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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928.

Party pledes to a policy which DAY BY DAY. cannot carry alone, must Eaturally seek for allies, and, that being the case, the wiser policy would appear to

ar to be the securing of sup- port, for agriculture from which over of the existing, big Parties

A MAN CANNOT POSSESS ANYTHING "HAT IS BETTER THAN A GOOD WIFE, of ANYTHING THAT IS WORSE THAN A BAD ONE.

le prepared to promise it. To go A Chinese case of typhold was hand in hand with one of these reported over the week-end:" Partica in the General Election would probably lead to far more. Tha P. and D. s.s. Kalyan, from offactual results than to create Singapore, is due hero at 6a.m. on

Thursday, divisions amongst possible friends.

The Conservative newspapers; or at least some of them, aro urging that the Government take a bold course in this matter by openly declaring for Protection,

Chaplain the Rov, H. W. Arscott has been appointed II.ALS, Titania.

HEAVIER FINES THREATENED.

MORE KEROSENE ON LOCAL

JUNKS

At the Marine Court this morn- ing, before Commdr. G. F. Hole, thera were furthor; casos „hoard with reference to the carrying of dangerous goods, and a stern warning was issued to, future of fenders.

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Wong Fat, mastor of a trading junk of Kat 0, was charged with

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having his boat at anchor in Shau klwan Bay, with 70 tins of kero- scle on board. Defendant plead. ed guilty.

The 6.5. Fooshing, arriving from and that that polley be extended| Canton, reports that she was to all sources of production. It is aground for one hour and 40 submitted that if agriculture and minutes on the Tnimel Bar..

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a Chinese was fined $50, or four

Willson this morning.

The silk forwarded from here by the Empress of Asin on the 25th January arrived. in New York (St. John's Park) on the 17th February, having been 23 days in transit.

His Worship, inflicting a fino of $100, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, romarked that apparently heavy fines wero not chocking offences of this ma- ture. Ife announced publicly In the Court, for general information,||

him would result in fines of $150. junk of Walchow, was similarly So Pang, master of a trading

charged in respect of a cargo of 30 tins of kerosene in the Wan- chal Junk Anchorage,

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were to combine and agree to a Charged with being in posacs-that similar cases brought before common national policy, there sion of 214 po piu lottery tickets, would be a chance for all to make weeks hard labour, by Major C their influence fell In this way, they say, Bismarck created tho German protective tariff. But the Baldwin Government, although convinced of the benefits said to have accrued from such measures of Protection as have already beer. | applied to Industry, hesitates to

At to-morrow's meeting, the plump for the application of this Sanitary Board will consider the policy to agriculture, evidently report of the Committee appointed fearing a "Dear Food" ery at the to enquire into the question of the

market stalls.

The Very Idea!

"Ever been sick?" the Insuranco agent asked the applicant.

"Any disease?". "NO

"How old was your father when he died???

"Hundred and four.". "Did he dle a natural death 7" "No, he fell off his bike going to work.'

Hush-a-bye, baby, pretty ons,

sleep,

Daddy's gone rolfing to win.

the club sweep.

If he plays nicely-I hope that

he will

Mother will show him her dress-

maker's bill.

Hush-n-bye, baby, safe in

your cot. Daddy's come home and his tem

per is hot;

Cuddle down closer, baby of

mine, Daddy wont round in a hundred.

and ninc.

A catch of 200 rats in one night is the clalm put forward for a The accused pleading guilty, now trap invented by the Rat Off- Inspector Brown, in charge of the cer for Fulham (London). The case, stated that this appeared to officer told a committee of Fulhare be one where leniency might be Borough Council recently that the exercised. The junk was moored trap had been adopted by the within 100 yards of the Dangerous Ministry of Health for the whole Goods Anchorage and it was pos- of London. The device was a rope sible that the master had offend stretched over a dustbin full of ed unwittingly.

water, which induced the rats to perform "A Blondin act," but when device caused them to over-bal- ance into the water.

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General Election: That is the/ro-adjustment of the rents of the benefit of the doubt, inflleting they were nearly across another

Hongkong Telegraph. position at the moment, and it

MONDAY, FEB. 20, 1928.

IN A QUANDARÝ.

looks as if the Government finds itself in a rather awkward sitúa- tlon through following a negative line of action.

vate

Bill

Fixing Easter.

which

Bille

the passed

His Worship gave the accused a fine of $10 with the alternative |of 10 days' imprisonmont,

A Chinese, charged at the Kow- Cheung Muk-shul, master of a loon Magistracy'this morning with cargo bout of Canton, was charged stealing three sheets of corrugat-with securing his craft outside ed iron from the military camp at five others alongside s.s. Kut Sang Shamshuipo, was sentenced to one and pleading gality, was fined $5, month's hard labour.

with the usual alternative.

A P.W.D. coolie has been admit- ted to the Government Civil Hos pital suffering from abrasion to

being knocked down by a Mor tuary cart in Possession Street.

his right leg, caused through his

Parliament would be a dull and uninspiring place if all We referred the other day to the brought before the House were us desperate state of British agricul triflingly controversial as the pri- ture and to the dissatisfaction accend reading on Friday providing felt in rural districts because of for the stabilisation of Easter, and fixing the festival on the first

His Excellency' the Governor's a belief that the Government had Sunday after the second Satur-new launch, Brittania, will take the not fulfilled its promises to do day in April. It was made

water from Ah King's Yard at Bri- what it could to place the indus- perfectly clear that the

Causeway Bay on Wednesday. This tish Government "does not con- Inunch has been built by Messrs. try on a sound and prosperous template anything so confusing as Thorneycrofts, and the naming basis. We revert to the tonic making the measure law until un-

ceremony will probably be perform the again because there have been animity is reached among

ed by Miss Clementi. churches and European countries fresh developments in the situation, concerned, and Sir Henry Siesser's

Attention is drawn to an ad- and because, also, we are likely feara that there, might be two to hear a great deal more on the Basters, one secular and one relig!-vertisement in another column an- ous, were easily disposed of, his nouncing that, owing to unavold- subject whenever the General rejection amendment being with-able circumstances, the concert to Election takes place. The Na-drawn. Reformers In Britain have have been given in the Star tional Farmers' Union feels rather been agitating for such legislation Theatre by Robert and Anatole bitterly the lack of a policy by the duction years and the intro-Kitain, violinist, and pianist, on of the Bill to the Commons Thursday, February 23rd, has been Government which is likely to is the first definite step. Sir Henry cancelled. give agriculture substantial relicf, there was, and the best he could Siesser led what slight opposition

and its President has declared | make of the argument was that that "the industry bo-day is very what was good enoughi 1,600 years ago was good enough now. We much worse off than it was when doubt if this learned K. C. argued the present Government came into this point of view seriously. These power." He admits the cumula-elines to wait for any man, it has are days when even if Time still de- tive effect of the list of small mea-been forced to concede something by sures affecting agriculture which way of regularisation, and it is of the Government has placed on the considerable importance that Easter Statute Book, but asserts that these petty reforms are no. fulfil- ment of Conservative pledges, with the result that agriculture is as far us ever from being made an essential balancing clement" in the country.

At the Theatre Royal to-morrow afternoon, Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler, Adjutant of the Royal Air Force Base, Kai Tack, gives an address under the auspices of the general Possibities of Cordmercial Avia Chamber of Commerce on "The tion in the Far East." II. E. the Governor has accepted an invita- tion to be present.

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"OUR GANG” : COMICS. ·

ORIGINATOR ARRIVES IN

HONGKONG.

Wife, at Old-street: I cooked a

steak for dinner on Saturday, and when my husband" came home ho rubbed my face with it..

Shoreditch debtor: If He had acted honest to me he would never have lont:mo, this money' and got me into this trouble.

Judgo Cluer, at Shoreditch: I hope to go to Golders Green some day-but not to live.

Haggerston woman: My neigh- hour has never been known to refuse a drink-or to stand one.

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Amongst the passengers arriv. Little Mary, who had fallen ill, ing in Hongkong to-day by the 3.8. begged for a kitten, President Taft was Mr. Hal Roach, It was found that an operation the moving picture producer and was necessary for the child's curo, the originator of the famous "Our and that she must go to the hos Gang" comadles. Mr. Roach, who pital. The mother promised that is accompanied by his wife, is on if she would be very brave she n world tour, and he leaves here would have the very finest kitten by the President Taft for Manila: to be found. As Mary was re- Other passengers on the bont covering from the influence of the anesthetic the nurse heard her Mr. C.. M. Roberts, of the Inter-muttering"It's a rotten way to

get a cat." national Banking Corporation.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jonson and daughter. Mr. Jensen is the re- presentatives of the EU Lilly Co., of Chicago.

were:'

Mr. T. A. de Silva, representa tive of the Portugese Government, with his wife and son.

Comparing old days with to- day In relation to fashions in Edward cricket clothing, Sir told this story. Stockton, at Bradford, recently,

In an Old Trafford match, on a scorching day, a player bowling Mr. C. M. Geo, representative in a closely-fitting sweater, and of the National Aniline Chemical perspiring freely, was asked, Co., of Shanghai,

"Why don't you take your sweater off?":

Mr. and Mrs. W. Schmidt. Mr.

of New York and Manila, and is Schmidt is a prominent merchant en route to Manila.

Mr. F R. Maass, Manager and Director of the China Electric Im- porting Co., of Shanghai.

Lieut. E. E. Stevens, with wife and daughter, on route to U. S. Nava! Station at Cavite.

it off long sin', but I've nowt on He replied meekly, "I'd 'a tecken

underneath."

The famous financial magnate was expatiating on the Importance of honesty in business.

"Yes," he said, addressing -a little cuterie of admirere at his club, "when first I embarked on a Mr. W. B. Shumaker, wife of business career, I took for my Lieut, Shumaker, en route to join motto, "Get thea behind me, her husband at the U.S. Naval Satan." Station at Cavite.

should have loss Intitude. Schools end their Spring Terms at Easier,

This morning's Harbour Office and it is somewhat upselling to educational authorities to find that reports gave 17 arrivals and 12 de-. the Spring term is a month longer partures, with British holding best in one year than in the next, or vice place, leaving 71 vessels in harbour, This, of course, is only one British 27. Freights were general. of the many arguments which couldly low, with only two inward car- be advocated in favour of a fixed goes of four figures, while only date for Easter, in fact, opinion on eight of the 17 entries registered the matter appears to be so general, through. Tonnage was higher than we do not doubt that the interna on any day during the past week. tional conference foreshadowed, will have the desired result. It may be noted that the change, if made, will be returning in a way to the system

A horse on its way back to the 38 cabin passengers and 98 steer- Oxford is one of the great tres- which held vogue in A. D. 325, be stable from the race course sud-age for Hongkong, as well as 3,600 sures of the world. Sir Michael fore the Oecumenical Council made denly bolted near the Wanchai tons of cargo and 800, bags of mail. Sadler. the change at Nicnes. Prior to that, market, creating a pante among Easter was always celebrated on the pedestrians. An alderly Chin- March 21st, a data which curiou. lyese, age 60, named Pang Chang KOWLOON PINE-TREES.I suggest that it is good manage-

enough is outside the range of Easter based on the vernal equinox, The change may come about in

1929.

EXCHANGE RATES.

The London, Morning Post, com- menting on the situation, states that the farmers are obviously out of temper with the Government, a mood of which that journal has given frequent and urgent warn ing. It does not altogether ab- solve the Department of Agricul- ture, which, it saya, has fallen too much into the habit of making the case of the Government to the farmer, instead of making the case of the farmer to the Government. One of the outcomes of the farmers' Angry mood is a proposal by the Council of the Farmers' Union to put up independent agricultural | Paris candidates in rural constituencies.

Genova Berlin Whether this is a wise policy,,Hima Oslo will tell, but it is to be doubted Helsingfors whether the farmera would great-Bombay

Bucharest

ly benefit from a party of their Yokohama Now York own. In this regard the point

Amsterdam must not be lost sight of that the Stockholm country has become до indus- Vienna Madrid trialised that the power has large Athens ly passed into the hands of the Shanghai

Brussels urban voter, and oven If these Milan Farmers' Union candidates were Copenhagen able to secure the votes of the Lisbon. Prague bulk of the agricultural labourera, Nia which is doubtful, they would not Hongkong

Silver (apot) be likely to form more than a Silver (forward) small minority in Parliament. A

Following the races on Saturday

carpenter, was knocked down and trodden on and sustained injuries which resulted in his death, short ly after his admittance to the Gov- ́ernment Civil Hospital,

It was a small man at the back The President Taft brought 51of the crowd who spoke, "You be cabin passengers; 101 steerage ing, sir!"

lieve, then," he said, "In good back- passengera; 6,700 tons of cargo and 2,600 bags of mail. There are

DANGER OF "CATERPILLAR PLAGUE"

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Betting on greyhounds is in- conceivably small-Major-Generat J. B. B. Seely."

ment to pay high wages-Mr. Seebohm Rowntree.

There are many "pulle" the town-bred kid has over his country cousin.-Sh fan Hamilton. ⠀⠀

The best evidence of good faith: Mr. Herbert Whitworth, founder At to-morrow's meeting of the the employers can offer would be and Managing Director of Herbert Sanitary Beard, Mr. J. P. Braga the reinstatement of the whole f Whitworth Ltd. Manchester, has will ask the following questions: of the men victimised after the purchased

the entire shares

London, Feb. 19. of Messrs, Thornber, Ricketts and Head of the Sanitary Department Bevin..

Has any report reached the 1926 general strike-Mr. Ernest ..124 Turner, his late co-Directors; and 26.34 has severed his and his firm's con numbers of caterpillars among the of the prevalence in very large

·.20.43 nexion' with Messrs, Whitworth,

12.11

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.24,595

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tax collector's office at.......

18.82 Unna, Casson and Co., Ltd., Brad-pins-trees on the hills above Kow- Poitiers (France) recently grant- 198% ford. Mr. C. D. Wright, Chartered. Joon Tong?

ed eight day's time to a taxpayer, 795 Bank Buildings, Hongkong, will 2.-If the answer is in the nega-who died nine years ago, to pay 1/6.15/16 continue to represent the firm of tive, will the Government cause in the sum of 1 frane 78 centimes. 1/11.1/10 Herbert Whitworth, Ltd, Manches quiries to be made to ascertain (about 82d. at the present rate of .4.87 9/10 ter and Bradford.

the fact or otherwise of the exis-Exchange), The dead man (who tence of such insect pest!

was an officer, killed at the front 3If in the affirmative, will the in 1918) was also notified that 28.796 DRIZZLE OR MIST PREDICTED. Head of the Banitary Department unless he paid the sum within the kindly ascertain if there is any time stipulated judicial action danger of the pest developing into would be taken against him, and his property might be seized. "Caterpillar plague"?

Having found that the officer was 4-If auch danger is feared, no longer at Poitiers, a tax collector will the Government take immedi-made all sorts of inquiries, which ate and such necessary steps as Itated several years, with a view, may be advised to prevent the to discovering the officer a now. spread of this insect pest and address. When the tax office ob- noon ravages resulting therefrom to the tained the address at Vincennes .26.3/10 fresh; cloudy, some drizzle or mist risk of the Kowloon hills belag of a relative of the dead officer it -British Wireless.

to-morrow la: North-east winds, denuded of the young pine-trees? sent the final notice there,

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Today's Observatory report 16.20 statesThe anticyclone is un- 104 changed. Fresh to strong mon- 2.5/10 Boon may be expected along the .6.20/82 south-east coast of China and over ....2/0% the China Bea.

20% The forecast up to