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ASSESSMENT TAX INCREASES.

SERIOUS DANGER TO PUBLIC.

“HAVUDATAL ONOMONOH HH

RICKSHA COOLIES

CHARGED.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1930.

BRITISH PROTESTDOCTORS' TESTS OF

THIEF EXPOSES LENGTH OF .

LIVE WIRE.

ALLEGED THEFT FROM A EUROPEAN.

TO SOVIET.

EXCEPTION TO CONSPIRACY TRIAL ALLEGATIONS.

NEW DRUG.

VISION OF RAIN OF COINS ON GOLDEN CARPÉT.

FULL DETAILS OF THE NEW SCHEDULE.

COUNCIL MOTION.

Council,

At Thursday's meeting of the Legislative

the Bon. Colonial Secretary is to move a resolution giving offret to the Government's decision to increase the Assessment Tax. The resoiu tion is in the following terms:

Resolved by the Legislative Council, that the percentagen, on the valuation

PRISON SENTENCE.

EYE-WITNESS' STORY.

POWELL'S

COMMONS APPROVE. BED OF BUTTERFLIES. manship, high-grade mat-

London. Dec, 1. Two riekaba pullern, defended by

The Daily Mail gave recently a An exemplary sentence was im-

Lindsell,

Allegations made against the story of some remarkable expori- at the Mr. Horace Lo and Mr. Leo D'Al- posed by Mr.

were British Government during the ments made on themselves by two Central Magistracy this morning, mada, Sr., respectively. on a Chinese who was arrested charged, on remand, before Mr. conspiracy trial now proceeding London doctors with mescal-an

Williams

at the Central Police at Moscow were again the subject extraordinarily potent drug which and charged with the theft of 100

was known valued at $100. Court to-day, with stealing the sum of questions in the House of Com- until fairly recently pounds of wire

only to doctora and certain tribes) belonging to the Hongkong Elec-91 $20 from a fare, Mr. R. W. Webmons to-day.

Mr. Arthur Henderson told of Mexican Indians. tric Company.

questioners that he had made a

of h full perilously populak among drug ad- careful examination translation

of the

documents dicta on the Continent and it is bo- Issued by the Soviet Government lieved, among wealthy drug flends and he agreed that certain pas in England.

and unreasonably upon sages appeared to reflect adverse- the

ber.

Mr. T. G. Bennelt appeared for

The complainant said that, after of every tenement enumerated in the the complainant Company and pending the evening at the Savoy Hotel, he left in a ricksha at 12.30, list of tenements assessed, payable as asked for a heavy sentence. He

en the morning of November 23, rates, shall be altered, and that on Raid it was serious enac and 99. and from the date to be fixed by is pointed out

He had then spent six or seven dol- hnd that the wire Excellency the Governor for the cont, formed the cradle which protect he had on him when he set out lars after changing one of three $10 ing into effect of this reaolution the' following percentages shall be payabled the live wire running from earlier on the previous evening. He British Government

ak rater, namely for any tenement-

In

pulse Bay to Stauley from falling

the City of Victoria.17 per to the ground should it break. I could not recollect what happened Moscow bus accordingly, on

ext t

after the cradle had been stolen, In that portion of the U District the wire land broken and somebody bounded on the nurth, suuth, and west had touched it, the person would by the 700-feet contour, and on the have been killed, as the wire car- east by a line drawen north and soil | ríed a voltage of 6,800 volts. passing through the Wanchal Gap: The defendant had cut down and in such other portion of the HN! District na may. by order of the hout 600 yards extending ver Governor, be notified in the Gazette-yen posts, which was a consider. 17 per cent,

In the remaining portion of Hill District and in Quarry Bay. 12% per cent,

after he took the ricksha.

Lui Funt, an unemployed house coolie, said he came upon the two men as they pulled their fare tong Queen's Road, and overheard one of them say lo the other:-"Let us

tere him to a dark pince.”

10, Ice House 'Street,

Thoroughly British work-

eriala, medium prices, and a world wide reputation for excellent service-theso are a few reasons for the i continuous popularity of-

•

Now, however, it is beconting GLYN. & Co.'s

It is probably the most expensive drug that can be obtained, but its; effects pre so amazingly exhilarat- log-producing, as it does, the most delightful visions-that those who have

pneu experienced its dangerous plensurss will pay any- thing to get it."

His Majesty's Ambassador at

my instructions, informed the Soviet Government that insofar as the Pubile Prosecutor's comments on the depositions alleged to have

One of the experimentera is Dr. been made by the accused, huve Macdonald Critchley, junior neuro- been officially accepted by the logist at King's College Hospital.

Government, From a plates of conceniment, be Serviet

he (Mr. His tests showed that meacal, saw them take e Europena to the Henderson) taken exception to which is derived from

n cactus <listane, The Hongkongbottom of a flight of steps leading those passages which contain Electric Company took serious

native to the deserts of Central down from Battery Path, dieetly adverse and unfounded reflections America and called by the Indians view of the case and asked for an

to the Hongkong and Shang-pon the late and the present"Devil's root," or "Sacred mush exemplary sentence,

Bai Bank. He then, saw worth at Government." (Cheers). being extracted from the faree Mr. Henderson stated that he room of the Aztecs," evoken visual hallucinations of natonishing jacket, and the fare being eurried was awalling reply by Str

while variety and vividness British

the Ovey, the wat of the seat and dropped to the Esmond

Ambassador-Kruter and British yes are either closed ar open. Wirele round before the two men went away with the cleksha.

reble

Un

In To Hang and Sar Thun-17 PHT cent.

Continuing. Mr. Bennett said the defendant was formerly ear In Tung Wan. Whitheld and ployed by the Company as a wir Shaukiwan Rond as for as Inland Lot

ing man and he had a pair of No. 1620,16% per cent.

piters in his possession at the time of his arrest. He also hnd same documents showing that he was prasibly a member of the staff of the Company, but he had actually been dismissed in May last.

in the remaining portion of Shau kiwan Hood (North Polat), -14% per sint,

In Shaukiwa East and West. 184 per cent.

Shaukiwan Marine Lots Nos. 1 to 10, both inclusive, and Shnakiwan | Inland Lot No 408, -14% per cent, In Ting Shu Ma Tau. Fu Knu Wat and Sai Wan H«- 16 per cent.

In Brondwood Rond (with the exemption of Inland Lots Now, 1911, 1916, 20:00 and 2060. -10 per cent

Inland Lot Nos. 1911, 1940 and 2040, 14% per cent.

Intanil Lot Na. 20:39. 17 per cent. In Won Nei Chung (with the exceptim of the new Government hul village) and Wong Nej Chung Road 17 per vnt.

Weng Nel Chung New Village.

13 per cent.

In Aberdeen. · 16 per cent.

In Aplichau. 14% per cent.

In Stanley-121⁄21⁄2 per cent.

Sentence of four months' Ing fabour was imposed.

BURMA AMBITION

APPROVED.

'ontinued from Page 11

India's Problems,

committee

The Conference iu later continued their examination of the heads of the subjects draw

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"1 went down Queen's Road to look for a policemang

continued witness. “and returned with a detec- tive whom 1 picked

up near the Savoy Hotel

After further evidence, the cast was remanded unill Saturday. ̧

WOMAN'S FIGHT WITH POVERTY.

A BRUTAL HUSBAND.

RECORDERS IN A SCENE.

SIR ERNEST WILD AND MR. HEMMERDE.

re-

The trial was resumed for the third day at the Old Bailey cently of Albert Edward James Brand, aged 37; William Hubert Wison 29; and Edward Ernest Frederick Dennis, 23, who had pleaded not guilty to attempting

to ant are to the Southend Britan-

Visions for 24 Hours.

The condition progressed for about an hour and athalf, when it) renched its maximum. It then con- tinued at full power for many more hours. In frot 24 hours passed before the visions entirely faded,

While he was under the influence of the drug Dr. Critchley was able to write down descriptions of what he saw. He has told the Society for the Study of Inebriety and Drog Addiction that he saw:

Yellow specks dotted on a black background they are becom ing larger and more numerous, and' are forming a pattern. Red is now

the most prominent colour; the ar-

rangement is like a carpet, consist-

nia, a pleasure ship and coming of concentric rectangles, dark-

spiring together and with William Robinson to destroy the vessel.

red, salmon-pink. blue-golden, and PO 1,

As the potency of the drug makes itself felt more and intensely he sees:

more

Paris, Oct. 31 After heuring from witnesses the story of a French housewife's with proverty, thesperate fight

her which she ended by ging husband and three children. the The charge was ʼn sequel to an In Kowloon Point, Yaumati, Mong.p by Lord Sankey.

Large white apecha dart rapidly koktaul, Shanshulp, Prince Edward

Four of these heads, namely, the Seine Assizes jury 10-day found her nileged plot to blow up a pleasure

on to the Komi, the south side of Houndary component elements of federation, not guilty of murder.

boat at Southend. Brand, it has in from the periphery Street and Fak Tun Hoang (with the the type of the federal Legislature witnesses, had not enough money on the engineer, and Dennis

Madame Marie Colle, said the bern stated, was the captain, Wit-carpet, like bright silver coins else exception of Kowloon Martae Lots and the number of Chambers. to feed and clothe the children, to deck hand of a rival pleasure bont, like white streaks

pouring into the centre-or Now, 20, 28 and 33.- 17 per cent.

of lightning. constitutional power'n

the Kowloon Marine Lots Nos. 26, federal Legislature and the con

the say nothing of her husband, whom the Prince of Wales. Dennis and Everything is now moving; and 33-16 per cent.

on carpet design la breaking up and In the area bounded by the exten.truction, charneler, powers and they described as a "ne'er do well." Robinaan, it in alleged, went

responsibilities

th Fed ral

"She used to get up at five in the board the Britannin at midnight gives place to a mass of bright ion of Argyle Street on the north, by the extension of Waterine itad an rutier were referred to the morning and work until midnight and poured paraffin and petrol spangles dancing rapidly. all over the south-east and by the Kustom Federal Structure Sub-Committee, in her dyer's and cleaner's shop." down two shafts. A lighted match the picture. Canton Railway en or towards the

was 'hrown down one of the shafts powers of the Provincial aid one. west.-17 per cent.

"Meats." Legislatures and the constitution.

and an explosion occurred. In Hung Hom. Hung fiam West,character, powers and responsibili-used to have her meals in secret In lium Robinson, said that he re- "Mudame Celle," said another, Matilla Robinson, wife of Wil- Hok Yuen and Kowloon City Rondies of the

A mendow with buttercups and Principal Executives from the Jung Hom Police Station were referred to a second Sub-order to hide her misery from her turned home at 12.30 am. after daisies; now it is changing into a to the north as far as and including cominittee.

children. Meals! She would have the explosion. He was temporari-stereotyped park, with a bandstand Kowloon inland Lot No. 1150 and

„A third sub-committee was given a piece of bread for breakfast, ale blinded and his face was cover and with chairs, each one of which Howie Marine For Nthe task of considering the provi- piece of bread for lunch and a piece of with mud and blood. Brand whizzing rapidly round on

Butterflies, are comingi own axis. In To Kwa Wan. 13% por crat.

Sing to be made to secure the wit of brend for tea."

called later and threw the in from all sides; the bandstand Iler husband,

stated, bed, remarking, "If you want any has disappeared. it WILS treated her brutally and after al

more you know where Bye." long struggle to make both ends Brand also suggested that her meet she turned on the gas, A husband should account for his phyxiating the children

and hus injuries by saying that the gas Headings dealing with the mean-hand, and herself narrowly escap In Kowloon Bay Reclamation.-17|bership of the federal Legislature ing a similar fate.

stove exploded,” In Lai Chi Kok, Wang Uk, Cheung and the method whereby Sha Wan and Kowlunn Old City. -13 | sentatives from British India and frufian States are w be chosen

per cent.

In Ma Tau Wni and Kowloon City Ine en-qeration of the minorities (with the exception of the new lay, and special interests. out).— 14 per cent.

In Kowloon City, the new lay-out

17 per cent.

per cent.

per cent.

In any other pilner. 11 per remi.

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THE PRINCE AND MOTOR. TRAFFIC.

VILLAGE COLLEGE SPEECH.

A reference to "people who like

To Await Reports

repre-

A Scene.

its

The butterflies all collect into the centre and arrange theroselves into bed, rotating rapidly in a clockwise a circular, brightly coloured Bower-

clirection, in a most wonderful

manner.

As Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C..

Now a huge field of primroses... Mrs. Robinson, the Recorder. Sir Court maze, brightly coloured with defending, was cross-examining

a complicated pattern like Hampton Ernest Wild, anid that he did not objects moving quickly in a anake think it fair that this unfortunate like, sinuous fashion along ap- Woman's answers should be twist-parently endless pathways of the

We understand that the authori- were held over since action on these ties carried out tests in the new matters is in a measure dependent

the wor

work done on the questions King's Theatre, on the corner of and Wyndham before the Federal Scurture Sub- Queen's Road

Street. yesterday, when 60 tons of Committee,

Questions relating to the defence and were piled on a section of el

This load was forces, to the Supreme Court and the balcony floor.

four times the its jurisdiction, and the relations calculated at of federal and Provincial excentives weight the floor will normally to the Crown were also left over

have to carry. The test was in until the sub-committee reported every way successful,

on their special subjects.

The Business Committee meeta

to crab motor traffic in this coun- try" was made by the Prince of Wales when he opened Great Bri-to-morrow to appoint the personnel of British goods

in Inclu had tain's first village college at of the sub-committee.

varied grently in different places Sawaton, near Cambridge.

These will have a membership and from time to time. Cotton The college is the first of 11 of not more than twenty each, but goods had been more severely such buildloga where boys and arrangements will be made where-boycotted than others.

Kirle will receive training adapted

to an agricultura}_

This

Prince, age creer.

said the

sured of

hearing.

was

Mr. Hemmerde (who is Recorder of Liverpool); I am not used to being told that I twist answers.

Sir Ernest: You will be told by me if you do it.

ducted any case unfairly during his 35 years at the Bar.

muze.

Dr. Critchley told a reporter that his visions resembled a cinema- show. "They were always ex- tremely pleasant," he said, "but after I had made the experiment I resolved never to do it again. How- ever, I think I shall make further

testa later un.

Mr. Hemmerde: You luve already told me this morning that I have wasted time. If you think that is my method of conducting a

woman who has informed the Hocfety that she had taken meacal case it would be better if I tired. The question was perfect in the form of pills said: "Every; ly fair.

thing was so funny that I roared Sir Ernest: I do not any it is with laughter the whole day long." by the view of any minority is as- The boycott was now weakening

not. aver India as a whole, but

The drug is dangerous in the Mr. Hemmerde said that he had sense of being habit-forming and The delegations will submit to still effective in Bombay provide a school for the Business Committee, the names

He was circulating figures show-never been told that he had con- harmful mentally and physically. the alder children of no

fewer they desire to have on the sub-coming the falling off of British ex than nine villages.

ports to India, revealing that dur made possible by the develop.

ing the September quarter

there ment of modern motor transport,

was a decline of 13.6 per cent, and I think to those people who

In the weekly appreciation

of compared with 1929. The decline like to crab the enormous increase

to all pinces abroad. was 25.8 per of motor traffic In this country at the situation, the Government of

British Wire- cent.-Reuter and quote: India records a continuance of im- is an ill wind that blows no-provement throughout the country.

Hades and Moslems Disagree. The Round Table Conference pro- hody any good. (Hear, hear).

London, Dec. 1. This centre is more than a ceedings are continuing to attract

The conversations of the Hindu school. It includes an adult wing, great attention and, the develop- and with the hall and the library mente so far are generally regarded and Moslem Round Table dele-y that between your ordu novelist, was married in the village

gates have broken down.

This

is only mfitees.

the present time we might quo

Situation In Indin.

will give opportunities for adult as hopeful.

lean.

REBECCA WEST OMITS "OBEY."

BANKER BRUDVÉGROOM. Miss Cecely Isabel Fairfield, who is famous as, Rebeccn West, the

church of Abinger, near Dorking. Surrey, on Nov. 1. to Mr. Henry Maxwell Andrews, London banker.

Mr: Androws met his bride at

Sir Ernest: You are conducting your case with admirable skill. Do not be angry. I did not mean to ay anything to hurt your feelings. Referring to the incident a little Inter, Sir Ernest said that he was Mr. Hem- sorry if he had hurt merde's feelings.

Mr. Hemmerde: I need hardly

and myself these matters can very Hitherto there have been sepa- quickly be forgotten. education in its broadest sense.” The presentation of India's as-rate Moslem and non-Moslem con-

The hearing was adjourned. The building, which has cost pirations by the Indian delegation stituencies for the existing pro- $16,000, includes a hall seating is much appreciated, and in many vincial legislatures, but the in- about 400; workshops and fabora- quarters there is recognition of the dus now densand joint plectorates, Mr. ME. M. Oakeshott. aparty a year ago. No public en- tories and a domestic selence sympathet e trend of British opin which the Moslems contend would resident at the European Y.M.C.A.. houneoment of the intended weed:

A disposition to explore give the indus a preponderating Kowloon, reported to the Water

was made, but the various Avenues of ap strength in the majority of cases. Police thin morning the theft of a leaked out, and there was a large proach to the general problem It is understood that the Aga 350 banknote, from a pocket of his congregation at the church. Tho is more in evidence, but there is Khan, on behalf of the Moslems, waistcoat, between 7 am and 8 bride wore a dress of beige, with a natural reluctance to express intimated that the Moslema oven qualified approval of any

um, to-day. The police are mak-A closely fitting hat

and shoes to match, unanimous in standing by, as an ing inquiries. particular schomp until the details

Irreducible

An alternative form of servico question drawn up

Mr. B. Stendall, residing at No. was used, which omits from the by the Moslem conference in 2, Hankow Road, Kowloon, was

bride's vows the word "Obey," Lucknow last year.

The Hindus state there will be charged before Mr. Butters, at the substituting for the usual words, **Wilt thou love him, honour and In the House of Commons to-day, no more Hindu-Moslem, negotia with being drunk and incapable in instead of promising to endow the

Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

keep to him" The bridegroom, Commander Kontions, but that all questions as to Salisbury Road this morning. He has defaulted on interest payment | worthy, Mr. Wedwood Bonn, the position of minorities will be on Shanghai-Nanking Railway Secretary of State for India, said dealt with by the Federal Rela did not appear in, Court and his bride with all his worldly goods, maid, "All'my: worldly goods with bonds-Reuter. ...

∙Lthee I share.

block.

THE FIRST DEFAULT.

CHINA UNABLE TO MEET INTEREST.

Shanghai, Dec. 1. The Shanghai-Nanking Raliway

has defaulted in the Interest pay- ment of £86,700, due on December

wore

are disclosed and the implications points on linum, the fourteen

can be fully comprehended..

The Boycott Resulta.

1. This is the first time China replying to

that the strength of the boycotttions Committee.-Reuter,

bail of $5 was entreated,

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