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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 16 December 1913, Page 7

"The impact of the West, combining with economic and social causes of periodical recurrence in the history of China, has given to the House Celestial a .new name on the gate and a" new facade. Behind it^ however, life goes on as usual in the ancient edifice," says The Times. "The wml of the people, steeped in its patriarchal conservatism, remains philosophically aloof from the strife of political- sects; the masses ask only for per*?e in their time, for the right to enjoy in security the fruits of all their labor. To this impassive China it is a matter of indifference whether Yuan, as their new ruler, calls himself President or Emperor." ;• Mr Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, was! the chief guest at the annual dinner of the Fishmongers' .Company, op October 16 in the historic hall adjoining London Bridge. Dealing with the protection of fishing rights and the; maintenance of the fine body of men who manned our fishing boats, he said there were very few who realised that British fishermen, from Grimsby, Aberdeen, Peterhead, and Hull were fishing as far away as on the coast of Morocco or the far north of Iceland. So wide were British* interests in the fishing industry that Britain might be said tohay^e a direct national concern in the three-mile limit in every seaswept country of the world,- and no international topic caused the board more anxiety " than that of the terrii torial limits of other countries. The leading wrestlers of Japan are well-formed:men, of good size. With most of them wrestling is an occupa- I tion wfyich has been handed down from father, to son for many generations. Svkes's Drench.—-Just what a cow requires after calving.—Advt.