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THE CHINA MAIL.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925.

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the contracts the brokers were it seemed to him desirable that the touching remarks of Your personally responsible. If this the postponement should be until Excellency and of the honourable step was taken the two Associa- such time as must convenient His senior unofficial member; for I tions be represented would settle Excellencs said the original draft had the honour of serving with among themselves the optracts was withdrawn after representa- the late Mr. Chau Siu-ki on this as between themselves, principals fors from various sources which Cotneit for two fairly long and agents,

implied some sort of settlement periods, and can also claim a If legislation was introduced by consent.

That, it could be friendship with him which ex- in the form he had indicated, said clearly seen, was not now the tended over twenty-eight years. Mr. Shenton (after stating the case. eliminations in the Bill which it The Bill, as amended, was then would entail) it would meet with read clause by clause and passed part of the argument raised by its second reading, and the Coun- his learned friend because the cil will assemble at 10 o'clock to- continuation to the September morrow morning for the purpose settlement and possible continua- of the third reading.. tion afterwards would be eliminated. The only point where they were in issue was the allow- ance of the contracts.

"We do not know," said Mr. Shenton, who these 100 business men are, but we regret that at an extraordinary time of emergency like this 100 business men would like to repudiate business con- tracts entered into.

A GREAT LOSS.

TRIBUTES TO THE LATE

MR. CHAU SIU-KI,

COUNCIL SPEECHES,

The disaster which overtook the Chinese community yesterday was so sudden and of such an appalling magnitude that it still leaves me, who have suffered the loss of many personal friends in

it, incapable of properly express- ing-my feelings, You will know that Mr. Chau Siu-ki was a880- ciated with the public life of this Colony for about forty years, and that he had always given to it of his best, unstintingly and without any expectation of reward. Dur ing that long period he served on innumerable public and charit- able committees, and closely iden- Tributes were paid to the tied himself with almost all Credit Bill Up..

memory of the late Mr. Chat movements having for their Asked if he had anything with Siu-ki at the meeting of the object the general welfare of the which to supplement what he had Legislative Council to-day when Colony, Though of a retiring. already stated, Mr. Zeitlyn re- His Excellency expressed sym- disposition, his sterling character, ferred to the state of emergency pathy with those remaining mem- innate good sense, and capacity which had resulted in the intro- bers of the family and with all for public, affairs soon won for duction of a measure being who had been Bereaved as a result him a place in the front rank of. brought forward in the first place of the disaster in the Western our public and commercial life. and thought that the least mea- part of the town. His Excellency About two years ago he signified sure of injury would-be inflicted spoke of the long record of good his intention to retire.from public- by legislation along the lines he service of the late Mr. Chau Siu- life, but he never quite gave up had indicated, The sources of who had served for a considerable interest in all important matters credit were dried up and on the period on the Legislative Council. concerning the welfare of the lines of the Bill before them the He was a citizen who could ill be Colony. It was only on the day evil seemed to be without end. 13 spared.

before the disaster that he attend- Mr. Shenton remarked that it Mr. Holyoak spoke as follows: ed a meeting in my office in con had just been pointed out to him Sir-On behall of my colleagues, nection with the strike, and by a member of the Association I desire to associate myself with another meeting in the same he represented that if June settle the remiks expressed by your evening concerning the formation ment contracts were annulled it Excelloney in connection with the of Chinese street-guards. But would carry with it a number of terrible disaster at Po Hing Fong an inexorable fate struck him.. contracts for July, August and in which pur friend and colleague. down the next morning, September which were based on Mr. Chua Shui-ki, lost his life as sure that he himself would have the June settlement.

well as most members of his family, preferred, his end, cruel as it was, Mr. Holyoak's Views. and to his surviving sons we to being spared to mourn the ter- Mr. Holyoak, speaking per- desire to extend our deepest rible "lom,, In one single, day, of sonally as one not interested in sympathy the terrible tragedy more than half of those nearest the question beyond the protec- which has befallen his family. and dearest to him, including his tion of trade generally in the It has been my privilege to know aged mother, two sons and a Colony, referred to the necessity: the late Mr Chau Shui-ki intim-daughter, two daughters-in-law, for protecting the sanctity of con- utely for the last 23 years und of two grand-daughters, and his only tracts and said that he had been recent years I have served with him grandson whose birth last year diffident from the first of the in Public endeavour in many way brought to his yearning heart Council dealing with the matter. us well as having been associated such unalloyed joy. Though Mr. His Excellency asked if as the with him in this Council; in various Chau Siu-ki is no longer with us, representative of commerce Mr. Committees, and in Business affairs. he has left behind him the cher- Holyoak considered any form of. He was a man for whom I had the ished memory of a life full of repudiation desirable or whether highest admiration as one who was good deeds well and unostenta- it would not blacken the face of just and able in his views and an tiously done a life which is a Hongkong in the commercial extremely loyal supporter of the fine example to the younger gen- world?

·Government of this Colony. Weeration. Our hearts. sorrow for..

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Mr. Holyoak replied that no less than, the Chinese, have lost his death as for the deaths of so the matter had not. been a friend to whom we were deeply many useful and promising lives. brought up before the Chamber attached as well as an enthusiastic On behalf of the Chinese com- by those interested although it notion with all causes for good Shou-gon and I respectfully join and able Representative in comunity, the Hon. Mr. how had been informally discussed and Truly it may be said the Colony it in the expression of sincere con- the principle of annual the poorer for his tragic passing dolence with the surviving mem- ment of contracts had been viewed Mr. Kotewall's Tribute, with positive alarmaland

Mr. Kotewall also spoke as fol- and alag with the relatives of the Remarking that the form of the lows Sir Mysenior Chinese other victims of this cruel visita- Bill now proposed was prac colleague has conceded to me the tion. tically that which was before the and privilege of endorsing, in the The Council stood in silent Counell in the first place and that name of the Chinese community, sympathy.

bers of Mr. Châu.Siu-ki's family.