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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 1st, 1909. “

Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy

GEORO* Fould call true, democratio yesterday, eleven riskicha qualice wore a TELEGRAMS.

In the case of earned incomes finance." not exceeding £500 there is to be some abatement of the tax in respect of, every child under sixteen years of age who is maintained out of that income; and CO. there is to ho no increase in the income tax on earned incomes not exceeding $2,000 per annum; but incomes above that amount are to be charged an extra 2d in the (making 1 2d in all), while in the case of incomes exceeding £5,000 per annum it is supor proposed to impose what is called a lax" of 6d in the e, so we take it that the man garning over £5,000 a year will have to pay income tax at the rate of Is. Bd. in the £. Then, in addition, there is to be a "re-adjustment" of the death and succession duties to provide another four millions, or about 20 per cent more than they do now. And it is quite in accordance with Mr. LLOYD GEORGE's ideas of democratic Anance that motors should be made to hear a much heavier tax than they bear now. Four-wheel motors not excoed- ing one tan pay a license fee of two guineas, while motors pot exceeding five tous pay a To of Evo guineas. It is proposed that the

fatura range from two to forty guiness During the last two or three years thore has been a great development of this traße in England. According to the latest statistics to which we are able to refer there were in Great Britain at the end of 1907, 61,617 motor cars used for touring purposes, and. 4,124 used for commercial purposes, while the number of motor cycles in tire WDA 53,877. As compared with the returns for 1906, the percentage of increase in the case of touring cars

WHISKY

apiece for obstructing the entrance to St. Francia Stroot

The total output of the Chinees, Engineering and Mining Co's three mines for the wook ending 17th April amounted to 28,907,80 tone and the sales during the period to 26,977.75.

At the Marine Magistrata's Court yesterday, befors Commander Basil B. K. Taylor, R.N.. five boatmen were fad 83. apiece for moorin their boste within one hundred yards of low water mark at Taumati..

Five Filipinos have been sentenced to be hanged and ten of them to imprisonment for life for the murder of Charles H. Trotter, Vicente Toledo and Joso Caymuszi in the foothills of Zambales Mountains hat October.

Between the 1st and the 26th April no fewer than 120 cases have been Bed in the Court of First. Instance at Manila against Filipinos and Chinamen for illegal possession and tee of opinm. Of this number 16 were Filipinos, three being women, and the remainder China-

mes.

A meeting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace was held at the Magistrasyýesterday afternoon to consider an application from Carl Fiedler for permission to remove Weismann's busters to 4, Des Your Road Central. My. Mears. F. J. Badeley, C. D. Melbourne and H. A. Craig Na police objection being offered, the application was granted.

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THE BUDGET.

*THE MADDEST EVER, INTRODUCED:“

DIRECT ATTACK ON

CAPITAL

LONDON, April 29th. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech recommended: (1) The suspension of the Sinking Fund, which will provide a sum of £3,000,000.

(2) The increased Taxation of Motor Cars, the tax to range from two to forty guineas.

THE NEW SULTAN,

King

LONDON, April 29th, Edward and President

THE CANTON-HANKOW BAILWAY

LOAN."

REPUDIATING CHAROES OF BAD FAITH.

Tire Quarrel about the

Under the headway

the Vosaischa

Fallieres have telegraphed congratula- Zeitung published the following:

Cantou-Hanko

tions to Mahommed V.

RUSSIAN TROOPS IN PERSIA.

LONDON, April 30th.

A Russian force has reached Tabriz.

THE ROYAL BIRTH IN HOLLAND.

LONDON, April 30th. Queen Wilhelmina has given birth to a daughter.

We-have received the following explanation of the affair from a well-informed source: At the joint sitting of the German. Franch and British groups, held in Iondon, on March 12 and 13 and in Paris on April 2 and 3, the French and British representatives repeatedly reproached the German syndicate with having noted incorrectly in the business, and withi having placed these two groups in a disadvan-. tageous position, à reproach, which has now been published in the Pr

desire

A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE scale of taxa'ion on these vehicles shall in J.H. Keo presided, and there were also prosent / (3) A tax of 3d per gallon on petrol. animala of the primeval forost obey their will, prospect of carrying

MALT WHISKIES DISTILLED

IN SCOTLAND

OF

GENUINE AGE

AND

FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR.

PER DOZEN

$16.50

ROBT. PORTER & Co's BULL DOG BRAND

-GUINNESS STOUT IN PINTS AND SPLITS.

Bergeant Bartholomews, R.G.&. Singapors, was accidentally shot while putting the men through their drill in the Drill Hall Bingspora last week. It seems that he found occasion to change one of the target ships. Unhappily the gunner who was laying was not apparently aware of this action, and the gun was laid and fred. The bullet struck the Sergeant in the right side about sir inches above the waist, and

(4) An increase of income tax on unearned incomes by 2d in the £;

LONDON, April 29th. The Budget leaves the taxes on Tea and Sugar unchanged.

The realised deficit for 1908:0 is £714,000, making a total deficit of £16,500,000 (estimated for the ing year.)

Ernak

In reply to this, the following must he stated: As long as January the Creman syndicate, at the suggestion of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, declared its readiness to enter upon negotiations for the attainment of an understanding about the Chinese railway loaus. The attempt was rendered abortive, howovor, by the British asserting that they bad certain preferential rights on the Canton. Hankow Railway, and that there was already in THE HIPPODROME AND CIRCUS, existence an understanding with France con- cerning this line. The British and French The cirens has always been a souren of joy, groups declined to allow the German syndicate It delighted our early years; it even survived to come in on the footing of equal rights.

"On the German side the statement was there- the callow days of budding manhood; and now upon made, that in such circumstances. iu- in maturer years we still find ourselves amused dependent competitive offers would be tendered by the clowns, charmed by the equestrian foats, to China, bat it was expressly declared that this thrilled by the daring of the aerobate and was not meant to make it appear that there was tight rope performers, and hold in wosdor at French. Aftar negotiations with China had to spoil business for the British and. the norve of the man who male the wild been opened, and the German syndicate had

ite offers through, E All this is to be seen and enjoyed any night attempt was suddenly instituted by the English at the Hippodrome sud Cireas located at three groups should in the future only make to effect an understanding on the basis that the

Causeway Bay, but with this addition-we | railway loans in China jointly and upon certain- specified conditions. The engrundum con- marvel at the wonderfal ingenuity and or ganisation which keeps such a mammoth containing these conditions which was signed by the British and French groups on February corn moving so smoothly and so expeditiously.

26, was accepted by the German syndicata "in- Berlin ᎠᏆ March 3. in the following resolution:

This meeting declares its readinoa to,enter iuto negotiations, on the basis of the British memorandum, with the Hongkong and Shang Lui Banking Corporation and the Banque de Indo-Chine, and will take part in the confer- ence which is to be convened for this purpose. The negotiations now in progress in Peking shall not be discontinued, but the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is informed that the German syndicato is ready to do this, as soon as an agreement shall have been reached in the conference which is to be hold. In the event of a conclusion being reached in Peking before a completo agresmment has been reached with the British and French groups, a share

WIRELES TELEPHONY.

MESSAGES OVER A DISTANCE OF 400 MILES.

Mr. Reginald Fessenden, the well-known elec. com-trician, for some years associated with the Edison and the Westinghouse companies, has recently been experimenting with a wireless telephone apparatus at Boston, and he now announces that he has so far perfested the in strument that a message can be sent and re- esived by battleships stationed 400 miles apart Mr. Fessendon in confident that he will soon be able to send a distanco of 1000 miles.

Pas 84; and in that of commercial car completely penetrated to the front of the body: The income tax is increased as

52. With increase of competition in this industry and consequent cheapening of enst, we may suppose that the number of such vehicles in use at the present

substantial

-time shows

a

increase

on the Bigarea we have quoted. The motorist is still further att oked by the proposal to place a tax of 34 per gallon on petrol, the fuel he uses. Then we have the taxation of unearned incremonts in the value of urban land, as well as a tax on

A. S. WATSON & CO.. undeveloped urbau land, The Licensed

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Hongkong, 26th April, 1909.

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MARRIAGE.

Victuallers are required to bear increase I burdens in the way of taxes and licences, and the duties on spirits and tobacco are increased.

where it was found under the skin, The injury

though serious is not regarded as critical,

follows:-On earned incomes over

A contributor to the Japan Gazette who writes £8,000 by 2d. in the £; earned under the non de plume of Looker On "says-incomes under £500 will receive The transfer of Mr. H. W. Kilby to Hongkong certain abatements in respect of will remove from among us a fine fellow and one

of the very beat all-round sports. The rowing every child under sixteen years of men will miss him, and even more deeply will age; and a super-tax of 6d in the his loss be dedured on the cricket field, where

is proposed on incomes exceeding £5,000 per annum.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer also recommends the re-adjustment of

he has for years been a lower of strength in in the time of neity. In football alse, and in athletics generally, he has always taken a keen and active interest, doing things without tenta; lion, but getting there every time." His good work with the Boys' Brigade, first as lieutenant the death and succession duties, and and then as captain, is well known, while the it is estimated that these will produce Royal Society of St. George and many other in stitutions have benefitted by his services. He an extra £3,920,000. is a worker" and we cas ill afford to lose him." Mr. Kilby arrived here yesterday.

The Budget proposals are in short a direct attack on Capital. So far as the increased tax on motors is con-

DNDMANN DRAMATIC COMPANY. cerned, we fancy that would be widely approved if the proceeds found their Opers and comedy, varied occasionally with way into the treasuries of the local randeville, have constituted most of our recent governments who, as motor cars have after-dinner entertainment in Hongkong, and come into general use, bave had to increase though the lighter aspect of comedy and the plossing strains of opera will always prove their expenditure on the maintenance of the superior attractions there can be no doubt that public highways. But it is not for this that the appreciation of legitimate drams still exists, the increased toll in demanded by the oven in the Far East Melodrama may not Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is doubt command many petrons in Hongkong, but there less a popular thing to prop se a system of can be no doubt that legitimate drama, with its democratic finance such as Mr. LLOYD engrosment of the audience, and its thrilling GEORGE bas invited the House of Com cones and dramatic situations still holds its original place in the affections of most people mone to adopt, but in practice people That being so, the Bandmann Dramatic Company are far too apt to find that what is called should be well received on the present ecession. azing the capitalist usually ends in taxing This is the first visit of the dramatic combina. the labourer, for the rich man, though tion and there can be little doubt that the he may groan and declare that he is experiment will protea suscessful one, especially being robbed, generally manages to shift the company, which is remarkably strong, the burden on to other shoulders. There includes such a clever motor as x. Henry can be no doubt whatever in the minds of Dallas, and the repertoirs is exceedingly all thoughtful men that legislation of this Coharacter is likely to do incalculable injury to the country, and is ee tain to retard that improvement in trule which is the only zolation of the problems of poverty and and unemployment which the Government profess to be so anxious to solve.

April Path, at Shangbai, Jour ARTEUR, the yungest son of the late Nus MOLLER, of Shang Bai, to HELLIR AUSTIN, eldest daughter of the luto

4. MACTAVISH and Mr. 8. 31 Mebris, of Shanghai.

DEATH.

On April 26th, at hanghai, JANE 'ELLEN ANDERCON, aged 40 ye¬re.

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, May Isr 1909.

The Lord Bishop of Victoria will proach at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon at the evening service to-morrow (2nd May) at 6 p.m.

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Now we know thehen rooɛts". the Chancellor of the British. Exchequer has for six months past had it in his mind to rob. Colonel Rayard inspected the Shanghai Careful stiinates of the increasing expeudi, Volunteer Corps last Saturday and expressed ture and the falling revenue showed months his surprise at the degree of efficiency shown. ago that the Chancel a would be obliged to

Ahinese merchant appeared before Mr. F. raise something like filleen millions of new

A Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday on taxation. The actual amount is sixteen and two charges of failing to stamp receipts, On each a balf million sterling. Mr. Loro GRÖLGE | count he was fined $25, megmara had himself told the country that lie was not going to tax the working

people, and another member of the Ge- vernment in a burst of fraukos lust Autumn predicted that when the Govern ment proceded to raise the money to meet the expected deficit they would be described us-a set of thieves and plunderers. These wo declarations indicated pretty clearly the nature of the proposale the Chancellor of the Exchequer would caibody is his "Budget statement. Ever since then there has been a settled conviction in the public mint that the Government were relying on drastic method of graduated taxation, aud the telegraphie summary of the

which Budget statement

we publish this morning shows the inference to have been orf ctly correct. The Budget has been

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The Glenfallock, which arrited from Singapor yesterday, brought ten deportees who are being cared for at the Central Police Station until opportunity offers to forward them on to China.

sttractive.

- Last night the company gave the Arzt taste of

· “Mr. Lloyd George spoke for three hours, when he was overcome by exhaustion. He will resume his dress later.

ad.

A PROMISSORY NOTE CASE AT KOBE

Judgment has been delivered in the Kobe Chiho Saibauche in the protest fled by R. B. Byles, representative of the Kobe branch of the Clifford. Wilkinson Tansan Mineral Water Company, Limited, against the execution of judgment in the suit brought by J M: Mur against J. Clifford-Wilkinson for the recovery of a sum of Y35,000 due on a promissory note drawn by J. Glifford, Wilkinson in favour of J.

M. Mur

The protest was dismissed with costs. The Jupes Chronicle states that the section for the recovery of money on a promissory note was hoard in the Kobe Court on February 27th last year. The note was drawn by

the business shall be offered to these groups." "This resolution was at ones despatched to London, the German group pointing out with emphasis that there could be no question of the withdrawal of offers made to China by the German party so long as the details of a joint. German-British-Fronch agreement had not been agreed upon.

This precaution was a duty of self-preserva- tion for the Germans. The English group was und feel of the non-discontinuanos of the German negotiations in Paking. On the German side it was desired. in order to curtail this temporary state of affairs, that the negotiations for a common agreement should take place as soon as possible. March 12 was decided upon as the date for such negotiations. "Thus from Maroh 3 until March 12 neither

defendant, Mr. Clifford- Wilkinson, at the requent of plaintiff while the latter was in charge of the the British nor the French group was in any Tansan mineral water business of defendant as way bound to abstain from making any offer to

China, for, in accordance with the Gornia an employé. Mr. Mur-won the case, and a declaration, all three parties were free until the ment matured in due course, when Mr. Murconclusion of a final agreement. No rew obtained on Aug. 4th last an order for the instructions were sent to the German represent attachment and sale by auction of the building ativo in Poking after March 1; on the other. and a portion of the land occupied by the hand, he put forward a written offer of a loan Tansan works at Takaradzuka in order for £3,000,000 on the basis of instructions recover the money dua on the promissory note. which had been current since January, and this The protest against the execution of judgment filed on the ground that the property in queation was transferred by Mr. Clifford Wilkinson to the Tansan Various increases and graduations Company and no belonged to him, so that the judgment could not be execated on the property. the liquor taxes, the licenses pro-gated shove, this ples, has no been rejected

and the protest dismissed. ducing £2,000,000;

of

LONDON, April 30th. Other Budget proposals include; A tax on clubs,

That the State shall henceforth take

one-fifth of the unearned increment in the value of urban land, which is estimated to produce £150,000;

To place a tax of a half penny per pound on the value of undeveloped urban land, producing £350,000;

To raise the duty on spirits by 33 9d. u gallon, producing £1,600,000. their quality when they produced "The Prisoner

To increase the duty on unmanu- Zenda," a powerful play which has aroused factured tobacco by 8d per lb; and little interest. True, the audience might the duty o manufactured tobacco have boon niore numerous, but it may be expected correspond gly. This is estimated that the good impressions which they carried away last night will spread and that to-night there will to yield £1,900,000;

Changes in the Stamp Duties be a furger house to witness that old favourite, Dù} ...··

The Prisoner of estimated Maurier's famous "Trilby.

to bring in an Zonda" is certainly dramatic production. It

£650,000. gripped the audience from the start and its more powerful situations roused-them to enthusiasm, After various minor adjustments the estimated surplus for contingences amounts 10 £448,000.

The artistes, too, are to be congratulated on the interpretation they gave of their various parts,

RECAPTURE OF AN OLD OFFENDER.

..

extra

The Budget has created the pro-

It is described by the Conservatives as plundering the middle classes and beggaring the reserve forces of the

country.

In 1906 a native who was arrested at Shatin foundest sensation throughout the for kidnapping a girl and being intimate with country. her was sentenced by Mr. G. N. Ofme to twelve months' imprisonment at Taipo: Str. geant Doveney was in charged of the case, and when ventence was passed. despatched the prisoner to Hongkong in charge of a lukonir. At Kowloon City the prisoner made his but on Wednesd y last after enjoying more than two years freedom he was re-arrested and entered on the charge sheet for escaping from custody, Sergeant Deveney's exidouce

of identification Magistracy yesterday. On each count his proved conclusively that the prisoner was the Worship recorded a coriction and passed-man-wanted, and his Worship sentenced him to months' imprisonment, to ran sungar- sentence of three weeks' imprisonment and rently with his previous sentendo. three hours' stooke,”

Two charges of larceny of clothing against in nåtire wore heard by Mr. J. H. Kemp,at the

While a gasfitter was comecting a pipe in

NEW EXPEDITION TO THE

SOUTH POLE.,

excape,

the moulding room of the Quarry Bay Ship: CE Borchgrevink the Norwegian yard, the board on which he sat slipped out of Auterotic explorer, watotoes, bit intention of one of the rope loops by which it was supported, souducting a new expedition to the South Pole,

The Liberals declare it to be an immense advance towards democratic finance.

-ln-the-course of the debate Mr. John Redmond said the Nationalists would vigorously oppose this extraor dinary Budget.

meniler for the City of London) Sir FC Baubury (Conservative

the maddest ever

and the fitter fell to the ground, à drop of which will leave Europe some time during described it મક about 30 foot. He was immediately removed the summer. The expedition, the financial ad

ulher details of which have already been settled, introduced into the House of to hospital, but it is not expected that he will has been arranged under the auspices of the

International Polar Exploration Commission at Commons. Brussels.

recover from the effects of his fall

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BOUND ADVICE FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES.

The Prince of Wales paid a remarkable tribute to the value and the necessity of adver-

tising last month, in presiding over the first Brussels, Rome, and Turin Exhibitions at meeting of the Royal Commission for the

Marlborough House,

**Experienes his shown," his Royal Highness said, "that wren in the case of firms having au establisbad reputation and world-wide connec. tions, attempts to discontinue advertising have umally been followed by a diminution in the sales effected

The neglect by Great Britain of one of the would be spally letrimental to her interests most important forms of national advertising

a factari commissioners of the Treasury

"The Lords

lave consented to sxk Parliament for a grant' in aid of the cast of organising exhibits for the

exhibitions, and the principal railway and steam- ship companies have expressed their willingness to assist in promoting the success of the British sections by according substantial reluctions of their usual rates of freight for the return of na. sold exhibits,

Libitors, and these should be a patent factor in

"Ofker, facilities will ha afforded British ex-

overcoming the reluctance to take part in foreign exhibitions which has, unfortunately; been

shown by some of the large firms in this

country,

WEATHER REPORT.

scepted by the Chinese Government on March 7.

The assortion made by the British that the German spraticate did not set in conformity with the protocol signed by it, or that it left

the French and British in any way in doubt regarding its attitude, must be emphatically repudiated by the Gorman syndicate as an accusation without the shadow of a fonudation."

· SHANGĦAL-HANGCHOW-NINGPO RAILWAY

Mr. FELL, on behalf of Mr. Londale, asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the

House of Commons recently whether any answer to the formal representation of his Majesty's had been received from the Chinese Government Minister at Peking with reference to the con- struction of the Shangbal-Hangthew-Ningpo Railway; and whether the stipulations in the Ipan contract wäre now being observed.

Mr. McKIN ON WOOD-The answer to the first of the question is in the negative. His Majesty's Minister at Peking made * further representation to the Chinese Government on

asures as soon as possible. With regard to March 2, and arged them to devise remedial

the rent dismissal of the President of the the last part of the question, it is hoped that

Board of Communications

may lead to

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mure satisfactory state of things. The affairs of the Board aro at, the present moment being carefully inquired into by the Prince Regent. himself, and his Majesty's Minister has request- ed that his Highness's attention should be specially invited to the question of the Sharp- kai-Ningpo Railway.

PHILOSOPHY AND OLD AGE.

The calm and philosophie mind loads to length: of days. It did so in the case of the poet Wordsworth. The exponents of the philo. sophy of Berkeley and Hegel and Kant lave. both been long lived. In confirmation of these views, the Glangos Herald" points at that. Emeritus Professor Fraser only the other day published in his 90th year a handbook to the philosophy of Berkeley. lying over W. Jupas yesterday, has moved into noun, was 89 Professor Fraser began life James Hutchison Stirling, LD whose death is just an the Pacific to the E, of

E, of Japan.

in the calm of the manse, of Ardehattan,

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-

On the 30th-at 11.55 am The lepressies

The barometer has risen over W. Japan and Argyllshiro. Dr. Stirling spent his early

8. China, and fallen again over N. China.

A new depression has approached Manchuria from the Westward.

•

The area of high pressure remains over the Yangtzo Volley

Fresh N.E. winds may be expected in the of the China Ses: Formoss Channel and along the northern shores

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10.m. to-day, 0.00 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon

Hongkong & Neighbourhood fresh; fair. to-day is as follows:-

N.E. winds

A.... Same as No. I. Formosa Channel... South coast of China between

Same as No. I Hongkong and Lamocks, South coast of China between

Same as No. "Hongkong and Hainan...

year

in the roar of Glasgow traffic.

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

Singapore on the 29th ultimo, and may be The st Denbighshire from Europe left expected here on the 5th inst

port on the 30th ult. a.m., and may be expected The N.G.I. atr, Capri loft Bingapore for this here on or about the 6th inst.

The J.-C.-J. Lija str. Tjikini loft Moji Tor this

port on the 29th ult. p.m., and may be expected here on or about the 4th inst

The C-N. Co.'s sir. Harckow left Tightsin on the 28th ult., and may be orpected here on the 6th-inst.

(Australian Line) left Thursday Island f this port vin Manila on the 29th ultime, and is expected here

The N.Y.K. str. Nikko

on the 10th inst.