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TUESDAY, JUNE 16,

ODD OBS. HOME OFFICE SERETS

GEORGE TI AND À PETITIONER.

PROUD. BARCELONA.

GREAT CITY THAT IGNORES TOURISTS,

English people travelling abroad

No higher authority than Sir Ed- may be divided roughly into two ard Top, who was Permanent classes, writes a “ Dally Mall" cor- Jader-Secretary of State in the respondent. There are those who Home Office In 1908 to 1922, 1ook always for English tea rooms, ould have been found to write,shops where English tobacco may or the first thie, an account of the be bought, and hotels where the story, dus, and organisation of servants speak fluent English. be Home Office.

And there are those who seek some elty which rejoices-in its insularity, making no appeal to the foreigner, preserving its native quality with superb indifference.

The dies of the Home Secre asy and very.various.

The Home Secretary is in the option, as it were, of a residuary stee: all that is not assigned by aw or established custom to some

ther, Minister falls to him.

All addresses to the King by ublic bodies

are first abmitted to the Home Office and re examined to see that they are a proper order.

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There are few such cities of any size in Europe, It is the lament of the sophisticated traveller that little lonely villages in Italy made famous by saints have become Anglicised; that as much English as French is spoken in Paris; that The re-if you dine in Prague a perceptive waiter decorates your table with a miniature Union Jack

Hes to these addresses are draft d in the Home Office, sometimes ith a previous indication from the

But of the great modern cities of ing as to what he desires to say, Edrope there is one that retains its od the drafts are always submitt-pride of birth, making no feverish d personally to his Majesty and effort to capture the interest of ot infrequently altered by him. foreigners. The city is Barcelona. Petitions to the King pass In the shopping streets which i rough the Home Office. The ollowing account of what hap ened to a high-born pctitioner samusing:

have studied in Barcelona there is no intimation that "English is spoken here." The shoeblacks who surround you whet you take your morning aperitif address you Your waiter knows in Spanish. little French and is puzzled if you speak your own language.

In 1774 the impoverished Duke St. Albans presented a petition aking for a pension adequate to is rank. The usual form of nega- ive reply to a petition is that " The Secretary of State regrets that he has been unable to advise his Majesty to issue any commands." but in this case there is a refresh

Bg variatios from the usual terms. with beggars, and The secretary of the state wrote: do not approach you with an offer

CHILD IN CHAINS,

AMAZING SINGAPORE

STORY.

The Sepoy, Lines police were called last week to a Chinese house in Singapore where they found a 12-year old child hidden under a bed with her feet fastened with a dog-chain.

A Chinese woman was -ar- and charged in the rested Third Police Court with placing the child under unlawful res- traint. Acting Court Inspector Smith asked for the maximum amount of bail, stating that the Chinese Protectorate took a serious view of the case. An adjournment of one week was allowed.

The child told an amazing story. to the police. She stated that she was kidnapped in Swatow, ten weeks ago, sold as a servant in Singapore, and she had passed through five different houses be- fore she was eventually taken over by the police.

They were discussing the order restricting henceforth the number

K.B...

"And a good job, too!" said the "Why,, Cardiff, where first man. I come from, is known as the City of Dreadful Knights!

Windsor, where I live, is pretty said the stockbroks Every Mayor is knighted on retirement.

"Ah! The City of Dreadful Knight-Mayors !!*

Post offices are hidden. It may be days before you discover that to

Plizenologist (to boy client). “You post a letter you look for the little secret box inside a tobacconist's have a remarkably large bump of

You shop.

are not pestered filial affection, my lad

cab-drivers Boy: Please don't press it

hard vir 14's where father clout

I have obeyed your grace's to show you 'the sights." Fommands by prescating your

memorial to the King. His Majesty

George I put it in his pocket thout expressing His Pleasure ne way or the ccasion."

other on the

Many formalities and ceremonies

tend the appointment of

modern bishop.

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They stand in striking contrast o the simplicity of the ancient the method of handing over bastoral staff and ring to the new bishop, and even to the Secretary of State's own appointment, which completed in five seconds by he King's placing three seals in is hands.

Such questions as the use of roops in civil disturbances, thei brerogative of mercy, the admini- tration of justice, police organisa- Son, prisons, and so forth are

uthoritatively dealt with.

The Criminat Lunatic Asylum It Broadmoor "is under the direct ontrol and administration of the Home Office aided by a local board f supervision

The Superintendent of Broad- noor accupies, perbaps, the most langerous post in the Civil Service. Every lunatic believes the Superi- endent to be responsible for his ontinued detention, and within he last 40 years two have received bermanent sujuries from attacks

m over the head.

SAPERIONY KLETStone View ads NEW YORK John Stevens, former Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal. has been given the John Fritz Gold Medal, the highest honour bestowed in the United States by the profession, for his achievements as an engineer, "particularly in his work at the Panama Canal." Centre: Mr. Charles F. Rand, Chairman of the Board of Engineering Societies The presentation was made at presenting the medal to Mr. Stevens.

the Engineering Societies Building.

TRIP TO ASIA.

by inmates who appeared to have SEARCH FOR LONG-HAIRED

ecovered their sanity, and two

have retired wore out with the

nxieties of their position.

The power to put first offenders a probation is one which appears bot yet to be tully made use of,

If in Kent 5 per cent. of cases ried summary are put on proba- ion, why should Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire put on probation

TIGER.

ACADEMY PICTURES.

SLUMP OF BUYERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE.

There is a slump of buyers at House, states the Burlington

Mr. George Kruck Cherrie, who is managing the Roosevelt ex- ploration and hunting trip 10"Evening Standard" Central Asia, arrived at Karachi early this month.

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Altogether in this year's Royal Academy there were 631 separate oil paintings, out of these only 42 had found purchasers.

96

There miniatures. and two have been sold; there are 175 water-colours and drawings, and only 16 have found a home..

Interviewed by an Associated Press representative, he said he

are would remain in Karachi about ess than our firth per cent, and four days before proceeding to Monmouthshire one? It 75 is the omper proportion for Birkenhead, Srinagar, where he would meet the Roosevelt brothers. No definite why is it only 18 in Liverpool?

of campaign could be The staff of the Home Office is plan 76 This figure does not include arranged till Srinagar was reached as the nature of the country to O charwomen."

be traversed

practically unknown. There might also be some difficulty regarding por- ters. The expedition was being organised on behalf of the Chicago Field Museum and was financed largely by public subscription, in

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HIS OWN INVENTION.

DENTIST'S FATAL GAS

EXPERIMENT.

Was

On the numerous exhibits of sculpture but seven have found purchasers within the galleries.

Of course, these figures do not actually represent the total sales, because many pictures were al ready purchased before they were hung.

For instance, the six exhibits of Joseph Farquharson, R.A., have all been sold for an unnamed figure.

THE COLONY'S HIGHER RATEABLE VALUE

By Order of the Governor in Council a new valuation of the whole Colony-has been made and the rateable value has thereby been increased from $22,147,951 to $27,287,862 an addition of $5;139,911 or 23-20 per cent.

The following table gives a comparison of the assessments for 1924-1925 and 1925-1926--—-—-

District.

The City of Victoria Hill District.

"

Valuation

· 1925, 199 $16,729,545

Valuation

1924,

$16,729,945

440,306

Shaukiwan, Saiwanho, and Quarry Bay.

493,290

Hongkong Villages

576,429

1,510,024

Kowloon Point

1,105,050

Yaumati

1,022,010

Mongkokisui

575,890

Bunghom and Hokun

534,570

Kowloon Villages.

177,319

New Territories

493,143

3,907,982

District.

Total

Valuation 1925.

$22,147,951

The City of Victoria.. $19,614,584 Hill District

Vaination 1926. $19,614,584

Per Increase Cent. $2,884,639 17-24%

483,735

Shaukiwan, Saiwanho,

and Quarry Bay..

601,115

Sungkong Villages

890,420

1,975,279

465,255

Kowloon Point

1,451,326

1,613,150

Mongkoktsui

1,047,910

Hunghom and Hokun.

G29 24 209.720

746,673

6,597,999 1,790,017

$5,139,911 $21,287,862

45-80%

23/20%

Yuumati

Kowloon Villages.

New Territories

Total

The number of tenements reported to be vacant averaged about 185 monthly, as compared with 104 last year.

During the year ending May 15, 1925, 3,467 interim valuations were made as follows:-

City of Victoria. Rest of Colony,

Rutcable

Value. No.

$2,871,660

No.

New or rebuilt tenements and

tenements xtructurally altered. 872 ¡Assessments cancelled, tenements resumed, pulled down or being

1,367

Rateable Value.

$1,734.510

834,250 434

IGR.677

in other respects not rateable. 394 Numbet and increase..... .1,466 $2,037,410 2,001 $1,565,933

The following comparative statement shows the rateable value of the Colony in each of the ten years from 1916-1917 to 1925-1926

inclusive:

Decrease Increuse

Fercentage of as compared as compared increase or Decrease

with pre- with pre-

in Rateable Value vious year. vious year.

Decrease.

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Year

Rateable Valve.

as compared with

Telegraphic Address

previous year.

1016-17 3917-18

$14.282,186

14.410.150 $127.987 15,638,736 1,228,382 16,304,801

$4.093

0-03

* LIGHTERAGE"

0-89

Increase.

S+52

17,408.059

660.065 1.104,185

4.25

6-77'

7:4014

5-914.

8-32.

5-16. 23-20

18,696,660 1287.701

19,805.929

1,100.239

21.039.700

1,282.771

22.147.951 1088,231 5.139911

27,287,862

In the ten years 1916-1917 to 1925-1926 the rateable value of the Colony has increased by $12.005,676 or 91-06 per cent.

ANZAC DAY.

BUTTONS FROM BLOOD.

SEN-COURT STORY OF CURIOUS

INVENTION.

SIR 1 HAMILTON'S

SATIONAL DISCLOSURE.

The annual dinner of the 29th An extraordinary invention for Division was held at the Café the manufacture of buttons and no Royal on April 25. General Sir Ian vulcanite and ebonite articles from Hamilton, who commanded the blood figured in a case which original Mediterranean Ex. came before the King's Beach peditionary Force, to which the Division recently. 29th belonged when they made their famous landing on Gallipoli, was the guest of honour. In the course of his speech he expressed his desire to say one thing which had never in any shape or form been said before. They would not find it even in the suppressed evidence of the parts of the Dardanelles Commission, or in the secret memoirs, or indeed, any where else, for it had been a ose man's secret-he had always kept it buried deep.

The plaintiff was Mr. Richard Tudor Owen, an engineer, of Lan- caster-gate, and he sued Messrs. Johnson, Matthey, and Co., Ltd, and Mr. Frederick William Vesey Fitzgerald, of Caversham, Reading, trading as Samnoid at Hatton Garden, claiming damages for alleged wrongful dismissal, arrears of salary, and expenses.

and

Mr. Hurst, for the plaintiff, said his client complained of a breach by the defendants of an agree ment to employ him for five years from Nov. 1, 1920. to Oct. 31, 1925. He was an engineer of experience, who worked as the chief technicali "What I have to tell you is," he assistant of the defendants for two said, "that there was a brief period and a half years of that period, towards the end of March and the when, for some reason known to beginning of April, 1915, when I themselves, they suddenly put an did really begin to waver in my end to the employment. They mind as to whether Von der Goltz alleged that they were justi- was not right in saying that a fed in their action because they landing was a sheer impossibility. discovered, they said, that Mr. was incompetent. The During this period. the Egyptian Owen

defendants were • metal. Press kept on giving the most first clear and specific detail as to lurgists, and Mr. Fitzgerald had arrivals of troops and material, been concerned with a large together with specific statements number of laventions.

Mr. the Fitzgerald had applied for that they were bound for A verdict of Death by Misad- which Mr. James Simpson of

Dardanelles, and, in reply to my protection for an invention for the remonstrances, I was informed by manufacture of a cheap substitute! venture was returned at an in Messrs. Marshall Field Company quest on Walter John Moylan-was prominent. On arrival at So far as examination of the the responsible divil authority for such things as were usually. Jones, 51, a tal anaesthetist, Srinagar, the expedition party will official records goes the oil paint that Egypt was not at war, and made of horn, ebonite, who was found dead in his con- resort to ponies, yaks and Bactrianings have in all only fetched a that it was beyond our power, vulcanite, buttons, gramophone sulting-room Welbeck street, camels as modes of transport to

sum of £1.783 or thereabouts, therefore, to restrain the Egyp records, linoleum, and floorcloth. Marylebone, W, atter experiment-proceed through the northem which includes £600 paid for Glyn tian Press from advertising any These were some of the articles Secrecy is the which he designed to manufacture ing with a gas apparatus.

passes into Eastern Turkestar. Philpot's "A Street Accident," thing it liked. The widow stated that some Later on in the year the party and £157 for Mr. Bertram Priestessence of military success, and, by his process, and his notion was

landscape years ago her husband invented would attempt penetration into the man's

"Blythburgh | most of all, secrecy in regard to to make them out of nothing less

landing. In our case everyone had gruesome than blood. the Moylan apparatus for adminis- Himalayan river jungles in search from Henham." tering nitrous oxide as an anaes of the long-haired tiger and other

The highest priced pictures in been fully informed of everything Mr. Hurst explained that the thetic. He had given demonstra rare specimens of animals and birds the gallery is the beautiful portrait from England. At luncheon at the blood required for the invention Miss Abdin Palace the Sultan discussed could be obtainted cheaply from trations all over the country and of choicest specimens. The expedi of Barnard Lintott's called was always trying to improve it.

tion hoped to capture the Ovis Poli, Mary Bussell in Grandmother's the landing on Gallipoli with slaughter-honses. It would then be Dr. Spurgin said that Mr. Mor which lives at a height of from Dress," which is marked as offered me quite openly before courtiers placed into the dehydrating plant and servants. There was never, to absorb the moisture. When re- Jan-Jones was tound dead in a 16,000 to 17,000 feet in bitterly for £1,050. reclining position on an ottoman. cold temperature. The Ovis Poli The spectators seemed more in fact, from first to last the duced by that process to the com Part of the apparatus was on the was first discovered by Marco discerning, for they paid just semblance even of keeping our sistency of paint it was reduced to floor between his legs and his foot Polo several centuries ago and has as much attention to the works destination confidential, although, a powder by a vacuum dryer, unknown artists as to of course, the actual spots selected Then presses and moulds were was resting on the spanner co since been thought to be a myth | of trolling one of the gas cylinders. until last year a British officer con- those of established reputation. were still my secret. Well, doused to produce the article in the The substance Death was due to coma following firmed its existence near the Thian At one time the first two rooms, you know what foally made me shape required.

finished was known as nitrous oxide gas poisoning. Shan Mountain. Specimens have where the works of the Royal steel.my heart to carry on? My when

"Samsonoid." Cylladers in the room were been known to weigh 250 pounds Academicians are to be found, inspection of the 29th Division.”. empty of nitrous oxide gas, the and have curled horn's measuring were comparatively deserted.

open. ston cocks being

Two 71 inches. contained beylinders had

1200 Although in His 60th year Mr. allons each, and two smaller Cherrie looked the picture of health Fones 100 gallons.

and was exceedingly enthusiastic The coroner said he was sat the prospects of the great where the newer works are to be

ed Mr. Moylan-Jones met his adventure.

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sheath while experimenting.

"Why is ablack hen cleverer than

I propose to publish my a white ben?" and the bitte boy under the name of John locked very slyly at his father as thee wat at the breakfast table, Dad

**Don't “indur "éonny;"

4 said the

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