Several people would like to know, in tones of varying indignation, why there is to be no August Bank holiday this year. One rumour was that the British Chamber of Commerce had "sat upon" it and recomuiended the hanks to have nothing to do with it. But on inguiry in this august quarter, we were told that the Chamber was guiltless, having, when the annual list of holidays came up for approval, merely passed the usual series. Another theory is that as there is always a difference of a day between here and Home, accentuated now by the slowness of cables, the local banks virtually lose two days' business in taking the first Monday in August. But this again is mere conjecture. At any rate it appears to be a fact that there will be no August bank holiday this year. Journalists, of course, regard the omission philosophically, if not with joy: for it is terrible work getting out a paper in summer when everyone else is playing. Yet even jour-rialists have their human feelings, and can spare synipathy for the many who will be disappointed by the loss of bank holiday. Which is certainly rather a breach of very ole custom.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.