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the turnstiles at Lord's or the Oval
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Two fatal cases of small-pox. both Chinese, were reported yesterday-
Chili Sang" has passed his ex
Mr. John Robertson of the amination as second class engineer
Among the passengers who arrived by the CP.OS. "Empress of Japan" this morning was Sir Ellis Kadoorie.
* squeeze." In one case reported to us, and supported by documentary evidence, a Kowloon landlord, giving the new tax as his reason for raising the rent, coolly proposes to take an extra profit of four dollars a month on the new las. We recommended the aggrieved tenant in that case to lay the facts before the Govera- ment for their information, con sideration, anal necessary action. If such cases were nacominon we could | understand, the Government's pro crastination. It seems to shrink from intervention in this matter, though it barges in fast enough in others where more deliberation would be wise They are not rare It is not likely that all the aggrieved tenants in Hong- kong tell their troubles to the China Mail, yet we have listened to so many that we are convinced there is enough of this grasping grab, squeeze.. and profiteering to warrant, and necessit- | Este, official restriction of rent charges.
For failing to notify her aunt of We test that His Excellency Theher manage a young bride in Governor, just returned to the Colony. Pootung was beaten to death by the may be induced to regard this matter former, states the Chinese' press. as one demanding the first claim on The aunt is now under arrest. his attention.
ABOUT THE ASHES.
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For allowing his "pony to run about on Kennedy Road unattended, a Chinese summoned, before Magis trate Lindsell this morning by Sergt. Elson, was fined $5.
Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, KCB. left Shanghai on Monday on HMS. "Carlale also sailed for board H.M.S. "Alacrity" for Weihai- the same destination.
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SHANGHAI, May 12. The Chinese advisory committee of the Municipal Council. They were attended for the first time a meeting heartily welcomed and invited to co operate in affairs affecting the
Chinese.
A MEMORABLE VISIT.
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SHANGHAL, May 12. Sir Beilby Alston on Wednesday departed for Peking after a memor able visit.
STRAITS ETRIER ENDY.
[China Mail SPECIALĮ
SINGAPORE, May 12. The local fitters' strike is ending. A number of fitters returned to work at the Harbour Board today.
Passengers by the CP.OS. "Empress of Japan" which arrived |- here this morning izcluded subjects of the following countries:America, Britain, China, Brazil France, Fiol land. Japan, and Malaya.-
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THURSDAY, MAY 12 1991:
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION CALLS PUBLIC MEETING.
DEMAND FOR AN UNOFFICIAL MAJOR TT.
PETITION TO BE PRESENTED TO HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Following the public meeting as the
the Kowloon Ratepayers Association to Constitutional Reform Association and Theatre Royal convened jointly by the!
protest against the recent decision of the Government to increase the rates, the of Constitutional Reform Amgciation Hongkong held its fourth annual generall meeting last evening in the Theatre, and Chairman (the Hon. Mr. Pollock, K.C.) gave an invitation to all interested main while in Constitutional Reform to
to retain resolution whigh
were on the agenda on this subjecs were being discused. A considerable number of people did so and withdrew later when the usual routine business of the annual meeting came to be transacted by members of the Associa tion.
the
the
The following resolutions were on the agenda for consideration:-
(e)
That all the non-Chinese member of the Legislative Council be elected That a larger electoral body be case of all such non- Adopted in Chinese members, with the excep tion of the Representative of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
official views to which attention may or may not be paid at the discretion of the Government. The real work of the un officials lies outside the Council as undicial advisers to the Government, and of this the public knows nothing. Its ostensible function as a delibera tive assembly is merely one of form, and not of substance: They go on to say z
Secondly, we are of opinion that it does not aronse public interest and inspire confidence. The main reasons for this we consider to be (a) that the population has no voice in the
appoint- ment of its members, (b) that the ubofficial membership & not
is not abie to keep in
in touch
with the views of certain
sections of the m
cil procedure plation, (c) the Coun results in the identification of the off- cial, members with the Government
with an official majonty
sider that
rather than with the public. We con
that the first
step in inducing public interest in the proceedings of the Council is that the oficial majority should be abandoned.
I think that report is a very striking confrmation of hopes, which are that
(3) That there be an Unancial majority we shall also obtain, in due course, an
(4)
on the
of the Legislative Council with such, wody jority in this Colony ber as are provided in the cause we have Ceylon with an unoficial
majority already obtained and
Concision 17 Ceylon.
That a petition be sent to the House mittee recommending noe in the Straits of Commons asking for the sapport Settlements.. Therefore I ste no teLFOA of the Members 25 secaring the why Hongkong need despair.
In the above change in the Legislative oficial mind at as these thres Eastern Council.
colouies xre considered to be more or The decisive character of their
• less THE CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH."
an one plan; and why should the victory over Sarrer-traditionally
A successful launch of a new
The CHAIREAN, in moving the resolu-solitary exception to a general rule be one of the most formidable of the County cricket teams-makes it Raffle for the late Mr. Vanstone's steamer took place this morning from ions before the meeting said as to the made in the case of the loyal inhabitants
first one, that sil non-Chinese members of Hongkong
The fourth resolution is that a petition evident that the transference of the Fiano and Gramophone resulted as the shipbuilding ways of the Hong-of the Legislative Council be elected,
(Piano), Ckong and Whampoa Dock Co's that the system of nomination was a be sent
the House of Commons asking redoubtable Australians to the old follows-1st Prize
survival from antiquity and not con- for support in securing these changes in country has been marked by no per Sterling, ticket 260: 2nd Prize premises at Kowloon Docks.
The vessel, a sister ship to the sonant with the present age, I do not the Legislative Council. We are practi- ceptible loss of form. Rather does (Gramophone and 50 Records), W.
"Hektor"
which was launched last want to cast any reflections." continued cally driven to t
Mr. Pollock, upon the gentlemen who received replies from two different Secre | Ward, ticket 201,
We bare it appear that they have benefited by
February, has been built to the order have been nominated by the Government taries of State, one in answer to
to the peri the change and that the Home defend.
of Messrs. Brausgaard Klosterud to the Legislative Counci! From time totion
2
7
course.
Com
ers will only be able to turn the tables the Peking Government is preparing ander the supervision of their Super-but the system. The second point I wish i sed in January, 1919, at a public mee The Chinese press states that and Co. of Drammen, Norway, and time-I am not considering indivīḍnals: 204, of 1916 and the other to resolutions by concentrating every effort, upon a memorandum of the losses sustain intendent, Captain Ivar Siqveland. to make is that a larger electoral body there been vouchsafed to as a single res ing. In neither of these replies has the task of putting a super-energeticed by Chinese merchants through
should be adopted in the case of all tenison for not granting a measure of con- wag into the lamentably inert batting depreciation in the value of roubles gracefully performed by Mrs. R. M. of the representative of the Hongkong
The Launching ceremony was non-Chinese members with the exceptiostitutional refor I tried recently is tail that spelled defeat for them in When this has been prepared a bill Dyer, the wife of the Chief Manager Chamber of Commerce.
Objection that could
the Legislative Council tu
to elicit whether the Antipodes.
will be submitted to the Russian of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock taken just now to that exception but in
really be so that the When the Englishmen went out to Government for recovery of the Co., Ltd., the vessel being christened a business community like this, which Secretary of State for the Colonies bad Australia they were thought to con- I same.
Fellen"
as she left the ways.
exists by reason of trade and of which gives no reason in his despatch, and the |stitute the strongest batting team that
After the ceremony the company
trade and shipping are the life-blood, Eswer was that he had given moge. the old country had produced bat There are 335 companies regis adjourned to the offices of the Comtron, thought it important that the repre revert to the
the Committee, upon careful considera Cader these circumstances we propose to procedure 1591 when a even then it was obvious that there tered in the Straits, a hundred and six pany where the usual toasts were sentative of the Chamber should be repetition was sent to the House of was defuire caudal appendage of them relating to planting and 12to honoured.
tained in order that the views of the mous asking for a more representative Therein. it would seem. lies the mining. Forty-six companies, were
The principal dimensions are as Chamber upon commerce sad shipping form of Government, and it is our hope
should be represented in the Council. that this difference between the English side registered in Singapore in 1920 with follows. Vit
petition will be widely
signed and the Australians who suffer from no a nominal capital of $66 millions and 400 feet, breadth moulded 52 set the case of the Straits Settlements
Length between perpendiculars think there is such a representative in in the
not only by members of the ion but by all those who feel sach handicap but can bat, and bat!27 in Penang with a nominal capito depth moulded to Upper Deck 31 an unofficial majority on the Legislative that the cause we are trying.to forward.
The third resolution is that there bef well, right down the eleventh man in of seventeen millions.
feet, between decks 8 feet, erections Council with such safeguards as are pro I believe this question is sometimes side- worthy of support. (Appls zse.) 7 feet 6 inches.
A total deadweight of 8,250 fons There are some people in the Colony, who tracked by people who say. "What do you brilliant Macartney to the sound and for $5,000,000 is being negotiated by will be carried or are rather inclined to lose heart of this what with an unofficial majority on the steady Collins and the seemingly in the Peking Government who offer 25 feet 6 inches, the seed rastie matter but if they will look round they Legislative Council; why don't you go. council". One reason will see indications that there is no rea- & municipal pregnable Kelleway. Then there are the Kiangnan Deck & Engineering | being eleven knots per hour.
son for that, but on the contrary every is that the Legislative Council in Hong- the two slashing left banders. Bardsley Works as security. $2,000,000 will Propelling machinery constract reason for feeling encouraged. When I kung is to a ver and Gregory, both of whom have a re-be used as the Ministry of Navy's ed by the builders
performs those functions amid-say that I do not mean in respect of cipal council and pesta extent a muni-
The way in which. putation for fierce hitting. The men share, $2,000,000 for the payment of ships and of 3,100 indicated horse the way we have been dealt with by quc in a large measure.
cessive Secretaries of State in having our public works expenditure on from down under are capable felis salaries due to the men of the navy, power, consisting of one set of triple resolutions turned down without a single cipal matters has risen in the last year purely muni. men and it appears likely that if and $1,000,000 as a capital for the expansion surface-condensing engi- reason being given for refusing, say or two is astonishing. In 1820 (Mr.
res having cylinders 27-44-73 inches measure of constitutional reform. I will Pollock rema there be any chink in the Australian Fisheries Bank.
remarked
expenditure for public diameter x 48 inches stroke, steam at invite you, if you are inclined to des- works extraordinary was only 2 millions. armour it will be found to exist in re- :
180 lbs. working pressure under pair, to look at what has been done and cus of 141 millions. For 1921, the gard to their bowling. Gregory, a
is being done the sister Eastern Crown penditure under this head was
was nearly
the team The visiting batsmen are a varied lot. They ringe from the
Peking reports state that a loan
Wit and skill.combined to
さね
of
vided in the constitution of Ceylon.
wondenti all round player. is a first admirable degree give a grace and forced draught being supplied by colonies of Ceylon and the Straits Settle-15 millions out of 14 millions, so that ex- class bowler with a fast, well pitched!aist to the performances of the three cylindrical return-tube boilers gents-(applause.In Ceylon, only apenditure on public Works extraordinary
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added
"Merry Wizard," Mr. Percy Abbott, of 15 feet 6 inches diameter 11 feet 6 year, they obtained a constitution giving had ball that proves highly dangerous and his charming, partner, Miss inches long.
dozied
20 But the Council an unoficial majority on
this st be Mailey trundles a dificult sort of Mildred Sydney, who are at present
The engine and boiler room outfit of 23 to 14 and that constitution was 8340,000 for public works recurrent; also
$530,000, personal empients, and: googlie. Armstrong, the Australian appearing with great success
at includes a Weir's D.C. heater and given and made effective In every cases over half-a-million dollars voted for the to be skipper, is also a circumstance different clubs and entertainments in Weir's main feed pump, independent the votes of the unofficial members were
Sanitary
Department which wight be-
might tax to be reckoned with and his per- the Colony. This talented couple centrifugal circulating pump, also certified that freas contrary to the in- considered
municipal department. It is regrettable that none of the formance against Surrey, when he leave shortly for Shanghai and are general service, ballast, and winterests of the Colony that a particular Thus, 7 millions out of 14 millions, or atspeakers at last night's meeting, called captured 12 wickets at the small cost assured of a warm welcome on their condenser pumps.
resolation should be passed or rejected. 50 per cent of the revenue for 1921 were Unusual in cargo steamers is the In that case the Governor can declare spent on the E.W.D. and the Sanitary T. to protest against the house tax, re of 17 rans disclosed him to be at the return to Hongkong.
ferred to the advisability of reat restop of bis howling form. Apart, i
See's Ash Ejector and Ash Ejector that only the official votes will count and Department. He did not think those who triction as an immqliate palliative. however. from the triumvirate referred
pump installed for disposal of ashes can declare a resolution either passed suggested that the Council had nothing A Chinese woman living in from the stokehold.
or rejected by the official votes alone to do with municipal masters, and that Constitutional reform is a long way to the Australian bowling on an Honghom, was yesterday the victim The coal bunkers are of large that where the Governor takes that reform of the Council, but for a municipal" That, again, is subject to the safeguard the Association ought not to move for a off, and mesaxhile the people suffer ordinary wicket, is not likely to reach of an old confidence trick played on capacity, and provision has been unusual course he has to report the mat council, had made out a good case. DE JAURIAS ANTIPIENKO-On] We all suffer, because the housing con- the brilliant standard of their batting, her by two men whom she met op made for carrying oil fuel throughout ter forthwith to the Secretary of State (Applause.)
May, 6, 1921, at Shangbai.gestion of the poorer classes must, us P.F. Warner is a cricketing author posite the Po Hing Theatre in Gas- the double bottom in accordance for the Colonies. That is the kind of
saleguard we refer bina, R. Aubin de laurias to Mr. McGuigan pointed out. force upon it whose opinion on the subject of the coigne Road. The men who, claimed with Lloyd's requirements, the vessel third resolution, we ask that there be Mr. C. G. ALABASTER, O.B.E., said: Erdia Anripienko.
us diseases and epidemics from which Home team's chances of recovering rall of "notes" for them, and per- construction by Messrs, Gardiner and Council with such safeguards as are sure to second these resolutions.
to be strangers, asked her change having been specially surveyed during an unofficial majority on the Legislative Gentlemen,-It gives me great plea otherwise we should be free. It the Ashes is worth quoting. In the scaded her to part with a pair of Morrison, local representatives for provided by the constitution of Ceylon are simpler than the resolations of They would be something to the good if course of an interesting article which gold mounted rattan bangles and Lloyd's Register of Shipping. the Government would make an appeared recently in the Times to rings, valued at $37, as security, immediate regulation that the land-he says. "We shall have to try and Not until she reached the money lords shall not increase rents by more find another Barnes. Our present changers did she discover the fraud. than the amount of the new tax. It hard wicket bowling is by no means should be easily possible for a strong enough, On a soft wicket
DEATHS
JACKSON.-On May 7, 1921 at Shanghai, William Sanlord Jack
·son, aged 61 years.
THE SOUZA On May 5, 1921, 2t
The China Mail.
L:FALTU, "JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE
Hanreno, Tuokaday, May 15, 1921.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE RATES QUESTION.
instead of by Public Petition. ・・・
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the
KOA
MR. C. G. ALABASTER."
We do not see why we should not be two yesu ago and for that very treated with the same trust and confi- į reason L think they will make 趄 deace in this matter as the colony of greater appeal to that great SATINS Ceylon; we claim to be equally loyal; we of right which lies at the basis- claim that in the great war we, in this of all loyal sentiment. The resolutions Colony, bore our fair share in men, of two years ago were complicated by mocey, and every kind of effort in the too much machinery. They pointed out Shanghai, Mrs. Maria Rozario Government which in various ways Rhodes and Woolley would get any The Marconi International Mari-
great struggle (applause.). We think & road, sot necessarily the right road, Aura dos Remedios de Souza, infringes our British freedoms to side out for less than 100 runs. The time Communication Company have
most emphatically that we should not be but still a road, by which our constitu aged 43 years, beloved wife of harus
could have treated differently from Ceylan,” the profiteers without Australian soft sicket bowling is rather issued the following circular to their
a Mittle democracy, In confirmation of his reference to knocked into it In these R. M. de Souza and mother of cumbersome ordinance. Fist an unknown quantity. According to operators and shipmasters are earnest [To the Editor of the " Chine Mail" Ceylan, and the Straits Settlements sa we point to the principle, and leave the three sons resident in Hongkong of all it should prose
its some critics it was very bad indeed ly requested to co-operate-Operators
sister colonies of Hongkong, Mr. Pollock road to be found by those at home who and one daughter resident in
good faith in this Stranghai.
matter during the second second test match employed on board ships trading to
Dear Sir, I had intended at the said that a few years ago they were all say that they are not convinced that same deany change is desirable. The principles His Excellency should make haste to (in Australis) but we cannot really the Far East will note that arraige. Public Meeting yesterday to point three dealt with in the recant his now famous doubt that judge until we see them on a charments have been made to transmit out why it was thought necessary to partment of the Colonial Office he did for which we are working are wider re
of the made there is any housing shortage, and acteristic sunbaked English richet, from the Cape d'Aguilar (flongong proceed by way of Public Meeting bot know whether that was still the case, fire by their elected representatives in a
he believed it was.
At all events, majority. deliver over to us for lynching pur-I would sooner see the test matches. Radiotelegraph Station to ships at
Without a majority their The reason was that, as the prites were closely connected in the matter voice" is ineffectual, as Mr. McGuigad poses the liar or lines who told him played on hard wickets throughout detions forecastgi - posed in fate of Races top to the Governor of
of promotion of officials A former pointed out earlier in the evening, and that. It must recognize that though and I do not think that England ditions and weather forecasts. In re-effect on July 1, the adoption of
of kong became the unless elected, they are not representa- the present Govertive. The members of this association there are genuine economic reasons would disgrace herself."
turn ships will forward meteorological a speedy method of procedure was nor, Sif Edward Stubbs, came here from are loyal to the Throne, loyal to the for a certain rise of rentals here, a Despite the very desponding com- observations through the Cape d'Agui essential.
the Colonial Secretaryship of Ceylon. Bir Flags and loyal to the Empire (37 good proportion of the rise is due to ments that have been written about Iar Station to the Royal Observatory,
Thanking you in anticipation for John Backvill, formerly Attorney-General plause) but they are not satisfied with artificial causes, gambling and spect-English cricket there will be many Hongkong.
inserting this explanation..
of Hongkong, went to the Straits Settle the constitution which was devised in ments to be Chief Justice, and from the the days when not only this lation, and the unchecked rapacity of to agree with Mr. Warner that there
.section Straits Settlements this Colony received the Empire but the whole Empire was get-rich-quick sharks. An emergency is really no need for us to get upset Rangoon's population shots an
as Colonial Secretary, the gentleman now in its infancy. We are not satisfied, ordinance would not be out of place. about it. "It is not the first time increase of 40,000 on the last cen We already have rent restriction Rent restriction is a matter of urgency, that England has been beaten by sas-so-the house shortage is not so
Administering the Government, the Hon. We cannot be satisfied, with a constitu Mr. Claud Severn.
tion which disenfranchises practically Ilongkong in the case of houses for the still swelling demands of land Australia," "Plam" points out and it unaccountable and mysterious after
To pass on to the Straits Settlements in the United Kingdom who have a volte **every man who fought in the war Moh rected with Goverment money loan-lords and lodging letters must force is my view that England's defeat all However, the worst conditions OUR GOVERNÓR RETURNS. appointed by the Straits Government, Empire come here and find themselves ed for the purpose. The principle up wages to a point where, as at Home will-give a great fillip to interna-here are not so bad as those reported Therefore admitted. The Goremor htely, production penses to pay..." tional cricket, and especially to the from some of the Indian cities, e time ago publicly announced It is notorious that Hongkong series of test matches against Au- notably Calcutta. which are positive that in certain circumstances he would Landlords shift the burden of such stralia which is to be played in if harrowing. There was only one (Sir. R. E. Stubbs KC.M.G.), ccom the Council there. I would like to read our Legislative Council is not only prac His Excellency the Governor there should be an unofficial majority on mover of this resolution and say that gure us a law restricting, rents to a taxes on to their tenants. If that this country in a few months time legal case arising out of the census panied by Capt. E. G. Warner (private you few of the observations made in tically a municipal conseil, but fair standard. The time has come to were all they did, if they were entis Any mate whatever may be the operations. In it Mr. McCarty was secretary) and Mr. R. D. Barlingham mendation Referring to the Legislative has not all the power of some of the Ascertain whether or not those cir-fied to make the tenants pay the bare result of the titanic struggle shortly brought to Court in connection with (ADC) returned to Hongkong from Council of the Straits Settlements they municipal councils at home or in Shang
support of that the-report in
municipal council and nothing else, and ramstances are already with us. A tax, there would be less grumblike to begin it is certain that the some few remarks he addressed to the the North by the x.s. Empress of
dent mooted the topic for are not. They usually mang progress of the test, will be watched who say here ses of wagen hat. It cannot without authority from os in yesterday's has Muil, and an extra profit on the Government in with an interest that will be no less case was very amung but the com! His Excellency was zoet oficially
is a sense of unreality, about home alter the emoluments of its own debates are abou servants or dismiss theme It not advanced seguments in favour of position by charging extra rent-in been in the cice-of-us-who-an-de-plant tres pareng comme meetmenys de ton or the 88
without prior authority as romgedame rent restriction. The public meeting mounts that more than cover the tax pendent for our news upon the disappointment of those who were the Government (Hon. Dr. Claud hangs over its proceedings: There is tians or gray privileges to E impore diforestal duties, any restric discussed the new When "rents are already unbearably vagaries of friend Beuter than
enjoying the furt
RENT RESTRICTION:
I am, Yours faithfully,
HE PULLOCKS. Hongkong, May 12, 1921.
Severn CMG).
of
a few months ago a committee was in shaping the very destinies of the Tolnatarily, and that committee of whom voteles on the purely "municipal mitters one of the members was the Attorney which come before our Legislative Coen- General-unanimously recommended that I go even further than the learned
in fact no debate, it serves mainly is an opportunity for the airing of- fin-