"Kung Hsi Fah Tsai! Happy New Year!" will be the words echoed by all Chinese to-morrow when, according to the old Chinese calendar, the New Year will officially come into being. And, despite the gloom which swept over this country towards the second half of the old year, when war's ravages started to take their toll, the more superstitious among the old Chinese look forward to the New Year with renewed hope, for snow fell before the end of the Old Year, and that is regarded as an extremely good omen.
As might have been expected, however, the celebrations will be on a much quieter scale this year. Money is scarce, and while many of the younger set will duly observe the holiday by dinners and dances at night-clubs and cabarets, the celebrations on the whole will be confined to family reunion dinners, Lord Atholstan, the Canadian new paper magnate and philanthropist, died to-day at the age of 89.
Hugh Graham, who was elevated to the peerage on February. 1917, as Baron Atholstan of Huntingdon in the Province of Quebec, and of the City of Edinburgh, was president of the Montreal Star Publishing Company, publishing the "Montreal Daily Star," the "Family Herald" and "Weekly St From 1908 to 1917 he was known as Sir Hugh Graham. He was the first Canadian journalist to receive the honour of knighthood and of a peerage. His whole life and energy were devoted to his papers To a campaign energetically sponsored by him and supported in his press the citizens of Canada owe the Safety of their milk supply when in 1925 the City Council made pasteurization of milk compulsory, His campaigning also led to the formation of the Montreal Anti-Tuberculosis and General Health League.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.