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THE HONGKONG

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TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.

have been made by the Economy Committee, but it remains to be seen how far these are acceptable

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proposals in that over £66,000,000 be saved by n 20 per cent, reduc- tion of the unemployment benefit, by increasing contributions, and by the application of a needs test to all applicants who have exhausted their insurance righia but who are still within the insurance field. Here, however, we are kely to come up against that section of the Labour Party which objects lu nny

social services.

DAY BY DAY

LEARNING, LIKE MONEY, MAY BE OF 80 BASE A COIN, AS TO BE UTTERLY VOID OF USE, OR, IF STERLING, MAY GOOD MANAGEMENT TO REQUIRE MAKE IT SERVE THE PURPOSES OF SENSE OR HAPPINESS-Shenstone,

Seven Sins of Middle

By LADY INGRAM

Quarantine restrictions Imposed by NOWADAYS, few people con- take a

against arrivals from

Hongkong

Pakhoi on account of pingue have been removed.

This forty-fourth annual general meeting of the Hangkang Football Club will be held at the Chamber of Commerco to-morrow evening at 5.30.

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18 inches.

the

Suspicions that she had committed suicide by taking a dose of

Age.

wwwww

back seat. This selfish- fess to middle-age,

ness of ours, cuts both ways, for we also disregard our obligations They think of themselves a to old people. being either "still quite young"

"Oh. I saut lie bothered with "getting on a bit," but this old Mrs. Borum; aho's as deaf. does not alter the fact that boas a post,” or "We can't. nsk tween the ages of 40 and 60 we General Wrealy-Auld; he doesn't mortals are neither old nor young play contract," we say of the lono. but simply middle-aged.

ly old "has beens." But we are

We

cutting down- in social services. The alternative sectos increased taxation; but that must surely hit-

A young man of 22. years, named

It is a dangerous and difficult definitely no-longer-so-young-as- industry, which is already over- Yan Cheung-wah, has been admitted hardened with imposts, and which to the Kwong With Liospital suffering a time of life when much we-used-to-be ourselves, and

from the effects of or overduse of that is bad in the human character shall hate it when people talk

risen to the in consequence has had Its produc-adelin. His condition is fair.

surface and it has like that about us! developed its own particular net There are two sins which aro tivity greatly reduced. Moreover,

at The rainfall registered

the offspring of selfishness, and increased taxation must in the long Observatory during the 24-hours ended 4

The principal sin of middle- both are characteristic of middle- ran adik to the existing unemploy-nt 10 am. to-day totalled 2.10 inches, age is undoubtedly conceit. It innge. ment. On the other hand, so partyThis makes the year's total to date the fault we always attribute to

62.63 inches, against an average of youth, but we cannot deny that sins the least satisfying.

The first, jealousy, is of all the likely to be popular with

We feel ourselves to be shrewd, does not even gratify our senses, for it masses which ventures just now lo

worklly wise creatures, still able while the second, backbiting." advocate any cutting down of the

life to the to enjoy

full. lynd

yet its twin-brother, bringa as RA weighing much unhappiness in its wake as were indented in a police report oftheroughly capable of

In-far more heinous vicer. Only a cursory glance at national the death of a married woman, Tang up rights and wrongs, fund

Ngan-ping, aged 24. of 40, Tung fallibly correct in our judgments

Youth is a certain that love finances is needed to show that Street, who died whilst being removed and decisions,

and admiration are its due that there will have to be rigid economy

Conceit and Pretence.

it cannot be seriously afflicted with jf. the Old Country is to rotala the

jealousy for long and has little are doubly conceited. for temptation to backbite and slan- stability of its credit and balance

There is a fresh news regarding with its follies and inexperience, to fade and a horrible suspicion we feel vastly superior to youth der but when looks are beginning its Budget,

Few people realise the the Indo-Chin S. N. Company and also look town on those dawns upon us that we are not tremendous sum spent yearly on so-Wishing, excepting that the salvage whom we consider too old to see quite so good at this, that, or the ein! services, rapecinily on unem- to her assistance. It is renfried life with our own well-adjusted other as we used to be, jealousy VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED „ployment insurame, Thus tretol an-that the vessel is hadly holed and is vision. In fact, we feel ourselves gets us by the throat and

in a sonwhat precarious position, so delightfully placed that we are urge to have a "dig" of all and AT OUR STURKS ROAD GARAGE | nual provizion under this one, head. " but salvage is considered possibly ifperfectly sure of ourselves and sundry is more than we can re- THE HONGKONG HOTEL ing comra to more than £39,000,000, the weather permits.

which is pracfically half of The total normal expenditure of the na tion on all services in the years im mediately preceding the Great War. If we look at the whole of the na- tion's outgoings, we find that they have grown from £188,000,000 in 1912-13 to an estimated SIT of

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 131,

THE HOME CRISIS.

Not for the first time since the Labour Government has been in power is a suggestion put forward for the convening of an All-Party Conference to handle an issue of outstanding importanee and dif-

to the Government Civil Hospital. Her body was inter conveyed to the Public Martuary,

tug Yusho Maru from foji has gone

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Jour opinions, and entirely Jose sist.

Might of the fret that all this is the acme of conerit and that we

HONGKONG SHARE

MARKET.

OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.

A Common Sin.

the

may appear anmg and nelf-com- Meatness in one of the moat placent to young and old alike. common sins of middle-age, and The absorbing present-day pas-so much our second nature that collecting and hoarding become sion for "staying young" - 1s responsible

of for the second great we rarely realise that mu est sin of middle-age-pretence.

our religiously guarded VOABES- sions are no use to us at all but We sacrifice our comfort, health, might make all the difference to At this morning's session of the dignity, and happiness in zomeone younger or less better off £308,900,000 for the current year. Hongkong Stock Exchange the ridiculous effort to pretend we are than ourselves. Many a middle- recorded were younger than we are or feek and nged woman's jewel-box is littered These figures suffier to show the principal changes

in Duglases. which were In this habit of pretending has got with trinkets she has discarded, tremendous burdens which the na-demand after sales at $22, Hong- hold of us.

while rows of shoon, now too Lion now has to bear. We have kong Fires were easier, Lands re-

We pretend to be poor when we light, repone in middle-aged mas- no doubt that a way out of present revered slightly, Cements were are rich, and well off when we culine wardrobes. Why are they

trie wenker and Hongkong and have not got a bean! We pre kept?. diffenities will be found; Britain Shanghai Hotels advanced appre- tend to be "artistic" when art Meanness may be a provision still bas her great leaders and the viably. The tone of the market means nothing to us; we feign of nature against old age, hut it to scorn everything that is "high-grows on one and atingincas warps will to overcome obstaclus, however was fairly steady.

Banks changed hands at $2,040. brow when good music in the

the mind. To become a hoarder insuperable they may seem.

Unlons had buyers at $566, only thing we care about; we pose of bits of string and half-sheets the task is a huge one, none the sales being reported at 3570.

as doting parents when our of notepaper "dates" far Underwriters had sellers at children hore un stiff, and $6.05 without anles having to be tend that our offspring are

pre- cruelly thon grey haira,

be recorded.

neath contempt when they mean

Talk, Talk, Talk, Cantons remained at $1,5501all the world to us. nominal, as were Chins Fires at

The last sin on my list is talk- Good brains are disguised bying," and oh how we $800,

middle-

servatives stood out, because tariffs servant

But

more

we

A Mui Tsal Case, feulty. On the previous occasion. Cases dealing with alleged in As already mentioned, Hongkong an assumed fatuity, and the most aged folk do talic Youth is it was the mnemployment problemringements of the mui tai laws; Fires were easier at the nominal shallow-brained among us alm at supposed to lack self-restraint, which caused Mr. Ramsay Mar-are never particularly easy for a Bgure of $1,465.

appearing "intellectuals.". We but our lack of control where Donald to seek the en-operation of Magistrate to hundle. The usual

Benguels were enquired for at may of necessity be neither fah, talking is concerned has any the other Party leaders. The Con- Entea of a defendant is that the $10.50, but without leading to flesh, fowl, nor good red-herring. other age beaten to a frazzlef

basiness.

but why do not we let ourselves

"What tripe older people talk," Kirl is

adopted an

Rants with sales reported at be our own middle-aged selves were ruled out as a possible means daughter, and frequently it is $11.20 bad buyers at $11.50.

without all this affectation and anys modern youth, which is rude, no doubt, but what do we, in our Wharves had buyers at $163, but pretence? of solving the difficully. Now it is distinctly difficult to ascertain the

turn, say of the old folk who Selfishness is not a sin peculiar gabble on and on till they bore uk national finance and economy which real truth. Usually, we are afraid, no shares were on offer.

Providents told) at $6.06 bayers to any one particular time of life, to exasperation? the Colonial Office demand for is the subject of much preoccupa-continuous effort to limit

and sellers asking $6.15 were dealt hurt because life is grilloping so the

This is the principal fact in at 6.10, and the new shares furiously past and we are strug have tion on the part of the Government.mi tai system as far as possible had buyers at $2.60, sellers asking gling to make the most of things grown the sins of youth; we can, to digest! We have out- Here again, the Tories appear in-results in failure to give defend $2.80,

bofore, old age grubs us, we

afford to look down on clined to stand on one side, tuking | dants

Hotels (old) had buyers at the middle-aged folk have our the benefit of any doubt

ownCollies with smile, but the attitude that they ought not be there might be. A case distinetly improved quotation of $17.50, special brand of the iniquity.

sellers asking $18 and sales were:

for the love of Heaven let the the "Plenty of time for the young smile be tender! And for to saddled with any responsibility in point was heard before reported at $17.45/$17.90. The

Rhares were denit izt at ones," we say, forgetting that good of our souls let us remember for such measures as are dremed Williams at the Magistracy, one

to straighten out the Tuesday when a woman residing $17.25, there being buyers at $17. youth should have the first call that our own middle-aged sina

Lands had buyers at $91.50 ex on "baving a good time“ in Queen's Road Central was

and will wax ever mightier if left to present tangie, From a party poll- Jeharged with harbouring an

undi, sales taking place at $91.75. middle-age should be prepared to their own devices.. tical point of view, we can quite registered wui trai.

Humphreys (new) were dealt in The woman

at $21.50. understand the Conservative · re- |contended that the girl was ##T? Realties were disposed of at luctance. If they join hands with adopted daughter, and even the $17.85. the Government, they become par-evidence of the prosecution-that-

the girl was well treated, was very fies to any arrangement reached averse to having the woman and and are thus automatically stopped had a good home -seemed to bear from criticising, A far better this nul. But a remarkable stain. Star Ferries had a baying mate party advantage can be secured by meat was made in the course of of $53, mul's were listed at remaining aloof and making capital the hearing. The woman having | $93.50,

FLOWCHSTATY

It is wont to enlf on outside sit,

score

Mr.

Ewos receded to the buying rate. of $14.25, sellers asking $14.40 and enles were reported at $14.20. Trams had a buying rate of $21.50.

out of the point that when the Un-declared her impression that as ILK. Electrica changed hands bour Government is in difficulties the girl was an adopted daughter at $81.25.

there was no need for registration, 32.75 were dealt in at $2.85

Day Farms with buyers af the proseration countered by Lane, All well-wishers of the Old

Crawfords (old) and stating that there % ;} ዶ no sellers at $7.90, and the same Country, however, will hope difference between a mai thai and remark applies to Constructions at that something mere than aan adopted daughter. Whether $13.00.

Cements changed hands at mere wish to

tacticalthe statement had reference to pointa will animate · all par-peculiar circumstances in this yesterday's rate $20.26. ties at this juncture. The financial particular enng, we have no menos situation, though not absolutely face of it

of ascertaling, but clearly on the WATER LEVELS.

the magistrate was alarming, is undoubtedly serious,misted. There IN not only A It has been complicated and aggra- difference, but o very Vital DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH rated by the fact that Britain's ae- difference. The law requires re-

AND EAST RIVERS. ceplanes of the Hoover moratorium gistration of a mui trai and inhies plan means a loss of eleven mit-no provision for the registration of an adopted daughter. Thus,

The following table, Issued by the

lone sterling in. the current year. If the woman was in a position to mlanlon, shows in English fect the i

Kwangtung River Conservancy Com. When it is remembered that or establish her plea that the girl North River and East River on the water levels on the Wont River. dinary revenue has not been coming was an adopted daughter, she had dates named: in as freely ns was hoped, the fresh a perfectly good defence to the

Aug. Aug. 11 12 responsibility incurred on behalf of charge. From the brief report of West River at Shiabing 18.0 20.2 Germany will be readily seen as a the case, it appears that this point North River at Somshui 0.6 .7.2 serious burden. The immediate was not investigated because of North River at Taingyeon 10.5 11.2

To highest levels recorded problem to be faced is the balancing the incorrect S.C.A. assertion East River at Sheklung

it made no difference one ghiubing, 41 foot; Tsingyuen, 29.2

2.2 2.3

aro:

LTD.of the Budget--a task which even way or the others fas of 860 feet omphal, 27.0 : Post: Sheklung, Mr. Snowden, with all his versatili-was. Imposed. It seems to 11.5 feet N

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The lawant levels on record aro ty and wizardry, may find extreme unfortunate that the woman was minu 5 feet at Samshui and minus ly diffult. Sweeping proposals 'not legally repräsented.

127 feet .at-Sheklang.

"He hasn't_sent me any pictures since he shaved, his moustache, so. I don't know whether I'm still in love with him or not."