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local theories advanced, to elicit the views of “a representative a body of public and expert opinion," and so to end the in- terminable controversy. It may be admitted at once that the aim succeeded; but the whole subject, not being of the nature of an
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Aldirostok tologram to a Moscow ** TELEGRAMS. states that all Jews have been ordered to leave the town within fone days, except the land and on owners, who are allowed 18 days in which ̈to wind up their affairs. --
A dreadful rumour has bọọn going through
| Gract #nience," "Truites to doguntism; and the | Fleet-street, and from thenus has rocarberatud?
various members were tempted to demolish every fallacy they individually thought they detected, without enquiring closely into it
seross the Atlantic, that the Cheshire Che was to be closed and the pudding to become there is no foundation for the statement, and memory of the past. We are glad to say that
able to alt against the very panel against which Dr. Johnson rabbad his apparently very greasy ||wig,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS source. Several of His Excellency's ques-that hero-worshipping Americans will still be
ESTABLISHED LD, 1841.
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tions were suggestive, implicatory, hut no one, on the Committee or off it, will deny. that so much was unavoidable.
The first enclosure in the Report is s suggestion by Mr. MirsFIBOD, me follows:-
[BRUTHE'S 883VIOS.]
CANADA" AND JAPAN.
Losnow, January 22nd. Mr. Lemieux, in w statement to the House of Commons, Ottawa, described the mission
that all danger of future trouble in regard to Japan as a complete success, and said
to Oriental immigration had been eliminated. He gavo a tribute to Sir Claude Macdonald and Count Hayashi, the latter was a "true friend to Canada. Mr. Lemieux explained
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CORRESPONDENCE.
CHRISTIAN SCIENC?”
KORIMERNE TRUE. PRIEN
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS. "']
Hongkong, January 24th, Bin-The fact has just be brought to my notion that my name has been used over a cor-
certain lady, not at grosent in the Colony, could It is averred that I stated definitely that a in as in "Christian Science "oircles.
never attain maternity; and credit is' inken for the fact that the lady did become a mother after joining Christian Scienos" circles.
The latter fact is a source of congratulation to all concerned. The former statement is an absolute lie. I write this to prevent the Fable
KATI
courteou, enough to send to the troops, an invitation to a gratuitous anferminment- Yours faithfully,
R. J. BOB, MAJOR, D.A.A. & QM.G.
We are obliged for this information, which may later prove to be valuable to gratuitous entertainer D.]
THE KOWLOON RAILWAY. [TO THE JDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS."]
812,Our railway question is soming en The information slicited by the unofficial meta- bers of the Legislative Council a interesting, if unsatisfactory, For the first time the publis informed that the original extimate for the construction of there 22 miles of railway war
The correspondant of the Figaro" in Rome that Japan' had not insisted on the complete 41, That either the Government or the Bank says he is in position to confirm the report enjoyment of treaty rights and privileges being farther misguided in this Colony by state. £550,000. ~\It was anticipated that the line issue fractionsì notes af different sizes for 50 that the Emperor William.will go for a qruise when they involved, a disregard of special mente which are perversions of the truth.
20, 10, and 5 cents in sufficient quantity for the requirements of the Colony. Such note to be + legal tender for any kuvaat.
$19.00 certain fix d deto no subsidiary coins of suya telegram to the same journal from Berlin, 21hat a proclamation be made that from in the Principality se the guest of the Prinos,
per caso, per osse.
E. ESTEPHE
1 đos,qts. 12 doz. pts" ...$ 8.00
#T. JULIEN ..
LA ROSE
CHATEAU HAUT BRION-
10.00 11.00 13.06
14.00
LARRIJET
-19.00
CHATEAU MOUTON
D'ARMAILHACQ—— 23.00
CHATEAU PONTET
QANET.
25.00
CHATEAU L'A TOUR
CARNET ... CHATEAU RAUZAN
OHATEAU LAFITE.
30.00
$400
.... 50.00
24.00
kind can be socopied in the Gorerament offi »s, all foreign enterprises issuing similar notice:
In the Mediterranean in the spring. “It is added conditions in Canada. He added that that His Majesty will call at Monaco, on board Canada, was bound to accept Count Haya the Hobensolleru,” and will remain some days
they could not ask a rising power, Great his dignified assurance of good faith, and states that the Emperor will arrive at Corta on Britain's friend and ally, to brand herself March 15, and will be received by King George |an inferior race. of Greece.
The offoils of the Brooklyn Yacht Club have accepted the offer of Sir Thomas Lipton t provide a thousand dollar cup for an ocean as It is understood that a course of about five hundred miles has been fired upop. The Int - national Cup Committee announces that the rada for the new trophy offered by the Brooklyn
3. That the Government when that data ex- pires andertake to repurchase for malting Hongkong subsidiary coinage at such premium over its intrinsic value as the Colony estimates 20.00 it can afford. It is believed that this will have the foot of gradually drawing back to the Colony much of the Colonial coin on the awarer mainland and wil have a tendover to further. depreciate the Cauton soins which, “euffering nader eg many disabilition, will be likely tolewa the Colony. Cuce the trams, ferries, sam pas, obairs, rickshas and the large shops
the debised Canton currency will be at ouos relegated to the small Chinese shops and from them would probably in time disappear.
The inconveni-nos of the very email notes is acknowledgal, but Japan has or, had then to as Jow a ratus a 10 son. To obviata this in some degree the 5
cant notes might be made very thin and bet mad in little books of 20 like the riskabs tickets in Shanghai.. After being torn out, however, the loose one should be redeem Cosmopolitan Hotel ummoned Yes Hok-sing, able at case at some special office. Arrangemanager of a Cinematograph antertainment. marta should aion ba mada that all dirty and for ampuli, and the defendant toɔk out a cross- ragged fractional notes passing through the summons, His Worship asked if the matter
OUR CLARE TS, INCLUDING
THE
LOWEST PRICED, ARD OF EXCEPTIONAL
Fonoraily insist on all payments being in aptes, Yacht Club shall be pon to eighty-foot as and sixty-five foot raboogers. The competitors may be enrolled from any foreign Ficht club,
on
THE SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY.
LONDON, January 22nd. The Reichstag-ul the Imperial palace were isolated yesterday by dense cordons of police armed with revolvers, in anticipation of demonstrations in support of a Socialist interpellation demanding the extention of
the Reichst g franchise to the Prussian Diet. Prince Buelow refused to discuss the matter
the Socialists that disorderly demonstrations would be vigorously repressed,
would be made in three years. Now it appears
It is the same old story. Every Grown
My mouth is sealed as to the actual "sots of that the cost to the Colony will be about one, the ease by the mual professional confidence, million sterling and the line will not be com
in the form of maternity could effect as equally but this much I will say I informed the plated for another years. lady's husband and the lady herself that naturo good sure in her ailment se nrgical intervention. I write this in justice to the Publie, in justice to the Madlox Profession, and in justies to myself. Yours faithfally,
G. MONTAGU HARSTON. President of the Hongkong and South China Branch of the British Medical Association. (TTER MUITOR OF THE "DAILY PERS."}
Sauntists," and was so strongly emphasised by SI-If, as is asserted by Christian Mr. Flano yesterday afternoon, that the all-
Boiende" removes sickness without the use of drugs, and cleanses from sin; what effoot ha it upon dirt? Do “Christian Scientists " wash themselves? If yes! why? If not, why not? superficial layerof dirt and grims from the body without soap and water than to remove a canoor care fevers, or mend a broken log si ons sitting Without the use of a kaife, quinine, or splisis
Colony which has a railway, has a similar tay to tell and in Sir. Frank Swettenham's book ok British Malaya" the publis is interestingly told bow it happens
The Colonial S. ry informed the Hos. Mr. Osborne that Governor controls tha *v ganditura Tamamla ka laureating to bear from the Governor on that point, Bir, Frank Sweltenham, with experience at • Colonial Governor, writing on the construation of railways by the Crown Agente says: "The
Engineer, nor its Governor, nor its Executive advantage of this system is that the line is monds to time and neither; the Colony's Chief
or Legislative Council, have any real respons-
And the course will be from 30 to 40 miles in outside the Reichstag's domain, and warned powerfulindainos of the teachings of "Christian {ibility for the work, even though it takes twice
length over the open so,
Befors Mr. H. H. J, Gomperts at the Police Curt yesterday Mr. Louis Comar of the KING ALFONSU'S VISIT TO SOUTH Surely it should be much easier to remove s
AMERICA.
El Imparazol publishes a leader on the proposed journey of King Alfonzo to South Amerio After alluding to the wishes
w long to construct as the time originally estimated, and costa twice as much,"
Engineer is serving his masters in England Ono further extract : " As the Construction.
to interfere with him; and as the Colony has no and not the Colonial Government, it is difficult
and handed over, it is no one's businsed to concern with the railway until it is finished criticise. It might almost be added that cannot be saved.”
VALUE AND GUARANTEED-TO- - Government officer, and Ranks. should by das could not be settled out of Court, and Inspector expressed by the South America, paper it Items to me that the whole thing is like unless a man believe in the system. faithfully he
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troyed and now open issued in their stead.
The argument that the Government is to blame for the excessive issue of sabsidiary scinage and cannot therefore in justice demons- lize its issue except by calling it in a par will nthold water. It implies that the Government AB knowingly and for the sake of prole flooded Hongkong and the mainland with subsidiary coinago, but this was not the case. To the writer's own knowledge, sou the fact will be borno out by the Treasury srohiven, before the opening of the Chinese mints it was foun impossible to keep in Hongkong sufficient subsidiary goinage for local use, and the Hima Government grudgingly supplied perhaps a quarter of the amounts indented for, so that the Colony was always on short commons, which the A S. WATSON & CO., publ e greatly rosented. The ports of Shanghai, Fooshow, Amoy, Bestow and many others would h wo taken enormous quantities of the LIMITED
soinage if the Banks ould have obtined them from the Treeury. They met..a very obvious want in Chips, which should have been supplied long ngo by that country. It is es imated that some 43 million dollars worth of coins were issued, but it must be remembered that those are "wattered over many thousands of aquare miles
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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. ONLY communications relating to the news column should be dressed to Tax EDITOR.
Correspondents mist forward their names and aid dromes with communications addressed the Editor, not for publication but as evidence of good. faith.
Warnock-informed him that the trouble was caused by the defendant putting up a blindin front of his cinematograph, which obscured the view of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Both sides alleged assault, so his Worship adjourned the case to onsble Inspector Warnock to inspect the promises and report as to whether the cinematograph blinde wace an obstraction,
Sir Thomas Sutherland's statement as to the shutting ont of the P. and O. Company from the raw cotton carrying trade between Bombay and Japan was daly telegraphed abroad. The result has been, so the cable says, to create profound surprise on the part of our allies. In the first place, they assert that the Japanese steamers in this service, do not receive State aid. It so, one ground of complaint about which a good deal has been written must disappear. The second assertion in that the nationum að the Tigervna slips la, wholly Son to
says:
GOLD AND THE PRICE OF
SECURITES. ¿
So far as Spain la concerned, the moment | Mr. Fluco'n "Leolura," pifil-Youra faithfully appears propitious for the King to undertake
NO. SCIENTIST. Further diapassion of our own particular this excellent tour. If such a tour bad been A correspondent, writing on th Club railway question should prove extremely in- then reigning monarch or prines it would Dann applies C.3. treatment to dying trees.] mads during the eighteenth century by the ratepaper, and omitting his us, asks if Mr.teresting.—Yours truly, bars altered, the face of Spanish history, To
A READER, the youthful and vigorcas temporamont of our monarch the fatigue of each journey must be less than the journey made by King Edward to India when Prince of Wales, a journey which will go down to history and confer great benefit on the present heir to the British throue. Spain is at pesce both at home and abroad, and a prolonged absence of King Alfon so would not plunge Spain into difficulties with the King's presence among them our brothers throughout South America will feel themselves possessed with enthusiasm, and from the North of Mexico to the onfines of Argan- tiza the name of Spain will be greeted. Such a journey would efface all the historical mis rakes which post Spain so much blood and gold. From it would spring a renaissands of Hispanan
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PAESE,"
SIR-The lecture on Thursday ovaning on Christian Science" reminded me of a dec eription of Scienas by the late Professor Hurley.
Lectaring at a meeting of the Liverpool and Science, he declared, is nothing at all if it is not District Bankora' Institute, Me. E. I. Holden, trained and organisert common sense. I went M.P., managing director of the London City to the meeting with a mind open to conviction
and idland Bank, gare au interesting address. on the Depreciation of Becarities in Relation and listened to the lecture with slows attention.
to Gold Mr. Holden brought out with ad- I left th building thinking how admirably Mr. mirable lucidity the fact that every lean by a Flano bad succeeded in demonstrating the new
bank creates a dep sit, and that bankers do. science to be “nothing at all."—Yours truly,posits in fact consist entirely of orèdits so
created, except in so far they come inte bring. UN JONVERTED. by the payment in of cast. He proceeded to P.S.-Yes, I agree with you that the leature show that loans have to bar some relation to over devised to pussly the wit- the eredits are pagable in gold. It this fallese blatory of religion: charlatanom.
ed, then the danger spot is the lann He showed that his site of things is generally trus throughout the trading world, and that the business of the world is carried on by means of loans, that lozas create credit, that the standby for the protection of the credite is gold, and that therefore gold showing that the increase in loans in the years controla tradė.” he lecturer supplied figures 1900 to 1906 had been ut of proportion to the in case in the gold basis, and then be arrived at the fact that during these year American securities went up and gilt-edged securities want down.
and the writer does not believe that one-tenth their contracting with the Japanese sploningos. Such a journey wond by all the wan a farrage of-vousquse -nerhaps the greator the banks' holding of gold, because all the
of that amount will ever return to Hongkong even though a good premium were offered for
them.
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enterprice for King "Alfonso, and we see no companies to transport raw cotton at cheap impediment or obstacle to prevent its realisation rates in return for regular supplies.
Thor we boliere the journey is a matter notonly of great moment bat of the utmost necessity,
BRITISH FLEET OF AIRSHIPS.
TWO DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS: ALMOST READY.
Without wishing to be dogmatic, we have a right to express our opinion that to us the suggested issue of fractional notes appears an unthinkable one. Japan may have tried All latters for publication ghould be writion on it, but, we believe, was not long qu aban tou-
side of the paper No anonymously signed communications that having it. We would be glad to see Shanghai's already appeared in other papers will be inserted.
Orders for Peter
copies of DAILY Paxes should be system of riccha tickets adopted for riechas, Fil before 11 am. on day of publication. After that chairs, and trama; it works well at th and second schedules to the regulations have Cody, the workers are engaged st-high pressure hare aftended many public meetings, and pover
only.
our the supply is limited. Only supplied for Fash northern part; but illogical as it may
Telegraphic Address: Press.
Codes: A.B.O. 6th Ed. Laeber.
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The Day Press.
HONGKONG, JANUARY 25TH, 1908.
"A mig steate of Mason, whose daughter roosn ly disappeared, was informed that she was detained in a Trapplet osaveat in the suburbs
trate and thrae detectives he want to the convaut,, but was refused admission. The police magis. (rate displayed his tricolour scarf, and demanded
There is great activity at the Government's balloon factory at Farnborough. Under the personal supervision of Colonel Copper and Mr. on the constraction of a dirigibla balloon that is to keep company with the wrecked Nulli Besund us.
The envelope, which is of godbiter's skin,
is already fashioned, while the framework of the De Berostat is ready for fitting together.
The engines bave arrived. They are twios the hors-power of those of the Nalli Secundis, aid will drive the new airship in calm weather at a rate approsohing a mile a minute. all necessary renovation, and will soon be ready The Nulli” Becundus bereelt has undergone to take the air" again. As in this case of the new aerostat, the lifting power has been
materially lightaped. The engine power has also been increased.
Nor are these two airships to comprise the | whole fleet by which. Great Britain is to
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY FEESS"
SIR, If I had any suspicion that you had misrepresented the intellectual status of the Christian Scientiste, (and I confess I had a little) it was completely removed by the leotare which I heard last night. It was a long-drawn out insult to intelligence, punctuated, you perhaps noticed, by group after group of audi- tors leaving at regular and brief intervals..
before saw so many people get up and go out from one, showing their impatienes and disgust as the people did in this case. I respectfully endorse your comments in the morning's paper.
Yours truly,
AMAZED.
King Edward Hotel, Jonary 4th,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAĻLY PRESO."}
I
SIR-Mr. Flang told us last night that she "finite mense" cannot comprehend Christian How
THE committeo on subsidiary coinage began that a coin bearing the King's offigy and of the town. Accompanied by a polica magia inoreased, while the framework has been Salence; it requires understanding."
third on tas way, but it is, intended, to delay is completion until the others have been tried and tested.
in vain in the ns of the law, that the doorstraggle for the supremacy of the air. The e. should be opened. Eventually the palics scaled a wall and breke into the building. Fifty pans with covered facin barrod t'a sir way, and refused to speak The magistra a declared that if they
did not show their: faves fɔrve would be used.
The Board of Trade bave issued regulations entitled "Merchant Bhipping-Passenger Re- turns," The regulations, which este inte forsa on January 1, 1908, are made under section 76 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, and prascribe the return to be made as to presingers carried by masters of vassale trading to or from the United Kingdom. The forms in the feat
been devised for the joint purposes of the Merchant Shipping and Alious Act, and the appear, we do not like the idea of exten ling duplicates of these forms when delivered matiafy it over other general purposes. If there had the requirements of the Home Ufles under the beau any advantage to be gained thereby, Aliens Act as regards extra European trafic, Shanghai would doubtles have seen it and Applications for copies of tas forms should be Bized it. The argument that Mr. Max-addressed to the collector or Chief Ofloor of
Customs at the port. FIR: Bays, will not hold water holds a good deal. Numerous visitors to Hongkong con tinue to expresì amazement at the discovery
the words "ted cents" is not worth tea their labours with the assistance of au obviously able minute by His Excellency cents, seeing that pennies and sixpoucas the Governor, Sir FREDERICK LUGAR are always redeemable even in quantities, pointed out that they were rot only to nt their face value. The Government. ray advise the Government ns to remedial certainly be held blameworthy, (Lore measures, but aim to weed out the many sponsible) for the excessive issue of the past impracticable proposals which had been without implying that it knowingly and piled up during the public discussion of the deliberately issued in such excess for profit. subject. It does happen that there are as Itie admitted that such implication is un- many people willing to show how to adjust warranted, but whether the thing was done the subsidiary coinage difficulties ne there in ignorance or short-sighte Iness or how are people ready to advise how to cure a cold ever, the moral responsibility remains. A in the head, and nech recommendation, in British subject expects a British promise to the mind of its maker, is the correct and pay (which is what the King's head implies) best. Very clearly His Excellency sumuted always to hold good, and it is his ambition up the more salient of those. The attention to see the whole world staring his faith in of the Committee was drawn to the question that iden Unhappily, virgimatances at programme of masic during dinner, at the whether the withdrawal of the excess Hong Hongkong have arisen in which that now Hongkong Hotel, this (Saturday) svening :**
1 March ....
Remember,"
Blaccheton kong subsidiary would or would not injra appears impossible; there are, bonest but
2. Overture „ “Egmont,”
Beethoven adame Sana Gène," Vale-Lane' trade while benefiting revenue; whethe. a unfortunate bankrupts, and we will not 3 Valse Government guarantee of the face value of deny the local Government that status. We Chorus and Cavatina from Belisario, Donizetti Berenade Quand tu Chartes,nod its own issue would or would not make its make thess comments because the argument bBerenade" Standchen,... Schubert
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Lacore subsidiary oust the dollar as sole currency, attacked by Mr. MANSFIELD happens to
a Leandre-et-Texiello. and whether such a pledge could be given have been our own, and we certainly never seeing that there are insufficient funds to entertained the suspicion which he claims back its whether there is morally such an to be an integral part of the argument. obligation on the Government seeing that it far, so good, but we are not much "for- imported and issued these coins only in rader toward practical issues. accordance
with the demand for them can the Committee ba said to be Four whether the issue of subsidiary paper money membera sign ons report; three another was feasible and-or desirable; whether alien (wo reproduce both in another column) and coins could be prohibited, as at Singapore, in transmitting them to Government, Mr. without dislocating trade with Chips; and Trosor indicates that further delibera- so on. His Excellency carefully avoided" tions could only have meant an interminable
at a concise presentation of a few of the present there can be no verdict,
Neither
One of the features connected with the now airships til be the instalment of wire los telegraphy. An apparatus has hosn fo vented which makes this feasible, Experi-. The unus then removed their hoods, but declined ments are being carried out almost daily. One to make any statement about the missing girl of the ordinary balloons is sent up, and com- or anything ela. The police searched everymunication is maintained with the factory.
The results have surpassed all anticipations. part of the convest without result. They have now discovered that the girl had bean wont to Conversation has been kept up at a distance of another convent near Geneva.
By kind permission of Lisa Col. W. Scott Monorioff and offear, the band of the Third Battalion "The Duke of Cambridge's Own”
(Middlesex Regiment) will play the following
me."
b Sear monchs at Colombinė.
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Skylark,
Suction Country Wily Mauckton
Regimentel Marches.
God bless the Prince of Wales. God save the King.
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three and four hundred feet.
doss a faite being acquire this infinite un- derstanding?
There may be veritas in vine, Drank or sobur agedi I know what was meant by Mr. Fluno, Are there any sane who do know!
You know my failing, sir, and will exouse it-Yours truly.
·
BILAS WEGG, Hongkong, 24th January, 1908.
[TO "THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILT PRESS.")
To the ordinary mind this phenomenon is capable of a very commonplace and simple explanation, American shares went up because solive trade which caused the increase in loaur, increased by speculation organized with mar increased their revenues, and the advance was
velloms aadecity and thoroughness; and gilt- edged securities went down because sotive trade raced the value of money. Mr. Holden prefors to explain the rice both in commodities and American secarities as dus to the increase in losas, though we venture to think it at locat as probable that the increase in loans was due authority for this view, for in another passage to the rise in prices. And we have him. of his lecture he stated that "when cotton increases in price larger loans will have to be made." Probably both propositions are trud, and were at work together. Tarning to gilt-edged securities, Mr. Holden sacribed their decline to decrease in the Bank's reserve and
proposed to correct it, if we understand him right, by amending Peel's Act and by bring- ing the two divisions of the Bank of England into a single department, thus making the total gold available as a general banking reserve. The total gold available is first to be increased by the substitation of inst the Bank's note "of gold for Government
debt or securities
Lasne; but we osanat discover that Mr. Holden ̈January 24th.~~~|sofved the question as to whence, or at whose expense, this extra gold is to be obtained. His lecture is certainly an interesting contribution to an important subject.—Times.
THE TEA MARKET.
S18,-The loop-the-loop" looturerstated in But the balloon factory is not limiting itself the City Hall that he puts the Bible before to dirigible balloons. Aeroplane models are Mrs. Eddy's book. He also quoted freely from being continually fried, and a large copy of it. Towards the end of the lecture he told us there was no aky-"no sky was created, because one of them is under construction.
there was no sky, or words to that effect;
Now, Decembar 21st, that the New Year is at hand the tes market is discussing the possibility What about the 6th 7th and 8th verses of of a redaction in the duty levied upon that the let aliapter of Genesis, "Let there bearticle. The present rate is 5d. par th, and frmament mont, and called the frmament Hesten?"
The dirigible balloons will not, it is thought, it not more, will be brought out on the same be flown until the end of January. Then two,
day.
Yours truly.
and God made the fishly Shit euils the middleman very comfort-
F
as it is impossible to divide a penny even into quarters for shopkeeping purposes, "the trade as a whole feels that a further impetus would be given to consumption if the duty- could be brought down to 3d. par 1b. Sinos.tbo daty was reduced from 6d. Lo-58. the manual increase in oppsumption has been very romark Correspondeatable, as can be seen by a study of the
An interesting new volume la Uuwin's Colonial Library is "Father Felix's Chronicles," the last werk bit by Nora Chesson, the gifted
O. B.THODOX. post who died last year. The book purports to
[We fear no useful purpose can now be be written by Father Felix of the Order of Bt. served by letting this correspondence continue, Benedict, a scribe and illuminator belonging to and will publish no more. a priory-house at Norwich. His chronicles
include the period between 1600 (the date of please note: We hope that madera who may House returns. According to Mesurs. the death or murder of Richard Il, son of the encounter any locales of Christian Wilson, and Stanton, the imports of tex for Kessler Black Pritc) and 1422 when Henry VI Sciones treatment of children will eam eleven months ended November 30 last smoanted
ascended the throne. The incidente of the most contentially with us or with the to just over 279 million log and this, oorg parec with 274 millions imported 14 sme period of book combine the extremes of tenderqved - and
in the same period of 1905. Duty won paid in horror. We witness the ernshing to death Police E under the fourth Henry's strocious law, of a
1907 on 254 million lbs, as compared with 2331 DINNER MEN Horn-D'Œuvres--Windsor girl of twenty, and the heroic Edelity of a Jew
milliongia 1906. Thus it will be soon that with Canapes Soup Asparagus. Fleb-Baked Fish
Lo hi lepersford; yet the graces and little love-
an increase of only five millions in imports the and Tomato Sauce. Entrées-Grilled Fillet of linestes that delighted thewriter_are_not_
-duty payments rose by 15 millions, so that the Beef an! Mushrooms, Fricassén, of Rabbit with ignored. Pathetic and noble in a high degree
stock of tes held in bend exhibited & distinct Carry-Oyeter Rico, Vail and Ham Patties.
reduction, At the end of Novembar sik wan pixy-maid. Though the personality of Nors
estimated st 110 million lbs., as against 122 Jointe, 6-Roses Leg of Mutton and Mint Sauce, episode concerning au Outlaw and a
millious at the dus in 1995. If the public were to get the full benefit of the reduction, it
Chesson vividly
Head Quarters Omos, Hongkong 23rd January, 1908..
[TO TEN-EDITOR OF THE "PAILY PERSS")
BTE,With reference to your paragraph in
of Pork and Poace Pudding, Culd Game Pie and on the impressed on phase Carolles-to-day's issue headed- Military Scandal, the
Boat Capon and Bread Sauce Boiled Comed Leg
Mixed Salad. Sweet Cornmeal Pudding, Fine-
STEEL Cheese Straws Dessert Coffee-Fruite scholarship which they display.
for any lost urer or public entertainer who is further growth.