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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929.
We
DAY BY DAY.
THE ENVIOUS MAN IS IN PAIN UPON ALL OCCASIONS WHICH OUGHT TO GIVE HIM PLEASURE.—Addison.
Central Bank is to be opened at 5, A branch office of the Kwangtung
Chater Road on Saturday."
H.M.S. Kent, lying the flag of the Commander in Chief of the China Station loft Amoy yesterday for Shanghal.
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Douglas Fairbanks' splendid pic ture, "The Iron Mask" shown for the last time to-day at the Queen's Theatre.
more so, to petrol, "、
When come to the various types of taxÉS proposed, anomalies are at onco apparent If we read the recon- mendations aright, a 40 horse- powor private car, to take an example, would, besides the petrol tax, have to pay $80 per annum on liorac-power, whereas A similarly-engined public 'car accommodating Ave passengers would get off with $50, or a seven- seater with $70. Not only does this, appear unfair discrimination against the private owner, but there is the further point that the private car might only be in use at week-ends, whereas the other vehicle would in all probability be using the roads at all hours of the day and night, with relays of drivers. Thus JE
ideal the of making the tax proportional to the use of the roads observed Summed up, the effect of the new proposals is to mulet private
Mr. B. M. Talali, B.A., will speak owners In far heavier, taxation; on "Theosophy and the Young" thopo using their care fairly re-at the usual weekly lecture of the Theosophical Society, 7. Queen's gularly must at least expet their Itoad Central, to-day at 6 p.. outgoings to be doubled; others will auffer even more.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Motor Taxation.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
An
honoured place among bribery stories, writsa corres pondent, should be given to one: told to the late Mr. Justice Grant- ham when hearing an election: Sir-With regard to the propetition in the Eastern Counties. posed now motor taxes, I should like, to appeal to the H.K.A.Admitting that he had received 58. A witness was called who, after through the medium, of your co from one party, added that he lumns. more unjust proposal is dificult to conceive than the subsequently got 108..from the
other. saddling of the motorists of the Colony with the burden of the up the Judge. "I ain't got a vote,"
"For whom did you vote?" asked. keep of roads. Are wo to assume that if we had no motors here wo
was the reply. would have no ronds?
The health return for yester- Let the H.KA.A. call a general day shows two cases of typhoid meeting and in no uncertain man- tone British and the other Chin-nor let the Government know our
case of opinion on the matter.. cae), and one Chinese small-pox.
Thanking you for your courtesy.
Yours, etc.,
The Yellow Dragon for April is A most entertaining number, con- taining much, humorous and other- wise, in relation to Queen's Col- lege activities,
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The British Traders' Insuranço ordinary Co., Ltd's sixty-thini The table attached to the report yearly meeting of shareholders will giving the expenditure on main-be held at its Head Office, Union tenance of roads and bridges last Building, on Friday, May 24, at year, together with income from motor licence fees, is interesting, It is advertised that the fifty- but if the comparison is made for sixth ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders of the Union In the purpose of justifying the sug-surance Society of Canton, Lad
11.20 a.m.
Hongkong Telegraph.gested increase in taxation, we are will be held at the Head Offee,
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THURSDAY MAY 2, 1929
MOTOR TAXATION.
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. vehicles are laxed by Hicences
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Potatoes
Grape Fruit
Oranges
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Pears
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English Sausages
Primier Bacon
Kippers, Bloater's & Haddock
Cheese:-
Roquefort
Gorgonzola
Stilton
Swiss Gruyere
(Natural and in Bloc
English and American Cheddar
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for the benefit of motorists. If there did not happen to be a single
Practical
a.m.
which was
Unlon
a
MEMBER Hongkong, May 2, 1929.
BRIDGE MADE EASY Joy.
W.W.Wentworth
(Abbreviations: A-Aco; king: Q-Queen; jack any card lower than 10.)
Opening Blindly......3.
4
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Man at Tower Bridge (charged. with stenting 28. 6d. found in a. glove in his pocket): I often find money in my gloves.
It le my lucky-pocket.
Mr. Bingley, the Marylebone- 'magistrate (to a prisoner who pro.. duced a bail form): That is an. Invitation to come and seo me.
Willesden Employer: I have been away with 'Au and, my mon object because a stranger payse them instead of me.
A woman at. Tottenham: I only smashed a teapot on her head in. self-defence.
A Landlady at Acton, W. (ask
| ing for an ejectment order against.
a lodger): I sleep in the scullery
in the winter and in the passage in the suminer.
Two Aberdonians simultaneous- ly saw a threepenny bit in Union K-Street. They were both taken to K-hospital suffering froni concus
alon.
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appear behind the curtains of a window, This struck me as odd, the window being flush with the walls, and yet the curtain did not bulge out-also that the maid did not have a cap or apron on.
"Conversation at dinner being LEAD. rather flat, I thought I would liven things up by telling of my appari tion as a ghost story. I had not. got very far with my tale when' I received a hard kick under the- table, and someone broko in with a trivial remark: I said no more.
The Banvard Musical Comedy
WEAK THREE CARD SUIT... A Company concluded its brief sea- son at the Theatre Royal last night lead from QXX, JXX, 10 XX
"After dinner a sister of my Hunppy revue or XXX often leaves your part with a new and
Immensely enjoyed.ner in a maze as to your holding hostess said it was she who had The Company in giving a special and is not desirable. The lead kicked me, an I had described the ghost of the houso, which had not. cabaret show at the Hongkong from KJ 10 is less desirable.
been seen for some years.
She DOUBLETON LEAD. A lead told me that my hostess was very Hotel Roof Garden to-night, din-,
from a two card suit, as JX, 10 nervous about it, and would not ner tables being $7 per head.
XX, AX or KX is decidedly un-sleep if she thought it was about
again." desirable..
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On a charge of returning from
WASTED LEAD. Holding A X banishment, a Chinese wis Lenced to eight months' hard labour X or AXXX, avoid leading these (The sun is said to be con by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the suits without capturing oppon-suming itself at the rate of Kowloon Magistracy this morning.ents King or Queen. If you do 250,000,000, fons a year). The defendant stated that he was
In summer-time this little bit merely passing through Hongkong, open these suits, lead the Acc. His Worship pointed out that the authorities did not want to see him, even if he was only passing through.
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DENOUNCED. LEAD.
The
lead from a suit headed by K, as KXXX, XXX, KJXX or K 10 XX will usually be denounced by your partner if you lead, the
LEAST DESIRABLE · LOAD.
P.W.D. WATCHMAN'S SUICIDE.
Of news would not have
caught
My, notice; I'd have given it
Not e'en a passing thought, Nor paused to meditate on what It cost the sun to keep me hot.
But in these present wintry days when earth is Ico-bedecked,
And every grato demands its
blaze,
I mournfully reflect
That
now my coal supply's · begun
(Almost) to emulate the sun.
To-day's Ghost Story-"I did Inclined to quarrel with its applica Building, on Friday, May 24, at 11
In the previous installment were not believe in ghosts till I stayed. bility. Against income of
discussed the four most desirable with friends in Ireland some years. $117,134, there is shown an ex-
A gala concert, for which the opening loads when the declarer 880. Coming out of my room just most popular solos, duets, etc., of has named Bult. But the before dinner one evening I saw a penditure of $317,739, but we trust the operas in e been eclected, will necessary holdings for those leads guro in black (which I took to be it will not be contended that road be given by the lending artists of do not always occur. Below area housemaid) pass along the cor and bridge maintenance is solely the Italian Grand Opera Company other examples which should cover rider, and, to my surprise, dis-
at the Theatre on Sunday next at [practically every situation. 9.15 pm.
All of the following leads are Miss Butler, the daughter of Mr. fraught with danger, as they may We shall be greatly surprised if motor vehicle in the Colony, huge. Butler, appeared before Mr. T place your partner in a vulnerable there is not a spirited protest sans would still have to be spent. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon position and help the declarer
establish winning cards: made by motorists against the annually on roads and bridges. Magistracy this morning on
FOURTH-FROM-TOP. charge of allowing her dog to be proposals which are being laid We have no figures to indicute to abroad without a muzzic. The do- For want of a bettor lead, open a before the Legislative Council this what extent motor needs have sent fendant pleaded guilty and was four card suit as QXXX, XXX, afternoon for a revision of the up the expenditure under this fined $5.
or XXX or XXXX, with the loweat In the suit. existing system of motor taxation. | heading, but we are inclined to Not only are the recommendations doubt whether the Government hus cumbersome and
complicated, a right to expect very much more involving four distinct types of from taxation than it is at present taxation as compared with only receiving. one at present in force, but they will, if paasod into law, very "materially increase the cost of
The "Kuusing." ཨཝཙ ཝ #* notoring. to private owners.
Government fidgets have been Under the existing system, all overcome, and the
"Kausing" stands condemned, with official graded according to weight. The sanction, as the whitest of white new proposals comprise a petrol elephants, incapable of carrying tax applicable to all, a horac out the duties for which she was hower tax in respect of private built at a cost to the Colony of a cars and cycles, a tux calculated quarter of a million dollars. There is no brooking of the facts on seating capacity in the case of,
this occasion.. on public vehicles, and a varying experience has shown, says the
Among the passengers leaving lowest." scale of licence fees so far as Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, that yesterday on the Empress of Rusala were Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Blanchard, commercial vehicles are concern- owing to having only a single Mr. C. Bernard Brown, Mr. K. A.The tenace eults as A Q 10, A J ed. The Committee making these screw sho is practically
un-Carstensen, Major and Mrs. R. P. 10, AQ, AJX. recommendations cannot be re-manageable in typhoon weather Cousins, Major L. R. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Culver, Rev. W. when attempting to manoeuvre, Christie, Mr. Chan Harr, Mr. and garded as in any sense a represen-while it is unsafe to get her under Mrs. K. M. Fetierly, Mr. J. Gubbay, Mative body, for, of the four mem-
way for out-harbour work until a Mr. T. V. Harman, Mr. and Mrs. bers, three are Government
full head of steam has been raised, A. W. Hill, Mr. J. Kelly, Mr. and officials: On what basis the selec-taking twelve hours.
In other the Hon. Mrs. J. G. Morrison, Mr. D. A. MacIntosh, Mr. T. Mitchell, tion was made we cannot profess words, and, of course, this has Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Patell, Bir to say, but one would have thought been general knowledge for a long Henry Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. H.H. that the Commitee would have time past, the Kausing, so-called. II. Priestley, Mrs. C. L. Sandes, Mr. included at least one representa rescue tug, has herself to look A. L. Shields, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. tive of the motor industry as well after in typhoon weather, while it Turner, Mr. C. Thwaites, Mr. W. K. Tait, Mrs. D. Tollan, Major C.W.It. would be absurd to take her into Tuke, Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Upsdell As of the Automobile Association
consideration in the event of a and Mr. W. J. Woolley. other than a Government official. repetition of the "Hain Wah" sink- There is one observation in the ing. The admission is perfectly Committee's report with which we frank, though the Government find ourselves in compléte, agree-appears determined not to "carry ment, namely, that "a petrol tax the baby" if they can possibly Paris is the fairest method of taxation, avoid it. The Kausing, it is sug-Geneva
gested, is the child of the Chan- Berlin as by this means the tax is prober of Commerce, and the Colony's Oslo
Helsingfors portional to the use of the roads." shipping and commercial/interests Athena Indeed, we assert that this is the are responsible for the finished Buenos Aires only reasonable solution of the article. And if the fall facts Hongkong New York problem. How high that tax have been disclosed it would cer Amsterdam
The Italian Grand Opera Com-- pany scored another great success. would need to be to bring in suf-tainly appear that the Chamber of Stockholm ficient revenue, we do not know. Commerce Committee of Experts Vienna
last night in the presentation of "Lucia di Lammermore,". Mile: But we have it on the word of the (containing a list of names for. Madrid midable in the local shipping Bombay
Eraanili's rondering of the mad. Committee itself that it could be world) went sadly and strangely Yokohama
scene, both in her dramatic acting:" and with her remarkably sweet. four times the proposed rate astray.
We are told that the Brussels without any risk being run of Government, although signifying Copenhagen
voice, bringing down the house,. which demanded a double encore.... smuggling from China. In any their desire for twin screws and Prague
Sig. Giletta as Sir. Edgar of event, we see no necessity for water tube boilera, permitted Lisbon
Ravenswood and Sig. Barontini as Lord Arthur Bucklaw were also rafaing the smuggling bogey at all. themselves to be overruled by the Rio
Shangliai
2/6% ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE BRITISHI loudly applauded, while Six Casa- As the Committee says, the com-
Experts. The Government cannot
Silver (spot and forward) ..25:5/10
-BOYCOTT, —British. Wiřeleno,
rosa made the best use of his his- modity is very bulky, and it ought escape all responsibility in this
trionic abilities and rich sonor manner, though they may try not to be difficult, whatever the exceedingly hard. The Govern-
Reporte from Chungking state ous voice in his rendering of the tax is, to prevent extensive impor-ment had the spending of the and if the responsibility could be an attempt is being made there to part of Sir Henry Ashton.
placed, the real "culprits" might re-establish the British boycott. The final ocone in the cemetery, tation of smuggled spirit. We do money, and there should be suff-be found. The cost of converting General Llu has declared his ad- where Edgar of Ravenswood stabs. not refrain from taxing tobacco, cient "experts" in the Government the Kausing is prohibitive, even herence to Nanking but his troops himself before the tombs of lils liquors or opfum because of the employ to judge whether the if the figures given are on the still maintain a position above ancestors, was awe-inspiring. smuggling evil, and the measures Chamber of Commerce had given liberal side, and we strongly Ichang. The latter pince is now de
To-night the company will play which are taken for keeping out consideration to the subject on the endorse Commdr. Hole's recom-finitely Nationalist, The first Nu-
mendation that the craft should tionalist salute by Japanese took "Carmen" with Mlle. Agozzino in right lines. illicit goode of this type could be obvious we think there must have ed. It should not have taken four rono saluted the flag at Hankow as Don Jose, and Sig, Cassarosa The blunder is so be sold and a new tug construct place when the Japanese crufser the leading role, Sig. Giovannoni applied to just as easily. If not been serious misunderstanding, years to find this out.
as. Escamillo..
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A typical boasting American had by some means got into. heaven and was raving garrulous- An old ófly about Niagara Falls.
shrivelled up WODLAN near him started to giggle and laugh.
TWO OTHER ATTEMPTS REPORTED. Police reports give detalla two cases of attempted suicide yesterday.
A P.W.D. watchman, named Lul Mul, took his life by strangling himself. dis body was found,
yesterday, in a hut on the new reclamation road on the Praya East, with a card knotted around
his nock.
London, May 1. 12416
A woman, named Chi Ma, was .25.19
20.47 removed to the Government Civil the servants' 18.19% Hospital from
103 quarters at the Itoman Cathedral, .875 with injuries to her neck, which 47.5/10 the inflicted on herself following a 2.1/11% | family quarrol. 4.85 11782
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Suffering from a dose of opium 18.16% which she took ip an attempt to .34.66 end her life, a 'Chinese woman, .38.87% who lived at 46, Graham Street, 818 was admitted into the Government 1/6.29/82 Civil Hospital yesterday. In a
1/10 comatose state,
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Naval Wireless.
"Do you mean to say," said the American, "that you think that eight million cubic feet of water each minute le not a lot of water? Might I ask what your name is?" "Certainly," replied the woman, I'm Mrs., Noah."
THE OPERA SEASON.
“LUCIA DI LAMMERMORE" FINELY DONE,