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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.
PRISONER QUOTES SHAKESPEARE.
"The Quality of Mercy."
IMPORT DUTIES BILL.
More Free List Items.
SOYA BEANS-SOFT HEMP
FIBRE AND TOW.
London, Yesterday.
WHEN DOG LICENCES BECOME VOID.
A Little-Known Point
of Law.
A curious point relating to the validity of dog licences was men- tloned at the Radcliffe Police Court, when Alice Whewell, of Hamilton
A prisoner who quoted Shake- speare's lines from "The Merchant] of Venice" when asked whether hel had anything to say after being Tound guilty was sentenced to four
The third reading of the Im. Road, Whitefield, was summoned for years penal servitude for burglary port Duties Bill was passed to-ot having a licence for her dog. and
assault at Sheffield Quarter day by 442 votes to 62,
It was pointed out by Mr. Clayton Sessions. "I realise that it would In the House of Lords the Bills that the licence for the dog was be useless to ask for leniency," he will be read formally for the caken out by defendant's father, said, "but there is a verse by a firut time to-morrow, and the and when he died recently thef poet-I think it was Cowper-which Lords will pass it on Monday. | Licence at once became void. He runs like this." He then quoted The duties will then begin to asked if the magistrates were aware' "The quality of mercy is not strain- operate from March 1.
that if any one of them had & oog|| ed."
Mr. Neville Chamberlain has and he died his wife could be pro- accepted an amendment to thecuted a day or two later for not Import Duties Bill by which soft naving a licence if a new one had fibre hemp and hemp tow are not been taken cat. placed on the Free List.
The Clerk said it was open to any
The man was John Edward Snape (27), bricklayer, of Shofield, and he was charged with breaking into two Sheffield houses and stealing goods to the value of £83. It was stated Another amendment to the one to overcome that possibility by that at one house he consumed a Import Duties Bill placing soya caking out the licence in the joint! quantity of food and stole beer and beans on the free list has beenames of the husband and wife.
winc.
He left notes for the cook,ccepted by Mr. Neville Chamber- one of which read: "Your tarts are lain.-Reuter. indeed most delightful." The hand-
| writing formed part of the evidence, against Snope. At another house, where he stole a quantity of jewel- lery and-silver, he left finger-prints, which were identified by Scotland
Yard. It was stated that while
CIVIL SERVICE
ROBOTS.
Saving £500,000 A Year to the Taxpayer.
Mr. Clayton: That is a good tip) for the public.
Superintendent Thompson naked for the summons to be withdrawn, And the Bench agreed.
BARBARIC RITES.
being transferred from Sheffield to
Reports that Eskimos are re- Manchester at his own request be-
verting to the faith of their fore his trial he assaulted a polize
cathers and are staging barbaric The introduction of robot clerks cribal ceremonies sergeant by hitting him on the head in Government departments, has vestigated by the Royal Cana- are being in- with a handcuff.
resulted in the saving of £500,000 aan Mounted Police. Snape asked
for eleven other year for the last five years in twelve charges of housebreaking to be of the largest departments. Their threatened; but the elders of the No human lives have been taken into consideration. "You service ranges from the simple task; tribes have destroyed food sup- seem to be a hopeless case," said the of adding or multiplying sets of plies brought to them by white Recorder (Mr. Walter Hedley). figures to working out costs for the men. "You have spent practically the last construction of a gun or battleship. While Eskimos have hitherto ten years of your life in prison, with short intervals."
U.S. AMBASSADOR FOR LONDON.
Rugby, Yesterday. newly appointed United States Ambassador in Londen, Mr Andrew Mellan, will reach England
The
some time in the middle of March.- British Wireless Service.
BRAVERY REWARDED.
Rugby, Yesterday.
A party of 19 miners, who work-
ed for nine hours when in great danger to rescue a fellow miner, were decorated with the Edward Medal by His Majesty the King ati to-day's private investiture at Buckingham Palace.--British Wire- less Service.
MOTOR DEPUTATION.
Rugby, Yesterday,
In the Post Office Department, been very friendly to the and notably at the headquarters of whites, relations have become machinery is now used for ledger been the Post Office Savings Bank, strained since trappers have
pushing farther into! entries, tabulation, accountancy, and Eskimo territory. in other useful waya. But for the
Men who correspond to "witch introduction of these modern doctors" among the negro tribes methods the staff would have had tore now advocating the abandon- be greatly increased.
ment of all white men's customs
araturn to the faith of! for the tradition that Government their fathers.-British United departments ure havens of
Press. that easy-going state has long since vanished. In its organisation the Service claims to rank with that of) any modern business enterprise.
If ever there was any justification and
A
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Only Way to End Hostilities.
NOVEL OFFER TO THE LEAGUE
London, Yesterday.
A SOLOMON FROM MUNICH.
The mantle of Solomon has fallen on Professor Oskar von Miller, head of the Munich: Museum, who has suggested a ettlement in the dispute about the gondola of Professor Pic- card's balloon (in which an as- cent of ten miles to the stratas-j phere was made).
Professur Miller has made an offer for the gondola, to add to the museum's collection of pion-
The Dominions Secretary, Mr. A letter offering the services of eer aircrafi. The Belgian organ- J. H. Thomas, to-day received aa "Peace Army" of British men and isation, which financed the Pro- deputation of British Motor manu-women, who are eager to place, fessor's flight, is asking for the facturers, who submitted views themselves unarmed between the gondola to be placed in a Brus- regarding a means whereby their Chinese and Japanese armies with sels museum. Lindastry might be helped by the the hope of stopping the fighting, Professor Miller's way out is
Ottawa Imperial Conference.-Bri- has been aent to the League of to tish Wireless Service,
cut the gondola (which is Nations. It is aigned by Miss suherical) in halves and let both Maude Royden (woman preacher), museums have the display-Bri. Dean H. R. L. Sheppard (the most tish United Press. popular London padre) and Rev. Herbert Gray (Presbyterian Minis-
MR. GREENIDGE PROMOTED.
Rugby, Yesterday.
PRINCE AT BIRMINGHAM.
Rugby, Yesterday. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to-day visited the Birmingham section of
His Majesty the King has been ter). pleased to give directions for the This proposed stop is revealed in appointment of Mr. Charles в letter in this morning's press. Greenidge, Magistrate of Trinidad, Signatories state that they have to Chief Justice of British Hon- come to the conclusion of like the British Industries Fair--Bri- duras.-British Wireless Service. thinkers Router.
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