May I for the second time take the pleasure of wishing both my photographic and also nontechnical readers a happy and prosperous New Year? In a double sense may the attainments of the former on developing, and their progress never be fixed, and may I never so dull and super-tech

THE DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, JANUARY 1904. political capital out of the disturbance, but the real facts arc too well known to enable them to derive any good from what took place. FISCAL CAMPAIGN.

and Co. ARTESIAN B0I:ED J- TUBE WFU-S, for Frye emali «npp!!e». Artf» V. B'ar-Un*. Boulfawark. S.E. Vl'AirS GIFT.-The LITO ~ Wednwiay, HAUY M.V'HINK lor a bock, lamp, eU;.. In anj are acc.-m*yj wul p- over r.n easy chair, bed. sofa. d»l:cmu»ly luxurious bind i 7». W. Be.ih Chair

“The Daily News,” Bouverie-slreet, Fleet-street, London, and order the

Walsall is one of the few Corporations in the Midland area to emulate the example of Birmingham in securing the control its own tramways, and although the system does not pass into the hands of the municipality until to-day, the new owners duly celebrated the event yesterday, in

Canadian Cormcrce, Bluo Book giviu details of for the fiscal ycaj* ended li>o3, lia.s ,just been received from Ottawa, indebted to the courteous officials of liiih Commissioner’s office for early Fiscal Yea ended .luii . The progress made by the Dominion ans shown by the followin

enormous discovery t •, 11 nit would have gone oil feet, now low wii Au tornado in «..♦],n The new Land Act cornered in the interests of the exi^t- Mheu: State of Georgia kiilod and injured j great hopes the peop!e of Ire- ing De Beers mines. The c mpto • v three handled people;

lie Records of External Trade, klkil! sooti have lx fo-.o the ror.iplel© figures ior year, and they will form record of not unsatisfactory (rharactor. t'p Novombtr, itiiports and exports uiore than in the pci led while coin]);u ivon wiili 1901 even more favourable. The increase i

EaiSt Tn:lics Japan China 4.72* 553 5.006.956 5.1^0.000 159 1.250.0 1.450.003 6.0.000 600,003 600.000 Total Inlia. China, and Japan 6.515.492 6.856.956 7.150.000 638.212 T^.noo 491.C00 503.003 !/J0.803 Total Canada and Mexico 1.129.212 1.100.003 1.290.000 Total world 133.822.459

OXFORD UNIVERSITY OCCASIONAL) v. ALOERLLY EDGE. The Oxford University Occasionals played the third match of their Northern tour yesterday, when they defeated Alderlcy Edge four goals to one. Lionel Smith, the English international, shot all the goals for the Occasionals. Nash, P