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SATURDAY

DECEMBEK 8 1923.

IN BRIEF

SURPRISE

ELECTION.

NEWS FOR BUSY MEN..

(Continued from Page x.)

CABLE).

ELECTION

MISCELLANEA.

The Stock Exchange is unset-} tled by election results.

Lanarkshire is represented by 6 Labourites and one Conservative A Router message from Lon-compared with 5 Labourites, one don, dated to-day states that the Communist and one Conservative Shell Transport Co. has declared formerly. A Labourite gained

THE CHINA MAIL.

Gershom Stewart (Conservative) 11,791,

This was a Liberal gain.

WINDSOR,

Somerville (Conservativo) 12,646. C. B. Crisp (Liberal) 9,029.

OHSSTER.

Sir Charles Cayzer (Conservative) 0,086.

Llewellyn (Liberal) 6,212. Muff (about) 5,774.

a dividend of two shillings free Lanark at the expense of the UNITED STATES' FINANCE of income tax.

popular Conservative Minister, Capraio Elliot. The London Latest election results will be boroughs of Lewisham, Padding- found in this issue of the China ton and Wandsworth are solidly Mail Mr. Baldwin's appearance Conservative. Poplar is solidly, fsdescribed as "grave." Sir Alfred Mond thinks he will have to re- size.

LABOUR TROUBLE

NEW TERRITORY FACTORY.

Work Is suspended at the Chinese towel factory near Sheung Shul as the workmen have gone on strike for better pay. They are alleged to have smashed the rice boiling pan which has caused the

owners to apply to the police for protection.

MISS E. MOORE'S "LIFE."

MR.

CHURCHILL

AS

A

NAUGHTY DANCING PUPIL

The story of two lives very successful on the stage and very happy "off" is told charmingly by Miss Eva Moore in "Exits and Entrances "those of herself and her late husband, H. V. Esmond, the actor and playwright (Chap man and Hall, igs.).

Labour. St. Pancras now has two Labourites and one Conservative and Southwark two Labourites and one Liberal. Stepney is solidly

Labour.

London is represented by 30 Conservatives, II Liberals and 21 Labourites. Fifeshire is

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REDUCTION OF NATIONAL

DEBT.

WASHINGTON, December 8, Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report to Congress, announced the reduction of the Nation's debt by 614 million dollars in the past year through tho un exercise of the most rigid economy changed. Sir Hamar Greenwood and the application of business prin- is unchanged. Sir Robert Horne The report contains Mr. Mellon's was defeated at Sunderland which ciple's to Government's finances. was elected in a triangular contest letter to President Coolidge to the donald's majority at Aberavon was bonus would postpone tax reductions at Hillhead. Mr. Ramsay Mac-effect that the granting of a soldier's 3.512.

Lord Apsley (Conservative) was returned at the head of the poll at Southampton with Colonel Perkins (Conservative). There were six

candidates.

Cumberland and Derbyshire are unchanged, except that one seat in each was gained by a Conservative from

for many years.

Mr. Mellon makes the expected recommendation of a reduction of $300,000,000 in taxes in the States by catting the 'eurtax on large in- comes to a maximum of 25 per cent. Thereby there would actually be an increased amount on Government's

a

Liberals gained three seats from

a Liberal. Devonshire receipts by 1920.

Mr. Mellon ie of the opinion that Conservatives but the Tivorton the appropriation of $23,000,000 for result has not hitherto been de-increasing the number of coastguard Clared. In Essex there are 4 Con- vessels might help to cut down to servatives, 2 Liberals and 2 Labour, minimum the, operation of rum compared with 6 Conservatives,and

smugglers. Hampshire is un- 2 Liberals. changed, with the exception of a Liberal gain from a Conservative. Kent, formerly solidly Conserva- tive, now has 8 Conservatives, 2 Labourites and one Liberal. Lancashire has 8 Conservatives,

8 Liberals and 4 Labourites, core- Before she got a start on thepared with II Conservatives, 3 stage from Toole-"£t a week and Liberals and 4 Labourites before. find your own dresses"-Miss In Hertfordshire, the Liberais Moore. In her early teens, taught dancing at Brighton.

I taught a small, red-headed boy. He was the naughtiest boy in the class; I used to think sometimes he must be the naughtiest small boy in the world. His name

was Winston Churchill.

She and Mr. Esmond got married on a loan of £50 and the proceeds of a racing tip which came off at 40

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SON-IN-LAW SUED.

£150 DAMAGES. FOR POSTCARD LIBEL.

VILLAGE GOSSIP,

Mr. Justice McCardin said it was curious if Mr. Smith's object really was to win back his wife's love An action to recover damages for he did on postcards to be sent to a that he should have written what an alleged libel. was brought by little village where everyone was Walter Oliver and his wife only too willing to listen to scandal Henrietta, of Whaddon, near and where every postcard that Royston, Hertfordshire, against passed through the local post office their son-in-law, Thomas Smith, of seemed to become known to every |_ East-street Bulidings, Marylebone, one in the village.

bels were written on postcards an ex-policeman. The alleged sent to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver. One

said:

her

and Mrs. Oliver and awarded them The jury found a verdict for Mr. £150 damages and granted an in- repeating the libels. junction restraining Mr. Smith from

I have been thinking of the family conduct of my marriage with your disgraceful daughtering judgment to that effect, said it Mr. Justice McCardle, in enter- Evelyn... and the deliberate was one of the most cowardly Hes of herself, her mother, things he had ever known to send sister, and aunt before these defamatory and cruel libels marriage, when I asked to a father-in-law and a mother-in= them about her health. They all law. "If I find that you are break- said she had never had an illness, ing that injunction in any way by knowing full well she had bees, under a doctor for six months with heart disease and that she had been at death's door two or three times with other com- plaints.

was planned between you all, for There is no doubt the wedding

we had only been married five days when she told me she married for name only and not to live with me.

Mr. Oliver said since the action was brought he had had numerous postcards of the same kind. As many as four had come by one post,

Mr. Justice McCardie: Contain- ing these same charges against you? Yes. In one of the postcards Smith said he was going to call a public meeting at Whaddon and that he had informed the police of his intentiona

repeating these cruel and defama tory statements," added his lord- ship, addressing Smith, "I shall send you to prison at once without hesitation and without regret.”.

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PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A

SHIP'S NAME.

Mr. Smith (to Mr. Oliver): You Ltd.. HEREBY say you objected to the marriage? -I did.

Mr. Justice McCardio: Why did you object to this man?-I did not like the man. I thought he was not suitable for my daughter.

PETER.

Mr. Oliver said that when Smith wrote that his wife Evelyn thought more about her boy Peter than she did of him, he did not

One

of

I. G. W. BARTON of Douglas Lapralk and Co., General Managers. The Douglas Steamship Co. GIVE NOTICE that in consequence of Change Ownership I have applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act; 1894. in

ship respect of the 'REPOSE" gross tonnage about 2,300 tons, register tonnage about 1,005, heretofore owned by U. S. Navy for the permission to change HAINING" and to her name to have ber registered in the new name

BERNE, December 8. gained one sear from the Conser In the National Council, replying vatives. Captain Philipson, husto a Socialist interpellation, with sand of Mrs Philipson was defeated regard to the export under false dream that bis daughter Evelyn at the Port of HONGKONG as owned at Wansbeck by a Labourite. The declanitions of great quantities of had this child Peter before her by The Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd. Conservative Major Edmondson opium, cocaine and morphin, especi- marriage. He thought Smith was any objeme must be sent to the objections to the proposed was elected at Banbury, defeating ally from Brale," M. Motta, For-referring to

of his owA the Liberal Mr. C. B. Fry and the sign Minister, replied that indisput-

children by a former marriage. <-

Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong Labourite Captain Bennett.

Mrs. Evelyn Smith said she within seven days from the appear ably the opium question had assum first met her husband in Ken- ance of this Advertisement, Wiltshire is represented by foured Guely a character that it councils sington Museum Gardens, and the Liberals and one Conservative it its duty from the viewpoint of first day she went our with him

G. W. BARTON. compared with three Conservatives international solidarity to "get the she told about Peter, as she thought

Hongkong, Deramber 8, 1923, and two Liberals formerly. In the When Bernard Shaw and Gran- North Riding of Yorkshire Liberals 1912 Convention ratified as soon as she would be open with him. ville Barker went into manage-gained one seat, Suffolk and possible. The measure for ratifica- raised no objection. Their mar inent at the Court Theatre, Harry Lincolnshire are unchanged. In tion will be submitted to parliament ringe was unhappy from the first and I met Shaw one day and seat to the Liberals, who losta seat

and Norfolk the Conservatives lost a Spring at the latest.

week because he did not give her Harry asked how the season

her place in the home, but gave it gone." "Well," said Bernard Shaw. to Labour. In Northumberland

to his eldest daughter. About a "I've lost £7,000 and Barker's lost the Liberals gained a seat from

month after the marriage he f his other shirt."

the Conservatives. Surrey is

assaulted her and threatened her and her son Peter. She screamed, solidly Conservative. In War

and he buried her with pillows,

to 1.

COMMERCIAL NOTES.

MANCHESTER REPORT.

To Miss Moore Mrs. Kendal said reflectively: "Think of all the wickshire the Liberals gained a things we have missed, people seat from the Conservatives. The like you and me, through leading-Welsh counties are unchanged er-shall we say 'well-conducted with the exception of one Liberal lives' And make no mistake, we gain from Labour but one return Ltd., write under date October 31: have missed them!"

mother, hearing that he had joined

a company of touring actors, asked, in all seriousness, "What time is the caravan calling for you, my dear?

is outstanding, The Scottish i

Messrs. James F. Hutton & Co..

The cotton markets have again

counties are incomplete. It is been strong and new high levels for notable that so far there has been the season have been reached, fully

The Scottish burghs are little

He

She left him because of his ill- treatment.

Mr. Smith denied the alleged assault upon his wife and her accusations of threats and ill-treat-

ment He admitted writing the postcards, but said they were true

not written with malice. His

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George Edwardes was once interviewing a candidate for the chorus at the Gaiety; he asked her, a Conservative gain at Roxburgh middling American at Liverpool 10 substance and fact and were "Do you run straight?" "Yes, and Selkirk where the Earl of being quoted 17.97 as the 26th object was to get an interview with Mr. Edwardes," was the mply, Dalkeith was returned in a trian- Speculative buying has undoubtedly a view to reconciliation with his "but not very far, or very fast gular contest also at Moray and been largely responsible for the fur wife.

Mr. Esmond was very young Nairn, while a Labourite gained ther rise and is apparently based on when he started out from the a seat in Dumbartonshire. The the firm belief of a decreased Ameri- bosom of a family which had no Liberal Sir Charles Starmer gained can crop indication when the special knowledge of the stage.. His Cleveland in a triangular contest. Burena report of November 2 is changed. The East Riding of aged. Heavy local trade buying Yorkshire is solidly Conservative bus also again been a factor of im- as the Liberals lost a seat. Corn- partance.. Liverpool spot - and wall is wholly Liberal. In Cheshire futures sales have increased sub- the Conservatives lost three scats. stantially and the outlook for Man. to Liberals, otherwise it is chester trade continuce more bope unchanged. Dorsetshire, Glamorg-ful. The Bureau report that aqshire and Carmarthenshire are 0,100,000, bales were ginned up to unchanged Belfast is unchanged. the 17th instant was slightly dis Gloucestershire is represented by appointing and bus assisted the one Conservative two Liberals and advance.. This compares.. with one Labourite compared with 6,978,000 a year ago and 5,497,000 three Conservatives no Liberals in 1921. The extreme advance hra Resigning his conductorship of and one Labourite formerly. The not, boivever, been maintained. the Harrogate Municipal Orchestra, Liberal Mr. Costello gained a seat There appears to be some weight of Mr. Howard Carr has given as one in Huntingdonshire. of his reasons his objection to play-

opinion which inclines to the view -in

trivial" music.

The position in Oxfordshire and that a bullish crop report. has been He told a reporter that he con- Worcestershire is unchanged. well discounted by present rates, sidered light operatic music such Salop, hitherto Conservative, now but at the same time the possibility as is found in certain musical com- has two Conservatives, one Libend of 20 ponce cotton is freely talked edies too trivial to be presented by and one Labourite.

of. Probably the Bureau report on

JAZZ" A DISEASE, CONDUCTOR AND TRIVIAL

MUSIC.

•

a musician of his knowledge and Somersetshire has one Conserva. Friday next will clear the situation experience. He declared also that tive, three Liberala and two somewhat. Pending that a quieter "Jaza" is a disease-a form of Jabourites, compared with five tone seems to have set in. In the neurasthenia,

Conservatives and one Liberal form. Manchester market' there has been "I could not ask my orchestra, erly. In Staffordshire the position considerably increased demand which is 40 strong and one of the is unobunged, except that

the from almost all quarters and a good best in the north of England, to Labourite Mr. Frank Hedges has turnover hus resulted. At the same play what, in my view, is not good music," he said. Music that is replaced the National Liberal, Mr. time sales are not yet commensurate

Lichfield.

elected.

with enquiry for although offers continue to improve, the upward

played in restuarants and kinemas Commander Burney has been movement of prices bere has again

is not fit for the concert-hafl.

Notabla gains are the

two

"I am a composer of light opera- the music, and I was quite willing

been quicker. The volume of busi- to-and I did-play good light Labourites, including Misa Jews, large and provided nothing happens ness in negotiation is now very music, but I would not play rub at Norwich, whore Commdr. Hilton to disturb confidence afresh it looks bish. The primary purpose of Young and Mr G. H. Roberts were as though a substantial amount of it music is to uplift people mentally, atnang the four defeated, A Con will shortly be on the order books. morally, and spiritually not to ecrvative gained Milobum from Almost all classes of goods are in- assist their digestion."

Labour, a Conservative won Holder- cluded in the demand, but makers ness from a Liberal-and a Liberal of law and mediom printing clotha, won Brixton from a Conservative.

and sized groya have done least.

Sir Dan Godfrey, conductor of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, said: "Jazz" is often worth playing. People would have what they wanted in muste Only!

At 9.15 p.m. the position was: The cherpest sellers are being

Liberal-Labour .. 287

rapidly filled up, Spinners have. Conservatives 210 found little improvement in the

defeated.

DETAILED RESULTS.

about 10 per cent. of the public A Minister, Mr. Davidson, and always wanted the best music. 3

The comment of the Royal Hall Mr. Newbold, the Communist were Commition of Harrogate Corpómi tion on the position taken up by Mr. Car is that the majority of patrons, have not been too enthusiastic oversighe" programimen, mainly classical, and that she ball had been half empty on ordinary nights, whereas on popular nights the house had Been

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