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OUR LONDON LETTER.

SUCCESS OF THE BRITISH INDUSTRIES' FAIR.

LUXURIOUS SIGHT-SEEING ON THE CONTINENT.

IFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LoxDos, February 13th.

HOSPITALITY IN BOTELS.

say, the town hall which always stood on one side of the forum. Three piers of It is a sign of the times that the ex. ¦ na 'arcade and a piece of the containing clusive hotels in London are getting out "wall were "found.

of their time-honoured exclusiveness. | The Lombard Street discovery suggests and are advertising their restaurants that the forum of Londinium was of cont The reason, of course, is the decay of siderable extent. This is what might be private entertaining. The great houses expected having due regard to the`com- of the West End no longer provide hos-mercial importance of London during pitality according to pre-war traditions, the Roman occupation.

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nor is country house hospitality what it THE GRAND TOUR BY TRAIN.:" used to be. People in Society now javite Although this is February the travel their friends to dinner, in restaurants.agencies "are making their plans for the whereas such a thing was never drrat boliday season next Summer. This time of fifteen years ago.

they are preparing something quite few. The Hyde Park Hotel is the latest to for those who want to take a jaunt on enlarge its restaurant on the grand scale; the Continent. A land cruise," as it and the fact seems worthy of mention is called, is being arranged, and this be because of ita position. It has before it ing interpreted means that parties who the most famous metropolitan park in desire to do so enn have a special train Europe. and those who dine there have of their own for nearly three weeks. just the sort of duslook that Buckingham as they might have a special steamer, Palace gives. To have ten there is like The idea is to give everyone his (or having tea in the Row, without the disher) special place on the rain, or parties advantages of a thoroughfare. I hear can have their special careizges. The that the management have spent over train will start at Boulogne, and will 240,000 in producing à restaurant worthy pass down from Strasburg to Zurich. of its site. The Hyde Park Hotel effort Innsbruck, and Venice, returning home is a further step in the campaign which by way of Lugano and Paris.. The seems general to put London on a level travellers will not sleep on the train. with Paris in the matter of hotels debut will go to hotris in the various places signed for the use of people well-endow where it stops. The train will serve as ed with money and the will to

Pend it their travelling headquarters, from which i STRENGTHENING THE LAW.

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The advantages of having your own Manchester, has prepared a Bill which! he intends to introduce in the House of train to travel round Europe are obvious. Commons with the object of altering the The bother of securing seats, and hust- law to empower judges to pass a

ling and ethwding is avoided. I learn tence of penal servitude for certain that parties of six can have w earringe offences against women. It is to secret to thetaselves all the shoe, and "the that the action referred to was prompted average inclusive cost from July 20th by the remarks of Mr. Justice Avery into August 14th will either he just over. the Hayley Morries case, and later on by the Lord Chief Justice. The title of the Bill isCriminal Justice (Increase of Penalties) Bil. As the law stands at present, the maximum sentences of hard labour are two years, and it would not be right to exceed this period.

or just under 30 gitinens, neording to the accommodation required. This pro- vides for every kind of expense except optional excursions. It sertainly sounds all right way of doing the grand tour in comfort.

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A statement appears in the East As a matter of fact, two years' hard labour nearly wrecks a man physically african Standard, the settlers organ and mentally. Longer, terms of immrithat the Government of Kenya has sonment, therefore, musc mean penal issued permits to certain estates to take servitude, and that is the proposal of the steps, if they choose, to arrange for Bill. It is understood at Westminster the importation of indentured foreign Inbour. This has started a certain that the Attorney General is being con- amount of gossip in the City, and it is said that the Government will be asked sulted about the drafting of the Bill. for information in the House of Com- and it is probable that if the House mona sends it to Committee, as is expected, the Government will give it facilities and practically adopt it.

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The question is what is meant by in- dentured foreign labour? The natural assumption in the case of Kenya is that it means either labour from Portuguese Africa or Chinese labour. In this con- nection it is to be noted that at a recent conference of settlers, a resolution was passed to the effect that the settlers should be allowed to import Chinese in- dentured labour.

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It is disquieting to learn that over roo British ships are now at sea without wireless operators, and are consequently unable to call for help or receive mes sages. The situation exists because of the refusal of the operators to accept a reduction in wages demanded by the shipowners. The trouble has lasted some time, and at date of writing there is no immediate prospect of a settlement.

The British Industrial Fair which opena this week (it remains open from February 15th till February 20th) is on a very elaborate scale. There has been a departure from departmental precedent this year, as the Government set aside £25,000 for advertising the Fair through- out the world. Almost the whole of this was devoted to advertisements in newspapers and trade journals in many languages and in every country with the exceptions of Russia and China. In ad- dition the Board of Trade sent out about a quarter of a miHion invitations."

This large total of personal notifiea. tions is, I was told, six times bigger than such notifications received in any other

"Since the end of November the Asso year of the Fair. An official of the ciation of Wireless and Cable Tele- Department estimates that no more than grapists, the organisation of the opera 10 per cent, of trade representatives in cors, has been endeavouring to get the tending to be at the Exhibition would be Labour Ministry to set up a court of likely to take the trouble to tell of their enquiry into the dispute but, without coming Everything therefore, points as explained in a letter, seems to be that success. The attitude of the Ministry, to a record Fair, not only in regard to its size find character and variety of the an enquiry is unnecessary, as the facts exhibits, but in attendance and actual of this dispute are widely known, and business done. This gratifying promise that a court of enquiry would not help is na much a testimony to the value of to a settlement by negotiation, which judicious advertising as an indication the Ministry regards as the proper ola reawakening, of business through-

course to pursue," out the world.

ROMAN LONDON.

COTTON TRADE ENQUIRY.

It is announced that at the instance Evidences of London's historic past of the Short Time Committee of the are constantly coming to light. The Master Spinnere Association an enquiry. discovery has recently been made of the is likely to be held into the state of the remains of an arcaded portion in the cotton trade. Beferring to this the Angle of Gracechurch Street and Lom-Manchester Guardian, which of course of Lancashire's prin- bard Street, on the north side, when is the organ workmen were digging for the founda cipal industry, says some "change must tions of a new bank. Its significance be made if the trade is to get out of was, realised by an official of the Royal the rut in which it has laboured, for the Commission on Historical Monuments, last five years. Short time has given re- who happened to be on the spot: Some lief occasionally but the benefits it brings of the London papera have made a great to producers are soon over; and some deal of the discovery."

thing promising more lasting good is needed. The paper adds:-

It is considered in official quarters that the find determines the site of the forum, Moat of our correspondents appear or market-place, of Roman London, to regard a financial reorganisation as evidence of which has been sought for the best line of approach, and it is cer a very long time. The opinion is held tain that it would bring appreciable that it links up with the discovery about benefits. It would be difficult, no doubt, 40 years ago of the foundations of a to secure the necessary assents to such large building under Leadenhall Market policy, but that should not deter a which has been generally accepted as committee of investigation" from recom what is left of the basilica of Londinium, mending it if there is no easier way out the public building or as we should now of the difficulty."-E.B.

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