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EIGHTY - EIGHTH YEAR" OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1932.
Condemns Principle on Measure POUND REACHES
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which deals with the social consequ Fences of the measure in its applica- tion to the local conditions of the Colony of Hong Kong.
draft of
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EXPERT CLAIMS
most in the minds of a large num-
Hong Kong Dollar ber of my fellow-citizens, who are definitely and uncompromisingly op- Since the publication of the Gains Slightly. posed to the introduction of any Arst
Bill Gazette" law legalising divorce in Hong the "Government
·STERLING IS STEADY. Kong.
August 26 last, Government has
London, To-day. "It is not my purpose to argue produced a second draft of the Bill.
'There were again sharp fluctua- against the provisions of the Bill This revived edition includes:
The addition tions in the sterling exchange rate in detail; it is to the principle of material addition, the Bill that I, and those for whom contains the definition, not includ- yesterday, although the tens of the I speak, are opposed. In this view ed in the original draft, of the term market was reported steadier.
Sir Robert Horne, former Chan- I am supported by a great many "Christian marriage or its civil people in the Colony who see, as I equivalent.” This borrowed from cellor of the Exchequer, in do, absolutely no reason why facili- the definition of Marriage-the speech in London, said he was ties for divorce should be afforded same principle holds in English law unperturbed by the recent falls. to a very small number of Hong laid down in the case Hyde v. Without any support from the ex- Kong residents to whom the pro- Hyde and Woodmansed (1 P. & D. change Equalisation Account, the posed enactment is designed to 130). A leading case in which this pound sterling was reaching the give, in legal phraseology, relief in definition is applied is in re Bethell, level which it should naturally at- matrimonial proceedings.
Bethell v. Hildyard (38 Ch. D. 220). tain in relation to the amount of "Christian marriage," by the new trade being done with the outside "On Beveral occasions has it section 2 of the Bill, is defined to world.
The difficulties presented were been argued in this Council that mean:- the Government cannot be a party "a formal. ceremony recognis-small in comparison with the ad- of the vantages of having the pound on a law to class legislation. Yet Section 4 ed by the
he said.-British of the Bill specifically provides
pince where the union was natural level, inter alia that "nothing herein 'contracted as involving the volun- Wireless Service.
Dollar is. Stronger. « shall authorise the Court to make tary union for life of one man any decree of dissolution of mar- and one woman to the exclusion
of all others." riage except--- ·
"Class Legislation.”
(a) where the marriage
i,
was
either a Christian marriage or the civil equivalent of a Christian marriage; and
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The value of the local dollar showed a rise of over yeater- day's quotation, standing at 1/4 "Binding For Life.” "In the search for an acceptable this morning.
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25.
definition of the insurmountable Silver spot was quoted at 17% difficulty confronting the promoters to-day, a decrease of 4, and for- (b) Where the domicile of the of the Divorce Bill, the Government ward was given at 17%, showing
parties to the marriage at the has furnished an expressed admisa decline of K also."
The London on New York cross time when the petition" was sion of the indefensibility of that presented was in the Colony part of the Ordinance providing for rate was quoted at G$3.80%, "other words, the Bill As dissolution of marriage. I ask the same as yesterday's quotation, aimed at affording Christians per- for leave to lay special stress on the the New York on London rate be-
at £G$3.27% Aing given manently residing in the Colony wording of this definition. facilities for a breach of the mar Christian marriage" is a marriage against G88.30% yesterday.
New York Market, ‚ riage vow, the indissolubility of in the eyes of the Law only when There was a general advance, which both husband and wife it is a voluntary union for life of
but of only fractional amounts, on agreed to take at the altar rail at one man and one woman to the ex-
the New York Stock Exchange the time they entered into the life- clusion of all others. If the con-- long engagement "for better for tract is one binding for life. In my yesterday, according to reports worse, for richer for poorer, in humble opinion, no
act of human reaching here. sickness or in health, till death do agency can be valid to sanction the industrials up by 1.04, rails up by us part. These words Catholics interposition of subsequent and Anglicans alike have inherited arrangement destructive of the 52 and utilties up by 37.
"There is a fair chance of mo- from their pre-Reformation fore contract as between one man and fathers.
one woman to the exclusion of all derate advance," says the Messrs.
E. A. Pierce & Co. report. Varying Views:
l'others. Granted, as we must by "This line of thought brings me the definition of a "Christian-mar-
The Dow Jones averiges show |
Grieved at the death of her in-
very near the mark of the contro-riage," that the contract is a life faut daughter which occurred. at
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versial points that have formed the contract, the very foundation for
the Tung Wah Hospital on Tues subject of heated debate for a long, the Divorce Bill it wiped out.
day, a married woman, Kwok Ping, period of years. Different schools "Grant divorce facilities and Hong 28, swallowed and corrosive scld of thought entertain varying views Kong's inevitable" experience la yesterday, and was sent to the on the main restrictions on liberty bound to be the sad experience of Government Civil Hospital in a of... divorce. The conception of other countries with divorce made serious condition. marriage which I, and those of the easy, as Mr. Gilbert Chesterton says
sama upbringing as I entertain, is in his essay on "The Superstition of sary, the provisions as to divorce, only one. It is that one which Divorce," p.137, "the new liberty is which, like everything Chinese, is has been very aptly put by one taken in the spirit of license, as if theoretically easy of accomplish- writer that "Christianity has had the exception were to be the rule...ment, but in practice something very no greater practical effect on the The obvious effect of frivolous | different. ". ". No reliable statistics life of mankind than in its belief divorce will be frivolous marriage. have been obtained on divorce in that marriage is no mere civil con- If people can be separated for no China; but, the opinion of many tract, but a vow in the sight of reason, they will feel it all the easier long resident among the people is God binding the parties by obliga- to be united for no reason."
that divorce is not any oftener re- tions of conscience above and be "According to the most recent sorted to than in England, probably yond those of civil law.” . Such is statistics from the U.S.A. more than less often by far”. my conception of the indissolu|100,000 children are affected every
I think I have quoted enough
objection' against
„bility of marriage. It is no won-year by the divorces of their from authoritative opinion con- der either that I should hold parents. (The World 1932 Almanac cerning the Chinese that divorce is tenaciously to a conception born in and Book of Facts, p.444); This not a characteristic of the Chinese, the atmosphere of the particular appalling number is a tragic com race. We are told that 'a girl is religion in which I was brought-up mentary on the advocacy of divorce, but once legally married in China; and of whose teaching I am a pro- No Need Among Chinese, she rides in the bridal chair but fessed adherent. It is the opinion "Among the Chinese "the seven once, and only if she is a legal, prin- of a leading authority on divorce legal reasons for divorce," I quote cipal wife. that "once the indissolubility of S. Wells. Williams, "Middle King- . Another Objection. marriage is abondoned in" prin- dom," vol. I, p.794, "are almost nulli- “One serious ciple, then matrimony becomes a fed by the single provision that a divorce proceedings in a small mere experiment, or at best a con- woman cannot be put away whose Colony like Hong Kong is the op- tract = voldable upon the non-parents are not living to receive her portunity that will present itself for fulfilment of certain conditions, back again.” Again, according to domestic trials and tribulations to and, in the idea of many, termin- J. Dyer Ball in his "Things Chin- be publicly ventilated in the Courts able at will."
ese" "Divorce (among the Chinese) of Justice. As it is, there are Social Consequences.
was not an official matter, but was enough sorrows and unhappiness in The points dealing with dogmatic left entirely to the husband. All life without their having to be ac- and spiritual reasons do not enter these different expedients and re- centuated in proceedings through into the scope of my argument, strictions nullify, or render unneces (Continued on Page 4)
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