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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1926.
PROTECT YOUR CAR the gront main roads of the by installing a country are some of the finost in *PYRENE" Fire the world. Nearly half of the Extinguisher. surplus has now boun grabbed" "PYRENE" will by the Exchequer to wipe off last kill firo without". year's deficit, and ono-third of the future income from motor
TARE TËLLI
Picens
DEMEN ZAMANI? | LONGTAE
damage to the engine, woodwork
or upholstery,! licences is going to be diverted to Wator spreads a general purposes instead of to a petrol fire; sand is speciál fund. As a sop to the
DAY BY DAY.
WISE MEN SAY NOTHING IN DANGEROUS TIMES.-Selden.
The weather forecast up to noon to-morrow, is-N.E. or variablo winds, moderate; overcast, rain.
PORTUGUESE CONSUE.
RAISED TO FIRST-CLASS RANK!
The friends of Senhor Cerveira de Albuquerque o Castro, Consul General for Portugal in Hongkong, and his colleagues in the Consular service will be glad to learn that
inofficient and will privato owner of a cur, the taxa/inchos. The total since January on the 2nd Inst, he was raised by
of action.
his Government to the position of First Class-Consul-General in the diplomatic service of Portugal.
The rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. to-day was 3.90 1st. is now 24.45 inches, against put the ongine out tion on heavy conuercial vehicles an average of 11.14 inches.
is going to be increased on tho "PYRENE" Exploa that those vehicles do not been said and writton on the sub- "Longevity. "So much has tinguishor is small in size, light in now pay oacugh, but that project that no useful purpose will The promotion is a well-deserved weight and easy toposal will, we imagine, only add be served by publishing your lot-one, and Consul-General Albuquer
to the chorus of disapproval.
haadio.
Ji
Ftor.
que is to be congratulated on the Taking the Budget as a whole. Marshal Sun Chuan-fung, ac- curfidence his Government has "FYRENE" doos not deteriorate and however, the main satisfaction to cording to Chinese sourcos, pro-reposed in him.' is always ready bo. gained is on account of the posos to have a network of tole- for use.
Keep
SECRETED' OPIUM.
OLD EXCUSE OF NO AVAIL.
The discovery of 118 taels of Illicit opium, concealed in the false bottom of a box, resulted in a fine. of $10,000 boing imposed on a Chinese before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morning. The value of the oplum
was $1,418.
The defendant was seen to come off a Macno boat on to the Wing." Lok wharf with a box, which was opened and searched. In the box was found a layer of paddy husk,
but a further search resulted in the discovery of a false bottom. under which the, oplum was found, The defendant said he was looks ing after the box for a friend, and denied all knowledge of the opium. He added that he came from the Dutch East Indies, and made the box at Mongkok. He put his be longings in the box on board the boat, but did not know the opium.
fact that Britain is stondily/Phono soryicos in the five provinSenhor Albuquerque proceeded acquaintance of the owner of the
ces under his jurisdiction.
It was in February, 1920, that from Kebe to Hongkong, where he "PYR-decrousing her national' debt,
has remained ever since, with two ENE" handy on Seventy-five millions annually
"Mr. John Bentley of the Union short periods of home leave in car and in garage. for the past six years is
Insurance Society of Canton ar- Lisbon, as representative of Port was there. un
rived by the Amboise yesterday gal in this Colony. Two years ago, achievement of which the counon transfor from Shanghai, e-Senhor Albuquerque became the MUSTARD & CO., LTD. try has overy right to be proud, companied by Mrs. Bentley. Doyen of the Consular Body in Hongkong, and holds that position at the present time.
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The Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1926.
BRITAIN'S BUDGET.
and Mr. Churchill's plea for poi-
Whon a Chinose ran from a severance in that direction will
verandah into the road at Queen's find a hearty echo in the minds Road West, ho was knocked down of all who look to the eventual by motor car No. 1077. He was' lightening of the taxation burden. sent to the Government Civil
Hospital. Only by paying can the burden of debt be lessoned, and it is us yroll that Britain, as a country, recognises that simple rulo.
The forty-fifth ordinary general meeting of the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., is advertised for Tuesday, May 18, at noon, to be held at the offices of Messrs. Jar- dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
It will be learnt with general satisfaction that the Portuguese community in Hongkong will not be losing Senhor Albuquerque's- services in the Colony, since in the official announcement of his pro- motion the gratifying news was conveyed that he will remain as re- presentative of Portugal here.
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statement, and was told that if he Accused was unable to prove his did not pay the fine he would have to go to prison for twelve months.
PORTUGUESE. BOAT'S MISHAP.
PICKED UP BY FRENCH
GUNBOAT.
It will be remembered that
We hear, from reliable sources, Senhor Albuquerque's father, the that the Portuguese steamer Nam late General Albuquerque, died last Wah, of about 300 tons dead- year. The deceased was
are-weight, locally owned by the Sing
tary-General for the Colonies in Fat Co., of Des Voeux Road Cen-
Lisbon.
J
FRENCH BUDGET.
ADOPTED BY SENATE.
tral, recently had an accident, not far from Touraine, in French Cochin-China, when she broke her | propeller axle. She is unid to have been adrift for two days until she was picked up by a French gunboat, and towed to the latter port.
It is stated that the French Paris, April 27,
Government at Saigon originally Except for one or two minor charged the Sing Fat Co., $60,000 modifications" which call for ad-for this service, but reports now to hand state that the authorities justment between the two Houses, have reduced their chargea to Whilst a Chinese youth was the Senate has adopted the whole $30,000. The steamer is reported playing at home with a detonator Budget by 274 votes to 7.-Router. to be still laid up at Touraine. it exploded and blew off two of his fingers. It is stated that the article was loft at the house by a man who called. The victim has beon sent to the French Hospital.
The Very Idea!
A teacher in a local school was there were many striking points in explaining sentence construction her lecture recently on "The Day- to her pupils. The topic went ehology of Infancy" at a meeting like this:
organized by the National Society of Day Nurseries.
The Betting Tax, Wo uro glad to see that a wavel The late Mr. John Bell Irving, The keenly awaited Budget of moral protest is developing at of Milbank, Lockerbie, Dumfries, Scotland, formerly of Hongkong Speech of Mr. Winston Churchill Home against the proposal to levy left property in the Colony to the has not disclosed anything very a tax on betting, because we think value of $1,713,300, in addition to startling. The Home taxpayer it is not in lino with ideal governa large estate in Scotland, is left practically where he was, ment to lovy a tag on what is an although there is the very open admitted ovil, unless the under-ting of a granite lintel at 199, Owing to the falling and split- throat that if there are costly lying idea of that tax is to bring Queen's Road West, it is report- |labour troubles, further taxation about a diminution of that evil. od that the building is unsafe. A will be necessary. In spite of We have no objection to a mild similar mishap occurred at 205 |Queen's Road West, where a national economy there is no flutter" and we are not posing intel in the kitchen broke in two. taxation relief, and, inasmuch as otherwise, but one of the most-to- Great Britain is still one of the bo-regretted post-war develop heaviest taxed countries in the
ments among the people of Great world, there will bo a large Britain has been the wholesale (section of public opinion against increase in betting on horse the absence of some burden. racing and football results. When tessening provisions. Had it not an individual does not gamble in been for the Coul Subsidy there sums more than he can afford to
The mistress of the Kwong would have been a slight crodit lose it is hard to rule against him,
but that does not alter the fact Yuen Co., of Bowring Street, was balunce on last year's working, that gambling is not ideal from fined $25, at the Kowloon Magis- but the deficit. has to be faced, the moral point of view.tracy" this morning, for exposing and it is very uncertain, To elevate it to the rank of a for sale tins of skimmed milk,! source of legitimate revenue for without indicating that the con- indeed; whether the $4,000,000 the country is, we think, a wrong tents were not to be given to in- balance which is budgetted proposal. As Sir John Simon puts fants. for next year will be large it, the taxation of betting would
A Chinese has been sent to enough to meet contingencies.be equivalent to an official impri-
matur on the practico. As regards the Government Civil Hospital The abolition of the Trude the objections of turf men and of suffering from injuries to the hood Facilities Act, on the ground that bookmakers and backers we are and body caused through being it has exhausted its usefulness, is not very much concerned, because tossed by a bull which he was it all amounts just to so much taking from an exorcising ground really a matter of form, because special pleading. We are also to a shed. The man is employed all the "key" industries, for the not in a position to express any by the Dairy Farm, at Pokfulam. protection of which it was opinion as to whether the costi
and trouble of collection would be
Much interost is being contred designed, are now 'protected."
worth the revenue, but we are in the farcical play, "The Perfect There will be some quiet smiling convinded that to tax betting Husband," which is to mark the at Mr. Churchill's sophistry that would be to drive it very much close of the winter socials ar farther underground' and to foreign manufacurers have paid breed wholesale law evasion, ranged by the St. Andrew's Young Men's Club, Kowloon. It is to the import duty on artificial silk Judging by the indications
take place on Friday, commen. cffers wireless in the kitchen as a ternative of obedience or of being and that the country has netted already received, it would seem cing at 8.30 pm., in St. Andrew's attraction, in addition to the usual
that there is a fairly solid
induements of good wages and Hall. |a clear £6,000,000, without making phalanx of opposition (from vary-
outings," any dearer the finery of pouring motives) and we hope that working girls," because even Mr. the Government will be guided Churchill isn't so foolish as to by public opinion and drop what is, at host,, a proposal of very beliove that foreign artificial silk doubtful benefit. manufacturers have paid that sum of six million without getting anything back for it. The girls' and others who have bought goods made of artificial silk have paid [To the Edito. of the Hongkong
Telegraph.] the money, and what is obvious
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is that they could have bought] those goods so much cheaper had thore been no tax,
We foresco
tremendous
CORRESPONDENCE.
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"A predicate is an absolute me cessity in a sentence, to make it complete. No sentence
can be More schoolboy howlers! given without a predicate."
A limited monarchy is govern- An unusually bright boy argued, ment by a king who in 'case of bank- the point with her, claiming that ruptcy would not be responsible such a thing was possible.
for the whole national debt.
"Very well, then," said the teacher, "give me a sentence with cut a prediente."
"Thirty days," was the reply.
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An advertiser for a house-par- lourmaid in Buckinghamshire
The Court of Chancery is called. this because it takes care of pro- perty on the chance of an owner turning up.
The Pilgrim Fathers were the parents of the young men who went to the Holy Land in the Crusades. A Papal Bull gave you the al- executed. Thus a bull put you on the horns of a dilemma.
John Wesley joined the Navy in 1779, and by degrees rose to be Here lies the body of Bille Duke of Wellington. Muah;
There were six cases of noti fiable disease during the week ended April 24, These were two, of small-pox (Chinoso), one diph- thoria" (Chinese), one" enteric scription.
British) and one each human He was killed by the mob in
His death is too sad for de-
and animal rabiòs. Thero wereush.
four douths from small-pox, all When he carelessly dropped his Chinese, and two deaths from prescription. rabios, both Chinoso.
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Womun at the Thames Court My husband is quite in good health when on the dole, but, he perspires
and trembles when anyone offers
him
work.
AYRSHIRE BURNS DINNER. HAGGIS ON A STRETCHER.
Daily Paper.
Woman at Feltham-I have be Ordors have been issued by the keeping house for my step-grand- Commissioner of Shanghai & father. Solicitor-Your what? Severely wounded, we prosume, Woosung Police to take precau-Woman-My grandmother's se- the abdomen. STEAMER EXCURSIONS."
tions against any trouble on cond husband,
He has Sir,-The one strange fact aris-Labour Day, May 1.
given instructions that any ing out of the suggestion made by
Willesden woman-Give my sig "Uncle Pete, how old are you?" ter-in-law a bottle of beer, a novel, "I'm close to a hundred, son, and a nice fre, and that is alt
it howl."
Four large volumes were requir "ed to contain the will of a woman
who died recently in London..
A Fife choir hád a most unex¬" pected counterblast, which well-
forthcoming concert. nigh upset their practice for
hubbub over the proposal to tab oInvigorating" that steamer ex-attempt on the part of the students] one-third of the motor taxes from cursions would be a boon to resid/or workers to hold mass meetingseid Chiggersville's oldest inhabi she wants, and' very nice, too. I
or to distribute inflammatory tart. tho special Road Fund and divert ents in the Colony during the heat literaturo"
must bo forcibly "Bon using tobacco all your checked. the money to the general funds of the summer, and at the same
life, haven't you?" time provide something for Idle of the national exchequer, re-river steamers to do, is that no-one
Dr. Gustav John Ramstead, ten years old I'd never had a chow "No, son. Up to the time I was cause motorists will contend that appears to have thought of it before.
For this fact it is easy to pardon Minister of Finland in Tokyo, ar- in my mouth." the money raised to pay for the the residents themselves, but there rived in Peking a fow days ago wear and tear of roade should be appears to have been n deplorable and expocta to stay until about epent on the upkeep of the roads. Lack of foresight on the part of the ond of this month. He, it is. If the baby wants to howl, let The fact that the Road Fund has local companies in the past. Pos-learnt, has undertaken this visit
"If baby wants to take risks (of "Gae, bring tae me a pint of wine,
They had just begun to rehearsed sibly the respective managers house in connexion with the contom-
perhaps) an accumulated surplus of £19-themselves in un ice-chest in the platad ebnclusion of a commersial breaking its neck,
when, from the lesser hall, where treaty hetween China and Fin- Parents must allow it to do so, a temperance meeting was being |000,000 only proves that the fund months that count;
has not been administered freely To express full accord with land. Dr. Ramstead, who, is a 'safety frat policy is apt to kill held, there came the immediata, onough. No-one who has had"Invigoratinga" vlcwe would to well-known philologist, undor- the spirit of adventure and weaken reply, "Yield not to temptation.”
large extent be superfluous, for stands some 40 different lan the desire for achievment experience of some of the roads I cannot imagine the likelihood of them Quently, Among other of London's women doctors, the law that bears hie
guages and speaks more than 10
So says Dr. Evelyn Saywell, ong Andrew Volstead, author of in England would daro argue that of opposition. Yours, ote.,
languages, he is specially in
Incidentally Dr. Evelyn la receg it needs teeth, and the cynics the standard is high enough, al
WILTING: torosted In the study of Mongo-nized as one of Britain's loading retort that its lack though it is perfectly true that
lian/
authorities on child welfare, and teeth has long been apparent
Hongkong April 28th, 1926.