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parents or guardians wishing the restoration of such girls could claim them on the same basis. On paper, all this reads well, but, in the absence of machinery to facili. tate the operation of the law, these provisions actually mean very little. How, under existing conditions, can the Government know whether new mui-tṣai have been employed during the past five
yours, and how can such girls as aro in service know their legal rights and be able to exercise them?". The vital part of the Or- dinance which makes registra. tion, payment of wages and official inspection and control compul sory has remained in abeyance for the simple renson that it has to be declared operative before coming into force, and that has
never yet been done.
Judging from the statements made at the annual meeting of the Anti-Mul-Tani Society, so far from
OCTOBER - 22, 1928..
DAY BY DAY.
WE MUST JUDGE, RELIGIOUS MOVE- MENTS, NOT BY THE MEN WHO MAKE THEM, BUT BY THE MEN THEY MAKE.
Joseph Cook.
There was a clean bill of health In the Colony over the week-end,'
The P. and O. 8.8. Khyber, from Singapore, is due here at dron the 25th Instant.
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Mrs. Shellshear, Hongkong University, having returned to the Colony, has resumed the Hon. Treasurership of the Hongkong Benevolent Society vica Mra McElderry.
While travelling with his mother and grandmother to attend a wed- ding. Kenneth Bradey, 4, of Grant ham, fell from a train between Basingstoke and Micheldover and was fatally injured.
HOSPITAL SUNDAY AT,
THE CATHEDRAL The Very Idea!
THE CHURCH AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Human comradeship emerges among political opponents in the Yesterday being Hospital Sun- Australian Federal Parliament, at day, the Very Rev. Dean Alfred it does in the House of Common
Dr. William Maloney, who had Swann, preached a sermon at St. made a strong attack on the John's Cathedral to a congrega- administration of Dr. Earle Page, ton largely composed of members Commonwealth Treasurer, of the medical profession, on the suddenly stricken with appendici attitude of the Christian Church is. No other surgeon being avail able, Dr. Page: successfully por towards the profession. The formed the operation. preacher also explained away two common misconceptions.
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Before entering politics Dr. Earle Pago practised in Grafton At the outset, the Dean said the and the surrounding districts of Church gladly recognised the con- the northern part of New South tributions of the medical profes- Wales, and had a high reputation sion to the happiness and well as a skilful surgeon. On a pré- being of ton, a work that was vious occasion, when Mr. W. M. entirely in accordance with the Hughes fell from his horse and was severely injured, ho was Will of God.
After commenting on the painattended by Dr. Pago, although staking work spent in research, he their political and personal rela remarked on the debt they owed tions were particularly unfriendly. to Chemistry and Physics, He opponents often chaff Dr. Anatomy, Phyatology. Psychology Earle Page with the suggestion and Bacteriology. In Hongkong that he should return to surgery,. they had special neet to be grate-which he knewa, and leave Anance Friends of Mr, Q. A. Henderson, ful to the latter science for having alone, which, they say, he does not representative in the Far East omade the Colony comparatively Ltd., will regret to learn that he. it continues to flourish with unnint present seriously ill at the bated vigour, The figures cited | Country Hospital, Shanghai would appear to indicate that many new mui-tsai have been put
NO PERIODIC REFILLING the system dying out in Hongkong, Messrs Charles Morgan and Oi
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While walking in Reclamation Street last night, a young Chinese woman, on her way home, was at tacked by three men, and robbed of a pair of gold bangles, valued at $60. The men had made good their escape by the time a report was made at the local Police Station.
The whole system is one which la repugnant to British ideas, and ∙in these days of enlightenment and
The Chung Yeung festival, the reform its continuance should noday when the Chinese visit the longer be countenanced. The tombs of their ancestors, was cele. passing of the 1923 Ordinance con-brated in the usual manner yester
day, large numbers of Chinese templated its gradual extinétion, visiting their ancestral tombs in but so long as the vital section of the suburbs.. Another feature of that, Ordinance remains inopera: this festival in the hill-climbing custom, which it is believed will tive the evil will continue. Justice bring the climber good fortune in THE MUI-TSAI SYSTEM. to the victims of the system and the year to come.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1928-
the ultimate wiping out of this slar on the Colony can only come Having some five years ago by putting the dormant section atrongly approved the Govern-
into effect and enforcing the law ment's action in taking steps aim-with the utmost strictness, ing at the abolition of the mui-tsai ayatem by legislative means, we can thoroughly endorse the demands now being put forward by the
the
cargoes
22,000
This morning's Harbour Office! reports gave 18 arrivals and eight departures, with British holding top place, registering a total of approximating tons. Tonnage showed an in- crease with freights better, there belag 15 registries inward with seven of four figures and 11 throughs, with the same numbër of high returns.
Germany'a Linbilities. The subject of Germany's total Anti-Mui-Taal Society that definite reparations liability has been steps should now be taken with brought definitely within
diplomatic action. Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd., view to completing the intentions sphere of
Winston Churchill'a lightning visit have generously donated two of the Legislature when it passed to Paris, his talk with M. Paincare cheques, amounting to $1,000, for the 1923 Ordinance. The matter and Mr. Parker Gilbert appear to the expansion of the nursery and have produced quick results, an ambulance equipment of the Tung has been left in a most unsatis-authoritative statement suggesting Wah Hospital. Half of the sum factory position since that Ordin- that U France and Britain is to be paid into the construction
reached # tentative ance became law, and, without have
fund of the new Tung Wah branch agreement, and arc awalt- Hospital at Sookunpoo. The further delay, the Government ing the approval of the other cheques have been acknowledged interested. Powere. The arduous and received by the Chairman of problem will eventually be tackled the Hospital, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin. along the business-like lines of a specialised committee, but it is satisfactory to know that there is been well-known for a long time common ground to begin with. It
of years.
Described as a "tea boy on
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About Hong Kong.
Do you know that——
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There Was formerly Roman Catholic Reformatory at West Point?
In 1866, the Government granted a site for a new build- ing to replace these temporary premises, where some fifty boys were being educated and taught tailoring, carpentry .ele.
By 1867, there were 78 boya in the Reformatory and the Government contributed for the support of twenty of these annually.
In 1886, a certificate 'was granted under an Ordinance which became necessary on it being discovered that under the existing laws there was no power to send lads to a Roman Catholic institution.
In 1898, the Hon. Mr. E. R. Belilios offered to build a re formatory if the Government would provide the site. As n result, the Belilios Reforma- tory was erected at a cost of
$12,000 to the donor, and the foundation stone was laid by Sir William Robinson, the then Governor. This was at Causeway Bay, the institu- tion later becoming the Eyre Diocesan Refuge.
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healthy in such a short time. The benefits so conferred on mankind was evidence of God's spirit of wisdom and love. ·
know.
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"Do you mean to tell me you couldn't ace me coming on 4. straight piece of road like this 1 Baid the owner of the very small. car after collision.
Sorry, guvnor," said. the lorry- driver; "thought it were a fly où ma wind-screen.".
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'Round the club-room table wore sented four old Scotsmen, the remnant of a club that had been catablished some fifty years ago or more. The hour was fiyo a.m., and Donald, looking across at Jock, said in a thick, sleepy voice, "Jock, d'ye notice what an awfu’ peculiar expression there is on Dougal's face?"
"Aye," was the reply, "I noticed that; he's deid. He's been deld these four hours."
"What," gasped Donald. "Deldt Why did ye no' tell me?”
"Oh no," said Jock, "I'm no" that kind of mon to disturb a convivial. evening."
I met a little village lad;
Ho looked extremely right And yot, it seemed, he could not so:
Hi loft hand frofa his right
"Which is my way to Bo-and-So?" I asked: He answered straight, "The nearcat way is down that lane
And, when you reach a gate,
You turn..a sudden cload of
doubt
Camo o'er his youthful brow. Ho murmured softly to himself A fains, "Which is it, now?"
"Now, right or left? Come, tell me,
pray,
You surely know," I said. His smile was quite intelligent, But still he shook his hand,
He waved his right hand in the air...
"It is that way, I know,
And this is right, sir, isn't it?***
I owned that it was so,
In
days of
of war, "Left, right; loft, Tight!" Each infant tongue had learned; And while I went to think the child! So ignorant, I also smiled.
To think of peace returned.
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James Tovoll, 41, labourer, Col-
should demonstrate its bona fides by falling in with the suggestions made by the Society named. These, in summary, are that all mui-tani should be registered and be paid adequate wages, that deeds of | adoption should be registered, and that machinery he put into motion for the purpose of extinguishing the system within a given number
When the British came into the occupation of Hongkong, they did so on the understanding that there should be no Interference with legitimate Chinese customs, but, as we have many times pointed out, this did not imply the con- tinuance of systems which ran contrary to the basic principles of British law and whitch in any way interfered with the rights of individual liberty. As it involved the selling of human beings and the placing of those sold in a posl. tion very little distinguishable from slavery, the mai-tsat system conflicted with British ideals, and, for that reason, should have been negotiations, however, depend large- abolished long ago. An attempt | ly on the United States. At least in that direction was made five fifty per cent, of the gigantle-
flotation involved by the Thoiry years ago, but the full operation scheme would have to be absorbed Paris of the law has remained suspended by American Investors, while Brussels under a provtalon which reserved Washington would have to be asked Amsterdam
to permit liquidation of war debis Berlin the most Important section of the in much the same runner. In this, Ordinance until such time, as it we find little to cavil at, provided the proposals are placed upon, a should be declared to become offee strictly business basis. Mr. Bucharest tive. Under the Ordinance, the Churchill has again emphasised. Buenos Aires
that the British Government will Shanghal einployment of new mui-tsai wus object to anything suggestive of Yokohama definitely prohibited, provisions an appeal to American generosity, New York were made requiring employers of and we feel sure this sentiment will Geneva
be ochood by all British nationala. Minn such myi-tsal as were already in
Stockholm service to treat them as they
Oslo Prague would their own daughters, and it was laid down that any mut-teat wishing to be restored to their
Dealing with one misconception, the Dean said it was quite falsely supposed that while the medical profession was concerned with the health of human bodies and minds, An armed guard from members the Church was dealing with an ing been placed on the steamer The Church's failure in the past of the Singapore Volunteer Corps alusive clement called the Soul, that the French Government still Anking, leaving Singapore for to welcome new scientifle know- aspires to the Thoiry notion of Chinn ports yesterday. She is due ledge partly accounted for that. mobilihing the Dawes railways bonds, and it would seem that some- to arrive at Hongkong on the 31st, It was humbly admitted, however, thing along these lines will be after calling at Holhow, Swatow, and they were thankful that bet undertaken as a quid pro quo for and Amoy. The guard will return ter counsels now prevailed. The lerton-road, E. Greenwlett, was Rhineland evacuation. British on the Antung, leaving Hongkong work of the profession should be charged at Greenwich recently judgment thinks as little of the on Nov. 3 nud due at Singapore thought of as the invaluable con- with loitering for the purpose of proposal now as it did when it was on Nov. 7. It was on the Anking tribution to those engaged in the betting, and for carrying on busi- first outlined in 1926, but in a that piracy was carried out on well-being of the whole family of ness as a bookmaker without a W29 *RTJ essential certificate. Mr. Jaquet, who pro- patient desire to achieve a settle- Sept. 26 last by Chinese who had God. It
part of the Church and not some secuted for the Inland Revenue, ment, Mr. Churchill has apparently embarked at Singapore.
thing separate and distinct.
Anid that if defendant wished to given further consideration to the
do an unlawful act there was no Divine' Intentions. project. The bonds, it is agreed,
reason why he should not pay the could only be sold at a heavy dis- count, the capital loss of which board the B.s. Lushan Maru, a It was clearly shown by Jesua tax.
British Shanghal Chinese appeared beforo
Christ, during his 30 years of Mr. Campion: Then are you would be shared by the Treasury, while the lion's share of Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon physical life on earth, and also ready to wink at a breach of the the proceeds would go into the Magistracy 450***morning,
in the Spirit of His law ao long as you get money put French Exchequer. The British charges of beine in possession of for ever
The de giving health to men. It was the taxpayer will eventually be called 2.8 taels of prepared oplum and Church, that His work was of of it? upon to bear the brunt if the pro- 3 laels of raw opium. posals are accepted, as Mr. fendant, who admitted that the Divine intention that the whole Churchill's lunch with Mr. Pierpont drug was for his own consumption, of man should be healthy,
It should be clear, therefore, Morgan suggests they will be. If was fined $220 on the first chargo the upshot in clarification, presumar and a further $30 on the second, that all who were. in any way bly he will grin and bear it accord- The alternatives were six weeks' working to Increase the true part of man's nature were carry- ing to eutom however much it may and one months hard labour healthiness of the whole or any bo stressed in his favour that we respectively.
ing on the work of Christ. have already made sufficient sacri-
Mr. Campion: I cannot accept « A second misconception dealt het in a friendly way?
If you fices in the cause of pactification of
by the Dean was and I had half a crown on the boat success of tho Europe. The
regard to the Idea the teaching ol. the Church about sickness and disease was unsound, and that for many .124.20 years disease was regarded up botting, was fined £10 on the
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A married woman, 20 years of Madrid 8c, was prevented from taking Athens her fo through a prompt, rescue nia... effected after ehe had jumped into Bombay
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Mr. Jaquet: No. I'may compare-
it to a man who drives a car on the pavement. He has to pay the tax, the same as the man who drives on the roadway.
Mr. Camplon; But I tan bet without a license!
Mr. Jaquet: No, sir.
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Mr. Taquet: The one that took the bet would be liable.
Defendant, who promised to give
first charge and 28 for having, no license.
A young man was charged with
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a fancy dress ball, 801 truth. 47.11/32
Concluding, the Dean said: The policeman who arrested 2/7% "I would remind you that him, giving evidence, was asked by .1/10.20/82 the organised life of the the Fiscal "When you took the 4.85 11/16 Church with Its Sacraments accused in charge, was he compos
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2/0% whom you serve is ready and solved to ask the Home Becretary if .20% anxious at all times to give you a subsidiary force, paid out of the .26% the strength which you need for Road Fund, could be formed to do
this work. your work."
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