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GENERAL NEWS.

THE CHANCELLOR'S

DIARY,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912,

Mr. Lloyd George on Iiimself.

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letters give some account of his early days in the House of Com- In his first division, he

mons.

saye: "I voted against Bima atalliem, but couldn't tell you why."

House of Commons is thus His maidon speech in the

described:

The Cholera In Tokyo. Cholora has now spread all ovor Tokyo city says the "Japan Chronicle" of Oot, 13, Fakagawa,The first of four volumes from Koishikawa, and Hongo Wards, the pen of Mr. Herbert Du Pare which had been free from tho that are to be slovoted to the life disease, became infected on the of Mr. Lloyd George was publish Dih instant, ono caso being, re-od recently by the Caxton Pub- parted in each of these wards, in lishing Company. Tho addition to two "onses in other thor writes as an enthusiastic | wards. This has brought up the admirer of his hero, and thus his totil since the beginning of the work makes no protones of being outbreak to 103 cases, of which a critical biography, 37 ondod fatally. The report on Ho has enjoyed the advantago the Oth instant mado by ho Do- of help from Mr. Lloyd Goorge's partment of Home Affairs gives family. Tho Chancellor of the the now cases of cholera in the Exchequor's early diaries and prefouturos ns follows: --Fukuoka, lottors have been placed at his 0 Yamaguchi, 6; Ehimo, 1; disposal, and it is to those that the Oita, 1, Kanagawa, 3; lijogo, 2; | publio will inturally turn to die- Osaka-fu, 0; Tokyo-fu Oka-cover what Mr. Lloyd Goorgeparently loss warmly received. yama, 1; Chiba, 2. Since the anys of himself and his past. outbreak thoro have beon 1,008 Thoauthor has taken care that the

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Clinellor of the Exchequer shalt toll his own story.

Bible in Japanese. When the Bible was translutod At the age of seventeen he was into Japaneso an equivalent to the writing political lottors to tho word "baptizo" could not be Wolah Press under the name of found, and the word.“ soak” lud |“Brulus" and attending political to be used instead. So that Japanese Biblical students àro nequainted with a person named "John the Sonker," and with a My impression is that so far as doctring of "sosking for romission speaking is concerned, the Welsh of sins." In that case the min-nre incomparably, supirior to tho translation is due to inadequacy | English.

meetings. One of the earlieat entries in his diary, in November 1880, records:

of language. It is oftener duo to In 1881, n the age of eighteen, ignoraneo. A schoolboy once ho paid his first visit to London, rendered "Miserere, Domine!"and we have this entry in his into, "Oh, heart-broken, school- | diary for Novombor 12; 'mastor!". And another recovaród from Goran the text, The spirit indood is willing, but the fosh is weak" in tho. form, ""The ghost,'| of course, in roady, but the ment | is fooblo."- [London Daily Chroniclo.

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Disaster at a Japanesc Saw Mill..

A saw nillint lichikoshi, Koyu district, Miyagi 'prefecturs, was washed away recently by a tor- rential flood; tho workers shod on the hill was procipitated down the valloy about 180 feat halow, and 18 mon were drowagi, of orushod to douth, by the falling debris. Four bodies were recovered, all badly mangled and with the

bones brokon.

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If I am to judge by the cheers I got during the pro- gress of my speech and im- mediately after I sat down, and WANTED. Godown facing the received, must have succeeded to P. O. Box No. 472.

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My maiden speech has already made a great difference in the reception gat among members of the House.

His second speech was ap-

Before making it ho writes:

I cannot gain much in this House by my speech; on the contrary, I may lose much influogco, theso M.P.8 are so frightfully decorous and respectable. My audience is the country.. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour in Thoro are characters of Mr.

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ons. I will not say but that foyed the assembly in a spirit similarto that in which William) the Conqueror eyed England on his visit to Edward the Confessor, as the region of his future domain. Oh, vanity!

In the evening went with ncle to Mma. Tu saud's.. In June 1882 an entry in the diary tells us, that he was "in Conway Camp as a Volunteer," but he does not appear to have rison above the rank of private.

Well-known Indian Outlaw

Killed.

He was in assiduous speaker News has been received that at the Portmados Debating So- the well-known Khost outlaw cioty, and dealt with such varied Qullayan Istaka Wazir, who had topics ng "Fair Trado versus Freo. beon the loader in much of the Trado" and "Has Portmadoc mischief on the North-West Fron-rosclied the elimax of its prosper tior of recent years has boonty?" On June 2, 1883, is a char- killod in inter-tribal quriols. [acteristic entry in the diary: His death is likely to be an im-. portant factor for praco on this turbulent Border,

Fatal Colllery Explosion in Japan. :

Situation in Wuchang.

necilote, recounted by himself somewhat neglected. But one

must be given. At one of the though it tells against himself Woleh meoling where he was re- plying to the Bishop of St. Asaph

was thus introduced by a Welsh doncon:

der Streal.

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1919, 381 One roomed Offico. Apply Property office, Jardine, Mailsson & Co., Ltd.

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appearing in the Tokyo "Keizai Gontiernon, I haff to intro-Rashi" (Journal of Economics). duce to you to-night the mem- According to thisarticle, the total, ber for Carnarvon Boroughs. He income of the entire Japaneso has come here to reply to what people in Japan propor the Bishop of St. Asaph said $1,133,113,700, or about $23 the other night about Welsh por capita. And it adds Disestablishment... In my opinion, gentlemon, that Bishop of St. Asaph ias one of the biggest liars in creashon; but, thank God-yes, thank God we haff a match for him to-night,

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the fact that the woll-to-do pay sion of gas took placo in a novali

wint forces of pluck and in dustry I can muster." colliery at Shimemura, Fukuoka

lesscuing the burden of the poorer proportionately larger taxes, thus profecture, four men and wo In 1885, when he passed his

classon; yet the fact remains that women being sovorely injured, examinations as solicitor and set the "Literary Digest," if her

a nation which has to pay as The four men and one of the wo-up in practice in Criccieth, his ambitious naval program is carried taxes so much as 10.4 por cont. mon died immediately on being diary shows that he was a con- out, but it will be at the expense of its income is not in wholesome brought up from the pit. The stant speaker at political and tom-of a heavy additional load of oxplosion is said to hayo boenperance meetings:

xation on an already overtaxed

As a remedy the writer urges caused by one of the men smuk- Fire "Without Knowing It." people. In reading the current a radical curtailment of public vndenbhtr. ing in the pit,

January 17.Attending tem-sues of Japaneno newspapers expendituro. He believes that, Japan's Share in the Expense of perance meeting at Blacnan one thing whichrepeatedly arrests next to Russia, Japan devotes to

the Panama Canal.

Festing, Placa crowdod. Rough attention is the serions concern public expenditure the largest The estimate of the cost of the audienco. Ilad good hearing. with which the editors are discuss cost to the Japanese Govorament Spoke with much fire and iming the remedy for the high price In support of this statement, ho proportion of bernational income. for their share in the Tamma petuosity.

of rice. Not a low journals have Canal Exhibition, to be held at San Francisco in 1915, will be before magistratos at Parimados. narrating how the masses are incomes of soven leading Powers March 13.-Defending poncher boon publishing series of articles Prosonin the following table show- ing the percentage of the national included in the Budget for next lo is convicted "notwithstanding suffering from the unprecedented used for Governmental, expendi year. The amount. to be asked the very able speech of Mr. L. advance in the price of this staple for is expected to be about George." (Mr. Osmond Williams foodstuff. The Torodzu” (Tokyo),

. Por cent of Y1,230,000, which will be spread chairman of the board.)

for une, tells us how some children

Income, March 28-Second Liberation fire obliged to attend schools United States 0 Italy ovor three years.

meeting. Spoke between forty without taking any luncheon, and Great Britain 1.14 Japan 2.43 According to roparts from Wu- and forty-five minutes with much how the poor are cutting their German chang says the "Hankow Daily case and in the end with much rations which were never gonor-France

1.36 Russia 2.62 Nowa" the populaco is feeling|fire; gotting into the hwyl ons, even when rico was com

2.12. somewhat uneasy, not on account (swing) without knowing it when paratively cheap. Although the to bring about the present finan Many circumstances,conspiro of expected troubles, but because declaiming about liberty.

organs of the Janpanese cial and basincs depression in there is searcity of water in the July 9-Altonding Ponrhyn Government aro town. All wolls are exhausted. Sesions for first time, opposing make light of such stories, the writer believes, is the oppres inolined to Japan, but at theroot of it all, The populace is inclined to im- transfer of licence of Victoria declaring that they are the pute the fault for the long dry Inn. Got on, I think, remarkably creation of sensationalism

sion of heavy taxation. Without period to the works for the cut- well. Never felt more fluent, or sentimentality, it can not applying the are to the root, he ting of the hill, as the dragon has bat Bench would not listen to be denied that the populace of find the way out of this 'embar boon disturbed by the dynamite anything.

Japan are having exceedingly rassing situation. explosions. By a mere chanes the November 18-Replying to hard times, unless such journals samo scarcity of water was ox- the attacks on Chamberlain as the "Jiji" (Tokyo), the "Nichi- perienced in 1903, when Tuan I attacked sycophants and ap-nichi" (Nokyo), and the "Asahi" The Youngest Aviatress: Fang started to cut the hill, oa pealed to the people to vote with (Tokyo) are to be described as account of which Ohang Chi-tang | judgment and confidence. All consational.

Miss Benetta Adams Miller, GRAVING who has just qualified for a pilot's had the work discontinued and this latter part from Chamber- The Japanese Government it-license from the Aero Club of the hole filled up again.

lain down was delivered in a very self has been forced to take America by making a series of Reminded of Rosenthal's Fate. impassioned manner, and I was cognizance of the miseries entailed sensational flight at Hempstead Chicago, September 13tremendously cheered on sitting by the high price of rico, and to Plains, L.I, has the honour of be- "Remember what, Rosenthal got down. I felt I had made another reduce the import duty on foreigning the youngest aviatress in the In New York," was the warning | stroks at Criccieth.

rice. At the same time, many world! She is twenty-two. While received by Polios Liontenant November 20-Further Tory Japanese writers think that the the Aero Club Tidonob bnly re Michael J. Gallery, who has been victorios. This is rather dishear-real cause of general poverty now quires a flight at an altitude of interested in prosecuting illegal tening, I confess. It must be those prevailing in the Mikado's realm 200 fest, Miss Miller, in her trial employment agencies on the West Parnellites, besides thero is no cry lies deepseated, and can not be sent her machine whizzing into Bido. Ho said to-day the phrase for the toerns. Humdrum Libora- remodied by such palliative mea-space until she had, attained the was in a "black hand letter lism won't win elections. threatening that his wife and five children would be blown up by dynamite if he did not osse lis Motivition.

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