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THE HONGKO JG HOTEL GARAGE. STUBBY ROAD,
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DAY BY DAY
worked out. On principle, how- ever, there can be no objection to such an impost. The remainder of the Increased revenue is to be derived from adding to existing forms of taxation. The most serious of these is the proposal to TWENTY WREATHS TO HIS FUNERAL raise the Assessment Tax by four-E H. Manley.
IT IS FAR BETTER TO PIN A ROSE IN
D. B. WYNDHAM LEWIS introduces
T À MAN'S COAT THAN TO SEND
i
SOME GOOD COMPANIONS.
return to the things that Towards the end of the lun marter
cheon Interval during the last when England shuddered and men know, possessing a rover, ticket, About the time, quite recently, Test match at Lord's D man. Y
went to and fro repeating with perceived in the Members Seats, ashen lips that another Australian and hailed with courtesy, a mem Passengers leaving by the a.s.cricketer had stomach-acho, I sober of the M.C.C, known to him. Empress of Japan yesterday includ-|far derided our national mourning The member invited, him to sit ed Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Currie, Mr. and scoffed at honour and docency for a few moments (in order that and. Mrs. C. G. Hickling, Mr. and as to spend an afternoon revelling they might talk with greater ease) Mrs. A. Prismall, Mr. A Bitchiq carelessly in strawberries and in the Sacred Enclosure, where and Mr. J. A. Plummer.
cream with a lovely lady at the the King himself may not sit when Zoo.
he goes, to Lord's. Mr. E. V. Lucas-that if any man ended, and the member gently in- It has beek sald-probably by While they talked the interval doubts that the Creator of the timated that it was time for the stars, Creator alme siderum, has a outsider to retire to those dis- ease of humour he should look at gusting purlieus in which the the hippopotamus.
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per cent. This will hit business people and householders alike, and for that reason will be extremely unpopular. In particular, the ad- ditional burdens placed on the trade and commerce of the Colony by way of the higher Assessment Whilst engaged in digging the Tax, the increased harbour charges foundation on 3 site at the and the enhanced Stamp Duties. junction of Shanghai Street and Mongkok Road, yesterday, work- come at a most inappropriate time. men unearthed a human skeleton. We are told that trade is begin-No suspicious circumstances are ning to take a turn for the better.attached to the find. That may be so, although at the
be the fairest form of taxation so far as their incidence is concern- ed, and they may be easy and economical to collect, but that does not make the burden any easier to bear. It may also be true that the majority of shipping companiçs either operate on a sterling basis have increased their dollar
or
Medals,
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We, the lovely lady and I looked, populace or rabble are permitted not only at the hippopotamus but to assemble during a Test match. at the Great African Hornbill and The outsider, flushed with in- Suffering from injuries received his brothers. The Great African solence and wine, said he was moment there is very little evidas a result of a fall whilst work-Hornbill is more grotesquely comic hanged if he would; and accord- ence of it. Even so, however, ing on a building site near the than any drawing in that antique ingly, though attendants hovered could anything be more likely to Cheung Sha Wan Road, Cheung collection, falsely attributed to perpetually, veiling their eyes and put a brake on expansion than Chan, 33, an earth coolie, was kill-Rabelais,, called the Droll Dreams yet afraid to speak, he slipped ed almost instantly. His body was of Panurge; more grotesque than his rover badge and stayed these fresh imposts? Rates may removed to the Kowloon Mortuary, anything by Goya: more solemnly there in the Holy Seats, and des nbsurd than anything by Edward pite the consternation and mur
murs around him thoroughly en- Tear.
joyed the rest of the day's play.. A pickpocket, with five previous convictions, was sent to prison for The lady, who is undergoing an A special emergency meeting of four months by Mr. Williams at expensive education, and whose the M.C.C. was hold that same the Central Police Court this mor- command of the English Tongue is night. Everybody knows that ning, after evidence had been therefore considerable, thought when a suicide (a Nordic sport Eiven of how he endeavoured to him too perfectly adorable. It was introduced into Europe by Ger rob a passenger on a Yaumati obvious to both of us that the man Thought in the XVIth cen ferry of a purse.
Creator of the Ifornbill, the Hip-tury) has taken place in a church poptamus, the Jix, the mystico-that church has to be 'reconsecra- His Excellency Sir William Pest, Cards Nordic and Slav, of the ted.
forest-colony of Fontainebleau, charges, but the fact remains K.B.E., C.M.G., Patron of the St. and so many other creatures at In the same way it was resolved
John Ambulance Brigade, has con- that the raising of harbour charges sented, to present the Long Ser once fantastic and decorative, has to purge Lord's of its shame by a most certainly a sense of humour. simple ceremony of rededication is against the current tendency to vice
Medallions
One should collect such fauna, to first-class cricket, and Labels to those Brigade members I do. They alleviate the pain ceremony (at which remove obstacles to commerce
who are entitled to receive them, of life. My own collection is bishop presided) was accordingly rather than to add to them. Hong-on Monday: October 5th at 5 p.m.fairly large, and I intend leaving held behind closed gates a few kong's very life depends on itsat King's College,
it ultimately to the nation. Like days afterwards, in the presence shipping, and anything that adds
Mr. Evelyn Waugh, I particularly of the Sacred College of the The collapse of the roof and esteem the rich, and especially the M.C.C, each wearing the little to shipping costs must of necessity
the watch side wall of the machine shed on tection of grotesques there are chain.
female of that species. In my col-gold cricket-bat have unfortunate reactions.
the old premises of the Kowloon
some rich women whose consider- The simple proceedings, direct We shall be surprised and dis- We have not the space at the Motor Bus Company, at the junced judgments on life, death, food, ed by a Ceremonarius whose duty appointed if the Unofficial mem-moment in which to dilate further tion of Nathan Road, and Soy hooks, men, and cognate matters, it was to see that nothing ceze- bers of the Legislative Council do upon the Budget proposals, except yesterday morning. The collapse fully preserved by me, I take out were concluded (so my informant.
Street, was reported to the police uttered in my presence and care-monial crept into the not, at the second reading of the once again to counter the age-worn occurred at about 4.30 a.m., but
now and again, dust very re-swears) by the informal burying Finance Bill, strongly protest argument that we are. a lightly- nobody was injured.
verently, and replace, for they are of a groundsman under the north precious. against the tax provisions of the taxed community. When will the
wicket, and all dispersed.
There is a sequel to this story, Budget for
Suspected of having taken.part the coming year. Government realise that our rela-in an armed robbery at No. 7, Recently I have added (West but it begins to resemble the Most of us were prepared for tive good fortune in this matter is Victoria Street last month, a Chi-Room IV., Case VII) the only familiar Tannhauser legend so some increase of taxation, but
more than offset by the high stand-nese was discharged by Mr. Wil.female bishop in the world a pro-closely that I can scarcely believe the intruder, very few imagined that it wouldard of living, which
liams at the Central Magistracy duct of the fertile soil of Nordicit. Apparently must of this morning after the officer in America, she who said recently in stricken with remorse, went by. be either so heavy or spread over necessity be further added to by charge of the case had stated that an interview in the English news-night and begged forgiveness of the Chairman of the M.GC., who, so many headings. The present the proposed heavier taxation? the police could not "make more papers;
of him than the word of an infor-
"So far, women have been the banding him a cricket bat, said year started with a balance or over For the rest, we can only hope mer."
victims of men
Men have sternly: "When and if this bat aine million dollars, and even up that the Retrenchment Committee
turned women out into the world bursts into flower, then, and then will with all speed possible com- Arrested with 28 taels of pre-half-dressed. That will have to be only, will your sin" be forgiven."
stopped."
Since when (I am told) the bat this remain intact, but there was plete, its arduous labours and by its waist, a Chinese woman, who apder of the Pillar of Fire Society. most beautiful Arum lilies, show- pared opium concealed around her Thus Bishop Alma White, foun- has flowered into a sheaf of the the proposals indicate the means peared before Mr. Lindsell at the you will find her in my collectioning the intruder to be truly pani- credit side. It now appears, how whereby relief can be obtained Central Magistracy this morning very near a fine stuffed Don who tent and pardoned.
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ever, that the year will end with from our present plight. Above was fined $2,000 or four months upholds the accuracy of Macaulay
imprisonment in default. The and a Cleric who wants to dis- You who care for England; you
not much more than five millions in hand. What is more, even this latter sum is expected to be reduced to a little over three millions by the time we reach the end of 1931. We cite these figures to show the extent to which the Colony is liv- ing on its capital.
all, the Government- must be woman, who was arrested on the prove the supernatural by means to whom England is dearer than brought to a realisation of the Praya West, stated that the opium of a chemical process, fact that it is spending far more
had been given to her to carry,
money than the Colony can really afford.
life; you who hail the spirit of Life would be dark without any Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh, Fro of these. I also have, in an an- bisher, Nelson, Keyes, Habbs,
de- Sutcliffe, Old Uncle Tom Cobl Charged with kidnapping two nexe, an attractive section girls, a woman named Ho Kiu was voted to scandals; not the ori I beg your pardon; I was think remanded for 24 hours in Police dinary kind of scandal which oc-ing of something else. Neverthe Driving Fitness,
custody on an application by curs from time to time in Par-less, I beg you seriously to medi The regulations laid down under Detective Sergeant S. Smith, of liamentary, Business, and social tate this story. It is more signi-
Secretariat the Road Traffic Act governing
for Chinese circles, but those special scandals ficant and less grotesque than you The seriousness of the position the issue of driving licences in Affairs this morning. It
which shake England to her very imagine. Was
What Is technically called a with which we are faced is mainly satisfaction. They are framed on be preferred against the prisoner you may not have heard about, for reserved" sin can be dealt with Great Britain should give general stated that a further charge might foundations. The newest of these attributed by the Colonial Secre- sound commonsense lines with a on the production of the children.it has been hushed up. I will now only by certain appointed officials.
reveal it,
-Dady Mail, tary to the aftermath of the Great view to the public welfare, having War. All we can say on that point clearly benefitted by the
broad outlook which gave the ori
tre-
same
is that the Government has, in allginal Bill the distinction of being conscience, gone back, far enough the most important piece of social to discover the cause.
the ex- The
ex-legislation introduced by
isting government. In future, the Kaiser, seems to have been
res-applicant for a driving licence will ponsible for a very great deal more be required to establish a certain than most people think! If we cut degree of fitness for the respon- sibility. Liability to fits will be a cut generalities, however, and come definite bar, and the ability to see down to hard facts, it must be reasonably well will also be an es- admitted that the real reason for sential requirement. Compulsory insurance against third-party risks the plight in which Hongkong finds is another important feature of the itself is that its cost of Govern-new regulations, which are an add- ment has risen out of all propor liberty conceded to
ed necessity in view of the new users of the tion to its income. We cited road by the main provisions of the figures yesterday showing bow Road Traffic Act, which, among Personal Emoluments have
other things, recognises no speed limit, or rather, that there is no mendously risen during the past limit which is always and every- three years, and it will suffice now where the right limit. There are to direct attention to the fact that miles an hour is quite safe, and conditions in which fifty or sixty
from a revenue of some 271⁄2 mil- there are conditions under which lion dollars expected to accrue dur mere crawl might be dangerous. The onus of care and consideration ing the coming year. no less than is now upon the driver, though the 11% millions will be absorbed in penalties for the abuse of a new- salaries and wages of our Civil found freedom have been commen- surately increased. The issue of Servants. The recent, increases; the licence regulations is interest- which were forced through the ing in drawing attention to the fact Council in face of Unofficial oppost-that the Road Traffic Act consists largely of a framework laying down tion, have, of course, materially the matters on which the Minister added to the increase under this of Transport is to issue regulations. heading. Sterling
The code itself, on whose punctili-" còmmitments
ous observance it entirely depends in other directions have naturally is not drawn up or has not been been a factor as well, and here it published. Its provisions are left is well to observe that in budgetto Mr. Herbert Morrison, subject only to eventual Parliamentary ap ting on a is. 4d dollar for the proval. The Minister is. even less coming year the Government takes fettered in his power to make other a risk of further losses.
regulations, only the right of dis- approval being reserved. This ar- Coming now to the taxation pro-rangement whereby administration posals, the only new source to be is almost divorced from legislation tapped is the Amusement Tax, the able precedent in matters of simi may serve in the future as a desir details of which have not yet been, lar kind."
the
"But a nice thing about not being of the best families, Mrs.. Parvenu, is that you don't
have to prove it,