To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuina Dany News."
Sin—On April 7 at the Ratepayers' Meeting Mr, Ezra and myself introduced an amendment recommending the Council to consider the question of a gold loan. It should be noted there was no instruction to do anything but only a recommendation to take the subject into their consideration with perfect freedom to act on the suggestion or not-The Chairman, speaking for a unanimous Council, showed a lot of reasons why they should not be ed to consider the question. The Ratepayers—or 116 of them against 80—followed the Council's lead and refused to allow the Council to be recommended to consider the question.
Mirabile dictu, in the Council's Gazette published 22 days later on April 99 Is a column and a half of announcement of the particulars governing a Gold Loan for £750,000 issued by the Council.
T suppose there are other funny places besides Shanghai!
Lam, etc., Epwarp S. Lime. Kuling, May 2-
Remours that the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services are con templating erection of a hotel in Hongkong for their large number of tourists and passengers have been denied by the general agent there, Mr. J. H. Wallace.
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