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Hongkong. Saturday, June 19, 1926.
THE RENTS POSITION..
Whatever views may be held as to the desirability or otherwise of removal of rent control the de- sirability of an early announce ment being made as to the Gov-| ernment's attitude in view of the petitions presented had become increasingly evident as June 30 approached Contrary to expecta- tions, nothing was mentioned in
CORRESPONDENCE.
HISTORIC MACAO.
To the Editor of the Chine Mail).
1:
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1926.
not only that but people of pur caption aid the little principality by travelling far to participate thus showing their practical ap- preciation.
EUROPEAN SUED.
BY CANVASSER FOR HOUSE BOARDERS.
The present Governor'in Macao, a man of considerable intelligence
Dr. H. G. Miller, of Miller House, self ever on the alert to make imfendant in a Summary Court ease and attainments, has shown him- Cameron Road. Kowloon, was" de- provements. Regarding the state- yesterday, when C. J. Gandall sued ment that Macao should be put for 200. under international control it is
amend his writ and add a claim Gandall thon naked leave to for $260, for five months' board and lodging which-so he said he was to have got but did not gut.
."
Mr. Justice J. R. Wood put the case back till Thursday and told Gandall to issue another writ.
Sir-As a Britisher it seems, in my opinion, a matter of regret that certain statements affecting our neighbouring colony, Macao, should have been allowed ventila- on a par with a Hongkong Bri- Dr. Miller employed him to canvass Flaintiff's contention was that tion in the local Press. Any sym- tisher stating publicly in the ships in port for hoarders at the pathy we have for Macao and her, Macao newspapers that Hongkong boarding house kept by defendant dificulties in the present situation should be made into an inter-hand he had been dismissed with- would best be served by at least national port because we have had Fout notice. refraining from giving free pub- difficulties, not of our choosing, fication to items likely to embur within the last year. The possi- gave verbal notice, that his wife Defendant maintained that he rase that Colony.. Not enough bility of any Britisher either in made an entry in the dlary and has been said of the practical Hongkong or elsewhere making would givo evidence if nosced, asaletance and sympathy contri- such a statement is so romote that that plaintiff was given a month's buted by local Portuguese, and it seems an absurity to mention salary, und that a receipt for same their brethren in Macao. during this. Saklatvala, the one time was signed by plaintiff's wife. the recent and previous strikes member for Battersea, does cer- and though it is late in the day tainly give vent to rabid remarks some gesture could be made which occasionally which his followers would do more to engender a simi- deplore but even so it la difficult lar display on their part (should to imagine him making such a further difficulties arise here); statement ns that referred to in than by encouraging those who this paragraph. such that young married couples disagree with what they consider are being driven to a boarding a wrong method of governmerit. house life which is "not conducive It should be remembered that to the atmosphere most suited Macao is the oldest colony in the for family life. However, anti-East-and-long served as a place of refuge to Britishers and other cipations of possible increases nationalities in years gone by; it may be without foundation; that is within the memory of living remains to be seen. In the man that Macao was the main meantime, the institution of a Fair port for goods to and from China. The fact that trade has declined Rents Board would do much to there is mainly due to the de- engender confidence of protection,velopment of Hongkong and I be not only against landlords, but in lieve most local Britishers appre- respect of those principal tenants clate the efforts Macao is now making in attempting to build a sub-letting and in respect of make it an important port and whom tenants have no protection enable revenues from trade alone. ether than the inconvenient one to make the colony self-support- of finding a landlord or principaling, thus making possible the ze
moval of the "fan-tan" monopoly. tenant with higher notions At the same time it is well to fair play.
realise that many of us are only too pleased to have an occasional "flutter" and it is hardly sports- manlike to make statements dero- gatory to the little colony.
Thanking you for the courtesy of inserting this letter and enclos- ing my "card,
Yours, etc., "Hongkong, June 19.
J. E. OLLERTON.
TO MARINERS.
the "Government Gazette:-
The Harbour Master reports
in
reports that he passed a water The master of the 8.s. "Chenan"
PRISONER'S DEATH.
An habitual opium smoker, a Chinese (35 years of age), died, on Thursday, from tuberculosis, while serving a sentence of six months' hard labour..in default of a fine of $43,700, for smuggling opium. He was convicted on of death from natural causes was March 22 of this year. "A verdict
who reap a golden harvest by harbour which will once again logged junk off E. Nine-pins bear-returned at a Coroner's inquest
VALEDICTORY.
MR. AND MRS. H. J. STANLEY.
C.S.C.C. PRESENTATION.
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of
Mr. H. J. Stanley, who has been. member of the Civil Service Cricket Club for the past thirteen with a parting gift from his fel years was yesterday presented
law members on the occasion of his retirement and pending depar ture for Home.
recipient of a present.
Mrs. Stanley, who has taken a considerable interest in the social the official statement as to activities of the Club, was also the. Fair Rents Board which figured in the K.R.A. referendum papers and in favour of which in the event of restriction being drop- ped) an overwhelming majority of answers decided. The view had been put forward that with -out-breaking-faith-with-the land
lords, the institution of such
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Mr. P. T. Lamble (Chairman of the Club Committee) made the presentation to Mr. Stanley of an and referred to Mr. Stanley's inscribed blackwood writing desk
active connection with the Club, particularly his able services as Secretary of the Club for a con siderable period. Mr. Stanley had been twice Chairman of the Com- mittee and had taken the keenest interest in the vari
activities ous
of the Club, especially in connection with losing a worthy member and he the Bowls section. The Club was was sure all present would wish him and Mrs. Stanley the greatest joy in their 'retirement.
We hear very few reflections, if any, against Monte Carlo, a place which lives exclusively on profits derived from the games of chance;
N. 7 degrees E. (True) 2 miles held yesterday.
at 7 p.m. on 11th instant, It is dangerous to navigation.
The name of the International Petroleum Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register of Companies.
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The master of the se. "Adolf Von Baeyer" reports that on 15th inst- ant he..passed.a wrecked junk Lat, 22 degrees 17 in. N., Long 114 de grees 57 in. E. It is dangerous to navigation.
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PROPERTY MARKET.
Now, 194, lİl, 143, Wanchai Road, were sold by auction yester day for $30,600 to a Chinese lady, Details 1,837 sq. ft; Crown rent $32; upset price $10,000. Bid- ding was very brisk.
No. 5. Hill Road should have been put up for sale yesterday but the property was withdrawn.
THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO TRIED TO FIND THE RAINBIRD!
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
MAN'S GOAL AND THE ADEPTS.
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tribunal, composed of representa. tives of tenant and landlord. in terests, with expert advice from such as architects, and executive power given it to enforce its Andings, would be the medium through which a fair rent for any particular house or type of house
Mr. B. Maughan, on behalf of might be estimated without ex-
tence of Perfected Men, Masters, Buddhists alike, amongst the Sufts, the bachelor members of the Club,
the Elder Brothers of Humanity. the Mohamedan Mystics, amongst pensive litigation. Other than presented Mrs. Stanley with a
Who have trod the shorter, steeper the Zoroastrians, and the Roman the fact that members of the silver vase. Mrs. Stanley had
Path, and have become perfected Catholica, among Christians; teach Legislative Council were present been mainly responsible for tile.
far in advance of the bulk of the existence of that same Path of struggling humanity, is a natural Perfection, by treading and that the decision of the Ex. success of the annual Christmas
which ecutive Council was
Tree distribution and many other At this week's public meeting of necessity in Evolution. By an Sainthood is attained.
The only unanimous, social functions, he said. With the Hongkong Lodge The Theoso Elder Brother Master we mean a difference between the Theosophist we have nothing to indicate as to out the ladies, the committee phical Society, Mr. H. E. Lanepart liberated Spirit Who has tran- and the followers of some other re- whether the institution of a Fair would frequently be in grave dif. gave an address on "Man's Goalsconded the illusion of separateness ligions is that Theosophists believe Rents Board was even consider.culties, he added, and therefore and the Adepts." He said in brief: of life in forma, and has become in the Great Prophets and Foun ed. Whether or not, as has been the departure of Mrs. Stanley There is a stage in human evolu- one with the Father, the One Life.ders of all religions, while these would be a loss hot easily remedition where man, as man, has. But He is not a coming down of believe in their own Prophet and elaimed for the landlord interests, ed.
nothing more to accomplish having God in human form, on the cen-deny Those of the religions to whom economic factors of supply and Mr. Stanley, replying for both, learnt all this earth can teach. trary, Masterhood is the result of they do not belong. And Theoso- demand bear on the question in a in a happy speech dwelt on the All the great religions teach the man's climbing up life after life, phists believe that such Perfected good times he had spent in Hong. possible perfection of Man, holding treading the Ancient Narrow Path Men are still living on earth, and different way than they did at the kong at the Civil Service Cricket up the same idend of a Mar, made of accelerated Perfection, until the that men may climb to-day as mes time the Ordinance came into Club. The splendid gifts which Perfect; although the names are God within Him has become mani-in the past have Olimbed and he being; the fact remain that rentals he and Mrs. Stanley had received different, yet ever the same idea isfest and shines out through Him, come Perfect; we believe that the in the Colony are still unwarrant. Would ever serve to remind them beneath it-He is Mithre, Zarathu- a man as you and I Who through Christ spoke no impossible thing ably' high and have a direct and friends of Hongkong,
of the good times and the good stea, Dairis, Krishna, Buddha, the hundreds of past lives has strug-when He said:"Be ye also perfect Christ, but He ever symbolises thegled and fought, a man Who has as your Father in heaven is per- immediate effect on the cost of The proceedings concluded with Man made Perfect. Every religion trodden the Path of Holiness step fect." There is far mare evidence living. Such flats as are being the singing of "They are jolly towards which every great religion after Initiation and thus has finally of the Masters to-day amongst men proclaims Him. He is the ideal by step, Who has passed Initiation available of the physical existence good fellows," and the drinking of offered at comparative low rates the health of Mr. and Mrs. effectively, its mission according to fin touch with the world of men in not orphans in a world bereft of
strives, and each religion fulls transcended humanity, but remains than men usually know. Stanley.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley leave for the clearness with which it illu- order to help others to tread the God. The Masters are, we do not Home next Saturday by the 8.5.which it tenches the road whereby their turn Perfect Men in Whom we are not deserted in a desert,
mipes, and
the precision with Fath He has trodden, to become in need to cry out and have no answer, "Mantua."
He may be reached. The Christ in the unfolded Divine Spirit has without a guide, without a friend. Christendom is the name of a state, burnt up the last trace of the un-Every mystic will bear wit whether, with the removal of re-.
mort than the name of a man "The real, of separation from God. In
And ness to this. On Thursday afternoon, the Christ in you" "Till the Christ be the History of all the great reli- about the communication of the striction, more suitable dwelling are at Anton: Street. It was the long course of evolutión, reach Men in their sacred scriptures. the Christ, the. Buddha, the Shri Fire Brigade had to deal with a formed within you:"All Man, in gions we find mention mute of such soul of man with the Master, houses will be erected is a matter found that the blaze, which was the Christ, the Buddha, the Krishan And many of those who believe in Krishna through the birth of the for conjecture, but if they could confined to the chimney of Nos. 8 state; all the sons of men can acfim in all the religions know that Christ, the Master, within. to bring not be erected on a paying basis and 10, had been put out by the compish what Sons of Man have He is living in a physical human about the birth of the Christ Child during the continuation of the inmates.
accomplished, and we see in Them body to-day as in the past, and they within the purffted heart, and then
by reason of the haste with which they were erected in the property boom, are seldom of the type suitable for occupation by those whose need is most acute-
Rents Ordinance it is difficult to
We are
to bring
the pledge of our own triumph, and all hold the belief that their Great to guide that earnest soul--the babe see how capital will be attracted smoking was stated yesterday, at lus is but a question of evolution, reached by the earnest and devoted, Christ-along the "Ancient Narrow. The effect of chronic oplum' the development of like divinity in Perfected Teacher may ever be in the Buddha, the Mister, the unless it is anticipated that rents a death inquiry to have led to the By the Law immutable, by Truth and they acknowledge also the Path of accelerated Perfection, to- will be increased. Any increases death of a prisoner who had been unswerving, by the endless Life existence of that Ancient Narrow wards manifested Divinity, that on the present prevailing rates transferred to the Government and God, we know that all divinity Path of accelerated Perfection, by is the abject of every religion, and cannot be countenanced, in fact, Civil Hospital. The offence for is within us, and that though it be which men may become divine, may if it could be that this Mystic touch- it is difficult to see how any but which he had been sent to prison now but little evolved, all is there reach perfection by the steeper, ing could slip out of a faith, that had been concerned with opium of, Hla infinite capacity, for the ani- shorter road, though few there be faith could then no longer raise to a few could afford to pay them; traffic. A verdict of death from lifting of the world. In every son that find it. This is taught and divinity those who practise it. the present prices are already natural causes was returned.
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