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› MONDAY'S SOLUTION,
GILDS
"JIX" ON HIS PARTY'S PROSPECTS
-SMALL-LIBERAL HOPES
THE GHINA MAIL,
LOSES £50,000
BARONET'S CLAIM UNDER WILL
“NEMÖTENESS
STREET OFFENCES
ONE LAW FOR BOTH SEXES
UNANIMOUS VIEWS
The Home Secretary, Sir WI- Ham Joynson-Hicks, in a speech to a gathering of: Kent Conservative women at Dartford, expressed the opinion that it was impossible, for the Liberals to secure more than eighty or a hundred seats at the coming General Election. He had Messrs. Edward Charles Cave, of [no anxiety about the Conservatives Sidford, Sidmouth Devon, and
obtaining a completo and adequate w. K. P. Tucker, of Bridge necessary to make compromiso re- majority over both the other parties. Chambers, Barnstaple, trustees of commendations On a number of
People must, however, face the will of the late Mr. Michael (political questions as they had never Williams, asked for sidecision as to
done before. There was now a whether the bequest was vold, party coming along prepared, if it could get the power, to tear up the foundations on which the British Constitution had been built up.
Sir William made an appeal that grumblings and criticisms by those
Sir William Law Williams, of Important changes in the law Barnstaple, Devon, who was 21 last will have to be made if the Home May, falled In a claim in the Secretary, Sir William Joynson. Chancery Division before Mr. | Hicks, dedidos to act upon certaint Justico Clauson to be entitled to of the recommendations made by £50,000 bequeathed to endow the the Street Offences Committee, baronetcy.
whose report is now in his hands.
A unanimous report has been presented, but to do, so it was
The bequest was for the first person born after Mr. Michael William's death who became entitled to the baronetcy and attained the age of 21.`.
points.
The committee, was appointed after police-court convictions of Major Bell Murray for alleged drunkenness and disorderly con duct in Plecadilly and of Mr. Francis Champain on a charge of importuning in the neighbourhood of Adelphi Arches had been quash-
Its chairman was Mr. H. P. Mac- Millan, KC, and its members in- cluded five women, one of “whom was Lady Joynson-Hicks.
The residuary legbeo, the Rav. who called themselves friends of the L. A. Wiliams, of Hessenforded on appeal. party should
stop. These criti-Vicarage, Hessenford, was a party cisms, he said, came mainly from 1 to the summons.. men in first-class carriages who Mr. Justice Clauson held that the spent their journeys to town bequest was vold dot remoteness. abusing the party. Instead of The sixth son of the first baronet "grumbling and snarling" let them was Mr. Michael Wiams. He died do some solid work for the `party.
In the 23 years in April 1905. since then there have been five baroneta,
It is understood that the, report proposes that in the offence of street solicitation the law should not' and differentiate between men women. The offence of being a "common prostitute" would dis appear.
Sir William Frederick Williams, the fourth baronet, died in Septem-
'Evidence Difficulties ber 1905 at the age of 19. He was succeeded by his brother, Sir No solution has been found
to Frederick William Williama, who by the committee
the died in 1913, also unmarried. vexed problem of securing corro
borative evidence in a chargo-of soliciting or importuning by either sex. Men and women who at the time complain to a policeman are frequently unwilling to give, ovid- enco in court.
The local government ruform and derating measure (Sir William continued) had been framed in a non-party spirit for the benefit of the whole nation. There had been criticisms in some diagruntled parts of the land, but the bill would go through the House of Commons. It would pasa. It would A third brother, Sir Burton work well, and he was per-Robert Williams, then assumed the fectly certain that they would then title and was killed in action four hear very little Indeed of the years later. His successor was his grumbling they heard nowadays. uncle, Sir Frederick Law Williams, Remarking that safeguarding had who died in 1921 and was father of been tried in various industries, Sir the present baronet. William added: "It has been a suc- cess in every one, and we are pre- pared to give opportunities for ex- tending that further."
A new factory had been started In his constituency by Americans. I opened it for them, and during the opening ceremony I asked one of them. 'Why have you come here to put up this factory to employ a thousand British working people.' The American replied, "My firm has been paying your Government £200 months ja day for a good many
owing to safeguarding duties on things we import into Britain, and we thought we might just as well Bave the $200 a day and put up the factory here.' (Cheers.)
{ HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors
the following list of some of the 'highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:
Island.. Victoria Peak
WATER
ELATE
COL WI DAIS
S COMPL
LED
M.MONSTR{ ALAS BRE
DON SNARH LI ACTING SO MALTAKE A RACEI
LEAPS CER
Kowloon
Feat.
1828
Signal Station
1774
Mt. Parker
1784
Mountain Lodge
1723
The Eyrie
1728)
Peak Hotel
1805
Talkoo Sanatorium
1000
MtDavis
877
Bowen Road (filtarbed
Taimoshan
Feet:
mont
3121
1971
"One Instance is worth a ton of theory, and I am sure that after the next election you will see a great extension of safeguarding."
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INSTEAD THEY ARE THE PERFECT LITTLE LIVER AND INTESTINAL
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Constipation and torpid liver are the chlef causes of, those headaches, pains behind the eyes, billious attacks, feelings of
In authoritative quarters, there is A growing conviction that the plain-clothes policeman, whose work frequently in- volves his acting in the undesirable capacity of an agent-provocateur, should be abolished.
This attitude is the outcome of the examination of the position by the committee, coupled with other Incidents that have attracted pub- lic attention in recent months. Pressure on Home Secretary Strong advice la being given him to increase the uniformed branch of the Metropolitan Police. One of the main reasons put forward is that the authorities would be bet- ter occupied in preventing offences than in trying to detect offenders by what are characterised as
spying methods."
Mr. Justice Salter in the King's flatulence and discomfort after Bench Division dismissed a claim The University Court of Edinmeals, which affict 80 many for damages by Mr. John Edwin burgh have received Intimation of Pinkettes are a speedy and eff Garratt, of Southwark-street, S.E., a gift of £10,000 from the Rocke cient, yet gentle corrective. Aagainst Pickfords and Hay's Wharf feller Foundation and of £5,000 little dose to-night; you will feel Shipping and Forwarding: Com- from Mr. T. Cowan, a Leith ship. 100 per cent. better, brighter and pany, Ltd, in respect of damage owner, for the endowment of the more efficient to-morrow morning. done to bread blacuit by the department of surgery.
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