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seriously uneasy at the constant signs that the Prime Minister is feeling the strain of his trials and responsibilities. It is not surpris Buffering from acute strain. The for many years as builders of cargo Latest Cables." Naval Conferene, the unemploy vessels nient problem, his negotiations with gross.

the Liberal leaders, the Imperial! Conference and the Round Table Conference have followed thick and

up to nearly 7,000 tons

THOSE who visited England this year, after a fairly long absence, would probably agree that the greatest of many changes was a psychological one, and could be summed up in a phrase as, the endA LONDON doctor, of sufficient im- of the age of illusion. During the Portance to have his remarks pub War a belief spread through the lished in the Home Press, has made nation that a new and golden era the amiable suggestion that idiots would dawn with the coming of should be executed in a lethaling that Mr. MacDonald should be Napier Miller have been well-known peace. Only a few Acts of Parlia

cation in peace of the war/spirit of saorifice were necessary, it was honestly thought, to bring a new

bloodthirsty revolution was desired by none; for the lesson of Russia's degradation had been well learned, Young officers of the privileged class, who had been suddenly

of other walks of life, were fore most in desiring drastis changes, and ware as ready to share their fortunes with the men they had been called upon to lead as they were to face with them the common hardships and perils of

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The text has been issued of the Trade Dispute. Bill. Page 11, The House of Commons has ad- journed until January 20, Page 11. The Prince of Wales spent a good better.

England into being.. Violent and after it was all over, with minds spite. And at night-time he can fed the Chinese Maritime Customs night, and he could not be doing

Victoria, in the Colony of Hong KOUR CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME hrought into close contact with mun in which the worthy doctor's pro-social relaxations have been mia-to complete suspension.

DECEMBER, 1030, at 11.45 O'CLOCK

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the FoxNoon at wbloh Meeting the Liquidators will lay before the Meeting An account of their acts and dealings and of the conduct of the Winding Up during the Your following the confirma tion of the Resolution for the Winding Up of the Company.

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Politicians in responsible positions, showed their ignorance of sound economies by hastening to proclaim that sweeping reforms could be effected, without making the first inquiry as to the possibility of realising their ideala. The country was.lod astray by the phrases of

fast, allowing him no moment's re- The Ministry of Finance has noti- find no release in sleep. Added to that the likin and coastal trade at rest. His motive is an appro- this come dissensions among his duty are to be abolished from Jami- priate one, the saving of money in own followers, and criticisms from ary 31 next, and hits also instructed the Native Customs outside the 50 these hard times, for idiots are a his own compatriots. It seems to

us a natural thing that Mr. Mae- i zong to suspend revenue collec considerable expence to the con-Donald should stay at Durobin or lions from the end of this year, and These to wind up their affairs preparatory. munity. There are circumstances visit Lord Londonderry.

Page 11. In the course of an address de- posal might merit consideration; interpreted in Scotland. And it is just this kind of attack which Mr. in a beleaguered city, for example, MacDonald feels most acutely. It livered by Signor Mussoliniat or in a country where it was anis peculiarly mean, as the great Rome, Dace declared that the administrative impossibility to keep

causes of the world economic crisis were the Russian dumping, cystomis these unfortunate creatures under

barriers, expenditure on armaments, proper supervision. But in Eng-

political insecurity, revolutions in land the suggestion of such a

Latin Americe, chaos in India and China, and the congestion of gold diabolical minor economy is merely ridiculous, and ite pole interest lies

in the United States and France, in the light it throws en a certain type of scientific mind. The pro- with the reason and the logic of posal is logical and reasonablo

the communist, the asylum or, muat we say it, the laboratory. Perhaps self undertake this modern and the doctor in question might him-

scientific development of the execu tioner's art, but moro likely be

tradition of British politics is that public antagonisms do not intrude into private life. Whatever one may think of his policy everyone in Eng land (except a few of bis political supporters) has a real admiration for the personality and the many fine qualities of the Prime Minister.

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Page 11. No morning or evening papers will be published in London Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Page 11. In the House of Commons, Mr. Clynes presented the Representa tion of the People Rill containing the Government proposal for elec toral reform and the alternative. Page 11. vote.

Following a riot at Buenos Aires The 800 students were arrested. studente declared an eight-day strike in protest against the Gay- ernment's alleged, interference in University affairs.

Page 11. (Continued 'on precious column.),

Local Notes and Events

Dac death (Chinese) from typhoid For failing to produce his car was reported for the 24 houra ended licenes when asked to do so. Mr. December 18,

J. J. Grover, employed at the Peninsula Hotel, was fined $5 by Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy yesterday.

Looking Back 25 Years.

The return to the Colony of Mr. G.J.B. Bayer, after a holiday of several months at Home, and his announcement that bo intends to found a firm of contractors under the title of Seyor and Co., will be welcome intelligenos to his many friends and acquaintances, Dur- A Gius of 81,000 or, in defaulting his fiftoon years' residence in six months' hard labour was im- Hong Kong, during which he was For the unlawful possession of

employed at the Naral Yard in posed by Mr. Butters on a Chinese connection with architectural and who was charged with the passes engineering work for the Admiral- tasis of prepared opium, a fined 8350 by Mr. Chinese was Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy It was stated that the morphine both professional and privato, Ho sion of thres ounces of morphine., Mr. Sayon earned the good wishes of a wide circle of friends, yesterday.

was found in packets concealed in announces that he is established at No. 19, Queen's Road Central, as his socks.

Civil Engineer, Architect and “ Surveyor.

Io will have the co- operation of important Chinese contractors-Hong Kong Daily Press, Dec. 19, 1905.

which homes for heroes, was the would prefer to leave the executive most notorious. The working class tak to someone else. There is no We offer you our services an buy

believed that rare and refreshing need to dwell on morbid details, for ing agouts for British or Conti nental goods Established in 1844 but fruit could be had for, the picking, the subject is not practies) polities. thoroughly up-to-date, our

There is to be a congregation for attained by making out customers and the Labour Party espoused But' science shows a tendency now interest our first aims. Five expert these illusions, refusing to heed and then to arrogate to in the conferring of degrees at the

autocracy of a most painful kind. buyers, with capable staffs, manage those who warned them that the Mr. G. B. SHAW in "The Doctor's Hong Kong University on Mon different departments, buying, greatest care every class of goods nation would be poorer and not Dilemma," and Mr. G. K. CHESTER day, January 12.

TON in his singularly brilliant The giving our customers, all the advan- richer as the result of the war. Poet and the Lanatics," utter a tage of wide experiance, and ensuring

"The War, has been a harvest for warning that noods taking to heart. their requirements being rightly sap plied at lowest prices and best all classes, from privates to pro. The scientific mind is often the old timo priestly mind in new guise. fiteers, was the common saying, The prices encrificed men (for their then why should not high wages own good) to theological theories, and easy conditions continue, and be but the scientist can be just as fanatical in furtherance of his be still further improved in times of liefs on eugenics, teetotalism, diel Silk forwarded from here by peace?" When, however, those in and various forms of painless R.31.8. Empress of Japan Dr. control of our staple industries, on surgery. It is all a little reminis

cent of sop's Fable of the ass November. 27 arrived in New York the dry but irrefutable evidence of who donned the skin of a lion but (St. John's Park) and Hoboken ca

theologian, however, knows about

discounts.

KEYMER, SON & 00, Waitefrains, London. Teleg.. Key London." Ert 1844.

PLETE REPORT

of the

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

'is given in the.

A report has been made to the police by the Manager of the Kow loon Cinton Railway to the effect

bo 73 years of age was accidental

A Court-Martial was hold on: board the Victor Emanuel yester day to try Captain Cleveland,

| COMPREHENSIVE AND COM. figures, called for harder work and brayed as before. The modern December 10, having been 10 days that a Chinese woman, stated to Looking Back 50 Years,

lowor wages, the reply of organised the errors of his predecessors. To in transit. labour was, not altogether un-the London doctor he might puc naturally, a long series of strikes. the question: "How do you know A dainty picturs of a Crinolinely knocked down by a train on

An economic situation full of that an idiot is not working out Girl" received yesterday brought Thursday. She received inquries Staff Commander James, and

some, strange stogo. of the soul

Lieutenan Clarke, on the charge danger owing to the return of

evolution? Now don't say, he the Christmas greetings of theta hor loft foot.

that they did on the July 30 negli- demobilised man to industry became hasn't got a soul" the divine Dollar Steamship dines and the

Mr. O Dudley Bartlett took the gently or by default strand hor desperate when markets were lost would add." tenure you scientists American Mail Tine with best part of Shadbolt in the

Majesty' ship Iron Duke: On Yeomen!

reof off the island of. Okisiri: Tho to foreign competitora by these die know nothing about the soul. You

may know all the biology in the wishes for 1931,

of the Guard Inst night. During the Court was composed as follows:-- putes. Then a now phase set in.world; but it has nu bearing on the

first act of the play he became very Commodore Smith," president, To prevent destitution a generous problem of human immortality."

ill and was attended by a doctor, Captain Cuming, Curango, Cap- who advised him not to go on, lain East, Comus, Captain Meade, system of unemployment insurance was initiated, and this was accept

Mr. Bartlett, however, insisted on Modesto, Commander Grove, Rily ed as a substitute for the older and

finishing the play, but he did not Mr. Wright, Commodore's secre appear in the final curtain:

tary, Judgo Advocate. The Judge Advocate, in the absence of a pró-

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The Motorcycle belonging to Science can be very cruel, not Mr. Yaung Wing Pui, a clerk, where thero is exact knowledge,

but where men groping in the dusk which was reported to have

been

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larger ambitions. Men found them- Joalous for their own discoveries Star Forry wharf, has been restonecutter working on the secintor, requested the Court to

selves as woll off on the dole as they were at work; idleness became desative and A. REORI minority

of experiment and speculation are stolen from the stand outside the And for the man in the street it may be annoying to have to pay covered at Loo Gardens. income-tax to keep idiots in luxury, but it has got to be done. Mr. J. C. Fletcher, formerlyn maskesirmax of be situation in that! just recommended the suspension of State The Unemployment Insure recommend murderers ance Scheus is now bankrupt, A scientist would choose this time there is a growing indignation to urge its imposition for idiotey 1

Coats

site of the Now National City, direct two-navigating officers to Bank of New York in Tee House work out, the ship's rockoning, in Street was killed yesterday morn nccordance with the, Admiralty's in- edingsbeshe fell from a blank elevatjanswer Vian, Lamical fe Lecured an appointment under the body four Yere from the ground the WIN Glasgow Education: Authority, atento a stone. Ils received injuries and was examined by the Judg Knightswood, where a now Central to his hand from which he died Advoario, Hong Kong Daily

Press, Doc. 20, 1880. School is shortly to be opened.

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