To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuina Dany News."
Sm—Having once addressed a letter. to your correspondence columns on the subject of the admission of the Press to Municipal] Council meetings may I venture to remark in the same space that the: action of the Council in not disclosing immediately the decision it} had arrived at in connection with dog-racing, is exactly that kind of, eccentricity which it was sought by, the resolution proposed Inst year at the ratepayers' meeting to cure.
(1) Carefully out the eyes with Boracid Lotion to avoid conjunctivitis.
(2) Thoroughly douche the nostrils with Glyco Thymolin to relieve or prevent catarrh, (8) In the bath use antiseptic soap.
(4) After the bath dry very enrefally between each too and} insert a pinch of oxide of zine any good Dusting Powder to prevent Hongkong Foot, (8) Thoroughly gargle the throat, a3 a precaution against Diphthere infections, Assuming the decision to have been arrived at last Wednesday—it certainly has not appeared in the' minutes of that meeting or any other previous meetings which have been published by the Press the Councillors appear to have intended for some time to maintain 8 degree of secrecy. That may. or may not be dictated by a foolish belief that publicity ought not to be accorded to the decision before those most intimately concerned have been acquainted with it, The decision appears to have been com municated to the companies concerned some time before "the press} succeeded in extracting the information from the Council, so I am safe in assuming that a privileged were aware of what the Council had decided for a period of one day, er two days before the general public. But, Sir, you know, and I know that the privileged few have best friends, and wherever the ruincurs current on the Stock Exchange on Friday originated, it is certain, now, that they were correct.
Had the Press been admitted the Couneit meeting at which the decision was taken—presumab'y 'Wednesday last, for, if it were taken before, the Council has not observed the terms of the amended rosel passed at the ratepayers' meeting—it would have been published to the public at large in the morning papers of Thursday, before any bu: ness could have been done in ercyhound shares on the stock exchange and investors and/or speculators, would have all started on. even terms. The best friends of the pri-egod few would not have had the (0) Sclphur Ointment should be well rubbed in to any rough, dry and irritating patches which are liable to appear in the winter as the result of steam ing, no exercise, and chemicals in the Town Water, (7) Filter and boil all drinking water—and drink something]
else.
(8) Wash in distilled water all let-trice, strawberries and soft skinned fruits, go over them carefully with a magnifying glass, steep in Condy's Fluid—and hand them to the guests. (9) Take a dose of intestinal dis infectant at least once a day—never mund the flavour or come backs, (10) Get a list of the ten best} known anti this-that-and-the-other injections, or ask. your doctor what he has got left ever to-day, nnd have one as soon you have recovered from the (11) Never go about barefooted even on your, own bedroom (12) Before indulging in public bathing carefully plug the ears with wads of cotton wod ind vaseline, This may prevest Singapore ear, (13) If tender swellings appear in the auxiliary region in the hot weather—wait for, the cal cin a Polar Expedition, (14) Before going to bed repeat 1 to 6.
(15) After attending carefully to the above you may look' after your business—if you have time and there is any.
It may be suggested that perhaps this is not quite the fairest way of looking at the matter, or that failure to publish the decision earl-for was nothing but an oversights but, Sir, a decision of this nature is a matter of immediate public portance and the Council, which the servant of the community—a fact of which it sometimes appears to lose sight—was, T venture to belove, in duty bound to acquaint the Yatepayers of. the International] Settlement of what it had done, with the least delay possible,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.