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Under the above heading, Mr. F. F. Mathie- son, of 16, Capthall-avenne, EC., writes a lengthy letter. May it not be worth while to considor what is ikely to be the effent, he writes, of the continuak high income-tax which has to be paid by foreignore holling English securities, and the super-tax perhaps in addition, on the working of concessions and businessos
Acording solutions, and molasses. The analysis of sugar, abatement, or relief in respect of the tax shall the production of ram and other alcoholle spirite be given unless the person claiming is resident are treated well and thoroughly. Those in the United Kingdom or employed in the interested in statistick will find the concluding service of the Crown abroad income tax shall not be payable, howovor, in respect of the chapter interesting and instructive, particulars interest on any sonrities of a foreign State or being given of the production and commeros of most sugar-growing countries. Modern Woman and How to Manage Har. By WALTER M, GALLICHAN, London T Warner Laurie :.
We have not read this book: we seldom do read books of this class sent to us for review, although, following a practice similar to that of the Jedburgh Justicas, who are said to have first hanged a man and then tried him, wo sometimes do read one after having written a notice of it, and then, of course, always find that our estimate of the merits of the book was quite correct But we have looked at a page or two of Modern Women," and that has been quite enough to enable us to say that it is by no means one of the numerous class "made to sall." It is well written; not lacking in originality, and the author's views are broad, possibly too " moderu ” for some of those who hold that woman is the laser man? and desire to koop hot, figuratively, under look and key. He says an
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To take a concrete case of concession, that
of the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway; this is worked by an English Joint Stock Company with offices and a board of directors in London; holders, any of whom, with dividends and it is believed there am large Chillan stook interest amounting to £6,000 per annum, will have income tax and should have exper-tax deducted from his proportion at the rate of lar 58. per £1, or nearly 2 per cent., and sta higher rate for a larger income.
72 It is now many more years than war care to rookon since we interviewed in Hongkong Mr. Mortimer Monpes, the disciple and biogkapher of Whistler, on the subject of Hongkong and Chias generally, as a field for artistic exploits tion. This disciple of the author of "The Gentle Art of Making Enemida*** was quita enthusiasto over some scenes that had come under his notice in the Isle of Fragrant Streams especially the interiors of certain honga in the west end and tie thon expressed a hope that he would be able to return to place on permanent record the impressions he had obtained during * brief visit to the Colony Mr. Hodgson Liddell does not appear to have found China's chief attraction in impressionisio interiors Father has he been impressed by the beautiful
our readers, and by the quaint street life and picturesque buildings of the Celestial Kingdom Ia the preface of his book he writes: "China is such a vast country, and holds such wealth of beauty and inferost, that an artist might spend years and then only have taken the cream from each place.
I venture to think that if Europeans could but see more pictures, realisti- cally painted, of the natural and created beauties of that great Empire, they would form a better opinion, not only of the country, but of the civilisation and very high artistic sense of the people.
My visit to Japan was but s short one, a holiday after a long spell of hard work in vory great hont ; but I could not help comparing the two countries artistically, very much (from my point of view) in favour of Chius." In the chapter on Hongkong, bo writee of the wonderful beauty of our sunsets, natural baanties in which our little Island is set. We are not all gifted with the artistio sense, so it is well for some of us to see scenes that have bacoma pressic, by reason of daily observation and artist like Mr familiarity, through the eyes of an Liddell, The frontispiece of his book, in a view of Hongkong from the harbour, and the same scene is reproduced with fine artistic feeling at the sunset hour when the bine have that betokous the Chinson's evening meal throws a mysterious glamour overthe red-tiled terraces rising from the sea amid the greenery of the hill-side, Yet, one of his most successful pic tures is a group of fishing boats on the Peart River, near Chaton-golden saile reflected in the water, brown hilla standing out of the baze in the background, and above it all an opales cent sky streaked by the sunlit clouda,..
Mecao, Shanghai, Soochow, Hangohow, Shin-greater than the most enthusiastic anffesgette hai-kwau and Tivatein all supply subjects for ever dreamt of. The reviewer's own observation hin Liddell's brusli, bat it is Peking and soms we must not say experience of fully half a of the innermost recesses of the capital that century convinces-hind that man never has known and never will know how to manage. provide the largest number of picturesfrom any,
In addition to the class of company I have women whereas woman instinctively knows how
range men, and as a rule com-twist them referred to, there are others, such as the different round her little finger." But this book willouth African, gold mines which have offices of agents hers, with foreigners or their nominees help persons of both saxos to the better mange here on the register, who have hitherto received out of those of the other without their lething dividends less the income tax; in their ease, and are not Foglish, it will be easy to remove the it be known that they are managing or trying especially if the majority of the shareholders offices or agencies to the Continent or to the It may be said that it will be difficult to get place where their properties are situated, the super-tax from foreigners, the only words which seem to apply to them in the Finanos Bill being It shall be the duty of every person. chargeable with the super-tax to give notion that is changeable to the Special Commissione,
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There are other foreign railways similarly workat, mone especially in Argentins, large blocks of whose stocks are held by or for Argen fince, in which enses auch money might be saved them by insisting that the management. should be carried on by Argentine companies, instand of English ones, may
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shareholders "There are probably French supremeus can endure for over. You will fare in Aux Classen Laborieuses, Amorights in in this encounter unless you onlinly sueugnise California Oilfields, Australians in Peterson, that the only way to manage the determined Laing and Bruce, South Africans in the Durban militant woman is by arbitration and cou. Roodepoort Gold Mine, Canadiana in Calgary promise. You can't manage her with a club. She never was managed with a club. Ask the and Edmonton Land, and so ou, all of whom would nearest savage if I am wrong. You have have the tax deducted before they received theirs
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Even in the present time of Inancial depres sien the artist ought to find a ready sale for the originals of these illustrations, which are by far the best we have seen in any of the gets the surprise of his life when he arrives above, a method seems to have been devised in numerous books on China. Of the letterpress in Zafis mod fade that the wife of the the Irish Land Bill by which tenants for life of
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be collected through foreign bankers, from minded us, has his uses, one of them being to for the lady st. a friend's tonlette table and bring to the notice of the inhabitants of a place inter being commissioned by her to bet on
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