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AMAZING INCIDENT IN PARLIAMENT.

M.P. SEIZES THE MACE

NO PRECEDENT.

MACE NOT TOUCHED SINCE

CROMWELL'S ORDER.

Parliamentarians say that never

CAUGHT AT THE BAR BY ATTENDANT. before in the long history of Par-

liament has an M.P. seized the

NANNING STILL HOLDS OUT.

BISHOP OF MACÃO IN HONG KONG,

RECEPTION BY CLUB LUSITANO.

ATTACKED FROM TWO SIDES.

da Costa

There has been little change in: the military situation in Kwangai

mace in the House of Commons. A farewell reception' was held at 'KWANGSI TROOPS RECAPTURE The Speaker of the House of The unannounced figures of the ear

KWEIHSIEN. Commons on July 17 had his first hier division had been very dif- During the war a "stranger," Mr.the Club Lusitano yesterday in experience since he was, elected to ferent for the suspension of Mr. F. N. Charrington, the temperance honour of the Bishop of Macao, the the chair two years ago of the Brockway 260, against se. Mr. advocate, who had escaped the Right Rev. Dom Jose ritual"of "naming a member, and Beckett had not returned to the vigilance of doorkeepers, rushed Nunes, who is returning to Por before, he had done he found it ne Chamber, but the Speaker's direc- P the floor of the House and at-tugal by the as Harana Maru to during the past week, Nanning is cessary to pame" two. But the tion that he should retire from the tempted to interfere with the mace, day with a break of the journey still in the hands of the Kwangsi at Rome. There was a large atton- troops. The pro-Nanking troops circumstances of the two cases were House at once comprehended its but was prevented from doing so

by the attendanta According to dance, and among those present from Yunnan, which were dispatch- widely different, on being quite remotest precincts.

Suspension for a first offence authorities on the subject the last were His Lordship Bishop Valed by order of the Nanking Govern- seemly throughout and the other

occasion which the mace was ac- torta, Rev. Father D. MacDonald, having no redeeming feature what lasts for five days"

ever.

Question On India.

J. Brown's unsuccessful protest Mr. Fenner Brockway was 'very earlier in the sitting (which threa- much annoyed at the Prime Ministened to lead to his suspension) ter's second refusal of a debate in against the apparently harsh treat ment of a boy of eight by an Essex bench may have had something to do with generating the heated at mosphere which made the later scere possible.

Was

It should be added that Mr. Wtually lifted from the table of the Rev. Father Naval, the Rev. Pro-ment to co-operate with the Can- on curator of the French Mission, Mr. tonese moved in two directions. from Lungehow and Poseb Inst House by illegal handa'

month to attack Nanning. Last. April 20, 1853, when Cromwell dis-S. Silva-Netto (President, Club solved the Long Parliament and Lusitano). Madame D. Maria Annaweek, they besieged the city bud ordered one of his soldiers to take Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa (wife had to retreat when Kwangsi re-

of H.E. the Governor of Macao), inforcementa arrived from Liuchom ‹ away "that bauble.".

Mr. MacDonagh, in his Hfe of Madame Silva-Netto, Mr. Cervoira They are now making another attack.

upon the city. William O'Brien, gives details of Alburquerque (Portuguese Consul: Irish Nationalist members' General), Comdr. Nogueira and an plot nearly thirty years ago to Sub-Lieut. Diniz (Adamastar), carry of the mace and fling it Bro. Aimar, Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. (ex-Treasurer, Macno), into the river. That plot was frus-Tinoco

Fresidents of Soccorros Mutuos trated by Mr. T. P. O'Connor.

Club do Recreio, Catholic Union Club, Societe Philharmonica, and Liga Portuguesa,

the House on India before the re- eess, and the Conservative, exas perated him by loudly cheering this refusal, having apparently forgot. ten that their own friends have gr ranged for lucha debato in the House of Lords next week. Mr. Brockway protested that he could not remain silent, and held up all the questions subsequent to his own, by continuing to demand the de-bell Stephen (Glasgow). The tel- Messis W. J. Brown bate be desired.

(West Wolverhampton) and John McGovora (Glasgow).

The four M. P.s who voted against the suspension of Mr. Beckett were Messrs A. W. Hayedik (West Sal ford), John Kinlay. (Bootle), Elijah Sandham (Liverpool), and Camp

lers were

MR. BECKETT ON HIS OFFENCE.

"I WAS BOILING."

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It is a matter of a controversy among experts, whether any part of the Cromwell bauble" forms

Mr. Silva-Netto, on behalf of part of the mace which is in the House to-day. Viscount Ullswater, Club Lusitano and those. present, who was Speaker of the House of thanked his Lordship for the great Commons for many years, has de-services rendered to the Portuguese elared, after close examination of community while he was a member the records of the House, that "the of the Legislative Council in Macao conclusion seems fally borne out by and in other. directions. the evidence that the shaft of the House of Commons mace is the Mr. John Beckett and Mr. Fen-identical one made by Maundy in ner Brockway, subsequently ex-' plaiped their actions. Mr. Beckett 1549, removed by Cromwell in 1653, used by the Barebones Parliament 1853, kept by Sergeant-at-Arms Bishopp, restored and altered by bim 1660, restored to use as alter- ed by the Commons and still used." The mace is of silver gilt, measures just over 14lb.

The Speaker expostulated with him, urged him to resume his seat, reminded him that question-time is not the time for speeches, and in- dicated the other available oppor- tunities. Finally, Mr. Brockway still speaking, the Speaker warned him that he would have to name him for disregarding the authority of the Chair, and this, having as little effect as patient expostula-

"For fourteen months we have tions and appeals, he did name But in the House of Commons all him to the House.

hours of the night wasting time The Prime Minister, accordinglistening to senile statesmen scor- ing futile debating points off one to the procedure provided for such another.. Wiht a Labour. Govern cases, moved that Mr. Brockwayment in power it is impossible to

said:-

The Portuguese Consul General and Bishop Valtorta also spoke and wished his Lordship a safe voyage.

As it is not expected that the Yunnanese alone will be able to capture Nanning, in view of their being poorly equipped, the Canton field beadquarters in Wuchow bave dispatched two regiments to attack the town from the east,

Fighting is raging to the north of Kweilin, which city was recently occupied by the Cantonese. It is expected that the Kwangsi forces in. this section will fall back on Liu- chow.

Fall of Kwalhalen.

According to a reliable report from Wuchow, Kweihsien has been «. re-captured by the Kwangsi troops. It appears that the garrison troops there were recently dispatched to In reply, his Lordship thanked suppress banditry in Watlan, and the gathering for the great honour the Kwangsi troops taking advan- a high tage of "the withdrawal, attacked accorded to him and paid tribute to the loyalty of the For the city which subsequently fell into their hands. Kweihsien, which tuguese community,

is to the east of Nanning, is an important strategic point on the

be suspended from the service of get a working-class viewpoint ex 4ft. 10 in. in length, and weighs REFUSED. TO GO TO. GAOL! upper reaches of the West River.

the House. A number of Labour members challenged a division, and while the Government Whips, Mr. Parkinson and Mr. Baracs, told for the suspension, Mr W. Jmanlike slumbers.. Brown, of Wolverhampton, and Mr. John Beckett, of Peckham, were the tellers against.

Pressed in the House of Commons, as the business of the House is getü!! ed by the three Front Benches, who are in close conspiracy to prevent the sharp wind of reality piercing the comfortable states-

Members Astounded.

MAXIMUM SENTENCE ON CHILD-STEALERS.

The maximum sentence of one

year's hard labour was passed on two Chinese women

who were

A Symbol of Authority. The mace is a sort of sacred. symbol of the House of Commons, and members are described as 'hav- "I took the method of protesting shuddered when they saw one did quite spontaneously. When I got to the table in front of the of their number lay hands upon Mace I was boiling with indigna- it. The mace is the symbol of the charged at Kowloon Magistracy Speaker's office and of Parlia- yesterday with unlawfully detain- ment's authority. It is laid before ing an eight months old child with the Speaker on the table when he the intention of depriving it of its is in the chair. It accompanies mother. him. borne by the Sergeant-at- Arms, wherever he goes in his capacity as Speaker.

tion.

The Labour Government will be faced with many such protests while it continues to ape its so called betters Lord Tom Noddy nay cut a gracious figure. in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas. I stood by my friend in a protest against an effete Parliamentary system, and so far as I am concerned that is the end of the matter.".

"It is reported that another Kwangsi general, Luk Fook Cheung, has declared for the Cantonese who are now. quartered at Wuming and.. Sheunglam. They have instructed the Cantonese Commander-in-Chief to attack the Kwangsi rebels at Punyung. ***

BIAS BAY PIRATES ATTACKED.

CANTON MARINES CAPTURE TWO MEN

A raid was recently made by Cantonese naval forces on a pirate lair at Biag Bay and two pirates were captured.

Outlining the case for the pro- secution, Mr J. Barrow, of the S.C.A., stated the mother, a young woman from the country, took her child to the Colony for the purpose

In view of the revival of the of selling it in order to obtain activities of the pirates, the Canton funds for her husband's medical Naval Headquarters dispatched the After being introduced gunboat On Pak on Wednesday last expenses. to the defendants by a reintive, it to the Bay with two companies of was arranged that the child should marines on board: be sold by them on behalf of the mother.

The mace plays a prominent part in all ceremonial occasions in the House. At the opening of Parliament when the new Speaker is to be selected the mace is in #isible at first and is not finally placed in position until the Speaker has taken his seat. When just after his election the Speaker en- ters the Upper House, surrounded

The child was taken away by the by members of the Commons, the fact that his election has not yet first defendant, and although the mother indicated her desire to wit- been confirmed by the Crown is

ness the transaction, she was not signified by the manner in which the mace is carried by the Ser- allowed to do so, the second de geant-at-Arms It is act borne fendant intimating that she would over his shoulder, but rests in the stand as guarantor for the first de- bollow of his arm. After the Lords Commissioners have assured theAfter waiting for the return of Speaker of the royal approval the the first defendant for several hours, the roother reported the mace is raised to the shoulder.

An astounding incident occurred as the four tellers came to the table to announce the figures of the the division. A bush fell upon Chamber in expectation of the an nouncement, but before it could be made Mr. Beckett, who has been a member for some years, exclaimed,

Mr. Brockway's Statement. "Mr. Speaker, it's a damned dis- grace,"

Mr. Fenger Brockway, speaking put forth his hands, and lifted the mace from the table at Birmingham, said he disobeyed the ruling of the Speaker, with re- Carrying it horizontally, he turn-luctance, both personal and poli. ed round and walked away with tical with personal reluctance be it so casually that no one immedi. cause the Speaker had not only ately realised, what had happened been fair but generous in his treat ment of the new and younger mem As he approached, the bar he got hers of the House on the back hen- the mace into a more convenient ches, and with political reluctance because, generally speaking, he and more perpendicular position did not believe that the method of for carrying, and just, at or beyond scenes advanced any political the bar an attendant stepped in cause. "It was only from an im. front of him and stopped him. The perative urge arising from my re alisation of the seriousness of the Sergeant-at-Arms seized the mace situation in India that I took the from him, and falling into the action I did I felt that it was intolerable that the British House ald routine, marched up the floor of Commons should rise for its carrying it back ceremoniously and summer recess without some of replaced it on the table. The portunity being given in that As

Mr. Charrington's Escapade.. whole incident occupied but asembly responsible for what is.

happening in India for a discus

Mr. F. N. Charrington, the so- minute, and there was very little sion of the situation there, and I other disorder surrounding it, felt that the fact that an agree. tial worker and temperance refor members being too much surprised ment had been apparently reached mer, who gave up his share in the by the three party leaders in the family brewery to work in the East to act or, at first, to shout. House was still greater reason End, made his invasion of the When the shouting burst forth for allowing some expression of House of Commons, as a protest the incident was over, and the the point of view of a private mem. against the proposed nationalisa

tion of the liquor trade. Speaker, though the figures of theber in that Assembly.

Mr. Charrington, who this year. division had never been announced,

celebrated his eightieth birthday, was directing Mr. Brockway to

in-an-interview said:

leave the Hoo. This the mag ber for the Leyton Division did forth with, courteously expressing his

"If the House of Commons, its proceedings, its discussions, and ita decisions are to be controlled by agreements between party leaders then the democracy, and the liberty of the House of Commons is itself

destroyed,

fendant

The powers of the Sergeant-a-matter to the police, who after Arms, who carries the mace, are wards arrested the defendants in a vast. Ho can arrest any person house in Ki Lung Street, the first, anywhere and can break into any defendant having the child on her private residence between sunrise back at the time, child on, and sunset. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

"There was no time to protest through the Press and there nothing else to do but some 'de

Acting upon information that the pirates' were living at Chunli Village, the marines went, ashore and proceeded to the village. On their approach the pirates, about fifty in number, fled and were fred on by the marines. All the pirates, excent two, made good their escape. to the mountains. The two cap- tured outlaws were taken to Canton by the gunboat.

PROSECUTION FAILS.

WINE SHOP ASSISTANT DISCHARGED.

A Chinese wine-shop assistant acquitted by Mr. T. S. Whyte- Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy

His Worship convicted the de fendants and sentenced them to one year's hard labour. At this stage, the first defendant told his Worship that she would not go to prison

false information regarding the unless he (the Magistrate) also sent Yesterday on a charge of giving to gaol the complainant and her number of jars of wine he received. relative who introduced them be-At the previous hearings evidence cause she stated the child did not was given to the effect that the de- belong to them.

EUROPEAN CAUTIONED.

BREACH OF LEARNER-

DRIVER'S LICENCE.

fendant, when asked by revenue officers how many jars of wine he received, replied that he had re- ceived twenty. jars from the Wins Chan distillery, when in reality he hdd, only received ten

MI BA. Taylor, Assistant Superintendent of the Imports and. Exports Office, prosecuted, and Mr. T. G. Bennett was for the de- fences for th

sperate act that would attract the respect for the Chair as ho, depart "So far as Incha is concerned attention of the public. I decided

At Kowloon Magistracy yester ed. Mr. Beckett, who had come

there is no desire nearer my heart that to move the mace was the back to the middle of the floor from than that a settlement should be best way, and for several nights day, Mr. H. Marriott, of the Kow. At the outset of yesterday's hear- beyond the bar, turned about and reached without the clash and the visited the House to acquaint ury loon Decks, was summoned for ing Mr. Taylor told his Worship walked out with Mr. Brokway.

conflict which is now taking place.self with the procedure and ar- breach of his motor car learner's that since the last hearing enquiries A Contrast In

I am perfectly sure that the Se-range my entry. Then on the licence, namely, driving along had proved that there was no doubt Divisions.

cretary of State for Indin would evening itself I called my member Castle Peak Road during prohibited whatever that the labels on the twenty jars were issued from the Then the Speaker named Mr. acknowledge that I have striven from the House and asked the way hours.

Cheung Tim, driver of the car, Wing Chan' Distillery, to the To Beckett for disorderly conduct, and with right and main to achieve to the inner lobby He pointed it the Prime Minister proposed the conditions under wirich there would out and I walked straight through was also involved in the summons Yuen Wine Shop (defendant's suspension of Mr. Beckett from the be some hope of a round-table con into the House. No one attempted in that he allowed an unlicensed shop), sometime before the day the servica of the House. When theference reaching success, conditions to stop me. I picked up the mace, driver to have control at the revenue officers visited it

The defendant stated that" on question was put only three mem which would allow a settlement to and had commenced protesting wheel her reamed to roll "No and the he obtained. It's only because when three Conservatives and three Both pleaded guilty and the July 21 he received 10 jare of, wine rest of the House shouted "Standsaw that those opportunities are Liberais sized the "and frogmand prosecution told the Court that the from the Wing Chan distillery Be upit drecertifier uiting way and that item from the House, Angiberar belonged to Mr. Marriotts did not tell the revenue officers prevailing sentiment, however, gertion is arising in India the seri member struck me, cutting hry Since the offence fur furrions and War he had voorced to car

His Worship discharged the " để sisted, and there was another divousness of which we at present eye, and to add to my discomfort, qualified for a full driver's licence.

Remarking that he did not think fendant, at the same time remark sion. Mr. McGovern now joined little understand, that I thought they used my head as a battering Mr. WJ Brown in telling against it necessary to take the action Iram to open the doors of the it was a very serious offence, the ing that it was rather doubtful the motion and the figures were did in the House of Commons this House. There I was rescued by Magistrate let both defendants off whether defendant did say SO DE

Foot the police.

with caution. for the suspension 394, against 4. afternoon.”

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