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CENTENARIAN WARRIORS,
A British traveller who recently returned from Montenegro, enya that while visiting the Royal Palace at Cettinje he was shown a regi mental flag borne by the Montene- erins into battle when they defeat- led the Turks at Grahova in 1858-
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[WAR ON DIPHTHERIA-
The present prevalence of diphi therla ought to awaken the public to the fact that diphtheria could easily be stamped out in Britain as well as in other countries.
children
would take about five to ten years
OLD OBSERVANCES IN THE COMMONS
CUSTOMS THAT AROSE
IN DIM PAST
ASSERTING HOUSE'S RIGHTS
AGAINST THE CROWN
(By Dingle Foot, M.P.)
London.
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For the
He also met the original standard- bearer. At a reunion a year ago this old warrior, who is 106, bore the same flag at the head' of his]:
1have heard the King's Speech in the regiment.
THERE is a story that John House of Lords and have returned He was
the youngest of the 16 Burns unce overheard a party to their own quarters, the Clerk survivors of the battle. All 16 of American visitors on the terrace calls out "Outlawrice Bill” The were present at last year's reg-of the House of Commons speaking Bill, which is expressed to be "For mental march-past.
disparagingly of the Thames. It the more effectual preventing of was, It appeared, the smallest thing Clandestine Optlawries,” they had seen in the way of rivers. read the first time. But since. first "River!" roared the indignant old reading is a purely formal stage, Londoner, "That's not a
river. and a mosaure need not appear in That's liquid history."
draft until the second reading is He might have spoken with equal moved, the torms of the Outlawrles emphasis and enthusiasm about the Bill never actually see the light of In Russia. Denmark, Canada, and procedings Inside the Palace of day...
Westminster. The building itself) The constitutional significance, the United States Immunisation of
is, undoubtedly antiquated and in-however, is profound and deserves children has been carried out on a
convenient, and looks, as Mr. Welle particularly to be emphasised in wide scale with remarkable results.
has said, as if a late. Gothic cathe: these latter days, when In some cities in America diph-dral had had an illegitimate child function of Parliament appears to theria is "practically non-existent.
be to register the decrees of an: England is definitely behindhand in by a Flemish Town Hall,
Within its walls the amenittes omnipotent executive. this matter. Good work l6. being] done by medical officers of health, compare unfavourably with those of House is asserting its right to dia- more modern Parliament Houses, cus whatsoever business it chooses,.. but an energetic propaganda is The procedure is sometimes clumsy which is why it deals with the law nceded.
and often dilatory. But there is of cutlawry before turning its at Immunisation of all would remove diphtheria from the scarcely a rule or a custom which tention to the sessional agenda set list of infectious diseases. It has not its origin far back in Par-out in the Speech from the Throne,
iamentary history or which does The origin of this practice could. not commemorate the establishment scarcely have been earlier than. the scheme would not have been of intensive work. But it would be some first-class constitutional Tudor times, for it was not until: considered without the influence worth it.
the reign of Henry VIII. that the Commons began to embody their of President Wilson, but that it
Your Daily Smile!
demands in bills instead of petl SLAMMING THE DOOR Hong Kong, Tuesday, February 12, 1935 would never have got drafted And
tions to the Crown (thus ensuring without General Smuts.
ON BLACK ROD
that the relief actually granted the principle that territories Geology Professor: "What kind of
Take, for example, the traditional should coincide with that intended). with their inhabitants should rock is this?"
Student: "Oh I just take. It for discourtesy to Black Rod.
King's Messenger, in whose face CHARLES 1. "SET"" the doors of the House of Commons Midget Car Driver of Small Car (driving up to are slammed when he comes to filling station): "I'll take a gallon of summon the members to attend at gasoline and a pint of oil." "
the bar of the Upper House. In Attendant: "0.K., sir, and do you What is of immediate interest want me to sneeze in your tires, too, this way the Commons are assert
ing their independence of the and which we referred to at the when the members of the Indian
Crown. For no Sovereign has en- time. There is a strong suspi-Congress are demanding "Domin-
At a political meeting Col. Sam tered the Lower Chamber since cion that one of the chief causes on Status" at once, is that he of unrest in the Orient is that was also the originator both of Hughes (Canada's Minister of Mili Charles I. came to arrest the Five war) was addressing Members, and so even the Crown's the assembly. Japan, after watching carefully that phrase and of the phrase ta during the
There was a prolong. the occasional divergences of "British Commonwealth of Na-ed and insistent hissing. The Colonel representative is admitted policy between Washington and tions." The "Dominion Status" stopped and said: "There are three matter of grace and not as of right, Or, there is the Mace, the pre- London, and the frequent differ-idea had the simplicity of genius. things that hias: a snake, a goose,
Will you please come sence of which on the Table indic- ences of emphasis even when it was necessary to find a short and a fool.
ates that the House is in session. there was no distinct difference expression which could be easily forward that we may Identify you?"
This device has been in use se far of aim, has come to the conclusion understood for an immense mass administrative custom and
back as there is any record, and that the two English-speaking of
the present Mace, which dates from countries cannot work together privilege under which ever since
the Restoration, is the immediate and may, therefore, be ignored the famous report on Canadian The General's advice is that they Affairs submitted by. Lord Dur- The annual Kowloon Junior Bri-successor to that which was remov- should avoid the appearance of ham in 1848, self-government tish School Sports will be held on the ed by the order of Cromwell. Or diversity, and in combination had been enjoyed in the larger grounds of the Kowloon Cricket the Sergeant-at-Arms, an make their policy of peace in the Colonies as soon as they were Club on Thursday, February 14 at who ever since the Middle Ages has Pacific combined with an inde-able to pay their own way, with-10 am, when Mrs. A. O. Brawn will been lent by the Crown to the Com- pendent China effective. Charac-out embarrassing co-operation present the prizes.
Imons to assist in the preservation lof order. teristically he gives his remarks with England and the rest of the
General Smuts's
only be governed in their own in- granite." Warning
terests, the controlling Power re- ceiving a Mandate from the General Smuts has not taken Allies and making an annual re- long after returning to Capetown port to the League, was entirely to repeat the advice and warn-his own. ing which he gave in London
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The usage seems to have existed as early as 1558, the year of ́
who wrote in 1659 described in „de- Elizabeth's accession. A chronicler tall the reading of a bill by the House to assert its independence.
"The Speaker being placed in the chair," the account runs,, "Seymour, Esq., clerk of the aforesaid House of Commons, who sat uncovered at a table aty. the upper end of the House, just before the Speaker, stood up and .read, a bill ........... being entitled
'the bill touching the felling of wood and timber trees in forests. and chases,' which done, kissing his hand, he delivered the saið,“ bill to the Speaker.... which hath been the constant use and. custom ever since, and also divers. years before, that after the pre- sentment and allowance of the Speaker, one bill be once rend. after his return from the Upper House in the House of Commons.” It is not only the ceremonies but
the House that date from the three
a personal turn when he says Empire. Just as it had begun in
A Concert arranged by Mr. J. C. It was in the reign of Elizabeth that there might be danger of Canada, so had it most fully been M. Grenham is being held in the that the procedure of the House of trouble on a colossal scale, in developed there. The word "Can-Sailors and Soldiers' Home on Commons began to assume its which "Japan, Russia, China, the adian would imply some local wednesday evening at 8:30 pm modera form. Our Parliamentary even the actual working rules_of United States, Britain and all the connection, so the other word in The admission is 20 cents and the methods of transacting business Dominions, as well as India. the title of the "Dominion of following are amongst the artistes date, for the most part, from the decades immediately preceding the might well become involved." It Canada" was chosen, and became who will appear:-Audrey Steel 16th and 17th centuries. A knight Civil War., That forty should be a is notable that alone of the in itself a technical and constitu- (Soubrette), Margaret King. (S0- of the shire of the time of Charles quorum was determined in the first statesmen of our family of self-tional term which has filled the prano), Doreen Ma (Pianoforte). I returning to-day, baffled as he Parliament of Charles I., and it stilf governing States he should have gap by being at once sufficiently Gus D'Aquino (Tenor). Dances by might be by the subject-matter of frequently happens on a Friday or called attention to the interest definite and also elastic.
Madame De Trecourt assisted by debate, would still find the forms Wednesday afternoon that the House is counted out, there being which the Dominions and India It has served its purpose in Hermoine Beauclerk.
and customs tolerably familiar.
less than forty members present. have in. the matter; though a South Africa, Australia and New
In the same year it was laid down that unless a man were present at: MR. SPEAKER
prayers his place could not be køpt, Even the bearing of honourable a provision that even now ensures
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moment's reflection will show Zealand, where the necessary For being found in posses-"A LOW COURTESY" TO how genuine the interest is. goodwill has smoothed out difficul-[ sion · of 40 taels of. raw
Some réaders may not at first lies as they have arisen. see any reason why the opinion best definition was given by the his waist, at the Kowloon Railway of General Smuts should be Genera! himself, when he said Station yesterday Wong Kin, a 30-members would be similar. For he a large attendance of members at fined would notice that they still bow the commencement of the day's quoted round the world in cables that it implied while scores of other speakers citizenship, and a united Com-year-old unemployed, was
(Continued on Page 11). are ignored; the explanation is monwealth in which the local $1,200, in default six months im-low to Mr. Speaker on reaching or business. that of all our prominent men he Parliaments and Ministers had Prisonment, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton departing from their places, & habit has not only shown the most the same relationship to the at the Kowloon Magistracy this that goes back to Elizabethan Far-
Revenue Officer Brown Haments.
Tradition has it that it arose in constructive brain, but has had Crown as the Parliament and morning.
prosecuted.
this way. In St. Stephen's Chapel, the most outstanding construc-Ministers hed in England." tive 'successes to his credit; 'and In Ireland the system worked
Charged with the theft of a gold where the Commons met right up what the whole world is waiting well enough for ten years during watch and chain, a pair of specta- to the fire which destroyed the for is a new constructive im- the administration of Mr. pulse to arrest and reverse the Cosgrave, who aimed at making cles, a pencil, four pieces of clothing Houses of Parliament in 1834, the present dangerous drift to chaos. things go smoothly under Mr. and a purse containing $78, to the Speaker's chair was originally in After sixteen continuous years De Valera it has not worked at total value of $106, and alternatively front of the altar. It was to the
morning, of Ministerial service in Southall, because no system that im-receiving a pair of trousers, and also alter, therefore, and not to the Appearing before the Puisne Africa, during which he saw first plied smooth working has been with possessing a shoemaker's knife chair or its occupant that the bows Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, In the the Transvaal and then the Union wanted. The hesitation about for unlawful purposes, Chan Hang were originally directed. However Supreme Court this of South Africa set going as using the word in connection Fong, unemployed, was sentenced to this may be, we find the House of Chan Kwai Fong claimed $1,000/ vigorous and efficient organise with the Indian Reform scheme four months hard labour on the Commens in 1581 ordering that from Wong Yeung Tse, being tions against almost appalling is that the Irish polley has raised first charge and one month on the members should "depart and go money issued by the plaintiff to the The plaintiff was, represented by difficulties, he began a career on many legal difficulties, which al- third charge by Mr. W: M: Thomson forth in comely and civil sort, for defendant on a promissory note. a larger stage as one of the War ready amount to a query wheat the Central Magistracy this the reverence, of the House, and
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Cabinet in England. Next to Prether it can be applied to Ireland morning. The second charge was directing members when they left Mr. F. H. Loseby of Russ and Co., efdent Wilson, and some think at all The experienced Indian withdrawn. Detective Inspector 3. the chamber to make "a low while the eighth sister of the de- not even next to him, he shaped leaders have already shown a O'Donovan appeared for the prosecu- courtesy to the Speaker like as fendant appeared on his behalf.
they do at their coming into the Judgment was given in favour
of the plaintiff. the League of Nations. He tendency to go to Ireland for ad- tion.
House." signed the Versailles. Treaty for vice and suggestions, where one
For allowing his dog to wander, in Kent Road at 11 am, on January
Road," was fined. ŝa by Mr.
NEVER PASSED
the sake of an immediate of them the other day in a vers who will take a share in BILL THAT IS peace, but registered in a formal public speech said "what is want-working the Assemblies to say document a protest on behalf of ed in the disintegration of the that unless their most extreme
Of oven greater, antiquity is the 28, Mr. G. Dudley, of No. 10. Kent the South African Government British Empire. It is not de- demands are granted they are against the sections that have sirable in the new constitution to being defrauded of something custom which is still observed at Hamilton at the Kowloon Magi caused so much unrest and tron-use a word which would give that has been promised to them the beginning of every Parliamo Me since. It may be said that handle to the many clever law. In the Constitution. Mas tarybession. After the Commons this morning.