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CHINA'S POSITION AT THE PILLS PAY BETTER THAN
CONFERENCE.
Flow Internal Discord Has Prejudiced Her Status.
GRAND OPERA.
Sir Thomas Beecham on His Lasses.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1921.
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Sir Thomas Beecham gave N/Tie It must have been a latter pill for Cias to swallow when she evid-nce last month when the in- Demand hear that, although her future vestigation into his affairs was 10 dis will be pract rally decided at the continued at the London Bank-150 da
The receiving Washington Conference, her posi-ruptcy Court, tion there will be inferior to that order was made two years ago on of Japan. She has long protested moneylender's petition, and Sir that decisions affenting her sover Thomas had lodged a statement signty have been concluded of affairs showing gross liabilities between other nations over her £2,191,571, expected to rank for brad, and, no doubt she counted only £39.763, and an estimated oa no more discrimination being surplus of £78,724 in asset.
During the ten years before the made among the nations invited to meet at the Washington round receiving order, said Sir Thomas, was engaged in producing sable than is made by the League be of Nations at Genera. In fact, grand opera in London and the there was no intimation thst auch provinces. The productions ps- would not be the case in the early ally resulted in losses, which stages, and it would be interesting were defrayed out of the money to know what influences have provided by his late father until
At the 10 d. Sydney and been at work to preserve the he died in October 1916.
which time of his father's death bis
Melbourne differentiation principle praved eo unsatisfactory at Ver (debtor's) liabilities arising out of 10 ds. San Francis-1 sailles. But, after all, one can the opers productions amounted hardly see how thins can expect, to about £40,000 or £50,000,
Under bis father's will. Sir 1s yet, to be treated as an equal) at any international assembly. In Thomas continued, he became the first place, she excnot speak entitled to a life interest in 46 with one voice. It is true. we per cent of the income derived bare heard that the Canton Gor-from his father's pill manufactur-FIT Bombay ernment is willing to recognise ing business at St. Helens. the Peking delegation, provided| £90,000 A YEAR FROM FILLS. that it meets with their approval; otherwise, it is said that Dr. Sun Yat-sen will denounce it at the Conference is representative of China. But, even so, the Peking
The Official Receiver.-What Government has little authority! putide the walls, of the capital, did you consider at the time of and the Canton Government has your father's death your income practically op sway beyond it would be -About £75,000 a year. owa province. The bloodiest So that while you owed about civil war for many years is rag-440,000 at that time, you expected:
in the Yangtze Valley, to receive an income of £75,000
governors a year Quite so. Fret military
another
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The profits from this business had recently been increasing, and be estimated that his life interes: had been producing on the avar age about £90,000 a year.
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As a matter of fact. remarked for chief power, at when one the Oficial Receiver, you havel goes down his place is taken by never enjoyet that income
The anything like it another usi te same ponte,
Sit Thomas Acteed. Speaking! cal! themselves | Hubbles that armies continue to loot the disj from memory, he thought that i Fiets through which they pass, the year after his father's death ad foren lives are placed in jhe receised from £7,000 to £10,066,] Continuing. Sir Thomas saidi Jeopardy and property destroyed. Taxation, mainly imposed by the that he provealed with the opera war lords, still grinds the people business becaus
his incom
to the ground. The ar the should have been more than immemorial customs of China, sufficient to pag for any losses and until they he abolished, and incurred.
He knew that, opera;
a strong and table covernment was a heavily losing business in
stablisi.c. ('hina cannot arrival this country.
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November 304, 12h. On Fres- At the place she aspires to.
The Othon Racelver-Bat iture has increased iterably 31. ver N. tad hopes, after the misrule of was your heb g. Exup; we, and that adivostock the Manchu Dynasty had been some extent your father's hobby? Japan, the northern depression having movad eastward. It has hanged for the Government of a Yes. Republic, that democratic in £104,600 LSSAIN CHANDRA. idecreased moderately a Weihei- -titutions would sweep away the The money be obtamed trowel, is steady at Shanghai, and
vils of the centuries and usher moneylenders was used entirely has increased slightly over the! in the dawn of a brighter day.in financing the opera business.S.E. and S. coasts of China and
Chanzes over But those hopes were short-lived. Between the date of his father's Formosa. The clock bas been put bark in death and the end of 1918 his bas Philippines are slight. many instances instead of foren opera undertaking had been
The typhoon has apparently interest ward. Even the cultivation of £54,000, and the
illed up to the N.E. of N. Luzon. Fresh monsoon may be ex- the poppy is becoming general money borrowed in connection again.
recently with the undertaking was shown by II.B.M Minister at further £40000, making a total pected over the N. China Sea.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 Peking, with the encouragement, loss of £104 000.
hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day. 200 inches. Total since January 1st. 97.12 inches, against an werage of $1.92 inches. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
Forecast.. District.
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Ang- 30 Aug 31
Fort Feet
79.50
29.00 29.40
- 14.70
-0.80
6.90 7.60
- 57.00
8.50
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Sir Thomas added that if not at the instigation, of the Provincial fiererrors, who deriva believed an examination of the herefrom fat revenues for their atronats would show that his wwn pockets. And get through loss of £104000 was a conserva- f: was probably it all the great mass of the pe..tive estimate. ple go on their placid way. Kismetį much heavier.
Questioned as to the books of their creed. In the interior verg
the
opera it has changed sing-China was account kept Srst known. There we see today business, Sir Thomas said he did; what we
read
took place is not contend that proper books That at firs were kept, but informal accounts Abraham's time. sight, se to constitute the were kept, and they always knox hopelessness of China for better the lower.
"My father" he explained things to be the ront case of
Why do not amid laughter, has a very sim 100st of her trouble. the teaming millions rise and ple method. He had an
brow off the joke that condemn draft at the bank, and every them to perpetual strife and pover-increase of the overdraft denoted because an increase of the loss incurred." ty? In the first place.
£12,000 DUE TO HIM. they have no canEdence in
Regarding a scheme under Government. They have learnt from long and bitter experience which the income of the pill that, however fine its promises, business should be retained by every succeeding Government is the executors and be devoted to as bad as the last. They leave clearing of the liabilities which as severely his father had been under at the the Government alone as possible, and even settle time of his death. Sir Thomas
TIME SIGNALS. most of the diff rences that arise said, between July 1917 an- July
The time ball on Kowloon through 1918, he received nothing what between themselves their guilds. And, in the second ever from the estate. At the date Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 place, because China is so rast when the scheme was approved am, and 4 p.m., except on Sator- (one-ighth larger thanthe Caited there was something like £120,000 days when it is dropped at 10:
am, and p., and on Sunts 8tster), and means of communic-due to him for incoine.
His pr sent position was duet and Holidays when it is dropped ation are so bad, affects one part of the country is the delay in realising the oven! at 10 a.m. only.
Garden Estate, in consequence of The ball is hoisted half mast ar unheeded by the rest
which a large portion of the in- But with ail the strife.
come due to him was not set the 55th minute and full mast at the 57th minute. Should the bal oppression, and adversity, there available for his own purposes, fail to drop at the correct time, it is one feature which, infinitesimal
will be lowered at five minutes at present, may yet prove to be the His household and personal ex
penditure for the fast three years past the hour and the ordinar bezinning of China's salvation had not exceeded £5,000 a year. The ever-increasing number of
In conclusion. Sir Thomas sai routine repeated at the following
hour, if possible. Chinese students who aro
his father had arranged to liqui-
Should the time ball be out of returning to their own country date the £40,000 of opars deb s with a foreign education, the existing when he died, and if her order the above routine will be large number of coolies who bave had lized & month longer the carried out wi b the flag"Z". on
Mon. 28 9 7 gone back from France with new would all have been paid, but the the storm signal mast.
Time simal are also given at ideas, the expanding influence of foreign civilisation at the Treats Xentors had no power to deal
aight by means of three white " with them. Ports, and the influx of foreign
The examination was adjourned.amps mounted vertically on the goods, marbinery, and m thode are all exercising & quickening The establishment of an aerials rvatory wireless mast. From impulse, though it sadly needs cost between Peking and the 3.56m: 0s, to 9h. Om. 09. p.m erunguished one the lamps direction. The growth of this capital of Shantung is influence may seem slow, but, instance out of many that migh momentarily at the even seconds, baving regard to the great size of be mentioned. Shining through capt at the 2nd. 28th, 50th,
and 52nd, and 54th of each minate. the country, its vast population, the gloom of perplexity
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