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WEATHER REPORT. the maintenance of lavish public and social services · At present the Yesterday's weather report, fore-local authorities are often reluct- [vast"and" remarks, issued by the "natly-driven into spending money Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m., on ronds or schools or free medicat etated.
services under threat from the
The anti-eyelone remains station ary""and Chas winkened slightly, Fresh monsoon will prevail along the south-east coast of Chian and
over the N. China Sea....
Local Forecast: -NE. winds, frosh; fair.
* News and Views *
Prince George will cave London'
anniversary celebrations of the ac cession of King Haakon. Queen Maud of Norway is the King's sistor.
Ministries of withholding grants if Prince George to Visit Norway.. the grandiose ideas of Government inspectors are not more faithfully. | complied with At the present time capital, to take part in the 98th on Saturday for Oslo, Norway's officials and Socialist Ministers combine to raid the public purse and nothing can be done. If the Conservative Party comes out with a programme of real retrenchment it will have every chance of success at the next general election. England is tired of State enter London Office: 3. Flest Strest, prise State anpervision and in
creasing taxation.
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HONG KONG, DECEMBER 17, 1930.
out to Enjoy Life—At 67,
Talk,
*Before 1 married stie listened
moon she talked and I listened, and while I talked; during the honey now we've been married three years we both talk and the neighbours listen."
Shanghai Lumber..
Yardı
The Greater Shanghai Municipal. Government is understood to have marked out an area at Lunhuakong (two or three miles from Nantao) to be used for lumber yards in place of the present sites at Nan- to. It is felt that the piling up of logs on the Nantao waterfront
volume of traffic. The proposed is a great nuisance to the growing district in Lungbunkong has been. carefully surveyed by representn-
tives of the various Municipal Bureaux, and is considered to be To Study Chinese Medicine.
an excellent site for a lumber, dis- A plan for the establishment of trict, a large area being available. Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, K.G., a Central Institute of Native Medi- A public notification is being issued who has retired from the Bar after cine, is being promoted by leading by the Land Bureau to the effect. nearly 50 years' practice, says: "I members of the Nanking Govern that land purchased in this new have had a long innings, and I have ment. The proposed establishment reservation may only be used for worked very hard, I intend to is intended to systematise the storage of lumber. THE REBELLION IN SPAIN. enjoy life fully and to be free from practice of native medicine and the
worry." Sir Ellis is 67.,
further study of curative properties of native herbs.
Challonge Accepted at 80,
National Products Map of Chins.
A new map under the above name with titles printed in Chinese and English, has been issued by the Nanking Bureau of Industrial and Commercial Information. The map contains interesting information about China's products and will be of great value to merchants and students of Chinese affairs.
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Church Parado in Hyde Park.
ALL-Governments announce to the
Church Parade, on Sundays jy world, when civil disorder breaks
Hyde Park is not what it was, out, that they have the situation Sir George Hunter, the Tyne Hittite Ancestry of Trousers. well in hand and the trouble is shipbuilder, has been challenged by Professor
chiefly because those who can do A. H. Sayce, tho confined to a few notorious malcon-Tyne railwaymen to a conference archeologist, in a lecture to the so get out of London for the week | SAVING ENGLAND'S 'MONEY.
ients. The nows from Spain, how-to justify his public statement that Royal Anthropological Institute, end. The motor car has been the ever, bears out the claim that the railwaymen's wages should be cut said that ancient tablets recorded important influence. And opart authorities have already broken by 20 per cent. instead of the com- the manufacture of the berigani, from the fairly general absence of ECONOMY in either private or the back of the present uprising. pany's suggested 10 per cent. Sir so our English brecebes could claim rank and fashion Church Parade public affairs, has not been popular All is quiet again at Madrid, while George, who is 80, has accepted the Hittite ancestry. A more general has not the excitements of 30 years for the last fifteen years. The rise in Valencia and Barcelona con- challenge.
idea is that Hannibal, the Catha-go. A retired detective has given to power of the Labour Party" inditions are normal. Two military
ginian war lord, had the idea of some interesting tales of the auda- England has been mainly due to ringleaders have been shot, others
trousers suggested to him while city of the pick-pockets who used its open-handedness, with other are safely gaoled and fugitives aro
marching behind an elephant and then to mingle among the women people's money, but Stade extra-making their way into France,
gazing at the loose skin on its hind- of Society and the dandies of those vagance, like personal folly in that Portugal and Gibraltar. Nothing
quarters. But perhaps breeches are days. "The crush was greater round direction, has its limits. These are in the news suggeste a popular up
older than trousers!
about the Achill's Statue and along. now being reached and the huge rising, but there appears to have
the walk alongside Rotten Row.. taxation imposed to
Tho cleverest pickpockets wore- support been an odd coalition of Com-
silk hats and frock coats. Thros or public services of a charitable munista, military officers and in natura is recognised as a dend dustrial strikers. The rebel bands
The Bishop of Sodar and Man four of them would close round! weight upon productive industries have boon small and the populace
was wrong in averring that ♬ well- | some well-dressed woman, and even and a primary cause of unemploy-has not joined them. No leader
to do wamen" play bridge. from while she was walking one of them ment. The way of the economist is has emerged, but a Conservative
"two o'clock in the afternoon until would scissor awny her rocket and
Women did: hard, and when examination is politician is under arrest,
two o'clock in the morning." For purse from her dress. the most part the women who do not carry bags in those days. made the field open for retrench-
that play cards to expand a smal income. The well-to-do woman own houso among friends after ment is limited in a country like
usually confines her bridge to her
collected and disbursed. What was once à luxury is soon regarded as a necessity. There is no going back upon old-age and widow's pensions, to mention twe innovations which statesmen of the past would havo regarded as rank socialism and pauperism.
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Spain is generally, considered a unhappy ong and the pensanta, who backward country, but it is not-an
Hats at the London Cenotaph.
To the Londoner who fairly often passes the Cenotaph a striking fact reawakens the instinct of passers-by is the way in which Armistice Day
Provincial
toph fail to make the recognition, and for many days afterwards heads are uncovered when passing the nation's shrine.
Who Is darners?
A Bishop and Bridge.
dinner. The trouble with several members of the episcopal bench is
Plumbers and Professora.
American university professors are protesting because undergrad- teaching staffs have to exist on uates are living in luxury while the salaries which in many cases are be low the earnings of bricklayers and plumbers. The grumbles among the faculties have been increasing; now the warfare has become open
form the majority of the popula to raise their hats.. tion, are reasonably prosperous visitors are, supposed to be recog- that they too often spoil their in according to their own standards-isable in. Whitehall because they tention of condemning the wrong and are not conscious of any burn- do not observe thin enalom.
But people. ing injustice.. General, PRIMO DE with the passing of time many RIVERA was a fairly heavy-handed Landoners forget the act of homage, Gangland Threat to Magistrate. dictator, but no tyrant and an though, as November 11 draws Chief Magistrate Joseph Cor-and-violent because of new dor- honest man. General BERENGUES, gear, for men who pass the Ceno.rigan, hond of the New York mitory for wemen students which Baneh, in committing for trial two has been erected at Cornell Univer- Lord EUSTACE PERCY, who was his successor, seems to bo of the
policemen involved in recent vice city at a cost of £400,000- The Mr. BALDWIN's, Minister of Educa same type. His refusal to redeem
scandals, declared:"I have been dormitory accommodates 300 stu- tion, speaking on the subject of his promise to hold a general
threatened by gangsters that I dents, and the professors say that shall be killed if I do not quash too much has been spent on housin public expenditure, pointed out election has angered the politically.
this case. I have been threatened young girls while responsibls head from several quarters. Calls pur-of families who teach them to sit that there were six inescapable minded sections, but there are not Jiabilities of the Central Govern-a large proportion of the popula
porting to come from police head up at nights making their house- ment. (1) The National Debt; the tion. The towns show a certain Harry Lovene, for security for costs would bo for my own good if I re-
An application on behalf of Mr. quarters have advised me that it hold budgeta balance, Millionaire service of that Debt might be re- restiveness, but in, the country disin an appeal by Prinio Carnera leased these defendants. I am not American universities in increasing have been bestowing gifts DIE garded as absorbing the whole yield tricte few seem to care, and Spain against a judgment in favour of Mr. casily scared, however, and I am amounts since the war. Many uni of estate datics and surtax and is a great deal better off than the Irvine for commission on receipts going to eco this case through."versities are in definite rivalry
of boxing contests in England was Leaders ul women's organisations, outdo one another in the luxury of about seven-eighths of the yield of super-industrialised Powers. The to have come before Lords Justices who crowded the court, choered the their student accommodation. A income-tax (taking income tax and King is gallant and able. He was Scrutton,, Lawrence, and Gross in chief magistrate. Intense feeling instructor at an American univer surtax nt the rates in force from born a monarch and is no longer the Court of Appeal, but Sir Henry has been excited among women by sity receives, generally, about £107 Maddocks, K.Ü.,, for Mr. Levene, current disclosures of police extort- year, with a few getting about 1925 to 1920), together with foreign in his first youth. The people and announced that Carnera had agreed ing money by preferring falso £200. Associato and assistant pro- debt payments; (2) what might be the best clements in the army like to give security in the sum of charges of immorality. The police feasors receive £250 to £800. and called the security services; de- him, but some students recently £100.
men committed were accured of the heads of departments get from Lord Justice Serutton: May the using ex-convicts to frame charges 2800 to £3,000. An American brick- fence, police and justice; (3) burnt his portrait, and both nobles Court know who Carnera ist. against two girls. Since the dis-layer receives between £3 and £4 foreign and colonial services; (4) and church dignitaries regard him. Sir Henry Maddocka Carrera is closures began Commissioner Mul- a day, and a plumber little less, pensions directly payable by the nskance There is no need for supposed to be a boxer.. (Laugh- rooney has ordered the abolition of depending on overtime. The brick. the police vice squad. Mr. Corri-layer. thus receives in a day what Central Government to its old ser- revolution in Spain. The Parlia Lord Justice Serutton: You may gan is widely esteemed as a fearless the university instructor receives in
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Local Notes and Events ★
Central Magistracy yesterday.
The Canton Government Mint has decided to suspend work for the time being and his coased or dering silver from Hong Kong, Step, have boon taken to wind up the affairs of the Mint
For being in unlawful' possession never been a success in Spain. It of 53 tools of opium a coolie was is to be hoped that the present ordered to receive ten strokes of ly called the dole) have no relation government will continue until the cane, by Mr. Lindeell at the to the money received from the contributors. The fund is bank constitution suitable for Spanish rupt and the taxpayer foots the temperament and conditions can be.
evolved. The old Chamber of De bill. Lord EUSTACE PEROY Bug putica was one of the least success- gested that unemployment insur-
ful children of the Mother of ance for those temporarily out
Parliaments at Westminster. of work should be put on A rigidly actuarial. basis, and that the State ehould take over full responsibility for all those who must be regarded as permanently unem ployed. This would appear at first. sight to be merely a question of transferring the account to a new ledger, but actually it should enable the authorities to check the in- genious sponging. which goes on at prosent,
GOVERNOR : MEETS WITH": MISHAP:
KNEE · INJURED, WHILE RIDING.
A fine of $350 was imposed by | Looking Back 25 Years, Mr. Lindsell on a Chinese watch Rueter's Agency is informed an employed on board the s.s. that it has been decided to сод Tean for being in unlawful pogBritish North Borneo. The line struct a line of railway right across
session of twelve taels of raw will from a continuous connexion opium. I was stated that the opium was found tied under his
armpits,
won the past and west coast, and, when completed will be of a total length of 250 milca. The ex- tension will commence at Tecom,
. miles from Jesselton, the 'prin eipal coastal terminus on the China Before Comdr. G. T. Hole, R.N.Hen, and, traversing some of the
inost valuable timber lands of at the Marine Court yesterday, British North Borneo, will tor- Captain Matsui, master of the minato at Cowis Harbour, on the fishing junk Karumo Maru,, was cast const: The extension is esti A yollow chow bitch belonging to summoned on two counts, (a) forated to cost £1,000,000 and will be constructed in, sections Hong Mr. Ip Choi of the Bang Lee firm failing to register the arrival of Kong Daily Prese, Doc, 17, 1005. of building contractors, has been his vessel and (b) for failing, to Looking Back 50 Years. removed to Kennedy Town for obchtain a clearance permit. The His Excellency the Governor, Sir servation after having bitten Gua- defendant pleaded guilty and was William Poci, K.B.E., C.M.U., hasar Barker, of Mount Davis Bar fined $100. been, forced to cancel some of his racka in Victoria Road... engagements owing to an accident Another suggested line of attack as a result of which he injured his on extravagance is the greating knee on Saturday. Ho is now.con of increased powers to local autho fined to bed, but, we are happy to ritics and making them mora in add, the injury is not serious. dependent of Government Depart Rilling at the Hunt Club meet on
Ministrisa oll Health, Transport, and Education, on the knee, which developed fluid Grants to the local authorities over the weekend. He has been should be regarded as relief for advised to remain in bed for a short ratepayers, and not as regards for time.
We learn from Shanghai that the Waterwork Company's shares have been allotted and that the applica lions from Shanghai and outporta considerably exceeded the whole capital required, even Yoko- "It is notified that for the 24-hours Laura, having naked for oight hundrod. The allottments were at Before Mr. Williams at the ended December 18, there wa
was one
the rabs of fifty to sixty per cent Central Magistracy yesterday a death from typhoid and one death of the applications.. This chows respectably-dressed Chinese woman from diphtheria. For the week that the company might have been was charged with "shop-lifting." [andod December 18, there were two made a purely focal one instead of 14 was alleged that the defendant inthe frien dinhthupia mfaen from the captar placing two-fifths of the sharer og
had stolen 13 yards of satin from enteric fever, one, from cerebro-1 could then have been in silver, and Messrs, Wassiamull Assomull of 48 spinal fever, one imported case of the uncertainty in value owing to Qu's Road. The case who retyphus, and 63 deaths from pulmon the rise and fall of exchange
avoided.Hong Kong Daily Frei imanded, bail being fired at 8250. ary tuberculosis
Dec. 17, 1880.1.