HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
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SHAMEEN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30mm, 1914.
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A megling of the Council takes place Committee meeting held on the 20th
Following are the minutes of
this afternoon at 2.30 p.m.
the
THE LATE SIN KAI NO KAL. H.E. the Governor will move following Resolution - This Council desires te record its deep sorrow at the death of Sir Kai Ho Kai, for 24 years one of its most brilliant and devoted members; and to tender to his widow and family its heartfelt syrapathy with them in their foreavement."
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
First reading of a Bill entitled, An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordinances, 1912 and 1913.
First reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908."
First reading of a Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to exempt certain securities the observance of precautions against Piracy."
First resding of a Bill entitled, “An
July
Present: Mesars. Q V. Lanning (Chairman), F, W. Caroy, A. V. Hogg and G. C. Kitching.
R. N. CANTEEN
The CHAIRMAN stated that he had heard from Lieut. Comdr. Dixon, R.N., that he could do nothing further until ho hears from the Commander-in-Chief as to whether he is in favour of receiving outside assistance for the purpose of building the proposed Royal Naval
Canteen.
BYE-LAW, NO. 17.
The CHAIRMAN said he had interviewed
Shanghai, in connection with the plans Mr. Bradley of the Office of Works, of the Victoria Hotel and the Karanjin building, and he was of the opinion that the Victoria Hotel plans were quite in order, but that the original plan of the
an infringement of bye-law No. 17.
As their revised plan was in order, the building could be proceeded with based on such.
THOSE "TURIES.”
AND HOW THEY MAY SPOIL OUR HOME LEAVE.
Sia, have been in the East for the past seventeen years with my wife, who is a great lover of art. We have just arrived in England, only on six months leave, and find most of the principal places closed to us.
Surely the secretary of a gallery or ruuseum or someone in authority might issue passes to people of respectability !
SHORT LEAVE.
The above simply worded correspon- dence was huddled away in the corner of & Home paper ander a heading which seemed to indicate that the sub-editor who perpetrated the head-line philosophicallý considered that such an experience was
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very hard luck and that was all. No doubt he was a dull sort of gentleman to whom exile in a country the influence of which makes Home and its attractions much more valuable in our minds, which
as you went in to pray. You remember | THE ACCOMMODATING CHETTY. a venerable Vicar whose bowed and. silvered head seemed to demand revoronce as he chanted, and who became almost of another world when the rays of the morn ing sun forced themselves through the deep colouring of the stained glass windows and fell athwart his holy fea tures. That happy, and perhaps to some sad, reminder of many au impressive family gathering may also have vanished because of these horrible fomales; for they have no reverence for oven that which is so hallowed and holy as country church, and you will look for the old church with the old family pew with perhape your own initials scratched in an unobtrusive corner-in vain.
It is hard to realise that all these old joya will present a forced icy and penetrable reserve when wo return and rush to greet them with open arms; all because of those cold heartless women. and if you are lucky in the possession of an ancestral home with ivy-clad gables,
and the desired
papers, particularly those which deal Anyone who habitually reads the Home with sport, remarks the Malay Mail, is familiar with the advertisements, not of in print, at any rate, but of" financial money-lenders, for the word is anathema, agents," retired business men with surplus capital, etc., etc., who state that and gentlemen sums of money varying they are prepared to advance to ladion from £5 to £50,000 on note of hand have, it would appear, so complete a alone. These amiable philanthropists trust in the integrity of the public in general, and particularly of the hard-up portion thereof, that they require no offensive enquiries sureties or security, they make advance, however large or however small, At least, so it would appear from their is forthcoming with secrecy and despatch. advertisements. In the Mid-East the monoy-lending busines is monopolised by various Indian races. These publish no attractive advertisements to lure the un- wary, nor do they deceive potential customers as to the nature of the terms on which they are propared to do busi- nesa. They are accommodating people, the accommodation which they are pre- bus, as with their European counterparts,
ly small, and the amount forthcoming is client to repay. It is with surprise usually based upon the capacity of a therefore, that we read the following ex- tract from, the report of proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court, Singapore, last week:-
Ordinance to exempt certain securitica on architects of the Karanjia building was creates a frequent peculiar yearning, was you may be barred from entering even here pared to give without security is relative
imported goods from the operation of the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1888,”’--
Second reading of the Bill entitled, An Ordinance to provide for the levy of Estate Duty payable in respect of the estates of deceased persons."
An
Committee on the Bill entitled, Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to
Chinese Passenger Ships as defined by the Chinese Pasqun gers Act, 1856, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally," *
DEFENCE CORPS.
Letters have been sent, out to all the firms to ascertain what members of their staff are willing to accept duties in Claes It was proposed to form a Defence Committee consisting of Mr. Hogg as the
Council's representative, Comdr. C. C.
romance
but an empty and meaningless picture drawn from some Oriental penned by someone who has never risked a journey beyond the Continent and a cool chateau; one to whoin the "mysteries of the East" are but the result of an imagination akin to the stuff dreams are: made of." This is how it appeared to mo, at any rate. I became suddenly very angry with one who was so blind or
emotionlees as to be incapable of discover- ing tragedy in those very simple lines.
-it may have been burned down."
These of us who look at things in this way could provide a very speedy remedy and very final thought it might be. for these new era women, unconventional
C. R.
In the course of nu application for a): RUBBER PROMISE AND-
receiving order against Ho Yang Peng Made" by Mr. G. S. Carver, it transpired that PERFORMANCE
the debtor was indebted to Nagappa Chetty to the extent of 8101,700:97, His Lordship During the course of the three years
naked upon what security the money was which have elapsed since the last Interualent and the Chetty who appeared with the tional Rubber Exhibition at the Royal
creditor's
power of attorney replied.- None. Agricultural Hall at Islington, the posi
His Lordship: What did you lend it Ten thousand pounds?—Yes.
Will not be proceeded with at this Walcott, R.N. (retired), of the Shameen Why did he not raise a tumult against tion of the rubber industry has undergone uport promissory note.
meeting.
SERIOUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER.
Defence Corps, and the Senior Naval Officer.
MUNICIPAL BUNGALOW."
those irresponsible women-they are possible to estimate with greater accuracy no very startling change, but it has become. called "furies" and yet are allowed to the effect upon the trade of the introduc A letter was read from Messrs. Loxleyen become white hot-with-the intensity the prospectus of any typical rubber com- roam about the country-why did not histion of cultivated rubber upon a vest and steadily increasing scale. If we turn to: & Co. stating that they were willing to Before Mr. J. B. Wood at the Magis renew the lease for a further period of of his feelings for exiles who had come pary in the early part of 1910, when.
tracy yesterday, three Chinese women were charged with being in unlawful posses sion of freshly-cut pine branches, on the Government plantations in the vicinity of Samshuipo. The first woman was also charged with assaulting "Acting- Inspector McKay with the object of preventing her lawful apprehension.
The hian who was in the road held out
before, to which the Council agrees. two years on the same conditions as
THE WEST RIVER FLOODS.
FURTHER REPORT BY MR. A. E, WOOD.
The following further report by Mr. A. E. Wood was written at Wuchow on the 19th inst
Home "after seventeen years in the East," promoters were so busily engaged in only to find themselves in a not-wanted-public to estates "admirably adapted to attracting the attention of the investing. bolted-and-barred-atmosphere, and why oh why did he not heap thousands of hery and vitriolic words upon the heads of these maniacal vote-hunters to such
An extent that their fury would be out- turied-and then the ead!
people at Home seem to look upon these But no, women as a sort of insoluble evil, as a new specie of women-kind who must be tolerated because they exist.
several places viciously with a hair-pin. at the American Reformed Presbyterian of a former age, to be denied us? Are Mission, who in administering the relief we to be robbed of that ecstasy of feeling that lies in his power:
To our offer of created by looking with a now trained rice he will reply' in a day or two, when
and critical eye upon specimens "
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IVAN CHEN STAGGERED.
INTIMATIONS
BOY HAD RINGWORM
VERY BAD ON HEAD
Head Quite Bald. Thick Layers of Scurf Kept Rising. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Rid Him of Trouble. Head Beautifully Clean.
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"My other bos, age 7, had a nasty breaking out around ble-mouth. I put Ittle Cuticura Ohuitment on two nights in auccession and that quito cured his mouth." (Signed) Alra. M. Tench, Juno 2, 1012.
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BRITISH RULE IN INDIA,
CALCUTTA, July 13th. who is now on his way back to Peking on Ivan Chen, the Chinese Plenipotentiary the break up of the Tibet Conference, arrived at Calcutta to-day from Simla, discussion of all political topics. He said WATCHMAKERS Interviewed, he expressed a desire to avoid he could not, as a matter of course, be expected to express his views on the results he prepared to say anything about Chine's of the Tibet Conference at Simla, nor was foreign policy or anything relating to the. political future of China. As regards his impressions of India he said the way the administration of the country was carried Chen said, only a handful of British on was most wonderful. There were, Ivan ruling over
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three hundred million SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL Indians, and this according to him was as a country impressed Ivan Chen most a staggering political phenomenon. India favourably He said when ho travelled
INSTRUMENTS. from Calcutta to Simla last cold weather he saw barren fields everywhere on the ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS. way, but coming down from Simla he saw the barren land transformed into a land
made him grasp the fact why the British of smiling plenty with its rich luxuriant fields, and on every side fertility. were so keen in maintaining their rule over India. Everywhere Ivan Chen saw signs of progress, and he was of opinion SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE. that it reflected great credit upan the British administration of the country. Chen reiterated that he had thoroughly India was a wonderful country. enjoyed his stay here, having met with every courtesy from all with whom he came into contact. This was Ivan Chen's
Ivan
Representatives
the growth of rubber" in every part of the Malay Peninsula, we invariably find that, with the area already planted, and annual produce of the raw material is about to be planted in future years, the shown in a steadily ascending scale, while the prices are set forth in an Inverse ratio, From the story of Inspector McKay,
per lb, at the end of a long term of years, which generally drops to about 2s. 6d. it appears that on the 20th July he observed three women, cach of whom was
No attempt was made in those piping times to explain how the enormous carrying bundles of pine branches, coming down the hillside. The woman in Chau to Wuchow, where this is being We have come up through Tak Hing
increase in rubber, shown in the forecast, was to be disposed of; it seemed sufficient front, the first defendant, was seized, bat written. A few miles above Shiu Hing satisfy those of us who cherish the thought Thus we find on one estate the rabber Yet this philosophie tolerance will not to allow for this matter in the fall in price. the other two women run away. The the character of the country alters, and of a leave-even though it be a short one valued in 1911 at Gs. 6d. per Ib., in 1912 first defendant struggled violently, and from flowing through the fat tract of Koin the Home country.
at 5s. 6d, in 1013 at 48. 6d., and thereafter threw herself face downward on the Yiu district the river passes thence- forward with quite a natural eagerness 38. 6d. per lb., by which time the weight We are looking dropping steadily by od per annum to ground. Witness had to sit down to hold forward between hills that come down to go wandering round the old haunts of rubber harvested was to be 30 times her, and when he tried to carry her she close on either side, and the character of once again.
that grown in 1911. In this particular caught hold of the trees. The woman then our problera accordingly changes. The long-waited re-wooing by a lot of un-
Are we to be denied this instance it seemed impossible to imagine enfled out for assistance, and two men most important point to note is that wooed women.
rubber at anything less than 3s. 6d. per caine, one from the hillside above, and there are no embankments in these parts iuseum, which awed us into wonder and marketing was taken at 1s. 6d. per lb, Is the gloomily cerie, out of which the cost of collecting and another from the read. Both were carry- and that the flood water drains off made us dream startling dreams when as leaving a net revenue of 25. per lb. to (a very asual amount in those days), ing bamboos, and came from the village rapidly, enabling the second erop to be youngsters we paraded open-mouthed the fortunate planter. No wonder that just below. Witness took hold of her-by-readily planted. the hair, and then she prodded him in
the promise of 80 por cant. per annum at At Tak Hing we called upon Mr. Robb among its buge cases and grim reminders these prices proved a tempting, bait to the public at large, and that the coffers of the promoters were filled to overflowing. shown on previous occasions, the manufac. For some reason or other, as we have turer did not at first take kindly to the cultivated rubber, as he failed to find in certain of the qualities to which he was Amazon, and consequently fine Fara accustomed in the wild products from the still continued to maintain the pride of place, shown in a value of nearly a shilling pound more than the best qualities of rubber from the Straits Settlements and vated rubber came on the market, values Ceylon. As more and more of the calti- declined, until the minimum price of the prospectus of 2s. 6d. per lb. was reached
WEATHER SIGNS. of that flattering estimate was reached. many years before the maximum output
FIVE WOMEN TALKING TOGETHER. Thereupon rubber producers began about a year ago to consider seriously how it says Professor Kuck, in the Hamburger Signs of coming rain may be gleaned, and to prove to the manufacturer that it of animals and plants and certain might be possible to obtain better prices, Nachrichten, not only from the behaviour dice to prefer Para to plantation, and to sundry signs that meet our eyes by our "moked sheet" and pale crepe than if where there is an open hearth it glows him to give, if anything, more for for the highly prized wild rubber from on the links of the chain, while small If the soot in the chimney flickers, or
South America. There can be no possible sparks come and go; if the wood refuses doubt that the serious decline in the price to burn properly and only glows; if the of rubber has been a blessing in disguise window, the saucepan on the hearth or effect of this decline has been to bring laconies damp, then every home-kemping to many of the producers, and that the the cement floor perspires; if the pump about certain much-needed economies on person knows that rain is at band. the rubber estate. As was shown by a If again the sausage becomes flabby correspondent on June 10th, in lieu of the and the bacon damp, and the seythe former estimate for collecting and market tarnishes, and the coffee beans refuse to ing of 1s. 6d. alb., it seems possible on a grind nicely rain may be expected; if to cost to 8.76. per lb., and on some well-managed property to reduce the "all stockings: ruckle
people "Water is dragging my stockings down. "If smells won't leave a house rain is confirm this forecast. There is no doubt sure to come, large plantations recent figures tend to that, during the boom period, land was Leonhard Reynmann, published at the THE NEW SUMMER DRINK
says a weather-boole of bought at excessive prices, and that far beginning of the sixteenth century, and too high a value was often placed on similar sayings are to be found to-day. immature trees, planted more closely than up and down the country.
-OLD ENOUGH IN EUROPE, shown that a spacing of 20x 20-that is stinks, was advisable. Practical experience has issuing from it, smells; if the train Again, if the smithy, or the smoke
that is, if the smoke from the
BUT ALMOST UNKNOWN IN
monte.
ominously alive?
Rangoon in 1911 while on his way to second visit to India. Bhamo to take up an appointment there; but before he could leave Rangoon the rovolation had broken out in China and he was recalled to Peking.
He had been to MAPPIN & WEBB.
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his hand and demanded. "cumshaw." Witness refused, and this man thereupon hit him in the back with a bamboo. Hee has collected reports from his col-which, in those adventurous days of delivered a second blow, which knocked leagues, who were at the moment engaged youthfulness, made us tread warily and witness' holmet over his eyes. The
glance back with a frightened look into on enquiries through the countryside, woman, whom the officer still held, got From him and from the District Officer, the gloom which held a ferocious-looking on to her feet, and then the witness Mr. Sham, whom we afterwards visited, Egyptian warrior who appeared to be received blows on each side of the face, wo gathered that the outlook is not near-cankerous new female specie?
All because of this injuring his jaw, and dislodging some of ly so serious as in Ko Yiu district, where, his Louth.
And the charm of the National and He was then knocked down as I have already explained, the situa- other galleries, the treasured possessione into a hole, his prisoner being pulled is tion is complicated by broken embank of which seemed to make us feel suddenly with him. Witness eventually made his But from the figures supplied very small and insignificant; are they way to Mr. Goldring's house.
19,706 needy victims of the flood, 1,936 In answer to the Magistrate, Inspector ruined houses, and not more than 36,000 gone from us for ever? That simple and McKay said that he must bave become catties of relief rice to date I expect beautiful picture in the corner, depicting auconscious when he was thrust into-the-that- our help will be required. This peaceful landscape seemingly being it, from the marks on his chest and body morning we reached Wuchow, where the lulled to slumber by the gentle rays of was all a matter of old-fashioned preju phenomena of the "heavens, but from i the men must have continued to hit hif British Consul, Mr. Fletcher, gave us quietly apart from the others because inseok how it might be possible to induce hearths and homes,
a fast disappearing sun; which kept us
with the pole. As a result of the affair
With him we called that huga and outwardly chilly-spirited he would have to have about 14 teeth out upon the Christian Alliance Mission, London this dainty creation of the paint where we met Mr. Jaffray and his col-hrush reminded us of a home which, on The first defendant was sentenced to six months' hard labour for the assault, leagues, who know the country well. Mr.
a clear evening, always nestled in the and fined $10, or 14 days, for unlawful Jaffray was engaged with Mr. Clementi same restful setting of sun and woodland. possession of pine branches. The other on the Kwing Sai Famine Relief of 1s that now to be but a mere memory
Hard and cruel wishes for the people who will deny us these pleasures are volun tarily created and expressed.
hole, for, although he could not remember
two women were fined $10, or a month.
£2,000,000 A DAY,
WHAT PEACE WOULD SAVE
every assistance.
1003.
The affected areas follow the lines of the Lau and Fu rivers, where the water came down quickly but quickly passed away, having destroyed the first crop, but leaving it possible to plant the second There are no embankments.
down
apaden approximately 100 treos to the acre is the engine has a bad odour; if the thatch
ALE ANDRA BUILDINGS.
CHATER ROAD.
CALDBECK,
MACGREGOR&Co
(ESTABLISHED 1864),
HONGKONG!
There is a quiet corner in the gardens familiar kiosk where numerous happy at Kew which I want to visit again; the Canon William Leighton Grane, author of "The Passing of War, who presided
tee parties and tête-à-têtes have been at the Peace Congress at Liverpool, spoke The situation is not regarded as des enjoyed has, alas fallen a victim to the of the possibilities of a federated Europe. perate, but there is bound to be a certain fire of the furies. I want to sit once That realisation of a United States of poverty for some months to come. The more in that, secluded corner, within Europe was a thing of the future. We had already got in Europe a certain Christian Alliance Mission, working with hearing distance of the murmurings of perverse paradoxical attempt at solidarity the Wesleyan and Baptist Missions, pro- the Thames and the light laughter of in the shape of the grouping of the poses to administer regular relief and Loating parties, where the air Powers. So long as the whole idea of the will inform me as soon as possible of the with the sweet breath of many lovely best for a high yield, and the planting on of a cottage steams, or the clock ticks politicians was fastened upon balancing help that Hongkong can give. The flowers and you can enjoy watching one of the older states is far torratically or the watch refuses to go, those two groups and producing a state of armed peace, he did not see very clearly Chinese officials are organizing a depot ethers enjoying themselves without being it may not be possible to bring down the the country man prophesies rain.
crowded. In circumstances such as these any way out, or any real change in the for the cheap sale of rice, at about 84.00 It was a corner into which you cost to the above figure, but it is quite by the fact that in times of excessivo MARTINI VERMOUTH
Most of these afgus may be explained state of things which all agreed to be deplorable to the last degree. (Hear, now called, the tao yin, tells me that but the joy and gratefulness at being marketing will yield a very good profit on superstition comes into play. Ill-natured a picul. Mr. Fai, the taotai, or, as he is could dimppcar and forget everything reasonable to expect that an outlay of dampness in the air there is a down hear.) Two million pounds per day was
on the cost of production and draught; but in other the price to Europe of the present state of Nanning is the contre from which this alive and able to take part in such rubber sold at Es, per lb., and that prices teasing and quarrels are said to spoil the things. What that meant in the way of scheme is being worked. Nanning itself,icture of happy humanity released from may fall farther without reducing the weather; if a girl carries a rake on her stopping social reform and hindering it now appears, has had no flood. When the big business hire but a few miles Brower to his last trenches. The keynote shoulder, or a rake that is thrown away. things that were most essential to the wel-it telegraphed to Catton for 10,000 picals away. And because of these beauty further uses of rubber, and in this dires resist the evil charm and must come fare of the peoples involved no one could of rice, as I reported before, it was
of the present exhibition is the search for lies with its teeth uppermost, rain cannot describe The Concert of Europe was a thing which had lately rather fellen into telegraphing on behalf of Wuchow and destroying women is this renewal of an tion manufacturers, and others will do Even if a piece of bread and butter, alls disrepute. It had certainly heen guilty district, and in its capacity as relief and cherished solace to be forbidden and rubber floors, rubber playsbbur donde on its buttered side this in many districts it highly beneficial as a Tonio and appetiser,
for construed as an unfailing sign of wet our school children, and even rubber weather coming. If the sexton sova the power for good in the world, and there immunity from flood, one must face the Again, there may be in your memory walks in our gardens reed not be far dis grass in the churchyard, or five women by taking it with Iood Water: a refreshing
tant, and if cheap rubber will bring us stand, together, or an exceptional number did not seem to be any real reason why the fear of later rains up there, as this year which all the singing birds in the land these luxuries no steps should be left of women pass up and down the village drink just “long"nough is obtained, Concert of Europe should not in the food has been unusually early. future do an enormously great work.
unturned to direct public attention to street on a given day the weather cannot such possibilities. The Times.
help breaking.
in the past of many sins, but they had recently seen it act and behave as a real
depot.
While rejoicing in Nanning's
tre 2
To-
morrow we return to Ko Viu district.
a quaint little village church around
seemed to hover and chirp their praises
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The properties of a god Vormouth render
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