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Debates In House of Commons.

AUSTRALIAN ROUTE.

The extension of the

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- Calcutta or Rangoon such mails being sent across India by rail till such time as an Indian State service was prepared to take them across by air. It was upon the urgent representation of His Majesty's Government- this is quite an important point in view of what has been said with regard to the Dutch service across India-who feared, I will not use the word reprisals, but, possibly, unfavourable repercus sions by the Dutch or from the

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PLAN TO SEND GOLD the 30 per cent. discount of Aus-

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Bill Before Australian Parliament.

£60,000,000 NOTES LIMIT.

;tralian currency overseas.

Three States May Default, The point to be considered was whether, by refusing to go on with this measure, gold could be detained in Australia, or whether it would be better to use it over- seas than hold it in vaults here.

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DID COLUMBUS GET Mexico as Wi-shi-peco-shu, of COMEDY OF FRENCH

THERE FIRST?

Was U.S. Discovered by an Afghan ?

BUDDHIST MISSION.

the pale complexion and the long robe, who taught the people to live righteously, soberly, and at perce. He suffered persecution and suddenly disappeared, leav- ing his foot print on a rock — as all good culture-heroes ought to do near the village of Magda- lena, where the people erected a statue to his memory.

Interesting Puzzle.

It is possible also that the Rev. Hui Shen was the gentleman in a Tartar hat, attended by a braco of elephants, who is portrayed

PRISON.

Prisoners As

"Guests."

REGULATIONS WEAK.

discussion in the House of Com- and French Indo-China and postained as a backing for notes issuel on the payment of £5,000,000 | discovered America, whereas he upon one of the big. Mapa steles ous revelations concerning life in

mons recently during the

bate on the Air Estimates.

would have to default.

Sixteen million pounds worth of gold was being held in the banks, while there was not sufficient to meet the overseas indebtedness of £38,000,000 and tide over the Com- Canberra, March 16. Australia may abolish shortly. I monwealth's urgent commitments. air mail to Australia came under French in the Dutch East Indics the statutory gold reserve main- If the Westminster Bank insist due by three States on March 31 he feared that those Governments "We are hopeful, however," add- visions of the Bill for the Amended the Treasurer, "that it will be ment of the Commonwealth Bank possible to make reasonable ar-picion. Act which was introduced in the rangements with the bank in the House of Representatives to-day next few days, so that we shall by the Federal Treasurer, Mr. not have to default. Unless the Commonwealth obtain funds in The Bill provides that the Gov-London by June 30 public default ernment may require the Common-is inevitable." wealth Bank Board to hand over to the Treasurer such amount of

and

All-Red Routes

These are two of the main pro-

Theodore.

de-sibly other countries traversed ed, and ship to London for the

by the England-India nir route, Mr. Montague said: The need the Government of India agreed payment of debts the gold theroby

released. for speeding-up the development to allow the Dutch and the of Imperial air routes is con- French to carry, transit mails stantly before the Air Ministry, across India. They are not, how and efforts are continuously be ever, using either of those ser- ing directed to that end. The vices for the transmission of further extension of the service | Indian maila. across and beyond India has been the subject of continuous con-

In agreeing to this course, the aideration and discussion with the administration concerned Government of India stipulated with Imperial Airways, Limited. clearly that Imperial mail car At the end of 1929 the Govern-ried by Imperial Airways should ment of India inaugurated an air service from Karachi to Delhi with aircraft operated by Im- perial Airways, Limited, under charter, and have announced their intention to extend this ser- vice to Calcutta as an Indian State route. It is expected that this extension will be opened at the end of the present year.

Not Beyond Calcutta.

amount.

be handed over to the Indian gold as is necessary to meet tho State Air Service for conveyance Commonwealth's indebtedness in by air from Karachi to Calcutta. London, in exchange for Common- A further item of information in wealth securities of an equivalent this rather important matter is that the Dutch and the French

The measure also replaces the pay the normal rates for housing and landing services within In- statutory provision that there dia. Wireless and meteorologi- shall be a 25 per cent. gold re- cal services are provided free, serve against notes by the follow- "The Board shall ing wording: No proposal has ever been made to the Government of India that not issue Australian notes

to a

Backed by Securities. The Bill further deletes the re-

I wanted to say something Imperial Airways should be al- greater amount than £50,000,000." with regard to the question of lowed to operate on similar terms the Indian service.. The matter

Ito the Dutch and French. It has has been raised and some amount always been suggested that the quirement that notes issued shall of doubt has been expressed as to Government of India should pay bear a promise of redemption in the position. Under the Indian

a subsidy to Imperial Airways, gold on demand. Post Act, the sole right of con- In view of pledges given from

HOTEL GUESTS

AT HONG KONG HOTEL.

The escape from the prison of For five centuries Christopher

a convict named Columbus has laboured under the

Evreaux of totally unjust suspicion that he

Delannoy, has lead to some curl-

in Guatemala. Here indeed is a certain provincial prisons in is really the last of many ex-

found the New very interesting puzzle, because France. Delannoy walked out of plorers who World. He has indeed a perfect the elephant was officially an ex- his cell, and after opening two alibi, and a brief statement of tinct animal in America, where- doors in the corridor, climbed to as his adventures, as the god freedom over the outer prison presiding over the maize crop, wall, which is eighteen feet high. his case will clear him of all sus-

comparatively The first explorer, for whom form the whole theme of the The climb was

famous Maya book known as the easy with the aid of a rope, one we have actual dates was an

Vienna Codex. Certainly the end of which, it is believed, was Afghan gentleman native of Kabul, which was then the great Buddhist mission and the native held by someone outside the pri- headquarters of the Buddhist priests ordained by Hui Shen son wall. missions. The very respectable seem to have reformed the native Chinese historian, Ma Tuan-lin, governments and customs of that Bays that this Hul Shen, attend strange Maya race. He says that ed by five Buddhist monks, de- they had abundance of copper but parted from Kabul in A.D. 458, no iron, no soldiers, no fortresses, than as convicted criminals. On In the year occasions when a warder took & and travelled overland to the or walled cities.

ti A.D., 499 he returned to China few hours off duty, he left the coast of China. As there

keys in the cell door. understood, of course, that the prisoner might stretch his legs up and down the corridors in the abrence of the warders, but he was certainly not expected to walk out of prison.

COLOURED TELEPHONES,

clergymen had never seen salt where the Emperor caused his re- port to be engrossed in the Im- water, and certainly were not

perial archives. mariners, they must have shipped as passengers with one May 10, 1981.

of the packets running to Kams- Mesars. H. Appleton, E. H. chatka. Thence they sailed east- Alderick.

ward, by way of the Aleutians MeBars, N. Bartlett, H. H. Bara-1 and the North American coast, a distance of sixty-five hundred stein, Mre. E. J. Backers.

miles, to Fusang, a name which Mr. and Mre. Clapcott.

means Far East. Mr. C. G. Elleste. Mesars. W. Glass, F. M. Hogan C: B. Hebb.

Mesars. J. E. Joseph, N. John-

Bon.

Mr. and Mrs. D. T. King..

new

It would

appear that

Borne

warders at Evreaux were accus- tomed to treat their prisoners as guests of the Republic rather

It was

Following the example of the Prince of Wales, who some months

Delannoy did; and he did so ago ordered a number of coloured

easily that one of the warders is now to answer a charge of culpa- telephones for his personal use, Princess Mary, Aays a London Tele-blo negligence in Delannoy's Chart of West Indies. graph gossip, has recently been in-

escape. The coast was familiar to the specting these telephones, which The convict is once more under Chinese who had indeed a fairly will soon be available for all sub-lock and key, and the other in- correct chart of the West Indies acribers. Her Royal Highness has habitants of Evreaux prison. have ordered one of the Mr. Theodore explained that the

been brought to realise that they veyance of mails in India is vest time to time in the Indian legis- gold reserve was the regulator of

and even knew the ocean beyond, now

are not in an hotel but in gaol, ed in the Governor-General in

These Instruments, Mr. and Mrs. K. Ling. Mr. Lob thirty-two hundred miles wide. "cradle" pattern models in an

The whole affair has led to a Council. The Government of In- lative assembly, a subsidy to any the limit amount of Australian

As to Fusang, the country of the ivory finish.

are particularly suitable demand for the tightening up of dia intend to organise an air ser- .company other than an Indian notes. It was for this reason that

Kong-im. company with rupee capital and a the Bill also provided for the

agave and the prickly pear, the which Mesere. Ed. Miles, O. Morgen-place-names show that it included for boudoir or drawing-room use,

French prison regulations. vice between Karachi and Calatority of Indian directors is out limitation of the note issue

have at the back a small gold sup- stein, R. Minetti, Mr. and Mrs. Central America and Mexico. cutta for the conveyance of mails, of the question.

£60,000,000. The note fasue would R. P. McLemore, Mr. and Mrs.

The name of the Buddha, port which tones exactly with the passengers and goods, commenc-

"A preliminary survey of the ing at the end of this year," on [With the inauguration of the] he backed by securities in the same J. P. MacDermott.

Gautama, is reflected in Gaute cream colouring.

activities of new, factories com- the expiration of the present Indian and African services, the way as the present unbacked por-

Mra. Nelto..

male, Land of Gautama: From The Post Office have been ex-

with 60 different mencing operation in Vancouver this comes also the name perimenting charter which Imperial Airways Empire is beginning, to be linkedtion was secured.

In 1980, reveals maat encouraging have, over the section from up by all-red routes, and we are If the Bill is passed it will be

Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Ross, Mrs.

The shades, and have now decided to of Prince Grutemotzin. That service taking all possible steps to ex- illegal to insert in business con- H. M. Richards.

Lord standardise five colours, namely,

development," says a report of the the Karachi to Delhi.

nationality of Mr. A. N. Spencer,

re allver, bronze, green, ivory, and Industrial Socr.tary, Vancouver Buddha Was Sakhya, will run in connection with the tend the Indian service to Austra tracts a clause stipulating for the

Board of Trade. "The sixty-two to lia, although the actual tentative payment of amounts due in Aus-, Imperial Airways service

flected in the place-names Zaca mottled.

firms commencing, report an In- Karachi. In view of the probable proposals at present are confined tralla, in any currency except Aus

tecas, Sacatepec, Zacatlan, Sacu-

The first factory in the Province vestment of more than $14,000,000 separation of Burma from India, to air malls, and we must have tralian notes, or payment by vir

pulas, Oaxaca. A Buddhist the Government of India do: not the question of a passenger ser tue of the exchange situation of

priest was lame, and a Mexican of Saskatchewan for the manufac in plant and equipment, employing In the propose to extend that Indian vice to later development. When any amount in excess of a speci

priest was tlama. The Mixtecture of neckties, was opened in nearly 1,500 individuals. State service begend Calcutta these are accomplished, we shall fled debt. This section of the Bill

high priest was Tay-sacca; and Moose Jaw recently by the Indes- year 1980, sixty-three Vancouver When the Government of have brought into being the main is designed to preserve the legal

Sakhyamuni may be reflected in tructible Neckwear Manufactur arms which have been established India received proposals for trunk routes which the Empire teader character of the note issue.

Chaac-mal, to whom there is a era. Ltd. The factory la turning for several years; enlarged their very well-known statue. More out around 100 dozen ties per plants, investing $20,000,000. in ex- over, Hun Shen Bikshu, to give week, but is behind in filling its panding and providing employ. have been larger ment to 1,068 additional mech the explorer his full name and orders, which

anics." title, is actually remembered in than expected.

Dutch and French services across | requires, and it will then be up Australia, said Mr. Theodore, India, they were quite prepared to the British territories travers

to inalet that malls should be ed by these trunk lines to put

dropped at the Western port of entry, that is Karachi, and pick

ribs to the backbone, as it were, In the form of feeder services,

was 3mittedly "of the gold, standard. It was a snare and a delusion, and had definitely fail- éd. The surest sign of this was

Mr. F. Y. Patton.

Mra Trillo, Messrs. I. T. Tung, Tek-hay, Thung. Tjoen-pak,

Tan

Mrs. R. J. Williams.

COMING ? ? ?

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