The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8840
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Donths. Leading Articles:-
Official Osebing of the Kowloon Railway.
Kowloon Raliway Rites,
Sources of Revenue.
The Opium Trade:
The Appropriation Bil
"The Happy Consul"
•Tropical Disea ́e,
Mostings:-
Legislative Council.
Legal Intelligenios:- Claim for Dimiges
Allosed Fraudulent Receipts. Magisterial Decisions.
A Question of Authority.
A Tallor's Claién..
A Flim' P.DETE:
Suit by Shanghai Firm.
Police:-
The Ras-Point Tragedy."
Trim Oir Conductor Assaulted.
Correspondence:--
Railway loa gurat Ceremony. The Imperial Mui ime Largue. Miscellaneous Artiolon and Reporla :
Kowloon-Canton Railway.
Lilian Convent.
Notes by the Way.
Canton Day by Day.
Craign Steamer Robbed.
Valantear Heserva.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Hongkong Cricket Club,
Malacca Rubber Plantations.
-Hop-kong-U→iversity.
St. Joseph's College.
Gioanding of the Tenyo Moru
The Oplum Trade..
Kalangau (Amy) Municipal Council,
Crown Land Sale,
Civil Service Oricket Club.
The Dairy Farm Oo, Ltd.
The Great Nicols has Arrived.
The Hongkong University.
Bidford Relief Entertaisest.
Boxer Trauble Feared.
Record la Towing. **
Tho Tientela ukou Railway.
A Brave Act.
Opium in China.
Sugar in Japan.'
United Singapore Estates.
tea oo Fire.
Technical Institute. Quern's College Aquatie Sporto, 4
·Hoogkong Cricket League.
Estate Labour in the F,M.S.
Drug Smuggling
Water Return,
'Railway.
The Great Nicola,
Kawlɔob Rifle 'Rroge,
Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ld." Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
Chinese Bacon.
In Pagoda Lacd.
The Present and the Future.
Cruiser San Gabriel,
The Shaogbai Taolal
Rugby Football,
Domestic Maid Servante in Japan,
The Vladivostor Sevice.
Local and General.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1910.
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remained mute so far. Certainly to all ap- product. Our Home Government did sufficient public interest to merit the stten- At first sight, the relative lengths of the the weary eighteen miles to Taipo an two sections are rather disproportionate. foot by way of Shatin Gap. The schedule pearances the lacressed price of ilquors has not appear to entertain any doubt upon tion of the Government. The facts of the clas The British part measures only 22 miles, reads that return tickets will be issued not conduced to a cutting down of their the subject, for they summatily ordered aro that two chair-bearers were brought up bẹ. whereas the Chinese length is no less than to first and second class passengers at one consumption. The main effect which the the divans to be closed and the exfore one of the local Magistrates on a charge 89 miles; but, taken on the whole, the lesser and a half single fare, and are available new laws achieved is to make many ports of Indian opium to be decreased an of disorderly conduct. After having weighed British section has presented more formid- for return up to the day after date of issue. licensees of second class hotels desirous of bully by so much per cent. That both of the evidence for the prosecution, the Magis- able obstac es to the constructors than those The following ratos will apply to picnic par giving up their goodwill, so stringent are the thess measures have so far failed to affect trate in question held that the defendants which confront the engineers of the ties of five or over to Taipo or Lowu, but regulatibus and so excessive are the licensing their ostensible purpose is shown by the fact conduct did not come within the meaning of Chinese section. Now that the Kailway is previous application must be made before the fees. No doubt His Excellency way within that the imports of foreign opium into China the section under which the charge was an accomplished fact, we think that scatte privilege will be granted-Five first class his rights in instituting a new form of taxa bare actually increased within the past year, formulated and thereupon discharged the ly too much importance can be attached returns to Taipo $10, and each passenger tion in whatever shapu appeared to him the whilst the closure of the public divans has men. Now let us consider the facts as they to the part which the New Territory, is over five $2; five first class returns to Lowu most reasonable; and, accing that the led to the adoption of an evasive scheme were stated. According to the complainants. going to take in the, future development $15 and each passenger over five $3; five opium" trade had been already heavily whereby the regulations can be circumvent-story, it appears that defendants vehicle of our Colony. Before the advent of the second class return to Taipo:$5 and each penalised, the liquor traffic was perhaps ed: The opium-smoker has now no longer was engaged in a certain part of the city Railway, it appeared as though the country passenger over five $1; five second class best able to bear the brunt. At the any licensed divaa to which he can resort, and after getting into the conveyance, were to be allowed to lie fallow, serving returns to Lowu $7.50; and each passenger same time, we have got to remember so he betakes himself to some house where the coolies were directed to proceed alon merely as a defence buffar for protection of over five; $1.50. To charge fa per head for that the special taxation of one section of he is supplied with pipe, lamp, and the a certain thoroughfare but the latter For a picnic party to Taipo is on the face of our Colonial community is unjust. The other paraphernalia, carrying bis own opium refused to obey and insisted on going Victoria against belligerent attack. several years after its cession, very little it ridiculous. One can travel thence by small licee who has to pay a preposterous with him. No fee is charged for the use of in a direction oppos te to what was was done to open up the country. Police ricksda with three coolies for $3, or to Low fee and man that likes his whisky and this compartment, but in lieu thereof the required. The victim of the incident after stations were built at different strategic by the new road for $4. We think that a soda or podest bottle of beer are equally smoker leaves the dross in the pipe when be all his efforts had failed to produce an effect pointe, land holdings were systematised, a dollar would be ample charge for the victimired by llie new tariff; and the cruelty takes his departure. The dross, it may be on the stoical ones, appealed to an Indian road made to Talpo, and telegraphic lines of journey by rail to Taipo and would be more of it all is that it is the poor man who suffers, mentioned, is fairly valuable and after being constable and the latter's authority, after One The rich are practically immune from the re-made in conjunction with raw opium is of being shown a good deal of haughty in communication established. But after that, productive of revenue everything appeared to stagnate. No further peculiar clause in the regulations reads calanced prices of liquors resultant on the quite a saleable standard. The Police bave difference, finally prevailed on the obdurate signs of progress were to be encounter thus - Every person who shall smoke operations of the Revenue Department. In been very active in instituting. prosecutions fellows, The victim, however, was not con- or shall chew tobacco, opium or other their own homes the increased rates are non against there unlicensed resorts, their content in leaving the matter there and instituted ed. It seemed that the New Territories were to be devoted solely to the purposes of milli like substance either inside a waiting observable, while in the case of a man work- tention being that the dross left in the pipe proceedings against the responsible parties, Lary manoeuvres in winter and shooting par- room or in or upon any of the carriage be fog for a monthly wage he is everlastingly is the same as a fee. The Magistrate, how with the result already stated. In the course tics in the game season. So far as the great longing to the Railway which may be special confronted with the fact that he-ban to pay ever, has decided exactly opposite, with the of the proceedings, the magistrate, doubtles majority of Hongkong residents were con ly provided for females or non-smokers, or just fifty per cent, more than hitherto for his result that the oplum houses go on as merrily with the object of thoroughly satisfying him. Of course, our local Government self on the point, laquired of the constable, cerned it remained terra incognita: certainly shall expectorate in any waiting-room or in liquor. We have to thank our stars, gever as ever. the barren, frowning Kowloon hills that-door upon any railway carriage or upon any theless, that we have such an admirable ad is powerless in the matter, for they imposed who was summoned as a witness, whether in minate the Peninsula keep well their secret railway platform, shall be liable on summary ministrator as Sir Frederick Lugard at our the Downing Street fiat against their will his opinion the defondsats were guilty of
bead.
He has done his best in the and at the expense of their own pocket; disorderly conduct and the witness' reply of the fertile valleys lying beyond. But "a conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten change came o'er the scene when at last dollars for each offence; and if any person Colony's interests and his best has not been but surely it must be apparent to the veriest was distinctly favourable to complainant's Exeter Hall fanatic that It in far more pre case, as the constable," who' could be pre- ibe Railway Convention had been signed persists in infringing this regulation after litt. As regards the sources of revenue, and work had actually been begun upon the being warned to desist by any railway official" "however, it le informative to glance-at-ferable to have the opium habit under Police sumed to have no axe to grind, unequivo or passenger, such person, in addition to the movement that has taken place in our supervision io licensed divaus than to allow cally stated that he thought "defendant's" railway route. Since then, numerous new roads have been constructed to replace the incurring the liability above mentioned, may neighbouring Crown Colony of the Straits it to be pursued broadcast over the Colony conduct extremely disorderly and gave good old rough bridle-paths, link up the various be removed by any such official from any Settlements. There they have been suffering in places to which the Folice have no right grounds to substantiate his statement. The We cannot gather from recently wording of the charge was as follows- centres of population, and make easy access such carriage and from the premises apper-like us from a threatened revenual deficit and of accers. to the railway stations. Crazy wooden plank taining to the railway, and shall forfeit his the Government were forced to cast about to published governmental returns how the "Dehaving in a disorderly manner whereby bridges or stepping stones have givca place fare." This appears to imply thatthe smokeris discover new "hen-roosis to rob." Sir John consumption of opium in the Colony during breach of the peace might have been occa to substantial new bridges and on every side going to have a very bad time indeed. Some Andersopis admittedly one of the premier the past eight months compares with that of sioned," Those words "whereby a breach are observable the signs of unmistakable smokers never expectorate. Others do. In financier in the ranks of all our Colonial previous years, but we take it that it cannot of the peace might have been occasioned" activity and real progress in the development a general way, it may be said that all Chion-administrators and his reputation as such haveshowamuch falling-off in view of the fact are extremely significant. Now without Nearly all rests on a solid basis; so much so that that the amount of chandu in transit through laying a claim to the same deep know of the country. It is in contemplafon also, men are, tobacco smokers. we hear, to lay down a system of light rail. Europeans out East indulge in the habit. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach (now Lord Hongkong during 1989-10 showed an incre ledge of the technical points of law s ABC. In Singapore and Perang during the the Magistrate who tried the case, we can ways which will act as feeders to the main Yet if a smoking individual expectorate on Aldwys) with his great experience as line and provide easy means of communica- any railway platform he is liable to a summary Chancellor of the Exchequer could not present year there has been a considerable state without, fear of contradiction that tea. dollars. Meanwhile the let slip the opportunity of paying ir diminution in the consumption of opium, the in face of the evidence adduced, the tion throughour to Canton and the Hankow Gios of Railway. Though this part of the scheme non smoker apparently expectorates with John a high compliment when sitting an figures for the first six months being 750,005 case was clearly one in which a public dis has not yet been made public, there is little impunity wherever he chooses, whilst the umpire in the Tanjong Pagar arbitration case taels as compared with 777,483 taels for the turbance might have been caused. But a few years ago. Now, when it comes to a corresponding period in 1909. In Malacca, that it should have been held to be other doubt that it will be ultimately accomplished. tobacco-loving subject is penalised, "Tis a In the meanwhile, the stations on the British strauge world, my masters." It is a good case of raising additional revenue in the owing to the employment of larger numbers wire is one of those legal solecisms which section of the line will be Tsimshatsui (the thing to see that the management have Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson does of Chinese coolies on the rubber estates, the might possibly have led a certain genius to Kowloon terininus) and Yaumati, on this rigorously set their face against the chit not attempt to interfere with the freedom of consumption has increased (77.352 againit give expression to the sentiment that the side of the tunnel; then Sheung wo tse (op. system, for we read in the regulations that the Port, which by the way has got formid 50,729, Te actual amount consumed last law is a hass. It is not easy to understand posite Shatin), Taipo Taiwoshi, Fanling and cheques, drafts, or orders for payment of able rivals in the Dutch possessions-notably year was probably considerably higher than by what mystic process of reasoning the Lo Fu Ferry, just beyond which lies. Sam- money are not received at stations, except Sabang-but he proposes a new tax which that shonu by the above figures, which are coolies conduct was legally held as pot with the previous special sanction of the will apply to all and sundry whether taken from the Farmers' returns. There is constituting a breach of the public peace. chua City, at which point the first station on Chinese territory will be built. Once the General Manager. The compiler of the rules Britisher or not. In his Budget speech reason to believe that the opportunities for when we are in a position to know that the Railway has been connected up and direct has been polite enough not to employ the in Council His Excellency said "It is smuggling chandu into the Colony are less delinquents actually showed fight to the vic and speedy communication established be word "chits" but instead terms those fami- our aim to see our ports free to the ships favourable now than they were. At the be- tim and treated the majesty of the law with twcca Hongkong and Canton, we can im. liar documents as orders for payment of of all nations to come and go as they ginning of the year the price of chandu to cool contempt. It was only the other day agine that an immense impetus will be given money. In a general sense, this regulation list, paying only a reasonable price. for dealere was $3 per tact. On April ta the that Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett ventilated a For that price was raised roughly by go per cent. The general grievance felt all over the Colony to the still further opening-up of our New is strictly regular; but we fail to see why services and facilities rendered. Territory Just as in Europe or America we cheques or drafts should be refused, especi. policy we must be prepared to make sacri- monthly sales immediately fell, but per when he referred to the insolence of chair- see new industries and, new towns springing ally where big consignments of goods are in fices, and while our revenue other than haps hardly to the extent which might bearers and ricksba-pullers in the course of up along the railway routes, so in the care question. It is to be anticipated that a large opium shows gratifying elasticity, we cannot have been expected. 125,867 taels were sold the introductionofthe Budget and coming so of the Kowloon Railway a similar develop proportion of the goods in transit to Hong. hope that is expansion will enable us to in April and 114,627 taels in May. Yet soon after the laying on the hon. member's ment is not at all beyond the realms of pos kong from the hinterland will consist,, of meet the steadily increasing requirements in spite of the fact that the imports complaint before the Legislative Council, the sibility but on the contrary very much within country produce; therefore the followingrule of a progressive community, and also fill the from India are being cut down, the sedan chair fraternity of the Colony, have. them. It is not to be supposed, of course, is particularly interesting:"Bona fide coun. void which will result from the falling off in. Governor of the Straits Settlements anticil scored a decided. success, for the news of that any of our great industries will be transity produce, including poultry accompanied our revenue from opium. Retrenchment pates a "considerable expansion in the re. the incident is bound to spread like wildfire ferred over there holus bolus, but what we by passengers, and packed in either crates, has been pressed as far as possible and we venue derived from opium" next year. In among them and will have the effect of em mean to, infer is that many of our minor cages or baskets, cach package not exceeding must be prepared to find some other source Singapore, of course, they are in rather a boldening them to further and greater mis... picul, in weight, will of revenue to replace what we most lose as different position from that which we occupy chief. Regret is sometimes expressed on industrica 'which decessarily have had to re- 70 pounds, or half a main in the more congested districly will be be charged at the rale of ten cents per the consumption of opium falls with the in Hongkong. There the Government have account of the disinclination of the general chandu. It is with interest that we gather whose contempt for authority is reaching enabled now to go farther afield without incur package for any distance on the British progressive increase in price due to restrict- undertaken the preparation and sale of body of the public to bring the culprits, ring excessive charges for transit of materials. Fection. Packages exceeding 70 pounds, but ed output, The burdens already placed on There is in the New Territory a vast area of not exceeding 140 pounds, in weight will the owners of house property and those that from Southern papers that Great Britain has alarming dimensions, before the Magisterial cheap land available for almost any purpose be charged double the above rate. But must be added to them to enable us to deal agreed to the American proposal regarding ken, but is theirconduct surprising when one nor are the Government likely to be backward why put in the pin hard and fast at the zolb.with the urgent problems of sanitation, ren- the Opium Conference at the Hague, but considers the legal loopholes which are con in affording every possible facility, towards mark. Surely a passenger who is conveying der it undesirable even if it were justifiable stipulates that the existing British agreement stantly afforded them by the law? In nine accelerating the development of the country alb. or alb. package is entitled to pay to place a further charge on this particular with China be excluded from discussion. In cases out often, the complainant is not likely to and attracting new capital and industries to for the extra pound or two in excess without class for the benclit, of the community reference to the Conference it is stated that derive much satisfaction from the institution. the Colony. Another important outcome being called upon to pay double for the generally. The only sound policy of taxation Britain bas accepted the suggestion that the of proceedings. We have no desire to ques of the Railway-operations should be the ex-whole This is one of the minor matters is to distribute the burden over the com- findings of the Shanghai Conference should ton the bonfides of the Magistrate con.. ploiting of the New Territory as a suburban that call for rectification. Then we come to munity as equitably as possible, and the best be embodied in a Convention. Britain has cerned, of whose abilities as a Public Officer residential district for overcrowded Hooga clause which states that dogs will be car known instrument for that purpose is an in alio agreed that the Hague Conference we hold the highest opinion, Neither do kong. Whether any great saratorium should ried by passenger trains and charged for at come tax. As I have said, we cannot meet should consider also the traffic in cocaine we wish to dispute the magisterial decision, or should not ever be erected on the inland third class fare each. They will be convey our requirements for next year, but only by and morphine, but it suggests that the Gov- or the reasons which might have led to it; bills, it is at least 'quite within the bounds ed in the guard's van or in the dogs' box, rigid economy and cutting out many works ernmeals interested should previously loves- but wedo regret that he should have thought of reasonableness, as we have before said, to and must be furnished with collars, chains, that are bighly desirable, and even urgent, tigate the manufacture of and trade in those fit to dismiss the summons without the ad foretell that many country residences will and muzzles if required. Passengers are not We feel that if the efficiency of the admin- drugs, so as to enable them to deal effective ministration of even so much as a caution, spring up, in time to come along the rallway allowed to take any dog into a passenger istration is to be maintained we must be pre-ly with the matter.. It seems only right that Such actions, no matter how well-meaning route, traversing as it does some most carriage. This regulation is going to bear pared in 1912 to find the means of filling a the British agreement with China should be they may be, afford a little encour beautiful and picturesque country, a
very hardly upon the sportsmen of the possible, even a probable deficit, which will omitted from the Conference deliberations agement, if not a direct incentive, to, the It concerns very gravely the finances of the class of people who are the subject matter of Colony, who will be sure to take advantage probably grow as the years go on. To or KOWLOON RAILWAY RATES. io numbers of the faculties afforded by the ganise an income tax department and make Straits Settlements and of Hongkong as well this article to continue with impunity their, as the trade of India. We have already seen mischievous doings. However, it is possible new Railway for getting into the game coun- the necessary assessment is a work of some
how we in this Colony have been granted that the Magistrate overlooked the point and try and who may have as many as half time, and we shall shortly" lay before you On Saturday last we published some details dezen dogs along with their party when proposals for that purpote which have been compensation for loss of revenue by the we have no doubt that the necessary proceu- of the rates to be levied for passenger and going on a shooting expedition. However, for some time under the consideration of the contribution of a single lakh of dollars as tions will be observed in future. The fact, luggage traffic on the British section of the we have no Sporting League here to con- Government." As His Excelicacy points against an actual loss of two and a halflakhs, however, remains that so long as the Go- Kowloon Canton Railway. The rates as laid serve the interests of sportsmen, so it must oạt it is undesirable even if it were justifiable not to mention the losses sustained by in-vernment clineed to remove the obstacles. down may be, and possibly will be, subject be left to themselves to protest against the to place an impost upon any particular class dividual Sema in our midst; and it is only placed in the path of residents, so long will for the benefit of the community generally; betting that Great Britain should conserve ibin wretched staid of affairs continue, to to material alteration once the Chinese sec-dog tarill.
yet this is exactly what has happened in the remnants of those privileges which she the extreme annoyance of a suffering tion has been linked up with the British sec
Hongkong, where the sins of the many have does enjoy under her agreement with Peking.community. tion and experience has been gained as to
been visited upon the few.. the running of the Railway on this side of
(4th October,) the boundary. On the whole, the tariff an
Mr. I loyd George when he declared his arranged is not unequitable and appears to have been framed from the tariffs of the policy of robbing the hen-roosts" of the Federated Malay States programme-a rich was very much laughed at. However, most estimable guide--and from the Indian he has carried out his scheme in a very railways. It is, however, open to criticism effectual manner with wholesome effects (1st October.)
in several respects, chiefest of which is ex upon the monied clauses in Great Britain. The official opening this afternoon of the cessiveness of prices. We have now for the Meanwhile we whose lots are cast in the British section of the Kowloon Canton Rail- first time an official statement regarding the botter shades of the Crown Colonies are way represents an epoch-maklog event in stations and their forur on the map; and the puzzling our brains as to which hen-roost is the Colony's history. In it we see at last following is the list with their respective the best to rob in order to enhance our the realisation of years of unfulfilled ex distances in miles from Kowloon Ferry dwindling income So far as Hongkong, is pectancy, and the successful consummation Station-Kowloon Ferry Station; Hung concerned, His Excellency fir Frederick of a scheme best from its beginning Hom (Blackheads), 1.00; Yaumati, 2.41; Lugard did not evince any hesitancy when with difficulties and carried out in despite Shatin, 7.22 Taipo, 13 37; Talpo Marker, he established a Revenue Department and of almost fosuperable obstacles. True, we 14.09 Fan Ling, 1873; Lowu, 21,78. We abolished the free import of spirituous Cannot describe the Kowloon Railway as have pointed out befors that one of the main liquors to compensate in some part for the complete until the Chinese liave brought sources of revenue for the time being at tour of revenue involved in the closing down their section down to the boundary and least will be found in the week-end picnic of the opium divans from which previously the two have been connected up. But parties who are sure to ake full advantage a fair modicum of the Colony's revenue we on our side have accomplished our of those opportunities which the Railway had been derived. That the restrictions the oplum habit from amongst her people, part of this great ondertaking, and before affords of getting into the Territory expedí very many more months have clapsed tiously and comfortably as against the old wo thould be in direct rallway communica slow method of padd long up the Bamchun Con with the Capitul City of Canton, River on a flat-bottomed bost or trudging
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BIRTHS. Os October 1, 1918, at Shingbal, jhs wife of 6. D. Komaroff, of a daughter (stillbara),
On October 1, 1910, at Shanghai, the wife of Jobo Powles, Municipal Tax Department, of a daughter.
On September 14, 1910, at. Hankow, to Mr. and Mr. Walter B. 'Andrews, a daughter.
On September 30, 1910, at-5hangbai, the wife of Dovil | MacDonald, a daughter.
MARRIAGES..
Os September 13, 1910, at London, David C. Dick, 1. M. Caston to Emm, widow of the late Thomas C. Craik, af Forfar..
On *eptember 29, 1910, at Shipbai, Habert Daria Bell, son of the land allt Headley, Hampshire, Hogland, to Clandia Anila Frout Rawie, daughter of William Henry Ronse of Walford, Hertfordshire, Eng. On September 30, 19ie, at Shadybai, James McLeod Ritchie to Alice Forest Semple (Glasgow)
laod.
DEATHS.
On 3rd Oc'over, at the Peak Hospital, ROBERT T. SMILES, of Geo, Fanwick & Co., Ltd. · Aged 43 years
On September 13, 1915, at Tientsio, Chios, Sasan Elizs Seymour, widow of the last Charles Seymour and dearly loved mother of Mr
David MacHaffio.
The Hongkong Celegraph
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1910.
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THL KOWLOON RAILWAY,
(3rd October.)
SOURCES OF REVENUE.
THE OPIUM TRADE,
(5th October.)
MÁQISTERIAL DECISIONS.
To eny that the law does not provide sufficiently strong machinery to effectively deal with these cases of flagrant insubordination is no answer to our argu (6th October.)
ment, If the Government cannot see their The position of the British legal function way to alter the law, they should at least ini. As time goes on, the opium problematy is such that any decision of bis is pre- tiate some, system whereby the community appears to be fraught with new and newer sumed to be in accordance with legal prin can be assured of a sensible view being difficulties. In Hongkong, since the divans-ciples and for that reason cannot be debated taken of their care, for, in law, it can some were abolished, the question has arisen as except through the usual channels prescribed times be proved with comparative.case that to what constitutes a divan. In the old ac- by the country's legislation. The average black is white and nobody be any the wiser. cepted feres, a divan was a place of public dispenser of the law-erjoys such a degree of We sincerely hope that in the event of one of resort for the smoking of oplum, where the confidence that there can be no question the unofficial members of the Legishilm smoker could buy his own drug and smoke about the strict impartiality of his decision, Council perusing these lines, he will taka up to his heart's content. But now under the and rightly so, as these positions of trust are the matter at a future meeting of Coundl freshly imposed anti-opium laws all those generally filled by unbiassed" and sound with a view to rectifying a condition of thirs places have been closed, and the Opium headed men, But there are occasions when which is an unsatisfactory as it is ancient. THE APPROPRIAZIÓN BILE Farmer-consequently penalised, We have the evidence in case is so preponderant
(7th October before referred to this subject and we would in particular direction, that Mig
Criticism -beus factiva-'must be the last to wish that anything should be istrate's ruling is on the face of it almost lo permitted to stand in the way of any sincere comprehensible to the mind of the layman, endeavour on the part of Chips to eradicate who, unlike his legal prototype, las purely
inspired by the dictates of common sense maloned, it cooled to thus put upoù liquor consumption has badThe question is, whether or no the anti and not the hard precepts of law. We are pass the row of ridicula any good effect upon the general sobriety of oplum movement is directed against the led to make these remarks by a case which at to be patom of
PLOTE 9 the community remains a muto querilon, for evil na ruch or against the importation of his best brought to burnotice, which, if only the returne of our Revenue Department hare Indian oplum as opposed to the nadire for the faste it brought out, ought t
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