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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1920.

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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The Hon. Attorney-General moved the second reading of a Bill Intituled An Ordinance to modify certain pro- visions of the Treaty of Peace Order, 1919, as amended by the Treaty of Peace (Amendment) Order, 1920, for the purpose of adapting the pre- visions of the Order to the circumst ances of the Colony of Hongkong

Weer Poort BRANCH 1548 WORK SKOP

and which were imported into the Colony as whole plants.

3) Portions of azaleas which were grown in private gar- dens and which were picked with the consent of the owner or occapier of such gardens.

3. In any prosecution under these regulations the onus shall be upon the defendant of bringing himself within exceptions of Regulation No. 2 these regulations, or of proving lash excuse, as the case may be.

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OBJECTS AND REASONS.

„FINANCE MINUTES. "The object of this bill is to adapt to the circumstances of the Colony The following votes recommend- the amendments made in the Treaty ed by HE the Governor came before of Peace Order, 1919, by the Treaty the Finance Committee and were ap- of Pease Amendment) Order, 1920proved.

ANDERSON - MUSIC

COMPANY.

A SEKSONABLES DISPLAY,

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE LIBERTIES-OF-

ENGLAND.

The Nation maken this vigorous protest against the passing of the

Emergency BIL

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MAILS FROM. CANADA.

CF.OS. SERVICE.

DISPUTE SETTLED AT LAST.

Mr. P. A. Cox, the acting General Agent in Hongkong for the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, informs us that he has been officially advised that a settlement has been reached between his Company and the Canadian Authorities for the carriage of mails and other articles by the Company's. steamers' operating bet- preseen Vancouver and the Far East. Therefore the Public may again look forward to receiving their mails from Canada, etc." regularly by the Com- pany's fast service as in the past.

No Christmas function is complete

"The Prime Minister; has now without music and naturally the music stores it this season especially spare. appeared as the parent of the Emer no effort in goticipating the wishes gency Powers Bill" says the Nation. "We dare to say that for three of their patrons. The Anderson Music Company bas had for some hundred years no British Monarch has asked for such powers to "over days in ætistically dressed window the law and the shelter that displaying some special lines, includ- ing Bobble Books on which there he law affords to the commonary

-"The title itself is a trick. The been quite a run, Of pianos & vide Government call it an Emergency selection is on view. There are splen BIL That would seem to did instruments by the famous houses that it was framed under the of Broadwood and Collard and Col sure of these soxious days, and, lard, the pianos being specially made therefore, in answer to an urgent for this climate A baby grand by social necessity. Nothing of the an American Art, Chickering, of kind. The Government admit that Boston, will appeal to many by rex-it was-drafted months ago, and that son of its artistic design. Music of they propose its "framework as a all kinds can be obtained from the | permanent addition to English law. latest dance bits to the compositions guarding even the regulations they of the old masters.

Issue from the invasion of the The Columbia graphonòla is apper-jadges, and treating them, as if they ently going to be popular this boli- were parts of a Statute. The Bill day. Records to suit all tastes can therefore," is a deliberate and well- be had and heard in the demonstrat prepared act. Yet it was thrust on ing room.

Parliament at the most critical hour of a great strike, when an effort was being made to compose: it, and to create the atmosphere, so less than the material forms, of peace.

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For the children there are some excellently illustrated books of nur y rhymes and postcards depicting incidents in these stories.. Takes at together the display is a very stirre- five one and the store is well worth a visit.

The latter Order was published in 1 $256 in aid of the vote Kowloon- the Hongkong Gazette of 29th October, Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, MAGISTRATE'S KIND ACT.ders pleaded that such a Bill im-

1920.

The method followed in the bill is similar to that of Ordinance 3 of 1920, the references in the second column of the schedule being to the articles of the original Order, as amended by the amendment Order.

The Hon. Attorney-General moved the second reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to modify certain provisions of the Treaty of Peace (Austria) Order, 1920, for the par- pose of adapting the provisions of the Order to the circumstances of the Colony of Hongkong.

OBJECTS AND REASONS. The object of this Bill is to adapt | the Treaty of Peace (Austria) Order, 1920, to the circumstances of this Colony. The Order was published in the Hongkong Gazette. of the 12th November, 192).

2. The method followed is the same as that adopted in Ordinance No. 3 of 1920.

The Hon. Attorney-General moved the second reading of a BiH intituled An Ordinance to modify certain pro- visions of the Treaty of Peace (Bul- garia) Order, 1920, for the purpose of adapting the provisions of the -Order to the circumstances of the:

Colony of Hongkong.

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OBJECTS AND REASONS, The object of this Bill is to adipt the Treaty of Peace (Bulgaria) -Order, 1920, to the circumstances of is Colony. The Order was publish. ed in the Hongkong Gazette of November 5, 1920..

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2. The method followed is the same as that adopted in Ordinance No. 3 of 1920.

Tyres for Engines, Carriages and wagons.

$5,712 in aid of the vote Post Office Naval Ratings, &c., D'Aguilar Station.

$70 in aid of the vole Treasury, Starep Office, Other Charges, In-

idental Expenses.

$2,500 in aid of the vote Harbour Master's Department, Other Charges, D.-Steam Launches, Repairs.

$2,700 in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Hongkong Build ings, (2) Improvements to Buildings.

$3,922 in aid of the rote Governor, Other Charges: Electric Fars and Light for

Public Rooms incidental Expenses .... Special Expenditure, Furni

ture.......

494.00 2,223.00

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AGED. HAWTER CHARGED.

LICENCE FEE FROM POOR BOX.

"It was then forced at top speed through the Commons body con sisting mainly of capitalists--and all palliative procedure, such as a time limit, or an examination by a Select Committee, was refused to the Labour Party. Their moderate lea- perilled their place and influence in the Labour movement: Their pro- tests were disregarded; the Prime Minister was not there to listen to them. It transpired that the origin of this Bill was purely bureaucratic. It was never submitted to the trade unions; nobody asked for it; not a breath of public opinion moved in its favour.

An elderly Chinese, who gave his age is over 60 years, was this mon ing charged before Magistrate Smith with hawking without a licence. He "What is the Bill? Its grand pur- told the Magistrate that he had just pose is to create by proclamation enough money to start business, and case of Emergency, in other words could not afford to buy a licence. of public danger. That done, the Taking pity on the accused, the Executive comes in and lays its hand Magistrate ordered that a licence befon Labour and Property, Parliament. given to him out of the poor. box.

does not appear at all. The Execu tive, having decreed the "Emer gency, proceeds to draft the Orders-

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PEKING-HANKOW RAILWAY

ADMINISTRATION.

FOR SALE.

1.205.00 BOWEN ROAD ROBBERY, with it, merely calling on Parlia-SALES-Have you be our win

Total $3,922.00

$950 in aid of the vote: Public Works, Other Charges - Incidental Expenses $ 750.00 Electric Fans and Light 20000

bought pressan ta

dox. FRENCH PERFUMERT. Price YOUNG PEOPLE ATTACHED.They merely give a general licence from $3.30 upward. Best Price in Towe.

THE BONTON STORE

BRUTAL HIGHWAYMEN VANISH

in Council designed to cope

ment to confirms: its action. The Orders it issues are not specified.

to the agents of the Government to secure to the community the supply and distribution of food, water, fuel. and light; to maintain the means of

Chan Hon Chee a school girl and locomotion: and generally to pre-

serve its peace. Their violation will

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

Total $ 950.00 her cousin, a youth named. Wook be punished by fine and imprisonstructions to sell by Public Anction, ]

$17,100 in aid of the vote - Public Works, Recurrent, Hong kong Water Works →→ (19) Maintenance of City

and Hill District (20) Maintenance of Shau-

kiwan......

(22) Water Account (Me-

ters, &c. 1gisters

Total

Sau Tin, were sitting on a bench Qu Bowen

Road overlooking ment.

"Labour and Liberalism have the Protestant Cemetery, yester contrived to put two formal funits to day afternooti when two men came down the hillside and attacked these powers. The Executive wil $15,000.00 them. After a short struggle, the not be allowed to conscript labour. girt's cousin was overpowered. While and it concedes the nominal right to 100.00 one of the robbers attended to him strike and to picket (It cannot deny the other robbed the girl of her jewel them). But as everything will be 2,000.00 lery, valued at $195, and a hand bag governed by the state of emergency! containing small change and sundry and as the Attorney-General admitted -$17,100.00 articles. The highwaymen then that a strike of transport workers made off in an easterly direction. would coustitute such a case, even if

faw minutes

it were begun under due notice, the later Tradic Garred

protection of industrial right is worth and Sergeant Inspector

little more than the paper it is: passed in a motor

written on.

$800, in aid of the vote Public A Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Water Works, (42) Peak Distribution. Alexander System :-

GOVERNOR THANKS COUNCIL. H.E. the Governor said that this was the last meeting this year, there! being no urgent business to be dealt With The next meeting therefore! Substitution of 5" and 4" mains would be held on January 13. a: 2.30 for existing.3" from Victoria Gap to

The reason why there would R.BL. 76.

-p.m.

Kowloon, Fire Station,

be no meeting in the first week of $1,200 in aid of the vote Police January was that Mr. Fletcher wan; and Prison Departments, B-Fire leaving and he was by no means cer- Brigade, Other Charges. Repairs to tain when Mr. Severn would be here. Floating Engines.

The Governor took" occasion, to $4,500 in aid of the vote Public thank the members of the Council lor Works, Extraordinary, the assistance they had given him | Buildings, ungrudgingly daring the year. They Tsimshatsui. had got through a considerable amount of useful work with small friction, and he was greatly indebted to them for their help.

The Governor said it was the last

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$8,500 in aid of the wote Pablic. Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Buildings, (50) Tsimshatsui Police Station Extensions.

$6,800 in aid of the vote:---

cycle. The young people told them what had happened and they went in the direction taken by the robbers but could find no robbers. It is thought the robbers escaped down the hillside to the new roat and thence to Happy Valley-

MOTOR ACCIDENT.

HIPPY VALLTY MISHAP.

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DRIVER AND PASSENGER HURT,

About eleven o'clock last night

HE Undersigned have received in-

{FOR LOOSIER OF 29ER CONCERNED).

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THURSDAY, -Decezober 30, 1920, at 10.30 am... at No. 544 Nathan Road, Kowloon, First Floor,

THE STEDEX HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE,

therein contained. Comprising → Teakwood, Bedroom Suite (Twin Bed) good as new, Treadle Sewing Machine Singer band attachment, Chesterfield Sola zad Arm-chairs, Sideboard, Dining Table, Chairs, dc, Faany and Kitchen Utensils,

Also

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Sunblinds, Enamelled Bath and

(Fall Particales from Catalogue). Terme ---Ch..

"Of the impolicy of such an act it. is unnecessary to speak. It is obvi pusly a sword hang over Labour's head. Practically it treats the nation as if it were on the eve of revolution. i Grant that in these days of general strikes a Government must take Electric Fittings. means, which need not be all coer. cive, to secure to the people the means of sustenance, warmth, and travet. But even if we assume, ! as this Bill assumes, that the organised workmen, who in the main supply. these necessaries," are enemies of their country as well as of each other, it is impossible, to proceed against them purely by the

Public Works, Recurrent, Kowloon, j'one of the Dragon Motor Car Cosmethod of force.

time the Council would have the co-Miscellaneous pany of His "honourable and galist (34) Typhoon and Rain- Major-General Ventris, whe storm Damages

friend

had been a member of the Council for about 54 years. The value of his services was well known.

He spoke for all, he was sure, in expressing regret ar kosing Major-General Ver tris, and in extending him his most cordial wishes. Concluding, he wish- ed all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..

New Territories, Miscel laneous

(45) Typhoon and Rain.

storm Damages, man

cars

No Government will finally dare to execute sweeping méasures of fine and imprisonment against the great

hat

the

misfortune to meet with 20 accident 1,700.00 when pasting Happy Valley on a

trip round the island, as the result corporations of trade unionism. And therefore, no man who calls himself.

5,100.00

of which Cage Walker, an occupantateman ought to flourish a bind.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Luctions, Hongkong, December 23, 1920.

-THURSDAY, December 31, 1920, commencing st 2,30 p.m. their Bales Bocks, No. 8, Den Van Road, Corner of Los Howse Streeky M

TRAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNY

of the car received slight hurts and geon in their face at such an hourTURE, BRASS AND TEAKWOOD TWIR the driver injuries requiring medical treatment.

over

this.

Total.... $ 6,800.00 The cause of the accident is obscure, but it is understood $19,000 in aid of the vote Public

thecar thet

fürned Works Extraordinary, Hongkong, on its side when one of the tyres Major-General Ventris thanked His Buildings (3) Quarters for European struck a tramway standard. The returned for the Colony yesterday. Excellency for all he had said. It Officers, Leighton HID

had been an honour and a privilege $25,870 in aid of the vote to have served so long on the Coun-A-Police, Other Charges eil. For the rest of his life he would | Arms

car itself was 'not badly damaged.

...$ 80,00

22,500.00

take deep interest in the Colony of Clothing and Accoutre Hongkong and in China. He added ments .....................

that he hoped he would not be out Coolie Eire

of ander if he exhorted the young men | Interpretation Fees............

of the Colony who had not več joinéë Light and Electric Fans.... the Volunteer Corps to follow the Small Stores example of the Straits Settlemente Subsistence of Prisoners. and do so at once...

PLANTS ORDINANCE.'

Total

ITALIAN CIRCUS.

"OPENING ́SATURDAY,

AT HING YUEN GARDENS.

200.00 40.00 2,700.00 ima 250.00

100.00 For the greater convenien-e of the public, in view of the tramway faci $25,870.00 fities, Bostock's Royal Italian Circus, will open on Saturday, December 25 at Gardent, North Point. This ever popular entertainment includes many new attractions this year and should again draw large crowds::

The following regulations made by $1,535. in aid of the vote Medical.15 p.m. and 9 pm, at the Ming Yuen

the Governor in Council ander section Department, COffice of Health

he Governor in found sauce, 1920, Oficer of Port, Other Charges, Ordinance No. 11 of 1920, on Decem-Launch-Repairs.

*ber 9 1920, were tabled

1 "Subject to Regulation No. 2 of these regulations no person shall: -without lawful excuse, sèll; offer for sale, or have in his possession or -under his rustody or control'any.

TYPHOON WARNING.

portion of anx azalea whatsoeveru. The telceram quoted below was

2. Regulation No. 1 of these re- received by the American Consulate -gulations shall not apply to the General from the Manila Observa-

following

tory''st 10.15 am-to-day

(a) Whole plants which were Typhoon E of the Visayas Islands

grown outside the Colony filing süp:

Notwithstanding that he had the most-coveted spot or the west side fo. Graham Street, an ex-constable insisted on placing his stalls on the east side of the road in denince of re- quente warnings, with the result that

be was fined $5 by Magirate Smith when prosecuted this morning Sergeant McKelvie for obstruction.

A clean bill of health wAS-

A woman, Eginia da Luz of the Farish of St. Anthony, Macao, reached, the advanced age of 100 last month, says Religiao e Fatria,

BELSTRADE, BRASS-MOUNTED BEDSTEADS, CARPETS,

mesuprising *-* ChatterBold Badan, Azn-chairs (nr) Folding Card and Ocossional Tables, One Ipholstered Batts, Bedroom Furniture somprising Teakwood Twin. Bairteache

and all Wardrobes- large. Demming Tables, and Chain, Wash wanda, di, Domed Emskwood), Elle- boards, Dieter Wagenics, Exideradon Dfs: fig Fuller and Chalesy dog Dinner An extract from a letter publish. Services, Crookery, and Glass Waco, ed in Religias e Patria addressed to Cooking Biores Childry, dan Bali's Room Oberala, Flectro-Plated Wake, friend in Hongkong by Mr. I. Alecizie Beding Laaj Takkwood Basto, of Rio de Janerio, son of Mr. J. Bendry BackFood Famibura, M: de Castro Basto of this place, gives para Tables, Chaiza, Cablanta, Pleolitene his mat impressions of Brazil

THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE,

HAMBERLAINS Cough Remedy is Aveling wough mine the world to-day becases, it does ersctly what a cough medicine :Íszaep- posed to do. It stopetouder and fondle apeedily and effectually. For må by

Chemists and Barkeepers

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Carpety, &c.

American Ice Chest, Enamelled Fib several loss Tennis Bally; de, sod a quantity of Out-glass.

Full Particulars from Catalogus).

HUGHES & BOOGE

kong December #3,3

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