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This really lies at the root of the whole trouble. We refuse to be- lieve that this currency problem is, Impossible of solution, and we, as- sert that serious application to it is the greatest need of this Colony.

By this time of day, the Govern- ment has, we are happy to think, come to realise the strength of pub. Hic feeling with regard to the ris- ing cost of government. The limit has been more than reached-it has been overstepped. From all that we hear, there is a good deal going on behind the scenes in the matter of retrenchment. That is all to the good. The public, however, ex- pects far more from the results of the labours of the Retrenchment Commission than from the Govern-

DAY BY DAY

THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF DECID ING ANY CONTEST, THE ONE BY LAWS, THE OTHER BY FORCE-Machiavelli.

The Colony has a clean bill of

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health for the week-end.

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The Bon Line e.s. Benlomond. from Singapore, is due here on the 24th instant.

The P. and O. 8.8. Macedonia, from Singapore, is due here at 9 n.m. on Wednesday.

The P. and O. s.8. Mantua from Hongkong arrived at London on the 17th October at 5 am.

A Chinese who was said to have been born at Honolulu, was fined

Was

STEPHEN LEACOCK on

COMMITTEE MADNESS.

THERE is no doubt," says one The Chair: Will you move a mo- The the scant Outlines of the tion toujourn

Sidelines of History, "that the Mrs. Q: Yes, if it is accessary. adoption of legislative procedure All I mean is that lunch-

And so after a hard morning they marked a great forward step in the progress of government. It lent to at last got adjourned.

Committee of (III)-How the debate an order and precision be fore unknown; it clarified thought, Professors Undertake to Bring in and restrained the turbulence of a Report to the Faculty. argument by the dignity of formal address."

Minster.

..

The Chair (looking, in a book of rules and shaking his head): I

The Chairman: Now, gentlemen," you have heard the remit, that this Quite so. But did it? Let us committee is to report on 'the ques- see how it has worked out in some tion of the use of lead pencils in of the Meetings,

place of pen and ink.

Professor A: Mr. Chairman, I (1)The Man Who Started the Trouble: A.D. 1295.

should like to submit a motion. Chapel of St. Scene: Ye 1924 Model, 6 cylinder, 26 hp.ment's self-imposed economies. In- $250, or two months' hard labour,

deed, there is a widespread feeling by Mr. Lindsell this morning for Stephen's in Ye Borough of West

don't think a motion would lie. It Ye Speaker: An it please ve has nothing to lie on. Green Body, Wire Wheels

that if our burden of taxation is the possession of tivo revolvers and some rounds of nmunition. In-

Professor B: I think, Mr. Chair- to be lightened, it will only be as a spector Andrew said the man was my good Knights and Burgesses,

Isith this is a regular or model man, that a motion that the remit consequence of sweeping proposals arrested on the Shekki ferry this Parliament it would seem good to be remitted would lie.

me that we

who frame or as

Professor C: I don't want to de- by the Commission, which has the morning.

should say draught a set of rules lay the work of the committee, but goodwill of the whole community

An unemployed Chinese

whereby our parlement or so to I cannot agree with Professor B. in the task to which it is devoting sentenced to three months impri-speak, our debate, shall be guided: I do not think that any motion can itself. If we have to put up with sonment by Mfr. Butters at Kowloon Such as. first or primis, that none jie at all until the chair sua sponte, this morning for receiving shall speak when I am talking or to put it more simply still, ab' unreasonable taxation at the moradiator meter which was stolen second, that when others speak all origine voluntario, submits the re- a public car parked in shall be in order and form, such mit to the committee. Till that is ment, we have at least the right to from

Salisbury Road. Detective Ser-that not twenty speak at once as done the remit itself is in vacuo. expect and demand that if the Re-geant Kellett stated that the meter hitherto, but only one, or, so to (General murmurs of approval. Professor C. has evidently scored a trenchment Commission indicates was eventually found in an opium speak, solus.

Fascinated with the idea, the bullseye. And so by careful legis- how expenditure can be cut suf-divan.

houses of the King's parliament lative procedure, crawling forward ficiently, the burdens shall be re-

Upon the application of the of Edward I got together and made from cover to cover, they manage to moved without any delay. To talk Public Prosecutor (Mr. Somerset a set of rules of which the awful get to Professor A's motion.)

us. The Chair. I think, then, Pro- Miss E. N. Earl and Mr. F. S. W. of the Colony being lightly taxed, Fitzroy) this morning, the mur-consequences are still among

der trial of Tang Yung, was trans-As witness-

fessor A, that we may, now listen Smith invite all friends to whilst at the same time ignoring ferred to the next Criminal Ses- (I)-The Familiar Scene When to you.

certain developments the Ladies' Three-Weekly Discus- Professor A: What I wish to their Wedding at St. Andrews Church, Kowloon. on 1st No-other vital factors, is only to missions, as

have taken place which the Crownsion Club Undertakes Its Annual ask, Mr. Chairman, is the precise verber, 1930, at 2.30 p.m. and state the position. What is more, are desirous of investigating. Mr. Discussion of the Club's Finances. sense in which the committee is to afterwards at 2. Humphreys it only serves to raise the ire of F. C. Jenkin has been briefed for Mrs. A: I'd like to rise-

understand the word "lead pencil." Building, Carnarvon Road,

The Chairman-Woman: I don't In other words, I think we must those who know from actual expert the defence. Kowloon.

believe you can.

formulate a definition of the word "lead." ence what these constant demands by the Evernment for more money involve.

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1930.

PAYING THE PIPER.

If our Unofficial Members are

man,

Mrs. A: But I am

I think, before us.

"You enjoy being in gasi?"

The Chair: I mean, I don't think The Chair: I think Professor asked Mr. Lindsell this morning of a Chinese who had spent the you're in order. There's an amend-A's remarks are entirely to the best part of his last ten years in ment to the previous motion still, point-Ha! Ha! Gentleraen, you

who prison. The

must pardon me, I hadn't-intended Was Mrs. B: If you mean my amend- any witticism-te the point, ha! charged with disobeying an order

banishment, was given the ment, I had something that I wart ha! of

Ha! Ha! to add to it anyway, but I don't All the Committee: sentence of maximum summary

leaving it over if Jennie) To the point-ha! hä!.... feels

hia Chairman (wiping 12 months hard labour and 24 mind strokes of the birch.

The Chair (pounding on the table streaming eyes); Order, gentic- with a mallet:) You're out of or men. order. (And when the

not unduly vocal during the ordin receipts as his criteria, is not more Sydney, Australia, is to be effected a motion still before us and anj

The

Canton Development. The ability of the business man in China to overcome the handicaps of civil strife and the burdensome taxation it invariably implies, com- mented upon annually by the Inspec

The extradition of Wong Sai-der.

laughter has all died down) Will tor-General of Customs, who has cheung, charged with larceny of

Mrs. B. I only want to say--- someone read what the encyclo- his employers growing trade figures and customs £100 from

in The Chair: You can't. There's paedia says about lead?

Professor C: Lead. A mineral amendment.

carboniferous substance generally remarkable than the steady deve- to-morrow in accordance with his

Mrs. C: But can't she withdraw found in oleaginous rock. Lead ary meetings of the Logislative lopment of Canton as a modern city own decision to waive all formal

proceedings. The fugitive was her amendment? I'd like to move was known to the ancients and was Council, they can at least be said to Not for many years has Canton es formally discharged from local that Mrs. B

probably (but you can't bot on it) Romans: make some amends when it comes caped a heavy annual bill for mill-jurisdiction by Mr. Lindsell at the

Mrs. A. B. C. and half the the plumbum of the

whence the word plumb, meaning to debaling the Colony's Budget,tary expenses; the recent campaign Central Police Court this morning.alphabet: Order!

Mrs. D: I'm not-

heavy or straight as In "plumb" This year, there has been a break against the Kwangsi rebels involved

Joseph Gearon, fireman on board. The Alphabet: You are!

line: the word must be distin- over $19,000,000; yet there is rea- with custom by setting aside a

the .. President Grant, and The Chair (pounding), Ladies!guished from "plumb," meaning a son to believe that more money

Kenneth Stanton, electrician of Ladies!

fruit, Sanskrit, plupp), which ori- whole morning for the purpose has been spent on public works in the same vessel, appeared before Mrs. X: I'd like to second the ginated in Corinth, and which was Outward evidence of the length Canton than in any three cities in Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magis-motion, only 1 want to say at the probably”. of the arations can be found in our similar position in China. Modern tracy this morning on a charge same time that I think that Nellie Professor X (aged 79, waking Mrs. Q: Don't you think, Ma-up): I think, Mr. Chairman, that news columns to-day. As will be ideas were rather slow to obtain of having wantingly or negligently

not yet had a foothold in the Kwangtung capi-thrown lighted crackers to the dam Chairman, that we've done our meeting has been sufficiently understood, we have

danger of the public in Canton enough for one morning? I'm protracted, and as I think I heard. sufficient time in which to analyse tal. It is not so very long ago that Road yesterday. Both defendants afraid lunch will be utterly over the dormitory dinner bell-

fined done if we keep on. I told them the Unofficial speeches, which, the first motor road was opened to pleaded guilty and were

(Continued on Page 9.) To-day traffic.

one o'clock in the kitchen. find we

big 310 each. however, we commend to the public schemes of public waterworks, city as being worthy of study. One sanitation, bridge-building, etc. in point which will probably suggest progress or just completed, in addi- itself is that, in the main, the cri-tion to dozens of fine new roads. ticisms are hardly as severe or out-The latest development is even more A few weeks will see spoken as might have been expect- interesting.

ed, but no doubt there was a feel the inauguration of an air' mail ing on the part of the Unofficials and passenger service, the first that the bitter pill of extra taxa-of a chain of airways that will link all important cities in the province

tion had to be swallowed and that and on the borders with Canton. it had better be done with as little The programme will be commenced fuss as possible.`.

with a service between Canton and Reconciliation to the necessity Wuchow, which will enable the trip for further taxation is generally to be accomplished in two hours recognised in the speeches, with a as against 18 hours in the normal hope that they will be remitted as way. It is notable that the passen- ger fare is to be $25, which should soon as this becomes practicable. mean ready use of the new facilities It will be realised, of course, that if the public are at all air-minded. the Unofficials were faced with a The Director of Civil Aviation in difficult situation. The Budget had Canton, Mr. Wong Kwong-yu, to be balanced, and they could hard-whose energy and ambition have ly be expected to come forward resulted in many new aerodromes with cut-and-dried schemes where-and the improvement of those al- ready in existence, when he took

by no further call would be made over the appointment, possibly took for revenue. The origin of the a hint from the experience of

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sum, which has to be found for of air services has increased 250 personal emoluments, which, in its per cent. in six months following turn, is partly due to the fall in the fifty per cent, fare reduction, Mr. sterling value of the dollar. The Wong'e scems the right way to be- gin and his enterprise deserves salary increases, as is known, were every encouragement. forced through by weight of the Official Majority: they certainly

did not have the approval of the rolled my way and. I just kicked "I didn't play football; The ball Unofficials or of the public whom it pleaded a Chinese youth they represent. With the situa- charged this morning with street tion so serious as it is, we can only obstruction at Aberdeen. In view of the fact that the delinquent had once again express our surprise already spent two nights in goal that the Government should appear during the week-end, Mr. Lindseil to be so unconcerned about the ordered his discharge. currency problem. A more anomal-

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A tallyman of the s.a lupeh was ous situation than that represented charged before Mr. Butters at by the fact that the Government re-Kowloon. this murning with un- ceives its revenue in silver and in-lawful possession of 2.7 taels of raw opium on board the motor: curs so much of its expenditure in boat Shing Lee. He was fined sterling could scarcely be imagined, $80, or six weeks' imprisonment.

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