A valuable watch, a the President of the Ni 8 to Mr. A, having saved the life of another danger, has been lost, acconling to the. report ceived by the. Police short! afternoon on Saturday and any person finding it is requested to inform Police Headquarters.
The watch, a Waltham, with white face and black hands of old design, bears the inseription, "Presented to Allen 8, Malcolm by the President the United decent wage, but, the same thing cannot be Said Mr, U.S, Harkson wweried the figure of $100 given by the Commit Mr, 8. I. Peck stated that although if might be necessary in due tee as being the cost of a rickshaw, and stated that from enquiries he time to eliminate the rickshaw 'n-had made a rickshaw would not cost tively' fromthe public streets' that more than' $80, and probably much time had not yot arrived, but be did think that the time had come when less if a quantity wore bargain all Rotarians shawld send a resolu: for. 'Mx. Hans 'Berents, however, pointed out that the cost' depended tion to the Council expressing thais largely upon the type and construc opinion that it, was now up to the tion, and compared the public with S.M.C. to do its utmost to bring jabour an alleviation of the rickshaw the private machine seen upon the [coolie's condition. streets.
Mr, Hans Berents contended that The Rev, E, W, Luccock con-the vital factor to be considered was gratulated the Rickshaw Committee whether the fact that an abuse hav-upon the document which he said ing been established, such an abuse was 30 "remarkably clear that I had should be allowed to continue even to read it four times before I began for, such a comparatively short to understand what it was about." Eonsiden," said Sir. D. Lil. Prancis, riod of five years. "When you Mr. Luceoek stated that he had offered to finance 10,000 copies of the that there is a group of individuals. report in English and Chinese if he turning themselves into beasts of Jcould get someone able to edit it in burden, and receiving less than one-understandable form to appeal to the fifth of what we should pay for a average man's mind, "We must got Pony, or about the same amount as someone able to repl in a convine-That the food for a pet dom would jing way to the stupid cost, there is something radically the Hekahaw owners, who at present statements of
wrong in such a condition being alictimize and exploit the coolie." lowed to exist any longer at all.'
Col. M. Thomas Tehou Mr. C. M.
ested interests deserve no con-Wentworth Mr. G. H.- Akerman, yration—absolutely none—and in Mr. C. B. Morrison and Mr. E. this particular instance if the Coun-Harris-else took part in the disease oil requires a precedent for bringing The Mercury Climbs Whangpoo River
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