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progress, but Council reform in a subject that requires deep thought. and a strong case made out before even recommendations are put for ward."
From this, we may take it that the Straits Settlements have link fnd hands with Hong Kong and in- terred the subject of Council re- form for a few more decades!
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHEERO CLUB
To the Editor of "China Mull.")
P. S. CASSIDY.
Hong Kong, March 9, 1932,
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.
A.A.B, Lamonta
THE DECLINE OF
ORATORY IN THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS
The physical aspect of the new, member of society, it is not amiss House of Commons is a pleasant that Sir Herbert Samuel should re- contrast to that of the last. As I mind us that the consumer has still surveyed, the serried benches I said something of a case. Unfortunately to myself, Why, here is an assembly for himself and the Liberal Party, of clean, cultured and alert young Str Herbert, who is a clover man,
Invective was
for
Sir-With reference to your re-people, with hopeful and smiling and can be a good speaker, was port of my speech at the Cheere looks, so different from the sour and tactless enough to "Hyde Park'' the Club annual meeting, I find that my dishevelled appearance of the last House of Commons. Part of his criticism of the Government was Parliament.
stale, and the rest And the new ladies, too, what stolen from Socialist leaflets. In- based on a false assumption and I wish to retract the implication visions of white gloves, and chains, deed, so absurd were his exaggera that the Government was respon- and pearls, and shining heads of tions, and so vindictive and inflam sible for the closing of the Club freshly waved hair! My eye lighted matory was his class-hatred stuff, while allowing other parts of the on a delicate little lady, of pale, that he almost justified the vote of building to continue in use. Ifragile beauty, who, I learned, was censure on Messrs. MacDonald and therefore, wish to withdraw my the Conservative member for a Baldwin
their constitutional charge that the Government had rough London constituency. How experiment of a composite Cabinet. acted unfairly towards the Cheero queer are the loves of democracy! But for Mr. Baldwin's Interven- Club, and I unreservedly apologise Then there was "Miss Megan,"tion in the Darwen election, Sir with the mischievous smile and Herbert Samuel would not be in the for any embarrassment which may have caused the Government challenging gaiety of her father, for House of Commons. I predicted
whose wit and humour I confess that the experiment would fail, u Yours, etc.,
that I longed all the time.
It always has failed. If the author. For when I pass from the phy-ity of Chatham could not make it sical qualities of the new House work, Mr. MacDonald is not likely must admit that I was shocked and to succeed. annoyed by the low level to which
But Sir Herbert Samuel is pers public speaking has fallen. Whe-fectly justified in saying that he did ther it is shyness or indolence or not put himself in the Cabinet the bad example of the front Messrs. MacDonald and Baldwin benches I don't know; but the pro- knew perfectly well what his fiscal One case of smallpox on the ceedings seemed to me as flat as a opinions wore. Why did they press
flounder. Island was notified yesterday.
him to join the Cabinet? The To one who has heard Gladstone greater blame must fall on the lead- An illustrated lecture on "Brush make a financial statement and ers of the National Party. Points against An Unofficial Ljungstrom Turbine" will be de-listened to the Budget speeches of
Boomerang Policy. Hvered by Mr. P. C. Barrand before Hicks-Beach. and Goschen, Mr. It is hardly worth while to (a) Any unanimous opposition put the University Engineering Society Neville Chamberlain's performance "debunk Sir Herbert Samuel's
forward by the Unofficial mem- to-morrow at 8.30 p.m. in Room sounded inadequate; though on tirade against indirect taxation. bera is under the present sys "K."
reading it afterwards I recognised The working classes and the retail tem seriously considered by
its merits. The pathetic peroration tradesmen are beginning to discover Government and as the Gov- The local office of the N.Y.K. about his father, for instance, was that squeezing the rich, over which ernor's veto would remain and advise that henceforth all their dumb show to the Bar of the House. they have been rubbing their hands, the final decision rest with the ships on the Japan-London Line, This cursed habit of mumbling means their own impoverishment. Colonial Office, an increase Orient-California Line and Orient- seems even to have infected the Operatives are being turned out of would not make any radical Vancouver Seattle Line will resume Speaker, and I missed the resonant factories and mills, clerks are being change.
calling at Shanghai, for transporta- tones of Peel from the Chair.
dismissed, and shop assistants páið (b) An Unofficial majority which tion of passengers and cargo. The strain of this inaudibility off, because the denizens of Mayfair
has passed legislation in face
must be very severe, upon the re-and Belgravia aro' shrinking into of Official opposition" would| Suffering from severe burns, porters, for nothing is so fatiguing flats, giving no entertainments, and have no responsibility for the caused by accidentally upsetting a as the constant effort to hear. All doing with three servants instead of carrying out of the same; thus bottle of silver nitric acid, a boy, this comes probably from having a dozen.
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Council "Reform.”
It is some years since the plea for Constitutiorial Reform
WAS
killed in Hong Kong. We may look at Ceylon with envy in, hav- ing an Unofficial majority in Ita Legislative Council; but we are stirred not one iota. We may read of the occasional murmurings in the Straits Settlements, with the rejection of the latest plea for greater Chinese representation; but we are left cold. As to recent happenings in Malta-well, if they choose to have trouble there, lat
resignation reigns in this Colony;
majority:-
News in Brief.
differing from the British Yip Kong, aged, only 17 months, of leader like Mr. Baldwin, who re Will anyone explain how the Gov- Cabinet which is responsible 184 Hollywood Road, has been re-garda eloquence as the harlot of the ernment of the country is to be both for the passing of legie-moved to the Government Civil Ros-arts and substitutes wagging of the carried on without a revenue from lation and for carrying it out. pital, in a serious condition.
head and waving of the finger. tariffs? A boy succeeded the other Points for a reduction of the
When Mr. Churchill and Mr. Lloyd day to an estate partly in Yorkshire Unofficial minority:-
None.
. The Sub-Committee Ara
Au Cheuk-ho, (23), a foki, em- George are absent the proceedings and partly in the Midlands. His ployed at the Star Theatre, was of the House of Commegs are on trustees have to pay 248,000 a year. in sent to the Kowloon Hospital last a level with those of a county for eight years to clear the death them do so: they are too far away favour of popular election by night by the Water, Police, who council.
duties and insurance. This kind of, to cause even one flicker of an qualified voters, though opposed wharf, apparently suffering from found him near the Star Ferry
A New Era.
taxation simply cannot go on.. The debate Is, as Mr. Amery said, Captain Macmillan is, I take it, a eye-lush here. An air of complete to universal suffrage. Two ways the effects of an overdose of opium, an economic revolution, the in- good specimen of the new Conserva auguration of a new era. Mr. tive back-bencher, and he spoke in Yesterday the lowest open air Chamberlain's proposals are excel favour of Sir Herbert Samuel's One la election temperature up to 4 p.m. was 61. lent, only I think 10 per cent. too polley of reorganisation and ration- by responsible bodies and the The humidity was 70 at 10 a.m. and little for revenue, and certainly not alisation. Captain Macmillan ia
There were other popular election by qualified 65. at 4 p.m.
a few enough to exclude foreign competi-given to dealing in ambiguities. of elected Unofficial members, well, voters. With regard to the first Prizzie, the latter being more pro- for my Vichy Water 166. a dozen; either perplexed or profound. Cap. peals of thunder and 籮 slight tors. For instance; 1 have to pay When a man is ambiguous he is alternative, the rebuff recently ad-nounced on the mainland than on instead of 118 I would willingly tain Macmillan is too clever to be
and if we must have a Legislative Council with an Official majority and a system of nominated Instead
we must, so why worry?
In the Straits, toward the end
defined as:
of election to the Counell have been considered,
די
of February, the Straits, Settle-ministered by the Governor must the island:
pay 208, a dozen; or, if my dividends perplexed; so that I am driven, to be kept in mind. Bir Cecil
continue to disappear, I will drink suspect him of seeing beyond the ments (Penang) Association had
Hearing wan resumed at the water from the tap with a few end of his nose, and of divining, submitted to it the memorandum
Clementi pointed out that the Central Magistracy, yesterday after grains of a table salt which I am even through a glass darkly, the of a Sub-Committee appointed to
Straits Chinese British Associa- noon, of the case in which Cheung told is quite as efficacious as any approach of the tidal wave, not of define Council reform and to get ton could not in any way claim Sau-fu is charged with the murder French mineral spring. But does Communism, which is the delusion to be representative of the Chinese of Lui Shek-hong, son of a Nam not the rise in price of 50 per cent. of Knaves, and fools, but of Social- out reasonable points for and
Pak Hong, merchant. One of the prove that the foreigner only "pays ism, which is the substitution of against it. Council reform was community. It is a difficulty that principal crown witnesses was the half the duty? I want him to pay public for private ownership.
will arise in the case of many an- deceased's father-in-law, Chu Kai- the whole.
Monsieur Jourdain was astonish- 1) the Increass or decrease in other Association, so that the diff-yung. The hearing was adjourned
to Monday. the total number of Legisla culty of finding "responsible" tive Council Members; |bodies seems to be an insurmount- (2) and/or a variation in the ratio able dificulty. This narrows down
of unofficial members to off- cial;
the alteration in the system of a (8) and/or an alteration in the pointment to the Council to popu system of appointment of un- lar election by qualified voters. officials to the Legislative Council;
The Sub-Committee are exercised (4) and/or a change in the dis-by the difficulty of defining the tribution of seats on the qualifications, but it might be that Législative Council.. among races of territories.
property or educational quali- The Sub-Committas submitted fication, such as was introduced in three points in favour of a larger other countries when the experi- Council and none against. On the ment of the vote was first tried, question of a variation In the ratio could be tried, in the Straits, too, of Unofficial membere the with successful resulta memorandum states:
At the annual meeting of the pore, accompanied by his sister, was
on a visit to Seremban on February Days." -- Cipt. Holland to the Points for an Unofficial major Straits Settlementa (Penang) Ass0-24 as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Marine Superintendent of the ity: it would
clation, reference was made to the FC Alves.
C.P. presen Hong Kong on his yearly
(a), prevent legislation introduced memorandum on Council reform.
Mr. Amery's speech, which was ed to learn from his professor that dully delivered, represents the pro- he had been talking prose all his ducer's point of view, as Sír Her Hfe, Most Conservatives would be One of the seven Chinese charged bert Samuel's speech presents the surprised to the point of denial if with obtaining credit by fraud consumer's. For the last seventy they were told that all, or nearly other than false pretences, was years the consumer's point of view all, their policies, and speeches, and sentenced to one month's hard has prevailed. That has been the writing were in favour of the sub labour at the Central Police Court cardinal error of the attempt to mersion of the individual by the yesterday. The Crown alleged fight foreign tariffe by free imports, State. There will be before very that the convicted man was manager of a bogus firm which had Gladstone, Who dominated the econo- tween the State and the Individual the against which Disraeli warned us. long a life and death struggle" be- obtained credit without intending to mie policy of the last half of the The inherited toughness of the Bri pay for the goods purchased. nineteenth century, was a Peelite, tish character may defeat collectiv
and to the followers of Cobden and ism, as I hope it will. The more Peel the consumer was a more Im-immediate battle lies between the portant person than the producer. Trust and the Trade Union. In Now that, by the full turn of the any event, the best preparation for wheel, the producer is once more a fight is to know that it is coming.. Dr. Grenville de Souza, formerly recognised as the more valuable Evening Standard. of Hong Kong and now of Singa-
Personal Pars.
Ity of the poppilation
by Unofficial members and The Chairman, who almo solidly supported by a
seems
United Empire (February) notes Spring the arrival at Home of Messrs, G. Franklin. Nightingale and Capt. In The death took p on February Eurasian
nullified by the Oficial
obvi the possibility
vote forcing legisla
the
Long:- Kong, and the 19 of a highly
Dire
Justice T. R. Wood resident of Malacc all are fellow
of Miss Elizabet
Dr. E.LY
Ten Years Ago,
[From the “China
A March-10, 1925T
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