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DAY BY DAY.
WEEDS GROW SOMETIMES · VERY MUCH LIKE* FLOWERS-Paxton,
of the individual. There may be Hood, some aspects of the system which
can be preserved, to the mutual The temperature at Shanghai at: benefit of the employed and the cm-with 63 in Hongkong.
6 am. to-day was 28, compared ployer, but that can only be ander adequate ensures of control. The fact is that, in its main fea tures, this peculiarly Chinese system representa a conflict bo- tween present-day Eastern' and Western concepts of civilisation.
The Hongkong law, as it now stands, makes it illegal for anyone to have taken into employment any mul-tsal since 1923, or even to engage any female domestic ser- vant under the age of ten years. There are also provisions in the Ordinance for the proper treatment
of mul-taat engaged before the pass- ing of the law, and for grant- ing the right of restoration of mul- taal to their parents or guardians, These and other rights prescribed in the operative acetion of the Ordinance must, however, remain
of Medical and Sanitary Services, Dr. Wellington, the now Director arrived in the Colony with, Mrs. Wellington on the Hemo on Monday.
HONGKONG IN OTHER TIMES.
RESIDENT RECALLS CONDI- TIONS 46 YEARS AGO.
The Very Idea!
Hazy Butt, whose death took place recently at the age of 63, was one of the best known and Some interesting reminiscences most affectionately regarded veter of Ife in Hongkong over forty ans of pre-war cricket........ It was his years ago are given by Mr. John misfortune that he was of the
brates the forty-fifth anniversary chance to keep wicket for England Thomas Cotton, who to-day cele e vintage as the incomparable Lilley, so that ho nover got a of his arrival in the Colony. in an Important match. But be- Mr. Cotton, who was born at hind the stumps he was ng skil Ripon, arrived in the Colony on ful as he was courageous. As a Bremerhaven, from February 6, 1884,,,As a Corporal bateman he is remembered chiefly one of the passengers jumping over-lata.Cal. Crawford. He joined the called the "it" stroke, in oblique Europe, reports a case of suicide, in the Royal Artillery, under, the for his fondness for what was board. The body was not recover Prison Service in 1886 and was reference to his name. He used to transferred to the Customs in 1887, hold out his bat in a vague man- Tesigning in 1893 when he againner in the direction of somewhere backward of point, and it was ex-! Saigon on Tuesday from Singa-
HMS. Cumberland arrived at joined the Prison Service,
plained that if the ball hit it any- pore. On the same day, H.M.S.ferred to the Sanitary Departman is not guiltless of a similar In 1895, Mr. Cotton was trane- thing might happen. Mr. Chap- Siagnella sailed from Weihaiwei ment where he remained until predilection. and arrived at Chefoo this mor-1911, being then invalided Home
ed.
The ..
ning.
on pension.
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Oft, in the course of my fair
apan
The slings and barbs that For-
tune, brings,
(It is said that the taking of While cleaning a window at the
Mr. Cotton returned to the Co-aloohol tends to make one's fasc Government Civil Hospital a ward-lony in 1919 and entered the ser- larger.} coolle accidentally fell from a lad-vices of the Hongkong Hotel in der upon which he was standing, it year. He is at present the and was seriously injured in the bar manager of that concern. head.
Mr. Cotton can remember the time when Happy Valley was a largely a dead letter, for by what The two special pianos given bylake and when Des Voeux Road possible mennis," in the absence of the Ladies Church Aid to the new was on the seafront, before the re- Wesleyan Sailors' and Goldiers' clamatica which took place later. machinery, can the authoritics Home were supplied by the Anderson When Mr. Cotton first arrived in know whether the law is being ob- Music Company on vory generousHongkong, anybody earning $100 served 7 Technically speaking, torma China has abolished the mui-isti
system, but we all know that it flourishes none the less. The danger is that, unless the vital part of the Hongkong Ordinance is put into operation, this Colony may be placed in a like position. Iņ- cidentally, for Mr. Amery, in the House of Commons, to suggest that the existence of mui-tani in Hong kong may be due to an influx of Chinese from the mainland smacks rather of side-stepping the facts. We all know that there is at pre- Problems which are unsatisfac-seut no unusual influx of Chinese
THE MUITSAI SYSTEM,
torily dealt with have a knack of into the Colony; with quiet con- constantly recurring. The mui-ditions in Kwangtung, the opposite tsai evil in Hongkong is one of is rather the truth. these. Five years ago, the Govern-
ment was moved to legislate on the subject, but the Ordinance eventual-
cause
the
British Unemployment.
Was
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a month was regarded as a per- son of some standing and import- The Harbour Office reports this ance, and he recalls the time when morning gave 23 arrivals and 19 respectable flat could be rented departures leaving 66 vessels in for $8, a month and when whisky- harbour of which 24 were British, sodas cost twenty-five cents, ami British vessels recorded cargoes of beer could be obtained at eight a total of approximately 25,000 cents a pint at any canteen, tons.
Bofore Commdr. G. F. Hole, RN. tress of a cargo bont was fined $7 this morning, Leung Lin, the mie- with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment for committing a breach of the conditions of her seven passengers. cargo-boat licence by carrying
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A three-months old Chinese girl was left, abandoned, yesterday morning, at the steps leading to the entrance of the Italian Convent brunch at High Street, West Point. It was found to be suffering from small-pox and wan taken to the Isolation Hospital at Kennedy Town.
are
YESTERDAY'S FIRE.
WINE SHOP NOT MUCH DAMAGED.
In the days of which Mr. Cotton speaks, Kowloon consisted of a few scattered godowns and most by Parsees, who cultivated veget of the peninsula was then occupied able gardens.
Mr. Cotton is sixty-five years of nge at present and both fie and his wife enjoy good health. They have three sons and two married, daughters as well as nine grand- children living in Kowloon,
BRIDGE POZIVE
BY FABYAN MATHEY
H-Mone
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NORTH
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SOUTH
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Diamonds are trumps, and South has the lead, North and South most win six of the seven tricks.
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Lay out the cards on a table, as shown in the diagram, and study a method of play that will give the situation. See if you can find North and South' six tricks.
The Solution.
Have prompted me, for all I can, To put a big, bold face on
things.
But I, alas ofttimes have falled To rise to those occasions, and My heart has thumped, my cheek
bna paled,
A doubt has wrecked the course I've planned.
But now I'll take my sup of bear And thank the gentlemen who
brew It. Whate'er the task, in time, I
hear,
I'll have sufficient face to do it!
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the tonehop had to leave his scat She was a slout woman, and the polite young man at her table in
to enable her to get out..
Instead of stepping aside for him in turn, so that he could regain his seat, she barred. the way hugely while stolidly paying her bili.
"Rather an interruption," said the waitress sympathetically.
"Yes," said the young man, "arm": quile a procession!"
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When a deputation of Salford un- employed protested to the Mayor, recently against compulsory at tendance at classes, one said that they had to make silly drawings and to road. from Standard III. readers.
A letter written, and posted at Tristan da Cunha, in the South At- | lantic, one of the British Empire's loneliest possessions, on April 4 List, sending Christmas greetings. from the Rev. R. Pooley the mis- sionary of the faland, was received | recently in Liverpool.
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"I don't think he can complain about being badly treated," sald The Chief Constable of Blackpool. asking for the remand of a man charged with housebreaking. "He la having chops for dinner and eggs for tea. We always have an good menu."
Creditor, at Westminister County Court-He ought to pay; he keeps a restaurant for work-people. Judge Sir Alfred Tobin-But what business is he doing? Creditor- He has scating acommodation for about sixteen. Judge Tobin-It is not à question of seating, it is eating.
ly passed left the situation in a very Mr. Baldwin's assurance that nebulous state. That was so be- business prospects, except in
A female farm hand was fined operation of the special districts, are becoming $5 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the really vital part of the Ordin-increasingly bright, seems to be for causing unnecessary cruelty to Kowloon Magistracy this morning, ance was suspended and has never borne out by the review issued by two pigs by failing to provide the yet been enforced. In these cir- the Federation of British Indus-erates with matting. The defen- cumstances, it is perhaps hardly tries, which announces that British dant was arrested at the Yaumati surprising that now and again the exports during 1928 were eight Railway Station by Mr. P. J.
O'Brian, Inspector S.P.C.A. subject should be raised in theper cent. in excess of those for House of Commons, as it was the 1924, one of the best of the post-
A most attractive programme war years. The steady progress has been arranged for the Musicale case the day before yesterday. Our would seem to be extremely grati-at the Helena May Institute to- experience of a certain type of fying, but we find it difficult to morrow evening. Those taking M.P.'s, however, is that they are reconcile the suggestion of in- part Mrs. Sanger, Mrs. often apt to raise a hornet's nest creasing prosperity with the fact Carnegie, Miss Dunbar, and Mrs. through being either misinformed that unemployment showed a steady Cashman. The accompanists will or only partially informed on mat- increase until at the end of the Browne and Mr. F. Mason.
bo Miss C. Braga, Mrs, Hargreaves ters upon which they see fit to year there were 1,520,700 on the question the Government. Parti- unemployment register. It cularly is this the case when they the first time since the general strike that the total had exceeded are touching on questions in re-
a million and a half, and it is gard to which they are far removed
more disconcerting when it is. from the real centre of informa-realised that the latest figures for Lion. A warning therefore seems January represent the very sub. advisable ngainst paying too much stantial increase of a quarter of this morning of the fire which oc- The official police report issued
To-day's Dog Story--"I possess heed to purely ex-parte atatements a million on the corresponding curred yesterday morning at 224,
three highly Intelligent French which may in the near future be figures for last year, when a steady Hollywood Road, states that the
poodias," writes an Ascot resident." "The other day the youngest of made it the mui-tsal question improvement was confidently anti. second and third floors of the build.
ing were completely burnt out, the Here you must be very generous them suddenly rushed hurriedly should again crop up in Parliament, cipated. Now, as then, there are roof and floor-beama between these and give your opponents a trick into the servants'
hall while Having said so much, let us confident expectations of better two storeys having fallen in. which they can easily be prevented 'Elevens were going on, and tug- make our own attitude on the ques- times, but it is not pleasing to The two floors were occupied as from winning. Immediately, how-ged hard at the skirt of my own tion free from ambiguity. Admitted know that work has to be found and spirit shop on the ground floor preciation by giving you, two or as I am in the habit of doing, sent tenements, while there was a wine ever, you let them show their apmaid. She, thinking that I had, that all the arguments are not on for 200,000 people before we can which was left intact, except for three tricks in return.
the dog to fetch her, got up and one alde, a careful weighing of the start from the point reached a damage caused by water.
South leads a club,
followed him out of the room. He pros and cons leads us to again em- year ago. The minera apart-and Loss of personal effects in the trumphs with one of his honours, tore upstairs in front of her, look- phasise the view which we have on the acute distress in the coalfields we floors involved amounts to over and the remaining trump honour is ing sound to ace that she was is calling for the sympathy of and spirits shops are covered by West must accept the gift, after through two swing doons led her $1,000. The contents of the wines led. The small trump follows and coming, and pushing his way many occasions put forward----
Britishers throughout the world insurance to the extent of $5,000. South has thrown away one of his to the front landing, where he namely, that the mui-tsai system
there. would seem to be a
The fire was extinguished at.10.
lend a heart. East discorda Colony
athen at the floor, cannot
defended. be
outbreak. methods for Its mitigation will
spade and South wins, then prompt. "There she saw disastrous traces Morally, there can be no question have to be considered without
ly takes another heart trick. On that a dog had been sick, and be ing the submission that it is bad, delay. Hitherto, local schemes for
this second lead of the sult, East side the scene of the misfortune must either surrender the ton of int a very dejected and miserably Turning to the practical aspect of relief work have been discouraged
spades, thereby unguarding the ashamed Ittle poodle. My maid, the 'matter, we concede that the by the Government on the grounds
king, or he must bid farewell to his wishing to save the culprit a scold- problem is not easy to solve. That, that they make no substantial.
king of clubs. In either case, the ing, set to work, to tidy up all signs however, is no reason why a serious contribution to the solution of the Paris
.124.10 parting is ead.
of what had happened, while tha, main problem. But something on Amsterdam
.34.885 The only other method of play first poodle stood by wagging his attempt should not be made. It
.12.105 which is not shattered by a very tall. I came upstairs just in time is doubtless true that many of the and that very soon. A Govern- Copenhagen
these lines acems very necessary, Berlin
.20.426 brief study is for North to trump to see the little scene.", girls now employed ne mul-taal in ment offer of granta-in-aid to local Vienna Hongkong are living under Infinite-authorities, up to, say, fifty per Lisbon.
Helsingfors Jy better conditions thari they would cent, would provide a temporary Bacharest have to put up with in their own expedient, and we suggest that the Buenos Aires homes. Neither will it be ques-Government must no longer ignore Shanghai
Yokohama tioned that a great number of these thie prospect, however temporary, New York maidservants who, on reaching a certain age, are sold as concubinca,
The weekly return of the Medical Stockholm or into prostitution, would meet the Officer of Health contained three Dalo same fate at the hands of their cases of diphtheria (ono Indian and Prague two. Chinese) and two of enteric Madrid parents. But two blacks do not fever (Chinese). There was
one Athens
new
North
as it is at present operated in this omorgency, and some emergency/o'clock, about an hour after its spades, And West must alsó now stopped and looked up at her and
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Brussels
Goneva Mijan
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.18.18 low on the opening trick. But if
.84.605 the trumps are then led, East will
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102% have North in all sorts of trouble. The other day I was teasing my 100% And if the ace of spades. Is led, young nephew, aged 7, about his ..800%
West will trump, then shut his eyes mother. 47.16/80
and return any card in his hand. He was telling me how much he +1.2/08/ 1/10.10/92 East, too, must then shut his eyes, loved her. "I would not part if North and South are to win with her for all the money in the 4.84 25/02
26.21 total of more than three tricks.
world!" he exclaimód. .02.05 .18.14
.18.19 Owing to the kindness of a local 103% resident, a concert under the aus. $1.385 pices of the Naval and Military .375 Y.M.C.A. In being given by Mr. .8.29/82
I offered to give him £10,000 for decidedly, her, but the shook his head very
Finally, in desperation, I said, will give you my old jack knife
.1/6 William Heughan and his com- for your mother." 27pany to St. George's Hall on Satur- He hesitated for a moment, and
make a white. The dominating death from diphtherin and two from ebay
enteric. One death was also report Hongkong fact is that the mui-taal system ed from influenza, which is not a silver pot and forward) 25.16/18 day, 9th inst. at 7 pm. to Service then replied, "Let's have s took at has inhercat in it so many of notifiable dizense.
Wireless. men..
your fack knife!"
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