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SATURDAY, JUNE 6 19
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Sir
William
His Excellency the
Perhaps it should
world to learn that
The Ordinance, dos not go so far fas to give the Government power. to inspect machines used here with a view to ascertaining whe ther they are in good flying con- dition or not but the difficulty. here would obviously arise as to Juson MAULE..Maule, quoted by, A NEW, MAN, not surprise the who was a competent authority to judge whether a machine. Was safe as the Government would Governor in the Council Chamber a new man has arisen, in response possibly have to assume a share of this week, was a "judge, and to the demands of the hour, the responsibility if a machine s master of an ironic humour which This man, according to Mrs. inspected and pronounced correct he did not object to using in his Sarah Tyson Rorar of Colebrook, were to fail. As the matter! Judicial capacity. His best Pa., at the Women's World Fair, atanda at present passengers remembered utterance in this vein in Chicago, has taken the kitchen make an aerial flight at their own was addressed to a man charged and similar drugdery, which used risk and, until the number of with bigamy, who, on being asked to be considered exclusively. planes here and the demand for what he had to say why judgment woman's work, on his own them are sufficient to justify the should not be passed upon him shoulders. "To-day," said, this employment of an expert to replied: "Well, my lord, my wife veteran authority on cooking, examine them it would appear on took up with a hawker, and ran "men make the soap, men examine the face of it that this is the only away five years ago, and I have the milk." She continued: practical way of dealing with the never seen her since, and I mar A woman buys a skirt in the matter. All the same, it would ried this other woman inst win-store, but wants it lengthened; a appear desirable, too, that all localiter.” The judge said, with man steps forth with tape mea filers there are only two licensed appropriate severity of demean- sure and chalk to do the job. We at present, Mr. Abbott and Mr. our "I tell you what have men dressmakers and men Rose should be made to enter you ought to have done, and if millinera.....We have linoleum into a boud that their aeroplanes you say you did not know I must floors, steel walls in our kitchens, would not be taken from the tell you the law conclusively pre-which require only to be washed Colony and disposed of without sumes that you did. You ought down, we have eliminated scrub- the knowledge or approval of the to have instructed your attorney bing brushes, brooms, and largely Government. In the case of the to bring an action against coul stoves. We have electric and recent supposed unlawful removal the hawker for criminal conversa mechanical apparatus for lighten- of Mr. Abbott's "plane from its tion with your wife. That would ing the burdens of housework, shed Mr. Abott could not, of have cost you about one hundred thanks to the ingenuity of the new course, be held responsible, but pounds. When you had re man who manufactures them. the danger of traffic in aeroplanes covered substantial damages Good for the new man! And to agents other than those apagainst the hawker, you would this tribute has the greater weight proved by the authorities is too have instructed your proctor to because it comes from a pioneer obvious to need emphasis and calls sue in the ecclesiastical courts for of the new women. for some action to be taken.
s divorce a mensa atque thoro. That would have cost you two or three hundred pounds
for Ventilation.
There should be 1,000 cubic feet
be
That Plenty of more.A FALLACY. Space Does Away When you had obtained a divorce Test Matches.
with the Necessity a mensa atque thoro, you would The rulers of cricket in the have had to appear by counsel Homeland have decreed that the before the House of Lords for a of space for each individual in a old conservative method of con- divorce a vinculo matrimonii.room, and in addition to this, fining test matches to three days The Bill might have been opposed 3,000 cubic feet of fresh air shall apply in 1926, except within all its stages in both Houses should be introduced into the regard to the fifth test match, of Parliament; and altogether room per hour for each person. which in the event of the fate of you would have had to spend For example, if the room the rubber hanging on it, is to be about one thousand or twelve 10 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. played out. This decision, to say hundred pounds. You will pro-high, it contains the right num- the least, is a little disappointing bably tell me that you never had a ber of cubic feet of air for one to the public. Australian men, thousand farthings in the world; person; but it is wrong for him after travelling 12,000 miles, will but, prisoner that makes no dif- or her to sit or sleep in that room feel that they are entitled to have ference. Sitting here as a Brif every door, window, or crevice all the test matches played out tish judge, it is my duty to tell where fresh air might get in is The Home point of view is that to you that this is not a country in closed up and luted with india- do so would dislocate all the which there is one law for the rubber, felt, sandbags, etc.; for ment's curt announcement that it and disorganise the whole com-
cricket arrangements of the year rich and another for the poor." 8,000 cubic feet of fresh air Another instance of Judge should be passing into the room hus no site in Kowloon for a plicated system of county cricket, Maule's irony may be given in the per hour, and of course, a cor- children's playground will prob which in the long run is more following address to a jury responding quantity of foul air ably serve a good purpose. It will important for Home cricket than "Gentlemen, the learned counsel is should be passing out through the even the Tests themselves. The perfectly right in his law, there' chimney or the ventilator. If the raise the question anew, and we fact that the Test matches in is some evidence upon that point room be 20 ft. long, 10 ft. wide shall see if Kowloon is really Australia last season ran to such but he is a lawyer, and you are and 10 ft. high, then it is suit- serious in its request and if there harrowing lengths probably not, and you don't know what he able for occupation by two per- is a great need for what has been assisted to confirm, the Home means by some evidence, so I'll sons, if 6.000 cubic feet of fresh
Suppose there was an air be passed in per hour. sought. We have no doubt upon tests.
opinion in favour of three day tell you.
There is this to be said action on a bill of exchange, and If the cubic space per indivi- the matter. The "China Mail" about them, that they tend to six people swore they saw the dual be less than 1,000 cubic feet, has repeatedly asked for play make the play more lively, and it defendant accept it, and six others then it is even more necessary to grounds for the simple reason is a well-known fact that a pre should have to pay it, and six the air of a room be changed swore they heard him say he have thorough ventilation; but if that they are an imperative need mium is placed on the brisk fore others knew him intimately, and more than four or five times per ing batsmar when a side is being swore to his handwriting; and hour, a draught will probably be Staute Square is often given over got together in Australia for an suppose, on the other side, they felt to football, to say nothing of side English tour. streets. Each evening parts of
the Praya reclamation are covered
"In Simplicity of Heart Seek Him,"
.X
the
"I want to show A TO THE POINT. you, ladies and the gentlemen
called a poor old man, who had It is found in practice that in been at school with the defendant ordinary dwelling-houses, forty years before, and had not useful height of a room-from a with awarma of children making A THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY.
seen him since, and he said he sanitary point of view-is limited the most of this vast expanse of
rather thought the acceptance to 12: ft. Anything above that was not his writing, why there must be excluded when calculating razed earth. True the use is by
would be some evidence that it for what number of persons the Chinese young people but this
was not, and that's what counsel room is suitable. does not alter the principle in the The history of the world is full
means in this case,” least degree Kowloon adults can of instances of the power of sarcastic in his remarks to coun- Judge Maule could also be not complain of the Government's simple faith to rule the most com-sel appearing before him."
plex and perilous life and in these barrister who had been present- provision of playing spaces for inodern times it is the common ex-ing his case in a very haphazard famous flexible ivorine.comb, an them. The supply has
been perience that the faster and more fashion was interrupted with absolutely unbreakable generous in the extreme. From confusedly things go, the more one "Mr. Barker, could you not state ladies and gentlemen, which will
comb," CHAN LAM SHI-Mother of the this it must be adduced that the forwardness in religion.
feels the need for plain straight your facts in some kind of order? stand anything. You can bend it, late Mr. Chan Kai-ming, J.P Government is alive to the fact. It is this truth, which has been Chronological is the best, but if or twist it--so, or you can at 11.30 a.m. the 5th inst., at
you cannot manage that try some her residence, No. 39, Conduit that contentment as an aid to behind all the great secessions from other
"Can you comb your hair with Road. The cortège will leave living is a desiredatum and a the ages, and which is still the
the mother-Church down through please."
alphabetical, if you it?" interrupted a practical mem-
ber of the audience. the above address at 3 pr. policy which it is bound to opposing fone to all extreme ritual- on Sunday, the 7th inst.
pursue in relation to those who isme of the present day. The wonder is that earnest
DEATH.
Hongkong, Saturday, June 6, 1925.
FRESH AIR FOR OUR KIDDIES.
The
planning and municipal manage ment, or send a deputation of its unhurried Cadets to study muni-
necessarily come under its juris followers of Christ undoubtedly in A SOLDIER'S AWKWARD QUESTIONS.
diction. This fact makes its volved in those movements, have seeming indifference to the wants not suspected the hand of their
NEED FOR ACTION.
Arch Enemy behind these prevalent
to
of the quite young so incompre multiform complications in theology. Sir Ian Hamilton is a soldier and of us to say "Well, mayhow, it' hensible. Farenta anxieties are As Christ gave it to us, and as it not a statesman by profession. But will show Germany bow precious not to be pampered, and in plain was conceived by the great saints of he has at any rate one of the quali- little we care whether she thinks" words the appearance of the old time, the Christian Faith is a
honest or not," or "Well, "any- Government might do infant is to be discouraged!
grandly simple thing, and every ties of those, statesmen who suc- how, it will show Germany who's worse than study books on town
effort to adom it humanly has but ceed. He has the habit of judging master now." There are actually lessened its prime value as a weapon diplomatis actions by the political people who say such things with- of defence against the world. It is effects which they are likely or out any consciousness of degrada the sheer temper of the steel, not certain to have, and not merely by tion., Bat Sir Ian Hamilton has the fine damecening of the blade their value as reliefs for our own the hobby of opt liking to act. and bejewelling of the hilt, that the feelings or se means for scraping basely. And also he can ade be average Christian man-at-arms looks through some little perplexity of yond his nose. The control of when his very life depends on the the moment, remarke the Man- Germany, he sees, is now being parrying power of his weapon. chester Guardian." The action fought for by two parties. One of which he submitted to this kind them, the Nationalist party, wanta of scrutiny in his address at to persuade all Germany that any Frome we our own Govern- reliance on the honesty or modera ment's failure to keep is treaty tion of England, not to mention. promise to evacuato Cologne at the France, is hopeless, and that Gor end of last year. It saved our many a only future hope lies in the Foreign Office a little trouble, with gradual reconstruction of the old- the French Foreign Office, and that German, military machine, with a was the only real reason for this view to a war of revenge. The unlucky breach of faith. Of course other wants to persuade Germany o formal pretext had to be put for that there are limits to what Eng. ward, and the one chosen was that land, if not France, will do in the Germany had not got on fast vindictive line, and that British enough with her disarmament, promise, at any rate, is a thing But no one took the pretext which can be counted upon. Why, seriously, and our own Foreign then, Office tools it so far from seriously German
cipal effort in some of the great. The recent escapade of cities of England. Scarcely a city Chinese mechanic who is alleged but has its parks, gardens, or to have stolen an aeroplane from playground committees, super-
the reclamation ground at Kow. vising these open spaces primarily loon Bay where it was housed in a matshed and to have abandoned. meant for the young, but, eagerly
it after a forced descent some used also by those of an older
thirty miles away in the New growth: Municipalities red
recognise
Territories naturally gives rise to
the urgent need of open spaces the query are there any regula- provide them and look after themtions limiting the control of
In Hongkong and: Kowloon it can
be said that the Government has hitherto provided
spaces. for adults; it has seemed enger and
machines in the Colony to quali- fed men and the possession of machines to agents approved by willing to do so but for quite the local Ordinances gives renssur- the Government 7" Reference to
young people if has not made provision in any way Happy clauses in a special Ordinance ance on this point for one of the Valley is the great Hongkong introduced so long ago as "1912 centre of outdoor life where games covers this very point and gives are indulged in. But to suggest the Government power to control that, there is either room
licences and makes it legal for dreas
lanes into to you
come for quite young
absurdu. Tho
TO-DAY'S SMILE,
friend
has, gone to allow
Klodi Hans
that it did not even, attempt
dry up any specific charges agai
their
Germany at the time. So we
in the eyes of Germans se's nation Ger
who breaka promises when itsoite:
- the main aim of diplomancy.
koil a nation, B eMob
ezhape this bresch
strengthen, ther by giver illustration to make
speeches ode