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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.
be in a majority" Bays Mr. Garvin, who adds that they will bo far from it under universal suffrage.
It is well-known that Mr. Bald- win and his supporters are staking much on the Do-Rating Bill, but opinion has boon freely expressed that that measure has been brought forward too late to have any mark- ed effect. Beyond that, Ministerial spokesman have had littlo to say of late, excepting to dwell on the achievements of the Governinent, to some of which they can with every justification point with pride. But, as Mr. Garvin says, there is no gratitude in politics, and this lino of talk le not likely to carry
much waight with the electorate. The publie is more interested in future probabilities and promises, than in past history, and the Party which puts forward the best and most rea- Boned appeal is likely to make the widest appeal.
DAY BY DAY.
MUCH ITS UTILITY. ALL DISPUTA TION MAKES THE MIND DEAF, AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE DEAF I AM DUMD.
Joubert,
THE PAIN OF DISPUTE EXCEED BY
The Bea Line s.s. Benalder, from Singapore, is due here on the 17th instant,
The P. & O. s.s. Karmala, from Hongkong, arrived at London on the 10th January at 2 a.m.
Hang development road construc- Tenders are invited for the Tai tion and contingent works.
ACROSS AMERICA. Feature of a Railway Trip.
Hormetically sealed, I travel granite cliffs are said to rise to through some two thousand miles a height of nearly, 8,000 feet. It of America's finest scenery.
I am a di@cult to bellove that they are aualed within a contrivanco of steel so high as this. But as a canyon and plate glass, within which are it is a very real one.. bunks, dining cars and so on. In tains and canyons, gulchce and many other people, also sleeping So through the long day. Moun short, it is a train, a very long rivers, with the scenic" attendant. trafa, on the Denver and Rio in the dining car tolling us all reasonable person should be a the Tennessee Pass, which is over Grande Western, which to any about it. We climb steadily up to name to confure with.
10,000 feet high-tho Continental In this immense and sinuous box Divide, Wo are on the Pacific of steel and glass, warmed by slope.
team, it is quite impossible to get Late that evening the scenic any fresh air. Negro Pullman attendant invites us Into the obser- porters are leagued together to vation car, where the lights aro provent any struggling and stifling turned out, We are passing George Francis Englishman popping his head out through the splendid canyon of the turned to the Colony, resumed duty like the open air, but they like it magnificent scenery faintly lit by Hole, RN. (Retired) having of the window. Americana may Colorado River, sixteen miles of as Harbour Master on the 14th in its proper place. They cannot a moon hanging somewhere behind Inst
stand it indoors.
one of the peaks. It seems to be
It is notified that,' His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions chall be held on Monday, the 21st inst.
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Commander
His Excellency the Governor has reappointed Dr. G. D. R. Black to be a Member of the Dental Board for a further period of
roport of the Committee appoint three years, * 2
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Captain A. J. L. Whyte, Royal Engineers, to be his Aide-de- Camp, and Mr. W. R. Scott to set as his Private Secretary.
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Thus one passes through the the perfection of all that canyons savage heart of the magnificent should be, and through it runs wilderness breathing an atmos-that same river which many hun- phere only at for orchids. One dreds of miles away flows through plunges through roaring canyons the Grand Canyon
It is tan-
and sees nature unfolding herself talizing not to be able to see more in her most majestic moods—and of what we are passing through. fools like a goldfish in a bowl of over-warm water. The hills roll by for hundreds and hundreds of
So into the night. I lie on a miles, but though they acoma near shelf, a broad comfortable shelf, enough to touch, one might be supplied with pillows, mattress looking at a coloured photograph. and the rest, within this flying box of steel and glass, and I realize vividly that through the hours of
Street Offences Law. Little exception can be taken to the ed by the Home Office to Inquiro into the law affecting street of- fonces, which, issued as a White Paper, appears elsewhere in this issue. It Icana towards modern opinion in pronouncing for the re- peal of the present law in Britain, and the substitution of a simple enactment impartial in the matter The forthcoming wedding is of sex, uniform throughout the announced, of Mr. J. D. Marques, country, and operating without clerk, Kowloon Docks, residing at labels of character for accused per- No. 11, Ashley Road, Kowloon, to groups of whom we pass from time have been doing all day-roaring I envy the gangmen on the line, darkness we are repeating what we sons. Generally speaking, the Miss E. M. de Souza Alvares, No. to time dressed in every variety through canyons, beneath the common-sense point of view has 29, Asliley Road, Kowloon,
of he-man costume. We pass by toworing peaks of mountains, over been taken, though wo feel the
in the wilderness, but they can bridges and turbulent streams, the Committee could have gone a tile
The fitting out of the 8.8. Op Leo feel it, and I can't. I want to cry searchlight on the great engine. further with general approval. THE COMING ELECTION. The difficulties are obvious, how- and the 8.8. Tai Lee with wireless aloud, "Air, air, my kingdom Tor picking out its way along the
Installation will be completed dur-some nir." over, and they have been content to ing the early part of next week, coloured porters, but it is no use. tumbled ranges.
I say as much to twisting patk through these- lay down general principles. It is thus bringing these vessels in line They don't understand a man who mostly downward now, and we Tho grade is pointed out, for instance, with re-
travel rapidly, swaying. One lies, Political circles at Home are at gard to the right of the public to with others on the river service.
There is, of course, the observa- tiny person, absurdly clad in "The Wolf's Trial" is the title of tion platform, but even if one Pyjamas, the present time greatly interested use the streets without having their sense of decency affronted, that In the forthcoming General Elee-what might affront or distress the the feature attraction to-day dur- obtains a seat on it, it is not prac- tion, which it is expected will take hypersensitive might merely amuse ing the 2.30 p.m. matinee perform-tical to travel day after day on the at the Star Theatre. To rear of a train, quite apart from place sometime during June. One difference to the callous. They morrow at 2.30 p.m. Sir James Bar- the matter, of coal dust which from Colorado into Utah, and
the cynical, or be a matter of in- ance state as their opinion, therefore, rie's famous story "Peter Pan" will that legislation to be effective must be screened. have regard to the sensibility, of the average man and woman. The recommendations are directed to this end, and it is inslated upon
of the most interesting features of the situation is that there will ap pear on the new electoral register some five million new women voters, and naturally there is considerable speculation as to how thesd
that the evidence of ono or more
wants air.
Sometime in the night we slip There toward noon run into Salt Lake
sprays from the engine. is lunch to be thought of, and City. Why, I do not quite know, dinner, also one decides to write bat this has always been one of The Observatory returns for De letters-and doesn't.
the names on the United States cember show that the average mean
Even if one has a privato com-nup which has most attracted mo. temperature was 65.6, the highest being 78.8 and the lowest 63.7.partment the problem is not solved.
It is very well laid out, with
are of the persons aggrieved shall be There were 216.8 hours of sunshine The porter, seeing that he has a broad avenues, In its late autumn likely to affect the political parties essential to a conviction for fre- whilst the rainfall was only 0,020- desperate caso to deal with, opene foliage it has rather a wistful air...... at the polling. Labour has been quenting, but "importuning" which inch. The averare humidity was a window wide and replaces It with I think the state Capitol is by far
spreading the idea that the bulk of these voters may be expected to
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a screen of fine mosh to keep out the most impressive sight. A fine some of the dust. Through this building, with its grent dome. by Police ovidence alone. The forty-first ordinary general the scenery appears as through The front facade faces the city. figure in its support, whilst fol- It might be argued that the op-meeting of shareholders of the smoked glasses. At sixty miles an The rear looks out onto a stark lovera of Mr. Baldwin have been ill large as the result of generalf- Agency Co., Ltd., is advertised to altitude the air rapidly becomes Back door in the wilderness.
portunities for individual error are Hongkong Land Investment and tour a gals comes in that sweeps piountain range, rising close t the compartment. At high hand. Front door in civilization, equally emphatic that, as women at the station with generally are conservative in out- I would rather run any risk attach-Jardine, Matheson & Co, Ltd., on pinching, one's Angers-and the ave minutes to spare. ing thereto, than agres to further Tuesday, February 5, at 12.30 steam heat soon makes the com-drive and lecture $2. look, it is reasonable to suggest a regulation of their lives, which are
partment too hot. The porter
Imagine strengthening of the Government already covered at almost every
declares that the heat is turned off,all about it for $21
seeing Salt Lake City and hearing vote from this source. The paint, and has largely been the
Tanders are being invited for but there must be a leak some cause of the increasing friction be
And so one wanders! The Southern Pacific takes us in opinion has been expressed by Mr. tween the public and the police. It the constriction of all necessary where Garvin, the well-known political is probable that a good deal of the embankments, cuttings and re-back along a quarter of a mile of charge and we proceed to Ogden, ground covered will be re-traversed talning walls, bridges, etc., for the swaying cars to try to find a place Utah's second city. Outside the commentator, that as most of the by the Royal Commission now in- first acction of the 10-foot path to on the observation platform,
station a photographer has a large new women-citizens are 25 and quiring into police methods, and Capo D'Aguilar Wireless Station,
However, it all passes the time, wide main street, which is closed tripod camera pointed down the a length of approximately and whenever we stop at a station by a high mountain over which over, they will vote in quite normal that the Home Office will awalt over
this further report before coming 1,000 yards.
I am out as soon as the portor: proportions, although as Labour to any decision regarding the re-
opens the door, to pace the plat-mist is swirling. It seems a very on the whole may be taken to recommendations.
*"The Way of All Flesh," a power- | form and breathe the air.
patient business. I loarn that he ful drama atarring Emil Jannings, present the larger families, univer-
A wonderful journey.
is doing this for the picture post- Pikes card industry. is being screened for the last time Peak is left behind and we go photo of Ogden was made a new Since the lost sal suffrage may give that Party a
to-day at the Queen's Theatre, south to Pueblo, to feel our way hotel has risen on the sky line, few more scats on balance. In the
Other films also having their final through the Rockies, Then showings to-day are "Safety Last right-handed turn and wo South and North, he thinke, the
a which puts provious records out of at the Star, and "On Your Tora" heading for the Far West.
are date. So this photographer has Conservatives stand to gain some-
at the World.
come all the way from Salt Lake thing by the new system, but it can
City to take another view, The mist clears slightly, he takes his by no chance become the docialvo factor.
On the general question of the probable outcome of the election, Mr. Garvin's deductions are not without interest. He thinks that, although factors may alter, present Bigns suggest that the Government will lose over a hundred scata-. that is their mafority-but he does not foresee a total debacle. Avail- able evidence suggests that the Con- servatives and Labourities may nearly tie at about 280 members
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Two lots of Crown land are to be offered for sale at the P.W.D. offices
Twenty miles or so past Pueblo vlow, and the new hotel is given
on the 28th Instant. Both are an amazing sight appears. It is a to fame. The artists will make up situate at Mong Kok Taul. They genuine cowboy, riding along a any deficiencies, he explains.” are Kowloon Inland Lot 2169 (area trail with an escarpment. of bare: For thirty miles the railway 2,146 square feet, upset price mountain as background. Soruns across the mysterious waters $4,830) and Kowloon Inland Lot picturesque does he look that one of Great Salt Lake. The water is 2170 (area 8.840 square foot, up-feels the railway company must a pearly blue. Nothing lives in it set price $13,260).
arrange for him to ride there' as except tiny shrimps. One cannot the train passes.
| see any shrimps, but on the water The engagement ja announced of The long train climbs steadily are many fat little birds of the Mr. Hugh N. Moran, Police Head-up into the mountains. Canon water-hen type. To the north and quarters, Hongkong, eldest.con of City comes (altitude 6,844 feet). west of us are high mountains, the late Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Moran Here is the state penitentiary of softened by haze. Travelling over of Liverpool, and Miss May A. Colorado; and this is where four the lake on, a train fe’an' experience Snook, youngest daughter of Mr. | prisoners, hidden up to now, get which one thoroughly appreciates. and Mrs. G. F. Snook, 22 Grange of. An open motortruck is wait-The Southern Pacific calls it "Go- Road, Canonbury, London, N. 1, ing and; handcuffed in pairs; the Ing to Sea by Rafi," a pretty Idea. The date of the wedding has not four climb in. They look very yet been fixed.
ordinary. Small stuff, a conductor) on the train tells me. The Under
George to have more than 50 united has the lead, North and South
The many friends of Dr. Eugene Sheriff climbs in behfud them. I We enter on the Nevada desertI followers, a position which would must win four of the five tricks, L. de Bouza, LMS, MB, BB. have seen the same sheriff on The beauty of that dosert in the
Lay out the cards on a table, as not enable him to hold the real shown in the diagram, Study the (H.K.) including a number of western films many a time, and am afternoon, the soft colours of rock arbitrating power for very long. situation and ace if you can find eminent local medical men, were glad to meet him. It is a casual and sand, sky and mountain! Veteran travellers in these regions Mr. Garvin thinks that the Con- a way for North and South to win entertained at a tea dance given party.
A few moments later we pass tell me that you soon get tired of on the roof garden of the Penin- servatives have been lacking in four tricks.
sula Hotel yesterday afternoon, the penitentiary. It looks plen-looking on deserts. They may be electoral sense. He contends that
The occasion was the birthday of sant, from the outside, though right, but I think it would take a they were returned to office by an
Dr. "Souza and, the guests num- behind it the bare flank of a moun-long time. Nevada, with an area The object in this problem is to bered over a hundred.
tain serves as one of the prison of 109,000 square miles, has a unexpected reinforcement of establish, with minimum loss, the
walls. Nobody could climb it. A population of only 77,407. Liberal votes, which they could strongest suit.
large Negro is serving water from They talk; of course, of irriga
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spring just outside the prison. tion, and some day, no doubt, these
| easily have held, but of which they | Weat wins with the king There-Almost invariably, when the ace He is a "trusty" serving a' long astonishing people will try to make
South leads a small club, which among all good bridge players, have lost the bulk owing to errors after, any lead by West will give and queen are in separate hands, sentence and is allowed to sorve this desert fruitful, as they have and omissions in domestic and North and South a trick in spades, and the Jing-jack-ten with the op- spring water to tourists, thus done others. I find no desire to foreign policy. They have harped one in hearts and two in clubs. If ponents, lead the neo and then a waves cheerily and grins to one of enterprise. The deserts are much making quite a fine Income. He wish them success in any such on the word "Conservative" in such West prefers not to play the king small card up to the queen. Or, as he attendants on the
of clubs on the first trick, North in this case, where the hand con-
train. too beautiful to be spoiled by Amorien should, cherish away 18 to offend the descendents then plays the queen. North next taining the queen has only one-ad-Things might be worse with him. rope of the old Liberal-Unionists who leads any card, South taking a ditional card of the sult, lead a when we roll through the Itoyal city parks you will see the sign There comes the great moment her wild spaces. In some of her have never accepted the name, trick each in spades, hearts and small card up to the queen before Gorge of the Arkansas, the deepest "Keep Off." I should like to lay "In the country, voting as a whole
leading the sce. By following this that is Great Britain and not lem is that South open with the tricks in the sult are considerably train stops so that we may alight on the Nevada Desert Collinson The essential point in this prob- rule, the chances of making two canyon through which any railway the foundation stone of an runs. For ten blessed minutes the immense sign bearing, that legend England only-Conservatives never amall club. The problem also sug-greater than if a finesse, or any to admire the view. There is alr Owen in the Christian Bolence: were, are not now, and nover will geste another point, and one known other means, is attempted.
as well as majesty. The red Monitor.
clubs.