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Fashions in Love"
a Paramount Picture
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Starting Sunday |-
RICHARD DIX The Love Doctor
Guramount Picture
Action-Love-Laughs |
COMING SON
A Galazy of British Stars
in a British “ TALKIE " Produced in a British Studio.
ALF'S BUTTON
A Gaumont British All-Dialogue
Production
Directed by WPKELLINO
taturing
TUBBY EDLIN, ALF GODDARD NORA SWINBURNE & POLLY WARD Based on W.A.DARLINGTON'S Famous Farce Extravaganza.
Booking at Andersons and the Theatre (Tel. 23720)
BEAUTIFUL
CARPETS
Tientsin and Indian in all Sizes and Colours.
SUPERB QUALI ! Y - MODERATE PRICES XEP THEM Ar
D. CHELLARAM
-OPPONITE HONGKONG HOTEL.
THE RESTRICTION ABANDONED.
CHANCELLOR ASKED TO TAX FOREIGN PRODUCT.
LITTLE LIKELIHOOD.
London, Mar. 17. Numerous questions on the tea market prospects were submitted In the House of Commons to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-day. Mr. Oswald Lowls (Con. Colches- ter) asked whether the Chancellor's the attention had been called to fact that the proposed schema for the restriction of the India, Ceylon, bad and Java tea crops in 1931 been abandoned, in consequence of which tea-planters in Indin and Ceylon be facing competition from the Dutch East Indies, and whe- ther he would consider giving some
the
preference to tea grown in British Empire by means of a tax on foreign tea.
Mr. Pethiek Lawrence, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, replied In the afirmative to the first part of the question, and as regards the second, said he could not anticipate the Budget statement.
Mr. Lewis asked if the Govern ment would receive representations from the many important Interests concerned.
fact
THE FIRE-CRACKER GRAND NATIONAL
NUISANCE.
TEST CASE HEARD AT MAGISTRACY.
MAXIMUM PENALTY.
AMUSEMENTS
SWEEP.
TEN FIRST PRIZES IN THE IRISH DRAW.
AUTH
£950,000 SUBSCRIBED. London, Mar. 17. A cracker-firing incident in the
The subscription list for the early hours of Chinese New Year Day in Wyndham Street, within Irish Grand National Sweepstake, close range of a Police official's which is to be closed to-morrow quarters, was the subject of a night, nine days before the world- summons before Mr. Schofield at famous race, has already reached remarkable total of £950,- the Central Magistracy this morn- the
000, in spite of the restrictions ink..
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E.,placed in Englund..
Meanwhile, important changes in Divisional Superintendent, was the complainant, and he preferred the distribution of the prizes as two charges against the tenant of compared with the Derby Sweep renchies the first door of No. 49. Wyndham have been approved. Street.
In the absence of the tenant, who is away in Shanghai, the summonses were proceeded with against his wife, Mrs. Ku Chan- shi, a fashionably dressed young woman.
If
the prize-money £1,000,000, there will be ton first of £300,000. There will also be prizes of £30,000, instead of one ten third prizes of £15,000, instend of one of £160,000 and ten third prizes
of £10,000. The scheme also provides for ten Mr. Wodehouse sald he had prizes for each other horse drawn, Bummons for which forfelt has not been de- brought the second
of
nature before the race.
Af
regarding the creating of a dis-clared on Tuesday of the week turbing noise in the
As his Worship Apart from the horses competing, test. IL
14 was knew, there
general there will be two thousand cash for the
and 2,100 Aring
of £100 each. of prizes permission
which covered crackers,
the other prizes.~Reuter. early morning hours of Chincac New Year Day, but that was only permission which covered legiti mate noises accompanying the
that that celebration, wo
anything
PUBLIC MONEY
VOTES.
SIX ITEMS FOR FINANCE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Pethick Lawrence asked for notice of the question.
Replying to Mr. Graham White, Mr. Pethick Lawrence said doubtless the Government would which departed from the usuri 'that - form of firing strings of crackers, take into account the when previously Britain had a pre-such as the throwing of bomb and from windows ference on British ten, one result crackers was to divert Dutch tea to Austra verandahs, constituted an offence. Mr. Wodehouse remarked that Han and other markets to the de-
planters in when Britain took over the Colony, triment of British
the continuance of certain Chinese Ceylon.--Renter.
ensioma were agreed to, and one! of these was the firing of crackers: during Chinese New Year celebra long. He had been thirty years to come before the Finance Com- in the Colony, and could say that mittee of the Legislative Council this privilege had never been at their meeting to-morrow after- abused during his earlier years noon. Of these, the most impor- here. It was not until within
EXTRADITION CASE DELAY.
SPIRITED PROTEST MADE BY SOLICITOR.
WOMAN'S PLIGHT.
EDUCATION COURSE.
Six votes totalling $15,170 are
$1,091. education, expenses of recent years that these abuses in tant are: the form of Aring of bomb course of study. To provide crackers and throwing crackora
fees not exceeding £50 to enable from windows and
verandahs Mr. L. G. Morgan, Science Master
were eommitted.
In the Education Department, to An advance course in at the London Day
the
and has
Regarding the present incident, attend Mr. Wodehouse said he had taken education
School of Mr. F. H. Loseby, for Mrs. Jeng the precantion of closing his inner Training College which is
to the and outer windows and also of London University Sec. whose extradition United States is sought by the putting cotton wool into his ears Pedagogy in the Faculty of Arts. Federal Government on a charge before retiring for the night. All The course will enhance the value of grand larceny, renewed his pr those precautions notwithstand-of Mr. Morgan's services to the tests against further delay whering, he was startled at 12.05 in the Colony. Mr. Morgan will contri- it was suggested to him, on appear morning by what appeared to bobute half the leave for which ke
Schofield this bomb crackers being thrown from is normally eligible auce before Mr. morning, that the woman might house opposite, these detonating already spent a vacation in een-
with deafening effects.
tral China in connexion with an have to wait four months in prison
Mr. Wodehouse proceeded to educational thesis which he will before the formality connected
hobe called upon to submit. with her surrender was completed, quote, extracts from what
considered as a "very excellent Mr. Losely pointed out that the leading article" which appeared woman was ready to waive all
the subject of cracker-firing there proceedings, and return on the Hongkong Telegraph on the her accord, loud yet, she was kept nuisance, remarking that it re- waiting while the Colony and feeted his own views on Chart were being diebsted to by matter.
a foreign inverame
wait on its pleasu
made to
the
New Services.
$11,000, contribution for News Services. Government's ability for this Reuter Service la £200 per month plus the cost of telegrams estimated at $500 p.m. Liability Defendant was fined $50 on the under the present agreement.
her charging
with extends to April 30th and it is summons ree al-throwing crackers to the public extimated that a further vote of ternative Haes for action by the danger, and a further $100, this $11,000 will be required therefor. and the under-estimated Magistrate the reduction of the latter representing the maximum The sum provided in the Estimates bail to an anseunt that was not fine allowed under the Section was prohibitive, a report by the Magis relating to the making of a dis-deficit pecentuated by the fall in
exchange. trate of the facts to the Governor, turbing noise. who could then order the woman's release, or without hearing from the Magistrate, order her release under the circumstances,, Regard- ing this last, Mr. Loseby said he was communicating with His Ex- cellency.
His Worship said he would con-1 sider further the points raised by | Mr. Losely, and with that object, he would put the case over until nuot on Monday, instead of u formal remand of one week. Bail for the present would be as before, hamely, $75,000.
MARRIED WOMEN'S
NATIONALITY.
CEPUTATION WAITS ON 'MR HENDERSON.
She left the Court protesting against the penalty.
PERJURY CASE AT SESSIONS.
Medical Expenses,
$2,500, medical expenses, bills of doctors and opticians.-The Finance Committee on 4th Decem- ber, 1930, voted the sum of 3915 in meet doctors and opticians' fees in accordance with a decision that the previous practice of de- posits should be replaced by a INDIAN MONEY-LENDER
system of crediting revenue with IN THE DOCK.
the sums paid by parents debiting Expenditure with the A vote for Alleged to have committed var. Fees in question. jury in a Summary Jurisdiction $2.500 is now requested in order continue the new practice in action concerning loans of money, to Fauja Singh appeared in the dock. 1931, ne provision having been at the Criminal Sessions this made in the Estimates for this revenue collected morning, and entered a plea of year. The
and
not guilty, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy is under "Entrance Fees" will fully prosecuting for the Crown, and cover the expenditure.
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios is defending.
The indictment against accused
REMARKABLE FEAT IN THE AIR.
la to the effect he falsely affirmed Landon, Mar 17. that he did not, consolidato two The Foreign Secretary Mr. promissory notes and that he did-
BRITISH PILOT IMPRESSES ARGENTINE AIRMEN, Arthur Henderson, and the Under not tell F. A. Robertson, one of had algnatorics, that he Secretary of the Home Department the
London Mar. 17. this afternoon received a deputadastroyed the promissory notas.
Mr. Fitzroy explained that on
Several Argentine airmen wit- tion of women members of Parlin- ment from all parties, who asked April 10, F. Remedios borrowed nossed a remarkable display near the Government to facilitate the $150 from accused and signed a Londen by G. 9. Standland, the passage of the Nationality of note for $800, this being also well-known British punt, in a new Married Women's BOL. The signed by H. E. Vieira, On August Fairey Firefly machine which is Foreign Secrethry said:"Tho 23, another $200 was borrowed,
this
note being signed by Remedios probably the fastest. fighting aero-
plane in the world. Government fully sympathiers and F. A. Robertson for $400, the Stanlland swooped almost to, the with the principle that women two notes thus totalling in value ground at 380 miles an hour and should not be required, to change $700. A further $150 was borrow-then, turning his machine sharply their nationality on marriage with-od and, to anve having three notes, climbet 20,000 in ten minutes: oul their consent."
the previous twe were incorporat- The Argentine aviator Captain Ho pointed out that the et in a third for $1,000, Robertson Castex, also tosted the machine and Longue Council last January deand R. Costa signing it as guaran- although it was a strange craft to elded that the whole question of tors.
him he too swooped and stunted nationality of married, women Counsel explained that it was with it after a few minutes. should be placed on the agenda customary for borrowers of money The Firefly has 500 horse-power of the next Assembly meeting, and in Hongkong to sign for double Rolls Royce motors-British Wire- expressed the hope that interna-the amount loaned. As a conseless. Lional agreement to the question quence of the third note, the pre- would be reached. If substantia!vious two were to be destroyed. progress was not made at Geneva, Accused had sworn that that
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he Buggented that the women's was not the pass and that there is holding. organizations should, after the As was no such consolidation, but Pr sembly meeting, request the Govern- witnesses or the
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"I Don't Ka、w You
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