of the Creditors who have received Interest for a year in stead of eight thonths, on the late dividend, must write the difference back to Mowoun's credit, and allow it to be deducted from the amount of their next Instalment.

It appears from the accounts of Mow which have been submitted, that exist in a number of the acounty

Sir Henr

the

abts

Barra

Zobe. === (Spectator):

CHINESE TRADE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

large article of export by land, component part.

for its extent and numerous: ramifications

too are wonderful}

remarkable, than for the influence it exercises whole commerce of that country.

look at it in this latter

As our ob.

it is its distribution-and-the sent it different directions to which we are

ttracting attention -we tatements of the sea borne

to

land.