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A RECENT WILL
ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. SCRUTTON ROBERTS
Mr. S. Scratton Roberts, late of "Cranford," Russell Road, Clactons on Sea, Essex who died at the Brompton Hospital, Fulham Road, In submitting the Supplemen-Middlesex, on October 30, that year, tary Appropriation Bill, to the left. net personalty in England to Legislative Council yesterday the value of £8,684 12s 8d. while afternoon the Colonial Secretary Hongkong catale amounts to 88,000. gave some very interesting figures
Re-sealing of probate has bean showing not only an improvement granted to Mr. F. L. Christie, of in the Colony's, revenue but a con- the Hongkong branch of the
Bank siderable decrease in expenditure. Chartered
of India, He regarded the outlook as hope Australia and China, who is the ful and looked forward with con-attorney of the widow, Mrs, C Adence to the future. Towards Roboris, of "Cranford," to whom, the end of last year the tide began with the exception of a legacy to to turn, and the improved political his father, the late Mr. Roberts Another conditions have continued to show berueathed, everything,
effect on the trusted and Execitor appointed a favourable
was the Royal Exchange Assurance Treasury revenue ever since
The Colonial Secretary moved Corporation, London, but they have the first reading of a Bill intituled renounced probato. An Ordinance to authorise the Ap- propriation of a Supplementary Sum of Thred hundred and eighty-ton Account a list of public works seven thousand five hundred and which have hot-been carried out. ninety-nine Dollars and thirty- but they are not the urgent ones three Cents to defray the Charges and can wait for better times. of the year 1927. He said:
The list doon not in any way mean By Your Excellency's command, that this hard-worked Department I riac to move the first reading of a Bill to authorise the appropriation has been lille Important work con- of a supplementary sum of $387,-tinually appears necessitating ro 599.88, to defray the charges of arrangement, and the final saving the year 1927. Financial minutes on Public Works Extraordinary total vote of to cover the details of this sum was $789,878 on a have already in the course of 1927 $8,700,264. received the approval, of the The Public Works Loan.
Committee and
Finance
by
haye Legisin-
adopted been tive Council on report
And even this saving is protect- ined against the criticisms annually the usual form. The Financial levelled at the Public Works De- minutes of the year are not con- partment for the items which are fined to this total: a complete list entered on the estimates at the be
is to be found in the column of ginning of a year and remain the Draft Appropriation Account undone at the close, for in 1927 under the heading "Provisionally less than ever does the list of voted," but tho sanction by works left over ropresent a con- Ordinance for a Supplementary servation of the time and energy of Department Appropriation is required only for the Public Works
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- LAW TO PROTECT JAPAN'S CONSTITUTION:
the sums by which each head of ex-staff, Urgent matters, connected
SAVE YOUR CHILD exceeded, with the housing of the Shaforce PRESERVING PEACE. penditure has been Finance Committee is consulted more than took the place of the
The Tortures of Teething. and financial minutes prepared, for items postponed, and credit is due
Many little children endure mis expenditure which can be met by to the Department for the efficient
eries when teething. In the hops transfers between the sub-heads manner in which it assisted in rush of extra
of easing these sufferings some under a hend of expenditure but in tackling this
without too great an these cases no further Legislative work
Tokyo, June 28. parents unwisely administer teeth- with its own called for. Many interference-
After a prolonged and heated ing powders, sleeping draughts, or authority is
Moreover, financial ntinutes are, therefore, more regular, duties.
debate the Privy Council by a vote of soothing mixtures, all of which not included in the total now dealt the work on the Shing Mun Valley 13 to 5 passed the Peace Preserva contain poisons, are therefore in- with. Further, as there may be Scheme did not stand still, but a savings under many heads, the you, Sir, explained last year, the tion Law as revised by the Cabinet, jurious, and only give temporary Supplementary Appropriation Bill expenditure is chargeable against The revision is expected to be pro
healthy sleep. Ordinance to-morrow.
The right treatment when your dock not necessarily mean an add-the Loan Account and no longer mulgated in an urgent Imperial relief by inducing unnatural, un-
Henceforth persone organizing tion to the originally estimated ex-appears as a charge against the penditure for the year, but may be ordinary revenue,
The Public Works Loan was duly or leading secret associations aim-child is suffering during the tooth- only a re-arrangement of a part of
floated last autumn and the suming to change the fundamental ing period is provided by Baby's the appropriation.
We are fortunate in being able to sought, $3,000,000, was very easily constitution of Japan aro liabio to Own Tablets, for these Tablets say that that is the position for found, and the revenue is therefore capital punishment, while the other are guaranteed to contain not and are 1927; and a reference to page 2 of relieved to this extent of expendi-members of such associations are one atom of narcotic or other in-I
ture for the special objects to liable to a minimum of two years' Jurious, ingredients; the Treasurer's report, circulated which the Loan is to be applied, penal servitude.
Persons, forming or joining shaolutely safe even for the Draft Appropriation But that is almost entirely a mat- secret associations aiming at the youngent Account will show the principal ter for 1928: 1927 was affected to destruction of private property or
with the
æd.
heads under which savings have the extent that the $1,948,621.03 the curriership eyeten are punish: BARVS OWN TARLETS been made, and that these savings previously expended on the Shing able with a minimum of 10 years' more than balance the supple- Mun Scheme was not refunded to
or most delicate infant. 'Yet they: Imprisonment.-Reuter, mentary appropriation for which revenue from the Loan as it might
The action of the Privy Council allay the child's sufferings from legislative sanction is now request-have been. The financial position is the outcome of the determina tho first dose-almost as if by made it possible for Governmenttion of the Government to prevent magio-and then the little one to delay demanding the refund. the spread of Soviet influence to drops off into a calm, refreshing, Revenge Exceeds Expenditure.
which was, therefore, also left Korea. A message dated the 12th
inst, stated that the Chugai and natural sleep, from which It The Treasurer's Report gives the over for consideration in 1928.
Towards the end of last year the Miyako were frankly fearful that awakens bright and well, ready for necessary detailed explanations connected with the revenue and ex-tide began to turn towards better unless Japan took timely action to a meal.
It is by their gently beneficenti penditure, and I will not deal times, and the improved political forestall Feng Yu-hsiang and the further with them; but I would conditions have continued to show Soviet's attempts to Bolshevise action on the stomach and bowels, draw your attention to the figures, favourable affect on the Trea-Manchuria, trouble was likely to and thus on the nervous system,
sury revenue ever since,
spread even to Kores, as alleged that Baby'e Own Tablets give such altempts are already being made immediate comfort and help to to atir up malcontent Koreans.] little sufferers. They have saved
at the top of page 5 of that report which reveal the fact that in 1927,
Colony's Position Sound. revenue, for the first time since
At the end of 1927 the surplus The 1928, exceeded expenditure.
lives,Your many children's surplus reached the total of $499,- of assets over liabilities was
Peking, June 28. chemist sell them, or post free at 471, whereas it was estimated at $0.986,761.57, as against $3,486,200
Chow Chich-chun, the new chief 60, cents the vial, from the Dr. the beginning of 1927 that we at the beginning, and the liquid should have to face a defelt of assets had increased by the same of the stamp tax bureau, has issued Williams' fedicine Co., 60, Kiang- $1,307,805 at the end of the year: margin from $1,400,000 approx-a proclamation repudiating the old se Road, Shanghai. The total revenue shewed an in-imately to $1,900,000 approximate-revenue stamps. This is falling crease over the estimate of $337,- Your statement, Sir, on the heavily on the merchants and shop- 189 only, but the expenditure was parallel occasion last year, that keepers who have numbers of them $1,469,027 below the estimate, and the Colony's position is sound, has, in stock-Reuter,
therefore, been further justifled ---
economy was therefore the prin by the results of the working of stitutes a tribute to Bir Cecil Cle- cipal factor in the final surplus: 1927. The outlook is still more menti, to his continued efforts for While great efforts were made to hopeful, and we have better ground restore that political peace, which for looking with confidence to the the restoration of normal com- mercial relations and to his sound is essential to the trade and the future. But It still remains true and economic administration of financial prosperity of the Colony, that the most careful economy fathe Colony. (Applause). a close watch was kept on expen-essential and will be essential for diture to avoid any further some time to come. We are, how- encroachment on the Colony's ever, making heallway and are reading of the Bill, surplus balances and the strictest justified in the hope that the worst and the Bill was read a first time. economy was enforced so far as it of the storm has been safely: did not involve loss of efficiency, weathered. And the manner in There is in the Draft Appropria-which it has been weathered con-
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