COMMERCE, ment which would go far towards reducing the risk which now existed.
Correspondence relative to the Supreme Court vacation was placed on the table. Eight solicitors wrote to Chamber expressing the wish that the Chamber would give an adverse opinion to the proposed extension. The Committee wrote in reply in the sense that the proposed extension was not in the public interest.
The following were re-elected to the Committee: Messrs. E. A. Hewett, Henry Keswick, G. Friesland, D. R. Law, G. H. Medhorst, A. Fuchs, J.R.M. Smith, H. E, Tomkins and A. G. Wood.
The following resolution was passed, on the motion of Mr. A. Forbes, seconded by Mr. Lafren "That in consequence of the importance of the trade existing between this port and Bombay it is resolved under Rule XXIII to increase the number of the Committee from nine to ten so as to include " merchant interested in the Bombay trade."—* The China Mail."
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