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of the Burgh of Dundie, maid sen the math of Soptember. In the zeir of flod ano thowsund fyve hundreth and threttene Well, the Races have come and goneers, and of sic persones a salt obtaine md, doubtless, many a one's "little bit, the frodome and libertie Thairol in tyme on along with it. However, it's all in curing." Among the names où this his
toric roll are those of Richard Cobden and the game, and he would be a poor sporte man who would grumble when he found East Russell, two years before he became Then we have 'Lord thur Dame Fortune did no mila upan Prime Minister. him as often as he should have liked her Rosebery, John Bright, and the Duke of to. It can't be done, for they who win Argyll, Mr. Balfour and Viscount Peel. must cause many others to lose.
And the weather! Why it was with out doubt the worst"Race Weather
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Mr. Falconer, M.P., the slow-voiced, ruthless cross-examining member of the Marconi Commitee, site for the constitu we have had for half a century. So I'menes which liol over the water from the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER | tråd by some of my friends who hero Prima Minister's-Forfarshire: His won-
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NOTICE
T
HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the HoNGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on TUESDAY, the 4th March, 1919, at o'clock P... procisely, in the Old Chamber of Commerce Room, CITY HALL, for the following purposes —
(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committes for the year ended
Slut Decembar, 1912.
(2) To clect = new Committon.
(3) To transnet any Genemi Business.
By Order,
1 A. M. WILLIAMS,
Becretary. Hongkong, February 21, 1913.
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strong memories or stronger imaginaderful mastery of the art of extracting tions. There can be no doubt, however, the truth from unwilling witnesses comes that it was anything but ideal weather from the same source as did Sir Walter for such an attractive event; and many Scott's: he is a Writer to the Signet. a fair lady must have sighed for the sim
Those Writers were at one time the legal
that she might have had the longed- | terror of Edinburgh, but time has shorn for opportunity of adorning herself in true them of many of their privileges, and Race rig-out, if I may use such an they now act chiefly as agents in the con expression about the wonderful "area. duct of cases before the Court of Session. tions that are usually to be seen sport. Mr. Falconer, who is 58 years of age, ed by the fair one's who know more about at one time filled the offices of chairman such matter than of sport-even the sport of Kings.
For all that the racos were quite ska- modul; some fine racing boing witzewed, sötne fine bris being made, a few wins and, of course, plenty of lossen.
Parliament.
of the Reform Club, Edinburgh, and of hoga. secretary to the Scottish Liboral Association.
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The Oxford University. Dramafie Bo↑ city's performance of The Shoemaker's Holiday recalls the pro-eminence of Oxford as the alma mater rocent actors. How Zealand. Hike Canada and South Mr. H. B. Irving, Mr. Charles Hawtrey, HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD. Afrien, has long possessed a hi-lingual | Mr. F. R. Benson, Mr. Arthur Bourchier, In 1887 Maori members Mr. Nigel Playfair, and Mr. Cyril Maude were for the first time admitted to the all hail from Oxford, as also do two House of Representatives and allowed to eminent operatic writers, Mr. Lionel address the desetably in own Monckton and Mr. Paul Rubens. Mr. longue. The following year an offein! Martin Harvey, however, was at Trinity Muori interpreter was appointed in order | College, Cambridgo." that English-speaking members migh understand what their native colleagues were saying. The same rule holds good
THE THIRTY SECOND ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHABE- HOLDERS will be held at the Ofiers of th General Managorn at 11.43 1.3., On WEDNESDAY, 5th March, to receive. a Statement of the Company's Accounta ta Blst December, 1912, and the Report of the General Masters.
their
A LALLY LALLy Lat.
("...a dilly-dally day."---Edgecumbe
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 25th-day; mud a Maori member may address inst. to the 5th prox.. both dates inclusive. the House in the native tongue or Eng.
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Hongkong, February 20, 1913.
interpreter will do the rest. The Maoris
252 were granted a further concession in -1899, when it was enacted that "speeches addressed to the Legislative Council by His Excellency the Governor, and Bills introduced into the Council specially THE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY affecting the Maori, shall be translated
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the 31st December, 1922, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matter which may be competently brought before the Mesting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com bany will be CLOSED from 2nd to the 9th March, both dɩya inclusive.
O. MOONEY.
Secretary Hongkong, February 27, 1913.
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TAFE
FORTY-FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Ofless of the Under- signed at 12 o'clock (Noon), on WEDNES- DAY. the 12th Marob.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com | pany will be CLOSED from the Ath to the
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Time brings revenges. Some years ago, when the late Professor Charton Collins suggested in the “Quarterly Review" the necessity od providing a new school of literature in Oxford, Sir Arthur Quillez- Croutch-who has just delivered his in
ugural lecture as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge-riddled the pro- posal with delicate Swinbuniad satira :-
The desire of the grey for the duo
nights
Is that of the dun for the grey;
The tales of the Thousand and One.
Nighta
Touch lips with the "Times" ofď ta
Jay-
Come, chasten the choop with the
classic; Choose, Churton, thy chair and thy
class, :.
fix, melt in the must that is Massic · The beer, that in Bass!
Whon Mr. Asquith, as the latest bur
Boll of Burgesson, he wrote in one of the gess of Dundee, inscribed his name in the i
most treasured books in the city's archives. It is known as the Fockit Book," of 1,020 manuscript pages, bound in wooden boards, mind" fitted with locki began his labours nine years after the and keys. The author of the volume
donth of Jodin Knee, but the record be THE FORTY-FOURTH MEETING of gine with the year 1513. So that today SHAKEHOLDERS in the Company the name of the Prime Minister of 1012 will be held at the Company's Otica, finds itself in the company of those of No Me Queen's Bond Central. Victoria. on
the merchant whalers of four centuries THURSDAY, the 20th March, 1913, at
4 Webare Nuos, for the purpose of receiv- 180. ing a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the rereading 31 Pcember, 1912.
But for the fact that the civilising hand of English invaders had fallen upon the town records and destroyed them, the great Ball of the Burgesses would here, had s still more vinersble dato, The in scription at the beginning of the volume rende: Heir followels thus Names of the 204 Burgessis, fromen, and Brother of Gilde
VI TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- The CLOSED from the 7th to 20th Starch both days inclusira, -
Lyler of the Board of Director,
· 0. PEMBERTON,
Serdary Hongkong, February 28, 1913,
+
0 Willie went a-wooing
a bills bally bay,
Went -billing and a-cocing On a dilly dalis day v
With a dilly dally dolly delly daily, 01
Sweet Sally est a-sowing, Saying nilly nally nay, But as Willie was a-going, What did silly Sally say, With a silly sally solly selly saily, 01
th
Ay, Sally sat a-sighing.
Tilly yally yolly you, And a knot was for the tying.
In the milly mally May, With a filly fally folly folly faily, O!
A. W. in Daily Chronicle.".. The above verses are no doubt very interesting, if one only know exactly what they meant.
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OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE DINNER TT is proposed to hold the ANNUAL is to bald BRIDGE DIN-
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PHILIP W, GOLDRING,
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