A TOWN DAILVS NEW HOMES

W HATEVER changes
Chatham Banner to
upon the sale of the per by
LlsEIt knows not. The sketc
a good idea of what a live dai
may be. If capital is avaia
will find it a good invest
ment, for the day when the
paper can be brough t out in
a back lane has gone by.
T:he ndaarii aner exD to

may be made in the r

ant t. But real enter-
, not reckles extrva-
e,is at the root of such
solve as that of The
ler. The building
thus described
te projectors: "The
home is to be of
Oueen Anne strle

THE PRINTER; S CORNER.
TU E PREDB¥TERIAN HYMNAiL
PRINTE RS feel strongly because the Prebyterian Church
Committee did not award the ontract fr the new ymnal
to a Canadian house. Severa tendered, among thetm fis
whse names are a guarantee of the best ork that can be done
in Cada The suocessful firmn is the Oxford University Pres,
London, and their tender
arrivedr tih e date fixed
for opening the tenders.
Te cosmeittee state
that atl the tenders re-
eved up to the d s-
fied we examined, and
the Oxford Prs tender
was laid aside unopened as
being late. The ommni.
rejected all these by formal
resolution, ater a wees
consideration, as not bieng
safactory in pnrice and
,I,h . i II_

wasr
say
noin t

brick with stone
'he site sectre
bow vacant next
itral drug store
eet, one of the
-al and advan-
es in the city.
have been pre-
. R. Oldershaw,
lustration here-
ted ses more
could do for
d ability."
ng The Ban-
is announced
. N. Ford, the

nday
lr ar

Tanyw, would go to Brit.
ain or the State Tey
sa that the dirnce in
price tween the best
Candian offer and the
OforL tender was consid-
erable. Furthermore, as
to t ing away the work
from nCandian compoxi-
torl te i Oxford Press in-
tend to set up one edition
- _ _» i t anI Iof tse book hee Ti.ey
make a fu1l explanation,
which appe satisfactory.
One Canadan firm told
PRINTER AND PUBLISHER
that if this explanation was
T-r Peo r0ei, o1rcE Pr Tuo BnAis. accurate they would say
no more on the subject.
, he assumes the However, PRINEm AsND PUBLISHEeR wises topoint out, on
al journal. "Thi behalf of our printing bouses, this one thing: Our pnnters
ite three years, never had a real chance at all. They were tendering on the
ud positis of the basi s of t he cost of the work to them and asking only a fair
la. It i a still profit. The Oxford Pres is a great Bible house. Nearly one
ogresnive a half its ses in Canda are o Presyterians. It can bind up
th nesw hymnil in tha Oxford Bibs and sell both together.