THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WHEN DOES IT BEGIN?

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 41, 14 August 1894, Page 2

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WHEN DOES IT BEGIN?

TO THE EDITOR Of [■ THE STAIU" -J / - Sir, — In last evening's Star appears ; the following paragraph :^ r "-Sif years hence France will inaugurate tfie twentieth century with an international ex- ; hibition which is totally td^eclipse the World's Fair.' 1 As_it is evidently Sin? ' tended by this paragraph to cbnyey<tp your readers the impression that the twentieth century commences in the year 1900, I beg leave, with due defer-, enceto the writer, to inform bim^tbat, the twentieth century does not commence until midnight on theSlst of of December, 1900, or, say, the Ist of of January, 1901. I well remember that/ in the year 1850 a rather sharp, correspondence took place in the Times, and-. : other London newsp>TOrs/asWwh6tber"; or not the second half of the nineteenth century commenced on the lßt of ' January in that year, and many correspondents of apparent intelligence and position held opposite views on the question. I am thoroughly convinced that my view is the correct one, but, perhaps, some of your readers may, with your permission, be to; ventilate the subject in. your columns. -■ lam, etc.,' r \Sakl. G<>odbehehe. Feilding, August Hth, 1894. ' .