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PREMIER'S TRIBUTE TO MALAYA

London, Oct. 19, At the Imperial Conferencó, Mr.

There came before Major Willson, at the Central Magi. Stanley Baldwin, in the course of tracy this morning, an application his opening speech and referring for the withdrawal of a charge to Imperial defence, paid tributo against a Chinese of wilfully with-to "the generous, patriotic and far- The Musicale arranged for holding from the, Commissioner of sighted action of the Malay Thursday, October 28th at the Estate Duties particulars of cer- States in offering a contribution some-Heldna May Institute fe upsvojdabtain property in the declaration of of $2,000,000 to the Imperial

ly cancelled

the estate of the late Chan Kik-to, Government towards the cost of & merchant.

the Singapore base. He said that the contribution was of the this important development to be greatest assistance, in enabling proceeded with Renter.

To-day's

tate phoon be The following appointment was rande by the Admiralty on Sept. 18-Engr. Capt. E. E. Bartlett, to Hawkins, addl. (Oct. 15; and as Fleet Engr. Officer (on joining).

od by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice

Dir. Justice A. V. Brown paid a some few years back, but the time tribute to the late Sir John Buck will surely come when this gentil if the Singapore Supreme tion will have to be faced If Hong Court, Penang, last week. kong is to hold its position ns one

the greatest parts in the world In any event it does appears what inexplicable that a huge sum of money should be spent on get-

Observatory report ting expert advice in regard to states that the monsoon, has mo- derated. The local forcecast up harbour development that a

to noon to-morrow, ja North-east separato. Port Dovelopment Dewinde, moderate; ang. partment, should then be sat up and that within a very brief period of time that, Department, separate entity, should be swept out of existence and nothing ruore Foard of the development scheme, Financial stringency may in part account for these happenings, but there appears to be more than that in it A radical change of policy, amounting to a reversion to the status que, seems to have been resolved upon. The point which needs keeping constantly in mind, in our opinion, is that we cannot afford to ignore the necessity of keeping the port thoroughly up-to- date. Even in the Budget speech there was reference made to the prospects of bigger business in the days ahead, and if we are to cope with that business it seama to us that we must see to it that harbour development keeps pace with the increa: d shipping.

We

| PHILLIPS—ADAM, At the Union Church, Hongkong, on 19th October, by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachic, Alexander Stevin- son, son of Mr. & Mrs. Archd are hoping, therefore, that this Phillips, Greenock, to Marion change of policy does not imply Roberts, second daughter of any abandonment of the port de

the late Robert Adam, Hong-

Following the completion of his period of service at Port Bagar base, Paymaster Captain A. C.

C.R.E, has retired. the China War of 1900 he was the paymaster of the Rosario.

In supporting the application, which was made by Mr. F. Loseby, of Messrs, Lee and Russ,

The

the Crown Solicitor (Mr. I. K. Holmes) said that his Worship would agree to it when he had with wilfully making a false de- heard the explanation given.

claration.

Mr. Loseby, for the defence, The facts were that defendant aid that if the case hud proceed and his elder brother were exequ-ed, further he would have called tors under the will of their, do- evidence in support of Mr. Holmes' ceased father, Chan Sik-to, who statement, so far as it was in according to the books of the Com: favour of the defendant pany, had invested in the Tick facts were that the $10,000 was Choong Hong (A. Kwai and Co. to the knowledge of the defendant shares to the extent of $10,000 provided by his cousin, Ho Shi The accounts of the deceased/ fled The case was such that in point with the Estate Duties Commis of law, there might possibly be sioner, made no reference to this a question whether, legally, the property; but Mr. Loseby, at the share in the concern belonged to earliest possible moment had deceased or to Ho Shi. But the brought to him documents, which fact remained that the defendant showed that the 310,000 had in face had very probably excluded from Been provided by one No Shi, the estate accounts this Item Mr. Holmes added that the docu- which he believed and knew to be Amongst the passengers who ments were of such a nature that the property of Ho Shi. Under left by the Blue Funnel liner whilst it was by no means certain the circumstances, Mr. Lapseby. Patroclus to-day were Dr. and whether the $10,000 should have asked that his client should be Mrs. W. V. M. Koch, Mrs. R. B. been included in the accounts de-discharged from this very serious Greensmith, Miss G. Sloan, Mr.clared to the Commissioner, it was charge. and Mrs. W. G. Adams and Mr. F. D. Tracey

The forthcoming wedding ia an- nounced of Mr. Charles Wilkinson Bewick, of Messrs. Lane, Craw ford Co. Ltd., to Miss Lily May Road. Grimes, of 128, Wongneichung

"For the twenty-four hours end- ing at 9 a.m. to-dny, sixteen vessels came into harbour, eight of which were British. There were four- teen departures, four being British.

The total number of ships in the. harbour was 69.

quite clear that the defendant The case was withdrawn, and could not be successfully charged the defendant was discharged.

The Very Sara!

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kong, and Mrs. Adam, Green-lopment scheme. The need of our

The announcement mudo yes- ock, Scotland. (Shanghai splendid harbour being efficiently terdag that the demonstration of The cabin in the Vendee, whence Or will bosterity Incline more Papers please copy).

administered was stressed in the fire fighting with the "Total" ex-Georges Clemenceau delivered his and more to the purported view of Budget speech, in a plea for a bigtinguisher would take place yes- debt indictment of America, cost a distinguished citizen of to-day

terday evening was in error. The its venerable possessor less than that all history is “bunk?". The Telegraph.

extension of the staff of the Hardemonstration actually takes place a hundred pounds to build. bour Department, but it seems to at the Kowloon Fire Station to-

The baby cried and cried and

cried. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1926.us equally important that we day at 5.30 p.m.

should keep the larger issues well HARBOUR MATTERS.

in mind,

The Cotton Outlook.

Did father come? You bet! And though he rocked himself

to sleep,

The baby's crying yet.

Hera "The Tiger" lives for half the year, tended by his valet Albert, who saved his life in the trenches... When the 8.8. Laisang arrived The daily living expenses. of et Singapore from China ports on

"Father Victory" amount to 20 Tuesday last officers of the Sin-francs plus the coat of running a gapore Proventive Service went on car which a famous millionaire pre- board and searched the vessel, dis-sented to him after the peace con- The world's original piano, in- There is the old story of under-covering over seven thousand ference.

vented in 1726 by Bartholomeo consumption and ever-production tahils of Chinese opium valued at Clemenceau whose love for the Cristofori, an Italian, was bought behind the action of the cotton about $60,000, concealed in the Orient is well known, always flies a once for a cask of wine and for growers' representatives who yes- coal bunkers of the engine room big red fish, which lows out in the more than half a century was lost, terday called оп President

wind from the masthead of his its value unknown to its owners, cabin. This is a Japanese sign of according to a Chicago piano manu- „ virility and we presented to him facturer. The famous old instru- by the wife of the Japanese prime pent was built in Sienter for Fer- minister in 1921.

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Tourist: "How much are your rooms?"

Clerk: "First floor, $10 a day

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inalio de Mediei. Dr. Fablo' Motenni, Florentine physician, bought it at a sale in 1820 for a cask of wine. It was purchased later by Crosby Brown and present- ed to the Metropolitan Museum. In New York.

second floor, $8; third floor, SG."

Tourist Sorry, your hotel is fint high enough to suit me."

Be mine I love you!" ardently No country likes to have its whispered the aged millionaire to paper money at a fluctuating, dia- the penniless young widow. count.

"Enough to die for me?" 'she' asked, coyly.

The Argenting Government faced the situation. Its money was at à discount but it could stop the fluctuation.

Now, don't you really love the

will stand and talk

Questions relating to our Har- bour will, we should imagine, be umongst the subjects to be dealt with at the forthcoming debate on the Colony's Budget. And in this Coolidge and outlined to him their

The following vessels are CX connection we expect to see some plans to withdraw, four million pected to be in wireless communi reference made to the re-absorp-bales of cotton from the market, cation with Hongkong th-day tion of the Port Development De-in order that reason hip prices President McKinley, Ningclow. may be maintained. The position Hsinfoosing, President Jefferson, partment by the P.W.D. This is of the cotton growers to-day is President Lincoln, Haruna Mara, a matter on which there has been comparable to the position of the Tonkin, Atsuta Maru, Aki Maru, a distinct change of policy on the rubber producers of a few years Patroclus, Kohoku Maru, Menade part of the Government, for the age when the Stevenson Restric- Maru, Heijun Maru, Rangeon tion Act was passed in order to Maru, Mingsang, Empress of Cann-" reversion to the old status does save the price of rubber from fall-da and Kotsu Maru, not appear to be a temporary aring to a perfectly ruinous level, j.

but we hope that British manufac- A Portland House travelling rangement, but more in the mature turers of cotton goods who depend scholarship of £300 and a gold of a permanent change. We

on the American supply for their medal have been awarded to Mr. were, in fact, told that His Excel- raw materials will not set up a George Robertson, assistant to the lency the Governor considers that shrick against the action of the city engineer of Bath, by the In-

American

producers as did the stitution of Structural Engineers. port development works in this American manufacturers of rub-To ensure that competitors did not Colony are so closely inter-con-ber goods when restriction came receive outside help they were It simply announced that it man who drives a little car, and nected with works falling under into effect in Malaya. More cot-locked up for 12 hours while they couldn't redeem paper pesos at ever seems to know or cure where 100 centavos per peso but it other dutos are? He turns a sud- the P.W.D., as to make it neces-ton has been grown than has been made a sketch of a reinforced con

censümed, owing principally to un-rete bridge.

could redeem them at 44 and it den corner, scaring other folk to sary, in the interests of efficiency, der-consumption consequent on

would. It bad that much gold, and death. I'd like to catch this man who always makes me catch my to bring them under the same con- the lessened purchasing power of In order to stop what was de- it did.

consuming countries, and also to scribed as the commencement of It caused a terrible outcry at the breath. trol. There may be good grounds the increased production which an epidemic of wood thefts fren time, but today the Argentine Re No doubt you've met the fellow for the holding of this opinion, was the result of the hoom in the Government. plantations, the public has one of the sourdest cur, who but it should be remarked that first two post-war years. Similar Forestry Department made an ap- rencies in the world, with is safe all day: He's always glad to meet the view is rather contrary to thely, there has been an over-produc-plication before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, a gold reserve-ht 44 gold centavos you, and he has a heap to say. You policy put forward in 1924, when the textile industries of most coun-morning, for the Imposition of an

to the paper peso-as the United stand and listen, patiently, and let tion of cotton manufactured goods, at the Kowloon Magistracy this

him have his fing, and when he it was stated that the idea in ercat-tries having spent one of the exemplary sentence on three Cli That's drastic stabilization, any- Kete through talking-well, he

Hasn't, said a thing. iny a separate Port Development loangst years on record. Lancase who. were charged with how.

I wonder if you've ever heard of His Worship Department was to relieve theshire has been curtailing output damaging trees.

for months past in the hope of hard the three defendants $ Archaeologists dig with the most Mra, Such-and-Such. Why, she's Director of Public Works of some catching up" but there has, con-tach

painstaking care for fragmentary the one who always calls, and gets part of the heavy work with which currently, been increased manu-

bits of light on the life men lived herself In dutch. It isn't that she in the world's far 'yesterday. simply calls; she's never quite dis- he was called upon to deal. More facturing in South American coup-

tries and this has helped to keep.

The history of centuries ago is creet. Her visits always happen over, it was then strongly urged the ratio one-sided. What is most

written in paragraphe; yea, in sen- when you're sitting down to eat.

It takes a lot of funny folk to that the Port Engineer should urgently needed is a return to in-}|

and mere hieroglyphic supervise all construction work ternational confidence and an ap-|:-

phrases, if you go back far enough, make the world, they say. Well, What a contrast with the history surely I believe it, 'cause I meet, within harbour limits, such as preciation in the purchasing value Paris

of the currencies of the world's Brussels

of to-day. Count the newspapers them every day. And when each Amsterdam docks, wharves and reclamations. smaller nations. The political out Barlin

and magazines which are recording day is over, there is one main At the time, the scheme met with look to-day (except, perhaps in Copenhagen

it, and your figures will run into thought it leayes. A lot of funny .34.30% the thousands. Count the bound people are why we all have pet general approval,, yet almost, be-China) is brighter than it has been Vionna.

for many months and, with a little Helsingfors

192% volumes of historical importance, peeves. fore the Department had begun organisation, such as regulating Benos Aires

2.17/32 seriously to function, it is again market supplies and the like, the ant

Shanghai, placed under P:W.D. control, the world's industry generally should Yokohamu take an upward move. Interna- New York post of Port Engineer is abolished tional cartels will most, assuredly Genova and other posts in connection be the next direction in which Milon

Stockholin therewith have been similarly agriculture and industry will de- dealt with. To the lay mind, all velop for their own protection. this chopping and changing is bewildering, and we do feel that some explanation of the latent de- cision should be forthcoming.",

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