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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931.
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Enquiries for Stocks.
STEADY TO FIRM.
The official summary issued by
that charmed their generation "ure the Stock Exchange to-day states: silent.
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U.S. TAX ON THE BACHELOR.
President Hoover's
Scheme.
But in a quiet room at the Bri-this morning, with enquiries for a000,000 in three years were ex-
Ush Museum their voices are still recorded in metal; and in a studio In Middlesex I was allowed to con- jure them up in illustrious proces- sion, with a score of others-Lord Roberte warning the nation of its peril in 1913, the great Tamagno in decline, Dan Leno in the hunting. song that convulsed 1900 and now can only be described as dreary.
It was an odd experience and a little saddening: uncomfortably like listening to ghosts.
The British Museum's oldest matrix-the metal negative from which ordinary positive records are printed is one made by the late Lord Tennyson. The circular metal! matrix lies in a box beneath a desk; but as no positive was available I had no chance to test its dubious audibility. Nor was I able to hear Tolstoy reading from one of his books-a record made in 1905 when he was 77.
Gladstone, died too early for in:
clusion; and one misses the names
of Kitchener, Swinburne, Meredith, Irving and Tree.
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The living are better represented. There are speeches by the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales (on sportsmanship), Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Ramisay MacDonald (on unemploy- ment), Mr. Bernard Shaw (on "Spoken and Broken English"), and records of many of the leading singers and writers of the last quarter of a century.
Most of the records have been presented to the Museum on the condition that no use abull be made
The market opened steady to firm number of stocks in the lia
Sales.
TO RAISE REVENUE..
Washington, Yesterday.. Fears that unless taxation is increased the United States will have amassed a deficit of $4,742,- pressed by President Hoover in his annual budget statement to Congress in which he estimates n deficit of $1,417,000,000 next year. He proposes to increase income tax, which is to be limit ed to 2 years from July, 1932, to two per cent. on the net incomes $26/of unmarried people
to up $4,000; four per cent. on the next $4,000, and six per cent. over $8,000 with surtaxes rang- ing from one per cent, on incomes of $10,000 to forty per cent. on incomes of $500,000.-Reuter.
Banka, $1,530. Hotela (old), $15.15. Lane, Crawforda (new), $6.10. Trams. $21.80. Telephones
$26.20.
Unions, $450.
(part paid),
Buyers.
Shanghai Explorations, $2.40. Providents (new), $2.35. Humphreys (old), $18. Chinese Estates, $95. Trams, $21.20. Star Ferries, $95. H. K. Electrics, $78. Cements (combined), $19.10. Entertainments (old) $17%. Entertainments (new), $10. China Underwriters, $4.90.- Wharves, $152.
H.K. Lands, $80.
H.K. Realtics, $12.05. Ewos, Tiz. 16.
Peak Trams (old), $15. China Lights, $28. Canton Ices, $6.
Lane, Crawfords (old), $62. Hotels (old), $15.19. Hotels (new), $14.70,
Sellers.
Union Waterbants, $27. . Hotels (old), $15. China Lights, $28.30. Raubs, $43. Venezuelan Goldfields, $2. S.C. Enterprises, $10.
Shanghai Stocks.
Carroll Brothers have received
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of them for fifty years. It will be cabled quotations of the following possible then, and in later uges, toShanghul stocks:- print all the copies desired. Posterity (allowing for mechanical Imperfections) will be able to eB- timate the artistry of Melba, the golden torrent of Caruso, the eloquence of Balfour and Asquith.
Above all, provided they are not misled by the accent of Mr. Shaw, generations to come will be able to learn just how the people of the carly twentieth century spoke English. Phonetically and histori cally the collection will be beyond price.
mutter for intelligent guesswork.
While the Museum collection exists, no such obscurity can ever veil the standard accent of to-day: But where is the record of the local dialects that are fast disappearing?
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Mr. Leeds did not deny that he had recently slipped a bracelet worth £4,000 on the wrist of the actres".
But he definitely denied that he had any matrimonial Intentions to- 'wards her.
INDIA DEBATE IN LORDS.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The debate in the House of Lords on Government's Indian policy was continued to-day,
Lord Brentford held that Goy- crnment's scheme was ill-digent- ed,
Lord Reading emphasised that the scheme had the approval of the Cabinet and an overwhelm- ing majority of the House of Commons.
Lord Salisbury questioned if the proposals were practicable. Correspondents of The Dally
The debate stands adjourned Telegraph have been lamenting the until to-morrow-British Wire- passing of county dialects which less Service. will soon be only legendary. It seems a pity that a growth so very English should be allowed to puas away and leave no aural trace.
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International Assurance Co. Kaiser? Should we use the Italian And what of the films? A thou- China Realty Co. «q” and “e” and “a," and pronounce sand years hence professors will be Shanghal Lands
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