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MEMO FOR TO-DAY. 9.15 p." The Chocolate Soldier" by Bandmann Opera Co, at Thestre Royal.
LLOYD GEORGE evidently apprecinter the flattering compliment and so be repays friend. WINSTON by holding at his disposal for a year the whole of the Treasury surplus, lest unhaply he should require it through some other its shipbuilding programme. great Power increasing or necelerating Ho justifies this extraordinary procedure by acknowledging that 1 millions of the surplus arose through the Navy not spending all the mousy voted last rear-underspending in fact and by arguing that we can afford to take no risks in providing a margin of safety
From
anno adohored in the Dandaualies have been exploded, through pospises running late their,
News has reached Calmitta of serious Aghting at Grantso, the Tibetans attacking and killing 20 of the Chinmo garrison. B.
The Countess of Warwick has boon insured by her manager for $100,000 to United States." cover her six weeks lecturing tour in the
The Hury hare sequitted Miss Mounos Stephens who was rocantly put on her trial ita India for the alleged murder of
ss Orme, of I
r W. N. Wright, who went to Japan for the preservation of the in-in 1864 and subsequently became proprietor violability of our shores. These are
of Wright Hotel in Yokohama, has died at the age of 64. in St. Luke Hospital, very meritorious and certainly highly Tokyo. patriotic motives, but we think that Mr AUSTIN CHAMBERLAIN had much sense on his side when he remarked that such procedure, would
Fan' Imbest practise wha joing
Barlow and Morrai
Goldring
The Rev. F. T. Johnson, Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, leaves the Colony early in May. His successor Arrivor towards the end of that month. He is the Bor, V, H., Cupuley Mayla, M.AZ, Vicar of Iping-cum-Chitharsh.
"
for moni
(that, the obje Waindist had
nging the oaEY "During the Rev. C. E Thompson's sh-was to obtain a rule upon the controt sence on love, the poet of Chaplain to the which it was founded. The plantiff Seamen's Mission in Hongkong will be out a number of confonate with officers, Elled by the Rev. W. T. Austen, who for employed on their steamers, and there wa the last 39 years has bown Chaplain for theme doubt as to the intracone Missions to Seaman in Yokohama.
which was made upon
ved on that plafatisi” ate
Captain E. F. Daldy of the Fand 0. Nile, I been offered and accepted, the post of Marine Superintendent. Ashorn. to the Company at Bombay. When the
e Arrived in Culembo on March 19 from
of the
the Far East, her captain mosired coo-be advanced by sha com firmation of his appointment to this im-relanded by him at the portant shore post. Captain Daddy, alter
month, da completing his present voyage, will proceed
root.
"AN ABSENT DEFENDANT.
·Mr Davidmon added that the agreem at
•\WIN DEW, craters are said to bave to Bombay to tako up, the new apport" and been admitted by the defendant and formed on Mt. Mars on Vries Island, and travellers to Yokohama by ses are now be damaging to national credit inasta are discharging big stream of lavn
afforded splendid spectacle at night, for much as the money was really being diverted from its legitimate destinn- tion, the Sinking Fund Mr LLOYD GEORGE cannot by any stretch of the imagination be described as a great
MEMOS FOK TO-MORROW.
Ching Ming Fortival begins, Good Friday. Public Holiday. 10.30.-H., Vol. Reserves' Fife
Meeting at Kma's Park Range, 0.15 p.m. Performance of The Mes Chancellor of the Exchequer. His
Kinab St. John's Cathedral.
General Memoranda.
SATURDAY, April 6 -
Bank Hol day.
knowledge of the laws of higher finance is most rudimentary, as the big City bankers know only too well It was but the other day that the
2.30 p.m.-K.C.Y.L.I. Race Merting at financial magnates of London were
Happy Valley
SUNDAY, April 7-
Easter Day.
9.m.-Excursion to Macao.
MONDAY, April 8: Bank Holiday.
1. p.m. Lusitano
Sportsl
ToreDay, April 9:
The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company Limited report that the total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending 16th March amount to peried to 34,902.09 tons, 90,204.67 tone and the sales during the
At the morning service at St. Peter's Church, West Point, next Sunday the preacher will be Bishop Bannister who will perform the dedication ceremony of the new Baptistry and Font, which has recently
asking him to take some steps to re-been placed in that church. habilitate the credit of Console; a stock which has reached a lower point during Mr LLOYD GEDEGE's administration of the national finances Recreation Club than ever before. He listened to their argunients, talked to them very blindly, but sent them empty away;
Bowley-Edward Wedding.
'ė
3 p.m.-Sale of row lands at P.W.J. and now he heaps indignity on insult WEDNESDAT, April 10-
by again deliberately starving the Entries close for Kewicon Cricket Club
Tennis Tournament.
Sinking Fand We imagine that the sands of his career as keeper of the nation's purse are running low, despite
6 p.m. Entries close for T.R.C.Sprite, SATURDAY, April 13:--
30 pm. First Gymkhana Meeting at
Happy Valley. V.R.V. Boxing Tournament.
THUESDAY, April 18:
The Ayia Case at Criminal Sessions.
SATURDAY, April 20
V.R.C. Sports..
The Chinx Mail.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND.
.. HIS SURPLUS.
I
At Yarmouth the death has taken place of Mrs Ana Yasley, aged ninety-two vidow of a cab proprietar, who is survived number of grand-children (forty-two) is by ninety-two descendants, of whom the exactly equalled by that of het grest grandchildren.
with rumours concerning's big combing of Shipping circles in Calcutus, are busy European fiets with the view of meeting Japanese competition. It is stated that the recent sale of the Apour hosts to the British India Company is only the begin
Work for the furtherance of the malasin crusade in Singapore has been inaugurated by the Health Department of the Municipality. Two notorious swamps is the Orchard Road district have been tackled the first one being Payah Goyang. of Kiliney Road, and the other a patch of
swamp off Kiamat Road, if the base of Government Hill...
In the Supreme Court this morning en application was made by Mr Bass (of Mears Goldring. Farlow and Morell) for new trial in a case where judgment had been given for the plaintif by reach of defendant's failure to put in an appeamice at the previnas hearing.
he alat aduitted that the passare out" WAS, paid by the plaintifs. The defendant came cut in October, 1910, and signed articles on the plainti
10. On Sang. He served time he resigned. He did not pay any year and at the end of that thing of the £28.6 advanced for his plaintiffs did not press for payment of резиде He served for twelve months, and that money because defendant was a married man, a foot which they were unaware of at the time he came out. There had been Club nothing said or done to discharge defendant Prior from his ability, and as he had now .O.D. and obtained employment elsewhere they bad brougth the action to determins their rights, off if they
afraid that only fow men bad adhered 201 Mr. Russ contended that there had been stage:
siger Russ anked Mr Butherland (head of play
grest many of such agreemenfa but he the gun
the company's shipping office) why the firm Foster, fustead of expecting a monthly payment did not give mon less salary per month The from them. He (Mr Bus) contended that and Gone if that was done t
they would find it impos- able · to get men.”. been rather hard up for them lately
Mr Ram-As a matter of fact you have Mr Sutherland,No. There is nothing in the articles about his
Why was not a close about passage paying bis
1-Not-that: pamage money know of
And money inserted in the articles 1-That if a
matter I know nothing about
Mr Rum said that judgment was given against bis client on March 15th. The de did not understand the writ and so he did fondant was a Chinense and he apparently not pay any attention to the matter until be found the bailifs in his house. The defendant bad had dealings with a firm consisting of one partner. He absconded in Februsty, 1812. His firm's creditors had the goods of the firm sold up, and the books appeared to have come into the hands of some other person who had started the action though the money, wi the amount of the claim and costs into not due to him. The applicant had pild
court, but denied that the money was due Lo the plaintiff
Mr Kong Sing, who appeared for the when he had to appear, and that his client plaintiff, urged that the defaudant knew
was prepared to "awar that he was a partner in the firm. The plaintiff firm was closed but not for the reason which had been stated by his friend,"
On the question of costs Mr Fass said that if he proved that the plaintiff was not
• partner in the frm the man would be proved to have committed gros con tempt of court by suing for money not due to him.
The application was granted."
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
RESERVES.
Dinner Proposed.
The new battleships: Oklahcms, and
It is proposed to have & Reserves dinner Nevada, will be the last word in at Volunteer Headquarters on Saturday, Anierican naval construction. They will the 20th instant, as 7.45 p.m. if sufficient
his optimistic outlook and the partyuing of a merger on a gigantic scale. ery that he so shrewdly raises, that he is imposing no new taxation, for his proposed disposal of the big surplus will certainly not. meet with the approval of the capitalists and the small investors of the Kingdom.
For the rest, despite the great coal strike, the business outlook for the BONGIONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1812 coming year scems very rosente, though Mr LLOYD GEORGE BRYS that much depends upon the relations of capital and labour, Capital will have, bo quipped to burn oil, will dispiace members notify the Secretary that they he says, to give a greater share of its 27,500 tons, and are to steam twenty knots are willing to subscribe; cost to be abost DRESS DEPARTMENT ME LLOYD GEORGE, the Chancellor luck to labour, while labour will have on hisl. Their battery will consist of ten 83 (thres dollars) pur bedd. Members of the Exchequer, has, to use his own to exercise greater moderation disposed that the guts can be fired on those of guests they wish to ask; nót lażer 14in. us, mounted in four turrets so should forward thair names, together with famous phrase, robbed tlichen pressing its demands The lessons citur broadside. They will have only one than Wednesday, the 10th instant roosts "to such effect during the past of the great strike have yet to be pro-funnet each, year that he finds himself the happy perly appreciated, enunciated, and possessor of a surplus of over six and then applied, but we think that there We are asked tastate that the services n half million pounds. Such a surplus are already signs to be discerned by will be as follows: Litary and Ante Com in St. John's Cathedral on Good Friday, is unknown in the annals of the those who are closely watching the munion, 10.15 s., mistine and sermon, British Treasury, and he naturally trend of public thought of a tendency 1 m; special service with hymns and
considering the set back to trade sides. Capital and labour have both p.m.; evensong and address, 5.30 p.m.. which the great strike of railwaymen been chastened by recent events; and Passion Music and the Messiah, 9.15 preacher, Rev. G. H. Hewatson, R.N.; of last July occasioned. All the taxes it is well that they should be. It will which the famous budget of 1909 also be a very long time before-the imposed upon the people of the Trade Unions will have replaced their United Kingdom seem to have yielded devastated strike funds and in the well, with the exception of those on opinion of some of their own leaders it ten and sugar. For the former, the will be years before they can possibly the programme we would like to remind Usually the charmes have been rendered conversion of tea-estates into rubber take up a militant attitude on behalf theatre-goers that tickets are available only by a body of about 70 wingers; this year plantations is said to be the principal of their various programmes All for the date they brar ; in the case where the chorus numbers 100 voices. The selec
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Patterns on Application cause; for the latter the drought of the same it behoves capital to also
play the game."...
am. Sowell, Id.
The Bodibey police recently, arrested two Indians who were found in possession
short addresson on the Seven Last Words,
pam.
The following business will be transacted immediately after the dioner:-To hold the Annual General Meeting, slect the
the Rifle Meeting. Commitee, and distribute the prizes won at
*** THE IMESSIAH".
put it to you that you know perfectly. well that it could not be done--Parlaps
not.
think
ing
Tuel
Fou have not before sued anyone on this Boxing agreement?-No
Iday.. He saw you about this matter and I
| at 6 pm: he mid he could not p pay!--Yes- You seked him to think the matter over and when he came back from thinking the ustier, orer» be mid I think I shall leave the Company That I can't remember.
him to leave you did not press the claim. Owing to the fact that you did not want You
never did press the claim or ask him for the money-I saked him on one necasion for the money.
It was after learing that you med-bim?
Mr Ross then referred to sections in the Merchent Shipping Act 1894 and submitted that there was no casa.The Act was s consolidation of various other Acti Thare were a great many stipulations to protect seaman.
His Lordship resersed judgment.
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
fur failing to stamp a rent receipt.
line of Blas was imposed on Chinese
rickshaw coolies for refusing hire, and hire Mace, of Wanchai, summoned two tines of $3 were imposed in each instaTOR,
For behaving in disorderly minuar while drunk & Spring Garden Las bluejacket was Sned 84 or soven days imprisonment
For having imported four bottles The usual performance of selections from will take place is St. John's Cathedral on scribed duty, a Chinaman was fined 925, Handel's famous Oratorio "The Memish."
dutiable liquor without paying the Good Friday evening at 9.10 p.m. Ever or a month's hard labour,
since these performances were instituted
We have been naked to state that by Mr Denman Faller in 1908 they have Charged with matching -BAGAIN open for two hours from 10 am to 12 snow thought that the scating capacity of the ord Merera Mintrie and Co's Store will be been increasingly well attended and it is valued 94:50, from
on Monday next for booking seate for the Cathedral will on this occasion be taxed to six weeks Comprisonme thon re. Owing to the sont changes in its utmost
stocks.
Ten dolines line or ment was the santones parNG
tiokste have been bingit for certain tions to be sung compris nearly the whole fes
piece, the tickets must be changed if the of part 2 and seven numbers from part date of the picco has been altereds of The Messiah The salota
By Mrs T. L Perkins, Mr F
Hi Excal'enry, Mr. Claud furer
At masked ball" at Herford (West, Best, Mr U Peares and,
the summer of 1911, which ruined the bect industry-is-the-contributory factor in the decline. Otherwise the trade of the country was very flour ishing and the Chancellor could been snuggled ashore from the Austrianed in the ballroom. The girl
of 75,000 gisina of cocaine, mid to have | phalin) oung girl was ducover concis Martis Bators the elections, proudly point to the fret that beforeLlayd steamer Oleopitra. This
Requiem Agter -the eatly in a spise timce, and it in and Wagner's Good the coal strike started, the returns of record but for Indi
thought possible that she is a zeligious insanity, but a far there is
Bijou Scenic Theatre, All of which makes us at Euro, est houses, in the Wast Faut die oxiderat
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