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The Supply of Water to all Wharves in Victoria will be Turned of on the Sama Date and will remain Cut off until Further Notice."
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STARTING TIMES on SUNDAYS and HOLIDAYS, for the OLD COURSE. Faxling, will commenos on SUNDAY, 16TH INSTANT.
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Me, D. A. Rushton has been ap pointed to act as assistant secretary to the Sanitary Board with effect from September 7th.
1 pm, during the Long Vacation. The Long Vacation commences on the 20th inst., and terminates on October 17th.
At the expiration of three months from date, unless cause is shown to the contrary, The Auctioneering
organised themselves into unions and the fight began. This is put ting the extreme of the matter and in actual fact a careful regulation of hours, wages and conditions
The offices of the Supreme Court kept pace with the development of will be open daily from 10a.m. to many leading industries" There have, fortunately, been at all times in England" model employers," able to show that proper treatment of labour is the solid foundation of prosperity. But the average employer no more thought of basing the wages and parquisites of labour on the profta received than he did of giving his domestic servants a share of the deligeies that graced
'OWD tabit. Moreover, the A Chinese was fined $10; and cleavage, between the classes in-ordered to pay 88 compensation by creased as young gentlemen were Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magis o sent to expensive preparatory tracy on Saturday. He tore schools instead of being taught by the door of a motor-car which had the local parson in company with bumped into him or Queen's Road, because, he said, the driver tried the cleverer village boys and largely brought up in the stables and kitchen...
his
and Brokering Co., Ltd., will be struck off the Register and the edm pany dissolved.
to run away.
DISTRIBUTION IN VARIOUS LOCALITIES.
NURSING SISTERS. :
QUESTION OF PENSIONS.
AMENDMENT TO REGULA- TIONS,
Several attempts have been made during recent years to arrive at some satisfactory method of cal. culating the pensions due to Nurs- ing Sisters upon retirement, from Colonial Service.
AN EDINBURGH "CASTLE" EPISODE.
TO BE STAGED AT GRAND TATTOO.
"IN THE NAME OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY,"
CHANGING THE GUARD.
--dramatie~ncident-in-the-his:
Now a further amendment of the Pension Minute has been notified. tory of Edinburgh Castle will be This amendment, which appears in represented at the Grand Tattoo at Sockunpoo on October 4th, th and 6th.
the current issue of the Gazette, is as follows:-
A European nursing sister or matron, who has not less than three Colony, and who has been employ- ears Government service in the
ment
It was in 1850-the year when James II. fed and William and
ed as a qualified nursing sister Mary became joint monarchs of or matron in the public service or Britain-that the famous "Chang in a public hospital, in the Colonying of the Guard" episode occur. or elsewhere, to which she was ap- pointed by the Colonial Govern-red when Edinburgh Castle formal-
Overseas or through the
ly opened its gates to the repre- Nursing Association, for a term or terms which, together with such sentative of the new sovereigns. Government service, make up a all, and who would not otherwise be entitled to a pension, gratuity or other retiring allowance under the provisions of this Minute, may led by General Hugh Mackay will be granted on her ultimate retire-
The reply of the intellectual and RAINFALL DURING AUGUST. period of not less than 15 years in ambitious members of the working classes was to adopt the socialism of Marx, who taught that capital had been stolen from the work- ers" and of the Syndicalists who held that the workers" had only to "take" over " the mines had factories and then there would be wealth for all...
It needed the War to break down many social barriers, the Russian Revolution to expose the economic heresies of Socialism and the General Strike to show the Trade Unions that the nation was not going to be governed by a self- appointed committee drawn from singularly irresponsible, section of the community. Now it is to be hoped that truths of a simple but very revolutionary nature for all parties have emerged; that the propertied classes "see it is better aim at eradicating poverty
to
than to keep the working classes
REMARKABLE DIFFERENCES.
the.. observations According to made at the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, the rainfall during August was 12.910 inches,
As already reported, the rainfall at the Botanical Gardens was 17.98 inches. At the Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, it was 11:45 inches and at the Police Station, Taipo,
$.63 inches.
In the Government Gazelle the rainfall of 1796 inches at the Botanical Gardens is given as for June. Even the Gazette apparently can make mistakes and on this ecension it is two months behind the time.
At the Royal Observatory rain fell on 20 days; at the Botanical" Gardens on 17 days; at the Matilda Hospital on 18 days; and at Taipo
on 15 days.
There were 204,8 hours of sub-
The aurrender" will be staged at Sockumpoo as follows:-
The Lowland and English troops,
ment from the Government service, appear before the Castle gates, or from such employment as afore and will be received by the High. said, as the case may be, a retiringland Quarter-Guard of the Castle allowance calculated at the rate of
8. 4d. per annum for each month with the usual formal complimente, of her Government service in the hut the gates will remain closed. Colony.
Provided that the above mention-
The Mackay Summons. Thereupon, General Hugh Mac- Kay will, in stentorian tones, in the name of King William and Queen Mary, call upon the Governor of the Castle, the Duke of Gärdon, to
For the purposes of this para- graph such periods of three years and 15 years need not be continuous. ed minimum period of 15 years shall be reduced to ten years in the case of a Europeau nursing sister or matron who is compelled by ill-health, not caused by her surrender the fortress. own misconduct, to relinquish ber overseas nursing career.
The Gates will then be thrown Provided further that, except in open and the Duke of Gordon will the case of ultimate retirement on emerge. He will be received with account of illness, no such retiring.
"General Salute" by the Low allowance shall be payable until the nursing sister or matron reaches landers and will formally hand the age of 50; and provided fur-over the keys of Edinburgh Castle. ther that the grant of such retiring allowance shall be dependent onto General Mackay... The troops the satisfaction will then enter through the gates the production to of the Secretary of State of certi- and climb the steep slope to the ficates of satisfactory service in respect of cach term of service and battlemente.
term of employment making up When the last man has passed euch minimum period of 15 years into the Castle, the ceremony of or ten years, as the case may be," Changing the Guard" will be and that the total retiring allow enacted in the arena before the Castle Gates. It will be much the may be eeen daily at the changing of the Royal Guard at St. James Palace, Lon- don which always attracts such a multitude of onlookers.
poor and igborant in case they get discontented," while the work shine during August. The maximum ing classes realise that prosperity temperature was 922 on August 1stance drawn by the nursing sister
1.5 same, ceremony or matron from all sources in rea- depends on co-operation between all and the minimum 766 on August pect of Government service in the grades of workers from millionairexth. The Governmira: Gazette states Colony and employment as afore financier downwards, and will not
said in the Colony and elsewhere be obtained by the forcible applica-
shall not exceed the amount of pension which she would have drawn if her whole service and em- ployment as aforesaid had been on the pensionable establishment of the Colony,
tion of socialistic theories."
One case of smallpox and three of enteric were reported on Friday. All the patients were Chinese.
As from Tuesday. September 11th, the supply of water in a rider main districts will be restrict- ed two hours a day.
At the Central Magistracy on
A NEW ERA IN INDUSTRY. Saturday a Chinese youth was fined 31 and ordered to pay. 81 com-
teller. -
that the temperature was 7:60 on August 30th but that is scarcely
believable.
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ABDUCTION CHARGE: AGAINST BOXER.
GIRL'S LIFE IN LONDON...
BLACKMAIL DECOY ALLEGA. TION.
BRISTOL, Aug. 17th. There was a sequel to the dis tol girl named Kathleen Eugiene appearance of a good-looking Bris Williams, aged 17th, of Hill Street, Smith, aged 30, was charged at Bristol with abducting "her.
The provisions of this paragraph will apply to all European nursing sisters and matrons in the service of the Government of the Colony en or at any time after January 1st, 1926.
MAGISTRATES' POWERS.
QUESTION OF REVIEWING DECISIONS.
WHEN Mr. A. J. Coos, the Secre-pensation for assaulting a fortune Totterdown, when Thomas Francis PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
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It was stated that Smith went to lodge with the girl's parents, representing that he was a profes sional boxer who was going to box Milligan, the former middle-weight champion. He stayed at the house some time, and on February 2nd be and the girl disappeared. Later a telegram was received from London whi h read, "All O.K. Will write."
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Dress Of The Period. The drill used in changing guard in 1680 does not differ materially from the similar ceremonial drill of to-day, but the scene will gain in picturesqueness by the fact that both guards will be in the authen- tic full dress of the period.
The Duke of Gordon's guard will ' be impersonated by members of the Scottish Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, while the Lowland Guard will 6e furnish. " ed by the 95th Foot. (The King's The Own Scottish Borderers). uniform worn by the latter guard is copied exactly from a coloured print of the period in the poɛses- sion of the Regiment.
Y.M.C.A. To Banaât And Military Charities.
"The proceeds of the Grand Tat- too are to be shared by Military At the next meeting of the Legischarities of the units taking part-
lative Council it is proposed to and by the Naval and Military introduce a Bill to amend the YM.C.A. Magistrates. Ordinance, 1890,
ance No. 23 of 1027.
was carried in a faint from the Chinese youth who was found assembly of the Trade Union Con- in possession of 38 po piu lottery gress many of delegates must have tickets was ordered "to receive six
Perhaps it is not generally seep in the incident a symbol of stroke of the birch by Mr. R. E.
known that military units have The objects and reasons of the charitable funds to which serving the passing of an epoch. Having Lindsell at the Central Magistracy
members of the units subscribe. new measure state :-
Clause of this Bill amends the The funds thus accumulated are accepted on Tuesday a resolution on Saturday.. that the Trade Union Movement
present section 90 of Ordinance No. used in settling men in civil life be purged of Communism the Con-
The girl in the witness-box, 3 of 1890, which was enacted by when their Army service is com- Ordinance No. 23 of 1997, section pleted and also in the care of their gress proceeded to agree, by an
said that at 3.30 o'clock one morn ing in January 1927 Smith entered 13, by restoring to a magistrate dependents. The famous Aldershot overwhelming majority to open in
her room and woke her up. She the power to review his decision on Tattoo was originated with the dustrial peace negotiations with the
ordered him out of the room, but his own initiative, which power object of augmenting theee funda he refused and assaulted her. pro existed in the ornal section which are never sufficient to meet the future, when the
mising that ther would be married of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890, but all calle on them."
The work of the Naval and Mili- at once. He suggested they should seems to have been omitted by in- smouldering warfare of the last
"Did you take a 14 feet plank go to London and get a special advertence whes that section was tary YMCA in Hong Kong is hundred years between. labour
for a pillow ? asked Mr. R. E. licence, and then go on to Paris, redrafted for insertion in Ordin- well known. The present centre in
and thence to Bagdad, where a
the City Hall has displaced the old and capital is seen from the Lindsell at the Central Magistracy man owed bini £120. They were
It seems obviously desirable that "Cheer O" and "The Better 'Ole" distance of an age of full co-opera-
on Saturday, when Chinese afterwards to return to a cinema
a magistrate should retain such centres inaugurated last year when tion between the two it may be was charged with stealing wood in London.
power of reviewing his own de-additional troope arrived in Hong Only A Shilling.
cision. This power of review is Kong Funds for the early work difficult to grasp how this futile from the Sang Lee constractors'
Eventually she agreed to go, but limited to a period of seven clear were generously provided by local
and residents
the YMCA. struggle could have lasted so long matshed at Wanchai.
of ability and denied that he had stolen the wood when they arrived in London they days from the date of his original National Headquarters, but for the
bad only one shilling" between decision.
continuance of the work funds are and how men
East Clause 3 (a) of this Bill amends necessary. integrity could have been blind to and said that he was dragging it them. They stayed in an
End boarding-house, and after to be used as a comfortable pillow. about six months he took her to a to the Magistrates Ordinance, 1800, paragraph 10 of the Third Schedule 66, QUEIN'S ROAD CENTRAL 1ST FLOCE, the call of self-interest as well as was fined $5 or, in default, ten West End calé. He told her to
by drawing"atttention to the fact days' hard-labour:
let some man speak to her, and that in the ease-of
a criminal then he would intervene and get charge for libel, which the magis
She some money from the man.
trate considers to be of a trivial The following new regulation has refused to do so, and when they character, there is power, with the been made by the Midwives Board: get to their rooms he abused and assent of the party charged, for Laber, he suggested she should the magistrate to deal with such
libel charge summarily.
The anti-cyclone has parsed into The other amendment effected by the Pacific to the north-east of tend over a period of not less than go to a flat acar Leicester Square, two years at a maternity hospital where a woman made suggestions
The depression remains paragraph 11 from the Third Sche-over south Manchuria eat and received no money from dule of the Magistrates Ordinance
The typhoon is situated about at a less wage than those already and one year at a maternity hos Smith, who was then working at for the reasons that defa 150 miles to the south-west of the
libels are specifically included in employed he was free to take them. pital recognised as such by the night clubs.
Smith, who said he did not wish paragraph 10 of that Schedule and Bonins, moving N.N.W The logical outcome was child Board, or four years in general to say anything till he had con that verbal defamation cannot be labour until outraged public opin-nursing, and six months at such sulted his solicitor, was committed made the subject of a criminal
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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 4.55 p.m., stated:-
Clothing, and Condamned Provisions for gire Subscribers and Visitors and make that profit ne large as precognised as such by the Board to which she refused to accede, clause, 3 of this Bill is to delete Japan..
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