To the Editor of the "Nontu-Ounva Dany New Sim,—Will you kindly grant me space in " column of your paper to quote the above fact. I have recently lurided in Shanghai, and have experienced considerable trouble, In the first instance I was out of employment for five mouths, than managed to obtain work, in which I continued for the short period of three months, and was compelled to leave owing to ill-health. Having regained my health and strength I have been socking for work daily for over two months, having applied to no less than twenty. different places (the list Ienclose), but all in vain. It will be romomborod' that I did not come to Shanghai purposely to obtain employment; no, it was that my wife was advised by medical authority to try Shanghai to benefit her health; naturally I, being her husband, must accompany her, especially in time of sickness. Now we are here and practically stranded, for Iam now loft with very little money to support my wife and child, who is only si weeks old., I may be able to hold out until the end of this month, but Iam afraid no longer. I am an Englishman, and have served in the Army for a period of twelve years, leaving my regiment with the rank of sergeant and a "good" parchment testimonial. My profession in life is a bandmaster, but I have no special desire to maintain that profession if it cannot help me to live. As I have previously said that I have been and applied at twenty-one different places trying for work, my last resource was to try the British Consulate, but still nothing could
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