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FOREIGN COMMISSIONER, MAKES A MOVE.

[TRÒM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }

Following instructions from the Minis try of Foreign Afairs in Canton, Mr. Foo Ping Sheung, Foreign Commission- er, has already commenced conversationa with interested parties with a view to

MODERN MANNERS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

[BY A WELL-BATTSFIED AND INDEPENDENT YOUNG WOMAN.]

"Manners with fortunes, humours turn

with climes,

Tenets with books, and principles with

time.

This caustic remark of Pope's is seldom fully appreciated. We write to the papers

to ask whether our children are a polite as our fathers, but forget that manners are the 'product of an age, and not of the individual

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Certain .conservatives allow no varia- tion in manners or moder The only retort to them is Euclid's reductio ad absurdum. Would they bave us wear

SUPREME COURT ACTION,

DEFENCE IN PIRACY CASE.

JUNE 3RD, 1926

TRIBUTES TO PROF. W. J.

HINTON.

HIS WORK AT THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY,

A GREAT FUTURE FOR DEPARTMENT

·OF COMMERCIAL TRAINING.

The Association of Past and Present

JUDGMENT RESERVED.. The case in which an export firm claims 4,117 damages for breach of agreement to carry goods from Hongkong to Hoi- ping in which it is alleged that an Commercial Stadents of the Hongkong arranged" piracy accounted for the University gave a tea party in the Union less of a valuable cargo, was concluded Assembly Room on Monday in honour before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry of its President, Prof. W. J. Ejstor. Gollan, in the Supreme Court yesterday MA, who is going home on leave. Prof. Hinton sailed by the Antenor yesterday. afternoon.

day.

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Mr. H. G. Sheldon appeared for the H. Somerset plaintiff firm, and Mr. Fitzroy represented the defendant, who

ending the boycott. The Proclamation Greek robes and Roman tagasi Revert was stated to be the owner of the piraterkindly attitude towards the students.

issued by the Kuomintang on May 31st, ordered the Minister of Foreign Affairs to take this matter in hand. It is the

our sanitary system to public baths, sports to the horrors, of, the Forums ?

our

Mr. Wong Ping In took the chair and pulogized Prof. Hinton's sympathetic and

Mr. B. M. Talati gave an account of junk.

Prof. Hinton's multifarious activities in Yesterday morning Lai Kwong, the connection with the University. He was The material side of lite varies with defendant, in reply to Mr. H. S. Fitzroy, its first. Registrar and the mainstay of said he did not know that, any super- cargo was to have been put on board. The junk was owned by his father but he had been accustomed to make all

arrangements.

the Faculty of Arts in the earlier days, Foreign Commissioner and not the Forevery age, and our mental standpoint eign Minister who usually deals with varies accordingly. Our whole attitude

having been its first Dean. He was also described as the "founder, promotor, what are regarded as purely local affairs to life is entirely different from that

underwriter and sole managing director "and, therefore, although Mr. Eugene adopted in Victorian and Edwardian days.

of the present Department of Commerce." Chen may be regarded is ultimately The manners of the present generation

Questioned by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, It was through his support and advice responsible all preliminaries will be have been affected by the fortunes and defendant said the junk sank near the that the Association of Past and Com arranged by Mr. Foo Fing Sheung.

vicissitudes of this age. It is platitudin- Sam fui district, which was on the Westmercial Students came into being. ous to label it with the well worn tags River. The boat was raised a week later used to-day--an age of Science, Speed, and after being repaired in a Chinese Progress, Unrest, Dissatisfaction,, Iradock, she was put in commission again morality, and a hundred other charag about the middle of April, 1924. teristics.

·MILITARY COMMUNIQUES. A Kuomintang communiqué says that the Kuomintang Army assisting Tung Seng Chi, the pro-Kuomintang general in Hunan, now numbers nearly "35,00 and is near the Kwangtung-Hunan bördera. A conflict is expected within a

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When life is a perpetual merry go round, there is no time for the old-world courte- sies of our forfathers: Speech must be sharp, crisp, to the point. If Youth to

"ADDRESS FOR DEFENCE

At the afternoon hearing Mr. Fitzroy addressed his Lordship at length on the case. Dealing with the question of owner

Mr. Ng Bow Poo, President of the

University Union, showed how interested Prof. Histon had been in promoting the social activities of the undergraduates. He was Hon. Treasurer of the Union and had organised debating classes and an association for the promotion of economic studies. This association is claimed to be the forerunner to the present Arts

week. The Kuomintang believe that they day wasted time Choosing words, it would ship of the junk he said the Court had Association with its three affiliated socie.

will soon retake Changsha.

MUNICIPALITIES.

The Kuomintang on May Path sunc. tioned a proposal that communities in Kwangtung having a population of 10,000 or more might, with the approval of the provincial authorities, establish municipalities with a limited power of self-government.

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AN EXPLOSION,

An explosion, from unknown cause, occurred at the store room of the Mines Factory at Whampoa, on May 39th, more than 60 persons being injured.

DISCUSSION AND A FREE FIGHT,

be bailly left at the post. The crowd is so dense in every direction one has to shove with sharp elbows to make any headway.

The rudeness of queass is complained of, but unless one joins their ranks, one gets nowhere. Verily and indeed this is an age of action, not wards.

The main cause of the lack of manners is that never has the world been more egotistical than to-day. We are each out for ourselves. It does not matter ich about (the next person), so long as we get there. You may say this was always so, that since the beginning of time wen and wonten (particularly men) have been. egotiat. But wo have never been frank about it, as we are to-day. Modern man

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before it evidence that in April, 1994, the ties, the Commercial Association and the owner's name was changed from that of Law and Education Societies, each pro- defendant to the father of the defendant.ducing a Journal of its own.

Messrs. Wei Tat and N., V. Nguyen also They had a statement by the defendant paid tribute to Prof. Hinton and Mr. that he formerly owned the junk During Keeton, B.A., LL.B., who will be in the time defendant was the owner it charge of the Department of Commerce struck a rock and sank, and defendant during Prof. "Hinton's absence, referred having no money to raise it transferred to his genial personality and the reaḍi. it to his father. The bill of sale was on the junk when it was attacked by pirates and they took it away with them. Mr. Fitzroy submitted, therefore, that when the contract in this case was made defen- dant was not the owner of the junk. The junk had been under arrest for some tíme. He argued that it could not be held under arrest unless defendant was

mess with which he had assisted all those who went to him with their difficulties,

Prof. Hinton, in his reply, dealt on the reasons which prompted him to leave the Colony and spend a year in England. He remarked that he was a great admirer of the Chinese student and would Dever feel sorry for having come out to the East. He said that he had decided to spend the rest of his active life in the

Members of the Kuomintang in Sanners have killed hypocrisy. We are not the owner and be, therefore, asked for its work that he had been engaged in for the

afraid to say what we want, We push Shing Kong, Nanhai District, Dear for it with all our might. Regardless of Canton City, had a quarrel with one ways and means, we go straight for it. another on May 27th The quarrel

Another cause is the equality of the developed into a faction "war" which sexes. When a man sees a woman dress- led to more than 5,000 tong men taking ed in masculine style, with cropped hair, up arms. In this struggle 32, villages were involved. The cause of the quarrel at the outset was a discussion as to who should get the gambling monopoly.

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waist-coat, and monocle, he is naturally cot as assiduous for her comfort, as it she was delicately feminine in lace and frills. When he knows she carns as large a wage as himself he does not feel inclined to pay for her cocktail. She can afford

to pay for such luxuries herself.

as presented, was release. If his case, correct, the only person who could apply for the release of the junk was the owner, but he was out of the Colony. It was perfectly natural in the circumstances, said Mr. Fitzroy for the son to act as an agent for his father.

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past few years. He saw a great future for the Department of Commercial Training.

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A group photograph of all present was taken to commemorate the occasion,

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DUTCH SEAMAN'S CASE.

DISCHARGED AFTER MEDICAL EXAMINATION,

THE CONTRACT. Dealing with the contract, Mr. Fitzroy said the question to be decided was whether the defendant contracted on The case in which John Pater, a Dutch behalf of himself or his father. If the seaman, of the as. Grange Park, was As for sport, it is not surprising that defendant held himself to be the owner charged at the Marine Court with dis young men to-day are not as chivalrous of the junk then he would be personally as their fathers. Women ride as hard to liable. But he had stated that he was hounds as any man; beat them in the

straight after racing neck to neck: not the owner and that the contract was hearing before Lieut.-Commander G. F.

made on behalf of his father. Moreover

obeying the lawful commands of the Harbour on May 29th, again came up for master of the ship while in Victoria

Hole, R.N., yesterday.

On Tuesday defendant was remanded"

He

that there was no definite place to which in order that the fit of his truss might the goods were to be taken. They were be cxamined by a qualified medical officer to be landed anywhere if pirates or pic at the Government Civil Hospital. kets were encountered and it was deemed It will be recalled that the charge arose unsafe to proceed. Mr. Fitzroy therefore out of defendant refusing to carry out

ibmitted that the contract of plaintif his duties on the Grange Park. had not been proyed at all. There was stated that he was suffering from hernia evidence that this junk was a licensed and that after being fitted with a truss junk, and he submitted there was no he was still in pain. doubt as the piracy. The only people who could speak of it were those, oo board, and the defendant had given them a very vivid account of what took place.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the round a steeplechase course; fy as dar- Central Magistracy yesterday, the Hongingly; motor as dangerously; explore, from the plaintiff's evidence it was shown kong Amusements, Ltd, prosecuted the and go big game hunting, to the ends of How Woo Company, of Hollywood Road, the carth; box, play rugger, tennis, golf, for an alleged infringement of copyright

as energetically, and sometimes more suc in connection with the fameus Charlie cessfully, than men. Chaplin film, "The Kid."

In these, and many other ways, women Mr, E. S. C. Brooks was for the pro- try to show they are men's equals. It is secution, and Mr. J. A. Gordon-Leask therefore only right for men to take them defended. The defence was a denial of at their word, and treat them as such the allegation.

But the deity has fallen from her pedes Mr. Brooks, in opening his case, said tal. In extering the world of men, women that his clients, by an agreement with have lost the right to exact homage to a New York firm, held the sole licence their sex. to show the film in Hongkong and China. A word here is essential as to woman’a. Mr. Butler, Manager of the Hongkong manners. Complaints have been made Amusements, Ltd, produced in agree-regarding her tiresomeness in shopping; ment in which his Company alone was never having change to hand; gossiping given the right to show the film in Hong in lifts and corridors. kong. He said that it come to his know- ledge that the picture was to be ex hibited at the Kwong Chce Theatre, Yaumati. He wrote to his solicitors, and

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MR. SHELDON REPLIES.

Mr. Sheldon, replying to the point rained by Mr. Fitzroy that no definite These charges should appear worse to destination for the goods was given, said the modern woman, than abruptness of that Hoiping was not a place but a dis-' speech, and brusqueness of manner, for trict. they betray the eternal feminine." If

His Lordship hereupon interposed and

as the result of a letter written to the women could dan men's manners as easily said that from the evidents no one would defendants, the picture had not been as their attire, it would be a more man- given. The picture was also to have been merly world. At the moment woman has imagine that it was a district. He had shown at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. but there has the faults of both sexes, without the read it as a place, and up to now had also it was withdrawn...

complete charm of either.

thought it ach.

Bergt. J. F. Kennedy said that prior to the proposed screening of the picture

At the same time let her not bo censured too severely. She is the product of her

at the Kwong Chen Theatre," he had age. Her manners are affected by her, found the censorship card in order.

new turn of fortune which has given her Mr. Leask said he had a copy of the the entrée into every department of life," card and the Boy Woo Film Corporation Bat her sense of humour, at times, is were named, as owners. Continuing, he damped by our shocking climate. submitted that in such an infringement Manners to-day express the spirit of the owner was the only person to take the age. Our fathers think us rude and proceedings, The Hongkong Amusements, Ltd., were only the licencees, and they rough of speech. But we believe our had no right to bring the case to that manners are as suited to the world. Court. He further contended that thero live in, as the latest fashions we wear, had been no wilful infringement.

such to their disapproval The case was adjourned for a week..

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Mr. Fitzroy said that he had been under the impression that it was a place.

It was stated by a Court officer that Hoiping was a district, but that there was a place in it called Boiping City."

His Lordship aaid that anyone reading the evidence would think a contract had been entered into to take goods from the Colony of Hongkong to Hoiping in the Kwangtung Providce.

As the result of the report submitted by the doctor, defendant was yesterday morning discharged.

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These results are not due to particular local knowledge, as Major Pogson has His Lordship reserved his decision in ing the Nilgiris, Rajputana, and the worked in many parts of India, includ-. the case.

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