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JAMES-On 31st March, 1930, at Eastbourne, Barbara, beloved daughter of F, W. and M. A. James.
The
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930.
the old party warfare a sympathe tic consideration of their policy by the whole House. The importance
DAY BY DAY,
THE DEMAND THAT ALL OTHER
RESEMBLE OUR
of getting things done should be, PEOPLE SHOULD put in the place of the theory that SELVES GROWS BY WHAT IT FEEDS ON. what the Government wants to do. S. Mill. Is inevitably bad, or at least for the purposes of debate should be so considered by the Opposition.
Under the Two-Party System the slogan that it is the duty of an Opposition to oppose worked not so badly, but now that there are two Oppositions, mere opposi- tion is not good enough: Some compromise is necessary, whereby the Government steers a middle course to which moderate men can rally, and criticism becomes con- structive, not factious. Much is being done on these lines in the present Parliament. There has recently been talk of a Liberal- Labours understanding, and it is greatly to be hoped that the two
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from Hongkong, arrived at Mar- The P. & O. as "Macedonia;
Boilles on 28th March at 6 a.m.
REHEARING OF AN OPIUM CASE,
MAGISTRATE CANCELS HIS CONVICTION.
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FRESH EVIDENCE.
The re-hearing took place before the Central at
The Very Idea!
When people nowadays grumble at the waste of time in the House of Commons, and complain that it is all talk and no work, they may receive a melancholy satisfac- tion from knowing that others in bygone days had to complain of just the same thing.
The dollar showed a slight re-
of the House of Commons, and the While Mr. Popham was Speaker covery this morning, the opening Mr. Lindsell, rate on Demand being 15. 6.1/16d. Magistracy, yesterday, of the case House had sat a long time and in in which a Chinese woman, named effect done nothing, coming one
Much sympathy will be felt for Kwan Foon, had been fined $25,000 day to Queen Elizabeth, she said Mr. and Mrs. F. W. James in the fur the possession of a large to him, "Now, Mr. Speaker, what heavy bereavement they have suf-antity of contraband opium has passed in the Lower Houvea fered by the death of their daughter oficers secreted in a window seven weeks.".
which was found by Revenue "If you please, Your Majesty, Barbara which has just occurred at frame of No, G5, Pokfulum Road, Eastbourne.
of which, it was alleged, the "Who was it that laughed just woman was the principal tenant,now?" The forthcoming wedding is an- At the original hearing the "I did, sir. But I did not mean nounced of Mr. John Henry Magistrate decided that the de- to." Cowan, lightkeeper, Swatow, refendant was the principal tenant, siding at No. 748, Nathan Road, but, un the application of Mr. D. L. Kowloon, to Miss Ho Yau-kam, of Strelett, he granted a re-hearing as there was fresh evidence on this -point.
the same address.
Mr. Tolian, of the Hongkong Parties will be able to come to Telephone Company, has made a some agreement and that the Lon-report to the police to the effect that a workman fell off a ladder servative Party itself will consi- whilst engaged at work in Car- der the possibility of making the narvon Building yesterday. idea of a Council of State a reali-man was not seriously injured. ty. If it became a reality it would The death occurred on Thursday, be something much more than a March 27, at the Country Hospital, mutual tolerance between Parties, Shanghai, of Mrs. Buchanan, wife and the substitution of construc-of the s.s. Wenchow. The deceased of Gilbert Buchanan, chief engineer tive criticism for unbending op- lady, who was only 36 years of age; position. It would become a sys-was well-known in Shanghai and tem under which all members of Hongkong. all Parties had some direct share in the work of the government of the day.
Yeung Choi Street, reports that Miss Ruth Clover, of 200, Sai
about 7.20 p.m. yesterday, whilst Members of Parliament already she was walking along Shanghai Street, a Chinese snatched her do a considerable amount of non-handbag from her and disappeared. party or inter-party work on the The bag contained $34 in money
and articles.
Thougkong Telegraph. Standing Committees of the House
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930.
CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENTS.
tion. The Mother of Parliaments
The rent collector, giving evidence, said that although he had received the rent from a woman, he was sure the woman was not the defendant.
"What do you mean?". "Well, I laughed up my sleeve, but I did not know there was a hole in the elbow."
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Coroners from time to make remarkable suggestions, but one of the most original yet an countered is the proposal that school children should be taught had not stated this at the first before they, are started on the Asked by the Magistrats why he how to dodge motor omnibuses hearing, when he simply stated alphabet. A commentator says that the rent had been paid by a he is inclined to agree that he had not been asked that ques-principles should begin early, but woman, the rent collector said that instruction in Safety First" "dodging" omnibuscs is surely not should receive instruction. an art in which the very young
tion.
Magistrate holding that it had not The accused was discharged, the been proved that the woman was the principal tenant of the floor on which the opium had been dis- covered.
TO STOP RUBBER PRODUCTION.
ANGLO-DUTCH PLAN MEETS WITH APPROVAL.
MALAYA SUPPORTS.
London, Mar. 31. The Rubber Growers' Associa- tion announces that whereas the minimum necessary to make the Anglo-Dutch liaison committees'
to the head, is stated to be in a and the British rubber producing
that one is in the track of the To "dodge" an omnibus implies approaching vehicle, which is precisely where one should not be. After all, the, teaching of a child to look both ways before crossing a street and never to cross until the street is clear should not occupy a great amount of time each day. The mistake is to imagine that the child will neces sarily do what it knows to be. right, or that old heads will ever be found on young Shoulders.
"A man just told me I looked like you."
"Where is he? I'll knock his head off."
"I've just done it!"
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Some more schoolboy "howlers" Nostrum is a nose.
platform from which oratora speak through the
Spinster is the Latin word for
left.
been King of France if his mother Edward the Third would have had been a man.
and it is suggested that by an
Father Macdonnell, S. J. will extension of this system most of deliver a lecture on "Literary the members, or all, might have a Links between East and West" to- share in the work of the Govern-day at 5.30 p.m. in the Cathedral Hall. This lecture is given under ment. Some such scheme would the auspices of the Hongkong make for general interest in the Branch of the English Associa- work of the House and enable all tion. members to pull together. The new Constitution of Ceylon is based on Reclamation Street, who was ad-scheme operative was seventy per
Leung Wah-chi, resident at 175, The world is full of experiments
a similar plan. There are to bemitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital cent, both from European owned in Constitution making or adapta-elections on the basis of universal last night suffering from injuries estates in the Dutch East Indies serious condition. He was the territories, assents received up to victim of an accident whilst work- the present total well over eighty ing on the s.s. Kum Sang, a hatch per cent.
Ket's Rebellion was caused by cover falling down on him.
Advices from Malaya, further the enclosure of the Commons on indicate most substantial support which the poorer classes used to
The graze. announced of Mr. Cecil Graham scheme will therefore become
The forthcoming wedding la from Asiatic producers. Perdue, A.S.P., who is still in the and it is hoped that the total operative during the month of May to his foot received accidentally assents will represent a. tonnage Kowloon Hospital with the wound when dealing with people brought equivalent to over half the world's the Government but be closely con- back to Hongkong after the piracy
production. of the 8.8. Haiching, to Miss Mar- nected with its executive action.garet Knight North, a whether any such development is sister at the Kowloon Hospital,
nursing
really possible in the British Par- liament is not yet clear, but it seems likely that the difficulties of the Three Party System and the
somethin' wrong with 'er tissues." "Yes, the doctor said there were
"Her what?"
"Er tissues."" "Here, Mrs. T., don't 'arry. Wait till you get over your fit of sneezin'{"
is trying to adapt herself to the suffrage, but when once the re- Three Party System. The British Presentatives are returned on the different party tickets they are Raj is trying to convert itself inte
the a popular government. Ceylon is severally to be attached to
different departments of the Go to have a brand new Constitution. vernment as committees advising On the other hand are the experl-and working with the Minister, and ments in the revival in the modern thus share not only in the de- state of ancient dictatorship, and liberative and legislative work of of that form which has always heen viewed with the greatest
The Anglo-Dutch liaison com- abhorrence, oligarchy, or, as it is
mittee reached an agreement on certain recommendations, and on called, "the dictatorship of the
February 7 resolved that these should be submitted to the respec- proletariat." Democracy is held
The Chater Memorial Scholar- Admitting a charge of larceny tive Associations for their ship of the value of $800 a year to be on its trial. There is a wide-
ment store in Shanghai Street, a Dutch, French, Belgian, Swiss and Gosano who passed the Matricula- of a brass tap from the Govern approval. Shortly afterwards has been awarded to Mr. E. L spread feeling that it must either
Chinese who was arrested in pos- German producers met to discuss tion Examination of the Univer evolve new forms for itself or be impatience of private members at Session of the article, was fined $10 the Anglo-Dutch proposals and sity of Hongkong in November, discarded for the older forms of the waste of their energies under tyranny, whether of the one
the present system will tend to the few.
some such plan.
آن
Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon proposal to stop rubber production Mr. Gosano has been admitted to or fourteen days' hard labour by almost unanimously adopted the 1929, from St. Joseph's College. Magistracy this morning. Mr. J. during the month of May. Barnet, of the Water Works, in-
the Medical Faculty of the Univer- timated that the defendant, had got into the yard of the Government
store.
It will be seen that the respec
tive Associations have now given sity. bigger support to, the proposal than was anticipated. Reuter.
AN EARLY MORNING INTRUDER.
In many ways the problem of the modern world is just this: how
Chamber and Civil Service, in a society which daily grows more complex the forms of de- Explicit in our condemnation of When mention was made before mocracy may be preserved. How any attempt to adopt the recom- Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon can they be adapted to mixed com- mendations of the Salaries Commis-case in which two men and a Magistracy this morning of the munities such as are to be found sion while the dollar remains at woman are charged with being in South and East Africa; how its present low level, we had in-concerned in the sale of two giris, tended to leave matters where they Mr. Arthur Covey represented the are they to be initiated in a coun- stood, to await the Government's first accused and applied for the try dependent on an alien rule, next move. We had stated the ob- There being no objection from the reduction of his bail of $2,000, as in India; how are they to be jections clearly. We were content, prosecution, the bail was reduced hut in Ashley Road, opposite the A burglary at an unnumbered adapted to the new conditions re-But fresh facts have come to light to $1,000 and the defendants re- Kowloon Hotel, was recalled be- sulting from adult suffrage; and which require, more than ever, that manded. for one week for hearing fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- how to the conditions resulting the views of the taxpayer should be on Thursday the 10th. It was loon Magistracy this morning. from the growing internationalism exhibited. We were under the im. / stated that Mr. C. E. L. Grist when a Chinese was charged with
would appear for the third defen-
KOWLOON THIEF IS CAUGHT AFTER CHASE.
larceny.
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pression that the Secretary of dant. of the world? The emergence of
|State's approval had been withheld
The defendant pleaded guilty. the Three-Party System in the until the views of the Unofficial
According to Detective Sergeant British Parliament has brought Memmbers of the Legislative Cour-that the new conditions produced appeared as complainants all lived Humphreys, the three people who into prominence the idea of the cil had been heard That is not by the slump in exchange had les in the hut and at 5.15 a.m. yester Council of State as a solation of so. It is now.polated out that per- trayed the value of the report, day one of the women awoke to the problem there. "Mr. Mac-mission to introduce the Report to which was already out of date. The arouse the others. She saw the Donald, in pushing the idea, has the Council implies that the Home Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith said that defendant crouching in a corner the immediate practical aim of get: Government will ralee no objection the drop in exchange occurred after ransacking the premises. She raised the alarm and her husband to the proposals if they are accept the Commission had reported and ran after the defendant who rush- ting something done in spite of the able to the Legislative Comel in he thought the members of the ed out and was later caught hiding. fact that no Party can command Hongkong. In other words, the Commission would agree with him in the doorway of the Star Theatre, an absolute majority in the Houac.vitally interested Official Majority when he said that a situation with Some of the missing articles were In this desire he carries with him may decide the fate of the Report regard to sterling salaries which found on him. not only the feeling of the other on a division. The taxpayer has they naturally did not envisage has It was stated that the defendant Parties, but also the electorate, one pafeguard, and only one. United since developed. Mr. Belth is also gained admission by removing a who after the burden of a General Unofficial opposition cannot be deof the opinion that the whole sub-door, which had been kept closed sort of gate leaning against the fied. We hope that unity' among jact may have to be reconsidered by the weight of the obstacle. Election, do not want to see govthe Unofficials may be aboured, but from a different angle. Mr. A. . The defendant was sentenced to ernment paralysed and urgent lest there should be any doubt on Ferguson took a similar line, and six months' hard labour. legislation indefinitely held up this score, it is essential that the it is notable that both speakers, in juat because an increasing variety voice of public opinion should make references to the future of aliver.
New York, Mar. 31. of view it being shown. So far, itself heard. Great encouragement anticipated a further fall. This It is reported that Dr. Joseph all that Mr. MacDonald seems to is to be derived from the tone of factor in itself is an important con- Rock, the Director of the National the comments at last night's meet-sideration: an average full of even Geographical Society's expedition have meant by the phrase is that ing of the General Chamber of Com-a, penny over a year would, under to south-west China and Tibet, who under the direction of the Govern-merce. The Hon. Mr. B. D. Fthe recommendations, cast the Gov-covered a higher mountain than has just returned to America, dis- ment, measures should be brought Beith, the chairman, endorsed this ernment nearly a million dollars in Everest in the Himalaya ränge.--- forward, in dealing with which journal's attitude in a marked man- additional salary charges. Where leuter there should be substituted for nur. We pointed out last week 1 is the line to be drawn?
[Mount Everest is 29,141 feet high.]
WHO WAS
CRAIN
QUEBRILLE?
Anatole France-created the figure of Jerome Crainquebril le as a peg for sundry sardo- nic reflections on
human justice as dispensed in the courts of law.
Wrongfully accused of hav ing insulted Coristable $64, who had ordered him to move on, Crainquebrille was-condem- ned, after a very summary trial, to a fortnight's imprison ment. But on his release he found it impossible to make a living. His character was gone, and was quickly follow- ed by his savings. Poverty came and a rainy winter. Cold and hunger drove the ex-. costermonger to seek for shelter by strange means,
He insulted a policeman de-. liberately. But this second arm of the law in no way re- sembled Constable 64. An oldish and kind-hearted man, he turned a deaf ear to Crain- quebrille's insults, and pass- ed on.
The author's own comments on the case are put into the mouth of the one member of the jury who had the wit to perceive that the aged hawker was innocent. A judge may not admit a policemen to be in the wrong, he saya Ironically,
for he would be sapping public confidence in the whole legal system. Do not ask justice to be just, are his bitter conclud- ing words; it has no need to be just since it is justice.