To the Editor of the "Nonrm-Cumwa Dairy News"
Sir,—With reference to your footnote to Warrine's letter in this morning's issue of your valued paper, may I be permitted to tell your correspondent that silence is sometimes more eloquent than columns of print. Quite evidently you, Sir, having nothing effective to counter my challenge with, have considered no reply to be the best reply and 1, for my part, am quite satisfied with that.
As to the privilege and hospitality accorded in your valued columns to correspondents this is, I am · sure, very much appreciated by those who, like myself, like to discuss public matters through the only medium which offers itself for that purpose 1 in Shanghai. On the other hand your correspondence columns have, for that very reason, become such a feature of your paper, that it has won you many a subscriber and supporter. "Things are, as I see it, therefore even as between your contributors and your paper.
One other thing. I notice that Mr. Badeley considers Maestro Paci as the one person to compose a yell for the Municipal Council. I do mot think that a new composition is necessary as there are several such yells in the Municipal Orchestra's programme from which Mr. Badeley can choose.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.