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The Swedish East Asiatic Com-, pany's motor vessel Shantung left Antwerp on the 22nd instant and in due hore on er about January 23rd.
the problems which he regarde na Insoluble by: Party strife are those of India, the Dominions and economy, including the problem of the dole. "As Chairman of the
IF YOU TRY TO PAINT AN IDEAL National Savings Committed," he AND THE PICTURE FALLS SHORT, DOES says, "I have met during the last THAT MAKE YOUR IDEAL LESB?- four and a half year, and especially Mark Lee Luther. during the last three months, not hundreds, but thousands, of men and women of every class and shade I have found of opinion....and almost complete agreement, not only that an all-party Government is en- sential if we are to cure our trou- bles, but that Parly divialuns are now so blurred that agreement on the main lines of policy would not be diffiehlt. They all say, if the right man were to appeal to the people of Britain to abandon Party strife and come together and pull together until this emergency is over, he would receive overwhelm- in support from the whole mass of
the people." We may quarrel with
the statement that Party divisions are now blurred, and we may won- der who General Seely has in mind when he talks of "the right man," but there does seem ground for be- lieving that there is quite a wide- sprend demand for non-Party treat- ment of the chief problems now con- fronting the nation.
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BEVERLEY, NICHOLS on
"NOT AT HOME."
wob.
IRRORS have always fasct-rous spider in the middle of hor M
nated me. They are as deep
Woo betide the caller who y life, and as shallow. Their arrived on a second Wednesday too, is the mystery of time, for or a first Tuesday, or in any way It is advertised that the Ex- they live only in the glittering took liberties with her particular change Banks will be closed to present.
dispensation of the calendar! Every morning they are gilt by
I sometimes recall these antique the transaction of public business
1st, (New the sunrise; every twilight and modes when I am inclined to be on Thursday, January
nothe velled and brooding. They irritated by what seems to be them Year's Day)
these mirrors intolerance of an older generation. know so much, The late Mr. Walter Poate, of they are silver caskets holding One is so used to being summoned to cocktails at a moment's notice, Woodmancote, West Byfleet, for-million secrets.
There is one mirror which, by telephone, so accustomed to merly of Hongkong, merchant, loftf
the estate valued at £32,832 (net per-feel, might tell many charming going to parties at which
and delicate tales were it to be hostess has forgotten to be pre- Bonalty £29,978).
released from its bond of alience. scut, so hardened to
finding one- the 1 is fastened outside a window self in strange houses with no Passengers arriving by Kashima Mars yesterday included of an old house in a quiet Chelsea indequate reason, so habituated to Mr. S. T. Butlin, Mr. and Mrs. T.street-one of those streets which callers with whom one is AL P. Runts, and is. Sy home-crated by no omnibuses, maere acquainted, at midnight, be when II. Mr. G. J. one is dressing, or
by no shops, where even the taxi- that it is a little difficult to re-
member softly. It cabs seem to purr more
that there were days, The forthcoming wedding is an-is a mirror with a purpose, and its long ago, when hospitality began nounced of Mr. Ernst Richard purpose is to warn the Inhabitants and ended at a definite hour and Alexander Zimmermann, of Jordon against the advent of any unwel was played according to certain
Mary come or inconvenient caller.
agreed rules. House, Kowloon, Lo Mika
It has been there, I am told, for "Firat and third Wednesdays"! nearly forty years. Aerosa Ita It sounds, to-day, as "period" as surface have lifted the figures of "Zounds" or "Inooth." And
7.
B01.
Bernice Ahwee; of Carpe Diem,! Kowloon City.
of
yot I
I
there is such a sharp divergence of broke out in the tween deck during Zone, for there were some in those which implies a certain mental
•
*
Mr. C. H. Hoare, of Messrs, ladies in bustles, alighting from used to ace lots of those cards on Lane, Crawford, Ltd., reported to carringes after being assured by the hall table when I was a boy.
I am not lamenting, only com- the police yesterday that his car, the groom that Mrais "at homo." a Buick, was stolen from Rumsey It has reflected disgruntled bengx menting. And yet, in a way,
the Ant
fin de siecle, turning away do lament, for I think it highly We cannot say, however, that weStreet whore he had parked it be-
tween 7 a.m. and 8 pm, on Sunday in disgust from the unyielding probable that with the passing of have much faith in Coalition Gov-
doors, having been told that Mra.the formal "call" conversation has last.
-is "not at home." And flatter-suffered. It may be that the ernments, and it does not appear at all clear how such an administra- Arriving here from Salzon on ing, feathery, Edwardian ladies Edwardian ladies did not discuss Lion would be able to agree on Bri-Sunday afternoon, Capt, W. Lee, and black, steely dowagers leaving any very tremendous problems as of the s.s. Helikon, reported to the cards. Then the pageant changed they eat eating chocolate cakes under the goslight, but they did to "make" conversation, tain's economie policy, seeing that Harbour Office that a small fire to khaki und the mirror's use was
the Conserva- viewpoint between tives and the Liberal and Labour The best and must logical solution would be a fresh appeal to the country, to determine how the electorale views the fiscal and other issues. But the Liberals apparent y fear that this may let in a Pro- tretionist Government, at least un- ti electoral reform is an actuality For a time, therefore, Labour seems fairly safe in affice, but it is clear that some circumstance might easily
THE POSITION OF THE | Parties,
GOVERNMENT.
1
it is diffealt, in consulering Mr. Lloyd George's latest declaration regarding Liberal policy towards the Labour Government, to deter mine what is the "signißen" portion of the speech to which Reu- ter refers. On the one band, the
ex-l'remier declares that Liberals deem that they are discharging patriotic duty in doing their best to avert a restoration of the Bald- win Government to power; on the other, he speaks of giving the Gov- erament another chance of pulling itself together and taking their job in earnest, adding that unless they
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arise in the near future to change the whole political outlook and bring about an early General Election.
Road
The Mobile Police,
the The provisions of Truffle Art, which has been aniled as a public boon, come into force
to the
It ia notified that
activity, They made" too, the voyage, when five bags of churdays to whom nobody was "not at
home." coat got alight,
without the assistance of alcohol. Always, the two who studied the The Edwardian lady took a sip of H.M.Smirror's surface, after the tinkling tea and said, "The evenings are Berwick will have divers down to of the bell had told them of the drawing in," which is at least an morrow in position on the castern friend or the enemy who was at accurate statement of a natural edge of the 12 fathoms patch near the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock their gutes, have rejoiced in the phenomenon.
ancient prorogative of ordering earrying out deep water diving their own hospitality. Their home The lady of to-day swallows a exercises, both in the morning and has been their castle. It has no ing day," which is no surt of state- not sidecar and says, "What a shatter- afternoon.
been turned, as so many homca are being turned to-day, isto ament at all and is of interest only of 2. Quarry Peint, Mr. A. Drans- must be open to all comers alike people to tell me that the On behalf of Mr. N. Drummond ten-shop or a cack-tail bar which to the neurologist as indicating a retlex action of shattered nerves. held, time-keeper of the Talks its owner wishes to be accused of 11
evenings are drawing in. The loss of Sugar Refinery, reported to the being "odd."
1 They
atatement seems hud chosen their
to remind Tientsin carpet from behind Mr. friends, and entertained them all and that whatever happens to that the world is going on after thought best. Thero wa British Industries there is The cardarity about friendship, In
those days, which is not to he thing that nlways rises The well-known bank-note trick found in any of the little "sets" ing, which is the sun,
The is sinking now on that
SUK JIG wha successfully played on a wait- which whirl round London for a ress of the Tung Nun Restaurant brief space, like hectic leaves mirror in Chelsea. And perhaps yesterday afternoon as she was blown by the fitful wind of a someone is knocking at the door. returning to her home at Yoo Kuk fashion.
I do hope for his sake that the
police yesterday the
Drummond's residence. pet is valued at $25.
$76.
R
A
in
seems
one
one
ofter sink-
Lies
of the
Blackest.
By F. W. MEMORY.
the
man employed at the Talkoo Sugar were "done," and by three o'clock provary in the courts ia les
ture.
avall-
however, only 81 persons brought
to trial). This was 35 less than
in
1927, but 47 more than
the
Street, Shamshuipo. She was ac- For though formalities may be answer will be "At Home." costed by three men who obtained irksome they do at least encour- from her jewellery to the value of age growth. There is more than merely polite significance in the
"Mannera maketh mun." on New Year's Day and motorists do. they cannot be kept in office very
in the British Isles will take to the The estimated traffic receipts of Do you remember those visiting
which much longer by any Parliament rond with an neule sense of chung the Imperial and International cards on were printed the words, "First and with a sense of responsibility. ted conditions, particularly when Communications, Ltd. for Nove-mysterious
ber, 1930, were £402,886, compared third Wednesdays?" In 3DW might be inferred from the first they nieet memliers of the
with receipts for November, 1920, come those littlo silps ofara to paste- well find a part of the speech that live Liberals mobile police force. This body of of £512.16%. The aggregate re-board may
comier Ar on ceipts from January to November the collections of historians yet Kive primary importance to keep men, patrolling large
£4,920,164, compared with unborn, as illustrative of a vanish- ing the Conservatives out of office; motorcycles or in motor cars, has re
ed social epoch. Even to-day the THE Psalmist confessed that it hern organised for thu express £5.628.629 for 1929.
picture which they evoke THE Paalmist confessed that it yet the sting contained in the latter
purpose of giving effer:
Expressing the view that it incredibly remote. portion of his utteranen nimosi sug-clauses designed to check dan- was "borter line case" and that
They remind one that once there "All men are liars," but it is with that they are losing gests
al)
-formy, gerous driving in all its
the documents seized were not were indeed days when calling cool, calm deliberation that Mr.
warrant their work being stullar in most sufficiently damaging to
was calling, when, twice a month, Justice, McCardle repeats Ppatience with Labour and are in a
And equally deli- berately Mr. Justico Eve retorts mood to throw the MacDonald Ad-respects to that of the trafi police a conviction, Mr. Lindsell, fat the the best ten service was arranged accusation.
that Mr. Herber: Mor Central Police Court this morn-on the drawing room table, the ministration out of office without In Hongkong.
ing discharged a Chinese work-cakes were abundant, the flowers
than it was 30 y years ago. According to the latest much further ado. Time will tell rs, designer of the Act, defups
their duties as "getting order. Refinery who was accused of being the expectant hostess was stilliy able statistics there were no fewer which is the dominating influence,
in possession of Communist litern-ensconced in her chair, awaiting than 131 cases of perjury known i considerateness and decent enn-
the visitors, like a large, prosper to the police in 1928 (there were, but with the prospects of electoral
duct on the King's highway," a reform in the near future--a re-
definition which should cause form which would be to the little apprehension in the mind of driver. manifest advantage of the Liberals the normally careful
we cannot see Mr. Lloyd George There will be a thousand of these and his followers going out of their specially selected officers on the way to oust Labour from power. read but if the intentions of the Act are fulfilled it is only the There is, of course, another big reckless driver who has cuuse to issue shortly coming to the fore, worry. Mr. Morrison makes namely, the new Trades Union Bill.clear that there is no question of How Liberals as a body feel on that the mobile police pursuing their;
A merely vindictive measure has not yet been disclosed, duties in but it may well be that they will in. spirit. On the contrary, where efst on considerable amendments to only minor faults are involved, they this piece of legislation, in which will be expected to give a friendly word of warning or advice. In event a serious divergence of view serious cases, prosecution. If the as between Liberals and Labour only remedy and the now Act; muy disclose itself.
which emphasises the impropriety There can be little doubt that of dangerous, reckless
or careless throughout the country as whole, driving, contemplates substantially. considerable. dissatisfaction has increased pernities. What actually arisen regarding the Government's constitutes dangerous or careless domestle policy. The critics hail driving can obviously be decided from all the Parties, not excluding only la relation to a particular set the public of circumstances, and Labour itself. As one writer has will awalt with the deepest in- expressed it, there is a sense of terest the interpretations of the crisis in the air. General Seely, police and magistrates. In any speed onca a Cabinet Minister but now event, the abolition of the aloof from Furty politics, has, In limit places the responsibility upon the driver himself and the general the course of a letter to The Times, opinion is that the effect will be to many produce a moro satisfactory state publicly expressed what people are saying in private. "Bri-of affairs than has existed hitherto. tain is confronted," he says, "with Administered with commca
PIS MAYO
it
Bense
a grave emergency," and "it is clear the new Act will undoubtedly, provo that an election on Party lines will a blessing to all considerate users not help us to meet it. Amongst of the road.
"This guy ain't got a chance. I'll win every round, up to the fol.
average number between 1900 and 1904. Mr. Justice McCardic, how- ever, holds that now "perjury in committed in greater or lesa de gree in moat civil and criminal cunca before the courts."
If perjury is so
the rampant, reason, some will say, is probably to be found in the homes of England and the general weakon- ing of parental control brought about by the freedom which young people of the present ágo enjoy:" Unpleasant Truth.
The pursuit of pleasure has mado both men and women op- portunists in overy sensu
of the BOEVE
word; thoy do and say those things which are calculated to
their ends rather than to bear relation to truth and facts.
strict
And
BO
it has
has come about that truth, because often it is un- From that habit perjury is
pleasant, i is not valued very bigh-
But a step.
This
would be a very excollent theory if it could be demonstrated that the known perjurers como
those
centres where pleasure and pleasure-gecking run riot
great towns and gay places of
from
the
the
moly enough, an ex-
of Judicial statistics proves just nothing. Apparently the slow witted, early to bed
early
to rise country man and woman are Just as much given to perjury as the butterßles and moths of the pleasure-making centres.
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