Corrections to Postal Rates
By Editor
LAST week we published an article in the missionary department on “Postal Rates.” Much pains was taken in its preparation, but by some inadvertence two lines became misplaced on the press, making nonsense in most of the edition of the last two paragraphs. Below, we give the paragraphs corrected, so that all who wish to preserve the article for future reference, as suggested, can insert them in the place of those given last week. Aden in India, should also have been Aden in Arabia. Here are the paragraphs referred to:— It will be noticed that to all the countries mentioned—except Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia—the postage is the same for other printed matter as for papers. Where this is the case, it will be admissible to inclose tracts, etc., with our periodicals. The SIGNS, with a sixteen-page tract or an Instructor or a four-page College Record, weighs less than two ounces. The Tidende or Harolden with a thirty-two page tract also weighs less than two ounces. Sixty-eight pages tracts or the Review will not exceed two ounces. Good Health weighs more than two ounces, but with the SIGNS and a sixteen-page tract, or with the Review, it weighs but four ounces. In making this estimate an ordinary wrapper has been used THE six Chinese companies of San Francisco seem to be getting rather bold in their determination to govern their own affairs and their countrymen in their own way, regardless of the law of the land. It was supposed the steamship companies collegued with the six companies in refusing to allow a Chinaman to leave the State without permission of his company, and the last Legislature enacted a law prohibiting a refusal to sell tickets to any one just because he had no permit from his company. The Chief of Police of San Francisco had posters placed in Chinese quarters of the city explaining the law, and the managers of the six companies had them torn down and others of their own invention put up instead. The offenders have been arrested, and will probably be prosecuted. If they were Americans they would no doubt be severely punished. As the matter stands, however, it proves that the Chinese in our midst are more governed by their own traditions than by our laws. As a last resort to detain those whom they do not desire to have go away, the companies, by means of agents, are bringing petty suits against them to have them arrested when the steamers are about to leave. Considerable excitement is the result.