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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, Nov. 13 1930.
EMPIRE TRADE.
Whilst many issues of vital con- cern have been raised at the Im- perial Conference,, which con- cludes its meetings to-morrow,
public interest has, perhaps quite naturally, been mostly centred on the discussions which have taken
DAY BY DAY
MY PRECEPT TO ALL WHO BUILD IS, THAT THE OWNER SHOULD-BE AN
It is notified that a small quantity of fireworks and small arms am- munition will be fired for proof purposes at Stonecuters Riffe Range on the morning of November 17.
wishes
DOROTHÝ BLACK on the
QUEER MEN WOMEN LIKE.
tariff on non-British goods was 30 per cent, ad valorem, it would be raised to 40 per cent, the lower. British rate remaining unchanged. It has since been, shown, however, that this view is wrong. The pro- posal meant that the General ORNAMENT. TO THE HOUSE, AND NOT Tariff should be increased not by THE HOUSE TO THE OWNER-Cicero. ten points, but by 10 per cent. of
THERE was a lot to be said for Jamazingly clever, but well-adver- the previous rate. To take an
Bluebeard. He had the hall-tised young American actor who mark of femine approval. came over here on a visit, an- . example, the present duty on eles
Captain Murderer, the immortal other train drew up the same day tric light fixtures of British origin
figure of Dickens's. "Nursemald at another station and a famous is 20 per cent.; the general tariff
Tables," was another of these fas soldier who had rendered magni- cinating gentlemen who never had ficent service to his country got out Is 30 per cent. By Mr. Bennett's
The Hongkong Civil Service a dull moment. Even his name of it unnoticed by any but a fow proposal, the general tariff would List for 1980 is to hand from the was no deterrent to his many ad-personal friends. be raised to 33 per cent., thus printers, Messrs. Noronha & Co. mirers, and when he bad made the
He had achieved work that had creasing the margin in favour of This is the twenty-sixth issue and pie and added the garnish, and
a fat volume. Exactly half of it eaten it all up and picked the taken a lifetime of danger, self- British goods from 10 to 13 points; is devoted to records of the public bones, there was always another denial, and hard work. But wo not from 10 to 20. An additional service of officers.
lady ready and willing, in spite men threw no posies at him. We of everything, to be his.
|don't particularly like that sort of They have had many disciples in man to-day. margin of three points might, of
We have received from the Rev. course, be a decisive factor where w. T. Featherstone, of the real life. Women like that kind This is an age of pretence. We price competition is extremely Diocesan Schools and Orphanages of man, as they do, and always have forgotten the good advice in keen. but the official interpreta- a long list of donations which he will, like the most remarkable type the advertisement and been satla
has received and
ta of men.
It's a strange way we fied with inferior imitations of the tion of the offer makes it a good acknowledge. The total amount have, and a handicap that will genuine article, man. We don't,
always be ours in public life. mind whether he is brave, or honest, deal less attractive tham the first received was $3.135.60.
or good, or clever, as long as he can popular reading of it. That, of
I once sa a crowd of women dance and kiss prettily on the pic- A Ane of $960, or five months' course, is altogether apart from imprisonment, was imposed on a busy with a reprieved murderer, tures, or ride about pretending to
Butters, at the and it was a disgusting sight. He kill Indians, wearing a wide hat. the other considerations which Chinese by Mr.
We don't want reality any more. could be quoted to show that the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. was as poor and mean and flabby
The defendant was charged by a little man as you would nicet in We are satisfied with something scheme, if adopted, would not be Revenue Officer Talion with pos-a day's march anywhere. He had that looks like what it isn't, and for in the best interests of the Mother session of 32 tales of raw opium not even that hall-mark of the really the time being we have got.it in murderer magnetic our home life and our architecture, at the Kowloon-Canton railway good-class
eyes. If he had been bringing up our foodstuffs and our men. The the coal for any of them they would whole world has fallen in love with It seems likely, however, that
have been offhand and probably the Court Jesters and the Tumblera, At the Kowloon Magistracy, be-lightly rude to from the Conference will emerg fore Mr. Butters, this morning, they pelted him, with flowers.
him. As it was, and the only music that appeals is
that of cap and bells.. other and less controversial Chinese woman was charged with Can we wonder that modern man- Presently we shall change our methods of improving inter-Im- having kept an unregistered mui- hood and its achievement are, no minds, but in the meantime we have perial trade than by tariff changes trei and with having ill-treated hing to wave flags about at the mono right to object or complain about which might engender endless her. Mr. F. C. Rendall appeared ment, when we have on every hand the young men of to-day, seeing for the defendant and pleaded not these manifestations of what wo- what we universally admire. We | jealousy and friction between guilty. The case was fixed for men really like?
are prone to forget, as we ought not Once it was courage and strength to forgot, now that most of us are various parts of the Empire and November 18. The defendant was provoke growing hostility in the granted bail in $250 cash and $250 that were extolled. Only the brave such good business women, that aup and the strong deserved the fair.ply inevitably follows demand, with security.
We do not care much about a tendency to lower quality for outside world, from which 50
those things any more. We wor-small bidders. much of our trade is derived.
hip agility and speed. Agility and There was something to be said The nature of these measures will
speed of toe, or at cutting throats, for Bluebeard. He knew his mar- or at eluding the hangman'a noose ket.. be divulged without delay, and we
or another mal'a boxing glove. may hope and believe that, based on common agreement, they will | fulfil the purposes for which they
are intended.
Country.
tional
na
station.
TOBACCO SMUGGLING
NUISANCE.
WOMEN SAID TO BE WORST
OFFENDERS.
Considerable trouble is being caused to the Revenue Department
S.L.I. FAREWELL FUNCTIONS.
It doesn't matter much what, ap- parently. We are tickled to death by men who hit soft balls very hard here and there, and jump smiling over tehnis nets to grip their van- quished opponent by the hand. We DANCE ON SATURDAY: BAND).
CONCERT SUNDAY.
CAPTAIN JOHN
men who
SMITH PRESENTS POCAHONTAS WITH WAM PUM
The Somerset Light Infantry are
by constant attempts to amuggle are all taken up with those hand- That Silver Loan,
illicit goods into the Colony from some men in clean white Bannel Nam Tau, and, as a result, extra who hit another kind of ball often One of these days, suddenly, it revenue officers have had to be put and hard, and run very fast up and will dawn on the minds of the on duty at the wharves to search down a carefully prepared piece of leaving the Colony on November 26 hurtle according to present arrangements, grass., Or the American sponsors of an interna- passengers arriving by launches.
It is the loan of several million who are becoming a nuisance to ear moch
women particularly round an asphalt track in a motor- and several farewell functions are
faster than any other being arranged.
An Invitation is extended to a cunecs of silver to China that the the authorities by trying to smug-men. place with regard to means of de- opinion of responsible Chinese gie dutiable tobacco which they You can gather a crowd any day farewell dance to be given by "g" veloping inter-Imperial trade. leaders, and possibly of the coun- usually conceal very cleverly with a film star far larger than Company on Saturday at the Gar- We should soon be made acquaint- tries whose names have been link- When one female passenger, who you can for a victory. But a good rison Lecture Hall at Wellington Dance Orchestra of the ed with the conclusions of the Con-ed with the project. might provide was arrested yesterday, appeared murderer has an even wider appeal, Barracks, the music to be provided
before Mr. Williams at the Central especially if he has magnetic eyes. by the ference on this question. What some
very important considera Palice Court this morning his Murder is becoming quite a popular Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. tions. We commented upon the Worship imposed a fine of $50. handicraft to-day, and the man who ever they are, these are hardly
On Sunday, the band of the bat- grand farewell peculiar nature of the proposals A similar fine was passed on a is caught out disposing of his sixth talion will give a likely to involve any change in the when Judge Paul Linebarger had man who was found with a quanti-wife will never lack a seventh should concert (weather permitting) at fiscal policy of the Mother Coun- his say, and further explanations byly of dutiable tobacco concealed he manage to wriggle out of the Wellington Barracks, commencing A special programme in his bedding, which he was predicament. When all London at 8.0 p.m. try, since from the start the Gov-Senator Key Pittman have merely carrying off one of the wharvex on went mad over a not very cultured. is being arranged and refresh- crament has made it clear that it added to our bewilderment. After the seafront.
not particularly good-looking, not ments will be obtainable.. cannot consent to any scheme the experience of the Judge, and which will involve the taxation of the very clear statement on the the country's food supplies. The point of foreign loans by Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nanking Minister of Empire Free Trade scheme, of
Finance, it was assumed that the which so much has been heard, in-matter would be quietly dropped~~~. volves food taxation, but, apart the least said about it the better altogether from the British Gov-sort of thing. But nothing of the ernment's attitude thereto, it has kind is contemplated, according to from Washington, been made abundantly clear that latest advices
which record Senator Pittman the Dominions could not be in-
saying that the Senate Committee duced to accept it. Mr. Bennett, on International Relations, which the Canadian Premier, has declar- has been studying Far Eastern ed that this policy is neither de- trade conditions, still looks with fa- eirable nor possible; Mr. Havebga, vour upon an international pool to the South African Finance Minis- make a huge silver loan to China. ter, has asserted that the Union is And apparently it will take a great deal to deter them. The agree- not prepared and cannot afford toment, says Senator Pittman, would subscribe to Empire Free Trade; probably have to contain pro- whilst Mr. Scullin has indicated visions that would bring the four that his trust is placed in Imperial dominant war lords into the Na- Preference.
tional Government to participate in the administration of the in- Mr. Bennett's offer to the
ternational fund. It would have Mother County was made a great appeared more reasonable to talk deal of at the time it was put of preventing their participation forward, but closer analysis seems in the administration of the fund, to have led many of its advocates but be that as it may, if it is 80 to have their doubts on its real easy a method of bringing peace value. One of the Canadian to China, it is extraordinary that papers, we notice, has described no-one thought of it before. Mr. Pittman is of opinion that an in- the offer as a fraud and "a horse-crease in the value of silver would trading bargain," whilst another result from a huge addition to remarks that Mr. Bennett, having ¦ China's glut of the metal, been so specific in instructing because it would result in the `im- Great Britain in Ita duty to mediate pacification of China. The Canada, might have been less reluctance to drop the plan is per- haps to be understood if this is a general in Indicating what Canada considered view. would give in return. For a time, (there appears to have been.con-
siderable doubt at Home as to the The Royal Army Service Corps precise nature of Mr. Bennett's are holding their third Dance of the Season on Friday, 21st Inat., proposals, especially. that part at Wellington Barracks Hall, com- which spoke of a ten per cent." mencing at 8.30 pm. The music will be supplied by the jazz band increase in prevailing general of H.M.S. Berwick, which earned. tariffs or upon tariffs yet to be great popularity recently for its performances on ships in the created. At first sight, most
Atlantic Fleet, prior to its men- people took this to imply that bers conmissioning in where, for instance, the Canadian Eerwick.
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