o the Editor of the 'NóRrH-CHINA Dary News"
Sim—Your correspondent J.B. hits mail on the head when he states the axe falls on the poor devils ose salaries makes a very small in the Budget, whereas the Shots" with salaries around the 00. per month retain their lucraposition. In saying this I do refer to Heads of Departments o have technical knowledge and are worth their salaries to the unity, but in particular to us and departments which outlived their usefulness, to ne only a few, The Secretary-al, the expensive Legal Deand the Director of Chi-
Studies, all these positions ahd Departments may have been justified in other days but in this crisis they Lid be dispensed with.
"The Orchestra must go, and if the xe is applied ruthlessly io the e the money thus saved should used for the essential services, Sm,—"As the "silly officially commenced, Out that your remarks season" has may I point on cross- Pai country riding gave rwe the jimjams. Ah! chest magnifique, mais ce West pas la guerre! Just think what might have been:—
Oh' I-Ping' was a pony of the "Y'
class Mongol breed, Extremely rbpyy on his feet and built for bounce and speed; His Missy took him out to hunt one sunny afternoon, e Theres a" manger p... hang
inside the stable With a rug and pail of water standing by: They are making Paper Hunt juin, up in Heaven, And there's anóther China Pony in the sky.
Also:
A huntsman took his pony out before the crops grew high, The pony jumped ihe ditches well and then he gave a shy, The rider took a header in the nice, An fron Winter Wheat,
©wry-rice upon the sideboard, of foaming beer-u up For there's a in the sky. making Pink Coats Paper Hunter gone 222
Shanghai, Mar. 5.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.