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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL

"KREMLIN, HONGKONG. Telegraphic Address:

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

MAJESTIC HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGĦAL”

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lite, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Bods, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

Hotel.)

Tea Dances:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

A CONSTRUCTIVE BUDGET.

(Continued from Page 1.). charged The duty was optimat- leaving a gross total prospective ed to yield $100,000 this year and surplus of £88,702,000. Of £200,000 in full year.

this

000

***

ho has taken $19,200,- for varlous remissions

Incomo Tax.

Controversial

Part

of taxus, leaving a margin of Income tax, which would remain £14,520,000 to be carried forward in at 4/- in the 41 would yield

suspensory fund (surplus) to £295,000,000. which will be added last year's surplus of £4,239,000, making a total in the Suspensory 'Fund of $18,741,000. This will be used to meet ordinary contingencies in 1928, or supplementary demands by local authorities..

1928

OPERATION ABOARD STEAMER

"KASHGAR” STOPPED ON WAY FROM HONGKONG.

APPENDICITIS CASE.

Shanghal, Apr: 18."

In order to permit the perform- The Chancellor then entered ance of an operation to save the upon what he described as the life of one of the members of the most controversial part of his talk. Crew suddenly stricken ill at sea, He said that an unsatisfactory of the P. and O. steamer Kashgar, Captain L. L. Williams, commander picture was presented by the heavy which arrived here from Hongkong burden on British industries, non Monday evening, stopped the Budget Taxes Accepted.

which unemployment taxation, or, The House of Commons agreed "Rates," had directly increased the ship at sen for half an hour, ne- cording to passengers on the to the Tea Duty which remains un- cost of production and affected the

vessel. changed, and also agreed to the competing power of these indus- remaining. Budget resolutions, tries at Home and abroad. which covered the continuance of According to the latest ascer the existing taxes and authorisa talaments avery one of the colliory districts showed a net loss of It is to be noted that the Budget working and yot the coal industry Tax of 4d. per gallon on imported was being required to pay several motor-spirits comes into operation millions, each year in immediately, and in, conséquence Government taxation.

tion of the new ones,

Local'

The steamer's baggage steward, one of the most popular membora of the crow, was suddenly taken ill on Sunday night. An examina- tion showed that he was suffering! from appendictis, and it was de- cided that an immediate operation was necessary owing to his critical condition.

The ship's doctor was nsulated in of this, the Anglo-American Ull Frequently depressed industries. Company has announced an ad- left the heavily taxed arena and his diagnosis by two medical pas- vance on Wednesday on the price, thus threw an increased burden of

Napior, who were bound for Shang- (825 for thirty TiMin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above wholesale and retail, of all leading taxation on the Industries remain-sengers on board, Dre. Vogt and brands of motor spirit, by 48. ing.

Some relief of production from haf and arrived here on Monday per gallon. Kerosene will be ad- local taxation was urgently need-evening. The three doctors agreed on the necessity of the operation vanced by 44. per gallon.-Reuter.

Tol. Add: Victoria."

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·J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

DISTINCTION

EUL BASTA

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA

The Kowloon Hotel Kowloon,

The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with, all modern conveniencca, High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all steamers.

Daily Rates from. Monthly Rates from

# 0.00, ... $130,00.

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

Tel. No. K.608 & K.609,

MR. & MRS. II. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowletel," Kowloon,

PALACE HOTEL.

Redemption of Debt.

ed.

Great Financial Effort.

Mr. Winston Churchill, in hla

He had therefore.proposed to the Budget statement to the House of

Prime Minister that as the con- Commons, laid particular em- phasis on what the Government cluding financial affort in this had done during the year in the re Parliament he should try to form payment of debt. The new sink muss manoeuvro. of between twenty and thirty millions sterling ing fund had been raised to the yearly for a great operation upon unprecedented figure of £65,000,- Local Government taxation. The 000. In addition the Budget of Government had completed their last year had borne the payment plans. of more than £15,000,000 för}| acerned Interest upon Saving Cer-] tificates.

comu

Legislation required for this

be Inevitably рикреве must

the. most important He had found £28,000,000 more measure of its kind during last- for the redemption of debt than century. Mr. Snowden, the Labour Chancel- He had to find a substantial lor of the Exchequer, had done in amount of new revenue to carry 1924. The position for dealing out the policy, but he did not sup- with future conversions it must pose, any one would have much be agreed had been greatly Im-doubt whether we ought to do it, proved by what had been accom. plished In the past.

Outside The Empire.

J

"ON BORDERLAND OF STARVATION."

3,

British Officers' On China Merchants Boats.

VIGOROUS REQUESTS.

London, Apr. 24.

In the House of Commons, Commander Kenworthy (Lab.) drew attention to the position, which he described as "on the borderland of starvation,"

of the British officers in the China Merchants Steam Navi- gation Company, in China, whose wages had not been paid ainee last November. Ho declared that the Nation- alist authorities were not tak- ing any action in the matter.

Mr. G. Locker Lampson, re plying, said further and more vigorous representations were now being made to the Nation- alist authorities-Reuter,

captain.

Disraeli Precedent.'

During the 19th century the in-] dustrial power of this country rest- Dealing with the general treated on the basis of the coal indus- ment of the problem of the try, but the 20th century had seen National Debt, Mr. Churchill said us becoming increasingly depon- he proposed to return to the dent upon imported liquid fuel policy instituted In Disrnell's Gov scarcely any of which was found ernment by Sir Stafford Northgoto, inside the British Empire. and to establish a fixed debt, The Government had, therefore, eharge. He proposed to put the decided to Impoac a new duty of figure at £356,000,000 yearly, 4d. per gallon on certain kinds of which would extinguish the ex-imported oil. The new tax would save the man's life, and their ternal and internal debt in

4be confined to lighter hydrocarbon opinion was transmitted to the period of fifty years.

bila including petrol, but excluding The total expenditure for 1928 heavy oils and lubricating off. The Tel Kowloon No. 8

Tel. Address “PALACE.”

Lax would be imposed as from to Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station was estimated at £806,195,000,

The expenditure on consolidated morrow. It is estimated to yield Entirely, under English Management. Electrio Light and Fan throughout.

Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. fund services was placed at £395,- £14,000,000 this year and £17,500,-ped for half an hour while the Every Room with Private Bath. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the propristress 000,000 and the total supply ser-000 in 1929, Torma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. H, OXBERRY, Proprietres.vices at £407,000,000. The total

expenditure compared with estimate of £838,390,000 last year and £838,586,000 actually anent.

Proceeding to estimate the revenue on the existing basis of kerosine, might throw upon the consumer, Mr. Churchill proposed taxation, the Chancellor of Exche-to reduce existing duties on sugar. was performed successfully, and quer said that the customs and The duty on all imported sugar the steamer continued on her voy- excise revenue moved forward by would be reduced by an amount age to Shanghai.

EUROPE

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Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables:-

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THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director.

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EMBODYING THE LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION OF COMFORT AND SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by ALFRED MOLLEY, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

an

two or three millions yearly in accordance with the growth of population and the general main tenance of consuming power.

More Beer Next Year,

Balance Fiscal Burden. In order to balance the extra fiacal burden which the tax on

As a result, preparations were made for an operation and about half way between Hongkong and Shanghal, the engines were stop.

three doctors performed the opera-. dion. An ancathetic was adminis- tered, and while the ship Iny at a standstill the three doctors work- ed on the man's life. Fortunately, the sea was calm, and under almost perfect conditions the operation

STOLEN RAILWAY

RIDE.

COSTS $10 INSTEAD OF 55 CENTS.

equivalent to a farthing a pound in the retail price. By this means it was possible also to afford relief to British refiners, who had long com- plained that while the Empire sugar producer had been assisted He saw a chance of recovery in by preference and when the home- been the revenue from bear,, which grown beet industry had emboldened him to repeat his helped, the British refiners had estimate of last year. Revenue been left to engage, without A fine of $10, with the alterna- from spirits, on the other hand, assistance, in the struggle against tive of 14 days' hard labour, was must be expected to resume its its competitora, domestic and imposed by Mr. W. Schofield, "at continuous deficit.

foreign. The reduction of the the Kowloon Magistracy this mor- The increased duty upon tobacco duty was designed to encourage ning, on an unemployed Chinese had more than realised expecta- the importation of raw' sugar, who was charged with defrauding which would undergo refining in the administration of the Kowloon- The duty on allk and on imports this country rather than the im- Canton Railway by travelling by under the Industries Safeguarding portation of white sugar refined train from Shum Chun to Kowloon

abroad.-British Wireless.

without a ticket.

tions, ...

Act showed an increase.

He expected a yield of three and

a quarter millions this year from betting tax against £2,700,000 last) year.

power,

..

W!

Mr. Wingard, Traffic Inspector, prosecuted and informed his Wor- ship that the defendant was caught riding on the steps of a third- class carriage. The train was at the time nearing Talpo.

It was stated that the third- class dare was. 55 cents.

JURYMAN EXCUSED.

CONNEXION WITH CASE THE CAUSE.

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London, Apr. 24. “Courageous," "bold," "solid" The yield of duties on tea and and constructive" are among the sugar in the coming year might adjectives applied to the Budget be expected to respond to the slow by the morning newspapers. forward movement of consuming The chief surprise has been the

"plum" offered to parents by in Saving Revenue,

creasing the Income Tax rebate in respect of children allowances to The object of the proposal to $60 for the first and £50 for each levy a customs duty, on mechanical subsequent off-spring, also the lighters and an excise duty

on making of the rebate effective for homemade lighters, which would a year in which the child is born. |yield £40,000, was to preserve the Mr. Churchill is generally con

revenue on the duty from matches gratulated on concentrating his When the names of special from which

we get several effort to lift the burden of rates jurors were called in the Supreme millions yearly by curtailing the from depressed Industries, Court this morning, on the hearing use of mechanical lighters.

There is, however, some eritic of a case concerning the owner- He also proposed very small jam of the petrol tax-Reuter, ship of land, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin adjustment in the customs duty on

was absent but appeared a couple cinema films in order to placa: British Empire Alms on the same figured in this morning's reports, reply to the Chief Justice, Mr.

A new vessel of the N. D. L. of minutes later. footing as those produced abroad Lloyds Register gives no de-Wan Kwong-tin expressed his sor by British companies. This was estimated to yield about £850,000 tails. This was the 8.8. Alster, row at being late and said he had sterling.

of 5,827 tons groes, commanded by been delayed by mlasing a ferry.. Captain J, Meyar, with a crew of Mr. J.. Beth was another juror The Committee appointed under 57 Europeana. Entering, on

called, but Mr. Potter said that, the Safeguarding of Industries mean draught of 27 feet 4 inches, while Mr. Bath would be an ad- Procedure had recommended a she carried 1,550 tons of cargo for mirable jurym An, he was the first customs duty on buttons. There-local discharge and 9,859 tons for receiver appointed by the Court fore buttons need for fastering or ports beyond. Messrs. Melchora in connexion whh the liquidation decorating apparel would be sub- and Co, are the local agents and of one the defen fants, and that fect to duty of 33 1/8 per cent. It is understood that this is the therefore it would erhaps be bot ad valorem but that would not maiden trip of the vessel. She ter if he did not serv

"e, mean that buttons already on Im departed for Shanghal at day- Mr. Both was accorò,

ingly ported garinerfg would bo break this morning.

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