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Origin of Finger-print Systesi. It was recently stated that Sir Edward Henry encountered the finger-print system in India and brought it thence to England.
In an interesting letter Lady Henry in which she points out that this is not the complete story. The system was first introduced in India by Sir William Herschel as
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933.
KENYA
COLONY AS IT REALLY IS
WHERE PRIVATE 'PLANES ARE POPULAR
SKATING ON THE EQUATOR
(By Frank Melland.)
a means of preventing false per much misrepresented as any part of planter.
I suppose that Kenya has been as sport fiend, can make a successful sonation in the courts, and was abandoned after the end term of service.
the Empire. And of his
now, with the
Discovery of Gold distinct prospect of a gold boom on Sisal and maize are suffering bad- But it was on Herschel's data the Kakamega goldfields, it is more ly from the slump in prices, but that Galton based his researches, than likely that the fabrication of nevertheless
there T and it was on Galton's work that fairy tales will continue.
nereages under these crops, and in This article attempts to show the a lesser degree under wheat They Henry based the practical system
great
of classification which he demon-formal and not the abnormal, be will come to their own again, strated to a committee appointed cause in 1933 Kenya may very likely Dairying, too, is, a growing indus- by the Government of India in be much in the public eye as the new try, and has an undoubted future. 1897, and which Th its main lines goldfield develops. It is as well. Some think it may in time oust is now used all over the world. therefore, to present a picture of coffee from ita pride of place.
There is one thing that Kenya, so
Your Daily Smile.
TO-DAY'S LIBEL.
Kenya as it really is.
Two things stand out. Kenya is wonderfully blessed by fairy god- athwart the Equator and yet not mother, has hitherto Jacked-an tropical. It is only a generation internal.market. So far she had de-
which
A woman writer declares that since it was the wildest and most pended entirely un export, chivalry is not dead because three hidden part of Africa, and it can means being at the mercy of world men in a crowded omnibus jumped now be called a civilised country. prices and catastrophic fluctuations ap and offered her their seats.
such as have been witnessed lately. wonder if she took them?
No Colony that was not dowered
Overheard.
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"That's not our baby! taken the wrong perambulator."
"Hush!
It's 3 much better perambulator."
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Nothing Foreign in Kenya. Taking the second point first, and giving one example: a far higher beyond the average in soil and percentage of Kenya's-white popula-imate could have risen so quickly tion use the aeroplane than is the from nothing to such a high state case in England. A land that had with the splendid pioneers who of progress and prosperity, even
have been attracted by Kenya's magnet. But complete dependence on the outside world betokens a
no trams or 'buses, and no suburban | train service, took to motoring to a. degree that can only be described as universal The roads being, even by
ON THE SAFE SIDE. The street car was crowded, and
African standards, some way off precarious foothold and justifies the an old man with a kindly twinkle perfection, the transition to the air scepticism of some as to whether
was natural.
white settlement is really perman- jent.
in his eye took fiec-year-old Tom my on his lap.
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Facts You Did Not Know.
T
Imperial Airways started a week-
Kakamega goldfields should alter ly service just a year ago, the traffle all that; it will furnish the one gift on which grown steadily, showing an seemingly withheld at the Colony's increase of 50 per cent. In the last birt, an industry that will employ three months; and private planes large numbers of whites and blacks, are popular.
and will cause an internal demand
schools,
and all the paraphernalia of home
There are differences, of course.
Even a
has reported with commendable) promptitude upon the question of
"This will be better than stand- tote clubs and totes upon dog-racing
ļing won't tracks, which was referred to it as
it, my boy?" he 300- Hong Kong, Thursday, Mar. 16, 1933. a matter of urgency. A Govern-Dested.
"Yes," said Tammy, rather ment which has asked for swift ad-
luctantly, for he had enjoyed |vice was clearly bound to take swift!
action. Lastly nearly every branch lurching about the car.
"But you want to be careful I To-day one letter out of five sent for produce, and make money eir- of the agricultural industry is werk don't pick your pocket," the old from Kenya to England comes by culate. ing under provisional arrangements man said in a whisper.
air-mail. Glant planes of the Looking back on Kenya's mottled Whatever change in political which have been made in order to
"Can't," Tommy retorted. "A llorsa type (anding and taking off history, one may say that the very groupinga the present year may save it from sudden collapse. There coon as I saw you inokin' at me I put in lese space than a Puss Moth) take delay in the discovery of gold han bring, there in for all practical pur-is a great chance during this coming
my pemy in my mouth,"
three tons of passengers and mall probably been a blessing. poses no prospect or danger of any year for the Government, having
out to Nairobi in a week's time.decade
ago it is doubtful if the substantial change in the character made up its mind that agriculture |
Nairobi is as near to London as Colony could have stud any kind of or interruption in the career of must play an important partiua woman who speaks reventeen Edinburgh-was-100-years-ago,-and-gold-rush-without grave Tisks to its Britain's present Government. national revival, to transform this languages has married a man who in no particular would a visitor equilibrium. To-day things are dif- How far
Government industry from the least to the best speaks thirty-two. That just about from England find himself lost on ferent; the instability of boom years can maintain
prestige organised in the country. These makes them even.
landing there.
has vanished, and the dour lessons UN well AN continue in office taska, coupled with the Bills upon
Nothing foreign is seen about the jof adversity have been learned. is another matter, and depends on Housing and Rent Restriction which
place. There are English homes. its own Betions during what is have been carried over the reces; Tea is legal tender in parts of cosmopolitan hotels, true English
(Continued in Pope 11.) bound to be a very critical year in and with the very necessary busi- Manchuria. This is probably be-[clubs, rolf, tennis, pola, rugger,į the fortunes of the experiment intness of giving some attention to the!
cause it can be so easily liquidat-soccer, cricket, a theatre, National Guvernnient. No impartial important matters of foreign policy ed. person will deny that on the whole which are now coming to a head,
life-and the pound is worth 208, KOWLOON WEDDING the Government tackled the emer will occupy the time of Parliament Here To-day And- Kency which called it into being more than fully until the intredne- “The zveraste maid-servant The streets are full of chocolate Mr. David Lyon And (with promptitude and resolution, ¡tion of the Budget. That is, of would need to have the temper of coloured natives, and the Indian and that. Bo far it bur not din-course, the occasion to which mem-an angel," declares a writer. Well,storekeeper, clerk, and mechanic is
Miss Jean Anderson. appointed I House of Commons bera must look forward with ever most of them are certainly easy-in evidence. The servant problem which was elected, first and fore increasing attention. It has already'
going.
(at any rate, as we know it) is non- derson, only daughter of Mr. J. E. The marriage of Miss Jean An- must, to secure decision and action shown how keenly the question' will;'
existent. There are no fogs, and, by the Executive. In the breathing be debated whether the time has not
Anderson and the late Mrs. Ander- very little bad weather. ¡space thus secured, however, a crop come to advance frun a policy off
son, and Mr. David (Jimmie) Lyon, of problems has grown up--pro- marking time and gathering
The English Summer Day. of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & blems which, if less intrinsically im-strength to a policy of constructive
Climate is ene Kenya's strongest Co., Ltd., elder son of Mr. and Mr. portant than broad issues of na-jexperiments in the financial field. A Ball bearing hinges have
been suits. The warm
sunshine of an James A. Lyon of Edinburgh, Scut- tional policy, loom large among im Goyrenment called into being by invented that
English summer day has the bite land took place yesterday afternoon make It easier ໄດ້ portant sections of the public and very grave dangers to the structure awing heavy doors
and sparkle of the Alps thrown in. at the Kowloon Union Church, the and that are must be tackled with just the sume of the national finances must clearly readily adjusted.
On one side of Nairobi can be Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen officiating. decision. For example, there is the find that its task falls into two
seen the snow-capped peaks of The bride was given away by her question of the proper functions of parts. The first is to restore Telephone service has been, Kilimanjaro, on the other those of father, while Miss Mora Russel road and rail within the national stability to the foundations of the established between all Swedish Mount Kenya (where you can skate was the only bridesmaid. transport system. The delay which structure. The national credit has stations and Moscow and Leningrad, right OR the Equator). Near Mr. George Puncheon undertook has elapsed since the publication of now been raised to a very high level. via Helsingfors.
Mount Kenya-over a very large the duties of best man while Mr. H. the Salter Report has lasted quite Measures have been taken to prevent,
area-there are the finest trout Dalley performed the duties of the long enough. It is becoming athe Budget, the balance of commer- Gloves with claws on the fingers streams imaginable, with tremend-:usher. menace not merely in the transport cial payments, or the exchange value have been invented for use in weed-ous big fish (the record trout is Following the wedding a recup- system, but to one of the most im-of the currency from getting out of Ing flower beds.
12lb. 11oz.).
tion was held in the Rose Room of portant methods of constitutional control; and there are solid grounds
The casual visitor to Kenya will the Península Hotel, where the government. If Committees and for suggesting that the first part of. More than 3,000 women are tn- probably be impressed chiefly by the health of the happy couple Commissions are appointed to give the Government's task is therefore cluded among the 16,000 persons sport. The big
game, visible in toasted. authoritative advice and if that ad-substantially accomplished. The who are studying aviation In large numbers from the train, and They will spend their honeymoen vice is pigeon-haled, then sooner or second part is to use the stability Russia.
close to which he can approach by in Japan and will leave by the Em- later there must be at end of the thus created for constructive pur-
car within one hour's run of the press of Asia to-morrow. most valuable practice of seeking poses. This part of the task is of the tea duty. The result was capital, is a marvellous attraction, guidance from such bodies. Eminent clearly becoming more and more that in 1922-23 he realised a sur-but it is more natural in mid-Africa) [men and women will not consentjurgent. The yield of taxes is droop-plus of over £100,000,000 instead of than the transplanted homeliness of
indefinitely to spend their time in ing. Unemployment continues the trifling sum of £700,000 for the polo ground and golf links. publle service of this kind if the at а terribly high level; which he had budgeted; and the result is not to bring issues nearer and generally speaking, though main reasons
Just as it is untrue that Kenya for this surprising is peopled by cocktail-absorbing| decision one way or the other; and the prospects of industrial re-result were explained by Mr. Bald- divorces, so is it there is too prevalent an impression covery
untrue that the are brighter, prospects win to be a buoyancy in the collec-Bettlers spend all their time in pur- already that Committees and Com-jare
becoming prac-tion both of arrears and of current suit of sport. Sport is there, us it missions are merely the excuse for lice. These facts have led many taxes, and a reduction of expendi-is at home, the recreation of the Cheung Kim, residing at Lai Wai A. Chinese married worden, inaction on the part of weak Govern-people to suggest that demand ture. This is at least one practiced worker. ments. A further matter which is should be stimulated and it is reason among
Village, in the Now Territories, many for believing over-ripe for legislation in the re-jargued that only a slight stimulus that the effects of a reduction of to be found in its delightful estates, pital suffering from
But the real work of the colony in was sent to the Kwong Wgh Hos form of Unemployment Insurance, may be necessary-by experiments taxation
two bullet more uncertain Here again a Royal Commission in monetary policy, and notably by than the effects of credit and cur-especially in these days of adversity,
for shambas. It is there, at work, wounds in the back. which studied the question currency and credit expansion, rency expansion. It is beyond that one realises best how Kenya lg-wash to Lim Tong Village, in The victim was carrying some for two years, has produced That suggestion bas already doubt that the main obstacle to attlers and their wives have earned Chinese Territory, when she
voluminous report: an
ex-been rejected anequivocally by revival of demand is that lack of in-the name for being good sportsmen. shot in the back by an perimental system has been in the Chancellor of the Ex ducement. to take commercial riska joneration for eighteen months; chequer, and in these
nasailant. elream-which is often called lack of con On these estates
When found she had can be Been and, though In the present time of stances the question arises what fidence; and that economic flux it would be highly other measures are possible to meet reasons for lack
one of the main steady, persevering, scientific farm strayed into Shek Woo Hui, in the New Territories, and WEB im- of confidence is ing. Coffee planting holds pride of undesirable to put the finances of the admitted facts. It can hardly over-taxation. It is therefore hard-place. The care that is needed to mediately sent to hospital. any scheme in a strait-jacket, there have been forgotten that the Chan-ly too much to say that the Govern-produce the highest-grade coffee will need be no further delay in laying cellor of the Exchequer in 1922, ment may make or mar the proa-be a revelation to many. Let the
WEATHER FORECAST down the general principles which when faced with a situation similar pects of the present political year, visitor see this from seed-bed to should govern the system of insur- in many ways, deliberately suspend-which has opened so brightly for it, baling; watch the nurseries, the
Moderate to fresh north-east ance on the one hand and the system ed the Sinking Fund, reduced the according to whether they confront plantations, the picking, pulping, winds, and fine to cloudy weather is of State relief of the destitute on income-tax by one shilling. In the this problem of over taxation with winnowing, drying, grading, and he forecasted by the Royal Observatory Ithe other."
Another Commisalon pound, and made a large remission courage or with timidity.
Iwill realise that no Idle loafer, no In the weather report issued this
morning,
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