AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Aug. 12. The Times’ Pekin correspondent says that Great Britain objects to minor Powers having equal representation with horself on the commission for ro-casting the tariff. Sir E. Satow proposes as a compromise that each shall separately negotiate a tariff securing favored treatment, lie intimates that Great Britain objects to any Power securing superior iniluonco by helping China to pay tho indemnity before 1910. Hongkong, August 12. Tho Cantonese are discontented at tho house tax, and object to contribute to tho indemnity on the ground that their province was not concerned in tho outrages on foreigners,
THE TARIFF
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 13. Tho Ministers have agreed to tho draft protocol of tho Chinese tariff. There will be five per cont ad valorem duties from October until transferred into specific duties by an expert commission. Tho free list includes rice, cereals, (lour, and bullion,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 186, 14 August 1901, Page 2
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