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and tear it causes the roads; but' the fact must not be overlooked that car owners do not all so their vehicles to the same extent. For example, an owner with a seven-seater car may only use it at week-ends, whilst the man with
a
runabout may be driving it every day of the week. Yet tho
of taxation, pays a much heavier aum by way of licence fee.
Obviously, the fairest method of taxation is to put a tax on petrol, for by this system the motorist's contribution would bear an exact relation to the extent to which he makes use of the roads. That is the system which we should like to see la force here in Hongkong, and it is one which motorists, generally consider to be the most equitable. It le generally con- ceded that for the average motor ist the existing taxation is not unduly heavy, but a much fairer method of levying the impost could
be devised, along the lines we have suggested. The matter is one in, which the Automobila Asao clation might well interest itself on behalf of its members and the motoring public generally.
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DAY BY DAY.
1929.
MEN BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN HARRY A SEVRES ORNAMENT AND TURN HER INTO A DELFT PLATTER THE MINUTE AFTER THE WEDDING CEREMONY 16 OVER-Bautrico Fair. far.
The Ben Line. As Benmpedhuf, from Singapore, is due here on the 13th instant.
His Excellency the Governor to be the Chinese Assistant has appointed Dr. Kok Cheang Yeo Medical Oficer of Health.
It is notified that from Monday, tricts will be reduced nightly water pressures. in the city dis-
between 10 p.m. and 6 am,
Tenders are being invited by the Hongkong Government for the sup- ply of a new refuse launch and for the construction of the Gust Rocks beach on light.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Captain A. J. Private Secretary in addition to Whyte, Royal Engineers, to be his his other duties.
The forthcoming weddling is an. nounced of. Mr. J. V. M. Cordeiro, of. No. 673, Orient Buildings, Kow loon, to Miss M. A. Silos, No. 5 King's Terrace, Kowloon,
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
A Sadly Neglected Author,
Then he
works, momories, biographies of these charactors they speak, in the very accent of their own ut terance, rocaptured by Landor for us."
Opening a new volunte which, of all ages; he distilled the charac- Capt. and Mrs. G. A. Clements purports to include the great ter of numberless protagonists in former, under the existing methna and the Misses Capell left by the writers of English prose, I looked the drama of events.
Derfilinger.
in vain the other day for the name proceeded to reproduce that his- of Walter Savage Landor. I was tory and temper and those charac- amazed and perplexed, and, spurters in the most personal and red by sentiments akin to dismay direct of all forms of expression, Bought--as indices of current re the very utterances of men and cognition-some half dozen of women in conversation with each those bulky collections designed other, lish literature. There I found a fortunate eavesdroppers listening In some of them we seem to be for our college surveys of Eng pago or two of verse, but not in to the memorable friendly encoun single one of these presumably ters of the great. Chaucer la representative anthologies a single graciously received by Petrarch line of Landor's prose.
and Boccaccio; Dr. Johnson is friend who compiled one of these Tooke on the completion of the Vigorously protesting, I naked a congratulated by John Horno widely used collections of more dictionary: Scaliger and Mon- that a thousand pagce, "What is taigne gossip of the events of the the meaning of this? Amid all time. In more serious vein many the wealth of Lander in not other personages such as Plato single quotation worthy a place?" and Diogenes, Newton and Bar- "From the Imaginary Conversa-row, plunge into deep discussions tions, I suppose you mean?" he which we overhear. Out of the replied,
"Certainly," I said with warmth, Haven't room," he asserted.
le shook his head slowly
"Don't you recognize the por
"And why not?" I insisted.
Tection of their style, all the grace. Not only do they express them- and subtetly, and beauty?"
selves in the interchange of cour "Oh, yes," he responded. "All tesies and ideas, but in the more that, of course. But they seem intenso form of dramatic rovela fact le they have lost their appeal situations of their lives which too remote from us to-day. The tion. Landor reconstructs the for the present-day reader": lend themselves to the picturing U. S. Press Canards.
"Well," 1 rejoined. "So much of crises. the worse for the reader. Here is character narrates crucial ex- Sometimes the one Except to the habitually-sus-
one right here who still dwells perience, and this becomes all the picious who are ever willing to
upon those matchless dialogues more vivid as we hear the ather believe anything to the discredit
with unfailing, delight. And express his feelings. A moving of a leading public personage, Sir
wonder if I might not convert illustration is the often quoted Austen Chamberlain's categorical
some, who may not have been dialogue between denial of the statement attributed
Esop and Mr. Leland Wong will preach at drawn to their author." to him by an American journalis noon to-morrow at
Rhodope, which unfolds the the Baptist
supreme devotion of father for tic sensation-monger will be Church, Caine Road. He will also To my discovery of the sad daughter through the narrative of readily accepted. It was alleged preach at 4 pm. on Sunday and neglect into which Landor has ap the slave girl." that in converantion with British | Monday at All Saints, Kowloon. parently, fallen is due then this Almost superfluous in the remin Press representatives, the British |
ples. How convincing it broveder that none of these widely Foreign Secretary described the In Excelleney the Governor dare not predict. But it is likely divergent types of conversation Kellogg Pact as merely an Ameri- has appointed Lieutenant F. G. to have the one dlatinction of In view of the near approach Americans. If no much pubilelty Aide-de-Camp and has granted ject to be written this year And in this element in the secret can gesture suitable only for Sillitoe, Royal Marines, to be his being the only essay on the sub- could be effective without the dis- tinctive beauty of their style. of Budget Day, it is not surprising | had not been given to the state him the local rank of Captain, From present indications the com- of Landor's strength, as well as the to read that a representativo de- ment, and if there was not a very
ploted publication of the Imagin- real danger of creating a totally putation has waited on Mr. wrong impression in the United Commerce and Navigation con- dred years ago Is not likely to flood of biographies (more or less It is notified that the Treaty of ary Conversations just ono hun-reason for his lack of readers at the present time. For a whole Winston Churchill calling his States, this latest American press cluded between United Kingdom arouke any excitement in the attention to the high cost of card might well have been and Hungury on 23rd July, 1926, 1iterary world. It will hardly be faithful, more or less fanciful) of
ignored, though in the circum- motor taxation, as well as to the stances, it was just as well has been extended to the Colony recognized among the Important the notables of other times attra
of Hongkong.
centenaries to be heralded this large contemporary audience. increased prices for petrol. The the unknown correspondent was
year. Apparently our friends the So, it is not the subject of Landor's leaders of the motor industry, as It is obviously absurd to suppose brought down to earth at once,
His Excellency the Governor current anthologists know their works which seem remate. It is too marmoreal, too austere, too well as motorists generally, have that any British Minister would has been pleased to appointed Mr.",
If only the most eloquent of polished, too subtle, too highly long felt that they have been un-be guilty of such an Indiscreilon II. R. B. Hancock to be a member Landor's apologists might speak condensed. In a word, too classi fairly burdened by taxation, and as a statement belittling not only of the Licensing Board during the again to ears become indifferent! cal. To this generation it seems
another nation, but an interna absence. from the Colony of Mr.
Perhaps our age might take heed, too highly wrought, too artlacial. the raiding of the Road Fund by tional agreement depending en-H. B. L. Dowbiggin.
Yet Swinburne's ́encomium, may the Chancellor of the Exchequer tirely für Its effectiveness on
To demonstrate by actual pas- has also been much resented. mutual goodwill, We should say According to a report made to lend weight to my plea. On the
Landors' work abounds in the birth hp wrote:, What is now sought is that there not a mass of evidence to justify No. 39, Ashley Road, Kowloon, some All sweet, all sacred; all heroic epigrammatic, each dialogue la so the same thing even if there was the police by Mr. P. M. Xavier, of centenary of the enriler writer's Bages is difficult, for although should be a reduction in the an- Sir Austen's declaration that he person entered his house between
things, 11 nual tax on cars, in which event has always regarded the Kellogg 2.30 and 6 a.m. to-day and stole Pact as one more barrier erected four pieces of clothing valued at there would be no objection to an by international co-operation $50. increase in the petrol tax to against war. We need only recall,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY MARCH 9. 1929.
MOTOR TAXATION.
venue.
At the P.W.D. offices on the 25th Instant, New Kowloon inland Lot 1212 will be offered for sale. It has an area of about 2,193 square feet, and the upset price is $3,290.
in this connexion, his cable to Mr. The average mean temperature
SHAMEEN POLICE.
we have been DEPARTS FOR HOME LEAVE.
Pross Bay will
a.m.
Amongst passengers arriving here from Home by the P, und O. Jiner Khyber were Sub, Lt. H., J; C. Stokes, Lt. T. Taylor, Lt. E. V. B. Baker, Lt. Comdr. W. B. Keith, Comdr. Hon. E. W. Fellowes, Lt. Comdr. J. O. Bulice!, Surg. Lt. E, W. Graham, Comdr. and Mrs. A. B. Lockhart, Lt, Comdr, G. C. Menzies and Lt. Comdr. F. L. Horriman,
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•
cunningly woven into a seamless
All generous names and loyal, and fabric that representative quo-
all-wise,
tation is almost impossible. But With all his heart in all its way-some savour of the clusive charm
farings.
and rhythm may be caught in the
daughter:
ing them with his eyes
wings
very present glory, clothed with of words and deeds, and dreams
"I will sing to theo one song moro, my wakeful Rhodope! My chirping bird! Over whom is no . immortal.
mother's wing! That it may lull Translated into description of thee asleep, I will celebrate no what the object of these lines ae-longer, us in the days of plenteous- tually wrote, Swinburne's eulogyfness, the glory of Mars, guiding in means that in a hundred and fifty their invisibly rapid onset the dialogues Landor evoked the past, dappled steeds of Rhaesus. What Pericles to his own day. ranging in time from the age of hast thou to do, my little one, with arrows tired of clustering in the quiver? How much quieter is. The vast range of the picture thy pallet than the tents which.. is illustrated by the titles, Marius whiten the plain of Simois! and Metullus, Marcellus and Han- What knowest thou about the river nibal, Joan of Arc and Agnes Eurotas? Happier shalt thou be, Sorel, Leofric and Godiva, Tancred nor less glorious, than even she,. and Constantin, Essex and Spen- the truly beloved, for whose re ser, Bossuet and the Duchess de turn to the distaff and the lyre Fontagnes, Landor himself and the portals of Tacnarus llew open.. Robert Southey his devoted friend. In the woody, dells of Ismarus, An indefatigable reader with ten-and when she, bathed among the acious memory, he absorbed the swans of Strymon, the nymphs. essence of all history, the temper (Continued on Page 7.)
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COMMON ERROD/
"IN BRIDGE
make good the deficiency. It is Kellogg at the time when the Bri- recorded by the Royal Observatory Ho sought, and worshipped, sce-words of Rhodope's father to his also desired that a greater pro-tish Empire ratifications of the during February was 58.9, the high In portion of the revenue from Pact were deposited with the est point being 76 and the lowest motora should be specifically State Department in Washington. 17.4. There were 74 hours of sun The curiosity of the affair is that shine and only 0.585-inch of rain. allotted to the Road Fund, Instead the author of the message which The average humidity was 79. of being absorbed as general re- has created such a stir, has pro-
bably reason for personal satis- The Catholic faction in having achieved his take place at the Roman Catholic At Home, the motor-ear tax is object (precisely that of creating Cathedral to-morrow, Morning based on horse-power of the ve-disturbed by the outcome. We Evening Service, Sermon and Bene-
a stir) and is not the least bit Service, High Mans at 8 hicles, which, in the opinion of have for a long time been under diction at 4 pm. After that an motorists, is not the best way of the impression that the majority "At Home" at the Mission House. dealing with the matter. Here of these so-called Angio-Amartean All Catholics are cordially invited. "breezes" are fostered, not for in Hongkong, motor vehicles are
the purpose of injuring relations The name of the Kowloon Indian Heensed on fees reckoned accord-but merely to cater to the desire Tennis Club was inadvertently ing to weight. For private cars,
for sensationalism. Whatever the omitted from the list of clubs and the rate varies between $16 and $48 motive, however, it is to be deeply associations which organised the deplored, and we think those con- Garden Party at the Club de jannually, for public cars cerned will find it does not pay in Recreio on Wednesday to celebrate
from 872 to $120, for motor the long run.
the "appointment of Kowloon re- presentatives on the Legislative buses from $120 to $240, and for
Council; commercial vehicles from $24 to $240. Exactly what amount of revenue the Government rengives from this source. unable to ascertain, for the rea
Nearly all the foreign son that the income from these munity of Shameen gathered at taxes is not specifically set out in the Hongkong Canton & Mucio the Estimates. In view of the Steamboat Company's wharf on tremendous number of vehicles Captain and Mrs. G. A. Clementa Wednesday to bid Au Revoir to
now in use in the Colony, how on the occasion of their de ever, the receipts must total aparture on furlough. They luft large
Canton by the Lungshan to all gum. AII KODS to tho from Hongkong by the s.8. Der- general revenue of the Colony, finger for Genoa, thence overlard and there cannot be any serious to London. complaint in this regard, seeing ed the Shameen Polled Force ne Captain Clements, R. of O., join- how much money the Government Superintendent in June, 1925, just
The returns of the average spends on the construction and six days before the troubles broke amount of bank notes in circula- tion and of speció in reserve" in maintenance of roads, What is out. Before that he was in the Hongkong, during the month end- more, the motoring public fully Singapore and for a time in Hongfied by the Managers of the res
Royal Artillery. stationed In ed 28th February, 1929, an certi- appreciates the fact that our kong. It is eight years since he roads are such as the Colony may
pective Banks are: was last Home on leave and he is well feel proud of. On the matter especially looking forward to the reunion with his, Httle doughter of the method of computing the whom he has not seen for all those licence fees, however, there is years. Mrs. Clements came out to room for improvement. Taxes Shameen at the beginning of 1926. Sub-Inspector Paine of the Central Police Station, Hongkong, is taking over the duties as Super- intendent of Police during the absence of Captain Clemente the more wear, Our Own Correspondent.
based on weight are no more satisfactory than taxes based on horse-power. It is true that the heavier the car,
com-
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AND. HOW TO CORRECT THEM
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FAILURE TO ANALYZE OPTONENTY OPENING LEAD
North (Dummy)
West-
~ JAZ
O MO JE 3 AA.B
Booth (Declarer)—– AAK 8 0 0
Fast
Deciding the Play! West leade 9 of diamonds. How should Do- clarer play to make game?'
Tho Error: Declarer plays the Queen of diamonds from the Dum my.
Declarer
The Correct Method: observes the opening lead, and ex- amining the Dummy notices that the play is through a long suit. The probabilities are that the lead is a singleton. No finesso is attempted," "the trick being taken with the Ace? of diamonda, Declarer then draws. trumps and theroaftor establishes. diamonds to make game. 17 the fnesse had been taken game would have been sacrificed thereby for The Bidding: Bouth bids one opponents would have played King spade and all pass. There are of diamonda and then the next many advanced players who would diamond would have been ruffed by not bid on AKX X X without a West, two hearts being tricks mado alde defensive trick but it is safe to thereafter.
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open on a hand such as this. Both The Princple: The lead of a 9 or major sulla are well protected and against a long suit usually ind!-- opponents will probably be unable cates a singleton.
to frame in any other sult..