THE ́HONGKONG ·· TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
RICH MEN LEAVE £81,000,000 TO
Many Began Career As
ONE.of
Poor Boys
of the greatest sources of revenue Britain depends upon is the death duties levied on the estates of rich men.
The Treasury benefited by £81,289,774 from this source last year.
Who are the men who acquired such great catates, and how did they make their fortunes?
The answer to that question ought to prove
a stimulus to every young man.
The people who leave big fortunes for the most part made their own way.
Analysis of the wills for which probate has been granted during the past six months shows that great fortunes were left by those engaged in every profession and nearly every field of en- deavour.
The man makes the job, not the job the man. Probate during those six months was granted on numerous fortunes from £10,000 to £7,000,000. NO MONOPOLY IN
MONEY-MAKING
Grocers, brewers, solicitors, architects, farmers, manufacturers, landowners, bankers, doctors, actors. All prospered, grew rich, left large fortunes jsoldiers, sailors, pawnbrokers, merchants and
to benefit their relatives-and the Treasury. James Buchanan, a clerk at thirty, hit on an excel-
lent blend of whisky. He built up a great busi- Bess, became Lord Woolavington, and left £7,- 150,000, one of the greatest fortunes of recent times.
Rufus Isaacs, who went to sen at an early age, then studied law, eventually was called to
the bar, made a great fortune, be- came the Marquis or Reading. and Viceroy of India. He left £290,487.
Wilfeld Hutton Hyde, of Ponte. fract, Yorkshire, Was a pawn- broker's assistant. He became n pawnbroker, eventually owning -three shops, made money, and left £79,248,
Joseph Mears hired out, the boats,
and punts you see on the river at Richmond. He ended up by being known
43 the "River King", having made from the business he built enormous sum of £535,345, Blind Earl of Dysart inherited his
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the
FLOODS IN NEW JERSEY.
Picture from New Jersey shows ravages of the serious floods which recently inun- dated great areas in the country. A motorist has been forced to leave his ear to its
fate.
UNITED KINGDOM SHIPPING
FOREIGN VESSELS
ROBBING BRITISH
SAILORS OF JOB
TONNAGE MORE THAN DOUBLED
IN COAST TRADE
BRITISH coastal shipowners are greatly perturbed by a sudden and inexplicable increase in the number of foreign ships trading on the coast of the United Kingdom, states the Coastal Trade Development Council.
During the first two months of this year the net tonnnge of foreign vessels which arrived t
and
le.
wealth. He owned 20,000 acres, twenty or thirty public-houses and other property, and when he died left the great fortune of £2,104,111. Alfred Joseph Gay was a jollyparted frum, British ports was 200,- publican of Wolverhampton, who 000, against 94,000 tons in the cur was not above serving a man responding period last year and 103.- with a drink. He left £42,989. 1000 tons in 1931. William Evans, of Porth, in the In the Puri of Puole alone, - ne
Rhondda was
fewer than eight foreign grocer. They coasters have arrived within the last called him the Thomas Lipton six weeks. of Porth. When he died last year he left £287,658. Neil McNeil, of
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Green-street, Grosvenor-square, S.W., was merchant. His name is not in the reference books. He not well known. He' money. When he died
was made
A few months ago he left. £621,131. Peter Ralli, of Hyde Park-gardens, was a banker. He left £1,330,- 657.
William Robinson, of East Grin- stead, was a landscape garilener. He left $95.95-4.
motor.
Other foreign ships are reported lu be invading the seed-potato-enerying trade from Scotland to Londea, and Goole and various Southern ̈ports." the coat-currying trade between
"A few monthy Thefore his death Lord Beatty, President of the Council, made personat representa tions to local authorities In all parts of the country, asking them to ensure that their contractors em- ployed British ships only," said an official of the Constal Trade Council rveently.
"In one of his last letters, Lord
John Lawrie was a poor village Beatty wrote:
boy in the midlands when he decided to become a draper. He worked his way until he became
MANY COMPLAINTS
"I consider the latest figures of roastal shipping make melancholy
managing director of Williata reading in that there is an increase Whiteley, Ltd., and inter
proin net teannge of foreign vessels for
.ccal
for
"The British constal trade is par
prietor of Parnells. He left the past eleven, months of 21 per £178,570 when he died. · Silas Hocking wrote, novels
nearly half a century. He made n good job of it. When he died The loft-160,000. Fred Arnold
was a Smithfield butcher. He left £74,082. Mr. Arthur Welby, of Richmond, Surrey, was an architect., Ile left £42,290,
ticularly surprised to find that yo many foreign ships are being used for the carriage of materials for the agricultural industry at a time when |British farmers are appealing for the sympathy of the public and financial assistance from the State,
"Many complaints have been re reived of the conveyance of conl
for sugar-beel factories, which
WE NEED OUR OWN KITH
Australiun Premier
Adelaide, Apr. 20. Premier J. A. Lyons, him- self the father of eleven children, snid to members of. the Commonwealth Club in Adelaide to-day:
"We have been over-selfish in our attitude. We have.no British migrants. yet our people are refusing to have famillies.
"Our low birth-rate is most. alarming. Recovery here bas gure far enough to warrant careful re-examination of the admission of our own kith from England."
WOMAN'S 12 YEARS
WITH LEPERS
now seeking a renewal there A WOMAN who spent 12 years
sidy which has enabled this dustry to live.
in.
in an Indian leper colony, Lieut.-Commissioner Annie
Soldiers and sailors, and tailors, too, are among those who made their own way, accumulated for tunes, and died esteemed and wealthy, having proved that Great Britain is the land of equal oppor-nayers motiey should be used to the newspaper poignant stories of a tunity for the man who can domi- detriment of a vital arm of our sea
nate his job,
FILM
STAR WEDDING HOLDS
UP TRAIN
APRIL 25, 1936.
BRITAIN
New York; Apr. 18. One of America's crack trains, the Golden State Limited, chugged its way across the American contin- ent towards New York ten minutes late to-day,
The reason was a hold-up at Yuma, Hollywood's Gretna Green.
Film comedian Jack Oukie, smiling broadly, had appeared at the window as soon as the train stopped there.
WE ARE READY" He beckoned to a man with
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RADIO BROADCAST
Daventry The F. A. Cup Final Relay
SOME DANCE MUSIC
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (845 kilocycles):4
4.7 p.m.
Chinoso Programme.
6.30-7 pm. Chinese. Dance Munic. 7 p.m. Excerpts from "The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan).
7:25 pm. Marek Weber and his Orchestra,
At the Tschaikovky Fountain (Urbach); in the Temple of the Bells A Study from Peking) (Yoshitomo}; Chinese Fairy Tales (Dreyer, ar, Yoshitomo): Schubert's Love Songs Medley arr. Berte); The Merry Widow-Selection
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Time Signal We
ort and Announcements..
8.03
port
8.13 p.m. A
Weather Re-
Concert, first Waltz. Vivion Ellis: Vocal-Some of these days.... The Mills Brothers; Song--Swing
པ་ ("Publie Nuisance No. 1")...Frances Day (Soprano); Instrumental-Wed. ding Chimes...The Brothers Betini; Instrumental-Gershwin Fox Medley...Harry Roy's Tiger Raga mufling: Vocal Duet-Maybe wrong
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Blaney and Humorous Sandy's
Station..
on sareamline Selection:
Gwen
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Powell; Organ
Mariolia-Selection
རྒྱུུས མ 4,
Dixon; Song-No Strings...
Trot
I'm
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Rogers Orchestra--Moss Rose
The
Waitz: My Dream Waltz..... The Bohemians; Song Love is like
Cigarette....L
Lealle Hutchinson;
Independent.....
Song A Little bit
Sam Browne; (Daritone).
8.55 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin
and Announcementa.
9.15
p.m. Violin
Sascha Jucobson.
1.
Solos, by
At the Brock (Boisdeffre); 2 Berceuse (Faure): 3. To a Wild Rose (MacDowell); 4. Palo Moon (Indian Love Song) (Logan).
6.30
pm. Hongkong Hotel Dance-
Orchestra.
10
p.ni. Big Ben from Daventry. 11.20
p.m. A Relay from
Daventry.
The A. Cup Final. A running commentary on the last half-an-hour of the Match, relayed from Wembley Stadium.
11.50 p.m. Dance Music. 12 midnight. Close Down. NOTE: There will be a Chinere recorded Programme from Z.E.K. on frequency of 640 kilocycles. from
8-10.30
p.m.
SUNDAY'S PROGRAMME,
Concert From the Studio: Recorded Music
0.10-10a.m.Milltary Parade-Seg.- vis from St. John's Cathedral.
10. a.m. Close DownL
Andrew's Church, Kowloon.
11 a.m. Morning Service from St.
12.15 p.ra. "La Tragedie Salome" (Schmitt).
do
brief case. Then be dragged the fall poti. Two Songs by Feodor
(Вляя),
1. Prayer-"Now let us depart"
beautiful dancer. Venita Varden, (Strokin); 2. Open to me the gates from the train.
"We are ready to he married," he said to the man with the brief case. Justice of the Pence E. A. Freeman, who has married half Hollywood, smiled and pulled papers from his case. He started to perform the cere
mony.
Then he remembered that there were no witnesses..
'The smile disappeared from Onkie's face. Venita looked crestfallen.
Suddenly Oakie beamed again. "Just a minute!" he cried.
of Repentence (Wedel).
1 p.m. Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 p.m. A Concert, Pianoforte
Solos Schatz-Waltz (J. Strauss): Die Fledermaus-Du and--Waltz (J. Strauss)......Ernst von Dohnanyi); Sung-My Ain Folk (Weatherly); Danny Bay (Wen- Violin Solos The Fountain of Are- therly) Mary Kay (Contralto}; thusa
(Szymanowsky) (Op. Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky. 30): Korsakov); Pastorale (Stravinsky)
Joseph Szigeti; Song Serenade (Ravini)...Charles Kullman (Tenor),
1.30 p.m.
Reuter Press Bulletins. Light Opera.
1.35 p.m. Band Selections from
Then he rushed to the end of the platform. He brought back with him a grimy engine-driver and the guard.
These were the witnesses, Music and the ceremony was duly per formed.
One
minute later, the train
"It is remarkable that British tax-Trounce, recently told a London pulled out,
servicon.”
Science Agrees This Is A Wobbly
World
disease that still baffles science. Awake For
"Leprosy;" sold Mrs. Trounce,
who has just returned to Britain, "Is
the terror of India. Pitiful Eight Years-·
scenes
are enacted at our Salvation Army Just Nerves
colony in the State of Travancore.
"Parents may go over to see their children, but may only speak to them through an iron fence.
armis,
So many people have suspected that this is a wobbly old world ection is too great. danger of in-night, winter and summer, rain or
that the announcement that astronomers have come to the pame conclusion should cause little surprise.
When first, about 80 years ago, ¡ some astronomical observations sug- Berlin was not quite in the same When it was announced first that gested that the latitude of a place place, latitudinally, as it was subject to variation, the as before, international interest result- had been tronomers decided that there had ed in the catablishment-of-a-number- boon-an-error-acmentere the opinion of stations all about the same latitude of so many people that the world to collect data. Ona station was in really was wobbly just could not be Adelaide.
It is now stated that there is no Now the gold medal of the Royal doubt that the earth's axis is sub- Astronomical Society has been award feet to onelllation which cause lati ed to Professor ishash Kimura, Ludes to vary. director, Mizusawa Observatory, Japan for his work towards the establish- J. Nangle) snid that the variations The Government Astronomer (Mr. ment of correctness of that very,were very hight. They would theory,
affect navigation.
right
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(Sullivan); Tome Jones (German).
Dorothy (Celler); The Sorcerer Light Orchestral 1.G. p.m. Galety Echoes (Monckton); Every- body's Songs (arr. Gechl; Tho Golden Valse (arr. Winter); By the Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates); Dawn (Matt).
2.30 p.m. Close Down
4.7 p.m.
Chinese Programme.
p. "Symplony in D" (No. 2). (Beethoven).
7.33 p.m. The B.B.C. Wireless Singers.
Where the Bee Sucks (arr. Shaw}; Como let us join the Roundelay and Song (J. Strauss); O lush thee, (Beale); It was a lover and his Lass (arr. Frank Bridge); Wine, Women my Bable (Sir W. Scott and Sulli- van).
7.50 p.m. "Roses of the South” (J. Strauss)
8 p.m. Time Signal and Weather Report.
8.03. p.m.
From the Studio, Α Concert by Mrs. Neil Mathieson, ...Contralto; Prue Jowis. Violin; Maurice Barton....Pianoforte.
Programme,”
Nathan L. Kimball, 17, hasn't had
South Acton, Mass., Apr. 15. a night's sleep for eight years. "Mothers beg to be allowed to keep going.
"Just nerves," he said. "I have to hold their babies in their. erch for a few seconds. It is for-assertion to "keeps going."
Townfolk substantiate Kimball's Every greni."
shine, he trampa 20 to 40 miles BEAUTY KILLED
around the countryside. Returning home at 5 ami. he stumps in a chair She told the
for a "entnap," but never dozce for tragle story of a high-caste Hindu family which was usually for only 15 or 20 minutes.
more stricken by leprosy.
that a couple of hours and Daytime he walks too.In-good- A beautiful girl caught the dis- weeks at a time. When he makes a Keel; (b) The Twa Slaters of Bi weather, he sometimes In gone for case, but her parents refused to long trip, he leaves n map of his
Songs: (a) Lullaby....Frederick admit leprosy had killed her.
The result was that their eldest she may find him at any time. A Pianoforte in F Major....Boothoven, route at home with his mother, 40 Somervall); Sonata for Violin and
norie.
Old Scottish Ballad (arr. a clever doctor, was also bachelor, he usually walks alone, but. Op. 241 Songs: (a) The Fuchala Treo affected and Mled soon afterwards. sometimes is accompanied by a friend. "We are
Doctors galetly, "but the work must go on. chuckles, all a little afraid
have leprosy at first," said Mrs. Trounce
never diagnosed
(Continued on Page 4) of Kimball's ease.
"I never We look forward to the day when we can cure this awful disease,"
Townfolk have their own idea why the sleepless man forsook his bed.
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talk with doctors," ha They think a shattered romance had
something to do with It.
"No," norvos."-United: Preza
Kimball laughs. "Just
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