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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPHI, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938.

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Spectacular Career In Colony

By T. Paul Gregory

!EW persons have passed through a more event- ful career than Mr. William Tarrant, one of The Hongkong's first newspaper publishers. LUBRICANT story of his life in the Colony, apart from his work in the field of journalism, is a saga of bitter hard- ship and glaring injustice brought about by his be- ing "more honest than politic." and is on this ac- count a poignant commentary of the alleged graft, the corruption and petty spite which unfortunately characterised the first two turbulent decades of Hongkong's history.

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MARRIAGE

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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938

TEMPORARY MEASURE

Before

It

In tion in the Government service. van die Mr. Tarrant appeal to the Walam Tarrant was born in Enx-

This daly, Home Government for reinstate- lond but the year 1810.

1e received a reply even- However, is largely conjectural, as ment,

tunity to bas petition--after eightera penetically nothing is known of fus tun early life save that he was a saller months of waiting to the effect that realised that he was the most. www not until the Ministry

right, and in fact, us 18:4, that the facts of his career be dubtedly cue apparent; for in that year, we Land Grey put it "nure honest than recogni- him “hed" on a trading politie" Even such tardy hear of

Const. Betion of his rightful action was ex- "esse along the Ch

gruiifying

Mr Tarrant seems, moreover, to have resided in tremely ilugkong even before it was certed but thing did not put any butter om Colony, is tead, er contribute to the sup- to the Crown as a Bettish

his port of his family dependent upon consequently,

There rataw scended to be a of residence, he curly be hien.

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got his number!"

GILBERT FRANKAU can find

No Rules for

Happy Marriage

SYMPATHISE

with

To some of us, moreover-were it not for the danger of generallsing I

Court, when he "despairs of humanity" fler some cause at least half

Mr. Claud Mullins, of would write to most ef us-such South-West London literary phrases us "It's worth while quarrelling because it's so lovely to the make it up afterwards" prove be- person who gives vent to them either completely infanttle or utterly in- the sincere.

Newspaper Activities

Shortly Caine's from

being

which before him "have

And this same infantilism, this sume insincerity, is even more notice- able in most present-day public pro- nouncements on the subject of mtrl- monial love.

FRO

In Love

ROM the ideal standpoint men and women should not

marry unless they are mutually in the altar or the registrar's mere mainly

offee

an escape from the romariceless monotony of "living with daddy and mummy" or the dead end of office work.

was suddenly cut short owing staal was confirmed from home, to his deal in ferreting at stora and though he pettined for back Police

to his unwarranted him galery my regard This brought from effee and the cous discharge, he received in all only in dismissal tinuous enmity of his superet, Magon months" pay- and that

The mat Witham Cham The Cinesnastanets mouths of valt waiting of the affair were historie, for upon whn was actually responsible for Mr matrimonial cases

the Acting hinge the whole enise of Mr. Turiant's diamiesal was

in the Attorney General, Charles Malloy come Tarrant's forther Colony

It seems that Mr. Toren Campbell, who was described even never been truc marriages."

in not very had noticed that the Chinese staff of by his contempurų fes

Parrant re

Nor to 1 entirely disagree complimentary Major Caine was

"a briefless,

barrister In response to the rising wholesale system of merelless graft ferred to him as “a

be ordered

courses in clamour from the public, the t; and extortion of lavir compatriots from Caleutta", an Angle Indian of with his suggestions that wives

in connection with the management peruliarly officious and over-bearing should

Mr. Turrant manners, although docile and obse-cookery, and men taught that a at the Central Market Government has acted, effectu-

and red custy ani rint to his wester. war naturally indignat ally if somewhat turdily, to

It was this gentleman spouse does not become her hus- love. But thousands of brides seek with laudable zeal brometer the mat. Major Caine. ter i Majin Caine, who to Tarrants who gave Mr. Tarrant his walk band's property by the Petove the injustices and

Look 14 SC se

per- papers (under orders, of course), and

tying of the nuptial knot. ubtises which have been possible sonal attront and brought the sint- Mr. Turiant never forget the fact.

of the

With great deference, nevertheless,

And the number of bridegrooms in Hongkong since the demandler to Court The upshot

tha 11 case was neve

(1 should like to put un record one of brought to trial but Tarrant lost bit

"sacked" my strongest opinions: That any man who fly to their brides arms mainly for living quarters has grown, BO

after job In vain, he protested that he

oflee, Mr. Tarrant with the er woman whoftempts to lay down to solve themselves against toneli- far beyond the supply. The

was weling only to Major

Though

Mr. aid of friends purchased news fixet rules for huppy marriage should 19 (or merely against the land- Even interests. Bill rashed through three read- best

best to a home for incurable lady's soup) is legion. Indisputable proof perthe Friend of China Tarrant secured ings in the Legislative Council

cranks. in the shape of translations of actual Hongkong Gucctle. In this

it schoolboy yesterday appears to be

From the dny when an enteks in the Compradore's books, he sought to gain influence

Mr. Mullins and his audience of Victorian Brst put that effective remedy against unfair Major Caine stubbornly insisted that carry out a fight against corruption.

primary aim, of course, was to humorist damnable

probation officers considered only the to masterpiece, "Haw be Happy unhappy marriages among London's eviction and unreasonable inconspiracy to throw shame upon his gain reinstatement to oller.

disparage thought of his dismissal rankled. erense of rents. It puts into the high office, and to cast

compradore. Wel his journal he ceaselessly kept the Though Married," into my hands, up poorest class. But is the percentage to this very morning. I must have of marriage fallure higher in Mile

Mayfair? Does mest hands of the courts the welfare A-Joon. Some of the entries in the matter before the public, now pet).

tioning the Governor, then the Chief read millions of words on the vexed End than in

money standard, in your experience, of tenants and landlords, for the latter's bank certionly are meld:

Justice upon the subject of his grie- subject of intrimony.

affect the matrimonial standard? 21st July, 1845. Paid Catrie bill provides that if proceedings

duly money appear to be "harsh or oppres- Rive or that exceptional hard-

caused" ship would be

the tenant by making an order for eviction, kuch an order may be refused or postponed indefinite- ly.

At the same time the court

tion cases.

it was a mistake-I

upon his

27th July 1845 Caine, pald

(1) duty money 29th July 1845 Caine's duty-

Rupees 455

1st August 1845 Pald Calne

duty money

8th Aug. 1845 Fald Calne duly

(English Money) 11th Aug. 1845 Caine duty

moncy

Stumbled Into A Hornet's Nest

and

paper

and to

The

Some of the articles which

In the columns

China

every

sense.

strange

of the

were

libels

the

of

wordi, i1 may scem,

Three Cases

$100 vance.

appeared $500 Friendl

HAVE heard this particular human relationship discussed $200 inst

no attention whatsoever was paid to and taken at least my fair share in discussions--from Streatham- $20 them until late in August 1850, when the

But so far without Major Caine, who had been attacked hill to Saigon. $300 with so much fury for the past nine learning even une principle, far less

one fixed rule, which can be unt years or so, determined to take a $100 parting shot at his enemy upon his versally applied.

the Colony. Bnal retirement from Accordingly on August 25, 1859, he swore to a remarkable affidavit in

most

Do such and other "marringes of convienience" inevitably fail?

the

Do you honestly believe that any system of pre-matrimonial education can help rich or poor to make a stic- Ceas of inwful wedlock?

I don't.

I suggested last week that our young should be taught the elements of £ s. d. rather than elementary algebra. By all means let them learn about "home-making and cooling"- ance more to quote our humane ma- gistrate at the same time,

Let us take three cases in point. "December," says the old adage: Do you ising of "shall not mate with May." the Supreme Court complaining of

The selence of medicine, also, has

Mr.

between a useful port to play in cushioning the Turrunt had stumbled in certain statements in Mr. Tarrant a nut know, personally, of at least une

In the article especially case where a marriage advertently into a hornet's nest when newspaper.

man of mixty and a girl in her twen- adolescent mind against the shocks of the complained of, Mr. Tarrant appeared ties (or even vice versa) Is being of maturity. But there after-what? the eszistonta he accused

was to have been more

Than vitriolle

Human beings, however rigidly dis- Major. Naturally, the Major Irate, and poor Tarrant was uncere- usual, and accused Major Caine of ideally happy?

sponsoring all sorts of corruption, "When poverty comes in at the ciplined by the most authoritative moniously hounded out of his post unjustly levying "squeeze" upon al door, declares another saying, "love State, however carefully safeguarded most all portions of the Chinese flies out at the window." Can any- by the most loving parents, cannot whole existence on community. He had made the same body with the slightest experience of spend their

It does not, of necessity, statements for a number of yeurs how decent husbands and wives face cushions. without being called to account. But financial adversity acknowledge this become any softer because a man and a woman decide they will sit on it charges as true? Major Caine in filing his for libel penned

"I would rather my son never mar- together "as long as they both shall statement of denial, remarkable for ried at all," pronounced one mother live."

of my sequaintance, "than that he This sitting together cannot be the fact that that it can be read both ways. The ambiguous word in the should marry an actress." Yet even learned sitting apart! statement has been tallelsed in this in Hollywood you will find Darbys

to more readily show the and Joans! article double meaning, thus:

"That I never wanted a

a most curious

dollar

Marriage Wrecks

EVERY marriage, whether of ELABORATING ad absur. In its essence a personal relationship

is given power to determine what increase of rent is fair and reasonable. And very sensibly it is stipulated that rents of similar dwelling-houses in the same locality, the character and condition of the premises itself, shall be essential to the calcula- tion. At the same time the or-

measure at the Legislative dinance gives the court freedom Council meeting yesterday, where it is satisfied that greater spoke of the repugnance which hardship would be caused the is felt officially for such an or- | landlord than the tenant in evic-[dinance. He pointed out that it was a temporary piece of legis The Governor may establish lation and that he hoped, before "reference committees" to assist long, to submit a bill which

Favourite Tenets

romanco or convenience, is the courts in consideration of would repeat it and bring Hong- a head for each resident in Chinese that I never at any time brothels

Idum, I remember a discus- of so intimate and individual a questions relating to rent, char-kong back to normal. Obvious wanted tees for keeping gambling- acter and condition of dwellings, ly one must agree it is the ab- tables that I never at any time slon, in the East, with the legitimate character that the mere suggestion heung-possessor of a harem, who had con- of intereference by an outsider will That is a sensible arrangement, normal conditions of the mo. wanted what was termed

the market that I never at the only possible way to matrimonial As one whoso own marriage je for knowledge of the law is noment which made this legisla-, duty money for licences to sell vinced himself that monogamy was frequently bring it to wreck

presents for my ecstasy and a long argument, very guarantee of familiarity with tion necessary; and the public, any time wanted those conditions which enter in- for which the eviction law has influence in Council that I never much nearer home, with a male col- ideally happy, I am occasionally con- any time wanted a full supply of league of the Immoderate Left who fortunate. Very occasionally, being from the sought to prove the exact opposite. only human myself, I have been to the calculation of a fair ren-been amended, will be the first everything for my tablo

market holders, except upon tho While as for my female colleagues tempted to advise the suppllant. tal. These reference committees to welcome the return to settled usual terms of purchase for what I in the profession of letters-how they But hitherto-llough I have tre- can be approached by tenant times when the housing problem had like other people that I never do love pinying schoolmarm to the quently been listened to with respect

per cent.newly wedai

can recall no case in which my net- and landlord also for arbitration will inevitably correct itself. wanted a huge, or any

whatsoever on building contracts,

Among their favourite tenols ure, vice has been acted on. over rentals. By this step the His Excellency, of course, appre-etc."

Facing the Facts of Life. The Imn-

For this I am inordinately grateful, portance, of Give and Take, and realising as I do that however mucli Government has provided what cintes this, as his subsequent

favourite of favourites-the Neces- comfort disputing husbands and has long been required: a tri- remarks showed. It is gratify-

ing to those who have agitated September 21, 1859

first silty for Occasional Quarrels.

wives may obtain by pouring out bunal before which both tenant for so long for some sort of pro-libel mult in the Colony, and was at O lovely generalities. O glorious their troubles to third parties, they must hammer out their own salva- THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. and landlord can air their grie- tective measure in the matter of once a cause celebre. The defendant, bunk

tions. Many couples are primarily happy vances. Appeals can be taken rents and ovictions, to know Mr. Tarrant was at an obvious dis

advantage; for Major Caine had because their home is an escape from Generalising, am 17 And after all from the decisions of this com- that, in spite of a natural desire secured the services of all the life, so onsis in the dreary desert of the hard things I've said about those

and in to avoid such drastic steps, His barristers then in the Colony, before mittee

who write generalities. material actuality. Court decision of the Excellency so clearly perceives the

Some women, and just a few men, Chambers.

Well, here's one more, just for Juck, "Wo unanimously find the obvious! the needs of the community and defendant guilty of the libel charge are only happy when giving. Some Most married couples do succeed in His Excellency the Governor, the Government has been HO

against him. And we find also that men, and quite a number of women, hammering out their own salvation.

Thank God. are only millsfled when talking. in speaking on the eviction thorough in meeting them,

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