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MAGICIAN OF EXMOOR.

HOW THE STAG IS. TRACKED.

NEW

TECTION.

LEGALITY OF "KEY", PLAN QUESTIONED,

Mr. Ernest C. Pulbrook, writes"Does the Government announce- to the Daily Chronicle:-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

NOTICE:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society will be

ment of legislation in the autumn UNTON INSURANCE SOCIETY One of the attractions of holi-really mean that Free Traders

OF CANTON, LIMITED. day making in parts of West has won a substantial victory. Somerset and North Devon is the that the Government is now seeking by loose legislation to stag hunting on Exmoor, but of secure power for protecting any the many who attend a meet and industry by indirect means?" watch the quarry roused and

held at the registered office of sent away with the hounds and

This question, suggested by the the Society, Nos. 3 and 4 Queen's neid in hot pursuit, few know the Board of Trade statement of the Building. Victoria in the Colony skill required by the man whose Government's intentions in the of Hongkong on Friday the business it is to locate the stag matter of "anti-dumping" and seventh day of November 1919 at to be found at "key" industries, was put to 12 o'clock Noon, when the sub- Deer are not random, and were it not for the Mr. F. W. Hirst, editor of Com-joined Resolutions will be pro- work of this official, the harbourer,mon Sense the well-known Free posed

Trade economist. as he is called, the quarry might be sought in vain.

"I think it means both." replied. Whether the harbourer receives Mr. Hirst. "There is no doubt notice of the presence of a stag, that the great majority of the or whether a meet has been embargoes upon imports, along arranged at one of the recognised with the licences to favoured places, is all the same to the traders, have been swept away harbourer. His business is to in order to evade Sir John find out in which covert-patch Simon's threat to test them in of woodland or thicket-the the Vacation Court. I think it animal has its home, so that the will be very difficult, if not master knows at once where to impossible, to restore them by send the "tufters"-one or two legislation

Parliament couple of steady old hounds-who meets in view of the general will drive it out of the wood. protest against high prices and the general indignation against Government restrictions 03 trade.

,,

when

NEW LIST AS ILLEGAL AS

THE OLD.

Needless to say, the harbourer knows every inch of the moor, is closely acquainted with the habits and favourite resorts of the deer. and is on good terms with the farmers. Not only has he to find the stag, but to know it is still there on the morning of the hunt. To disturb it would be fatal, so he has to deduce its presence by the aid of the methods of the super-competent lawyers, I am strongly detective of romance.

of opinion that the new list of Early on the morning of the prohibitions. with few, if any, meet he proceeds to a covert in exceptions, is just as illegal as the which experience tells him a stag old one. I cannot see that deriva-

On the other hand," Mr. Hirst went on. "speaking for the newly- formed association to resist em- bargces and monopoly licences, and after consulting a number of

is likely to be found, or maybe atives of coal tar. synthetic drugs. farmer informs him that one has saccharin. scientific glassware, been haunting his fields of late laboratory porcelains.gas mantles. and appears to have its retreat in hosiery needles, aud gauges, all of a certain wood. He starts by which are included in the new walking round the

or list, have anything to do with the wood thicket in search of traces of the arms, explosives, etc., which the deer. A gap in the hedge or fence Government is entitled to prohibit

under calls a halt, for examination may by proclamation show it is of recent origin, and Customs Act of 1876. If this view therefore the place where the is correct, Sir A. Geddes and the stag broke in or out.

officials of the Board of Trade will until such time as Parliament can be acting illegally from Sept. 1

despair of legal remedies" in the be induced to legislate. Nor do I

meantime.

the

Parliament can define any industry as a key industry. Personally I regard the key in- dustry business as pure humbug, and as a device for avoiding the dangerous word 'Protection."

An examination of the ground nay reveal hoof-marks, or "slots,” as they are called, and it is necessary to be sure whether they are new or old, not an easy matter after a spell of dry weather. After wet it is not difficult, as there will be a harder crust on top, and the bottom of the hoof-prints will be wetter than the top. If the stag passed that way a week ago during wet spell and the weather has since dried, the sides "I am not sure that I should will not be so clean-cut but dry call the Government policy as and crumbly. Vegetation that one of whole-hog' Protection. has been trodden underfoot will I should prefer to call it "belf- also give a clue, as if still fresh hog Protection, which is much the stag undoubtedly passed that | more profitable for the favoured way the previous night.

interests than whole-hog' Pro-

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***HALF-HOG" POLICY.

suffers.

a.

1. That the fusion of the in- "terests of the Union Insur- ance Society of Canton. Limited, (in this and the following Resolutions referr- ed to as "the Society") and the North China Insurance Company Limited (in this and the following Resolutions re- ferred to as the Company" be approved of and agreed to on the basis following: (a) That shares of the Society of the nominal value of £10 each whereof £4 per share shall be credited as paid up be alloted to the shareholders of the Company in exchange for the shares of the Com- pany in the ratio of one and half shares of the Society for each ore share of the Com.

pany.

ex-

(b) That the Society in addition make payment to the share- holders in the Company of the sum of £5. (Five pounds) Sterling in cash for each one share in the Company held by such shareholders changing their shares in manner and upon the basis mentioned in clause (a) above. 2. That for the purpose of carrying into effect Resolut- ion No. 1 (a) above, the So-: ciety do issue 15,000 Shares of the nominal value of £10 each (whereof the sum of £4 per share is credited as paid up) out of its unissued capital of 104,000 shares.

3. That the 15,000 shares re- ferred to in Resolution No. 2 above as and when issued do rank for dividend and in all respects pari passu with the existing Ordinary shares of the Society and that the balance (if any) of such 15.000 shares be deal: with in such manner as the Board of Directors of the Society shall think most beneficial to the Society. Dated this Twenty-Fifth day of

October 1919.

C. H. P. HAY. Deputy General Manager.

EXCHANGE.

SELLING.

But even more important is it tection. Under complete to learn whether the gentleman system of Protection, the whole in the covert is one of "warran-country

Under a table" or buntable age, and not a half-bog system larger profits "hind or female. The slot of a are made by the protected manu-

stag is larger than that of a bind facturers at the expense of the T/T and shows other differences, while unprotected. The system sketch- Demand

is denoted by various ed by Mr. Lloyd George and 30 d/s peculiarities' well known to the the Board of Trade suggests to 50 a/s harbourer.

my raind that the Government is, 4 m/s about to embark upon the worst FT Shanghai

age

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4/5 11/16 4/5 13/16 4/5 15/16

4/6 1/16

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4 m/s. L/C

4 m/s. D/P

If for any reson he is still and most corrupt form of Protec- T/T Singapore. doubtful he looks for other signs.tion that has been proposed by TT Japan Deer are very destructive to any Government that I have T/T India.. crops, and he examines these in ever heard of in modem econ- Demand, India the vicinity to see what they omic history.

TT San Francisco) will raveel. A staz is fond of turnips, for instance but he does The only way to deal with & New York.) not settle down and eat all within foreign competition, in order to T/T Java a short radius: he walks along, bene: the greatest number, is T/T Marks pulls one out takes a bite, and the old way-imports paying for T/T Francs throws it

shoulder, exports and vice versa. You can Demand, Paris

over his

you cannot

than more

8.42

A hind merely nibbles the turnip not export unless you impört, be- without moving it, and the teeth- cause otherwise

4/7 marks may also supply informa-get payment for your goods.

4/734 tion. A stag gently nibbles off The idea of prohibiting the

6 m/s. L/C

4/736 the top of an ear of wheat or import of German and Austrian 30 dis. Sydney and oats, whereas the hind takes the goods on the pretext that German

4/734 Melbourne....) whole ear.

and Austrian paper money 30 d/s. San Francis-1 bas depreciated Having in this wise discoveredBradburys is utterly absurd,

95 co & New York f that warrantable stag has and if carried out will mean that

4 m/s. Marks Nom. recently entered the wood the the whole of the trade of Central

4 m/s. Francs 8.34 harbourer must next learn

6 m/s. Francs Europe will fall into the hands of Demand, Germany. whether it is still there. He walks our American. French, Dutch, Demand, New York 935% round it looking for new gaps Belgian and Scandinavian com-T/T Bombay....... and examining old ones, for once petitors. If

223 a track has been made it is usually demands anything of the kind TT Calcutta.......... Sir A. Geddes Demand, Bombay ... followed. The tracks will show during the Vacation he will do so, Demand, Calcutta... whether the deer was coming or on his own Sconfession, without going, and those on opposite sides legal authority whatsoever, and Demand, Singapore, 190

Demand, Manila of the covert must be examined must be prepared to bear the On Haiphong and compared to find whether

consequences." they were formed at the same time, &c.

Thus early on the morning of

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the meeting the harbourer makes for after his night's prowl he can bis round and calls on the stag, rarely resist the temptation of a as it were, to learn whether he is bath, rolling in the muddy water at home, though it may well be and rubbing himself dry against he has made a short preliminary the nearest bushes. If the bank investigation the previous even of the willows and mountain ing, especially in districte where ashes has been peeled here and SUBSIDIARY COINS. stags are less plentiful and reports there quite recently, it is a pretty of their being seen are few. But sure sign that the stag is not far they travel long distances during away, and so after bis round the the night, and it would not do to harbourer is able to tell the rely on a report of the previous master of the bourds where his day.

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A shallow pool near the covert nearly always betrays the stag,

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