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THE HONGKONG: DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ør, 1991.

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An agent for Haig & Haig who trades extensively in the West End of London informs us that not many weeks pass without orders coming froin Harley Street doctors for our whisky.

They know what they are doing. Life can be saved (and often is saved) by the timely use of fine stimulant.

When " control" is banished in the Home Market the price of Haig & Haig Whisky will be higher there than other Whiskies. In all uncontrolled markets the higher price is now being paid. That is one of the reasons why Haig & Haig is a scarce commodity in the Home Market.

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AGE OF CONSENT. COMMONS AND THE CRIMINAL

LAW

In the House of "Commany, on July 18th, a second reading was given, with pata division, to the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, à measure which was initiated in the House of Lords by the Bishop of London, and which passed through all its stages there.

The Bill provides that reasonable cause to believe a girl was above le shall be no defence to a charge under sections and 0 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885. It further ex- tends to 12 months the time limit within which proceedings may be brought, Severo penalties are imposed against the keeping of disorderly houses, and section 3 of the Punishment of Incest, Act, 1908. which requires that all proceedings under the Act-shall be taken in camejo, ia repeated."

The second reading" was moved by Major Farquharson. His support was the result of his experienos" as a medial practitioner and was based on biological; grounds. He said that in the whole { range of nature there was, in the human family, a long period of dependence of the child upon parental care, and there was no period during the term of child- bood where protection was so urgently necessary as between the ages of 13 and 10 He argued that not only would the Bill do much to prevent prostitution, but it would constitute a public health measure which would cost the rate- payers nothing. The responsibilities of the race were never greater than they were at present, he declared, and the domestic and international future de- pended primarily on the health of the people. In her activities in many felds England had forgotten one vital thing, and that was the welfare of her own stock at home, and he affirmed his con- fidence that the Bill would afford pro- tection to the race.

The Bill found support in many quar ters of the House, the principal opposi tion coming from Major Lowther, who moved its rejection on the grounds that its principle was wrong and its provi gians contrary to British law and justice, in that it took away from an accused person a ground of defence. The exten sion of the time in which proceedings might be taken made blackmail, easy. He denied that the Bill was the outcome of the demands of the women of the country. Mothers had sons as well as daughters, and when it was realized that the Bill exposed those sons to dangers the mothers would be the års to Top- pose it.

Mr. Bottomley said it was a Bishop's Bill, and no Bishop's Bill ever did. any good. The only thing that appealed to him was the attempt to maintain the purity of our, women,

The Home Secretary, who gave the Bill his blessing, said that every provi. sion had been threshed out by a Joint Committee. He admitted that ther could not make people moral by Act of Parliament, neither could they make peopic bonest by Act of Parliament. But that was not a reason for repealing the Larceny Laws. The object of the Bill, he explained, w §, to protect, not, those good children who had parents to look after them, but those who were absolute- ly neglected. If there were no bad girls who matured before their time and went on the streets at 15 there would be no need for Tegislation of that kind.

"TO BE SOLD.”

A PICTURE OF - CHANGING ENGLAND.

The sale of the historie, Stowe House, in Buckinghamshire, is a sign of the times in which we live. Day by day the stately homes of England" are changing hands Frequently their entire contents are also put up for auction,

The man whose business takes him to estates that are in the market is better able to appreciate what the fact must mean to their owners "than are the general public.

He sees many a carriage-drive along which King Edward was borne, spangled with dandelions; rabbits münch the rank grass of lawns where the King once walked, and rooms wherein be dined are dingy and derelict.

There is a famous "castle, one of the most beautiful in the land, that I visited inst summer. At the time one sinall corner only of the pleasure-garden was cultivated. Daily the townsfolk were

admitted for the purchase of vegetables grown by the two gardeners employed.

Most of the windows were shattered, giving a ghostly effect to the silent interior, Portraits of ancestors looked down walls that have echoed the Inughter of royalty. In the billiards-room the armour of a valiant knight seemed to keep guard over trophies of others famous for their prowess in battle.

There were albums scattered about the tables; here photographs of the family entertaining statesmen from other coun tries; there portraits of lovely women at play as children. Other photographs bore the autographs of men whose names are household words.

The library seemed a place of dead thoughts, haunted by the spirits of those, long since gone, who had once handled.. and read the vellain-covered volumes.

Priceless furniture, family plate, often personal belongings, are at times includ ed' in the sale, Frequently a caretaker, who daily makes a round of all the zooms, is the only person loft of all the imposing-retinue of servants that for merly over ran the place.

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the desolation of the scene. The roofs of empty stables and kennels put the dismal finishing touch to the picture

In the grounds of one calate are monu ments dating back for almost a thousand

In the parish church are tombs and years. Whipping-posts; dismal dunge effigies of forbears of the family who ous, whose walls are damp to the touch-helped to-make-England-what she is... and subterranean passages, that intersect Hundreds of years ago the men whose the foundations of the castle are, features bones lie there were wielding arms in of many an ancient pile

the cause of posterity or dandling babies From the terrace on coes fountains of whose birth the land is proad. that no longer gush water: basins in

Such things make the looker-on which gold and silver fish once darted wonder if the taxation that has driven are choked with mud and weeds. Trees their descendants to such pass is really planted by royal hands seem to add to for the benefit of the country..B. in

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