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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1980.
CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES.
an-
DAY BY DAY.
the new taxation
already nounced, and there is, as a con sequence, a distinct possibility of
LOVE, IN FRANCE, IS A 'COMEDY; the raising of the Assessment Tax IN ENGLAND, A TRAGEDY; IN ITALY, next year. It is obvious, therefore, AN OPERA; AND IN GERMANY, A that our taxes are being increased MELODRAMA.-Lady Blessington for the specific purpose of giving
It is notified that the name of better conditions to Civil Servants. the International Traders Limited, That is easily demonstrated by the has been struck off the Register] fact that without the raising of fresh revenue it would be impossible to put the scheme into operation, excepting, as Els. Excellency him- self suggested, by the practica of economy in other directions. Of the two courses open to it, the Government has chosen the one
which hits the community most.
One point made by the Colonial Secretary, in the course of his speech, was the expressing of
it
sion's Report would have met with the hostile reception accorded to but for the fall of the dollar. Does not that serve to indicate that the
...
16th June.
HOUSE OF MY
OWN.
A Dream of What Might Be.
In my time, which has not yet fore I came. And you, great grey- been very long. I have lived blue boulder, you who have borne In many houses-not less, the terrible grinding weight of the should say, than forty-not glacier, have patience to bear the It is notified that the Hon. Mir. to mention the number little weight of the man who comes- E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., resumed less flats, apartments, hall-bed-to rest upon your strength, it can duty as Inspector General of Police rooms, suites, pensions, hotels, be but for a little while
At least the name of my nearest and Chief Officer, Fire Brigade, on taverns, shanties, shacks and tents
in which I have at various times neighbour, although I have not yet. and for sundry insufficient reasons seen him, I already know-and this News has just been locally re-hung up my hat and lastalled my is more than I have usually been ceived that a divorce was granted in typewriter. And this is what able to say of my neighbours. the Courts at Sonora, Mexico, on feel obliged to say when I look city streets. A red fox, discover- June 10, to Mr. Augustus Brostedt, clear back to the small farmhouse ing before I did the residential sd- of Hongkong, on the grounds of in the country where I began, and vantages offered by the boulder, has incompatibility and the fact that think my way down the whole already established himself in the parties have been living apart. dreary list: each of my many crevice some ten feet below the bay abodes has seemed to me less window where my writing table will soon stand. Never yet, so far as
The Victoria Cross awarded in
drawn at 48 at Hurcomb's
entrance in the wall.
110
Paymaster Rear-Admiral James Bramble, C.B. (retired), who died at Emsworth, Hants, on May 25, at the age of 80, was chiefly known to older generations of naval officers by his book, "Promotion and Retirement," which appeared
In
sunually from 1891 to 1914. Sept. 1874, he began his long- series of staff appointments, with Vice-Admiral A. P. Commander-in-Chief in China, on Ryder, board the Audacious
satisfactory than the preceding.
conveniences."
that
The the
have accepted for many long and noisy years such domiciles as 50 Alety provided for me and thought that I should occupy. Now I am going to please myself.
of mine.
This remark must not be thought I am aware, has anyone felt it doubt as to whether the Commi 1861. to. Lleut, Burslem was with- to imply that what 1 hava sought necessary to move oùt of any dis- and missed in my successive re-trict because of my moving into it, May 22 Lieut. Burslem was insidences in anything like splendor, and I think I may justly lay claim: the 67th Foot (now the amp grandeur, or the latest modern to being a good neighbour, at least shire Regiment) in the China Campaign and swam the ditches one of the main objections I have dwell near me to their own devices. On the contrary.to the extent of leaving those who at Taku Fort. He was severely made to most of the Fouses I have I strongly hope, therefore, that the popular objection was not so much wounded as he went through a known has been precisely that they fox will stay on, and if he sees fit were not simple and humble enough. to educate a litter of cubs among to the granting of higher pay as to
But this has been my outstanding the ferns below my door, why then the placing of an unwarranted In order that a complete liat may criticism of them all: they were I say so much the better, because I burden on the public? If the dollar it is requested that those ladies acuse, it seems to me, should ex of young wild foxes at play be maintained for record purposes, made for other persons. A man's have already seen ยื family had remained at a high level, the and gentlemen resident in Hong press the man himself, just as his and
should like to repeat increased salaries could have been kong, other than those now ser raiment should also do
ving in His Majesty's Forces, who houses I have thus far inhabited that foxes do not enjoy a good re- experience. It is true granted without any recourse to have had any decoration con- have all been ready-to-wear. Not putation among the farmers round fresh taxation. We have authority ferred upon them by His Majesty one of them has been cut to my about, but then, neither do literary for that statement in the despatch Clerk, Colonial Secretariat, unless too large for me and cramped in occasional chicken that my neigh the King, will Inform the Chief measure. I have been lost in houses men. If I say nothing about 'sh which Sir Cecil Clementi forwarded this has already been done; within houses too small; I have been har-bour may bring home for supper,
assed by radic programmes I can to the Secretary of State in Janu-14 days.
depend upon him to say that pierced my floors
and nothing about the occasional book ary of this year when he pointed out
by plano music
seepal that I may write here, and so we that on the figures for 1929 It would
through my ceilings; I have shall get on very well together. been next neighbour to Neither he nor I will be going in have been possible to meet the full
fire station, and very strongly for publicity. Like metropolitan cost of the Commission's scheme
have lived on a street-car line. All all good workmen, we shall let our and still to have shown a surplus at
the graces and the endurance of work speak for itself. the end of the year. In passing,
character that can be attained by this sort of discipline are now mine.
Three chipmunks at least, and probably a dozen more, have also it might be asked whether Civil Servants would have been so keen
found lodgings in the cracks for the boulder. These neighbours in- on securing the adoption of the
sist upon being seen. Before my By the simple expedient of mak-Commission's proposals but for the
fireplace was dug they came to call, ing full use of the Official Majority, fact that the dollar has dropped
wonderfully dressed, in their new The little house that will at me, the Government has managed to since the Report was issued. We contained the following Foreign coat of rusty homespun, is growing the ladies of a country district na The London Gazette of May 28, when it is completed, like an old springtime finery, and quite as fa- quisitive about the newcomer as secure the Legislative Council's as have a distinct recollection of con- Office announcements:-Jan. 1. at this moment, rafter by rafter, in sent to a somewhat modified form siderable dissatisfaction with the The King has appointed the fol- a certain secret, and hidden ravine ually are when a stranger appears of the Salaries Commission's Re-recommendations when, with the one of his Majesty's Vice-Consuls, the pit where my own hearthstone of my aspect and movements in lowing: K. W. Tribe, Esq., to be of the Berkshire Hills. I have dug they drew, drinking in every detail among them. Nearer and nearer port. Despite popular opposition dollar much higher than it now is, First Grade, in China. April will soon rest. I have carried and long steady eyefuls, and then, when as expressed in the columns of the they were made public.
18.-The King has approved piled a few of the stones that will they had collected so much informa of the following:- Senor Don soon be warmed by my own fire. tion that they could hold no more, Press and by the leaders of trade
There are many other aspects of Patricio Smart, Consul of Chile at These things I have done, not so and industry after a careful study the question which could be touch Hongkong. The London Gazette much with the idea of being slight they ran off down the rock to their of the proposals, the Colony hased upon, but considerations of space lowing Foreign Office appoint and in order to convince myself uble squeaks and quavers,
of May 27 announced that the fol-ly helpful as for symbolic reasons discussing me for an hour in vol- crevice, where · 1 could hear them
been committed to a scheme which preclude us from going into these ment had been approved. Mr. that the little house is to be indeed they came up again and sat about Then involves a huge increase in the cost in detail at the moment. It will be GB. Lane, as Vice-Consul
USA at Hongkong. of Government and necessitates admitted that the present situation
Few others, to be sure, wouldn my planks and slabs and eyed care to claim it; for it will be as un-me with a sort of incredulity. very considerable taxation of a com-has been created solely by the de-
like the homes that most of my
I find that it is quite impossible munity which is already hard hit cline in the sterling value of the issue is utterly out of the question. contemporaries inhabit as can well
he imagined. For one thing, it to outstare a chipmunk or to make by the rise in living costs. The dollar; that is at the bottom of the Yet it is of supreme importance stands four or five hundred sarda him in the least self-conscious. fact that the Unofficial Members whole muddle. It was surprising, that there be co-operation in from the road, and that road It Apparently he does not see one's of the Council, excepting the two therefore; that only one of the Britain's Government. It is then self is utterly uninviting except to eyes particularly, as a dog does; members of the Commission who speakers on Thursday referred to look Mr. Lloyd George's accept rests upon a gigantic boulder which complete our company, is a ring to the Liberais to which we must the most leisurely of exploring he sees one all over, and all at once. pedestrians. For another thing, it All that we lack now, in order to did not vote, were solidly against this point, Mr. Suvi Netto show-ance of the Government's offer has overhangs & brook. No sounds thrush, and as I hear one singing the scheme did not deter the Goving that the unsatisfactory state of been spontaneous and sincere. from the outer world ever reach to at dawn and twilight in a hemlock ernment from insisting on its ap-affaire must continue unless some Mr. Lloyd George can provoke ait, there is no other house to be just across the ravine I do not de- proval. We do not, of course, sug- measure of currency reform is political crisis at almost any time seen from any of its windows, and spair of winning him to join us for traffic there is nothing but the when he sees how well we get on. gest that the Civil Servants who undertaken. The Government he wishes, but, usually far secing, swift scampering of chipmunks and For we shall need a singer to per comprise the Official Majority must surely see that stabilisation he has realised and still realises wood-nice among the ferns in the form our vespers and orisions. that a new political storm in Eng- ravine below. From my bay win. The fox, I suspect, allows his plumped for the most advantageous would automatically solve the pro- land this year is not only under-dow I shall have for prospect only thoughts to run too much upon of the three proposals put before blem with which it is faced. For sirable but must be avoided. certain little pools in the brook chickens, and I certainly shall them because it was in their own that reason, we should have thought There is now every hope of fruit a mossy rock or a hemlock tree or have such companionship. Where below me, each of them. mirroring think too much of books unless I interests to do so; they were merely that it would explore every conceiv. ful Liberal-Labour co-operation a tall blue iris. The hemlocks will ever the wood thrush sings, that acting under Instructions. Thoable avenue towards this end. In and the next step is for a bold ad-surround me there, a hundred sen place is holy.
tinels in green to tarn the world (Continued on Page 7) fiat having gone forth, they had no conclusion, we can only hope that Justment of the Government's un-away, and my music will be option but to obey.
the fact that there has been solid employment policy. No one can their day-and-night-long humming. Now that the issue has been de- Unofficial opposition to the salaries defend the present extravagance Clearly, this is not to be what is finitely disposed of, the occasion scheme will be strongly represented of doles for the passive support elegantly styled "an eligible re- WHO WAS
of idleness and yet those who can- there is only one man on earth who sidence." So far as I am aware, does not call for a close analysis of to the Secretary of State, in order not find work must have
some could, be blessedly content to spend the various viewpoints put forward that the authorities at Home may means of suppet. The first ques-the rest of his days in such a place. at Thursday's meeting of the Coun- know that the public is no party tion is then how the millions now I am that man, ag cil, but there are one or two aspects to a scheme which involves fresh being poured away in doles can be of the matter, arising out of the hardships on the community at a utilised to better purposes without large room and a amall kitchen. Official utterances, which need com-time when conditions are already inflicting hardships on those who On the outside it will be covered menting upon. First and fore- irksome and burdensome in the ex- The measure of co-operation Its hearth and chimney want to work but cannot find work, with hemlock slabs, and it will be decorated inside with the same most, let us endeavour to show that, treme.
achieved between the Liberals and will be made of rough field stone despite His Excellency's remark de-
Labour is largely on unemploy-collected on almost the spot on precating the suggestion, the new
ment, but we maintain that the which it stands, and if my hopes taxation which is being put into
understanding should be con- are not defeated the small building will look after a year or two of force is for the purpose of paying operate with the Prime Minister siderably deeper. Britain cannot weathering, as completely a porte Government servants higher on the question of unemployment afford at the present time any ion of the landscape as the huge
major domestic salaries. His Excellency
controversey. and ancient boulder on which it him- will create no surprise anywhere, whether the present Government rests. If I were not fairly sure self, earlier in his speech, for while Labour insists upon free
is the best possible matters little. of this sure of being able to slip trade and recoils from 'each "and, referred to the careful
this tiny human envelope into consi- every suggestion of protected in at any rate, for the settlement of tected should never have intrud deration which he had given dustries, the Conservatives are
t must be kept in office this year nature's bosom without being de to the question of how funds were strong for safeguarding Mr momentous questions. Looming ed upon a scene that has been to be provided to meet the "in- Baldwin's attitude is not at all dif. largest is India which will not fall maturing toward its present per- creased liability involved in the ficult to understand. If a phys to take due note of and give due fection for uncountable centuries. I hope there will be not one white Commission's Report. The Colonial cian- were to be called-in for a weight to the majority of the trillium the less because of my com- Secretary, on the other hand, consultation and was told by way Government in power on importing when early June adorns that ascribed the necessity of raising of a preliminary that the other ant divisions A Home political small closed valley, and that not a additional revenue to the additional doctors entirely disagreed with his crisis this year would disrupt much single violet will be displaced. I of the progressive work already kind to this small cabin, for it is say to the hemlock sentinels,-"Be methods of treatment, his response recurrent expenditure under the to the invitation would be that done in connexion with urgent of your own quiet nature. I say salaries scheme and to the sterling unless his advice was received world affairs, to say nothing of Its to the brook, "Sing softly below commitments of the Government with an open mind a consulation effects at Home at a time when this hearth, for it is composed of In actual fact, however, the scheme would be a waste of time. Active the prime needs of the moment are your own children. I shall wel- come there the winds and the sun approved by the Council absorbs co-operation between Labour and a bolder unemployment policy and and the rain and the snow, together more than the income expected from the Conservatives on any major continuation of the efforte to with every drift of hurrying home-
stimulate British tradë.
less leaves, Just as the boulder has done for the thousands of years be-
Mr. Baldwin Rafnsen, -
Mr. Baldwin's refusal to Co-
请
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My house is to consist of one
BRUTUS?
Brutus was Caesar's friend, 'who yet led the conspiracy
against Caesar'e life, ACHI cording to Mark Antony's generous tribute, Brutus was the noblest Roman of them
They accuse him of being all, but modern critics tend to set aside this judgment:
an intellectual prig, for everi preening himself upon his Immaculatë virtues.
Having dispossessed Brutus of his "proud reputation, the..
critics go on to axale, Calus
Canafus, whom they describe 48 a very much ebler man. They point out, moreover that Cassius "was right and~
Brutus wrong about the choice of Philippi as the site of the big battle against Mark Antony's forces, where In both lost their lives.
Be that as it may, Brutus was one of the most interest ing of Shakespearea cres- tions, ranking second only to Hamlet in intellectual at tainments. Many people, in**; deed, believe that in some respects Brutus and Hamlet were portrayals of Shakes peare's own mind.
You will not need to be told that Brutus appears in the master-dramatist's great play "Julius Caesar."
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