Chinese finance, one imagines, will need a good deal of delicate handling in the near future: and it is with satisfaction, therefore, that a sure denial is given to the rumours which attribute to Sir E. Hart an intention of retiring from the control of the Customs at Peking. He has known Chinese life for forty years: hnt this, knowledge—the greatest attained by.any European of our serves to'lwhet hiVapjfetite'for.more,-despite the’ massing nausea of recent occurrences in Pek’nar- Sir E. Hart, who is a great favourite with the European Legations, and especially with all the young folks who inhabit them, believes that he will live to see a perfectly satisfactory solution of the Chinese puzzle, if he lives for only five years.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)
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