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Hongkong. Monday, Sept. 7. 1925,

OUR RENTS LAW.

whether as tenants, owners, mort- gage holders,to say nothing of. the Government as rate collectors are so vitally interested in property.

THEY SAY THAT- How often in the last hundred years, in the imagination of mon of week knees und little faith, has this country been on the verge of ruin-Mr. Asquith.

:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1925."

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

PARKING AND OFSTEIN.

An Idea is none,

the less effective] A SUBSIDIZED

for being simple. THEATRE In our salad days

Are any of us

likely to live to see a Hongkong Governor intro-

and when our favourite circus duce a budget which shall have came to town, the life was wont to some such Item as this;

Under Educational and Artistio be crushed out of us almost by

of the surging crowds that attempt objects: To grant a sum ed to concentrate on the narrow $1,000 to the Hongkong A.D.C. to oponing leading to the pay-box.encourage it in its effort to pro- I don't think the world is guing It helped a little when the funny duce Classical and Shakespearean to come to an end.--Tho Speaker., man in the crowd shouted plays." It would be money well We are now travelling on the "Mind me eggs." Then someone anent. The suggestion is prompt. which Europe invented the queue and ethered by the news that the Irish Fros old road on travelled before the last great was evolved out of chaos. Some State has voted $14,500 toward one has thought of a very good the endowment of a national war-Lord Grey.

idea in relation to the official | theatre. Part is to go to tho The existence of three separate stands for motor cars in Pedder directors of the Abbey Theatro parties is not likely to be of long Street and opposite the Post for the production of plays on duration. Sir M. Conway.

Office. The new arrangement Irish subjects written in English, allows more cars to be parked and and part to the Irish-speaking If the object of statesmanship in that sense is a good idea. dramatic society, An Comhar be to convert Europe into a

Those who rhapsodise on cylin Dramiochta, for plays in Irish. shambles within the lifetime of ders and miles to the gallon" This is the first time a State this generation, then the Quai will probably resent the sugges subsidy for the encouragement of d'Orsay is on the right tack-tion that a serried row of old and the draman has ever been granted Mr. Lloyd George,

new motor cars is not exactly a in Great Britain or Ireland, and joy for ever... Perhaps a local it is hailed as another gratifying Epstein will arise and design a outcome of the autonomous motor "sanctuary." If it will be powers conferred on the Free

the lines of his Hudson State by the Anglo-Irish Treaty.. on memorial-in that it will give The endowment probably will be rise to discussion on form and enlarged in future years if the beauty-some good will result. | resulta justify such a course. The I have seen in turn during these We take the offerings of our grant to the Abbey Theatre will weeks cajoled, wheedled, almost architects without protest. Many be specially useful in enabling it caressed, taunted, threatened, of them are like the British Pre- not only to make larger payment browbeaten, and all but black-mier who admits he has no to authors but also to retain pro- mailed to step in as the saviour of imagination. This explains mising actors and actresses as society.Mr. Asquith.

everything: It may even explain against the inducements offered them by British and To judge from to-day's speeches the reason for a non-reply to that to the Red Flag is not red, but a very $700 cable...But there are ex- American managers. An Comhar word of Dramiochta, which came into pale pink. Mr. Neville Chamber ceptions, Surely a

praise is due to the Government being a couple of years ago, also lain.

official who designed the entrance produces ita plays at the Abbey Here is Theatre, but is managed separate- Lenin did not go to the same to the Prince's Pier. college as the Marquis Curzon-form that compels attention. It ly. Already it has presented a Mr. J. J. Mallon.,

is in keeping with the exquisite number of quite excellent plays

Any Government formed in this country will consist of British men and women, and not of Bavages longing to wallow in the blood of their fellow-countrymen, -Mr. Oswald Mosley.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To-day everyone is writing Cenotaph close by. We enter its and the company, which is cou poetry or verse, while one is read-openings and feel wo are about to posed exclusively of amateurs, in- gain admittance to a Roman cludes several actors of decided ing it. Mr. William Keith Leask. Studium. If the same conscious ability. The audiences ага thought that seems to have been steadily increasing, and high given to this design, can be trans- hopes are entertained for the ferred to other building projects, movement, particularly in view of there will be no need to emphasise the intensive teaching of the Mr. Bernard Shaw's opinion that Irish language now in progress in all buildings should be ruzed after all the public schools, an existence of ten years.

Per- [haps the Government will take the trouble of adding a few Epsteins prove good investments. to its P.W.D. staff. They would

THE LATE MR. HO CHEUK.

(To the Editor of the China Mail).

within your columns to express Sir, Terave for a little space

my appreciation for one whose untimely death has cast a gloom It has over the entire, Colony. been my privilege and fortune to have known the late Mr. Ho Chenk intimately for well nigh twenty years, as a "promising youth, as a devoted husband and as an affectionate father.

Genial in disposition, he had always a good word for someone; quiet by nature, most of his many good deeds were done quietly; un- manner, he was assuming in "tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant and merciful towards the absurd."

Are we genial only in IN SPOTS. spots? Does the Hongkong climate conduce to a spottish form of geniality? Why cannot We always be genial,sun, mosqui The "Manchester toes, shroffs, strikes, boycotts-- ONE WAY. Guardian's corres notwithstanding? Spots reminds pondent sends anus of nothing but Thomas: Hood's interesting story from China: poem, "On the Death of

Giraffe":

They say, God wot! She died upon the spot. But than in spots she wita s0

rish-

I wonder which!

A common newspaper essay since the troubles started has been on the subject: "Why I tion is difficult for all concerned,

believe in war with Great If the suspension of the 15 per

Britain." In one of the most cent, order is likely to make a

recent of these disquisitions, change for the good, public opin-

written in a purely academic style, well-known scholar It was certainly in the summer- ion will fervently hope that H.E.

points out how easily China time Hood wrote that. It has the the Governor will listen favour-

could annihilate the entire irresponsible feel of summer ably to the petition. The peti returned home without a parcel

A devoted husband, he never British feet by decoying all our about it. Would he have written bluejackets from their ships it had he resided for a while tioners are decided in their or something for his wife. A into the interior and then during one of our protracted opinion tha: Chinose tenants tender father he spared no pains murdering them at leisure, spells of humidity? Let us see.. affected by the Rents Ordinance to inspire his children with the The captors would then proceed Thomas Hood Shreds and Patches cannot afford to pay an increase Afiliat son, he loved his father

leisurely back to the coast, take poem, bighest and taught them the best.

"On the Death of possession of the ships, and sail Mosquito." of rent above Standard Rent until and mother dearly. An ideal

for London, reducing the the trade conditions within the brother, he was ideal to the end: British capital with British

naval guns. Colony resume a normal state. A helpful neighbour, he was always a friend in reed. Since The alternative to a suspension the beginning of the strike right It is a fine example of the Heath. seems to be simply one of over-up to a week before his regret Robinson touch in politics, says crowding into other premises, to table end, he was up early every the London "Observer." create a spirit of discontentment, day to get ice and food and attend to the needs of his neigh-

They say, God wot! She died upon the spot: The spot she sucked

rich-

And I know which!

Bah!

HUSBANDS AND

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to convey a wrong impression to bours. Throughout his short but the evil-doers at Canton, and to serviceable life he had no enemies. put the Colony's administration while the record attendance at his into a bad light. A suspension funeral amply justifies the bigh

The female sox, said the great husband's knowledge cannot be of the Ordinance giving the stem in which he was (and still

18) held..

Blackstone, is a great favourite punished, but must be assumed to. powers referred to should do

In expressing my deepest sym- of the inwa of England. The odd have been his tool, is denounced by Property owners pathy to those who are his dear thing is that women have never upon it. There can indeed be little some good.

the very judges who have to ack should be glad of postponement tion that though it seemed cruel been able to sex it, remarks & Home doubt that from time to time it has

est, and nearest, let me also men- which at once cancels the main that such a promising life should puper. For generations they have procured the acquittal of the active argument for the non-payment of so abruptly end, yet heaven hath been demanding emancipation, and partner and the punishment of the Those who have petitioned H.E. rent, and strengthens their hands endowed us with his spirit which getting it, till only small portions vaker or actually innocent meny KENNETUSSENDER MÅthe Governor in behalf of the in seeking lawful demands.

will never die but will always be their old privileges remain to ber of the firm. But whatever the present to inspire his friends to a them for half a century wives state of the law juries, and judges 7,000 members of the Hongkong Tenanta will be encouraged to nobler Ilving and his loved ones to have been allowed to look after their too, will be reluctant to make, tha Tenants' Protective Association, meet their contracts, and the a mare perfect trust in the good on property and get rid of it as wife equally responsible with the which represents upwards of spirit of unrest will be killed at pass and mercy of Providence,

they please. Within our own time husband for a crime in which both they have, to the ill-concealed da were concerned. Crimes, however, 100,000 residents of Hongkong, to its birth. The signatories to the Thou art gone but not for light of the malicious male, insisted are not the only offences with which suspend the Rents Ordinance per-petition state that the great gotten,

on coming into the jury-box. In the Courts are occupied. There are. mitting an increase of 15 per cent. majority of the proprietors of

Never shall thy memory fade;

genaral, woman, even though they also such things as torts, injuries on the standard rent, seem to small businesses and shops, and

Sweetest thoughts shall ever men. Such are the joys of equality from injuries done to the community be wires, now have to pay up like done to the individual se distinct

have made out a good case. The wage earners, are permanent re

Round the place where thou art That illogical state of the law de Lord Chancellor has now introduced **

But the equality was still, imperfect, which are breaches of the law. The argumenta advanced affect pri- sidents and are law abiding and

plored by Mr. Bumbly still obtinë: a bill to provide that no busband marily the Chinese community, peaceful persons. Recent events

"The law opposes," said Mr. shall have to pay for the torts com although one or two might well be seem to bear out the latter part of

Brownlow that your wife acts un-mitted by his wife. Thus another used to represent conditions this contention. Follee patrols

der your directium." "If the law of the rights of women will at lengths supposes that said Mr. Bumble; be won. Whether she did the dood amongst the foreign community. were, in the main, singularly free

the law is a ase-idiot. If that'a before or after marringa, it is she.- Since the outbreak of the from the capture of many un- London, September 6--The air the eye, of the law, the law is who will have to pay for it hence "strike" over 500 distress war- desirablos, whilst a feature of the Alan Cobbum, expects to start bachelor and the worst I wish the forth and the injured party will not early in November on his flieht to law is, that his eye may be opened get a penny out of the husband. rants have been fasued for rent in work of the cordons was the re Cape Town and back. Reuter by experience. Distinguished Bach at least is to be the law of arrear, and, as a result, there is latively small numbers of un-

urists in our time have declared the matter. But we ave no con/ a great deal of empty property wanteds they caught when com- Allied and German juriste who have matter is anachronium. It is are feeble: tribe, Most of them

London September 5Th their opinion the the law in this fidance in these husbands. They Statistics at the moment of writpared with the total population of boen meeting at the Foreign Ofice, absurd, they promour to suppose we see no sindow of doubt, Ing are not available,

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