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ECHOES OF 1860
9.- Salaries Of Government Officers
Criticised
support are
FALL OF THE
ARSENAL
Well Beaten At Manchester
HERD'S THUNDERBOLT Manchester City 2, Arsenal 1 The Arsenal have reason to re member Aleg Herd. He scored a We hear that last mall brought, cumbents it has to
wonderful goal against them when Her Majesty's sanction to some of the very men who have the pow-Manchester City were at Highbury our closed door legislation. The as to tax it, they will not spare us earlier in the season, and he re- scheme suggested by Shr· Hercules as they know they have nothing peated the performance at Maine- Robinson of giving the Colony a" to expect from Parliament.
No road, On the first occasion he fixed civil list, has been approved wonder that there is disaffection earned his side a point, and on of and the increased scale, of sai- in India and Canada when such Saturday" he gave them glorious arles which the non-official coun-work as this is going on. We shall victory, But Hord was not thei cillors suggested, has been sanc-of course be told that because our only pebble on the beach in this tioned. The Governor's salary La non-official 'legislative
councillors match. increased from £3,000, to 25.000. suggested this increased expendi-
As the teams were leaving the The Judge's salary from $2,000 to ture, the matter emanated from ground after as fine a game as $2.500 on which terms we suppose, the people of the Colony,
anyone could wish to seo Roberts, Mr. Adams takes the bench. The We have no hesitation is saying the Arsenal centre half-back dash- salaries of all the heads of depart that Hongkong, taking either area ed to Tilson and shook him cor ments are lacreased with the ex-or population, is the most expen-dially by the hand. This was the ception of the Auditor General | sively governed place in the world. act of a sportamant
Roberta can never have had a
and the Colonial Surgeon. The salary of the former is to be a ranged at home-the latter is not
à favourite at Government 'House,
;
4
The following loyal Notification more severe buffeting, and had it has been issued by the Chief Cus-not been for him the Arsenal would toms Mercenary at Canton..
Wundoubtedly have been more heavi-
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We likewise learn that pensions hope that these well-abused and ly beaten. It was good to see his HEAVIER TRAFFIC.
to the amount of £5,000 have better paid functionaries will en- been saddled on the resources of joy their holiday, and not allow the Colony. Of course, Colonel their Ubations in honour of Heen- Caine and Judge Hulme absorbtung, the perfidious, the greater part of this-who the their equilibrium or injure theli rest ts for we do not know.
constitutions.
We do not complain of the salar-
to destroy
Office of Maritime Customs
24th July, 1869.
tribute to his relentless adversary. The City won well. They were a little unsettled at the start, but once they found their feel they were always the better team.
Very little indeed was seen of the Arsenal forwards. They started well; and they made a splendid recovery after the City had secur- ed the lead 18 minubes after the. restart but for the most part, they were thoroughly, qubdued.
tes being raised, but we think that certain offices should be amalga- I have received a communica- mated so that the Incumbentstion from HE the Superintendent might have sufficient to do to keep of Customs, requesting I should
We them in health.
think too inform the Foreign Community the nominees
Only great save by Swift pre- should serve the that Thursday. the 26th instant, venied Dume from scoring just Colony and not Downing. Street being the anniversary of the Embefore the interval, but apart from perer's birthday business will be transacted, at "this, office on that day"
Signed-0. B. Glover,
Commissioner,
and that men QA respectability
and standing should be obtained. We fear that the Colony has now a larger burden to bear than. It will carry, and that as the in-
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LONDON AFTER FOUR
YEARS
"A Pint Of Bitter Please,
Miss"
(From Qur Special Correspondent)
his he was scarcely seen in the match, and Bastin was never in the picture. Bowden displayed intel ligence in his passes, but the only real effective man in the line was Beasley, and it was approprials that he should have scored the goal.
The Arsenal, who had not been beaten since December 9, were saved from a heavier defeat by their defence. Roberts was magni- ficent, and next to him the honours went to Hapgood and Moss.
Against a leay capable defence the City forwards might have had the proverbial cupful of goals,
No better testimony could have been paid to the work of Tilson than that of Roberts. He played with wonderful spirit and grit. Marshall, apart from scoring the opening goal, was the schemer and. the "head" man in other respects, and Brook did very well. Toseland was not at his best, nor was Herd too prominent until he came along with his sensational goal ten min
Actually it was four years and in the west. In most cases the four months. for I left London in begging thinly disguised in July and arrived back in November the sexing matches or sing- four years. later. Four years is a ing. The majority of them were long time and I must confess that ex-servicemen. This was a mostutes from the finish. That, how- I was not particularly looking for- I distressing sight; though I found ward to returning to my native that after a time I became harder- land in the month of November ed to it, and did not dip my hand with its pea-soup fögs, rain, storms into my pocket so frequently as and blizzards. And it actually was I did at first,
since
my amival home I have found no- thing at which to grumble but everything to enjoy.
-
ever, stoned for any shortcominga
Though the range was fully 30 yards, so great was the pace of the shot that Moss had not the ghost of a chânce of saving.
Barnett may not have been free from blame when Beasley equalised,
raining and foggy when I arrived. But apart from these two things Perhaps this put me in a good-the empty shops in Bond Street humour It is a pleasant feeling, and the unemployed begging but no praise pould be too high on that of a prophet who has London wore a happy smile. The the play of the City defence in prophesied Correcti y—for
shops, I refer in particular to those general, and especially for Cowan for ladies dresses, and hats, were and Dale, Cowan had a big part 100 per cent smarter than I had in the victory by the manner in ever seen them before. This was which he blotted out Dunne, and A lot has happened in the world reflected in, or was a reflection of, Swift made one or two very good since I was last in London. In the smarter appearance of the wo saves, but every man shared in the 1929 we were sulll on the crest of men and girls one saw about gen-honour of the triumph. the economic wave. In 1933 we erally. Curious enough, however, are in the trough of the depression the patrons of places Ifike the This, naturally, has had its effect Berkeley, Savoy and Mayfair seem- on London as on other places, ed to have become dowdier. Lon- though I imagine that it is much don is probably the only city in more noticeabla in the Midlands the world where the men, I am and the North of England than in referring now to what, for lack of the South.
a better definition, I term the 'upper classes, are better dressed than the women. The London
The number and proportion of Rolls Royce cars did not seem to me to have diminished. If any man is the best dressed in the hing they has increased and gen-world; the same cannot be erally the streets were as full of said of his women, kind. motor trafic as F had ever seen
FILIPINO IN TROUBLE
Serious Charges Alleged
Another direction in which Lou and Wong Sau-mo,, aged 29, both Jose Lizarraga, 35, of Manila, them. But there was this dif- don has improved is in the cheap-unemployed and residing in Room ference. Whereas four years ago. ex priced eating places. Previous 57, Empress Hotel, were brought London had only just begun to use ly it was almost impossible to ob- before Mr. Baltour in the Central automatic trafic lights and the tain a cheap meal that was at all Police Court yesterday, charged one way 'circus': to-day the elec- palatable. But now all this is with having on various dates be- tromatic system is in operation at changed. There are tonumerable tween January 12 and February 10 all the busiest thoroughfare. The places where ope can obtain ex- they conspired together to defraud result is that traffic and pedes cellent fare at a reasonable price such persons who should thereafter trians move much more smoothly and cleanly served.
be induced to part with goods to and without the chaotic lambs Like all returned exlies, we did them by falsely pretending they that there used to be. True there a show.' In fact we did several were carrying on a genuine busi are trae blocks' but these are including one first night. The ness known as the Standard Pro- different trom traffic jambs.' A pre-eminence of the London stage ducts Company; at 20, Connaught further and very desirable con in comedy is still maintained, as Road Central TAL sequence is that there is much legs is its neglect of the more serious A Becond charge preferred hooling and honking than there drama and the opera,
page against Lizarraga, alleged that on used to be. For the arst few Bobo we visited and dized at January 31, in* 'incurring a debt nights that we were in London, we some old, hämta which, though, or liability, ha obtained credit to had a corner room in a hotel that they had changed hands in some the amount of $400. from Mustard was right on a traffic circus. Much instances, maintained the same and Company, Alexandra Building, tomy surprise (and relief) we were atmosphere. I have often wonder-] by means of fraud other thign false not disturbed at all; the noise of ed what the majority of the pretences. He was further charged the trainc itself being continuous" patrons of these french and with entering the Colony without was not distracting, whilst there Italian restaurants are Either a valid passport.
Mr. R. H. Cole appeared for the first defendant and said he had no objection to the remand.
Defendants -were- remanded. in custody until Eriday morning.
was almost a complete absence of they go to Soho as a sort of finish-Det.-Inspector M Murphy, for the sound of horns and klaxons. ing school after a course of French the prosecution, applied for three Bond Street looked very much for ballen) in three months with days remand in police custody, as it did when I last saw it, though our a teacher," or else they have objecting to bail it showed signs of the economic i been to Parts "three days conduct blizzard, in the number of empty ed, four. (including visit to night shopa with the To Let sign up clubs and cabareta)" and feel that The larger shops such as Cartier, they really must keep up their Sulks and Asprey were stiil carry+ | French y'knowledge ing on, but they appeared to be I have talked of Bond Street, the doing very little, business. Like all Berkeley and Bobo, but in none of the Bond Street shops (I except these places does one get that THE LAST ROUNDUP Boots whose presence in this Rue | which above all else made it worth
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