EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.
Discussion at To-Day's' Council.
LOCAL WEDDING.
Hay-Williams..
THE HONGKONG TELI
CHINA'S FINANGES,
Vernacular Journal Declare A wedding of considerable loca}[3] CHimas Approaching. interest took place at St. John't
Cathedral yesterday afternoon, The Government has cir- At the meeting of the Legis the contracting parties being Mr.cularized an order summoning lative Council. held this after A. C. Hay, of the Union Insurance a financial conference, whila Dr. noon, an interesting discussion Society of Canton (son of the late Wellington Koo the Foreign
of Great Crosby, Minister, has also been con took place on the second reading Mr. Hay,
Liverpool) and Miss E M. ferring with notable Chinese and of the Bill which seeks to regu-
Williams, of Cardiff.. The foreign persons on how to late the employment of children.
the Government The Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son ceremony was performed by the maintain said that he and his Chinese Rer. V. H. Copley Moyle, sasisted in the present stringent circum colleague supported the Bill in by the Rev. J. T. Holman. Mr. Lstances, the Sisuanpoo comments. N. Townend was "best man.” The financial embarrassment of principle, but they wished to
The bride, who was given away Peking has now reached suah na point out that it would deprive very many poor families by the Hon. Mr C. Montague Eda, acutely critical stage. that its of the earnings of the children wire a gown of grey charmeuse position appears to be irretriev
withable unless the problem receives and make it difficult for paroxydised silver, with has to match. promt attention. The most dif
and georgette, trimmed at work to away
She carried a bouquet of pink{ficult question to be settled, how- trol the children left R bome. He strongly advocatedes and Hopolulu creeper, and aver, is how to put into effect the that the Government should was attended by Miss M. Webster decisions arrived at by such con- provide at assist in the provision maid of honour, the latter fozences, bearing in mind that, westing dress of nigger brown although the present impasse has more free
He schools.
been contributed to by Peking's did not think compulsory educa.with hat to match.
Later there was a reception at procrastination and lack of any tion was applicable to the Colony but be thought that more, free the Hongkong Hotel, at which Mr. fixed plas, yet the greatest ob schools should ba placed and Mrs. Har
ente
of
unJer the supervision
con-
received the stacle to any scheme of financial
of congratulations of many friends, readjustment bas been the futility such bodies as the Tung Wah Subsequently, the newly-married of orders issued at Feking. Hospital Committee
the and
couple lett for Repulse Bay. They| Confucian Society. They hoped are proceeding Home by the before long that the GoveromantKashima Maru to-morrow. Mr. Hay baving been transferred to the Society's London office.
that
would do something in direction.
Mr. Farr supported Mr. Chow's! remarks.
WAJ
Mr. Bird thought the whole community would welcome the Bill
it because
high time that they had legislation to regulate the employment of children. They should have factory laws and women in-
ALLEGED
BLACKMAIL
Sing-Song" Girl's
Experiences
A fifteen-year-old sing-song" girl figures in a curious cass of blackmail that came up for hear.
spectors as well as men inspecting before Mr. R. E. Lindsel! this ors. The Bill was move in the right direction. As regards morning. children debarred from employ-
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FACTS ABOUT RHEUMATISM.
There are many things still un- The story told to the police by known about rheumatism. But ment by the Bill, be admitted the girl is that she received an there was solved.
a problem still to be exement to sing at the Same fact is acknowledged by all
Yuen teashop on the 22nd H.E. The Officer Administer-instant, and that she walked ing the Government replied to the discussion, saying that the! Commission, on whose recom-
into a trap on arrival, be- ing confronted by two 'Deo who threatened to kill her if
medical writers, and that is that the blood rapidly becomes thin and poor when the rheumatic poison invades it. The best way to prevent or cure rheumatism is to build up the blood with Dr. Wil
mendations the Bill was based, sum of $100 were not forthcom-liams pink pills, far the new rich She lived with ber stand blood made by these pills enables had always realised that there in would be a rain amount of mother and all the earnir gs she the sufferer to throw off the hardship by children being de. received went to het. For this poisons of this painful silment. barred from employment. Button she was not in a position Read the article on this page, they had to choose the lesser immediately to comply with the
"When your joints crack." of two evils He went on to demand, but returned home, in a foreshadow sympathetic Govern- very nervous condition, to report the occurrence to her relative. ment policy with regard to the ex-
the Station the tension of free educational facili. Going up to
inform the ties and the establishment of following day to
man being better and cheaper homes for the police, she saw
brought in whom she recognised working clases.
as one of the alleged black-
The Bill subsequently passed its final stages.
DAY BY DAY.
mailers.
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Inspector Lane said that this! man and another arrested in the case were brought in respective. ly by a district watchman and a Chinese constable, the first being readily identified by the girl and
A man was killed this mofing the other picked out at an identi by & fall from the third floor of scation parade. house in Jervois street. His re- The girl told the Court that a mains were removed to the letter received through the past Mortuary.
informed ber that the sum must The paid to A man who would
A bouse boy employed at No. wait at Blake Pier. No reason 12 Belilios Terrace was removed was given or could be deduced yesterday to the Government for the extraordinary demand. Civil Hospital suffering from stab and its curtcess Was further
by wounds in the right shoulder in. illustrated
a paper ficted in a teahouse called the handed to her at the teahouse "Tinpan" is Queen's Road Cen-requiring the sum to be banded tral. The identity of the assailant, over to any of the six men whose, who made his escape after the names appeared on the slip. attack, is caknown.
This slip was produced for the inspection of the Magistrate, and doring the cross-examination to Having been robbed of a basket which Mr. Leo d'Almads, who containing some bottles and appeared for one of the prisoners, papers which he left outside a sobjected the witness, his Worship door, st Bowen Road. Yip pointed out that the name of one Kee. a marine hawker. con-of the prisoners appeared amongst sidered that jusalt had been the six given. added to injury when in the cbase
The case was adjourned, bail
he took up against the thief, be being fixed in the sums of $500 was stopped by eight other men and $1,000 respectively.
yesterday. His courage was
saverely tested when one of them
held a dagger before bis eyes, and
told him that if he was not quick
in producing all the money he had
in his pockets he would be killed. Ngai
CANTON NEWS.
Bong-ping to Accept
Appointment.
Thus, in addition to losing his stock in trade, Ab Yip had to Our Canton correspondent hand over a sum of £5, and meek-states that, according to current ly to comply with the order "to reports, General Ngai Bong-ping, go bome."
SIBERIAN FIGHTING.
OPENS.
Soviet Forces and White Troops Clash.
OD
in deference to earnest peraua- sions, has abandoned the idea of going abroad and has intimated that be will accept the appoint- ment as a Divisional Commander. The teachers' strike has been settled, the chief of the Finance Department agreeing to pay the teachers punctually every month from September onwards Vladivostok, Sept. 23.-Fight-basis of 40 per cent. in notes and ing between the Soviet forces and the balance in silver coins; also the White troops began to-day on that the three months' arrears be the Spassk front. The Soviet air-made good on the same basis be places at Spassk bombed the fore November. Ageneral meeting White planes which also were of the teachers is to be held to- active. The Soviets dropped pro-day, and the schools will reopen clamations declaring that if the in a few days.' Whites did not join the Reds by A report received in Canton" October 1 they would be punish from Luichow says that Wong ed. The population at Spank is Ming-tong's forces, which had fiveing.
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Milk for the kiddies is a builder of bone and muscle. Be on the safe side and let them drink Skim Milk instead of water.
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(Reduced from 8 cents).
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CHINA'S INTEREST IN SHANG-
HAT'S MUNICIPALITY.
newspapers understand that these setting up a special municipálity, The local Commissioner of representatives will candact, an Inquiry into the dispute over the Foreign Affairs, who recently Interest in the municipal Chapel water and electric light went to Peking on Whangpoo declared independence, have been systems in vogue in Shanghai and works. Another report says: Two Conservancy Board business, is defeated and dispersed. All that district is being taken by the high officials from the Walenisopt said to have discussed these two now remains to be done is to Ministry of the Interior, which is and Ministry of Communications projects with the Government, clear out small gangs of citizen shortly to send representatives have arrived in Shanghai to report expressing the opinion that it soldiers from the districts, near here to make a study of them on the possibilities of immediately would be impossible af once
At the same time the Chinese xbolishing extraterritoriality, and founced consular jurisdiction.
by.
J.T. SHAW
“TEL. 492"
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