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INDIAN FRANCHISE

STEADY ADVANCE

CONTINUES..

SIZE OF CENTRAL LEGISLATURE

London, Nov. 23. Franchise questions were fur- ther considered at the Indian Round Table Conference to-day,

In regard to the Depressed Classes electorate for the Federal Assembly, the Conference agreed to accopt the recommendation of the Franchise Committee that differential qualification of literacy should be adopted. With the ordinary qualifications pro- poned by the Franchise Committee for the general electorate of the Assembly, this would enfranchise at least ten per cont. of the Do- pressed Class population, which the Franchise Committee con- sidered adequate, as they pro- posed enfranchisement of only three per cent. of the general population.

Under the Poona Pact, the De- pressed Classes will be entitled to 18 per cent. of the general Hindu sents in the Federal Legislature.

The Conference expressed itself in favour of special representation of Labour, Commerce and Land- jerds in the Federal Assembly,

MOSLEM DOUBTS.

of

Subject to a satisfactory sola- tion of the question of small minorities, it was agreed that the British Indian section of the Federal Upper House should be elected by Provincial Legislative Councils by a single transferable vote, as previously proposed by the Federal Structure Committee the Conference and supported by the Franchise Committee, but the Moslem representatives indiented that they did not wish commit themselves to using the method of the single transferable vote until they knew its probable effect upon the communal proportions is the whole House.

It was generally agreed that special interests should not be represented in the Upper House.

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The session was adjourned to give delegates an opportunity, by informal discussions, to come. an agreement on the question of the size of the Central Legisla tures which indirectly raises the question of the communal strength, possible in the two Houses. British Wireless.

GREAT LOSS TO MUSIC

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famous Promenade Concerts there. From 1902 he was chiefly asso- ciated with opera, being engaged as musical adviser and occasional conductor at Covent Garden, and in 1907 he became Musical Direc- tor of the Grand Opera Syndicate. He conducted the Beechum Opera two Co. from 1915 to 1918 and years later became artistic director of the British National Opera Co.

"THE MAESTRO,"

In 1924, Mr. Pitt accepted the new post of Musical Director to the B.B.C.. the body controlling broadcasting in Britain and saw the rapid rise of broadcast music to a place in the national life undreamt of previously. He was associated in particular with

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long series of studio opera pro- ductions, most of which he pre pared, rehearsed and conducted himself,

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When big schemes were launch- ed, the Maestro," as be WILS affectionately called,' was ready with the wisdom gained in his long

to bring them experience fruition. His knowledge of the world's music and musicians was almost encyclopaedic. In 1929 he resigned his official post under the B.B.C., bui continued to conduct occasional lght orchestral con- earls for that "body.

PROLIFIC COMPOSER.

Mr. Pitt was a prolific composer, his more successful works includ ing incidental music to the late Sir Herbert Tree's productions of "Richard II" and "Flodden Field", a symphony compused for the 1906 Birmingham Musical Festival and

"Ballade" for violin and orches tra written in 1900 for Ysaye. He was a master of many languages.

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MEDICINE SHOP

FIRE

STOCKS BADLY

DAMAGED

Fire broke out in the Sin Sang Tong, a firm which combines the business of medicine and firewood dealers, on the ground floor of 37. Yu Chow Street, Shamshuipo, at 3,80 this morning.

The outbreak originated in the kitchen where a fire had been loft

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1932.

Trebitech Lincoln, now adopting

the name Chao Kun, pictured in Der

lin recently.

JUNK HALVED IN

COLLISION

STEAMER'S STRANGE

BEHAVIOUR

The strange behaviour of a steamer involved in collision with a shing junk, which it cut in two and sank, is reported by the junk master, Lam Chuo-wing, who survived the disaster and returned to the Colony yesterday. The only casualty Was his two-year-old daughter who was drowned.

WALLER CASE- DEFENCE

TRUMPED-UP CHARGED

ALLEGED

When the Waller bribery case was resumed at the Criminal Sessions this morning, before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) and a jury, Mr. Duncan McNeill, instructed by Mr. G. K. Hall- Brutton, who la appearing for the defonce, referred to the chargo na a "trumped up" caso and denit with a number of discrepancies in the ovidonce given by Crown wit nesses in the Magistrate's Court, and at the Sessions.

Mr. J. A. Fraser is conducting the case for the Crown, which concluded yesterday afternoon.

JURY'S DUTY.

Mr. McNeill said:---“I am rather

glad there was an adjournment because there was one

thing which I owed it to say to you at the beginning, Where there is so much smoke, there must be Bome fire. After hearing the evidence so far, I expect you will have come to the conclusion that at least there was oplum in that house on that day and at least | that money was paid out to some- body. The question you must ask yourselves :-Did defendant on the day named received payment of a bribe in the Cheong Chan shop?

Sir Claud Schuster, K.C. who is in charge of Chancery funds amounting to £55,000,000, pictured at the reopen. ing of the Law Courts recently,

A WINE MISSION

TEACHING THE PUBLIC TO BE CONNOISSEURS

A pleasant small wine-luncheon was given recently in Piccadilly.;

A wine-luncheon is one in which the food is served with the wine

"I am going to press this case as a trumped up case. The wit- nesses contradict themselves instead of the wine being served respect of the important facts or with the food, as is the common disagree with one another as to custom. The first course, for ex- what happened. These two matters are mainly connected with ample, is sherry, with which you It appears that, the junk, ofthe difference between what was take a somewhat vigorous soup. 1,700 pleuis capacity, at 9 o'clock said in the Magistrate's Court Nothing sets off your white Bur on Tuesday night, was sailing at and what was said here.

They a puini half-a-mile to the east of Ling Ting Island,

A steamer suddenly loomest out of the darkness and ran into the

boat, splintering her stern and almost chrrying away the after part. Water-rushed into' the rear

hold, and the craft dragged and

was poon in danger of sinking. The master's 2-year-old daughter who was steeping in the hold, was drowned.

The steamer is thought to be a Chinese vessel, a glimpse having been caught by a fisherman of one of the name characters on her how.

It circled around the waterlogg- ed bout, apparently looking for the cause of the impact, blew three blasts on its syren, and then steamed off.

Strangely enough, the junk was not a total loss. That part ceiving the force of the collision It appears, eventually parted, leavi ing the front portion, buoyant by the still undamaged front hold. afloat. It was taken in tow by another junk and brought to Hongkong with members of the

crèw,

EARL OF JERSEY

START WORK AS BANK CLERK

the 22-gens-old Lord Jersey. Peer, entered the private linking firm of Glyn Mills and Company, in the City recently to start on his He will begin career as a banker.

at the desk.

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Lord Jersey is already a partner in Child's Bank, the Fleet-street branch of Glyn Mills and Co, Nell Gwyn

a customer of the original Child's Bank, and at her death in 1687 her bank balance was well over four figures. She had nearly 15,000 ounces of plate in al- dition.

Child Villiers, George Francis 9th Earl of Jersey, Is 22 years old and succeeded his father when a boy of 13. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church. Oxford.

At the beginning of this year he married a beautiful 18-year-old Australian girl, Miss Patricia Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Richards, of Sydney. Lord Jersey met her at a dance in Eng land-she came to England to go to school.

The Earl of Jersey also estate at Osterley Park, Isleworth

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are differences in sworn evidence gundy better afterwards than a de- regarding important facts."

ente sole, bateau notted, 1932. The main claret diah calls for a first- smooth, interesting lamb, several

growth potatoes, and beans with soft French bouquet. And so on

EVIDENCE ANALYSED. Mr. McNeill quoted

instances of discrepancies in the sworn evidence la the two Courts,

including that of He Wa, who in

ad infinitum, or ad dessert.

the Magistrate's Court stated Ave

The luncheon in question was a borrowing of the money in the persons were present during the cabiele and later said he did not captivating example of one of these know who was there. If a person too rare occasions. The white borrowed money in a cubicle of Burgundy was a particularly at- such small size (11 fect by 7 feet) tractive Montrachet, all the better surely he would have known who was present. Ling Sam, the de- for a suggestion of stubbornness, teetive, who is stated by one of like a fort not yielding at once to the Crown witnesses to have been the assault but rich with booty. || present, himself atated he was not

there. What a mhn knew and dia SUBTLE TInts and TASTE. not state and knew but stated in two different ways

However, agreeable as this is to was what must be looked at to see if a man recount, it would not be a matter as a witness was weak, said Mof public concern in any way were McNeill.

The case is proceeding.

TRAGEDY AT HOSPITAL GATE

it not that the luncheon served to inaugurate the wine-mission' which Messrs. Fortnum and Mason pro- pose to give to the public 5000. The public, if it comes to the mission, otherwise described as a sale, will learn that wine la not just "red" or "white" but as fill of shades and tints and varieties of tuste as satins and silks are of

YOUNG OFFICER DEAD colour.

IN CAR

There will be back on sale at 1,000s. a dozen, but there will also The mysterious fate of a young which will be sold with all the be claret at 38. to 48. a.bottle, officer in the Royal Marines who

was found shot dead in his car genuine wine adjectives, "ele- at the gate of the Mount Vernon ant," "typically representative." Cancer Hospital, Northwood, Mid-"big, round, and generous," legiti- diesex, has been revealed.

mately attached to it by shippers and bottlers, to say nothing of all manner of French qualifications too.

A few minutes before he had called at the hospital and stated that he wished to enter as patient.

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So one more of the privileges of the aristocracy and the pluto- He was unknown to the staff, cracy spreads to the generat but was later identified as Lieu-public. This opens great 109- tenant Hugh Baker, aged 27, of sibilities.

If the general public the Royal Marines, who had been takes to connoisseurship in wine serving at Plymouth, but returned it will take to connoisseurship in recently to his depot at Chatham. politics; if it takes to connoisseur- He had been away for some weeks ship in politics it will establish sick leave at his home in true democracy; if it establishes Parkestone-avenue, Parkestone, true democracy it will save the near Bournemouth.

world. Never has an inaugural [wine-luncheon been more justified.

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An official at the hospital said: "About o'clock on Sunday night a motor-car pulled up out- side and u man knocked at the front door.. Ife told a servant, who opened it. that he was en-. tering the hospital as a patient. and asked where he should put his car. He was told to leave it at a spot near the door,

SEARCH BY STAFF.

"The servant told the medical at Briton Ferry, South Wales, and staff that a patient was coming at Middleton Park, Bicester, but he in, and as he did not return mem- announced at his coming of agebers of the staff went to look for celebrations that he could not him and found him dead in the afford to live at Middleton Park, car, and the house would not be.open.

"We had never heard of the man before. There was no ques- tion of his being admitted ós a burning overnight for the purpose patient on the spot, as there are of drying herbs, and there was a certain preliminaries before any distinct danger of its assuming one is admitted. I do not oven grave dimensions owing to the know whether he was suitoring proximity of stacks of firewood,

The Kowloon, Brigade, which bad received early warning, were however, able to confine the flames to the ground floor, which, with the contents,

extensively damaged..

WAB

It is understood that the build- Ing and the alocks carried by the shop were insured,

from cancer."

DUTCH TARIFF

CHANGES

CUSTOMS DUTIES

INCREASE

The Hague, Nov. 23. The Government's proposal to raise the Customs duties 30 per cent., only on those articles which can be made in Holland, has been approved by the Second Chamber,

The Chamber haá also approved the proposals to raise the beer Excise 15 per cent, and the sugar Excise 20 per cent.--Reuter,

was in ill health, but did not know what his complaint was. At hiR father's funeral ho did not ap- pear worried seriously about his health.

Lieut. Baker's father, Mr. Valentine Baker, who lived for Lieut. Baker's father was un- many years in Parkstone-avenue, derstood to be a nephew of General

died recently,

Baker and Valentine

(known as Purkatone, Llaut. Baker attended the funeral. Baker Pasha), who served with Mr. F. 1. B. Lansdown a friend the Egyptian army, and was killed of the family, told a reporter that at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir in he understood Lleut, Hugh Baker 1887.

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(Continued from Page 4) acquires when calling on a dentist whom he knows to be engaged. Alas! on

this occasion the vet. was very much at home.

"This," said the man, "is Peter. I've called with him."

"Ye8 7"

Peter licked his master's hand. "ErI want him overhauled," said 'Peter's boss.

was the oldest dog you've known. That evening Peter's owner wife shed tears agafu.

"M'm-old, Isn't he?" "Hang it all" said Peter's boss, "we're none of us as young as what we'd like to be. You should

"The vet. told me,” said Pete have seen old-er--Potor half an boss, "that, he's known lots Four ago

Tell me, how old Folder dogs."