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DAY BY DAY.
THAT ALONE BELONGS TO YOU WHICH YOU HAVE BESTOWED.- Vemuna,
MR. CHURCHILL'S BUDGET.
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Captain F. G. Hyland, M.O, of five, regardless of their private promoted Major. the Royal Engineore, has been means, Uninsured persons alig
Iblo for pension at soventy years will also be relieved of restrictions regarding their means.
Lieut. J. A. Chestor, R.A., who neo taken on the local Commands arrived by the B.s. Nagoya, has
ing with the outbreak.” Although there was a altor bad near the scene, the level of this was | practically that of the house, tho gravity of the flow thus being in suffioiont to give the required head of water. Even when other mains and hydrants in the vicinity wore shut off and pros suro divorted to the particular Portable hydrant used by the firemen, the
sixth on earned incomos instead By allowing a rebate of ong- Typewriter same insuflicioney of pressuro
of one-tenth, as at prosent, in- with the was apparent. This fact demon- During the absence of the would bonofit by approximately comes under a thousand storling Standard strates that what the Peak needs G. OO. in North China, Llout sixpence in the pound and smaller
Col. F. 8. Montague Batesincomes by much more. keyboard is small hand-driven equipment assumos command of the Garrison
I which could be taken right up to in Hongkong. .-.
A NEW TAXES. "Nothing the hydrants. to learn
The silk forwarded from horo would bring in an estimated sur- Tho proposed new taxation There are many other points by the Empress of Russia on the plus of £36,830,000. It included in connection with possible Peak 3rd April arrived in New York revenue from the duty on silk, a fires which might be commented April, having been 22 days in years at four pounds sterling a (St. John's Park) on the 25th duty on imported hope for four upon, but we hope sufficient has transit.
hundredweight, the roimposition been said to illustrato the need a
of the MoKonna' duties as from of the whole question being and Company; has reported to the death duties. The new taxation Mr. Gordon, of Messra, Carter July 1st, also the increase in thoroughly gone into. This is police that a leather suit case, would yield £10,230,000, bringing a matter which tho Feek containing money, jewellery and in a surplus of £36,830,000. This Realdents Association, and pro-clothing to the value of $774, was new taxation should yield twenty
stolen from his room yesterday millions after the current year, bably the fire insuranco com morning.
Ho would proposo legislation panies as well, might take up
following the rosolutions of tho with the Government. Tha Peak:
Major U. T. M. Smith has boen Imperial Economic Conference MUSTARD & Co. Inc. can no longer be isolated in the ant of the 5/2nd. Fonjabi Regi- of the Empire Governments traŭ- appointed Officiating Command- of 1923. concerning the liability mattor of adequate fire-fighting mont vice Lieut,-Col. MoG. ing or owning property in Britain, apparatus. The time for davis.Withers, who has been appointed and legislation for income tax ing proper means of coping with Command, India.
Officiating A.Q.M.G., Northern relief in favour of the High Com- missionera residing in Britain outbreaks has arrived,
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HONGKONG, 29th April, 1925.
Baces which
Germ Marvels,
A Peking tologram to the Daily The duty on silk should produce Bulletin says it is reported that four millions in the current year Liang Shi-yi will be appointed and seven millions in the full year. Chairman of the Financial Re Natural, artificial and semi-man- To the layman who reads about habilitation Committee, which ufactured and manufactured silk medical discoveries, it appears will readjust financial affairs would be taxed on a scale, not ad that the marvels of germ-life are between the Central Government valorem; but made-up silk must be a never-ending source of inspira and the provinces.
taxed ad valorem. The basic-rate tion for investigators, with the
of the silk duty would be four
déngue. This should be good
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SPURIOUS MONEY.
ALLEGED ALTERATION OF BANK NOTE,
possibility of new achievements In connection with a recent shillings a pound weight of raw always acting as an incentive highway robbory in which two silk. To us in the tropics, whore women were held up and dis-
The ad valorem duty on made- disease plays a more deadly part possessed of their personal up silk and artificial silk would be than in temperate regions, the
Two cases of attempting to trinkete in Victoria Road, the thirty-three per cent. The silk utter spurious money came up interest in the lateat advances police have made the arrest of duties are to oparata from July 1st. before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at made by scientific research three coolies who are alleged to In the case of artificial silk, the Kowloon Magistracy this workers must be all the greater. have taken part in the robbery.
countervailing duty was necess morning, when Mr.J.M. d'Almada We are sure, therefore, that our
ary on the very large volume of Remedios appeared to represent readers, will be much interested. PEAK FIRES
Six men, variously armed with homo production, but in calculate the defendants in both cases, in what promises to be a most revolvers, daggers and sticks, ing the countervailing duties there important discovery in the treat-
The frat case mentioned was" ment of malaria, and its preven-yesterday stopped a coolie in the would be deliberately given a in connection with the utforing Luckily, outbreaks of fire in tion by incculation with employ of the contractor Tung certain advantage to the home of a $10 bank note, forged ta Tai, in Bowen Road near the Big producer in view of the fact that represents $100 note, at a the Peak District are few and far prepared serum,. which is just Rock, and relieved him of a sum it might lead to a certain decline piece goods shop in. Yauniati
announced by a medical practi: between, but when they do occur tioner in the Federated Malay of $100 which he was taking to in consumption.
The defendant is alleged tob pay the workmen's wages. No they serve to point the noed States. Incidentally, the new
have purchased $10 worth of for the provision of batter fire-lines of the recently-perfected vine
theory follows the remarkable Arrests were made.
goods and received 890 change. Ho was later arrested on the fighting arrangements than at treatment of paralysis by deliber Having witnessed the screening
Mr. Churchill said he proposed complaint of the master of the present exist. Yesterday's con- ato infection with malaria germs. of The Green Goddess" at the to give effect to the British Gov-shop.
Seemingly we are only at the World Theatre last night, we can Conference of 1923, so far as they Remedios, the defendant was re- ernment proposals at the Imporial On the application of Mr. flagration brought forth many threshold of research, into the commend it to the public as a points in this connection, but the possibilities of the germavereus, picture well worth seeing. It is did not involve any new addi-manded until Monday. Bail war most important of all, it seems to germ treatment, for this latest finely produced, is full of exciting tional duties on food. He propos granted in the sum of $5,000. us, is the necessity of a Peak discovery in the cure of malaria incidents and the stage effects ed to remove the existing duties BUS DRIVER CHARGED
consists of Infection with are most striking, In addition to an Empire dried fruits and in-
A bus driver in the employ of Sub-Station, replete with appli- milder tropical fever, and one which George Arliss and Alice case the preference on Empire the Kowloon Motor Bus Company can be rapidly that is just as common in Joyce are real powerful acting fourth of the full duty. He pro- possession: 13 counterfeit ton-cont tobacco from one-sixth to one was charged with having in his moved to spots which are not some- districts-nono other than very clever and powerful actingposed to increase the preference pieces, with intent to utter them. Four of the five natives whe two-thirds, and increase the pre- the defendant. He was arrested on heavy wines from one-third to The coins were discovered on equipment. It has to be remem dengue, as it suggests future stowed away from Mauritius on ference in the surtat on sparkling on information received. bered that the Peak is now quite possibly it might be said that inst., were each sentenced to two cent. Furthermore he desired to until Monday on $2,000 bail.
immunity from malaris, and bourd the 6.8. Surat on the 17th wines from thirty to fity por Defendant was also remanded & thickly-populated locality, hay dengue is to be courted rather days' hard labour, by Mr. E. W restore for a decade the preference ing enormously expanded in re-than avoided. "
Hamilton at the Kowloon Magie-on sugar to the level at which it cont years, and it is no longer The New Theory.
tragy this morning. The first stood before the reduced duty last oppose the rebates, which were defendant, who, since the last year. Those preferences would not of a protective character, but right that it should be depondent, The discoverer of this latest bearing, had fallen ill, was order oparate from July 1st, and cost Mr. Churchill's duties were in cases where outbreaks occur curative treatment is Dr. R. E.ed to be released to-morrow after £1,470,000 this year and £1,720, protective, and consequently in- on upper levels, on equipment Iogram-Johnson, and he sets out repatriated at the expenseal to 000 in the full year.
vited strenuous opposition.de which is housed miles away and of Tropical Medicine. It
his experiments in the Journal repatriated at expense of the
The duty on hops would be sub- Mr. Lloyd George similarly agents.. appeare which, in any event, is largely that he has tosted hie theory
jout to the Dominion preferential regretted the revival of a contro Tebate of ane-third. webtu Having defeated S. C. Kwok by He remarked that the Budget congratulatory, pending closer unsuitable for work in this thoroughly, and it seems that
versial issue, but was generally there is no doubt that infection 1,001 to 809 in the local billiards did not include provision for the examination of the proposals. region.
with the true type of dengue championship, P. Yvanovitch has intor-Allied debt repayments to Reuter At yesterday's fire, the Brigade's results in ouring malaria and qualified to meet J. A. Osmund Britain, but he was budgetting
EFFECT ON EXCHANGE motor-pumps had to be left at farther attacks. For the purpose witch's highest broak was 52 and from Germany, whereas twolve conferring, immunity against in the challenge round. Yvano- nine and a half millions sterling
London, April 28. the top Poak Train station, aftor of his tests, the doctor obtained a Kwok's 47, but the winner can do millions had boon received underment is reflected in the foreign Mr. Churchill's Budget state- boing takon up to the higher blood serum from patients suffer much better than this, and bis this head yesterday.
ing from real dengue fever, and meeting with Osmund is sure to a circuitous route, inoculated various persons, who produce soma sparking play. Theclared that he was making sharp apprectation of sterling on Concluding the Chancellor de exchange market. There is a where they perforce remained showed remarkable results in challenge round is to take place allowance for remissions of New York, the dollar rate closing idle. This me, incidentally, recovering from malaria, losing this evening, at the V.R.C., in two taxation in the Budget, and value of the pound to 19/101
at 4.8316, bringing the purchasing the enlargement of their spleens sessions, commencing at 6 o'clock balancod the revenue at £80 A New York message BAYS quito apart from ther considera-in a short period, and becoming and at 9 o'clock, respectively, 060,000 and the expenditure at tions, that if a big blaze broke immune to the extent that they
£799,460,000, rot erving a surplus sterling earlier advanced 7/8th out in the down-town districts could roside in malarious MAJOR ZANNI'S NEXT FLIGHT of £1,660,000 for contingencies. cents, to. 4:82.7/8, a new high there would be a marked defici precautions, yet keep free from in Victoria, B.C.. by Major emphasising the non-class and
districts, without taking any According to a statement given he sat down, after a peroration AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,
He was warmly cheered when record since 1915 Reuter ency in available fire-fighting the infection. Dr. Ingram Patricio Murphy, of the Argentine non-party nature of his proposals, equipment to deal with it. So Johnson think that the Legation in Tokyo, Major P. Laiming at apportioning the bur-arranged with the other reserva
New York, Aprif28. far as the Peak itself is con- theory that the debgue farm is on his flight across the Pacific on of the Indder of wealth, liberating million dollars- gold at the dis results are oxplained by the Zanni, will leave Minato, Japan, dens proportionately to the ascent banks to place two hundred corned, there should be a pro-an ultra-microscóple organism May 1st Major Murphy, who had the production of now wealth postl of the Bank of England, if perly.constituted Sub-Station, in which has resulted from the charge of the plans for Major from the shackles of taxation, desired, in connection with the oharge of European firemen malaria
sucoessive dogederation of the
germ; and that the Zaoni's fight from Amsterdam and promoting contentment and establishment of the free gold with small hand-driven pressure spirogbaotos found in the blood to Japan last year, in making the stability, in order to make market in Britain, or p pumps of a type which can be of dengue sufferers is merely an advance arrangements for the Britain truly the home, of all its It is understood that a further easily moved about. There are Borum be used for his inocula
intermediate stago. The blood remainder of the flight.
million will be supplied by many auch machines on the tions showed no signs of gorms
THE HOUSE AGREES.
Morgan's, Reuter's American. Service market, including motor-cycle or spirochaetes, yet evidently be estimated. When we recall
London, April 28,
Now: York, April 28 equipment and lightweight motor infection. If this discovery should have followed seemingly small to all the Budget rosolutions, bounded upwards, mostly reach- contained an organism of dengue the great achievements which The House of Commons agrood All British securities have enginen, the operating costs of prove to be well established, who discoveries in the laboratory, after brief speeches by Mr. ing record levels, upon the which are low and the storage knows but that we are about to and the wonderful work which Snowden and Mr. Lloyd George, announcement of the restoration.
see the actual mastering of medical science has accomplished, accommodation for which would malaria, a discago which has done recently in overcoming disease, thunder for the protective duties marked 4/8333-Reuters Amorí. The former reserved his of the gold standard. Sterling is occupy very little space. Yoster-more to set back the development we can easily realise how epoch-which he declared the Labourites cal Service,oran day another point was strongly of tropical countries that any making those researches by on would repeal at the first oppot Melbourne, April 28. brought out-namely, insuffic thing else, and which has caused ordinary medical practitioner in turity (Opposition ohoors,)As Mr. Bruce has announced the an economic loss in life and ex-an cut-of-the-way part of the regards Imperial Proforence, the removal of the embargo on tho lency of water pressure for deel-penditure of money which cannot Malay States might prove to be. ex-Chancellor said he did not export of gold. Router
lovels by
people. Reuter.
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