To the Editor of tie "NortH-Cuina DatLy News."
Sir-—Is it not time that the rate-Payers of the International Settle. ment introduced a law that. all Consuls appointed to Shanghai who wish to exercise any voice in the government of the settlement shall be "persona grata" to the ratepayers?. Failing satisfaction this respect the Municipality. shall refrain from placing at the dispose jai of such Consul the ordinary amenities of life, as for example [sanitary conveniences, electric light, water supply, market facilities for the procuring of food, etc, and others needless to mention.
If this were done, we should hear less of gentlemen from the latitudes fwhere—to paraphrase Kipling "theres neer a law of God a man rans South of 52°"—opium shops, gambling dens, ete, are not breaches of the' law or of Bagdadites of doubtful nationality.
T commend the foregoing to the ratepayers at the forthcoming elec-may well be that such boycotted Consul would find grounds for action against the Council and would find a "shoddy" lawyer -to take up his case. Let him, and if the ease goes against the rate-Payers, let them pay but make a the Municipal Budget make it lear to the public and the world fat large why such has to be paid, Public opinion would in the end put stop to the malpractices which at resent undoubtedly exist to. the detriment of Jaw.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.