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THE LATE LORD. RAWLINSON. FAVOURITE CHARGER FOLLOWS THE COFFIN.
At the half-yearly meeting of the
Government oflioos were closed for the Yokohama Specie Bank the Chairman, day at Delhi on March 31st. The Lord Mr. Kenji Kodama said, among other Rawlinson memorial service took place in things. that, in the period under review, the morning.
The funeral cortège was most imposing! Japan's economic world was, still in what has become known as the readjust-and included the Viceroy's Bodyguard The pro- nient stage and was unable to free itself and the 20th Bengal Lancers. completely from depression. Moreover, cession took nearly an hour from the in Church to St James' 8. Hospital an adverse trade balance was reflected in Kashmiri Gate. The church was
s crowded Lady Ra foreign exchange, which recorded an un precedented fall and this fall, high prices to the utmost limit.
e Liovernor of the Punjab and The Viceroy and and the embargo on the export of gold was present,
Reading, were the subjects of nation-wide discus-all civil and military oficers sion during the half-year.
Huge crowds assembled in route and in- the vicinity of the church," General Sir Lieorge Barrow represented the King, Colonel Worgan the Prince of Wales and Colonel Readman of the Scots Greya Prince Arthur, of Connaught.
The Governereat set an example by carrying out in earnest plans for read justment and catrenchroent in conuretion The with administration and finance. general public followed the Government's
Lord Hawlinson's charger Querrieux, example, and the spirit of thrift and of hard work became increasingly notice which he rode throughout the Great War, able, which is a good sugary for the refollowed the coin with boots reversed in ahomed Yasia Kbad, Camp covery of the country's economic position the stirrup irons, led by the Aide-de-
For the purpose of comparing the chief
were carried ia-Chief's orders and
p. Risaldar Mahone Commander:|
statistical items with those of a previous of the 8th Cavalrydels corresponding half-year, it seemed better, on
eron a velvet cushion by Staff Sergeant went on the speaker, to avoid using the Major Coplin, his Personal Assistant for
coffin the figures for the second half of 1923, as that many years.
draped with period was so greatly affected by the the Union Jack were reposed his full earthquake disaster, and the figures for dress. helmet and sword and a beautiful Rawlinson and on- the corresponding half of 1999 had. there wreath from Lady HONGKONG.
fore, been chosen for the comparison. On other from His Majesty the King-Em- ware Gezerals the one hand, this comparison showed peror. The pall-bearers were
dir Jacob Sir
Wortley, Claud
Sir that the index of wholesale prices rosa
Walker, 8 points to 219, and that the total bank Sir Kirkpatrick,
Sir John Shea, Sir E clearings for the whole country increased Sir A. Skeen,
Atkinson and Sir E. Ellington. by Y.2,739,000,000 to Y.38,978,000,000, an
Bishop Durrant of Lahore delivered a apparent indication of better times in
address, extelling the
The Viceroy business circles, but, on the other, the short but new capital issues for business enter.
band provided the music and the chancel prises decreased by Y.111,000,000 to 1.489,900.000, and the stock of merchan was a mass of lovely wreaths. The con- dise stored in the country's warehouses gregation stood until the end of the im
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late Com logue Chiet
which
pressive service th Led Psalm 13
Rawlinson
at the end of the half-year had decreased and concindel wide with me.". Thus
total of by 1,600.000 pieces with a 19,990,000, and these latter figures clearly indicated the depression in business.
of the French yen loan all contributed.
hymn, favourite buglers of the Duke of Cornwall's Regi ment then sounded the Last Post, follow- Money was easy during the period, to ed by three volleys by the 9-13th Frontier The in the churchyard. Force Bites in which condition the non-borrowing policy Devons drums glled and the buglers' of the Government, the influx of the pro-Reveille," magnificently rendered closed reeds of foreign loans and the repayment las
the last
to tribute great spidier. Th
ectin remained guarded by the 50th as did also the fact that the bulk of the Rifles until it was removed from the money realised from debenture loans cherch at six in the evening to the station amounting to Y400,000,000, was utilized in procession, and then went by specia! The train baited for for the liquidation of old debts Rates train to Bombay,
nt all
for stations showing a downward tendency, the pay two minutes at
military guards
of honour to pay their respects ment of the first instalment for des
At Bombay the coffie troyed silk. which had been locked for-and for salutes.
ard, Captain Banken, ward to so without anxiety, was effected was placed on board, quietly. Towards the close, the Bank of R.A. M.S., in charge and the troopship Japan's advances increased until they Assage left immediately. exceeded Y.760,000,000, due to require ments for settlements at the end of th veer, but even so call money remained easier than in the previous year.
Fn' tax
Lady Rawlinson has been offered and has accepted & military funeral for the late Chief in London.
ORIGIN OF A TOAST., CITY COMPANIES AND ULSTER.
A 300-YEARS-OLD LINE.
U.S. INCOME-TAX SCANDALS. TREASURY'S COUNTER-CHARGE. There is excitement here wrote the An interesting episode in the history New York Correspondent of the London of London and Ulster was recalled last Daily Telegraph last month over a charge month when the Masons Company enter by Senator Couzens that the Treasury taimed at dinner in the Mercers' Hall, Department, hended by Mr. Secretary, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs and its as Mellon, presumably by way of revenge" for the disclosures of millions of dollars ociated companies the part it played in connetion with the plantation of rebates allowed to the Gulf, STORE,.
The Master of the and West Indies Shipping Cos seventeenth century.
Masons Company (Mr. H. A. Grover) 9, Beaconsfield Arcade.
had served notice on him that he is presided over a large gathering, millions short in his own income-tax Mr.
The Chairman, proposing the toast of obligatious to the Government. Couzens formerly one of Mr. Henry The Associated Companies," mentioned Ford's associates in the Ford Motor Com that the association of the Mercers, pany, ranks almost with Mr. Berlon Masons, Broderers, and Cooks had its one of America's wealthiest men. He origin in 1609, when James 1. tried to induce the City of London to take up the Michigan, now senior Senator from
he has been conduct-colonisation of a part of the Province in which Laternal Hevent. In retaliation for Plantation scheme The Royal idea was and the allegation that that the City of London should pay a such investigation the Treasury
fraudulently permitted large su to the Crown for the privilege the shipping company to escape ita quots of colonising an area devastated by war. of income-tax," Mr. Couzens says the Strong objection was taken, and event Treasury is trying to force him to pay over $2,000,000 in taxes, over and above into the scheme under threat of having those he paid when he sold his holdings their charters taken away. Several of in the Ford Company to Mr. Ford in the smaller companice were grouped 1919. Mr. Couzens, says he has been warn-
ins reported in the
Daily Muster in
the opening years of the
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ingan apacity into the Bureau of of Ulster, now, known as the Ulster i
all the City Companies were roped
ed by the Commissioner of Internal together in order to take a share in the Revenue that he must either sign a waiver rare and refreshing fruit (Laughter.) The result was the formation "of" the oe square up within a week.
Not merely the Atlantic, Gulf, and County of Londonderry, the prefix of which was taken from the great city West Indies Company is charged with which became its foster mother. Roads failing to comply with the income-tax- were made, drainage works carried out. regulations, but other concerns, such as the Stee! Trust, the Aluminium Trust, and a most satisfactory housing scheme
was entered on, (Laughter.) The com and copper interests. Mr. Couzens, anbination of the Mercers, Cooks, Broder- Independent Republican, strongly resents the idea of
beng
for alleged ers. and Masons in those days was the punished irregularity, and declares that no amount foundation of the associated compacies of the toast. In the year 1900, at the of persecution amounting to intimida tion will prevent him pressing his efforts completion of the land purchase schemes. "to clean up the Internal Revenue and the financial partnership came to an end. In the Far over 300 years the Mercers Company other Government, Bureaus, case of the shipping concern Mr. Mellon had looked after the interests of the has authority to
it
minor companies, to the satisfaction of permit reduction payment of the full amount claimed, and though the financial partnership world, involve bankruptcy. As to the bad now come to an end the partnership other cases cited by the Couzens Com
of good feeling still continued. (Cheers.) mittee, Mr. Mellon answers that the facts There were two things about the partner are not as stated. sane American ship which were unique. During the 300 questions Mr. Mellon's absolute integrity and scrupulous regard for law, as he years' trusteeship of the Mercers' Coin- may be authorised to interpret it, and any they never once issued a balance most citizens are personally grateful to sheet or statement of account (Laugh him because, by his sound financing, he balance was always on the wrong side, cing heter.) The reason probably was that the Eccured 26 per cent. reduction in the in-come-tax on earned income" up to (Laughter.) The other unique feature of $2,000 annually, and even people who the partnership was that there was no derive their income by clipping dividend legal writing; it was all a matter of coupons from bonds are allowed under good faith, (Cheers.) the present law to count their first £1,000 an "earned.”**
Capt. Victor Gordon, replying to the toust of The Visitors, proposed by the Chairman, remarked that when New foundland was first granted responsible government a good deal of hilarity was PICKLES FOR WEMBLEY.
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a Newfoundland dog and its merberahip Negri Sembilan, is despatching t bottles of various preparations of pickics Speaker, putting a motion, was made ta chutneys, jams, etc., made out of Malayan ay Those in favour say Bow; those fruite, for the Exhibition at Wembleyet in favour say "Wow" and be de- this year Mrs. Kinsey sent some of her claced the Bows have it." (Laughter.) preparations for the 1024 Wombley, Ex-
bibition. She received a silver medal
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