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TORTO, December 17th. The Labour Union at Bon. Francisco is to hold a meeting for the purpose of protesting against the outuralization of Japanese.
on the right rond to complete usefulness, auri A Shanghel coolie, consisted of stealing TELEGRAMS.]BAN FRANCISCO LABOUR PROTEST the Work! Meteorologist" requires to fopy of the North China Daily News, has
entered upon a month's imprisonment. know not only the occurrences of neigh- bouring countries but of all the globe, even to the extreme antipolal area. In this A. S. WATSON & CO., colony and neighbourhood the immediate
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Trionday the 25th,, Wednesday the 26th, Monday the 31st instant and Tuesday January! ist, will be kept as public holidays in the
Colony. The 31st instant will not, however, be obervort an a public holiday by the Poline Magistratsa' department.
The survicos in St. John's Cathedral on Christmas Day will be as follows:-Holy Communion, S.10. Matins, 11 p.m.. Holy Com munion. 12 aces. Thars will also be a celebra- tieu of the Holy Communion in the Pook Church at 8 am,
The Gazelle notifies that Mr. 8. Kelly. Inspector (Third Class), in the Sanitary De- partment, has ben ausjouded from the exercise of his ofeo pending the decising of tho Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding his dismissal from the Government service..
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OBITUARY.
London, December 23rd, Principal Rainy is dead, [The-R-Robert-Rainy DD was the principal of New College, Edinburgh. He is best known as a lendar of the United Fres Church of Scotland. He was instrumental in bringing about the Union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterian Church. Only a few weeks ago he retired from active work. He was 30 years of age.]
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THE EDUCATION BILL.
LONDON, December 20th. The motion in the House of Lords, protest- ing against the House of Commons' proce- Mr. Haldans, suking at Bedfor that unless a artilament of the Education dure re the Education Bill, was adopted by effat a secular system must 138 to 52. Lord Lansdowne then put at The Lords clanthengod the Govern? | resolution that the House insisted on the | result.
west's right to the claim that they had a amendinents. This means that the Bill is mandata from the electors. The Cabinet is absolutely, united on the messsity of taking up the challenge.
Bill
need of the publicis to be warned of approach ing storms, especially those of the peculiar | typhoon type, In larger cmumunities-and- for even larger interests to be prepared for the weather of to-morrow is not so important the prepared for the character of a whole senson ensuinig! The wider uzeteorology promises to tell whether next summer will] ROBERT FORTER & CO.'S be fine or wet, whether the next winter will be mild or severe.. Dr. Lockyer says 10. But much patient cisservation, much careful BULL DOG BRAND recording, and much unscifieh co-paration, s yet required. The huge atmospheric envelope of our globe is subject, far beyond te contiguous strata with which we are more or less familiar, to a peculiar oscilla thu and the scillations are believed to be periodic. The praiseworthy work of Mr. Blakroun, a meteorologist comployed-by-the Indian Gorerumeat, was responsible for CO.'8 this important discovery. Dr. Locarse and Sir NORMAN Lockren followed up his
An extraordinary general wasting of since citúparison of barometric pressures in
holders in Mesere._S_Moutrin & Co., Ld was BULL DOG BRAND 13 and Siberia, and as the result of held at Shungual ou December 17th for the collating the observations of 95 státions, all
purpose of considering the advisability vi over the world, they found a regalar anti-increasing the capital of the Company. Mr.
When the pressure in
EC. Pearce presided.--; resolution investing pulzi sec-591.
-the Board with power to increase the capital of Australia, to give an illustration, is extra high, the pressure in the United Kingdom the tiv from $250,000 to 8500,000 was passed. M. and Mass. Persier, the two most ate is correspondingly low.
amateur Thespians at Shanghai, hare goos Home, both having been seriously ill, bat both now happily ron salescent. M. Partier consular. ly represented Fence sud latterly Portugal also at the Bettlement. The English. French and fier A.D.C.'s made prosertations to them at a public mesting. The departure of
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In fact, it seemed that thỏ Indian region was about the centre of an area, while the Argentine and Chili formed the centre of the antipodsi region. By classifying the different of pressure changes agear-long as they sembled the way main and apposite types, Bombay • (Tudia) and Cordoba (Argou. Hamely
became persible to traes out a
a boundary e separating these two large areas. It was ut mice seen that each of the regions which Blanford wad Hildebrandsson had pointed out behaving in reverse mauer teach other were situated on opposite sides of this boundary line, and should therefore exhibit opposite pressure changes, according to the nature of this large + BAW, A similar classification of A. S. AVATSON & CO., pressure typer was undertaken by Profesor
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Big-low, of the United States Westher Baremu, and he corroborated almost exactly this world- wide barometrio murg»."
If the reader will take n. paucil, dip one
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. end in syrup, and slowly turn it round,
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and me. Fortier aut cause a gap in Shanghai Society which will take long to ill.
A regulation made by the Officer Adminis tering the Government in Council, under the Private Vehicles Licensing Ordinance, states that every truck, trolly or hand cart shall have a properly constructed braku or skid attached thereto for relieving the load when coming down hill; that no truck, trolly or hand cart shall be so conducted or propelled as to be likely to cut up or cause damage to the road way.
The carlain
hackwards and forwards, as the syrup
Even the unfavourable weather could not collects at the depressed end, we take it he
koop Hongkong from the theatre on Saturday world get a good idea of the behaviour of the night, when for the third time the A.D,C. world's atmosphere, as more technically de produced The Hobby Horse," scribed above. It is not a wave of high and esso to a crowded Louse, and the performers, low pressure travelling round the globe, but a with confidence earned by successful achieve hoge 10-and-fro swing, in which the armout, went through the piece with professional partially deserts one hemisphere to mass on aplomb, to the evident enjoyment of these whe had paid to see them. We believe a repost the other. It acts easterly and westerly, porfocusace, if possible, would be fully justified. and is believed to be quits as important as the changes hitherto ulservable between the equator and the poles.. Big things like droughts of continetital scope may be en Chders for extra conics of Day(PR should bfidently fotoil and tied when the Tent be ore 11 am, on day ej publicatem,¡, After that
telegraphic Address: PR88. [Ocdas: A.B.D. 5th Edinstered. At present one notion, to-and-fre wer the supply in limited. Only supplied for Cash periodicity of this phenomenon has been
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The 9.8. Birma which arrivod in port on Saturday brought two rogal visitors to our sbore, one haing H.B.I. Prince Valdemar of Denmark, and the other H.R.H. Prisco The pair are taking advantage of an extended tour which has offered, to sethe Orient, and are not therefors Goorge of Greec",
ncluded, is calculated to occupy en an traveling in an official capacity. When the average nearly four years, but a juster vessi eutered port a royal salute
The Birt average will be possible in the future. The from the guns of H.M.S. Famar. centre of the field varies naturally from its expected to remain in port loc three or
four days.
On December 13th, WILLIAM CHARLES Prascircumferential parts, and on the intervals A, at Shanghai,
do not appear to be of equal duration, nothing very, definite in the way of forecasts can by expected till time has permitted more comprehensive study. The great thing for the moment is that such important forecasts are confidently predicted; the pro- phet bimself and his advent is prophesied.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, DECEMBER 24TH, 1906.
ALTHOUGH perhaps not yet strictly true of Hongkong, we may accept with interest and satisfaction the dicten of WILLIAM J. S. LOCKYER, Ph.D., F.R.A.S., that "the new meteorology-amely, World Meteorology", bas dawned.” A remarkably bot summer at Home, and an early set in of a disagree-
There will be no issue of the Daily Press on Wednesday, December 26th, but the paper will. appear to-morrow (Christmas! morning as usual.
The Gazette publisher amendments made in the local Merchant Shipping Ordinance of 1839.
The portions of the barbour allotted as
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It will be remembered that Mr. A. H. Renuie some time ago purchased Sir Paul Chater's auch, Christine, to replace his own lost during the typhoon. She has beet re-named the Canvia and has been fitted up as a steam launch, motive power is no longer ateam but liquid fuel, and on a trial run yesterday abe proved herself the fastest lennoh in the harbour, doing thirteng kuets an hour easily. When she leaves the Kowloon Dock Company she will be o a of the best equipped in the harbour, while in the matter of speed she will be without a rival.
At the regular meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1,026, held on Friday evening, Wor. Bro. T. F. Hough, Deputy District Grand Master, presided and installed Ero. Lient. Lol A. E. Aiken as Worshipful Master for the ensuing year. Wor. Bro. Aitken tbeu invested the
dend,
LONDON, December 21st. In the House of Commons in reference
to the Lords message on Education Bill, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman.........move1. that the order be discharged. This emphatic refusal to con ider the neendments was received with.Ministerial cheers. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerisan then said, the motion meant that the dend body of the Bill, which
the Loris had left at their der might be The motion was carried out of sight. carried without a division.
THE LORDS AND THE EDUCATION BILL.
LONDON, December 20th. Ford Lans lowne's motion, insisting on the amendments to the Education Bill, wo adopted by 133 to 51. Lord Crewe laid the responsibility for wrecking the Bill on the opposition.
The newspapers all agree that the country is on the eve of the most bitter controversy
APPOINTMENT.
LONDON, December 21st. Lobby rumours say that Mr. Birrel will probaldy succeed Mr. Bryce.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, December 21st Parliament has been prorogued. Sir Edward Grey, in the House of
Commons, said that be had no reason to believe Japanese goods would receive pre- ferential rates on the Chinese Eastern Railway, but if evidence of such preference was forthcoming, further investigations would be made.
THE OPIUM QUESTION.
CORRESPONDENCE.
TO THE EDIT R OF THE "DAILY PRESS,"
GODOWN MEASUREMENTS.
POLICE COURT.
Saturday, December 22nd.
BEWORE MK. F. A. HAZELAND (FIRST POLICE MAGISTRATS).
THE ALLEGED ASSAULT BY INDIANS. The enge in which Mr. P. W. Goldring summoned two soldiers of the 129th Baluchi Regiment for assault, and in which a cross summans is taken out against that gentleman Shanghai, December 18th. Sta, Will you allow a sinner to make and Mr. F. C. Barlow for assault, was billed.
Office, uppsared for Messrs, Gallring sad atonement in your colanins for one cubic foot. G. E. Morrall, from the Crown Solicitor's miscalculation?
I am obliged to Mr. David J. Lenior and Barlow, and Mr. C. D. Wilkinson appeared for Mr. A. 3. C. for their correction. I admit my the Indians.. It had i en reported that Messrs. - mistake, bal ploed extenuating circumstances, Goldring and Barlow had received an apology for the reason that in reality I am not six but from the regiment and that the matter was only one cubic foot wrong in my calculation, likely to be settled out of court, but subsequiost namely:--
procendings proved that that was not az
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YOKOHAMA COAL TRANSACTION,
Mr. Wilkinson said he would have to ask for another remand, When the caso came before his Worship some time ago he wrote to his client but the regiment was then tu camp and be thought it was still there. He wrote to Colonel Prise last wook but had not received an answer and be could only suppose that he dil not pet the letter. He understood that the regiment would be returning about Christmas time but he really did not kunw where thoy were still and board nothing further from them. If the case stood over he would do his boat to get the men bere,
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Mr. Morrell-I objur! strongly to the case standing over say, longer. I do not know whether the mon are bere.
Mr. Wilkin―They are not hers. Mr. Morrell—Then I apply for a warrant their arrest,
for
His Worship Oh no, I oùunet give a warrant. Mr. Morrelf-I have now been up here several
On the 10th instant, in this Tokobovis District Court before Judge Matsuoka, the bearing was renamed of the action, adjoared from November 24th fler by Mr. E C. Davis, of Messrs. Samnet Samal & Co.. against the Toyo Shokai, claiming the cam of Y14961, 89 for ustralian coal suppli-. Messrs. Ideur times and the case is being continually remand- and Akiyama appeared for the plaintiff, reported; there is no effort to get the men haca, the Jap Herald, and Mr. Harada for the defendants.
Mr. Montagu Beart, Vice-Chairman of the Yokohama Foreign Board of Trade, who was examined as su expert witness, testified that the document shown him by the Court was an invoice poperly erected. He did not kaw of an instance where an invoice was made up to cover all goods shipped in axparate lots aud on different dates,
Mr. Nema Takao, a Customs offiein), who was next examined as an expert witness, testified-
Mr. Wilkinson-I have written twice to my clients and l'object to my friend saving things
like that.
Hi Worship I cannot issue a warrant and I mast grant a remaud as the men are not here. 1 curtainly causider that they should be here,
Mr. Morrell-I think it is simply contempl
of cart.
His Worship (to Mr. Wilkinson) - You mast
that it was the ento with the Customs to com- try and get these men here, I think they should pute an English tog at 1,694,4 kin in Japanesa bo here.
Mr. Morrell-Your Worship should graut us weight in accordance with the supplementary protocol to the Anglo-Japanese and German-custs; I have heen up bers several times. Japanese Treaties of Commerce, According to
Come His Worship-I bave no power to gire posta. Tire ustoms record, the steamship arrived at Yokohama on January 10th this The only thing I can do is to fix a day where year at 10a.m.
they wont undertake to have the men bore.
Mr. Wilkinson-I osanot do that, but will do
The Court asked defendants' Counsel whether he die uted the claim on the strength of Article 288 of the Commercial Law, to which Mr.my best to have them, hara, Harada
replied that he contended the ou on the ground of the non-fulfilment of contract,
Mr. Akiyama prayed the Court to submit to Mr. Beart the documents issued by the Pacific Coal Co. of Australia, to prove the point whether the said Company usually insued such documents after the sale of the coal.
The Court overruled the application es DDS
the
Mr. Morrell—If they are not hero the clas against Mr. Goldring and Mr. Barlow should be struck out.
His Worship I will fix the bearing for next Saturday and the men must com.
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Charles Frank Nielson, a seaman employed ou
Mr. Harada said at the previous hearing board the Sicilia, was charged with obtaining the plaintiff represented to the Court that the 22 and $5 from Audrey Swirilos of the Sailor's coal was submitted by both parties to Home by means of a trick, and was remanded Yokohama Hygienic Laboratory fur che analysis, but he now discovered that while the pending further inquiries. sempla onal was selected by the representatives of both partion it was the representative of the plaintiff company who took it to the Hygienic Laboratory for aasisis. There was no kaowing whether the plaintiff did or did not submit t the Laboratory the best part of the coal for analysis.
Mr. Akimays asked defendants' Counsel whether he admitted that defendants took a sample of the coal to the Laboratory for Roalysis on two different occasious, but Mr. Harads pleaded ignorance on the point.
M Harada prayed the Court to call Mr. Yoshida as a witress to prove that the actual
LONDON, December 21st. Sir Edward Geoy state-I in the House that Great Britain had informed China that obe was prepared to consider, paipaibetically, any specific proposals regarding the imports: tion and taxation of opium, and that pro-gunatity of coal delivered did not exceed 3,041
posals had since been received from China.
[M-C. Daily News' Service,] THE MANCHURIAN COMMISSIONER.
Toxto. December 16th. Prince Taxi Chau left Mukden to-day for Yunling. but he will return and spend a week in the Maashurish capital or bis road bomeward.
asconscious,
AMERICAN FLEET'S VISIT.
The continual booming of guns on Saturday morning heralded the arrival of the Americaa Far Eastern Squadron which is on a visit to
Hongkong artending over ten days. at about 11 'stuck on Saturday morning the four large cruisers, the West Virginia, the Pennsylvania, the Maryland and the Colorado arrived in the harbour sad eslated the port, the courtesy being returned. Then ealytes were exchanged between the visitors and the representatives of the French, German and Austrian nevive in the Mr. Akiyama argued that the case practically man-of-war anchorage. The American flest resolved itself into the point as to whether the is commanded by Rear-Admiral W. H. Brown. plaintiff delivered to the defendants the goods in son, whose flagship is the West Virginia. due course of time according to contract against As the foreign auchorage was practically which the
the defendants paid a sum of T20, N) as
05 Elled with visiting warships, there was only part payment and then refused to pay the room therein for two of the American rossels. balance on the ples of inferiority of the goods.
tonk.
The Court overrated the application as being immaterial to the point at issue.
Mr. Harada contended that the defendants The Harbour Master, however, osme to the made contract with a commercial partnerskip rescue by providing two suitable bertus in the trading
the firm name ander
name of Sammel Same! & Co., so it was technically improper for the commercial anchorage for the others, com I to bring the action in his patae describ.municating this intelligence to the two vessels plaistiff to
himself 6.8
of a representative the by wireless telegraphy, and they were aman anug The ad of Y20,000 WB in their slotted places with anchors down.
alleged, but
ACCIDENT TO GENERAL NOGI.
TOKYO, December 16tù. General Yogi mal with an accident by a falling from his hores and was temporarily rendered partnership
The animal took fright in the ant paid as part payment as
This squadron of up-to-date cruisers bas vicinity of the palace and threw his rider the sum was advanced to the plaintif's firm has ily. The condition of the veteran General before the delivery of the goods. Counsel sin & complement all told of 3,6 M officers and den, is, however, stendily improving.
stated that the quantity actually delivered did soch vessel carrying a crew of 900. The fleet not exceed 2,041 tous, and that the commercial left Manila on December 20th, crossing the OSAKA ARSENAL STRIKE ENDED. usage in vegue must gavern the computation of China sex at a fifteen knot speed which brought
the English ten by Japaness weight. Toxro, December 16th. The general strike amongst the workmen
Mr. Akiyama argued that the plaintiff, as a them bere sooner than expected, partner of the firm, was authorised to represant
able winter, with snow early in November, dangerous goods auchorages are pablished in following officers-Sanior Wardeu, Bro A. W• { employed at the Osaka Arsenal is now at an end, the partnership in a law suit, and saked the Conet i
Professor J. J. Thomson, D. So., F.R.S. of Cambridge University, bas been awarded the
H.E. the Officer Administering the Govern. ment has been pleased to app int. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher to be bis private secretary.
The list of copyright works which has been publicly oxposed at the Supreme Court, is published in the Government Gazette.
has wade "the weather" a topic in the the Cosette. mail papers; and the periodicity of clitantie abnormalities has been noticed even by non- experts. On the eve of a soaking-drizzly | Nobel Prize for physics. Christmas here, the subject of weather may also be considered topical locally. What Dr. LockYER means by World Meteoro logr is easily explained. Until a comparatively few years ago, meteorological institutions studied the changes and collecte Jain in their own immediate areas. They did very well, too, and their inbour was not wasted; its results are valuable oven to the science of “ Work Meteorology," now being synthesized. But their meteorology was as Hongkong's is alleged to be of the parochial" kind. Some of the more enthusiastic of them realized that their own
The Hon. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Acting areas did not tell them all they needed to Colonial Secretary, has been offered the know, so they entered into mutual compacts position of Puisse Judge in the Straits Settle. with neighbouring countries for the ex-ments His decision is not yet announced, change of data. This gave to meteorology & national
continental
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The King's Exequatur empowering Mr. F. D. Barreto to be Cousul for Mexico at Hong. kong has roseivel bie Majesty's signature.
Blesara. A. S. Watens and Co. hare forwarded us an attractive calendar for the New Year, another pretty one to hand being that of the Central Fire Insurance Co.
The Gazette publishes the dates and places at The which gan practice will be carried out by the Military Authorities, and warzs ships, junks and other vessels to keep clear of the ranges.
synthesist of "World" Meteorology" well knows to-day that oven that was but a step
J. Watt: Junior Warden, Bro. J. Spencer
EXPLOSION AT KOBE. Hough; Chaplain, Bro., H. T. Thomas; Tron- surer, Bro. C. Rogers; Secretary, Wer. Bro-
TOKYO, December 15th. A.. U'D. Gourdia; Senior Daucon, Bro. J, Dwon
Eighteen persons have been severely injured Haghes, Junior Dascon, Bro. C. H. Blason; by an explosion at the Miten Bishi Dockyard at Director of Ceremonies, Bro. N. H. Rutherford; Kobs. Stewards, Bros. C. Forsyths and A. Chapman. Organist, Bro. C. F. D. Grimble: Tyler, Bro. J. Vaustone.
The Nautical Magazine ways: -The launobisg of the Mauretanio cruces spooniation as to who, will be selected to undertake the immense responsibilities which will fall upon her.com. marder. As the new Cunarders have been built under an agreement with His Majesty's Government, it is very probable that they will have some say as to how they shall be officered The impression exists that the sad mauned. Admiralty will insist upon the chief executivo holding commissions in the Royal Naval Reserve. If this proves to be the case, it will debar the two senior commanders in the Cunsed Live from taking either of the vessels. The two senior Royal Naval Resorvo officers serving in the Couard Line at present are Commander D. Dov, B.N.R., of the R.M.S. Umbria, and Lieutenant J. W. T. Charles, RN.R., of the Saxanie.
A TOKYO RUMOUR,
TOXTO, December 17th. With reference to the rumour recently current to the effect that the French Cousal at Shanghai was taking proceedings against certain norean miseries to recover a sum of money alleged to bave been lant to the Koranu Court during the late war, it has heen uncertained that this rumor was based on the notion of a Freach merebant in Shanghai, who is prosecuting claim of $1,000,000 as 'demages for the abrupt cancellation of a con-igament of ginseng which the Korean Court contracted to deliver prior to the institution of the Japanese administrativa in Koren
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND FEDERAL SUPERVISION.
ANOTHER MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
TOKYO, December 17th." President Roosevelt has sent another Message to Congress arging the necessity of Federal supervision over the affairs of individual states, with regard to questions in which foreign interests are involved.
to give judgment in favour of his client, as the CHINESE CONSUL ON CURRENCY, evidence adduced to the Court in bis favour was conclusive.
Judgment was creurved until the 18th inst.
8ILVER AND GOLD.
The Hon. Stephen Wantonit Nickerson, an The time may be not long distant when the American lawyer of Boston, Mass., a gentleman mass meeting in the Shanghai Town Hall may whose ancestry is of British origin, and who had be regarded as almost epoch-making in its signi- daring the agitation of the silver question in the *ficance, anys the N-C. Daily News, referring to United States in the nineties some considerable the changed control of the Natural Fest Bocioty: prominexos in his own country, favours as with Ten years ago few would liavo ventured to interesting articles on the gold, silver and prophesy that such a gathering would have been money question. He is the Consul for Chins st possible. The great door space and the gallery Boston, and is travelling in the Orient for his and platform lan were literally packed with health. Mr. Nickerson is well-known in his Chinese, men and women together, who watched onu country as a writer of financial topics. Ho with the keenest interest the handing over from published a brief but excellent history of the the foreign ladies of the Tion Tan Hai to the Bank of England some years ago, and his essay Chinees Committae, which is to take up the upon the law of money is a valuable contribu work, the symbols of the Society's operations, tion to legal literature. H.E. Wa Ting-fang Anti-footbinding has passed the stage of being a appointed him vice-consul at Boston for Chins reform that is ridiculed or merely talked about. in June, 1902, and the present Chines Minister It has won the approval of the highest and at Washington, Sir Changlang Liang-obong most influential in the haud and bas besu taken. K.C.M.G., raised his raak to conen in March, up with an enthusiasm of which a phlegmatic 1905. Thergh the introductory articles of the people might have been thought hardly capable. writer are rather historioal, the succesdirig ones It was possibly a sad moment for Mrs. Archibald will deal more particularly with the subject upon Little and her lady coadjutors when they which Mr. Nickerson has bestowed so much time decided to lay down their active work, but they and attention.
are very reason to be proud of the saccess The first article will appear in our next issue, which mada such a meeting possible.
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