March 28, 1895.|
Africanus
Kingston Bonbon
Time, 2 min. 18) seo.
The Champion Stakes; of $10 each, with $50 added; a forced entry and open only to win. ners at this meeting, optional for the winner of the Hack Stakes and Consolation Cup; winners of two races $15 extra and of more than two races $25 extra; weights as per scale. One mile and a quarter.
Yarra
1 Firefly.. Leander
Time, 9 min. 53§ sec. The WELTER PLATE; value $100; for all Chips ponies; ostoh weights over 11 stone 7 lbs; non-winners at this meeting allowed 7 lbs; riders who have never won a race allowed 7 Ibs.; entranos §5. Three-quarters of a mile.
Democrat Kindar Africanus
Time, 1 min. 403 sec,
CORRESPONDENCE.
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[we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions -expressed by our Correspondents,] REGISTRATION OF DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
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A BROKER'S LOVE LETTER.
A SHANGHAI MATRIMONIAL SUIT.
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PRAYERS AND LOVE. Shanghai has had a sensation in the shape of matrimonial suit brought by Arthur James Francis Reeks, clerk in the Imperial Maritime Customs at Shanghai, for a judicial separation from his wife. Frances Maud Reeks, on the ground of her misconduct with Byram Rut- tanjee, stock and share broker, of Shanghai, against whom damages were also ólaimed. The co-respondent did not appear. The amount of damages claimed was l'is. 3,000, and the Jary found that the co-respondent had com- mitted adultery with the respondent, and they assessed the damages at the full amonut claimed. The Judge awarded costs to the petitioner, and also gave him the custody of the children of the marriage.
In the course of the proceedings the following letter from the co-respondent to the respondent was read, the respondent being at the time it was written in the convent:-
disease within the colouy, and the bodies of all | tives in the face, their principal articles of con persons dying from such disease elsewhere which | sumption, coopa nuts and taro, both being gone which are brought within the colony shall be There are Spanish, German, and American buried or cremated in such place to be set apart trading stations on the island and all have for that purpose by the Sanitary Board in such suffered serious loss. Captain O'Keefe, well- manner and with such precautions as shall from knowa in Hongkong, has a station there. time to time be directed by the said Board." This reading is distinctly susceptible of the in- terpretation that the Sanitary Board · is authorised by that by-law to oremate if it deems necessary the bodies of all persons dying from dangerous diseases within the colony. However, I have been assured by a leading member of the Legislative Conu. oil, and I take it from him, that the words "or cremated" were added at bis suggestion simply to cover the cases of Hindoos who dispose of their dead by cremation and cremation alone, and I also take it from him that the Legislature never meant to go beyond the cover intended. One could not well conceive that such an im. portant question as the question of cremation. affecting as it does the religions feelings and sentiments at a time of deep grief of almost all other nationalities in this colony, could ever be attempted to be di-posed of and settled by the Legislative Council without due notification to their diverse views and opinions upon the matter. the public and without evoking and ascertaining However, the wording of the by-law being as it is and leading to no other construction than the one I have ventured to put upon it-and you TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILT PRESS.” yourself, Mr. Editor, in your leading artiole of My Maud, my Maud, my own, own dearest, DEAR SIR-The recent report of the Captain the 21st instant on the subject of cremation in darling, loving wife, Maud-Ob, my love, my Saperintendent of Police regarding domestic a manner confirm my view of the interpretation life, my all in all! This is Sunday, love, the servants touches a chord which most house by remarking that in Hongkong it will be 3rd, 11 a.m. Darling, I did not write to you holders acutely fool. That there has been a observed that in the new Sanitary By-laws till yesterday after I received your most kind great deal of apathy shown in the past by empower is conferred on the Sanitary Board to and loving note, for although the note was all ployers is doubtless correct, but that is no rea- cremate the bodies of persons dying from that, yet I was greatly disappointed with it, for son why no further effort should be made to dangerous diseases, and if that power is to be you do not improve in health, darling, and you do mitigate the evil which all admit is fast increas-exercised a proper orematorium should be pro- not get strong, love, and this makes me very, very ing.
vided "and thus taking the by-law as giving melancholy and exceedingly sad. Darling, oh, To return to one's house and find a trusted a very wide aud dangerous latitude to the how I wish you were with me so that we could "boy" absent, and with him valuables, many Sanitary Board, it is but necessary that the by-share one another's pain, and sorrows and weeke may be cherished heirlooms, is too frequent in law should be made to go only up to the inten-nesses, and try to cheer up one another. Why this colony; and as the thieves are regarded as tions of the Legislatars and not beyond that. I should we wait until the 10th of December, I do little heroes in their native villages on the main therefore submit that if the intentions of the not know, darling, for your year will be up land, it behoves us to use every endeavour to Legislature be as I have taken them to be the by- on the 21st of November, and since leaving me mitigate the liability to such losses, as there is law should be amended, and it should be made it will be considerably over the year. You left mo moral restraint whatever over would-be | clear that if the rites and observanoes of the me on the 11th of October. Oh that happy. plunderers, since they have no character to lose and nationality of the dead person for the disposal of happy day! Well, love, I read your sad and do not believe in our ideas of right and wrong. the dead permit of cremation, then alone orema- melancholy note at tiffin. Yes, darling, and after
There is another point also in this question|tion should be resorted to.
tiffin I felt so sorrowful about_you_ that I went, which is often overlooked. Many a mistress,
and lay down of the bed. I read your loving timid and gently nurtured, is absolutely afraid
note again, while I was lying down and after of her servants. A. esse occurred in my experi.
reading it I feel asleep, darling. When smos recently where a cook, having received no.
woke up it was 3 p.m. I thought and thought ties to leave, deliberately poisoned his mistress's
so much of the events of the past and I prayed. pet dog. Others have an idea that they them-
to God. As soon as I had read the 2.20 p.m. selves may receive some injury if they give
prayers 1 went to the Club and washed my, offence to their servants, and endure actual in.
hands and eyes. There were only two other sults from them before they will complaja.
men in the Club. These were reading, so you can imagine what kind of a time I had, darling, At 4.30 p.m. 1 prayed and then sat in the Club verandah by myself, and there was scarcely sny. one else about. Well, love, as I sat there
But as the necessity of altering the present state of affairs is so apparent, I will not multiply instances of those “ ways that are dark,” &c., but beg our ruling powers to organise a system of registration of domestic servants without delay, and I for one will be among the first to patronise it-I am, &c.,
HOUSEHOLDER, Hongkong, 20th March, 1895.
THE CASE OF HILL ». GOMES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS.
Sra,-There is an inaccuracy in your report of the case of Hill v. Gomes published in your ime of this morning (20th inst.) His Honour the Acting Puisue Judge did not, as reported by yon, make use of the word "ridiculous" in refer- once to the argument of Mr. Wilkinson. What Mr. Justice Wise did say in his judgment was as follows:-- I may say, Mr. Wilkinson, with all due deference to you, that I have not been im- pressed with the force of your argument; I mean, of course, from a legal point of view." Yours faithfully.
JOHN HASTINGS, Hongkong, 20th March, 1895.
CREMATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
SIE-Regarding the new Sanitary By-laws spproved of and adopted by the Legislative Council on the 20th inst. a certain misapprehen- sión is rife and noticeable as to the interpretation to be attacked to by-law 18, and I pen these lines with a view to secure elucidation of the import ant point involved therein. The by-law states that the bodies of all persons dying from any epidemic, endemic, infections, or contagions
I submit these observations altogether apart from the question of cremation or anti-oremation. I hold it that the time is not ripe in the East for any discussion of this question with a view to practicability. Even Western thoughts and Western ideas, progressive as they have been, have not been able to go deep enough to uproot the sentiment, deeply inbedded in the heart, of
"Let them alone, all in quiet lis,
Andrew there, and Susan here, Neighbours in mortality.”
Yours truly,
Hongkong, 22nd March.
H. M. MEHTA.
TYPHOON AT YAP.
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else could I do but think and think of you, my own, my darling.. I asked God to unite us and make us one, and let us not be separated from one another. I prayed and asked for God's A fearful typhoon passed over Yap, in the meroy, and then salt and bitter tear a came into Caroline Islands, on the 20th ultimo. The wind my eyes. I was so sad at all this, darling, and commenced from the north, with heavy squalls having passed such a miserable afternoon, 1 was from the north-west, gradually increasing in truly glad when dinner time came. I came home strength, and after some time it suddenly veered and took a plate of chow. Waited till 8.30, prayed, round to S.E. by 8. More than two-thirds of then read, but I could not make out one word the houses, as well as the wharfs, trees, etc., from another, and I went to bed, love, and were blown down or carried away by the force passed Saturday afternoon. In the past Satur. of the waves. The foreigners and the Spanish day afternoons used to be spent so happily, for a Government are heavy suff rers, most of the year ago we spent them together at our own, OWN stations being completely wrecked. Government home. In the winter before that I used always House was narcofed and the Governor had to go to the French Hotel to fetch you to go the his leg injured by a rafter falling on it, paper hunts and before starting we always on- while a Roman Catholic church and the re-joyed ourselves. Then the summer before that sidence of the Capuchin Fathers were levelled to the ground, and the Government steam launch, which was lying alongside the wharf, went down when the wharf was washed away. Some idea of the height to which the spray was carried ||The letter continued in this affectionate strain may be formel from the fact that a fresh for several pages referring to previous mest. water tank built on the top of a hill and sixtyings, and asking the receiver yards away from the sea was spoiled by salt the letter in detail and not destroy it until water. The trees blown down number very she had done so. It proposed that
arrange to many thousands and the copra crop is ruined for receiver should
To crown all, the taro window of the school at certain times, go at least a year to come. plantations are full of rotten leaves and bushes the writer might be able to see her, if Quly for
a few minutes. Reference was also made- which have been blown into them, and which rot
【—, which the petitioner was not the food in the ground, rendering it unfit for toy for H- consumption, so that a famine is staring the na- know had been purchased at a certain store ba
we used to go for drives and stop at our tres nesr the Point, and the happiness we felt at being in one another's society!" And then we always met. in the Gardens and then we all took
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