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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917.
to day, when family life is more freely possible, is said to be immense, and indeed must be so. Every new home is a souros of strength and happiness, and
MARINE COURT.
Some Interesting Cases.
But this was mere fad, for which no one would be the better. And so on. You have heard it all from infancy, last time in our The Law of the Battlement. local Legislative over the Chit Ordinance. However, here this old law is, and it ecome strange now that the like of it should ever stir ap contection.
Law is truly aid to be made call it nothing else which The corewain of a Teamsti
Notea of a sermon by the Bar, J. Kirk Maconachis at Union Charch on Sunday morning :-*
KING LAUNCHES SHIP ON CLYDE.
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
TARIFF REFORM DISSENSIONS.
The Legacy of" 1864. Lord Salisbury, who was at the
Lord Duncannon Resigar the ceded Heligoland to Germany,
Chairmanship. was more far sighted when he The King's second visit to the characterised Prassis's robbery of the Tariff Reform League, bald Interest in the annual meeting
whatever tends to restrict the fore the Marine Hagistrate, Talk With Wounded Soldiers. head of the Government which
There were saverel ossea be- number of kuch is to be deplored. Commander O. W. Beckwith,
That is the deplorable point B. N, this morning. about the rick renting-one can
The Rule of the Road.
house thou shalt make a battle is rather for the thoughtless, and | which young householders of talling to observe the rule of the of the year opened at Greenock of Schleswig-Holstein in 1884, almost, wholly in a berion of ra "When thou baildest a new for the lawless. But much of it prevails, and the great diffoulty/ferry launch was charged with Clyde district since the beginning of the Danish maritime provinces at Manchester recently, centred ment for thy roof, that thou bring the inert, who will not disebarge moderats means find here in road, daring the evening of and Port Glasgow in the most for which he was not responsible, solutions welcoming "with deep It was stated by Sergeant/continued in Glasgow itself over and unblasbing-spoliations and proposing that the longus
to Beam
November 24.
to go astern to
No Place to Go.
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favourable weather, and it will be
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Deuteronomic code. No doubt feele no obligation to aim beyond people to found their own homes evidence, but the defendant's ed as in 1915.
An Indian watchman gave there were those who looked on it them. What the law allows he had bring up their families in story was that he did not go galoon train, where he is having Prussian diplomaoy from the vernacular, "I will see you demned
Without Permission.
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ifted off the shipe, and after yet be restored. Lapse of time is treachery of the existing partice, ed without the templates being fifty years after the event it should what he described as the political warde, where very important work no bar to criminal proceedings,
is
indiscreet to particularise.
in progress which it would be sad for criminals there is no
Statute of Limitations."
THE WOMEN OF INDIA,
Lord Sydenham's Plea."
and predicted that, after the war, the great men of the Army and Navy would get rid of the rotten party things that had weakened the country in the past.
not-blood upon thy house if any their social duties without com souring suitable house socom-
BA one of the most wanton man fall from thance.”-Deut. pulsion. The Act known in modation. It is not right that in
gratitude" the National party 22/3.
Eugland as the "Children's & British Colony it should be so
Sation that although he blew, the greater part of the week, which history records" An old bones you have to take Charter," eg, was largely of that diffoalt for British Colonists to a short-blust-on-the-whistle-
His Majesty, in the uniform of Allies-are-to-day paying dearly organisation,
The should-merge itself in the new së you get it, bạt a new one of nature. For instance, it made provide home for wife and of the police launch he
Haar Admiral of the Fleet, came to for their supine and onwardly your own bailding expresses your-fireguards obligatory in rooms children.
travelling in, the defendant ses for himself how the shipbuild-refusal to help. Denmark then, proposal triumphed, for, although In the end the opponents of this held on to his course, with ing programme of his ses empire for the war which broke out the resolution of welcome was self, reflecting, with whatever used by young children. Now, limitations of cost and so forth, na living mother could possibly there is no battlement for our boat bad
To apply my text to the point, the result that the police which he has witnessed to-day, directly traceable to that cause the suggestion that the leagues
is progressing, and the operations, exactly fifty years later friends do not feel free to criticise be burned to death, but unfort general social welfare, includ-avoid a collision. The defendabshare obviously given him pro- Wishous robbing Denmark of should merge in the Nations taste, intentions, ideals. Your intend that her infant should
Was passed with a few dissentients, it as they might your rented pastely there were thoavande who teniment and cheerfulness as see the police launch because necessary to say that the reception in 1868 driving the Austrians referred back for further discus
ing in that expression cog told him that he could
found satisfaction. It is bardly Schelewig-Holstein in 1884, and party was, by a large majority, dwelling. Their suggestings would incur that risk whilst they well as specialised must be offered tactfully-made ran out "just for a minute" to do like the
"morale," his passengers were crowded in accorded him was of the beartiest out of Holstein, increase of home front and obstracted his view,
possible character, both in the dominant party of the German resolution to join forces was with- it possible
to a bit of shopping or gossip with a life and its maintenance in
presion by the branches, while the on house is like his child, and interfere, because deaths from that terms proportionate to incomes and ordered the man to be rand evoked the smiling respon-s and suggestive article in the New emanate from yourself. A men's neighbour. So the law bad to reasonable security of tenure on $50 or two months hard labour shope, where the deafening cheers have been challenging British
His Worship imposed a fine of streets and in the great work- Empire would not to-day drewD.” if you don't happen to approve cause, were of daily pourtange, Housing questions are by no examined before being given of a repeated salate.
frequently brought him to a halt sea-power. In a most interesting throughout, and the merging The proceedings were lively of it, it is seldom wise to say so. Lawa do much more than simply means conned to the slam dis back his certificate. But there are usually regulations penalise offenders. They suggest trick. In modern cities they are
Europe, dated August 16, Mr. J. Proposal provoked a storm of in the matter of housebuilding, to the unthinking. They express often as urgent in the suburbs, The coxswain of another launch certain quarters there was not a editor of the Telegraaf, tells the Protest from Sir Joseph Lawrence. In spite of apprehensions in O. Van de Veer, the Landon position and drew" rigorous imposed for the public good. My on the whole the general ex- and I know of no comparable was charged with lying alongside single appleseant incident, either story of the way in raich Prussie, National party, and wish it God- text is an ancient building bye-law perience of what has you better question which can be of more the Ping On Wharf without per- out of ours or in the sheds, and who does not change her methods, speed," he said; "bat, when you “I have po objection to the new embodying the spirit of considers salutary. They embody our better moment. Anything which makes mission. tion which is so marked in the standards, and the average citizen it andaly difficult for young
every where the crowds were manipulated the Danish War. It ask me to merge in it and marsh dense and enthusiasm unrestrain is too long to recapitulate here, willy-nilly, hand in hand with it, bat it faraishes one more count I say, in good old Lancashire at the time as a piece of meddle-considers himself free" to do. health and comfort is an evil for the wharf, but lay off and had s
The King is living in bis in the damning indictment of some interference; there are The legislator is therefore our which no dividend-getting in the plank ranning on the Praya by his spartan meals at each times time of Frederick, called the always plenty to raise that cry teacher, most influential of all passing generation can possibly which his passengers could dis- and places as his fall programme Great, down to the present day. ton, spoke strongly against the
£rat.(Cheers.) against any effort at preventive teachers for the mass of men in compensate in the future. Grad embark.
Another speaker, Major Hamil- legislation. Cannot I build important respects. The eduos meant as for home life, and only
allows, and this sailor like simpli- Firat," my own house ss 1 like ?tional function of law and dissater comes from placing it as sufficiens room must be left be. people, who, themselves, have can, thereafter I can always find against such men as Mr. Bour His Worship pointed out that city is vastly appreciated by the genial candour, "I take what which he declared to be treason Baid Frederick, with National Party, the formation of Certainly, if you build it on a administration is cf vast impera disadvantage; it is the satetween the piers for the owners to practised so much self-denial in some pedant to justify my. desert island, which is the pro-suce, and that is why some of and divinely-ordered protection work their cargo boats. per place for people who make a as offered
the interest of the national cause, actions." uncompromising against untold evils. But when
Bismarck's vision, so speciality of .doing
His Majesty is patting in an long ago as 1884, was of the Ger- Mr. Sam Howard, of Rochdale, just opposition recently when
Defendant replied that the our the home has been founded, piers were so close together that eight hours' day every day this man fleet riding in Kiel Harbour. watered down his resolution for what they like. But there anti-gambling laws were partially under whatever restrictions, let it if that rule applied he would not week, and is allowing neither Therefore he fastened an unjust merging the two organisations In view of the strong opposition, aren't enough desert islands suspended. It was the removal before all else be a to go round, 60 88 things are if for a time of portion of the sweetness and safety. If your wall at all. He did not go near
place of be able to get along the Prays himself nor his Laite osny more quarrel apon Denmark and obtain into a declaration of the readines a man neglects to put a parapet battlement, and if any man fall home life as a people is wrong the Ping Oa pier. The watchmen
holiday-making.
ed his desire. The question now of the Tariff Reform League "to round his roof he brings blood for want of is, there is blood everything if wrong, and there came and took some of the fish heat Greenock at 10 o'clock, and at are the Allies going to let Ger- Party," and calling for the forma This morning his train arrived ia, as Mr. Van der Veer suggests, cooperate with the National upon his house if a neighbour pou our house.
is no redemption. I do not had on board for themselves but 10.5 be was off in a fast motor many keep these mces wanton tion of a committes to give effect with a head less steady thom bie:
We have been speaking believe that it is own falls from it, or, say, some of the community, but
wrong, the men who owned it santobed to see the building of standard and unblushing spoliations to this proposal. the Ten although perhaps two it back. It was because of that ahips and engines and boilers. Sohleswig was as much torn venturesome youth, some beed-text, of course, Guja ite thirds of the over-abundant fiction that he had been charged. less child. In a hot constry primary application in
Then he drove to another works from" the of the day appears to find its in-
Denmark
General Page Croft, who hes where houses here fist roofs on bome. There, of all places, tereet in tales of domestic discord prisonment was imposed,
A fine of $10 or 14 days' im-to witness the hydraulic testing Lorraine was later torn from Party, denied the allegation Alesce-given his adherence to the Nation which people sit by day and the protecting parapet is in keep end aafaithfulness. These, you
of boilers, next to a shipbuilding France, and there is much to be that it was conceived by the Tarif Bleep at night, the battlement ing. An Englishman's house is may observe, are, nearly always
yard, where the plates are mark said for the argument that even Reform League. would seem so ressonable & re-bis csatle, zans our common about people who seem to have being on board the Amaknes A Chinese was charged with
He denounced quirement that legislation should boast, and not even the King may nothing particular to do and too Maza without permission. not have been necessary. Perhape, enter without leave. Well, the much money to spend, so natural- yet it was vecesary, and neither chance of the King wanting to ly thinga get in a tangle. But found ostrying the coat of an It was stated that the man was yon nor I need be surprised, enter on any terms in email. Bat nine-tenths of the citizens of officer on board, and when ques knowing what we or our fellow the risk of friend or child coming this world are, happily, pro- tioned admitted that he had no lannohed a ship, to the accom
A one yard his Majesty ozbaterea are, anreasonable, to harm is by no means small, vided with rational interests right to it or to be on board. Conservative, selfish, set on unless cars be taken to prevent it. and useful occupation, and have
paniment of thunderous "obeers, baving our own way. Did ever The danger from outside violence neither time nor inclination to hard labour was imposed.
A fine of $50 or two months' Among a thousand spectators in
Sir Joseph Lawrence, following improvement, aby
however is far less than from inside ehape theit matual relations on
the heat and the noise and the
ap bis declaration in the verns. sminently advantageous, establish carelessness. Moses had no need the lines of degenerate fiction.
dirt of the typical shipyard, no
calar, said he and others had itself without determined opposi-to give a commandment. sa to We Britishsta have been and are
one was more at his ease than the
decided to resign rather than tion ? Take the Plimsoll mark bolts and bare to keep out bar
King. The sparks few about
Lord Sydenham, presiding at a work with Lord Dancannon and decent and home-loving on our ships. It is a reminder glars. We can be trusted to people, for which reason it bas
from hall a dozen clanging meeting of the Women's Indian General Page Croft. His admirs of strenuous opposition, plus attend to that. The law reminds long been a pazzie to me that we
visiting party farbore to shade dian Association, Cromwell Road, had besten up his supporters by hammers, playing apon red-hot Study Association held recently tion for General Page Croft had indifference, to requirement as of the thing liable to be should provide the market for
his eyes with his hand, and that South Kensington, said that no giving lunch and tea to delegates. iron. The King alone of all the st the rooms of the National In-been killed by his conduct-he now sccepted as so right and neglected, the battlemens around prurient melodrama which the necessary that we wonder it the roof. should ever have been disputed.
oaspat of the pablishing offices Speaking of castles, did you and the contents of libraries seems warned to fire Part I on Sunday one of the onlookers was actually facts, that he might understand Page Oroft said Sir Joseph knew
the operation was not entirely man should take office in India The undermentioned destions, free from danger was shown when without knowledge of essential at this statement, and General With a little imagination one ever see one which had not to suggest. might reconstinot a fall-dress de-a parapet around the topmost But in soy case let our precious Headquarters Olab at 5.30 p.m.
next, December 9, will attend at hit by a email ingot. bate in an imaginary Jewish wall, where in the old days home life show more and more for
the Indian point of view; "ench that there had always been a legislature when this law of the armed rentries used to go their the spirit of this law of the battle follow
It was impossible for the King knowledge should be in the fare-lunch at their annual meetinga,... battlement we first proposed rounds, and ladies of the ment. The Children's Act, which
to speak to all of the thousands of
front of the training for the Civil Sir Joseph Lawrence said his Opponent No. 1 objected strongly household take the evening air? I have already referred to, forbade Piasoon). Thursday, December, to those who had suffered some of lectures on modes of life in those who received in had for to this freeb interference with the Indeed the battlement is the mark well-meaning mothers to give
Nos. 1 and 2 Sections (No. 1 hie kindly silentions to the old, cut to India without officiere and Oroft had sent out a letter, marked workpeople who greeted him, bat Service. No regiment should go point was that General Page liberty of the eubject. There had of the style specially known as their infants gin-it was high
men going through a full course Confidential," and some of been far too much of that already, castellated in architecture. To time, anfortaustely. Few could-Friday, December 7. Uniform as much populer pleasure as if he qualities of the people.
No. 3 Section (No. 2 Platoon) injury, and to the women doing India and the very attractive warded it to members of the and he begged to move the re day the humblest cottage on the be so ignozant and thoughtless optiqnal. Masketry Handbooks had shaken hands with the whole fection of the Bill. His seconder hilleide ie & safer apot under one mast suppose, hat short of waxed acorniol about grand-modern government than were each crees fally
must be brought. motherly legislation. People who those frowning fortalices to their the
many are
The results of shooting by
of Greenock and Port Glasgow.
in India could fail to be aware of disposed of as stated, Lord Dan stumbling-blocke could not eit on walls without masters in times of old Andin
placed the Staff, Hoanted Police and
His questions, which were in the important movement, gather cannon intimated his intention of the way
of these Maxim Gunners on 2ad instant
numerable and getting giddy ought to keep though the modest building tender souls which the Creator are posted at Headquarters Clan acquaintance with some of the tion that would broaden the the League as "soon sa combone exhibited an ing in force, in favour of educa. resigning the chairmanship of away from them. Was everybody makes no imposing festure in the commits to the charge of as No. 3 Company. Winter Uniform. were as often addressed to old failer share in national life. The bad already resigned his else to be held in leading strings on landscape, if there be within it parents. Are you giving your
details of marine engineering, outlook of women and give them a could be found to take his place. account of a few weaklings? Men the fear of God and the love of children all the lead you might, Ambalance and Baglers and working man as to their employ. high school for girls in Bombay membership of the "Unigaist used to be men in the days when Obrist, it has an invisible but by taashing and still more by Drummers requiring alteration ers, and he gripped cordially sa he was young, and he would wark, as the mountaine are exemple ? If they take after you or fresh issue of Wins. Uniform many horny and toil-worn bande greatest needs was women doctors, shocked by the atmosphere of an instance. One of the party, because he had been rather see a broken neck or two round about Jerusalem," which will they be found in the future are ordered to parade as Head-as hands that were gloved for the and there were difficulties to be politice in the House of Commons, now and again than be treated as no evil influence can overpass. though they were not capable.
When thon buildest s new godliness, Christian zeal and Thursday, December 6. A room are the Gees some cunicipal tions that had gradually been Reform League.
leading lives of self-control, quarters Club at 5:30 pm: on occasion...
removed. In ancient daye women and he was bound also to sever of taking care of themselves. house" let a think of a new service?
At the Greenock Town Hall, in India were free from restrice his connection with the Tarif No. 3 professed to speak for home, established in love, with the moderate-minded portion of the Presence which was at Cans upon our houses. We should None of us wants to bring blood
саготому, ha spontaneously imposed. Heroic women had left the community-he was sure the as the abiding guest. What hopes not like to have it on our
turned to a number of wounded their mark for good on Indian large majority. The danger of are in it, and centred on it? It consciences that our young people Mondays and Fridays at Central with Bed Cross aurees
All recruite will parade on soldiers, who had been grouped history.
TRAMWAY RETURNS. unwalled roofs, said he, had been has the very air of spring, and or any who frequent us should Station at 5.30 p.m. until passed I hope you will soon recover tions, but it had to meet demands mate statement of the Hong-
. It was not for the Government greatly exaggerated. This talk ite fature bathed in sunshine. contract say taint from what they out.
platform behind him, and said; to force changes in social condi
The following is the approxi of bringing blood upon one's Ill it is with the community see and hear beneath our roof; house was altogether extravagant, which is destitute of ewest and that in our company should come
from your wounds and be able to from the people which in time kong Tramway Company's traino No sufficient cause had been plentiful home life, the human their introduction to laz living.
go home again".
might bring about the complete receipts for the week ending shown for this judged and goal of the heart, and under God flippant contareation, disregard battlement around the roof, s hamsa incident so the remark changes should be gradasi.
It was just as simple and natural emancipation of women. The December 1st, 1917 :---- pettifogging proposal, sad as one the centre of all that gives preof the Sabbath, indifference to The Shepherd who goes after which had been addressed to the India any sudden break up in whose motto was "live and let ciousness to our earthly life. Old good things, criticism of good the hundredth live," be muet vote against it. residents in this Colony say that people, selfishness, cynicism, an seine who safely folds the worker in one of the sheds a few ed. Giving free scope to the Last Year: 12,154 086,437 etray is the King himself by a young woman social conditions should be avoid This Year: 812,582 $647,610 No. 4 bore a mandate from the the former days were far inferior belief. You would not wish it be ninety and nine. "I guarded minutes earlier Jerusalem and Jericho Property to the present in this respect if at your table the new comers from them," says the Lord Himself, in
influence of women would do Increase: Defence Association, whose mem- no other. Thirty, forty years the Homelands should be induced that last and tenderest prayer for well," And the one pleased the India...
"I hope the Queen is quits much to promote the interests of bors saw their legitimate interests back, they say, there were few to break their abstinence pledges, His disciples. Hesus work is soldiers as much as the other had unfairly threatened. The cost of European homes in these settle- to turn their backs on their early good, it is Ohrist-like. Not lees delighted the King,
Miss Boyd, secretary (in Eug building was going to be increased, ments in the Far East, faw upbringing, to make light of so is the quiet daily function of
land) for the Women's University one per cent. of Indian women and if these new-fangled houses Earopesa women, and scarce what they had bold secred. My prevention. The one ought we Glasgow Town Hall. Provost lecture on the women's movement could read. The great need was
At the reception at Port Settlement, Bombay, gave a became the fashion all the old child to look opon. The men friende, if more thought were to do and the other not to leave Macfarlane informed the King and ite possibilities. She said for Indian girls to take up the houses would begin to fetch less had to live in bachelor messes, taken for prevention there would undone. "When thou buildest that Port Glasgow had raised that since the missionaries made profession of medicine. I had Improvements were all which have their place of course, be less crying need for cure. The new house thou shalt make a £35,000 for war funds, and there education part of their policy been stated by an authority that well, the members of the bat do not represent the mode of gospel which, has produced the battlement for thy roof, that thou had not been a strike or a dispute early in the 19th century progr had le chance of life than a Association would yield to none life which is natural sad perman-hospital and the saylam does not bring not blood upon thire house to delay work for one single had been made, but still there
sa Indian woman in child-birth in their desire to facilitate them ent. The absage for the better on that count neglect the if any man fall from then w hour
was the lafhentable fact that only soldier on the battefield,
rant.
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F.
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POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS.
Orders isened to-day by Mr. C. Jenkin, D.S.P. (R., state:
Musketry Course 1917-18.
general instruction BA
Member of No. 3 Company,
will be set aside for changing purposes.
Recruits.
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unfamiliar, laborious work, gave
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There was a storm of opposition
executive,
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No one with recent experience The resolution having beca
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for work.
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Receipts for 43 weeks,
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