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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935

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IN

THRONE STANDS FIRM HEARTS OF NATION

(By E. F. Benson)

London. Nearly fifty years have elapsed

mium rates in the same way HERE are those who are old since that day in June when Queen

mium Increases.

have been London, Glasgow, and Lancastre,

Victoria's Jubilee in 1887, and who minster in her black satin dress, All England is being mapped

Jere fortunate enough to have been but the enthusiasm and loyalty that out In "accident-prone" areas by aside Westminster Abbey on that greeted her then of a very similar the tariff companies.

day in June. The Queen, had not quality to those that have inspired Many London, motorists whose been inside it for any great func- the rejoicings of this auspicious day. cars are not garaged at their ion since her Coronation forty-nine For the last week during these homes are wondering whether

years before, and then she was foggy November days London has their addresses or those of the docked in Crown and robes of State.gen humming with the excitement garages are to be the basis of the and she carried sceptre and orb and of bees about to swarm in the sun- new 20 per cent.-10 per cent, pre-ffound them very heavy.

shine of summer, and an indescrib- But on this second appearance, able delirium has invaded its The basis, It is understood. la to when the glittering company of streets and its conversations. be the address of the garage..

kings and queens, and of her sons British Throne Secure and daughters, her sons-in-law and One still looks back to the Queen daughters-in-law and grandchildren as the builder of those Imperishablo had passed up the nave, there came foundations on which the present Motorists who have been appre-little old lady leaning on a stick. loyalty to the Throne and to her hensive of a further rise in the She was dressed in black satin with House are based, for she set the price of petrol will welcome the white front, and on her head was Throne in the hearts and the affec- news that the complex situation of white bonnet with a black velvet tions of her people. It stands solid the off market in America has been band, and she had come to church as ever, while the Thrones of responsible for a delay.

to thank God for his loving-Europe have tottered and fallen, prices kindness to her and her people dur-and the devotion of the nation to pre-ing the fifty years of her reign. the Royal Family and the joy of the at The choir sang the Te Deum which nation in their rejoicings are of

the Prince Consort had composed, the same stability.

T enough to remember Queen Victoria came up the nave of West-

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THE PRICE OF PETROL

It is understood that will probably remain at the sent level until next spring lenst.

and in the anthem was embodied And even as the peerless Prin- Your Daily Smile! the Chorale which he had played to cess Alexandra took by storm the Mendelssohn on his new argan at imagination of the English and re- "Well, and how are you getting of Buckingham Palace.

tained it to the end when she came with your courtship of the banker's

Royalty In Low Esteem from Denmark to wed the grand- daughter?" asked Jackson.

The young suitor beamed happily.

ting some encouragement now,"

..

►

An immense change had come

father of the bridegroom of to-day,

"Not so bad," he replied. "I'm get over the nation's view of the even so has the Princess Marina

Sovereign and the Royal Family established herself with us. "I generally in those fifty years. The link of blood connects the

"Really!" put in his friend.

Anniversary Present

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

We are so accustomed to think-to be so heavy that it is unjust she beginning to smile sweetly on youNever had the Throne been held in two, for the Princess Marina's ing of Hong Kong as a purely en; to the purchaser; if it is too big or something 1

"Not exactly," replied the young man such low, esteem as when she suc-grandfather, George King of Greece, trepot community, buying whole-export sales are necessary. And

If unsold, the said 'No!' for the last time."

"but last night she told me she had ceeded to her two uncles, and a was brother to Queen Alexandra, sale and distributing the goods there's the rub.

third, the most sinister of all, the and on both has been shed those bought in such consignments and product will merely accumulate It becomes

Duke of Cumberland, was still the gifts of beauty and of charm to at such times as they may be and be a dead loss. required by consumers, that the profitable to dump the surplus at

Sandy: "We celebrated our twentieth next heir. Then had followed which all surrender. Is it any won-

twenty years of her blissful married der that London has succumbed? problems raised at the annual a price which would not be re-anniversary yesterday."

Angus: "Did you give your wife alfe with Prince Albert, a man of meeting of the Green Island Cemunerative if it ruled as the or-

the highest nobility of character, ment Company have not been so dinary domestic price; and the present?" firequently discussed here in obvious strategy is to sell cheap- Sandy: Sure I did! I took her for and those years utterly effaced the

a wee game of golf, and gave her three their larger aspects as in mostly right at the doors of competi-strokes

tors. During 1994 Japan offered of the communities that take an

lines of cotton cloth in

which, stricken and shattered in A clean bill of health was report- active part in the work of the world. To some extent they are Manchester cheaper than they] In her new rig out a lady passed nerves, the Queen had almost com-ed in the Colony during the 24 new problema, but to a still larg could be woven in that commun-out of the tenement "She's lucky pletely withdrawn herself from the hours ended January 2

public view, and became to the er extent they are old problems ity which lives by weaving cot-commented Mrs. Mufios. I can't get

Dr. Herman Liu and Dr. Ching that have sequired a new urgen defiance and advertisement that by, "don't talk like that. You never figure,

ton cloth. It was a gesture of a new fur coat, a fashionable hat

"Now, now," broke in Mrs. Joys-mass of her subjects a legendary

till, gradually emerging Mon-lin will speak at a spiritual cy in the last four years.

overreached itself, for it con-know what you can do till you cry."

from that gloomy evening of eclipse, meeting of the Hong Kong she passed, as if the sun had stood Teachers' Association at Room K, still for her, into a blaze of noon-Hong Kong University, this even- day. Through all those years she ing at 6 p.m.

Aha!

Personal Pars.

tradition of the uncles, a

After his death came "years in

In the happy heyday of En-verted the old headquarters of glish Free Trade it was taken Free Trade sentiment to a new for granted that all activity whe-policy of trade regulation. ther of trade or manufacture Here in Hong Kong one of our Mr. A. F. Castilho, of the Gener had worked unremittingly for her made for prosperity without any problems is overcrowding, and it al Post Office, returned to the Co-people, and though invisible, had A donation of $100,000 has been necessary mutual antagonism is taken for granted that nothing lony to-day by the 8.8. President admitted them to the naive record made by Sir Robert Ho Tung to- To-day there is no such assure must be done to make building Jackson.

of her private life, and the masses wards the building and equipment lance. It is no longer possible to cost more. The other side of the

had learned to think of her not of the new Industrial School at look out on the world and see an question is that the fifteen hun- Mr. Walther Dubgen, of Messrs. only as Queen and Empress, but a Aberdeen. junlimited field for exports and dred employees of the Green In-Simen, Evers and Company, of woman, who, sketched and went for

sales; it is realised that a com- land factory cannot pay any rent Hamburg, Germany, arrived in the picnics on the hill, and popped into A dog, said to belong to Mr. Je munity cannot be continuously at all if they are thrown out of Colony this morning by the 9, the village shop, and bought shawls Grose. of No. 55 Conduit Road, active and prosperous unless it employment. The Imperial President Harrison. makes most of what it wants for Government during the last year to stay here for about two weeks.

He intends for the aged tenants of her cottages. bit a postman, Chan Wai,_yester-.

day. It was sent to Kennedy litself. For trade considered by sought to deal with the dumping

The Great Queen

Town for observation. itself as the purchase and sale of problem, which has been aggra- Dr. Shih Hu, Dean of the Col- What mattered to her most of all goods made by other people, the vated by several artificial mea-lege of Letters, National Univer

was the prosperity and, the honour great requirement is simply sures adopted by the Japanese sity of Peiping, was among the mattered hardly less was the wel of her growing Empire, but what cheapness. "To buy in the cheap-Government. The low Japanese passengers who arrived in the est market and sell in the dear-standard of living, and the con- Colony this morning by the sa. est". For manufacture the consequent low wages in money have President Harrison. dition of success has always been been advantage enough; but the stay here he will be the guest of a remunerative selling price, Government itself, either direct-Sir William Hornell. which means that the trader's ly or indirectly, is now a partner demand for cheapness must be in every Japanese business. Mr. H. R. Greatwood, special re with that immense change came restrained. The amount of auch There are, for instance, the big presentative of the Union Oil Com another hardly less significant Inground, at 1.10 p.m on December

EUROPEAN SPEEDING

fare of her family and indeed of Mr. R. J. V. Everest, Jr. of the Daring his the humblest of her subjects. The Standard Oil Company, was fined two made an irresistible combina- $10 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the tino, and her people's conception of Kowloon Magistracy this morning Monarchy became something per- when he was summoned for driv {fectly new.

ing at. 40 m.p.h. along. Chatham Road, near the Children's Play-

restraint that can be exercised ships which were plying to and pany of California, at Los Angeles

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to the general profit of the com- fro, with holds mostly empty, as arrived in the Colony this morning wards the Royal Family.

the whole temper of the nation to munity is a delicate question that sisted by large subventions. The by the s.8. President Harrison. varies with the article and the cost of carrying cement in cargo

A fine of $3,000, in default nine They found that, they were not months hard labour, was imposed by

community; but the new condi-space that would otherwise be Miss A. C. Friedrich, of the Dedrones, supported in luxurious idle Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon tion is that the "world prie," empty was the mere cost of partment of State, Washington, D. uess by public funds, but hard-Magistracy this morning sang which is the price that suits the loading. Any freight charged, arrived in the Colony, this worked people. rushing about to Cheen-sheun was charged with having merchant, is apt to be so low would reduce the amount of sub- morning by the a that the manufacturer of most vention required. And of course Harrison.

President open docks and libraries and schools ployed, who was

150 taela of raw opium in his posses She will stay her for and hospitala. things that are not "specialities" in the long run, if competitive about two

sion in Salisbury Road outside the Royal Duties To-day

Star Ferry Wharf on Wednesday. cannot compete except under fav-factories should be driven out of ourable conditions. The old con- the field it would become possi- Mr. G. G. Wood, non-official Jus-creased and increased, until to-day Their benevolent activities in- 'ditions of easy access to raw ma-ble to raise the price.. terials, cheap capital, efficient la Nobody pretends that it is

tice of Peace was among the past is scarcely possible, to open the bour at reasonable rates of pay, easy to fix what is a fair price lony this morning by the 8. Has some member of the Royal House sengers who returned to the Co- dally paper without seeing that cheap transport, have been great that will protect the consumer kozaki Maru. ly equalised by invention and or-from exploitation and at the ganisation. The scale is turned same time protect the worker by the plan of mass production, from being thrown out of em- which gets the utmost possible playment, but our present lais gineer of Messr. Thompson-Housy cashire in the morning to ace for return out of the plant available sez faire attitude has become ten Company Limited, of Rugby himself the conditions in a district by keeping the output up to its unique in the world as it is to short visit this morning by the the hearts of those who long for England, arrived in the Colony for where unemployment is eatin out maximum product, and thereby day; and it seems a reasonable avoids the waste and the irregu- thing that the Economic Com. President Harrison. He is work; and then larity of employment involved in mission should give ite careful residing at the Repulse Bay Hotel, London again discontinuity during which the consideration to the question

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