LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
This Afternoon's Meeting. A meeting of the Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber this afternoon, when those present were ***
H. E. the Governor, (Sir Henry May, K.O.M.G.)
H. E the General Officer Com- manding the Troops, (Major General F. Ventris.)
The Bon. Mr. O Severn C.M.G. Colonial Secretary,
The Hon Mr. A. M. Thomson, Colonial Treasurer.
The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, Q.M.G., Director of Public Works, The Hon. Mr. E. E. Halifax, Secretary for Chinese Affairs,
The Hon. Mr. B. E. Pollock, K. 0.
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The Hon. Colonial Secretary replied that certain articles had been ordered, but they had not yet been received. The question of providing . Fire Station at Kowloon was also being conside ered, but a eite had not yet been Releated.
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1918.
-STANDARD SUITS.
Some impressions to Cut and Style.
The department of the War Office which has been constituted Legal Practitioners' Regulations a lesser providence to preside The following regulations made over the material mesde of civil- by Bia Bonour the Chief Justice iane, lest the too great want of under the Legal Practitioners desirable things should make the Ordinance, were approved:- pirit restless with the discom- I The preliminary examination forta of war has prescribed stin of perenns intending to become dard saits for our present bound under Articles of Clerkthip satisfaction, ays, the Manchester to Solicitors eball be in accord-Guardian of June 9. That great ance with the following regula-junknown authority which insisted tiona
on the patriotic virtue of shiny
2. Candidates shall be required black and parpling blue has been to DARE:-(1) In the obligatory deposed. Our patriotism has been subj ets laid down in the syllabus proved by long months of shab- for the Matricolation Examins-binese, and also our obedience The Hon. Mr D. Landsle.
tion of the University of Hong- to authority, and for a reward The Hou. Mr. Lsr Cho Pak. Long for candidates in the Facully come new suits by the million.
The Hon. Mr. Ho Foot, of Arts. (2) To sub sections 1 and And after standard suits there. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, (Clerk 4 of the Latin (xamination pre- will be standard bosiery, mostly of Council.)
scribed by the said syllabus. for women's wear, and after that Financial.
Provided that a person who bas standard flingela and blankets to The following financial minutes already passed in any or all of make the winter more tolerabla. recommended by E. E. the the above objecte and who Fifteen million pounde' worth of Governor, were referred the produces to the Registrar of the textiles altogether. Finsoce Committee and Supreme Ccut & certifiests to Reointly at an exhibition in approved :-
that effect grated by the Un-Bradford (which was opened by iversity of Hongkong shall be Mr. Albert Illingworth, the Post- exempt from again passing in master General) it was revealed that the patterns of cloth Bra satu saljet or subjects.
A sum of $1,000 in aid of the vote Botanics and Forestry Department, Special expenditure, toring & Wong Nei Obeong Re- oraation Ground.
3. The examination shall take standardised but not patterns of place at the ass time and place saite. Those who are still allowed civilians may be 88 the Matriculation Examination to remain
Aeam of $6,000 in aid of the vote Police and Prisno Depart of the University of Hongkong standardised bat they will not be maple, A.-Police, other charges.for candidates o the Faculty of uniformed. They will only alothing for Police Reserve. Arts and the candidate shall pay get as far as the grading, sad À eum of $1,530,000 an such fee not exceeding $10, aa that will be of their own fros scoount of Miscellaneous Services, the University of Hongkong shall "Contribution to Imperial Govern
ment for war purposee.
A sum of $13,000 in sid of the wote Public Works, Extraordinary New Territories, communicatione, (42) road (f.) general works.
A anm of $0.050. in aid of the vote Crown colicitor's Office, other charges, extra legal ex- penses.
A eum of $5,012 in aid of the vote Pablic Works, Establish- ment, other charges transport and travelling #xpenser.
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in with pettifogging restrictions: HONGKONG EDUCATION, it only says that "aports" caste are barred and certain elaborationa
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choice, the grade men taking away bis four-gained suit for prompt cash and the grade 3 men The Colonial Secretary said :- The Hon. Cotontal Treasurer & ting his for 67. 6d. Bh "This mm represents EDD of moved the first reading of a will be equal in orercoate, taking £260,000 for geceral war par-B. intituled An Ordinance grade 3 cloth for three guineas. poses being contributed to the to sathorize the Appropriation Bat happily the outward architec Imperial Government and Unof
A Supplementary Sam of tare of men will continue various. offical members have already To million Beren haad- The War Office has not stepped. approved of this gift from the red sad fifty-two thousand one Farplus revenue. The banke of hundred and filty-two Dollars and His Majesty's Government have fity eight Uenie to defray the already been received and pab- Charges of the year 1917.
of trimming and velvet colisis. Some Points from the Director's highed in the public prese,"s
The Bill sathorises the er. We sre.not to be reduced to one! penditure se followe:-
strict fale and pattern nor yet to Harbour Depart
one colour. A olassic authority The report of the Director of mert,
...$ 15,122 82 on tailoring has told me that if the Education for last year etates that school Miscellaneous Set-
cat betokens intellect and talent after deducting the vices.
2,648,503 16 the colour betokens temper and fees received, the total nett az edccation wa Military Expendi
heart. Agreeing ia that, we shall penditore on 982.87 presently find the whole male $234,878 ($235,978 in 1916).
The ratio which expenditure on population proving itself in dress Work,
20,108 45 the possessor of steady tempera education bears to the total Public Works,
and very obar hearts for its revenue of the Colony is 2.29 Extraordinary 67,435,28 ohoice of calear will be limited (2.44 in 1918), sud ie the lowest
to navy blue and black, the daller figure since 1904.
School and Technical Institate "A sum of $75,060 in aid of the
Total *...82,752,152,58 | brown, and quister greys. vate Public Works. Recurrent,
The Copyright Act.
The War Office aathority frea fees amounting to $96,711 were Hongkong Water Works, (19)
The Hon. Colonial Secretary the colours; the manufacturers collected ($85 123 in 1916). ID Maintenance of City and Hill moved the first reading of a Bill determine the style and cat; and addition $3,844 75 fese were District.
intituled An Ordinance to modify here we find that the factories remitted to free echolars ($3,963.- A sum of $1,200 in aid of the and to add to the provisions of have their more or less rigid 50 in 1918)..
The scita in this A table shows that the total Tole Kowloos Canten Bailway, the Copyright Act, 1911, in its standarde. Special Expenditure, brick coal application to the Colony of attractive exhibition (which is number of popile at schools in coming to Manchester it has been the Colony, excluding the Police Hongkong.
the uncontrolled The Hor. Colonial Tresearer to London) have been collected School and seconded and the Bill was reads from six different manufacturing schools in the New Territories. areas in the north and south, but wee 23935, being 8,474 in Eng frst time.
In the "Objects and Reasons" there are no corresponding differ lieb and 15.461 in Vernacular it is stated that when the Bill be ences in style. There has been Schools. This an increase of comes law it will also be necessary po stipulation that trousers should 2,832 orer 1916, the increase in A sum of $500 in aid of the to make regolations noder section he turned up, yet all of them are. papila in English Schools being the Vernacular! vole Charitable Services, other 14 of the Act. A draft of the It has not been ordained that 109, and in charitable sllowBaCES.
proposed regalations will be waistcoate should be without Schools, 2,231.
Technical Institate.-The In- A ram of $13.000, in aid of the pablished at the same time as the collars; but they invariably are. vole Public Werke, recurrent, (1) Bill. They are based on the These ars points of the fashion elitute continues to do geeful
fegulationa, made in the United of
provid-work, and makes a point of pro maintenance of buildings.
Kingdom.
ed for the million by the whole-viding inetraction in any subjo: eale manufacturer, who decrees for which there is a demand. The
barkers.
A sum of $14300 in aid of the vole Public Worke, Extraordin- ary, New Territories, communica tions, (42) roada: (0) Ping Shan 10 Castle Peak, widening of 20 feat.
A sum of $2 900 in aid of the vole Public Works, (29) gue lighting, Kowloon.
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THE WANCHAL MURDER.
Further Evidence this Afternoon.
At the Magistmes his after- noci, before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, the case was resumed in which Luk Obi, & cook boy, was charged with the murdering en smah employed by Mrs. B. W. Bradbury Inspector Sim prosecated and Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for the defence
Dr. J. T. C. Johnson, Principal' Civil Medical Officer, depored to having had defendant under He observation for a few'daya, wer of the opinion that the map might have lost control of bim sell at the time of the murder, but now his mental condition wse all right...
88rg. "Kid" Marriot; of the The Hon. Colonial Secretary sleo-dictating again where be latest Class to be formed is that Naval Police, gere evidence of A Fom of $450 in sid of the moved the first reading of a Bill merely aims at conforming to the cookery, which is proving most defendant's arrest eaying that s vole Poblic Works, Recurrent, intituled An Ordinance to repeal modi-that coate shall be popular and successful.
little boy (Hazelend) informed with
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Boogkong University Examina- (30) electric lighting, Kowloon.
him that a murder, was being á som of $3,000 in aid of the mercial Treaty Ordinates, 1917. inherent right of personal choice tinna-There were 218 successes committed at Ms. Bredbury' vote Public Worke, Recorrent, The For. Colonial Treasurer in matters of taste may be obafed (129 in 1916), of which Queen's houer. Ea weast that time cut- 59 One pasa in side the Naval Ordnance gate. New Territories, miscellaneous, seconded and the Bill was read za lile by the idea of all this College ca (45) typhoon and reinetorm dam frst time. egen.
A sum of $253 60 in sid of
the vote Orown Solicitor's Office, epecial expenditure, Happy Valley disaster.
A sum of £500 on account of
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then brought defendant to the
standardisation, though it is the Matriculation Examination, 3 He went up there and saw defen The Anglo-Portuguese Com- nothing new. It comes a boat in in the Senior Local and in the dant and had him arrested. mercial Treaty Ordinance, 1917, the ordinary method of cheap Junior Local were obtained at the was passed in order to enable the production, and is merely one British Schools (Kowloon and Anglo PortuguesS Commercial degree more compelling than the Victoria). Treaty to come into operation, as opinion (impo-ed by the arching regards the Colony of Hongkong, eyebrow) of the "bespoke" tailor
Miscellaneous Services, graot-in bat, in view of difficulties which whoa basinere it also is to insist
Rociation.
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Navel Ordnance, bat when they
reached near Queen's Rosd defen dant made a movement, and wit neer, being afraid that he might away, gave him a blow on. the jaw...
The case is proceeding,
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The Tai O Tragedy.
aid of the Colonial Narsing Au have arisen in correction with on the prevailing fashion. men's suits at four guiness and the application outside the To bring ourselves to the into yeaths' saite for 70%. The A sum of $11,000 in aid of the United Kingdom of Article 8 of measures of wartime and to be grade cloth is for men overcoat. wote Pablic Works, Extraordinary, the Treaty, His Majesty's economical we must turn to the three guineas. Grade 3 cloth in Kowloen, miscellaneous, resump-Government have now decided ready made suit. It is reserved for men's suite at 57.63., youths'
At the Police Court yesterday tion of ferry piere.
that the Colonies and Protector to the man who can afford more fait 513., and you'ha' over A sum of $1,650 in aid of thelates shall not adhere to the than four gainese for the guide 1"ocate at 45a. Boys' enite of grade afternoon, before Mr J. B. Wood, vate Miscellaneous Services, im Treaty. It is therefore necessary garments to be a chooser of style. 3 oloth sad in the Ragby style the care was coveladed in which He for an additional 81. 6d., can! will coat 45a, and a similar style Indian Sergeanta B144 and B152 provement to Naval tennis courts. to repeal the above Ordinance.
A sum of $140 in aid of the vote The Oplum Ordinance." get the same cloth made up, just of sait in a grade 4 cloth will be were charged with neglect of duty Clasa I Item 9, MiscellaneoOR The Hon. Colonial Secretary as he wishes to have it, by bis 53. cheaper. A boy's overcoat on the morning of Jaly 17 at Tai Services, bathing places, North moved the first reading of a Bill own tailor. But the King's fait, crate 35. The prices quoted are 0. After the evidence of the two Point and Kennedy Town... intituled An Ordinance to amend for which he choss the cloth at for certain average, and they defendants bad been taken, His A sam of $9,883.49 in sid of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, and Lesda recently, is a brown worst- vary a little either way. Nobody Worhipsentenced & at defendan
ed mixture prics 761. 61, and enggets that there clothes (8144) to six weeks' bard Inboar the vote Hongkong Defence Corps, the Opam Odinance, 1917. other charger, ammunition. The Hon. Colonial Tresearer, anybody may have a similar suit cheap, but, starting from the high for neglect of daty, and flard him secondsd and the Bill" was read a at the identical price by trking price of raw wool, it is declared 25 or one month's hard labour Arising out of another finar.first time.
for pattern 230.
officially that neither merobant for not attempting to extinguish The objet of this Bill is to
Standard clothes should be on manufacturer. nor reiniler will the fire at the Station. The cial minute in connection with fra appliances, the Hon. Mr. Pollock make two minor corrections in the asle, but not at fint in large receive more than a fair perfitond defendent (B152) wes seked whether any steps had texte of the Opium Ordinance, quantity. The grade 1 cloth is a The money will (in Mr. Dling amtenced to one week's hard been taken to provide are extin 1914, and of the Opium Ordin worsted, serge, either plain will worth's words) procure a durabl. Iabour, for his neglect of daty. or feney. It is made up into suit at a reasonable price, Bahsentences date from August 8, guishing appliances for Kowloon, Lace, 1917,
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