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HONG KONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION

Steady Growth In Membership

The Prime Minister has ap- NEW

pointed a Committee of Economic Advisory Council under the chair- manship of Eati de la Warr to study questions of nutrition the Colonial empire. "British Wireless

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used virtuously according to the well-accepted standards of con- duct.

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CHALLENGE CUPS TO BE

PRESENTED

A Meeting of the Council of the Hong Kong Rifle Association was held last evening at the Hong Kong Hotel at which the fol- lowing were present:-

Major R. D. Walker, M.C., President (in the chair), Comman- der A. N. Grey, RN. (Fleet Gunnery. Officer), Capt. Carless, R.M. Dr. Y. S. Wan, Messrs. E. H. Woodman, G. RatchfTe, 3. D. Pat- tullo, A. C. Ford, W. Austin, T. G. Stokes (Honorary Treasurer) and Major D. H. Steers (Honorary Secretary).

UNSIGHTLY

POSTERS

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Canton, Oct. 30.

In order to Improve the present. untidy appearance of the main streets and open spaces of Canton City, and the walls of shops and buldings, which are permanendy disigured by unsightly advertising bills and posters, Mr. Li Kit-chl. Superintendent of the City Police, has issued a notification to the effect that beginning from' Novem- ber 1 next, all owners and occu- plers of shops and houses must- remove hl unsightly bills and posters from the walls of their houses, and see that such walls are always kept clean and tidy. instructed to vigorously prosecute any further offenders.- Chinese Brening Presa.

the serving Volunteer making the next highest.aggregate. The Com- mandant also drew attention to the fact that the Corps is affiliat- ing to the Association for the sec- ond year in succession, and that

ed in, 1843, or the present Republi- can laws of China), must assume at their Prize Meeting next April, importance with the lapse of time. the regulations for shooting as I may be that prior to the Re- laid down in the HKRA Year-volution, when China, with her Book, would, be observed in all unchanging laws and customs, was competitions.

We are aware that instances The minutes of the last Meet cellency The General Officer Com-the Police of the City having been, are not wanting where the Pressing and also those of the Specialmanding's Cup will be awarded to Las missed

Meeting held on October 17th were its well-earned

read and confirmed, after which power, but we know of

ao, in the Honorary Secretary reported stance in the long and tem- that as regards the construction of estuous history of the Press the Clubhouse, this was now well where there has been such

in hand, and that it was hoped that the nauseating manifestation of bad take place, either at the end of official opening would" taste as one which smutted the November, or in the early part of journalistic escutcheon yesterday December. In connection with this in this very Colony.

building. the offer of the China Light and Power Company Ltd. to arrange a supply of electric cur- proved of members of the China The Council unanimously ap rent for both lighting and power Fleet, who are not borne on the purpose at a considerable

cost books of HMS. "Tamar,"paying to themselves, but free of cost to

half the usual rate of subscription cepted. as was that of the Con-

for individual full membership.

The offer Kadoorie

There appeared, under bold headlines, a cabled report by a foreign news-agency. concerning the application for a divorce by foreign woman in a British court.

The

the Association, was gratefully ac-

more fact of this crete Products Ltd, to defray the

application which affected the lives of two people did not merit journalistic attention, but that application was brazenly linked. up with certain references, in- decent by innuendo, to the King, who, officially and personally, symbolises the unity of the greatest Empire known to his- tory.

It must be noted that this re- Rev. C. BR. Sargent, head-port purported to emanate from master of the Diocesan Boys Britain; it must also be noted School..

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''news-iden" whatsoever apper taining to the aforementioned case.

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HUNG KONG, OCTOBER, 37, 1936.

BAD TASTE

Whether in the case of an Individual or

to

ade-

in a static state of intense conser- the local Legislature was vatism, the provisions made by quate. But now that the Republic is struggling to introduce modern laws to regulate her teeming mil- lions, many of the old laws and of Mr. Lawrence customs must gradually disappear, present a Silver

if they have not already disap

entire cost of the concrete stair-Challenge Cup, and replica, to the way to the building from the 600 competitor taking first place in the pastd. and its opportune yards ring-point.

It was also reported that dona- ell Meeting were more than suff- tions received since the last Coun-

clent to defray the cost of the necessary turfing in front of the site, the installation of a water supply, and the necessary excava- tion of earth at the rear of the

building. Another offer te. that of the General Electric Company Ltd to wire the entire building. for electric power and light, at a cost much below the normal was The

also gratefully accepted. Honorary Secretary was authorised to allow the contractor to proceed with the foul drainage system, and to put same in hand as early as

possible.

The Honorary Secretary reported that the individual full member- ship" up to, and including yester- day, was 453.

RANGE ACCOMMODATION. The matter of range accom- modation during week-ends came up for discussion, and it was

agreed to leave the matter in the hands of the President for the present.

A letter was read from the Com-

mandant of the Hong Kong Volun- omeer stated that His Excellency teer Defence Corps in which, this The General Officer Commanding was kindly presenting & Silver the serving Volunteer making the, Challenge Cup to be awarded to highest score in the competition for His Excellency The Governor's

Prize, with the one quallication that if the latter prize is won by

a serving Volunteer, than His Ex-

COLONY'S

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Bilver

"All-Comers Aggregate" was re- ceived with the sincere thanks of all members of the Council-

The Honorary Secretary explain ed the Conditions of Shooting under which the "Faro" Challenge Tankard; and replica, la to be competed for. and mention- ed that these closely follow those obtaining at home in the case of the "British Hundred Roll"

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to

to

consider the question as to what enactments can be made declara- tory of the law to be applied to Chinese in specified cases, so that the law to be applied may ap- proximate more closely to the mo- dern Chinese laws, and so as to give" certainty

many points either still obscure or can only be affecting Chinese life, which are

ascertained by a judicial decision on condicting expert evidence, RULING APPROVED "I

The speaker then touched on a The Council unanimously ap- few Ordinances which specifically proved of the ruling already given affect Chinese and sald by the Captain of Shooting to the

a few words on the important questions effect that all Individual full mem-

of Marriage and bers who arrive on the firing-point touched on the kindred question Divorce, and in time to shoot in the first de-

of Concubines. "As to what con- tail, shall have precedence over

stitutes a all affiliated members.

valid marriage, the On the

speaker said, this involves const- other hand, no individual full deration of certain essential re- member has any right whatsoever.quisites, such as or will be allowed, to shoot out capacity, kindred or annity, as age, mental of his turn at 500, and 600 yards, well as the form of ceremony. and any individual fall member Generally the capacity to marry is who arrives on the fring-point governed by the laws of late, does so on the clear under domicile of each of the parties to standing that his chances of the marriage, while the form of shooting, when the ranges are con-

ceremony is governed entirely by gested, are likely to be problema- the law of the place in which the tical, and that he must take his turn with all the niliated mem-.

marriage takes place.. But, the bers who have arrived before him. nothing in the Ordinance to say speaker pointed out, there is It was also unanimously decided that a marriage according to Chi- produced by the Honorary Secre- law to all intents and purposes. by the Council that the booklet.

nese law and custom is valid in tary for circulation to all prospec In the Marriage Ordinance, and in tive individual full members should be published without delay, and

various provisioris in various Or- that copies should be sent to the marriage is assumed rather than dinances, the validity of a Chinese Honorary Secretaries of all Am-

expressed. liated Rifle Clubs, and a special supply to the Fleet Gunney Officer,

China Fleet.

The meeting then closed.

LAWS RELATING TO THE CHINESE

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the

Touching on the point of Divorce, the speaker said that under the Civil Code a husband and wife may effect a divorce by mutual consent in writing in the presence of two witnesses. It will there- fore by seen that Chinese who are domiciled in Hong Kong" cannot get a divorce at all under their own laws. Where the "divorce. takes the form of a divorce by mutual consent it will be a ques- tion for judicial decision as to whether such 3. divorce is re- cognised as valid by the Supreme Court in Hong Kong. The ques- tion of domicile, the Hon. Mr. Lo pointed out, is a very important emcacious way than by leaving it inheritance, and the jurisdiction one; as it alects succession and to be proved by expert evidence of the Court to grant a divorce. The fact that, in Hong Kong, the

Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo's Observations

LECTURE AT

UNIVERSITY

We are pleased to cali sur- selves here an intensely British Colony", yet, whilst the British Press, with a decorum which should be accepted as a universal precedent, refrained from drag- ging the name of the Monarch into the mire of domestic squab- ble, a newspaper in this Colony saw fit to pablish the speculative report of a foreign news-agency which detrimentally referred to The conduct of one whose person and position alike are regarded an organisation, by Britishers as sacroscant. there is an accepted code of con- The principal factor in giving duct in which the line of demar-currency to vituperate and irrea cation between the spheres of ponsible rumour is the willing. good and bad taste is very clearly ness of some people to believe delinested. The line is there; it without proof what their pre- is known and it is observable by judices, or even hatreda, would all. It is no fiction. Not to make them like to believe. We know it or not to recognise it are proud and grateful that the cannot be accepted as a Bound British Press, and the Press of plea in mitigation of the per- the world with one nauseating petration of an act which, accord- exception, has not erred in this ing to the universally accepted connection. We are disgusted INTERESTING code of decent conduct, ia de- that s section" of the Hong Kong finitely in bad taste. We are Press has so blatentie lent itself reminded of the famous dictum to the furthering of international by that great British jurist, scandal-mongering. Blackburn, "Ignorance of the. NOTICE IS HEREBY law is no excuse".

To us the publication of that last night when the Hon. Mr, M. running between Kowloon and ¦ GIVEN that an INTERIM

report represente the unplumbed sorbing interest to members and Chinese constitute about 97 per Regarding the question of Con- Canton and vice versa..

DIVIDEND OF 15s. (Fifteen

There is no defined law as to depth of journalistic infamy.

friends of the Hong Kong Univer-cent of the population, the speak-cubines, the speaker said that the Tenders will be closed at 5.00. Shillings) per Share on account not to be found in Statutes or on another occasion, when those being "Some observations on the special provision,

taste.

By that we mean, it is We still vividly recollect that sity Arts Association, bis subjecter thought, would ment some bosition of a concubine has been of the year. 1936 has

judicially recognised by the Hong 1936, and may be deposited in declared "payable on FRIDAY/egulations. But yet it is as whom we desired to honour and the Chinese" Mr Cheng Yur decisions on the laws applicable to tribunal, namely, the Privy Coun- Laws of the Colony in relation to There have been various judicial Kong Courts, and by the highest the tender boxes at either Kow 20th NOVEMBER, 1936, on clearly defined as any act, and it befriend came officially to our rue, chairman, introduced the Chinese in regard to such matters cil, That position, together with and after which date Dividend the ultimate, imply a Colony, this same section of the speaker of the evening who ad- as succession on an Inestacy to the legitimacy of the spring of Tenders will be opened and Warrants may be obtained ou We' are well aware that the pro-/nalism to the gutter-level of was not able to give this talk take grant of letters of Adminig. 1.very old custom in China, which

matter of breeding and education. Hong Kong Press dragged jour-dressed the meeting and said he leaseholds, right of a widow to application at flie Society's Registered Office, Union Buildverbial sow's car can never be seductive sensationalism by pu sooner on account of pressure of tration, the position of a Kit Fat has been swept away by the laws Tin Fong, Tsu Mo, concubine, and of the Chinese Republic. In deni- ing Hong Kong.

made into a silken purse, just as blishing an article which could be The Hon. Mr. M X. Lo salda widow who had remarried, inng with this question of Concu NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO We realise that national or in calculated to cause naught but that in so far as the local laws relation to the right to a grant of bines, the speaker said that a con- GIVEN

dividual conduct cannot be dra embarrassment to the SHARE

hosts and apply. Chinese law or custom in letters. of Administration. All cubine's rights are still governed TRANSFER BOOKS of the gooned by enactment,

guests alike. It represented any particular case, the nature such cases involved the calling or by the Chinese laws and customs and effect of the Chinese law or elaborate and conflicting expert It is reasonable to state that most unworthy piece of journa custom must be proved as a tact evidence on Chinese law and cus- Full use was made of the op-

1841 Society will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 9th NOVEMBER, the power of the Press was never listic impertinence; but it pales by competent witnesses. And tom, and very expensive litigation portunity to question, the speaker with this, "foreign, law"" is also regarded by The Hon Mr. Lo pointed out on numerous points covered by the BER, 1936, Both Days in-

we refer to power it is latest example of bad clusive,

appropriate that we cite that wherein that lone figure, refact, and has to be similarly prov-cult to And the necessary experts readily responding

A hearty vote of thanks propos- great saying, "It is glorious to verenced and beloved by millions ed. The locol Legislature cats, of to prove a law or custom which

course, - prescribe how any foreign have been a so fundaments lived by the president, Mr. T. A. Mar- have a giant's strength; it is within and without his Empire, law can be ascertained.

changed and affected by the laws tin, was carried by acclamation tyrannons to misuse it. The is made to appear t as a cheap The calling of expert evidence to of the Chinese Republie and brought an extremely interest power of the Press is virtually alley-crawler and libertine,

prove. Chinese law or custom may The speaker added, the questioning meeting to a close, those pre- Hong Kong, 7th Oct., 1936, giant's strength, but that We disassociate ourselves en-es expensive matter, and the as to what laws of China should sent then adjoining to the tea-

speaker felt, the local Legislature he applied to Chinese in Hang room where light refreshments 4787 strength is only real when it is tirely from auch journalism.

should deal with the question of Hong (whether those which exist- I were derved,

Tenders are invited by the two. Administrations of the Canton. Kowloon Railway for the privi lege of selling liquor and refresh.

ments on the Through Trains

p.m. on Monday, 9th November,

loon or Tal Sha Tou stations.

read at · 7.30 p.m, on Tuesday, 10th November, 1936, at the Kowloon Head Office,

Forms of tender and regula tions may be obtained from the Head Offices at Canton or Kow. -loon.

The Administrations,

CANTON-KOWLOON:

RAILWAY,

Chinese and British

Sectious.

28th October, 1936.

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NOTICE TO SHARE. HOLDERS

that

been

The Union Assembly Hal at the University was filled to capacity

K Lo delivered. an address of ab-

work.

Chinese law and custom in a more

a concubine, depended upon a

of

to THURSDAY, 19th NOVEM, | KrEster than it is to-day, and into insignificance taste the English law as a question of that it would be increasingly dim-' subject, the Hon Mr. ME L

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