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HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, -1925

OUR LONDON LETTER

BRITISH MP'S AND THE MARKING OF EMPIRE GOODS.

KING EDWARD THE SEVENTH IN A NEW LIGHT.

[FROM OUR ON COLLESPONDENT.]

Committee is so widened in its seópo as to include the fabelling of all foreign goods,

L

LONDON, September 19th. INDISCRETION OF A MURTIER.

There is a lot of talk this week about the memoirs published by Sir Almeric

It is said in political cirvlos in London Fitzroy, formerly for twenty-six years that before the members of the Cabinet Clerk of the Privy Council. In that period, he tells us, he was at four hun dispersed for their autumn holiday, a dred and eighteen out of four hundred tentative understanding' was arrived, at somewhere along the lines here indicated. and thirty-four meetings of the Council; so that he has something, to say about But it is not known how far the Govern everybody who was anybody-in the poliment are prepared to go. The idea of the agitators for universal marking is. that all foreign goods shall be marked with the name of the country of origia except in the case of goods coming from the Dominions and the Colonies, which, shall be distinguished by the Empiro label which is expected to be adopted.

tical world at least-in his time.

But Sir Almeric is no Pepys. He is more self-conscious then the Seventeenth Century celebrity; and his taste for gos sip leads him to put down things-some of them about people living-which are indiscreet.. The diary begins in 1888. There is a homely picture of Queen Victoria going to sleep twice while in conversation with Lord Balfour-mach to

EXPENSIVE SPORT.

Grouse shooting is essentially the rich man's sport; and this senon it has been ing galt, Of course, this "record of a thin groy a year does not stand alone.

the latter's consternation: and an equail's unconventional glimpse, which Sir Almeric' revalis of the aged Queen when it is experienced also in connection with it was suggested that some of the Yeomen other forms of sport. There is the story of the Giard, should be sent to Gowes to

of Lord Cork, for instance, who took a

Arace the reception of the German 'ex-

house at Melton and got together a stud Emperor on his first visit to his grand. of expensive bunters, but a hard frost mother. Straight and sure came the answer from Sir Henry. Ponsonby: The

set in for weeks, and he calculated that "¡ more, expensive than usual. I learn from

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eaters shall leave London." "

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STORY OF KING EDWARD.

from the moors that the birds have been few and far between. Some men who bad invited large parties to shoot had to get over their disappointment by play- each ride cost him a hundred guineas, Then, Lord Dudley took a deer forest. in Scotland the year he was suddenly ap- pointed Vicergy of Ireland. - He" could hot sab-let it, and he was only able to go to the lodge for two days. He shot one stag, which cost him £2,000.

"King Edward's reign, as may be sup posed, provided the diarist with livelier material. One story deserves to be res pented because it shows that. King Ed ward was sometimes prepared to be zaconventional. It seems that Lord Pem- broke went to Buckingham Palace, to inquire when it would be convenient for

But the most touching story" this year the King to receive an address, and found his Majesty having his corns cut. The is of a peer who took a fibing on a King asked him whether he had the salmon river. He went to the water the address with him, and on being told he day after nis arrival, and found a man had, said: "Why not present it now there who reminded him that his tenancy Lord Pembroke replied that he had not did not begin until the next day. How- the Lord Steward's wand, which is supever, the man courteously allowed him posed to be de rigurur. on such an to use his rod, and he caught-öne salmon. occasion. Oh, never mind," said his The next day the rain set in and floods Majesty," 'take an umbrella". And, came down, and be never caught another rather to"Lord Pembroke's bewilderment, fish.

the ceremony was performed inder such ROBES AND THE STAGE. novel conditions.

Having equalled the record of Dr.

As Clerk of the Privy Countil Sir W. G. Grace by scoring 198 centuries in Almeric Fitzroy anw all the leading states-first-class cricket, Hohhs, the famous men and politicians at close range, so Surrey batsman, was offered an engage to speak. One gathers that he has "no ment at the London Coliseum to "de- love for either Mr. Asquith or Mr.monstrate cricket strokes."

Cricket pro Churchill Of Mr. Lloyd George he says fessionals, even the most famous, are in the diary under date December, 1915, poorly paid in comparison, with the that he has the mentality chardeteris" stars in many other fields of sport, tic of his countrymen, an inexactitude and Hobbs admita that this offer was which ja quite outside the control of bis very tempting. His refusal is all the will. A fact with him is nothing static, more creditable and level-headed. He no matter of definite shape or precise felt that the sporting prestige of cricket limits, but something fluid, ke quick woul suffer, that his appearance on the silver, which under pressure of circum-stage would be regarded unfavourably by: stances may take any form you like to the lenders of the cricket world, and that give it."

he would hardly be at his best in such an exotic, time-lit atmosphere..

IRON AND STEEL OUTLOOK.

ME LLOYD GEORGE AND THE LAND.

It is, I think, extremely doubtful The information which reaches me from whether there could be any instructional trade. circles in the North of England is value in a cricket demonstration on the the reverse of cheerful. I hear that the stage under stage conditiona. A turn by iron and steel outlock shows no sign of Hobbs would simply mean the exploita improving Out of 480 fumaces only 130 tion of his personal popularity in an age were in blast at the end of July. Our when everyone who gets into the exporta, which were 414,000 tons a month papers" is liable to be besieged with in 1913, and 321,000 tons a month during offers by people eager to make capital 1924, were down to 300,000 tons a month out of his or her teamorary prominence. during the first six months of this year. One feels grateful to Hobbs for refusing Germany, which experted only 128,000 to allow this kind of exploitation to be tons a month last year, bar had an aver applied to a sportsmen who has achieved age of 250,000 tons this year, her best his success simply while playing for his customer being the Netherlands, But side. whatever Germany's ultimate power may he as a competitor, France and Beiginn are the most formidable competitors at the Mr. Lloyd George has informed." a moment. Belgium exported $27,000 ton special correspondent of the Daily News in January and February; and France, that he proposes to start another national which could only average 51,000 tons a land campaign. He was found by the month in 1913, has now, with Lorraine at correspondent in his garden“ seeking her disposal, got up to 280,000 tons aan explanation why an apple-tree, har mouth. Americs, of which we used to developed blight. There are some on- hear so much, has dropped out of the lookers at the political game who would running altogether. This is due to her suggest that the blight was symbolical. large home demand for steel, When this It would be hard to say off-hand how is satisfied she may become a formidable many land policies Mr. Lloyd George has competitor once more.

formulated or how many land, crusades he has fed. Parodies of hymns were written for one of them not long ago and published. The crusades did not attain popularity and electioneering success

EXPINE GOODS.

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