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OSLO.
WHY NORWAY BAS. RENAMED HER CAPITAL.
MALT EXTRACT |; The official name of the capital of
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COD LIVER OIL Is made from the finest selected Barley and malt. ed with the greatest care on the Company's "own premises by the most scientific methods of manufacture.
THE
DISTILLERS COMPANY, LTD.
BUINBURGH. /
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SOLE AGENTS:
ANDE, PRICH & 00.,
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Norway is no longer Christiania: but Uslo; and the name under which the city has been known for three centuries dis
appears altogether. But this peculiar rechristening of the capital of Norway is not so wonderful as may seem, writes
Norwegian in a London paper, for Osic is the old name of the town, older than the town; from time immemorial the name of the place where a fair had been in existence for ages when King Harold Hardraade founded a town in 1017 sad build St. Mary's Church, a rorat chapel with 14 altars, famous all through the north and in time very rich"
His son, King Olav Kyrre, made Oslo a bishopric and erected a cathedral: de dicated to the local saiat, St. Hallwird, a kinsman of St. Olav's, whose corpse was buried under the high altar and whose martyrdom was reproduced in the
city-seal of Oslo and still is to be seen The cathe in the seat of Christiania, dral was very rich and had 94 minor altars.
Oslo very soon became a religious centre, and had 9 churches and 3 monas- teries when the city was the residence of the Kings of Norway during the 14th. century. But the extinetion of the male line of the Haralds, Olavs, and Hankons proved fatal to Oslo as to all Norway. King Haakon V. died in 1910 and had. Do you Ec, was succeeded by Prines Magnus of Sweden, son of his daughter: Magnus was succeeded by his son Haakon VI., who tanrried Princess Margrete, of Denmark.
Their son.Olav V. was heir to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, but, died a boy in 1357 and left his clever mother ruler of the three aorthern countries. She got her nephew Prince Erik of Pomerania elected King of Norway in 138, of Den mark and Sweden in 136. He was mar ried to Phillippa, daughter of King Henvy IV. of England, but they had no children. and the King's nephew was elected to succeed the unpopular Erik in Denmark and Sweden in 1439, in Norway in 144. Christopher died child. less ic. 1448. and his kinsman Prince Christian of Oldenburg, who married his widow, was elected: King of Denmark in 148, in Norway 1450, in Sweden in 1437. The House of Uldenburg lost Sweden in 1591, but the union between Norway-and Denmark under this Royal Family lasted until 1814.
THE NEW NAME.
The half-Germat Kings gave privileges to the Hanseatic League that proved in- jurious to Oslo and national trade; and the forcible introduction of the Lutheran Reformation by King Christian II. in 1537 was ruinous for Oslo and other cen tres of worship. St. Mary's Church had been looted by the King in 1523 and burnt. Now the churches and cloisters and their properties were configated under the Crown; and in 1530 the pis copal palace in Oslo was given to the citizens to use for a stone-pit, and the city was repeatedly destroyed by fires during the wars with Sweden.
Oslo being unfortified, the Kings want ed to move the town nearer ander the guns of Akershus fortress, not quite an English mile farther west. And when a great fire had ruined the greater part. of Oslo in August, 1891, King Christian IV. ordered the inhabitants to move to Akershus; and he planned the new town and named it after himself-Christianin
But as early as in 1839 PA Munch, the great historian, advised that Chris In tiania should again be called Valo. 1892 when a great legal reform was car- ried through in Norway, the jurisdiction of the capital was called the Oslo circuit and not Christiania. When a new sys- tem of election was introduced in 1900 the first constituency in the capital was called Oslo. In 1918 the bishopric of Christiania was again called by the his torical name Oslo. The city council had been discussing the name question from 1906 till 1923. But there had always been a certain power of inertia against alter irg the name.
A WELCOME CHANGE
The friction between Denmark and Norway occasioned by the Greenland dis pute gave fresh impetus to the movement for getting rid of the names that re- minded of the Oldenburg Kings and the union with Denmark, which never was popular in Norway. So when"in 195 there was a division in the name question in the city copecit of Christiania, 42 voted on each side; but even those who roted, in favour "of Christiania ex- pressed their sympathy for a change but were not willing to effect it till after the tercentenary of Christiania in September, 1924.
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In the meantime & private Bilt for changing the natue of the capital was introduert in the titorting, or Parliament, ard was passed in the Lower House, on June 30th, with 51 against 23 votes, and in the Upper House on July 4th, with 21 against 15 votes the now law coming into effect from 1925. The change has been generally accepted all over Norway, sad all corporations and political parties have been equally eager to make it cffce tive at osoČ.
MORE PAY FOR BANK CLERKS';:
WAR BONUS TO BE MERGED INTO WAGES. Employees of the Midland Bank, Ltd.; have had a pleasant surprise from the. directors. Beginning on January 1st, war bonuses are to be abolished and added permanently to salaries, which, it is stated means the swelling of the list by well over $200,000. Wages
For some years now s
ow said Mr. Frederick Hyde, joint manging direc tor of the bank, we have been paying partly by wages and partly by bonus
This means Now it is to be all
Wages. that so far as the future le concerned, our staff know exactly what one they can count upon. For those who are nearing the retiring age it means that their pensions will be caleciated on the increased salary; so all round I think they are very well satisfied."
MERIDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH, 192:
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QUITABLE TËÄSTERN BANKING CORPORATION.
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Capital........ F 10,000,000 Reservos.......... Frs. 10,790,000 Working fand provided by
The Banque INDUSTRIELLA DE ON: Frs. 50,000,000.
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Business transacted. Correspondents throughout the World. ' ́
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Manager.
Hongkong, 12th July, 1994.
THE BANK OF CANTON, I-IMITED,
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG
Established 1912.
Authorised Capital
Paid Up Capital
Silver Reserve Fund......
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QURRENT ACCOUNTS"
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