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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1931,

ANOTHER POLITICAL

SCARE.

Jeader. What actually happened is recent history. The Liberals did

bring forward their amendment, in

In modified form.-ntil-rataining lis

substance, but It was. eventually

DAY BY DAY

UNHAPPILY-MERE POOLIBUINESS IN MEN ESPONSIBLE FOR THE GOVERN- MENT OF GREAT STATES 19 APT TO HE A CURSE AB HEAVY AB THE CRIMES OF TYRANTS.-Mosley.

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ruled out of order. Thus was this expected crisis passed. The latest development is on quite another point, namely, the question of the liability of playing fields to the proposed tax. This is a matter on which the Liberals have been united from the very first. It remains to The P. and O. s. Kidderpore, from

the 4th instant. be seen whether the Government Singapore, is due here at 6. a.m. on will give way, or, if defeated, 'would

The Bishop of Victoria and Mire. consider the issue of sufficient Im-Duppuy left by the Heian Maru

Lady Chater purtance to warrant a dissolution.of yesterday. Parliament. This latter contin-passenger by the same liner. Kuncy would appear rather remote. The silk forwarded from Hongkong Knowing the value to the Govern- by the Empress of Asia on the fith ment of Mr. Snowden, it is almost brived in New York St. John's Park) and Hoboken on the 26th June, Inconceivable that his colleagues having been 21 daya in transit, would embark on a sufficient degree of opposition to his wishes as would virtually involve throwing him overboard. So far, however, there has been no Indication us to the meusure of importance which the

An amended Police Reserve Order Government attaches to the pre-states

that the revolver practice the posal to tax playing fields. Specula-arranged for. the members of

Company to Inke Sharpshooters tion on to-morow's developments place on Wednesday, July 1st at the therefore becomes somewhat dif-Bowen Koud Reveiver Range will be postponed until Thursday, July 2nd at ¡cult.

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THE BEST OF BEING A MAN.

By DOROTH BLACK,

THE NOVELIST.

I should like to be a man, because[bent on him to get married at the in the morning and earliest opportunity or become an when I arose opened my newspaper I should not object or veiled pity to the rest be faced with the announcement, of his sex. "Hard felt hats will be worn on the Rather on the contrary, WI • back of the head this season, and liam returna from

A sunshine the modish place for the cigarette cruise to Madelra, still quite him-

no longer behind the ear, but self. tucked nonchalantly into the hat- "Ha, ha," say his friends. "Old hand, with certain abadon and William is a cute one. The girl insourelance.

who can catch old William will have "For the more modish, or after- to be up very early in the morning. noon hard felt hat, the entire back There are no files on him."

But what of Wilhelmina, if she of the brim will be removed, expos. ing the neck to the full.

spends n season with relations in "This fashion will doubtless not the East and nothing comes of it?

have to gentlemen who

Poor girl," we say.

"Of courne, appeal lutely neglected the neck, but they she isn't terribly attractive, I know, must at once take it in hand. It le but one always supposed men were never too late to begia. The neckless particular out there. Well, must, first of all, be liberally spread even that couldn't get poor Wilhel with fresh batter." and semina off." forth.

tions they offered to him that he gonded, which is more thành

Men's clothes are, admittedly, nothing to write lyrics about, and yet such as they are, they are.

she could

And I would like to be a man be-

comfortably aware that she would go to all lengths rather than do any could cutting down on me if she possibly avoid it.

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Having once accustomed himself Why is it naturally inferred that to a certain type of headgear a man Willam is so anxious to avoid is at least left alone with it. No matrimony, Wilhelmina so longing one carves the top lightly off his to be enmeshed, in lug toils?

I do not know. Homburg, or ordains his cap shall!

in these days marriage holds suddenly have a green' india-rubber

more advantage for a man than a peak.

Indeed, I once went with a well-woman. He can at least be-certain It is becoming increasingly, evi-

known novelist to buy a hard felt of a cook-housekeeper and someone It is announced in the Times that dent, however, that Liberal-Labour

hat, as part of his Spring Outfit, to make the beds who will not leave Captain A. H. Walker, O.B.E, IN.

herself unless unbeatably relationships will ere long have to (Commodore, Second Class, long and so alike were all the confer to better be put upon a much more satis-kang) has been awarded a Good Ser-

vice pension

of f150 a year, from would have bought its own kat hack. be from the registry al present. June 1, in succession to Captain F. G. again but for my timely interven-1 furtory noting than These periodical disputes are annoy. G. Chilton, A.D.C., who has been protion and a pointing out of the mark-cause alone with that great thought,

moted to Ang rank,

ing inside 1. ing nth to the one Party and the other. Moreover, they lead where. But for the certainty that the Conservatives would seek to win the country over to Protectie in the event of a General Election, a definite break-up of the Liberal Parly, with some joining Labour (and others the Conservatives, would have occurred long ago. The ques tion is how long can Libegal-Labour harmony last. Eventually, there must be a reversion to the two- Party system; of that there can be doubt. A General Election. even if it entsed the defent of Labour, would at any rate have that result.

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The Test Match.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

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I was once in a house where they They are not perpetually atate of becoming something else. had a row about the Laundry. Most Mankind has once and for all decid-marriages have, at one time or an-

reef.

The following cable at the closed how long he wants his trousers. other, almost foundered on this of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co, -

He does not alternately hitch them up above the knee, and then, in swift revulsion, have them trail ing some yards over his boots along the pavement behind him,

He does not appear one day with them up under the arms or lightly December 1931 6/83 down daught with a belt about his thighs,

London Terminals, March 1932 0/11% down id. May 1932 7/1 down 14 August 1931 6/5% down d.

New York Terminals, March 1932 150 up 1 pt. May 1932 1.56 up 1 pt. July 1931 131 up 1 pt. September 1931 1.35 up 2 pts. December 1931 1.44 up 3 pts.

WATER LEVELS.

The defent of the labour Gov- Priment on some vital question has so aften been foreshadowed of late,

The Test Match did hot finish in and the prediction ' falsified by

a blaze of glory though the earlier events, that there will be many in-play could scarcely have been more clined to attach little importance to dramatic or thrilling. New Zou- the suggestion that a crisis may be tund made brilliant recovery reached to-tnorrow, when the froin as apparently hopeless posithe Kwangtang River Conservancy Liberals are expected to press their tion, but declared at a time which

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH. AND EAST RIVERS.

"Seventy-Five Pounds a year for Laundry is preposterous, and we have not got it. You must see it is You must dress cut down at once.

the

the babies in khaki drill and wear ollcloth underwear, then."

But when we looked into faundry books, by far the largest or slashed to the knee, with an initem in any month was always the

let of accordion pleating.

No one ever comes between 'man and his curves and his calorien, Tailors may burble in vain, and the Fashions for Men pages hold forth and forth.

same:

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Cricket flannels..

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Cricket flannels

Cricket flannels

"Oh," said the lady of the house,

How I would love to make some women feel it wasn't worth saying anything.

Not a soul listens to them.it isn't worth saying anything." Fashion pipes the tune to woment, and they blow themselves in and out, and achieve this line and that line, and Lake of weight, here and put it on there, just as it dictates.

Lastly I would like to be a man because there is always some wo-

No sooner have we really grown accustomed to see ourselves in the The following table, issued by mirror & certain shape, than some man between him and the jagged edges of life, such a cooking, ig saying washing-up and sweeping. chlt of a dressmaker Commission, shows in English feet scornfully, to us: the water levels on the West River, "But, Modom, that line is quite' North River and East River on the | OUT, 1010" dates named:

June June ---

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He returns, bowed with toll if you wish, from his ofßce. He lights his pipe and puts his feet on the manielshelf, at

until

waits

offered England little chance amendment to the Land Tax Bill for the exentition of playing fields getting. 240 runs, although, at the

29 30 All around us the restauranta are savoury smells drift through the from the impact. However, the re.sathe time, it gave the New Zea

land bowfers a chance of good work West River at Shishing 310 328 full of women denying themselves, house, and the tinkle, tinkle of the ported unanimity of the Liberals on

on a wicket which is notorious for North River at Samehui

while men call grundly and careless-dinner bell.

Women frequently return from the point does suggest that the Gov-playing tricks in the fourth innings. North River nt Tsingyuen 222 23.6 ly for waist-destroying dishes, with

in air that seems to Pay: "If you offices themselves these days, their ernment may find itself in an awk-Lowey's hopes did not fruitify. Fast River at Sheklung 11.0 13.3 The highest levels recorded are:

do not like us us we are, well, that backs also bowed, but they just ward position unless it sees it to Five wickels fell for 146 runs and Shinking, 41 feet: Taingruen, isn't going to trouble us."

have to bow them some more to see

give

There are still women who like about those savory smells and the way. This development

tamish draw terminated the 20.2 feet: Samshui, 27.3 feet; 11 especially interesting from the fnet match. The result, however, is Sheklung, 11,5 feet.

fine figures of men, women to whom loving of that bell. The lowest levels on record are two chins do not come amiss, grand And after the meal is over thore New Zealand that it follows so closely on the dis- quite unimportant.

who think you cannot have leo is the washing-up. The greatest of minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.

much down to a cut off the joint, two man is because of that unwritten vegatables, and Yorkshire pudding, law which stands between him and

Another reason I would like to the washing-up,

DOROTHY BLACK. be a man is that it is not encum-[

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Rociation of Sir John Simon and Buil England slinred fairly equally minus 5 feet at Samahui and girof a good thing, as they sit all reasona why i would like to be a

the

NAVY PROMOTIONS.

THE LATEST ADMIRALTY

LIST.

The following naval promotions were made yesterday:

a wonderfully Mr. Ernest Brown from the Liberal in the honours of Party in consequence of the intter's keen contest, which had no mean- acceptance of certain of the Landing whatsoever if it did not ri phasise the remarkable change of Tax proposals which the Party pre-spirit-for the better-that has vimusly decided to oppone. The income over the English cricket field ference is that Mr. Lloyd Gorge this season. The match produced wants to do something to scotch no fewer than 1,293 runs for 34 the widely-prevalent idea that he wickets, an average of 38 runs per

wicket, which is a tribute to

Commander to Captain.-W. G. has made a pact with Labour.

Ever since the Government enterprise of the batsmen, rather Benn, C. S. Sandford, E. S. Brook- than an indication of the strengthsmith, G. A. Scott, G. L. Warren, H. H. Bousfield, A. F. E. Palliser. nounced its Land Tax proposals, of the respective attacks. Four G. J. A. Miles, F. R. M. Johnson, there has been friction between centuries were scored, and R. CC. S. Thomson. Liberals and Labour. A few weeks Blunt was most unfortunate not to Lieut. Comdr. to Commander-- On Monday E. G. Abbott, N..J. W. William ago, n critical situation appeared to obtain the fifth. be developing when the Liberals evening it looked all Lombard Powett, IL. W. U. McCall, O. L. J. tabled an amendment aimed at the Street to a China orange on an easy Gordon. B. B. Schofield, M.

ley, B. it. Wil- provision of the Bill which meant victory for England, but Dempster Yeatman, G. E. A. Jackson, II. F. and Page, «bly seconded by Blunt. Nalder, H. A. Rowley. is it t that landowners in certain in changed the whole complexion of Arlins, R. F. J. stances would be compelled to pay things and in the and England Howe, P. A. double tax. The Government's found themselves struggling. They Smith, G. O. C. Davies, A. S M. Sheffeld, F. S. Bell, stern opposition to this amendment proved equal to the ocasion, how

nda-Tayler.

B. C. S. was credited to Mr. Snowden's ever. There is no suggestion that Martin, the Hon. G. H. E. Russell, absolute refusal to make any, con- they sat on the aplice, but every S. E. Norfolk, J. S. Cowie,

bail needed watching and runs were

Engr.-Captain, Ener-Comdr. to cessions whatever. It was a difficult to obtain against an ex-N. S. Brockman, E. Williamson, gosted that Mr. Snowden's attitude tremely keen attack. In spite of the F. II. M. Buckmaster, H. C. Brown. did not meet with the approval of end, it was cricket which will serve

J. R.

Haines low,

C.

Trier,

V. C. Dorman-

E to Comdr. E

LT. Taylor, E. 3.

Lleoll-Smith

Li G

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Free eut. Comdr. to Engr.-

all his colleagues, and hints were to consolidate English opinion G

the Introduction of made that if the Liberal amendment against

S. Brown. were carried, the Chancellor of the Marathon Test matches to Eng

Conimander.-G. MeLennan, E. Exchequer would resign, the Land land. Unlimited time and enter

P. Parrick, A. W. Cross, P. B. Tax proposals be abandoned, and a prise seldom, go together

Latham Cond

Burg.-Comdr. to Surg Captain, General Election thus avoided. A

Grimtha and F. L. Smith.. the report was circulated by

Mr. Norman Brooks the noted Surg-Comdr. Smith's promotion Beaverbrook Press at the same time Australian tennis player arrived hore to

July, 1931, Paymaster Commander to Pay- that Mr. Lloyd Georg had himself from Manila by the Empress

Strickland, Rossla, being accompanied by his master CapNNA decided to join Mr. Snowdon in op-daughter, Miss C. M. E. Brocha. Mrs. W D T.

Roval Marines Major to be position to the Liberal amendment, M. V. Sawdon, daughter of the Inte

Com Joses, famous sportsman of Brovet Lieut. Colonel, H. G. Grant; when brought forward, but this Vancouver, was a passenger by the Captain to be Brevet Major, G. F.

funzard was spiritedly denied by the Liberal 'same boat,

"I thought you wanted to be a great actress, when you grow "No, I've decided to become a great stenographer, Itke auntie.