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The Ben Line, 8.8. Benlawers, from Home and Straits porta, is due here on the 12th instant.
unfettered competition by Britain under the suggested Dominion Free Trade schome. It is hero, It seems to us, that this achome breaks down. The Dominions, whilst willing to give a preference to British exports, show mo tention of embracing even Em- pire Free Trade, because they are concerned first and foremost with the development of their own in- fant industries, which they are The silk forwarded from here by o the 15th fostering behind the shelter of Emprèss of Canada
January, arrived in New York tariff walls. It is obvious, there (St John's Park) on the 4th fore, that the Empire Free Trad-February, having been 20 days in ers will have to convert the transit. Dominions to their way of think ing before they can hope to con- vince people at Home that their scheme comes within the sphere of practical politics,
Mr. Baldwin, using a metaphor, likened Britain to a nation armed with bows and arrows, compared with other countries, employing modern artillery. "We have never used modern artillery," he did;" declared; it is time we adding that "we have used it in a limited way in the form of target practice in Safeguarding
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What is more,
almost expected the ex-Premier to come out plump for full-blonded have Protection. That would been the logical application of his urument. But the did nothing of the kind. We can only imagine, in secking for a reason, that, whilst really a Protectionist at heart, he is still scared of the "Dear Food" cry. It ia.. this shally-shallying and indecision that have brought the Conservative Party to its present low ebb. Unfortunately for the Pärty's fu- ture, definite, clear-cut leadership on this issue is still lacking.
Exchange and Standard of Living.
A matter of infinite importance the Colony at large, the threat of a wages dispute between the Nam Pak Hong rice firms and their thousand odd carrier-coolies, has apparently not developed auf- clently to attract the general at- tention. This way, wo fear, dan ger lies. A careless attitude, even at this stage, may easily lead to serious consequences for the out- come will, in our opinion, go very long way towards deciding the prospects of the Colony in ite task of adjusting itself to the now values produced by the heavy slump in exchange. Our defla- tionists will not, we are sure, at
A report was made to the polico this morning of the removal to the Government Civil Hospital of a Chinese of 70, Canton Road, who fell whilst on board the as. Tung Lee and fractured his leg.
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A Whist Drive will be hold in the Sailors' and Soldiers' Home on Saturday evening, commencing at nine o'clock. Tickets are 50 cents each, and the proccode will be for the benefit of Service men.
IT RECEIVEN 2015
THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.
Interesting Pictures For To-Morrow.
On
There will again be interesting and varied selec- to- tion of pictures in to morrow's issuo of the Tele-. graph Art Supplement.
will be Heading these several of the departure of H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, together with an appropriate cartoon relating thereto.
Other illustrations will deal "with the Motor Cyclo Re- liability Trial, the Chinese interport football matches, and the Fanling Hunt Meeting. at Kwanti last Sunday.
A number of "Interesting Canton pictures will also ap- pear.
ELBISTE RENZYLIORENTINA H.M.S. Vindictive la due to
leave the United Kingdom on the 25th instant and expects to arrive In Hongkong on April 23rd. She is bringing reliefs for HM. ships Tamar, Petersfield, Iroquots and the Yangtzo gunbdata.
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IN AND OUT OF HOUSE OF DETENTION.
PORTUGUESE CASE.
That he had spent most of his life from 1903 in and out of the House of Detention, in addition to a spell of four years in a lunatic asylum, was revented in the case of Frank d'Aquino who was charg ed before Mr. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy this morning, with absenting himself from the House since the 4th inst..
In reply to the charge, the de- fendant sald:"Yes, I was sick?
Mr. Hamilton asked Sorgeant Whant for particulars of the caac, and he said that the man was taken in by the Benevolent Society, to whom he went for assistance.
Mr. Hamilton: Surely if they have been in and out of the House of Detention for the last ten fears, they ought to know him?
Sgt. Whant:-As a matter of fact they reported him to us.
The Principal Warder of the House sald that the gaol authori- ties pressed for a term of im-
his prisonment, and Worship sentenced defendant to 14 days.
Mr. Hamilton:-He spends most of his life in the House of Deten- tion?
The Warder-Yes since 1908, and he has also been in an asylum for four years.
Mr. Hamilton:-I am sorry for the man, but I do not know what else I can do for him.'
LATE SIR HENRY GOMPERTZ.
TRIBUTES IN SUMMARY COURT.
Members of the legal profes- sion stood in silence in the Sum- mary Court this, morning when His Honour the Puisne Judge, Mr. Justice Wood, referred to the death of Sir Henry Gompertz which occurred at Alassio, Italy, on February 4. News of the death of Sir Henry was received in Hongkong late last night.
Mr. Justice Wood said he had
received the sul news of the death of Sir Heary Gompertz who w one so long and closely connected with the Court that he (Mr. Justice Wood) would like to any that ho lint lost a friend of long standing, The late Sir Henry Gompertz was
to
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The Very Idea!
New York's skyscraper race bas
new entrant in Mr. Fred FA Franch, who has purchased the famous New York Hippodrome to erect on its site a building, the pinnacle of which is to be 1,100 fest above street levél; it will con- tain 83 business storeys represent ing an investment in excess of 30,000,000 dollars (£6,000,000).
It will surpass the peak of the Chrysler building by 70 feat, and only be exceeded by the New Empire State Building on Fifth
Avenue.
Mr. French, "who worked for 18 dollars a week as timekeeper for tho contractors who built the Hippo- drome, has paid 7,600,000. dollars ($1,500,000) for the site covering 48,000 square foot.
It will cost 800,000 dollars (£60,000) to pull down the struc- ture, which was built at a cost of four millions (£800,000), and was rated as America's largest and nest theatro whom opened in
1905.
Fussy Lady (who has been a long time in selecting her purchase): "But I don't think this is lamb. It looks to me like mution."
Exasperated Butcher: "It wan lamb when I first showed it to you, madam."
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Herr Max Valier, the inventor of, a recoil car driven by liquid fuel, in a lectura to engineers at Cologno, suggested that in the future it would be possible to con- struct a rocket aeroplane which would fly at an altitude of 30 miles, and would be capable of reaching America from Europe in 00 minutes. He added that, he felt sure Germany would eventual- ly produce such a machine.
A friend of mine (says a writer In a Home paper) was talking the. other day to a business woman, the manageress of a large laundry, who was bewalling the lack of education among members of her own sex even when occupying good. social positions.
"I receive many letters," she said, "and I find two words which frequently occur are generally misspelt."
"And what are the words?" ask- ed my friend. '
""Preposterous" and "exhorbi- tant," was the reply.
Woman at Marlborough-street:
Ho calls himself a manager, but he..
is on the door at 278, a week and tips.
Woman
own?
. Motorist at Kingston-on- Thames: I have never been chu- tloned by the police, but I have had some hard looks from some them..
of
Woman at West London: I admit I swore, but it was only at It is advertised that the ordin-one who, both in Court and in pri-
my husband. ary annual general meeting of the ato, life, was much loved. He was
at Greenwich: Why Cymdeithas Dewi Sant, Hongkong always courteous and of great help everyone. Mr. Justice Wood (St. David's Society), will be held. added that he would like to express should I smack another mother's in the offices of the Hongkong deep sympathy with Lady Gom-child when I have eleven of my General Chamber of Commerce periz na her family in her loss (Chartered Bank Building)
Speaking on behalf of the salici- Monday, February 10, at 5.30 p.m.Lore, Mr. P. M. Hodgson said the tempt to argue that We
lato Sir Henry was a real friend to have made any real progress
Several motor drivers were fined all anlicitors who had the privelege direction in this
up to the Should the rice firms sums varying from $35 to $15 by to appear before him. He wished, present. succeed In their attempt to Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon on behalf of his colleagues, to cut the wages of
their carrier Magistracy this morning for fail-associate himself with Mr. Justice coolies, however, a start will have ing to provide their vehicles with Wood's remarks and to express efficient and indepondent deep sympathy with Lady Gompertz heen made, in entirely the wrong rakes. In the cases where both and her family, direction. The under-dog, the brakes were useless, the fines were thousands of him, will be made heavier than those where only one to bear the brunt. On this issue brakte was declared defective. our sympathies are entirely with the coolies, The rice firms, nn-
two
On admission of the theft of four
21 YEARS AGO.
"Thank
Professor: "Would you like a week's holiday, travelling about at my expense, Smithson?" Butler (gratefully): you very much, sir."
Professor: "Good! After 20: years' work I have completed my giant catapult; if you will pack a hamper of food, I will send you off on an eight-day trip to the moon !"
One of Britain's national tradi- Lions, according to a political writer, is the treating of tariffs as the favourite Aunt Sally af domestic
it politics. And would seem. With a persistence that is remarkable, the issue keeps cropping up. It is never satisfac- torily disposed of. there never seems any continuity of polley in the matter. We have only to take the McKenna Duties na a case in point. When Labour came into power in 1924, these abolished. Within nine mouths, they were restored by the Conservatives. Now the Labour Government threatens to wipe thein but again. The explanation, of course, is that the Free Trade school of thought still strongly persists, and its adherents are to be found in two of the threa poli- tical parties, The Conservatives, whatever else they may be, are not Free Traders, but the trouble is to exactly place them. They have suffered in the past from their uncertain attitude, and If turally, have fastened upon the they cannot produce anything exchange problem as their exeuse. iron bars from Felho Street, Sham-SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE more tangible or constructive They have presented the men's shuipo, a Chinese was sentenced to than Mr. Baldwin's latest union with a demand for a thirty four months' hard labour by Mr.
The following extracts are from per cent, wages reduction, and the Whyte Smith at the Kowloon tribution to the subject, they are union concerned, the Tung Tak, Magistracy this morning. the Hongkong Telegraph for week WHO WAS.........ë unlikely to impress the electors in has answered with a flat refusal, defendant had a previous con ended February 6th, 1909.
for receiving. one of the parties gives viction in 1923 way, a strike is inevitable. It ap- His Worship Intimated that it An analysis of Mr. Baldwin's pears to be a fact that the price seemed that these thefts speech, which was summarised in. of rice having risen steadily cor- getting more and more common.
A disastrous fire which occurred Yesterday's cables, shows that his responding to the movement of the
Remarking that he had abused at Taishatau, Canton, destroyed. dollar in the other direction, policy is still negative rather than sales have been reduced. Since the kindness of his former em- forty flower-boats and resulted in positive. He disapproves of the the purchasing power
of the ployer, Mr. Whyte Smith, at the the death of over five hundred brand of Free Trade approved by Colony has been reduced by ap- Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Chinese sing-song girls. Liberals and Labour, and he is proximately thirty-three per cent. sentenced a Chinese to one month's
At the annual meeting of the in a period of a few months, some-hard labour for stealing a scaffold- equally against the suggested thing of this kind was only to be ingpole from a contractor in Tas Hongkong branch of the China worldwide tariff truce. But he expected. The rice firms, how Yuen Street. It was stated that Association, Mr. Murray Stewart does not come out wholly for Pro- ever, are bent upon changing a the defendant had formerly been dealt with Chinese currency pro- tection. The maintenance of the normal state of affairs, if they can, employed by the complainant but blems, and welcomed the sugges at the expense of the labourers although he was not longer in his him as providing a weapon with the argument put forward that if modation by his former master.
- Mr. Ko Yu-him was appointed by which to retaliate, and for the rest the coolies assent, the Colony will
young Chinose who appeared the Peking Government to act as be supplied with cheaper rice, that he appears to incline somewhat the bulk of the community will before Br. Whyte Smith at the Commissioner in connexion with delimitation of the Macaó towards the Empire Free Trade benefit, tha ricp-carrying coolin Kowloon Magistracy this morning the movement, in which connexion he being the only ones to suffer, and in a charge of larceny of a block boundary. throws out a suggestion that there they only in respect of the pur- of wood from a vacant plece of
The marriage took place in chase, of necessities other than ground in Mongkok was ordered to should be Imperial rationalisation-rice. Which is based on a very receive six strokes of the cane, London of Mr. (now Sir) N. J. Under this somewhat hazy idea he obvious fallacy. There is no The defendant's brother and mother Stabb and Miss Ethel Mary Town- onvisages conferences between the guarantee of a compensating price were present in court and intimated send. industrial lenders of Great Bri reduction. It is ex certain as the that the lad was too young to be tain and the Dominions for the day follows the night that If the able to diferentiate between right rice firms succeed in their wage- and wrong, His Worship remarked purpose of discussing types of cutting enterprise, employers of that the elder relatives were more production which the Dominion labour in every other direction to blame than the defendant.
the future.
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Unless
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were
**TELEGRAMI” FILES.
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The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 18. 9.1/16d.
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Safeguarding Duties appeals to they employ. We can almost hear employ he was given free accom.tion that China might adopt a gold
"Start-Rite"
SHOES tures should be sold in those mar in all conscience at the present We seriously submit that if the
industries might fairly manufac- net result, would be a heavy will rapidly follow suit, and the
IN
ALL SIZES.
standard.
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INDIAN STRIKERS."
RAILWAY TROUBLE. 18- GROWING WORSE.
ture exclusively for its own mar-lowering of the standard of living very anrious consideration, parti kets, and what British manufac-of the poorer classes, low enough cularly as there is an alternative.
Bombay, Feb. 6. The railway atrlice positionin day. This aspect, as pure reduction in the sales of rice is
|| growing worse, the suburban ser kets. There is a certalu attrac economice, probably has non-sufficient to make itself felt in the vices being disorganised. tiveness in this plan, looked at terest for the rice firms. It be- Nam Pak Hong, it will make it-
The strikers have been threaten- superficially, but we cannot get Jonge among the greater profun self felt in the gold countries over the Impression that it is dedities, such as the theory of the whence the rice comes. I theed with dismissal unless they re-
transmigration of souls, which creation of an increased demand is me by Saturday, signed ne
a possible means of have nothing whatever to do with a prime, necessity price reducwo plaketers have been arrest-
fred Hag anfon Beuter. overcoming oversens objections to business. But to the community tion at the source of supply is ed, including the president of the
as a whole, it offers a matter for bound to come.
PODSNAP?
Mr. John Podsnap was sustained through life by a completo satisfaction with everything. He was satisfied with his Inheritance, which was largo; he was satisfied. with his wife, a handsome. Woman with a comfortable fortune;" satisfied with his Marine Insurance business, with his daughter's disposition, with England, with the world. In general, and most of all with himself in particular.
Any problem which was in danger of throwing a shadow of dissatisfaction upon his complacency, Mr. Podenap wont to dismiss ab sight with a sweep of the arm," and an impatient: "I don't want to know about it: I don't chose to discuss it; I don't ad- mit it."
In course of time, there fore, the orbit of his thoughts became as circumscribed as the orbit of his daily round, which followed an unvarying pro- gramme of eating and drink- ing and sleeping. Literature and art he only approved of in so far as they enlogised people of his own type all else was rubbish and frippery. He placed a comfortable falth in Providence, believing Provi dence to be a sensible cresture, of much, the same opinions as himself.
Mr. Podarap's code of exis fence, and all that it implica, ls summed up by Dickens, his creator as "Fodsnappery...