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She will leave on Friday, April 19, and is expected to reach Hongareers in Hollywood. They are Kong on April 25,
Beryle Mercer, famous chaietar actress, Charles MeNzuhton, At the Star Theatre this evening Claud Allister and Jack ooper the Salisbury Company will present
the
successful London musical (who, established notable eputa- comedy, So This Is Love." Last tions as comedians) and Shayle night this versatile company played Gardner, Brilliant ShakspeareAD
Young Woodley, notice, of
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A Giant Whale.,,
Hansen
early general election. M LLOYD Grorat kas every reason to regard another appeal to the elec torate with diafavour. His little party of less than sixty is by no means solid, and with the bitter. experience of the last hectic contest in mind he realises that another general election at an early data would be completely disastrous to
Messrs. O. K. Gidumall and
H. Hansen, Norwegia whaling the party of which he is the nominal Watoomall, treasurers of the Sind gunner in the employ the Toyo leader in the House of Commons.
Hindu Merchants' Association, gave Whaling Company, wa cruising in a dinner party last Tuesday night a small boat in the China Sea Not until there has been some re to Mr. F. T. Melwani, hon, secre | recently when one if his com vision of the existing electoral lawtary of the Association, who is panions sighted a whle, which will apportion seats between leaving for India on holiday on immediately sent his harpoon into
April 20.
the monster, which made away at the parties more equitably than is
such speed that th bont was cap- at present possible does Mr. Lova The laying of the foundation | sized. The gunne and his com
stone of the War Memorial Nursing panion clung to the wreckage and, GEORGE want to make another ap Home by Mrs. W. T. Southern will were dragged seven miles through peal to the nation. Pending nome take place on Thursday, April 24 | rough acas helere: the monster such reform, it is to his advantage. at 4 p.m. Cards of invitation have finally succumbet, after additional been seal to all subscribers, and boats had come to the rescue of to keep things going as they are, the public are cordially invited to the distressed part. The giant hence his friendly admiration first be present.
Whale was 7 feet long, the largest Hansen has killed i 30 years as a for Mr. Toxas and now for Mr.
hunter, during, which time he has
of unofficial promise has been made
big sea mammals, that if the Coal Bill becomes law, and the Labour Government re
Edward Road, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Orown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of En Wine, possessing the same To the majority of British residents SNOWDEN. It is believed that a sort (21), unemployed, living at 3, Fook captured more that 12,000 of the MASKITT THE KING, for one further term
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in the For East one of the most interesting fragments of news in connection with the new Budget is
naw much more secure than it was.
mains in offer, it will listen sym- the fact that Mr. LLOYD GEORGE
pathetically to the Liberal com. congratulated Mr. SNOWDEN on his
plaints about the inequality of the preparation of the nation's balance-existing electoral arrangements. sheet. Apart from the increase in In view of the fact that the the income-tax (as applied to the Labour and Libern parties are definitely in much closer relation incomes of only 25 per cent of than they were a few months ago, those liable to taxation) there is it would seein reasonable to assure nothing very outstanding in Mr. that Mr. MACDONALD'S. position is SNOWDEN's Budget. He will not The recent Empire Trade stunt has continue the Safeguarding Duties brought about a new alignment of but, as was pointed out in these political forces which favours the
Labour Party, columns recently, he cannot remove leaders regard the presence of pro- them before the dates on which they minent Liberals at luncheon-parties are definitely due to expire. There in Downing Street as a sinister 'fore, as these various perioda.come sign of the early approach of an
other electoral battle, but it may round-some this year and some be there is a much simpler explana next-the duties will automatically tion of these informal meetings. lapse. The Chancellor of the Ex-Seeing that the issue of Empire Free-trade is so strongly advocated chequer has no liking for the. Me by the Conservatives, vocat
KENYA duties either, but is com-
ft
The Conservative
A Chinese named Chau Sui Kai
Look Lane, was alleged to have at tempted suicide at 5 p.m. on Tues day by taking an overdose of ment Civil Hospital, but his con- opium. He is now in the Govern-
dition is not considered serious."
Getting a Number i Peping.
Chinese Press agaiist the action of
A protest has been raised in the -
a Shansi military officer who had trouble in gettingį telephone num- The Imperial Cherry Blossomber, and finally fent to the tele Garden Party, given in Tokyo every phone exchange with a bodyguard. April by the Emperor, has been demanded to see the negligent Postponed from April 18 to April operator, and, when the foreman 25 because of the death of the refused his request, ordered his Queen of Sweden, in Rome. Japanese Court is in three weeks was so seriously hurt that he, had The bodyguard to bear the foreman, who mourning for the Swedish queen
The
to be treated in hospital. Chinese-owned piper,, the Leader, The G.$10,000,000 light cruiser, says: "There cinnot be tolerated
Chicago, was launched on April 10, une law for one dass of people, and at the US. Navy Yard Mare another law for another class. The Island, Cal. Mis, Elisabeth, Brit-action of the unnamed military ten, sister of Congressman Fred A. officer who took the law into his
Britten of Illinois, well known own hands, and proceeded to the hitte of man christened the telephone office to punish an opera
vessel.
to
Academy at West Point. He is at of security." The officer left with present at Fort Benning, Georgia. his bodyguard in
Looking Back 25 Years,
Office of the Public Works Department./ ment that would take place there mittee could not be even introduced tractors and furniture dealers, whose the Institution of Engineers and
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man is insane, Det-Sergt. Fitches, thanked them. He spoke of past
tor for failure to provide service as well as for alleged impertinence. Calvin Titus, known as "the first cannot be condoned in any circum- man over the Peking wall" during stances. Not only does an action the relief of the Legations in the of this sort refect against the Boxer rebellion, is to be retired military as a whole, but it is a from the U.S. Army with the rank survival of the days now supposed of lieutenant colonel. After his to be past, when modern juris natural that the Labour and
service at Peking, he was permitted prudence was unknown and the Liberal parties should be anxious pelled by circumstänees to continue to keep a united front on
attend the US Military individual could claim no rights Free- them. It is not an easy thing to trade as now-in theory, at least
an automobile, say suddenly to the motor industry, practised. With a few unimportant
and nothing has been done about exceptions, the leading spirita in
A Chinese who was before the the incident. A similar. incident for example, that it is to be de- both parties are agreed on this Kowloon Magistrate yesterday en cecurred in Tientsin a year or prived of the 33.1.3 per cent. duty, issue. Agreed. too, in the mais are
the charge of alleged theft of 100 ago, when an officer in the late and must start again on the basis the Labour and Liberal parties on
lbs. of rags, the property of the Charg Tso Lin's forces almost kill- of a Free Trade system. The whole the urgent neud" for electoral te Sang Kee shop at Wong Chuk ed an operator who did not get him
form, but there is
indication of Street, was discharged. as the number promptly. Nothing what industry has been built up largely an early solution of this problem. Afagistrate held that there was not ever was done about the Tientsin on a basis that to a Free trade is The Ullswater Committee, which is sufficient evidence on which to con- incident.
examining this question, is not vict. The defendant alleged that fundamentally unsound, but if the likely to make its report until one of the fokis of the shop gave prop of the duty were suddenly re: July, which means that any legis
him the rags to sell. moved from under, in the readjust-lation which might be based upon the recommendations of that Com-
The Kin Yan Co., building con. A moking-concert was held at to Parliament before the end of address was given as 212 Praya Shipbuilders of Hong Kong cu this year, The House of Lords East in two writs brought against Saturday evening, in honour of would certainly reject any scheme them at the Summary Court yester Mr. Newman Mumford, the Presi- which suggested the system of an day, failed to appear. After hear- dent of the Institution. Mr. Mum- alternative vote, and is not likely ing formal evidence, judgment was ford, who is Lloyd's Surveyor. in to approve any suggestion for pro entered for the plaintiffs, with ordered to Constantinople. About portional representation. In such costs. The claims were for build- two hundred were present at the circumstances there would be so ing materials supplied and work concert. During the evening. Mr. alternative open to the Labour done, the total being 8546.83.
H. T. Richardson presented illuminated address to Mr Mum- Government but to carry on for another two years and await the
1. T. S. Whyte-Smith at ford on behalf of the engineers and automatic operation of the Parlia-the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday shipbuilders of the Colony. In. ment Act. During that two years morning discharged Ku San, who doing so be said they were very Mr. LLOYD GEORGE is likely to have was charged sorc weeks ago with sorry Mr. Mumford was leaving. Ile many opportunities for congrats rounding, with a pair of scissors, had been a very valuable person in lating-sincerely or otherwise his two women in Temple Street. The connection with the Tastitution, Labour friends, and by the time acquittal was based on the ground and endeared himself to all with a general election falls due, the that it has been certified by Dr.whom he came in contact during the
Labour-Libéral
Newton and Dr. Thomas that the last nine years. Mr. Mumford present
for the prosecution, agreed to the Presidents and of the carrying on definite
withdrawal of the charge.
of the Institution since its forma tion in 1891. The Institution had Property worth 82,000 was left in had its ups and downs, coming Hong Kong by Wong Wing Nin, through all right till now, when it alins Wong Tat Wai, late of 1 was good position.-Hong Kwan Yick Street, who died in bis, Kong Daily Preas, April 17, 1805. native village in Kwangtung last January. In his will, which has Looking Back 50 Years. been proved in the Supreme Court, Few persons have an conception be appointed his nephew, Wong, of the extent to which trade in Kin, a merchant, of 193. Connaught China, both import and export, la
the Road Central, to be the executor handicapped by and trustee of the estate, until duties levied upon it. Goods des- testator's two sons, Wong Yeung tined for ile in the interior, as is and Wong Shim, became of age. well known, have to submit to mul
tiplied imposta at the various bar- Ralph E. Williams; a banker inrier stations, until at length the Portland, Oregon, said that an limit is reached when they cease to announcement will be made within yield the smallest profit to the a month of a new shipping line dealer or become unsaleable owing from the Pacific Coast to the to the enhanced value. Nor are Orient, entailing the construction products brought down from the of five ships at a cost of $20,000,000. interior for sale at the treaty ports, Mr. Williams in a statement declar.in much, if any, better position. of the States Steamship Company pay before arrival at their destina- of the Pacific Coast, was at present tion brings up their price to suck conferring with shipbuilders and a point very often that foreigners financial interests in New York and cannot purchase them, being able other eastern cities,
to obtain the same goods elsewhere at lower rates. It is chiefly to this Mrs. Southorn, wife of the Officer cause that the non-expansion of Administering the Government, was foreign trade with China is mainly among the large number of people due, and until the interior" is prenent the Quarry Bay thrown freely open there is but School yesterday morning when the scant prospect of any improvement students held their annual Spring taking place. Rather should we Festival. A delightful entertain marvel that, under existing cir The Chincte. Catholic Community ment was given during the mern.eumstances, the commeren is so ex- are giving a reception at the Cathe-ing, which was much enjoyed by tensive as it is. It would be much dral Compound, Caine Road, at 9 those present. At the conclusion, more limited were it not for the p.m. on Easter Sunday on the Mra, Southern congratulated the Chinese dealer being satisfied with occasion of the presentation of an Headmistress (Miss Cotton), the comparatively insignificant profits. Addren to Rev. Peter Ngai in bou-teachers and the students for the Hong Kong Daily Press, April our of his Sacerdotal Ordination. excellent show they had provided. 17, 1880.
anxious not to lose any source of
one may have developed into a
News and Views.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Sebata, a Japanese, on a charge of wounding Miya Modo, of 3, Lee Tung Street, during brawl on Tuesday night.
in
45
numerous
revenue. It is impossible for the Labour Government now to deal with all the duties which have been imposed under various Protectionist devices during the last ten years. Police Sergeant Hunt has been Mr. SNOWDEN finds himself fran-appointed hen. secretary in Hong cially unable to make the altera Kong of the Royal Life Saving tions desired; moreover, much ärhe
Society.
would wish to do otherwise, the disturbances, which the removal of the duties would involve would create such a political upheaval that he must hesitate to remove the duties when times were so bad.
A woman, named Fung Kiu, was taken on Tuesday afternoon to the Generally speaking, so far as Bay View Police Station, where the those who are not living in their statement was made that she had homeland are concerned, the new
been contemplating suicide. Budget is not a sensational one in
"Lo Fook, aged 13, who was knock- any respect, and while one ex-ed down by a bicyde in Johnstoned that Mr. E. D. Dawson, the head, The numerous squeezes they have to
Street, Wanchai, on Tuesday night, and severely injured, died at the Government Civil Hospital at three o'clock.on Wednesday morning.
Chancellor of the Exchequer shakes
| his head ominously over it, another former holder of that office sees fit to congratulate Mr. SxoWDEN warmly upon his work. Only a few weeks ago Mr. LLOYD GEORGE caused considerable surprise by sympathis ing with. Mr. J. H. Tuomas in his efforts to solve the unemployment problem. The Liberal leader had been expected to make a vigorous attack on the Labour Government's failure to deal effectively with this question, but instead of making a 19813 slashing assault Mr. Lloyd Genaz
Mr. Ogilvie, proprietor of the Airlie Hotel, Nathan Road, has re- ported to the Water Police Station that some person, on Tuesday, be tween noon and one o'clock, stcie from a table, a brase rail, valued at 83.
at