The Privy Council have ratified the Stockholm International Postal Convention of 1924. Reduced Postage will be brought into opera tion on October 1, and will mean The riesha man of to-day cannot compare with his forbears of, say, when Lafeadio Hearn was in Japat In those days the calling was recognized one and was regarded as every whit as honourable that of any artisan, The younger and stronger men have opportunities of making more money by various other means than by getting in between the shafts of riesha especially as the motor, the tram and the train have made tremendous incursions into what were the select preserves of asha man two decades ago. The Neet-footed boys who can outrun, horses" are extremely few; those between the shafts are generally old men whom one engages more for the pleasure of talking to, as he jog along at a snail-like pace, fo saving time. wailing their lot and creating a disturbance, have turned to the manufacture of babies? "Prams." Babies will always be with us, these say, and so there is no fear of any new-fangled notion f, say, Henry Ford pushing our baby buggies" to the wall.
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