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LONDON, August 18th, The transformation from coal to hydro, The luncheon festival at Olympia in | electric power which has characterised connection with the Freemange plan to | Italian industry since the war, has re- raise £1,000,000 to provide a permanent sulted in the loss of an old market and palatial headquarters in Landon as for British coal. We are not alone, a memorial to brethren who felf in the bowever, in experiencing dificulties war was the biggest banquet ever hold the coal trade. Germany, Belgiu Nearly 8,000 at /down under the pre France are finding it impossible to sidency of the Duke of Connaught, most marker their full output, and price-cut- Worshipful Grand Master
hting in the international coal trade may
Freemasons.
onderful well become chronic. What is the Boyal Duke Commission, likely to achieve in view, af sub the economic position of the coalfields? wasUnder present world conditions British
scene of enthusiasm when announced the
scribed and
totul
specia
may and it impossible to retain markate which hitherto have been almost ar clusively theirs.
given for the distant part of the collieries with their high production costa Empire, including Hongkong and South China. The district and lodges abroad contributed £80,801 15 d., the provinces in England £351,520 174 6 and in London £413,09% 4.2.,, making
CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT.
Lord Oxford and Asquith called atten-
a grand total of £320,014,10 11d. totion at the International Prison Cum date towards the desired
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ASSAULT CASE DISMISSED.
A Cingalese goldsmith, a Mr Charles, summoned his former employer, Mr. D. 1. Windsor of Windsor Bros, jewellers, Kowloon, for it at the Fowloon Magistracy, yesterday AG
Hr. Armstrong appeared for complain-
FOOD SUPPLIES
GRADUALLY - APPROACHING THE
"NORMAL"
There is no longer any scarsity of food in the Colony. During the list for vecka grens now gitting in London to one of
fresh supplies of cattle and pigs have. "My thanks are due to everyone who the few serious'injostions which still re
come in and supplies of other foodstuffa has assisted in attaining this reault,"quire reform in our national policy infant, whit Mr. Leo d'Almada represent-
aro almost back to normálíky, said the Duke of Connaughty and regard to crime. Enormous progress has ed the defendant,
Mr. Windsor denied the assault and The Government, however, is still kell would wish to refer specially, to the been made in mitigating the ferocity with stated that complainant left his working firewood. The prion of pork is still support given by brethren from overseas which all sorts of social offences were and took with him two gold coins and a little higher than the pre-strike price, the majority of whom can never hope to freated by previous generations
two precious stones. He did not have the new building. It is ametimes difficult to convince men of their respon- sibilities in matters outside their in
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A more human treatment has produced him charged, because his brother, a part- but prices will be normal within a abors ausatonishing" decrease in the number of ner in the firm, told him, not to trouble. I time, because there has been a decreas
His Worship aid there was no evidence in the slaughter of pigs owing to the prisoners. With das greatly increased
mediate localities, and I should like our / Population, we have now only 8,000 in that Mr. Windsor had assaulted Mr-lessened demand for pork Beef supplies
the local prisons as compared with Charles, neither was there any corrobors... 20,000 ty years ago, and only 1,800 tave evidence that complainant had taken undergoing penal servitude as against the coins and the precious stones 10,000 then. Only 31 focal prisons and 4 Mr. Armstrong: They were not B for penal servitude survive of the 113 and
81 that existed Bfty years ago Nor cious, your Worship. They cost about has this rapid decrease yet ceased Butt
are plentiful.
A number of slaughterers returned on. Monday from Canton. They succeeded in evading the pickets and they report Bat workers waiting to return when botter conditions permit.
overseas brethren to know how proud I am of their co-operation and loyalty, This spirit, has also been exemplified by the desire of certain of our Daughter Grand Lodges in the Dominions to PFA, there still remains real injustice in the His Worship: When they sell them there are a large number:
wide discrepancy in mntences passed by or when they buy them ?
Me. Armstrong 1 should imagine different Judges and Magistrates for similar offences A clearer regulation is when they bought them. required as to the punishmente which His Worship dismissed the case. should be inflicted
their names identified in some way with the effort of the Mother Grand Lodge, and this I feel sure will be a source of gratification to us all. It makes one more link in the chain of affection and regard which binds together every par- tion of the British Empire THE HAT GENIUS,
Some Judges and Magistrates sentence an offender to 18 months or couple of years for an offence which other Judges: and Magistrates will regard a jastify- It is strange how some of our remark ga sentence of seven or ten years able Characters cacape the limelight even penal servitude. Lord Oxford pleads for in thess days of publicity. A case in some standard which would prevent such point is the cloakroom attendant at one manifest injustice. The punishment of the big political clubs in the West should, in every case, be such as fits the End 1 has & membership running into time thousands, and it is always crowded at WAGES ON THE RAILWAYS, lunch time.
clubland
FREE STATE FINANCES.
WHITE PAPER ISSUED.
FORGED DOLLAR NOTES: CHINESE WOMAN SENTENCED, The financial position between the British Government and the Irish Free Ab the Kowloon Magistrany yester.State in 1024-5 is further dealt with in day before Mr. E. W. Hamilton Leung a White Paper issued on August 4th I Ta, a Chinese woman, was charged with is pointed out that as the statement ha uttering a forged dollar note and also not been discussed with the Government with being in possession of & quantity of of the Irish Free State, it is not binding on either Government. With respect to forged notes There are no cloakroom After the miners, the railwaymen MTC. A. S. Russ defended....
the payment by the Free State to the tickets or numbered pegs, but every day. The railway trade unions have rejected At previous hearing, Mr. H. S. British Government of £1,321,601 0. you may ses five or six hundred hats the companies proposal for a voluntary Russell of the Hongkong and Shanghai for Royal Irish Constabulary pensions, taken in, hung up, and returned quick percentage reduction in all wages and ly so the right owner without fuss or salaries, and accordingly the companies Bank deposed that the notes were forged this left an estimated amount outstanding mischance. It is one of the rights of propose to go forward with their original Defendant passed one of the notes at on April lat last of £35,175 185 Ad. The claim for a general reduction of 4x in a grocer's shop in Yaumati and was soon only other substantial amount outstanding was £1,010,042 210d, for land purchase The genius is a little man who has London and be elsewhere, and to bring afterwards arrested. When sho presided over the mystery for scars this before the Wages Boards. The effect searched nine further spurious dollarities in connection with which £2,683,600 had been paid. It is mention- Of course there is nothing extraordinary of the companier demands would be to notes were found on her.
ed that: this balance arises in connection in being able to identify a thousand bring railway wages down below the members by appearance and name hotel "stop" or minimum rates fixed after the servants are marsaiz at remembering strike of 1919. As these have hitherto faces but there is something uncanny been treated as irreducible, the claim in the way the bat expert dazia about is likely to give rise to keen resistance. his cloakroom during the busy hour and Procedure before the Wages Board in returns the right hat to the right man- every time. He takes no trouble to put one hat in a particular place. Once member tried to catch him by refusing the hat offered to him. But the gaming said, "You hare your old it to-day. Siz. It's a mistake to keep two hats hanging in the office." THE MOTOR OLUSEZ
WAS
She was sentenced to six months or tabour on each charge, the sentences to
rum concurrently.
MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
FORTUNE TELLER'S DEATH.
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apt to be slow, and some time is bound to pass before the trouble develops. But in the autumn there will be serious dan- ger of a big dispute, in which presum ably the railway unions will look for a A motor track belonging to Messrs.
with a question which is under discussion between the two Governments as to the
title to insome-tax in respect of Land |Purchase Anmaties in the Inch Free State.« Pending: a final settlement the | Free State Government have now paul | a sum of £750,000 au sécount of the out-
standing amount. The British Govern? ment had repaid, on account of compenza. tion £137,386 17% ed. in respect of per-
equital of the help they gave to the 8 Watson & Co., ran over a Chinese sonal injury, leaving an estimated amount minere last week. I am afraid it would | fortune teller on Monday, and the man outstanding on the former item of £27,418 vibe a grave mistake to suppose that tho - sustained such injuries to the legs that he 181 11d. The quarterly adjustment of
coalsettlement has secured? B nine
expired later at the Government Civil Post Office transactions between London Hospital
Mais pen to no and Dublin resulted in the payment by the A collision occurred at Quarry Bay on British Government of £1,238,255, leaving Monday between a car driven by Surgeon €12,013 as the estimated amount out 7 Commander Adshead, RN and a tram-car standing.
The heading, Weekend Motoring months industrial room. It is more like Accidents, is becoming a regularly to stiffen trade union resistore. feature in the daily papers every Mon. employers in the other vital industries and not without good press their claims for farther reductions day morning. reason. There is a list of dead and in wages, and that is a subject very The Surgeon Commander in a report to maimed week by week which is post in the air at the moment. tively appalling and old-fashioned folk DANGERS OF MINING,
the Police, later," said that damage was done to the “bood and one of the mind, guards of the car..
TIFHOON WARNINGS.
unknown."
are asking whether motoring itself An additional point is lont to the dis- should not be abolished. The roads are cussion which is going on about coal by The Police have received a report from The "American Consulate General ro certainly unsafe in this country since the Egures given by Mr. Grenfell in the Chan Hi, a driver of the Chat On garage, ceived the following typhoon warning by the small car became pogals. It is computed that one middlesiass family in House of Commons. A calling in which to the effect that his car was damaged cable from the Manila Observatory at every ten has a car, and unfortunately one year's casualities comprise 1500 by a tram-car backing into it on the Praya 230 pm on Monday Cyclone F a fair population of those who now drive killed and 300,000 injured in set aide East near Bowrington Canal on Monday typhoon over North China Sea, direction
from the others. It may be that, as Mr. He was not burt motors have no experience of traffic Grenfell says, some of these are avoid. They have never driven anything before in their lives on the King's highway abla But in any case it is not hard to and are devoid of what is aptly called understand the feelings of men exposed to such risks as these when they see "road-schise,
their was forced down below those of Of course, the res? question is not the safe and sheltered trades. The relatively Testriction of the number of motorista high remuneration of the latter has been an impossible proposal) but to discover andoubtedly a very considerable factor whether regulations can be made to in industrial unrestore make the roads, safer for motorista trupponeringskass Accidents nowadays are mainly to people THS ENGLISH HILLESPONT.
on motor vehicles rather than pedestrians,
FAMOUS BOLDIER'S ATTEMPT.
Gallipoli, who tried to swim the Channel That Colonel Freyberg, the hero of
Lew days ago, should have come near to success at his first attempt is remarkable, especially as it might have been supposed that the nine wounds the received in the war would have taken the
The following warnings were received. at 2.45 p.. yesterday
Cyclone or typhood near or over ther Bonia Laleads, moving WN.
Sea, filling up
Cyclone or. Cyphoon over North China.
LAST NIGHT'S BEF
The Royal Observatory report, issued
Pressure has decreased
over
and motorcoaches and motor buses, x7SBEvery summer we now have a number koon edge of his craving Lor adventure" last night, rostN How providing the majority of the of people trying to swim the English I was characteristic of the man that he carnalities. A nagestion which meets Channel near the Straits of Dover made no preliminary announcement of the Boxing and the Ladros
There seems to be a strange fascination his design. The Press knew nothing creased slightly elsewher with support is that at awkward bends
MENGDE M The anti-cylone remains over Chain, the in the road and dangerous corners in the effort. At one period public in-bo there, should be a white line down the terest was vastly excited over the ad Apparently it occurred to him that it depression in centre, to serve as a guide to drivers Venture, but of late years attempts have would be a good idea to swim the Chan across Then, if an accident occurs the driver 5 been numerous that Channel swineland as onds he set about doing it, batuated the wrong side of the guiding line is ming" is in danger of degenerating into and would have succeded had the tide movi
svan ordinary summer pastime,
unquestionably to blames
OLD KING COLLAREN MENA
In some quarters well acquainted
the coal export trade. 1- feeling in growing that it Mary to revise our opinion position of the's coal, indui economia lite The develo
have takenplace in the
df Germany, Belgium, Eran
are almost certain to zove u perz
effect on our great national 1650k.. expert of cool abroad/
We know more of the Uhannel tides not turned just when the last trying half- currents, and have better meat of mile lay before him. If he trim again
against fickness and techans only-fortune can bring about hi then when Captam Webb first failure; and the same thing day be said of MG Bión, a little French girl, who, the great fast but that it in only a few hours earlier, made much an sanoriously difficult may be judged
attempt se few men have ever equalled
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