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Evening Star, Issue 11776, 5 January 1903, Page 5

The right of journalists to sit on the legislative Council is a Question which is occupying attention in Ceylon just now. One of the best-known and most-respected journalists in the Island his recently been nominated, it seems, to represent the European community on the Council, but the Governor (Sir West Ridgeway) considers an existing rule on the subject an obstacle to his approval of the appointment, and in view of the importance of the question has refen ed the matter Home for the decision of the Colonial Office.—‘Westminster.’ ’ -Aj lady v/atching a cricket match, is reported to have exclaimed, m a sudden ecstasy, during a long stand by two batsmen ; ‘ Oh, dear, how clever these wonderful bowlers .-ro!” ‘The bowlers!" exclaimed her friend. “Why, thev hit the pearly every lime,” said the enthusiast. This is the glorious season of the year when >yu wear a greatcoat one day, a thin coat the second, a porous plaster the third, and vet a dsotoc’s bill tho fourth.