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INTIMATIONS

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

NOTIFICATION.

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that ou the 27th November pros..., nd 3 p.m.; at the PeBLIC WORKS. DEPARTMENT, before a committee presided by the Director of the Public Works anel rotsj posed of three members appointed by ue Government, the Atrony General being present, TENDERS will be received for the SUPPLY and LAYING of PIPES for CANALIZATION of SALT WATER (Extension).

The conditions of the tendering, the specifications and the plans, of the Canalization are open to the public at the Public Works Department, when they can be examined all work daya from 10. top.nt and from pm. to 4.30 p.m.

Mae Pubile Works Degirment.: 18th October, 1917.

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RAUL M.BR FARIA MAIA.

Engineer Director.

THE PENANG HARBOUR BOARD.

PPLICATIONS de invited for the wirion of GENERAL MANAGER of the PENANG HARBOUR BOARD

Applicants should have thorough knwledge of als Shipping Matters, inc.uding the loading and unheading of org and coal, and warehousing.

Applications, stating alary required, should be addressed to the Loed Chair- man, Peasng Harbour Board, Penang.

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"FRENCH INFLUENCE ON plainly expressed in portër lex

SCOTS PROVERBS..

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Of our ancient Scots proverbs and Our Senttish correspondent writes; verbial sayings in which the ald French flavour is distinctly "evident, The Auld Alliance with France left

an innehse number have fallen into ury marks on Scotland, nowhere

complete abeyance, while th many more than on its language and proexpressions which still survive the rerbiet sayings. Take this piquant

uning has been lost or is frequently

FRANCE'S WAR SPENDING.

TOTAL OF £4,105,600,000 TO END

OF THIS YRAK.

Estimates were laid before Parliament on September 18th for the fourth quarter of the current year. They amount to £448,120,000 for the general Budget, besides £37,820,000 for the supplement

Including the new estimates, the total expenditure hetween Angust 1, 1914, and December 31, 1917, will attain

examples kiss an a drink misunderstood. We sometimes speak ary Budget There is an increase of water is but swersh disjune.**

of a man who has & bec in his nearly £53,200,000 over the previous There is indeed reinurkable

bonnet," which has come to be quarter. similarity between the old Freich understood as a disturbing influence and the old Scote proverbs, a Similar in the mind of a person, kind of lity which is too apparent to be irritation that might be produced by the presence of a bee. Bus a "bee" inorely nucidentul. It-is-to be found

is old French for not only in the ideas expressed but in the wording. To buy à pig, in a poke is probably moré euphonious thanacheter chat en pecleto

avide," *

strong desire after something, and is well illustrated in the bullad of

Wallace "

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buy a cat in a poke; but, as we took s bee sometimes speak of lettin' the cat Into his head, that muiden for to see oct of the poke,” there is some of whom we spoke before." ground for assuming that, in the

£4,105,800,000. The monthly average expenditure has risen from £52,730,000 in the latter part of 1914 to 2134,400,000

during this year.

The taxes levied during three years of

war show a decrease of approximately 10 per cent on the normal total. Among the now taxes one of the most fruitful has been that on stocks and bonds, which yielded £1,680,000 during the first seven months of 1017, though it had only been expected to produce £70,000. The in- come tas is calculated to yield £3,000,000 for 1817, and £10,000,000 for 1918, when bairn for the love of the nurrish the tax will be raised to 191 per cent. the French is "nourrici And in of the asserable income. these days of restricted dietary it is At the end of last July National De. well to remember the timely advice, fence. Bonda had been issued to the

eat in measure and defy the mediamount of £78-1,680,000. cineror, French, ** médeciner.**

In Rúmsay's collection of Scots Suota form, the substitution of a pig proverbe it is said that a daft purice for a cat may have been brought luak's a wise wean "; and in Kelly's about by a kerner sense of rhythm, collection, many one kisses the Baritone Of course it is difficult to say whether some proverh are essentially Scots, it may be urged that they ate merely varianta in many enses" of English forms. But there are other cases in which the proverb is distinctly

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d'eglise. "To kill two birds with The Government insists that France the nearly related French and Scots ons stone is faire d'une pierre must develop new production and ex- ports and restrict her foreign buying to sayings is inade by "T.S." in the deux coups. Evil communict articles and produce strictly indispens Glasgow Herald. He quotesgo tione corrupt good manner might able to the needs of national defence

well have beed translated from "les and the economic life of the country, il ne faut pas mauvaises compagning corrompent les faire le Diable plus noir qu'il n'est," hornes moeura."" An fine, fen. urid remarks the interesting fact that thers thake fine birds" is of course for the comparatively modern French la belle plume fait la hal oiseau:45 word "Diable the old French

Our old Scots proverbs, in common. With the proverbial sayings of all purailel is Diaule. Surely, there countries, are but the verbal expres fore this is the nearest possiblesions of a universal human experi approach to the Deil of our old cots once. It is regrettable that they writers, us when Burns assures in-hould be so seldom rentembered, self that

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Our homely Dell rany there-

that their meaning should be lost, They are the gems and herrlooms of the mature wisdom and mother-wit of the national charecter, and ** an of clergy in old French, ource of mother-wit is worth a pound

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