SOUTH, (mom ovr ows connesroxpENt.) ing, 27th December, ast Week tas been all and uneventful, and bu as been jarfly suspended owing to intrusion of the Christmas holid for these was not very.
winding up with w wet and ud Christinas Day was dul ing. ~The holidays were ated in the customuy manner. I with whether the sto found quite the usual demand for gifts and goodies, for star with restricted business, a rotten change, and depressed stock market, the thow encouraging—neither porosity or lavish hospitality. doubt not. the residents put "as good) a face on the umcheerfal prospect as possible, and shut out dull care from their hearths this festive oveasion. Lonly hope that, sith the dawn of the new year, some im! provement in tade may" soon come into ey Question, the question of the day.
ix at Just being discussed inthe Press. Public opi. by nit jjeet. Presto sui sts. ami fixity is not the stich persons wish to make. The swf the residents who sufier by ntinwl falls in the treacherous white me vever, dead sick of its nil vith in sable ssineg for sot ndard of ensure to them the permanent what they toil to we. When aman milates, say five or ten thousand dollars, and then adds to them what he in a year, but at its clo the sunt into sterling. finds he i than at the end of th year, in spite of his salurally somewhat mad with the elusive which seems fated to he his ruin, peuple are begin ni the "natire and severity of the pinch, for Jan these who years age when. the dollar first commenced stron with the w begun te Jelieve that this is one of those exceptions the hue of supply and demand. that really ells fur interven The truth seems to he. that silver is ceasing ud that it can ho Jo ard of value. growing louder stheevils of a silver more apparent.
of Commerce have, hear, the Singapore Chamber of lance or ce-operation in the attempt now being made by the Straits tlements to secure a gold standard, and a special meeting of the Committee was
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