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"HER FATHER'S STATION"
AND
PATIE'S BRITISH GAZETTE NO. 500-501.
STARTING TO-NIGHT
AT THE
CORONET
at 2.30. 5.15 and 9.15 p.m.
THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 21sr,
1125
SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, LIMITED.
31, PRAYA EAST, RONGKONG.
ALL DEPARTMENTS of the above are
now OPEN after extensive repairs. Reading and Writing Rooms, Billard Boom (two tables), Rostaurant, Concert Hall And Meeting Room.
TO Beda in Dormitories.
"All men of the Mercantile Marine, H.M Navy and Army are welcome to uss th Institute
MANAGERESS.
(110
PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON. Corner of Haiphong and Hankow Roada.
Tal. Address, Palape
(IN LIQUIDATION).
NOTICE.
necessary formos of Claim
Dated the Eighth day of January, 1819. Shareholders names
Eduka
Uhinese Ne, of Shares No. of Shares
INDIAN REFORMS. NEGLECTED DIFFICULTIES.
KX T. BARLE WILBY, SECRETARY OF THE
EUROPIAN ABKUCIATION OF INDIA
are
The Montagu-Chelmsford scheine bassentative or at least one feature that may be sp posed to be without precedent in tho history of political progress. It is the only scheme ever put forward to estab lish democratic institutiong in which the details are elaborated, while the funda mental question of the electorate is left over for subsequent inquiry. A committee to investigate the possibility of creating adequate electorates in india has since
What are the materials for an electo rate in india 7 The electorate which now
sends members to the Provincial Legis.
1919.
without better safeguards than its authors provide, to abandon the administration of ludia yenes before, in the judgment of Parliament, India is really it to govern herself unaided,
KFVRUT ON THE CIVIL SERVICE.
regulate
td
Con
actions of an Indian career have bees declining for at least a decade; and she prospect of entering a Service in which the candidate's countrymen are tinuously diminishing in numbers, and, so far as they retain control of authe rity, are condemned to the most unpo pular of duties, will not be alluring.
AUCTIONS
AND
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER SURVEYOR GENERAL BROKER. Queen's Road Central, Talephone No. 2932
from
will
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A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2932.
FAVOURED with instructions from
The Concerned,
responsible government." On the nar rowest of electoral foundations there is to rise up a quasi-Parliamentary system. 11 the masses remain apathetic, despite Mr. Montagu's resolve to disturb their pathetic contentment," the intellectuala
be given an education in repre government. responsible
I am the more certain of this, because, To the present writer it appears au essen. if the Montagu Chelmsford schieme goes tial of such education by experience that through in its present form, the supply the Indian Ministers appointed under of British candidates for the Indian che ho should be judged by their services will fall short of the number re dealings with the matter for
FAVOURED with instructions which quired to continue the dual syetem til sell by Public Auction on TUESDAY
The Concerned. they are responsible, and be prae. Parliament can declare India ready for tised in 4k basincas of securing the full self-government. The authors of the April 22nd, 1919, at 2.15 P.M., at his support of the Legislative Council, while schemo propose an regardh the Indins
Sales Room, carrying out their own policies. But our Civil Service, that 33 per cent.
of vacan
SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Montagu Chelmsford scheme established of indians and that this percentage Dining Tables, Chairs, belters know better than we do. The ies should he filled by the appointment
AND EFFECTS. Drawing Room Suite, Iron Bedsteads, Indian Ministers who will have control should be increased by each year. Cheste, Conch, Wardrobes, Curtains, Knives, Sideboard, Ice over and responsibility for. only the They count, ovidently, on being able to Forks, Sprons,
Piotaces, "transferred departments, all others been appointed, and
Ornaments, Ferruitment of young Eng Crockery and Glassware and Sundrins. No one whe 11 being reserved for the iovernor-in lishmen for the Services exactly to the TERMS-Cash on Delivery. familiar with indian conditions will deny Coudeil. That India may not crash to convenience of their scheme. But what Hongkong, April 16th, 1919.
Je will to its chairman, Lord Southborough, the immediate ruin, the transferred
happen when this increase in the Indien element has proceeded for a few sympathy needed by any man engaged parimente are to be of missar import- in so unpromising a task.
anee, the vitally important departments yours The best type of British candi being "reserved. Yet it is expected date will couse to offer himself. The at thing an Jadian Minister will be judged by his administration of a minor depart ment, without reference to his attitude |lative Councils in very much too narrow
to be regarded as representative of the towards the immensely more important reserved departments. The expecta Indian people. For example, in Madras,
tion in vain. In nine cases out of ten the province with which, as late editer
the Minister will be supported or asail of the Madras it, I um must familiared by Indian legislators on account of
will sell by Public Auction on THURSDAY, the members ceted to the Provincial his attitude towards what
nt be is
April 24th, 1919, at 2.15 .. Legistative Council by the non official responsible for, nog by his act, in regard discourage British candidates. The young Bucial reasons will operate also to
A QUANTITY OF metabora of municipal councils and dis trict and taluq boards, are between them is no small defect in a system designed trict centres where, even now, European to what he is responsible for. And that
civilian has long spells of work in dia
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS, directly representative of only 3,500 to educate Indian Ministers in respon
Comprising:--- voters, and the Legislative Council as asibility.
society is composed of au infinitesimat Blankets, Serge, Towels, Napkins, Haud- whole directly represents only
number of officials, and their about i
wivce. kerchiefs, Raincoals, Post Card Comern 8,000 persons out of a population of,helmsford intend that the result of this many of these out of the way station will Sundries
Proccoding, Mr. Montagu and Lord Introduce more Indians, and
a good
States, Combs, Brushes, Provisions and roughly; 40,000,000, How can this cler-
be socially intolerable, for worthy as
A1.80 torate be widened? Clearly, the pro experiment shall periodically be examin vincial franchise cannot be given to mened by an inquiring body, with a view to most of the Indian officials may be, their held unqualified for the municipal and further trameter of departments to sup
recreations and unofficial interests are local vote. Assuming that, by un exers posedly popular control. As the Minis usually quite other than those of Eng. sively democratic measure, the provincial tere, however, are to be appointed by ihnen, and the ladies of their house franchise were given to all who enjoy the the Governor for the life of the Logishoids cannot be companions to English municipal and the local, would that, in
lative Council, and are not to be depend women. All this may sound ridiculously ent for Lenure of office on the favour of trivial to Padgett, M.P., but anyone who Buch a province as Madras, give large enough electorate! The facts deny non-official members of the Legistative has lived in a small Indian station will us hope. In the manicipalities of the Council, what they have done when they admit that European residents are per province the municipal voters bear to the were independent of the non-official vote force dependent on each other, to a degres municipal population a proportion vary.
is to be the test of what they may be almost unimaginable by the reader in the ing from just over 1 per cent, to a little expected to prove capable of when they Irame country, not merely for frivolous over 5 per cent. If we turn to the rural
are dependent on it. No test would be amusement, but for the means of keeping. areas we find even lower figures. To one
more illogical,
themselves mentally fit. The writer is district, all talugs show a proportion of I must be remembered that there is exquainted with Englishmen in India,
n question of testing the general ad- who have lived for mouths at a time out will balug board electors to talug population of less than 1 per cent. There are about ministrative ability of Indians. That is
of European society, and in dozen other talugs in which the prouiroady tested, with indiang in the Excovery case there was an appreciable portion is lower than 1 por cent; only
cutive Councils. The object is to foster loss of mental efficiency, accompanied by in one case does it exceed 3 per cent, Cun and test the special ability whereby ada tendency to brood overmuch over petty
(Old Post Office Building). any substantial self-government be based ministration is carried on
snder the icial worries; in some cast, there was EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE on such electorates it may, of course, control of elected legislators. Yet the marked moral decline.
Comprising: by urged that the municipal and local Ministers are to be put in office for a Neither Mr. Montagu aur another can
Chesterfield Couch and Arm Chairs, Black- voting qualification is capable of being ixed term, and freed from all obligation conpel British candidates to enter the wood Furniture, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, lowered, but not by those who know that to learn that art of persuading, managladian Civil Servier.
Tables, Brussels Carpets and Rugs, Brase Young men cap Fenders, Overmantels, Silk Tapestry Covered the possession or occupation of landed ing, and, on occasion, deceiving the able of sonuring the higher places in the Drawing Room Suite, Sofas, Easy Chaire,
COMMERCIAL, REPRÉSENTATION.
II#
The truth is that by no means can numerically largs enough to be regarded there be called into being electorates
as representing anything more than a small fraction of the people, 5 per cent, perhaps, in some parts of the country, than 1 per cent, in others. But that is ant all. Jadis is primarily an agri. cultural country, yet every theme that can be devised with property or literacy qualifications gives the urban population
Further, India
tive government.
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reach
NON-OFFICIAL EUROPEANS.
40 cases Chau Tuckey Liquear Whisky
B Hennessey's xxx Brandy. 3 "E" Whisky.
91
TEENS-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, April 21st, 1918
A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AN
GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 832.
AVOURED with
from
instructione
sell by Public Auction on SATURDAY,
The Concerned, April 26th, 1019, at 2.30 P.M.,
at his Sales Room, Queen's Rond Central,
Beveled Mirror Wardrobes, Hat Stands, Bookcase, Dinner what Chairs,
Cabinet Teak Ornamente, Pictures, Curtains, Bed Sheets, Crockery, Glassware, locks, Marble-top Wasbatands, Cooking
Bundries. Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sete, Electric Bowling Lamps, Cabinets, Sideboards and a long line
of
Catalogues will be issued. THES-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, April 21st, 1919.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Siasping Accommodation-33 Cabins and ♬ NHE LIQUIDATOR is unable to send the property of an annual rental value of Legislature which is more than any other competitive examination for thus Service Occasional Tables, Extension Dining Table,
Sharea te just over 45 confers the municipal vote, red gevrameny form of represent elsewhere, and to soon as they grasp work the new Company to the undermentioned and £2 is the qualification for the taluq Shareholders as no addresses have been vote.
the new conditions are, the bulk of them Registered. If no application in respect of
will decline to seek a career in India. each Shares is made by the prescribed dates
It has already been remarked that the 1t is not by 1 per cent., but, after a few (January 30th, 1918, or April 30th, 1919, the case may he) the right to take up the
doubt the choice will be varied, on the those who come few will be of the vary departments Lransferred" will be at years, by 10 or 20 per cent., that the årst thing of manor importance. New Shares will lapse and such Shares will
No British element will fall off, and even of dealt with in accordance with the Agree
recommendations of mant between the Company and the new
committce just best stamp. Company.
appointed, from province to province. Mr. Montagu and Lord Chelmsford have
The British element in the adminis produced a tentative list of departments
tration of India, then, is not only, in that might in their opinion be made over
accordance with the wishes of Mr. to Indian Ministers, and they appear to Montagu sad Lord Chelmsford, to ho have devoted mucts though; to to reduced in numbers and to shed respon partant question. There are, however, is the country of caste, and Mr. Montagu considerations of moment which have sibility for policy department after One, to which department, that might be regarded as and Lord Chelmsford, by most unwisely escaped their notice. denying communal reprsentation to nou everybody well acquainted with india an inevitable concomitant of any pro will allow weight, is that a situation of It is destined to fall off at a rate the gress twards self-government in India. Brahmin Hindus, place the socially ex 11814/11813, clusive Brahmin, who already monopaperil will result if the departments 30601/30600,
authors of the scheme do not expect and lises education, law, and journalism, in o transferred," like education, anita would not desire; to lose in quality, 30801/31300. position to squeeze non Brabuin Hindu tion, medical relief, tamine relief, aro 500 30401/30600,
candidates out of the Legislative Coun obviously benevolent departments, and which Mr. Montagu and Lord Chelms word are avowedly anxious to prevent; 30601/80800)
reserved are the departments, 31301/31600,
which exact taxes and punish offenes and, unless great care can be laken in 600 31651/31,700,
the choice of departmente transferred," against a conception of the public weat 31751/31800 31901/32200, 22601/32700
WO Minutes from Ferry and Railway Tutation. This Hotel has just been com pletely renovated and refurnished, is now up to-date in every respect and noder English. Management.
Leang Po Tee 100 14679/14778 Poon Yuen Chuen 存寅潘 20 1547500.
50 1/20 31/40.
do.
Cabine under personal supervision of the Lo Tai Gloon
Proprietor
BAR AND BILLIARD
ROOMS.
TERMS MODERATE Special Arrangement for Families on Application to:
1007
1. 1, OXBELRY, Propriocor
do.
do
SOMETHING NEW
do.
dia.
WISEMAN'S TEA.
Our own packing and blending from the Choicest Ceylon
and China Teas.
TRY IT
1lb. Tins 80 Cents.
& Co.'s
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PACIFIC PORTS
Trade & Service Bureau.
01,70. 900 301/400,
over-representation.
Acila.
The case against communal representa tion amounts to little more than this; it would be unfavourable to the develop
60 12747/18706 60 12737/12646, H. F. CAMPBELL, Liquidator.
DAIRY FARM
For particulars as to packing and rates apply to-
11, Ice House St.
THE DAIRY FARM ICE &
COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
Tel. 696.
those
11.
The Undersigned have received instruc tiens from THE CHINESE GOVERNKENT SALIT REVENUE DEPARTMENT to sell by Public Auction,
OB FRIDAY, April 25th, at 12 Noon, at Yaumati, Break Water, The Steam Vessel
"KUNG CHING " HULL Teakwood. Length--125 feet. Beam-18 foot Draft-8 feet 6 inches. ENGINES TWO
ment of Indian nationhood, in that it lodia. Even under the Montage-Chelmshelmsford scheme gives nothing like surface condensing engires, with cylinder
and
to
18
and
marine type boiler. Length 10 feet 6 inches. BOILER. One cylindrical, multitabalar, Diameter 10 feet 0 inch.
Working pressure 180 lbs, per square inch. Inspecting orders and further particulars may be had from the undersigned.
purchasers
A launch will leave Blake Pier at 11.30 AM. on day of sale to convey intending
Terms: Cash
HUGHES & HOUGB,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 12th, 1018.
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
tivas from THE Hos. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, The Undersigned have received instruc O.B.R., to sell by Public Auction,
April 26th, 1915), commencing 2.15 P... SU On SATURDAY,
his residence, No. 60, the Peak, THE VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
by no mentirely appreciated into lose alau in popularity. The outlook is the darker because the Montagu-
Bots of compound would perpetuate distinctions of race
wford scheme, the British official has his
adequate political opportuniting to the 11 in. by 22 in. by 14 in. stroke. Separate and creed and casto.
part to play for many years to BC, European That the very and if he is seen by the people only in India, from whom alone the weakening
non-official community diverss peoples of India are capable of
in condensers. nationbond is merely a pious assumption, the odious roles of tax collector and European official element can expect, aid that they to-day desire it is simply un-
punctave agent, while all hoon, come from true. They may develop both the capa. Indian Ministers in charge of "trans in upholding British ideals of adminis
ferred"
tration, recognised by the majority of departments, his NEWS city and the desirs in years to come; but
position will
Indiana themselves
as. Necessary for if Bu, it will be only under some system be impossible. The second consideration India which, securing co co allaying the Chelmford, and all criticismt I have yet composed of merchants, bankers, traders, totally ignored by Mr. Montagu, Lord
The European non-official community, rights, and particularly deep and natural anxiety of the back seen, deserves a paragraph to itself. ward and despised lower castes, facili
planters, lawyers, and others, now or SAVE
Mr. Montagu and Lord Chelmsford ganised in the European Association, of YOUR
tates co-operation. It is menaced rights seem to think that the progress they are which the present writer is the that men are most aggressive in assert initiating can be continued arithmeti has headquarters in
socretary, CLOTHING, FURS & CARPETSing, it is dread of beng swamped that cally until the last vestige of British branches in Bombay, Madras, the United
Calcutta, Messrs. FRANK WATERHOUSE by storing them in our Cold Stores inspires the less desirable forms of par bureaucratic rule vanishes at the exact Provinces, Behar, Assam, Burma, and
for the Summer months where not
ticularist activity. Let coramunal repre moment that Parliament perceives the elsewhe
elsewhere. Its sentation remove the thoroughly justified fitness of the Indian people to manage exceeds the numerical strength of any membership substantially! moths or vermin can attack them. fears of the non-Brahmins of Southern their own affairs. The progress, however, constituency represented in the Imperial Indin, the Lingayate of Western India, for reasons I will immediately state, is Legislative Council; but all the repre and certain other sections of the people bound to be geometrical, till the edge of sentation that the European non-official and there may be some reasonable bupe of the abyss is reached, and then there will community has in that Council co-operation. But let the scheme go for
through be
to the a plunge to bottom, at a moment two members, returned respectively by ward without communal representation Parliament's conviction of the fitness for Commerce. In the Provincial Legislativo
determined by something quite other than the and with a decrease in the numbers
than the Calcutta and Bombay Chamber power of the impartial British bureau complete
European representation cracy, and you will see in India a rapid not far or governost. The reason is Councils
With
every department intensification of
through the nominees of Chambers of rucial and
" religious animosity, and development of the difficult to exerciso authority in the de-trades associations Thia already proposterous arroganes of the partments "reserved.” The
therein contained, Brahmin, that must, in Southern India longer in contact with disinctively British many Europeans, not boing eligible for
People,
no satisfactory state of affairs, in which
Comprising:→→ at least, good the non-Brahmin masses authority at every turn in their daily to revolt if it does not crush their self lives, will lose the habit of ready obediete, have no representation at all, and in lounge chairs and table, Wall hangings, &c,
membership of the Chambers of Commerce,
HALL-Mirror-back ballstand, Blackwood WAR STAMPS.
respect altogether,
ence to it. In a country so hugo as which men of political aptitude are very
DRAWING ROOM-Large Chesterfield Mr. Montagu and Lord Chelmsford india, where great areas are far removed unlikely to find their way into the coun sofa and arm-chairs, Long Blackwood side would have those non-Brahmin, bear all from the headquarters of British authocile, is not altered by the Montago tabla, Cario stands, &c., Pictures and Every Unused Postage Stamp the ills resulting from denial of repre-rity; where the population is mainly Chelmsford scheme. Hence the demand Engravings, Brass fender and fire brasses, purchased and retained by Collec-sentation, in order that the ident of illiterate, credulous, and incapable of of the European Association for comedi
reading lamps, Cushions Curtains, nationhood may be realised. Well, men understanding divided power; and whore munal representation of Europeans, to tors is a direct contribution to the will bear many things for an idea they the problems of 60 per cent, of the peuple aument revenue of the Country. It is a
that given to
DINING BOOM-Stained tenkwood suite certain anc- cherish, but it is asking too much of are just those failing within the more tional European interests, though with comprising buffet, Extension dining table, Government security upon which no
thom to domand that they should be easily transferablo departments, the out oxoeding interest is payable and which the per cont, of the masses of India have become something very romote from and well advised if it insists on this demand wood suite comprising Twin beds (hair martyrs for an ideal not theirs. Not swerved authority of the British will due ding the total representation Leather seated chairs, cabinets, Card table
Parliament will Europeans.
Glase and crookery ware. be
BEDROOM-Mahogany stained to redeem.
met, for, with the British official mattress), Largo toilet table (oval mirror), for the intellectuals of the Nationalist It will be much harder thority re- party, with a very few honourable excup-ricted to little more than thug duty, non officials that can provide the masses Fire Gussel, Cupboards and Zine-line
in the nume of an GRACA & CO.
tions, their ideals in Brahminienl supre-
communal representation to Europen or our Washstands Toilet crockery ko, Double and Single Bedatenda. Nursery macy--the alition of a political mane and known to be preparing to abandon of India with supporters against the ar Blanket Box large Dolls House, e, Fantry, Dealers in Postage Stamps, poly to all the other monopolies they now Indian administration altogether, than it regant pretensions of a section of the Kitchen and Bathroom Utensile, Elpotria Flower Seeds, Toys, Post Cards, enjoy.
has been to keep law and order in the politically ruinded" name of an authority obviously omnipre guaranteo fair treatment for
Indian mnding "tings and variety of Fot Plant No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
sent and apparently permanent. This prac Christions and certain other classes, and The order, however, has gone forth for bical difficulty, I confidently predict, will ensure that the economie development of HONGKONG,
the achievement of Indian nationhood foros Great Britain, it she once eiers on Indin shall not hampered-Daily Tele through the progressive realisation of the Montagu Chelmsford experiment' graph.
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