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STILL WATERS
A Victorian poet, whose name, alas, has slipped the Topicist's memory, once rhymed upon that very prosaic subject, House Moving, in connection with a Family Ghost, and in the course of the rhyme there turned up the Inquisitive Friend, the lines rounding somewhat as follows:
14
So
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1929.
WOMEN JUDGES ON
THE BENCH
་་"
NO HINDRANCE TO THEIR APPOINTMENT You're flitting? Yes we're flitting,' said the Recorder has imagined it pos--one may speak the truth without OOKING well-ahead, a learned Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat Ghost, For they'd packed the unholy sible that some day women will be pulling a long face: What happen- thing amongst the Beds." seen acting as High Court Judges. ed in AID." 1287 might vary wall ba Sir Cecil Clementi, who doubt. They are already Armly established repeated in A.D, 1940, by that less is sighing with reller at as unpaid Justices of the Peace, but time there are women judges at escaping from: the. mui-tsai of this vision introduces them to the Temple Bar. The domestic posal- Hong Kong, will possibly realise highest-paid judicial positions, and bilities which have alarmed educa the aptnesss of the quotation does not even exclude them from tion authorities and Influenced their when he reaches Singapore. the capacious but uncomfortable plansare not to be ignored in the
woolsack of the Lord High Chan domain of the law. Before the
cellor. ap
Of all conditions deemed neces Also Ran pointment of Sir
There is nothing in the statutessary to the efficiency of our judicial Cecil Clementi was to prevent the dream materialising, system none is more important than announced as Governor of the In a form of words not expressive a reasonable certainty of regular Straits Settlements a Penang of much enthusiasm, Parliament has and continuous service by the gossip-writer suggested that Sironacted that a woman is not inel judges. In the case of the magis- Reginald Edward Stubbs, Hong rible for any judicial office merely tracy this is not so vital, because of Kong's former Governor, was the by reason of her sex, provided she the expansive rotas of available most likely selection. He quoted is properly qualified. It narrowly strength to meet emergencies. But the following from one of his escaped doing this before knowing vacant chairs in the High Court "distinguished renders." which for certain that women would be ad-mean "delays and incalculable ex- summed up the situation very mitted to the profession from pense. Therefore, unless it were neatly (but wrongly) in the fol which the Beach is exclusively re- decreed that married women lowing term
.cruited-namely, the Bar. Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs 2 All is now clear and precise. To plagiariau, a Napoleonie quip, every 2 woman barrister carries a judge's outfit in her brief bag. If it never sees the light, the responsibility wi}~! lie with some non-statutory hostile force.
to 1 on,
Sir Cecil Clementi 5 to
ngainst.
Sir George Maxwell 9 to
against.
2
aro
barred the Bench, grave Inconveni onces might arise, which could only be met, and that partially, by a con siderabble increase in the number of judges.
No Sex Equality
While Parliament has declared Others 10 to 1 against.
women eligible for the Bench, it Very great interest is being
The Recorder fixes the interesting has revealed in cognate matters a taken locally in the big face for possibility at a period when women, lurking consciousness that complete the Governor's Cup, valued £7,000 become predominant in Parliament, at least undesirable.
in their new emancipation, have sex equality is, if not unattainable, per annum, with added money as
It has provid High Commissioner of the Malay and perhaps in the Government-ined, for instance, in the Jury Acta States, and British Agent for other words, when they hold the that women may be excused jury Sarawak and... British North reins. They may then, he suspects, service if there is evidence to be Borneo.
insist upon stepping on to the High given that seems unfitted for their Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, Court Bench. Though there is an ears, and many women have grate- again the "China Mail served originally from the Colonial Office appearance of combativeness thren fully and with alacrity claimed this the public faithfully. It obtain-stable, has been backed down to tening to the peace in this potential indulgence. The High Court Judge ed news of the enquiry and also an odds-on chance and the talent attitude, some may be inclined to
must have cans for everything. regard him as a moral certainty think it Indicates the only path by what it would cost to repair the for this big race should he face which women are ever likely to at damages sustained by the "Kau the starter willingly. He knows tain high judicial office. Sing", and published it on Wed- the Malayan course as he
Two things have happened,. one nesday last. The matter. had by did not compete for the race. In have significant bearing on this here some years ago although he very remote, the other recent, which then gone too far, and our morn-1919 he won the Hong Kong Cup topic. Actually, this country once no objection to women serving as ing contemporaries called on the value £6,000 in record time. had a women judge. When King justices in certain cases, but as a that grest Governor the. Rt. Hon. pointed Queen Eleanor to be Keeper opposed to the appointment of ma- Sir Cecil Clementi, a nephew of Henry III. went to Gascony, he apmatter of administration he was gir. Cecil Clementi Smith, is an of the Seal, and, according to Camp-gistrates who were only qualified to other public fancy, but he is new bell, she "sat as a judge the Aula adjudicate in selected canes.
That Sanitary Launch
Was
that
views on this point worth recalling. The late Earl of Halsbury had
When giving evidence before a Royal Commission which was inquir the peace, he admitted, that he saw ing into the selection of justices of
<
TEN YEARS AGO
[From the "China · Mall,” December 7, 1919.)
To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 1%d.
Harbour Master and invited him to make a statement in regard to the, matter. He refused to dis cuss the subject, saying that had to the Malayan, course. He is a Regis," commencing her duties, Yet considerations of chivalry and consistent performer and a proved curiously enough, on the morrow he, wished for publicity, he would stayer. He won the Hong Kong of the Nativity of the Blessed Vir- the Recorder's dream is realised' and convenience.will carry no weight if have left a written statement on Cup in 1925. The Chinese in this gin Mary. But, adds. the same au- women insist on being judges, cradle the Press table at the Harbour Colony, especially the Cantonese, thority, her judgments were inter
or no cradle. Officeles
will be delighted should he hap-rupted by a happy doréestic event. pen to win as he is very popular The nearer incident is that a cer- with the Chinese in Hong Kong, tain Lord Justice, when addressing Then thereThe performance of Sir George an audience-of-lawyers in the Tem was the case Maxwell is too well known to ple, whimsicaly suggested of the strand-need recapitulation as he knows "the beautiful Hall of the Middle" Ing of a Sani- the Malayan course and always Temple might be transformed into
runs well here tary launch last summer when a Should there be an upset in the leave their bables while they appear. a creche where lady barristera could. party of Sanitary inspectors and big race it will come from the ed in court."
The 36th annual bazear in aid of their families book the vessel out Colonial Office atable. This is a
the poor of Hong Kong was held under on a picnic expedition. Up to brought off several surprises on
the auspices of St. Vincent de Paul voryids tricky stable and has
It is noted; under section 6 of the Roman Catholic Cathedral.
Society yesterday in the compound of now the public has not been ac the public of years past, as for in the "Petites Soeurs des Pauvres,
The receipts this year amounted to quainted with what actually took stance, Sir John Anderson who St. Pern; Bretagne Incorporation over $17,500, surpassing by thousands place; or where the fault lay, came from that stable in 1904, Ordinance, 1925, that satisfactory of dollars any of the records set up Surely the public. has a right to and secured many notable vic- three years commencing August 29,ture previously hold, and $7,000 more was pronounced a great success evidence of the appointment, for during the thirty-five fetes of this pa- Whilst we do not know! Government property fstories, especially on the Ceylon 1929, of la Petite Soeur Gabrielle de than last year's record...
St. Hyacinthe as Suppressing wish to be al bought with the public's money; course, t
the Mother H.E. the Governor, accompanied by
News
.:ways censorious and as such it cannot be wanton-Valley says it is nearly always ciety of the Petiles Soeurs des gate by Chev. J. M. Alves, Mr. W. G. Our racing expert at Happy Superior in this Colony of the So- Capt. J. E. Warren, visited the grounds at 5.80 p.m., and was received at the of the defiantly or otherwise destroyed without safe to back the second horse in Pauvrce, St. Porn, Bretagne, has Fitz-Gibbon,
Commander F. M. attitude adopted by some "heads" letting the public know about it, the betting.]
been furnished to H.E, the Governor. Hodgson, R.N., and others. of Government Departments, we
The public would also like to know why no enquiry was held in an cannot at the same time, in the interest of the community, re
open Court This is: invariably frain from pointing out the ed vessel, and the reason for do done in the case of a private lown- shocking way that legitimate ing so is, obviously, to safeguard news of vital importance and in the lives of the passengers and terest is withheld fro
from the
crew on board"Therefore, what is sauce for the goose should be public by these officials. There sauce for the gander. Again, in have been several instances; and the case of a master, pilot or any the most recent one concerned officer in charge of a vessel com- Justice in China
Butterfly" he sang in Swedish, and ordinary technique, used & amall ing to grief they are punished SUMMARY justice seems to be tenor, intended to be an American, the position thus arose of a Scotch the Government-rescue tug, "Kau the fault should be proved
violin specially made for him, but has now been promoted to a larger fashionable in Shantung. At singing in SwedbanItalian instrument. He has also invariably Sing." She met with a mishap against them in a public court Chlakochwang, there were two spera all about Japan in an English been accompanied by his teacher, on November 27, just off Chaiwan of enquiry. Why then, shound a brothers named Yu whose con
opera house. My D
Pakhose duty it was to tune the vłólin Stay for him, CA Bay, in consequence of which she Government servant having duct was decidedly bad. Villag A Ship of Fashion de
charge of a vessel that comes to crs took them-in-hand and killed with her propeller blades broken leniency This policy, if persist
„went a month ago to Jaffs as "THE Royal General Theatrical. Food, which held its anniversary dinner No afficial report of the accident ed in, cannot do the Government the villagers threats, the mother precautionary measure, knows the
of the victims dare not say a
Mediterranean well, though recently recently, le nearly a century old. was issued by the Harbour want to have a surprise sprung after the burial, she, with mem it.
Balany good." The public does not word against the murderers. But she has confined her attentions to the Charles Dickens, always the keen-
Western and more.
pfeat of amateur actors and in close oro fashionable end of totion with the professional stage, Authority, under whom the "Kau upen it at the next Budget meet bere of her clan went to the Sing is being operated. The "ingTd ask for so many thou
well known round and brought the food into with China Mail was, however, able dands of dollars to Buy & magistrate, and accused the vill about the Riviors, and her hobpital- the help of a paw frie, being, 1830
ity during the Gola Weak at Cannes and took an active interest in agers. We hear that he has in the early spring was much appre welfare right up to his death... c. launch or to pay for the repairs sent for those who actually com cisted, as was the unerring alm of was to have been one of, which
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
---China's Judicial Progress: The Tenor Of Speech: H.M.S. “Ramil lies": A Youthful Genius; Dickens
i As An Actor: Legation Status
is now lying at the Taikoo Docks grief be treated with more both of them together. Owing. to /HS, Bamillies," which nearly Fund That Dickens Funded
She
He
to obtain the news of the acclf the Kaur Sing", a 'full year mitted the deed, and, also for her officers (including the captain), ers at the dinner at 1870, at which
is certainly not "playing cricket others on whom suspicion lles of with public funds.
The story is a little involved, but, Being implicated in, the matter, Thus exultath the perhaps, as data showing the judicial progress of China, it is On Our manufacturer Governor. Topics
dent and accordingly published it after the incident had taken place for the information of the public on November 28. Even after the report had appeared in this paper, the authority concerned did not think it-advisable quite unwise
ust be ted out to ini form the public of exactly what had happened,.. Instead of that the pubile was allowed to form any conjecture it liked.
Then whe
a de
the dark
pore Free Press:
Our Sporting Prophet had rather poor time at the Races last week if leading
on the road to we
not well enough. In a few days he
in the subsequent Battle of Flowers. King Edward VII. (then, of course, which was about
There was a "Ramilies cocktail" Prince of Wales), took the chair, but In much demand during that week, sont ammessage, to say, that he was- 15-inch guns, a potent as her
died at Gadshill, t A few weeks ago she was over- hauled at Devonport, and she is now, although thirteen years old, as the very top of her form
a
The Prince of Wales was in the chair the year before last, and a Bishop of London--net, however, Dr. Ingram-presided on one occasion.
Legations and Embassies
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