The Hongkong Telegraph
(ESTABLISHED Copyright, 1914-by
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THE BUDGET.
Muy 5, 1914,
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Funeral Arrangements. *
The Duke of Argyll's body will
ed Director-General of Customa.
Kennymare ie quoterl at 11 to and The Tetrach secund
"Ten thousand Federals are 184 ported to be in the vicinity of Vera Cruz
it is unlikely that Mr. Lloyd that the Death Duties between Tokyo states that Count "Olumu,ing the false wireless hostage expected to yield: £60,000,000 ing for one month in consequance favourite at 4 to L for the Derby.
Argati George' will find is possible to £60, 000 and £200,000 would be the Premier, in an interview about the Siberia. There have sterling, which is 20 per cent.of the death of the Duke of
more than was anticipated. This reduce the duties on the articles increased 1 per cent., while the dwelt on the importance of the beep several cases of false efarms; of consumption. Most of the new maximum would be raised Alliance with Britain on a centre making shipmeters chery of
These of authority in the Far East and rushing to assistance. revenue will probably be found to 20 par cent. by extending the super-tax would prodie £850,000, and the urged its development into an Settlement Estate Daty another economic Alliance in China, one £150,000, making a total of £800,ally to supply the money and the Svèplus of £750,000. Mr. Lloyd George in introdus 1000. He thus had to find another other to intimate knowledge on ing the Budget said that the past million, which would be taken off Chinese miters and other ad- year hl been one of exceptional the Sinking Fund. The new pro vantages due to geographical prosperity. Trade had reached posals marked a decisive stop propinquity. its highest point while unemplov- towards the happiness and effic- ment had been at its lowest." Ile iency of the people and the greater had been able to meet all the strength and honour of the nation, supplementary estimates and to reslise a surplus of £750,000.
A. Deficit..
He had consulted the best an- thorities and they believed that there would be a slackness in certain branches of trade in thei oming year. Others would be bunie an over. Ho estimated
The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer spoke for two and a half hours.
The Proposals Summarised.
“THE MYSTERY OF
DEATH
Talks
"With "Solid"" Spirits.
Two Butoh physicians,
L. Matla and Dr. G. J. Zalberg, of Utrecht, claim to have invented
·LATEST, QUOTATIONS,
'London. Received May 5. The latest London, belling tor the Derby is 11 to 4 Kellymore, 4 to 1 The Tetrarch and 8 to Black Jester.
1
÷ That after diath man orationes loexist in another form
That this form, the "min force,
ja
is apparently due to the provision guaranteeing immunity for form-
The National Council has die er irregularities to all sending, in be taken to the Abbay on Thurs-cussed the cancellation of Qataber accurate assessments in connec-lay, and Their Majesties and 11 as a national holiday. tion with the levy, which disclos- other members of the Royal Mr. Lloyd George spoke for two. ed the existence of large anms Family will attend a service on and a half hours in introducing
Friday. The funeral takes place the Badge:. which had hitherto oscaped in Scotland on Saturday, taxation.
The death has occurred on board a steamer of the Rev. |Silvester Horne, M.P.
Mr. Lloyd George estimates,
Bows of the 634 uels, about $450. Since output became known-between that bis Budget proposals will
neven days' 1903 we have been dealing and 7.30, p.m. there was a directly with the Ohuese. We sudden slump, and business was
And
leave a surplus of £750,000 got away from the established done for May (anofficially, of The Budges proposes a nehezo plan of business through worse) as low as Tle. 42, and, for reconstructing local taxations, big wholesale merchants then according to one report, Tis. 40, revises the Income Tax and established our OWN Yesterday morning the mar- increases the death duties.
cet opened at Tls. 41 buyers Unessiness is felt in America
April, .but
quickly regarding the ss, Siberjamesauge. αρ to Ta12; for There have been several such May Tls. 43); and June Tis. 45. false alarme. at the noon recess business was
one at Tle. 43 April.
aubject to the law of vilation, selling agencies with a machire for holding direct That the man for an in- Chine 3,000 and 4,000 miles for upon eating taxation that the elaborate Boheme for reconstrus.communication with the spirits flaence the minds of those still away in the interior. They are ran
revenue would be £200,652,000 and that the total revenue would be 8215,985,000, leaving a deficit 01 15,330,600,
Local Taxation.
of the departed, says the Amsterd-living.
Express" am correspondent of the Daily
is
71
Mr. Lloyd George, în introduc- Dating the afternoon there ing the Budget rid the past were transactions at Tis. 43 April, sear had been one of exceptional
prosperity In view of the reduced output A mandate has been imued
Mr. Lloyd George, in hie Budget speech, proposed an
splendid people, and our con- That in this second form of life, fi fence in them has been amply ting the system of local taxation
the law of the curtival of the justified. We expect to spend and introduced a revised scale of
They call it a "dynomis attest prevails as it does Here. $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 in this Income Tax and incressed Death Duties, whereby he secures ad-
That this second form of life is now partnership in the rear ditional revenue of £8,800,000, tograph." and they assert it las He also takes a million from the Pruved to them that spirits are temporary, the men force gra- future: We urge and appeal to Tla. 45 May, saḍ Tis. 47. Jane.
material and possessed of solid dually disintegrating. „ di all merchants and commercial bodies. Their mode of procedure The" man force," it fer explaia-] men of this country to join the and Zalberg in their brochure, On this body he will acto Company Must be Backed up thus described by Drs. Matla ed, is composed of & casect body movement of developing China. The Mystery of Death" mechanically, causing it to expand. If the Standard Oil"Uompany
room about two and a half or contract, and also to, respond is not backed up, especially by brokers are holding up the market as secretary of state carries duties Hau Shi-change appointment yards long, two and a quarter to qudañone. If however, the bankers, American Law for themselves and also on behalf which are practically identi yarde wide, and three yards high body rises, too high, it disintepowever, according to M, Bemis, of some of the bigger operatore, with those of shit te atentie was constracted. It was connected grates on thespot.
Fracave the stimains that thought"|| A contributing canse may be the the President's office.
to from the company's initiative. rumour that certain results are with a passage by means of one door, all other doors sed windows
There is great danger that unless anticipated in the near future being carefully sealed,
our bankers game to the sasistance from the deep wella. of Chios, the wonderful op portunity prosented, to American trade will be out off in favour of
The bancellor dwelt on the Sinking Fund, enabling him to ngo mtos in some districts creased expenditure for antiqual argeno, of relieving local taxs-meet the estimated deficit and in had heu doubled within recent grants to local authorities for years, especially in connection health, education and insurance. with housing, education and roads. The present system of pating was perfectly indefensible, Moreover there was great inequal ity between rich and poor dis tricts and substantial aid must be given by the Exchequer to eave municipalities from bank- ruptoy. A new system of valua
- No Debate
The usual debate did not follow the Budget statement, discussion being adjourned till further figures and information were
The door into the passage contained a small window,
STANDARD OIL PLANS.
guarded by blinds and the ex-Company to Spend Stx to Ten
tion and of loos! taration must submitted to the House wittr re-perimenters placed themselves be established.
Taxation of Site Values.
The idea of the Government| was to establish a national system. which should be fairer and more impartia as between classes and localities. The taxetion of site valdes would form an integral part of the system of local
ference to the new proposals.
M.P'S DEATH.
taxation. The Government would SUCCUMBED ON STEAMER. insist upon efficient results as a condition of receipt of grants. from the Exchequer.
Public Health.
*~**London. Received May
an
Millions la Ching.
LANGKATS
The Settlement in Shanghai.
of oil made public yesterday, which grants an amnesty to all reason for the strengil of the leaders. there would seem to be only one political ofenders except the market, ie, that some of the
SALT · GABELLE.. REVENUE
Sir R. Dane's Triumph.
Peking, April 30,
The sum of
A meeting was held in the President's office to discuss the queation of asking Britain or France to protect Chinese resid- ents in Mexico.
NEWS.
The faberal of the late Sister Louise took place this morning.
General news sppears on page
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"Our contemporaries" appeare on page 2 and commercial news
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An enquiry into the circum- tacos attending the Tai Or. piracy was opened to day,,
A break of 50 was registered by Sergeant Pitt in the Boldiers lub Billiard tournament last evening.
DON'T FORGET
TO-DAY.
Europe. If American bankers in this passage, from which they The following is a summary of do not come in, the United States watched the instruments through an account of the Standard Oil will be left out of China in ten the small window.
Company's Chiness, contract years. In the room was placed a card- hintahed by Mr. Female, one of its
This is the opinion of other su- board cylinder of auch, capacity vice presidents, to the New York thorities on international finance that it could contain about two- Sun, ».
in general and Oriental trade in fifths of the human body.
The Standard Oil Company, in particular. It is hoped and be This cylinder was hermetically siis pertnership agreement with lieved that there may be soon aThe Salt Administration has closed by means of sheets of tin. the Republic, has a oppiinca of movement among bankers to take handed over Tia. 2,700,000 to the Along each side, however, there almost unempled breadds. The ap the strings of financial re Chinese Government out of the nn page B. were left two strips of cardboard work of development is to proceed ationship with China which were collections accumulated in the for the entrance of the man under a Chinese-American come so endely snapped last spring by foreign banks. force. as the manifesting entity bany, in which the
the Government's retirement from $10,000,000 has been retained was called. The interior of the Company holds a large majority the loan consortium."
ae being sufficient to meet all charges on the revenue of the cylinder was shut off from the control, with the Chinese Govern Renter's correspondent at ontside air, save by a small glass ment sharing the profits of
Salt Gobell for a considerable Beriod sisend.". Among the grants would be Ottawa saya the Rev. 0:Silvester and rubber tube, which connected development se its partner,
Provide the collections on one for public health while the Horne, M., died on a seamer it with a recording instrument the Standard gets the right
tinue to be maintained at the The claim against Sir Paul kadwn as the "manometer." grants for roade and education between Niagara snd Toronto,
of exploration and development
present figure, further surpluses Chatar by a mining engineer was would be raised. The total grant (The deceased has represented
Man Force" In the Cylinder. in the two great northern
will be available for the Governs further heard in the Supreme for public health would be four Ipswich in the Liberal intercat
The manometer was conatrusted provinces of Chibli and Shonsi
ment in the fatore. Such Court to day millions sunually, besides a since 1910. He studied theology farther grant for fighting tuber-at-Mansfield College, Oxford, and somewhat like a thermometer to begin with, besides other pro- oulasie, training nurses and estab. Was Congregational minister of containing, instead of mercury, vinces. It has the vitally essential The Laugkat settlement has surpluses, of course, will conati of Kensington Chapel, from 1889 une single drop of alcohol, which privilege of building railroads passed without much diffonlty, tute the main security for the Tithitig laboratories for the diag to 1903, later taking charge of recorded the degree of pressure and pipe lines, in addition to the althongti there have been serious prospective long from the Quin mosis of dispases. The education Whitefield's Church at Totten on the Bir or gas inside the sinking of oil wells, establishment losses, says the N. C. Daily Newa
inplo Group grau would be £2,750,000 and hom Court Road. He was
cylinder, feeding imponitent Radical" and human force" was asked to accompanies oil developmentatet men were to a large mutant be congratulated on the satisfac of storage tanke and all that the transactions for the wote The hinese Coverament is to won cover the
children advocate of ruddern Puritanish,"
besis of 60 and tory evolution proceeding from AL- the Salt Administration. and physical training. Ipswich returns, two members, enter the cylinder. Immediately One of the most far reaching ong
market bas to ba, con though the pressure by the foreign There would also be a grint of and at the last election deceased, afterwards, the drop of alcohol grants is the guarantee of thes
Second in the polling, was seen to run along the glass Government that it will
add on the fact that the legations and the valuable work for all element has been able to keep of Sir Richard Uane ste mainly £1,250,000 to facilitate the was
securing 5,791 votes, which was recording tube, showing that control ofṛṇll_land" me working of the Insurance Act.
pricea at overTle."46 in view of The grants would commence 344 more than Mr. A. A. Church-something was in the cylinder, this developpen), and
man, Unionist Sir D.F. Goddard, displacing some of the gas that it will give them to the partnership the reduction in the output. The responsible, if must be recognized in December, and would mean Liberal, headed the polls contained. On being requested company, Dar geologists have
manipulations to maintain prices that the legal cooperation of the Chinese themselves at many adding £4,218,000 to the deficit,
to leave the cylinder, the alcohol been over a great deal of ground are been very clever and rum- and, allowing for margin, he "Mr. Masterman lies been drop tonop returned to ite Drilling machinery te qo the way in word freely circulated, as du points has largely contributed to would have to raice a total of invited to content he beat aformal cedition and remained now, and in three weeks are ex former occasions to this end. this result. £9.800,000. He proposed various Ipswich.
there until the man force" was pect to be darching holes in the still whatever the cause, it is gold It is to be hoped that the receipt of the present eurplas, the fret chroves in the Income Tax. The
asked to enter the cylinder again, ground around Cheome to, and for the market that prices did not frait of the reorganization pro- Tax ld remain onobanged on
when the same thing was repeated. watching the free Chinese oil drop very low, although it is earned incomed; up to £1.000:
Larger cylindera wero afterwards spout forth.
doubtful whether they can be jooted under export foreign while between £1,000 and £3,000
tried with success. -
Mr. Bemin pointed out that the maintained at present levels in advice, will encourage the Chinese to give the fullest trist to reforms it would range from 10.1-2d to
Subsequently, the "dybomisto- by no means constitutes the first fature, unless output improves.
proposed by Sir Richard Dans, la. 41. On naearned incomes the
graph was employed. By mens venture of his company into the
Nothing will go further to relia tex-ould raised to T, 4 and 'n
of this complicated electrical in Chinese fleld, et
Langkat Share Market.
bilitate Chinese credit thau
· We have a bsolute confidence in super-tax would be operative from
strument, the man force" in the
The reopperative and other evidence that the revenues of the £3,000 upwards upon a graduated
VERA CRUZ oylinder was made to talk quite Chins and the Ubinets.e
have been in Chida by faculties of the Langkat marker country are susceptible to expan- intelligently. scale, rising to Is. 41. Thus,
would form a fitting subject of sion ander proper direction. some incomes would par 2a. 8d..
It spelled out worde to, the years, doing anisa har
It is understood that the Govern The ordinary Income Tax
London. Received May 5: experimentere by pressing on the consumer. In ul shime, investigation for a Pickwickian would yield £5,250,000 and the
crease in the emolamente to Sir Router's correspondent at Wa electric key, beneath which rolled in over $100 (100,000 of borin Society, eye the China Press of ment is making a substantial in-
the with the year
De now April 28. super-tax would yield this year an additional $2,500 000 and shington states that General circular died, containing
reaching nearly 20,000,000, and Ap the close of the mrket on Riobard Dane and that his services erman Monday the April position was will be recognized in a Presiden- ultimately £7,750,000. He hoped. Fuuston reports that ten thousand alphabet:
and May tial order which will be published Another £260,000 in Farleiálu are now in the vininus Ip the pourse of this spicit with over 20 doctors ent investment
we quoted at T. to obtain
the forthwith.N. C. Daily News. Income Tax from invos menin of Varask tuz, murder of them conversation, the
broad.
of
nicosaitous
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of
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"noon.