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SOOLTY.
ANDREWS
en Thinsday the Hon. Me Murray Steward
The day's work in this Comal will, inany.
patron an import duty as if the cironm stanocą kadi lim origin in their gegernesa to impose ve is seen to brat least open toowo vont be hoteworthy in the annals of the evil, the doubled licensed: Feos sa the one hand, the duty on the other. We arose, wa Colony. The decision which we not to-day driven to take is fraught with possibilities hope, the lesser avil, but we were not so of danger. No one can fail to feel the grave blind as fail to see it in the light of an evil. responsibility of sharing in it. The pecasion PuraDually, I regret having had to agree to takes you by the throat sad puts you into the surrender of a single inch of our freedom a corner and demands that you should from frido restrictions. It goes agninat speak out, if it should seem that any aspecttion of eran the smallest Customs services the grain with me to witness the institu- of the question deeds emphasising. One aspect does, in my opinion. Through all the am hunted by the prospect of seeing discussions which have led up to this mopon cur quaya bhe man in the brass hat ment. I have been haunted by the fear of loss busines it is to challenge the pas- an impression getting abroad that the sengar to unstrap his trunks. Lobject to Colony has fallen away from its old faith that man wherever met. I object to meet in the freedom of the port Your Esing him so often. He atraddles across the calleary has tried to dispate this im-threshold of nearly every country stand prussion, but in spite of all that has been ing nuisance to ware-the symbol of economia false doctrine, Baancial hereny, ani, in spite of the very satisfactory as
rances which you have give, doubt will, and political obiem He is the outward at visible sign of the denisk of the groutz still tand to lingar. Only the other day doctrine of aniversal tres trade. In that I an old resident who used to occupy a still believe, although the hopes on which at this table wrote to the papers saying it is based seom more than arer dim. But that madness lies the way we are going dire though they may appear, and though There are many old residents here, and elsewhere It may be that retaliation is many more at home having intereste bore, justifiable, the jealous guarding) of that who will view with appression the prodeatrine in this Colony is dictated hy possa contained in this Bill. The Im the vital necessities of our situation. position of an import duty in any shape or And so when I read the version form may seem to them to indicate s of this Bill which reached me last
prinoue weakening of the dead which has Thursday evening-the evening before the
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hitherto been the Colony's guiding star, first rending took place – I was staggered to Anyona familiar with. Hongkong's history find that the Government proposed." to bas kaowing little of the inside work-arrogate to themsoires powers under which inge which have resulted in the pro-complete Customs service could ba
As you may que conceivably established. How extensive those powersENTRALLY situated, up-to-date Hotal. Recently renovated and under entirely imagine that an extraordinary thing were doce not seem to have been fully ha happened. He will have it in realised is some quarters. Under them Cus
ind that hitherte proposals to impede bytoms stations could have been established taration the unfettered freedom of trade Thaye usuallyfemanated from the Govern- very hart in the harbour, is every bay, in the cast line, and on every road landing. ent and bare steadfastly been. opposed into the Colony. Famsengers landing, from.
mercantiles community. We will
any steamer could have been held up and note that
present proposals neemned. to
arrested without warrans if they objected to from the community and be may
open luggage at the bidding of any revenus lude that the attitude of the com-officer, who might be a Chinese or an Indian "avanity'v resentative guards an öld
ition berundergone a remark talking to English. And not only could such an officer have so held up any passanger.on ble cheep That is not the case. True, landing, he would favs been equally for- sibility for the proposed step roata midable when, after landing, the passenger ake pupon, the unofficial member. I do not might reasonably have imaginé? himself seek to shirk any responsibility inherent safe in the bosom of the Colony. According Fin our proposal I am only anxious to to Clause 31 in my version of the Bill, pake car the nature of that responsi**any person landing or baing about to land "bility sad to disclaim any of the pro- or having recently landed from say ship or posals of the Government which go entering or having recently entered the further than the recommendations in Colony by land shall, on désiand by any
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WOOD,
Secretary
Hongkong September 6, 1908.
HONGKONG ST ANDREW'S
SOULETY
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Tof the above Society will be weld in the CITY HALL, OF THURSDAY, the 23rd Instsot, at 6.30 xx. for-thy parpœs of receiving the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st August; of slecting Office bearers for the ensuing year, &a.
-DAVID WOOD, ́ ́...
Hon. Sersary. Hongkong, September 6, 1909.
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which I concurred. I am loath to trand revenue or police officer, permit his baggage over ground so familiar to most of us. to be searched, etc. Haring recently and so extensively wandered over this landed. This meant that none of these afternoon, but for my pirpose I must huge tracks of luggage which are man sketch the circumstances under which these bauled up to the doors of our leading hotels recommendations were made. They may
in the travelling season would be made from be brief-
stated thing. The Government, the danger of being arrested by any Indian haring decided to raise rereque somehow constable or Chinese lukong whose sus such as: forward a scheme-admittedly a faulty one. from the sale of intoxicating liquors, wingspicious might fasten on the saratoga trunk of some, American globe-trotter, probably
Discontent with it is widely expressed. An elderly total abstainer from a prohibition The unofficial members met to be if they State (Laughter). The phraseology of can arrive at some solution of the dificulty Clause was similarly open to obration. We did not nicet to discum other sources. Clause & gave power to any revenue officer of revesus. It is not, our business to pre are the E-timates. This does not scom
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we decided to recommeda impart the Government might be pleased to allow duty.We passed resolutions indicating us to joy on suferance. Having agreedy
THE COMMITTEE OF THE plainly that we did intend the after much painful beart-rearching, to the.
surrender of the port's freedom to the eHONGKONG CRICKET OLUB through trade: be touched in any way tent of a most carefully measured incla im- the Colony was only to pay on liquer medistely the Government annexes an all. actually consumed in it--and we united in Explaining this, Your Excellency sured the hope and belief that the Government va that all these powers which it was pro- posed In take were not intended for ust, would receive and favourably consider but that from the Government point of certain miggestions as to the method" of view it was desirable to have them. I can collection, which would set change the understand that from the administrative character of the port. A method of collec point of view it is always confortable to have large powers in reserys. But the tion, alleved to be at once effioncious and possession of large powers which tends to make administration comfortablo frequently
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