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In honour of overseas, Continental, and U.S. A. visitors, a dinner, took place at Olympia last month, in connection with the Shipping, Engineering, and Machinery Exhibition, and speeches were made" which, on the whole, spoke hope fully of the fature of the engineering industry, thuogh the difficulties standing in the way of progress were admitted to be many. Sir Charles A. Parsons presided, and in a short speech of wel:
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14TH, 1926
THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE CAT.
WAS
PROHIBITION LAWS IN US.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S 'REPORT.
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.. CHANGE OF TITLE OF IMPERIAL" COUNCIL.
The weight given by Governments to the repesentations of an organisation, and the influence exerted by it through the Press, depend upon its representative character,
In the High Court of Justice says The Times, the Cats' Magna Charta has The Attorney-Goueral of the United been signed and sealed, provisionally at States, reviewing the working of the pro- The British Imperial Council of Com- all events. The legal status of the cation laws in his annual report pre-merce has issued the following mano
sented to Congress states that asurandum giving briefly the reason for the never clearly, established, though in the babamlis, bas lons its prominence proposal to change the title of the Coun- there has been no
as the liquor-souggling beadquarters, oil and explaining the changes which it doubt about the position leaving Havana as what is probably the is proposed to introduce in the rules :-- in law of his traditional enemy, the dog.
main source of supply. As the result of the liquor-smuggling. treaties con- Now the Judges have decided that the cluded with Great Britain and eight cat has equal rights with the dog-and other countries, the rum row of liquor-smuggling steamers has moved out be it noted, equal responsibilities. In further from the United States-shore deed, the cat is permitted to have greater line, but the Department of Justice has
had difficulty in establishing satis scope than the dog to indulge its way-factorily that vessels seized were within ward propensities. A common sat, ne-
one" hour's run of the shore. ccrding to the Court, was even more than a dog able and willing to trespass over a neighbour's roofs, gardens, and This is a form of tort of which trees." GL
the dog in some ways is incapable. It was held, of course, that cats are not
before the Court was admittedly, like all fere nature. But the eat in the ease
come to the g:toata called “attention to the closer application of science to indus. try which is now being witnessed, with the effect of improving methods
anufacture and better organisation cf our great workshopa.
"Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw; proposing
The World's Navies and Mercuntik:
Marine, and referring to the material of which ships are now made, said he was informed on the best authority that there was on the minutes of the Admiralty
an old resolution to the effect that it was impossible to have a ship of iron benuise it would not swim. (Laughter.)
exts,
in the category of mansueter nature; it really had the rights of any ordinary citizen of the realm. It went, however, beyond its legal privileges; it ceased.ts be the harmless, necessary cat. It caused more than a flutter in the dove-cote sad, instructed no doubt by come politicians, if robbed ben-roosts. It killed pigeons and devoured bantams; and then arose
point of law the decision of wht made it a martyr in the teline tribe, Ita erne indeed has made history." It sure
the tato of all cuts which run amok; it was destroyed because its excess oi appetite grew. by what it fed on, Ye. is owner was sued for the damage whic
There were wonderful examples of pro grees in this exhibition-for example, Stainless steel, which was immune from rust, and was applied to a diving suit made by Firth, of Sheffield; new methods of welding by electricity and other agencies, which made it possible to buila an iron ship without a single rivet; the steam turbine, invented by their presiit had done in providing cold suppers dent (cheers) which he did not hesitate to say bared the country during the war by enabling our destroyers to keep to the sens for very long periods; the internal combustion engine, faulty and untrust worthy at first, but now reliable enough to enable a vessel of seventy toms to put to sea to Australia; and wireless tele- graphy, a vast and important auxiliary to our mercantile marine and navy. This exhibition was the best in quality, and had been the best attended of any so far held. (Cheers.)
Mr. D. A. Bremner (Director of the British Engineers' Association, Incur- porated) responding to the toast of
or itself. The plaintiff was called upon o prove cienter, that is to say, he had to show that the owner of the cat knew of its vicious and voracious propensities, and, knowing of them, allowed the tabby to roam and commit what may be term avicide. There was no excuse for the cat's conduct. If it was well fed at home it had no right to take the lives of in- nocent pigeons and bantams; it was trespassing on the fox's province without justification. It forfeited its citizenship as a cat, but its action and its end have elicited from two of His Majesty's Judges, let us hope, an abiding charter of feline freedom.
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he case came before a County Court noge in the arst instance, ne fund SL the roamug character of cats was
recognized habit," and the custom
was to allow them to roam about reely.” It was for the owner of the pigeons, he thought, to keep them out, os the way of cats. The Divisional Court did not wholly adopt that view, but the appeal of the pigeon owner was dismiss c. Cats, the Judges very rightly said, re- earded birds as their natural prey, but they did not cease thereby to be tame animals. thus the owner, who did not know that his cat, instead of snatching sparrows in the moonlight hedges, was seizing pigeons and bantams in a neighbour's yard, was held not to be liable for the first offence of pussy. The real result of the case is that cats have great privileges both by day and night, but they must not be come habitual criminals. Otherwise their owners must become aware of their habits, and must be made liable for their de predations..
LORD DERBY AND IRELAND.
AN INCOGNITO" STORY.
The British Imperial Council of Com- merce, since its inception in 1911, has bean handicapped by the fact that its title does not indicats its constitution..
The Council speaks for British Cham- bars of Commerce throughout the Empire and in foreign countries, but its present. title does not make this clear, as would be the case if it were called "Tho Federation of Empire Chambers of Com- merce,"
The report mys:-" Over 300 foreign vessels have been engaged from time to time in the liquor-smuggling trade, nod the great majority of these vessels have been British." Of 39 seized in the year, es were British
"However, the recent treatice between this Government and Great Britain indicate that the British Government will co-operate with that of the United States in the suppression of of American vessels engaged in liquor-dom, Australia, South Africa, the West the liquor-smuggling traffic. The seizures
muggling, totalled 753.
Notwithstanding the great efforts that have been made to clear the Court Liquor Law, the number of untried cases enfendars of cases of violation of the has substantially increased. The great majority of the cases tried resulted in convictions, and fines for the violation of "the liquor laws aggregated about 27,500,000 £1,500,000. Ths Attorney-
General
recommends considerable in
creases in the personnel of the Federal Courts and the appointment of more Judges: He also urges the enactment of lows providing for heavier penalties. The present penalties he considers to be altogther too light, compared with the penalties incurred by violating other Federal laws.
DEMOLITION OF ASTOR HOUSE LAST OF A FAMOUS NEW YORK HOTEL.
The functions of the Federation would
in no wise encroach upon or overlap those of the Agestions of Chambers of Com- merco which exist in the United King-
Indies, etc. Its business would be to view every question from the Empire standpoint and it would not deal with Dominion or Colony (er indeed, the subjects which solely concern a single. United Kingdom) which naturally fall within the scope of the local Association of Chambers.
Its objects would be precisely similar to those of the British Imperial Council of Commerce, and this would be made clear in the rules governing the organisation, which would require some modification.
The proposal is that the constitution should remain substantially unaltered, although what is now the British Im- perial Council of Commerce would be come the General Council of the Federa tion.
The rules generally would, apart from consequential modifications, remain changed, with one important exception.
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The one change of importance would be. that hereafter the triennial Congress would be contined to the representatives of Chambers and Boards forming the Federation, and in accordance with this proposal, it would be necessary to incor parate the rules governing the organisa tion and conduct of the Congress, in the rules of the federation.
The once famous Astor House, which stands in Lower Broadway, in the shadow of the Woolworth Building, is soon to be demolished, to make way for a 40-storey block of offices. The southern half gave way ten years ago to a modern building, but the northern hall, untenanted except There appears to be no valid reassa for shops on the ground floor, has re-why a Chamber should be permitted to aained externally, though much be- grimed, the same granite building which 20 years ago took rank as the city's newest and most elegant hotel. It is now announced that Major. J. J. Astor has sold this northern half, to
a firm of building contractors for 82,000,000 (£125,000),
The famous hotel, was completed in 1835 for an ancestor of Major Astor at what was then the tremendous cost of $350,000 (£17,500). For half a century it was the stopping place of all distin gished visitors to New York, Presidents of the United States, statemen like Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun, Black Hawk, the Indian Chief. Jenny Lind, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and other celebrities. It was in the Astor House that Thackeray first met Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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RUGBY WIRELESS STATION. TELEPHONE MESSAGES HEARD IN HONGKONG,
A Leafield message towards the end of December said:→
take part in the Congress if it holds, aloof from the bedy through "whose activities the Congress is kept in being and its decisions redered as far as pos Bible effective.
The 129 present members of the British Imperial Council of Commerce include practically all the larger Chambers in the Empire, and the very low subscrip tion (in the case of Chambers with less than 250 members, it is only £2 a) can form no barrier to the smallest Chamber joining."
"ENGLAND NOT YET. DONE."
NEARLY 90 PER CENT. OF THE
PEOPLE AT WORK,
...
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England is by no means done," said Sirigsley wood, P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, at & men's meeting at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.
**If we can only regain the will to work and the sense of national and individual duty," he proceeded, " we shall soon attain the greatest period in our history. The most remarkable fact is that, despite the unexampled difficul ties of our time, nearly 90 per cent, of our people are at work and that the actual number at work is greater than before the war.
The Engineering Industry " stutru that whereas our exports of machinery were 3 per cent, of our whole exports in 1913, they were in 1923 52.8 per cent. British engineering was a very long way from expiring. Its output was. 27 per cent, more than in 1913, in spite of all their troubles. It was the largest single consumer of iron and steel, absorbing 25 per cent. to 30 per cent. Taking the exports of iron and steel and allied metal products for 1010 as 100, they had risen to 60.7 in 1991, 08.6 in 1929, 78 in 1990, 79.9 in 1991, and 81.1 in the Brat nine months of 1025 (Cheers.) The exports of machinery this year would, without doubt, touch. 511,000 tons, the biggest figure reached since 1913. The engineering industry had had a hard battle to fight. Its local and national taxation together was not less than tve and a quarter. times above the pre-war figure. The Eotal number of workers. affected by strikes in the industry since 1017 was 655,000, and the wurk days lost were 31,250,000. It was A very Bi24 thing that today the skilled workers in the industry. were receiving only 45 per cent, above the pre-war rutes, whereas
The sending out of official British news will be taken over by the new powerful the increase in the sheltered trades and occupations had varied from 80 per
station at Rugby on December 61st the cont to 155 per cent. In the iron
building of which has cost £400,000 and and steel" trade the average increase Loast Our Guests at a house dinner the world. This is the first of a series of |
The Earl of Derby, responding to the which is probably the most powerful in was only 90 per cent. He was glad to
They wanted a great nationul, cam. say that the iron and steel industry was
given recentis at the Irish Club, London, proposals made by the radio commission paiga with a gospel of work, goodwill, now taking a turn, for the better. In
said he had not an ounce of Irish blood and the station is fitted with the newest and unity. Trotsky had come to the October seven additional blast furnaces could have associated him with the suges can be sent at the same time to in England and throughout the Empire in his veins, and the only thing that developments. For instance several mes conclusion that a catastrophic revolution were pat in operation. It was very easy for overseas buyers to charge British
country was an Irish estate which his various parts of the world. It is also
was inevitable within a few years. Thera eigiacers with indisposition to meet
uncle bought and then sold. (Laughter.) equipped with an installation whereby were also many people at home asking their special requiremente. In fairness That estate was now the best breeding the wave length can be kept constant.
"Is England done. Thoughtful peo it must be admitted that there was some
place for racehorses in the world, and Rugby is the first station which is abso ground for the charge, but, at the same
the house upon it was the home of a lutely free from involuntary alterations ple were naturally disturbed and per time it should be borne in mind that pre-
very celebrated stud. He only wished in the wave length. The wireless tole Ploxed at many signs of the times; our duction must make a proft on the charge
he had got it now. (Laughter.) When phone installation has a gradius of 5,000 delicate trade position, the continued prevalence of unemployment, the talk of mada to the customer, and if they were he was in the House of Commons he made miles. When it was tested, power was required to depart from a regular
a great many friends among the Irish gradually increased. When working at revolution so freely and lightly advocated
in our midst. standardised practice in order to meet members. Mr. Tim Healy was a parti- quarter of its capacity replies were to do so unless it could be made to pay. an inadequate demand, it was impossible cular friend of his, and once when he received from Java and Hongkong thatThere was, however, another side to the the messages were distinctly heard. On picture which gave him optimism, though wished to be away from the House in half power Rugby was heard in Australia not undiluted. The first was the charac Nevertheless, he could assure overseas
order to go to a fancy dress ball, he asked and very distinctly in America. A week ter and quality of the British people." buyers that British engineers were now
Mr. Healy if he could manage to prevent more disposed than ever, they were before a division. Mr. Healy did so, and next ago when working with more power, re The vast majority of our workers were to do their utmost to meet the require day said to him, Mother and child ports were received that the messages had perfectly sound and preferred work to been heard in New Zealand whilst South dolen. Again, British qualities, proved ments of their markets. (Cheers.) doing well, I hope?" He had never to Africa reported that the Rugby news never so excellent as when we were up
this day told Mr. Healy why he wanted
was the clearest of all stations..
against it. to be away. (Laughter.) Wishing later to find out something tor himself about Ireland, he wont there disguised with a pair of spectacles and under an assumed. Dame. He achieved his incognito by real name on the boat (Laughter.) He learing his cigarette case bearing his
in a garden, began talking about fruit, not a pricat who, while walking with him
priest said, "Do you know Lord Derby?" and particularly apples. Presently the He replied," Well, what about Lord Derby," "Oh," was the answer, "he is Several new rules in the Book of Con- very round and red, that's what he is; ?! stitutions were proposed by the Chairman then he realised his companion was re of the Procedure Committee, Sir Kynes-ferring to a special kind of apple, and ton Studd, and carried.
had not identified him, - (Laughter.) · The
FREEMASONRY.
UNITED GRAND LODGE United Grand. Lodge of England held its quarterly communication last month at Kingsway Hall, WC. The Pro Grand Master, Lord Ampthill, presided.
The Duke of Connaught was nominated Grand Master of the Order for the twenty-sixth year..
In connection with the Masonic Million next time he went to Ireland was as Memorial Hall Stone Lodge medals were presented to thirty-four lodges, twenty he came to as a result of both these Secretary of State for War. The opinion: one of which meet in London. The report visits was that if only they could bring of the Special Committee on the Masonic the North and South of Ireland together Peace Memorial stated that the total promised to date is £840,500, and the Ireland would be an eñormana amet to amount received and invested is £528,000. this country.(Hear, hear.) They might Among recent contributions are $1,000 be inclined to ask whether the arrange
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