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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932.
NEW GROUNDS FOR
DIVORCE..
DESERTION AND
INSANITY.
DEFICIT IN DUTCH EAST INDIES.
NEARLY £43,000,000 BY END OF YEAR.
ALICE STILL IN WONDERLAND,
HER BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN THE KENT HILLS.
You remember that after Allco
A striking picture of the effect A new Divorce Bill, bused on the of the depression on the Nether- majority report of the Divorce lands East Indies is given in the followed the White Rabbit and Commission, which at 20 years Report of the Department of met with all her wonderful advon: ago, will be presented to the House Overseas Trade that country pub-tures, she woke up. of Commons is a private member's Hehes Bill-shortly.
It contains the proposals of Lord Buckmaster's Bill of eight years ago which passed through the House of Lords, but it has been brought up to date by the Divorce Law Reform Union.
Three Years' Desertion. The Bill seeks to establish the following grounds for divorce, for either husband or wife:
Adultery:
Desertion for three years: Cruelty:
Epilepsy Included,
EL
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wonderland still--a wonderland
Ever since the beginning of the
And what happened to her next? slump the Budget has been heavily can tell you. She is living in a in deficit, as may be seen from the much more real. It is in Westor- following table showing the en-' timated deficits in the latest three ham in the beautiful Kontish hills. fiscal years:
1930 1931
1932
Total
£ (at par). 11,500,000 14,300,000
10,400,000
36,200,000
Alice lives in a nice house, right on top of the hill in the village. Of course, if you asked for Allee, the postman might stare, but again, the Post Office in so clover that I would not be surprised if he wald:
"Why, yes. That is Mra. Re- According to a measare received ainald Hargreaves in the housa from Batavia, the 1932 deficit is with the drive leading up to the Incurable insanity (when the now estimated at about £17.000,-front door porch-the house with respondent has been a certified 000, which raises the above total the little diamond-paned windows lunatic for five year);
to nearly £13,000,000. Theke and the trees in front of it."
If you came here you might see Incurable drunkenness, when the arrears for the three years repre respondent has for three years ent more than a half-year's total hundreds of rabbits on the hill- siden, but which of their burrows been separated from the petitioner revenue.
Imprisonment under
The decline in revenue is mainly Alico went into I don't know. mated death sentence.
due to the falling off in the yield
70 Years Ago, of import and export duties, the corporation tax, and the profita ; It is 70 years ago next July since on 'the State in industry and the Alice Arst went down that rabbit are State
rallways. Considerable hole and found the Cheshire Cat, preonomies have already been in-and the King and Queen, and all Wilful refusal to cansummate troduced, but the estimated defelt the others, and became the most the marriage:
of £17,000,000 for 1982 remains beloved little girl in the world. after making allowance for these. Alice had two little sistera and, at that time, they lived with their father,
Dr. Liddell, Dean of Church College, Oxford. One day, their father's friend, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a tutor at Christ Church, who will be
New grounds for nullity introduced. They include:
Mental unsoundness which has become definite within six months of marriage;
Recurrent fits of Insanity epilepsy; andl
Certain diseases at the time of marriage.
There are strong hopes, Mrs. Seaton Tiedeman, organising secretary ar Divorce Law Reform Union. in the new House of Commons RBI will at last become law.
OFFICER'S YEAR IN AFRICAN GAOL.
FIGHT TO CLEAR NAME,
Rubber Industry, Referring to the rather indus. try. the report states.
The position now is that estates are exhausting their reserves and paid, pilling up unsaleable stock at found in the Faires' Directory in hon. joss, at present prices, of between the name of Mr. Lewis Carroll, the 2d and 3d. on every pound pro-took the three little sisters on the That duced, the only reward in sight is river.
the
the possibility of heing among the It was so hat that they landed survivours of the industry."
and sat under a haystack. The In the meantime, the report ittle sisters naked for a story and states, the majority of trees be Mr. Carroll called up the Fairies langing to the natives will con- and they took Alice Away with tinue their growth and productive-them on her Wonderland adven- ness, to be tapped by them as soon tures.
as ever prices are sufficiently at- tractive.
Her Visitors.
A gloomy picture is drawn of Allee, of course, is now much Marseilles, Jan: 30.
present condition and pros-older, but she is very happy in her Mr. A. J. Brewer. the Britishpeets for British trade, though it beautiful house on the hill and ber, that the han lots of visitors to see ship officer who four years ago should be remembered spent a year in a Portuguese West report was written before the fall Some of them come from far-off
countries. African prison after being found of the £.
Great guilty on duhkus evidence of the
Britain's position ቤ።
I don't There is a cat there too, theft of articles valued at £1, ar-cond only to Holland in export-aay It in the Cheshire cat, but it rived here to-day as an officer onling foreign goods to the Dutch is possibly the great-great-great board the steamer Hesplen
East Indies, the report stutes, was grandchild. It haa a splendid "No one who know me believed lost in 1929 when the United States grin. And on n bookshelf in in the charge," he told me, "and 1, took second place and Great Bri- Alice's house there is a book In myself took it as a joke at first, itain third place, while in 1980 the, which all her adventures are re- My employers would not have kept United Kingdom dropped to fourth carded, and she only has to stretch ine in their employ had they bò-|place, having been
passed by out her hand and rend about them lieved In my güllt. I am deeply Japan.
again. grateful to my friends and to| "The piece goods trade, so long) I have no doubt that the Mad the British Press for all they have enjoyed by Lancashire," the re-flatter has tea parties in that done on my behalf.
port continues, “has gone over to sunny room on the top of the hill. The Foreign Office has announc- į Japan. The automobile trade Is Probably the Queen struts up and ed that as a result of further re-entirely with the United States of down the hearthrug. presentation Mr. Brewer's case America." Great Britain is also, This is very nice for Allee, who will be referred to Bugnells. Par-losing trade, the report states to otherwise might be rather lonely; other European her adventures took place so long retrial on April 20.
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