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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and siter NOVEMBER Bru, 1929, until Further Nosico (all previous
Time Tablon cancelled).
TP TRAINS
STATIONS No. No. No:16)ANG, No.116.14 No. 1, No. 16 No.2 No.23 Mɑ,34 80,20 No.3
AM. AM. AM AM. AM. A.M. P.M.
F.M.
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Kowloon. Dep. 840 3.05.8.30 9.08 3,15 10,00 13,107 1.15 2.16 2.59 3.20 4,30 6,40 7.96) Ysamati. Dep. 8.49
Shatin...Dep. 7.01
Taipo Dep 7.15
Market. Dep. 7.20
Foaling Dep. 7.30
Taipo
Shoung-
9.25 10.09 12197 1.237 2.941
2.33 10.20 19.30 1.32.36
|0 53 10.39,12,437 1.48); 2.49
9.53 10.97 12.473 1.5232.53
10.10 10.47,13.87|§.2,02/§ 3.04,
shui...Dop. 7,95 19.07) 9.45) 10:15 10.59 1.09 2.07 -3.09 3.91
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THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG.
CROWN PREROGATIVE AS BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY.
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THE POWERS OF THE MONARCH REVIEWED, « ̈
CAN MAKE A PRIVATE A GENERAL.
The
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4.38 5.48 7:44
The fact that England has always { The advantage of having one final | 4.50 6.00) 7.56]
6.04 6.13 8.09en a monarchy has been the mould authoritative treaty maker
and' framework of our system of never more clearly demonstrated. 5.03 6.17 8.13
King appoints judges, 6.18 8.97 8.83 overnment. Parliament came later
than King, although stage by stage, bishops, and many other dignit- 5.23 8.38 8.27 it has made for the royal power dearies. If the King male the humb 4.00 6.99 5,33 8.33 finite channels, so that, broadly lest auraté an archbishop no one spraking, the King's sovereignty is could undo the deed. The great exercised through the various modes prerogative of mercy is another re- Parliament has devised' for it. sidue of power left in the bands of A large and indefinite residue of the Sovereign: whea judge and No.11 No.3 No.18 No.17 No.19 No.3 No.25 Mo. 11 46.23 authority, however, has never been jury have done their work it is for A.M. AM. AM. | P.X | P,M.", P.M. P.X. P.M.
teken away from the Sovereign of the King to exercise, if so advised, Great Britain.
the power of reprieve. -
chua...Arr. 7.41 8.45, 9.13 9.31 10.21 10.38 1.08 2.13 3.15 3.37
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DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS No.1 No.3 No. 1
A.M. AM.
A.M.
Canton Bop,
Shomehan...Dep. 7.17 8.03 30.34 Showagahui. Den 723 811 10.48 Fanling ...Dap. 7.30 8.15 10,47 TaipoMarket. Dep. 7.40 8.26 10,57 Taipo
.... Dep. 2.44 8.31 11.01 Shalia
...Dep. 7,578,44 11,14 Yaumati...Dep. 8.11 9.56 11.28 Kowloon ...Arr. 8.17, 9,03 11.32
8.10
7,18-
3.25
11.061127 11,47) 3.50 | 4,39 5.476.18 6.43, 852
11.55) 2.58 4.48 | 5.54
6,59
19.00 3.03 4.50 5.58
19.11 3.14 5.00 8,08
18.16 8.915.04 8,13
19.80 8.38617 6.267
19.42 3,481 5.20 6.385
11.512.07 12.48 3.04 5,35 8.44
6.25
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Thus there remain many things which the King may properly do without Parliamentary authorisa
A Common Error.
The Crown enjoys many immuni ties. The King, as. Sovereign, is completely immune from the juris dietion of the courts. If an Eng lish king committed forgery or arson it is clear tha; the king could not indict him to be tried in his own courts! He cannot be sued for proceeded against for debt, or tort.
Statute of Limitations
The King can do no wrong-runs the old constitutional maxim, The Statute of Limitations does not run against the King, and no Act of Parliament binds. the Crown unless the Crown is specifically mentioned as being bound in it.
The King. also, is head of the so far as the law English Church, of Christ allows," and as such is a quasi-ecclesiastical person in the eye of Church and State.
Certain minor privileges also be- long to the King. He has the right in eschent royal sturgeons, mine for saltpetre, to treasure trove. For this Inst
It is a common error to speak of the Home Secretary "repricving" prisoner. The exact fact is that tion. By the very fact of the con- the King, having been advised by stant consultation with Ministerse Home Secretary to reprieve, 72involved in our constitution, the and having accepted that advice, Sovereign "exercises enormous per-does as has been suggested, to him. sont induenge over the general It may be recalled that George III." Crowner") is still the proper was extremely adverse, to all the person to inquire into findings of
ressure brought to bear on him to concealed treasure. reprieve the Rev. D. Dodd, the i Exercised Constitutionally. forger, and eventually that gentle- man was hanged.
course of events.
The letters of Queen Victorin de monstrate again and again what heavy pressure the Queen brought
From the theoretical point of view to bear upon the political life of (and ignoring what might be the the country-she once indeed threat-ultimate fate of the Sovereign who ened nidication if a certain line relevant to Russian affairs were taken by one of her Cabinets!"
In addition to profound and subtle influence upon Ministers, relations between Britain and foreign Powers lie in the hands of the Crown. It is for the King to declare war, and for the King to consent to peace,
Advantage of Power.
It will be remembered how. Pre- sident Wilson wanted the League of Nations embodied in the Treaty of Versailles; how strangely also he forget that his peaceniaking powers eculd be exercised only in conjunc- tion with the Senate of the United States, and the confusion into which the world's history was there by thrown.
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The majority of people barely realise the magnitude of the King's powera, because they are exercised constitutionally. They operate for the good of the whole realm. In many ways paradoxical as it may
did these things), the King could Service; and sell all ships, bars, disband the Army, Navy, and Civil
racks, post offices, naval and mili tary stores and arsenals „ay-
He could sede the Lee of right
Denmark.
Other Powers.
they further democracy. When Queen Victoria abolished pro- motion by money power instead of by merit in the army, she helped the generality of people and the good of the whole nation...
When the Crown reprieves a con- ||
victed murderer, or releases some Be could raise to the peerage wretched dying convict on humani every subject he has. He could tarian grounds, it is a triumph over release every prisoner. He could the occasional rigidity of legalism. erect a hundred universities. He If the Crown cannot be tried in the; could refrain from calling. Parcourts, that removes from the scene iament until the realm was thrown the tremendous influence of an over- into confusion. He could appoint whelming litigant; and the proc- any sailor to command the navy,dure by Petition of Right-Although
notoriously open any soldier the army.
Queen Victoria Enosed immense procedure-is quieter in mode and and general surprise when she fairer to the petitioner.
royal abolished, merely by her warrant, the system of purchasing commissions in her army.
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habe H.K.C.C. ground. 3 p.m.
H.K.S.R.A, Hockey Club U.S.R.C. ground, 5.p.m.
T.D.M.A..At Home," Helena. May Institute, 4.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Movitone Follies of 1929,"
Concert. Helena May Institute, European MailsOutward: Europe rid Siberia (Tango Mari), 10.30-10.
5.30 p.m.
Theatre:
Queen's Fellies of 1920,"
Movitone
World Theatre: "Where East is East."
Star Theatre's Case,"
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Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula
World Theatre: "The Veiled Holel, 8.30 p.m. Woman,"
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Tides: High, 2,34 p.m. and 11,38 "The Cowboy | p.nu; Lox, 701 am, and 4.80 p.m. European Mails:-Inward: Furope ci Suez (Malwa).
Tea Daners: H.K. Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m..
Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel
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Tides: High. 1.08 pan, and 11.06 p.m.; Low, 8.03 a.m. and 4.26 p.m.
Friday,
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Interport Tennis; Hong Kong Shanghai, H.K.C.C. ground, 3 p.m. "Movitone Queen's Theatre: Follies"
World Theatre: Where East is East."
Annual meeting H.K. Horticul- teral Society, Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson. 5.15 p.m.
Star Theatre: Trent's Last I Case,"
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Queen's Theatre: "Movitone Folies."
World Theatre; "Where East is East"
Star Theatre: Cast."
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Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.
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Extraordinary general meeting of
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