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JAVA SUGAR.
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FORTUNES MADE AND LOST IN SPECULATION.
D.S.O. MAJOR TO PAY £500, position of chairman by Major Wail,
NOSE PULLING EPISODE
SEVERE RESIZE BY LORD CHIS?
JUSTICE
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and was also removed from his directorship last February. They rot £5,000 out of me," he mid, then removed ma** **
*1. #m on osti" was Major Shannona ratort to an admonition to be careful bow be answered a quès- Hián.
FRIDAY, JULY – 1.
NOTICES
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
REDUCTION IN
BUTTER.
A report in The Board of Tende Journal tron H. M. Vice-Consul in The libel, action, between two ma- The Lord Chief Justice: I hope Sourabaya on sugar conditions in Jors, which followed a pose-pulling you know it in view of answers you Jeva states that the 1920 crop proved episode at a shareholders' meeting in are giving. Later, his lordship said: better than was expocad, and even the City, was concluded in the King's "Don't prevarientés taly turned out some 50,000 tons Bench Division when a special jury Asked why he said "I think Sm over original estimates. As men-1 arded £500 damages to Major Weil has stolen a lot of money" tioned in previous reports, the bulk Sampel Weil, South African mer-Major Shannon said it was. becaine of the crop was disposed of very early chant, of Gresham Home, EC. Major Major Weil sent a lot of pedigres in the year at high prices, and the Wail complained that Major. Boyd cattle to the company's farm in South subsequent enormous rese in the Shannon, DS.O., of the Constitutional Africa when they were not wanted world's markets entbled the pro- Club, WC, had 'sccirmed him of there. ducers to sell out their whole cops holders of the Longlands Cattle and up said Major Shannon was in robbing and swindling the share- xt prices which it seems hardy likely Tobacco Farms Syndicate, Ltd, of temperate in his language, could will ever again be reached.
Exporters and speculators made which Maker Weil was chairman and set control himself, fiew off at a and lost enormous fortunes, but & is Major Sharon a director. Privilege tangent when asked to answer ses satisfactory to note that "beyond the was pleaded. The Lord Chief Justice sible questions, and called people. collapse of a young Scandinavian firm for his lengthy answers, and finally at the least provocation and without several times reproved Major Shannon rubbers,cheats, scoundrels and thieves and two speculators, the trade, as said be was the most unintelligent foundation. He was an obstinate, whole, has come through the arkis witness it had been his lot to listen self- opinionated mas. If he ren in a most satisfactory and creditable empas Ryy par manner, which must be largely at- tributed to the fact that the amounts at stake ware so enormous and the business relations of the various speculators so involved that | nothing short of a most liberal spirit of give and take could avert whole- sale disaster.
"Daisy" The Lord Chief Justice in summing
The following guro give the total production of sugar in Java in recent
years:-
Total, 1918
1,700,500
1,264,500
1,509,200
|
Major Shannon, replying to Mr. Douglas Hogg, K.C., for Major. Well, said he had been ousted from the
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dered grear services in the war, as he THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd. says he did." proceeded his lordship, it is an amazing thing how he did
them."
DEATH GAMBLE.
MR. FRANKLIN LANE'S LAST
EMOTIONS.
•
WRITTEN FOR HIS FRIENDS.
"is was a bet on a high card with
a chance to win and I took it."
The Mr. Franklin Lane, former Secretary of the Interior, whose on timely death has called forth national expressions of grief, described boy be deliberately gambled with death. He died 4 days after an operation for gall stone and appendicitis. On account of the condition of his heart
AMERICA'S MORALS.
A BISHOP'S INDICTMENT.
COMPARISON WITH ROMË.
1919
1920
1921 (estimated) 1,575,000 GOVERNMENT'S PURCHASES. The Government, as stated last year, purchased from the V.J.P. Association of Java Sugar Producers,) 300,000-picals 1919 crop⚫ and 1,500,000 pienis 1920 crop For dis- tribution throughout the Archipe-{ lago, and secured the option up to November 1 of a further 1,000,000 | picals. The sugar, through the in- British frm in
termediation of a
market value
America, with its present-day sex standards, and particularly its divorce system, is fast approaching a moral Cuba, was put into consumption at laxness that caused Rome to fall 408. per picul, thus well bele! the according to Bishop Burgess, of Long Island, in his annual
for the first nine
clergymen of his diocese. In a address to seven hundred episcopal months of the year.
It soon became evident, that the scathing arraignment of modern estimates of what was required for tendencies the Bishop strongly coal consumption were very far out, plays, and the dresses of young Ban to accumulate at an alarming rate, criticised American novels, dances, and stocks of Government sugars bé- women, which lacked dignity and and deliveries of the 1919 crop went propriety, and he urged the Church off so slowly that it was quickly ap to fight "trading in divorces" even parent that not only would the Gov- as it rose up in St. Paul's time and emment not take up the extre the operation had to be performed preached against idolatry. If divorce 1,000,000 piculs but would have without a general artsthetic, and in America be not checked, he difficulty in getting rid of their afterwards his heart, on the ability declared, family life here will be million unless they put it on the open of which to recover from the shock of debauched and destroyed as effec market. the operation he had staked his life,vely as in the days of the Roman Or September i
Empire.
failed him.
After the operation he knew his end was near. As he lay in bed, his lile slowly ebbing, he dictated first the story of his great gamble.
Thou, in a few semences of re- markable power, he described in the manner of the late Mr. Twells Brex, the sensation of a man facing death, and enunciated his simple philosophy of tile.
-
When it was finished he asked that apies should be sem to all his
friends.
A few hours later he was dead. "F've seen death come to me in many ways," his valedictory begins, "some of them rather novel. I once
UNSATISFACTORY LABOUR OUTLOOK.
the Government instructed their distributing agents. The prelate said no statistics were to sell on the open market, and a few necessary to prove his contention days later definitely remrned the that America was fast approaching optioned 1,000,000 piesis to the the low standard of sexual morality V.JP. Out of the 1,500,000 piculs of Roman society. Divorce is all there were only distributed 59,000 round us," he said, papers tell a sickening story as it picals were sold at prices ranging and the news piculs, and the remaining 1,441,000 applies to society and other people from 518. down to 148, per picil. alike. The divorce mills grind quickly. and they have become the most lucra tive branch of the law." The time world, Java hes had its troubles dur
In sympathy with the rest of the had come, he said, when the countrying the past year. Numerous strikes bust decide whether marriage is of sugar mill coolies, lightermen and serous physicial relationship, to Longshoremen caused a good deal of be discontinued at will, or a sacra trouble, but in most cases a solution ment based on the sacred writ that was arrived at by giving avey to all gether let no man put-asurder." He season came to an end without any those whom God hath joined to reasonable demands, Xx that the urged clergymen abt to remarry any very serious stoppage. person who had been divorced
A man hanged. I've seen without. the express permission of several men shot and came very near their bishop. going out that way myself two C three times, but always the other fellow was armed poorly. But never before have I been called upon de- liberately to walk into the Valley of
The outlook for the coming year is
by no means encouraging. Employ
ers have gone as far as they can, but
| laboury does not appear to be satisiled,
as yet,, and äthough the formation
And now I am to know the great of a "Werkgevers Bond" (Employers'
secret.
bring with it much more serious "Often I've said to myself that I feared that the coming season may Union) has had a salutary effect, it is;
labour troubles than last year.
1921 SALES.
The desire to secure early de-
the Shadow-and, say what you will, should summon to my mind, when it is a great och
"I've said, in the past months of this moment came, some words that endless self-examination, that a man would be somewhat of a synthesis of with a little curiosity, little my philosophy. Socrates's apothegm Inmour, & ctle money, and not too after he drank the hemlock, 'No evil liveries before speculators had begin much pain could enjoy himself study-cat befall & good man, whether he be to operate led some consurfers -10 ing the ways of doctors and nurses stive, or dead, was not apposite to open the market in June, when the as be journeyed along the invalid's because it involved a declaration V.JF. disposed of 400,000 piculs that I was a good man I don't know Charmel, at 48 florins, and 400,000 path.
anyone who has the right so to appicals Superior, at 50 forms. From preciate himself. And I bave to this time on no transaction jook place "But bere was the path's end, come to the conclusion that the best until the first day of the new year. which I could not see. I was not statement of my creed could be made when a sudden demand sprang up, compelled to take it. I could. live] in the words":
and considerable quantities were die some time without taking it.. It was "" accept-which to me means posed of at 18.75 Borins for A.Ã...‚· a bet on high card, with a chance that if in the law of nature my spirit 19 Barins Channel end 20 Boring St
THE END OF THE PATH.
to win, and I took it...
these prices still obtain, and
the
is to go back to the great ocean of perior. At the time of writing (Feb.) "Those men who sleep:12.bours spirits, my duty is to confarm, belors being electrocuted evidently led more tranquil lives - than I, or have less concern es to their future.
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