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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929.

CANTON'S TANGLED THE LEGISLATIVE

REVENUES.

COUNCIL.

WHERE IS THE MONEY TO NEW ORDINANCES PASSED.

COME FROMPAN

TIGHTENING THE MUI TSAI

FINANCE COMMISSIONER'S.,

DESPAIR,

[YROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, October 31,

LAWS.

The Ordinances were intituled:-

An Ordinance to make provi- sions with respect to the British

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HUNTING FOR ORCHIDS ON THE PEAK.

ATHLETIC BOTANIST'S ADVENTURES.

STRENUOUS CLIMBING IN SEARCH

OF SPECIMENS.

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An Insect-Eating Plant.

TRIPLE SUICIDE.

TRAGIC AFFAIR IN THE HARBOUR.

During tho rush hour to business yesterday morning, ferry passen gers vitaessed the recovery of Three bodies, from the harbour.

Dr. G. 4. C. Herklots, Reader in') bears white flowers in June. The The inding of a body by boat- His Excellency the Governor (Sir Biology, Hong Kong University, smaller patch consits of a tangle people in the vicinity Blake Cecil Clementi, C.M.G.) presided at gave the following interesting wire of the curious Sarcanthus tereti Pier was reported to the Water less talk last night on orchids Julius. This orchid has round, Police, and i lanach proceeded to the meeting of the Legislative, Coun-

I wish to give first a few intro-stems and leaves, and the plant has the scene, When an attempt was cil yesterday when several new ductory remarks about this very the general appearance of a branch-made to haul the body out of the was found that three The Beauces of Kwangtung are Ordinances, details of which have diverse group of plants called ed rush. The lip of this flower is a water it

orchids. There are

about 7,500 bright rosy purple but the remain- bodies were tied together by the getting more and more, straitened already been given exhaustive pub-diferent special known, and probing petals are of a curious yellow-arma with handkerchiefs. The owing to the war and the refusallicity, passed the final readings. ably many yet remain undiscovered. green colour with purple veins. bonds were sovered beiore the

The majority of orchids can be These plants are in bud.

bodies were taken of the people to accept the Gavern-

on board the launch for removal, to the Kowloon, ment banknotes. The demand for

divided into two big groups-land

Mortuary. Plants and Epiphytes. In the first silver money for military expenses

group of land plants, or ground

Young Women, has been extraordinarily heavy and

orchids, belong most of the species which live in temperate countries. General Chen Tsai Tong has to-day

In England all the native species ordered the Provincial Treasury to An Ordinance to amend the belong to this group, and some of Protection of Women and Girls then, as for example, the Early raise $1,000,000 in silver money

Ordinance, 1907, within three days from November 1, Au Ordinance to amend the Purple Orchid and Lady's Tresses, Female Domestic Service Ordin-are familiar to many of us. In the for military purposes. This money.

second group, that of the Epiphytes, is to be taken to the Military Head-

An Ordinance to Bmend the belong a large proportion of the Watchmen Ordinance, 1029.

tropical orchids; these orchids live attached to trees or rocks, and rare- An Ordinance to amend the Industrial Employment of Child-if ever send roots into the

ground. ren Ordinance, 1922

quarters.

Mercantile Marine Uniform.

An Ordinance to amend the

Uniforms Ordinanec, 1805,

ance, 1923,

The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton moved the second and third read- ings of "An. Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Trustees of the Chater., Masonic Scholarship Fund." The Bill, which was passed without comment, was seconded by Sir Henry E. Pollock, E.C.

muti tani."

A little further on I notice a few

sundew plants, & species of Droser growing on a wet ledge of rock The small, red, avoid leaves of this plant are arranged in a resette each leaf has along its margina series of glands which have the appearance of stout haira, at the end of each of which a drop of

When a small. liquid is secreted. fy, or mosquito, settles on a leaf the hair-like glands are slowly bent inwards and the insert is elitangled in the stick secretion. This were tion contains digestive juice and has the power of concerting the Besh of the dy into soluble food which can be absorbed by the leaf.

A Discreet Retreat.

We are now nearly across the face of rock, but the most difficult part of the climb is just ahead. To complete the traverse it is neces sary to jump on to a narrow moss covered ledge, and although I think I could do it, I fear for the life of my dog. A slip would mean at the very least & broken leg for me, and probably a broken neck for the fox- terrier. Regretfully, and with dif fealty, I returned along the narrow ledge.

All the victims were young women, dressed in black clothing. No motive has been disclosed to ex- plain the suicide-which police officers believe to be-nor hea anyone come forward to identify any of the victims. It seems to be a case of three women having made up their minds to die together.

Investigations are being carried out by the police in an endeavour to solve the mystery.

A later report states that it is believed the three girls came from Cantor, as some Canton coins were found in the pockets of one of them.

Bodies Identiled. Information was received late in the evening' that the bodies had been identified as those of unmas red women living at 93, Belcher Street, West Point, the names being Chun Shum Fun (3), Yee Yuk (18) and Ko Ming (17),

It was also gathered that the" bodies were in a fresh condition, which points to the belief that the suicide occurred in the course of the preceding night.

BARBERS

QUARREL.

Mr. Fan Ki Mo, Finance Com mlsioner of Kwangtung, is having

The name orchid is familiar to the greatest difficulty in trying to

all of us, but few of us could make income cover expenditure. In

describe a typical orchid flower a lengthy petition to the Provincial

Orchid flowera are extraordinarily varied in form and colouring, but Council today, he requests that

generally can be identified by the each department be made to cut

following features:-They possess down its 'expenses to the minimum.

six petals, the outer three of which are usually similar in form and Unless this is done, it will be im-

colouring, but of the inner three possible to carry on. He pointed

the upper most generally differs in out that expenditure for several The Attorney-Feneral (Sir Joseph colouring and shape from the other Kemp, K.C.) closed another loop- two. The flower is inverted, owing months past and for the last month hole in the new mui te law by the to the fact that the ovary is twist. in particular, has far exceeded the insertion of a fresh clause into theed through 180 degrees, than the income." He suggests that the Pro-Bill by means of an amendment lin-comes to lie on the lower, in vincial Government issue a circular which was passed by the Council.tead of the upper, side of the

The new clause,rends: "No person flower. order to its departments urging | shall without lawful authority or In Dunn and Tutcher's "Flora drastic economy.

excuse have in his employment, of Kwangtung and Hong Kong custody, or control any unregistered pablished in 1912, 80 species of Now for the rocky precipitous orchids are mentioned. Of these"63 climb slightly to the west of the Another Screw Turned,

ancien are to be found in Hong smooth fice. A red rock-crab ap-MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. Kong. another Ave in the New pears from behind a ledge of rock, Sir Joseph explained that the ob- Territories, and the other 21 have swings te stalked eyes in my direc The Finance Commissioner then ject of the new clause is to streng-been recorded for various localities tion, lookywickedly at me, and commented upon the revenues then, two provisions of the main

in Raagtung. Amoy. Feochaw. skedaddles into a clump of wet derived from gambling and other Ordinance which atipulates: (1) etc.. I have been in the Colony now grass. Here are a few tangled stems almost exactly a year, and have of the round-leaved orchid, and that employer of mui taui must, ignominicus sources, in view of hereafter, register them, and (2) no discovered about 35 species, or just there another fine patch al Dalbo- Mr. A. E. Hall, who appeared on the Government decision to forbid person must hereafter bring, or

half of the numbers recorded for the phyllum radiatum. Here are a few behalf of defendant, pleaded guilty, gambling in Kwangtung

from ease to be brought, into the Colony British Territories. Many of these plants of the yellow flowering but said the action was carried out January 1 of next year. Ho said any mui tsal who are not register-arcies are familiar to all of us, as Utricularia, or Bladder-wort. This under great provocation. Defend for example the beautiful ground plant, like the sundew, is insectivo-ant owed complainant some money, it was all very well to ban this vice, } He pointed out that, without the orchid with cinnamon brown, vialet, rous and has the power of catching and the latter had pressed for pay- but the fact remained that the amendment, it might be difficult for and white flowers opening in March, small insects, but the bladder wortment. The defendant had been as- Government had been getting over the Crown to prove whether the whitch is called here the can only catch, and digest, water saulted by the complainant previous $1,000,000 a month from this source, girl was here before or after regis- orchid." Another of the heautiful insects. My students and I once to the assault mentioned in the

orchid." with ground orchids, the "Baraboo spent half an hour examining the charge, and had reported the matter

Tose and white bladders on the leaves of this to the police. flowers. is at present in flower on plant; we found a most hetero many of the hill-sides in the island,genous collection of plant and animal organioms which had been Climbing for Orchids,

caught, inelading the skeleton of a partly-digested mosquito-larvae.

IGNOMINIOUS BUT

NECESSARY!

How the money will be replaced is more than he can see. Some of the taxes have been collected as much as three years in advance. Certain ly it would not be wise to collect any more!

For these and other reason Mr. Fan Ki Mo has been sent another letter of resignation to the Central Government. A recent resignation was refused by Mr. T. V.. Soong who asked him to do the best he could with the job. The Finance Commissioner is said to be deter mined to rid himself of the task, but so far no reply to his second resignation, has been forthcoming from "Nanking.

NOT APPROVED.

(Wah Taz Yat Pao).

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SHANGHAI, Oct. 31. Mr. T. V. Soong, the Finance Minister, has refused to accept the second resignation tendered by Mr. Fan. Ki Mo the Finance Commig sioner of Kwangtung.

“TO CRUSH THE IRONSIDES."

60TH DIVISION SENT NORTH.

ORDERS TO DEAL” WITH "REDS" CANCELLED,

[FROM OUR OWN CODEPONDENT.]

CANTON, October 31. The 60th Division, under General Tsoi Ting Kai, which was to have left Wuchow for the East River dis tricts yesterday morning, is stili in Kwangst, the Higher Command

at the last moment. The troops and supplies which had already embark-

ed.

trition became enforced, but a pre- secution under either of the above counts would now be possible.

The Hon. Mr. J. P. Bragi asked whether the insertion of the wards

into the Colony" would not jeo- bring, or cause to be "brought, pardise junks masters who might Perhaps have no knowledge that the girl who was travelling with an- other person was a muí ésai.

Sir Joseph Kemp replied that the insertion of the phrase or cause to be brought made the law apply to those persuns who might attempt to evade it by getting somebody else to bring the girl into the Colony, He did not think that junk masters would be endangered unnecessarily, as the onus would be upon the Crown to prove that the person who was charged with the offence actual, ly had guilty knowledge."

His Excelledey agreed, and point- ed out to Mr. Braga that, if his line of argument was adopted, it might mean the addition of many other provisos which onerate the driver of a car or the driver of a train. He thought the

made

the Attorney-General had matter quite clear, and he could

would ex-

be brought against a junkmaster or anybody else without good grounds. After the Legislative Council meeting concluded, a meeting of the Finer.ce Committee was presided over by the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.), and the Supplementary Estimates, details of which appeared in our last issue, were passed.

This evening I wish to describe one of the many climbs I have taken in search of these beautiful and curious plants.

Nerve Naoded.

A Cainess barber was charged he- fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with assaulting a fellow-barber and caus- ing him bodily harm.

On September 28 complainant came to the defendant's shop whilst he was at work, and the defendant- who was holding a razor in bia hand-turned round, suddenly and cut the complainant rather severely. Defendant now realised the serious. neas of his action, and wished to apologise.

Sub-Inspector James told the Magistrate that the police had made enquiries and were satisfied that defendant had been assaulted by complainant who inflicted, a wound in defendant's side with a pair of scissors. He pointed out, however, that had it not been for the careful nursing and attention which com- plainant received at the hospital he would have died.

I reach an overhanging rock and When next you cross the harbourlift up my dog, and with great care to Kowloon, if you glance back at follow, him; a slip would spell dis- Victoria Peak you will see, immed-aster. Presently we arrive at a iately to the West of Glenealy, more shady portion of the cliff. The precipitous face of smooth rock. A rocks are much larger, and trees little higher up, and a little furare growing in between them. ther to the West, the mountain-side Here ете two more species of is still precipitous, but here the orchids, one is Pholidota chinensis, surface of the granite is marred this is an orchid with pseudo or and weathered, and affords a pre-false bulbs 11 inches long, and broad carious foothold for the cliff eliptical leaves four to six inches climber,

in length The flowers, which are Some of you may be fond of rock small, are of a beautiful creamy. climbing; well, try that cliff next white colour, and are borne, 7-13, time you have a morning to spare; on pendulus sleader spike in April. some of you may not enjoy such The other orchid is Diploprora streanous exercise, and yet might championi; this orchid has no that grow on such a slope. To you stem with two rows of leaves. The like to see the interesting plants false bulbs, but possesses a pérennial I say, accompany me there during flowers are smail, pale yellow in FUNERAL OF MRS. BENSEN. these few minutes in may search for colour, and open in March. Three or four are borne on a short, stiff, Epiphytic orchids.

horizontally-held flowering shoot.

The Magistrate imposed a fine of $90, and also ordered defendant to pay compensation to the complain- ant of 85. Both parties were bound

over.

SHAMEEN RESIDENT BURIED IN HONG KONG,

It is September 20; the weather not think that a prosecation would has been a little trying recently, We leave the wet, rocky, wooded

fallen, so the air is clean and sweet. tion of the climb. The hillside is The death occurred on the 9th but this morning heavy rain has face and enter the penultimate scc- My dog, Claude, needs some exer- no longer precipitous and is cover-ultima at Shamees, Canton, of cise, and as he is an excellent cliffed by a dense jungle of bamboos Mrs. J. Benson from heart failure. climber. I invite him to accompany from fire to eight feet in height. Mrs. Benson was 18 years of age, me along the forestry path which Forcing one's way through this and was a well-known resident of Glenenly. Here we are, at the foot the expenditure of much energy: Colony for nearly 30 years. During leads from above the University to almost impenetrable thicket requires Hong Kong, having lived in the of the face of precipitous rock: Few orchids grow in such environ- the past two years Mrs. Beason water is pouring over it and itment, and I saw no plants what lived in Shameen with her daugh would be foolhardy to attempt at ever.

ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. direct assent over this glistening

C. E. Watson. surface. Over there, in a crevice in the rock, is a patch of the beautiful Bamboo orchid, Arundina chinensis, in full flower: its rose-coloured petals and purple lip nod to me

risk it.

The campaign against the rabble in the East River districts is to be left to Major-General Chiang

are at Swatow. It is thought that the Communists could not do very much damage and that to dispatch

Six Species in Three Hours,

Mrs. Benson also leaves two sons The final stage consists of a steepin Hong Kong, & son in South climb over weathered granite bould- Africa, and a daughter in England. crs, but here orchids grow in pro-

The Funeral fussion. Besides some of the species

The coffin was brought to Hong on Wednesday night by the September-Blowering Coclagune fim. briata. This orchid is somewhat place at the Protestant Cemetery, like. Pholidota in general appear Happy Valley, yesterday evening. We make a flank attack, my dog sate, but the pecude, bulbs and The Rev. C. B. Shaan, officiated. and I, and ascend the west of sido leaves are smaller, and the leaves Presently are more acutely pointed. This of the granite slope.

Kwang Nazi whose headquarters across the rocks and beckon me to already mentioned hers grows the Bon; the funeral taking

Dificult Work.

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large force against them not necessary at the present time. They are believed to be in lengue with having changed its original plana the "Ironsides," but it is the "Iron-which water pours in an unceasing a short, upright stalk. The flowers and son-in-law) as chic mourners,

sides" whom Canton have to fear.

The Min Kuo Doily News, the cascade. Above me on my left is an are larger, about size of the end- Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Stapleton, Mr. ed on a fleet of junks were sent official organ of the Cantos Kuo- possible way, but only just pose yellow, or yellow-brown in colour, P. Leafcstey, Mr. J. F. Saunders, unclimbable cliff, but there is a joint of a little finger, and are C. Kew, Mr. A. W. Smith, Mr. F. back to Wechow, and the order that, mintang, states to-day that every-ible, along a crack in which I might with a brown lip. four trains should stand by to thing is ready to meet the Iron-with difficulty ascend. I decide to

Mr. R. Drude, Mr. W. Goldenburg, transport the troops from Tai Sha sides." The northern border of

At last we arrive at Lugard Mr. C. Mackenzie, Mr. H. P. Har Tan to Cheung Muk Tau was also Kwangtung and Kwangsi is well attempt it, and climb up a wet and Road; I possess not a square inch ris, Mr. Wallace Hansen, Mr. cancelled. The latest information protected, some five or six divisions my crevice preparatory to at- of dry clothing on my person-it J. Carroll, Mrs. and Miss B. Brags, available states that these troops of troops being there. The thing to tempting to traverse, the precipitous had been a raining hard during Mr. and Mrs. F. O. D. Gourdin, are moving up towards Pinglok and do now, according to the author: bramble shoot has entwined around Claude, a bundle of wet fur, is Carroll, Mrs. Passmore, and In- face, Yow a beastly, prickly, the morning' you remember-and Mrs. E. Abraham and Miss Edza Kwailin on the Fu River where the itics, to wait for the attack and "Ironsider" are reported to be to crush the enemy.

my right arm grasp a sapling tired out. We have spent three spector C. Paine. Mra. Besson's advancing Evidently the Higher

with my left hand in order to free hours on the mountain face, and amah and boy were also pro. Command considers it more import been further strengthened by the Caesalphinin bush. On my left I none of them rare, but we hare en-

The North River defences have my right, and find that it is a spiny have only seen six species of orchids, sent. ant to concentrate against the 135th Regiment of the 83rd Division, can make out some patches of joyed qurselves, and my mind is "Ironsides" on the Hunan-Kwang which left Canton for Yingtak yes orchids, so I disentangle myself reinvigorated and ready for the si-Kwangtung border than to deal terday. Thin Regiment is command-with difficulty and ascend left. The work of the week, I only hope that with the less formidable Communisted by Col. Wong In Ching who was larger patch is composed of the you, who have listened to this talk hordes in the East River districts. formerly stationed in the East River small, pale yellow leaved Bullo are not as exhausted mentally as (Continued at foot of next column). Į districts.

phyllum radiatum, a plant which we were physically.

Those present were Messrs. H. Ben- son and O. Benson. (sons) and Mr. we arrive at a narrow ledge over orchid bears one or two flowers on and Mrs. C. E. Watson (daughter

Mother, from her sorrowing sons Wreaths were. "To Our Darling and daughters" "One Dearest Nana, from her grand-children,"

Nancy, Lory sad Edna," "Fred- die and Mabel," "Totsie," and "Lollie and Marie."

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