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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924.
V. R...C.
RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S
CONTESTS.
FRESH RECORDS MADE..
Three Colony Championships and the H. M. Forces 100 yards Champlonship were decided at the third day's events yesterday of the V.R,C. Aquatic sports.
Chief interest centred on the
ཝཱ་
£40,000 OPIUM CARGO,
RECORD SHIPMENT TO AUSTRALIA.
WHAT THE CUSTOMS GOT
Last week H, M. Customs made
THE CHINA MAIL
COURT OF ENQUIRY. “
-AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
Caban
LOSS OF S.S. "TIN SING" DEATH OF. SULTAN OF DELI,
IN WEST RIVER.
-OWNERS-ARE-BLAMED..............
At the Harbor Office this a record haul of opium, securing morning, the indide of the Court £8190 worth from the steamer of Enquiry appoiste to investigate. "Victoria" in Sydney Harbour, the clrcumstances attendant upon September 6.
says
"Smith's
Weekly"
of
the loss of the s.8.Tin Sing," In the West
River
On
CHURCH NOTES.
GOD AS FATHER.
His Highness the Sultan of Deli, In the Epistle for this Sunday Tunku Sultan Ma'amoen Al-rashid ; when St. Paul sali! “I call upon Perkasa Alam Shah, died in his the Father" he was not saying a palace at Medan, at 1.55 p.m. ontruism; he was striking the note having reigned for nearly half a that was distinctive of Christianity. September 9, at the age of 72.. century. The news of his death He was saying the very central was received with universal regret. thing which Christ our Master;
REPRIEVES
TERRIBLE DUTY OF HOME
SECRETARY,
A former Home Secretary, the Rt. Edwart Shortt, K.C.. contribut ed the following to a Home paper
male or law and administration, the most Under our existing systems of terrible duty imposed on any, Minister of the Crown is that im
ing tendency in the public to take an intelligent as distinct from a morbid interest in criminal trials, and in consequence a greater and
more effective interest in the execution or non-execution of the sentence.
VALUE OF PETITIONS,"
220 yards championship of the the sensation in Sydney's opium September. 27, was delivered Governor telegraphed their con call upon the Father." What does posed on the Home Secretary, of horror at the execution would cut-
But the discovery-did-not-create Colony for which there were four smoking haunts that might natural
There was little toy have been expected. competitors. choose between D Lyon and A. F.
May in the first few lengths, but eventually Lyon got a lead, which enabled him to finish ten seconds before May and incidentally to improve on his own record of
Jast year.
The 100 yards' Breast Stroke Championship of the Colony was won by Wan Kwong-tin with J, A. Kent second Boys' Championship of the Colony (for Boys 15 years of age and under) was captured by A. Bliss in 70 secs, with L. R. Pereira second. Humberstone won the Forces 100 Yards' Championship in 73-1/5 secs., Edwards being
second.
Another interesting race was the Ladies' Four Lengths Handicap, in which Miss Gladys Ramsay swam home first, despite a very severe handicap. Miss Ramsay also broke
East for Australia.
in
a
The Governor-General and the new came into the world to say.
dolences to His
Highness's it mean, this belief that God is our The composition of the Court bereaved family. While was as follows.Lieut. Comdr.
his Father? We are in the hands of a remains lay G. F. Hole, R.N. (President); Ma-som mosque, in
state at the great power. No one can be such Lieut. Comdr. W. H. Jotham, tan's
the Sul- fool as to think that man is inde. R.N., of "H.M.S. Ambrose" Cap days, over fifty thousand people a vast and universal power on Own castle, for two pendent. We are in the hands of tain R, Cumming, Master of s. including women and children of which moment by moment
Mausang Captain W. Muir the Mohamedan falth from nearly depend, as for our life originally, We Master of 5.5. Tung On"; and Captain W. Collam, Master of 5.5. their last respects to the deceased, breath we breathe.
all parts of Sumatra west and paid an, moment by moment, for the "On Lee."
What is this because His Highness was liked power? Is it blind force? The Jew
·S. S. Co.
misery, the
It is, no doubt, Illogical, but every Home Secretary has been public opinion of carrying out the obliged to consider the effect upon sentence of death. It has been a gulding rule that where public' deciding in the case of death sen-weigh public horror at the crime tences whether or not his Majesty the death penalty should not be should be advised to exercise his carried out. For that reason prerogative of mercy.
public petitions in favour of a value and assistance. reprieve may be of considerable
duty. The considerations that have It is a difficult as well as terrible
presents its own individual difficul- to be weighed are many; each case ties, and cach case must be decided on its own particular merits. More over, the Home Secretary must
Some
for the vilest murderer
It is, of course, true that even people would sign a petition. It is equally true that few, if any, of those who sign any petition can
Doubtless ene or two in the game were aggrieved over the confiscation of the consignment for it was all of the choicest Brand No. Lun Kee. But before it was- seized the traffickers in the dope had already received larger consignments of the same brand Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton appeared through other channels.
for the China Coast Officers Gulls by all. All the native rulers and ulone of all the races was taught to always remember that he is anikave the information possessed by These consignments formed (Captain D. Morgan and Chief princes from the neighbouring believe that the power which lay administrator and not an auto the Home Secretary. The 100 Yards part of the original shipment Officer P.-Scully), and Mr. Corbett States and countries, and the behind him was righteousness; } cratic legislator; that he must be
The real value of public petitions stowed in the nether regions of for the owners, the Luen Mow and their families also want. On righteous; so it was that he set to opinions, but by the law as, it is Secretary to the state of public Sultans of Serdang, and Langkat and that God wasjust-and-guided not by his own private is to direct the mind of the Home. the "Victória.
Friday the 12th Sept. punctually work to build up the foundation of and that the power to change it is feeling, and to any suggested spe The vessel, which the Chinese
The Finding.
at 5 p.m., the proclamation appoint- human society-because he believ: not in him alone. knew well was on her last voyage
cial grounds of moral justice or under the ownership of the China- Lieut Commdr. G. F. Hole R.N., ing the eldest son of the late ed that God was righteous, and all
Every death sentence comes up humanity for the reprieve of the Australia line, is said to have had Harbour Master, said that the Sultan as the now Sultan was read this our Lord maintained and for consideration by the Home criminal. The real danger of aboard 4,000 tins of Lim Kee, finding of the Court was that the by the Bedagai Chief, Tengkoe deepened. He deepened it into Secretary. On his table there is a public petitions is that a Home valued at £40,000, on clearing the master did everything within his Zainnarashid, in the presence of the belief that God was one Father stand containing cards on which Secretary might be swayed by a
power after his arrival on the some 300 people, including the act- That means first of all, that God is
are inscribed the names of persons noisy but small minority. It is That was the valuation placed' bridge to avert the disaster, also,ing Governor, Assistant Resident | Love, that behind all the suffering under sentence of death, with the his clear duty to exercise his own on it by a Chinese associated with everything within his power for Winckel, the President of the the
Inequality dates of conviction and sentence, judgment after a full and careful Victoria" the
Burgomaster, and the injustice which confront us the probable date of execution, and consideration of all the facts, and divulged the safety of the passengers, crew Municipality, the the secret to "Smith's Weekly and cargo after the disaster. It all the heads of government de- in this wild and incgular scene the date and result of the appeal in doing so he must always be And the fact that Lum Kee fetches was found that the port engine was partments, doctors, planters and of human life, there beats always to the Court of Criminal Appeal, if subject to attack by some, and the only £10 a tin, after costing $7/10/-, put to full ahead and actually did traders, the Chinese Mayor and and everywhere the heart of a any. That stand is always there, best he can expect is a general bears but his contention that the go full ahead and was later put other Chinese officials and nearly Father, the heart of a personal and reminding the Home Secretary that, measure of public approval.
all the European community. The impartial love. supply equals, if it does not full astern..
new Sultan is known as Sultan
so long as any one of the cases is exceed, the demand in Sydney.
And then, the Fatherhood of undecided, consideration of it must Officers Exonerated.
Amaloedin Sani Perkasa Alam God, St. Paul says, is the pattern take precedence of any work, how It was not as easy as is generally
The court found that the Chief Shah. Thereafter the funeral and source of all fatherhood in believed to ship that öpinas, in the
ever important. Two lengths handicap (boys):East, for in recent years the Officer carried out his duty in procession started and was fol- heaven and on earth. It means 1, T. Neave; 2, A. "Bliss."
Government has treated traffickers pointing out to the pilot that the lowed by tens of thousands of that God rules by a method of Four lengths ladies' handicap drastically.
ship, was out of position and followers and on-lookers. The fatherhood. Men are set in groups Was due to acting Governor, Mr. Winckel, and society has one at the head of (open): 1, Miss G Ramsay. Time 80 2/5 sus: 2, Miss B. George, got aboard by representatives of the incompetence of Ng Krepresented the Government at it, and the model government is to
Still, the £40,000 shipinem was that the casualty
Blame was the funeral. time 80 3/5 secs.
the Opium Ring a rich organisa- the No. 2 Pilot.
be fatherhood. So it is in the family to the owners,
Christian Girls' two lengths' handicap: 1.tion with active agents in every attributable
civilisation depends seaport in the world, which has the Leu Mow S.S. Co., in that they
upon maintaining the sanctity and defied the authorities of every
dignity of the family. To believe country for generations,
in the Fatherhood of God is to set to work to be a good father, a good head of a household in our own families...
her own record.
Other results were as follows! Ladies' two lengths handicap: 1, B. George: 2, S. Ramsay..
Long Plunger 1, C: J. Conke, Distance 566 ins; D. Laing. 54.6 inches.
who
C. Dixon; 2, D. Hunt.
Two" lengths Army and Navy (Handicap): 1. Cpl. Humberstone; 2, Bdms. Cornwall,
As they adopt a new mise for Two lengths team race (Mem-dealing with nearly every consign- hers): 1, G Razavet's team, 2.31 ment and invariably leave the handling of the commodity to white men and women, their trafficking is difficult to substan- 2,latelet alone prevent.
secs..
Four lengths handicap (Girls 14 years of age and under): G Ramsay, time 79-1/5 secs.; Miss Blunsdon, time 83'secs.
RUSSIAN TREATY. GOVERNMENT MAY GO TO
COUNTRY,
Renter's Service)
neglected to ascertain whether he was a competent pilot before engaging him. It was found that they relied solely on the advice of Chan Ki, the No. 1 Pilot.
The Court adjudged the Master, Mr. D. Morgan, and the Chief Officer, Mr. P. Scully exonerated
from all blame.
Some of the "Victoria's" Lum Early Proceedings. Kee, for instance, went aboard in
At the hearing yesterday, Mr ordinary sacks among coal. More Hall Brutton addressed the Court was stowed in bags of rice and and said that the Tin Sing" left. other cargo, and ali was Wuchow at 4 p.m. on September branded with the special trade 26 for Hongkong and the Captain ark of the "Ring," known only was on the bridge with the plot, Once aboard, that part of the consigiment badly placed for dis charge, or which might possibly have aroused, suspicion. shifted.
to those in il.
was
She: "Since our engagement has been broken off I will return the comb and brush set."
He: "Why?" "It will make parting easier."
Sympathetic Person: Hello! What is the matter, little boy? Are you lost?"
"
4
Little Boy: "Yes, I am. I nighta known better'n to come out with grandma. She's always losin sun. thin."
GOD OUR FATHER. That we might know Him, Thou
didst come and live; That we might and Him, Thea
didst come and die; The sun-heart, Brother, Thy son
being give- We too would love the Father
perfectly,
And to His bosom go back with
the cry,
heart
Father, into Thy hands I give the Which left Thee but to learn how
good Thou art!
4
But as intelligent-public-interest grows it becomes more and more important in order to retain public confidence to anticipate, and, if possible, remove any possible fear
The shorthand notes of the trial must be carefully studied in every of injustice. detail, each point must be thought-The question whether our method. out and weighed, every circum- of advising his Majesty as to the stance and every possible motive exercise of the prerogative of mercy carefully considered. All possible is right resolves itself into this: Is information regarding the history it right that the burden of the final and relations of the persons con- decision should rest upon one man cerned must be obtained and the alone? After nearly four years' judge who presided at the trial of experience as Home Secretary I the condemned person consulted. ani firmly convinced that it is not. And when all that is done, when I am convinced of this from the the views of the learned judge are point of view of the Home Secre known, if he thinks it right to ex-tary, and also the point of view of press them and does express them, the public. and when the inestimable advice and assistance of the permanent officials, which their great expert ence, enables them to give, have been given, the burden of the final decision rests on one individual alone.
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.
To any one holding the position of Home Secretary very im-
present itself wheth
portant question my
method of advising/ to the exercise of t of mercy is right. described as question.
The point of view of the Home Secretary is perhaps selfish, the point of view of the public is all-i important, and I do not believe that our present method will long. retain its confidence.
What is to take its place? My proposal, made after much thought,
is
that a commission of three should take the place of the Home Secre
tary as the final arbiter. That come constantly
mission should consist of the Home ir present Secretary, the Lord Chief Justice,
fajesty as
and the judge who presided at the erogative
trial.
until she had left Lo Shing at was not obeyed and the Chief about 6.30 pm. The Chief Officer Engineer made a report that the then took over from the Captain, engine room staff had deserted who went below to dinner. The meal their posts.
Chief Officer P. Scully, who was finished, he was returning to the bridge when the telegraphs rang on the bridge at the time of the In the eerie hours of the middle and he reached there to find the accident, said that just before the watch one of the agents might ship was all but ashore. Taking telegraphs were rung he saw the have been seen carefully planting charge, he endeavoured to get her ship getting closer and closer to the some of it in the after peak tank, clear, but failed, the ship striking bank, and called the pilot's atten- a third: And some of the passengers seem-the rocks just below the Kin Suition to the matter. The pilot then Nor, all the weary time, fall any determined to ed very concerned about their bag- fosshouse. Special knowledge was rang for the engines to go astern Not once, dropped from its nest To lose that public confidence in presided at the tril is concerned,
LONDON, October 3.
Speaking at a Unionist conference
21 Newcastle, Mr. Baldwin round-
is condemned the Russian Treaty.
He said he was
do all in his power to prevent the proposed loan ever becon ing an accomplished fact. The belief in impense Russian tradę was an illusion.
gage the whole voyage. All the was required for the navigation of and put the helm hard aport. Same, when inquiries were made, the West River
and on this
it was found that the luggage occasion the fault would be shown which contained nothing but to have been entirely that of the opiam belonged to nobody aboard pilot. the ship. The packages were Captain David Morgan stated that every he had been in command of the labelled fictitiously and Celestial answered blandly, "No "Tin Sing" for six months.
He remained on the bridge until savee 1"
Ng KI, the pilot in charge was called and asked his opinion of the cause of the accident he said that in attempting to avoid the rock in mid-channel he had ventured too far over to the Northern bank.
There are but two in all the
universe-
The Father and His children-not
But
curse!
an unfledged bird
Thou wast with it! Never sorrow stirred
Bút a love-pull it was upon the
chain.
That draws the children to the
Father again! ·
Jesus Christ, babe, ina, eternal Son,.
Thou art rich:
is not one
which,
3
- truly be
It may be urged that to-day the very important Home Secretary can consult both
For the effective administration the Lord Chief Justice and the of all law, nothing is more essen. judge who presided at the trial. So tially vital than public confidence, he can, and so far as the judge who he does. Neither is bound to any degree would be a great na
express, an opinion though it is true, tional misfortune, and if, in any department of criminal adminis that refusals are rare. But it is tration, there is any ground for certain that an opinion so given would be of much less value, and have much less effect on public confidence than a decision given, as the public would know, in pur- suance of a duty imposed by law.
It would be a matter for con-
doubt. however small, steps should be taken to ensure its re
tention.
In the past criticisms on the action of Home Secretaries in the matter of death sentences have not
red, and undoubtedly there have the greater public confidence, no been frequent, but they have occur-sideration whether with a view to
out unless the decision of the been cases where a section of the death penalty should be carried public have felt very grave mis givings, and doubted whether the commission was unanimous,
but.
Ready to Appeal. An earnest discussion between
Witness flatly contradicted Cap- Mt. Ramsay MacDonald and his
tain Morgan's evidence as to put- colleagues late last night is
"The
called Victoria"
at the vessel was beyond Lo Shing ting the port engine ahead, and reliably reported to have resulted
Thursday Sandakan.
Island, when he turned her over to the when the evidence was repeated to in a decision to go to the country if the motion of censure is carried Townsville and Brisbane, and in Chief Officer, with the No. 2 pilot him he agreed on everything Take pity! We are poor where
He reached the except this, saying when the on the 8th inst., after assuring the that time £32,000 worth of the navigating. passage of the Irish Bill, but Sir drug was got rid of. The hulk bridge again at about 7.10 p.m., to Captain attempted to put the tele- Our hearts are small and yet there
over he interfered and amendinent has may have been landed at the first find both engines going astern and graphi John Simon's given the Government at least a named port, which is noted as a the ship only some 400 feet from pulled the lever back, thus keeping In all Thy Father's noisy nursery sentence ought to have been carried
The both engines going astern, month's reprieve in the opinion of base for transferring it to other ves the shore, heading dead on. lobbyists who point out that the sels less likely to attract attention. night was fine, dark and clear. Chief Engineer. Heemun was not it may be shipped Grasping the situation at once and called and, questioned by members purpose of the amendment is to Likely avoid the Liberals sharing with through to Java to await a Com thinking he could clear by turning, of the Court, said that in spite of monwealth or other Australian he altered the port engine to full the absence of the staff, there was the Conservatives the sibility of turning cut the bound freighter likely to lay up ahead, at the same time asking the sufficient steam to have put the Governnient on an issue, which in Rose Bay after her voyage, and quartermaster if the helm was engines astern, and witness could the Liberals regard with less from which it can be procured hard aport, The quartermaster have carried out this operation Then, himself had it been decided upon favour than the Russian treaty..
after the Customs rummagers have replied in the affirmative. finished their search..
seeing that his effort to clear to do so. It was, decided, however, That a fair proportion of it was would not be successful, although that as the "Dilly" had just have in landed in one of our Northern the slip was coming round well, sight, to postpone efforts to float ports, however, is borne out by the he put the engine full astern again. the vessel until all passengers had fact that it was available to smokers The ship struck head on at been transferred.
THE LEAGUE.
respon-
AUSTRALIA AND PROTOCOL
PROVISIONS..
(Reuter's Servicc.)
MELBOURNE, October 3.
of the drag before the ship arrived approximately 7.12 p.m. Engines The last witness to be called was
in Sydney.
A
THE LITTLE CAFE."
Every reel of this super-comedy is packed with t thousand laughs, as one sicle-splitting situa
In a speech in the House of tion follows another, till they Representatives regarding the reach a climax of roaring hilarity, Geneva compromise, the Right "Little Cafe" is destined to rock Hon. Stanley M. Bruce said that the world with laughter. unless anything in the protocol
The situation throughout is
interfered with Australia's rights hilarious, side-splitting and filled there was no need of special action, with action and laughe, It's
CHINA'S ATTITUDE,
breathless film-breathless with! GENEVA, October 3: the volume of spontaneous The withdrawal of the Chinese laughter at the greatest comedian Delegation from the Chamber lastin the world, directed by
greatest comedy director of the motion picture art
night is much commented on, though it is not believed to imply China's withdrawal League.
-PARLIAMENT
from
the
were then put half speed ahead to Chan Ki, the No. I pilot who was keep her on the rocks in case of responsible for the engagement of Ng Ki as the No. 2. He said that damage forward.
An attempt was made to get the in providing
pilot ship off by putting the starboard he was acting with the authority of engine asters. The order to do so the owners,
NAVIGATION PROBLEM.
MILES
the
Chomski PROPOSED
DAM
B
Bright comedy production with Max Linder as comedian-gentle- mon-social bounder and lover- he runs away from his uncle's stately home and roughs it in the ADJOURNS. streets of Paris..........................
The woll-known
French Comedian when it comes to fum)
IRISH BILL READ IN LORDS.he's a riot--can you picture him
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, October 3. The House of Lords has passed the first reading of the Irish Bill and adjourned until the 7th Inst. The House of Comatous hes Toloursed until the 8th
when he finds out his uncle has died and left him two million francs and he is under a twenty- year waiter's contract?
Most of the scenes were inade in France with many beautiful Parisian views. An adaptation from the noted comedy-drama the came
another
BIG DAM PROPOSED-Diversion of Great Lakes water at Chicago is said to have changed the prob lem of St. Lawrence navigation below Montreal. A dan with locks, which could be built for less than the cost, at dredging, is now pressed to give the required channel depth
Merry, or mourning in its narrow
niche, Needs not Thy Father's heart,
this very now, With all his being's being even
as Thou.
-GEORGE MACDONALD,
It is inevitable that such cases
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