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Fremier Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has long since announced that he is quite willing to Introduce the Decessary legislation to give effect to the Report if and when. the owners ard the minors come to an agreement over the big preliminary points. The subsidy has got to come off, and

the only way by which it can

come off at the end of this month;

DAY BY DAY.

SOME PEOPLE ARE PROUD OF THEIR HUMILITY-Beecher

Tho weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is:-East winds, módo- rato; overcast, rain,

The Rev. Father. Noval was passenger for Manila by the Fros-

ident McKinley,

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CORRESPONDENCE.

St. George's Concert.

(To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.

Sir,It is particularly pleasing

PROHIBITION ENQUIRY.

"NATION'S MORAL FIBRE INJURED.

Washington, April 14. -

note that the St. George's In the Prohibition enquiry, the Society is to arrange a special:Wots" recalled General Andrews, concert at the Theatre Royal for Chief Government Enforcement April 23rd, and that a fonture in Agent, who conceded that the hom to be made of English music,

As a music-lover-and one who

manufacture of intoxicants", "when.

is by the minors agreeing to ac-A cargo coolio was seriously of the vocalists. mentioned-may of the nation. He was of opinion is not personally known to either seriously injuring the moral fibre cept roduced wages, at least for injured yesterday by a fall into I express the hope that the four that enforcement would be faci timo-until reorganisation makes the hold of the steamer Apooy artistes who appeared at last litated if the Government manu

He was removed to the Govora night's excellent concort in Sfacture and sale of liquor were working costs lower or until the mont Civil Hospital. ovorsens demand for coal becomes

John's Cathedral Hall will be legaNsed. It would however be a brisk and causes a rise in price. A Chinese was bitten at Spring are Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Watt, Mr. Li

board on St. George Night? They disaster to return to the saloon.

Senator Reed, the only" "Wa Garden Lane, yesterday morning, Chor-ohi and Mr. H. E. Garden, on the Committee, provoked smiles Torofuse to abato wages is not, at by a black and white dog. Ho and last night their efforts gave among the audience owing to his the moment, a roasonable stand, was taken to the Government great delight to all present.

Many people have been cher-Civil Hospital for treatment.

intimate knowledge of distiling There are, of course, several intricacies. He endeavoured to ishing the hopo during the past soven months that the Commis-ported as occurring in Sovern also be included, but solos by the of home manufacture and said it A small landslide has been ro Colony, and these will no doubt eral Andrews, the enormous extent other talented singers in the

emphasize, when questioning Gon- sion would somehow find Road. It is notified that the road four artistes named (and maybe

magical solution which would is partly obstructed, but not quartette or two as well) would was as easy to make whisky as it restore coal mines to prosperity now engaged in clearing away etc.

blookod, and P.W.D. mon are be highly appreciated. Yours was bread-Reuter,

and leave the minors' wages and the earth. hours untouched. But they must new havo awakened to the fact have received a cable from their Messrs. Banjamin and Potts that the impoverished condition Shanghai Office, announcing a

MUSICUS. Hongkong, April 15th, 1928.

"THE ELECTION FIASCO, Sir, May 1 gain bog

which I have been very much as- sociated for some years now.

After all, it should not be wholly detrimental to use a bit of frank. theness in dealing with a matter ko

of an industry cannot be changed final dividend of Thu. 0.35 per courtesy of your columns to make the Election, for, as circumstances simply by a body of men onquir-shere, making Tis. 0.65 per share a disclosure, in the hope that it have presented themselves, the un

for the year, for the Senawang would serve ing into it. Something has to be Rubber Eastates, Ltd.

as a preventative fortunate procedings of last Monday fagainst further unnecessary alarms cetainly called for some criticism. sacrificed or improyed, and in the

over the mome de plume "Brun-and possibly, eradication. Person- present case the immédiately fair

The annual inspection of the swick" which I adopted in discuss-ally, I think, to all intents and Hongkong Police Force by H. E. and logical thing is for the miners the Governor was to have taken ing about Hongkong's latest sense-purposes, that my criticism was to agrao to a wugo based on the place yesterday afternoon, but you will, no doubt, remember that in spite of its "grousy" tone.

tion-that memorable Election? quite constructive and justifiable, industry's own economics, for the owing to the wet weather the first signed my name, but, on Thanking you, sir, and enclosing owners immediately to put into Ceremony was postponed until

next Wednesday afternoon.

closer consideration, thought it my card-Yours, etc., THE COAL OUTLOOK,effect the Commission's recom-

would be much wiser to resort to

AL CASTRO.. Owing to bad atmospheric con- the pen-name in question, one with

Hongkong, April 15, 1926. ditions. very few ships are in wireless communication with Hongkong, but the following are oxpected to be within call to-day:

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1926.

mendations so far as they affect them, for the Government to Even though the present dead-

insist on the taxpayer being ro- lock which has arisen in the

lieved of an unfair burden, and negotiations between the coal for the general public to see that owners and the coal miners is the foregoing things are

done. smoothed out by the Premier and But, it looks As though there is an early resumption of there is &

stormy, period

the conversations' which have as ahoad before we get to that desir their aim the finding of a solution able state of affairs.

of the problems of the British

coal-mining industry, it is diffi- cult, in the light of the official

Kwangtung Railways.

Yuensong. Sunning, Kiangsu, Tamba Maru, Van Cloon, Hai- ning. Kalgan, Yokohama Maru and President Pierce."

The Very Idea!

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If you dec a fellow in a motor

Mr. Silkstone, of Messrs. S. Moutrie & Co., Tiontain, has been transferred to Shanghai, as

Perfume is the language of love, who recently tried it in à crowded Managing Director of the firm. but not when there is garlic in Tube carriage.

She flicked open Mrs. Silkstone has proceeded to the salad.

her case in an offhand manner, England, where Mr. Silkstone

and all her cigarettes out on to the On paper, the achemo attribut- hopes to follow in the near future. reply of the Miners Executive to ed to Mr. Sun Fo for the construc- Mr. Tom Hensley has arrived in beasts of the jungle in connection picking them up to the gallant Having, exhausted most of Be floor, giving endless troublo in the report of the Coal Commistion of a series of six new rail- Tieritain to relieve lum, adds with her attire, the woman of fa- young man next to her. She drop- sion, to see how that solution is ways for Kwangtung is a most| Peking at Play.

shion is now turning her attention ped a lighted match, which imme-. admirable one. If. it, wore put to going be found. That is

to the creatures of the English diately set her paper on fire; and into effect, it would without pessimistic point of view, but, on doubt be of immense benefit to ordered by Major. Willson, at fowl, and others of their ilk now hole In her skirt, when, "very A week's formal remand was countryside. Rabbits, formyard finally she onded by burning s the facts of the case and the the whole province and greatly the Central Magistracy this morn-appear in many unexpected places much at her ease," she placed

facilitate the development of ing, when the two men arrested known attitudo of both sides, it

trade and industry.

the hand holding her "tag" off- It is par-In connection with the attempted would be foolish to imagine there ticularly gratifying to see that burglary in China Building were

At a récent picture show was no- handedly on the dresst

small is hope where there is obvious Mr. Sun Fo is anxious that the charged. Sub Detective Inspector ticed a woman wearing a

of the Canton-Fallon said he would ask. for black felt hat, near the front of cause for misgiving. The main construction

Hankow Railway should be re-the committal of the accused for which was sitting a quite large finding of the Commission was sumed, for this project has re-trial at the Criminal Sessions. size, pert-looking bunny, of fluffy that the miners would have to mainód far too long in abeyance. Consent to a wages reduction--on As is known, the railway extends At the Chine Auction Rooms the basis of a national agreement, both termini, but there is a con- M.R.. de Sousa, by order of the for a considerable distance from yesterday afternoon. Mr. E V. even though there wore difforing siderable section upon which work mortgagee, offered for sale a district minima. And the miners" has not yet been started. For leasehold property, at No. 23, longer than we care to remem-Sands Street, but there being no only reply, so far, to that finding ber, the completion of this line advance on the upset price of has been an insistence on the has been talked of, but the con- $15,000, the properly was with- formula "that no wage is accept-tinued unrest, in the country drawn. The area of this property

has interfered with matters, to is 2,156 square feet and the an-What kind of clothes does the de At Marylebone County Court- fable which does not provide at

say nothing of the lack of capital nual Crown.rent 322.

We would suggest further in- fleast. a wage sufficient to furnish with which to push on the work.

fendant wear? Witness-White spection. It might prove to be a

glory of a Turner sunset painted by Fred Taylor.

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with

white material.

For Lent I must give some-

i thing up.

A husband once said that. And then he gave up fifteen.

bucks For wife's Easter Hat.

"She's dead' replied the boy.

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with a girl, and he appears to have but one arm, don't worry about it. The other is likely around somewhere.

From paper:-

It is a Gainsborough painted by Van Dyck, and is considered one of the handsomest Gain- boroughs in any American collec- tion,

an American news.

Solicitor, in the Bow County Court This accident happened when you were away on holiday. Did you have your wife with you? Witness-No-I went for a holl day.

a decent living standard," from It is under this latter heading A Sianese Princess, whose trousers, a red waistcoat, and a Whistler etching bathed in the which it is not very hard to der, have to be faced in connection kok, passed through Hongkong

that the greatest difficulties will name is Phon Disaul, from Bang-frockcoat, duce that they regard the present with any scheme of railway ax-yesterday on the s.s. President. The little boy was bored wage as being the lowest possiblo pansion in China in the near McKinley for Manila, where she death with the dictation lesson. consonant with the maintenance future, whether in Kwangtung will attend school to complete her He decided to rest a bit.

or any other part of the country education. She is accompanied Why are you of "a decent living standard." The pity is that any obstacles on her trip by Dr. and Mrs. P. H. asked the teacher.

not writing?" We have far too much natural should arise to necessary develop-Lowell, of the Rockfeller Founda eympathy with the minors and monts of this order, but. if, the tion, and who for the last two boy."

"Haven't got no pen," said the other large bodies of hard-work-state, we have no doubt that junction with the Siamese Gov-

country were In a more settled years have been working in con- "Where's your grammar?" snap- ing wago darners to suggest that foreign capital and technical ernment in connection

ped the teacher.

To overcome legal barriers to they should gladly consent to a 'assistance would be readily forth health conditions in Siam.

their marriage, a German couple That is one of the ,cómàng big wages cut just in order to reasons why we should like to soe

travelled by aeroplano from Co- ..If noise were statesmanship, logne to London, and then took pravont the possibility of an an early adjustment of the presenti The Government printars, certain

European Parliamenta a train to Edinburgh. Then they industrial dispute, but the fact ie situation here in the South, for Messrs. Noronha & Co., have would speedily settle the probleme learned the marriage could not that the miners are not poorly that would doubtless pave the just issued the 1926 edition of the the world?

be solemnized because neither, way to big developments in the Hongkong Civil Service List-an

party ved 21 days in Scotland,., paid at present and that their joint interests of Canton and this official publication compiled in economic status is the highest of Colors,

the Colonial Secretary's Office. If most children were half as To surmount this difficulty they The List, of which the present is good as parents want people to hired a tug and together with a all the non-sheltered industries."

the 22nd. issue, contains the usual think, they'd be twice as good as clergyman and two witnesses, That there could without any in-

features, such as historical and they are. You work it out-we wont to beyond the three-mile London, Mar. 15.In the House statistical information, an Index can't.

limit where the marriage took justice bo district déductions of Commons, replying to Mr. to 25 years of Sessional Papers,

place. based on district conditions we' Campbell in regard to broadcast- the Civil Establishments, the firmly believe, in fuct there wore 'ing the proceedings of certain composition of various Councils, christened, and the minister was "Echoes and Memorles," just pub-

The son and heir had just been

lu General Bramwell Booth's definito figures given in the Coal States, Viscount Wolmer said plete list of the Government's on the baby's splendid behaviour. Dr. Parker, of the City Temple.

State legislatures in the United Boards, Committees, etc., a com-congratulating the worthy parents lished; there is a story of the lata Commission's Report which there had been reports of the clerical staff, and a detailed re-Why," said he, "that is the first showed that some wago modifica- proceedings of the Japanese Diot cord of the public services of

In 1885; it was proposed to hold tions could be carried, out with broadcast last December. The Government officers.

time in all, my experience that I have baptised a child who did not the purity Campaign. The ques proceedings of the United States

a meeting there in connection with out hardship. Of course, as a were frequently broadcast. He

cry during the ceremony.” reciprocal accompaniment the had no information in regard to

"Ye, see, sir," answered the man ghould be asked to speak or “

tion arose as to whether a certain miners. if they consented to a reaults. Mr. Appllu asked for

proud father, "he's got kind o' not. He had been sounded, but an assurance that the Mothor of wage reduction! have a right to Parliaments would be the father

used to it. His mither an' me hac appeared to have certain qualms; expect that the coal owners will of broadcasting from the Parlia- TWO MEN REACH KARACHI. been practsin on him for the last for, when he expressed his willing- fortnight wi' a bucket o' cauid wat neas to come, he added:"But, ter." put into effect the Commission's montary viewpoint. (Cries of "No."). Mr. Penny (Conserva-

Karachi, April 14,

mind, none of your damned rell- recommendations for the better tivo) humourously declared that Esteveze's companions, Gallarza

gion." Women have beaten men at organisation of the industry and the medical profession had given and Loriga, who are Aying to most things lately, but as a sox lon. Oh, let him come," he Dr. Parker was asked his opin the olimination of much costly expression to the opinion that Manila have arrived from Ban they have not yet mastered the replied: Then be added, in his. there would be an outbreak of derabbas. Both are well-Renart of smoking nonchalantly deepest tone, But, mind, none of working, and also that the Gov sleepy sickness if this was done. ter. Fornment would do its bit. The Laughter),

Witness the case of the City girl his damned infidelity."

SPANISH FLIGHT.

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