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CABLES
LATEST CABLES,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BOYCOTT OF ALLIED GOODS, SUGGESTION OF WURTZMBERG. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
BERLIN, March 14th.
Chambers of Commerce arguing
la
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRÍSS, TUESDAY,
LATEST CABLES.
EXECUTION OF SIX SINN
FEINERS. HALF-DAY STRIKE IN DUBLIN.
LONDON, March 14th.
TRADE DEPRESSION.
L-EASTERN EXCHANGE.
INFLUENCE OF CHEAP · SILVER,
[BY MORETON PREWEN IN THE "DAI
TELEGRAPK."]
Six Sina Feinera were hanged in
In niy recent letter on the subject of Dublin this morning. Twe were convict America's. Finances I drew attention to ed of murder in connection with the the extremely sudden "slump" which has A message from Stuttgart, gays that massacre of officers in Dublin in Nevan-overtaken the business' world, A very anger at the new penalties has evoked a bar, and the remaining four of high trea- few months since we were all surprised joint appeal from the Wurtembergson and of participating in an ambush.
by the many favourable portents denoting The men were hanged in pairs at an easier reconstruction and a more rapid favour of business men and the popule hourly-intervals. Extraordinary efforts view of the world-wide area of the recent recovery than bad appeared possible in tion boycotting British, French
were made to securo a reprieve, including financial earthquake. What, then, are Belgian merchandise, until the objection- the despatch of telegrams from the Lord the common denominators which best ac able measures have been revoked..
Mayor of Dublin to the King and the count for the aniversality of that disaster LOCK-OUT IN OCCUPIED DISTRICT | Premier, but they proved fruitless. now impending over the New Year! I
Work was stopped in Dublin in the have pointed out one. mimely, the della
PARIS, March 14th.
and
tion of "credits" and currencies. It is
MARÜH - 15гa, 1921.
SCOTTISH LETTER.
ROARIN' GAME OF CURLING.
ITS PAST AND ITS PRESENT.
[From our own cÓRRESPONDENT.]
Edišsunas, January 19th. Does any Scot, though his home is now
Manufacturers in Duisburg, Dusseldorf forenoon, and as a protest the postal and enough to say, that if this intentional and employed in Manchester and Glasgow. lastends"
"
and Ruhrort, inspired by the Stinnce Group, have decided to declare a lock-out a protest against the extended Allied occupation, aiming at the stoppage of production in the district.
FRENCH TO OPEN PUBLIO
- KITCHENS IN RHINELAND).
PARIS, March 11th. The occupation of cities in Rhineland continues without any untoward incident. The decision of the French authorities
to
Huras.
1
TREATY OF SEVRES.
GREEK OBJECTIONS TO REVISION.
LONDON, March 14th.
telegraph services were suspended. There was a crowd of 20,000 outside the gaol.
NEW
EARLIER CABLES.
YORK DIVORCE SENSATION.
malevolent destruction of credit is follow. ed to ita logical conclusions men's hearts may well fail them everywhere for the days that are at hand.
Is that, however, the only cause for an effect so universal, or is there some other cause cf disturbance common to all parts of the world and which can be held
MILLIONAIRE CITIES GUIDE AS "jointly and equally responsible? I think
CO-RESPONDENT.
Wera
Oza. (in millions). New silver required to liquidate India's annual balance of trade £70,000.000, or two rupees per capita... Now silver for the Nigerias, West Africa, "German" and British East Africa For world's "silversmiths at pre-
war rates
For "token" currencies, Euro-
250
100
120
pean and American..... .20 Now silver for China, Hongkong, Malaysia, and Philippines
:
For reimbursement of American dollars (Pitman Act say, for eight years
fi
Total of annual demand Annual supply from world's minen: Director of the Mint's estimate.
-1015-17
there is, and that we discover it in the anprecedented fall in silver. From 93 pente in January, 3815, and 48 peace in NEW YORK, March 13th. February, 1919, the metal rose to 28 pence in 1920, and now in Jaduary, 1921. has The newspapers are publishing gen fallen to 40 pence. Thus, the Shanghai open popular kitchens for needy sational accounts of the forthcoming taef exchange, ald. in January, 1815, and people has been gratefully, received. divorce proceedings in which Mr. James almost one-half in the past year. "We in 104d. in January, 1920, fell to 434.-fell Oby.ously the Prussian regime was un. Stillman, the millionaire president of England have, in the last year, begun to appreciate, though as yet faintly, the popular with large sections of the popu the National City Bank, has cited as co difficulty that besets our importers from lation, especially the working class respondent Fred. Beauvais, a guide at America, because, instead of buring five...
gold dollars (and thus American goods) M23. the Three Rivers, Quebec, partly a with one sovereign, we have to pay nearly French-Canadian and partly an Indian thirty shillings. Now apply this cause of our embarrassment to the trade relations who is a six-footer; aged twenty-six and of Lancashire with Bombay, Calcutta, and Shanghai, and also the trade rela single.
tions of New York. Chicago and San Mrs, Stillman is the daughter of the Francisco with Bombay, Hongkong, and actress Mrs. Brown Potter.
Canton-apply, I say, these object-lessong along a wide horizon to our trade rela- tions with a thousand millions of Asiatics. who have seen the price which they have to pay for their exchange" with us fall in the past year from a maximum of 88d. per ounce to 40d. Where would nur im porters of American products stand if dollar exchange cost them not some 18 per cent.. but over 100 per cent. more than it did one year ago! And yet it is this problem which now faces every merchant in Asia who trades with Eng our wise men" and America's will not land, the land of the shopkeeper! Surely for ever remain blind to the inevitable these in our exchanges, and thus in our results of colosal fluctuations such as trades also, with the myriad peopled
The Greek Legation in London has re- ceived a telegram from "Athens stating that the entire Greek Press declares that the concessions demanded from Greece in favour of Turkey attack the fundamental clauses of the Treaty of Sevres.
The whole of Greece is ready to enforce, at any price, respect for ita national aspira-
tions.
RAIN OF DEATH. TERROR OF THE WAR OF THE FUTURE.
LONDON, March 13th.. Appalling possibilities of warfare from the air in the future are suggested by the claim of an officer of the United States Chemical Warfare Service that a liquid poison has been discovered three drops of which will kill anybody whose skin it touches.
World deficit...
THE NEW COINAGE.
50
020
157
483
QUANS NORTE OF THE FORTH.
A Burnsiap makes the discovery that there is not a single Burns Club in the Gaelic-speaking counties of Scotland. There are none in Invernesshire, Rosshire, or Sutherlandshire, in the Far North of the Western Isles.
POET OR EXCISEMAN ?
"' I wonder," says Mr: Hay Hulkett, the Lambeth Magistrate, "what Robert Burns would any if he could rise from 30 degrees under proof is not an offence 1 his grave and hear that selling whisky Upon this the comment is made-Does lr: Halkett mean Robert Burns the post er Robert Burns the exeiseman ! We aro under the impression that their senti inents would not be identical," THE SCOTS TONGUE
te a
The
and May, 1950, yet Asis is the creditor (of America over the same period to the
extent of $1,333,000,000. When we have THE received the full returns for the last quarter of last year, and especially the first quarter of this year with India and China we shall be able to contrast the results of the greatest rien that over was recorded in Eastern exchange-that df 1019-20-followed by much the great- est fall-that of 1920-21. The figures of the decline and fall may be likely in the East, ever forged the glorious joys amply to account for our resultant in-assiciated with the roarin' game" of dustrial depression to-day, Lancashire
of course, the area hit hardest. War: curling The very name must stir the wickshire would hardly occur to one as moniory to braeing wenes-the trees black much concerned in silver, but Allahabad Pioneer of December 10th
the against the snowy landscape, the figures publishes cables exchanged between then the frozen loch, the ringing of the
India Cancellation of orders; non- Birmingham and the Bengal Chambers of stones as they tract, along the ice with Commerce. The former body wires: their unceasing, matchless music. No
"Professor W. A. Craigie, joint editor payment of bills. Telegraph cause of
game is surrounded by so much healthy forms me that he is now compiling a of the Oxford English Dictionary; in- enthusiasm and present crisis.”
The Bengal Chamber abandon themselves so completely to the the 14th to the 17th century,
rivalry no players dictionary of Scottish words used from Although replies: "Unexpected heavy slump in emotions of the hour. exchange. Suggest restrict shipments A bonspell has to be carried through he still carries with him the Forfarshire it in 28 years since he has left Dundee, until present stocks greatly, reduced."
in the daylight. If it is a big match. accent.. Thus it happens that Birmingham contri- the roughclad curlers arrive early in the butes its quota to the mass of the ua forencon; play starts at once: and the ENGLISH TEA AND A SCOTS CODE.
are finished as the day t Lady Norsh Bentinck, a niece by mar In the 19th Century Review" for darkens down. February, 1919, I had published a wiches are hurriedly enten; pocketflask describes the arrival of the ex-Kaiser at No time is lost; and riage of the Imperial exile's former host,
an average price of 5s. per ounce, and my round on the ice.
Thirty Years" Forecast for Silver, at are in demand; coffee may be handed Amerongen in November 1018. She saya The belated players that the Kaiser showed obvious and deep estimates as follows, based on are like dim shadows on the loch; they relief at the successful end of his journey. supply and demand:
start for home with a sense of superb Now," he said to Count Godard, rub- ANNUAL DEMAND,
mental and physical antisfaction: and, bing his hands together, give, if circumstances are kindly, they finish up of real good English test! the day with the traditional curiers' supra good tea came quickly, but it was per of beef and greens.
Scottish rather than English (wrius Lady Sometimes a thaw sets in during the Norah). For there is among the treasures play, but the curlers take little heedat Aucerongen a Scottish housekeeper, an They stand about in the saw bree and adept in the preparation of the substan- send the hurtling stones through the tial appetising scones. pancakes, short- gathering surface water.
on, that everyone who During the bread, and so match everything else is forgotten. And crosses the Border enjoys at high tea" always the excitement is intense. One of Since that introduction to the Scottish the great bonapeile is a never-to-be-for- cakes the ex Kaiser has delighted in them. gotten sight, that on "Lochmaben, for in- A CLERICAL STORY. stance, where the players are counted by One of the stories attributed to Dr. hundreds. But the spirit of the game is | Alexander Whyte, the great Scottish everywhere the saine, even though it hp preacher who has just passed away, con- only a contest between two parishes of|cerng a Highland "minister who came to two villages; while the ice holds and the Edinburgh in search of funds for his light permits the carler makes light of church. Dr. Whyte gave the names of a all other business, or interest, or duty,' number of possible contributors, one of
The countrybred curler gets
surprise them rich merchant who had wore gold when he first witnesses a curling match than grace. The Highlander put his case under modern conditions During these to this man rather tersely and with little past days our curling visitors from tact, As a consequence an argument Canada, for instance, have been playing started,' and the rich man asked in- against Scottish rinks arid surroundings dignantly," "Who do you take me for 7 very different from those described above. Quick came the reply. A hell-deserv The play is under cover, in a great halling sinner like myself. That, of course, in Edinburgh. It has heavy pillars, was an end of the interview. Returning atched windows, and a high and finely to Dr. Whyte, the Highland minister told What, then, are the new factors in 1920 proportioned roof. As for the ice. it is his tale. You never said that ex which have appeared to upset this and a fine, smooth, glistening sheet, as pure claimed Dr. Whyte. Aye, but I did." all other estimates, which all pointed as marble. The play goes on long after said the irato Celt. year ago to a further advance in silver nightfall, under the electric light, and the Dr. taking a long breath: I've often Well," returned I need not dwell at any length on one the spectators have comfortable seats,wanted to tell him the same thing, so cause the debasement of our own nearly with radiators to keep their fect from here's £5 for you," pure silver currency, its silver contents becoming too cold. It is all very different ENGAGEMENT. .925 "fine." which was established in from curling as we have seen it, on the An engagement is announced between Queen Elizabeth's reign, and on which we remote loch in the midst of overhanging Captain the Earl of Dalkeith, Grenadier. had reason to pride ourselves, for it was bills.
Guards, eldest son of the Duke' and. the purest silver in Europe. It compared Yet, in spite of the changed surround. Duchess of Buccleuch, and Miss Lascelles, tender silver pieces of France and the The players lose themselves as completely, Itscelles, Scots Guards, and Lady Sybil favourably even with the full legalings, the spirit of the game is unchanged. eldest daughter of the late Major W. F Latin Union, which are only 500 fine. they are as free from self-consciousness, Lascelles. The Earl is in his 27th year. word as to that most objectionable and time when the stones came roaring under granddaughter of Sir. Frank Lanceles, the Yet it may in passing be as well to say and a full of bracing zest na in the old nad Miss Lascelles in 20.
She is a quite indefensible novelty for this de- the open sky and on the rough ice of distinguished Ambassador, and since ber basement from 325 to 400 fine" is not the wind-swept loch. The players shout "debut has been very popular in Society.. only economically pernicious, but, as much as ever, and there are brave Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, Writing to you from the Pacific Coast thoroughly bad in morals. Were thene echoes from, the lofty roof. One deep Earl of Dalkeith, is heir to the great on October 31st, 1910, I said (see The new silver eqins of 1990 wholly lead, and voice seems to overwhelm all the others; Scottish ducbies of Buccleuch and Daily Telegraph on January 2nd, 1920)-did the Chancellor say frankly I want it is of immense power; it holds a sug Queensberry While serving with the
So lately as 1876 Walter Bagehat, when coined," then he is within his rights; but must comes from the throat and lungs to General Lord Rawlinson.
to make-11d. profit on every shilling gestion of a wild Indian's war-hoop. It Guarda in France, he was aide-de-camp Ho came giving evidence before a Select Com he knows that the ignorant public would of Canadian It is declared that the supply of the mittee of the House of Commons, declar not take his lead tokens, so he himself like "Yah! yah! yah!" and at other times Wales, and the two are firm friends. Ho Sometimes it sounds into intimate contact with the Prince of necessary raw materials is practically un-ed that "silver is the normal money of lends the way in counterfeiting our ex it surely is a call to: Sweep!" We has always been a persona prota at mankind." With the newly-created extine-honoured coins, the counterfeit being cross over to the other side of the hall Court. At one time, when acting an limited.
change value of silver the tacl, the impossible of detection until submitted to see this wild shouting "skin" from Equerry to the Prince, it was whispered Mexican dollar, and the rupee-the ex- a fire assny. It will, in my judgment, be the snows of Canada, surely he must that he was engaged to Princess Mary port trades of the minority of mankind impossible to keep this new half-and have. Indian blood in his veins. And, and the rumpur became so widespread inhabiting Europe and Amerien to the half silver currency in circulation: either behold; we discover that the voice comes that it had to receive an official denial. majority living in Asia should expand the debased coins will have to be with from a notoriously respectable man, during an outburst of great industrial drawn or the fre-1990 silver will all be quite conventional man, who hails from activity. Let me conclude with the re hoarded. For if the Treasury can make to the prosaic town of Peebles! · volution which has overtaken the export per cent. on its counterfeit coin, so also L'ORD INVEER trade of Lancashire to India and Chian can. Long experience has shown us i have not the latest statistics of this there is no risk.in coining: "the risk is WASHINGTON, March 13th.
trade, but, roughly, Manchester exports in the uttering of, false coins. If I The authoritative circles state that to India about twenty-five millions sterlito Tiberin with a cargo of silver hare, ing of cottons, and ten to China. Now. Find there mint a coin not distinguish President Harding's policy as regards the at 20d, per lb. for United States cotton, fable even by a Mint assay from the coin settlement of problems arising from the an slb. parcel of grey shirtings costa in which the Royal Mint utters here, ANARCHIST'S ARREST.
Manchester 20%. If this parcel sells in who is to stop me? And across the road. war does not differ materially from Mr. India with rupee exchange at 25. instead in the Nigerias, this very same currency ALLEGED CONFESSION REGARDING Wilson's policy. The adjustment of dif. of 15, d. (the rate from 1803 to 1915), of our shillings and florins, minted here Manchester gets per parcel 426, 4d, And at our own Royal Mint, is not only cur- ferences over the Yap Island and Mesopo in the case of the export to Chins the rent coin, but, unlike our own, is un The new debasement is highly objection: are contained in the will of Mr. Donald Several bequests to Sutherlandshire tamia mandates will be insisted with the rise is already from 8 tacis per pound limited legal tender coin. This late Lordable for another reason.. If the Treasury Mackay, of Reny House, Bodenham Rond,
sterling to 3. so that the parcel has ad. Aldenham told me that in 1900, while he may take one half-crown, melt it, and Hereford, An Anarchist named Ateneo Mateo has same firmness n'in the previous adminis-vanced in gold price from 20s. to 748. was Governor of the Bank, large quantities make two half-crowns out of the very Ashleigh Gardens, Westminster, who left and Morpeth Mansions, In their ratio these figures hold good also of half-crowna coined in Barcelona, caine samo grains of silver, why not treat our estate of the value of £45,000. been arrested. He is alleged to have coxi
tration. 3
for exports from the United States and to the Rank so nearly perfect as to defy Rovereign in the same way? It appeals Mackay will be well-known in the East, Confidence is expressed that amicable Canada to China of articles such as steel detection; and Sir Guilford Molesworth, to our sense of humour to imagine the where he was largely interested in rubber fessed to the assassination of Benor, Dato
rails, Tumber, and flour.
who represented the Government of India average M.P. engaged in beating about and cocoanut companies. and to have revealed the names of his adjustments will be reached.
I went on to say that, in the expansion at the Brussels Monetary Conferoner, the bush to reply to this question! And, bequests he leaves £5,000, to the County Among other
accomplices.
of the Asiatic demand for our goods with said:Moreover, it does not appear finally, this immoral and "uneconomic of Butherland for bursaries, and £1,000 pachanges thus favourable, Lancashire fit the import of full-weight coin manu debasement of our "Good Queen Bess" for money prizes tớ teachers. In these CABLE might expect to get full, compensation for fuctured in foreign erhuntries could be silver is wholly bad because it is quite and all the other bursaries, an ability to the failure of the European demand ex. Trevelyan, in 1864, as saying that gold of money, but there is no money in it ficiaries. £1,000 to the Scottish Highland
prevented."
Sir Guilford, quoted Sir uncalled for it is done to make a trifle speak Gaelic is required of the bene hausted by war. I had, of course, at that rohurs of nearly standard fineness were By economising the metal silver it Mod, for the advancement of Gaelic song, time little but the theory and the general habitually forged, and that one of the weakens the Lancashire exchanges with music, and literature. £1,200 to the appearance of the shipping which left coining establishments in the Punjaub at China and India, and thus reduces our Technical College, Drummuic, Golspic for such Pacific ports as Seattle and Yan Jagadree was on the scale of a Mint" export trades, so that the country loses bursaries. £1,000 to the parish Council SHANGHAI SILK MERCHANTS IN couver to back my strong conviction that In 1910, replying to a question I asked a hundred pounds for one it makes on of Rogart for bursaries. And £1,000 to the rapidly advancing rates of silver ex-in the House of Commons, after our Gov- the increased scignorage The Treasury the Rafal Educational Association for change must needs be expanding every ernment had, without paying a penny of is stacked up now, with millions and the trade training of boys and girls. 9 PARIS, March 11th.
where our exports to the Far East. It compensation, demonetised the whole millions of five-shilling notes which it NOT USED TO IT. was not until I reached home that I got cowrie-shell currency of Nigeria, and had | printed in 1917, and if issued each of Twelve delegates from the Shanghai the wonderful corroboration of this in the introduced in their place our silver coins. these notes would give the Chancellor Scotsman, were discussing the reserved- Two friends, an Englishman and a League regarding the establishment of silk trade organisations have arrived in November, 1918, Manchester exports of to our Treasury of some eu per cent.. ir. poual to issue these silver notes was un- feelings towards their wives. The Eng official figures; Between February and on which there was a scignorage profit fire whole shillings of profit. The proness of the Scots in showing their true the permanent International Court of Lyons where they are visiting the Fair, cotton piece goods to China had risen Secretary Harcourt pledged the Home animously adopted by the Royal Commisshaan said to the Scotsman that in all
from 3,728,000 yards to 40,935,000, and to Government to convert the Nigerian zion on Gold and Silver which reportal. Justice, so as to enable the League, at its and the Union of Silk Merchants in Bombay from 12,817,000 to 48,035,000. silver currency, on présentation here, in 1888 (v. Part II., para. 137, and Part the years he had known him he had never next meeting, to elect judges to take Lyons, who have had old, business rela-
into gold sovereigns, at an exchange of 111., para. 38), and it was also approved hear him expressing any endearing In its annual review of the cotton trade twenty shillings, for a sovereign, and in two speeches by that very high auth: terms towards his wife, though he knew steps for opening the court as soon as tions with the Shanghai organisations for just a year ago and of "Cotton's Great to do this without limit. I thought then rity Mr. Goschen, when Chancellor of they were very happy together. He sug possible. Havaş.
the past fifty years, have organised a "It began in gloom, and then puss guarantee would come to judgment, and so convenient for our pocket-books and his wife, some affectionate encourage
sear," the Manchester Guardian writes: that the day was not far off when this the Exchequer, in 1881. Were these notes, rested that if the Scot necasionally gave series of visits to establishments in which ed on to a stage when orders were already the day of judgment has dawned. for post remittance, issued at once, at ment it would sweeten their domestic re-
sufficiently numerous to the silk merchants are likely to be Royal Exchange rather
make the it will be quite impossible to continue least one entire half of our bulky silver lationship, The Scot admitted that this cheerful this tampering with our silver currency, coins could be sold off, and a really large was probably true, and in future he would interested.-avai.
place, and it ended in suðh and when it has broken on the Treasury sumsum which Lord Goschen reckoned not be so reserved. On going home that plethora of good things that manufactur mind that there is employment for our at £40,000,000, or £1 per capita-be crvening he said to his wife, Weel, ers were sometimes obliged to quote manemployed in converting six-pences into eashed by the Treasury on the notes Maggie, how have things been goin' on possible prices to keep would be pur shillings, this nefarious experiment will issued, their security and convertibility the day 1" "I have been, fair worrit a chasers at bay." Verily Lancashire, have to be discontinued. In India son into silver being beyond all question. At day" she replied. "First Johnnis has with exchange advancing in twelve for years since there was a large profit most, to satisfy extreme purista, there been greetin' wi' the toothnobe, and then It is understood that President Harding The warship abid has left for a months 100 per cent., was enjoying the on molting up bangles and coining them might be deposited 10 per cent of the Jeannie fell doon the stair and near broke. time of her life! Such trade returns into rupees; and it was found that littln 100 per cent, profit, and in gold for a her leg.” He put his arm round her waist. as these go a long way to explain why hand mints, operating with runco dica conversion fund, though the probability and, aid. "Aw, never mind, dearie, ye it is that albeit America is the creditor which were quite accurate had been im- of any demand whatever for conversion ken that I love you."--Oh i” the cried, of Europe for some $12,000,000,000 on portechielly from Austria.
of silver notes into silver coin is most and burst into tears, “An' noo, to croom her trade balance between July, 1916, (Continued at foot of next column.)
tal ye come hamo.blitherin' tout
Grecco disposes on the spot military forces capable of quickly dispersing the revals 30 Asia Minor, declares the ancaauge, und Greece prefers to suffer fresh sacrifices involved by rapid. mili- tary operations in order to end the
indelinite situation.
SET-BACK TO COMMUNISM.
-DEFEAT IN SEINE BY-ELECTIONS.
PARIS, March 14th.
By-elections in the Scine Department, which was a Socialist stronghold, have resulted in the return of two Government candidates, who defented two Communists with an absolute majority of 63,864 votes. The Socialista, apparently, abstained from voting for the Communists,
PREMIER'S MURDER.
MADRID, March 14th.
Falling like rain from nozzles attached to an aeroplane it will kill practically everyone in its path.
PRESIDENT HARDING'S
POLICY.
HOPE REGARDING MANDATES DISPUTE.
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF FAR EASTERN
JUSTICE.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
IONS APPEAL
PAR15, March 11th.
The Secretary of the League of Nations appeals to all members for the prompt rntification of the motion passed by the
EARLIER CABLES.
NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR.
SELECTION OF FAMOUS EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, March 13th.
NEWS.
(JHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LYONS.
ITALIAN WARSHIP'S WORLD TOUR.
NAPLES, March 13th.
has dennitely selected Colonel. George journey around the world, and is going, Harvey, editor of the North American rid the Panama Canal, to Japan and
Review'ns"Ambassador to Great Britain. | China.
East?
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EFFECT ON TRIDE WITH ASIA,
LANCASHIRE HARDEST HIT
70
·MARRIAGES. ·
At Maxwell Parish Church, Glasgow, on the 12th January, Captain Allan MaLean, China Mutual Line, son of the little originality in the selection of their Burnbank Terract, Oban, to Mary Archi- Our new Scottish Pecre are showing Inte Donald Mclean and of Mrs. McLean, titles, and if other new Lords follow their bald, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. example there is going to be trouble. We James Gordon, Oban Distillery, Oban, Lord Inverclyde, and now Sir Williams have already a Lord Inverforth and a OBITUARY. Beardmore is to take the title of Lord wife of the late James Wilson, H.M. At Portobello, "Lilins' Grapt Orr Woir;
Invernairn.
Civil Service, and daughter of the Ista Thomine Weir, W.S., Edinburgh. China papers. requested to copy.
remote
FIVE-SHILLING NOTES.
A LOVER OF THE GAELIC.
Mr.