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quite enough for me. I will convict and discharge you this time, but you must get a situation. The police will keep an eye on you m the meantime. lam going to break up these Chinese dens. A very laudable undertaking, and it is to be hoped that the magistrate will be successful, because it is emttnently desirable that these abodes of vice should be given more police attention than they receive at present. W,hat is a matter of regret is that the women frequenters should be publicly dealt with and not the colored scallywags who run the show. 'Twas ever thus. On Monday morning the woman Ballantyne was brought up on remand. This time Mr Day was on the Bench, and it was stated by SubInspector Dwyer that her case had been allowed to stand over to see if friends would come up with cash. They hadn't. The S.M. asked her if she would go to a Home, and received a refusal. Nelly knows what these places are. "Very well, three months m gaol," responded the beak.

While women are pushing their way into everything "Critic" cannot honestly see .any objection to lady dispensers. Take prescriptions, for instance—aren't ladies adepts m the art of "making-up" 1