The Chinese Calender announces the arrival of the cold season for this month, the first nip commencing on the 6th, and a severe attack being fixed for the ist. Local residents should take heed to these kind warnings, and prepare for sullen skies, northern blasts, a_hea' snowfall, or the freezing of the Huangpu, thus affording a rare chance for an exciting Paper Hunt over the Pootung Downs. into Ail la two forms for himself, two! N.-C.D.—Is it worth getting a for his wife and two for each of his} headache over questions you cangsters? We sent down for forms not answer, nor that you could for the whole firm, bat we could not be expected to answer? handle them altogether, so we split! -Dash it all, man, I have; them up according to departments, got to do Taipan. it. There was troub!> one of vhich, having a majority enough when we went to get the {married mex, has to return 93: infernal forms and I have got to sets get a passport very shortly, or lose—Yes, and we have got. in chap w my holiday, so I have got to be has to send in 10 sets. careful about rubbing them up the Taipaa.—'Piace and date of wrong way.
I don't want that birth of father." I don't know! passport held up.
There is one and have no means of finding out. good thing—that you do not have Is that to bar me from Iirit- to sign "Form A,' so they cannot met a dozen peo-id the same. now the old boy olde; redding that] I know fellows who not only not know their father's birthplace, but do not know their own, but they secured commissions in the Army without all this fuss.
Taipan.—'Name and full address of next of kin."
N.-C.D.N.—We have had the same argument. I say your eldest son, or your wife if you have no son. The chief says your father or mother.
Taipan.—Well, here's a "home lawyer." First, it says your widow if you have no family. If yow have a family, then your widow and family all share. But that only for certain property. For other properties other people come. in and for still others the Crown gets a pull, too. I come under that last head. Am I to put in my wife, all the youngsters and the Crown as well? If they simply want someone to refer to in case you die, why in the name of fortune cannot they say so, instead of giving one a legal puzzle to solve? I'll wager man in 100 can state with conviction who is his next of kin. get you for signing a false document.
N,-C.D.N.—But the other one has to be sworn to by a second party.
Taipan.—I noticed that. Here am I expected to answer a lot of simply cannot anand then some other poor uafortunate has got to come along and pledge his word that I hava answered them correctly! He's got some pluck if he is prepared to swear to what I do not know about my own family history.
N.-O.D.N.—It all runs a good second to the American ruling of some years ago that no one could be recognized as an American citizen unless birth certificates could be produced, where citizenship by birth was claimed. That ruled out the Jidge, the Consul-General, Mr. Jernigan, and most of the more prominent Americans her? because they happened to be born in little out of the way places where, in their first days, birth certificate did not worry any person.
Taipan.—Ah, well, markets are all dead this week. Nothing doing on account of the holidays. Goodbye. On your way out, ask So-and-so to come in, will you. Maybe he can suggest a way to wriggle through this-he is very pally with the lawyers—and perhaps when you come next week I shall have been able to settle down to real business once more.
It is the duty of one of our staff, as a matter of routine, every Fri—day to engage on a job that takes him the round of most of the larger hongs, in each of which he spends.a few minutes with various heads of departments. To one such entered and was greeted with: "Oh, wait a bit, will you? Just in the thick of it. Now then. 'Other nationality, as well as British, if any.' No, I haven't any other, but I shall soon change over toa Prussian if there is much more of this. It would be easier. Did cyan ever come across such nonsense N.-O.D.N:—Oh, you are on the registration business, are you?
Taipan.—Yes, and never hare seen such piffle. Don't -you think someone has made a, mistake?
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