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LONDON LETTER.

Homo Pollties.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY MARCH 18 1912

expenditure of English money for MERRY FUNERAL CRAZE. the amelioration of Ireland and

It has been decided to widen

Notices

HOTEL.

Hotels.

the scope of the competition. To hor impoverished peasantry. So The merry fineral movement restrict it largely to active life in KING EDWARD HONGKONG HOTEL systematic and comprehensive las in Italy is finding favour. Signor the Colony excludes many ama- been this effort at betterment, that Luigi Rossi, postal clerk of Turin, On the eve of the new parlia-the Irish tenant farmer now finds decided that his obsequies should tours who are not yet exporion- mentary session, which bogins himself in the enjoyment of land be of a secular character, with a ced in this class of work. As the this week, the political atmosphoro low privilegos vastly superior to hired brass band to play nothing whole purpose of the competition those prevailing in England or but lively music. All paris to stimulate interest in photo- once more becomes electrically

at the expense of his English fel-wore not only to

surcharged with anticipations of any country in Europe, and this ticipants in the funeral cortege graphy in Hongkong it has been!

hava

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Excellent Cuisine.

H. HAYNES, Manager.

Hangkong, 16th Jan., 1912,

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„great logislativo prónouncements. low taxpayer, The Land Acta drinks, but a couple of cigars felt better to remove all restric

sver, porhaps, since the days of and other remedial legislation apiece, to be smoked-on-route-tion-and-to- the first Gladstonian Home Rule Nationalist of all that constituated carried out punctiliously, thou-Pictures of active life, then, Thoroughly Renovated,

has really robbed the disaffected Rossi's instructions have been Give Everyone a Chance. Bill, has homo politics loomed so the burden of his grievance sands taking part in i procession laying in the public eye, as at against English rapacity and through the streets of the pictures of still life, pictures the present moment. Tho sita- spoliation and deprivoil the ery Piedmontese capital on February recent or pictures taken months

of Ireland for the Irish, of all 5. "Mournors' tion has all the olements that go sincerity and meaning. To the cigars and shouted jolly tunca. Hongkong or pictures taken in puffed their pictures of life or scenes in to the making of a great party student of economics, in the quiet The grotesque procossion was triumph or a national calamity, of his study, the appeal of the headed by the widow, decked out any part of Ching, pictures taken During the recout recoes, the bull Spirit of Empire is audible, much from head to foot in scarlet at Home-any picturo, general or was kept rolling by sporadic de-after the manner of the old unau attire, Siguor Rossi having be- local, may be sent along if it swered prophotic challengo queathed her £1.000 conditional possesses. interest at all. With liverances on Unionist platforms "what could have been done upon her donaing similar gar- the competition of so com- and the pross generally, against nose to my vinegard, that I have ments for 12 months. Another prohensive a character there is a the ineffectiveness of the National not dono in is? In the case of wealthy Turinoso company pro-chance for any amateur photo- lasurando Act to fulfil all the Ireland, Mr. Churchill's answer motor buried the game day left a graphor in Hongkong to win one to the challenge would be, for-large sum of money for a grand of the prizes. The rules of com promises of its promotors and the

sooth, "cast it adrift on the son banquet to all the sharoholders petition appeared in the issue of expectations of the proletariate. of a hopeless self-control." But of his concerns, provided the March 1. On the other hand, however, the why? What evil hath sho done? foast took place on the night of dauntless Chancellor of the Ex-Or,cui bono. What legislative his funeral, chequer, and a few of his sup-benefit, what pastoral advantago, porters are no less confident of the manifold benefits that lie capsulate in his great scheme, which are to burst like showers

what industrial improvement is to be secured to the people by the establishment of a parliament in Dublin? No sufficient answer has yet been given to these vital Are the political questions.

of blessing on the suffering toilers aspirations of a sectional dis- of United Kingdom, during the loyalty to the Crown to be sub

consciousneNS of autonomous

FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS.

A CHANCE FOR EVERY

AMATEUR.

The proprietor of the "Hong- kong Telegraph "has decided to

offer of two prizes for the best photographs submitted to the editor by amateur photographers, during the month.

summer season, or as soon as the served by the sacrifico of organic continue during Marols his perplexed Commissioners are able unity? Is the complacent self- to give effect to the dietatos of an

power to be the Judas sop nil autocratic buromucracy. The

ministered to a handful of Irish general attitudo of the interested irreconcilables for the betrayal of may be roughly summed up in a kingdom? Or have we to look, the phrase "wait and seo." If still deeper for the mysterious the scheme is at all workable, its motives which actuate the rest- obvious defoets can be remedied less demand for dismembermont and the second is one of $5. by further legislation and the and organic separation? Thoss

The first prize is one of

$10

Photographic Competition

Coupon.

March 18, 1912.

I agred to enter the photographic compolition on the express understand- ing that the oditor's de cision shall be final, and that he may, at his disoro- tion, use the print sont herewith either in the "Hongkong Telegraph" or the "Weekly Telegraph."

Namo.......... Address....

residuum of good preserve in a questions arise for judicions i VON RIEGEN'S PATENT

less irritant form. If it proves Vestigation. But what chance is

to be wholly objectionable, as mischievous in its conception as in its application, the act inhy be allowed to go by the board and must bɔ rescinded whon the popular tilo turns in favour of the presont opposition.

Home Rule.

thore of any such consideration in a parliament shorn of its power of debate and emasculated by the abolition of the Lords'-voto ?

Preserve Imperial Unity. The congestion of business ai

FIRE BRIDGE BARS.

Westminster in advanced as one COST OF INSTALLATION QUICKLY ABSORED BY

of the justifiable reasons for Home Rulo. The decontralisation of But whevor the merits, or administrative control, by the ex fortiuo of the Insurance Act, there tension and enlargement of local is no doubt that as a subject of self-government in roland, as local politics, it now taken elsewhere, would make for more second or subordinato place in the effective government and must public thought. The Home Rule

come sooner or lator. Division Bill for Ireland fills the political of responsibility is the secret of horizon and gives pronise of success. Let it come at once, by great scope för local politicians a wise and far-reaching dovolu- to make or mor their parliamention or power in respect of all carcor, local affairs. But why call it tary reputation or Thanks to the versatilo Churchill Tomo Rule? Why magnify the and his Belfast oratory, the veil local administrative body into a of secrecy has at last been lifted

separate and self-contained par

be magnifie into parliamentary

ECONOMY IN FUEL

EFFECTED.

FOR FULL INFORMATION AND PARTICULAR:

APPLY TO

HE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LD.,

OR TO.

Hongkong, December 7th, 1911.

SOLE AGENTS.

OH. WITZKE, SUB-AGENT.

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tion into national statutes. While

a proper measure of delegated

so as to reveal the terms and con-mont? There may be nothing ditions of the compact, which

in a name, but there is a great was made between the National deal in a principle. Parliament- ists and the Radical Governmentary action in the United King as the price of office. The oxon might reasonably be dis collent service of eable advices,vered from matters of moroly enjoyed by your readers, has al-

local imperlance, but parcchial ready informed them of Mr. or provincial regulation need not Churchill's disclostes. The won der now is why he wanted to mike this deliverance in Belfast or Ireland at all. It would have been quite as authoritative, and ́certainly more dignified, had the advantageously be extended to messago been pronounced in his Dublin, equally with Edinburgh own constituency. The pother with and London, so as to relieve the Ulster and the Carsonites was us fouse of Commons from noodless unworthy as it was disingenuous, interference with matters of puro and the subsequent display of!

ly provincial importance, the military precaution and polico essential unity of the kingdom, accompaniments a oltildish forco

Ina woll as tho maintenance of the and a gratuitous spectacle. Long Crown's prestige, demands a con- before this reaches you, it is pro-tral legislative chamber of ac bible that further cables will knowledged authority and a have placed you in possession of cabinet of ministers directly ro- additional information as to the sponsible to thoir Sovereign King exact terms of the now nicasure.in respect of all matters affecting At the present date and before the welfare of the United King- the commencement of the ses-dom as a whole, in all its inter- sion, one is, perforce, limited to sectional relations. To give to a study of the revelations already Ireland now and subsequently to vouchsafed. In the clash of poli- Scotland (and perhaps to Wales), tical partisanship, heightened by legislative independence on the the heat of racial animosilica tines of our oversea dominions is and accentuated, as in Ireland, to dismember the nation, and by the still greater intensity of thus to make for weakness and doctrinal differences, there is disintegration; to give legislative little prospect of any calm and recognition to the existence in dispassionate study and settle the body polotic of a separatist mont of this long outstanding spirit of anarchic disloyalty. Irish question. Whatever may Rather ought it to be the dream have been the sine and sunrt of the patriot and the hope of the comings of our forefathore, ad-statesman to weave into a vital mittedly great and many, in their homogeneity the discordant forces treatment of the ancient tenantry of our variant nationality, by the and quandom industries of the unifying process of beneficent sinter isle, there is no gainsaying legislation and the stimulus of a the fact that for the past genera magnificent citizenship. In our tion an honostendeavour has been next we shall review the social power, to undo the oril and

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