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There is a suspicion of Mrs. Beeton about the discussions regarding servants. First procure an egg, says Mrs. B. In dealny with a domestic recipe. Then follows instructions.as to beating, ingredients; time, etc. So with servants. First get your servant, Generally it is, likely to be some- one-else's; and generally the tired house-holder is likely to seize him with both hands without enquir- ing whence he came and whom
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925.-
CHINESE LABOUR.
'OLD RESIDENT'S FINE -LETTER-
· CHINA'S GREAT BLAME.
MR. H. E. MORRISS.
1
BUYS HULTON FILLY
AND--COLT..
·SENSATIONAL PRICES.
(Reuter's Service.)
The following letter from Mr. Gilbert G. Warren appears in the
London, July 15. "London Times" cf June 12
The historio sale of the late Bir Those who by long residence in concluded and resulted in the sen Edward Hulton's racing stock has
he has served. The calm and China realise what are the actual eational figure of £808,000 for 75 unbiased onlooker-if such there conditions of industrial life there hores, or double the estimated be in these hectic times-may agree with your Peking Corres- vulna, question if much, if any, good is pondent in believing that in pre-day for 46,000 guiness, the highest Thirteen yearlings were sold to
being done by public discussions
on treatment of servants; and he sent circumstances it would be the price being 9,200 guiness paid by may well question the wisdom of cruellest thing to the working Mr. H. E. Morriss of Shanghai, Government servants taking a class to concede to any serious winner of the Derby, for a filly. prominent part in them, as hap degree what the students demand the Hutton horses were bought for A very considerible number of pened at the meeting of the
foreign market.
Dominions and Colonies.
As
Mr. Henry Morriss also bought a yearling colt for 4.700 guineas at the Hulton sale.
LAST VICTORY,
JIM BARNES'S GOLF TOUR.
(Reuter's Service.) .
London, July 15.
Jim Barnes concluded his tour of
prom
[Tim Barnes, a W.S.A. fessional, won the British Open Golf Championship this year for the first time.]
F. A. TOUR
ENGLISH TEAM WINS AGAIN.
(Reuter's Service.)
Cessnock (N.S.W.). July 14. The English FA.Socceriten" beat South Maitland by 4 goals to 1.
BETTER CRICKET.
LORD HAWKE'S DRÀSTIC PROPOSALS.
Mid-Levels Residents' Association for the factory hands. yesterday. Such proceedings, The conditɔns of their work, liberally broadcasted, are likely to appalling an hideous as they are, strengthen the hands of pro-neither are the cause of the dis. pagandists in Canton, who, are turbances at Shanghai, nor have bound to put them in the most they, as the LLP. states, been lurid manner, and to add to pre "introduced into the Far East by sent difficulties. The law is clear foreign capitalism" They are as to June wages, and a number native to China and are prevalent of Kowloon residents have made there and do not reflect specially this additionally clear by pro-on the mill-owners whether secuting absent servants, and Chinese or foreign, of Shanghai, done not a little to impress the On the contrary, those of us who servant class with the nature of know China from within know their offence. It is desirable that that the conditions inside the fac- there should be unanimity of stories at Shanghai and elsewhere Britain today on the 'Verulam treatment and not haphazard contrast favourably with con- course, St. Albans, when, partner- arrangements that will tend to ditions anywhere outside in pro-ed with Abe Mitchell, he beat Ted split the ranks of employers. viding lighter work, better Ray and Compston by one hole in Servants aró necessary. They wages, and shorter hours. As thirty-six bole match. must be employed-presumably evidence' of this.I may refer to the sooner the better. It should two cities, Changsha and Han- not be difficult for representatives kow, in which for the past 40 of the Residents' Associations years I have lived. As far as which continue to multiply, to get labour is concerned, these cities together, and once and for all are thoroughly typical, and in solve a not insuperable problem, both hundreds of children under to the extent even of forming a 10 work 18 hours a day for seven Registration Bureau.
days a week for food only-and a miserably insufficient supply of that at shoemaking, tailoring, hand-loom weaving, and even as The reconstruction of the apprentices to metal tinemiths and blacksmiths. To change Colonial Office and the placing of Dominion affairs under the con- economic conditions like these trol of a new Secretary of State needs something more than re for Dominion Affairs is, as Mr.volutions or political action: L. S. Amery has pointed out,
to extrality, as extra- much more than a mere conces- territoriality is better termed, the sion to sentiment. It is the official I.L.P. can have no idea what recognition of a fact-the fact would be the result to Chinese that nations have arisen within workmen if they were granted the Empire whose status around "the fullest recognition of the the council table is that of right of the Chinese people to partners. It is less than 40 years manage their own affairs." The
REMEDYING DEFECTS. since in 1887 there was a begin- following incident speaks for it- ning of consultation within the self and more effectively than
Another discussion on the old Empire. At the Ottawa meeting argument. In January, 1922, topic, How to Brighten Cricket," in 1894 the representatives still there was a minor disturbance at has been started in England by spoke of the colonies as depen a Chinese-owned spinning mill at Lord Hawke, who has put forward dencies, but in 1907 even the Changsha (a mill in which no several interesting suggestions terms colonies and colonial. were foreigner has any part or lot) for brightening play, deemed inadequate. The war over the trifling question of a One suggestion is that matches. liur who stooped to every fabrica revealed the growth of autono-small travel allowance made to should be restricted to one innings The China Mail* tion and every levice to induce mons nations. When in 1919 the the workers to enable them to get for each side, and other proposals
otherwise unoffending servants to were appended to the Treaty of holiday.
signatures of the Prime Ministers home for their Chinese New Year deal with the toss, the width of No damage whatever wickets, and a time limit in which pit their employers to the incon Versailles, when the dominions was done to the property; there an innings must be completed. venience of a strike. Even with a which they represented became in was nothing more than a some- The "News of the World" says certain class of servant there can- their own right members of the what noisy demonstration by the that the highest cricketing circles not be sympathy, home of these League of Nations, and when workers, a disturbance so slight are eagerly discussing several knew full well what the result of mandates were allotted to Aus- that had it occurred in the Inter- radical proposals sponsored by the tralia, New Zealand and South national Settlement in Shanghai, president of the Yorkshire Club, their "downing tools" would mean Africa, the whole world realised the Chinese owners would not Lord Hawke, with a view to not only for their particular em- that the self-governing dominions have found it possible to bring brightening cricket and remedy- plovers but for the irhole com-had become partner peoples in the any action against the demonstra-ing present defects in the game. munity, Chinese as well as non- British Empire and that the tors, or even to have obtained It is suggested that the winner Chinese. Apart from any with-ed into a League of Nations. Changsha, however, within 24 in the return match the opposition British Empire had itself develop summonses against them. At of the toss must bat first, and that holding of strike pay and the for- Since then the Irish Free State hours two men who were sup- shall bat first; that each match feiture of wages earned during Juue has joined the group. Therefore, posed, perhaps rightly, to have shall be confined to one innings, there must be hundreds of "Number the removal of these nations from been leaders were arrested in the also that there shall be a time Ones" and office assistants who the official headship of the street at dusk, taken to the Hmit, and if t side is dismissed Colonial Office is but the correc- Governor's headquarters, and in before that time has expired the joined in the little jaunt to Canton tion of an anachronism. How far the morning their decapitated balance of time shall be added to with their eyes wide open-they the new department will oil the bodies were lying outside the city their opponents' allowance. required precious little in the way wheels of Imperial Government gate. Any trial which they may Pitches shall be marked for a London Officer:-T5 Far Easture of intimidation to leave and to in- and make simpler contact between have had was without any possi- certain breadth, says another of Advertising Agency (London), duce their fellow-servants to go London, Ottawa, Melbourne, Cape- bility of defence by the accused: Lord Hawke's proposals, and any Lid.. 24, Devonshire · Street, Bloomsbury, W.G.1.
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town and Wellington remains to no legal help could be procured, ball pitching outside, or breaking be seen. The man at its head is no witnesses called, no documents away outside, shall be considered Now that the inconvenience on seized with a keen desire to im- other than what they may have a wide, thus preventing a bowler the part of the employers is being prove matters and lacks the bad on their persons could be from keeping down rune by bowl- reduced day by day, the position is official mind, which is most produced. In the same jurisdic-ing off the wicket. being reversed. It is now a ques-
promising.
tion and at the same time four
Although the drastic nature of tion of how long there will exist
lads under 20 had been lying im- these proposals allows them little rikers with the conditions obtain-
prisoned for four months, not chance of adoption, says the thie spirit of tolerance amongst the LOCAL & GENERAL. only without trial but without paper, if they were modified and
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Hongkong. Thursday, July 16, 1925,
TOLERATION.
Ta. C. 4702
ing in Canton, The inconveniences
Toleration seems to be the key note of the situation in the Colony. There is an effort to exploit that and even birdships to which they fiable diseases in the Colony There were no cases of noti- phase to the utmost There is are being subjected mist by now be during the 24 hours ended on toleration
tion with the "daily a-k, the teaching them that Canton is in Tuesday, common round" which have become deed a
hard-nay cruel-task
any kind of formal accusation. adopted they might do much to Their release was accomplisher brighten cricket. because the Chinese. Governor M. B. Hawke, took an English not through process of law, but urgently needed someone to trans team to Australia in 1887, and Lord Hawke, who, as the Hon.
late into English and send to the had to leave early in the tour,. "N. C. D. News" a letter in which when they were in Bydney, owing inevitable in what is tantamount to master in comparison with the quarters $6,060 was voted at the ing the two labour leaders. This dashing batsman himself. The For altering and equipping police he defended his action in execut to the death of his father, was a a servantless city: What may have assured steadiness of their billets in Finance Committee meeting which translation I undertook, on con- suggestions he makes are bound seemed novel and even irritable in Hongkong, with no risks whatever followed yesterday's Legislative dition that he would release the to attract attention, because not the first week of the strike is now in pursuing their callings or exact Council meeting. The quarters, lads within 24 hours. being tolerated. The household
The bar only is he president of the York- ing their squeeze." It was the the, Colonial Secretary explained. gain was accepted and carried shire County Club, but has been chores have to be done. Somebody easiest thing in the world to find Nei Chung Road and the details. The only chance of procuring governs English cricket. The
were in Percival Street and Wong out... has to do them, if householders and five dollars and rush off to Canton,
president of the M.C.C., which. their families are to eat and sleep Again the tables are turned, and tain flats in Wong Nei Chung Rast, proach to such social and political in. the game thinks that there were as follows: Furniture for car for Chinese, workmen any ap mere fact that a recognised leader and generally live in spite of the they are finding that the mere will 90,000: Prays Eust police station, liberty as the British workman should be special rules for Test strike. The work of the office must to return to Hongkong is not by alteration of new kitchen, lavatory enjoys is, in my opinion, to refuse matches, suggests the probability go on, and the shell-shattered, any means sufficient for that will accommodation for European officers to revise, the system of extrality of the M.C.C. trying some means phrase, Business na usual' is a to ha converted into power and electric Attings $450 friture has a legal system of her own faction than is derived now from and 40 native police, $1,700 embodied in treaties until China to give the public more satis- fear substitution for sheer Wlors ability to come back. They have 8800 water supply $60 a total of securing, not also merely for for the long drawn-out struggles in tion, however monotonous it may been robbed of their birthright by $6,000. These quarters will be elgners resident in China but also Australia, and the drawn games be becoming,
the very Government whose protec occupied until the new No. 1 Police for the 400,000,000 of Chinese, in England.] -As there are limits to patience tion they so rashly sought, and those the Morrison Hill site, has been justice.
Station it is proposed to erect on the elementary rights of personal there may be limits to toleration, of them who do filter through and built. That will be at least 3 years, and to paraphrase another parsee take up billets here will bythen possibly, 4 years.
much noted when His Excellency have received a lesson that should
the Governor
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when both Hongkong
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