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than the Unofficial Members, with the Council at which this Voto of the result that the Government, if | 8300,000 'had been discussed, One it so desires, can carry out any of those present at the meeting foreplan which it propares, in spite of subsequently spoke when this item any opposition. True, the Unoflenme before the Finance Committed Cunell, can-nnd, on occasion, do the public had a right to know cint Members of the Legislative of the Legislative Council, and said
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Press reports from Vienna state that Vice-Chancellor Vaugoin, Min-
moyer resigned on Wednesday after ister of Delenco Schuster and Minister of Agriculture Sonder-
a prolonged Cabinet meeting. The resignation of the entire Schober Cabinet is believed probablo.,
The Press in Bucharest is eagerly discuscussing the reported inclina
viet Union. The official organ oven tion of dhe Rumanian Government LO suck reconciliation with the So-
goes so far as to assert that this has meetinge of Unofficial Members of while
We believe that no less than three always been the wish, of Rumania,
the Democratio the Legislative Council have been Diminiata believes that the Ruman- paper held within the last month to disan delegate at Geneva is already curs the Government's plans for negotiating with the Czecho-Slova aviot Ambassador to Berlin, on Mr. Nikolai Krestinski the spending 18 lakhsions which Siriontach, Minister, Herr
weccet sessions which Sir Benesch, with a view of making leaving the post he has held since CECIL CLEMENTI considered so buni the latter accept the role of go. July 1022, has presented his letters nean like have convinced the Un-between to which Horr Benesch is of recail to President von Hinder
score mere deern oficial. Members that the Govern
fore worthy of support. Does any body know by what arguments the Unofficial Members have been now convinced that the Government's plans, which they once doubted, are, in fact, good! Thursday's proceedings were
said to have already agreed. The early understanding will thus bo papers express the hope that an intcomplished between Rumania and
Moscow.
burg. He will leave Berlin early
next month for Moscow to take up his new duties os Vice-Commissary for Foreign Affairs. Moanwhile the Soviet Government has applied. for the German Government's agres- ment to the appointment of the former chief of the Soviet trade mission in London and actual. As- Atstant Commissary for Economic Affairs, Mr. Chintchuk, as the new. Ambassador to. Berlin.
Seigmond Hill, branch manager; of Weateliff (Essex), was sentenced
playing to the gallery, any exuberance of verbosity, any a tempt to points, or to beckle the ment. There was seldom any
long debutes in the Chamber, said Sir CECIL, because difficul- ties and debateable, points are threshed out in the freedom and privacy of informal discussion." His Excellency laid particular em
Official statisties say that there phasis upon this to him-highly
marked with are in Poland at present altoge satisfactory state of affairs, and
the business like brevity ther 44,000 motor-vehicle of vari especially congratulated the Legis favoured by dictators. There was ous descriptions or one per 680 lative Council upon "the business
no heckling, no cxuberance of people. They include 118,282 pri- like brevity" with which their pro verbosity, and no playing to the sate cars, 7,282 taxia, 6,888 trucks, ceedings were conducted. But in this under the punkah" method gallery. Not a word was said by 4,144 motor buses and 7,760 motor- the Unofficial Members in opposi
cycles. of dealing with public affairs husition, or even in faint praise. The ness-like! Is it fair to the tax-. Colonial Secretary casually men- Dr. Ernest Ward, hon, secretary to six months in the second division payer who is not permitted to know tioned that the information asked of the Joint Tuberculosis Council of at Bow-strect recently for embezzle- what transpires at the secret for by the Unofficial Members had Great Britain, Canada and thement It was stated that about gatherings 1
been supplied, and was embodied United States, speaking at Manito.it was that Hill bought a car, and £675 was involved. For the defence...
A United'Front,
in his speech introducing the Vote ba Sanitorium, said:...” If civilisa for 13 lakhs. What he meant, but tion keeps up its present fight then found that he had not enough There is much to be said for in- did not say, was that panimous against tuberculosis, the disease money to run. it. formal discussions between Unaffi support of his proposals had been will be as rare in 1950 as typhoid cial Members themselves of dubious arranged under the punkah," and fever is now in England. Tho The Scoretary General of the or arguable points before entering so there was nothing more left to gradual disappearance of tuber- Italian upon a public debate. It is good bol said. Why Have Council Meetculosis is practically assured." Dr. Osen again there is presented to that the representatives of the tax ings! If this strenge procedure Ward emphasised, the importance of the community an example of the payer should, if possible, present a comes much more into favour, it the education of schoolchildren in
which united front when the Council sits should be possible to retrench the preventive measures against tuber extraordinary manner in
in publio session. That they should Legislative Council
altogether.culosis. The British doctors attend public business is disposed of in invariably see eye to eye is not to Why waste timo and money on ing the meeting are members of the this Colony. Inst month the Legis. be expected, nor even desired, but public sittings if everything can British scholarship tour, who are
by private discussions they can be quietly arranged beforehand!
of the principal tuberculosis sana for ar against the Government, building and running the vehicntoria in the Dominion. there, can be no objection to such lar-ferrica? Why not arrange that preliminary and confidential falks. matter "under the punkah"! Procedure of this character, indeed, Why have a debate on October 16 Free City of Hamburg have decided The members of the Senate of the would be most business-like and on the Budget when all the in- commendable. Nobody with a pia formation required by Unofficial to present for the time being ton any public discussion should be scal of " private and confidential" fund for the feeding of unemployed per sense of the dignity with which Members can be supplied under a per cent of their salaries to the conducted would wish to sue their doubts about, the Government's Legislative Council Chamber con- ferry project can be dispelled so verted into a bear-garden. Nobody expeditiously by secret methods. would feel proud of a Chamber probably all other criticisms and whose members were in the habit objections can be similarly dispos of hurling ink-stands or chairs at ed of with business-like brevity." each other during a public debate, No doubt the Attorney-General Nor is it possible to feel very proud could draft an Ordinance to dent of a Chamber in which any indica- with inquisitive taxpayers which, tion of opposition to Government when submitted to the Legislative Policy is dealt with by strange and Council, would bo unanimously secret methods of which the general approved with business-like brevity, public knows nothing. All that is the Unofficial Members having pre- allowed to became known is the viously had all doubts dispelled by
explained fact that the opposi-under the punkah" methods. baptism," tion has disappeared-and even this uninformative information would be suppressed but for the fact that it is sometimes impossible to do 80. What Has Happened?,
Fascist Party Signor Turati, who held this post for the last five years, has resigned and been replaced by the president of the Chamber Signor Giuirati, one of the organizers of the raid on the city of Fiums and thereafter. Premier Mussolini's chef de cabinet
Regions Signor Turati together with Minister of Communicationa Ciano, the formot lendor of the. fessor Stefani have been made mem- Fascist syndicates Rossoni and Pro- bors of the Great Council of the Fascists.
lative Council was asked to apprese agree upon a common policy, either Why call for public tenders for crossing Canada on an inspection and later Minister of the Liberated
an expenditure of 13 lakhs on piers for a proposed vehicular-ferry ser- vice. The Unofficial Members-the only recognized authoritative medium through which the taxpayer can hope to express his views upon public affairs-were not disposed to approve this Vote. Accordingly it was temporarily withdrawn in order to allow the Unoficial Mem bore time to consider the scheme in all its bearings. Last Thursday the Vote was again submitted to the Council, and approved unanimous- ly-but without a single word of discussion! The Colonial Secretary hoped that any doubts they may have had concerning the wisdom of
the Government's, scheme have been now removed." Evidently they lad, but how 1 By a series of sceret sessions, in which informa- tion naked for was supplied and discussed under the punkah," nstead of in open Council. Why all, this secrecy about doubts and their removal? The Council Cham- ber is the proper place for Unoffi cial Members to express their
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Rev. F. J. Gould, pastor of Watford (Herts) Congregational Church, defends the use of confetti at weddings. He says: I should be the last man to frown on any natural expression of goodwill, merely on the ground that a care taker (usually well tipped) had to sweep over a few square yards of one who has both soil, and as sprinkled and heen sprinkled, I vote for the continuance of this happy
Lord Sands passed sentence of five years' pennl servitude in the High Courts of Justiciary, Edin- urgh, on James Cumming Morgan. aged 40, schoolmaster at Mcsstowie School, Elgin, who pleaded guilty to nine charges of assaulting girls under his charge in the school. It was stated that Morgan, who was mastor of arts of Edinburgh Uni
4 distinguished scholar- varsity, had tic career. Lord Sandy said that the offences Morgan had committed were almost unparalleled in that category al crime.
Local Notes and Events
At last Thursday's meeting of the Legislative Council silent but unanimous approval was given to For the poscanion of five tools. the Government's plans for build-of non-Government opium, ing wharves to accommodate Chinese was fined 8700 by Mr. R. harbour. vehicular-ferry service across the E. Lindsell at Central Magistracy Council was asked to approve yesterday.
thie Vote of 13 lakh, the Unofcial Members refused to commit them-
Last month, when the
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Receiving a call shortly after 2 His Excellency, Bir William Peel, K.B.E, OM.G., Patron of p.m. yesterday, Kowloon Station despatched three appliances 66. John Ambulance Brigade, bas to Cheung Sha Wan Road, where very kindly consented to present a medium-sized contractors ontsh the Long Service Medals, Meda)- ed had caught fire. The fire lasted us and Labels to those Brigade Mombers who are entitled to re- The attention of the public, is only 15 minutes, and when the fire- posal, and the Council Chamber is the scheme than the Government where in our columns regarding injured and property damaged was.
nt 3 p.m. at King', College, completely burned out. Nobody was the place where the Government seemed disposed to communicate. telephone numbers of ambulance valued at $300.
At Central Magistracy, yester- should answer any criticisms of its drawn temporarily in order to give
Consequently the Vate was with stations..
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day, a woman, crippled in both plans for spending public money...
the Unofficial Members time to in
A report has been main by Lau legs, was charged before Mr. E. H. vestigate the facte and reach a con large crowd was seen to gather in that whilst driving his vehicle, ing prohibited hours. The
At about 8 p.m. on Thursday, a Mau, a lorry driver, to the police Williams for selling cigarettes dur- Bad Example to China.
sidered decision as to their attitude Peddar Street and on investigation along Sha Tau Kok Road, he had man said that she slept alongside One of the chief criticisms direct toward the Government's proposals, it was found that Sybil Joseph was to swervo, to avoid two men on the her stall and when a man COME 12
During the intervening month. cer- ed against the Chinese Government tain information has been given to acting in an abnormal manner. She roadway as a result of which the to her after midnight and asked for is that its methods of administra the Unoficial Members for their was removed to the Mental Home. lorry ran into a paddy field. He a packet of cigarettes, she thought received injuries to his face, and it was quite all right. Taking tion are dictatorial rather than consideration. What they were
another coolie who was on the lorry into consideration that the defen- were attended by a doctor at Taipo, registered a caution in spite of at the time was also injured. They dont was a cripple, the magistrate
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democratic. The voice of the people only to themselves and their in- near the Cheung Sha Wan Rend,
told, and how and when, is known While working on a building site so it is alleged-is not given any formants, The public have not coolie Tell from some height and.
the fact that there was a previous When a Chinese was brought be conviction against her:: opportunity for free expression. been enlightened on the matter. his injurics were such that he died
Evidently it is considered that the almost instantly. His body was fore Mr. H. R. Butters yesterday The dumb helplessness of the nation taxpayer is of no consequence other removed to the Kowloon mortuary. when it was ruled by Emperors is than as an unfailing source of
og the charge of possession of 80 tools of raw opium, he pleaded perpetuated under the Republican revenue. It would have been quite
a simple matter for the Government Workmen who were engaged in guilty and was fined $1,600 with Looking Back 25 Years, régime. These charges are met by to issue an explanatory statement excavation work on a site at the the alternative of six months' bard People who sometimes indulge the explanation that, until the for publication in the Press. There junction of Shanghai Street and labour. The Revenue Officer who in sneers at the superstitions of arrested the man at the Railway Chinese have something to ponder Chinese people have pumed through need have been no excess expendí. Mongkok Road on Thursday un Station on Thursday night stated ever in the fact that England is
ture incurred under the heading oʻ earthed a human skeleton. There' the period of political tutelage--as printing, for a typist could have are no suspicious circumstances at that he had the opium concealed in agitated just now over the ques- prescribed by BUN YAT SEx himself prepared half a dozen copies of any tached to the find, IN. a specially made pair of trousers, then of women entering church without head coverings, At sever it is impossible to carry on the statement drawn up. But what
Α A fine of $2,000 or four months at churches and cathedrals, unben- Cover enlightenment the Unofficial administration of national affairs Members of the Legislative Council Havre Mara has made a report to imprisonment was imposed on austed women have been refused ad- by any other method than that have received during the past four the Harbour Office that whilst his young Chinese woman when she mission. Hong Kong Daily Press, which has been, and still is, em weeks has been communicated to vessel was in high seas, the Chief appeared before Mr. R. E. Lind Oct. 4, 1905. ployed. In view of existing social them secretly and in confidence Officer died of heart failure. The sell yesterday on n charge of pos- Looking Back 50 Years.
why They have been conditions, it must be admitted that that the Governments convinced steamer arrived from Yokohama sion of 23 tools of opium. The defendant said she was given three proposals and Sakito yesterday...
cent for every tin she took ashore ʼn stronger, case can be made out are quite sound-but, how? The fer dictatorial methods than for people who are called upon to pro- Legislative Council will on Octo- on the job was becauen she had tax-paying public is put told The The Chinese members of the and the only reason why she took
are not greatly interested in poline to the doubts raised and explana be At Home as the City Hall From husband was out of a job. democratic. The reasses in China vide the 13 lakhs are not informed ber 10, the Chinese National Day, a little son to support and her tica. It may serve the policies of tions dvanced, whereby the Un 11.30 am to 12.45.p.m. His Ex- politicians in various parties to official Members have been brought cellency the Governor has signified pretend that the people are most round to the Government's way of his intention to be present. vitally concerned about the three
thinking. If such a thing had
Capt. T. Inone of the O.S.K.
The practice of adulteration in the supplies of merchandise is not lucro's sake there are many persons singular to any people. For filthy in all parts of the world ready to palm off spurious trash upon the unwary purchaser in place of the
The case in which a Chinese is Kenume article for which he pays. alleged to have embezzled $40,072.83 The Chinone have contrived during again came up before Mr. Lindsell the last fifteen or twenty years to
or even thirty political principles, happened in Canton or Nasking, Arrested for attempting to steal at the Central Magistracy yester got large quantities of tea shipped but the statement is simply not there would have been much expres a purse from passenger on a day. Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, who off to Europe which has been ut true. To the vast majority of sive shrugging of shoulders and Yaunati ferry, a pickpocket was is appearing for, the defendant said torly unfit for consumption. As Chinees the daily struggle for exist suggestive raising of eyebrows, sentenced to four months gnol by that accensed was a partner of first, this rubbish which has, in ence is so desperately keen that much as to say what also can be hir Williams at Central Magis Kwang Cheung Hing firm whore Shanghai, come to be known as the there is neither time, energy nor expected of Chinese politicians tracy yesterday.
Police records money he was alleged to have om-Maloo Mixture, consisted of ter... inclination to engage in reflection But this has happened in Hong revealed that defendant had five bozzled. Early in the year the part dust and old leaves which had been or discussion of abstrus und Kong, and not for the first time. previous convictions for larceny.nership was dissolved and accused already, used, but as the demands $12 abstract political principles,
went to the country after obtaining for cheap tea grew, the quality of “Buskiess-Lčke! Methods
A University Mystery.
Before Mr. H. R: Butters yester- an indemnification note from the this mixture was reduced and of Here in Hong Kong there is no It is only two months ago that day, Detective Sergeant N: Naugh- other partnera. He returned to the into years it has consisted of all such, clash of contending political another very strange incident oc ton made an application for the Colony to face the charge as 4 the refuss from native tea pots factions, cach anxious to gain curred, in the Legislative Council confiscation of 10 indecent post-sult of an advertisement appearing shitainable added to a large pro- vernacular PANCIEE Hisnortion of vlllow and this Lalalala athar Thalonering free inkhaerds the ground flour of
ernment had a guarnätced major focus erat, & find Honda love worth word guy next for file- nicious soul geben dergiler behind it at all times. Official Reference was made in the Chambor
and the Sergeant intimated that hearing of the case. Mr. D. Ld to England for the consumption" Members of the Legislative Council but only very briefly to a private he would have the postcards de Strellct in appearing for the prose of the working classes, long are always numerically stronger meeting of Unofficial Members of stroyed."
cutions.
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