1927-04-12 — Page 7

TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927.

£800,000,000 BUDGET.

Continued from Page 1.)

Crease.

He estimated the income tax at £231,000,000 compared with £254,750,000 last year.

The only bright spot was the receipts for the motor. licences duty. numely £24,000,000 com- pared with £18,000,000 in 1925.

The only war debt settlements

FALSE ALARMS.

MOTOR HORN LIKE POLICE: WHISTLE.

Korn,

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Sergt. Hawkla sold the owner had been requested to discontinue the use of this horn and he had promised to do so.

A similar summons against the driver of the car was dismissed.

still outstanding were with Yugo: SHAMMED INSANITY. Slavia and Russia. Against,

GROUNDS.'

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THE PYRAMIDS

THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE WORLD.

MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLISM,

THE CHINA MAIL.

cutting to size of the blocks was done by means of saw-edged bronzen, teethed with corundum or the costly diamond.

The accepted solution, however, to the otherwise baffling enigma of the Pyramid's erection seems to be that when the stones of the There are, in Egypt-land of base were placed in position, a romance and mystery-many so-sloping platform of dried mud called Pyramids, writes C.H.B.F. and rubbiah was built to the top in the "Weekly Scotsman." The of this first layer, and up, this majority of these funerary erec-slope the stones of the second tier

doubtless

of the Nile, with all the magic invested in its being. The Sphinx was burled up to its neck in the sand, but, down to the long fore- pawa has comparatively recently been unearthed from the drifting accumulation of the ages.

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Symbolism

"It has often been claimed that the Great Pyramid was built under divine inspiration, and enshrines a Messianic revelation; and several writers of no incon

of "those

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marvellous mathematical 藷じゃ curacy with spiritualistic gym- bolism. Now, strange, though seekers may be, there may quite well be a degree of truth and wisdom in the published results of their investigations. Indeed, the Pyramid is supposed by them to contain a charted prophecy concerning Adarni mankind on earth, and if its cryptic, message be truly all that is claimed for it, and its prophecies be fulfilled. then 1028 will see the world enter into a momentous phase of its history. We can only wait and

see."

The period of the automatic in-l crease of expenditure had ended, The owner of a motor air was. audi next year if no new commit-this morning fined $10 by Major ments were undertaken the auto-Willson for using a Bosch electric thatic decrease of expenditure

Sub-Inspector Alexander said would almost evertake the in-

"that the objection to this kind of horn, was that besides being very A. Bright Spol.

apisy, it sounded" like #police After announcing the whistle and the police from various tions have but a vulgar claim to were dragged upon rollers. On siderable note, have vested Its Arrangement of ministries al-stations have vary often turned out the title, being little more than the completion of this second tier ready mentioned Mr. Churchill only to find there has been a false mounds of earth and stone. The the sloping platform would be Pyramids, however, five in num- heightened and lengthened to said he saw no reason to altor alarm.

at allow of the "comparatively easy the claims to be found, ore ber, are the estate of, a £6,000,000 yield from the betting tax.

Medum, three at Gizeh, and one management of the third tier on at Duhshur. There were several the completion of which the plat- others, not so great perhaps of form process would be repeated which we know through records. Of course, as the Pyramid grew in but of these no trace may now be height so would the slope grow in to the height and length until ultimately found, due rascally purloining from their it must have extended some milos desert, assuming a fabric, by swindling contractors, into the of stones which needed little or no gradual ascent from ground level transportation to the immediate to the extreme height of 481 feet job on hand: A constant repeti- when the apex stone was proudly tion of this sort of thing just as awung into position, the crowning dripping water will wear away detail of a marvellous achieve the solid rock, has reduced the ment.

No less than 100,000 slaves are Major Wilken had before him unfortunate structures concerned this morning e, Chinese charged, to nothingness and memory. And known to have been engaged in with trespass in the grounds of there are others which are but this gigantic and highly success- tumbledown shells. Hind, it not ful undertaking, and the period In connection with war debts,

Detective Inspector M. Murphy beer for the spite of contempor. of its building was thirty years..

Inside the Pyramid. Mr. Churchill, said that taking sald from different statements made ary and succeeding enemies and

Entrance into account the altered rate of by the accusts at the time of his for the destructive thieving of a

to the Pyramid is. exchange inter alia there was arrest the police believed the man scoundrel Arabs, these once effected through an opening some $75,000,000 reduction in debt into be insane. He had been under beautiful Mastubas would have way up the northern side. The terest compared with five years observation, however, and the doctor assumed a vaster importance to passageway takes a steep earth- ago which was equivalent to one-reported that there was nothing the antiquary than they can ever ward course. leading eventually fifth of the annual interest bur-wrong with him. This being so, it hope to do.

to a pit placed almost centrally April 12-World Theatre; "The was now up to the accused to ac-

The afore-mentioned five mas under this terrific mountain of Call of the Canyon.” Mr. Churchill said he never bunt for his presence at Govern-sive monuments, however, are stone. The passage is really i

April 12-Star Theatre: "The dreamed of meeting the 1927 de-ment House.

happily still externally intact, the nature of a "blind" for Trouble With Wives." feit by a partful suspension of the Accused, who di not show any and vary from 170 to 481 feet, nothing of importance was ever April 15-Seventh tournament of{",

Sports. sinking fund. With regard to interest in the case, did not say

which is the stupendous height intended to be stored in the sub-tre Hong Kong Boxing Asan. at the latter he reminded the House any thing.

"in passing sentence of six weeks attained by the greatest of them terranean cavity. Just about the Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m. that it was confronted with a de-i inid the Magistrate said areused at the glorious Pyramid of base of the pyramid on ground April 16-18-Second Extra. Race fcit of between £35.000,000 and had no right to be there at five Gizeh, one of three magnificent level a great granite plug was Meeting of Hong Kong Jockey Club,

temples of death. The wind and placed in the roof of the descend-Race Course. Happy Valley. $40,000:000; namely a prospective one anek w substantial part of the clock in the morning.

rain of countless centuries have ing passageway effectively con-- April 20-Seventh biannual race oll one.

played havos, with their sturdy (cealing from unauthorised eye for the "revesan" Trophy, com- Mr. Churchill proceeded to gut-|

abric, but the sight of them to-another passage branching up.mencing 4 pm. Bine changes in income is collec-

earthbound

Meetings. tion methods which did not affect WINDOW SMASHED. day instillis into the mind of the wards from the

£33,000,000 we paid the United MAN FOUND'IN GOVT. HOUSE States last year we had received €17,600,000 from Germany and nur allies. He estimated the re- ceipts this year from this source #1 £25,000,000:

den.

Saving in Interest.

the basis of assessment.

Tighter Income Tax Laws. With a view to closing loop- holes which enabled taxpayers toj avoid part of the income tax, the

Government House.

CITY THIEVES STEAL GOLD

WATCHES.""

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A phoe glow in the show window Government had invited the co- of the Shan Heng Watchmaker's operation of the Government of

shop, in Des Voeux Rondi Central the Channel Lands in preventing was broken by thieves early this loss in the case of migrants, to morning, and gold watches worth Jersey and Guernsey.

$720 were stolen.

The section of the Finance Act dealing with avoidance of super! tax through the medium of a one- man company and in connection with the sale of securities would be strengthened.

STREET ACCIDENTS.

Knocked down by a motor car Other steps would be taken in riven by Mr. J. E. Jackson, connection with the avoidance of Government Marine Surveyor, in payment of income tax and estate queen's Road Eust yesterday, duty. Improved machinery woald Chinese received injuries which had be proposed to enable income tax to be treated in hospital recovery in respect of copyright Injured through being knocked payments to non-resident play-vn by a tramenr in Des Voeux wrights, authors and the like. Rond West a Chinese was yesterday

taken to the hospital.

Fresh Taxation.

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watcher

The Great Pyramid.

a feeling of awe and channel, and conducting one to a reverence for the master minds horizontal passage at the end of of those far-off days, to whose which was placed the sarcophagus zeal and skill the present monu-of the King's consort. At the ments bear copious and enduring funtion of this horizontal passage testimony..

with the ascending passage there commenced a great high gallery Let us concentrate upon the sloping upwards into the very Great Pyramid. This magni- heart of the Pyramid, and lead- ficent triumph was built bying to the sepulchral chamber con- Khufu or Cheops, one of the early taining the powerful Pharaoh's Pharaohs 6500 years ago, or embalmed body, surrounded by 4700 years before the dawn of all the majority and mammery of Christianity. By virtue of its death.

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April 12-Queen's Theatre: "Wild: Wild Susan."

April 14-Twenty-seventh annasl meeting of Kowloon Bowling Green

lab. Club-house. 5.45 p.m. China Light & Power Co.,

April 21-Second Meeting of Ltd.. 17.30 am

April 28-Telephone Co.'s, second| annual meeting, at Exchange Bldg., 1a.m.

Lammert's Auction.. Abri 14-At No. 88A. Nathan Rd.. Kowloon, valuable household furniture. 2.45 p.m.

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April 2-Lenten Mission in Catholic Cathedral, Glenealy, 6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. Fr. G. Byrne, S.J. April 22-Practical demonstra- tion on "Home Nursing Matilda Hospital, 3.20 p.m.

April 26-Mr. Harry Ore gives a Beethovan Centenary, Recitall at, the Theatre Royal, 9:15 pm.

April 27 Vice-chairman and Diocesan Assen. "at home" to members and Committee of Victoria friends at Helena May Institul 4,20 p.m. -

magnitude it bears the proudest It is no mean achievement to title of any known building, for climb the massive and rugged it is this same structure which mountain of stone, for the blocks we call the "First and Greatest are several feet high, and it is Wonder. of the World" And more or less a scramble to the rightly so, for it is not only great top, accompanied by more per- in size, being without exception spiring and temper-ruffling thin the biggest solid monument in the rapping than is good for the soul. universe, but great also in con- The summit, worn flat by the feet caption and management. It was of countless pilgrims is become a as its marvellously accurate mea-platform from which, as a just surements to-day bear witness, reward to all intrepid moun- Mr. Churchill, turning to new

some 481 feet in height, and each taineers, a magnificent view may taxation proposata said that

of its four sides measured 765 be obtained. On the sandy plain, under the Safeguarding of Indus-

He estimated the revenue feet along the ground, giving its at a dizzy distance below, are Teacher "Have any of you ever tries procedure there would be a duty of 28. per cwt., for five therefrom at £90,000 in the year.base an area of 570,000 square dotted shapes of lumbering seen an elephant's skin?"

their Small Pupil: "Please, Air. I years on tableware of translucent Turning to tobacco, he attribut-feet, of 13 acres, about thrice the camels, accompanied by and vitrified pottery, which it was ed the increased consumption,aren of St. Peter's at Rome, and chattering Arabs, and, the great have!"

Teacher: "And where did you estirnated would bring in £200,000 which was one third greater than it is even 50 feet higher than that Bowing river, cach going about in 1918, to smoking by other sex.remarkable building. Or, to bring its Maker's business. Down there,

Small Pupil: "On the elephant," *All impeneckmotor tyres would! The increase in the duty on home the comparison, the Great on the sand, are the other to-Pyramid is 160 feet higher than Pyramids, and in close proximity be brought within the scope of the imported unmanufactured McKenna duties immediately, and bacco would be raised from our own St. Paul's Cathedral is the Sphinx, a huge rock, 189

A GOOD LINIMENT. to 198d.

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b. The interior arrangement and in fest long, carved unerringly "into Empire tyres would, receive wi rebate of one-third.

and would yield, he estimat-tricacy, and the high finish of the the shape of a lion bearing a RUB Chamberlain's Pain Balm on the painful spots. It is penetrating, One foreign firm was alreadyed, 23,400,000 in the year. He workmanship brand it as the woman's head, chipped, lined, starts up the circulation which carries established here, and another was did not believe the whole coat of greatest architectural achieve- and weather-beaten. It is thought the congestion and pressure that causes That how it helps the tax would be passed on to the-ment of man-a claim which can that this undoubted masterpiece the pain. likely to come.

on be substantiated on The customs and excise duty clearances would be removed grounds.

consumer. The restrictions

a thousand of sculpture was expressly treat-rheumatic pains, lombage, backache, ed 'out of a handy rock to guard neuralgia, swollen, aching joints and an matches, which last renched: $3,500,000 would be immediately.

To convey a rough idea of the the entrance to the fruitful valley muscles. Sold and recommended every-

where. extreme accuracy of its architects, I should state that

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cent." and rates would be imposed! Mr. Churchill, summing up learned present-day professors according to the contents of the aid the estimated increases in have computed the error in the box instead of 10,000 the ordinary indirect taxes would sides of its base to be only six- yield an increased revenue of The new tax was expected to £5,880,000 in the present year and tenths of an inch out from a per- yield £700,000 a year.

£6,500,000 in the full year, leav-feet square. Six-tenths of an Duties on Winds.. ing £30,000,000 to be found, from inch wrong in seven hundred and Although the duties on wines other sources, which was account-fifty-five feet: what a perform-

ance !!!

had been doubled in 1920 the ed for by administrative arrange- In circuit the Great Pyramid is consumption of wine was 50 per ments. cent. above the pre-war figure for

Mr. Churchill said in this con- roughly two-thirds of a mile, and 1921, but all classes of wine had nection that the £12,000,000 re-its four sides which face, re- not advanced equally. Port had serve of the road fund would be spectively, due north, south, east. gained the most, at the probable transferred to the State. expense of whiskey.

He estimated to save £5,000,

Under substantial preference 000 a year by again reducing the in 1925 sweet wines had made a period of credit allowed brewers remarkable success. Sparkling from two months to a month. wine was below the pre-war level. By collecting the landlords?

2s. 6d.

and west, are cach five and a half cres in area, giving to the whole unparalleled capacity of ninety mass the remarkable and perhaps milion cubic feet.

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He therefore proposed that non-property tax on January 1 instead The problem of the transporta- Empire wines containing over 25 of a twice a year, and by making on from their quarries some degrees proof spirit should pay another adjustment he estimated hundreds of miles away (about 8s., instead of 6s. a gallon, and to make £14,800,000.

the length of Great Britain), of "under 25 degrees 88. Instead of He also reckoned towards the the huge blocks of granite deficit £800,000 from rectification diorite, and basalt of which the The corresponding rates on of the estate duty anomaly. Pyramid is constructed, the as- Empire wines above and below 27]

sembling of these blocks weighing A Prospective Surplus. degrees would be 48. and 2s., The items enumerated totalled from sixteen to thirty tons each, respectively.. !!

488,000,000, and the prospective and their placing in position re- He expected the duties to yield deficit £21,500,000 became a pros-mains still much of an historical £1,500,000 in the year. The pective surplus of £16,400,000. mystery. The details were pro- rates would operate on April 25 This enabled him to raise the bably preserved in the great and restricted clearances would sinking fund to £65,000,000 and library at Alexandria but would cease on April 26.

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are qo vineyards in Britain. He 2833,400,000.

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