We have to thank a Portuguese corre: pondent, signing himself "Grateful," "for the sum of two dollars for any local cha ity we please. The money will duly be forwarded to the Baby Home—which, by the way, is badly in need of help. Our correspondent sends tts this contribution as part of the fine that he says he would have had to pay for non-registration of nationality, had it not been for a paragraph recently appearing in these columns to remind Portuguese that registration papers must be renewed on or before the 30th instant. The writer wants to know why the usual official notice of reminder was not advertised as usual this year in the local papers. Several other correspondents have question. The ter is not one in which we feel inclined to intervene; it appears to be a purely private affair between themselves and their Consulate. and they must excuse our publishing their letters. But if there be any dancer of a fine, Portuguese residents may like to remember that they have but three days left and that registration must be performed in person.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.