Tt was Kipling, was it not, who. said that "East was Ea: West iwas West and never the twain shall meet"? I am just now thinking of the Post Office and the great wor it formerly did. But nov my country the government try to postal tariffs as cheap as pos-ud I am told that every time the tariff is lowered, there is a big in. The reverse is I judge the opinion of the government in this great land. "We used to get parcels the good old days when there were no motor roads, and no steam inches, from the coast in a fair time, and at a fair rate of postage: But "now? Well some time back the Post Office began charging ut this end the same amount as charged at the place of origin, and that. was a very great blow to many merchants. A few weeks ago they again placed one hundred per cent. rise on it, and now we have to pay Jat this end two dollars for every. one dollar paid at the place of origin. Just to-day I received a package of corn seeds, four ounces, from Nanking. It cost 25 cents, and postage was from Nanking twenty cents, To-day I have to pai forty cents here and sign that is in good order before I see i JOnce T asked why the rise of tariff, or, whatever it is and was Hold it' was because there was now jo motor bus service for part of the way. Why if ever we should get a railroad into this district we shall several times the Jamount we pay now. changers must now move their. tables within the door of some money shop, or tea shop, as they, too, have mo right to occupy the public highway. Where and when land how it will all end no one Prepared to risk his reputation in wild guess. The authorities mean it Joh for the good of the population ind for the welfare of this bords:
and the populace may yet come to see the kindness ant considera-ion of their rulers. Time, the jet healer of public and private grievance, will be left to "do its work.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.