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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920.

PERJURY LAW.

PROPOSED LOCAL CHANGE,

The Gazelle contains the draft

of an Ordinance to amend the Perlury Ordinance, 1922,

It is explained that this Bill proposes to effect a minor amend-

'LONELINESS. ".

[BY THE REV. GEO, E. ARROWSMITH, M.Á.]

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Few men deserve more plly than man may be alone in London or ment in the Perjury Ordinance, the one who is very lonely; he alone in longkong" although 1922. Section 10 of that Or who, friandless and alone, drags surrounded by teeming thousands. dinance makes it possible, when a out a solitary existence is the

You cannot go through one witness has made two contradic-most pitiful of God's creatures, whole day in this busy elty with tory statements, to charge him "Everyone is loved by somente," out coming into contact with with buying made the contradictory says the old maxim, let us hope it someone that is feeling desolate, statements and to obtain a convic- true, for to be unloved is a and is hungering for a word of tion on proof of this contradiction foretaste of the utter destitution friendly choor. Here, then, is without the necessity of proving that awaits the unsaved soul in ligsk that. awaits us, a duty thint!

the truth or falsehood of either statement. This section originally

Perjury Ordinance gives judge or magistrate power, to direct a prosecution for perjury and to com- mit the accused for trial or to admit him to bail. There is no similag power to order a prosecution for an offence against Section 10. Clause 2 of the Bill proposes give this power.

U.S. SHARE BOOM-

to

holl.

I have

And yet there are many lone-We sometimes wouder "What sort we can do for the Lord's sake. appeared as section 6 of Ordinance some people breathing the same of work can I do for God?" Well, No. 7 of 1857. Section 12 of their as ourselves, working in the hare is an opportunity ready to

in the same house, sama ofice, perhaps even sleeping hand-seek out some lonely and They are unattractive soul and link your people who are not very attractive arm in his, so helping him along or interesting; possibly there is life's rough highway. sormething rather repellent about heard of a poor wretch who stood their appearance they are de-lon London Bridge contemplating formed or ugly, a miserable parody suicide: no one would moura his of what the human form should floss, so why not put an end to life's be; or perhaps they lack cultiva-hard struggle? tion and those niccities of manner irresolute, a cheery soul passed But as he stood and deportment that help to form by, and, seeing his depressed and a pleasing personality. Because shabby, state, tried to hearten him of these drawbacks their society is with a word of friendly greeting shunned, no one wants to call and a coin slipped into the prim them "friend": they are misunder That one touch of sympathy stood, avoided, unwanted: in the brought salvation to that desolate maist of their fellows they are heart-there was still someone more utterly alone than the shinwho cared, someone who could wrecked mariner on his desert island-he, at any rate,, has those yapathise, so life was still worth Hving. The would-be suicide who love him at home, and who turned his back on the river and, will rejoice when he is restored with fresh encouragement, took up to them from the grave, but the the struggle where he had been the General Motors Corporation to the minded to leave it off. and the United States, Steel Cure whether he lives poration. The former, which have risen thirty points this work, touched. 195, mid the latter 147 Buying is still undiminished.

ONE MAN MAKES $1,500,000 PROFIT.

New York, July 30. Growingly insistent rumours of substantial "melon-cutting" have led to this continuance of unpre- cedented activity in the shares of

dies-his

existence is a wearisome mono- tony, and death itself will. cilen come as a blessed relief.

As a child read a book called "Alone in London" I have forgot

I can imagine no work more Christ-like than that of befriend- Ting the friendloss. In His short ministry Jesus was forever seck- ing the outcast in his loneliness, It is believed that among the ten what it was about, but the the leper in his terrible isolation.. auccessful balls" William Darant Vittle has remained in my memory and the many who were. banned realised a million and a half deleter since, it's very pathos made by the anciety of His day. Here lars clear profit when he sold out it unforgettable. "If I would see it would be Zaccheus, a hated tax- General Motors shares at 191.

a picture of utter and:uncheered collectar: there a

poor devil- Other stocks are rising gym-leneliness," says a modern writer, possessed maniac who had his pathetically, bured on the usuni "I think not of any measureless dwelling in the tombs: now it midsuramer expansion in the steel ocean or tracklogs desert. I think would be a sinful woman, to avoid industry, reconi-breaking petrol of a city like our own. teeming whose touch the Scribes, and consumption and anprecedented with life. I think of one standing Pharisees gathered up the skirts freight

truile.-Neuto's friendluss in the midst of all the of their garments: later a blind American Service.

vast wilderness of activities which beggar spurned by the passers- surround him. He looks into aby and finally, in the awful lone thousand faces every day, he hears lincas of Calvary's İtill, & a thousand human voices, and yet despised, derided thief, doomed to. he is alone. No heart in all the execution, found in Him a Friend. crowd beats in sympathy with his heart. There is no man to whom

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RADIO CONCERT,

LAST NIGHT'S SUCCESSFUL

TEST.

Judging from the reports so far received from amateur listeners-in to the Hongkong Radio Society-con- cort, which was broadcast from the South Ching Muraing Post build- ing, last evening, the reception was remarkably good, and was sufficient- ly encouraging to show that enjoy- able concerts can be broadcast in the Colony.

To do good to those who do good to us is human but to be a friend

an-

he i give the sacred name of to the friendless, to those who are friend." No, it does not need the unattractive, uninteresting. solitude of the wilderness, or the popular is divine. Shall we try to igitless expanse of an ocean to follow our Saviour's example and inspire a feeling of loneliness, alwork for Him in this way?

LOCAL PENSIONS.

AMENDMENT OF RULES

The following amandment of the

This was the first concert after Pension Minute which appears in several weeks of preliminary tests, and it has been decided to broadcast the General Orders of the Hong-

a Chinese programme next Wednes-kong-Government is published in

11

day, if, arrangements can be made the Gazette for information: In time.

The Pension Minute is amended by the deletion of clause No. 15 and the substitution therefore of the following :-

Messrs. H., C. Miles and J. Petrie provided the musical and vocal items, and Messrs. Chesterton and Taylor of the Radio Society were in charge of the transmitting station..

The talk on local radio by Mr. II. G. Swinburn, appears elsewhere in this

issue.

RUBBER EXPORTS.

PERCENTAGE FOR THREE

MONTHS.

London, July 30.

MEXICAN TURMOIL,

TRAGIC INCIDENT REPORTED.

Mexico City, July 30 Astonishing crowds are waiting for the churches final Mass and it is feared that thousands will rat be able to gain admission before closing to-night. The excitement at Paella terminated in a tragedy. I An aged grocer displayed a re- ligious circular in his window and during the ensuing controversy the office of an ofter who is borne the grocer was shot and wounded. on the Fixed Establishment of the

General Amaya had the grocer at- Colony the pension

rested and he was being conveyed gratuity or grantable to such officer will be us to the penitentiary when he was follows:-(a) If the officer "has shot dead by unknown assailants." completed one hundred and twenty-Reyter's American Service.

1. In the case of abolition of

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, July 30,

202

100%

months' gross service he may be granted a pension of one-seven-hun- dred-and-twentieth of his salary for each month of his service count- ing for pension in recordance with clause No. 11, with an addition to The Colonial Office

such service of one month for each Paris that the percentage of rubber ex-complete period of two month's ser. Brussels portable at the minimum rate of Vice so counting for pension; in no

Berlin. duty from Ceylon and Malaya dur-case shall the audition exceed one Copenhagen

hundred and twenty months, and in Viennu ing the three months beginning August 1st will be 100,-Rouler..

announces

AN EXPLANATION,

Amsterdam

po case shall the number of manths Helsingfors

to be added to the actual service ex-Buenos Aires cend that which, if adder to the age Shanghai

Geneva

12.10% 20.42%

16.13

34.4315

1934. .2, 17/02 45. 7/16

.2/104

11. 11/32

4.80%

25.1244

161

18.17

2019

1.67% 7.17/89 .1/5.20/32 -21% .29.7/10. British Wireless.

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If real tennis, played now by a devoted attendant at every comparatively few, was the game Wimbledon Tournament. The of Kings, modern lawn tennis can Duke of York, as we know, is tak claim a long line of distinguished;

A British Wireless message from of the officer, would bring that age Yokohama Rugby explains that considerable doubt had been entertained in the 'le sixty years. This paragraph New York rubber market as to whether this deals completely with the ts-Mine quota would be maintained in view certainment of the amount of pen-Stockholm of the fall in the the price of spot aion grantable in the case aforesaid, Oslo Tubber. The average price for accordingly no increase.or addition Fraue Madrid the quarter ending to-day is a very salary mentioned in clause No. 1 Bombay

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The case in which a Chinese con players. Among the early votaries ing part in this year's tournament. month of servico counting for pen-1

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Tuesday afternoon. The case of Hereford, and Millais, It is that King Edward was one of the arises out of a recent inquiry into

the gumo most often played ip thơ, 2. An officer who is granted the shooiing of a man on a junk a grounds of Buckingham Palace.most vigorous of lawn tannis play pension or gratuity under this the..Praya, when the jury found and the King is very fond of it. era before he grew too heavy, and to the public service for re-employ-sise sufficient care knowing there of high class. It is also the to exhaust his partners) abroad clause shall be liable to be recalled that the constable, did not exce. So is the King of Sweden, a player he managed to play the game (and favourite game of ex-King Mangel, ship in the Red Sen, of all places!

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London, July 30.

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