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"the clauses we have had 'making, de-as for the palace, Every man's partment by regulation on top of happiness is guarded by fixed rules legislation by Order in Council and from tyranny and caprice.
Aagrant is a judge for the peasant as well A SATISFACTORY
But the bubble is blown and the Departmental Bills" the object of "The Christian patience you may which is to shepherd us and reg-witness, the impartiality of the |ment us more and more.”
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The twenty-eighth" annua), general meeting of the Macso Electric Lighting Co. Ltd. was held in the offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews yesterday, when a satisfactory year's working » was reported
Macao Electric quences; these attributes of Justice Lighting Co's While Thrones and Fowers con-In plain English the meaning do not end with arranging your Annual Meeting
and effect of such legislation is to conflicting rights and mine. They That King over all the Children oust the jurisdiction of the Courts give strength to the English people,
of Pride
and to place what is department- duration to the English name, they Is the Press-the
ally done and decided beyond the turn the animal courge of this
Press.
reach of the law. There are legal people into moral and religious remedies designed to correct and courage, and present to the lowest Is our liberty then at last secure prevent the usurpation of jurisdic of mankind plain reasons and so long as our present form of tion or to compel a duty which has strong motives" why they should democratic governmen: subsists? been omitted to be duly performed resist aggression from without and One's fist Inclination is to say Nothing can better inspire conf-bind themselves a living rampart 'yes' with thankfulness and withdence and safeguard liberty than round the land of their birth.”. cut reservation, but second thoughts the knowledge that in case of need are apt to make one doubtful in recourse can be had to an impar- view of a very recent but none the tial public tribinal governed by less threatening development. law and itself subject to review. have earlier in this talk pointed out that the government officiar is in no better position at law than any of the citizens whom he serves and that the Courts by common acclaim have been deputed to hold the scales between official and subject.
The knowledge that the machinery exists and can be employed tends to have the effect of rendering its employ- ment unnecessary, save only in the exceptional case.
by the Chairman, Mr. F. J. Gellion.
CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH 'The Chairmah said: The ·re- of accounts port and statement
There were present, in addition TRUE END OF DEMOCRACY
to the chairman, the following gentlemen: Messrs.Henrique unite the best qualities of every tors) Mr. M. M. Watson
The true end of democracy is to Nolasco and Wong Yu-chiu (Direc~ (repre- citizen in a national fellowship of senting Messrs. Johnson, Stokes all and everywhere to hold aloft the and Master. secretaries) and banner of liberty and justice, De- | Messrs. A.“ „B. (Haworth and A. mocracy cannot tolerate an exclu-Kitchie (shareholders)., siveness of its own. For centuries in-England the citizens who were Gutside the Constitution were doing battle to make their way inside. How long and how grim that bat for the year ending December tle was anyone may usefully remind 31st, 1938, has been in your hands himself in an hour by reading the for the prescribed period, and. Epilogue to John, Richard Green's with your permission, I propose Short History of the English People that we take them as read.
After providing for deprecia- termine matters which by statute
but having with dimculty made tion the sum of $95,415.20, there come to them for official decision and pervasive curtailment of your their way inside, the former out remains a net profit for the year
aiders must beware of making in their tum a new body of autalders, with the sum
of $197,619.34 which, together"
of $106,887.48 The artisan and the maid-ser- brought forward from last year,
DETERMINED ATTEMPT
Of recent years there has been subtle but still a determined. attempt to enable officials to de-
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The function of the British Navy is not conflict; it's func- tion is to make conflict undesir- able.
I urge you strongly to be on your guard against any such peaceful
Uberty, The price of Hberty is eternal vigilance.
What then is the lesson which
for next year's account the sum of $135,381.72, 1
VERY SATISFACTORY
For two and a half centuries our fathers had every reason to believe that they were free within the law and that if their liberty of legal each of you may learn from this vant have now full share of public makes a total of $303,506.72 for action appeared to them to be in-talk? The other day in the course responsibility, but it is well to re-appropriation. fringed there was a Court presided of desultory reading I came across member that responsibility - is With this, it is proposed to pay over by an independent judge words written by Bydney Smith shared not more by the maid-aer- a dividend of $1.25 per share whose duty it was to investigate and shortly after the end of the Napo-vant than by the marchioness, not on 90,000 shares, absorbing $112.- adjudicate on the rights of the leanic wars-words which are less by the artist then by the arti- 500:00; To pay to the Gor- parties.
equally true of England to-day and san. And where democracy takes the ernment of Macao 5 per cent, on Lord Justice Farwell, in my own will, I sincerely hope, within a very form of representative institutions the amount"edistributed 2.3 days at the Bar in London, said, short time, be true of a united and common fairness, and the desire to dividend as per clause 15 of the arrive at a true conclusion make Concessionary Contract, absorb- as he was justified in saying, that free China,
it imperative that "the Courts are the only defence "This is what is called country-citizen should be ready and willing general reserve the amount of every good ing $5,625.00; To transfer to of the liberty of the subject against equal rights to unequal possessions, to hear both sides of the question $50,000.00, and to carry forward departmental aggression."" Only equal justice to the rich and poor-fully argded. year or two after that date began this is what men come out to the insidious process of legislating aght for and to defend. Such a in skeleton form including in the country has no legal injuries to statute wide rule making powers remember, no legal murders to re-
I am very pleased to say that to a Minister and then adding a venge, no legal robbery to redzesa.
the year under review met with wicked provisioni ousting the con-It strong in its justice. It is
our expectations, when the total trol of the Courts. That provision then that the use and object of all
Kwb. sold increased by 15 per takes many forms as the devil can this assemblage of gentlemen, and
cent and the number of "con- quote scripture for his own ends arrangement of juries and the
[sumers by 10 per cent. " and we were able to reduce our bank We read, for instance, that the deserved veneration" in which we
lakhs, Minister's approval of action pur-hold the character of English But we must remember also that overdraft by almost two porting to be taken under certain Judges is understood · In all its free-guvernment does not mean which I am sure you will agree. rules "shall be conclusive evidence bearings and its fullest effects government of each individual by was very satisfactory. that the requirements of this act
himself but government of each I am glad to state that the have been complied with"-or that. "Men die for such things. They individual by all the rest. above Company's plant and equipment "the order has been made and is cannot be subdued by foreign force all, remember that the ideal of has given every satisfaction and within the powers of this act.”
where such just practices prevail. liberty in not merely that men has been maintained in a high The sword of ambition is shivered shall be free but also that they state of emciency. I now pro- Others, even less politely, do not to pieces against such a bulwark. shall be willing and mince words but provide that Nations fall where judges are un-others to be free,
eager for pose that the accounts be passed.
This was carried unanimovaly. departmental order "shall be final
just because there is nothing which
Mr. Gellion - proposed the 26- and not subject to appeal to any the multitude think worth defend In the words of a great Ameri- election of Mr. N. G. Beale as Court," or "shall be final and con- ing; but nations do not fall which can statesman and lawyer Not Director, which was seconded by clusive" or "shall have effect as I are treated as we are treated but what a nation does for itself but Mr. Raworth, and carried unani- enacted in this act
they rise as we have risen and they what a nation does for humanity mously,
Democracy means. self-göy- ernment through debate, There is no virtue in a man's listening with complacency to opiaĵons with which he cordially SKYEES, "Toleration begins only when he *listens with patience to
· opinions · from which he pro- fouadly dissents,
I have spoken already of the conshine sa we have shone and die as is it's title to honour and glory: In Mr. Nolasco proposed the re- tinental system of administrative we have died too much used to God's good world the way to scale election of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham law, but surely here we have in Justice and too much used to free- the heights of prosperity and hap- & Matthews for the ensuing our midst what la sheer adminis-dom to care for that life which piness is not to pull other down year, which was seconded by Mr. trative laviceness. Lord Summer, is not just and free. This country and climb up over them but to help Raworth, and carried unanimous- only a few years later, was impelled is a country of the law, the judge all up together to united success.”