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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
The worst congestion of traffic ever seen in Hongkong scarcely could satisfy us that he could not, had he wished, have with rawn it in time, and had we been sitting by Mr. Hazeland's side, we should have enquirel closely into the probability of contributory negligence. Here was a policeman walking
or standing on the street, and there was a
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here the local Zeitgeist acts as prompter one of those who regard oven a riedha as “objectively unreal " ? If so, imagine the swift and painful discovery when his pour corns were compressed, his startled volp, his objurgations, and the fèse majesté fecling with which he must have hurried the shame. stricken coolie before Mr. HazɛLAND, to get his three dollars compensation. me to think of it, our question "Is this justice" holds good either way. Thren dollars were not enough if the coalie was to blune. There was the question of
moral and in. tolle tual damage, as well as of mere lacking. We certainly do not favour a squad of pidgann-toed policemen ; the pro per way to walk is with the toes turuel outwards a little, but at thre- dollars a time, we fear the lukongs will go in for spoiling the proper way by exaggerating it, unlea His Worship saves the situation by letting them understand that it is not to be a fixed
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[January 2, 1908.
and contribute, perhaps, to the expense, which would mainly be borne, however, by the anglers who would take out licen. cox to fish with rod and ling in preserved waters. We have to blush all the more for
loving the idea to come from a newco.uor,
We
(Daily Press, January 15th). It is in the nature of things that good work should go apparently unnoticed, and Occasional slips or alleged slips, he spe- cially noted. His Worship Mr. HAZELAND
cause some of us, it is certain, are familiar with the comparatively simple though makes an excellent magistrate, and the general public cau have a very inadequate riesha approaching him. Always providing expensive method of hatching and bree ling for stocking purposes. That was a matter, iden of the arduous nature of his daily task, he was not wrapt in dreams-and one may
however, 1-f to the Fishery Barl and its hearing hundreds of tedious cases mainly often observe a rapt expression on the em- concerned with the jetty side of human stabular countenance—we picture him look-staff, and beyond visiting now and then the nature, its had temper, careless lapses from ing "through" the advancing vehicle, with graduite! row of shallow troug's, with fresh water slowly but constantly flowing the straight path, and general meanness that lordly, supercilious air that seems to
from one to another, in 18 much sunshine fowards its fellows. If HOMER could nod
say: What is a mere ricgha, co die draw», at times, the best of magistrates may surely that a gentleman wearing the King's uni as possible, vid looking at the various overlook the importance of some not patent- frm nee deviate a hair's-breath from his stages of development, a id perhaps asking ly direct issue of one of the many cases stately path? Was he, perchanca and the head keeper as to the progress of the next batch to be rolease 1, it is possible that coming in his daily list. The duty of a
very few of (13 arnel onough of the censor is rarely pleasant, and it is only the
business to make it worth whil accepting natural hatred of injustice, and concern for
the invitation to visit the Colonial Secret public safety, that prom; ts this dragging
ary's office. We did get to understand into light of two local police court e xes,
that it was cheaper to stock with imma- We can admit at once that our journalis ic |
A letter to ture fish than "ab ora." confrère LABOUCHERE of Truth would have
the Clerk of a Fisher. Bard at Home difficulty in filling his famous pillory if his
would
more probably elicit
practical field were restricted to the courts of this Colony, but the very rarity of error only
information than is to be found in th; Colony, although there may be found makes it appear the more griking. As
amongst our number some who havə perhaps regards the polic: side of the question, we should also husten to remind ourselves that
worked on a riparian hatcheries committéo. So far as we remember, it is a chanrey their lot is not a happy one when de ding
business in which an ounce of practical with such perseveringly irritating people as
experienc· is worth all the books ever riesha and chair coolies, and much previous
written on the subjec', and we hope the worr in making them observe the regula tion against loitering in front of busy
Governor may find some such adviser. aboo hope that the experimental consignment premises doubtless contributed to the error of judgment attributed to the Inkong whose
of ova from Canada will arrive in con ti ion, conduct is described in to-day's article
and re, ay the trouble spent on it. We were headed "Lukengs and chair coulies." We
to, by the way, it long ago, that th Water Authority geel to the pressuco have no information beyond that appearing | tariff.
of fish in the res rvoirs, and that from and in type, and it may be that Mr. HAZELAND
of the reserv irs on the Peak the employees considered much more. The story is that a
i were instructed to remove a quality of private chair-c olie who had just put down
fine fish," species not stated. There is, his mistress at a shop door, and was waiting
Course, a hygienic reason why fish for her return, was violently and persist- (Daily Proxx, 16th January ) ently assulted by a Chinese p di eman,
should not be permitted in water meant Hongkong has a large number of devot ul
for public consumption; quite the contrary; and, with his partner, was (as it appears) | disciples of the revered Mr. I. WALTOS, subsequently summoned by that offic r though our opportunities for demonstration | and we suppose this is now andurst »o 1. We for assault!
On the evidence. His Worship | Locally are very much restricted. Most of cumpliment His Excell-mcy on his enter. So with in ny discharged the defendant-. Possibly if the
u who in other parts of the world have ¦ prise, und wish it all success.
who we not polsters, for from ʼn gustabl coolie had taken out a summons against the whipped lakes and streams with the dry
poust af view, our dining tables seem to be lukong, His Worship might have punished fly, or angled in ponds and emals with the latter; but our point is is. Ought he less artistic tackle, have bang he o. Siria way t› be mat srially enriche 1. in the circumstances to wait for such a FREDERICK Legard's advent isken time to
THE IMPORTANCE OF IDEAS, preliminary, seing that the offender is a investig the possibilities of all the likely public servant in his OW 13 de part neut waters i 1 C... Colony, Emp'ying unto Tide |
(Daily Press, January 17th. whose conduct, according to the evidence, ¡ Cove and Tolo Harbour, for instance, are! We dealt long ago with the patent anom dy
for i was most improper. It is highly important several streams that looked “Ikely' to the public that the men charged with Stewart-tackle or a light ten-foot rod with of dipanese anti-gambling Laws and the the duty of maintaining the order of our tail-fly and a closeby dropper, but alas! fliial lotteries in Form 81, and except t mat in Japan there now seems to be an enhanced streets should not themselves be disorderly, though fish of sorts could be set at times,
Rum, i activi y agunst gambing, nothing h$s and we regret to record our enviction thay there was my hing that would rise, the force seems in this respect to be get ing ours that a reservoir out Quarry Bay wor out of hand. The Chinese plicemen have contare trout promising the old thrills i sulgede uot rid themselves yet of their typically caused a fruitless pilgrim and in the day wort sok to die nes the suggestion of Chinese ideas of procedure, and it is our end we were all forced to be confout with ja hadi gu-ed by a Kob› paper, “Morality experience that a low-class Chinaman in any the local handlines and the scarce and shytated by geography," and unfortunately at the very outset betrayed it‹ own neglect of sort of uniform is the most contemptible salt-water fish. Yet none of us appears to the study of ethical philosophy by the creature the Empire produces. It seems to have thought of doing what His Excelle ry |
remark that "this aspect of morality be thoroughly demoralising to him to be the Governor now proper a, namely, to
as something new."
Apart "clothed in a little brief authority." Our breed trout and stock some of our loeit; appeals to us observation of the Iulian polic· does not waters. To be sure, the scheme as unfolded alt gether from the fact that there is nothing compel much greater respect for th m, and in the communication with which the Hon. new an ler the sun, not even the newest of new cultor fade, we may mation that the it may be remembered that not long ago we Colonial Secretary favoured ns vest rday
ge graphical aspect of morality has been the gar- published a complaint of what seemed
says nothing beyond stock WA
a repeated fav urite illustration of our own exceedingly inconsiderate and unnecessarily voirs; but with that beg naing, it is not a provocative conduct by a European polic far vision if we see, in the fure, then this column, and has done duty on many man. This was a case somewhat similar to
beautiful mountain streame in the New j oce istons in our discussions of Far Eastern matters The question of the use of the the one mentioned in M-n 'ay's issue, als ¦ Territory
with teeming
stocks at Hongkong may be instanced, as a tried by Mr. Hazeland, who muleted an watchers or keepers patrolling thin unfortunate richa coolie in the (to him); to prevent poaching, and a Fishery Board concrete example of something the employ
ment of which is deemed politically moral large sum of three dollars for having failed and an Augling Ass ciation to manage
here and immoral in Briain; and it may to avoid with his wheel the obstructive foot | affairs, and to pay for the necessary rearing
well be that the Japanese (who are dil gint of anoʻher lusong. One cannot help won-
and witching. The Governmeu',
| students of ethics) see some distincion dering how a policeman's foot, in spite practically the sola ripariau owner, of its size, came to be thus
i bɔtween gambling in Japan and the same run over. I would
the Board, represented on
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