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MILWAIN. On June 27, 1921, at Shanghai, to Captain and Mrs. a daughter, Mary

Meltwain, Hawthorne.

MARRIAGES.

THE CHINA MAIL

to see stift penalties imposed in such CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM. cases of over-reaching as will un-- doubtedly occur even after the Or- THE PETITION TO THE HOUSE dinance becomes law. Those tenants who

SOF COMMONS. “shoe money,” “dry rent,** and similar camouflaged squeezfs,

pay

2.

seeing that it has the effect-of de- this Colony of any vote for the priving the great majority of Britons election of a representative on the Legislative Council

5. Furthermore. the Unofficial

Official Members (including the Gov- eroor) and 6 Unofficial Members.

TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1922.

THE SWASTIKA.

(ir.)-Schoolmasters and University

professors," "lecturers officers.

and

L

(r.)-Superintendents, senior officers LIKELY TO CAUSE BLOODSHED? will be helped by the new law, for the The petition for a more representa-Members of Council are themselves (ri-Representatives of the Press. pographical errors, announced that

and aupervisors of the Cable Government; of course. could not tive form of Constitution in Hongkong in a hopeless and permanent minority } (zii)-Former jurors who are above the Sushika bad far too many mis-

and Telephone Companies.

The Daily Press, usually full of but look upon any such surcharges as which is now available for signature on the Legislative Council, which evasions of the law. It is rather to by residents of the Colony is as fol- consists of 14 Members, namely, &|

the age-hant for serving on a Prints. Challenged on this, it says the point of our correspondent's lows

jury. complaint that in a letter published

that if the Swastika's editar will" call- in the Daily Press yesterday, appeared

The third amendment in the at our office te-day we shall be happy

to open his eyes." Constitution of the Legislative Council which is being sought for that footnote will call at our office If the Daily Press man who wrote in the establishment of an Unofficial |to-day we shall be happy to close his Majority on the Council by increasing for him. - the number of Unofficials from 6 to 9 (thus placing the combined British and Chinese Luofficial Hembers of Council in a majority of one), subject to the introduction of such checks and safeguards as are bercafter referred to.

a copy of a note from landlord (ar landlord's agent) to tenant, in which the "take it or leave it

PETITION.

It is necessary to add that the Official Members are not free to vote according to their convictions, bat conscious. FOR A MORE REPRESENTATIVE FORM are liable to be deprived of their ness was betrayed. "No matter OF CONSTITUTION IN HONGKONG. what may come, it said, "Shoe Money

seat on the Council for voting con- we will certainly demand. Should To the members of the House of Com Accordingly, inasmuch as the Gor trary to the President's instructions. you think the charge oppressive, you -mons of the United Kingdom of ernor or other presiding Official ab may remove to a place where you Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia-solutely controls all the Official Votes, need not pay ang Shoe Money We ment assembled.

the Legislative Council, as at present Are the landlord and you are The humble petition of the under-constituted, though consisting tumeri- the tenant. Do not frighten us with signed inhabitants of the Crown cally of 14 Members, simply carries your absurd talk of law." Precisely. Colony of Hongkonge

into effect the individual will and For far too long talk of law here has Showeth as follows: been an absurdity. But now some

judgment of the Governor or other 1.-The Colony of Hongkong, presiding Official. thing bike law is promised, and wel-situated in the China Seas, is one of comed. The next meeting of the the most valuable and important of Legislative Council is being awaited as the Crown Colonies. anxiously here as the news of the ultimate dividend to be paid by the busted French, bank. Ferhaps more anxiously.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Teakwood and blackwood furn- iture etc., will be sold by Messrs Hughes and Hough at public auction to-morrow at 2.30 pu..

2

The Far East Dollar Directory Company have published the 1921 edition of the Hongkong Dollar Directory, which is now on sale at Messrs. Brewer & Co., at $1 per

copy.

6. The constitution of such, a Council must seem strange indeed to you who have for so long been ac- customed to the idea of all Members of your House being directly respon sible to their constituents for their conduct and policy in Parliamentary

2-It is 80 years since the Colony was founded on à barren rock, which was then the abode of a few fishermen and pirates. To-day it is a Colony comprising not only the Island of affairs. Hongkong but also part of the main- Accordingly your Petitioners are land called Kowloon and the New seeking your aid in obtaining the Territories, the development of which Reform of the Legislative Council is expanding rapidly.

in Hongkong in the following 3 t The population is over 600,000,spects, namely:-- and the Colung had a trade of 212 million pounds sterling (exclusive of bullion) for the rear 1920, The revenue. which is wbelly derived from internal taxation, ainoants to about 15 million dollars annually. of which 20 per cent., exclusive of the premia derived from sales of Crown. Land, is contributed to the Imperial Government for Military purposes.

The T.K.K. liner "Tenyo Maru," of the biggest shipping ports of the Hongkong is a free port and is one from Hongkong. via Shanghai world. The total tonnage engaged arrived outside Kobe harbour on in Foreign Trade that entered and June 28, with 450 cases of piectious cleared during 1920 was 24.191,022 diseases on board. Two saloon pas tons, as compared with 13,817,000 sengers were taken ill after leaving tons in Liverpool and 13,050,000 tons Nagasaki, and one of them died suddenly on the evening of June 27,

in London.

It is the centre of enormous British The oFce boy of Messrs. Banker interests and is an extensive dis- and Co., was this morning convicted tributing" centre of British trade in by Magistrate Lindsell of having | South China, with regalar and fre- stolen six dozen razors, the property quent steamship connections not of the firm. The defendant who took only with the port of the East and the police to a house in Hinon Lane Far East but also with the Continents where five dozen and 10 razors were of Europe. America. Australia and recovered, had been paid good wages, and lived in the servants' quarters of the Company. He was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

Africa.

Furthermore, when the Railroad

is completed from Canton to Hankow there will be direct communication i

At the Magistracy yesterday by rail from Hongkong with all parts afternoon, Mr. Lindsell took evidence of China and also with all the principal lo a case io which.a Chinese named Capitals of Europe, thereby increasing Lau Hung is charged with having the Colony's commercial importance. been concerned in an armed robbery, alleged to have been committed by Wat in which British, subjects 3.-As a restille of the recent Great eix men at a house in Hunghosen throughout the Empire contributed the night of June-22, when clothing, their quots in men and money. His jewelery and money to the value of $278 were stolen. The defendant that the component parts of the Majesty's Goverment has decided Empire should have a greater voice Four Chinese cases of plague in the conduct of their own local (two fatal) were reported during the affairs. 48 hours ended yesterday. Last week, thirteen Chinese died from piague same principle may be extended to We, your petitioners: ask that the (seventeen cases), two from small us in Hongkong, inasmuch as we pox, two from influenza, and one accepted our dae share of the common from cerebro spinal fever. Three burden cases of enteric fever, two British and the other Chinese; and two cases

was remanded for a week,

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It is surely a hardship that a man

ascertaining the facts, but cheerfully assumed that the outery about ra- pacious landlord was mostly hot of diptheria, one British, and the who would have had both the parlis- air. we recommend perusal of the other Portuguese, were also reported. mentary and municipal vote if he had letter by Father of Six" in to-day's

remained in Great Britain should, issue. Particulars are sometimes

be disfranchised on arrival in Hong- Remarking that had the wall more convincing than generalities.collapsed and killed someone, the kong, although by his presence here, Here you have particulars that should defendant would have been able to he is furthering British interests FOULIARD - GEERTS. On June be a revelation. Here you have 10 years for manslaughter, Magis overseas. What justification can be.

25, 1921, at Shanghai, Emile Proufs that the Governor in his trate Lidsell imposed a fine of $150, offered for thus penalizing his enter Guillaume Marie, son of Wil- denunciations was not misled. Here Possession Street, who was charged

ou Ho Sik Pang, owner of No. 21, prise? Ham and Marie Louise Fouliard, you have evidence of unreasonable by Mr. Pryde of the P.W.D., this Petitioners have a direct interest in 4. Notwithstanding that all your to Lucie Agnes Geerts, daugh exnetions, regard them how you will orning with having failed

to the securing of efficiency in the Ad- authority to pull down a flank wall which was in danger of collapsing.

DEATHS.

OLNEY.-On June 25, 1921,

Shanghai, Fufic

Kelvington

William Olney of London.

the dearly beloved husband of

Ciara Emberley, aged 50 years,

t-morrow.

1.-The abolition, so far as the non-Chinese Unofficial Members of Council are concerned, of the prin-| ciple of Government nomination and the substitution of popular election therefor.

Your Petitioners submit that it is clearly contrary to modem principles of representation that the Governor should be allowed to select and nominate, on behalf of the Pubije, persons who are intended to represent the Public on the Legislative Council, and to criticize, and, if need be, oppose Government

、 measures.

So far as the Chinese Unofficial Members of the Council are con- cerned, it is not proposed to depart from the present system of nomi. nation by the Governor. The Chinese, however, have expressed the desire (in the event of the total number of Unofficial Members on the Council being increased from 6 to 9 so as to create an Unofficial Majority of one) to have one addi. tional Chinese Member on the Council, so that the same proportion of Chinese to non-Chinese Unofficial Members of Council as exists at present may be preserved, ie, that one-third of the Unofiosal Members of Council may be Chinese.

It seems desirable to point out that, in such a reformed Legislative Council as is proposed of 9Unofficials to 8 Officials, e non-Chinese Unofficial Members of Council by themselves would be in a minority on the Council, and that the only possibility of the Government suffer- ing defeat on a division in sach's reformed Council would be by the Government's proposals proving so unacceptable to all classes of the community as to weld the Unofficial Members into a solid mass of opposition. This was not the case in the Petition to the House of Commons of 1894, which asked for, a British Unofficial Majority on the Legislative Council.

2. The adoption, so far as the non-Chinese Members of Council are concerned, of a larger electoral body! than exists at present, except in the one case of the Member for the Chamber of Commerce, for the reason that that Chamber represents the trading and shipping interests which require and are entitled to direct representation.

1.-British subjects on the Jury

List

Unofficial Majority on the Legislative

The arguments in favour of ant Council are briefy as follows:--

1.--The

VILLAGE LOOTED.

"A VERY NEAT JOB."

in

Several thousand dollars and nearly 60. head of buffalo were taken by a Public ought to have company of bandits who defeated controlling voice, by the volunteers of a certain village near their representatives, in the Samshiei, and then completely looted Legislative Council, which die the village. The inhabitants of the poses by its legislation of the next village fearing that the bandits liberty and property of the

would raid their homes inhabitants of this Colony.

revenge dared not come to the 2--Such an Unofficial control over result that the bandits made their rescue of their neighbers with the local affairs by means of an escape with ease. The raiders were Unofficial Majority has been first opposed by the village volunteers conceded in the case of other bat owing to the lack of sufficicat Crown Colonies (some of which firearms and ammunition, the volun- are of less importance than this teers were finally overcome by weight commercial and shipping out- of numbers and it was not long the invaders entered the

post in the Far East). such as before Bermuda (which has a Legisla-village in a body and did a very neat tive Council of 3 Officials and job of plundering, says the Cantor

6 Unofficials). British Guiana Times.

(which has enUnoficialMajority

in the Combined Court which.

deals with taxation and finance)

British Honduras (whose

former Unofficial minority of

WHY

4 to 5 was changed in 1913 to IS A DEALER IN MEN'S FURNISH-

an Unofficial Hajority of 7 to

INGS CALLED A “HABER- DASHER?”

5), Ceylon (which possesses a more heterogeneous population than Hongkong and was grant- ed an Unofficial Majority of 23 Though Swinton, the eminent to 15 in 1920), Cyprus (whose etymologist who can usually be Legislative Council consists of relied upon or the accuracy of his the High Commissioner and 6 investigations into the antecedents of Official Members and 12 elected Words, declares that "haberdasher Members), Jamaica (which derived from the German "Habt from 1866 till 1895 had an that a haberdasher is expected to Thr das?" and is based upon the fact "equal number of Official and carry a very wide range of goods, it. Unofficial Members, but in the is practically certain that the term latter year received a Constita goes back even further to the days tion under which the Legislative of the berdash or neck-cloth, a com Council consists of 5 ex-officio bination of the words "beard" and Members, 10 nominated mem-inche. the latter meaning- a cover- bers and 14 elected members), ing and Malta (which, under the

Chambers, in referring to the word, Constitution of 1920, sus states: Berdahs was a name formerly granted an elected Legislative used in England for a certain kind·· Assembly for dealing with pure who made and sold neck-cloths was of neckdress, and hence a person ly local affairs); whilst con- called 8 siderable extensions of local however, there grew up berdashers

berdasher. Gradually... self-government have. been of two winds those who sold small recently granted to the inhabit wares, such as buttons, tapes and ants of India and are contem-other trides which might be included plated in Egypt and Southern in the old Norman ferm "hapertask', Rhodesia

and those who sold hats. The latter

naturally prefixed to the word being made of a substance known ashabertas, the syllable "hab, was berdasher, and the name haber dasher applied to any who handled articles of either class."

may be pointed out that in Hong In contrast with the above it kong:-

1.As early as the rear 1945 (see Dr.. Eitel's book "Europe in China" at page 291) continuous demands were made by the British Community for adequate

representation on the Legis and to control the raising of taxes. lative Council, an equal and the outlay of expenditure. number of Official and Un-

At present Your Petitioners are continue to be subject

official Members being then and must

naked for, and →

in

to Legislation of the Imperial

2. The present excess in num-Parliament, to which all local

bers of two Official Members Legislation is subsidiary. over the Unoficial Members Majesty the King in Council has His on the Legislative Council fell and complete power and an- has existed as far back as thority. to make laws for the the year 1880-Equally re- Colony, and all local Ordinances. markable is the fact that (corresponding in England to Acts the number of non-Chiere of Parliament) must be approved Unofficial Members of of and assented to by His Majesty ·

·Council remains the same The King, and are subject to dis- as it then was. In the 40 aliowance by His Majesty on the years which have elapsed recommendation of the Secretary since then the greatest proof State for the Colonies. gress in democracy and self-Furthermore, in asking foram government has been made Unofficial majority on the Legis- Great Britain and lative Council Your Petitioners are throughout the Empire gen: willing that the same should be erally. It seems, therefore, given subject to safe-guards simi wholly unreasonable that lar to those in the recently granted. the inhabitants of the loyal Constitution of Ceylon, by which. and important Colony of to put the matter shortly, the Hongkong should be ro Governor possesses a right of seto -conspicuously and repeated in certain cases (subject to his re- ly denied the right

to porting forthwith to the Secretary manage their own heal of State for the Colonies). affairs. Twice in the past. To sum up, Your Petitioners are 5 years they have been re-asking for fused any measure of reform either in the number or mode of selection of the Members of the Legislative Council. No reason was given on either, occasion lor such refusal beyond the bare statement that the Secretary of State was not convinced that any change was desirable.

ter of the late Madame Cornelia For such cases the Government Bill obey the order of the building ministration of local affairs, all but Geerts.

will come as a boon and a blessing.

a small minority of your Petitioners TATUM-HALL.-On June 28, 1921, Here is a tenant in one house for some at Shanghai, by the Rev. D. eleven years. He has paid over MacGillivray, D.D.,

have no voice whatever in the selection the Rev. $7000 for the use of that house during E. F. Tatum, of Yangchow, to that tius, and if he stays another wing ss. Co. are charged with Legislative Council) which, by its January, 1919, it was suggested that

of the Member who sit in our sole The case in which the Kwong local Legislative body (known as the held at the City Hall on the 9th At a Public Meeting, which was Miss Ellen E. Mana Hall. of cleven years at the rent how charged, having allowed their vessel, the enactments, controls the liberty and a far wider and more representative West China

without further increase, he will then Taiming," to be used for the trans- have paid $18,000 or $19,000 for the portation of illicit opium, was mec. property of the inhabitants of this electorate should be constituted, con- use of it. His rent was increased toned this morning by Mr. H. K. Colony and which, in the absence sisting of British Subjects on the from $45 a month to 885 a month, due in part early to-morrow morning nearly all the functions usually per fury service but exempted by reason Woo, who said that the vessel was of a Municipal Council, discharges Jurozs List and of those eligible for not all at once, but in uneasy stages. Magistrate Orme fixed the hearing formed by such a body. Oiney, the daughter of the falement for the typical or post-war Lyson, who appeared for the Kwang Chinese Unofficial Members of Council, which is representative of all classes

At the date chosen by the Gover- for 1130 am. to-morrow. Mr. C. B.

of their occupations. At present there are four non- EMBERLEY. On June 28, 1921, standard rent, namely December 1920, tung sa. Co., which is charged with and two Chinese Unofficial Members of the community and involves on The electorate now suggested, Shanghai, William Henry Emit was let to him at a monthly rent of a similar offence, also applied for a of Council. Of the non-Chinese Mem- adequate knowledge of the English berley (late of Mackenzie & Co.) $67. 80. This year, owing to the time to be fixed. He said that the bers of Council two are not elected language, is as follows:-

Governor denounced and the Land Wachow this evening. The Magis Governor, whilst the other two non- "farming out" method which the "Leonswing" was due from at all but are nominated by the Investment Company has famely tried ate fixed the hearing for noon Chinese Unofficial Members of Council to justify, his rent jumped to $85 a year's lease, which makes him re- month, and even then he had to take

are each elected by a very limited constituency, namely, in one case The West Point assault case, by the Unofficial Justices of the Peace sponsible for certain charges that the victim of which is in a rez (a body appointed by the Governor) usually fall on the owners. Even critical condition, was mentioned to consisting now of some 130 persone, then supposing we say that a year's Mr. Lyson who said that Mr. Leo and in the other case by the Members Magistrate Orme this morning by security of tenure is worth a bit extra, Alinada had been instructed for of the Chamber of Commerce, consist which it is in these days-we observe the defence, but unable to leave te ing now of about 300 persons or firms that his year's lease has a rider to it, Supreme Court this morning, had or companies. that if the owner should sell, the requested tenant will be entitled to three months week's remand. Inspector Appleton even more limited than they appear

him to apply for Naturally, those accused will deny. notice only. Buch one-sided bargains said that Mr. M. M. Watson's to be, as, in many cases, members These constituencies are, in fact, bonding to the measure of their are only possible where the "take it clerk had informed him that the belong to both bodies and are thereby hty, their denials will imprese, or leave it" tone is made possible, latter had been instructed, for the privileged to have two rotes, While have heard of people who thought and here, for various causes well known defence, and that his employer had it is thus admitted by those who Land Investment Company's to readers of this paper, and frequently sent him to the Court also to make framed the present Constitution that

convincing, mutil they read mentioned in it, that tone has become application for remand. gent commenta in the, China only too general with the landlords.marking that the solicitors concerned Hongkong require that the franchise (14.)--Persons registered under the mount Imperial Confrol over this, said rights and privileges of self- į;

should be restricted, your Petitioners Magistrate granted a remand, re

the peculiar conditions obtaining in

feel that to restrict it to this arrest is both unnecess and anjast,

The China Mail.

V

ARUTE, JUSTICE, PUR SERVICE Haciarono, Tuzadat, JULY 5, 1971.

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To such impressionable people,We support our correspondent's pro-would have to seals the point between especially to these comfortable posal that penal clause be added to themales to who's enld

who have not troubled about the new Cinance. We world-libet

Tesponsibility of the defence.

7-With regard to external

1-The right to elect all the Non-Chinese Members on the Legislative Council. 2.-Certain classes of British sub-

2.The constitution of a wider

(1.)-Government Civil Servants, jects who are exempted from

clectoral body than exists at serving on the Jury by reason

present for the purpose of of their occupation, namely:-

such, election. 3.-An Unofficial Majority of

(.)Members of the Naval and such as are usually appointed

one, subject to the above from England.

rary ample safe-guarde, on the Legulative Council. Your Petitioners, therefore, Military Bervices, provided affairs, your Petitioners fully re-humbly pray for the assistance of that they possess an adequate cognise the Imperial position of the the Members of your Honourable (iii)-Unofficial Members of Council, not so unpractical as to suggest tution of this Colony, which were householder or lodger qualifio Colony, which is at once's Fortress House in obtaining for them ther (o.-Barristers and Solicitors.

and a Naval Station, and they are abore amendments of the Consti

(th) Dentist in actual practice in that the Home Government could the purpose of securing to the In- that unrestricted power should be again demanded at a Public Meet (v.)-Medical practitioners, given to any local Legislature oring held on the 11th May, 1921, for

the Colony,

or should ever give up the para-habitants of this Colony, the fore- Phartikey Ordinance, 1908 | All that Your Fetitioners chaun local pilars.

importent Dependency. Dans nå { government in purely interual and Clergymen of raziosa denomin- is the customary right of citizens !" And Your Petitionera ill

to manage their purely local hans pray, etc.

stion

stions.“