To the Editor of the Norra-Curva Dany News.
Sim,—As a constant reader of your paper, and having always been astauneh admirer of its moderate and impartial tone, I was this morning most disagreesbly surprised at the concluding sentence of your lending article treating on the impen They Well Roadson the latter part of any fine (th" Boers) were determined on war, and afternoon and he will regale himself wi have begun it." Now I would ask you, the curious sight, fo be found in no other Mr. Eiitor, if one country hus (no nutter plice in the world, namely, that of a hip-the vali ity of the reason) for months been podiome side by side with a funeral pro-pestered and goaded: by another, infinitely cession, stronger, with demands for concessions and 'This anomaly can. only be attributed to internal' reform, finally being served with two reasons; either the police are overzenldocuments generally conceded to be ' tantous or do not understand their duties amount to an ultimatum"; if then, this properly; or the civic fathers actually country, determined not to give in, utilises' intend that the regulation against furious the intervening time for active preparations driving be applied only to natives, but and from the moment that war is inevitable not to foreigners or their—mafoos, commences hostilities at once, could you who are at liberty to violate it us they or anyone in justice let them bear the please with impunity, being compelled, responsibility of having begun the war" Were the Boers to wait until Greater however, to word the regulation in general terms for fear of outside criticism. If the Britain hxd collected her forces from all former view is the correct one the sooner parts of the globe and stood quite randy the Council has an interview with the up-n her borders with Maharaja, Maori, Captain-Superintendent and get the trafic and Esquimo? inspector to properly instruct the police Tam sure our community is looking forthe letter it will he for all concerned; if ward to an impartial and true account of the latter he the ease, though I can scarcely the progress of this lamentable war in your Ywligee it, then it can only mean that the columns, but for mere justice's sake do not foreigners in Shanghai keep strictly to again let them be disfigured by such utter-themselves the right to. mak Tnws to ridiculous, aye; menu otatements or in-govern this model settlement. and keep sinuations' as that the Transvaal should also strictly to themselves the right to have actually forced Grent Britain into break tha very laws they themselves made war with them, Enelosieg my card, while the natives must conform to them, Tarn, ete, This is the policy of President Kriiger and his government and ix one of the primary 7th Octuber. causes of the impending conflict. Larce hearted Britishers who love to see fairplay are spending millions of money and intend to sacrifice thousands of men to convince President Kriiger and' his government of the error of their policy, and I earnestly hope the Municipal Councillors, the majority of whom are British, will not adapt the same policy in Shanghai, which will only be known on the pages of history as soon as the shot is echoed among the hills of the Transvaal.
he Chinese, unlike the Europeans, cannot confine their business to what are commonly called the business hours of the day, but have much to do after 4 or 5 o'clock in the attern-on, and they who ride on Nanking or Bubbling Well Roads are not all on pleasure bent, and should not he subjected to the absurd one-sided malo of Keeping in line behind the Foochow Road slow-coaches, Line-forming ought only to he insisted upon on race days or on great public occasions when the thoroughfares are in danger of being overcrowded, but then no one, whoever he may be, she id be permitted to break it. The regulation against furious driving is undoubtedly an excellent law, but it must be respected by all residents. ax every Law ought to be. And an excellent law can degenerate into fan oppressive measure as this regulation against furious driving certainly. has became when a native is forced, under the penalty of arrest and fine, to join the funeral procession any day and' every day after 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the Nanking and Bubbling Well Roxds to attend the corpse of this excellent law daily muedored by the very section of the Shanghai community who gave it birth.
Tam, etc., A Cursesr, wae pays Municrrat Taxes on House, Grouxp, Canriace axp Horses.
'7th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.