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Laspor, January 28.

operto their separate functions or should become fused so as to admit solicitors to appear in the Eigh Courts to plead for their clients. similar to the American sruthin, is Again before the Law Society. The Bar Chamail declared agaius fusion quite recently, but within the next fow days resolutions for women to be trained and admitted to the legal It is curious to note how the profession and for the fusion of the haoral interest pluera is in the pro branches will again be bebro the edings of the Peace Conference. Society. I am assured that nothing be plicjal d being on this news will come of it this time, though, Ï a large extent, correspondents are am of opinion that wonen will be kren is ornamenting their reports admitted beds very long and will it descriptions of the joyous bites practice, as in there. the any of officials and typists are! Many solicitors are of opinion that Having with Puris hotels set aside Fc only excpro Ar the clange reutil Mor ther we dress allowances for bo to "make" law heuper. hut this "le girl secretar, and evening din-they contend wonki not be the result, ners al Rates the, Apparently and they are mostly of the opinion yarak prepirations to that the solicitor cun hestud his pead the Spring ayl Summer the client in an advisory" cupocity, leav So Be at line are much toreing the glending in Court to the L päterested in thing neaber to our risters. The proposal for a change honies-ch as the dearth of kususes cars from the younger members t jde volustane of umien munition the profess all they are steadily

domeste gaining in strength. undertak uporkers ter Muses, the easterly shaunering per tromb's and the preparations Ce cade and in try. Oh cwm alif

whortage butives and flats is the raped lately pressing,, as A fact it has a big bearing on the Labor unrest, Far in back from the Front think i antis tint they abould have to break up their #ce and tim

* WAR MARRIAGES,

Hundreds of wär marriages, cur ried through on snakken. Pitheental impulse bave turbed out badly. The number of cases in the int of couples seeking Telone appal ting. Ingvanpatibility of tempem- ments, of course, plause în somnu - back to Andensos where the pirties no Howhere to by the loudy exceps at hour thier weght much other," Bus Foxorbitant ples. Of course there the mander of divorce ends for un-¡

ka been mincalling for years and faithfulness is a suggering nori!! we are banks of houses start the vast jority show that in the f But the fact is also that the threen-fabsence of the band at the front: ment have not done anything to the young write buss respondisi to sine - has ancient building restrictions or amorous news of seine ether man to set fre nickyurls in der tin khaki."

timlute a revival of building. To show what divent situation is us to that before the war, the aber for a 600 106, then would -bave cost about £30), whereas toockey

i onderla kost £300,

THE CABINET.

It cannot be sul test the fabinet' has roused any entham a the country. The appestort of Mr. Austen Chamberlain to the Chanel

Horship of the Exchequer wa mer criticised at the time and to- day the whole of tile City is ind and het is teeth benuse of it has of Dew Bonds Bearing five per cent. This they say will keep mterest. money dear and wi haiger tasde) and endoll the fine progress that

FAR EASTERN JOPTINGS, At the time, wrting the Pasific pressions ofetiertany kezer fonlull in Chiite are being la disetia in connection with Peery intér, There is realis no chuney of tias former that

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have to be maintained for soute time,

til vorence regained its feet.

THE FAWNING "BUN****

man coke again ting into the in with the signing of the Ants pointing the now overseas trade com. hendo of the gutal Hun. That is tige They , not hesitate to demissionen, for they allege that the matter that things in author tube the lead a blunder of the Treasury is starting the scheme, the y night well to heart and then fits magnitud, to cut that bener are therefore available,

A fester from Cologne says: there would be less weiation about the Bank rite will or now fall, that and there is departmculul overlap The susting of the Hurts from Olinas will be dar, and fint i perping and jealousy. The fact prob- You cannot imagine the obsequious- Q", the dirist of the Evening ent. would have been ample for ably is, in this as in other matters. Bess of the Hun. The best rooms Velty likely the that there are far too many burn are given for billetting, the choicest Ners in today's issue says: In Peace time" ini, met wer of our future relations with proposal will be withdrawn ere this cats enger to sack to their jobs, wines are to be obtained reasonably, anl'everything is flattering The dan and possible complications in reaches you, in yw of the uneven now that the war is over.

ulever Gennan knows that in certain Far East, the inteligence Deannuity of the crucism.

Among business men there is a partiment of the War Office decided The Cabinet is uiticised for report that wealthy industrial leaders sections of France-not all-biliet Shut a knowledge of Japanese should meeting the Losing shortage, for are considering & plan to establis ating was in individual cases grudg be part of the training of a certain isunderstanding and bungling the great central emporium of Britishingly accorded as a war necessity, sumber of officers in the Staf Coletisment scene fre sliers on the industries. In New York, writes and be artfuly Wants Thomas At

kins to make a favourable contrast Jage. Over a dozen of there are there. land so, that the benefit will chiefs

a correspondent on this scheme, for at the present time acquiring a go to a land-patiteering "equirearchy.

the great Rush Terminal, with between the attitude of the beaten Emoriedge of one of the most difficult and their hunting of the Irish huge business buildings and accks is foe and that of a section of the popu guges in the world at the Laiver question. All the powder is there well known. In a forty-storey build-ice of an Ally, and in individual it of London, under the care of bheacd it is doubt whether thing, showrooms are let to all the instances he is scoring.

Pr fessor of Oriensl Estory there.

Ta, Ireland for a greas "boss up

But on the other hand there are

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Allied soldiers in the various hospitals in Siberis are badly in need of reading mattor. Any books, newspapers, etc. for their use handed in at the O.P.O. will be packed and forwarded to them free.

The parcel pous service to Cuba is suspended.

No anamcial letter addressed to Abarian, Ahwaz or Mohammerah in the Persian Gulf may exceed sight ounces in weight.

The insured letter and insusid parcel services between Egypt (or in transit' through Egypt) sad Cyprus are tempor. arily suspended.

Dainapred "parcels for the United Kingdom will in future be forwarded from Hongkong in bags and the Public are therefore advised to pack such parcels very carefully."

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vis Nagasaki, Honolulu, Canada, United States, Central and South America and EUROPE Ban Francisco Per ALVARADO. Registration | 9.15 am. Letters 10 am, via Kobe, Canada, United States, Central and South America and EUROPE via Canada - Por PROTESILAUS. Registration 9:45 am. Lettere 10.30a.m. Axoy-Per TAISANG, 6 p.m. Shanghai sud North China- Per

CHENAN, 6 p.m. |

SUNDAY, April 6. Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Per HAI-

'HONG, 91,

Swatow, Amoy aart Formen via Keelung Weihaiwei and Tientsin-Par KUEI

Swatow and

Straits,

nufacturing firms, who have their The Professor is a very young Government is quite strong goods on exhibition for wholesale wideawake Britons now in Germany

in the early twenties so his to mudle it. experiences in the Far East would How this election" was worked has men to inspect. In this way the who assert that as the Hun sells bid

middle-then are

eliminated. In wine to ready British soldiers and beeeandidly described by Sr make fascinating reading. He was

London it is proposed to purchase a pockets the money he laugher aloud educated in dapun, and can real, George Younger. Jy Scottish brewer good site in the West End and erect and in the bosom of his family be

who leads the Conservative organiza- pook and write the bingiage as

ily as he cut English, He knew tin that now derinates the House building wherein British name chuckles again and says: "I always turers shall show their products. I thought the English were fools, for alcadio Exurn in his last years, and of Conances. The Price Moteris estimated that the initial stages of he recalls how his own army de

bed that with at his knowledge of he said, had no organisation, and Japan and his intuente relations with naturally be ind not many the scheme will cost three millions stated Ricims and Epernayeand the people Heart could never nequre dates dy and could only, there sterling, and the scheme is so far how from the cellus of one ohm- advanced that the promoters have page house alone half a lion, certain number of | for contest 21 mang mal knowledge of the languege

The Professor gave the ameful seats. He kept all the seats he quired an option on lurge site for bottles of "bubbly of the best building, and bute etinmenced have been stolen without so much es Sustation of the diference between el cortest, and as he Sir George

architect's pluns.

by your leave." Criend the Suprese. Tounger) occupied the position of

The criticism Jevelled against But there may be some good out of ence are highly intellectual, put chairmen of the Unionist parts he the scheine is that, unlike America, the correct conduct of our, Anny of they cannot slapt themselves was asked to fish & certa British exufacturers and retailers Occupation. The Cologne people Arasaly to affairs. Tulse six Japanese ber of candidates, and naturally he will not buy from public exhibitions, were apprehensive lest they should crdinary intelligere. Not one of tenended Lionists and not since, they prefer to send travellers have to deal with the Belgians whom **He did not require to round the City warehouses in the they farred, for they felt in their con- them may be in any way elever Berials. above the ordinary, but the six of be a Machiavelli to do that... -Kom will work together Eke one

Quite so, but the transaction hope of finding a good bargain that sciences that reprisals would be just, has escaped observation. As a mat- and they feared the coming of the man, and the result will be remark rich at the time was supposed toter of fact, in practice it is found French almost as much; But now sale. Take six Chinese, every one be removing polities from its cts. of #hon will be more intella tomary atmosphere of compt intri- that tittle really misses the eyes of that the British-the Guards and gue-explains why so much, old tin-successive travellers, but the idea is Highlanders are in possession, they ber is included in the present Furlia- deep-rooted in our commerce that adroit that order has been restored, ment, not to mention the fairly the central emporium will probably crime has ceased and neither man

be looked at askance."

nor woman nor child is in danger of Japan numerous meanders whose business

Another suggestion that has been life or property being molested. It

scarce"n cruiser should be set apart even into the "kultured "' mind of for a commercial trip round the Em- one of the Kaiser's Huns, wäbse soul who ever formed their aristocracy.

Cricket ins reached a curious posipire, carrying salesmen and their is black with a vile record of rupe Furely on well-attested intelectual capacity and not on birth and the tion. The reforms suggested by the samples. This has not got beyond and plage. right of might. And yet it has not Advisory Committee have nos yet the suggestion stage, but another

en mere efficient than any other." been confirmed by, the Conranittee of scheme that of manufacturers deal! In case the German-China ques-31.C. until the latter are assured that ing direct with retallers instead of Mion is not settled by the time, this the former will not reconsider their through merchonte has already be- Benches you, I append a acte by the own resolution. Therefore, as mut-gun, u large bosledy concern having diarist of the Evening Stæridarò :— ters stand, first-class cricket is ex-initiated the movement.There is

So far the Peace Congress has actly where it was before the war, indeed need for economy in the! dovoted tile attention to Far East in spite of the efforts of the Lanca hosiery, trade, for we are warced that ern affairs, but, according to reliable shire Committed and all the enthun next month hosiery, underwear, information which reaches me from siasts. It does not say much for the and gloves will be deater. Taris, the Chinese delegates are sporting spirit of the baradies.

than the Japanese, men of consider ae intellectual distinction, put Ahem to work together ou sone prae- cal prislem and the chances are

they will accomplish nothing. One and other proceedings have for made publicly is that as shipping is ought to strike a note of contrast | extraord nary thing about the Chi

mose is that they are the only nation

been the subject of criticism,

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A

CRICKET.

Sir Albert Stanley, President of

MOVEMENTS GE STELMIRs.

The

The

TXE s Tenyo Mark left San

Francisco March 24 and is due to arrive this Port April 99.

· at: C.P.O.S. Co's K.M.S: Empress of Ania left Nagasaki for Kobe on the 2nd April and is due at Kobe on or about the 3rd April.

o questions which are likely to Fublic opinion is all in four the Board of Trado, has admitted The C.P.O.8. Cos RMB. Key Few left quo sam dificulty. Two Chinese Evening up the game and making that trade and industry are not quite lelegates have been admitted to the big matches more popular.

Peace Conference. These are being advised by a committed of six enrin- ent Chinamen now assembled in *Paris.

THE CONSULAR LIST. It is reported that a new aries of regulations for the conduct of the **The foremost demands of the consular servico has been drafted and will be published in the near future. Chinese, delegation are, the oraçua;

on of Kiac-Chou, by the Japaneset vos intended that the document and the revocation of the famous 21 bould be completed and included in artis forced upon China by the thie pear's Foreign Office List," Toko Government in 1915. In but as it bad to be approved by the

t, China will insist that the prin responsible Minster it had iple of self-determination shall be held. mak until after the General applied in the East as it is being section and the reconstitution of the applied in Europe, Taro demands, Administration. I understand that Hor obvious remecs, are likely to raise the new regulations will "vs the pronsiderable disagreements,

consular officials, much greater liberty of action than they baro hitherto enjoyed. At the same time I bear that business men are by no means satisfied with the stait monda in ap-

LAWYERS FUSION. The question of whether solicitors stem: should comtinue to

be

Yokohama for

on the lat April and is due at Moji on, or non, the

in de satisfactory do quite change-over from war, to peace as The P. & 0:8. N. might be wished, and be hinted that considerable war-time restriction on reports of manufactured goods might!..

Zanamincka left Singapore for this Port on the 97th instant and is due here on the 4th April at about noon.

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APRIL 3.

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April 7.

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