WATCHES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 1918.
Here are several lines of very moderately priced Watches sultable for Sports, military dutles or ordinary use.
THE
NICKEL WRIST WATCHES.
Keyless, Swiss Lever Watches with a Neat Leather Wrist Strap,
Special Value. Price $5.00
NICKEL WRIST WATCHES.
A little superior quality, with Roman or Arabic figures, Keyless, thoroughly reliable timekeepers, marvellous value at these prices. All Swiss make.
Price $6.25 $7.25 58.25.
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THE LATE MR REDMOND | and withcut reserve or qualification in the judgment that he was at once a great TRIBUTE FROM ALL PARTIES IN Parliamentarian and trus patriot. In the varying vicissitudes of his political fortune he never filtered for a moment In the House of Commons cu March in the trust which he felt was committed to him. He saw the Home Rul, Bill at said: I am sure. eth M. Lloyd Georgs
lhat embodied in statutory form, and the House has been profoundly shocked during these last months, as my right by the unexpected news of the death on friend has said, he laboured hard at the Convention with all the personal and of one of its oldest, most respected, representative power that he possessed and eminent members. The Government to bring about concord in Ireland. Few but those who, like myself, were closely would have taken the responsibility of engaged in that prolonged struggle can moving the adjournment of the House knoty or appreciate the ceaseless as out of respect to the memory of the late siduity, the unwearying patience, the un failing tact, the immense, kuowledge both Mr. John Redmond had it not been for of principle and detail, the measured the fact that the urgent necessities of the judgment and sustained enthusiasm which he contributed to this cause. They were war rendered it absolutely necessary that qualities rare in themselves, and in their
Ho was we should carry throngh certain business. combination invaluable. He had been a member of this House for master, as many of us have seen for years, of all the resources, whether of thirty-seven years. I remember it is strategy or attack, which our Parliamen- one of my first memories in this Housetary campaigns demand of those who are
called upon to lead. Nor did he ever- —about twenty-six or twenty-seven years
no better tribute ean bo paid to the ago an old member of the House anid memory of any man who has spent his to me, pointing to Mr John Redmond, life in this House--in the strain and stress of constant and most embittered There goes one of the most respected controversy, fail to conform to the high- members in this House. Since that ets standards and traditions of which. date I am sure it will be the universni this House is the proud custodian and feeling of all who are present, and of the jealous trustee. Of his personal qualities, even if I could trust myself in grown in the eston and affection, the this House, this is not the time or place admiration, and the trust of all parties, to speak. It is sufficient for to-day to That is a great thing to say for any say that the House, Ireland, Great member of the House, but it certainly is Britain, the whole Empire, is impoverish- a great thing to say for a man who, ed by his loss, during the whole of that period, bus been Sir E. Carson Perhaps the House will engaged incessantly in one of the fiercest allow me just for one moment, on behalf controversies of our time a controversy of myself and the other members of the which aroused the deepest passions of all Irish Unionist Parliamentary party, to men who took part in it with the most say how entirely we associate ourselves inflexible purpose, because if he won the with what has fallen from the Prime respect and esteem of this House, he Minister and the late Prime Minister on never did it by deviating one hair's this tragic and sorrowful announcement breadth from the principle which was the of the death of the late Mr. John Red dominant principle of his career. mond I knew the late Mr. John Red- mond for some thirty-five years. I knew (Chrzes.) There may be, and there him first as a barrister on my own cirenit doubtedly is possibly even now, a difin Ireland and in the contests in the ference of opinion as to the policy which forum and in the contcats from day to for day for and fought" slood
of our daily profession, he always There is absolutely no difference of exhibited thes sama courtesy: the same kindness, and the same feeling that every man has experienced in this
NICKEL OR OXYDISED GUN-every members of the House, that he has
METAL POCKET WATCHES.
Very strongly made, will keep good time and do not easily get out of order.
·Price $8.50
OXYDISED
GUN-METAL POCKET WATCHES.
A small size Watch, quite reliable.
Price $7.00
And also, a similar style, ordinary size. Price $10.00
TEMPUS" WATCH.
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opinion as to the ability, the genius, the eloqfuper, the judgment, the digaity and the honourableness with which he advccated that policy. (Hear, hear. Above all, there is no one either in this House or out of it who would for a moment question the complete disin terestedness with which he gave his life to his country
Of modern times in this House.
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I shall never forget-indecu, it was the matter that attracted me to him first the eloquence with which he held me, in most diffealt circostances, when fr. Parnell was ceasing to be the leader of his party how resolved he was, at all costs to himself, to stand by the fallen leader. That, I think was one of his There was no office or position in the great traits, and one of those which any. British Empire that his great Parlia one intimate with him will admire most. mentary talents could not have entitled The Prime Minister has said that he him to aspire to. There was no position, was engaged in one of the fiercest con in my judgment, that he could not have for twenty-five years I have been pro attained He gave all his great gifts, not merely of Parliamentary oratory, minently identified with that controversy, which were almost unrivalled, but, his and I can say, with absolute sincerity gifts of real statesmanship he gave them that
mind one single bitter. all--his time his opportunity, his cannot recall to whole of that period 1
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his death
help calling to of many tragedies that he was not afford-
which, perhaps, ed the opportunity to use to the full mind two small instances
House will allow me to state. The |CUTLER PALMER & CO'S those great powers of leadership and wise House will recollect that just before the and sagacious statesmanship for the outbreak of the war, when the political bencft of his native land Another of situation in Ireland was most threaten its many tragedies is that he was strucking his Majesty the King samnioned us down before he had achieved the great to a conference at Buckingham Palace. purpose of his life. His attitude in the The conference lasted two or three days, war as given him a great place in and then, unfortunately, broke up with the affections of Britain, and there is no out any result, and I remember John man of British race throughout the Redmond coming up to me, as he passed world, wherever he is, who will read of out of the gates of the Palace, and say
For the aske of the old times on his death to-day except with unfailing sorrow, and with feeling that it the Leinster Circuit, let us have a good
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and, Mr. Speaker, we blow and a less not merely to Ireland, had Only in 1916, after the rebellion in but to Britain as well (Cheers.) He Ireland, when the present Prime Minis.. was a man of real breadth of view. Heter, at the request of the late Primo knew when to fight; he knew when to mister, tried to effect a settlement, I make peace. He was a man of real had several conversations with John Red courage. He had the courage not merely mond, and, indeed, he and I were not to face foes; he had the more difficult very far
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and trying courage to know when to ment part our attempts at Bettle
influences which prevented. face friends, and to face misconception us it is not for me to dwell upon now, amongst friends. (Cheers.) He yearned but I remember well his saying to me, for conciliation, for the reconciliation of Unless we can settle this interminable the fonds of centuries. He yearned paa business, you and I will be dead before. pacify Ire- land. That a very tragic recal After
all, this is not the occasion on which we can fully appreciate his work. So far as I am concerned it is enough for me that he was a great Irishman, he such we mourn his loss was a most honourable opponent, and as
sionately for it. He yearned as a man anything has happened to election
who wanted to see conciliation before his hour struck Helaboured for it. Unionists have told me with enthusiasm and with pride of his work in the Con- vention; the respect and confidence he won there by some of the greatest speeches of his career. They trusted him. They believed in him. Their hopes rested upon him, upon his integrity as well as his sagacity They spoke with feeling of a man they had spent a life in Sghting He went there bowed with sorrow. We know now even the physical tortures he endured when he was serving his country
Mr. Adamson (Lab, File, W.), for the Labour party, Mr. E. Wason (R., Clack and Sir J. H. Roberts (R, Denbighshire, mannon), on behalf of Scottish members, W.), on behalf of Welsh members, joined in the tribute
Mr. J. O'Connor (N., Kildare, N.) ex
in that trying position. The last time Pressed the thanks of his colleagues, as
I saw him it was only a few days ago of Mrs. Redhoond and the family, for
he was a broken man, and death was what had been said.
written on his face. But his last word
to me was a plea for concord, concord he
tween two races that Providence has LAW MAKES DOCTORS RICH decided should work together for the common ends of humanity as neighbours He has passed away. We can only, here in this House, extend sympathy to his sorrowing family and friends. Yea, and to the sororwing country which is herefit of his wise leadership at the greatest crisis of its fate. (Cheers.)________
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One result of the British Health In- surance net, which provides medical attendance in return for a small weekly assessment, has been to make some of the official physicians very prosperous, This fact, shown in the annual report of Mr. Asquith: The sudden and unex the London Insurance Act Committee, is pected news of the death of Mr. Redmond in marked contradiction to the gloomy STATION between the hours of 9AM to 1 PAL came upon us all, as the Prime Minister Prophecies of the doctors when the law and 2 PM to 4 PM daily has said, with an indescribable shock, most of the professional testimony then and though it is right and fitting that being that it would beggar the the House should take as early an op medical men portunity as may be of expressing ita sense of bereavement, I could have wish years have received over £2,200,000 under London doctore during the last five ed like my right hon. friend, that we the health insurance scheme. In one case collect our thoughts and our words, so at other cases over £2,000, and in thirty could have had a little more time to the sum was over 22,000 a year; in three to pay to his memory a worthier and a three other cases, over £1,000 a year. more adequate tribute. After close Par This is in addition to whatever the physi liamentary, and of late years personal cian may earn through his regular prac- association with him which has now lasted tico
the lifetime of a generation, I find it In the same period the official druggists difficult to speak except in the fewest have averaged over £100 a year from and simplest words. He was called filling proriptions. The London com upon, after an interval, to succeed one mittee's report speaks of the medicine of the greatest of Irishmen, Mr. Parnell, habit in the adership of the Irish party district
the London 13: Yery prevalent which he held by an unchallenged title If only people could be converted from the day of his election to the day from this medicine habit," says the com- of his death. We here in this House, mittee," much good might be done with even those who differed most deeply and the money in other far more useful direc acately from him, join with a whole heart tions.
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