Canton is. still without news papers as the newspaper owners and compositors have failed to come to terms. After the breakdown of negotiations between them on November $ several publishers began to call in non-union compositors and within three days had practically completed their printing! oom staff. It is, therefore, believed that. publication of the papers will shortly he resumed.—Reater's Paci-fie Service.
'M& Charles Markham, Ringwood Mall, Birmington, has made a dona-ton of £800 to the restoration fund Jof the famous crooked spire at Chesterfield. About £3,000 has been spent on repair work, and experts state that the spire will last another hundred years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.