Dalton is three times as smoky and sooty as London. So says the smoke consultation board of the local Muni-
London, Jan. 24.
"The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank dividend was very pleasant news for many on Wednesday morning and as you have probably heard by cable earned the compliments of editors generally. The Standard's" City column attention to the interest with the City is watching the Far are pessimistic, others that "the troubles of the future: to be worse than those i and confidence babu particularly in Hongkong," also it is ized that the Japanese "have yet taken the responsibility of using Customs funds" (which they essie im OP reas) "for is by the Great Powers in and economic questions. there cipality, which has a passion (a have all Japanese) for measuring, tabulating, comparing and contrasting everything from beans exported to the cubic content of refuse removed from the streets.
Figures as given out rarely work overtime at trying to tally but be that as it may it is a fact that while the sun is shining beneficently at Hoshigaura—some few miles away—a thick pall of pollution hangs over this city, sometimes no! to be dispelled until near meantime.
Careful computations were made last year by inspectors who examined in detail all chimneys, tush smokestacks, etc., but up to the present the fog of disillusioned coal is with us and health suffers accordingly. This is worse in the winter months from the indoor life inhabitants ate forced to lead, as well as the masses of foul matter which are vomited into the air.
Little Diminution Sil be rowe an leal of new money that a big effort will be made to avoid default by the Japanese and the Chinese.
Obviously for bold buyers the prices of many Far Eastern loans, formerly considered excellent security, are ex-he tra ordinarily attractive, But it is a fact that they are and always have been very difficult to get except in small quantities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.