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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 1981
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THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION,
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"A RIGHTEOUS BILL."
THE OPIUM HABIT; LEADS TO MURDER AND SUICIDE.
The two stories which follow are taken from yesterday's issue of the Canton Timet
HIGH COST OF OPIUM DRIVES MAN TO SUICIDE?
THE
WORLD THEATRE.
10:
Tresday, 9th to Thursday, 11th August
9.15 p.m.
ing it difficult to make both ends moet THE WONDERFUL DRAMATIC PRODUCTION
The Legal Adviser in introducing "The Prevention of Corruption "Bill" at the meeting of the Federal Council of the Malay States. recently, explained A worker in a locksmith's shop on Shia that it was brought in response to re Hing Road, who is as opium fiend, and presentations received by the F.M.S. and Colonial Governments from the Society with the meagre wages he was receiving,
his At Home which dealt with the matter, committed suicide
by cutting He proceeded to explain the provisions throat with a pair of scissors. Receiving half of which while his prosecution of bribery and secret com- had to be spent, missions in public and private business family was denied the and gave the origin of the various pro- the mas saw no other way of a better excused himself from visions. He mentioned that these had existence. been approved by the Chiness Advisory his fellow the shop, the man Board and also by the Conference of retired to another part of the store and committed the deed. He was discovered too late to be saved, and when taken to
he died
of the Bill, which has for its object the not more than 21ofities of life.,
Residents...
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Mr Kenion characterised it as a very righteous Bill," but feared that with pre- senta and commissions a recognised past of local practics the matter was one of great difficulty. He referred to Chinese employés on miseroscepic salaries whose right within reason to make what they could on various transactions was well recognised. So long as it was within reason and common sense the towkay accepted it. He took it this Bil: would not alter that established practice. But even so the Bill would enable a towkay who had passed what we should call irregularities to, turn round afterwards and get a man prosecuted,
After quoting typical cases Mr. Keuion said that what it really amounted to was that East was East and West was West, and he did not know really whether it was wise to listen to the voice of this outside body. This sort of legislation be thought ought only to come when they had serious scandals, or when the Chinese pressed for it. The Advisory Board's complaisant Yes" was not sufficient. It was somewhat violent sud- denly to adopt our Western"ideals on a subject of this kind." The Bill he thought would effect little in practice.
Mr. Choo Kia Peng "agreed with Mr. Kenion as to the practice mentioned and hoped that there would not be a" too rigid enforcement of the new rules.
Mr. Duncan said that this might be a creditable attempt to raise the standard of morality of the citizens of this country but he was inclined to agree with Mr. Kenton that to pass such a Bill at the present time would be going just a little too fast, and he thought it would be much better for the matter to sink in a little first,
The Chief Secretary said that the Government accepted the suggestion made by Mr. Duncan that they should read this Bill-and then allow the matter to stand over, so as to allow the objects of the Bill to sink into the minds of the public. They could either have the Bill transited as it stood, or have the gene ral purport it translated into various languages and published broadcast.
The Bill was read a first time and left in committee.
PHILIPPINE REGIME FACES
BANKRUPTCY. .
ISLANDS LIMIT. OF INDEBTEDNESS.
A Washington message says: The Philippine Government is facing bankruptcy, Maj.-General Leonard Wood and former Governor General Forbes declare in a cablegram transmitted to Congress on June 17th, by Secretary Weeks, who asked immediate action of a bill authorizing the island Government to increase the limit of indebtedness from 315,000,000 to $30,000,000.
General Wood and Mr. Forbes, who are investigating conditions in the islands for, President Harding, said the National Bank, with which the island Government, provinces and municipali ties are required to depósit all funds, was practically insolvent."
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CHARLES WHEELOCK & LORAINE OTTO.
الرحم
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OPIUM SMOKER JONTESES URIME. A curious case was heard at police headquarters, when an opium smoker was 5.15 p.m. "TO HONOUR & OBEY brought before the police captain on a Instead of charge of opium smoking. pleading guilty" to the charge, the man became hysterical and surprised the cap- tain with the remark,
murder I did him, he only died from illness.
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As the man was charged for smoking opium, and not fer murder, the police captain was curious to know what was Further in the mind of the smoker. questioning brought the fact to light that the man had murdered a fellow opium smoker with an opium pipe and robbed the deceased of $300. The captain was told that the corpse was secretly buried. The murder would not have been known had it not been for the guilty conscience of the murderer. He is now under arrest pending further investigation into the murder cast.
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THE
"ENGLISHMAN " CENTENARY.
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A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT. Calcutta's leading daily newspaper, The Englishman, has just celebrated its centenary, and has issued a supplement to mark the occasion: The journal has received congratulatory messages from H.B.H. the Prince of Wales, Mr. Lloyd George, Lerd Curzon, Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Montagu, Lord Northcliffe, Lord Burnham and many other men of note, as well as from The Times, The Morning Post and other leading English journals. The supplement gives a history, in brief, of the hundred years of the paper's exist enca, which, in a way, is the history of The cccasion is, indeed, a India memorable one, as The Englishman, alone, among the English papers published in the East, can justly claim, in spite of the vicissitudes commen to journalism, to have had an unbroken career of use
What is fulness for a hundred years. more The Englishman has always main- tained the best traditions of English journalism. Always accurate in its news
alive columns, alert and
to every activity, it has maintained in its edi. tarial columns a poise which has won the respect and admiration even of those who have been as the poles apart from It is noteworthy its views in politics. that among those who sent congratula wry messages to the journal one finds the name of Mr. Bepin Chandra Pal, a doughty opponent of all for which The Englishman stands in politics. The Eng tishman occupies à unique position among English papers in the East, also, y virtue of the fact that it has bech inseparably cocnected with the Saunders family for three generations. The pre- sent occupier of the chair of the mau- aging director of the paper, Mr. J. O'B. Saunders, has, however, seen great changes take place in the system of editing and producing a paper in India. He has had to meet the demand for an up-to-date rotary printing machine pro- ducing 25,000 copies an hour, with whole array of linotype machines has had to discard the old system of reporting events wholesale and employ experts as writers of special articles and
purveyors of news. How well the typographical improvements have been carried out is apparent from the get-up The of the Centenary Supplement. journal, in short, has given proof in abundance of ita virility. It deserves to go from strength to strength, particu larly in these days of momentous changes in India.
"The Government cannot purchase ex- change even to meet current running expenses payable in the United States, said the message, and has to ask our local back not to present its circulating notes for redemption. Cash reserves are now about 10 per cent. of legal require ments. If the bank should fail it would mean practical bankruptcy of the Philip pine Government, which would continue until new resources became available, besides bankruptcy of many provinces and municipalities, which have been required SEVEN THOUSAND CANDIDATES.
by law to deposit all funds with the bank.
THE LONDON ** MATRIC"""
"No fewer than seven thousand candi. "We feel the faith of the United dates have been sitting for the London States is pledged in support of solvency matriculation examination. It has been of the Philippine Government and the a strangely varied gathering of all situation is so critical we concat in classes, ages, and nationalities, strug- urging immediate relief on the general sling with the problems set with ingen- lines recommended by the Governoruity by the examiners. General in extending the debit-making power of the Government."
Secretary Weeks also informed Con gress that he had received a messago from Acting Governor General Yeater to the "effect that the " situation was getting worse."
DEATH OF SIR ARCHIBALD LAW,
In the great halls at the former Im- perial Institute, and the Royal Horti- cultural Hall, where Londoners have sat you saw elderly men, cager girls, placid auss, coloured natives of Africa, ming- ling with public school boys, some of the last-named being knuts" The result of the examination will not be "known until the end of July.
YOUR GLASSES SHOULD GIVE REST
The Straits Times records with' regrot the death at Wimborne, Dorset, on July. 26th, of Bir Archibald Fitzgerald Law, and comfort to your eyes. If they do and if the late Chief Judicial Commissioner,
F.M.S., and former acting Chiel mountings are properly adjusted; they are All Justice and Paine Judge of the Straits Right. Do not be satisfied unless they are Settlements. He was born in 1853 nad.
was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in There is no comfort in spectacles that are 1879 and the following year was appoint ed an assistant commissioner in Cyprus, merely good enough." They are either Right afterwards becoming president of tho
or All Wrong. If your glasses are in need of district court at Famagusta, a director
of survey and principal forest officer sad changes, adjustments or repairs, send them to
member of the Legislative Council.
He took silk in 1892 and the following the Hongkong Optical Co., Successors to Clark your came out to Penang & Puizne & Co., Refracting & Manufacturing Opticians Judge. In 1894 the late Sir Archibald, was
chosen to conduct a special enquiry, in (the originators of manufactoring Toria lenses Perak, and for this, he was thanked by in the Colony) located in 53, Queen's Road, the Secretary of State. He was a keen golfer and in his younger days & woll Enown Rogby footballer
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