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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1902,
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situation. What Lord Snowden's assertion really amounts to la that the Cabinet is able to agree secondary questions, but is decidod- ly at variance on the major lanuo of the day. If that is harmony. then the term standa in need of surious revision.
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It would appear that Lord Snow- den cannot get rid of his obsession to get in a dig at the Labour Party whenever the opportunity offers. Because Mr. Henderson indicated at the General Election that, in eer tain circumstances, he would favour a twenty per cent. tariff, his former colleague says he would na trust the safeguarding of Free Trade to extreme tarift Conserva- ilver s to the Labour Party. What is overlooked, however, is the fart that the Labourites have aTer- ed all the opposition of which they are capable to the Government's selienic. Contraal that fact with the lengths to which the Conserva- Uves would, and very well may, R. and it will become clear who are the real defenders of Free Trade.
DAY BY DAY
ROB THE AVERAGE MAN OF 1118 LIFE-ILLUSION AND YOU ROD HIM OF KIB HAPPINESS AT THE HAME TIME,
IRCH.
THE MESS WAR.
A Seasonable Struggle in Four Rounds. By ANTHONY ARMSTRONG.
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The Empress of Britain presented a
HO far has misled, and Swordfrog replied etriking sight while lying in harbour THE NEW YEAR” last night, her funnela being very
THE
been enlivened for us in the surely not an expert like Holater; effectively Boodlighted. She leaves Officers Mess by a mild form of and Holater said let him tell him for Chinwangine at noon on Monday warfare which has broken out he that a well-known connoisseur was twoen Lieutenant Holster and once given sherry and told it was The committee of the Craigentower Swordfrox of our battalion. For port and didn't know the differ Cricket Club have secured the aer Swordfrog has just
said
that vices of the orchestra of the Empress Mess Secretary and, in
mude ence, and Swordfrog Conse-
was just what he'd alwaya, guess, of Cannda which will play dance music at the Club House from 5 p.m. quence of thus being the targeted about connoisseurs, and even 10 B p.m. on Sunday next. The an- for all complaints about the food he, Mesa Secretary though he was, became nual Bachelors' Ball will be given by and drink.
intolerably wouldn't have made a bloomer like the single members of the Cinn on touchy. I mean, you could hardly that; and Holster sald he betted Saturday, February 20,
leave a morsel of porridge on your five bob he would,and went abrupt- plate without an affronted Sword-ly to bed. frog naking fariously what was wrong with it, and practically treating the incident as a blow in the face.
The Twelfth general meeting of the longkong University Medical Society will be helt to-day Friday, February 12, at 8.30 p.m. in Room K of the University buildings. Dr. M. Q. Paster. M. D., M. H. C. S., will) Fin an address entitled "Travels Through, Yunnan and Szechuan," Blus. | Lord Snowdon himself has dissentirated with matern elfies. Members ed from the Government's pro- aw their friends interested in the posals, which plainly demonstrates subject are invited to attend. what he thinks of Conservative rea-
Trude principt:4, peet for Free But when all the talking and ex- plaining in done, the fact remains ti! Britain has deserted her tradi- tional principles and bus joined those nations whose policies repre- sent an interference with free movement of trade. The stop is a retrograde one, reflectink
an economic nationalism which is one of the worst features of the present
day.
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It was Bayonet who precipila- ted the second round. Merely in the spirit of scientific inquiry he secretly told the Mess waiter just Holster, on the other hand, hav-before dinner next night to fill the on Christmas leave decanter with sherry and hang the
it. lunched and diued in Town with "Light Port" label
The meal was any lttle the senior partner of the firm sup plying the Meas cellar, suddenly strained. Swordfrog kept aniling allopted the attitude of a connois his whisky-and-soda noisily and
Wine saying, "Corked, bah Jove!" sour, and began to The special dinner dance arranged
Soames, go to Bin 8 and bring up. Quito Seriously. by the Peninsula Hotel in connexion
bottle of the '65," and The Mess has three kinds of with the visit of the Empress of Britain was held last night and proved port; and to obviate the Mess other rude remarks, which Hola- Benke of ter treated with lofty disdain. great success. Well over 400 people waiter relying on bla were present and filled both the Rene taste to tell the three decanters Aftor dessert Bayonet asked them in a ginas of Roam and Roof Garden to capacity apart, each wears a silver label both to join him Dancing was indulged in until the round its neck. The first of these "Light Port."
"Vintage Port,” and is It came, was poured out, was early hours this morning, the music renda being supplied by the hotel band known to Holster as "the ah sipped. Both Holster and Sword-
the Cockburn '08" (augmented by musicians fron
at once directed puzzled and to Swordfrog frog Empress liner.
as the "one-and-threepenny." The glances at the decanter label; but athers are "Old Port" and "Light whereas ilolater remained puzzled, Charged with conspiracy and with Port." or again, an Swordfrog, no Swordfrog was patently reassured.
Bayonet then asked Swordfreg of figures. the larceny of $6,825, Chan Cheung- connoisseur but a man wan, a shroff, appeared on remand prefers to put it, the elevenpenny there was anything wrong with it, before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the and the eight penny. These labels, and Holster hurriedly Interpoin
were he'd better Central Police Court this morning. by the way, remain permanently ted that if there Old Cities and New
when ball in the sum of $10,000 in |
put it down in the Complaint Book. Cash was fixed, on a request by Mr. on the decanters, except for
Saturday mor-
Swordfrog, speaking with firent cities have a fascination A. F. Hnil un behalf of the accused, brief period on
that that few other parts of the earth and the ease again remanded until ings, when they are removed by traint and addressing himself
cleaning and pointedly to Bayonet, replied can rival. There is romance into-morrow
he did not think the eightpenny morning. The complain-kitchen-man for
port was quite as good as usual. the jungle, wild and full of theant in the ease is a retired merchant replaced by eye.
named Trang Fan-hing, who allegea
it seemed to him to have gone
off unexpected, there is romance In that he had been the victim of atten- Well, a short time ago Sword trifle-about
it
two-pence-hall- the prairie with its mites of ripen-tions by a number of men, accused frog suddenly announced there ing grate; there is romance in the ongst them, who sought to interest was a different "Old Port" that Penny or so. Bayonet then asked Holster what he thought was him in certain property deals, from cana, perhaps most explored by which the present charges nrose,
night, and he would like to know
wrong with the port, and Holster, what the Mess thought of it. Hol with a pleasant smile, replied, stury-tellers, but always fresh and
tor, who had just finished being "Nothing, except that it's damu inviting-hat the great city, and
particularly funny about. the sherry." Everything was then especially the eity with a crowded
morals of the Mess Chablis, at once up for a while while he ex- background of centuries, exercises
said that he'd give him an expert tracted ave shillings from Sword- imagina- a special appeal to the
opinion, and, ordering an "Old tiun. for it Is there that humanity Chas moulded much of ita destiny, it is there that civilisation has he ball brick by brick. So trong, indeed, is this appeal of the man-built eity, that it is even exerted by the lost cities of the ancient world, whose splendours still born through the barely pene- There trable inze of antiquity. is much of this glamour in the
cilies of the present day; so much, in fact, that one is inclined to de
Now that Britain has decided to adopt Protection, it is amusing to tote the wfforts which are bringtales that linger about the older made by the tariffists to assure the public that not a very strong dose is being administered. Many of the arguments defeat themselvicar It is contended, for example, that Britain is merely going in with the low-tariff countries; yet almost in the same breath it is argued that the tariff is needed. for revenue
plore the passing of quaint ways. Yet, for all this, a frank study of the contrast between the past and the present of old cities will re- veal much of squaloar as well as splendour in what has been out- grown, and may reconcile one to
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
into the Mess Secretary's Port," began to sip it with a high-frog who at last went off into a 1 criticnl air. Swordfrog merely office. The second round was thus booked an Holster di a few
more tongue-and-gum exercises, quite definitely Holster's.
at last announced the
The third round took place nl-
The followiur cable at the close
the sugar market yesterday hast's been received by Messrs. Pen- Ireath and Co.
London Terminals. March 61% up 34. May 6/7 up ad. August 6/99% up 3d. December 7/4 up 3d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking dead more.
New York Terminals. -March 95 up 6 pts.
May, 19 up ↑ pts. July 106 up 7 pts. September 1.11 up 6 pts. Dévember 1.17 up 7 pts. New York 11/2/32).-Reported Java -might reduce sowings for
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Now Swordfrog's usual reaction most immediately. when Sword. to this sort of comment was to frog returned with a grin and an rise heatedly and in a veier trem empty bottle. Recalling to the bling with passion ask Holster to assembled company that Holster put down any remarks he wished had said the so-called port was to make in the Complaint Book: damn good sherry, he exhibited
when he merely said, "Oh the particular bottle whose How?" we all suspected he had tents the conscientious Mess wai- some game on. Holster, however, ter hud put into the decanter. It Cooking was far too busy weaving his glass was labelled "No. 1 about under his nose to get the Sherry." bouquet and listening to It to see
Con-
Holster spent some while trying
if it were too dry and so on to to convince everyone that when he have any suspicion.
used the words. "Janin good
"It is decidedly inferior. old sherry" he meant them colloquial- chap." he replied. "Less bodyly-that was, damn good sherry and certainly a harsher flavour." of its kind, that was damn good or even sherry as against port, damn poor sherry.
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purposes and also as a means of the change. Such a study bað 1933 and exports of 1932 if Cuba enrefully explained that the Port | bargaining with other nations, heer presented in "The New Sur-production 2,333,000 tons.
Not even the most ardent Protec- tlonist will promise that costs to the consumer will remain where they are. Obviously they cannot. But an attempt is being made ta renssure people by the thread-bare argument that any increase in this
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vey of London Life and Labour," which provides a counterpart Charles Booth's famous survey of student of historical contrasts the romance of modern cities is even the London of forty years ago. The most important conclusion is greater, for it is founded on the "that the general tendency in re-conscious endeavour to make their cent years has been in the diree- inhabitants enjoy ever better and
tion of improvement rather than better"amenities of life. direction will be more than com- pensated for by the general im- deterioration in the material con- provement in industry and by theditions of prosperity of the work- of the London need for more workers. The fact ing population that the United States is very much area." This conclusion is arrived in the industrial doldrums at pre-at after a detailed and conscien- sent, and timt her army of unem- ployed runs into millions, is con- veniently overlooked.
pronounce-
tious study at all the available statistical data concerning every aspect of London life and Inbour during the last forty years, and
Amongst the latest ments on the subject is Mr. Bakit supplies the necessary correc win'a defence of the Government's tive to the distorting mirror of ro- proposals, even though he takes mance. One may easily be carried care to explain that these proposals away by the marvels of Pepya's do not represent the Conservative London: Its quaint theatres. Its
Party's original policy. The pre- its wide parks, its busy river. Even crowded faira, its gorgenua courts, sumption is that he meana they are
destroyed not so thorough-going as Conserva- the tragte blaze which tive extreminta would ke. That most of it overnight assumes a
compelling fascination. Victorian ! may be so. but they certainly go very much farther than Mr. Bold London, too, largely intact in parts
41.3 it is, gradually loses its dir win himself was prepared to go un-
til driven to Rive way by the bulk tinctness as the recollection of it of the Party. It is not so very long fades. Its poverty and overcrowd- ago that the Conservative ex-Pre-ing are quickly forgotten, and 'the mier was holding out against the very fact that time bus brought
about a marked change for the bet "whole-hoguera." To-day, ho is an
The ter in the condition of the poorer Protectionist. out-and-out truth of the matter, of course, in quarters of London tempts one to forget them. Not that prezent- that the Government's acheme is a
dark Tory scheme, and nothing else. thay London is Tree from
now Kurvey Lord Snowden. though a Free spots. But, as the Trader himself, deferuls the shows, the process of improvement, Cabinet's "agreement to differ."though it may at times appear to being at pains to point out that be slow, goes on continuously. It there is complete harmony on every is a fact that should encourage the other question, a fact which is, hope and increase the determina- however, of minor importance ton of those who are engaged in kecing that the tariff scheme re- solving the difficult problems of presents the main effort of the Gov- modern elties. The romanec of erament to cope with the present old cities may be great, but for the
one
of
Swordfror then politely and in question happened to be the But the final round to date is in Mesa Vintage, a Port actually way Holster's on points, be- fourpence better than the "Old" cause he went to Town next day Having run out of the clevenpenny and discovered from his wine firm and not liking to dianppoint those fri
friend that they did not normally who wanted it, being moreover too keep cooking sherry, the demand honest to substitute the eight being too small. So, not wishing penny. Well, at that, Holater to disappoint regular customers, got quite short and retorted that when they did get an order for a even experta made mistakes when bottle they merely took
their ordinary sherries, put a
inbel on it. and choking
half-price. Both aides are now sparring for position again; that is, Swordfrog Kees about ordering vintage beer or 1916 cooking Burgundy, while the Complaint Book looks like a #ection of Holster's diary under trying circumstances. But the I rest of us are a little worried, and for safety's sako are drinking Madeira, at any rate till the end. of January.
"By working at nights all summer we'll save enough money on dates to get married soon."
WIVES BY HIRE PURCHASE.
Despite the depression that has impoverished the natives of South Africa, our Johannesburg Corres- pondent tells me that wives are normat still commanding their price in cattle. A new develop
ment
in the marriage market, how- ever, is that extended terms are being offered by the fathers of dia- eligible daughters in some tricte.
Annual instalments extending over three years are now being granted, with interest at the rate of one goat or sheep per ox or cow per annum. In some cases credit Caeliitles for wife purchase aro so generous that daughters aro ing handed over before even the first instalment is pald
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The only stipulation in connex ion with the new extended terms is that all the female offspring of the union become the property of
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