2
£
BURNETT'S
celebrated
LONDON DRY
CIN
unique in character and favour.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
GIVES THAT DISTINCTIVE EXCELLENCE TO
A COCKTAIL.
Blends excellently with Watson's Stone Ginger Beer.
"SOLE AGENTS -
BROWNLOW FILTERS
Tal
E
414
A.S. WATSON & CO., Ltd. STERILISE
Wine & Spirit Merchants 'PHONE CENTRAL 616.
Just you
and a Victrola
When you are all by yourself, with no place in particular to go and nothing in par- ticular to do, what a joy it is to get into your big arm chair and let the world's greatest artists entertain you on the Victrola!
With a Victrola and Victor Records in your home you have always at your beck and call the music you enjoy best.
Come in and let us show you the Victrola you would like for your home. S MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
Sole
istributors.
ESTABLI HLD 1850.
JAEGER
"Pure Wool
THE LATEST LONDON
FASHIONS IN-
MEN'S COAT SWEATERS
SILK & WOOL WAISTCOATS, FANCY WOOL WAISTCOATS.
CARDIGAN JACKETS,
TRAVELING ULSTERS.
LIGHT WALKING COATS, DRESSING GOWNS. TRAVELLING RUGS, ETC.
JAEGER PURE WO.0 L
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
SODA FOUNTAIN
AT
- CAFE WISEMAN,
SUNDAES, PUNCHES
ICE CREAM SODAS
ALL FLAVOURS.
BEST SERVICE, HIGH QUALITY, LOW PRICES.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
MONDAY,
TEMBER 18... 1922
DAY BY DAY.
problem caftiously and slowly, In order to avoid upsetting long- established social and economie'
HE WHO IS. TAUGHT TO LIVE: conditions. “Too drastic an in-
UPON LITTLE OWES MORE TO HIS terference with juvenila labour.” FATHER'S WISDOM THAN HE it says, "would undoubtedly THAT HAS A GREAT DEAL LEFT cause great hardship to the poorer HIM DOEN TO HIS FATHER'S CARE.
-Penn. classes. That is a point that
CORRESPONDENCE
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong
Telegraph."}
Happy Valley Tramway Service.
MALAYAN SPORTS.
. Two New Records.
(Our Own ›Correspondent.j.
Singapore, Sept. 18,
At the Malayan sports, held at Kuala Lumpur, Singapore won Sir-May 1 encroach on the the championship. cannot be too greatly stressed, During Saturday there were columns of your popular and keen as all humanitarians must notified two cases of enteric fever widely-read paper on a subject|dividual champion. be to see justice dans to child and one each of plague and of public utility and importance? workers. This labour issus is diphtheria. All ware Chinese. only one aspect of an even larger Įquestion, invoicing wages, rents, housing conditions and education All these are inter-related. That is why, in the early stages at least, a policy of hastening slowly s the only possible one if we are to avoid injuring the very class of people whom we seek to help.
WATER.
No "Swearing ".
HESTARD AND CO
14 Connaught Road. Central
Tel. Central No. 1186.
The Telegraph.
HONOKOSO, 18th Sept., 1922.
JUVENILE LABOUR.
ין
•
The cercent Bazette con. taios the drait of a zill entitled
Willa of Singapore was the in- Aabworth, of Negri Sembilan. Ever since I and my family made two new Malayan records, sscaped the noisy and overcrowd-daing the half-mile in 2 min. 81/5 The typhoon, which was beaded centre of the city of Victoria secs, and the mile in 4 min. 45
a permanent secs. ing in the direction of Hongtong, and established has now curred and is moving on home at one end of Happy Valles. I have watched closely, and with an opposite courae. It is now travelling S.W., instead of W. keen interest, the rapid develop ment and ever-increasing growth of the population in this part of the Colony, which may well ba called one of the finest residential suburbs of this small island of Hongkong-
Π
of
Amongst the pissengers who laft for Shanghai by the President Clev. land were the Exri Gosford, Mr. and Mrs. H. . B. Way, Mr. N. L. Watson and Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin.
THE HAWAIIANS.
Full House at Farewell Show.
There was a full house at the
Hauses, both along the billsides Theatre Rogal on Saturday night and on the ridge known
EX
Broadwood Road, have, due to to witness the farewell performu- certain enterprising financiers Acs of Kania Hawaiisa Trou- badaura. Once again' a rattling A Chinese who came befare and the Government, sprung up good entertainment was present-
An Ordinarice to amend the the Chief Justice (Sir Ww. Rees as if by magicia s'comparatively led. The weird Hawaiian melodies,
short space of time. The ment, I LEA told, would dancing all came in for their
means of com-
the administration of oaths". As this morning, and pleaded guilty
share of wal-deserved applause far as the generality of people are to returning from banishment, have been greater than what it concerned, the new Ordinanes was sentenced to three year now is, were
munication by both tram andad encores were frequens. The Haaiizos, although not drawing hard labour.
vehicles driven by man-power gives the option of being sworn
every night, Croxded houses with uplifted hand in the Scottish
more easily and conveniently manner, or, where the deponear) The Assistant Secretary of provided. This has, unfortunate might be said to have had a no- cessful stay and the popularity objects on religious grounds to Commerce of the United States 15 caused certain intending they have achieved in Hongkong | being
of giving his Mr. C. H. Hoston), ccompanied builders to Lesitate in the com- makes one hope that they will evidence by affirmation in lieu by a party of American scientists, mencement of certain building it the Colony again on some of taking an oath. This privilege will arrive in Hongkong from operations is the vicinity of future occasion. is also allowed to persons of no Shangbai on September 20, on Wong Nei Cboog village. relicious belief, in whose case in the United States Coast Guard) Although times have somewhat is obviously anomalous to invoke cutter Yojave. After remaining charged.
SWORD,
and although
the
the Deity in proof of their for three days in Hongkong they Government, having wisely foreau gest that ourable and popular reracity. Affirmation is allowed will go to Canion.
seen the approaching usetuloess Colonial Secretary should bring and prosperity of this once re-pressure on them to fulfil their
JOHOR
Case
Yours etc.
A
for particular purposes br earlier Ordinances; the present
At the request of General Homote part of the Dolony, con- 2ulies.
In conclusion, I invite other Ordinance proposes to allow it in all cases. With regard to Feng-ling. Military Governor of templates the construction of (non-Christian) Chinese
wit Shanghai and Sangking the motor reads above the valley as residents of the valley to contious there Municipal Police have handed well as replacing the lately in this correspondence and shout out It is almost a year ago that nesses, in whose
been ་འམ་
difference over to the Governor's Famen Li adequate sewage drains with the their grievances till they get what
ones, yet the they are entitled to. the Commission appointed by of practice, the
Thanking you for the space for Bill provides Chi-ban, chief secretary of the larger and new H.E the Governor made its that affirmation shall be the Chinese Labour Union, who has Company that derives the brae- report on the industrial employ-recognised form, so that in future just completed a three months and reps the revenue for this insertion, and enclosing my
tea or PATER OF A LARGE FAMILY. meat of children. At length, the these deponents will give their term of imprisonment for instigst running electric teamcars has, card.
testimony in the mode favoured ing letter carriers of the Chinese alas, dons practically nothing. Government ha come forward by roembers of the Society of Post Office to strike. Li will be save providing only
by
twelve minutes service travers-Hongkong, Sept. 15th., 192 3, Chines? the
ing the ODG side of the with the draft of a Bill on the Friends. Other clauses contain charged
Racecourse which is densely
Police Boxes. subject, the Risio outlines of important provisions as to the authorities with the spreading of admission of testimony. It is Bolshevik propaganda, tending to
Sir, I would consider it residents. stopping daily at the which we gave on Saturday. The proposed to amend the Evidence disturb the peace and safety of occupied by graves of departed
Shanghai. problem is not an easy one to Ordinance of 1889 by allowing a
somewhat early hour of 8.15 p.m. favour if you would kindly insert Residents at the foot of Broad- the following in your corres grapple with. It bristles with deposition taken at the Magis-
Four Chinese who werewood Hill, of whom a large cam pondence columa by way of ex- difficulties and even the relative tracy to be read at the Sessions
when the witness has been brought up before Mr. Ainsworth, ber are Government civil aer-plaining the suggestion I made ly modest proposals now pa frightened out of the Colony by this morning. on a charge of not vants, have to walk in hot, wet the other day in regard to Polics even occasionally stormyBoxes, regarding which a letter forward are likely to cause con-threats. A recent charge failed being properly clad when bathing! and siderable upsetting of conditions on this account, sudrit is common in the nalish opposite the Helens weather, & long distance to the appeared in Tuesday's issue of
knowledge that latimidation is May Institute, were faed $1, or terminus of the Monument be your paper.
Police boxes were suggested which have persisted so long, as Fife. It is also provided that the five days, after evidence had been fore they, their wives and small almost to be regarded as the earlier Ordinance shall be given by a Chinese constable. kids can boards an outgoing car. only in addition to patrolling of It is needless to say that some streets and the proper installation natural order of things. We are amended so that the deposition Inspector Cashman said that told that the regulations which of a dying person shall not be complaints regarding this puis-folk. after a day's strenuous of burglar alarms a suitable excluded by reason of the accused ance were of recent date, and at work, bate to walk home a displaces, so that the police on duty „have been framed are not intend for suspected person not having tributable to the fact that therance of at least a mile from in these boxes should be made ed to be Enal: they merely been present to cross-examine.naisance often occurred opposite the halting place of a tram car, responsible for failure to attend represent a tentative proposal for Obviously it is not always possible the Institute. It would not have but, as things are, they are put the scene of the crime. In other to notify a suspect, who, mattered if the culprits had kept to this inconvenience, however words, an arrangement would be dealing with the problem, and as however, is protected by a clause themselves under the bridge, much grumbling they may do made that some guard would con- a result of experience it may be allowing the court to reject such where they would be concealed amongst themselves. found desirable later on to extend evidence where the accused is from view, but instead they came clearly prejudiced through the out and chased each other about the lawe.
depocent not having been cross-in lasdequate attire.
Another proviso is examined.
As to the proposals themselves, it is gratifying to see that at long last some effort is to be made to
there is
the
1001
match factories, for example?
that in cases of homicide the aote
29. officers are
Arrangements are BOW
เก
WAR
stantly be in charge in the box; A Government servant whom I that every household would koow happen to know has, in conversa-where to go for help in time of tion, blamed the Tramway Com need; and that the police could pany for not providing & more not excuse themselves from re- com.adequate and efficient service, sponding to such a call by saying report of ang Government pleted for the translation of the in spite of the fact that they are they could not leave their boxes.
The Japanese system. medical officer shall be admissible British Pharmscopis into Chi- having good returns for their restrict the employment of young upsa proof of handwriting where nese, the cost, about £1,000, being capital and outlay. This Govern recommended not so much for its children in factories and to such officer has died or left the guaranteed by the wholesale ment employee has gone as far as insficiency, as pointed out by
druggists and manufacturing to tell me that he and certain of sour correspondent, as for regulate working hours in all Colony (wasn't this done in a
recent trial) As the Bill says.chemists of Great Britain. This bis colleagues would have failed possible experimental kalp to industrial undertaking. The this is desirable in a place like is how some of the popular medi-out their complaints in the press meet the present needs of the probibition of the employment of Hongkong.
Tasteless castor oil: Yiu Pei meat orders prevented them from plan is not feasible or effective, & children in dangerous trades is a frequently away on long leave, or ines will appear in Chinese long ago, had not certain Govern-police in this Colony. If this better one could be adopted to step in the right direction, but bave left the Governmen: service Me. Cod liver oil: Kao Mio writing to the newspapers.
What most of the residents here, give the largest ensure of and a? far distant from the Ya. Easton's Syrup: Sbui for extending Colony.
Tanz H'ue Pa Chung Kiang. who cau ill afford the luxury of safety to the community.
I may not be far from the truth definition. What abou: Penalties for Perjurers.
Indigestion mixture: Shai Yao automobiles, want are
1. That a five-minutes tramcar in saying that no police system, Pu Pei Sizo Po Shi Yin. Royal A companion measure in entitled Hair Dye: Shui Yeo Fa Zuan service, instead of the existing however efficient and excellent, If the Bill becomes law, it should Ordinance to consolidate and Cais Hwang, Mr. E. J. Millard, tiresome one, should be im-cas secure an absolute prevention of crime so long as buman result in 5.0 more childreo simplify the relating to per-managing director of Messrs.mediately put on. being seen borns down with jury and kindred offences." The Hewlett and Son, the druggists, 2. That the service should nature is what it is. Utopia heavy loads, toiling up the bill. sobstitution of an affirmation for of London, who have been export only stop in the evening at the seems yet too distant to bo
declaration or an oath is simply aling medicines to Chins for more hour of 9.30 p.m. or 10 p.m. within our human reach
Thanking you for the courtely, sides of the island. The regula matter of form: it affords no fresh than 25 years, said: "Our idea instead of the early hour at
*Yours etc. tions under this head provide promise of veracity. Any one is to give the Chinese s standard present fixed, so as to enable folk after-dinner tran
M. CHAR HARR: that no-one shall employ children looking in at the Magistracy can work which is known all over the to get
Hongkong Sept. 16th, 1922 daily bear cases in which one side world. The oxatious Chinose service. under 12 years of age to carry for the other must be committing will not buy any medicine unless 3. That more rails should be
A Denial... coal or building material or de grose perjury. Often, of course, it bears its chop' or trade mark, put on the present track to enable bris, whilst no child (that is, no the difficulty is to obtain legal and the British chops have two cars to pass one acother and
Bir-In your issue of the 15th. person under the age of 15) is to proof. An pfender cannot be great fame in China-Ching new track should be at once
convicted of perjury upon the Express and Telegraph:
laid on the Broadwood Terrace inst. you published a raport be allowed to carry any weight evidence of a single witness, even
side, passing all the Enropean alleged to have been taken from residential quarters, with con- the Kung Pao that the Chihli which is unreasonably bears though the one be a notorious
the fabricator and
other
venient halting points and linking faction were in negotiation with having regard to the child's age character of unimpeachable-in-moet cases, we should have up the trunk lines on the sea the Kailan Mining Administra ard physical development, and tegrity. Risk of & miscarriage of thought, an instigator is at least front either along the Bowrington tion for loan of $5,000,000 on is any case no child is to be per-justice necessitates some such as culpable as an abettor. There Canal or some other similarly the shares of the Chingching cost mines of Chibli, with the mitted-to-carry a load exceeding broad rule. Cases are common, is also a section designed to wide street.
In asking you to publish this object of raising military funds however, in which a certain type render the measure applicable to 40 catties (53 lbs.) in weight of Chinese, apparently oblivious all cases of perjury, whether in letter i may assure you that I for the Chibli troops,
We are authorized by the There is no doubt that contractors to the Jaw of perjury, go the coarse of judicial proceedings am voicing the sentiments of the in particular exploit child labour into the box and tender evidence or otherwise, and farther to place majority of the residents here, General Manager of the Kailan in & most heartless fashion, but which is refated by two or three wilfal misrepresentation by and I earnestly, appeal to the Mining Administration to con their proclivities in that direction people. Perhaps Clause 17. of Court interpreter in the same Company having this monopoly to tradick this absolutely, and to this Bill will stimulate the category as other perjury. In a make early arrangements for the state that there is no foundation should be materially curtailed as Banch to take more frequent Colony where the interpretes is a provision of an all-round, Easter whatever for the rumour.
We should be obliged if you result of the proposed new cognizance of delinquents. Aidere regularinstitution, some stringent and more efficient service, which
and abettors are to be subject to rule is clearly imperative. The will, if not at the present moment would 'pablish this contradiction.
Yours sfc.14 the same penalty as the principal penalty for parjury, extending at least on a not far-off day, repay
THE KAILAN MINING, The Government views the offenders, and say one who incites it does up to seven years impri them in the way of fares,
ADMINISTRATION, Should the Hongkong Electric another, to commit perjury is sonment and a fine, is drastic on
DODWELL AND CO., LTD., general question from the cor-rendered liable to punishment for paper; a few exemplary sen Tramways Company ... let my
Agents, Iract angle when it refers to #misdemeanour," apparently tences would probably go a long appeal paas without taking steps the necessity of approaching the implying a lesser pensity. In way towards making it effective to meet the people's complaints, 1 Hoogkong, Bept, 18th, 1929.
laws.
a
...
}