Change of Name Desired by Clan of Bankers The Nattukottai Chetties, that well-known clan of South Indian bankers and traders, who do such an immense trade with Burma and the Far East, have decided, in a meeting held at Rangoon, that they shall in future be addressed as "Chettiars" instead of "Chetties," says the "Madras Mail."
We sincerely hope that those who have dealings with them will respect their susceptibilities and will adopt the cognomen by which they' desire to be addressed. When we have to print the names of some of these gentlemen we confess we sometimes express pious hope that they would devise some means of indicating. their identity with fewer initials. There was one at the meeting in question who rejoiced in no less than seven initials.
However, the Nattukottai Chet-tiar is not alone in this respect. There is, we know, an English family in Dorsetshire, by the name of Tollemache the members of which seem unable to go through life with less than fifteen to twenty names. A member of the family was a subaltern in the Dorsetshire Regiment, when it wag stationed in Madras; his names occupied about five lines in the Indian Army List. He was, however, a younger son and was not as liberally supplied. as. some of the other members of the family. If the boys of this family were at a public school, og no doubt they were, it would be interesting to know the names by which they went among their school-fellows.
We once knew a boy with four names and a double-barrelled surname who in school rejoiced in name: "Stinker,"' not because he was odoriferous, but because of the "swankiness" of his names.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.