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grimly struggled through there is assuredly going to be trouble in the spring wheny the coal industry is due to have its agreements renewed and revised.

Of course, there are many causes which have led up to this state of affairs. First and fore- most is the fact that Britain hasi

SINGAPORE LETTER.

THE GOVERNORSHIP-BUDGET DEBATE

-OPLUM POLICY—SHIPPING

COLLISION,

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Singapore, Oct. 31. The most piquant item our news- lost very large markets in the war's papers have served up lately is n aftermath of depression, and that somi-official source in London, that ramour, apparently from some

We

ITALIAN CONVENT BAZAAR.

This photograph was takon at the Italian Convént bazaar on Saturday. In the pictura are soon Mrs. P. H. Holyoak (who opened the bazaar), Miss Holyoak, the Mother Superior and tho Rov, Father Spada. (Photo: Mae Cheung),

DAY BY DAY.

FOND PRIDE OF DRESS 18 SURE

whereas she used to sell for more Sir Lauretico. Guillemard, who than she bought she is now selling holds the dual position of Governor of the Straits Settlements and High for less than she is compelled to Commissioner of the Federated buy. Industry is Idle more or less Malay States, may only. be because the cost of its products is with us a few months longer.;

that are Informed

His higher than can be afforded by Excellency. returns "on an in Installing

those who should be buying them. definitely extended leave to clear up: Britain is so highly industrialisod various matters, after which he PYRENE that trade slump (especially will notify Mr. Amery of his readi ness to return home." The del when accompanied by high prices) cacy of this phraseology is amusing. TO-DAY

hite her harder than any other Sir Laurence and his charming| country in the world. And that is wife have made many friends. dur- Inspection

where there is very just cause to ing their hospitable regime at Co-

vernment House, but His Excellency: Invited question the wisdom of Britain's has never understood this country. ment is sincerely co-operating in early return to the gold standard and will doubtless be glad to the world campaign for the sup- at

because it has helped to make the say good-bye to its many and varied Pression of oplum smoking. And problems. How the Voalition Go- this legislation has been wel- price of British goods in foreign vernment expected a man who hadicomed here, for it has long been an A VERY QURSE; ERE FANCT YOU Mustard & Co., Ltd.

countries exorbitantly high. How spent his life in the Inland Revenue our conscience that between thirty CONSULT, CONSULT YOUR PURSE. 16-17, Connaught Road Contral.can British manufacturers quote Department, and who was then stand forty per cent off of our e-Franklin.

successfully against French manu-selves to retirement, to govern Government is quite clear, and, on on demand to-day is 25. 47/16d. an age when most men resign then-venne is derived from the Chinese coolie's vice. The policy of the

The opening rate of the dollar facturers when they have to pay a strongly and confidently a country the whole, has met with general workman, say £5 per week which with the complex political system approval, although the objections

and is equivalent to nearly 600 francs? mixed Asiatic population,

The only case of notifiable dis- that have been raised, especially oase reported over the week-end varied commercial and producing November 4th, Michael American' writers are saying that interesta of British Malaya is be- against setting aside ten per cent was one Chinese occurrence of Howard Turner, younger son British wages are low, and so they rond understanding. Some hard of the revenue every year for the diphtheria. of the late Sir George Turner and Lady Turner, to Daisy might be when compared to the things have been said in the press of opium reserve, are by no means

late, and here is one comment from $80,000,000 has been set aside from has accepted the position of without force. The sum of His Excellency the Governor, Mainwaring Hockett Fair, cost of living in England, but they a particularly outspoken quarter:- daughter of the Rev. Canon are high when it comes to getting "London may be under the delusion the Colony's reserves as the nucleus Honorary President of the Eng- of as opium replacement reserve inoers and Shipbuilders of Hong- other people with inflated cur-that all it needs is Sir Laurence fund, and the Government estimate kong.

Guillemard. If it does we have that if the period under the Geneva rencies to buy British goods, Wel merely to say heaven help its in-protocol begin to run against us also have to take some account of norance and heaven help Malaya, twenty years from now, this fund, tive "Poppy Day" display is to A very striking and most effec- GILL At 10 Humphrey's 'Build-

bear the ings, Kowloon on the 7th the fact that the standard of living which must

conse at the end of the fifteen years be seen in the windows of Messrs. quences!" Such strong language) inst. William Harris Gill, has risen in England as compared is depricated by those who hold period, having been swelled by Lane, Crawford's ladies' depart- aged 72, son of the late with pre-war days and that werk- that the prestige of the office is compound interest and the annual ment in Pedder Stroot. Thomas Gill, Bärbadoos, West Indies.

men think they have a perfect right just as important as that of the provide in interest roughly half Fong Kue, 38, an itinerant holder of it, but it is well that Lon-the twelve millions which we hawker, committed suicide dur- to more leisure, more comfort and

don should realise that move luxury. There are, then, atment House, Singapore, is not as this year. The balance will pre-Sung Hing Lane, by first cutting Govern derive from the opium revenue ing the week-end at his home in least three main causes for Britain's it were, a living in the gift of the sumably be obtained by an income his throat with a chopper. present worries-decreased world Home Government, to be bestowed tax, since any form of tariff would markets, high cost of British goods, service in England.

as a reward for political or other seriously affect the position of Thoro was a farowell tiffin to (due to currency rates and high wages), and the heavy internal| taxation.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. W. J. Cooper, William Kenneth and Marjorie Mason wish to thank all kind friends for their expressions of sympathy in their recent gal bereavement, Also for the beautiful foral tributes sent.

The Telegraph.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1925:

A COMING CRISIS.

An Annual Spate Of Oratory.

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A rather curious accident, causing some amusement to the passers-by, occurred in Pottinger moules pulling a wagon suddenly shying and falling into a P.W.D. trench. After some difficulty, a European sapper succeeded in

should be quite all right again. tide over difficulties or, by "whole-popular remedy, an income tax, up Marella and the Conus was the extricating the animals.

we haven't given as much thought pride in-seeing-it high is a costly on would have to be imposed, and that Captain Mortimer should bring directors, and the re-appointment

one,

and attention as we might have

ly grave industrial crisis towards

Singapore and Penang as tran-Sir Claud Sevorn at the Hongkong shipment ports. The argument Club to-day. Sir Claud will be The debate on the Budget pro- that by laying aside this money given a reception at the Institu- dured 'the' usual spate of oratory we are legislating with undus tion of Engineers and Shipbuild- And the remedies lie mostly in on any and every subject from the generosity for posterity is, thereers at 5,30 p.m. on Thursday.

unofficial members of the Legisla.fore, somewhat anéonvincing, con- the realm of politics. The settle-tive Council, who would have no sidering that we are taking away Át & recent meeting of the meht of the European peace, pro- thing to do with the Government's a large part of posterity's revenue, Committeo of the Macao Club, it blem will be all for the good well-meant hint that they should while handing on an ever-increas-Silva to raise funds for the Chi- was proposed by Mr. J. A. E.'da because it will quicken trade confine themselves to the, mattering annual expenditure,

in hand. The estimates showed a twinges of conscience. we may 1869 who were rendered homeless countries which, have been holding deficit of seven million dollars, but have felt at the idea of present-by the recent fire which destroyed so many of the little houses that off"; and the approximating of the no one seemed unduly worried about in our descendants with this existed behind the ruins of St. world's currency exchanges will do that. One member indeed bluntly problem we have allayed by re- Paul's Church, Masao.

said that the deficit was due to the calling that the matter will not Although we ard in a pretty bad a lot to help British sellers. ten per cent. contribution from the arise at all until China is in a way here, so far as our trade goes, Britain's internal politics are of Colony's revenue to the opium ra-

growing, and, moreover, it is quite we do know that if only the Chinese vital importance and it will largely serve fund, and he went on to possible that new and unexpected street this morning, two Army that as long as that deduction was of South China would stop fighting rest with Labour, on the one hand made, so long would we be unable sources of revenue will be available

in the future. and settle down once more to the and with Conservatism, on the to balance the Budget. His con-

The Shipping Collision. affairs of ordinary everyday life we other, either to bridge the gulf and elusion was that the Government

were keeping that supremely un- The collision between

But there is a trade and industriale" conduct, precipitate a clash their sleeve. The Treasurer who most sensational shipping accident

The modest demands of employers has.crowned a distinguished career we have had here for several years. Hongkong Realty and Trust Co., At the annual meeting of the crisis in Britain just now that

by dramatic but thoroughly sound It occurred in broad daylight, in Ltd., the report and accounts cannot be quite so simply stated will also. have to be a little more legislation giving effect to the Im-ne weather, and in open sea, but were adopted. Other business was or solved. We have been so busy evident. It is perhaps too late to perial

Government's anti-opium within sight of Singapore's water- the re-election of Mr. E. M. Ray- our policy-replied that further taxa front. It seems peculiarly unluckymond and Mr. Fung Tat-hang as with cur own little troubles that cheapen the £ sterling, but

he suggested the death duties as the Marella safely over one of the of Messrs. Linstead and Davis as We, out in the Crowna fruitful source of revenue, but most difficult runs in the world-auditors at a fee of $500. done, with profit, to the undoubted-Colonies, cannot do very much in he repeated what he bas already past the Barrier Reef, and through the way of direct assistance for and, that with due care and a care-the island-studded seus of the Malay

ful watch on the Colony's annual Archipelago-and meet with this as a matter of fact it is extensive, those at Home, but inasmuch as bill, it should be possible to do mishap practically in the Singapore both ships being badly crushed which Britain is moving. One

our trade orders go to help, we without an income tax for many roads. That the collision occurred internally, apart from damaged cannot pick up any of the leading

where it did, however, was for plates, and the Marella will cost Home journals without reading of ought to do everything possible to years to come,

Let us

Legislating for Posterity. tunate, for the Marella would have something like $80,000 to be made labour disputes, of unemployment, quicken the local trade.

The legislation recently passed been in a serious position had it ready for sen again. We have of wages reductions, and the like, keep that well in mind when think-

in the Straits Settlements must happened far out at sea. Her just had an enquiry into another and there is a growing realisation| ing of the problem,

convince the most fanatical ideal-plates and structure from the water- shipping disaster, the loss of tho list America could possibly send line to the keel were buckled and Leads City, which foundered in The Changing East. to Genova that the British Govern- crushed, and the inrush of water forty minutes off the Bowean toward a general crisis, The

immediately stopped the Among the nang durases con-

main Islands in the Java Sea" The find. recent pelivities of Communists and corning theist which have be

engines. The ship was in actual Ing of the court that the ship danger of sinking in fifty-four feet struck an uncharted obstacle the arrest of theft leaders for come hopelessly out of date is the

one that describes the Orient as the Turkish people against their of water, sed but for very gallant would scarcely have been possiblo Incitement to revolt shows just unchanging. It was coined in Sultan, admittedly incompetent to work by her engineers she might in some parts of the world, where little of what is going on. There the days when travellers from rule the country which his pro-have done. With fifteen foot of shipping follows ancient and well- are practically one and a half the West, fresh from the march of deconsors had done little to im-hot water in the engine-room, and beaten paths, but counsel for the events, found centuries-old con- prove. There also we observe the air rendered unbreathable by captain and deck offers in this million registered unemployed in ditions almost unaltered from the gradual changes of a nature sug.the exhaust steam, and, moreover, case was able to point his anb receipt of the "dole," and the drain time of their inception. The gosting the heterodox. Now the with no light other than an electric missions very effectively by recall- tradition of kingship always had Shahe of Persia, romantic in their torch, they managed to plug the ing that recently a concealed rock on the national exchequer caused a strong hold in eastern countries, past and in their recent seclusion brokon valves, and, with the aldpinnacle was discovered at the very by this and the payment of huge where vassalage has survived from the outside world, are likely of a pump on the salvage tug, get entrance to the docks at Singapore. subsidies (such as to the coal much longer than elsewhere, and to be no more. The whole story the better of the leaks. Had the If that obstacle could have remain- whore caste systems have oper- of these changes has not been told, water remained above the level of ca undiscovered all these years, rade) has given rise to high rates ated to emphasise the contrast As regards the substitution of ro- the pumps for any time they would during which it must have been and much complaint. Manufae-between the 'bighly-placed and publican for monarchical condi-certainly have been put out of passed by literally thousands of turers are undoubtedly trying to lowly. Yet one of the principal tions of administration, it is easy action, and the situation would have ships, how much more likely was

changes of the past quarter con- to discern these days the hand of been desperate. cut down wanges, workers are find- tury has been the rise of a popu-the big combination of plotters

it to happen in the waters of the ing it more and more difficult to lar sentiment opposed to the whose realms atraddle a large

Surly Bedfellows.

Java Soa? In the meantime there The King's Dock at present Is the uncomfortable thought that ancient hierarchies and dynasties section of both Europe and Asia, make ends meet, exports tre de-and the "creation of republican and whose omissaries would, and presents the interesting spectacle of the rock on which the Leeds City creasing and imports increasing-forms of government based on the they could, make their happy both these ships making the best of was lost is still unknown, a hidden The general temper le very uncer-approved western Hince. In the hunting ground extend oven to each other's company inside it. To peril in the path of all vessels talu pod even if the winter is of this was the defection of earth

Near East tho, chief instance the most ramint corners of the the casual observer the damage making for the Macassar Straits

does not appear to be serious, but from Samorang

that matters are fast inoying

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