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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our tenders are warned to look out for occasional, phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho)
15
12 13
#4 15
16
17 18 19 110
12
13
14
16
17
18
19
20
21
122.
25
24
26
127
28
129
30
31
132
133 134
35 36
97 38
139
140
41
42
43
4546
419
HORIZONTAL
1-To curva 4-To decline 2-Having adequate
Dower
11-A maadaw
12-Capital of Chosen 14-A fabulous bird 15-Sententious
17-A species of willow 19-The prime minister
of England
20-A book of the Old
Testament (abbr) 21-To tarnish 29-A pretty but
• superficial woman 24-To ilra out
28-To harmiÉSE 28-Into
25-Musical nata
30-Article
31-Personal proneun 32-The head
35-A pronged fish-spear)
37-Barren
39-To epai!
41-Chief town of
Samoan Islands
47
151
152
148
53
55
5b
@THE INTERNATIONAL BYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 43–Midnos
(45 Jacob's father-in-law
(Bible)
47-Time of a
sovereign's rule
| 49-Ta grow old 50-An abrasive
53-Short for Nathanfel 54-Clotted blood
VERTICAL (Gent) 13-The charge of a
firearm
16-First King of Israel- 18-A heavy blow with
the fat
20-A giver
22-A female demen ar
vampire (Class. Myth.)
55-To make an addition|23-Ta incline downward, 66-Man-eating damon
VERTICAL
1-Contralto 2-Large lake,
C. Ireland
3-A mount in
C. Palestine 4-Diminutive suffix 5-Capital of Columbia,
5. A.
6-A measure of
capacity (abbr)
S-To restrain
9-Love (Scot.)
24-A tropical fruit
25-To allende
27-A revolutionlat |B3-A raw saflor
34Girl's name 36-In truth
87-The allar end of n
church
38-Ascending 40-Nene (Scot.) 41-An eagle's neat 42-Metallic droas 44-Prefix. Before 46-8ince
| 48—A Fish
10-Color of unbleached 51-Mother
Iinen
12-A party or faction
62-Country highway
(abbr.)
(The solution of the above crossword puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE
OPENING PARLIAMENT.
carry on.
THE CHINA MAIL,
WILFUL LIE
CONSTABLE WHO SAVED HIMSELF
gers.
ADMISSION IN COURT -.
The defendant's story was that he was forced to stop outside the
he was a
TO-DAY'S RADIO
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.
ON 350 METRES
"
p.m.-Programme of
R D.. Evening Programme. (Columbia Records supplied through the courtesy of Messrs. Anderson Music Co., Ltd.) "Zampa" (Herold), Overture,
Sir Dan Godfrey & the Bourne- mouth Municipal Orch.
"It Wasn't Meart To He,” Contralto,
Betty Bolton.
W. H. Squire,
"The Prophes Coronation March,"
Royal Guards Band. "Pleading" (Morgeau De Concert), "Devotion" (Melodie Passionnee),
Organ Solo,
Terance Casey. "The Real Guy," "Domestic Blisters," Comedian,
[By Athelstan Ridgway in London An admission that he had told a The following programme will
"Morning Post"}
deliberate lie to the Assistant be broadcast to-day from the Gov- Broadcasting Station We know beforehand that con- Superintendent of Police, Kowloos, ernment stitutional precedente, centuries old, to save himself, was made by an Z.B.W. on 350 metres:
5.30-6.50 guarantee that the King's Speech Indian constable to Mr. T. S. Whyte for the opening of the new Parlia- Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy, Chinese Music, ment will contain nothing imme- yesterday afternoon, in. the course 7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Re- diately controversial. For the King's of a case in which an Indian motor port. Speech or Speech from the Throne car driver was charged with caua- and the Address in Reply are ing an obstruction at the "Star" essentially an exchange of courtesies ferry, and with soliciting passen- "between the crown and the Houses; preliminary handshake, as it were, before the prize fight or box ferry wharf because the constable "I'm Thirsty For Kisses, Hungry ing bout begins, in which, of course, had shown the red light against For Love," the Crown gracefully retires and him. leaves the Government Party to Sub-Inspector McWalter said that
passenger on the 12.25"Siegfried" (Wagner), The duty of declaring or "opening a.m., ferry on July 12, and before Grand Fantasy, the cause of the summons to the launch got alongside the wharf, Band of the Garde Republicaine. Parliament was, from the earliest he noticed the
"Plaisir D'Amour. defendant'e car
"Melodie `in. E," 'Cello Solo, times, assigned to A principal standing between the entrance and Minister, generally the Lord Chan- the exit to the wharf. When he "Tannhauser-Grand March" cellor, as the keeper of the Royal disembarked the car was still there
(Wagner), conscience. Yet the practice, up to and defendant called out to two a century and a half ago, was by no Chinese ladies asking them if they means uniform. Once it was quite wanted a car. Witness took de- usual for the Sovereign to say a few fendant's number and summoned words, generally of a complimentary him. nature, before the formal official:
Smart Defendant ! The Indian constable in charge of utterance of his Minister.
The arch-innovator in these mat- the traffic lights
at the ferry, ters was James I., who greatly denied that he had signalled to the fancied himself in the role of defendant to stop. dialectician, regardless of the Defendant pointed out that in a appropriateness or otherwise of the statement made before the A.SP, occasion. He favoured his first the constable had said that he gave Parliament with a very lengthy him the signal to stop.
The constable replied candidly speech and cut the Chancellor's' effort to a ball paragraph or two, that "he had to say things like that
to save himself!" Subsequently he dispensed with the
Defendant was fined $5 for ob vicarious atterance altogether, and substituted his own ponderous orations. Even Charles I. knew liciting charge.
The constable who had been better than that. On the occasion placed on report for allowing de- of his first Parliament he put off his fendant's car to stand outside the crown after prayers had been. said, wharf, will, in view of his admis- and in right courtly manner knelt sion in Court, have to face another by the "chair of estate;" after departmental inquiry. which manifestation of dignified humility, he declared the "cause-of the summons" in a speech to which certainly no objection could be taken on the ground of verbosity. The antithesis of his father's academic prolixity, it ran:
Regal Irony
Billy Bennette.
Paul Whiteman and His
Orchestra. "It's A Million To One You're Far
From Home),"
"Tschaikowskiana,”
"She's Funny That Way,"
Duet:-Layton and Johnstone. "Silhouettes" (Arensky).
FL G. Amers and the East- bourne Municipal Orchestra.
struction, and cautioned on the so-"The Schoolmaster And The Boy
“IN DISGRACE”
TEA INVITATION TO NEGRO
WOMAN
Comedy Sketch by Cicely Court-
neidge & Jack Hulbert. "Wistaria," "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll,"
Piano Solo, "Everybody's Melodies,”
Billy Mayerl.
The J. H. Squire Celeste Oetet. "La Tosca Prelude Act. 3" (Puccini), Milan Symphony Orchestra. "On: The Wings Of Song," "Minnelied," Violin Solo,
"No Power on Earth,"
Lionel Tertia.
"The Charge Of The Tight Brigade,"
Comedian,
Billy Berrett, "Summer Night On The River,"
Sir Thomas Beecham and the Miniature Musical Comedies,"
Royal Philharmonie Orch.
Billy Leonard, Mark Daly, Emmic Joyce, Raymond Newell, Norman Williams and Chorus with Orchestra.
10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
After a fiery debate, during which "Now, because I am unfit for the members were only prevented much speaking, I mean to bring up from indulging in fisticuffs by the the fashion of my predecessors, to Sergeant-at-Arms, the State Senate have my Lord Keeper to speak for of Texas has resolved, by twenty- me in
most things; therefore I six votes to two, that "we bow our commanded him to speak something heads in shame and regret, and ex- to you at this time. which is press in the strongest and most em- more for formality than any great phatic terms at our command our matter he hath to say unto you." conduct of Mrs. Hoover in entertain- "Formality." indeed! Irony mosting to tea at the White House, regal. It is instructive to follow Washington, Mrs. Oscar de Priest, the changes in those, the swaddling wife of the negro Representative ed about 100 miles from San clothes days of our modern con- frore. Chicago.
Rafael, has become a volcano with stitutional practice, and to observe In introducing the Bill, Serator two active craters. The mountain how sometimes the King's utter-Margie Neal, the only woman mem is situated in the Argentine pro ance tends to become the official ber of the Texas Senate, charged vince of Mendoza, which was recent formal declaration, although, after Mrs. Hoover with violating the ly the scene of a severe earthquake, the Restoration, the formal com- most sacred social custom of the: munication was once more gener-White House.".
afly left to the Lord Chancellor. She declared that the social re- Naturally the unconstitutionally-cognition of the negro праз un- minded Charles II. often gave a thinkable to her and her people. strongly personal expression to his] All the Southern States are re- wishes. In 1680 he read & full ported to be shocked over the in- blown Speech from the Throne cident. On the other hand, it is which opened thus:-
commented that since Mrs. Hoover, "My Lords and Gentlemen,-I in accordance with custom, invited have many particulars to open to to tea the wives of all Representa- you; and because I dare not trust tives in groups, she could not dis- my memory with all that is re-criminate against Mrs. de Priest as quisite for me to mention, I shala coloured woman, even if she had read to you the particulars out of desired to do so. this paper."
Then came the paper, the read- ing of which, quite contrary to practice, was not even supplement- ed by any Minister.
MOTHER'S SACRIFICE
Recently a marble monument" It is really only airco the was inaugurated at Sersale, a Revolution of 1688 that the modern Calabrian village, to the memory. practice of making only one Ad-of Carmela Borelli, who gave her dress from the Throne really dates. life for her two little sons. Re- But even then the King is soine turning home one winter's exen times found uttering the Speech. Ing this January they were caught By whomsoever spoken, however, in a snowstorm, and the only it was now always treated as the hope of safety was to creep into manifesto of the Lord Chancellor some thick bushes. Several hours and criticised or condemned accord- later peasants heard the children ingly with all the customary licence erving: they found them wrapped of debite.
in their mother's clothes while she
Queen Anne's Grudge-
lay a little way off frozen to
By modern practice the Prime death.
Minister drafts the Speech, but in
past times an outsider was ocea
Bionally entrusted with the task, views may delight In war.” Much as when Lord Somers composed an later George III. was only restrain- Superintendent. Address for William H., a ed with difficulty by Pitt from Hong Kong, 1st August, 1929..
monarch who ordinarily was not insisting on the Insertion of a disposed to accept anything cut reference to "the bloody and THE EASTERN EXTENSION and dried. George III, too, expensive war," Pitt regarding it
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In its final draft the Speech from
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gered The
It is a piguart commentary on the Throne avoids any phrase or the evolution of constitutional pre-expression which might lead to cedent to find that complete decorum acrimonious debate or mar the of phrasing was not attained with harmony that should subsist be out a struggle. In these Twen-tween the Crown' and the other tieth Century days of disarmament members of the Legislature. proposals, we shall certainly look Presumably the Prime Minister
vain for expressions like those now always reads the dra of United States Consul, from in an Address from the Throne by Speech to his Chicago, Ill
Queen Anne, who paid off a grudge Downing Street- SLACK,
against ber quondam Minister, usage to read it In Superintendent Marlborough,, by - say Lam or Treasury Cham
glad that I can now you that, from the purpo notwithstanding the arts of those place was orgi who delight in war, both place and regin time are app ted for opening the askin
horities, OLD TAYLOR Treaty of general
propose to build a band to
Bagdad Hasra” – line, munications may have
be suspended.
AGED BY TIME
The faithful Commons were not the use
alow to follow suit in their Address of the customary den with references to the art" anu Stewa devices of those who for private
of the
Mont el Nevado, which is situat-
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