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sausages. Then

up

came

the owner of the garden, gave me a grateful smile," and inserted a

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931.

News in Brief.

Major General J. W. Sand Banda

same pro-

Great Britain. for the tection and services.

Could you, Mr. Editor, inform

amount would' the public what He accrue to the revanue of the An unearned Income- tax and a graduated Income-tax would equal to the British one

piece of wood under the concrete returned to the Colony yesterday by block. With the slightest lever- the a.s. President McKinlay. age it came out of the ground was accompanied by Capt. D. R. M. Colony fram as easily as a Civil Servant slips Cameron. from his desk at one o'clock.

"Quite easily done," chuckled The total output of the Kullan | bring in. the conqueror, quoting a forgot-Mining Administration's mines for I have been informed that Afty ten ode of Euclid's. In my rage, the week ended January 17, million dollars per year is a very I felt like breaking the pick amounted to 126,756 tons, and the conservative estimate. across my knee, and only the sales to 78,405 tons. consideration that I might have

It is easily understood that such taxes would fall upon the shoulders of those

broken my knee over the pick A tea party in honour of Sir Wil-who are well able to bear them and in the process deterred me from lium Hornell

of the wealthy is being given by that the loyalty this display of mock heroics.

members of the University Union members of the public could never "Anyhow," I said with disdain, in the Great Hall of the University be questioned. That they have not "your pick is a clumsy, unclean on Friday at 4.30 p.m.

already suggested these taxes can only be due to An oversight instrument," and I returned to

my chambre decriture, there to For having possession of eight their part and that they will at once- bespatter my fingers with the toets of raw oplum at Reclamation come forward to turn the Budget juice of Cerebus.

After a Nicht Wi' Burns.

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into an enormous credit: Street Li So, a fruit hawker was deficit fined $240 or six weeks at the balance is the earnest hope of With an Im-Kowloon Magistracy this morning. ported thistle

dangling from The forthcoming mariage is an his mouth, and avunced of Kenneth Chan, manager one hand Jingling sixpences in of the Bank of East Asla, Kowloon, This trousers pocket, McDoodle and residing at 39, Condult Road, stood in the Club, a forlorn Celt Hong Kong, to Jasmine Wong, of if ever ye saw one. Ay, I hae Ching Shan To, Pokfulam. ma doots if iver ye hae seen sich a

Yours, etc., PRO HOND PUBLICO. Hong Kong, Jan 30,

FRENCH CABINET.

CONFIDENCE.

puir, miserable lookin' creature inj The names of Mr. Joseph William CHAMBER PASS A VOTE OF evening dress.

Barnes, M.B., n.s. (Hong Kong). "Whur ye bin, Jock?" I asked 13 Chatham Road, and Carlos him, affecting a Scots accent Engenio da Roza, M.B., B.S. (Hong that I dinna possess, (not being Kong) have been added to the wan, ye onnerstand?)

Register of Medical Practitioners.

Paris, Yesterday. The Chamber to-day passed a Ivote of confidence in the Laval "Och, laddie," he growled, try- ing not to look ashamed o' hisel,

His Excellency the Governor Kos Cabinet by 312 votes to 258.-

Reuter. "I dinna quite remember, ye ken, appointed Mr. Roland Arthur

Another Report. but I think it was Burns' Nicht." Charles North to act as Secretary

Parls, Yesterday, He swayed with emotion at the for Chinese Affairs during the After reading a Ministeria thought of the poet and quoted: absence on leave of Mr. Alna "A man-sica-man-sica Eustace Wood, with effect from

man-sie-

"Och, ay-a man-sic-is E

man-

January 31,

declaration and interpellations the general politic chamber voted

its confidence in the Government

TAX ON YARN.

NEW RATES FIXED BY NANKING.

Sir Morrick Hewlett, H., M. by 312 to 258.-Havas. "Is a puir, wee-sic-mourr-ntain Consul General at Nanking, accom- *Mouss-sic-for a' that-gic.”

panied by Lady Hewlett and their

Mr.

is developing corns

"Isshnt it,?" he cried fiercely, daughter, arrived yesterday. They through walking outside his wife's jerking out his chin so that the are going Home on leave in the The-China Mail bedroom every night? That Mr. whiskers stood out like bayonets. P. and O. S. Comorin and expect

"Ay, Jock, ay," I told him to be back in October. and doesn't go out till after

never shaves on Sunday But I thocht Burns' Nicht was meantime Mr. G. S. Moss will act

Hewlett Sir Meyrick. dark? That Miss locks on Saturday?" -

"Was he ramarrewithat?" he Nanking. cried. "To-day's only Monday. A further adjournment was given lows:

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Nanking. Yesterday. According to a Nanking report, the new taxes on cotton yarn.. matches and cement will be as fol-

Overland China Mail.spent a night in the police cells We niver finish celebrating Burns yesterday in the case against Fong Cotton yarn.-$2.75 on every 100

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It is not only the

A Court

coat that makes the CORRESPONDENCE. man, it is also the trousers, according

THE BANKRUPTCY OF HONG KONG.

$7.50 on every, ease consisting, of 7,200 boxes of matches, each not to exceed 100 sticks and each stick not longer than 5.2 c.m.; $10 on. every cass consisting of 7,200 boxen of matches, each exceeding .100 sticka and each stick longer than 5.2 cm,

ye ken?" He drew me into a corner. "I ken what ye're think Ping, who is charged with assaulting catties with 23 threads; $3,75 on a Chinese doctor, Wong Sik-yuen at every 100 entties above 23 threads; I'm as ing, but ye're wrang!

wha's No. 60 Lalchikok Road, on March 6 per cent. on the value of others. "Audax," I said sternly, when sober as an Aberdonian

Matches.-$5 on every case con- I had recovered my breath, "You had his salary redoored. Why,27, 1999, with intent to rob, and can't publish all this, you can't mon, I've only been drinking for with having two platols and two sisting of 7,200 boxes of matches,

twenty-four hoors.

daggers in his possession, Mr. Jeach not to exceed 75 sticks, and Cle a mon possibly."

Butters fixed the hearing for each stick not longer than 4.9 c.m.; "Why not?" calmly asked the a chance!"

February 19. japparition, crossing its legs. "My dear man (or woman)," I ex- postulated, "It may be true. Vincit veritas, and all that sort of Slighted. thing, (eyeing the motto on my crest), but its sheer libel, abso-to the views of a Taiping Magis- itrate who refused to take the lutely." ba

"Well," said he (or she), "evidence of a European planter shall unless you promise on your in Court the other day because Sir, The Legislative Council haz rel weighing 380 pounds; a pro- word of honour (here he or she the witness was wearing an undeclared the Colony bankrupt by portional tax on those weighing less drew a gory finger across his or bottoned shirt and khaki shorts. repudiating its sterling contracts

The cadi's remark was "This is a with

its officers and compelling or more than 880 pounds. her throat) not to give me away." Court of Law. I will not take them to accept a composition. {I promised.

"They think," he (or she) your evidence unless you come

I should be glad if any reader on foreign imports of the above commodities, besides the payment added, in a triumphant burst of properly dressed," an which the could and would inform me how the

of imported duty-Canton News They planter went home and returned, following firms are dealing with scorn, "That they know.

Agency. Hong Kong.. Saturday, Jan. 31, 1931. even suspected you! But they dolled up like a wedding cake. their gold service contracts:

shall never find out. NevahThe Court then officially "saw"

Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank- With a dramatic fourish he (or him, and British justice was

ing Corporation. fallowed to proceed. she) vanished from my ken.

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ADVERSARIA.

In

"Until those around you "Are guessing, too, "And blaming it on you."

(Rud. Kip).

A Tale of Woe.

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The dignity of British law Must never be forgotten, And though our clothes

such a bore

are

To drop them is verboten. The Bench and Bar oft disagree In judgment on society, But you can take a tip from

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They're down on impropriety. So bring your trousers to the

Court

To the Editor of "Chins Mail.")

Chartered Bank.

Mercantile Bank,

Union Insurance Society of Canton.

Cement.-60 cents on every bar-

"Tung Shui" tax is to be imposed

FINANCIAL CRISIS.

SERIOUS SITUATION IN CHICAGO.

Butterfield & Swire. Aslätic Petroleum Co.

Chicago. Yesterday. Standard Oil Co., of New York.

While denying reports that Chi British American Tobacco Co.

cago is in serious monetary difficul Hong Kong Electric Co.

ties, officials admit that the Muni- The Government's service con- cipality is again facing a financial tracts can only be a small part of crisia, rendering payment of city the expected Budget deficiency. employees' salaries impossible. Mat- Will the Government tell the Colony ters are expected to come to a head Your shirt and eek your braces, whether it can rely on the Governon February 9, when tax anticipa- Consider that your never ought ment paying 100 cents to the dollar tion warrants will be offered for To sport what'er disgraces.

And will its on other contracts?

aale. And if you must be "seen" by Chinese Officers get 100 cents to

those

the dollar on thoir pay? Whose duty is to judge you,

Yours, etc., Bedeck yourself in pretty

clothes

That Bond Street would be

grudge you.

But never in a careless mood Appear in birthday dresses. The Magistrate might think It]

rude,

As must confess) is...

GLEE SINGERS. FURTHER SUCCESS ACHIEVED

M. IN COLONY,

CALL A SPADE & SPADE AND A. QUID A QUID.

Hong Kong Jun. 30.

SALARIES CUT,

The Strawn Committee, which last year came to the rescue, by raising $74,000,000, now declares that banking Interests will not sup- port tax anticipation loans, unless the system of tax collection be sim- Sor- American plified.-Reuter's vice.

Have you ever handl- ed a pick? Aha, I "Without fear, favour or malice”

thought not! Those lily fingers bf yours I've a lot to explain A Lot To this week, reader were not made for honest toil. Explain. dear. locum No blisters shall burden those primum, I am con-flabby palms; no mud shall stain stantly being badgered to divulge the roseate flush, of those un- the identity of "Audax." "Who bitten nails, nor shall your back is it?" people snarl, growi, and bend over anything more formid- whisper, annoyed because they able than a bunker. You should have been omitted from the gild-try nothing so demoralising as ed gossip of our local arista-labore pickum. I did, on the Sab cracy, and fretful if they haven't. bath too, and as a consequence Well, I am not going to tell you, am not half the man that I was. s'there! Guess dear neople, My back feels like O'Tattie's heal after St. Patrick's Night-throb- guess,

bing like the fifth sympathy in G Major," aching like the heart of Nacmi, creaking like a wirker basket, every time I bend. As a matter of fact, "Audax" In happened in this wise. Tiffin and I are very old friends. We half-digested, I was essaying a first met in Ireland, and have lyric on n vegetable theme (car- been meeting ever since. He (or rots. being the motif) when I

To the Editor of "China Mail"). The present value of farm pro- (she) came into my office the heard the sound of voices in the!

the statement duction in Quebec Province is about other day. "Like

Sir, In view of a bit of garden. Could I resist the sound scandal ?" he (or she) tittered: of such rural pleasures? Indeed,

made H.E. the Governor at the $820,000,000 and the value of. Beld My ears parachuted like a rab-no. I hurried down and volun

Legislative Council meeting on crops alone about $130,000,000, ac- bit's, "Shoot!" I said, clutching teered to help. The pick was

January 29, that, a, decline of one cording to Antonio Grenler, Deputy the bowl of my pipe in anticipa heavier than I had ever imagined

penny in the value of the dollar Minister of Agriculture, who adds, dia. tion.

a pick could be. I could hardly

would cost the Colony one million however, that "soms fertile

other What I heard would make a pick it up, let alone raise it on

dollars, and that this amount could tricts still grow hay when confessor blush. You can't think high and bring it down like nei

be saved by cutting the salaries 12 crops would bring greater re turns," Dairying is reported to what goes on in Hong Kong, yow of my favourite mashle shots.

Greater appreciation than ever per cent. will E.E. assure the Colony cawn't reely. On the Ponk, too It stuck every time (as my type-

the province, with an annual output. of all places! For instance, did writer is apt to do) and when I was accorded the Westminster Glee that for every penny the dollar de- be the most profitabla industry in

valued at $75,000,000. you know that Mrs. had tried to pull it out I invariably Singers at their fifth concert last clines he will cut the saleries? tea with Mr. —-—---- the other fell flat on my stomach. With night, and many will regret that day? That Miss slapped becoming modesty I began to their successful visit is drawing to save the Colony from financial ruin. The Civil Servante, have no res s face and said "Oh, realise that I was not, after all; a close. yew are a one, yew are"? That any more successful with the pick The variety and excellency of the dress. They are unable to do more Mrs. was seen arm in atm than with the pen. It stuck as programme appealed to a large au-than mildly petition for justice. with a soldier on Kellett Road? badly as words sometimes do, and dience who fully appreciated the To an ordinary member of the public it seems perfectly equitable That Mr. has lost a lot of no amount of expletives would sterling quality of the singing.

The Bells of St. Michael's Tower" that the extra taxation necessary. money and is on the verge of make it easier Damp, and bankruptcy? That Mr. angry, nauseated by the honest was again beautifully rendered, owing to the fall of the dollar, hasn't been to Oxford at all, and toil of which your true Briton is while the sailor shanties by Mr. should be borne entirely by the 8/10. that he is suffering from a delu. wo proud, (albeit, from a dis-Albert Greeno and chorus evoked Civil Servants, and that the pubile sion? That MTB sald to tance), I sat down on a heap of hearty applause, Fire, Dewn Be-who employ them should be left to It is understood, that negotiations enjoy their incomes. and salaries have been opened on behalf of the her husband on the Peak tram manure and looked, I am sure, the low" being very amusing.

Master Knox Godfrey deserved without tax. This should be en Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Associa the other day "I hope you've picture of abject misery. washed your face, deah? That had been trying, you must great credit for his wonderful sing-pecially appreciated by the many tion with a view to Inducing the... Mr. won't retire until he know to persuade a solid piece of ing of that old Irish Air The Last thousands in the Colony who enjoy victorious American Davis Cup gets a title, which will be not in concrete to disengage is embrace Rose of Sommer with the accom- all the privileges of British justice team to play in Hong Kong on their our time, O Lord, Thint Mr. with Ceres Matier. The pick paniment of voices and draw large incomes without way. Home from Austrália. Tilden. By special request the West- having to pay Income-tax or taxes Washburn and Hardy are expected Was Bo drunk the other was chipped and bent, I had ruin- night that he failed to recognise ed a beautiful Honolulo creeper, minster Glee Singers will give an on upearned Income, or, In fact, to play a Singapore, Manila and This Wife when she said "Oh, and there were hilsters...my performance on Wednesday at anything like a quarter of the Shanghal afso Johnson will not

taken paid by the residents of call. Willie, who is this woman?" That hands the size of. hotel 9.15 p.m.

Mr.

SPLENDID APPRECIATION.

This seems to be the only way to

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mai!" of ·

January 31, 1931.)

To-day's dollars is worth 2/T