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THE, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925.

MUT TSAI'S GUARDIAN,

DR. SUN'S

ILLSESS

WHEN A PARENT'S CARE CEASES.

INCREASING WEAKNESS.

BISHOP AND ST..

ANDREW'S.

Peking, February 13-A.Peking YESTERDAY'S RECEPTION. University Medical College bul-

the 8. C. A

in the Colony from England a few ¡days ago. The occasion was made).I

quito a gala affair. The approaches ---

That a mistress was not the law-letin saya that Dr. Sun Yat-zou Yesterday evening the members ful guardian of a muí trai, nor was is showing an increasing weakness of St. Andrew's Church, gave a in child in the care or charge on his circulation. His pulse in warm welcome to the Bishop of its parents after it had reached 120 and his temperature nurmal. Victoria and his wife, who arrived the age of discretion was the sub-Reuter, mlesion at the Kowloon Magia. tracy yesterday of Mr. N. I. Brewer, who applied on behalf of

Adoption--especially tho, quasi-to the St. Andrew's Hall were gay Lau Tit-wan, a young Chinese who was sentenced to four month fictions guardianship which canou with bunting and the hall itself hard Inbour by Mr. E. W. Hamil Bouges the mui tai system-carries charmingly decorated. To add to to the amenities of the evening ton Inat week, on a charge of har no right of custody.

the band of the 'East Surrey bouring a mui teal aged 19, with-. Up to the age of

Regiment WGA present under out the consent of his guardian, is the Statutory Guardian of all mui Bandmaster Bradshaw and ren for the re-hearing of the case. ti, alter that age they have nodered happy selections during the

Mr. Brewer said inter alia:

guardian and are free to choose ten interval. On Wednesday afternoon

where and with whom they hall] somewhat tear-dimmed Chinese

live. Bana was shown into my office, Her story, told timidly but un- shakenly, was that her mistress prosecution Ijes for harbouring a was using every coercive menne wui trai over 10 provided she is had at St. Andrew's towards the Ito persuade the girl to permit her-consenting party, for if she has been Bishop and Mrs. Duppuy.

nelf to be sold in Canton as permitted to choose her own move counted it a privilege and a plea- prostitute. Her mistress, she ments then the Ordinance has not sure to give expression to the If therefore I can good will they felt and the plea- aaid, had been so persuading her been broken. for a long time and in consequence] satisfy your Worship on this point sure at seeing them back among, she had on one occasion run away I ask confidently for a re-bearing at them.

occasion reminded

Later in the evening the vicar, the Rov. G. R. Lindsny,. remarked: If this be so it follows that no that it hardly needed words of his

to express the warm feeling they

The

Thoy

to Lau Tit-wan and asked him to which I shall prove that Yik In him of a welcome they gave the protect her. Now that he is in

prison the mistress has been more kan (tho girl in this case), was n bishop some years ago and since)

nway then it had been his privilege to insistent and had positively inconsenting party and went formed her that she must go to and lived with Lau Tit-wan of her sit many times at the feet of the Canton that very night. The girl wa free will and with the consent Bishop, (Laughter), metaphorically feared that she must give way un

of the person having the Inwful of course, for guidance in the pro- a parish of less I could see a way to help her care and charge of her i, e. herself.blems that arise in

the size of St. Andrew's; and hel I desired to help her; as, apart Matress's Claim Is Fantastic. from natural sympathy for hur? English Law does not go all the always got wise and considered 'plight, I did not wish my princiway in this matter, because the judgment, and he was very glad

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Lau Tit-wan to be "railroaded" to ed with the rights not of purchasers

St. Andrew's Gift. ¡Canton.

but of parents In no way this is Here then was a parallel. In a

the rights of The vicar of a helpful, because

parish had a like manner this girl had a few parents are naturally as great as more or less easy time because he weeks ago gone to Lau Tit-wan imploring protection. He, a ladd one would except greater than had so many to support him but of 20, had acted to the best of the mercenary claims of a speculathe Bishop was often very lonely. his lights, gave her a sheitering tive buyer. So that when we find However he had remedied that lon- roof, and has been sentenced to caso after ease of English decisionness and they all offered a very four months' imprisonment for wherein the very father is not enhearty welcome to Mrs. Duppuy. (Loud applause). He had had tho that very act of granting shelter titled to the custody of infanta ce privilege of meeting her at Home they have attained an age of muf

while on leave and he discovered Reient discretion in exercise a

then how interested she was in I took her to the Secretary for choter, and when we find that as the work of this diocese. She hud 11 honorary prise, after I had fully stated the to be defined as 13 in the case of been working in

hend- case, I was informed by Mr. Hall boy and 18 in the case of a girl capacity at the C. M. S.

WAS concerned fax that he could do nothing in it would appear that a mistress's quarters, which

claim to the lawful custody of her with V. D. A. the matter.

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Mr. Halifax to help him? He I will quote oud ruse and one only would perforee have accepted the fare is unnecessary, as the majority rofusal and either abandoned the of other dealing with this subject girl or incurred the penalty **

nre quoted in the text theory should which he has been subjected.

Still confident of the justice of your Worship desire further

The case I quote isplause). my cause I pleaded further. 1 pointed out how one man had al Queen v. Howes (1800) 3 Ellis and

In his reply the Bishop said he On Ellis. [ready been sentenced to four.

page 338 the learned months' imprisonment for protect- Judge, in delivering his judgment, first wished to thank them from his ing this very girl, that no-one else says: Now the case which have heart for the warm welcome they dare receive her, that he was the been decided on this subject show had received at St. Andrew's. He confessed that when he saw only one who could accept such that although a father is entitled to

the steps lined with flags, the band responsibility, and that I truly be the custody of his children till they on the lawn and then the hall it lieved it necessary for her moralatiain the age of 21 this will not moved him tremendously. He was safety.

grant a habeas corping to hand grateful for the welcome they had Thus I finally won from him child which is below that age over given to his wife because it was a consent to her temporary admit to its father provided it has attain great big thing to take on a job tance to the Po Lung-kuk

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ed an ago of sufficient diacrition to like it for the first time. He didn't Officially there is no slavery in enable it to excercise a will choice really know how to thank them Hongkong.

for the gift, not so much because The great British for its own interest Empire which has eo successfully

of the gift itself as the goodwill Age of Discretion. Interfered to prevent slavery in

The whole question is: What is that lay behind it. divers places could scarcely admit the age of discretion! The Legisla Since he left to go on leave ten condoning the practice within itature has given us a guide, which months ago he had travelled many own jurisdiction.

So that although we know that we may safely follow in pointing thousands of miles and be was opinion that the i tai are bought and sold, are out 10 as the age up to which the firmly of the

WAS going forward. reared for their unpaid menial father's right to the custody of the Church

he had service, are treated as slaves in female child is to continue, and short During the four years Hongkong and taken to China to of which such a child has no dis-been away from England he could conditions

see big advances and many signs which differ from cretion to consent to leaving him. Hongkong conditions only in that

Now under the English law a per- of growth there and many signs their state of slavery la openly ac-son is to be convicted for harbour of life. Continuing, the speaker kno vledged, yet in spite of this ing any unmarried girl under the instanced the growth of the comman knowledge we defend the age of 18, without the consent of Church in Australia and in China, system by maintaining that every the

mui tsai is free and can leave her mistress at will.

having the lawful remarking that he believed that But he was the bishop of the largest the and least developed diocese in the

person

of hor. or charge

after in that the point Are we to believe that nt such a

CFON the

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16 of

father

ho world. In conclusion

again

ime the Legislature would have g

warmly thanked St. Andrews for intended to take away from the mut himself cannot claim to have the the welcome that had been extend- lawful care or charge of his own

fai the one right that in any way daughter provided she chooses to /ed and was warmly applauded and

asked for continued support.. justified the Government in per determine that care or charge by mitting their continued existencof

severing herself therefrom,

For that is the effect, if your ren and that if she so choose she may dering of this law be sound. The thereafter live in the company of EPIDEMIC CONTROL. mui fani has the right to leave But anyone she pleases and no charge where can she go? Anyone accord of harbouring will be. ing her a shelter will be sent to

I assert that Yik In-kan left her

CONFERENCE ENDED. prinon and the mighty arm of the mistress's house of her own choice,

Singapore, February 12 Polico bo stretched forth to force and voluntarily went to live with

Mr. Norman White, the epide her back to that sinvory which she Lau Tit-wan. At the re-hearing, had fondly believed horself able to for which I ask, I will prove it. My miologist stated that the Epide repudiate. After 21 she enu go point here is that under those clt-miological Conference had agreed all points, and the Epido But it is a poor mistress who can, cumstances even the girl's legiti-an not coerce her into unretraceable mate father or mother would be mics Bureau would start work-im- paths before that age 8ho can go unable to substantiate a charge of mediately. to the B. CA. Tho consent grud "harbouring without consent of

The first stop would be the des gingly conceded to my importunities the person having the lawful care

patch of a weekly telegram with would, I fear, have been refused to or charge of her."

But in the case of mistross and regard to the provalence of serious. the unbefriended Chinese applicantu tani we can go further and spidemics, while radio messages The answer les elsewhere and 1] istate that at no: age whatever is would be broadcast from Bandoung

the mistress posseseed of the law- to Australia and to the Esan. Lawful custody of a child is vested tal cars or charge in oppositions has shown very only in the parents, natural guard to the chlid without? Qui lans, or created by the Court His Worship said that he would great solidarity and had usefully de ssed special Eastern fitärgste in [óri: Statute, and even such control consider the point relied by Mr Faaker bid, tarašinated by the shik # farande and inform lifni of his de

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