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LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE COERCION OF WIVES.
PROPOSAL TO ALTER AND ORSOLETE
STATUTE.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Logros, March lat.
THE STATE OF THE MINISTRY.
PENANG HILL RAILWAY
CANTON'S NEED OF
COMMUNICATIONS.. LONG DELAYED LOOP-LINE
OF RAILWAY,
VALEABLE SUGUESTIÓNS BY MR.
A. H. HARRIS,
A principal or central station, prio aipally "for 'passenger trafie, must he built at a muitable point on the girls lina The Taishatow station on the cast will become a large suburban traffic contre, while the Wongsha station on the west will become the principal station for
into existentes.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, the Pre THE sident, Mr. A. W. Blackstone, said:- We were promised that the Hill Railway would be finished, by next month, but we are now told that it will not be open to the public before September. I have no inside knowledge regarding Government intentions though I understand these will The following Memorandum upon the handling goods-not intended for. Hong- kong or the Enst River-on account of its be made public before long. In order to importance of good corumnaications in make the Raitway a success every induce the interests of trade and revenue, with river and wharfage facilities. At Tung- A certain uneasiness as to the health of ment must be offered to applicants for special reference to the Canton-Hankow shan, near Taishatow, ground is available, the Prime Minister is greatly exaggerated building sites on the Hill and reasonable A week or so back he complained of fool term quoted for the transport of building and Cunton-Kowloon Railways has bean for workshops and general repairs, a ing
tired, and forthwith the rumour Was
material. The Hon. Mr. John Mitchell written by Mr. H. Harris, Commis- China Swindon" will there be called, spread that Mr. Chamberlain was coming back to the Ministerial full : help Mid the Panag Hills Railway, they had sioner of Customs at Canton, for submis- been told, had cost them much money and
In this connection it must be borne in Boner Law on the floor of the House. But that it would not be a paying asset of son to the Chiness Chamber of Commerce mind that before long, there will be bus in this case, as usually happens, rumour the Colony. They might not recover the in the city- was ill-founded. Mr. Chamberlain, he
one railway organisation in China, ad- The writer has been Commissioner of ministered "from a Central Board. It would like to prolong his holiday, which is outlay in dividends but indirectly the
and must follow that the present two lines. another way of saying that he has not quite community would greatly benefit if they Customs in Hunan at Yochow recovered his spirits since the Carlton Club took advantage of the Railway, and if Changsha, which port he had the privilege running into Canton with soparate staffs meeting, when he was made aware that he they did not do so they had none to blame to open in 1901, and also in Kwangtung, rad offices must be amalgamated and haul lost the undivided confidence of the but themselves. Any one who cared to go at its capital and elsewhery. Impressed administered as one. Until such general Conservative Party.
up the hill by the Railway would realise with the great possibilities of trade and unification takes place a working agroo There is exaggeration, too, in the tendency the benefit the community would derive development that await and demand atment must be negotiated for the two lines to under rate the Treasury Bench teams, and from living on the hill. The terms upon tention he offers the following remarks unprofitable as such as arrangement to look round for recruits. But the youth which land would be granted. would be for consideration.
will be compared with a single control and inexperience of the Ministers are right-published shortly. The intantion was to Successful trading depends among other office and staff. ing themselves daily, and the Frime Minister provide accommodation on the hills upon requirements, very largely upon good is is no need to appeal to Mr. Chamberlain such terms that there would be no excuse communications. It is a surprise to me of the two present lines will mean a loss
A fear seams to exist, that the junction. or any other ex-Ministers who renin on the
for any European mercantile house not that the Cantonese,, who are second to of business to Canton. This is impossible. back benches to come along and lend him
to provide sanatoria for their employés. none as traders with a long history of The bulk of the goods coming in from hand to work the Ship of
and health to their staff, but provide for the in the development of communications consuming centre, the manufacturing and.
Rays ne
present troubled waters of in the By so doing not only would they ensure trade behind their últy, are yet backward the north will be for Canton-tha great.
domestic politics. As to the es their attitude is clear so far
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VIA fonger stay in the Colony of their wives that are awaiting, indeed crying out for distributing city for the Delta; and the
The
ment is concerned. They will support it
P|and children. steadily in the lobby. They will not seek
criticism
at the same opportunities of time, neither will they volunteer their assistance in debate, though they will not withhold it when necessary. They do not regard themselves as indespensables. Whist
EXCHANGE DURING MARCH."
The monthly circular issued by Messes Lol Birkenhead's attitude may be, hoy Roza Bros. gives the following summary ever, I should not like to say,
EXCESSIVE BUDGET "HOPES,
There have been debates in Parliament since the session opened on divers subjects of great importance-uneraployment, the French in the Ruhr, Mesopotamin, and so forth-hat the serious, practical business concerns finance. That will
all the occupy time that can be found for debate between now and Easter and probably longer than then. What of the Budget is the question of the hour. Will there be any, easing of the load on the drooping shoulders of the weary taxpayer
of exchange for the month of March:--
Silver
(Ready)
TIT
Average Rate Mar.,
(1093), (Approx.) — 9/39 111 54 8,60 Highest Rate Mar.,
(1923)399/4113
55 0.60 Lowest Rate
development Three, in especial, swait girdie line will facilitate distribution to attention. These are the removal of the local points without change of convpy-" obstruction in the upper harbour-where | ance.
(1933)(Approx. 9/3 109) 531 8.90 projects, and, with curious inconsistency, the fairway and preventing bund and
Average
race Rate to dato (1994)(Approx.) - 9/3 1091 53 8.28 Highest Rate to date.
(1023),(Approx.)- 2/1 113.55 9.00 Lowest Rate to date
. (1998),(Approx.). 2/2 1061 52
8.00.
another.
the Fish Guild have hitherto blocked every *What about Hongkong?" the critla attempt to free the foreshore off. Wongsha exclaims. Owing to the cheapness of the terminus of the railway from water-borne carriage the bulk of the pro- Hankow: the dredging of the second bar, dace arriving by rail will be loaded at with which may or may not be combined. Wongsha on to junk or steamer. Perish- the development of a sub-port at Wham able articles, very valuable goods, and pon; and the linking up of the Chinese to some small extent coal, metals, and Kowloon rail-line with the Hankow liae stona (for cement works) from the north- of railway.
orn line will be carried through direct tos It has born represented even in such a Hongkong. But Canton will become the putable paper as the Saturday Evening coal market of the province, and Wong- Post that the British are opposed to such sha its chief distributing station. In place developarents as the railway and sub-port of the Fish Market rafts now obstructing it has also been represented that the wharf construcion, there will be good. Cantonese are opposed to the rail con- wharves and jetties to serve vessels of all nection on the ground that the prosperity kinds. To facilitate the coaling of vessels. and trade of the City will be injured. lying in the Hongkong harbour it is The ghost of British opposition, which certain that cost.junks or lighters, load- In the known circumstances of national Snance it is surprising that 1 House
never existed, has been, it may be trusted, ing at Wongsha coal yards, will do a...~ of Commons Committee, which includes
finally laid by the statements in the re- good trade. port of the Directors of the Hongkong shrewd financiers like Sir Allan Smith,
What about Whampoa 1" Sir Alexander Richardson, and Mr. P. J.
a few nights ago to renew acquaintance and Shanghai Bank for 1932 and in critic naks: Whenever the development Hannon, should commit themselves
the various Bong of a sub-port at Whampoa takes place the to the view that substantial with Mr. Somerset Maugham's story of the the comments in
stantial tragic blunder of an English merchant in kong daily papers; and, agam, in the Kowloon rail-line is at band to assist in ddictions of taxation ensuing year. It is more than Mr. Br 30 China.marrying a woman of colour (Chinesa conversations held by Dr. Sun Yat Sen its development. It runs but a few, milos
will be possible in
on the mother's. side) and fondly imagining with the Hongkong Government in from the present proposed site, and the that his wife would not be snubbed and February last, I will not latour this inying of these few miles will place the ostracised by white men and especially the women. London, the most unwillingness to see a girdle rail around with Canton itself; and, by means of the women, point. The object of this memorandum port, its wharves, and its shipping in is to endeavour to remove the reported immediate through and rapid connection Of course,
here in cosmopolitan city earth, the cease the City on the ground that the City's girdle line, with the hinterland of the quences of such a fun as is not realised trade will suffer. On the contrary, the Province and the great cities that lie he has to find an additional twelve millions) in the same. noteworthy that "East of Government, both rail and Customs re- that can be offered by no other reasonable
that
it is abroad, and for
trade of the city and the revenue of the along the northern radway-z facility that reason 15 35 it is Suez" had so long and
ceipts, are now kept at a standstill. at a couple
on economical project. The city of Canton is a very large one; distances from east to west and from communications are provided and facilities It is a universal experience that where north to the Pearl Biver are very great. offered, an increase of trade results; and the East City, at Tangshan, or by the goods there is an advance in revenue Take the case of a resident living near with an increase in the movement of North Gate, and wishing to travel by collection as freight and as duty. The rail from Wongsha to the north. He has writer has no financial interests to serve, to go many li by chair or by boat before while his independent position as a mem he can enter the car of the northern line ber of China's Civil Service enables hi so with a resident in the western suburbs to speak without being looked upon n who wishes to travel to Sheklung or
is prepared to do at this stage. That he will have a substantial surplus this year is certain, but he has to weigh with the utmost care thus possibility of the present lovel of taxation producing the same amount of revenue in the next twelve months. Besides, for the American debt, to say nothing of housing commitments, and calls for un employment:
of
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Of course, the Chancellor could not avoid looking sperous a rin. desires to bring down taxation, but, after of Chinese seated in the stalls & art girl by |aE, it is little that he can hope to do.
front of me, each with English girl bis aide; and I wondered what the former THE COERCION OF WIVES
thought the moral of the borrow from Kipling, "East is East, and
play that, West is West, and never the twain shall meet matrimonially without unhappiness, and sometimes, as Sir. Somerset Maugham tells with dramatic art, the tragedy of ruined lives."
Some cases in the Courts of late has probably suggested to the Lord Chancelier the wisdom of altering the law relating to the coercion of wives. Anyway, Lord Cave has introduced a Bill dealing with the subject. It is certainly high time that some thing was done to abolish the old rule by which a wife who commits offence, in the to presence of her husband
presumed have committed it under coercion by him.
No such rate obtains in the Dominions.
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FATHER OF THE CHURON.
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Dr. Randall Davidson has just cele Hongkong by the southern route. If the favouring any private scheme. And his brated the twentieth anniversary of his day is wet and cold the miseries of the long service in China-now covering 40 years enables him to appreciate the elevation to the See of Canterbury. I was at journey are multiplied. For travellers
near London not long ago when from Hongkong, and the busy towns great trading qualities of the Cantonese he remarked
In these days, when women in this a meered incidentally in the course of reached by the East river, proceeding to and to stress the necessity for increased [country have the fullest freedom and enjoy drown. If Nobody will ever stump mo the north the inconveniences are much traffic facilities, to advocate the saving of equality with mon as citizens, of their in geography," and he proceeded to give greater than for residents," And so, vieme and labour, and thereby the encour-
when they BA
woman was to alterally her lord and to Pern
of the Church's parts of the
survey of many
It remains to add that this memo
are able to control and dispose own property, and can exercise the vote at an illuminating
versa, with passengers from the northern agement of increased production with its elections, what is more absurd than to activities in continue the legal fiction which calmly The phrase supplies the keynate of his line for the East City or the Kowloon attendant profits to the trader and to. sasumes that a woman is still the chattel work. He personally deals with all the suffer under the present want of system randum was in the main written last year
all the railway. The handicap from which goods the Government. of her husband? When the
e ancient statute correspondence he gets from abroad, and that Lord Care wants to smend was drafted he receives on the average over a hundred are still greater. and-endorsed by Parliament a married letters a day from all sorts and conditions In order that residents, passengers, and awaiting a suitable opportunity to use, the slave of her of men living in distant lands "From China goods may move freely between important and that the writer is indebted to Mr. spouse, who was
centres as Sheklung, the East River Boothby, the Engineer-in-Chief of the master; but now the case is altered. A trusted friend of Queen Victoria, the towns and Hongkong, with its great Chinese Railways in-the-south, for sug
As things are a w wife has privileges
A H.. HARRIS. bolstered up by the law which place her at archbishop of Canterbury reached hit high shipping lines, and between Canton and gestions and criticism.
position at the age of 54 after serving the large cities of Kwangtung, Hnnan and
Canton, March, 1923. 20. advantage compared with her husband successively as secretary to Archbishops Hue to the north, a railway line, in A la suit has been before the High Tait and Benson, and as Dean of Windsor, addition to the main road now slowly N.B.-Canton-Kowloon 111 miles, with 69 miles of Chinees Government Court within the present work in which Bishop of Rochester and Bishop of Winches under construction along the river front, husband was sued by a drapery firm for ter. He is a broadininded ecclesiastic, with to connect the present existing railway
line. the payment of his wife's debts, although a sincere desire to further unity among the lines, now far apart, is very necessary. Bail the lady had an income of £6,000 a year various warring sects; indeed, he created a connection between the two stations of in her own right hilo he, poor man, only commands £400,
gathering in the citadel of Norcon at convenient spots near various parts be is liable for the bill. Again, if Mrs. formity, the Memorial Hail. Jones slanders Mrs. Smith and is cust, in A day in the life of the Archbishop of of the city, must be made Land around damages for the defamation of her neigh Canterbury is very much like the life of the city is increasing in value from year mouses against the president, clerk of the bour'a character, it is Mr. Jones who any other busy man devoted to his job. It to year; may, from month to month, as recretary and committee of the
A SOBER COUNTRY.
Yet as the law standsent recently by attending a big Free Taishatow and Wongiba, and sub-stations |
During the past few weeks the Justices
IPOR SWEEP SENSATION. The Ipoh police have applied for sum-
is responsible for payment, although he is hard work most of the time. He rises spoculators are very busy and the Ipoh Gymkhana Club for alleged breaches may have had nothing to do with it
breakfasts, roads the newspapers, and longer the determination of the connes of the Gaming Enactment. Also, it is the morning on his correspondence. tion is postponed, the more costly will it understood that summonses have been and in the afternoon there are private property. Whether construction members of the local community in con- in London and throughout the country committes meetings, interviers, and con, can be actually put in hand now or later nection with the recent step. It is have been dealing with the renewal of ferences. I am told that the only physical survey of the route should be made, the learned that about 14 leading residents, Licences for the sale of alcoholic liquors. ezarrisa he manages to obtain is a walk to The reports presented, by the Pulico on the House of Lords, the sittings of which he land staked out and acquired as soon ae
he relation of drunkenness to crime and rarely misses, or the Athenaeum in Pall with regard to drenkenness as an offence Mail. in itself prove in remarkable sober the population really is. there has been a decrense
from far and near are present at be and the greater the disturbance tplind for against half-a-doany other
how
degenerally
all. THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS, in the number
The announcement that Tatankamen's of convictions for inscbriety compared with tomb has been sealed up till the Autumn has Hast year;
in some populous non-urban dis been hailed with a sigh of something like
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possible.
including all officials of the Ipoh. Gymkhana Clu, bave received a summons to appear before the magistrate on a This junction line, or girdle railway, should consist of two separate lines for charge under the Gaming Enactment in through and "suburban traffic" It connection with the recent 800,000 sweep.. will, no doubt, be necessary to double both The trial is fixed for April 4th. A those lines in the near future, and it is Singapore lawyer will probably lead the very necessary, that provision should be defence.
could be counted on the fingers of one surfeit of Egyptology. There could scarcely a city of such density of population as tricts the offenders who were punished relief. The newspaper public have had made for this in taking up the land. In
Hand.
This is all to the good, and tuny bo be a better proof of the value of
Pharaoh has been the news traffic will soon be found insufficient, and,
FIEUZAL GLASSES.
the A drunken man in public is feature" in the papers for weeks. We some future day, the double lina for Out of doors there is nothing so ristful
to sus growth of a spirit of paulicity thun that the Canton a single line for the suburban |
nowadays something of a novelty.
In spite of the record to which I havo know a good deal more about him and his suburban traffic will be electrified.
The
referred, which is not a temporary phase people who cut a Sgure in the world business and facilitate transport of heavy reflected from groen folds and trees, the than we do about many great, wise and line for suburban use will stimulate and comfortable for the eyes as the light but is the continuation of a tendency eminent towards temperance in the nation that set today.
articles from one part of the city to an absorption of the ultra-violet and orange. in years ago, the teetotalers in and out of Even more wonderful than the discovery other. Manufacturies are everywhere rays by the chlorophyll of the leaves; Parliament are not content to let well of the inner tomb containing the mummy, springing up and rail convection for bence the introduction of Fieuzal Glass, alone. They are bankering after Prohibi undisturbed after its age-long sleep till Wongaha, Taishatow, or beyond, is a tion as it is understood in the United now, was the discovery of the vast collec- necessary.
yellowish green in colour, which is pro- Statca But up to present this movement tion of furniture and ornaments and objects
lucking at this question of a june duvod in several shades, and lenses made has made no headway at all, and I believe of art fashioned by
ble evidence of a highly dovelone in line, the position of Canton as of this may be worn as a protection by
cunning hands This it ia fore-doomed, to luture.
At & time that most of the growing city and the capital of a rich "EAST OF SUEZ”.
countries of Europe were inhabited by province must not be overlooked. It is over-sensitive eyes where it la desirabló A to tone down excessive light and glare a d'ficult to over-stress its importance. bands
of savages has impresse stage at His Majesty's Theatre after a run the public
This wock "East of Sues" comes off the Blie miad. Perhaps it is not surpris.central railway station in imperativa Ficuzal lenses of any prescription in
of six mouths. It has had a large measure lag that Egyptian designs in clothes for Neither of the present terminal stations
of success, but for the past few weeks it the fair sex are becoming extremely facets the requirements of Canton even either regular on Torio forms aro užau ceased to draw the crowded houses which are shionable. It is also said that a craze for now, and still loss of the Canton of the factured by the Hongkong Optical Co., needed to make a play profitable at the furniture curiously carved, to resemble some future. The inconveniences experienced successors to Clark, & Co., Manufacturing famous house-the finest, in my opinion, that found in the Tutankamen tomb, is in other places owing to ill-placed railway and Refracting Opticians, 55, Queen' in the West End of London. I went there already giving a much-needed lift to the stations should serve as a warning to Boad Contral.---ÄDYT.
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