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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1926.
THE THEATRE MELEE. EGYPTIAN POLITICS.
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and the two Gill girls, remarking. that the very presence of the girls was sufficient to provoke Mrs. Gill.
Coming to the others; his Wor ship found that Bird. Gill and Miss Sequeira each in turn provoked the other, but he did not propose to go into the question of merits. In order to prevent a recurrence he would bind them both over on per-
ZACHLUL PASHA ELIMINATES HIMSELF.
London, June 4 The prompt deference of the Egyptian Nationalists to British representations, inducing Zagblul it withdraw, is regarded in London is considerably easing the situ ton, though the newspapers polst out that Zaghlul can still wield
nidjority:
INTERPRETER ACQUITTED.
CHARGES OF FALSE PRE- TENDES UNSUBSTANTIATED.
Charge of obtaining sum of $13 and 20 bytes of false firetonces, which ware brought against Chu Wing-ki, probitbody interpreter of the Sanitary Department, before Mr. J. HL B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistrusy yesterday afternoon, were dismissed without the defence
sonal bonds of $100 Bach to Rean Fower through a Parliamentary being called upon to open its caso.
the peace for six months..
With regard to Mr. Gill, ho desired to say that He found nothing against him nothing which reflected any discredit on his
character.
More Serious,
He was inclined to take a more serious view of the case against Barros Accepting as he did the evidence of Mr. Gill, coupled with that of the ticket collector who noticed the excitement of Barros, his. Worship considered that after leaving the theatre Barres deliberately tried to enlarge the incident.
Adly's attitude on the four ré- servations Is awaited with interest
Reuter,
A SAFEGUARDING FIASCO.
AMERICA'S LOOPHOLE FOR
HER CAMERAS.
How, America has evaded the duties on cameras friposed by the Safeguarding of Industries Act is revealed in a Board of Trade Committee report. v
The defendant was represented by Mr. D. McCallum, who submitted that ho had no caso to answer on the first count as there was no evidence relating to that particular date. With regard to the second charge, the evidence was stronger, but the complainant had said that he had given tho money to his foki, who was not called by the prose cution as he had returned to the country,
Mr. McCallum on behalf of his client donied that the man over received any money from this foki. The absconded man was the person who had received thé money and benefitted by it. It was not possibly due to de-
In the first quarter of 1921-
His Worship found that there pravity of his nature, but was due to his excitement. When he the year when the Act was passed was no case on the first charge. thought that Mr. Gill was in the nearly 125,000 cameras were on the other count, he found that wrong he was determined to follow imported from the U.S.A. and the defendant had received the him home. He must have known none from Canada. In the fourth money on the second occasion, but that Mr. Gill was a worthy citizen quarter there were 2,103 from there had been no evidence of and it was wrong to pursue him in Canada, the total from America false pretonces. There was there- that manner. What he did, pro-for the year being 300,361,
fore no case to answer.. voked a breach of the peace, and
The defendant was accordingly he would also have to sign a bond
acquitted on both counts. of $100 to keep the peace for six months.
In 1925 the imports were respec- tively; from U.S.A. 66,395; from Canada 387,870.
The mystery of the change-over Mr. Hugh Jones queried whether has been solved by the Committee. his Worship's decisions amounted By a clause in the Act, if 25 per to any of the parties being convict-cent. of the value of cameras im- ed, and after some discussion it ported from Canada is the result was decided to register no convic of Canadian labour, such goods tions against anybody.
The summonses therefore" were damissed, the orders against Mrs Gill, Miss Sequeira and Barres being effective under the Magis trate's powers...
THE PORTUGUESÉ GOVERNMENT.
HOW THE TRIUMVIRATE
ENDED.
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enter this country free.
"Advantage has been taken of the 25 per cent. basis to import through Canada American goods apon which only the necessary minimum. of Canadian labour has been expended.to permit of duty-) free entry," the Committee state.
To prevent this they recommend. that to qualify for free entry the proportion of the value of the "goods to be made in the Empire should be raised from 25 per cent. to 75 per cent."
50. Per Cont. On Value.
On optical glass, optical ele London, June 4.
ments and optical instruments, the According to the Times corres Committee recommend that the pondent at Lisbon, the change of duty be continued and the rate in-.. the Portuguese Government from creused from 93 and a third to 50 Atriumvirate was due to General-per. cont. ad valorem. Comes Costa, then at Oporto, issuing an order to the army de claring that he did not agree that the new Ministry, would continue in the van of a movement which was purely military.
Cabecadas thereupon telegraph ed to Gomes Costa for an interview, and they met in the outskirts of Lisbon-Reuter.
FRANCE'S FINANCES.
3:
POSITION NOT AS BAD AS EXPECTED;
Paris, June 4. Heard by the Finance Committed of the Chamber, M. Raoul Peret de clared the Government would con- tinue to defend the franc.
He pointed out the position of the Treasury was normal; the maturing of three billion francs of short-term bonds, falling due on May 20, having required only one million payment out of the addi- tional taxes yoted last December.
The total of banknotes in cis culation is by five billions of francs below the level provided: The total advances of the Banque de France to the Treasury leaves a margin of 1,800 millions below the limit authorized.-Havas.
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Lenses forming part of optical instruments should be regarded as separate articles for duty purposes and component parts of dutiable optical instruments should be also! dutiable.
articles in
The duty on othe the schedule should be continued.. These articles Included;
Scientific glassware, scientific instruments, wireless valves and vacuum tubes, ignition magnatos; mettalic tungsters, and synthetic organic chemicals. A minimum period of five year for the continuance of safeguard- ing is recommended, with the sug- gestion that ten years would be preferable...
The Committee which heard an application that the Act should apply to worsted fabric find that the.applicants have failed to make a case for the imposition of duty.
But if say the Committee, in the future there was increased un- employment by reason of the cur-) rency depreciation causing in- creased retention. of imports a duty of 12 per cent. would be sufficient protection for the trade. The Committee, considering the application of
enamelled hellow-ware trade, decided that no case had been made out.
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