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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Popey on the Differential Calculus.

1To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.}'

A CHILD'S POSER.

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"Mother," asked little Dorn, wrinkling her baby brows, "If you had married Uncle Tom and duddy had married Aunt Sarah, who would I have been?"

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There is only, one thing to do the lttle Doras of thin My dear, think its simply when frightfully clover how everyone world start asking awkward ques- has worked out all those dividends tions and that is to promise an and feen and things and it does fanswer at some sufficiently distant show that every cloud has a silverbirthday. Children who ask this lining doesn't it. Well, Angus has told me all about it and its type of question are revealing over so simple when you know normal, healthy, mental develop. how, and its just something to do ment. Children who are dull and with what they call a deforential uninteresting are usually some- calculus and about nature abhor what below par in their health. ring a vacqueum (have I spelled Physical and mental fitness are that right).

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AUSTRALIAN CABINET.

MR. SCULLIN SUCCEEDS IN REMODELLING BODY:

Sydney, Mar. 3.

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In the reconstituted Cabinet, Mr. Scullin is Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Industry, while Mr. Theodore is Treasurer.

As the Senate is expected to re- ject the Government's proposal to expand currency by £18,000,000, the possibility of a dissolution of Parifament la looming large. A meeting of the Nationalist caucus to-day decided to move a vote of non-confidence in the Scullin Gov- at the earliest oppor- tunity, probably on Thursday- Rentor."

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[A former message announced that the Australian Cabinet was being completely reorganised as a result of the differences which have made themselves manifest since the reappointment of Mr. Theodoré us the Federal Treasur- er. Mr. Scullin, the Prime Minister. will henceforth be assured of the support of a loyal band of Mo- derates in consequence of the reor- ganisation, which followed a ballot instituted by the Labour Caucus after all the existing port- follas had been declared vennt. The bullet resulted in a triumph for Mr. Scullin, who with Mr. Theodore and other Moderaten were re-elected na the lenders of the Party. The Extremist Ministers, Mr. Ansley and Mr. Beasley were ejected. Mr. Scullin was

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After plying between Calcutta andreeding to the re-modelling of his Japan for nearly 20 years, the .8. Cabinet and the allotment of the Namsang, owned by the Indo-Chin portfolios.) Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., is offered for sule. She is still an eminently seaworthy vessel and has been taken off the run as more modern vessels have superseiled her. Her last com. inander was Capt. F. Muoney, who skippered the ship for a number of

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