To, the Editor of the "NORTH-CHINA Datty News."
Sin-—With reference to your comment on the appearance of a Sunday issue of the "P.
ies," as it is familiarly called, may I be permitted to say that 1 was one of a small band of amateurs in the early Nineties, after the "Chinese Times" (edited'by the late Alexander Michie) had fulfilled its destiny and come to an end, started the "P. & T, Times" as a weekly paper, under the auspices and editorship of a Mr. Bellingham, incidentally a strong supporter of the Channel Tunnel scheme in those days, and father of the Secretary of the "B.M.C." at Tientsin. We fused to meet on Wednesday evenings to discuss the policy ofthe leader and toss-up who should write it.
Murray Stew the originator of an article headed "Out of the Mail Bag," progenitor "Wisdom From' the Weeklies contributions "Snap Shots, by Ked trivialities which have long, since passed into the Limbo of deseryoblivion. The proprietorship of the Tientsin Press and the newspaper afterwards passed into the hands of William MeLeish, author of an interesting pamphlet stories of Tientsin," a copy of which I send you herewith, as it may interest you.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.