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Thursday, 27th, No. 2 Programme

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Small and Large Lots of Local and Bubber Small and Large Tote of Sound Local and

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BETTING TAX.

MANIFESTO BY THE CLERGY. Following is the manifesto on the pro- posal to tax betting signed by a number of bishops and other clergymen

CHEQUE BY WIRELESS.

SENT FROM LONDON-HONOURED IN NEW YORK.

The Bankers Trust Company at New York last month honoured a cheque which wirelessed, photographically. front We fool that in the discussion of the N proposal

to tax betting, which the London" to New York, the sender being Chancellor of the Exchequer is con General J. G. Harbord. The payment of sidering it has been largely overlooked that the select committe which examin- the cheque, which was for 1.000 dollars. ed the proposal in 1923 concluded, by was dolayed for a moment for the neces

a practically two-thirds majority, not sary endorsement, but there WAS no to recommend a betting tax and all

that must go with it as being desir.hesitation because the document was the able. Further examination of the ques. first of its kind. tion has convinced us that this con- clusion is irresistible:

MAKING THE FACSIMILE.

The facsimile of the cheque, which was It may be that such a tax is prac-signed by General Harbord-president of ticable, though on this point the select the ladie Corporation of America, was committee were almost equally divided. | transmitted by special apparatus installed There is every reason to believe, how at the Wilson-street, E.C., office of Mar ever, that the tax would be costly to coui's Wireless Telegraph Company to the colleet and capable of widespread Radio Corporation's offices in the Wood worth Building in Broadway. Now York, in about 20 minutes.

evasion.

While this is a serious matter, che most important considerations which cause us concert are those relating to the moral and social effect upon the community of the proposed tax.

makers

The matter to be transmitted is writ ten on a sheet of transparent naterial which is wrapped round a glass cylinder. A antrow beam of light is thrown from the inside of this cylinder through the transparency on to, a photo-electric- cell," sensitive to light,

There is every reason to anticipate that the taxation al betting, with its accompanying changes in the law of the coatry-the licensing of book- When the fight is interrupted by the and the opening of ready marks of the hand-writing the action on money betting offices-would mean na the photo-electric cell causes an inter- increase in betting. This has been the ruption of wireless waves, which results effect in other countries, and it is in unlikely that the extension of the facilities for betting together with the added inducement of Government saac tion, would have any differens result in this country.

Those who know the present extent f betting and its disastrous moral and social effects. cannot be other than ap palled at the prospect of any measure which would lead to stil further deve- lopments. No revenue enn, in our judgment. justify measures which are fikely to lead in the direction of an inereuse of betting.

The argument that the licensing of bakmakers and betting offices would make possible a better control of bet ting does not appeal to as as at all conclusive. There is no guarantee whatever that licensed betting offices would bring to an 'end illegal street betting or reduce house-to-house bec. ting: and they would have no effect upon the betting which takes place in workshops.

On the other hand, there can be ro doubt that the proposal to license book. inakers would create a new vested in- terest, which would prove a distinct obstacle to reform in the direction of restriction,

The needs of the country call for every effort to be made to reduce the betting now taking place, and nothing should be done which would serve to establish the evil more firmly, v er therefore appeal to his Majesty's Gov ernment not to take any steps in the direction of the taxation of betting, which we believe would be a retrograde Pasure. contrary to the best interests of the nation.

LORD DARLING ON STATUES. SOME THAT FRIGHTEN BIRDS.

Lord Darling, who presided recently, at the annual dinner of the Musicians Benevolent Fund, founded in memory of the late (iervase Elwes, at the New Princes Galleries, Piccadilly, W.. warmly commended the objects of the

fund

It was, he said, limited to assisting British musicians, and it was a consola tion to some of them to know that nothing would be given to the support of German hands. Even those who had bren accustomed to amuse us by play. ing the Hymn of Hate" would receive nothing. (Laughter.) He continued:

I am told that it is usual to have upon this occasion. a lawyer ng chair man. That is why I have been asked, although I am hardly one any longer,

is Mr. Justice MeCardie, a well-known authority on breach of promise. wed. ding rings and feminine costumes (Laughter.)

would

suggest that next year you should ask a most distinguished judge who until lately was under the impres sion that the saxophone was an instru ment that was played with

n stick, (Laughter.)

3 pen in the receiving apparatus making a mark on a piece of paper. These harks make up a farsirile of the handwriting or photograph.

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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE, CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Mar 22, 1926.

$1,100 bay. £127 nom. PRO BOM,

Bank

roa

291

nom.

383 2

$800 buy.

.$1.90 bay.

Ths. 145 nou

bay.

Hongkong Bank..........

Do., London.. Chartered Bank... Mercantile Bank, A. & B 30 nom. P.&O.. East. Canton Insurance Uhina Underwriters North China Insurance Union Insurance .......

...$37) bay. Yangtze Insurance

........$180 bay. Oains Fire Insurance Hongkong Fire Insurance... $360 buy. Donglases

& M. Steambosta .....$94k bay..

Tugs........ Indo-Chinas (Pref.) Bo. (DeL.), Shell Transporta star Ferrion... Waterboste. China Sagan Malabon Bugars Benguets...

Kata Mining Au... Lang kata (combined) (single)..... Shangha Explorations.. Shanghai Lang Baube

rozoh mes Ural Caspians

A Wharfs.... W. Dook. HongkeWE... Now

Engineerings, Shanghai Docks, H.K.. Hotels.

Hongkong Lands hongkong Realtys (cp.) Territorials (t.p.)... Humphreys Estates. Prince's Buildings... Hi! Lands

wo Cortana Urientals Shanghai Cotton (old)

Da. Amusementa Canton lces Cements (combined)

Do. (old; Do. (now) China Bases..... China Laghts (combined)

Da (old)

(now)

.. Do.

(now)

Chins Providente Constractions Dairy Farms....... Der A. Wing (Ep.) Hongkong Electrics...... Macão Electrics H.K. Developmenta

430 nom.

$48 uuma. 27,6 nom

..$62) nom.

„24) nom. $39 nom. $11 buy. 421-bay.

TL. 19 bay.

LON

65/. nom. ..8/.new.

Sild vel."

550 noạt. Tis. 182 buy, T3.90 noma. tis, lust nom. $10.40 buy.

buy. buy.

$ now.

$154

$95 ody.

Și nom.

Th, le nom.

Tla, 3

THOU

Tha. 53 buy.. 17. 27 bay. $11 nom $7+ BOL

nom.

49 non.

Tis. 11.30 bay. $184 nom ..$188 buy.

$5.20 nom.

Lane Crawfords..... Mackintoshs... Peak Tramı (old)"

$8 sal. ..4641 buy. SLU NOM. 25 ets. nom. HX Rapes (combined)....... 130 sel

Da (ald)

$10 Bal. (ROW)

sel. Hongkong Tramways....

10 el $19) nom.

174 buy.

DOM

.. Bel

Lord Darling understood it was at one time the society's intention to adorn Do. (new) London with yet another statue, but the Sinceres efforts of those who said they had all the Ta................................... taste in the country so impressed the United Asbestos

121 now. $12.50 buy,, 127. society that the idea was abandoned and Watacas (ald) they determined not to put up anything Wm Powells

..$10 nom else in Hyde Park, for fear that those Singapore Tractions

Layers; selveller birds, which were capable of music, might all leave the premises. (Laughter.) That was a great loss to those who did not know how to make them. Instead

of a statue, it was determined that the fund should be for the assistance of those British musicians who found themselves in the decline of life in need of some Assistance.

14. POSTAGE FOR CANADA, £4,470,600 SURPLUS. FOR DEBT REDUCTION.

In his Budget speech in the House of Commons at Ottawa, Mr. Robb, the Minis- ter of Finance, announced a net surplus of £4,470,800 to be applied to the reduc tion of the National Debt."

There would, he said, be a return to penny postage on July 1st.

He also announced that the benefits of the British preferential tariff would afte? January 21st apply only to goods con veyed direct without transhipment into the sea or river ports of Canada.

bay Lom-nominal.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, May 24to.

Previous On Date On Daze

Day

At

at 2 p.m. 6 am. 2 p.m.

Barometer Temperature... Humidity Wind Direction... E

Force Weather.......

29:53 29.65 29.63

78

75

75

74

-95

OR 0 0.47 0,00

OD

1.78

78

Hain Highest open-air Temperature on 23rd "Lowest "open-air Temperatore on 24th- 75

The raw sugir duties under the British. preferential tariff would be reduced by 18,288 cents per hundred pounds, and the duty, on tinplate of a class not manufac- The duties on automobiles and truckstured in Canada, under the British pre- would be reduced by 15 per cent. of the ferential tariff would be removed, while general tariff on low-priced and 7 per aircraft engines and complete parts would cent on higher-priced vehicles.

come in free under the British preferential tarif.

.....

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW (9.15 EXCEPTED.)

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At 9.15

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CLINICAL INDICATIONS

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Albuminuria.--Ezpecially albuminuria indicating renal irritation;albuminuria due to gravel; alight mechanical and residual albuminuria, Functional albuminuria, Chropic albuminous nephritis.

Inflammatory actions of the urinary system: prelitis, pyelonephritis subacute or chronic cymi tibi.

5.--Biliary lithiasis with or without hepatic colic hepatic colle due to gall stones: hepatic colis caused by increased consistency of bile, catarrh of the biliary duota: gouty hepatic colice, habitual constipation allied with biliary insufficiency..

8.-Gastris disorders. Dyspepsis of gouty objects; secretory dyspepsia, sionić dyspepsia.

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