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bors with particulars concerning the previous outbreak and the measures adopted to cope with it, and further commented on the peculiar the Dairy Farm property had bean free from this fact that a Chinese dairy right in the centre of disease for twenty-five years.
He had tried to find out the reason, but had to be satisfied with my very good joss; I m kee chin-chin." what the Chinese dairyman told him—“B'long
Hon. Mr. BREWIN said it would be fundvis- able to recommend the slaughter of the two in fected cattle in No. 6 shed in view of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's experiments in the same opinion, no such recommendation was serum injection, and as other members were of made.
SUPREME COURT.
Friday, December 14th.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
"St. Paul in his wisdom " was evidently as wise as "a tribe in Africa", according to the critic quoted; and this brings us to the particular humbug of man's position in the premises. It is the boast of Western civilization that it treats its so much better than the Eastern do theirs; and the boasters even prate of equality. Yet at bottom our attitude towards them is lordly and masterful; and we are not saying that it is wrong. All we object to is this pretence of being so much more chivalrous than the Africans and Orient is, when all the time we are deter- mined to keep woman
in her place",
and show our determination by resenting any of her efforts to climb out. Woman has for so many ages been a chattel that, as the quoted critic puts it, she herself knows her place. Sentimentalism prompted western man to ease the yoke in some respects, and BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (Sir Francis he lets her own property now, and pass examinations, and even earn salaries; but he is up in arms at the suggestion to establish real equality, and, as
we have seen, grows most ungallant in his arguments. So much for the innate chivalry of christendom: it seems to be as nebulous as its logic. What originally made man lord was brute strength; that was his qualification for that franchise. At bottom it is the brute being and not the knight of logic that fights to retain the supremacy, but men are too great humbugs to admit it. There is one thing to be said for women that even the most rabid and bysterical of suffragette-haters is willing to say. He will generally admit that his mother did a rather clever thing in giving birth to HIM.
argument that women are too readily swayed by prejudice and predilection, rather than by political expediency. They are, in fact, more sentimental than men. Mr. MEREDITH, who is an advocate for woman's franchise, bas recently written to say that if women are sentimental, so are men. No one should presume to dispute this. If there be any difference, it is one of degree only, and Parliament itself shows better examples than the " 'mafficking" referred to by the great writer. A paraphrase suggests itself, that sentiment is of man's life a part; 'tis woman's whole existence. The only danger is that women legisators! would endeavour to put their sentiments into practice, whereas the present masculine Commons scutiment ally have approved and disapproved of many things without doing anything. But that possibility, dreadful as it is, cannot be deprecated logically or reasonably, without the mere male admitting that he is an arrant humbug. Another favourite argu- ment is that the majority of women have no desire for a vote, and are quite contented as they are. This we are traitorous enough to label as essentially man.like. The reply to it is that so were the slaves on the American plantations, the majority of whom not having masters like LrGREE to deal with, were far more happy and content than they or their descendants have ever been since. One of the arguments we almost shrink from quoting suggests that women would abuse their power; "there is no such bully on earth as the woman if at heart, and few animals
so innately cruel." This only serves to suggest that the writer was one of those feeble males who suffer from heapecking; it is certainly the wildest of generalization. There are greater bullies still,-for example, the male reformers whose zeal MILL has warned us against, and whose cruel oppressions disfigure every page of history. The discoverer of A special meeting of the Sanitary Board was feminine cruelty adduces as evidence the held on December 15th at the Board Room. fashion of wearing the plumage of birds. In and there were also present Hon. Mr. A. W. Hon. Mr. W. Chatham (vice-president) presided. doing so, women merely prove that like men they can sucrifice sentiment to expediency Reid, R.A.M.C., and Messrs. H. Humphreys, Brewin (Registrar-General), Lieut. Colonel occasionally, a sacrifice which other critics Fang Wa-chun and G. A. Woodoock (secretary), have deemed them incapable of making. The meeting was called to consider a report But as evidence of women's peculiar cruelty from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, Mr. it could be quite overshadowed by numerous
Gibson, which read:-I bag to report that the similar examples of masculine inhumanity. sick cows at the Dairy Farm at Pokfulum, in Pesides, it is men who capture and slay the the Board's instructions, buried in lime and the No. 5 shed, have been destroyed according to birds; the women do not care for the job. shed destroyed. I regret also to have to report The woman who goes angling needs a uan that the disease has now extended to the next to put the worms on for her. Our henpeck-shed, 20 yards away. In this shed there are 82 ed critic goes on:
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So much is this trait cruelty] recognised even by themselves that good and kindly women bate to have power thrust on them. They like to bave some man near to rule their actions and check the instinctive cruelty they feel is in them, and this is why all the best of then look with mark- ed aversion од the type of woman suffragette, for they reco nise that to obtain a vote is but the beginning of a further demand for places in the Government, which would be an end to all business. A tribe in Africa has a proverb that the croaking of the frogs in a marsh is like a woman's parliament, all babble and no business," and as an extreme case we have only to listen to the Chinese women who have a difference of opinion in the street to picture what our Houses of Parliament might become. Gautama Buddha knew what he was saying when he taught that woman must first become man before she could gain Nirvana; and St. Paal in his wisdom forbade woman to speak in the assembly. There is no such divine creature as woman in her place, and man knows it. There are few things worse than a woman out of her place, and fortunately she herself knows
it."
If any of our lady readers think of writing to tell us what they think of that critic, we hope they will remember that the law imposes certain restrictions ou publishers.
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
MORE CATTLE INFECTED.
animals; of these two are sick. I have had these taken out of the shed and put in No. 5 shed where the disease just appeared. I have closed now No. 6 shed provisionally and recom mend that the Board deolare it infected, as in the case of No. 5. I beg to ask for authority to engage two watchmen to ensure that no communication exists between the inspected shed and the others. To limit the spread of the disease the following steps have been taken :- Every shed on the farm has been considered as infected and every shed is kept locked with the cow boys inside, and a fresh lot of boys used to carry milk 'rom the sheds and bring food to the cows. The cattle at "
· Mid vay have been removed to Sassoon's villas and housed in temporary quarters. The cattle are therefore divided into two lots with a mile distance between them
The CHAIRMAN said he regretted to have to record that the outbreak of rinderpest at Pok. fulam was extending to other sheds at the Dairy Farm, and they could now only hope that the measures being taken would prevent any further spread. He did not see how they could aot otherwise than declare No. 6 shed infected, and grant the requested authority to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon to engage the necessary watchmen, and moved accordingly.
Mr. H. HUMPHREYS seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
before the motion was carried, furnished mem. Mr. G.BSON, who entered the Eoard Room
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
PIGGOTT).
THE PARTNERSHIP DISPUTE.
issue to determine whether Lee Chun Pai was After a three days' hearing the trial of the
a member of the Yee Fat firm was concluded. The jury found that he was not a partner.
Monday, December 17tb.
IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE FULL COURT.
APPLICATION FOR A RE-HEARING.
The application for a re-hearing of the oriminal charge against Hyat Ali Shah, of the Hongkong and Singapore Royal Garrison
rtillery, of which he was found guilty by Mr. Gomperiz, then First Polios Magistrate- again came before their Honours, Sir Francis Piggott (Chief Justice) and Mr. A. G. Wise (Puisne Judge)
Mr. M. W. Slade (instructed by Mr. J. H. Gardiner, (from the office of Mr. O.D. Thomson) appeared for appellant and Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the respondent.
The Chief Justice, at the outset, intimated dependently read the record, and both had that both he and the Paisne Judge had in- arrived at the same conclusion, which was confirmed by a view of the premises, that neither of them would have convicted the prisoner. They wished, however, to hear Mr. Blade,
iu order to obtain a rehearing was to show one Mr. Slade submitted that what was required of two cases. Either that, in arriving at the conclusion the magistrate arrived at, he omitted consideration of certain facts and certain requisites required by the law,
If it was him such corroboration of evidence not clear that the magistrate had before as the law required, it was not clear that he had given the facts, there. fore proper consideration to
there should *be a rohearing. Secondly, there would be a robearing if the decision of the magistrate was manifestly against the evidence.
The Chief Justice-That is the point we should like to bear you on.
Court required the appellant to go.
Mr. Slade sail the question was how far the He submitted that it was not necessary for him to show more than this: that the conclusion was one which, taking a reasonable view of the evidence, the magistrate` ought not to havO arrived at. This charge was a charge nominally made by a little girl who said the appellant committed a certain offence upon her, and she which that offence was gave an account of the circumstances under committed. The magistrate could not have scrutinised with sufficient care the evidence given in cor. roboration of the girl's story. If he had done 80 he would have noticed that those witnesses, so far from corroborating the main lines of her story, absolutely contradicted it.
Sir Henry Berkeley submitted that there could only be a rehearing if the Court considered
reasonable man could have arrived at it. conclusion he arrived at was such that no that on the facts before the magistrate the