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THE NEXT ELECTION

Sir Thomas Inskip's statement that the British National Govern. ment "could last another 18 months before they went to the country for

a renewal of their authority" la not

a forecast of a General Election in

the spring of 1936.

A DEBUTANTE'S £1,000 SEASON

LABORIOUS PLEASURE OF LONDON SEASON

IS IT WORTH THE COST?

(By Margaret Lane)

Prophets are divided on the date}HE London season being now around Indefinitely, branded 'vin-

of the next appeal to the country. T as 'dead as mutton and respec-,tage 1934.""

Some say the autumn of next year; tably interred at Cowes, the 1934 When I asked her whether the others the spring of 1986.

debutantes (on whom a host of would willingly have forgone the The balance of opinion is coming little fortunes has been spent in expensive luxury of a coming-out round to the autumn election. the last three months) have been dance and all that goes with it, she In the last 42 years there have let loose, like a flock of pigeons, hesitated, unhappily and said "No." been 12 General Elections, All for a long, long rest. but three of them have been in thei winter months,

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"Launched" For £858

In the south of France, on the

"It isn't that I got so much out Political organisers prefer that Italian Riviera, in Scotland, in

of it," she said. "as that it would houses'

to perlod, and for purposes of Parlia-other people's country mentary business the autumn is nearer home, even though they have been so impossible not

have it. You've got to do some- also favoured. The winter is the blush at it-in London, they are

recovering from the exhaustions of thing, and invite everybody, or you season fer meetings.

The Budget in April is another their first season, slowly and pain-won't get invited anywhere your self. Nobody particularly enjoys stumbling block to a spring elec-fully, like their fathers' incomes.

it. The latter end of August-grim tion.

The cost of

entertaining 500

These factors are taken into ac-weeks of anti-climax for "debs" count, but they may, of course, be and their mammas is the time people ("who have Simply got to when hundreds of families ask be asked) to a dance with cham- overruled by purely political con-

each other yearly, "I wonder, was pagne supper and buffet is set out siderations.

here. These are all actual figures, it worth it?" ROMANCE IN A WHITE PAPER

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100

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If the debutante herself has her from a West End hotel exceedingly doubts as to the wisdom of this popular as a launching ground for Romance rarely creeps into the strange burst of expenditure, how daughters. pages of 1 Government White much more fearfully must her Champigne supper and buffet, £625

Band of 10 playera Paper. But the one issued, giving father search his credit and his Band leader the terms of the agreement for the conscience when all is over! Hire of palms, hydrangeas, etc. 20 preservation of good relations be- Recently, # London magistrate, Cigarettes tween Trans-Jordan and Saudi with a young daughter ripening Arabia, is certainly unusual in its fast for 1835. raised his voice 10 per cent. for tips of a century, or even half a cen- phraseology.

publicly, begging to know if there

Total tury, ago. Or consider the Diegel-

It is styled a "treaty of friend-were no possible escape.

quent seasons she will be a back-

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£858

engined trains which have just ship and bon voisinage," and opens, For can there be any justifica- The London magistrate may well Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 11, 1934. made their appearance on the "In the name of God, the compas-tion for draining the family purse be apprehensive, for at the end of

Great Western Railway, attain-sionate, the merciful."

and possibly mortgaging the home it all what will he have given his She will be a little ing a speed of up to 90 miles One of the schedules relates to simply in order to give a girl of daughter? Jan hour. What will the speed the collection of blood-money. nineteen six months of laborious more sophisticated, a little jaded,

of the future be? What

Each of the parties is to collect pleasure, at the end of which she possibly a little spoilt, certainly bé the motive The new inland mail service in will

power blood-money from any of his sub-will emerge with the not very com- more than a little tired, and exnet- the United Kingdom which was on the railways ten years from jects guilty of homicide of one of forting knowledge that in subsely where she was before.

Why not spend the money over inaugurated on August 20, when now? It is in the air, however; the other side.

two or three good years, giving her mails were carried from London that the speed is greatest; and It is calculated at the rate of 10 number? to Birmingham and Belfast by what the ultimate wonders of the she-camels between two and four The burden ahead of a debu- ja ressonable and leisured introduc- aeroplane, is of great interest as stratosphere may be we can but

years of age unless the relatives tante's father is a heavy one-evention to London life, a pleasant the date coincided with the 150th faintly guess,

When, about the year 1580, the concerned agree that there is some though he confines himself to only knowledge of other places?

"Oh, but," the debutante will say, anniversary of the introduction! of the mail coach. Only last year Earl of Arundel introduced the other established custom for its the coming-out dance, quite apart

from the season's other financial "yqu couldn't possibly do that un- the centenary of the Hansom cab use of coaches into England it

calls upon his daughter's behalf. less everybody did it." Be

Yes, but why not all do it? -so called after the name of its marked a great advance.

Contrast With 1884 inventor-was celebrated. Among fore that time, says the historlan the stupendous changes that Hume, the Queen rode behind'

ADMISSIBILITY OF An American has claimed a 'world's Fifty years ago no girl would have taken place in the last cen-her chamberlain on public occa

But two hundred years record for a delayed parachute jump, have breathed a word to tarnish EVIDENCE tury and a half, hardly anything sions.

but mine will be delayed longer than the romantic reputation of her first

collection.

Your Daily Smile!

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Interested Hobo: Boss, will you give me penny for a sandwich?"

Gent: "Let's see the sandwich."

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During a History class the teacher asked, "What happened in 14831"

"Luther was born," answered student promptly.

is more remarkable than the pro- had yet to pass before the foot that Fress in transport and communi- and mounted couriers gave place! cations.

a half to the mail coach - "and a brave A century and jago on

one could travel faster sight it was," we read, "to see six- than a horse could go. To-day teen mail coaches, by the end of one may have lunch in London the eighteenth century, leaving and be in Paris for afternoon the General Post Office every tea; and communications may be day, each accompanied by an Not very long sent by cable. telegraph, tele armed guard." phone, and wireless. A hundred before that we had Lord Chester- years ago people who could not field putting through his bill for afford to keep carriages had to the reformation of the calendar, travel by stage or mail coach; and the Duke of Newcastle, who then Prime Minister, re- for it is only just over a century was

"There is always a tie between since the first railway was open-monstrating with him for atir-

It was in 1829 that the first ring up matters that had been so father and son," states a writer. London omnibus made its ap-long quiet. The Duke said he did the son is generally wearing it.

Ilke "these newfangled pearance, drawn by three horses not

abreast. It carried 22 passen- things:" and the people seems to

Corrtet! What happened in 14879 After a long pause, "Luther was four

years old."

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ADMITS THEFT NOŤ

COMMITTED

And

season, To-day they are more out-: spoken-and, of course, the cir acumstances are changed.

Arguments At Nullah Trial Appeal

MRS. FAIRBURNS' EVIDENCE

Fifty years ago the number of eligible "buds" was equalled by the Leligible young men. There were! still sprigs of the nobility who di

Arguments by both the Crown and not have to work for a living; they the defence on the admissibility of alwere--incredible to think of the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn in anxious for suitable brides. A girl the case against Ng Loi-yuen, for vho came out at seventeen was the murder of Michael Pine, aged 8, most likely married at eighteen and on June 22, by throwing him into la mother at twenty.

the nullah at the Lower Peak Tram The cost of her coming-out ball Station, were put forward at the was amply repaid by soon having resumed hearing at the Court of ther 30 rapidly off the family Appeal, Supreme Court, this morn

budget.

ing against the sentence of death To-day the engagement an passed on September 9. gers, all of whom were seated in have agreed with him. judging

jnouncements following, a London It will be recalled that the appel side. It is a far cry from those by their cry at a general election:

season contain few debutantes* lant was first tried, on August 21, old days to the modern motor "Give us back the eleven days we

патев. The girls on whom any but owing to the jury failing to robbed of!" How bus, the electric train, and the have been

thing between $700 and £1,000 has

reheard.on Case was agree. the aeroplane. Transport has speed-cver, Chesterfield succeeded, and

been spent in a space of twelve September 9 Since ed-up in a way that is almost the "new style" came in.

weeks are left feeling a little flat, special Jury. then how unbelievable.

many "newfangled

wondering what they will do next. If the

The appellant was found guilty "Do you hear that the steam-things" have we had!

The expensive launching has and convicted. & recommendation ships have accomplished their people of those old days could see

been for what? There are few for mercy being made by the jury.. crossing from England to Ameri-the new style of locomotion that

The appeal is being heard by Mr. ca in perfect safety, the one in we have adopted the flying ployed, was sentenced to six weeks eligible or willing bachelors, and seventeen, the other in fifteen liner, the express train, the hard labour by Mr. E. I. Wynne few girls nowadays want to marry Justice P. Jacks and Mr. J. J. Hayden. Mr. J. A. Fraser, assisted days, just half the usual time?" motor car, the aeroplane and Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy at nineteen.

The best one can say for the by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith, was the unrivalled household remedy for all wrote Fanny Kemble, the actress, the speed with which communi- this morning for being, found in

for use in

from Philadelphia. "It seemed at cation: travel by means of the Mong Kok Road, near Nathan business of violently launching for. the Crown and Mr. R. C. H. Rheumatism, asthma, sciatica, once to bring me again within cable, telegraph, and wireless. Road, with two circular saws in daughter as if she were a Cunar- Lim, instructed by Mr. T. P. K.

der is that it makes for trade." Kemble, was for the appellant. lumbago, insect bites, sores, head-reach of England and all those I how they would rub their eyes! his possession.

Detective Sergeant

In rebuttal of the submission of Yet few families, surely, under- Kennedy aches, coughs, colds, chilblains, love there." To-day the voyage So wonderful are our modern in- piles, sprains and dislocations. done comfortably in four ventions, so rapidly does Science stated that the defendant was seen take it for purely philanthropic the defence, that in the absence of

ends, days. We cross the sea move, that there is to keeping up by a Chinese constable carrying in veritable palaces. An ac with her. And what is yet to the sawa, and when questioned as count of the new French come, who can say ? Atlantic liner Ile de France states

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Suspicious Character Caught With Saws

STRUGGLES WITH POLICE

Kwong Lam, a 28-year-old unem-

to where he got them, he gave no

with the aid of a

the evidence of Mary Pine, twin sister of the deceased, who was one of the five children to be thrown

Disappointments Of A “Deb”” · answer and was taken to the police A debutante of nineteen (who into the nullah, the evidence of that it has photographers, tallers, PEDESTRIAN ROBBED station. There, he admitted that would die rather than not be Mrs Fairburn was wrongfully sub-

IN KOWLOON

printers, manicurists, and hair- dressers on board; it has a pic- ture gallery of old and new maa-

ters, gymnasiums, tennis courts Pickpocket Caught After

Chase

care..

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he had stolen them from the Lianonymous) poured into my ears mitted to the jury, Mr. Fraser con- Yuen Lung Shop. The master of the doubts and disappointments tended that it was admissable from the shop, stated that no saws had that had overtaken, her in the last all angles as part of the Crown's been stolen from his shop.

week of August.

Prima facie Case and swimming pool, a post-office,

Kwong was also charged with "It's not really," she said, "that: cable office, travel bureau, a

resisting arrest but was discharged I expected to get engaged so soon. It was part of Mrs. Fairburn's bank, casino, hospital and operat-

get evidence that she saw the appellant Sentence of four months hard from that score, Mr. Wynne Jones I don't, frankly, want to ing theatre. Nor is that all labour was imposed on Li Sun, a stating that it was quite a natural married for a year or two yet on the bridge and that he himself. There is a "talkie" theatre, and 21-year-old unemployed, who was thing for anyone to resist arrest which la just as well, considering jumped over. The Crown's case is there is an orchestra. The ship charged before Mr E. I. Wynne In the struggle with the constable the dearth of proposals. But what that it was all one transaction, and is even fitted up with fashion Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy Kwong, received a blow on the head worries me is the terrible flatness even if the part where the naw shops containing the latest this morning with stealing a metal with a truncheon, which the con- of everything now that the season's the two children being thrown over creations. In a word, it is a watch from the person of Chin stable had drawn.

all over

is excluded, the case still remained floating elty; and an illustrated Kam-shu, a 34-year-old Chinese, in

So much has been spent on this a prima facie one. daily newspaper, "L'Atlantique Bute Street,

once felt in his pocket and found business that we can't even afford Mr. Hayden observed that unless keeps the passengers." informed of all that is happening in the Detective Sergeant Kennedy that his watch was missing. On a really decent holiday, and a prime facte case was proved, the world while they are at sea And stated that the complainant was turning around he saw the defer Mummy and I will have to be very evidence of similar acts, namely, the Ile de France is but one of walking along Bite Street at 5.45 dant running away. After a short economical for a long time. I threwing the two children into the many such palatial vessels

p.m. on October when he felt a chase the defendant was arrested almost think I shall try to get nullah, must be excluded.

Accused had previous conviction some sort of job. You can't hang ships beyond the wildest dreams movement in his pocket.”

for Jarceny,

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