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August 8, 1923,

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experience is usually bought at the expense of his pupils and it may quite reasonably be postulated that {doring the first two years he is not

earning his stḥurv.

Moreover, were the best teacher in Europe suddenly transferred to Hongkong he must spend at least nother yere requiring The neces- sary experiener of altered conditions The Overbond China Mail Ims before he comes effent. In all he a specialty interding lately bury before the tracher finds his then at least three verse are neces- Virtus of the uzuy columns of dis-feet. The period of contrnet in the cussion regarding the proposed new advertisement was three years and it aegurred to me that if the authori- school for Entish children.

fies selected a man without experi- eace and he stayed only one form then there is bad businers come- Beyond all argument, for the post offered, experiene counts above everything. Of course if the work is the class-room is regarded as subsidy to sport s the cricket

A etc murstion has been ex- paused, bor, to give young Beitous in the Far East as good an edtes-where. tion as can be chained at home. Bicantem eigational experts To we are discussing what

ment by ection and the

MR. BALDWIN'S DIFFICULTIES

AND OPPORTUNITIES.

LONDON, August 4. At the end of a long and heavy session all parties are trying to estimate how they have fared" and whether they have advanced or fallen back during that testing) period.

SEE.

SHADOWS?

AMOY NEWS.

WARSHIPS LEAVE FOR JAPAN

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

GAMES OF CHANCE.

MANAGER OF STANTON'S CONVICTED.

In view of the attitude of the local authorities when Stanton's Midway Shows were encamped in Kowloon sono time ago, the following from the N-C, Daily News of September 6 is of ospecial interest. The excerpt treads:

Mr. G. W. King yesterday gave his decision on the charge against Mr. F. W. Howard, manager of Stanton's Midway Shows, of hay- The development of Parliamer- The political situation at Amoying permitted gambling to take tary events, writes Reuter's Chief remains unchanged but there is a place on the show ground in Parliamentary Editor, has scarcely possibility of activity in the near Hardoon Road, contrary to the of the Municipal been normal, for the sudden future, the attacking force has conditions resignation of Mr. Bonar Law upset organized and has made every licence. His Worship found that all predictions and reacted not preliminary preparation, while the two of the games played were only on the Conservative party Naval anit secmisto waver towards games of chance, but imposed a itself but on all the other parties, the attacking force, probably due nominal fine only, in view of the The advent of a new Prime Minis to the inability of Ching Li Ping fact that the gambling was only ter has a suspensory effect on the to buy them off.

of a very limited nature. House. With the sporting spirit. The city is, quieter, very little

The judgment, which is of some which permeates all parties every-looting is reported and a few shops general interest, reads:-This is a one is anxious to give a new leader have reopened niand trade is charge brought by the Shanghai a fair chance and the House waits impossible and local business is Municipal Palice against Mr. F. W until it sees how he is shaping, ungatory if the-local-Chinese Howard, manager of Station's Mid- Mr. Baldwin has no reason to co Chamber of Commerce has handed way Shows, which is at present plain of the way in which he has out another Sjoozo to Chang, who appearing in the Hardoon Roud. been treated by the House and the still considers the city worth The summons runs as follows:-

That he, being the licensee of satisfied with its head. He has House has every reason to be defending.

The Customs Cruiser "Kwanton's Midway Shows, Hardoon been courteous and conciliatory tai" returned to part after mit gambling contrary to condition Road, did on August 28, 1923, per- and has shown all the indefinablea Native Customs House behind the qualities which go to constitute a Island of Amoy. Her Captain 8 of his licence, and by-law 34"

Mr. Reader Harris, counsel for successful leader of the House reports that heavy controlled fire and the Opposition parties, in had been directed at him by both the defendant, raised two pre- return, have shown themselves armies, mainly by the defenders, lipity points: (1) that the Court very willing to

facilitate the that all troops were entrenched ourisdiction; (2) that the by- progress of business. So far as the and bad telephonic communicatiut provides a penalty only for not actual conduct of Parliamentary between various units. business is concerned

no Gov-

Unsuccesful efforts were made to ernment would have had ainduce the troops to cease fire, and table time and all parties co-on a field gun considered that a smoother and

comforto make matters worse the gunners

fobtaining a licence to hold a fair, etc. and does not provide for a breach of a condition of a licence issued under the by-law.

WORDING OF THE BY-LAW.

gat unalty dị atim and etch or tennis court them the ghove operated to bring the session to a launch at 600 yards was just about I need riot again reiterate my

Bista opro regarding this musi

vilat qual

tromari; must be vanenlled.

J1

THE SINGAPORE BASE,

ehretion the song college student decision to spend over ten millions grasing her newly anquiasl diploma on a new naval base at Singapore, or degree certificate, rushing into; serts also that further ex- the ambis admiring parents penditure will be necessary for a and exclung Tinnk Gol.

At Subsidary base at Trinemaalee in Iasi 1 am ehedel.”

flexion. The newspapers make no TE, kecaps affered nertein evi attenga la deas that Japan, our debees ut election and as these staunch afly in the last war, is our

to Hongkong potential enemy in the next. store he est indycost parents Langs nl them herewith.

Piatig be cated correctness and prevista de the use of the muther tongue.

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words

close in time to give members a their mark; fortunately it was reasons for holding that the Court 19. Pro mal et Columbine Uni-

simmer holiday.

yond their highest ambitious for has jurisdiction in the matter, and Goodly P&A Preturitet recently in So far as 1 com inize there is The Labour Party has settled although a few shells did drop a on the second point I am of the opinion as I held in pis topie gave as an absolutely nothusiasm milest down and is studying with conlittle close no hits were reenrded. same

case of Rex (S.M.P.) illostett the wrong ide, oled here regarding the Governo siderable success the role of an There were no casualties, but the

orthodox Opposition. There bave bullet holes are

visible v. Haimovitch, decided as long heen various ebullitions from the proof that the trip was anything ago as January, 1909, that after the Labour benches during the session | but a picnic.

provisions of the bylaw," but these need not be taken too Mr. A. E. Carleton, American the words "of any condition in any find no favour with Mr. Ramsay leave seriously and disorderly outbursts Consul, has returned from home licence issued under the by-law")

and reassumed tharge must be read into the by-law. To Macdonald who is proving bini-of thu

decide otherwise seems to me to Consulate, while Mr. self an adroit parliamentarian McCafferty who has been acting make any person who takes out a and is turning to good account in his absence has returned to licence under by-law 34 immune from any prosecution: e.g., any his long experience of the House. Hongkong. When om ensiders that we are! The position of Liberals and The Naval piquet on duty at the reasonable and necessary condi- preparing to defend ourselves National Liberals remains very British Concession has been recall-tions can be made on the issue of a licence to him which he against (19 Frines, (2) Japan, tej much what it was. The reunion ed, and the Concession has reas. can break or decline to carry Aatifity et all war is appstem. {movement for the time being and sumed its normal aspect. Secondly no need those refired One ning with regard to Singa-those who were its war est ad.

H.MS. "Darban" Iras

left out at his own and graft sue rubers which were the pony is worths rentenbaring and that vocates have deemed it best to let for Japan, while H. M rather an impossible state of af- result of ti bet lacinis of thought and is that if a Labour Government events take their course and trust to Bluebell has relieved H.M.Sfars. It is inuch to be regret. arthey, Ched unaunters were a very sacerods the present adminstration the compelling force of circun- Foxglove." The American Sloopted that the change in the word- ettative nie.... 15. of good meals, it is mars than fikely that the core stances to bring about a real fusion. "Sacrime to" stayed in port a laying of the by-law was not made He edd not contemplate, he said. Estruction of the base will suddenly When the two groups find them-for two and has left for Hongkong after the case (supra) in 1909. applying ife word elinted to the jeeing, Flew is a strong case for selves in active opposition to the Pad welfart wel vakarison. the Labour view that the tea mil. Government on an important issue, Tdly regard and stand-fiers enght to be span on housing, fusion may come about naturally, tands on appe wation of beauty and public health, education, child we but at the moment the parties are of climeter based on gate, widow's pensions and in general election, but the whole is still in port.

as divided as they were after the f The American Sloop "Asheville" these stand.

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A reasonable amount of

Ten American Submarines to- gether with two depot ships stayed a port for a day or two and left for Hongkong.

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As the two preliminary points taken by Mr. Reader Harris were decided against his client, the case proceeded and evidence as to the i alleged gambling was led by the police. In the licence issued to the defendant, condition 8 reads: Foolady puned the power rather than on a geot

"that no

gambling be per- fond hans is ved etion. Few perialistic gene in a

mitted on the premises."

"The Most rean. Jairly tam Scottish M.

question to be determined, there- | be abgek eser redreted, people fread on the surface of life were suspended white protesting

fore, is whether on the evidence | ainst the withdrawal of toilk sup-servative Party and it is said thaLOCAL PIANIST'S RETURN in the purview of the above condi- brought the defendant comes with- Tood sobboru predund the depths,

Castly he wanted efficientes ar helicato, Harving mathers.

tion of his licence. There is, so far power bod The mere listing of They are how buck These points shows the lines on Parlimen but they are not clins- the party remains under the bauner Mr. Harry Ore returned to the as I am aware, no legal definition

endunational Itened in gary way. enlehtened

The ringleader of Mr. Lloyd George and is con- very enthusiastic regarding his definition was saba itted to me by Yoshino Maru" of the word gambling, and no thought is proveding and what an in the suspension incident was the, tent to await developments. irnoons difference there is between famous Frames Maxton A. Mr. Lloyd George himself has trip to Australia, of the Austra the counsel appearing. The new and the old concep. Keep your eye on him: he's a made several speeches this session During his brief sojourn, Mr. Ore dictionaries shows that the word is ard the country self. A reference to the standard tion of education as thorough uniting m.

but they have not been altogether had the nrivilege of playing be defined as

to play or game for grooming

successful. It is, however, impos for professors and students at moneya definition not very Laugthy esteet might be unde Pretically the only we daily sible to imagine that so dynamic a the conservatoriunis of music in helpful in the present case. The on the shove édes of education integers of any influence which now person as he, has not still a great Melbourne and Sydney, and word as commonly used has many its relation to a British se insistently set up the aggressive part to play in punile life, and it is ring ruch praise for his efforts. shades of meanings and is applied Hongkong lost kwa observations French attitude in the Rohr as the understood that he is prepared to Newsner crities were lavish in to various things of diverse will sm, In the first place note Morning Post and the Daily Mail. suffer a temporary eclipse and bide their opinions, telling us what we character, so that it would be said Tow cur Western ides of efficiency Lately the Prussian methods of the his opportunity.

in Hongkong have known for some that a man gambled (inter alia) enues,lm on the list and in the French have revived strong con- All parties have their cross cur that Mr. Ore is a pianist of if he played for stakes at cards rents and none can it be said that recend consider how diffent will damnation from several quarters. I there is complete unity of policy. Considerable attainments" and or dice, beited at races, or dealt Le the inletion of point number For example ever since the fine Complete unity is perhaps una parnestness of purpose and not a

shares not for cash, or took that his own compositions "show in Ecor with a ter persent "subject" Conferences in the spring of lasttainable in the political world and little creative power" The China element always present in the chances in lotteries. The essential year Mr. Garvin leis de quite any statesman is content if he can fail has consistently said that use of the word is that chance Cene his attitude to M. Poincare get CHHN:8K VERSUS ENGLISH,

Mr. Ore's has been working predominates and that skill or While on the sang theme refer-and his policy. The inuus ed agreement. The Labour party holiday. On the homeward trip knowledge is not the determining encs my he made to a recent letter tends that the French Premier by Mr. Stowidan's resolution he informs us, he, composed no factor. I would be inclined to La the Times written by an Indian now lives upon military ascendis dfiitely committed to a less than thren compositions, all defrac gambling broadly as the de

policy but within ho complaing fit the compulsorycy, under-estimating all other Sochistic

of which Hongkong may expect termination of a fact on the "Britain,** keturing and examining of native international forers.

the Labour party there are various to hear in the near future. One is result of which a pecuniary liabil

of that policy students in the English language is contimes the editor. The kicks interpret tions century to the true interests ofway as the hilder whereby one has and varying views as to how it is to for two pinos and is" a variation ity generally depends, by lot or

and fague on a theme of Bee- chance. risen but which he needs no more. be carried out. Whe. the next- education.

thoven's." That sounds well and Native studente, he thinks, ought his temporary success is like the election, comes and when prer is sure to sound well when played ELEMENTS OF SKILL AND CHANCE. to be nilowed to nuswer questions. Kaiser's, the ultimate entustrophe sumably, the Labour party has a as it will be in the course of the

chance of improving its position recitals which Mr. Qre is projecting case on three games played at this ty in a seien examination for of his methods as certain."

Mr. Garvin adds that to smp with perhaps a possibility of be and which will commence in show on the night of August 28, crample, in their own tongue, as is is their natural tedium of pose that all Furope can be subject coming the dominant party, there November. MnOe has made im- and ask me to rule that these

perpetually to the red domina-will be intense interest to see portant pianoforte-player thought and expression.

dis- games show there was gambling labour programige He counters the argument that of fifty million French and Fel-what the

coveries who will assist him from on that day. The games may be native languages contain no scienti ginns, plus three hundred thousand will be, and what issue will be put time to time, whilst pupil recitals described (1) as the submarine in the forefront. Meanwhile the fie terus by declaring that English or half a million black men in tin Labour party on, the whole, per will be a feature of the coining (1) darts, and (1) spinning I borrowed its scientific termino-elmets, is a theory only worthy forms its duties successfully, as the season. This is good news. If the board. I need not go into the de chance so much overshadows that suggestion of dishonesty in the

of the braing of an ape."

recitals could be interspersed with tails of the playing of these bgy from Latin and Greek,

Perhaps many of the students of

The question of reunion has a vocal effort or two, er Solos on games; they were quite adequate of skill that it is a game of chance. playing of these games, nor was it: Hongkong University will regard T'erhaps you read of our heat provided Liberals and National andther Instrument apart from aly and clearly described by the It follows therefore that I must hold claimed that they were a mischief the prosecution would find some with approval the suggestion that wave which lusted exactly five Liberals with numerous cross cute piano, they would increase enjoy-one witness called, Police Con- the spinning game and submarine of a public nature which must be

of gambl they should answer the majority of mistes by the clock. Do not be rents and there are evidences of neat and tend to greater success, stable Tulloch. The last of the game come within the defini-suppressed in the public interest;:

It needs an enthusiast of the long-three is admitted by the defen- tion above given

difficulty in sustaining such a claim thoir exam, papers in Chinese. deceived by the alluring pictures of some cross currents within the haired order to sit through a piano- dant to be a game of chance, but he ing, and that the defendant has with the evidence disclosed of the

damsels in bething attire. TheyConservative party, Mr. Baldwin THE UNIVERSITY.

by women and children for prizes cence. mye probably done duty for several has been balked, of his desire recitat of close upon two hours states it is played generally only has broken condition 8 of the li-nature of the games and the small. I noticed the other day an adver-years,

profit occurring to the managementa, of perfumery and chocolates, The

The defendant has stated that in tieoment for a post as lecturer in The past summer has been fairly Mr. Ausion Chamberlain and Mr.

second I hold is one of a certain Having come to this conclusion, many other places where the show.. the Hongkong University, which cold and decidedly wet, while the McKenna by the so called Die-

amount of skill and therefore is it finally remains with me to de- has performed no objections have stated that Previous teaching winter lins been extremely inild. hard influences, and the Rubra considerable divergence of not gambling. There remains the termine what penalty shall be in- been raised, and it is known that the experions is desirable but not

There has been, in fact, very question has provided material for view among Conservative mem- first. I am interested in the flicted on the defendant for his Hongkong police authorities didi cesential."

little difference between suminer

bers. That problem is an un-statement, which I assume is cor- breach. Iam informed by counsel not deem it necessary to meet the Now in educational circles it is, and winter.

pleasant legacy which has been rect, that the Hongkong, police for the police that this is in the na-views of the police as to alteration. left to Mr. Baldwin, but if it has authorities had cognizance of this ture of a test case, and is brought or suppression of these amics. great difficulties, it also presents game and permitted it to be play- prevent Chinese licensees There is the evidence given as to- him with great opportunities and ed with the condition, that one permitting gambling on licensed what happened on August 21, andi any settlement which restores sighting shot be allowed to the premises. Thus reasoning does it cannot be suggested that the land where every tencher must be in spite of all allegations to the

tranquillity and economic peace to person operating the switch. I not seem sound to me, for a conduct of defendant has been an qualified, the full certificate is not contrary the clinito, of the old The Expert Advertisers & Bill Foster, in his new high office and have a unable to come to any conclusion binding on any other Court In

Europe, will firmly establish him know no more than this, but I am decision of this Court cannot be reasonable,

Taking all the above factors into....../ granted until the teacher has netu-country remains the finest elinate

9 Bond & Tel. 0, 4649 material result on the fortunes of on the facts before me other than Shanghal. It is also clearly stated consideration, it seems to me a fon

that in this game the element of by the prosecution that there is no of Sr is an adequate penalty. his party.—Renter,

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I believe, generally regarded us in- I nro. however, seen pa fog dimputable that a tanchor or lecturer since leaving Hongkong over & year

is very little value until he (orago.

sho) has had experience. In Scot I am glad to be able to state that

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