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HONG KONG,
BRITISH NATIONAL FINANCIAL YEAR
FURTHER FACTS
INCOME TAX MORE THAN ESTIMATED
REVENUE £836,000,000
London, Yesterday,
The Exchequer returns for the
ed on Saturday, show a realised surplus of £18,394.463 which com-
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929.
TO GO BACK? ON THE NORTH-WEST
ALLEGED CHINESE FUGITIVE
FROM PHILIPPINES ·
COURT PROCEEDINGS
In the matter of an alleged Chin- ese fugitive offender, whose extra- dition to the Philippine Islands is sought, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy ap-! peared for the Crown before Mr. E. W Hamilton at the Central
FRONTIER
OMINOUS SIGNS
"GENERAL UPSET" FEARED AMONG TRIBES
.WARLIKE PREPARATIONS
Calcutta, Yesterday.
Magistracy? this morning, and pro- Trouble has again' broken out on national financial year, which end-duced the order of His Excellency the North West frontier between the Governor relative to the matter. the Sunni, Shiah and Mohammedan Afterward his Worship took for- sects in Tirah, in the Afridi coun mal evidence in Court From Mr. try, the dangerous aspect of which K. C. Krentz, United States Vice- is the likelihood of it spreading to Consul in Hong Kong, who stated other tribes and starting a general that the application was being made upset along the frontier.
pares with Mr. Churchill's budget estimate of £14,502,000. Later, that figure was reduced by con- ressions during the subsequent debate to £8,000,000,
по
the
on behalf of Mr. E. A. Gilmore, At- The Shiahs for a long time have. ing Governor-General of the Philip heen building forts along the pines. Witness had good cause to border of the "Guaranteed Area," The present surplus, with over
believe that the fugitive offender north of Kohat-Thal pass was suspected and accused of em-'British territory, which the British £4,000,000 carried over from the previous year, will be placed to the bezzlement, larceny, and fraudulent gave to them in 1917 after rating relief
misappropriation suspense account.
of property at Sunnis had expelled them from. Death duties have been particularly Corregidor, in the province of Ca-territory which they are now ap- productive during the
year and vite, P.
parently bent upon regaining. Income Tax, though not the super-
Witness produced sworn state- The Sunnis eyes have not been ments has produced more tax,
taker in the Philippine shut nd they also have built than Expenditure was also Islands to the effect that the fugl-forts and have been helped by the estimated.
tive offender did in fact commit the Afridis, who are doing their utmost less than anticipated.
crimes. These documents were all to stem the Shiahs' advance. The nation's revenue exceeded
sealed with the seal of the Excou- £836,000,000 and the expenditure tive Office of the Philippine Islands, launch
It is feared that those allies will a little over £800,000,000-British and the warrant issued in the Philip invade British territory, which a big counter drive and
piues was attached to the docu- would necessitate British interven- tion. A Kohat column is stand- His Worship made an order for ing-to and aeroplanes are constantly the warrant for the fugitive offen- reconnoitring. Reutter. der's arrest to be issued.
Wireless Service.
LORD BIRKENHEAD
CHAIRMAN OF ELECTRIC POWER CO. IN ENGLAND
NEW ROLE
'ments.
The proceedings in open Court, the "China Mail" learn, is mutates mutendes that of the Extradition Act of 1870 and subsequent Acts.
MISS MARIE LOHR
INCOME UNDER MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT
.
FINANCIAL PROVISION
جیب
The Utility Power and Light Corporation, one of the principal public utility systems in the Unit-circumstance which demonstrates ed States, announces the acquisi- the enormous scope for develop- tion, through the London and ment. It seems clear that indus-
The financial provision to be Counties Trust, Ltd., of the entire trial prosperity in a manufactur- made for Miss Marie Lohr, the capital stocks of seven of the prin- ing country bears a definite rela- actress, by her former husband, cipal British power companies and tion to the cost of electrical Mr. Anthony Leyland Prinsep, substantial interests in others. energy. The Electricity Commis theatrical producer, whom she Lord Birkenhead is stated to have sioners and the Central Electricity announced by telephone his ac- Board have accomplished much, divorced last year, was discussed ceptance of the chairmanship of but there is still a tremendous before Mr. Justice Hill in the. the Greater London and Counties amount to be done.
Divorce Court in mail week. Trust, Ltd., states an Exchange message from New York.
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"I propose to make a complete Two settlements of £20,000 and analysis of Acts of Parliament per-$86,000 had been made upon Mr. taining to the electrical industry
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The announcement was made by Mr. H. L. Clarke, head of the com- with a view to simplifying the con- Prinsep by his mother, with pany, who said the American com-ditions relating to the supply of special mention of Miss Lohr. pany had acquired the entire Com-electrical energy on uniform and There was now a proposal, agreed | mon or Ordinary shares of the standardised lines throughout the to by both parties, to settle on Miss Greater London and Counties country.
Lohr and the child of the mar- Trust, thus indirectly controlling:
British Directors
riage a portion of the property its principal subsidiaries-the Bed- "I was impressed with the im- producing an income of £2,000 a fordshire, Cambridgeshire, and portance of the subject generally, year, This proposal, however, was Huntingdonshire Electricity Com- and its value to the community, opposed by the trustees of the set- pany, the Cookham and District and I decided to devote the great- tlements.
Provision for New Wife Electric Corporation, Limited, the er portion of my time and energy East Anglian Electric Supply Com- to these interests. The organiza- Mr. Noel Middleton for Miss pany, Edmondsons Electricity Cor- tion with which I have decided to Lohr, said that the scheme ap- poration. Limited, the Oxford Elec- associate myself is British, al proved by the Registrar set aside tric Company, Limited, the Wessex though it is associated with the £45,000 in trust for the wife and Electricity Company, and the West Clarke interests in the United child, and left the rest for Mr. ern Electricity Supply Company. States. Its board of directors is Prinsep.
He said that extensions and de- and will remain British, and it is velopments which were necessary not tied to any manufacturing or in the areas served by these com- ganization. panies would require within five "It is not interested in any res- years an expenditure of £10,000,- pect in the purchase of American the husband says that it is a very 000, affecting 95 cities and towns or other foreign materials or ma- in England and Scotland.—Ex- | chinery, and its purchase will result change.
In
Mr. Justice Hill-The whole of the funda are taken out of the set- tlement and resettled, and that is what the trustees object to, though
desirable arrangement.
Sir Thomas Hughes, K.C., for
in the employment of British mater. Mr. Princeo, supported the scheme, Lord Birkenhead's Statement ial and labour, and its entire staff and said that if it went through Lord Birkenhead, in state is and will remain British: So far both parties were agreed. Mr. ment, says: "For some time I as finance is concerned, this has Prinsep had now married again, have been giving attention to the been found up to the present almost and desired to have power to make possibilities of the development of entirely through Clarke interests provision for his new wife. (Due San Francisco, 26th April.) the use of electricity in England the Trust is to obtain money in the posed' allowance of £2,000 a year in America, but the broad policy of Mr. Middleton said that the pro- consequence I have become aware of the beneficial effect cheapest triarket, and it is within for Miss Lohr was not excessive, which a cheap and abundant sup its province to obtain funds in Bris it left over £6,000 a year for ply will have upon increased pro-tain if it is possible to do so at a
Mr. Prinsep. ductivity, employment, and wage- cheaper rate than elsewhere.. carning capacity sud general im-
"The question as to the desirabil Mr. Gavin Simonds, K.C., for the provement in the prevailing trade ity of the use of American capital trustees of the settlement, said conditions. It will tend to place in England has been traversed by that they were not concerned with Great Britain in a better position Parliamentary Committees, which the proportions of the income, but
have approved the principle, and argued that, whatever
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Registration
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Feature of the Trust
was ap-
to compete in the markets of the those competent to judge have in portioned to the husband, should be į I world.
"Available data shows that the variably expressed the opinion that Protected in the manner in which consumption of electrical units in the use of such funds in the man- a mother intended, it to be pro- Britain per capita is very low when ner indicated is in the best nation-tected. compared with other countries, a al-interests."
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The
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PLAY GIRL"
The story of a Modern Flapper.
MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
Mr. Justice Hill The husband wants free funds to make provi- ston for his second wife, and I should think that some settlement could be made not inconsistent with his mother's wishes.
Mr. Gavin Simonds said that the substantial feature of the trust established by Mr. Prinsep's mother was the protection of him against himself. Under the trust it was within the powers of the trustees to maintain to the extent of £5,000 a year, whereas the re sult of the proposed agreement would be handed over to him for good and all, and the primary object of his mother to protect him against himself would be defeated.. Mr. Justice Hill said that he would consider the matter before. giving judgment.
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