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INDIA AND THE PREFERENCE. POLICY,

WHAT INDIA HAS TO GIVE.

The following article is from the Englishman (Calcutta) :-

There is a touch of impertinence in Mr. Lloyd George's question: What could India give in return for preference on Empire grown give in return for preference on Empire Ford

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14TH, 1911.

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H. Pixton also started in bis Ron biplano, but was obliged to descend about twelve miles from later. The weather from an early hour waa Brighton, although ho finished the course ideal, and there was

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A Paris contemporary states thate well-known doctor recently road a paper before a meeting of medical men on the influence of vegetables up the character, the brain, and the semes cording to the doctor, the potate develops an evenness of temper, and calmness of thought, The carrot acts as a stimplant to the character, poorish or jealous persons. Spinach develops Porral, Respito

could not be established. · Large crowds were abitions dreams and energy.

prosent at both start and finish. Mr. Homel its acidity: induces sadness and provokes nightcended again in the evening and few bank to All workers should eat white barloos. Brooklands, the first return trip made in an mare. Poss, we cau. under-tand, sro aot salculated to help serious thought, and the cauliflower in aeroplane between Brooklands and. Brighton in

one day. duces egotism.

AS OTHERS NEE US.

THE DRITIOR PRINCE'S 'VARSITY CAREER.

It is understood that the Prince of Wales'

University career will not be of a perinnetory character. It is practically settled that his Edward, at both Oxford and Cambridge, but fa Royal Highness will reside, as did King sny cesa his residence will be such as to ens blo bin to pursue his studies thoroughly. The King went to neither of the two Universition Oxford, and the Duke of Clarence to Cambridge. ***mantioned. The Duke of Albany went to

Government enter into another bandobaat" Like the Opium Agreement with China, there will be prosions little left for India to KITO anybody The Chanceller of the Excheq ver asked the question in reply ing to the debate in the Henss of Com. mens on Monday on the motion in favour of a preference to Empire-grown tems. The result of the dehnts was, of course, a foregone son. A Chinese lady doctor, Ya Mei-Min, the first elusion, In a Parliament constituted as the to gain a diplotan in medicine, in, we learn protent is Profernes of any kind has little

vory chauve, and the motion was defeated by 212 to not only ou hereunt of her scientific knowledge. ttle through a French source, an entertaining person; 147. But this is no Occasion for despair. The deboto served to demonstrate the nusualy of the hat the patriotie zeal with which she defends existing fiscal relations between Great Britain the customs of the land of her birth. For in- sha will not adopt European fashions in sad India, and, to an even greater extent, dress. We are more ol and better savino it ravonled the timay foundations on which in

ich in our customs than Europesus think, ays the the opposition to Imperial Preference reste lady doctor. Look dress. It is When Mr. Lloyd George asked what he cally one piece, comfortable, and lands freedom of

my

is practi India to give in totura, and when he movement. You must admit it is more rational says it would be preposterons to ask India to than the robes bought in Paris. We are light. discriminate sgainst the United States, he seeming against the custom of cramped feet in China, to be under the impression that the Indian but when I see European womon in their tight Government exercises a free hand in these and narrow costumes, I say the time will come whereas the plain truth is that the when there will be formed a scofety of hygiene matters, fiscal system of India is kampered and engineer. od by the short-sighted Free Trade theorists who to combat the tight arası,

HOTS"

The Beats of the mighty at Westminster. sherifico soveral millions of India to annual revenue without so much as a "By your

Nor is it thought preposterons to con tinne imposing an excise duty on cotton goods in opposition to the opinion of offloial and non. official India. As a mere matter of justice the Government of India should be given a larger measure of autonomy in fiscal matters, and should not be soabsolutely under the control of the Home Government se it is to-day. The officials responsible for Indian finance made be depended en to do what is right for India nad just to all | other interests concurated.

gentlemen did not deem it

stance,

MOUSE'S NEST OF BANK NOTES. In a village in Tyrol (writes F. W. Stoddard in the Field) batober lately missed from time to time a number of fice and ten kronen bank notes from a drawor where he kept his money, and was unable to discover the thief

traces of mice in the At last he saw drawer and on the center, and on following He's most with them up be found a soven young ones under the floor, The post was made of scrape of the missing bank notes, which the owner collected and took to the bank in the nearest town, where they were pieced and repaired. Of the original value of the notes, amounting to 199 kronon, the bank bonded the butcher 160 kronen, the

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GREATENT "RAG” IN BISTONY-OF CASNRIDGE,

Never within momory have the Cambeldgo Undergraduates "ragged" na they lid one afternoon last month, when a well-known Trin- ity Hall sportsman, who bad recently been doing great things on the cricket fi-la, was "eout down, |înd was accorded a a mook funeral on the most

gigantio scale the town has ever known.

Erary fancy costume kept by theatrical costumiers and others as let out on hire, and undergraduates who were too lato to hire a costume male one. One had a dress-guit muds of enckeloth, trimmed with sahes. Others brought a street organ, draped in parple and binck.

Early on the scene was cab containing the Devil, followed by a bansom-cab with four undergradunt inside, four outside, and twó iting on the horse-and meat of them in py jamas. Practically every vehicle in the town

chartered.

The procession was headed by a van contain. ing eight masked bandsmeh. The hearse came next with "the ducessed" walking at de side. Next came the unfortunate-man's charger-n very stall donkey. "A cab with a large printed my poor brother contained

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brot er. But perhaps the most pathetic figure was the heart broken widow, For fully half a mile the procession stretched, sud so dense were the eroads that it took on bour to make the journey of a mile to the mail. way station, where the scene was unequalled in CRICKET, the bistory of Cambridge Undergraduates climbed on to roofs and even on to the top of trains.

SPORTS!

Mr Lloyd George took a very narrow and short-sighted view of the question under dierest being "lost material," cussion. Accepting for the sake of argu- mont his statement that India takes four-

WAR A delightful story of circumicention comes fifths of her important manufactured goods from Pragne. One of the least imposing of the from Great Britain, it is absurd to suppose bridges in the city, the Liebner Bracks, cou that this proportion is likely to continue under present fiscal conditions, and he would nets two suburbs. Some time ago, inst summer to be precise, the toll selleptor discovered that be a very poor nause minister who could some rabbits had invaded the district, and con- not find, in the wide range of importa, ar ticles on which fudio could give a preference is that their burrowings might threaten the etability of the bridge, so he called the burgo- that would prove of mat-vial advantage to British trade. Mr. Lloyd George is short- aster's attention to the matter. The bargo eighted because bo does not take into consid matter decided that it did not come within eration the changing conditions of India's provinco, but he sent the representation to the committee: managing the public langhter-beans foreign trade, especially here in the East. The committee examined the rabbits, and found A close study of statistics would convince they were wild, so they could do nothing, and bim, for instance, that although Great Britain as it was a close time, the aid of the sports holds a long lead in erporis of metal manufac tures to India, other countries, man could not boimpressed. Still they did not

ubtably relieve ther of

of their moral responsibility. Germany, Belgium and the United States, are The Prague Slaughter-house Committen in making remarkable progress-a progress in-turn informed the Stadtrat possidiam, but the finitely greater in comparison

Britain when we bear in mind that the matter was not within their jurisdiction: yet political relations between the latter and Indin the stability of the bridge was beyond all things necessary, so the dossier was sent to the central must determine in a very large degree the authority for buildings The body went into course of trade,

To take one small item the matter, and concluded that the water autho only

at least significant that ity should deal with the subject.. But no, whilst imports of machinery and will work the water, board opined that it was fur from the United Kingdom fell from Rs.

ts. the conservators of Tivors, and this 6.16,16,577 in 1908-9 to Rs. 412.51,183 in 1910- body decided that rabbits could not be 11, those from Germany rose from is. 12,36,712 brought to Rs. 14,08,018; and those from Aweries in creased from Es. 14,17,173 to Rs 25.88,764. A similar phenomenon is noticeable in many other articles of inport. It is like the writing on the wall. Aud the danger to the cotton trade of Great Britain is even greater. The British manufacturer has

enjoyed

many years of virtual monopoly in the Far East. He has Been his monopoly broken down in China, mainly through the growth of the Japanese in- dustry. If he takes the trouble to look beneath

than that of

figures

of dazzling magnitude he will discover that his valuable market in India is being threat- ened in the same way-not so much by the growth of the indie enons industry as by the steady strides of Japanese importa.

within the domain of things fluvial, and that the bargemaster was the right party to take action. The dossier having com- pleted the circle of possible departmental travels, the burgomaster decided to not. He appointed committee of investigation. The committee went to the bridge ia four carriages, and then they learned that the rabbits had taken their departure for some months. At least, this is what the Munchner Nachrichten sys.

AN ARMED CLASS ROOM, Dr. Vinogradoff, the Oxford Professor of Jurisprudence, recently began a course of leo- tures at Moscow University, where he once filed the History chair, and has explained, says the University Correspondent, why he had to abandon this enterprise and how much of the trouble in Russian Universities arises. personally considered it impossible to lecture in a room surrounded by policemen with losied rifes, and so did many of my colleagues.

University mado: When the Museu

roprasants. tions to the Government in the sense that it

of anthoritie was impossible to have two sets

Hes authority the academic authority and the polleo

and when the rector, the assistant-rector, and the praetor resigned their administrative offices, they were dismissed from their professorships. Twenty-four other professors and lecturers

comes, Lancashire will be the muin body then resigned AVAL PROGRAMME FOR 1911.

THE GERMAN

A few weeks ago, after desperate negotia tions, the British Government induced Japan to modify her new Tariff; but the Tariff is still protective in that it enaldes Japan to build up cotton and other industries at the expense of British manufactures. Only a blind fanatic would Portavoro in the belief that this Tariff. built industry will not in the near future becomes formidable competitor with Lancashire in India, Ita advance guards have come already. Japan enjoys a virtual monopoly of the trade in hosiery, In general cotton goods she is rapidly advans ing to the place of a formidable campetitor with

Kingdom

of a preference very gladel and other centres of British It is now definitely announced that one of the Industry will be equally & their particular commodities. A vast change, the 1911 programme will be built at the in fact, is coming over the commercial situs Imperial yards at Wilhelmshaven. This is the launch as in the East, and before many years ship which will be known until her hare passed Great Britain will need to fight "8" the 38th battleship of the Navy hard to retain her hold on a market which, as and the 16th German Drainonght battleship. civilisation grown, will become more and more The allestion of the orders for the other two valuable. Free Trade at Home will be no help battleships of the 1911 programme has not yet to her then. It will be

even less of a help to been disclosed. A certain special interest, the her here in India, and she will find it more Times correspondent at Berlin says, attack to

completion important to secure her Indian markets than to this year's arrangements, as the

adfending China or Japan. This fear of this year's three ships will mean the completion causing irritation has becomes bogoy to servous of the process of abstitating Dreadnoughts for Free Traders; but if any nation under the sur older types of battleships throughout the High has had c

I cause for irritation it is the United King Bea Fleet. When these ships are finished the

aufactures dom, whose manu ares have been shut out of two battleship squadrons of the High Sea market sit

Fleet market. With niter

will consist without so much sa a little

entirely of Dreadnoughte rotaliation. This may

at Wilhelmshaven and the other squadron ng Trade, but it is not business. And it was squadron at Kiel, but both, thanks to the wide- Free not breiness that dictated the Chancellor of the ing of the Kiel Canal, equally available in the obegner & argument against a proference for North Sea and the Baltic. Although the canal grown tra. Sash a preference would be works will not be finished until a later date.

for her cotton good, glad of a preference on three German Dreadnought battleships of

tion

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be

s merely trifling cost to the United Kingdom; Dreadnoughts will apparently be able to pass but st

it would help to secure for the British manu- the canal next year or at any rate as Foon as facturer what is destined to remais one of the there are any Dreadnoughts ready to station at most valuable markets in the world. When Mr. Kiel. Lloyd George aske what India bas to give in

lock and son. He need to no farther than the

THE ARMING OF MERCHANT STEAMERS.

return for a paltry million or two, be had better In the House of Commons last month Mr. trade return for British India; and from there Middlemore asked the First Lord of the Ad- he will also find out that Free Te de is a delu.miralty whether, in the interests of British sion and a anare to British trade in the East,

commerce protection, the Admiralty would con sider the desirability of permanently arming certain merchant steamers making long voyages with such weapons as

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pre allers will be shown world-famous recommend the action proposed in the question.

tion to the me of moving pictures in a special follow, when on their passages auch routes as theatre sur on its Transcontinental trains in the might be determined by an Admiralty repre- Proirie Provinces and in British Columbia. It sentative and the shipowners. Mr. McKenns is intended that t

pictures

will serve a double replied that the Admiralty are not prepared to purpose.

which they tam doring foonery the night, and at the same time the C. F. P., and

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In the recent aeroplane race from Brooklandi

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The train that was to take away the “dead man" had nearly as many undergraduates on the top of it as there were on the platform, and from this vantage point they knocked of police. men's helmets and dangled red herrings on pinces

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