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"A Layman" concludes story in the House of Commons the Editor, and be accompanied by articles. the Writer's Name and Address his examination of "The Miracles of the judge who was a little slow not necessarily for insertion, but of Christ" from the last number:jat taking his notes, and asked a the Rev. Gilbert Baker contributes prisoner who was giving evidence, as a guarantee of good faith.
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GREAT EXPERIMENT
IN SOUTH AFRICA · NATIVES' LOST VOTING RIGHTS
EQUAL FRANCHISE ABOLISHED BY NEW ARRANGEMENT
(By B. K. Long)
an article on the activities of Holy What was your last
M.H. The prisoner's reply. "Five years' Trinity College. Canton;
When the THE great experiment of giv-imposed was the same test for discusses "Drama în Church" and pesal, servitude, m'lord," necessi
THE
ing the vote to the native white and black. an unnamed contributor publishes tated a rehearing before a
One is reminded by this story a most interesting article on "Ajury. Journey in Kiangsi." The usual features and notes and the Chap-of a trial just after the war at in Africa on terms of equality South Africans formed the con- prisoner, charged with burglary, It began in Cape Colony in 1853. Dominion and came to West- It was ended just after mid-minster in 1909 to have it en- in's Cathedral Letter make up the Oxford Quarter Sessions. The with the white man is ended stitution of their union as a the rest of the issue.
was not represented by counsel.
He had just been cross-examin-night on April 6, by the two dorsed by the British Parlia was not extended to the whole Parliament voting together. ed by the prosecution, and had Houses of the South African ment, the vote for the native
Union. It was limited to strongly denied his guilt,
The majority for the Native Cape Province, which was iden Bill, which tical in area with the old Cape taining that he had been public house at the time of the Representation
destroyed it, was enormous Colony, and it was safeguarded 2169 against 11. In the minori-
Could Not Be Altered jury-ty was a member of the South was African Government, Mr. J. H. of the
altered or Minister re-Hofmeyr, ·
It could not be Interior and Education.
taken away except by a two- the total A fundamental change in the thirds majority of citizenship of the South African membership of the two Houses native is made by the Native of the South African Parlia- Natives ment, voting together in a joint Representation Bill.
Further Donations Acknowledged
in a
Plans on a very large scale for a new Government building announced.
crime. in Whitehall were
His story had clearly made recently. Since the war, with
the The Director of Ambulance has good impression upon the growth of social services and the development of the Air Force, there have been im-the honour to acknowledge with After the cross-examination
lexamine himself. mense additions to the number grateful appreciation and thanks completed he was entitled to
The the following donations:-
He did so in the following words:/ of public servants. Ministries of Labour and Trans- Mr. Lasio Schwartz the Hungarian
men of the jury, if you'll give me port, the Air Ministry and the Humorist and Caricaturist (Carica-1f it please you, milord and gentle
Detres drawn at the St. John Cabaret considerably augmented
Dance) $28.00. partment which is known as are Trade
Flag Day Fund the Board all housed scrappily up and Mr. G. H. Parker
(Tin No. 236) down various parts of Lon- with obvious
jar LC Tem (lên No. 257 don,
at an Per Miss Helen Law ment to efficiency and
to the nation, in Mr. Y. T., Leung annual loss rent for scattered premises, of Mr. S. K. Cheung some £125,000. The plans now Mr. T. S. Tang projected will cover Whitehall Mr. Lo Yuk
Mr. S. H. La Gardens and the site of Mon-Mr. Y. K. Tam
with a vast tagu House
to building, estimated
of
detri-Pe Miss Isabel Woo
Lun
new 3. Chau Yun (Tin No. 253) cost Per Miss Chan To Ying £1,750,000 -- considerably less Mr. Chan Wing Kuen in annual provision for inter-Mr. Woo Kni
St. John Ambulance Flag est and sinking fund than the Mr. Chan Lan Fong ...... £125.000 now. paid in rent
tions, corrected figures:-
and to provide for staffs num- Hong Kong jbering 5,360.
Fanling and Tsun Wan There will be natural anxiety Kowloo rast building of this. that a kind shall be in harmony with;
Already deducted, the site, as well as suitable fer
Elaborate $199.40." its oficial purpose.
have eridently precautions
both. secure to been taken The Office of Works has been in close collaboration with the Roval Fine Arts Commission and the London County Council. The architect selected, Mr. Vincent Harris, is the choice of
another chance I again."
won't do
He was acquitted.
$ 25.00
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Your Daily Smile!
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will still have a vote; but no sitting. longer, as in the Cape Province till now, will ther vote in the
men and women.
special process.
the
Even then there were white
same constituencies as white South Africans who thought A line of that this safeguard would be in- ment at that time did not be- "Radiator caps on motor-cars should division has been drawn between sufficient, as it has now proved
lieve it 10.00 be more artistic" says an engineer the vote of the white folk and to be, but the British Govern- 10.00 Naturally, the radiator cap is the first of the native. 10.00 thing that strikes a pedestrian.
5.00 30.00
10.00 5.00 5.00
$2,982.07
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"The Utterly-Utters are just wild
Faith Of 83 Years Ago
Lord Crewe, then Colonial
The men who gave franchise Secretary, said in the House of "Most specialists." says a writer, knack of pre- uncanny "have an paring patients for a shock." Others, equality without distinction of Lords that "the disfranchise of course, make a point of not men-colour to all citizens of Capement of a class who have held He disappointment.”" vote would be a powerful civi-would be viewed here with very Collectioning the matter of the bill at all Colony in 1853 believed that the this power of voting so long
lising influence for the natives. deep They did not shrink from the added the reflection that "dis- might franchisement is always an about society, aren't they?"
"Why, my dear, they're such so-possibility that a cial climbers that they've even named come when the native voters odious thing in itself" and the would be in a majority over the comment that "if it were to be it would assume a their youngest daughter Ivy!"
Europeans--the black over the applied in this particular man.
specially -white. They had faith in the er,
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"THE ROCK” Issue For May Now
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Nervous Suitor: "If I give you a intrinsic virtue of the vote. If somewhat shilling, will you tell me what your that time did come, they be form.” sister says about me?"
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native would
odious
Disfranchisement has been
of the South Little Brother: "Make it two bob.lieved that the and I'll tell you what dad's going to have learnt to use his vote sojaccomplished by the vote of the
wisely that no harm would fol-two Houses
African Parliament in favour of de to you"
low.
the third reading of the Native CORRECT
This faith of the men of Cape Representation Bill. Dominion Till
2 self-government, with the Act "Patience and perseverance
pas- Colony 83 years ago was The May number of The Rock accomplish all things," said a
stupendous faith. White South of Westminster as its charter, any possibility "Nonsense, sir," said a fellow pas Africans have been losing it has sterilised
that the present Government of la committee of experts from a has just been issued, and is again senger in a railway compartment.
Will patience and There is ansenger. list of names submitted by the full of interesting and provocative
Rhodes qualified the free vote Great Britain should feel that council of the Royal Institute reading matter.
Mr. article on
the death of Bishop severance enable you to carry water ever since.
for all by imposing an educa-it has any right to register "Certainly!"
0% wage "deep disappointment." British Architects. jof
(Continued on Page 10) "I would like to know how?" Harris has had great experience Walsh, founder of the Maryknoll in a sieve?", in designing public buildings Mission; an early Catholic link and it would be dificult to sug with Hong Kong in the person of "Simply by waising patiently for tional and property
a better method of ap- Sister Mary of Saint Jane de the water to freeze." pointing an architect than that Chantal Finch is examined: the employed in this case.
Zest
"self-made of a second letter Catholic to his Son" amply upholds
A High Road Indeed the standard set in the first: and
the usual notes and features are
In a world increasingly cor- included. roded by the penetration of
those mysterious bodies called EXPLANATION OF
TO-DAY'S CARTOON
local authorities" the private citizen all too seldom makes his Let tri- protest with success. bute be paid. then, in the spirit of John Hampden and John Wilkes, to Mr. A. S. Cooper, of East Finchley, who recently maintained his right to duct his business this year, as last, in the Great North Road.THE Buddhists believe that the great founder of their reli- Against him as North Road. T
con-
The Footprint Of Buddha
Borough Council anxious to re-gion, Gautama the Buddha, was name a stretch of that historic endowed with the 32 signs of im- thoroughfare and call it "East peccable beauty and with 84 marks High of perfection. The 34th of the 80 Finchley High Road" road it is, and was when the marks of beauty is represented in northwards Buddha's sole, containing 108 a08- Many centuries legions marched jalong it to the Roman Wallpicious figures. and when Harold the English-after the Buddha's death, his fol- man marched south along it lowers began to worship a serjes at Stamford of legendary footprints of the God. from victory
various Bridge to defeat at Hastings. These footprints are gigantic in
are found on But its name for generations size and has been the Great North Road, rocks in China, India and Siani. and Great North Road it is to The Siamese footprint of the Buddha found on Mount Phrabat, zemain.
The LC.C. always seeking is about 18 inches deep and about} Tel. 29071 vome new thing, last year 41⁄2 feet long, indicating a man over the footprint which Tel. 58906 changed or abolished the names about 30 feet tall. There is a
of no fewer than 89 streets. temple It is surely time that such im-attracts hundreds of thousands of personal assaults. upon local pilgrims annually. The National history were curbed. Certain-Museum in Bangkok, Siam has a ly it is not upon the Great copy of the "Footprint on A North Road of Dick Turpin and gigantic block of stone. One of Jack Sheppard that the coach the descriptions of the Siamese of authority can lumber rough-King is to the effect that "His
soles resemble shod over human feelings.
Buddha.”
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49 .deaths from tuberculosis One case of smallpox with one and death, two of diphtheria with two were reported to the Health aa- deaths, four of enteric. fever, with thorities in the week ended, May three deaths, one of measles with 2. In the 24 hours ended on one death, five of cerebrospinal Monday one case each of smallpor
of and enteric fever were reported. fever with four deaths, one
per-
test; but the test that Rhodes
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