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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 7

Tho circular of Messrs: West, Jones, and Company, n prominent firm q» hop factors, emphasies the position of the English hop trade. Tho acreage under hops has fallen from 71,327 in 18S5 to 44,933 in ■ tho present year. "This result," tho circular says, "has been caused by unfair nnd excessive foreign competition, owing to which tho workers and producers of England must bo annually losing business, worth something liko three-quarters of a million of money, in connection with the hop industry. The present depressed stato.of the industry- could, not have been brought about but for unfair competition of foreign surpluses." , ' Pathetic circumstances are associated with tho discovery of the dead body of ( a nian.on the Great Western main line near Cardiff on Septomber 12. A postcard was found on the body bearing au address in Montpelier-Rqad, Kentish Town. The" body was identified iis that of Charles Panther, thirty-fivo'years old, a jeweller's assistant, of Lessingham' Avenuo, 'Upper Tooting. Inquiries made by an "Express" representative at Montpelior Road showed that Miv Panther was engaged to the young woman to whom the postcard' was ad-, dressed, and that the marriage was to have taken place at Holy Trinity Church, Kentish Town, on Saturday.. . ■■•■■...■: