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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 201019.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

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Tunisu sell by Public Anation, THE Undersigned have received in-

(FOR LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

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USEFUL HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

(Removed to Sales Rooms for Convenience of sale),

And

A Quantity of LINOLEUM (New).

Ten-Cash

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, August 10, 1919.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

MR. J. ARNOLD has been appointed

Secretary to the Company.

Br Order of the Board of Directors,

STANLEY H. DODWELL,

Chairman.

Hongkong, August 19, 1919.

WE

NOTICE...

E have this day admitted Mr. EDWIN LIENEL SIM as

Partner in cur firm.

A. & S. HANCOCK.

Hongkong, August 16, 1919,

NOTICE.

B

LL PERSONS with the exception A of those of Chinese racer desiring to leave the Cology for places other than Cacion, West River or Macno should apply in person for permission to do so at the PASS OFFICE Post Office Building between the hours of 9 A.M. to 1r.M. and 2 PM to 4 P., daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, whe Tamsin in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1918, Forms of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.F.O. and at all Police Stations.

The Fenalty for nou compliance is a Eine not exceeding $60.

E. D. C. WOLFE,

Captain Superintendent of Police.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULAIS, AND CONDEIONS of the lotting

by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 25th day of Aust 1919 at 3 am, at the Officer of the Fuhlie Werks Devtinent, by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administer- ing the Governnwat, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at North Foina in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 10 years, with the option of renewal Crown Rant to he fized by the Surveyor of His Majesty the Euro, for one further term of a yoara.

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DARTICL LARS and Conditions of the Letting by Public Auction Sale, to

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Onler of His Excelletes the tificer Administering the Govetannt, of One Lut of CROWN LAND at Tekwawan le the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 3 years, with the option of renewal at a Crowe Rent to be tired by the Surreyer of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 75 years.

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Why, then, are written?

these letters

The answer is simple; because the Legislature has sanctioned, this method for the creation of technical desertion, which, coupled with adal tery, will entitle a wife to divorce Simple adultery, on the other hand, is only a ground for judicial separa tion. Proof of adultery merely will give a husband divorce. But, in addition to this, a wife must, in the average case, establish the further offence of cruelty or desertion for two years and upwards.

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the wife can, and cften does, at once proceed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and statutory deser tion."

Where the husband has really de serted the wife this process renders

it unnecessary for her to wait two

years and upwards. Cases, of course,

do arise where a wife is genuinely

anxious for the husband to return,

but those cases are rare.

This unseemly farce of the affec tionate letter and the curt reply will remain

necessary until Parliament

makes the grounds for divorce the same for a wife as for a husband. The present inequality of the law creates a genuine grievance, and such a simplification would be neither re- volutionary nor would it offend the feelings of most religious people. To the many earnest and sincere think- ers who say that there should be no divorce the answer is clear and simple.

We have bad divorce by Act of. Parliament for more than sixty years. It is, for good or ill, firmly established as part of our social system, and cannot be uprooted now.

The above change in the law is an ordinary measure of justice. We may advocate it without pledging ourselves to favour any change which would grant divorce for grounds other than adultery. Scotland and South Africa make malicious deser- tion by itself a ground. It may be that public opinion in England is not ripe for this.

Lawyers must take the law as they find it. Often, however, they regret the legislative fiction of restitution proceedings which compels them to advise wives to write conciliatory letters to husbands whom the wives never wish to see again Manya woman by this fictitious proceeding, which ought not to be necessary, and is not very honest, thereby obtains divorce which she could get by ne other means.

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