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makes him his own Prime Minis- ter," while at the same time pos- sessing enormous residuary and emergency powers. The business roan is as anxious about security

TO MAKE A GIFT TO ONE WHO IS us the official, but he would pre-HIGHLY PLACED AND IN AUTHORITY fer to leave the emergency powers 15. NOT LIBERALITY, BUT COMMEECE.

-Houssaye. with the Central Government, so as to give the provincial legista- tures more chances of function- ing as really responsible bodies It has been held in some quarters that the Simon Commission has

The health return for yester day shows one non-Chinese case of typhoid and one Chinese case of diphtheria.

Reminiscences of the

Boxing Ring.

inte

ing neck-and-neck race be easy reach of the forefinger and tween Frank Goddard and Joe thumb. saw on that evening

On September 4, Sir Joseph Beckett for premier honours in the more sharks in human form than been too doctrinaire in insisting Kemp, who is going home on leave, rear 1919, it was no surprise whenever I had set eyes upon, before.

stayed overnight at Government Mr. C. B. Cochran put the trumpet under one roof. upon the same sterotyped Con- House, Singapore.

to his lips and spilled the nows that When in Rome drink the wine of stitution for each of the eight Our Shanghai

be had matched these heavy-weights the country is a sound maxim for correspondent for a championship match at man or boy. I saw some 'country main Provinces, and there appears cables that a son was born to Mr. Olympia, (says J. S. Barron in the cousins invest their holiday money to be a tendency to endorse the and Mrs. W. F. Poole yesterday, Glasgow Evening News).

on one or two occasions, but I also at the Country Hospital.

For it must be borne in mind that saw the same country cousins look suggestion of provincial round-

when, three weeks earlier, Goddard long and anxiously for the glib- table' conferences to decide the Amongst the passengers who had beaten Jack Gurphey of Man- tongued Welshers after the fight. form of each Provincial Govern-left by the Asama Maru to-day chester in ten rounds at the Na- Came the night of the fight that

were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lloyd, Mr. tional Sporting Club, London, for C. B. C. had so well staged. Every ment. Another iden, which is J. M. Alves, Mr. F. P. de V. Soares the Lonsdale heavy-weight belt and body who was anybody was there gaining support among Europeans and Mr. Ho Kwong,

championship of Great Britain, with his wife and his wife's sister:♬ S there were many critics who re Beckett took the ring remembering is that Second: Chambers would

Miss Martha L. Root, who has fused to homologate the right of only that Goddard had humiliated make certain emergency powers recently been lecturing in Hong-the Club to select Goddard and him in 1917. And in those days unnecessary and would obviate the kong and Canton on the Principles Curphey as the natural opponents Beckett was dour enough to com

an important match.mand a modicum of respect even of Baha'u'llah, sailed for Shang-in such danger of Provincial Governors hai this morning on the. Asama Beckett, they argued, was the man among fighting man. Men fust continually being at inggerheads Maru.

for Goddard.

took sides. They were either for with their legislatures. The sug.

So it is safe to state that all Bri-or against Joe-Goddard swiftly The Hongkong Technical In-tain became hugely interested in became a secondary consideration. gestion is that these Second Cham-stitute is to reopen on Tuesday, the approaching match between the Ders would be Indian, but. men

October 7th. It is proposed to heavies of the day. Bombardier Goddard's Chief Ambition. chosen to represent agricultural form classes both in Hongkong Wells, who had held the title sincs

and Kowloon for which there is a 1911, had practically abdicated, anybody cared a squirt of tobacco To be quite frank, I question if and commercial interests, and demand, This will provide anand while Goddard won hence somewhat conservative in excellent opportunity for young received the Lonsdale Belt, it look-dard. The one was what shall I juice about either Beckett or God-

their outlook.

people to improve their know-led an even-money chance that he say?perhaps a fighter, perhaps ledge,

would have to hand back the not; the other's swagger made men It is apparent from a recapitu- | ***

trophy ere long.

clench their teeth and stare fiercely lation of these points that the Mr. L. A. Tobias, the Manager

Training Show. • ahead, Goddard and Beckett-ma European community in India is of Messrs. Lazarus & Co., the local

conscience! The dearest-priced opticians, is a passenger to-day by Joc had been adding to his seat was cheap that night. Nether- theless the betting boys made their minded interest in the future of Tobias has been under medical at with comfort as a cruiser-weight. presence felt. They fielded against the country, and is prepared to /tention for some time past and is To work up his speed he had Young Beckett. Goddard was all the rage proceeding to Japan under medical Brooks of Aldgate, Herbert Synott And wasn't the big boy proad of look at the problem from a reason-advice. He expects to return early as a human target, Tom Berry as a the fact! Up and down his dress able point of view. Its attitude is in October.

tactician, and Bill Welch as an odd-ing-room he strode, his pride ris

and

Thongkong Telegraph. taking a very lively and liberal- the N. Y. K. Asama Mara, Mr. weight-no longer could he box

THURIDAY, -EPT. 18 1930.

INDIA'S INTERNAL PROBLEMS.

It is satisfying and comforting to learn that, outside Congress

more

V

in striking contrast to that of the Possibly on account of the in-n-out to step into the ring at ing swiftly by degrees as word was Congress leaders, who lack either cessant rain preventing the presence other sparring partners feel like ing in the market.

a moment's notice should any of the brought to him as to the price rul-

a balanced or an understanding

of prospective buyers, there was no taking a flop when the going be- Beckett, as usual, was a 'glüm offer at the property sale held yes-

figure. Brows knit, his slow-work- outlook. Happily, moderate opin- terday afternoon at the Lammert came too torrid.

Eastwards along the coast-ating brain whirling to little purpose ion amongst the Indians is com- Auction Rooms, when the auc- Brighton-Goddard had Harry as he peered straight ahead en-

tioneer had to withdraw the sale of ing to see the possibilities of the No. 322, Queen's Road West (upset weight champion, Jim Sullivan, the What mutts men were those days! Reeve, the then undefeated cruiser-deavouring to look into the future. big Round-Table Conference as a price $26,500), and Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, ex-Guardsman who had worn the Beckett was a cinch. He had means of adjusting the whole pro- Cheung Sha Street (upset price middle-weight crown in pre-war beaten Dick. Smith, in 20 rounds, blem. If that gathering meets in the spirit in which it was devised, we have no doubt of its success.

$26,000.).

How Engy.

[days, big Arthur Townley, of Harry Reeve in five rounds, Bom- "Rio Rita" as a stage show play. whom such great things had been bardier Wells in five rounds, and ed on Broadway for 62 weeks at predicated, but, who was the only now came forward Goddard-coccy, one of the home division who could swaggering, as if that made any prices averaging $5.50 a sent. The tuneful spectacle comes to the be induced to take the ring against difference. Central Theatre from to-day as an terer, at the tail-end of the war. Fred Fulton, Tom O'Rourke's plas- all-talking, all-musical Radio Picture, and the manager of the Goddard on June 17. having been Townley was on the same bill as Central Theatre announces there matched with the Australian, Har will be no rise in the usual prices. old Hardwick, at 16 rounds. Bebe Daniels and John Boles head the large cast.

circles, the trend of public opinion in India regarding the breakdown of the recent peace negotiations is to lay the responsibility on the Nationalist leaders. The latest review of the situation does well to stress the utter inexperience of the Congress politicians, who are

Library Facilities,

tiptoe and arranged for a display Southampton wafted on the obviously

of coloured lights to announce the visionary than

Criticism of Hongkong's public practical in their outlook. One library is always in season, and

verdict. The fight itself is a' short, point which is made is that their yet is traceable through the local

A Ringside Crowd.

sharp story of battering-ram tactics against pride of the foolish order. proposals would condemn the re-newspaper files for many years

The men did their training well; Beckett, pressing his right glove Like talk about the formed Provincial Governments to back

Cochran, no less, did his part of into the palm of the left hand aa the spade work, so that on June 17th he left his dressing-room, offered financial stagnation and would de-weather, the "grouse" is always

with us, and, almost similarly, The Royal Observatory reports there gathered together at the to hang his future on any peg-in-the prive them of the means of carry-

grumbling makes no difference, that the anticyclone central over Olympia ringside a fashionable ga-hall of fame if Goddard would ing out s progressive policy in The City Hall, the so-called y. There is still a cyclonic circu-backs, men with sparkling diamonds in measurable distance of half- N. China has strengthened slight-thering of ladies with V shaped only be reasonable and come with the fields of education, medical museum, and the library are aplation round the Paracels. The on their fingers, and the usual con- arm punching. Five and a half min." relief, scientific agriculture, andparently an inheritance, which an local forecast is:-N.E. winds, glomeration of camp followers in utes after the referee sent other beneficent activities. In earthquake, a fire, or a Far East-fresh; generally overcast, occa- evening dress, who offered to "take them on their journey the swagger-

the odds" with or without the short, these extremists professern Andrew Carnegie alone could sional rain.

да

In

in

remove or improve. Not that one themselves discontented with pre-

can be unduly critical of the sent rule and condemn in advance

library-it has a fairly good future reforms, yet at the same variety of books, and to a great time are quite unable to evolve extent serves the community who any satisfactory scheme of their would otherwise be starved own. In this regard, they are on matters literary. Yet there is a par with most revolutionists much room for improvement, and they can destroy but not build up of a recent copy of the Shanghai this is emphasised by casual sight To look for a moment at the Municipal Gazette, which has a situation from the standpoint of list of new books as periodically the European in India. It is in- added to the public library of teresting to note that there are Shanghai It is a popular pas- evidently two schools of thought time to compare the two ports, regarding the future government whether in sports prowess, public servants' salaries, amusements of the country. There is the

after nightfall, or culture. In the section which thinks that too libraries it is to be feared that many concessions have already Shanghai wins hands down. In been made to Congress demands, their latest acquisitions for the and, at the other end, those who ap. reading public there is a long list proach the question from of books covering a, diversity of angle quite unlike that of the offi- subjects that one can well envy. The selection is evidently in capa- cial, however liberal minded.

able hands, and there is "heavy" many ways, these latter are pre-rending, such as the latest bio- pared to go further than the graphics (Clemenceau, for in- Simon Report. According to a stance), a History of Economics. writer well qualified to analyse the (published this year), Inter- position, the civilian is naturally national studies, thrillers, "high- afraid lest his own child, District discussed books on the war, and brow" novels, latest and much-

Administration, shall suffer. Ile 30 forth. The list of the is therefore inclined to leave very authors is imposing: there is no strong powera with the Provincial rubbish of any kind. Hongkong Governors, who in six out of the patrons of the City Hall library nine Provinces are normally mem- must often wonder why no list of bers of the Civil Service.

·additions is ever issued to ticket- The

holders. It is difficult enough to business man is chiefly anxious

find a désired work from the anti- that any transfer of responsibility quated index-that;

gives по shall be real, so that there should authors' names in systematic ar- be more chance of the next "re ray, as would be expected. It forms" being permanent, and it becomes even more of a lucky-dip is political stability which he most proposition when nothing about ly desires. The Simon Commis- the latest acquisitions is avail- sion has in this matter tended to additions are so few, and far be

able. One can only conclude that accept the official point of view, tween, that modesty compels an and has given the Provincial Gov occasional new book being added ernor a position which practically to the shelves by stealth!

OCCASIONAL RAIN.

Be it ever so humble

"Just fancy, Sam Parker's building a new barn."

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