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STUDY IS THE FÈRTILISING AGENT, WITHOUT WHICH THE RICHEST AND MOST FRUITFUL OF BOILS MUST SOON BECOME STERILE-Von Sobocleher,
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risk that the Straits Settlements may be looked at askance by tho rest of the Empiro if, for selfish reasons, they refuse to conform with Imperial trade policy. It would appear, however, that busi- neas men do not share these views, since the Chairman of the Straits Settlements Chamber of Com- merce has pointed out that if the, F.M.S. wish to give a preferenco to certain Empire goods, that pre; feronce should not undergo any |chango merely because the goods
The Rev. E. A. Allen, M.A., Ph.D., is to give a lecture on "China at the concerned rest for a while in the Cross Roads in the Union Assembly Colony en route to final destina-Room of the Hongkong University at
8.30 p.m. on Sunday, Bih instant. tion. Goods, it is pointed out, enter the F.M.S. in order to be consumed or used, there being practically no re-export; whereas the Straits Settlements is merely a large transii market, and any restrictions placed on this ex- change trado would have adverse effects and tend to drive it away. There is one remark made by the Chairman of the Straita Settlements Chamber which ap- plies with equal force to Hong- kong, namely, that a policy of com- THE HONGKONG HOTELplete freedom of the port, except for the control necessary to col- GARAGE
Jeet revenue from the limited range of imports now affected, has been of the greatest assistance in Leung Pui-cho, a women aged 23 building up the commercial impor-years, of 125, Kilung Street, was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital tance and prosperity of
the yesterday suffering from poisoning as Colony. "We shall not increase a result of an overdose of dermaline, taken, it is believed, in an attempt to the prosperity of the Empire as a commit suicide. whole," and this speaker, "by adopting measures which will react unfavourably on this small corner of It—particularly when this small corner secures trade
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932.
OTTAWA AND THE CROWN COLONIES
GENERAL SHRINKAGE
INSTEIN and
The World Through Disillusioned Eyes E
those people that scenery, besides having under who have discovered that gone a shrinkage, has resolved it- time and space are one did pretty self into a series of oleographie well for pioneera but it has been views. Have you noticed it? It left to me to demonstrate an ex-18, I fancy, due to the picture post- tension of their theory which they card and tho illustrated magazine. dreamt of. Permit me to The most magnificont "aspect". I with plenty of place before you the hypothesis know is a room that as time proceeds space grows deep chairs and bla chesterfields, where one doesn't get too much less-astonishingly leas,
never
about
It certainly docs, because places light. The mountains of uphols I used to know well as vast and tery can beat the Grampians hollow spacious spots have been bolled any day, and a good Turkey carpet down by time to midget models of is a most successful substitute for their former selves, For example damp grass or soaking heather. call It Auth-Besides you can't carry syphons for hot muffins or les or other lertobit. there was let us
fory-tvo things that really matter Auchtortobit, some years ngo, was a place of limit-with you in car or a charabanc Lettera of administration the able size, vast, spacious. It Iny And don't you believe that tobacco estate of Lu Kim-nui, a married near Westertobit and between them tastes better on a moor. It doesn't Village, have been granted wonen, late of Hui Chuen, Kut Shul stretched a road at least a mile although it's certainly useful for
to Ilui long, ending in a lofty. bridge. A keeping off the flies, Wing-put of 100, Lok Street Hong-church stood dim and afar in wide In short, the further time pro- meadows and was flanked by a ceeds in its passage the more is dense and shadowy orchard. Over the poverty of the land rovealed. The wedding will shortly take place all a pine-clad mountain of stupen- Most things assume miscroscopic between Sergt. Charles Henry Naylor, 'dous height reared its heaven-proportions. Booke? Pooh-pooh! One 1 has discovered that the presunt of the 1st Batt. Lincolnshire Re- sepiring mass. giment, in camp at Shamshuipo, and Weil, you should just see Auch-phase of time, the Liliputien phase, Ass Ruth Hunter Beesley, a school tortobit now. The road between in incapable of producing books of
kind-and teacher, of 32, Peking Road, Shang it and Westertobit has shrunk so any tolerable
pootry amazingly that I could cover its bas shrunk too. You dare not send length in a hop-skip-and jump, the it to the wash or pass it through Passengers who left for the Northbridge has become a thing of toy-the literary mangle. The to-day by the Chichibu Maru included like proportious, the church door appear as more pin-points, the sun
the is a sovereign, and the moon Mr. R. E. Coxon, Mr. J. F. Wright, almost hits the hedge-line; Mr. L. Kadoorie, Mr. C. S. Gubbay, orchard is a dwarf affair of some florin pleco. Mr. D. M. Maynard, Mr. and Mrs. dozen scraggy trees closely resem Only one thing remains B. J. Lacon, Mrs. Lench, and Mrs.bling large rose-bushes and the Ollerton.
mountain has become a mole-hill. Mere Toys Now.
hat,
stars
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"life-
size," as we used to say-Romance! And that is of the Titan past and not of this age of the mice and the If you want further proof, look frogs, with its littlo clockwork cars at Podle Ferry. Podle Ferry used and its gnomeish politics. to boast of some of the largest I shall return to the country of in Romance with its mighty forests, mansions in Scotland Europe, I mean. Its main street its soaring helghte, its unearthly was comparable to the Champs-sunsets and limitable star-spui
the Elysees or Pennsylvania Avenue. nights, for, after all, it is Now you would think these man-only country where I ever found In the estate of Leung Lai-hang, alons had been fished out of a Ger-space to breathe, silence to dream retired merchant, late of Fatshan, nan toy-box. If you speak at then, and the opportunity for the who died at 73, Jervols Street, Hong church end of the street in an or-kind of action I crave.
The old airplane is still in work- kang, which a valued at $15,000, dinary domestic voice, they hear letters of administration have been what you are saying at the station ing order. Farewell Lilliput.- granted to Yeung Ho-shi. Tin Long, end and look at you darkly for Lewis Spence. Yeung Li-shi, and other next of kin. committing a breach of the peace.
A colebration of the Chinese Na-
Shrink Why, sir, the Gram-
By Edward Kelly, Gaolio.
which would otherwise go through | foreign channels." That is Hong- | kong's case also, and we therefore officers at 2, Kou Yu Fong last even are, for I say them only last week.
A raid was carried out by Revenue plans are shrinking. I know they FULL TEAM WANTED do not expect that the Ottawa de-ing and a woman occupant was These hills are not what they cisions will involve us in any
arrested in possession of 163 taels of were. The River Tay has become raw opium. She was fined $5,000 on a burn, and the Earn a puddle. changes which will seriously in her appearance before Mr. Schofield What are we going to do about Pretty crock teams they've pick- With the time rapidly approach-
terfere with the free status
at the Central Police Court this it? If the country goes on shrink-ed for the opening of the rugby of ing in which legislation will be the port,
morning.
ing at this rate-about a rood, football season in Hongkong. which on
Not past 0111*
forwards, pole, or pearch in a year, accord-
counting. the introduced in various parts of the growth has been built and on Empire to implement the Ottawa which our future prosperity de- Conference decisions, the question pends. as to what the various Crown Colonies will do in the matter must soon be decided. It is not
Farmers and Hoover to be expected that there will be
The recent farmers' strike In uniform decisions, since the cir- Jawa
was a challenge to the eumstances of the several Colonies leadership of the United States, a are by no means identical. Some demand for adequate considera of them are producers, and others, tion of their problems. They are such as Hongkong and the Straits sturdy, independent lot, rondy to Settlements, Httle other than dis-fight for what their own. They tributors. Tariffs in the one case possession either by tax sales or
will not submit to wholesale dis may be justified, whereas, broadly foreclosures.
They believe that speaking, they would be very their unhappy situation in the re- Inrgely valueless, if not, indeed,sult of human blundering rather Injurious, in the other. Ports than of economic necessity. They which have been built up on a have violently reacted against the basis of the free exchange of present administration and are goods would naturally fear the effects of a change of policy which interfered with traditional cus- tom.
has
The Royal Observatory reports thating to my reckoning it'll soon be there are only nine and three- the anticyclone remains stationary case of standing-room only. I eighths men in both teams.
at least Count it for yourself-there's over North Chinn. The depression is believe, furthermore, or
four situated to the east of Hokkaido. I suspect, that Edinburgh Is four wing three-quarters, Mederate to fresh monsoon will pre-shrinking in the anme way, and contre three-quarters, three five- vall along the China Coast and over recently I have had grave doubts eighths, and three halves. the Northern China Sea. Local fore respecting Glasgow. George Square We have read all the daily news- cunt:-N.E. winds, fresh; fair. is certainly less by an acre or so 'papers, and we find that there are
than it was in 1896.
[two hooker forwards, four front- Yet some localities appear to ex-row forwards, four second-row and tional Day on the 10th, inst, at the tend themselves, and I must per- two back-row, forwards.
What Hotel Cecil, will be held by Wah Tal force regard these as exceptions they're doing about the dress cir College, which was started last Sep. to my theory. For this pheno-cle is not disclosed. tember, at 9, Arbuthnot Road, by Mr. menon I can offer no acceptable ex- We discover that the "back Lui Sun-tu, B.Sc., formerly head-planation. Thus the Mound
row" are described as “loose master of Wah Yan College. The certainly grown longer and steeper, forwards." This seems wrong programme will consist of a Chinese and the Canongate rise has lofted sketch and an English comedy en-
to us. If you are forward you titled "The Fig and the Monkey, itself out of all proportion to its can't be in the back. If you're bath produced by the students. In former elevation."
loose, you must be forward. Of course people have Chincee boxing, and conjuring. The shrunk, many of them very badly; addition, there will be Chinese music,
Thon the teams will have full the half celebration in timed to start at 2.30 and so have doors and tents and back and half backs,
caravans. And something has also backs being only half as full ag
aro backa.. There happened to food when eaten the full fresco. It used to be inspiring backless players in the teams, It to have tes in a garden or on a hillside. Now, I can assure you, We understand that one playor It's only beastly, sticky, and nasty. is slow, but clever, In one of the Tenta, too, appear as hidy holes teams we hope to see a player who for the depraved and the barbarous is clever, but slow. and caravans are
We can then sit and watch one merely peri- patetic houses of slavery, where lad being cleverly slow at one end The following cable at the close misguided folk are doomed to the of the field, while at the other the. of the sugar market yesterday, continual peeling of potatoes. How second lad is being slowly clever. has been received by Messrs. Pen-did one ever relish such equalor treath and Co.
to be sure? Not What It Was
1.1.
SUGAR MARKET
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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
London Terminals,
March 1933 6/13⁄4 up 1d. May 1933 6/31⁄4 up 11⁄4d. August 1933 6/0% up d. December 1933 6/91⁄2 up 1⁄2d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d more.
New York Terminals. December 1932 1.06 no change. March 1933 1,01 up 1 pt. May 1983.1.04 up Ï' pt. July 1933 1.07 no change. September 1933- Cuban 96--Spot N.Y. 1.15 no
swinging towards the Democrats, must be better than the existing on the principle that any group
lot. And President Hoover, quick to observe the danger, pays a visit The situation as it affects the to Des Moines, promises the farm Straits Settlements is now the era everything, tells thom of subject of considerable contro-worse perile that he has saved versy, following a speech in the them from, and then, finally, out- Legislative Counell by Sir Cecli would inflict a serious pain in the lines a policy on war debts which Clementi, in which he hinted at neck upon anyone with an elemen- the possibility that the freedom tary knowledge of economic laws. of the ports of Singapore, Penang The features of President and Malacca may have to be sacri- Hoover's plan are the exaction of ficed. It must be remembered that the war debts and the use of the the position is rendered somewhat money la expanding America's complicated from the fact that markets among her Impoverished whilst the Straits Settlements still debtors. We do not know how far adheres to its free port status, the farmers as a reason for changing these proposals will impross the Federated Malay States have al- their mind about voting Demo-change. rendy adopted tariffs. The fear crnt, but we trust that the spoken has therefore been expressed that word sounded more convincing na British goods imported under pre-a solution of the farmers' trouble ferential agreements into tho than the cabled version. Many Malay States may in future avoid thousands have already lost their Paris. the ports of, the Straits Sottle-farms through foreclosure. Other Geneva..
thousands cannot meet their taxes ments, because if bulk is broken and
Helsingfors. their interest payments. I Oslo. In the latter, preference would be Tonant farmera cannot pay their Athens: lost. Six Cecil Clementi has, in-rent, and in many cases hard-
·Buenos Aires deed, rulsed the query whether the pressed landlords cannot give Shanghai freedom of the ports of Singapore, them any relief. The present New York.
Amsterdam. Penang and Malacca, curtailed level of farm prices cannot carry Vienna.. and hampered as it is bound to be the load of farm taxes and debt Pragno.. by the Protectionist policy of the
with any considerable purchasing Madrid.
Bucharest. power left over. Agriculture, Hongkong.. British Empire, would really in having curtailed Ita purchasing Brussola.. the long run be more profitable to power to the serious detriment of Blockholm,
Copenhagen the Colony than solidarity of com- industry, is now nearing the end Lisbon
The Rio mercial policy with the British of its capital resources. Empire and free trade within the farmers' strike was not important Bombay Malay Peninsula: Sir Cecil evi- in itself. But there will be others Montevideo.
and still others, with accompany-Montreal dontly thinks that uniformity of ing political unrest, until the Belgrade polley le desirable, and he points cause I removed, and it will not Silver (spot)
to what he describos as a real be by the Hoover war debts method,
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