If Shanghai had not become so enthusiastic about fishing during past months we should not have deemed it necessary to call attention to a bill designed ta prevent any man from slipping away from home without informing his wife,' which has just been introduced into the Senate of the State of Georgia. Incidentally, and, for our own protection should anybody from Georgia feel annoyed, we depend on our information from another newspaper, one from Singapore to wit, but usually very reliable. It informs its readers that among the safeguards which the bill provides are the following:—"Any and all married men who shall go fishing without the consent of their wives shall be guilty of felony, and the sentence shall be not less than five years or more than 20 years, at hard labour. Be it further enacted that if any married man shall get the consent of his wife to go fishing and fails to catch any fish, his wife shall have the right te cancel all permits in future."
Tt seems a very good bill, and it might be applied to Shanghai by the next special meeting of rate-of course, the Ratepayers' Association or some other local body would have to prepare statistics to show that big fish in Hongkew are merely a de-lusian, eels at Siccawei camouflage and that carp at Hangchow have never yet been tickled by foreign rod.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.