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RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

mentioned by my correspondent, it is time the attention

un of the Post Office unthorities was diverted to it. There are those who do not mind brushing shoulders with all to races under the sun, but we should be roused into action if we saw a lady being bustled in this vagentlemanly way..

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, TUESDAY, JUNE 16rn, 1934

PEKING NOTES,

ESTATE DUTIES IN

·HONGKONG,

PROPOSED REVISION OF THE LAW.

Attuclied to the new Bill to provide for the levy of Estate duty payable in

THE HONGKONG BANK CASE The case in whidi Antonio Filomenu Messrs.

JPM OUR OWN COREFPONDENT] demedios, aged 29, a clerk in

PEKING, June 3rd. Reginald Oliviera Gutierrez, a clerk in

ABKAUTY SPOT THREATENED,"" Jardine, Matheson & Co. offico, and

the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, are

Politics have had to take second place charged with conspiring to defraud the the past few days. The subject of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank of divers engrossing interest and considerable disrespect of the estates of deceased persons large sums of money on the 4th May and cussion is whether the home for the published in the current issue of the divers dates before and after was again establishment of a brewery at the Jade Government (azette for general informa

tion) is a longthy statement of its objects mentioned before Mr. Wood yesterday Spring Mountain should be allowed to

and reasons, from which we take the Mr. D. Lewis (of Menors, Johnson, take shape, or whether the powers that

following

My remarks on the spied of private ricahan kas roused the ire of an owner who asks, in a manner which reveals his guilt,What about the others?" He could very well have said, "Guilty of high speed, but I am only one of many" | This rasd hog" then goes on to refor. to the speed of motor cars, which, accord ing to his phraseology, are hired for "joy rides," and points out with a Bomewhat Quixotic sense of humour that unhappy owner to recinim the departing Stokes & Master) prosecuted, Inspector be should not be invoked to save for the The object of this Bill is to endeavour he would much prefer to be knocked downs. But hope has come at last, and Terrett represented the police, Mr. A. Bnation and for posterity the beautiful to place upon a more regular and satie

Crew was for Remedios, and Mr. J. H. locality which Confucius is said to have factory footing than at present obtains object to being the object of the meteor by an interesting process of hair-grafting Gardiner appcared for the second defco described as the loveliest in all China, the lay and the administrative arrange

by

a riesha than a car.

Personally, I fittings of either, und lehce my last weck's protest

Another correspondent, obviously a poor pedestrian like myself,

There are many bald beads in the East, and hench which are gradually severitag connection with their hirsute coveringe, balling at the novel ingenuities of their

those shimmering globes, which an unsaru- pulour witer bas, described as "flies

will be able once. recreation grounds,

backs me up by stating that he also has more to be uncovered without blushing Superintendent of Police had received probably as much in indignation against person's property for the purpose of

frequently been forced to perform all worts of cub acrobatics in order to avoid being run down by “richas which seem to be in charge of demons who grin like so many ugly goblins at your dis Comforture when they have had the misfortune to be robbed of a picture of

This is al that has to be done

A fine gold wire about 1,500 inchin diameters formed into a tiny hook ever a fine hair from a woman's head, and thin hook is inerted under the skin with a hollow surgical welle, properly storilized. The wound hol, after some inflammation but

dant (Gutierrez)..

Mr. Levia asked for another week's remand. He said that the Captain-

information that certain documents were coming to Hongkong, and that another

an had been arrested ut Colombu. Mr. Crew objected, and wanted a day fixed.

Mr. Gardiner also said he would object unless there was a reduction in bail. The

present it

was $20,000, which was absolutely prohibitive.

The enterprise would probably have been allowed to proceed without protest had not the masionaries, rand their voice

the brewery

ry itself as against the proposed desecration. At any rate, public opinion. has been roused on the subject, and it is

ments relative to the payment and collection of the Probate Duty leviable upon the estates of deceased persons,

In order to arrive accurately at a determination of the value of a deceased

certaining the rate at which Probate Duty should be assessed, and the total mount payable, it is necessary to provide administrative machinery adequate for

said that the Vice-President will bring this purpose,tep towards the attainment

Jatter to the attention of the

President

The appeals to the patriotism of the

The Brst step

of this object, is as a rule legislation from administering or dealing with the prohibiting under penalty any person

yourself sprawling on the ground or slight pal, with the hook under the skin bail was nothing like reasonable. Chinese by foreigners were extremely | estate of a deceased person until Probate

your face, disfigured by grating contact with n wall." It is nice to know that you are not alone when making a protest.

and the two ends of the hair projecting About 62 punctures to the square inch are mode, and about 500 hairs per hour can be

plantal. To cover a compleety bald head And the riesha owner who referred to about 1000 kairs are required. They are the speed of motor cars has touched upondent hai, which do not grow, but with another topic which is

s worth inflation.

occasionsfoiling are kept in good condition. How many persons are there who have

Personally, I would rather remain bald this dinate then have a head with 50,000 wounds, but to those who think otherwise 1 offer this simple remedy.

not had some uncomfortably narrow scapes when enjoying an evening stroll along the road which leads to Taikoo Yan heap invective at the hand of the driver, and all you get is a scream of hilarity from the car's denely-packed

According to the report on the water supply ve are well prepared for the

Mr. Lewis reminded his friends that

perfervid. One writer well on to remark that in the past

patriolism has often there were no Criminal Brasions in July found expression in stream of blood, but it is a new idea that it can be expressed in streams of beer!" He then calls upon the Chinese to wake up or on them will be laid the charge by posterity that they had sold their inheritance for a stein of

Mr. Gardiner The case may never reach the Sessions.

Mr. Lewis said he was going to for mulate other charges.

Mr. Gardiner presed for particulars They were coming into Court, and he would like to know what they had to meet. Mr. Lewis observed that there was a

lager!

TELEPKONE GRIEVANCES.

Peking has its telephone grievance Chinese as well as foreigners complain that requests for installation of the

of the deceased's will or Letter of Administration of the deceased's estate has been duly obtained, and

The second step generally consists similarly in legislation giving powers to some authority and providing that authority with machinery with which he is enabled to discover with some tolerable degree of certainty the value of estates upon which Probate Duty is leviablo,

whilst the third and last step, is as a rule effected by legislation. prescribing the methods by which the duty assessed may he paid and collected

INTIMATIONS

FACE BLEMISHES SPREAD ROUND NECK

Arms and Chest. Palm at Times Un- bearable Ashamed to Be Seen. Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint- ment Loft Skin Clear and Fresh.

88, Albert Road, Eniston, London, N. E Eng-Für sonis years I muffered from usaty face blurdishes which gräuviany spread round my neck, arms and chise

The pain as since War unbearable and they caused a continual itching and, irritating fooling. An night I could get very tle sleeps and of a day time I fit alamied to to

MA” friend who had n cod my condition sent me. Httle Culleyrn Dinimant. At first I hardly thought it worth a tria;, an overg- thing else had tiled. One night the itching Why Very bid, áo. I fell as if I could tear the skin front my fire. I took the Cutl

• Ohtoent and after washing my faca and rock in warm water. I rubbed it gently on the places Indened and ching, Very quickly I found It gave reller and to my delight I purchased & box of Cuticum

Oint tent and Home Cutirora Soap. By the timo I had used a third box the blotchian had quito disappeared, leaving ing skin, kw It had never been for years, Clear and fresh." (Signed). Arthur E. Robinson, July 1, :1012/

Cuticura SonpandChitourn Olatment que sol Isrouchont thu worică. A sample of eacli with 82-p. Skin Book free from near- tas depoti E. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charter- house fq., London; Potter Dng & Chom. Dorp., Boston, U. B. A.

ST Tender-faced mon should shave with Cattonra Boap Shaving Stick. Barnplo freet

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body; the joy riders," I presume. In the summer, but this apart, in a Colony like friends would therefore have plenty of telephone or attention to defects are vagis and unsatisfactory. At present the CHS, J. GAUPP

summer months more particularly this stretch of road is a favourite motor-cur haunt, but I have not heard of any rule which would allow of it being utilised as a local Brooklands. The same thing happens on some of the other roads You are strolling along, obsessed with a purple-evening dream, when suddenly a motor horn screams almost in your car and you jump in one direction. acother and hope for the best. After performing in this way on half-a-dozen

or

ours, war should not be wasted, and the poorer chas Chinese should not be allowed to forget ils real value, Those who draw their water from the street taps heedlessly waste much more than they carry away

for their use, and the children who are sane to ring in the family supply get real funrout of it; with a consequent great watage. They splash and squirt each other with the supply which they

should have taken home for hours to other; and when this sport is indulged

large number of books. He would be a long time in opening his care, and his

time to obtain their instructions. they adjourned for a week, then he thought he would be able to call some evidence.

If either ignored or at any rate delayed, while it is also suggested that the Japanese officials in charge of this work attend to the wants of their own nationals. Whether those suggestions are based on fact or not, there is no doubt that some measure of real reform is urgently needed.

Mr. Gardiner desired more particulars, His friend came into Court and made a wholesale charge, and then asked for prohibitive bail.

His Worship and he considered the

definite, but Mr. Crew contended

that it would be difficult to imagine any thing more vague,

Mr. Lewis can tell my friends that

& CO.,

The existing law, contained in Ordin ance No. 2 of 1807 and Ordinance No. 18 of 1901, Sections 2 to 27, is somewhat

collection of Probate Duty, which is a purely revenual matter, is conjoined with the legal operations necessary for the appointment by the Court of an executor or administrator of the will or estate respectively of a deceased person. This procedure is not found to work well in WATCHMAKERS practice and causes difficulty in cases. where there are concerned certain classes of property which pass on death (such FEMINIST MOVEMENT...

as a policy of insurance taken out for the bonent of a child) in which the deceased's Recent public gatherings have demon

executor or administrator has no interest strated the advance of the women of the and of which he cannot obtain possession. This Bill, which is modelled on the Straits Settlements law governing the capital. Not only do they move about with greater freedom than

than before,

payment of Estate Duty, specifies the

but

AND

JEWELLERS

Occasions you develop a horve-strain and your walk has resulted in a general daily by several hundreds of rounsters they are charged with conspiring to they have shown a capacity for initiating person linble to pay duty in each case and SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL

uphrayal of your constitution, a happen-

it is no difficult to realise the waste

which Tees. Of course, these children.

ing which is anything but pleasurable in An enervating climate. Someone has

obtain £4,000 and £0,000, if that is any

are not ware that they are doing any help. A cheque was ceabed, and we have movements for charitable and phil makes the assessment of estate duty a described this craze for rapid movement thing wrong; they have rare sport, but very reason to believe that it was cashed anthropic purposes which commands the and to be completed together with its

as speeditis," a disease with no real Tomedy excant the sadden nesting of tho meteoric body with an immovable object, and then the Reader's imagination will readily fill that blank.

if a policeman diplomatically painted

through the medium of these people. out to them that it was wrong. I de Monday next, at 10 oclock.

was formally remanded until think the performances would be repeated,

do not

The Had of a surveying perty in India recently wrote: As far as I could

THE CHINA ASSOCIATION CHEQUE CASE,

in

separate matter to he undertaken on oath

respect of most people. Notably was this payment before any steps can be taken true of the garden party organised by the to obtain the necessary Probate or Letters Chinese Ladies Philanthropic Union in The Bill introduces the system in force

of Administration aid of certain orphanages the arrange | in the United Kingdom of aggregating. ments being carried out in the most the value of all the property of a deceased approved modern style, a lottery being of determining the rate at which estate person wherever situate for the purpose

duty be paid.

Midnight Music (1) at: Kowloon assertain the men taken by tigers tracy yesterday, evidence was given by one of the most successful features.

was the heading to a Lolice Court story

all attacked when bending or stooping down, which bears out the old theory that a tiger mistrusts a really upright person. That must be the reason why the Hongkong tiger has left us in a

where everybody is

"really

We upright, why its simply starvation for

tigers!

RODERICK RANDOM.

which awakened all sorts of memories. The peace-and-quiet-loving inhabitants of Kowloon are not the only people who have their evening and beauty sleeps disturbed by midnight revellers; and 1 place am referring to street noises only.

You have heaps of this in Hongkong. have just turned in healthily tired out, and in a semi-conscious way count the

DEATH OF MR. J. P MADAR. clook's midnight effort. Within a few minutes, when you should have dritted The terment took place at the into that beauty sleep which means so Mohamirdan Cemetery on Sunday of much to many of us, you are roused by Mr. J., P. Madar, well-known and whoopings and roars which were surely highly popular local Mohammedan never intended to proceed from human resident who died under somewhat throats The boisterous ones (raw nearer, sudden circumstances on Saturday, and if Fate is against you they following an apoplectic seizure. ^^ On will pull up in front of your own snug Thursday the deceased was attacked with domicile, having sense sough remaining an apoplectic fit during the service at to keep under cover, and continue to the Moque, and though medical assist remind you of the beauties of the ance way secured with all speed, he never Mississipi or Egypt; their sentimental regained consciousness. This was the moods having been thoroughly rossul by

second apoplectic seizure which had

de Decurred about six years ago.

hour of this torture over, and then, if

erooning pipe medley-melody, intenderi for a lullaby but having the extreme "Opposite effect on your by then raving self, will float up to you out of the dark ness. If people who will sing "We all go the same way home" after midnight would only practice what they sing, many of us would derive real benefit from our

forty beauty winks.

not

Before Mr. Melbourne at the Magis

Mr. G. A. Woodcock, First Clerk ent-the Magistracy, and one of the Magistrates of the Colony, in the application for the rendition of the man Ribeiro, now detained at Colombo on charges of of the ladies. But he reckoned without his hust. The ladies whose reputations forgery,

he had thus besmirched unvaded his office

the This feminist movement was

foolish enough to slander the fair names approved by one Chinese editor, who was

Mr. Woodcock said that he had read the depositions, and in his opinion they disclosed a primefacie case against the prisoner of the offences mentioned i in the warrant and depositions, subject to the identification of the man detained in Ribeiro. The Colombo as R. ¿ V offences were punishable in the Crown Colony of Hongkong with 12 months hard labour, or upwards.

The Magistrate granted the warrants.

A BID FOR FREEDOM.

ALLEGED TAI ON PIRATES DASK-

Several Chinese detectives preceded

like the Suffragettes of another land and compelled him to retract and to publish an abject apology.

SNOW IN JUNE,

The cold snap which tas struck the capital this week has postponed the usual exodus to Peitaiho and Shanhaikwaz, but the claims of the seaside will doubt less be felt very strongly before the month is far advanced. On Monday now was seen on the hills a record for June

ADVISERS NOT KEEDED.

The President has ordered the abolition of the advisory department of the Pre

EXPLOITING THE CAPITAL

The extent to which the capital and the big cities of the country, as well as the interior, are exploited by dealers from

INSTRUMENTS.

ZEISS PRISM, BINOCULARS.

SUN GLASSES.

SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE.

Subject to some important exceptions; it also follows the English law in making deceased person situate outside as well as the duty payable on all property of a within the Colony; the exceptions relating to property, in respect of which duty is paid in the place which it is situate or which is of such a nature that it would be inequitable to make it subject locally MAPPIN & WEBB. to the payment of estate duty,

The Bill further introduces a new scale of rates of Estate Duty modelled on the scale in force in the United Kingdom, The principal effects of the proposed new scale are that large estates pay at an increased and small estates at a reduced rate. The local limit of exemption is thus raised from 8250 to $500; estates between $1,000 and $3,000 in valus pay only 1 per cent.y estates between $10,000 and 850,000 and between $100,000 and $200,000 remain at the same rate as at prescrit; all other estates pay at an increased rate, vivant Another fault in the existing local law is that the definitions of “property are not exhaustive, while there exists no effective machinery for enforcing a full

Representatives

LTD..

LONDON.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

CHATER ROAD.

CALDBECK,

(ESTABLISHRI 1864).

SOLE AGENTS FOR

At the Magistracy yesterday the Crown sidential Bureau, Chinese advisers are disclosure of the property of a deceased Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Hodgson) applied to be given other appointments and person. The Bill therefore defines for the discharge of the five prisoners foreign advisers are to be retained until

property' in detail and provides the (four men and a women) charged in con- their contracts expire. After all, there Commissioner with suitable means for obtaining all the necessary information. nection with the piracy of the Tai On.

The Bill further contains rigorous cups which have more than cheered. A attacked the deceased, the first having The defending solicitors (Messrs Premis little use in engaging advisers and

Dixon and E. L, Agassiz) intimated that keeping them, if their advice is not provisions imposing upon various classes you are still at war with the fates, The life. Mr. Madar, who was born in they had no objection, and his Worship Wanted. Look at the case of Professor of persoas against whom under the

to La present law it would be impossible to MACGREGOR&C Hongkong, was with Mr. Dorabjes accordingly told the prisoners that they Goodnow, who was engaged to advise proceed the obligation of seeing, en far Narable, the founder of the first modern were discharged.

with regard to the framing of the Consti as they are concerned, that the law shall be carried out the principle involved being that it is the duty of persons style of hotel in the Colony. He com The second defendant, a tall, power- tution and was never consulted

cognizant of property, a portion of which menced, as lessee with Mr. Dorabjee fully-built Chinese, thoroupon held up his Norabe, the Hongkong Hotel, the hand and affirmed that he would sooner

belongs to the revenue of the Colony, to assist Government in ensuring that its Victori Hotel, the Shameen Hotel do five years imprisonment.

connection the Bill also provides that a (Canton), and lastly the King Edward

revenue shall not be defrauded. In this Hotel Mid in association with Mr, the alleged pirates out of the Court, and the West, but especially from America, schedule of property shall be attached to Dorabj Norabjee he also inaugurated others followed, and the prisoners must will scarcely be credited by those who every Probate or Letters of Administra person who deals with the property of a have had an intling of what awaited have not scan the army of curio-hunters tion and throws an obligation on By

They walked who haunt the country. Early summer deceased person after the grant of Probate FALCON! them outside the Court. down the stairs, and thon, on coming out is the period when they come along to

porcelains, 'clean up

tapestries, brocades, rugs, etc., but there are so many looked as if one of the men at least was

men engaged in the work now that it is grant going to regain his liberty. Several difficult to get genuing suff. At least it European and Chinese detectives, however, is becoming less easy that it was, for the seized them, and threw them down. There simple reason that the stocks have been was a sharp, desperate struggle, but the largely bought up and also that the police overpowered their mon, and the Chinese dealers are themselves eager to handeuils being brought into use, an participate to a larger extent in the exciting affair ended. One of the men finally subdued. had got into the road before he was profits of the trade,

The alleged pirates were then taken to the Central Police Station, and will appear later under extradition proceed

the Star Ferry The deceased was very well-kown to incal sportsmen by his connection with the pari-mutuel system at the ace meetings.

REA SCHOOLBOY'S DEATH:

into the entrance, two of them made a

sudden bolt for liberty. For a moment it

A reader has forwarded me something in the nature of a complaint against the much-maligned G.P.O. As we are all aware," he writes, there is a notice in the Post Office stating that at a certain Synthy, is felt with the bereaved counter stamps are supplied to Europeans family at one son and two daughters. only, but I, have frequently seen other A than Europeans purchasing stampa at this place. That in jiself is nothing really

worth

worrying about by one who Chinese student, named Leung Ho, is more or less a race democrat, but the of the lam Wei Chi English School, went other day I saw a lady being bastled out out with a party of about 30 other of the way by several who were not schoolboys to Stonecutter's Island, on a Europeans, much to my disgust, and bathing picnic. On retuming it was die naturally I intervened, though the person covered that Loung Ho wes missing A who was selling the stamps sat impassively search was made, and eventually his body

left Peking for Switzerland on June 10th, behind the cage work as if nothing had was found stuck fast in about art of

Dr. Reinsch, the American Minister,

------| says the Paking correspondent of the happened, Ought not this rule to be en water Soldiers of the RGA assisted

Well, personally, I have not to get the body out, and artiñcial respira Mr. H. E. Cole, General Manager of Ostasiatischer Lloyd. The same corres forced?"

the Yokohama office of the Standard Oil noticed any but Europeans purchasing tion as applied for some considerabla Comisof New York has been pondent also states that M. de Cartier, tamps at this particular counter, but if time, but without success, The deceased appointed to the Directorate in New the Belgian Minister, is left Peking on

bov, was stated, was not a good York such things do happen which have been swimmers

home leave

or Letters of Administration, of making certain that all the property with which person in fact deals's actually

such on the schedule attached to the

The first schedule sets out the rates at

which Estate Duty shall be payable as

follows

Value of Estates. Duty:

2600

10,000

to

5,000 10,000

per cent

50,000

50,000

100,0007

100,000

200,000

200,000

400,000

400,000

700 000

€700,000

$1,000,000)

1,000,000 1,500,000

4,000,000

2,000,

4,000,000 6,000,000 8,000,000

10,000,000

2,000,000 4,000,000 8,000.000 12 8,000,000 10,000,000 34 $%

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