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The Indian Association will no cord a welcome on behalf of the Indian comunity. to. H.E. 'Sir Cecil Clememi soon after His Excel. leney's arrival at Singapore.

On account of the China New Year holidays, the premises of the Wing On Co., Ltd. will be closed from Thursday to Sunday inclusive and re-bpened on Monday for business as usual.

Summoned for dumping rubbish in the Street, a Chinese woman living at 187, Temple Street, on appearing before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, was fined $3.

A lady while walking along Po Ling Street, near Nathan Roath, yesterday about 6.30 p.m. was ac- costed by a Chinese who snatched her handbag, containing $12.25 in i

TUESDAY JANUARY 28, 1930.

POLITICAL FORTUNE

cares of State.

HUNTERS

SWEETS OF OFFICE

GAIN an attempt is to be mado, brother was appointed Auditor, ot to reassess the salaries of the Exchequer (#7,000 a year), and Ministers of the Crown,

his second brother Clerk of the on the (£9,000). Horace himself was ground that the present rates of ids Clerk of the Estreats (£1,000) pay are inadequate for the serv

wh still at Eton, and Usher of rendered by those wis bear trailer:Exchequer (24,000) before he | Lad left, Cambridge. Horace and his second brother divided the pro- The present emoluments were

Ats of their father's Collectorship fixed when the austere rectitude of of the Customs, worth £2,000 a year. nuble life had succeeded the cor- Pluralists in the Church woro Thus ruption which reached ita culmina-outpluralised in politics.

Georgo Selwyn, as a consequence of

the same time Surveyor-General of Crown Lands, which he never sur veyed; Registrar in Chancery of Barbadoes. which he never visited; and Surveyor of the Meltings and Clerk of the Irons in the Mint. where he showed himself onco a week in order to cat a dinner which he ordered, but for which the nation pald.

money. The victim raised an alarni, on, in the reign of Gourge III. | his electioneering influence, was at

but the thief succeeded in getting That was the heyday of the political away with his booty.

fortune hunter, when it was more protable to be a member of the Obatinsey on the part of a Chi-Cabinet than of the Stock Exchange.

card printer In falling to

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comply with warnings from the police to remove two tables from the pavement at Shanghai Street at the junction of Kansu Street, led to his being fined $3 at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

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Yesterday afternoon a Chinese foreman employed by the Foo Loong firm of contractors, 7, Che Woo

Street, was attacked and robbed by three Chinese whilst on his way from Yaumati to Taikoktaul. He was relieved of $600 with which he was to have paid coolles' wages,

The supreme political fortune maker was Henry Fox, who, as Pay- master-General, made over $300,000 by investing public money on his

-own account. Lord Bute and his adherents, by one transaction in Government loans-subscribed for by friends at par and thrown on the City at a premium-secured no less than £400,000.

Then there were all the pronta of patronage at the dispisal of the Minister.

The number of since-

annexed to provide for his family cures which Sir Robert Walpole

was astounding.

Walpole's letter-writing son has

With the Younger Pitt, who scrupulously refused to take ad vantage of his long Premiership either in Anancial profits or since- Since cures, a new era began.

sorve

day men have been proud to

the State for sums which

palmy days of George III. would scarcely have paid the wine bills of their predecessors of the Mary

a statesman now makes a consider-

A fine of $10 with the alternative left us an account how his eldest able financial sacrifice when he ac.

of two weeks hard labour in jail, was imposed by Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a Chinese, who pleaded gulty to stealing a basket contain- ing clothing from another Chinese In the same village at Cheung Sha

'CORRESPONDENCE

cepts office.

Loss, by Serving State- The Earl of Oxford and As- quith once complained that he would- have been a much richer man had he never taken part in politica. When he first entered the Cabinet as Home Secretary In Gladstone's last Ministry, Mr. Asquith had been making at least £15,000 a year at the Bar. Up to the time he severed his connection with the House of Commons he had received about £60,000 from the State, which, averaged over his thirty years of political life, gave him £2,000 per annum. The loss of about £400,000 was the price he had to pay for leaving the Bar for the Senate.

gations into the case of Captain McBride in Hankow. That gentle-

TITLE OF THE NIKADO man-a British subject was Wan. arrested by the Chinese authori-

(To the Editor of the "China MaİL”) ties for accidentally knocking, Messrs. Komor & Komor notify.

Sir, With reférence to the re- in the advertising columns of the was subse down a Chinese, büt

China Mail to-day that a repre- port of the British and foreign quently released at the instance sentative of Mesars. Toyo Mura-address presented to His Excellency of the British Consul. It may be, kami, Shanghal is now at their the Governor on the occasion of the of course, that the Consul has con- premises with a full range of tented himself with formally samples of allk shirts, which can be made to order at very reasonable reporting the matter to the Bri-prices. Fit, materials and colours tish Legation,, where it may have are guaranteed. been filed periding the return from

On the occasion of H. E. the Hong Kong of Sir Miles Lampson Governor's departure on Saturday, Even so, an ugly situation was motor cars containing guests invited created. It was termed a test of to attend Queen's Pier will proceed the extrality question and 'le such night. Road Central to the Hongtake was corrected in the copy pre each of his twenty-two reais Mr.

andle such by way of Murray Road and Cen-Highness the Emperor- all the facts ought to have been eng Club where the occupants will sented to His Excellency, and I

public reception held in the grounds of the Hong Kong Cricket Club, on the afternoon of January 22, I am directed to inform you that a mis- take occurred in the original draft of the address which was repeated

Such Instances might be in the report as published by you; multiplied, Indefinitely. Mr. Lloyd namely, that the title of His Im-George has received from the State perial Majesty, the Emperor of about £80,000, which gives him a Japan was given us. His Imperial pittance of £2,000, for each of his The misforty years in public life. For

in the possession of Downing alight and walk to the Plar. Cara should be glad if you would be good Street by this time. We have not will be parked in Connaught Road enough to publish this correction. heard of a breakdown in the Murray Road.

'cable service between Peking and, Hong Kong or between. Peking: and London.

and

Central between Jackson Road and

JUVENILE LABOUR

Yours, etc.,

N. L. SMITH. For Colonial Secretary. Hong Kong, January 27.

J

Bonar Law received about £1,000,

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China, Mail,” January 28, 1920.1

To-days' dallar is worth 5/- 344.

It was further agreed that the follow-

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MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

weights

Dance Orchestra At Wedding: "The Private Secretary: Royal Art Visit: A Brilliant Young Politician:

A Toy Angel

Charles Hawtrey's Force

Instead of dealing with the

Bombay, Yesterday. questions raised in the House of Pleading guilty to allowing boys.

CHINA AND RUSSIA

At a recent joint meeting of the Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1930. Commons in an honest and fear- under legal age to work overtime

General and Boxing Committees of the less manner, the Foreign Secre-Mr. G. K. Seers, managing director

Shanghai, Yesterday. Boxing Association,

Wr. Rees- Mr. Mo Teh-huci who was BRITAIN & EXTRALITY the while he has thought fit to Magistrate's Court afty rupees for behalf of China regarding the ing. donors for each of the eight Bri to Davies in the chair, it was agreed to tary has sought refuge in evasion, of General Motors (India), Limited,

was fined in the Second Presidency have opened formal negotiations on accept Championship Belts from will-

talk of negotiations for "the each of thirty cases under the C.E.R.. at Moscow, arrived at tish Championship standard weights, Conservative members of the modification

progressive Factories Act. Mr. E. C. Richards, Shanghal yesterday. He is expecting should be the minimum stakes per House of Commons are up in arms abandonment of British extra-ained in ten caset. He undertook with Mr. Ma Fu-hslang to discuss vided by the Association: Heavyweight. production manager, was similarly ed to proceed to Nanking to-day aide, irrespectiva. of any purse pro- -or profess to be in regard to territorial rights in

China,"

henceforth to comply with the act questions relating to Sino-Soviet #26; Flyweight $10; other the negotiations for the abolition coupled with an unctuous refer Reuter.

negotiations.-Reuter.

$15. of extrality in China. They cite ence to the due protection of Bri- two pending "incidents" in sup-tish interests in China. port of their case that the time Remembering the premature. has hot yet arrived for the aboli- retrocession of the British Con- tion of the British treaty right of cession in Hankow, and remem- extrality. One of these "in bering other incidents in which cidents" occurred at Wuchow and the British Foreign Office has cut the other at Hankow. In regard a rather inglorious figure in the to the former the Foreign Office Past, Britons in China have little

faith in the Foreign Office, A Wedding Innovation pleads ignorance of the facts. As regards the other the arrest whether it be run by

the MISS Jean Mann-Thompson, who Labourites or the Conservatives. was married at St. Paul's, of a British naval captain-it is content with promising to make

We do not suppose that the Knights Bridge, recently, to Mr. enquiries. That does not take us queries of Conservative members George Heneage, introduced an very far! Details of the Wuchow will impress the Labour Govern- innovation by engaging. London's

ment. When in office the Conser-leading dance orchestra from the out of it, Incident-the detention of two of vatives themselves blundered Embassy Club to play at the re- the crew of a Hong Kong Inunch nexcusably in its China policy, ception.

writer, was talking orrec the revival with Lady Hawtrey, -have appeared in the Chino Mail.

This seemed an... admirable Just before her Annua! leaving a woeful heritage to and other local newspapers from a their successors in office.

ture for step, for these gatherings not afraid

Carlo.. my late husband dispos The infrequently hang fire during the ed of the dramatle rights many source that is more accessible on abolition of extrality in China time that most elapse while the years ago," she said, though. 7 am the average to Downing Street than to the local Press. The plea can only come about by the bride is changing into her golig more than glad to think the old his new appointment, may result in ability of China to put her own inspiring about a good band, even ever, be interested in its career as a away dread. There is something piece is to be seen again and hops it will be a success. I should, how, of ignorance on the part of the Secretary of State for Foreignmonstrate beyond all possible seems a natura

House in order and to deat 8.30 in the afternoon, and it film

|_ Mr. Wilford-la a keen sportsman, a natural concomitant to I was not Penley, by the way, fond of hunting, chooling, and trout Affairs cannot but be regarded a doubt and suspicion that she is champagne and the other ev who was frst associated in London Ashing; he has owned racehorse, ha lane.... affort

with the curate who took an acidulats and

and was a first-class Rugby football- discussion on the issues at adequate to the task of protecting

ed drop but Beerbohm Tres, who was specially chosen for the part by stake. It is known here, if not the lives and property of British

Hawtrey. in Downing Streetwhich we subjects. We may and do etill seriously doubt that the wish her well in the preparations negotiations have not yet been for that task. Meanwhile we can

to

avoid

dences of festivity which go to

make up & wedding party.

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A New High, Commissioner THE reyival of "The Privaka Secre- NEW Zealand's new. High Commis stoner, Mr. Thomas. M. Wilford tary" at the Critering, brings who arrived in London on January. back memories of that delightful, has had a long and distinguish person, Charles Hawtrey, who adapted career, though he is still a com= ed the famous farce from the. Gerparatively young man.

He is a barrister, and for niny leading counsel. : A. Liberal, his long record in the House of Representa- tives has earned for him the title of Father of the House.

In Now Zealand

man, and made upwards of £200,000 years has been one of the Dominion's

The

Monto

depa

some apprehen sion is felt Test the resignation of 'his rent in Parliament, which has now, become necessary by ressDTA, DỂ

the return of a Labour candidate and so..further reduce Sir Joseph Ward's alender majority.

A Harlem Toy

Two of the bridesmaids, being respectively. the daughters of Colonel and Mrs. A. Bishop

were quite the smallest ever seen assisting at the church ceremony. test Both, however, behaved admir View "vate, but, if he did go | (thức host); interesting swadi, sựblack

any

completed at Wuchow. That be. only view with anxiety and Mr. and Mrg,, Philip Rhodes, the collection of Italina master chibition contained a p

ing so, it might do more harm than good to discuss the incident here. But why cannot the For elgn Office be open and frank and admit the possession of Information through the Ad- miralty The

reign Secretary leialso ntly playing for time when undertakes to "make" inver

attempt to force the issue through the medium so-called casos such as have been repor from Hankow and Wachow

News in Brief

The China the Antatlé

received from

The Italian Masterpieces

THERE WAS, much of Interest at kim, the oxhibition of toys and dolls which Lard, Donegall and Lady Meira THERE Ls a possibility that the Combe have collected for the London

Crown Prince of Italy will visit children's hospitals. pleces whith, none the worse for

half the number their adventurous ryggen

since lack of space frobida - The Prince'a, visit | the...]

Inclusion, ably, although Miss Rhodes gave

would be he would stay, three or four daysin angel.z during the This would be Aprons expresalon

A longer, visit than and is presumably the years milord servios to an interest in the then that pald by the Queen-Mother of idak of what an angel looks like. whereabouts of her Nanay Holandige it, will 5 --be į ramzemben.. Haritethernetriking toy But di- the bride - and bride- eil, went bror to see the Dutch pics |'tirally, made. Zget, constructed/

tures when theFA Wora-AC the church, these two House fint, winter. Her

share time, by the dru jesty, al London night dishe complete though advanced in age, was in Enged two farms made ed the shion down, the aisle

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Jin real Hariom

wanted itwe konaœuliva nights peak the bankć due spent on board a cross-Channel steam, the day

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