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O. B. Hughes, Capt. and Mrs Twise, Capt. Crawford, Major Erane, Caph Craig. Cap. Moreno, Mr C. H. Ross, Mr Maretis Mado, Thompson, Mr John Baudow, „Me ·A. Dr and Mrs Forsyth, Mr and Mrs. Pinckney, Mr and Mrs Gordon Mackic, Are Froman
PARIS, ments £1,650,000, most protracted which fixes prices to the consumer upon and thatod controversy at once began the basis of the £310s, tax. In other TREET.
and has since raged in political and words, the producers get the fall ad-mont House to night, to which the following industrial. pircles. It culminated in antage of the £l exemption. This serious split in the ranks of the latter is known in German political coalition parties, and in the rejec parlance as the "Liebesgabe," or Ready made day and evening tion of the proposals advanced alma"; and it has long been the Gowns, Paris Models in with the consequent adjournment of subject of sharp controversy. There Hats and Toques, Laces, the sittings of the Reichetag. Before were also further special privileges Trimmings, Undercloth his debacle was reached, however, enjoyed by the agricultural diste, Mr C: E. H. Beavis and Mr Barlow
agreement was come to on a number leries. ing, Boots and Shoes, of prints. First, the recommendations It was on the spirit tares that the Hosiery and Gloves, made for tax on electricity and controversy arose is committee. The etc., etc., etc. gas were not approved; nor did the Radicals, National Liberals, and Free proposal of a txx upan newspaper Conservatives voted to reduce the advertisements and placards survive Liebesgabe" by Se. for the next five the rate. These, in fact, were such years, and 5a. every following fifth year Rumours are current in Barlin Court ill-chosen "objects of taxation that the till a level of 5s. should be reached, and circles of the engagement of Prince Oxcar, Government cannot be acquitted of to leave the "contingent" preference at Victoria Margaret, daughter of Prince the Emperor's Sith son, to Princess extremely bad judgment in proposing that figura; and it was in order to save Frederick-Leopold of Prussia. ! them at all they were rejected by the this preferential tax that the German committed by crushing majorities. What Conservatives deserted their allies of bad, however been settled in a positive the "Bloc:"
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TELEPHONE No. 29. the inheritance duties. The two points has raised a bitter outery from the Conser. M. Kincaid Staith, Mr Foster, the Unionist round which the hottest controversy vatives in that country who have merelyLiberal, 8747 and Captain Kincaid Smith, (candidate, secured 3,374 votes:Mr Martin,
raged were the brandy taxes and the been echoing the sentiments of the land-49 estate duties, as the Berlin correspond-lord class on the matter. There have been A Notice to Marinors referting to the ent of the Standard recently observed.numerous grounds advanced in explan- Tientsin District states that the Taku Bar When English readers learned that the ation of the motives of this pronounced the raked ebsanel, Ferguson Channal, and Signals now indicate the depth of wator in Conservative members of the Finance antagonism, but the chief seems to be that the signals are exhibited from a new Reforta Committee of the Reichstag that the landholders are particulary signal mast erected on the alts of the abandoned their allies of the "Bloc" on influenced by the fact that with them the depth of water on the old bar, and North Fort. The bar signal indicating the spirits tax and voted with the the eldest son inheriting the estate, Clericals, anti-Semites and Poles to under the right of primogeniture, would defeat certain proposals of the other have to shoulder the burden of paying "Bloc" parties; those readers were the estate duty, and, moreover, that the portunity for thieves to gain access to...
...Down-pipes. provide an excellent op
As a matter of fact this rift in the the army or in the Government service last night when the residence of a Chinese doubtless little aware what it all meant.younger sons of such families are all in verandahe and thence into the houses
themselves. This was again illustrated DEATH OF STANDARD Government majority occurred over one-all in need of money and mak-merchant living at No. 3 Elgin Street was
OIL MAGNATE of the most controverted points of ing debts against the day when they up the pipe the thief broke in bra of the eutered in this way. · Having chamberad
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patrimony and those, too, would sufto get away with a quantity of clothing, ».
· pait of gold spectacles, a silk umbrulla, and
Ordinance 3 of 1895.) | interests of the so-called agricultural been other proposed forms of taxa-
Laspor, May 20 The Times on May ath published a
The death of Mr. E. Rogers, the distillerice. The Agrarians have detion which have also stirred up very remarkable statement to the effect that the Standard Oil and Steel Trust, magnate, Goods per 4. Fatrick andelivered after manded praferential treatment for such considerable opposition, but we im War Offics, has done nothing to acquire the has depressed the markets,
establishments, as against distilleries agine that the suggested spirits tar, roady possesses one superior in every operated upon a purely commercial basis. the estate duties and the proposition to rospect. This is the invention of Captain The agricultural distilleries are give the Empire the right to inherit been abandantly tested in secret. Captain Dunno, of the Royal. Engineers, which had defined by the laws as those that intestate estates in cases where there Deane in his invention employs the soaring consume as raw material the potatoes or are no direct heirs, are really at the principle of the boomerang, and the con grain grown upon the land of their bottom of the rejection of the Govern-solid. The new mashine had just bees struction of the machine is simple and owners, and which use all their waste ment's proposals. However, it seems completed at Tamborough and everything Wednesday. Following is the latest producta for feeding animals, and where that the wealthy classes are not to be prepared for the first fights on a large betting:- all the animal manures thus produced let off, for among the interests to be suddenly severed his connection with the scale when, a few days ago, Captain Dunne counteracts all effects of perspira Hongkong, ThuraDAY, MAY 20, 1908 are returned to the land belonging to affected by the new Bills which are to balloon factory for some unknown cause.
the estate. This system of conducting be drawn up during the adjournment the distilleries for the improvement of
we observe that property is again men. their own lands has given the owners tioned. And it will be a trifle surpris the pretext for demanding preferential treatment of a far-reaching character,ing if the "Bloc" parties are not able and they have received it. The owners
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to agree upon some form of tax aimed was continuing his experiments privately. more particularly at the land-owning
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version of an evening discourse deliveroding to Mr W. Hall Walker which har by him at the Royal Institutionis been leased to His Majesty the King.) theme in the soul of good in things super-
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stitious and he declares that the folklorist, VANCOUVER WELCOMES like Payche, has to separate the nourishing | grain out of the rubbish heaps of savage custom. He accordingly shown how the divinity that doth hedge a king in primitive government, haw the taboo surrounding culture has helped to bring about stable
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timo, it is exercising. the critical facul-were, in the main, the great landed Highly recommended by ties of the best statesmen of the day. proprietors of the six provinces the Medical Profession. In England the need for readjustment constituting the "East-Elbia"
has long been felt; America, is still in German political jargon; and it is in three stroogthe, containing 5%:10% and the throes of tariff revision; France has the landed aristocracy of those Early this morning the proprietor and
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oraded a most difficult situation by re- provinces that wield the greatest manager of the Hongkong Printing Press, course to the imposition of an Income inforce in German legislation UP at his residence No. 6" Barrow Terrace, Mr Liebella Karier, passed away, peacefully Tax; and now we are informed that in till 1837 the spirit taxes consisted only Kowloon, after a prolonged illness. The property left by the owner has given rise
The Japaness cruisers, Leo and Soya, Germany something like a crisis has in a charge for the material used in demand gentleman was well known into the concept of private property, how the arisen se the outcome of an attempt by manufacture, which was assessed by Portuguese and Foreign Community for classes and at certain times has led on to Ichiji, have been heartily welcomed at the Colony and much osteemed by the ban on sexual intercourse between certain under the command of Rear-Admiral the Government to find new sources of taking the contents of the ferinated his genial character and philanthropy. The the modern ides of marriage, and how the Vaporver. Admitting all the obvious butte, at every filling. In the rear Portuguesa commanity especially have lost foar" of ghosts has caused men to acquire a advantages to a country with expansive named, however, the present Excise tax, beloved benefactor,
one of their best friends, and the poor a commercial proclivities of a system of paid when the spirits pass into trade,
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ASCENSION DAY AT THE the matter of re-arrangement difficulties
R. C. CATHEDRAL. of enormous magnitude immediately
and £3 10s.--por hectolitre (22 gallons) Conception, a High Soloma Mass was At the Cathedral of the Immaculate up. So many interests are likely.
The lower rate was to be paid by all the celebrated at 8 o'clock this morning, three to become involved that the greatest possible cars has to be observed lost say alcohol produced within a certain fixed Friss Miner of the Franciscan Order officiating. The Sanctuary was occupied tampering with the delicately-poised it, the so-called "contingent"; the by the clergy of various denominations, in- structure should bring about a fatal higher rats by alcohol produced above drding as good number of Triers Minor, sollapec, the disastrous effects of which that limit. This contingent now amounts who arrived from Europe by the German Mail on Wednesday and are proceeding it would be impossible to compute,
to 52,000,000 gallons, a year, and the North for their respective missions, and But it is not this aspect of the Government makes an allotment to each the apposite side was occupied by the question that we are at present prepared distillery of its quota of it.
to discuss. Rather is it our endeavour
to enumerate some of the main causes
When the system was first adopted twenty-two years ago, the commercial
Seminarists." The unsis was conducted' by one of the Christian Brothers and song by the choir of St. Joseph's College. Mr.
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This evening a Solemn Benediction of
The Overland China Mall which have brought about Germany's distilleries then existing were allotted the Holy Encrament will take pisos as
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It was fully six months since that the bat it was provided that no new ones laudate Dominum will be sung by the German Government published in the should receive an allotment, hence would form of Bills its proposal for the rising have to produce alcohol paying £3 106. of some 25,000,000 of new revenue in petition with that paying only
Ellen Adnuity } 1847 224 18 4 Order before you leave sofyou may receiva This enormous sum it was proposed to 2 10s. On the other hand, all new
Bache Staking Fund Account ̧
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