CANTON NEWS.
Loan Security Rumours
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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The Football'Association may Our Canton correspondentstates have supreme authority regarding that the Government has not`yat the starting date of the winter disclosed the security given in game, but the street youth, not regard to the big loan recently coming under its wing, has decided concluded. It is rumoured, how that the time has already come ever, that the mining rights of the far something more strendons provinca, the
Canton-Samui than cricket. So football has railway revenue and the telephone arrived, says a London papar just and waterworks revenue bare to hand. It has not been pro been pledged.
fitable inauguration so far as the
General Chan King-ming has outfitting shops are concerned, ordered General Chan Wing-son for correct dress and playing gear to clear the pirates out of the are not essential. Nevertheless, river districts, whilst the com-the boy who possesses either the manders of the regular forces in ball or a striped shirt has a the various districts have been falnost inalienable right to the ordered to see that the robbers on captaincy of his side. land are suppressed within threa months.
"SHERRY.
At the Coronet.
i
The issue of the Speaker's war rant calling upon the governor of a prison to produce a prisoner io his care at the bar of the House of Commons is one of those jevents which give to the world at
THE EUROPEAN TURNIP.
A Dangerona Debtors" Paychosis.
Writing in the Philadelphia Pic Ledger Garet Garrett
UKTA ———
What war did not consumie was
money. At the and there was a little more good money and lots more bad money than ever before in the world.
What does that mean! It means
that the Sporadic Monster called thing it made away with amps, war davonted only things. Every- berds, flocks, fleets, transportation, the output of mines, factories and laboratories working day and night-everything but life *** produced currently by human labour behind the lines." "Victory was bought and paid for every day, every boar, every minute, by the toil of bands. All that victory cost in this one great term of things had been paid in full the instant fighting ceased.
Then what of the debts-the large a conception of the majestic war debts-all that enormous in- authority of Mr. Speaker. Who shall deny," wrote a fervid bister-allied indebtedness which so Half a million dollars ought to torian of the office. "that Mr. many people now say ought to be take some spending. but the Speaker is, in esery secse in pad and soghow cannot be paid youthful bero of "Sherry." to which it were not treason to call the payment of which, says England, would be so great a day's attraction at the Coronet, him so, a king His kingship in hardship to mackind that she managed it without much effort. derived, no doubt, from the author would forgive gladly all who owe After he had presented his last ity of bis subjects of the House her if the American people would dime to the man who served him of Commons, but Mr. Speater's forget the eleven billions of with his last drink, he went out warrant is a potent weapon dollars abe owes to the United into the woods to recover from Far hack in the times of the
States Treasury? the effects of bis fina! celebra medieval Parliaments "the grand
These debts are merely the rio tion and to ponder over the past inquest of the pation" assumed ord of how and by whom great and the future. Chivalrously be the right of calling to the bar not quantities of things demanded by rescued a young lady in distress only its own members but every the Sporadic Monster were pro- and found that romance bad citizen, whether to give informsduced and delivered. It was come his way with adventure tion or to answer a charge; and the vital task of Governments to following close behind. How he from this there followed the right keep him supplied with things. pulled himself up with a round to imprison anyone who dis. The side that failed in this or turn and made her his is told in regarded the warrant. It is true
stinted him would lose the war, a story which, thoush the comedy that the House of Commons
Now, how did the Gorera. element predominates, is not damaged its own authority at one
ments obtain things? In without its touch of mystery and period or another by trying to
ways-by taking and by borrow- thrill.
strain its powers and to assuming. Each took what it could all the powers of a court of from its own people by taxation; justice.
each Government also borrowed from its owo people, thereby
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A certain coolness seems to creating internal debts. But bave been a distinguishing trait Governments borrowed heavily in the character of the Dukes of from each other too. and all of Devonshire (writes a correspon-them on the allied side borrowed Įdent), judging by an anecdote of
enormously from the United the first Duke, who ofered to States-borrowed The beautiful
things, pay his Sovereign "doable or money; things produced by Government House was filled to quits" for the amount of his fine. American labour from the earth, its ntmost capacity last right A worthy descendant of his was from under the earth. with fire when Mr. Eric Rice, assisted by the Duke of Fanny Burney's day and tools. And as Great Britain, Mrs. Gandy, gave a pleasing of whom the following anecdote France, Italy et al, borrowed and recital in aid of the Victoris is related in her Diary:-"The took these things away they left Diocesan Association Nanning Duke of Devonshire was standing bits of paperia the United States fund. Not a seat was vacant and near a very fine glass lustre Treasury denoting in theuniversal the large attendance must have in a corner of a room, at sign of dollars the value of the been extremely gratifying to the assembly by carelessly things borrowed, since it was organisers and entertainers, and tolling back, he threw the lustre understood that an equivalent of the amount raised on babalf of down and it was broke. He things would in due time be the fund abonld be an appreciable showed not the smallest concern thoughtfully provided at the close coolly said I wonder how I did indebtedness. They are only the ine has been restored entirely injuredly gasing it cannot per is of the recital and the function fibat He then removed to the measure of it. The actual in. there now are more ships than the voice of people wishing not to opposite corner, and, to show, I debtedness is for things produced before the war. In four years pay, people with a dangerous At the outset His Excellency suppose, he had forgotten what pe labur and borrowed from us in singe the armistice France, un debtor's mentioned that up to three days he had done, leaned his head intime of war: it can be paid only faided, has restored 80 per cent. of!" The Sporadic Monster is desd. 20 Mr. Rice bad been ill and the same manner and down came in an equivalens of things produc. her destroyed factories and all off America is already too rich and Mrs. Gardy had been suffering the opposite lustre. He looked led by English, French and Italian her railroads; eight-tenths of the ugly. Basides, thank God, Europe
returned.
sam. Light refreshments were or confusion at the accident, but These bits of paper are not the the world's merchant mar- of mind. And the voice of Europe
generally was most enjoyable.
from feser only that day. Nothat it very calmly and... merely labour in time of peace. withstanding this, however, they said, This is singular enonza!* bad pluckily come forward and and walked to other part of would do their best. In view of the room witboat... distress or the circumstances, His Ex- apology. ellency begged that the audience
psychosis,
thicking:
war-torn land has been restored is a turnip." And now when these countries to cultivation and nearly 90 per groan and say. "We cannot pay cent of the pre-war population
has returned to the devastated ANTI-BIRTH CONTROL PETITION. yon Americans the enormous Nams
A Japanese movement which you hold us for until Germany areas-all by the miracle off
the rups directly counter to French labour alone. would overlook any little short- It was rumoured the other day cannot pay when they say pays us, and Germany apparently
There was will to restore principle of birth control, has comicgs there might be on the that Lord Balfour wrote his famous that, what do they mean?
ship..
originated with Mr. Tetsukichi part of the entertainers.
Note on Reparations in bad, and
There is & will to
restore Nishiyama, Principal of the Im- Mr. Eric Rice is well-known since the death of Lord Northeliffe
Do they mean to say that in ten,
France.
perial Elementary School and to practically all lovers of
tirenty. forty years the people of it has
been stated that the Europa by their labour cannot pro-
There is no will to pay outland Kindergarten at Tokyo, and has classical music in this Colony,cheme of founding Answers was duce above the needs oftheir own
debis.
already won considerable support. his brilliant performances evolved under similar physical living a
No doubt there are many good It has for its object the present. quantity of things previous occasions
the conditions. Journalists, as a rule, equivalent
why
inter-alliedation of a petition to the Imperial to the icg shown him to be a pianist are not much indebted to this of things produced
quantity indebtedness should be wiped out Diet requesting some form of in born. Playing with the feelingrarce of inspiration, bat aseara Americans Above-political, social, economic and legislation in favour of the parents and touch of the polished moangthy list might be compiled of both the needs of their own liv. remantic reasons. That interns-jof more than three children. The. cian, he completely charmed his books which have
beeing and their own part in the tional debts cannot be collected ides that the promoters have in listeners with a number of gems written in bed, in whole war and delivered to the Allies? perforce would of itself be very mind is that the Government from Schumann, Scriabin, Chopin,
part. Thackeray To say that is
good reason. That these debts should be asked to exempt from Maurice Ravel and Cyril Scott description in "Pendennis" of
an absurdity.
bo paid 13 Do income taxes the parents of three It was a bat night and the large George Warringtod reading half heavy upon the ses and against bood W69 TOTT
erasion
It isn't children, and to assist with educ namber present intensified the
In four true. The old world's imminentation subsidias those who bare sultriness, but one forgot all that through the night his favourite France. But
poetry or mathematics" hardly years since tha
armistice or possible bankruptcy is a state more than five.
on
hav-
in cr
the moment Mr. Rice's fingers carries conviction. as one does not touched the keyboard. Everyone ordinarily associate physical com was spellbound till the last note fort with mathematical research. was played: and then appreciative There is, however, the historical applause, which was so enthus iastic at the conclusion of his last case of Descartes, who worked out the principle of co-ordinate
to give an encore.
WAS
item that Mr. Rice was induced geometry, and so paved the way for Newton's discovery of the Mrs. Gendy's contributions Calculus, while lying in bed lata consisted of songs in Italian.in the morning. There is a story French and English, all of which
of Rossini, the composer of were rendered with much charm
"William Tell." who and had a great appeal. 3be possesses s Bweet. well-trained addicted to the habit of working voice, clear as a bell, and admir-in bed, that while he was engaged on "L'Italians in Algeria" part ably suited to the type of songs of the score dropped from his sbe chose. "Ua Bel Di, Vedremo," from Mme. Butterfly hand and fell on to the floor. Rather than give himself the (Puccini), sad songs by trouble of picking it up be com.
Coleridge-Taylor
posed a new version, and had just
Debussy,
and Roger Quilter were
all much appreciated items. At finished it when a friend entered the conclusion of the recital Mrs, and restored the original man. Gandy lead the audience in the uscript. National Anthem.
PIRATE'S FEACE DISPLAY. A. Cherbourg message says that the submarine Roland Morrillot (an ex-U-boat caught in a net off Havre during the war) has effected a series of exercises at the mouth of the Boine, where it formerly operated as pirate.
The story has been quoted as a proof of Rossini's laziness, but it seems rather to suggest that mental and bodily. activity do not always go to- getber.
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