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PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY
THE ABOLITION OF THE MUI TSAI SYSTEM, COMMENTS OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
We have been reviving by recent
maits cuttings from scores of newspapers published in Great Britain relating to the decision to abolish the Ku Tani system in Hongkong. We append some of these: FRUM TAUTH."
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9TH, 1993
ST. JOHN'S CATHÉDRAL.
THE SUNDAY MORNING SERMON.
CHRIST THE HEALER,"
The Rev. H. Copley Moyie. A., Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, preach-
the following sermon on Sunday
Morning:-
ORDERING DRINKS WITHOUT PAYMENT..
EL ROPEAN CHARGED AT THE MAGISTRACT.
Joseph Neuille, a very well spoken
European, who at the time of his arrest was wearing a monnale, "appeared at the S. Mark V, 94.7. And great; multe Magistracy, gratarday morning in answer tade followed Him and they thronged to a charge of unlawfully obtaining liquor to the value of $1.80" from „Mr. J. Wit Him, and a woman.
came in the croud behind and touched His garment.chell, manager of the King Edward
Hotel.
Mr. Churchill has acted with commend able. firmness in ordering, the abolition of
Aa wo think of the influence of Jesus the custom of mai rap in Hongkong.
Christ on the world to-day, we must be The history of the agitation suggests that struck by the many aspects in which He there was very stubborn official opposi-appeals to numerous and varied classes tion to the step thug has now been taken, of p-ople. To use an ugly modern phrase, 1 do not suppose that the local adminix He amazes us by His many sidedness, tration has ever relished its task as an
There are so many sides to His charneter, apologist for the existence, in a British that He occupies a commadding place is the most diverse spheres. In inter Calony of what the Chief Justice of Hong-
itational politics, in industrial and social | kong forty" years ago described as virtually questions, in education; in matters of the
a form of slavery. But the local ad-
health and peace of individual men and ministration, has always looked the cour various beliefs that Jesus Christ has an women, it is recognised to-day by men of
ag to tackle à system so common among
important place the Chinese population, and in conse quence the inquiry ordered by Lord Kimberley in 1999 was bucked, while ever
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RICKSHA COOLIES
THEIR FARES.
REFUSE LEGAL FARE AND BECOME DISORDERLY.
Mrs. Hopwall, of No. 1, Jordan Road," Kowloon, summoned two ricksha volávaj at the Magistracy, yesterday morning, be..... fore Mr. Lindsell, for disorderly conduct,
further charge of driving a ricksh without a licenes was preferred by tho police against the first defondant.
The complainant's story why that on Inspector Caygill mid the "defendant the previous evening she hired two rich- obtained three drinks and had no money shus for her daughter and self. The legal I pay for them."
fare was 3 cents each. The complainant Mr. Linilsall Is the man known here? || offered the second defendant 15 cents for Inspector Caygill:, Well; he is known the two rickshas. The mau threw the to the Polier.
moony on the ground and used very obscene language. Witness went into the house and the two defendants continued to ring the bell and hammered the door so loudly that witness feared it was going to be smushed in. She became frightened and had to blow a police whistle.
The first defendant said that the com plainant paid him no money.
Mr. Lindsell: The complainant'anym
Mr. Lindselle You cannot obtain or without paying cash for it. It is alleged that you ordered your drink and had ne money to pay for it.
The defendant: There was no attempt nt fraud I was drunk. did not know what happened. If I had been allowed to go home, the Sailors' Home, I could have got the money, bus this man (Mr.
gines the question was actively revived Ministers used the "Prime Witchell) accompanied rae to this place that you were offered more than the
(Control Police Station) and I was not legal fare. You have no right to ask for allowed to get the money.
mort.
You may remember that striking res age which which was set on New Year 1020 by the six Prime Ministers of the British Empire to all the people of she Empire. In that
words the hope la year or two ago all sorts of excusen for.
which lies b
s before the world of a life of protected and developed by a non -rference have been put forward. League of Nations, in itself, dependent on In Ministerial replies given in the something deeper and more fundamental
Sergt. Baker said that when he visited still. House of Commons muitas has been of Nations explicitly exists to faster will
The co-operation
the house there were .10 Piekaba coolies. which the ·League
gathered around the entrance. The two- excused na n Chinese Bocial custom of become operative in so far as the con child-adoption, "and the sales of little senting peoples have the spirit of good
defendants went to the Station in a very And the spirit of good will among girls for meury payments have been men rysta on spiritual forces the ho euphemistically styled "transfers." There of a brotherhood of humanity"reposes to them. The
The Magistrate ordered the first de coull br, of course," no logal enforcement on the deeper spiritual fact of the the drink and refused to pay for fendant to pay a ine of 83 with the of these contracts in a British Colony,tion of the fact of that Fatherhood, and
Fatherhood of God. In the recogni
option of seven days' imprisonment far. but in practice the system among the the divine purpose for the world which he was not drunk and he did not offer driving the rukaba without a licence.
of
are central to the message of Christianity we shall discover the ultimate foundation harmonious life for all "men." for the reconstruction of an crdered and So wrote the men who could speak with authority
who the
Mr. Witchell, Manager of the King Edward Hotel, said that the bar hey com plained that the defendant had refused to pay for three drinks he had ordered Witness went up to the man, He was tip with two otheen, who were orfendant alleged, were his friends, but Chief Petty Offers in
in the they denied it and said he was not known said that he had ac money go to the bank the next day,
police and had the inan arrested. to sign a chit Witness' sent for the Witchell, then addud never heard such vile language from any human being in all my life. He swore in both Hin
but hoped to
room and I. will blow
your
orderly way.
On the charge of disorderly conduct the Mr defendants were fined $25 with the option
ut 14 days' imprisonment.
Chinese community was unchecked and the wretched victims were treated as mero slaves, working as donnestic servants with- out wages and suffering often-abomin abl ill-treatment. Many,, no, were sold and resold into of domestic was have:
worse life than that to this Empire. They recognised that dustani and in English. One of his Churchill has lately found time to look awful chaos which the War had wrought, into the matter for himself; at any rate, he only by a recognition of those principles has now brushed asid all previous which Christ came into the world to official quibbles and directed that the teach. status of mui tai as understood in China! shall not in future he reognised in Hong-politics to national preds, it is recognised And when we turn from international kong.
by some of the ableist thinkers, often men who
are note themselves professing Chris-
of this scandal
dur
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Com-
agun at my brains out. Insperter Caygill said that when the man was brought to the police stating he was not drunk, but he and been drinking. The defendant: Can I not pay for the intermittently for many years. drink now? 1 have been using this lu.tel
Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of 810 and save the defendant permission to go to stipulated that it would have to be paid ym. thai day.
CAUSEWAY · BAY.
the Anti-Slavery and. Aborigines'. Pro- the people to go out upon new pilgrim,Sunday, making the second in this dia
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COMPANY REPORT. SHANGHAI - HOTELS, LTD.
Mr. Broadie A. Clarke, presiding, last cek, as the annual meeting of Share- holders of the above Company and in the the year; including $23,936.13 brought course of his speech: The net profit for
$7,220.80, or an increase of $31,570.22 over the previous year, during which, as you will probably recall, the company made in a special exchange transaction. actual increase for the year amounts to about $105,000, which is all the more penditure of 865,270 under the items in satisfactory in view of the growth in ex- terest and depreciation,
The greatest credit for the ending ans that Christ hus i message for the the Sailors' Home to get the money; but forward from the lust account, amounta under Halewood, R.N. and Mrs. nation, and that domestic peace can only Hastewood. After the Armistice Combs gained by acting on the teaching mander Haslewood was appointed to these words written by one of the fending and example of Jesus, a post in the dockyard at Hongkong. thes
Take for examula In 1020 he was fortal to resign because socialists of Great Britain, "However be refused to dissuade his wife from mit
limited progress may be as yet this ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT no less than $73,812.65, so that really the writing letters to the press about the
generation knows more of it, and is seek horrors of the customs of a fan. They
after it
Тот than the Inst Better returned to England, and ever since they
Burtar, truer education, more stimu- Another highway robbery occurred in have worked unceasingly-supported by
lating surroundings, a higher average the neighbourhood of Causeway Bay, on of knowledge, are maying the hearts of tection Societies-to bring about the ro
trict within the last week, and about the shown in the working of the hotels for the Notwithstanding the splendid resalta ault which Mr. Churchill has now an
ages in search of better things Amongst fourth within the last month. The vicperiod, and the large profit available for nounced. In view of that, result, whichgrimages the most favoured is that whitima this time were two Cainese women distribution, the directors, taking into.
the guides being selectal for thes pil. is a justification of the course Mrs. Hasle points the way to communal organiza Temple when they were stopped by two
They were returning from the Tin Hau consideration the entire circumstances, wood took, the 14 of Commander tion. At a time when the influence of the Admiralty."!
Stole two pairs of bangles which have the influence of the Christian spirit been valus at $150 and $10 respectively sendily extends And it has been a The men mgile good their escape. Mr. Churchill has earned the gratefulcial regenerating force as well its an thanks of all lovers of humanity by the applied as a law to which our system of
individus saving 01. It is
I bring... step he has taken for the abolition in social relationships should conform. Hongkong of the system known as "Mei Tsai. To all wh care for human free dum, to all haters of human slavery of every sort, to all who cherish the purity of girlhood and honour of womanhood, irrespective of colour or of race and Jews who are obedient to the tenents of Juda'sm are surely foremost in what 3r. Churchill has done, in striking away yet another link in inhuman bonds that gall human beings, will appeal as
grateful to him.
Haslewood ought to be reconsidered as the Churches has sunk to a very low level, men, one of whom had a revolver. They and the fact that an interim dividend of
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The following legat case is reported Im
Mesars. D. L. Flack and Son, coal ex-
is Being consulted as an adviser rival to
The Church has undoubtedly failed to [ny, due we shall be in a far better post- the materialist councillors who have because she has so largely neglected to
move mankind as she might have done, tion to discuss this subject again. hitherto led us. It is making a examine our whole social fabric from top to bot together with her
deliver her message of bodily health
ન tom, bath
tidings spiritual materials of which it is constructed.
pardon and
Nemesis for a peace. The Se it is not only recognised that Christ been the rise of bodies outside the Church has a message for society to day but it who have preached that truth, and so it is claimed that the glaring inequalities has been in the matter of bodily healing and injustices of society must be done
But to-day the Church is increasing orters, London and elsewhere, wem, sp spirit of Christ, and it is charged can and does heal disease to-day aa truly pellants against a judgment of Mr. Justice
that teaching against the Churches that they fail to as He healed it when" on trash, as Christ taught, the law of love.
MeCardie upon a special case stated in carth But to day the influence of Jesus Christ through the instrumentality of doctors demurrage at the port of loading between times He heals it directly: sometimes arbitration proceedings in a dispute 21 to le in the easiest thing to criticise, bold of international polities and national every 3.uk person who was brought to Him the rape senship Kotha ffers and the
not only recognised in great mattera | And the fact His
appellants, as charterers of ny public position. Perhaps this is one reconstruction, in a way this was He has taught us that it is not the will owners of the vessel, the Kokusai Kisen centu on City Councils and Govern-personal matter of the individual bodily grasp that fact we have advanced far provided that the steamer should sail to reason why so many are ready to pass thought of fifty years ago, but in the of God that we should be ill. One Kabushiki Kalaba. The charter-party ments. Much less is beard in praise of health of each of us it is roming to be towards perfect health. And health is these same men or bodies, when the praise recognised that Jesus Christ has an im should be as loudly spoken as the con portant part to fill. And this still seems ness of our lives. Ne one can do his best turn always afloat in the castomary man great asset in the efficiency and happi- Delagoa Bay, and there load in regular demnation. An Hlustration of this has a novel idea to many. It is
is now about
aer from the charterers in such dock an come to light in the success of one brave a gear since the Christian Hesling is work in the world unless he has health of
body. woman and the response is a very handsich was held in this Cathedral, and to the laws of health as to keep the Ten Com arrival. There was a cancelling date It is no much our duty to keep may be ordered by them on or before some way of the Government in the set-
doubt there are many
here who were mandoenta,
And Christ is as ready to which by mutual consent was altered from ting free of the slave girls in Hongkong. and who became familiar with the thought anxious to save cur souls from sin.
present at some of the services then held. save our bodies from sickness as He is September 9th to October 10th, 1920. The I wall remember the quietly of Jesus as the Healing Saviour. I was
But ship anchored in Delagas Bay middag," spoken woinaa (Mrs. Hazlewood) pload-not here at the time but I received many
if we break the laws of health we have Octher ath, 1920, at a place where vessels ng with the intensity of ber strong letters which spoke highly of the physical than we have any right to expect to be at the wharves. The charterers cominat no right to expect to be well any, more usually lie to await their turn to load nature before the Executive of the and spiritual results of that mission, kept from sin if we wilfully run intood the barves as the place of loading. National Free Church Council and with, and there are no doubt many who then the same success as followed most of her learned to look to Jesus Christ for health
temptation.
In dismissing the appeal, with costa, efforts, Now the whole thing has been of body as they had long learned to look any length the story of the cure which McCardi's decision that the ship should Time will not allow us to consider at Lord Justice Bankes upheld Mr. Justion abolished and honour is due to the Gov- to Him for health of spirit. ernment for its mandate, but far greater
we have heard read in the second lesson. he treated as an So many Christians have been brought The poor woman had faith, but it was of
"arrived ship when honour, to one woman who has made her up in the belief that God sends them sick-z rather low and superstitious character. she lay at anchor waiting her turn in influence thus frit.
ness, that it is indeed a message of glad she at firar regarded Christ, as a magic load at the wharees, FROM THE LIVERPOOL ECHO."
tidines when they first learn that it it
of whose gar The Scandalous mui fui system of should suffer sickness and pain.
not the will of God that men and women wonder worker, the touch'
ment might cure her, unknown to There loption in Hongkong, which is nothing are crosses which God give us to carry, dorbs that Jesus made her comme
It was to correct this fanity faith no more than thinly camouflaged slavery of but I do not believe that ill health is and confess her cure. But what we must children, has now been aboilshed.
ever His will for us. He has given us notice about ber is this, she had a faith ample of the extreme dificulty of getting of health and if the rules are broken, i
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WHAT IS EYESTRAIN? The eye has certain tiny mascles.
The history of the matter is a good ex- bodies, which are subject to certain rules which prompted her to come to Jesus and When objects we look at do not come anything done by correspondence with the health is the result. But ill health is to expect a blessing from Him. And so up to a sharp focus in the eye, these
naidat the vast throng of people who muscles
lesser levers of the bureaucratic machins, not sent by God. It is not a beneficial were about Jesus Christ she alone received enable us to see clearly, in spite of the exert themselves unduly and As soon as the evil was brought directly discipline which we are to accept. and
while question in the House things began to which we must thy to get out of our from idle curiosity, some from love of casing the objects looked at to become
great multituils may follow move. It is supposed that one of the lives. During the whole of Fis public excitement, it is still only those who things that influenced him was the dis ministry Our Blessed Lord was constantly realiy, come to Him seeking a blessing, blurred and indistinct. Upon closing the covery that there is in the archiven of curing all manner of sickness and dis
who are rewarded. Let us nak curselves his office a Blue Book, dated 1882, which case. Never once did He tell a sufferer whether we are like the multitude who eres for a few seconds the muscles be cludes an instruction to the Governor of out exception Heently but with sets out the whole case, and actually into bear his sickness
All those who touched fim. Does He mean to us Life are clear again for
thronged Jesus or like the woman who come more or less rested and objects a brief period. brought to Him for healing and Ponce and Joy? Do we look to Him Properly Etted glasses correct eye-strain, day we should son that. His power to heal And if we had greater faith in Him to for. bealth of
body and strength of
whether caused by astigmatism or age. spirit 1
He is the bringer of good tidings. He The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to the flesh. Even with the little faith that offers us health of hody and peace of soul.
to the notice of Mr. Churchill himself by hear with resignation, but it is an evil great blessing. And so Jaya, some defect. These muscles tire and relax
that date to hold an inquiry. No inquiry was ever held, and the whole thing was pigron-beled for about forty years.
It is stated that Mr. Balfour's new designation will be Earl Balfour of WhittingehamLS..
is na less than when He was on earth.
we find in this age there are many cures Shall we struggin op in, weakness and Clark & Co. Manufacturing and Befract- which have been wrought by faith in Jeux distress without Him or live well and sting Opticians, 53, Queen's Road. Central, Christ as the ever present Saviour of the peace through Him? If we but much have the equipment to fit you glasses. boding as well as the souls of men,
Him by faith we shall be whole, both in
(Continued at faos of next column.)
I body and spirit.
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