Some people incline to the opin—ion that the Government took umbrage at the tone of Mr, Johnstone's speech at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and seized an immediate oppor-of "getting their own others think that the speech, to which you have already referred in your columns, was simply a case of coming events casting their shadow before, that the departing taipan, knowing that Jardine's were to lose their representation on the Council, saw no particular reason why he should restrain his criticism of Government methods, In all probability the speech, like the flowers that bloom in the spring, had nothing to do with the case. In "Alice in the Council Chamber," an amusing travesty, which an anonymous writer contributes to the Daily Press," the Mad Hatter sings:
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