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BONGKONG, THE R3DAY, APRIL 17,, 1918
SHORTAGE OF NAVAL OFFICERS,
years..
The
Asylum Cure for Suffragists.
DAY BY DAY,
The shadow of a saint has more influence for good, thon the un told activities of those who do
Not a bad suggestion for deal- ing with the soffiagists was made: in the course of conversation by a Hongkong men the other day. We shall not say who he is, but not believe wo thay remark that he is in a position to know what he is talk!
*The Malls.
Destroyer's Arrive.........
II.M.S.S. Whiting and Welland, torpedo boat destroyers have
ing about. Briefly, his plan is German Mail-Arrived per g.s. to send them to prison, as at| Buelow last evening prosent, but to give over releasing Siberian Mail-Despatched per them if they refuse, to take fond.
8.8. Buelow at 4 p.m. to-day. An ordinary prisoner, bo says, would promptly be certified as German Mail of the 19th March insane in such a case, and
-Delivered in London 18th tho same should be done
April. in the case of the suffragists. A halo of heroisin attaches to the suffragist in prison who defies the warders. The stigma of in- annity would be quite another matter. It would not be difficult 10 convinco the majority Owing to the bad weather the of the British public that these Hongkong Schools Athletic Sports! women are actually of weak did not take place to-day. mind. Probably half the public. is convinced of it now, and the asylum care would perhaps be swiftly effective ia onses where it was tried and finely deterrent lin others.
Journalese..
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arrived from Taku.
"School Sports.
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Arrived.
Dr. Lim Boon kong, one of the wealthiest Chinese in the Straits, arrived yesterday from Singapore by the s.s. Buslow,
Appointment.
The Creation of Hongkong Inscribed Stock.
EL GISLATIVE COUNCIL. of loans by way of insoribed child. The Bill did not hold out slook, and in both parte are any hope of any institutions to arrangements for conversion, and relieve poverty, in both parts are proper pros His Excellancy pointed out that vision and safeguards for the there were certain charitable payment of the money, for the institutions. There was an asylı m amortisation of the loan and supplied by the Cvernment for providing for the necessary sink-blind children. Therefore, if a man showed that he took, bis ing fond.
Tho lon. Colonial Treasurer obildren to that asylum and there seconded and the bill was read a was no accommodation for them
he would not be guilty. second time.
Bir Kai Ho Kui pressed no
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon, in the Council Chamber.
There were prosent, H. E. the Governor, Sir Francis Henry Ma K.O.M.G.
The Ilon. Colonial Secretary, Mr. A. M. Thomson..
The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. J.A.S, Buckmill.
The Hon. Colonial Treasuror, Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher.
The Council then went into the committee stage on, the bill, amendment, and on emerging and on the motion of the Hon frora Committee, the Council Attorney General, seconded, by read the bill a third time and the Hon. Colonial Secretary, the passed it, on the motion of the The Hon. Director of Public Bill was road a third time anon. Attorney General, seconded
by the Hon. Colonial Fecatary. Worke, Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G. passed.
The Council then rose being The Hon. Registrar General,
Rallway Loan. Mr E.R. Hallifax,
The Hon. Attorney General adjourned sine dis, The Hon. Captain Superintend-moved the second reading of the ent of Police, Mr. Mo.I. Messor.bill entitled "An Ordinance to The Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, K., mako provision for raising a Loan M.B., C.M.G...
of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds Sterling for the purposen of Railway Construction."
The Hon. Wei Yuk, O,M.G. The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, OMG.
The Hon. Mr. E. Shellim. The Hon. Mr. Montague Edo. The Hon. Mr. C.H. Roas. Mr. R. H. Orofton, Clerk the Councils.
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Finance.
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The following recommenda- tions were referred to the Finance Committee on the motion of the Hon. Colonial Secretary scunded by the Hon. Colonial Treasurer..
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HARD TENNIS COURTS.
Further Comments on the New
Movement,
[SPROULARTICRC)
In doing so, the Hon Attorney
Point is given to a recent Genoral said it was unnecessary for him to say anything about the article which appeared in this Bill. The actual form is a form column, on the relative merits of feet out by the Secretary of State. hard surface and of grass tonnie The objects for which the sum of courts, by the discussion which money was to be devoted were took place at the annusle meeting of the Hongkong Lawn Tennie laid out in the schedule.
The Hon. Colonial Treasurer League. In the article it w seconded and the Bill was read a suggested that the soft, green tennis lawn was practically doom- second time.
resort to
On emerging from thecomed at Rome in consequence of the Lieut. NG.R. Coats, 25th
A sum of $10,000 in aid of the. mittee stage, the Bill was read new movement in favour of Punjabis, is appointed Quarter
hard courts.: The expense Master, with effect from forenoon, vole Harbour Mastor's Depart a third time and passed on the all-the-year-round play, which 16th April, vice Captain O.N.mect, 0.-Imports and Exports motion of the Hon. Attorney has necessitated
Office, Other Charges, Secret Ser-General seconded by the Hon. Steel, vacated.
Colonial Secretary. vice.
The Children's Charter.
Examining Board,
A Good Haul.
A Chinese reports to the police that, whilst walking in Bonham Brand yesterday afternoon, three men jostled him and one took from underneath his arm a bundle containing $1,013 which he used in his business as ย money changer. The men got away with their haul.
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Railway Construction.
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Effect In Hongkong,
A Big Order, We have been informed that "There is nothing which de Mesars T. Chee and Compony tracts so much from journalism have received on order for fifty as blatancy of expression," says thousand railway sleepers for a contemporary. Quite 80; but Canton. "journalese" comes in a remark- nbly good second, We would like to see the Press dispense with both, but, as a choice of evils wo Bomotimes think we prefer the blatancy, as being less grating.
and worry involved in the up- and nerve-irritating than the per-
keep of grass were also comment- sistent ringing of the changes on Chaplain C. of E,
A sum of $1,358 in aid of the
ed upon. It would seem that hack phrases and stock words During the absence on leave of vote Rayal Observatory, Special The Hon. Attorney General longkong also is becoming of- that is so characteristic of a cor- the Reverend Foster-Fegg, C.F. Expenditure, New Instrumente.moved the second reading of the fected by the new preference for tain type of newspaper man. from 17th to 19th April, the A sum of $1,000 in aid of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to hard surfaces; one of the speak "We who know our Hongkong" duties of Church of England vote Charitable Services, Pas amend the Offences against the ers at the Tennis League Meeting
death Chaplain will be performed by enges and Relief of Destitutes. Person Ordinance, 1865.
voiced the opinion that a higher of Armageddon," A month ago we published a Home wire stating that the are getting tired to
"the City of the Reverend A. O. Moreton, R
In doing so the Attorney class of tennis was possible on Admiralty had issued a Memorandum on the shortage of officers for Rams," "Far Cathay"-ae tired as N.
The Hon Colonial Secretary General said:-I don't think I
cement, as compared with grass, moved: It is hereby resolved that can give any more simple account and even went so far as to we the Navy. The last mail papers give the matter in an amplified we are of "radiantly charming," or "strenuous.
Major A.L, Barrett, 120th Balut- sum of Dollars Four hundred of what the Bill is intended to proach grasshoppers" (if the form, on which it is interesting to dwell for a moment. The Memo a "regal fonat "
(N.B. it was the "Daily Mail'
and thirty thousand and sixty-effect, than I have already given torm be permitted) for being out random shows that an ever-inoresaing drain on the cadet supply that started the skull-dragging of chistan Infantry, has been ap- at Osborne must now be made by the requirements of the air Service that hapless word) and all the pointed president of a board of eight and Cents thirty 18430, in the Objects and Reasons. The of date in still sticking to the and the Dominion Navies; and further, that, whereas it takes but rest of the cheap claptrap which oflicera ordered to assemble at 086.30) be advanced out of funds language of the Bill is, with some lawn. Verily Hongkong is pro
Kowloon on Tuesday next for in the custody of the Govern-trifling exception, modified to sui gressing two years to build a battleship, the transition from green cadet to the presaren of our fathers days the purpose of oxamining candi ment for the construction of the local circumstances; taken from would have scorned to use and ride datea in colloquial Hindustani.
Kowloon Canton Railway (British section 12 of the Children's Ac To sport, however, as in other full-blown naval lieutenant occupies about nine"
to death. Does it wanke you any
Section) during the year 1913. of 1908. The Englia's Act of matters, we are a copservatiye pen- happier to be told, a score of times corollary needs no pointing out.
In moving the resolution, the 1908 is usually known as the ple, and we must not expect to sen Colonial Secretary said it had been Children's Charter and contains everybody abandoning the ortlin The remedy which Whitehall suggests (in addition to drafting in a month, that such and such a plan "did not materialise"?
discussed by the Finance Com- many matters besides the one dox lawn for the faster hard a few R.N.R. men into the Service, which subject we discussed Away with such stuff; botter to
mittee which unanimously agreed particular matter which is in courts. In England, so it is said, proposed to insert in the laws of some folk are torapping", their recently) is that a limited number of youths of oighteen" who have be blatant than slavishly imitative.
to recommend the same.
The Hon. Colonial Treasurer the Colony by means of this or grass courts altogether and are completed their general education in public schools or elsewhere," The Latest in Politics..
seconded, and the resolution was dinance. There are one or two building hard courts upon them, should be admitted to the Navy during this year and, the three All political parties desire to
unanimously approved,
sm: Il amendments which I pro while others, tired of struggling succeeding ones. The candidates chosen will be sent for a course catch the eye and enlist the sup
Hongkong Inscribed Stock" pose to make when thy Bill goes to keep a grate lawn in good The Hon. Attorney General into committee, but I don't think condition, have laid down sand, of special training (the length whereof is not stated) and will then port of the working man those
moved the second reading of the they affect the principle at all. gravel or rubble over it. Here in be distributed as midshipmen throughout the Fleet. It will be time days. There are working men
paid speakers and working men Whipped Before.
At the Police Court, this morn-bill entitled "An Ordinance to The Hon. Colonial Secretary Hongkong the movement has not enough for the man in the street to applaud or condemn this new candidates of all shades of
as all this, but in the Tenne decision of the Admiralty's when the plan has been given a fairly political opinion, and the ten- ing before Mr. Hazeland, a man deolare the terms and conditions seconded, and the Bill was caught on" so whole heartedly- In the Committee Stage one Clubs of the Colony there will lengthy trial. But if we may not criticise the yet-to-be, there is denoy to pander to the artisan was charged with the theft of a applicable to Loans authorised read a second time.
class grows, rather than otherwise. tray of sultanss from a shop at to be raised by the Government no unfairnese in offering comment on a system which has been One of the latest indications of West Point. It was stated that of Hongkong and to provide for amendment was suggested by Sir be found, far more hard courts tried and-if it has not actually been found wanting-has at least this is to be found in the fact the defendant had been whipped the creation of Hongkong In Kai Ho Kal, but subsequently than ever these were, ba
withdrawa. D
fore. The Ladies Recreation a previous occasion for scribed Stock," left many bundreds of parents, and many thousands of ambitious that the Association of Conserva-on
A sentonco of one In doing so, the Attorney Liter Sir Kai Ho Kai was un- club have eight hard and one- Live Cluba is offering "a political larceny. boys, anything but contented.
challenge banner" to encourage month's hard labour, and eight General said The Bill is a very derstood to criticise a portion of grass; the Y. M.C. A. in to have long one but as a matter of fact the the Bill which provided that a three cement, and probably ons In establishing the" Britannia "and, later, Osborne College members of Conservative and strokes of the birah.
details are all purely formal. The man might show he had done grass later, the Olympic Club Trams held up. -the naval authorities' argument was that the real time at which Unionist working men's clubs to
form of the Bill was forwarded to everything in his power to allev has added a concrete court to its Much inconvenience was caused this Colony, and it is put before inte a child's suffering, even to grass ones;, and the Club. de the sailor was made was the impressionable and receptive period take an active interest in political
work The banner is to be to passengers on the trame thie between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. "Give us the boy at the presented to the Club which morning through the break-down the Legislative Council in the taking it to charitable institu- Recreio possessona hard court also.
form in which it was sent by the tions.
So it will be seen that there mult moment when he leaves the preparatory school," they said, "and renders the party, in various of a traction-engine belonging to Secretary of State. But perhaps The Attorney General said be a fairly big body of tennis we will undertake to make a man of him." It is but just to own ways, the most useful aid during the Ice Company. The mishap in moving the second reading I that supposing a person was players here who have, aj storong that they have kept their promise, for the system has turned out the year, while special medals took place on the Praya, near shouli just point out the reason charged with cruelly ill-treat liking for the more vigorous and will be conferred on all who hold Arsenal Street and, the engine why it is necessary to pass this ing a child, and he was lively work which usually charad- inen-not just a handful, but thousands of whom England is office during the period covered being coross the lines, passengers Bill. Under the law as it existed able to show he had done what terises the game on hard surianes. pardonably proud, and who will stand comparison with any of the by the competition. Certificates had to dismount from their do there was a fairly comprehensive he could to get relief it would be Which Surface Is Best Fr naval officers that the rest of the world may have to offer. Yet, as of merit are also to be presented and get into others on the farther Ordinance-No. 1 of 1883 simple for him to avoid being Realising the fact that, the hard with most human schemes, the cadet system could not be fair and to every club highly commended. side of the obateple,
dealing with the issue of loans by punished on the charge. All court bas come to stay, sword or All of which is very pretty and generous to A without being more or less unjust to B. The two harmless. But why all this fuse
means of inscribed stock, and until that he hail to do was to prove to two may be written con ning for the main objections to it are manifest, and they both hinge more or less about the working man?
CONTEMPT OF COURT." the passage of another law No. the magistrate that he had endes- which materialis 11 of 1905 every loan which was voured to obtain relief from some purpose. Asphalt i
Ho on the age question. The regulations demand that the cadet sball
tocat popular sur Tortoise Rambles Round proposed to be raised other than institution herem? foodgasm wi pass, by or before his thirteenth birthday, a general examination A Dangerous Creed.
Rostrum.
through inscribed stock land to be Sir Kai Ho Kai-Where je kong, but even with an expert which would be a sore test for many boys of fifteen. He must also
the subject of a special Debenture our Poor Law here?
superintending ita loying, it has always aven at Homehean satisfy the doctor that he is sound in every respect, and, even though cular remarks that the eugenics
is becoming too Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at Ordinance, of which there are The Hon. Attorney General:
Found to be very tricky. he "passed" at the top of the list, a slight defect of sight, bad teeth, popular, and adds that when a the Police Court, this morning, plenty of examples in the Statute There is no Poor L or tendency to lang weaknese (which, at fifteen he might have out-man a rees that his physique and a boy was charged with hawking Book, and of which a good example Sir Kai Ho Kar-And what grown) would, in a general way, be sufficient to disqualify him. Now for character are laid down on purely tortoises without a licence. The is No. 6 of 1886. In law No. 11 institutions will take care of the our two objections. Suppose all goes well, and the boy pisses the exam bereditary lines, his next step tortoises were produced in Court, of 1905 the provisions of law No. 1 child? 91155 Adet difficulty of getting a really true. and is certified by the doctor. He is entered at Osborne, at a fee which must be the denial of personal in a basket. One of the animale of 1883, dealing with inscribed The Hon. Attorney General court is corresponding ofily well-to-do parents can meet, and he may not be withdrawn responsibility." This is a sober was handed to his Worship and stock, were very obscurely applied No institution is asked to take hanced. Trials have been made. without permission from the Admiralty which permission is not warning, coming from an authori. it caused some amusement by its to the general question of the issue care of the child here. In order here, in numerous Instandes, of tative and unbiassed source. Here peregrinations round the desk. of loans by way of debentures, and that a person may avoid being a local composition known always easy to obtain. Meanwhile the boy may, after a few months as in other things, the world needs His Worship neked if they were it was now pointed out by the convicted, he has got to show the Chu-nam. This howe or years, find that he has no more aptitude for or vocation to the set- sane medium; it is just as sold in the market and Inspector Secretary of Stale that it would magistrato that he has done over, has not proved too stor life than he has to dress making. If he goes on with his course, abanrd to father all our weak Fenton replied that they were not be far better if, instead of the what he can for the child coaful, as it is apt to get terribly
The boy was sentenced to six law as it existed at present, we 1 Sir Kai Ho Kai remarked that cut up with the heavy his subsequent career is like to be a disastrons one; if he abandons nesses, ills and vices on heredity strokes of the birch.
should have one comprehensive then they would have prope sometimes get. In som it after, say, a couple of years, he finds that cadet life has unfitted heredity is in any way, respon as it is to deny outright that
Ordinance dealing both with the going round the officer, The has been found nedena him, in many ways, for going back to a civil school to completo his sible therefor.
issue of loans by way of debet government ought to have some a top layer of cement on this tures and also the issue of Poor Law Act or else have some material to obviate this education, while his father naturally feels that he might as well have tendency is to carry the doctrine The White Stak linor Oceanic, loans by way; of inscribed stock, institution to lako case of these blo Gravel, an thrown his money down a drain. Objection number two is or of heredity to such an extreme that which arrived at Plymouth re- and to introduce into that Or childmn. What was the good war-that many a struggling business or professional man, whose it amounts to the narrowest Precently, steamed 3,120 miles in 6 dinanoo an elasticity which did having a law as this, when they but it is boy longs to enter the Navy, cannot possibly meet the Osborne fees destination creed, denying to man days 6 hours the swiftest pas. not exist at present. by which had nothing to relieve the auf would
anything in the shape of free will when his son is thirteen years of age, yet could perhaps do so with and virtually making of him age she has made on the longer conversion of one form of loan faring of the people farth
into other could be easily done The Hon. Attorney General no ease five years later; to put the matter more broadly, thousands of puppet. After all, inherited course, der dag boys of the middle classpa who may have had, before all things, a traite and leaninga merely form St. George for Merrio England. and properly provided for bent for naval work, have been barred by the mere sordid difficulty one factor the making of Lest by fortailona circumstance. The consequence of that
character environmentary bay Englishmen should have for posal to the pre of dollars and cents. With this in our minds we feel ready to
St. Fürst welcome a plan which, however success ful or unsuccessful it may and inexplicable, soc
training, personal effort of will gotten the
remind with the George's Day. thave prove in other ways, will make matters easier for impecunious boye equally to be taken into con them that the festival falle on debentur
Wednesday April 23, who want to decus their country
sideration;
The "Medical Press and Cir-
propaganda
respon
The modern
A Swift Passage».
sae of;
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who was
of the Bill deal with the issue over stops lie could to help: the
lay dowd; and out East, Chinese workman to rely on,
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