To the Editor of the Many such—But I doubts they can't be said to "Mount ter much It is Olland, some surmises That P. Kroojer patrernises—In which kise I symperthises With the Dutch.
"Norra-Cuixa Datty News."
Will the isle of Saint "Eleoner Sin,—In common with most people who have dealings in land, I have suitored from the vagaries of the Suéngko office, and would gladly join in any scheme for its reform.
In condemning the management of the office, which has recently been made uso of for the purposes of extortion, it is well to remember that the office has arisen from the necessities of the case. In this alluvial district there is a constant growth of land, accompanied in many cases by erosion, and an office to arrange these changes and the proprietary rights involved Jong ago he-came a necessity.
The law in China, as in England, and, indeed, all civilised countries, is that the land to high-water mark belongs to the proprietor, but. below that to the Crown and in this delta of the Yangtze, where there is an increase reckoned at upwards of two square miles per aunum, it follows that from time to time rectifications have to be made.
One of these rectifications took place some four years ago, and was unfortunately made the occasion for gross exaction. The rectification was publicly announced, and applications for. the land were invited. There was nothing, in fact, to cast any suspicion on the bona fides of the trausaction.
'A similar adjustment took place fourteen years ago, in the 8th year of the present Emperor, and affects the titles of the Properties fronting the Soochow Creek above the Settlements.
Be is doom "Tain't Pretorier, but cleaner, An' there's room While ole Cronjy wites is comin' The armonium 'e's strumnmin,' And 'e's sadly, sadly ummin'
"Oom, sweet Oom Where's 'e now?
Dunne precisely, Nort as yet, But 'e's doin' pretty nicely, Don't yer fret Them as knows they're right mikes hashes, And all prophesying' rash is—But P. Kroojer's where the cash is Thet I'll bet.
—From the " Upper Burma Gazette."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.