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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1918.
BREEDERS OF STRIFE.
is
Baye to-morrow.
Royal Arthur Salir.
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL. moved the first reading of a bill
The Hon. Attorney General
RAILWAY LOAN BILL READ A FIRST TIME.
OPIUM EXPORTATION FURTHER RESTRICTED,
| entitled ' * An Ordinance to de- clare the terme and "conditions applicable to loans" authorised to |ba" raised by the Clovernment of Hongkong and to provide for the oroation of Hongkong lutoribed Slock."
The object of this bill is to place on a satisfactory basis the general local statutory law rela Tive to loons raised by the Gov- ernment and to provide for the
A meeting of the Legislative foluments:- 2 European Con- Colony being able to create In- Council was held this afternoou stables, — Allowances as Deteo scribed Stocks and take advan- in the Council Chamber.
tives, $384: 1 1st Clase Chinese tage of the Imperial Acts relating 8.8. Devanba at 1 p.m. to-day. There were present, H. E, the Sergeant, $300: 1 2nd Class thereto
The introduction of this bill in Sibarian Mail,-Due per 8.a. As-Governor, Sir Francis Henry May, Chinese Sergeant $240: House
K.O.M.G.
Allowancee to 2 Chinese Ser-made in compliance with instruc- The Hon. the Officer Command-geants, $120 7 1st Class Chi- tions from the Secretary of State ing the Troops, (Major General Constables, $1,300: 8 2nd for the Colonies.
Class Chinese Constables, $1,200; The Hon. Colonial Secretary'. C. A. Anderson.)
Detective Allowances to 2 Chinese seconded and the Bill was read a Mr. A. M. Thomson.
The Hon. Colonial Secretary, Sergeants and 15 Chinese Con- first time.
stables, $1,020; Ration Allow The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. nnces to 2 Chinese Sergeants and JA.S. Buaknill.
15 Chinese Constables, $203; Tolal, $4,728.
H.M.S. Royal Arthur has sailed from Hongkong for the Yangtze,
French Mall. The French Mail of the 11th March was delivered in London on April 0.
Found Wandering. The police report that a Chi- nese female has been found wan- dering on the railway at Fanling apparently insane.
Cargo Boat Murder. The Police state that no arrests have been made in connection with the Harbour murder which took place on a cargo boat.
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Died in Hospital.
A man
The Hon. Colonial Treasurer, Mr. A.G.M. Fletchor.
The Hon. Director of Publio
Railway Construction.*
Loan for Railway Construction.
The first reading of a hill en- titled "An ordinance to make provision for raising a loan of two hundred and fifty thousand The Fon. Colonial Secretary pounds sterling for the purposes Worke, Mr. W. Chatham, U.M.G. moved the following resolution. of railway construction" was taken
Mr. E.R. Hallifax.
The Hon. Registrar General, It is hereby resolved that a sum on the motion of the Hon. Attor
of Dollars Four hundred and ney General. The Hon. Captain Superintend-and Cents thirty ($430,068.30) authorize the raising of a loan of thirty thousand and sixty-eight The object of this bill is to be advanced out of fonde in the £250,000 for defraying the cost custody of the Government for of the completion of the Canton- the construction of the Kowloon Kowloon Railway and is in- during the year 1913. Canton Railway (British Section) troduced in compliance with instructions from the Secretary of The Hon. Colonial Treasurer, State for the Colonies.
The Hon. Colonial Secretary in introducing the resolution The Hon. Mr. Montague Ede.said he also laid on the table a seconded, and the Bill was read a The Hon. Mr. C.H. Ross.
statement of estimated expon- Mr. R. H. Crofton, Clerk to diture for the year 1913, to the Councils.
ent of Police, Mr. Mo.I. Messer.
The Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, K., has died in the M.B., C.M.G.
The Hon. Wei Yak, C.M.G. The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G.
not lacking in pluck. That, of Tang Wah Hospital through the course, is why he is a famous bar-effects of jumping or falling from a verandah at 105 Wing Lok onot. Over this business of the
Street He died Shortly after Americs Cup he is showing the
admission. same dauntless spirit which car-
Removed to Hospital ried him to fame and fortune as a
The Police report that a Chi- great trader. He declines to ac nece has been removed to the cept a succession of defeats as hospital suffering from injuries to proof that he cannot win the cup, his head alleged to have been and he is going forward hopefully self inflicted. The injuries are again. It is good to learn that he not serious. has withdrawn the restrictions he aet down. The defenders had
By the 8.8. Devanha, Lady every right to refuse acceptance Crossley and two daughters were of them. The cup was won under passengers. They join the Right certain conditions and the same Hon. Sir Savile Crossley, formerly conditions should attach to its Paymaster-General, in Japan, he dolence. Under these conditione having travelled out via Siberis: and no other, let the better boat win.
Socialism in London.
to
Passing Through.
Appointed to the Tamar.
Bishop. Brent.
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The Hon. Mr. E. Shellim.
New Member.
Flaancial,
the vote Public Works, Extra- The motion that the resolution ordinary, Kowloon, Drainage, be referred to the Finance Com Training Nallabs, General mittee was carried, Works.
Opium Exportation.
Ammunition.
Ma
first.
Cruelty to Childres,
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There is also no doubt that,
under the common law which
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gether with some figures connect The first reading of a bill en ed therewith. He did not propose titled "An ordinance to amend the oath of allegiance on
The Hon. Mr. E. Shellim took proceeding with the resolu- the offences against the person astion that day but would simply Ordinance, 1885," was taken on suming his soat on the Council. move that it be referred to the the motion of the Attorney
Finance Committee, when further General. by H. E. the Governor were re-
The following recommendations information could be given.
The object of this bill is to pro. ferred to the Finance Committee. Secretary stated that substantial sent local statutory law dealing Again rising, the Colonial vide an amplification of the pre
vote Public Works, recarront, had brought the capital expendi- Under the precent section 20 of
A sum of $4,000 in aid of the additions rocontly contemplated with creolty to children. New Territories, Buildings, Main- tore up to something like The Offences against the Porson tenance of Buildings, Mainland £1,350,000, the extra £250,000 to Ordinance, 1805, abandonment The Admiralty announce the and Talande in Northern District. be ra sod by a special loan, a Bill or exposure of a child under the appointment of Lieutenante T. B. The London organ of the Inde Sharp, to the Tamar, additional vote Harbour Master's Depart-Orders of the Day. The additions to of the child is endangered or its A sum of $4,000 in aid of the providing for which was in the age of two years by which the life. pendent Labour Party, the "La-(N), to date March 7, and R. St. ment, C.-Imports and Exports be made would be defrayed out health likely to bo permanently bour Leader", is complaining, John, to the Tamar, additional Office, Other Charges, Secret of the loan, the most important injured is punishable, with im with some amount of bitterness, (T), for Hongkong Yard, to date of its lack of support. We should March 11.
Service,
J being the terminal station on prisonment for a period not ex have thought that it was a paper's
Asum of $2,200 in aid of Kowloon Point.
ceeding three years. House Entered. If the Nonconformist supporters of the Liberal Government had business, at starting, to know A Chinese from 24 Lyndhurst their way, the country would once again he thrust into the vortex where its readers were most likely Terrace has told the police that
obtains in the Colony, it would be of the bitter education controversy. For we notice that one of the be found. If the good people between one and two o'clock this who are carrying on the journal morning, someone, entered his
possible to proceed, in some cases, leading Liberal newspapers reminds its readers that "the education in question were half awake, they house and stole money and jewel-vote Public Works, Extraordin- proposed by the Hon. Colonial oruelty to children but not only A sum of $1,750 in aid of the The following resolution was against persons guilty of serious question is still with us, alive, active and insistent. It is bound to would know that, in spite of its lery to the value of $32. Enary, Hongkong, Drainage, Train- Secretary: Whereas, by the is the procedure under the com- claim our attention until it is settled." One can understand such a vast population, London is the last trance was gained by drawing ing Nullahs, (d.) General Works, provisions of sub-section 3 of the mon law more dumbrous then view being promulgated and such a hope expressed, if one looks at place in the world to give any bolt from the door.
Thing like united support to the the matter from the point of view of the disappointed Nonconformist Socialistic, or even the Radical,
A sum of $10,472 or £959.178. Opium Ameniment Ordinance, when the principles are concisely The Rt. Rev. Bishop Brent, the 9. at 1/10 in aid of the vote 1913, the Opium Ordinance, 1800, contained in an ordinance but also who placed all his trust in the fine-sounding promises of Mr. Asquith press. The London workmen Bishop of the Philippine Islands, Military Expenditure, B.-Volua- was amended by, inter alia, the there may exist instances in which and his colleagues. We say this because it has to be remembered never will be democratic. The is about to pay a short visit to tears, other charges, Reserve, repeal of Section 12 of the said the common law affords unsatia. that the two Education Acts which were placed on the statuto book apostles of Socialism account for Hongkong. He is to preach at
|ordinance and the substitution of factory loopholes for escape. by the Balfour administration, and which wore the enactments which this by saying that the Cockney is St. John's Cathedral on Sunday the vote Office, Other Chargès,
A sum of $222,000 in aid of a new Section 12 therefor ; The provisions of this bill are too servile and too shallow. for next. Bishop Brent is on his
And Wheresa by the provisions intended to remedy both thess gave rise to the outbreak of "passive resistance" (now curiously their doctrines to grip him, way to attend the Convention of Carriage of Mails: Share of mail of Sub-section (4) of the new defects and they provide that any enough dead) still stand as the law of the land after seven years of That is all very well in American Bishop.
subsidy, $25,615: Transit Ober- Section 12 aforesaid it was pro-adult who wilfully assaults, or Liberal rule. So if the Nonconformists over had a genuino grievance, theory, but those who know Mr. Denison Returns.
ges, $198,385: Total, $222,000.vided that
negloots a child or young which we believe they had not, it is still as acute to-day as ever it him. "best-his own foreman, By the s.s. Devanha Mr. A.:
A sum of $1,786 in aid of the "No person shall export or aid person so as to cause it no- the policeman, the philon- Denision returned from Penang vote Public Works, Extraordinary, or abot the exportation of any necessary suffering or in thropist, the doctor, the last evening. With Mr. C. D. Hongkong, Buildings, City raw opium from the Colony or jury shall be duly punishable, It is true that three attempts have been made in the interim to priest-all tell a widely different Wilkinson he has been on a visit Slaughter House, Quarters for the waters thereof, if such export- In moving the first reading the to deal with the question, but they have all onded disastrously for story. They will tell you, that to Sumatrs to look over the Soen- Additional Inspector.
stion shall have been notified in Attorney General said that with their вродлога.
A sum of $3,360 in aid of the the Gazette in pursuance of any regard to this bill the objects and The first Bill passed through the House of Commons, nowhere in the world are the gei Rampah Rabber Company's but was slaughtered by the Lords, while the second and third expired realities of life so real, nowhere estate there and to make final the vote Public Works Depart resolution of the Legislative reasons at the end of the bill in the House of its friends. But what of the future? It is almost London; and that the conscios. ping, which will commence this/ $3,600: Other Charges, Convey-
really give prastically all it wis is poverty, so much poverty, as in arrangements preparatory to tap ment: Personal Emolaments, Council as being illegal."
Now it is hereby resolved that describle to give an a first read.. pathetic to read that, "now that the Parliament Act has knockedness of this has bred in the Lon-year,
ance, $360: Total, $3,960. the exportation of Persian Opium ing. He would only say the for the fetters of the House of Commons, there is no excuse for delaying doner an unusually keen eye to
A sum of $91,366 in aid of the to any port other than the port of information of the hon. members any longer the march to religious liberty, justice and equality in the best interests, and a very decided The seconding of Captain A, votes of the following depart London or a port of the Island of that the provisions of this bill interests of elementary education, except that at the moment we objection to being fed with big P. Dane, Cornwall Light Infantry ment:1. Various Departments, Formosa shall, after the expira- were very much on the Lines of are confronted by a practical, even a physical difliculty." That words and Utopian ideas-which as adjutant of a Territorial Bat-House Allowances to Messengers, tion of one week from the date of the English Children's Act, 1908 difficulty, it some, is Mr. Asquith's declaration that it would be seem to be all that the "Labour talion, reported in yesterday's et, $1,248: 2. Various Depart this rosolation, be illegal and it is with some slight modifications,
Leader" has to offer him, "Telegraph," brings Captain H.ments, lacreages to subordinate farther hereby resolved that a The second reading was taken- physically impossible to carry any great measure through the next Eastern Gallantry.
T. Dobbin, who was a superan-officers not included in the Grad-notification shall be made in the of the bill entitled:-Au ordin session of Parliament. Recoguising the inevitable, those who still We published yesterday a letter merary, in on the establishment. ing Scheme, $7,378: 3. Post next issue of the Government ance to amend the Mercantile. Bank Note Laus Ordinance 1911. feel keenly on this question-and there are still a few living-suggest addressed to the "Times of India," Captain Dobbin was attached to Office, Subordinate Staff, $2,204 Gazette accordingly.
In moving the resolution, the In moving the same the Hon. that the only alternative is to take the problem piecemeal, realising in which a native gives his views the 1st Battalion, Tidworth, for 4. Various Departments, Differ that to adopt any other course would only be to court disappoint-tion. His argument is that we over a company in it.
suffragette" ques-some time, and he now has taken once between conversion of Hou. Colonial Secretary stated Attorney General waid :--I think salaries at 10. 10d. (the rate that it was being brought forward I need only say that the old or, ment. And our Nonconformist friends have had enough of that people of the West have made Submarine Crows for Hongkong. adopted in the Estimates for in pursuance of the policy of the dinance as it picod was not con- already. So it is urged that the establishment of a Council School too much of our womankind, New crews are due at Hong-1913) and 80 per cent. at la. Od. Government to prohibit the ex-sidered by the Lords Commis in every educational area should be raade compulsory. This demand and hence they have become kong for the submarines stationed and 20 per cent. at 18. 10d., portation of the opium into any eioners of H. M. Treasury to give is based on the old, old story that the Nonconformist in some proud "and walk like peacocks," there at an early date, says $50,009: 5. Public Works De places which prohibited that quite sufficient power with regard districts" is forced to send his children to an Anglican school, where and he instances the amazing the "L. & C. Express" and new partment, Overscers, £350-80 particular kind. China had pro-to the sale of funds, which have perhaps his own church and the Sunday School these children action of two lords of oreation commanding officers have been per cent, at 1s. DJ. and 20 per bibited the importation of Persian been placed at the disposal attend are denounced as heretical" This grievance is being whom he saw actually giving up appointed to them. These are cent. at 18. 10d., $3,984: opium, and it had been agreed of Crown Agents, in the described as intolerable by those militant Nonconformists who have their chairs to two women. Our Lieut. D. M'Gillowie to C36; 6. Medical Departments. Ward- that Formosa was the only place case of the necessity of again come into the political arents. It is as well to note, however, Eastern friend's attitude is droll Lieut. J. Gaines to C37; and masters, 865-80 per cent at 1s, to which this kind of opium redeeming the bank poto issue. that not a word is said against the instruction given in the Church enough to be almost pathetic. One Lieut. R. Hope to 038; and Lients, 9d. and 20 per cent at 18:103, should be exported from Hong. They suggested the condition schools—and, after all, the question ought surely to be viewed from of the good lessons (alack, they W. Richardson, R. Palleyne, and $736: 7- Prison, Principal kong for the purpose of business. which is now being made, and by the purely educational point of view. Nor is it pointed out that in are all too few) that the Oriental O. Colthart have been appointed Warder and Warders, $5,233 At the same time, in order to that addition they are clearly many cases the Churchman is just as badly off, in having to send his can learn from the European, is to the Rosario, Hongkong, for 9. District Officer, Land Bailiff allow merchants a market, the given full power for the sale of child to a Council school, where absolutely colourless roligious the exercise of greater consider-service with the submarine flotila 625-80 per cent at 16. 9d. and port of London had been added as the securities in their bande, in teaching is given. And if any Nonconformist has an objection to ation towards women. We felt there. An Admiralty order was 20 per cent at le: 101, $283: 11. & place to which they might export the event of it being necessary to Church teaching, he can always avail himself of the conscience this very strongly during last race issued on 7th alt, directing the Supreme Court Third Interpreter, surplus stook. Members would redeem the notes.
week, when we saw the front new crews, to be selected at the 25, $283: 12. Police, European observe that there was an addition The Council went into com-
Was.
on the
DC.L.I. Officers.
olause" to withdraw his children during the hours of religions seats of a car in Des Voeux Road Naval Depot Chatham, for sub- Police, $7,750 18 Variona of the resolution as to the date miltro atag on the bill, and
instruction.
filled with well-dressed Chinees marines, C36 037, and 038, Departments, Local Officers on when it should come into opera aventually the messure was read
But we need not labour the question. The country has long men, while an English lady was which are to be paid off at Hong Dollar Salaries, $10,028 13. tion. This had been inserted at a third time and passed... since been heartily sick of the religions controversy, and we believe standing, Who knows? Perhaps, kong and recommissioned for Audit Department, Senior Clerk; the wish of merchants connected. The Vagrancy Ordinance. that Mr. Asquith and his colleagues are sufficiently shrewd to realise if Englishmen had shown even a further service in the Far Brat: $860: Total $91,368 with the trade in order to enable in proposing the second rea the foot. Let the nation reform its educational system, by all means, little more deference to the A spare erew for a submarine is A sum of $4,728 in aid of the them to dispose of surplus stock ding of an Ordinance to amend but for the wake of religion, as much as for that of education, let weaker sex, there might be fewer also to be selected at Chatham to voto Police and Prison: Deport at present in their possession: the Vagranty Ordinance 1897, the pootarian wrangling be left severely out of the question, al muffrage fiende to-day,
take passage with the new crews, ments, A.-Police, Personal Em- The resolution was carried,
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