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A GREAT PROCONSUL FOR INDIA

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HISTORY

BRITAIN'S MOST SPLENDID HERITAGE

(By Sir Alfred H. Watson)

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good the ravages of the death-watch | ROUND few men in history East India merchants, who had beetle. There was keen anticipa-As such, controversy raged been transformed almost in a tion to discover how far these were as about Warren Hastings, who, night from traders to the ruling in the darkest hour of national power in provinces larger in area The investigations proved-en-life, saved India for the Empire than Great Britain and more couraging. Only two more beetles Alike living and dead, he has populous, must be brought under were discovered. Both were dead divided men into two parties, be the control of Parliament and

This Cleansing process

has tween whom there has been no English law.

A new rule of justice was to. nothing to do with the repairs to common point of contact.. the external fabric of the Horses. Yet though the waves of be inaugurated; « the of Parliament The cost of this in opinion have in the last century people were to be saved from the present year will be £57,000 advanced and receded as they did their oppressors, the East India Last year it was £70,000.

while he was still on the stage. Company was to be again rele Yet it was less than a century he emerges- perhaps the gated to trade, with the British: ago that a special committee of ex-greatest British statesman of his Parliament supreme in the politi- perts chose the stone from a quarry era. As new material has been cal affairs of India. With such in Derbyshire after subjecting discovered, as the blanks in his ideas in the mind of Government store from mine other quarries to tory have been filled up by the and of the British public the searching tests.

industry of the studious, Hast-three newly nominated members of Council became the embodi- Cleaning the two Houses costs ings has grown in stature. £2,750 a year. Altogether the up-

DUKE RETURNING TO DUTY -

as

The last quarter of a centuryment of indignation at home and keep of the building this year win has been rich in additions to the apostles of what they held to cost the taxpayer £112,065.

knowledge, but this new matter be right. The men chosen to-, has appeared in scattered form. Carry through sweeping reforms The time was ripe for its incor-were not such as would stand on poration into the general web of ceremony or be squeamish about- When he rejoins the 16th-5th the story, and the revived in the means they employed -

For such a mission Francis Lancers at York, the Duke of terest in India "made it of public Gloucester will be resuming his importance that there should be had natural powers not inferior ordinary military duties.

understanding how the first firm to those of Hastings himself. The 16th Lancers is one of the foundations of our civil adminis-His industry was tremendus.. Mr.He wielded the most pangent pen most famous cavalry regiments in tration of India were laid. the Army. It originally a 4. Mervyn Davies's book, pub-in England a pen dripping with over both by reducing the gold fight cavalry regiment, and was lished recently ("Warren Hast-vitriol, but potent in controversy-

Work For India stock and by increasing the silver known as the 16th Light Dragoons, ings," Ivor Nicholson and Wat- stock. If the whole of the annual when it was first raised in 1759-

son. 25s), serves, both these! Francis was not to be turned Hong Kong. Saturday, May 11, 1935 mining product of 200,000) The Duke of Gloucester's trans-purposes.

from a purpose by any nicety of ounces were bought for the next ference from one crack regiment- Magic Of Hastings feeling, and his duty, as he con- five years the bullion price the 10th Hussars to another is i would, of course, rise through compliment to his new unit.

It would be hopeless to expect ceived it, was to end the rule of that this or any other work wil Hastings in whom all the vile the total being decreased by in-] dustrial use and hoarding, while Earl of Macduff, he is the

Apart from his cousin, the youngjerase the deep impression on the ness of Company rule found its only English mind made by the parti-head and focus. "Ele assumed,” thau, the Secretary to the depressed, the silver stock being

On Monday next Mr. Morge the value of the dollar would be serving soldier in the Royal family-san rhetoric of Macaulay, but as Mr. Davies tells us, "that the American Treasury, is to give a water? since it could not be sold The Daice of Connaught and this new life of Hastings is the purpose of Ministers in establish THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD. ||wireless address on "The Ameri without a slump in the price of Prince Arthur of Connaught can, wark of a deep student, basing ing a new Government for India

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hardly possible to feel any con- to be a height that handicaps Your Daily Smile! fidence about the result: but in trade.

any case whatever he says or

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la microscope. In the meantime of the "domestic supply," which "Is there a word in the English

be well to look at the means the product of American language that contains all it may

mines. The Treasury not only vowels ?** - situation in its general outlines,

1

Given such a conviction, and a That is not to acquit Mr-settled belief that the best form Mervyn Davies wholly of a sus of Government for India would picion of partisanship in his be found in the grafting upon turn. He has been fascinated the East of British institutions, by the magic. for it was none Francis had no other course be- else, of Hastings's career, and is fore him than that which he and the slow to allow any blemish to his his colleagues pursued. If Par bero.. He holds no even scale lament did not mean, these between Hastings and Philip things, its Regulating Act had Francis, the former's most for been wholly a mistake.

The tragedy was that the midable opponent in Comcil, and the man upon whom Hastings spear of reform should have been finally forced that duel which directed against Hastings at the took place in the early morning very time when he had redeem- A Boston boy went out to Tumaat Belvedere, in the suburbs of ed Company administration from

"Ungestionably."

"What is it?” "I just told you."

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And later they found.

A bone on the ground,

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And a puma in very good humz Flirtation -

Attention minus intention.

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Calcutta.

its worst excesses, and bad more

in order to note what one may has commandeered the stocks) already in the country, at a price expect.

of seventy-one cents, but under Both the leading firms of Le-takes to buy all the "domestic don: brokers. Messrs. Samuel product at seventy-six cents. So The Buma Goes Montagu and Co., and Messrs when coined into silver dollars Mocatta and Goldsmid, agree that the value of an ounce would be And there he encountered the market is at present in one dollar twenty-nine cents, at puma- very dangerous condition. It is the present price of gold, and greatly. oversold and Over-the difference is profit to the bought, which means that the State The Silverites would like contracts deal in larger quantito rob the taxpayer of this re ties of silver than it would be venue by raising the price of raw possible to deliver. The only silver to the same value that it possible purchaser of large carries as currency, but there is enough quantities of silver to little prospect that the Govern- A Dear Old Dutch get the speculators out of their ment would forego so rich bargains without a smash is the source of revenue; especially as for £10,000. Washington Treasury; and the Treasury retained all the less fees for carrying over and profit involved in the operation REV. N. V. HALWARD storage are to mount up and of taking over the gold. Should steal all the profit, large pur- the Treasury resolve to be con- chases must be made at

tent with "domestic” purchases, early date of the holders will it would take many years before have to sell at the best price they the full quota would be collected: can get Mr. Morgenthau holds The speculators would then have The Priest-in-charge of the Kow-were chosen by the Govern authority. The unspeakable to try to sell back their silver to loon Tong Anglican Church and ment of the day as the instru- Nuncemar was to be raised to The Silver Purchase Act of the countries that use it as their Commissioner for the Hong Kong ments of a doable purpose in favour and honour- 1934 provided that the Treasury standard, or to pay the differences could buy silver up to one quar-on their bargains: In either case ward, M. C., M. A., sailed for Home

Boy Scouts, the Rev. N. V. Hal-India ter of the gold held in the mone-there would be a serious slump. tary stock by way of reserve The question therefore is the ss. Yasakuni Maru

on furlough yesterday afternoon by In a wave of righteousness. SIAMESE ARTISTS against the paper issued. The whether that policy is likely to There was a large gathering Nabobs, loaded with their spoils,

swelled by the spectacle of the) - IN TROUBLE amount of silver actually pur-be followed? One important fact present to see him off, including challenging the Parliamentary Stranded By Absconding chased before the Treasury stop to be noticed is that the Silverthe Bishop of Hong Kong, Right supremacy of the ancient aristo ped its regular purchases was faction depends on being united Rev. R. O. Hall, the Rev. and Mrs cracy at home the people off four hundred and thirteen mil for its political influence. There a Higgs and members of the England had decided that the

Manager hon ounces, bringing up the total is a to⋅ one thousand one hundred having disposed of their accumu

"moderate section who Kowloon Tong Anglican Church administration of India by the Having been brought to the Co- and four million ounces." The lated stocks to the Government congregation.

East India Company was un-lony for theatrical purposes, two

Against the impeccability of than a beginning with new forms Hastings the villainy of Francis of government, incorporating the appears in this volume as almost best traditions of the Mogul sys without a redeeming feature tem, shattered by the anarchy History has delivered its crush that had swept over India.

Zest In Battle ing verdict against Francis in his personal campaign against Hast- His work was to be utterly ings. Yet the fault was not destroyed by ment who knew- wholly his He was the ablest nothing of India, who were with-- A Van Dyck has just been sold servant of a wrong policy, but out his knowledge of its lan

there is small reason to hold that guages, its customs, its history he had not full faith in the cause and the secrets of its past great- for which he fought

ness. The divisions that were The antagonism was more the curse of the land were to be than personal. Francis and his introduced into the very Council- two senior colleagues on the Chamber itself. Every avail Council at Calcutta Gen able weapon was to be used for Clavering and Col. John Monson the destruction of Hastings's

the key to the situation.

ад

Sails For Home On Furlough

(Continued on Page 16)

Call For Justice

amount of gold held at the same at a good profit, silver can be Assembled on the wharf prior speakably vile, and disgraced the Siamese, Bis Taladancy and Dieb time was of a value in pounds produced for twenty-five cents to the departure of the liner were very name of England Nga-chung, were recently deserted sterling of rather more

than per ounce,

are not anxious to 18 Carton Boy Scouts, 10 Canton *India teems with iniquities so by their manager, who disappeared one thousand seven hundred and pull any chestnuts out of the Girl Guides, and representatives rank as to smell to earth and and left them no mones to meet a twenty-one million pounds. If fire for "foreign speculators from the 1st Hong Kong (St heaven declared Chatham. The considerable bill for hotel ex- the gold stock should remain who are beginning to be blamed Joseph's College), 2nd Hong Kong wrong must be righted. There penses. the same, the authority would for putting up the price incon (Catholic Cathedral), 7th. Hong was a deep conviction that these

They were manitted to the cover purchases amounting to veniently. The American Mines Kong (King's College), 10th

House of Detention last week another million ounces. That is would be provided for in any

Hong Kong (Chung Nan College Scouts cheered beartily, while their Hearing of their plight, Mr. Vic- five times the world's annual case, and at the present domesroops,

Commissioner stood on the deck tor Hugo, manager of the Oriental output of silver. It is to be noted tic-product price, could work for

the recipient and waved farewell

Theatre, came to the rescue, and that Bills and amendments pro years at a very handsome profit

includ

arranged for their posed by the "Silverites mak- Most of the speculators stil ing it obligatory to purchase a "left in"

Indian" or Chinese fixed amount every year, fifty

thousand ounces

were defeat

tion

of gold or

with Mexico

this

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Three

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During Mr. Halward's absen the Rev. LL Nach and She will have cha Late of the Kowloon

have charge of

Mr. Hugo is Bangkok, and wil

Theatre

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