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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
NOTES & COMMENTS.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1921,
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
DAY. BY DAY.
LIFE, TO BE WORTHY OF A
AMING.
BE MOST
To-Day's Meeting. A meeting of the Legislativoja
6. Sub-clause (1) of clause 6 ST. DUNSTAN'S HOME. authorises the Governor by Order] in Connell to extend the Ordin- ance to judgments obtained in superior court in any A Chinese journal records that RATIONAL
United Kingdom besides two native barristers of ALWAYS IN PROGRESSION; WEuncil was held this afternoon, part of His Majesty'z domiz Hankow, the Chief Justics of MUST ALWAYS PURPOSE TO DO Which H. E. the Governor ions outside
China's Judiciary.
Hupah and three other leading MORE OR BETTER THAN IN TIMES (Sir Edward Stubbe, E. C. M. G.) when he
presided. There ware
{PAST.-JoÀ #500.
judges hava bean arrested by arder of the Central Government)
A foki of the Shua Hing Bank, pa account of corruption, evident. ly signifying bribery. It is added of 254, Dn Voeux Road. has that the hlinistry of Justice has absconded with a sum of $1,000, refused to throw the inquiry open the property of the bank. to the public, which seems to
imply that the case is a pretty Another opium fiend, who was bad one. It may be that the yesterday caught by C.P.O. Watt Government is partly to blame by hovering over a boiling pan, was reason of salaries being in arrear. this morning sent to prison for |The matter is of some interest tojthree months,
Europeans now that the abolition
of extra-ferritoriality is under
An elderly Chinese was yester consideration by the Powers day taken to the Government There have been sundry signs Civil Hospital suffering from that Chins is making
fects of an over-dose of opium: endeavour to reform her judicial believed to hare been self- system, and so far is entitled to administered in an attempt to credit. Although it is easy to commit suicide, magnify the importance of detached incidents. the Hopeh gives an indication of the
Chau Tong, a coolie living al matsbed at Kailanwan, Aber-
present:-
L-Gen. Bir G. M. Kirkpatrick, KCB, CAL
Wigwam Tennis Club's Contribution.
is ratified that The following letter from the also reciprocal provisions have been late Bir Arthur Pearson, dated made by the legislature of that November 8th was received on part of His Majesty's dominions Tuesday by Mr. E. H. O'Farrell, for the enforcement thers of judg of the Hoogkong and Kowloon ments obtained in the Supreme Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. who Court of this Colony.
lately noted as Hon. Secretary of 7. Sub-clause (9) of clause 6 the now defunct Wigwam Tennis provides that the expression "Dy Club-
The Hon. Mr. Claud Sovam, a3.0., Colonial Secretary,
The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp QRE, Attomey General.
The Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins, Director of Public Works.
The Bon. Mr. C. Mel. Masser, 0.8.E, Colonial Treasurer.
The Hon. Mr. E A. Irving. Director of Education.
The Hon. Mr. E R. Hallifax, Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang. The Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird. The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak.
THE CENSUS.
part of His Majesty's dominions Dear Sir, I have to acknow outside the United Kingdom shall be deemed to include any taining the welcome contribution ledge receipt of your latter con- territory which is under His, Majesty's protection or in respect of 85 6d, which has been of which a mandato is being stan's funds, and which is the sent for the benefit of St. Dan- exercised by the Government of balance of funds from the Wig- Loy part
of His Majesty's dominions.
wam Tennis Club, Hongkong.
I enclose an official receipt for The Hon. Mr. Chow Stou-son KC asked: When will the you will accept yourself and
The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock this amount, and with it I bope. The Hon. Mr. a. G. Stephen. Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, Clerk Snal Report on the Census, which convey to all concerned an ex- of Councils.
was taken last Spring, be publish-pression of very sincere and DECORATIONS BESTOWED. ed?" The reply was that the cordial thanks on behalf of the Before commencing the ardin-eport had been presented to the gallant men who will beneßt by such practical interest in their welfare. Military Excellency presented the O.BE.
BILLS PASSED. Division)
The following Bills were reäd; to Capt. B. D. C. Morgan, and Paymaster second and third time and Lient-Comdr. Marcel received passed-- the R.N.R. Officers' Decoration. An Ordinance to swend further:
FINANCIAL MINUTES.
the Rents Ordinance, 1921. The following financial minutes
An Ordinance to regulate the were referred to the Finance imposition of the penalty of Committee and subsequently stocks.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.g task involved when the Chief deen Village, was yesterday sent
Justice and three paisno judges to the Government Civil Hospital Ary business of the Council, His/Council to-day. ate implicated in the charges with a broken leg sustained by From many tokens it is a logical inference that
jumping over the verandah of the A tremendous
second floor of a house at Ladder awaits amount of work
the
Straet. reformers, 45 to which the Powers' committee of investig- ation may be expected to provide some valuable enlightenment. Affairs in India.
Wedding.
SUTHERLAND –DOTTRIDGE-On December 14th, at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, Arthur Robert Sutherland, second son of the late Dr. A.,Sutherland, of Invergordan, to Dorothy Ids.) youngest daughter of the Iste J.W. Dottridge, of London.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1921.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
note.
thel
A lecture, which is open to the public, will be given at the Helens May Institute on Wednes day next. December 21st. at 5.30 passed
After
Expenditure.
Motor
$10,900 in aid of the following votes-Public Works, Recur
reat Hongkong Communica- tions(6) Maintenance of Roads |
NEW BILL
Such substantial assistance is deeply appreciated-Yours faithfully.
(Signed)
ARTHUR PEARSON. (Chairman. Blinded Soldiers' and Sailors Care Committee).
Between Ourselves
By Rob MacWhirter.
There
Affairs in India. assuredly disp.m. by Miss Yung Wei Tsung on $4,939 in aid of the vote Police, quieting enough, are somewhat Chinese Women and Children in Special lesa so than the opening of the Industry."Miss Yong was China's Ambulance. message from London would de-representative at the Internation- At any rate, the news does a Working Women's Congress at not go much beyond what was al. Geneva in October, 1920. ready known. In regard to the action of four prominent pative
some thirty rests of and Bridges outside city. $8,000) A few years ago it was seldom would be likely to happen in the members of the Imperial Legisla.ervice the bridge over which the 1) Improvements to Roads and ye ever heard about economica areat of a man being sued for tive assembly in scensing the Peak trams run or the top Bridges outside city. $1,500. Light-Just as the war made millions of debi and him setting up the plea Government of repressive action, station showed signs of wear some ing (10) Gas Lighting, City and men into amateur soldiers so that he'd plenty of money and was it is difficult to know what toime ago, a crack appearing in Suburbs and Hill District, $1,200:fits aftermath has turned willing to pay, only the French think. How can ADY open-one of the supports. The Com(11) Electris Lighting, City, Hill countless thousands into amateur Government hadna yes decided minded observer, whatever hialpany decided in the interests of District and Shaukiwan, $200. economists. For the average man on the beat way of fixing up the nationality, seriously charge the passengers that the old bridge $26,800 in lid of the following the word economics is really bank without having to pay the Government with favouring re- was becoming unsafe and a new
Toter-Public Works. Extra-formidable. Not long ago, I money itself. 1 fancy in the pression when the events of the one has now been erected.
ordicary New Territories,Combad the run of a man's library circumstances that the learned pas: twelvemonth are surveyed?
munications-(71) Roads: (b) when he was Home on holiday. I judge would be inclined to stay On Tumerous Occasions
An hour after her admission. Taipo Road-Widening and in-think I read most every book in execution. Maybe it'll come to authorities, in their wish to avoid the victim of the mator car acci-proving road between 3rd. and 5th iwi the exception of those be a case of a personal maritorium any such appearance, have held dent which occurred at 1.30 p.m. milestones, 120,700. Miscellane-which dealt wi' economics, yet before this business is settled Following the receipt of a s telegram on Monday their hand to a point that has not yesterdag near the Central Market oos (32) Pier at Cheung Chau, political or otherwise. day, it's a So you see how the dismal dreich subject right enough. For science of economics has become. stating that the Fretch Government is again considering improbably contributed to the died as a result of her injuries. $100.
turbulence. To have delayed The car, with Mrs. A.H. Ferguson,
myself, I'd rather read the Bible something more to lots of folk the reorganisation of the Banque Lodustrielle de Chine,longer would have been the most wife of the Manager of the The Hon Attorney General fifty times over. And I think than merely a catchword; it has local depositors will doubtless be looking forward to more culpable folly. The same native Chartered Bank, was being start-moved the first reading of most of us, if we were honest, become a real living thing and definite news than they have been favoured with of late. members press the Governmented ban a small girl ran in frout Ordinance to facilitate the re- would nearly all say the same, something wi which we are all
formulate a constructive of it and was knocked down. She ciprocal enforcement of judgments Yet I dont know. Just the other vitally concerned. According to Le Journal, the Government is still consider-to ing the appropriation of the balance of the Boxer In-policy which will recognise the was taken to the Government and awards in the Colony of night I heard a man lamming off
It's the old, old story onc rapid changes. Do these sapient Civil Hospital where her injuries Hongkong and in other parts of about the wisdom of America more. As long as things go demnity for the purpose a proposition which will hardly legislators Dean tha: control proved fatal..
His Majesty's dominions and in cancelling the Allies debts. Of smoothly wi" us we refuse to inspire enthusiasm or confidence. The Chinese Govern-should be handled over to Mr.
certain other territorios.
course, mind ye, opinions like that worry about cause and effect; "There it no difference in The ment has long since been given the French Boxer Indemnity Ghandi, and, if they do not mean
Objects and Reasons"
are apt to be deceiving. Maybe we're quite content to let things Not a principle between selling in this state 1:— money for the purposes of education and it is hardly a that, what do they mean?
he'd just read something about it slide. It's no' a bad attitude of few leading Icdians as well as manner and sending out your 1. The object of this bill is to the night before in some paper or mind to cultivate either. It saves fair proposition for the French Government to divert the the mass of Europeans considered hawker H. R. E. Lindsell told provide for the reciprocal enforce-other. When ya tome to think a lot of trouble more especially use of that money to another end. There will be strong that the Montagu-Chelmsford man who was charged atment of judgments and awards in of it we do use a lot of stuff when it's our neighbour's pocket objections from more than one source and our own opinion reforms inaugurated this year the instance of the C.S.P. the Colony and other parts of second band without due acknow- and no" our own that's affected. is that such a scheme will be bound to fall through as did are quite rapid enough in their with selling cloth in His Majesty's dominions and io ledgment. There are quite a few It was the same when other folks without a territories onder His Majesty's things we absolutely refuse to use went to fight our battles. Maskoe, the earlier scheme of raising a loan upon the credit of tendency. The bright spot in the D'Aguilar Street China. What is needed is for the French Government to emulate Allahabad in boycotting defendant look into the road
picture is that Benares refused to licence. It was stated that the protection.
after other people, pipes, clothes their places had to be filled and 2. The bill follows the lines of and the like, but as a rule we we managed somehow. assume responsibility itself for the bank's shortcomings, the Prince.
several samples of cloth to solicit the Administration of Justice havena' the slightest compunction was ayo a Memorial we could es cially in view of the fact that it was only on assurances
for custom: A fine of $5 was Act, 1920, 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 81. in passing off as our own what subscribe to. inflicted by the Magistrate. being given that the Government was behind the instito-
Sir Edgar Speyer.
Part II sad is now introduced another man sayı, always except- Then it was that business was tion that heavy withdrawals were prevented some months
Sir Edgar Sperer, as apparently
on instructions from the Secre-ing, of course, his opinion of good and lots of folk simply before the crash came.
be still is, though divested of William Harris, who was only tary of State for the Colonies. ourselves. I noticed this a lot couldna" help making far more his Privy Councillorship and of yesterday discharged from Vic-Part II of the Act is based on the during the war. Some folk there than was good for them. AJ... We think it a pity that the telegram sent from Hong- British nationality, was obviouslyftoria Gaol where he served a report of the Committee appointed were who seemed to thrive on s that was the strange thing about kong a little while back was not phrased in such a wanner placed in a difficult position on month's sentence for stowing by the Lord Chancellor to co-sseady dies of military corraspon war profits; they Wire oftea as to call for a reply. It was simply a pious expression of the outbreak of the Great War. away on a steamer from Manila, alder the conduct of legal pro dante views wit the result that thrust upon one. No thought of hope on which nothing has been heard. Creditors in Up till that period he held an was retaken into custody by the ceedings between parties in the what they didns' know about economics then. It was #
excellent record as British police and charged by them before United Kingdom and parties most everything military wasna' case of
and fotch Peking have been urging the Ministers for Foreign Affairs citizen. Born at Frankfort of, we Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning abroad and the enforcement of worth the heeding. Just how far more till the bottom dropped out and of Finance to take up the question of repayment believe. German and Jewish with being arogue and vagabond.judgments and awards.
this process ends wi' regard to of the bucket and it was only of deposits and there have been some very outspoken parentage. be as osturalised it was not to be expected that a 3. Clause 3 provides for the the bulk of our general reading, when we began to realise that alterances in the northern capital, They have asked when he transferred to London man who is a stranger to the enforcement in the Colony of and where subconscious memory God never intended man to make for a statement regarding the Bank's exact financial in 1887 to take charge of the in- Colony and has been only one judgments obtained in the United begins, is may be hard to say. money easily, but only by the position in Cina and they want
fluential house of Sparer Brothers, day out of gaol would be able to Kingdom. Application is to be Ay. I suppose we're all plagiarists sweat of his brow that an economic to hold the former founded by his father. He cer- find a job in the short time made to the Suprecce Court for to some extent if for no other disability began to make itself Chinese President of the Bank responsible because it was tainly brought a gleam of bright permitted him, but it appeared the registration of the judgment, reason bur to prove that there's apparent. The exchanges got mont upon repeated state nents by him that a belier was createdness into the life, of the East that the desire of theland upon registration the nothing new in the world after of the blame and we didna”seem to that the Bank was flourishingly solvent. The new French End by his efforts in founding authorities was to bave him in jedgment is to be of the same all. It's a kind o intriguing be getting our fair share of trade. Minister, M. Fleuriau, is being button-holed on the matter and he did useful work
the Whitechapel Art Gallery, their custody until arrangements effect as if it had been obtained subject but I'm afraid I'll have Somehow prosperity had to be.
as could be come to with the in the Supreme Court here. The to leave it to somebody more able coaxed back. In the meanties and there is an obvious air of impatience. We notice that
A member of the Company American Consol General for his judgment will be registered only than myself to follow up.
we blame the landlord and the in Singapore Mr. Justice Barrett-Lennard, before whom Law Amendment Committee. deportation back to Manila by it, in all thecircumstances of the As I was saying though, man compradore and look around for the formal winding up petition of the local branch has His services were rewarded the first available steamer. Mr. case, the court thinks it just and there's a terrible lot o'economists some magical remedy. come, has made it plain that there will be no further with a baronetcy, while the 8. E. Lindsell in accordance with convenient that the judgment in our midst nowadays. I dinna' It seems to me though, that ponement of the bearing unless there is definite evidence attested by his having been sworn-House of Detention as
regard which, he inspired is his plan, consigned Harris to the should be enforced here, and sub-mean economy on the lines o' through it all we miss the paint tem-clause (2) specifies several kinds saving money exactly, for Scots entirely. If there were fewer that something is being done. It was stated in L'ourt that is of the Privy Council a dozen razy messort, me
Lof judgments which ruuat men have always been noted for folks minding things in this it was a question of waiting for evidence showing that years ago. The outbreak of the
not be registered. e. jodg doing good work in that direction, world and more of us making creditors were likely to be paid in full or in part, but that great conflict placed more than A five dollar bill on which the mente given by courts acting but if it's no' export credits and something the economic problem owing to the absence of M. Briand in America the Paris one big fancier in a difficult figure bad be altered to $100, without jurisdiction, judgments consortiums, it's reparations and would largely settle itself. But position had been allowed to stand where it was. position. Sir Ernest Cassel, who was one of even notes produced obtained by fraud, and house rents.
All these things that's maybe beside the point. was also a German by birth, but by Sub-Inspector Detective Grant judgments which are the subject they tell me are "econ-o- Onyway, out of a bad businene general opinion is that there has been an overfondness to had been naturalised for many in a case before Mr. R.E. Lindsell of a pending appeal. Sub-clause mic. Even our reservations came a searching for "cause procrastinate and that the Paris Government is trying to years. asked to be allowed to this morning. The defendant, a (4) provides that the judgment would appear to belong to that and effect and lo, the once- get out of its responsibilities as lightly as possible. The relinquish bis knighthood after he Chinese, was charged with utter debtor is to be given notice of the category nowadays.
despised dry-as-dust economiet damage to French credit throughout the Far East seems to able criticism. The then Premier, possession of the six others. The tration may be set aside by the understand that kind of economics to show ye how one man's bad been subjected to considering this mole and with being in registration, and that the regis- When a brok fails now, I can bobbed up, which only goes have been either overlooked or ignored.
It should be made quite clear that the failure of the expression of complete confidence, fact that since the passing of a
Mr. Asquith replied with an arrest was brought about by the Supreme Court
and in this same connection weakness is often another man's 4. Clause authorises the issue here's * viewpoint that lot's opportunity.. Bank has not only been a serious thing. for French credit and Sir Ernest continued to live forged $50 note on a shop, the of certified copies of judgments have lost sight of. When the Ay, we've all got to pay for but has caused a deal of hardship and suffering to in England until his decease a lokis had been warned by their obtained in the Colony in cases Banque Industrisile shut up it our good times. That reminds comparatively poor people who were encouraged to deposit on the other hand, quitted the with the result that the defendant nsident in the United Kingdom, unfortunate creditors; it is kirk notice board.
few weeks ago. Sir Edgar Speyer, employer to keep sharp lookout, where the judgment debtor is waada' only a question of the me of the notice I once saw on a their savings with it. Here in Hongkong there are many country very shortly after the was detected when he presented this being for the purpose of matter of concern for the com- both Chinese and foreigners, whose credits at the Barik start of the war, and although the the forged $100 note. The enforcing such judgments in the munity; for when a man's france represented thair all and it is manifestly unfair to them findings of the committee of Magistrate suggested that instead United Kingdom. that this matter of winding up should be indefinitely de- inquiry do not attach the darker of presenting the indictment 5. Clause 5 provides that the canna get them to pay his bil
are tied up in a ledger and he layed. The hope that the French Government will see will be generally felt that the barges, the offence could be of proceedings ander the Ordin the result that his creditors in species of guilt to the absentee, it against the defendant on two practice and procedure in respect wi, he's no able to settle up, wi them through is the only justification for it, but judging transgressions were sufficiently covered by one count of being in ance may be regulated by rules turn have to wait. It's a case of on the attitude of the past that hope would seem to be none grave to call for the action that possession of all the seven false of court, and gives the Chef live horse and ye'll get grass, all too well-founded. We need something far more definite has been taken. The findings notes. Inspector Grant quiesced, Justice power to make auch zules, round. I havena noticed it yet, and concrete than we have yet bad.
exonerate the other partners in and the hearing was adjourned subject to the approval of the but I've tried to think of what the firm of Speyer Brothers, for a few days.
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