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MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919.
ST. FRANCIS CONVENT.
JUBILEE CELEBRATION.
THE CHINA MAIL.
proximity of the convent site to St. Panels Church at Wanchal In the year ca its foundation there were
ibute foranles and catechumans, By or there had passed through the Institution no less than 1560 or such destitute people.
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TES MISSING MESSAGES
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LORD BRYCE. ON CHINA.
bear their praises sung nor do they Christianity to China bevete of the TO-DAY'S CABLES. want you to thank them but rather to thank God from Whom mankind receive all their benefits. They work cheerfully and contentedly, with admitted into the Convent six de(Reuters Service to the China Mail) strong faith and full confidence that The Dealion. Event of St. Francis with the help of dot everything is culebrated its jubiler yesterday. It possible. The success of the Sisters was established in 1980, at Wanchai, is due in a great measure to their
many friends and benefactors who In 1874 hospital accommodation Bishop Pozni paveidesh
have always been ready to core to in Hongkong was bat to be whaliy Jackson really tells the story best their help. I therefore avail of this inadequate to the Colony's needs at in ole following nenit pour:
opportunity to thank, on behalf of the time, and considerable difficulty the Sisters, all the friends of the was experiencal by the sick poor in ISOLA-17-14;
Italian and S. Francis Couvent, and being properly nitended in their earnestly exhort them to continue homes. Thus it care about that the to help the institution for they wilde of a hospital for female Chines realise in tiue, as the Sisters have patient was conceived and even done that the real secret of trueinally such an institution under the | happiness is to make others happy.
auspices of the Italian Sieters was After a reception at 4.30, there retablishest, as a concert by Convent pupils. The prognumne. Was as follows :
Our Jubilee Day *
SE PRANCIS CONVENT Fifty years old! Now, who wouhl
ANK
For u birutalay better that ours? Pult filig years bins be been our task
pull from Efe's fade it nowning
Love's "fairest
And to scatter
Flowers.
No muito call wealth Bove we siriven
to pick.
-" (Mrs. Gladys Jackson.) MS Wilksong Pianoforte
Miss K. Bajnan and Muster B. Victor.
Now wreaths/ed wertha's shining | Chinese Address
fawr 1
1st own where the weeds of sortua
Krew thick
And jog's frail blossinters alrumped pale
Hall sick,
Blave we delved, in the "Mawrt
Attr
By unrthly service. His hwy to tell
To the souls worn out with care;
To Tomb to Flisi footprints the feet that
To puber the labes plices. He loyal
so well
Hisar and to lay there there,
To give to the infant fingers skill Ho unlock fair leaming's deber And the Mother who watcheri thêtr
watches st.
Though the laces changé
Sindh life's bl
as they
de in ge dig strenin bey pour.
We have known no question of race
or crowd
In the solimine of our toil or play,
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(Tuesday), May 27th.
AND
Thursday May 29th.
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LONDON, May 20. Presiding at an Angle-Chinese! meeting at Caxton Hall under the auspices of the League of Nations Union, Lord Bryce said the Chinese As the Colony grew in waith nut
was still strong and prosperity so did the demands of the virile. China required the sympathe poor, who are always with us, gw.tic aid of the Powers who desired | Larger accommodation for the how her safety and welfare. China pital anade itself fets more and more. needed uniform system of law Ab Grab a few Chinese houses answer and courts. of justice, also a fed the purpoly fairly well enough proper currency. The exploitation until even the basement was requis of mines and other national sources tioned into use for want of suitable of wealth by foreigners who obtained apartments. This e-xift concessions should be regulated. The rangement served for a time to claywithdrawal from the political scene 'PHONE 407. discomfort of those who were place of Germany, whose ambitions and sharge until 1878 when the pince aggressive action had appeared with collapsed as a result of a deluge of conspicuous Earshness in China, rain which occurred in that emer made this task easier. Reform ought able year. Shelter had to be found to be undertaken immediately if for the sisters in a few rented houses bankruptcy and anarchy were to be Tin Chung-Ka-Wal. Here the sisters averted, and if carried out in a wide and their wails Tival for about ten and liberal spirit would rescue China maths. ln the meantime, #rew from her present dangers and give Building was, in course of curstrue,her an incomparably important pasi- tion, and this, when coupleted, pro- tion in the world of commerce. Įvided eight huge and nity coons in: winch the sisters continued theit work under new auspices.
Blind Orphan Boy Action Song—** Ginoco de fiori: "
Inici By Nine Schlurs, Accompanist: Miss E. Souza. Duet** La Fanfare dos Dragons. '*
(Boscovite.) Miss L. Chapman and Miss B. Murty
Camese Address,
Song-“ Il Libro Santo "...(Pinsuti.h Miss L. GH
Accompanists: Misers A. Cordeiro, 1. Souza and T. Yang
Pau forte--" Giovanna d'Arto"
@Veudi.) Miss L.. Souza, A. Conicino, A. Femail, and K. Runjany, Song-- Carita "
Hossit Accompanist-2 Miss B Mommy
and Miss T.. Souz Villa: Miss J. P. Braga.
A RETROSPECT.
la 1870 Ecglish and Chinese schools were started. The progress of these was remarkable; for during the Bfty years of their existence the
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FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
schools Ince on reard no less [UY COURTESY “NONOKONG DAILY PREIS") minber that solne 6,000 children shaving been registredus attends find tha
PEKING, May 23. Practically every school and col- lege, as well as the University, in Peking, is on strike against the award, of the Peace Conference, of Tsingtau to Japan.
Immature students are haranguing crowds at the street corners.
In the English divi.STUDENTS' STRIKE AT PEKING. neen day scholars was the uume berwon the foil in the first school year and by 1910 the number that had been registerell Was 3.901 pupilu It was on the 7th May 1860, there the Cree division there were Ons help in the great world's the late Bes. Esther Stelle, of happy 15 pupils in the first year and the So we ask that you wish on a sweetery, founded the branch of the total aggregate last Marth was 2,794. Concurrently with the activities Italian Convent at Wanchado. She ** Galeper!**
was one of the first of the little bundin the direction of instructing the winter that was, sent from the children the hospital section of the GRABAS JACKSON, house at Perit in 1900 to Bay the Convent emphasised its usefulness Beginning with Best Mass at 'x.) Xenshotion of the Italian Convent with the march of time. In 1882. s Pontitis and Comit ittion at seven. Hongkongs Sire bad bordly, beer hospital was started for Chinese male nunk High Ma- at $30k the run | tour years in Hoagkeng when she su
satients at the request certaining has been performed during the item calling for reposorial notice was that the show poor and inhospitable Chinese residents who subscribed for past 50 years :-"
district of Wanchai called for then the cost of the building amongst The menders of the Sporting tonal and religious ministrations for themselves. endiesta, under afin danesion of M12. [ these bereft of torture and when 4. H. Lawrrunei Broly rendered | Srce of ciremstances compelled te scretions of masie aster Mass and inke up their residence amidst en- als, assistvalent the Cisseert in the aftertan The progromnonof music was as follow
thm:
March
Perkem
Wilcz
Ponservator Bohemian G Talls of Cordoru ..... Travilu Imke Way
tiraments thing were neither com gestial or salutary. Their neetis ap- pealik kongefully to Mother Stella. The mk of their children who had not the means. of providing them- seltės with even the nudiments o Selection
erlucation called for assistance over March
Imezę kindly to the sister wof the prva Then the following tot weer by and Mother Stella answered fat call Bishop Rozzoul in fietsernon
A gedown wis all that the cunty Fifty you go the good Sisters of meats at the disposal of the sisters the itaban Convent realised the great could afford at the time.. Such pre- necessity of establishing a "brunch of arises were rented in Wanchai; and their instituation in your parish so it was in a golown timt the enlarged that they may relieve the distress off activities of the sisters found scope the poor and nt the same time in for their work in the new district. struct the children and provide Only two sisters could be spared for home for the aged who have not been the work-one, an Italian sister of able to save enough to provide for the Canessian Onier and another, a their old wg.
With their usual Chinese sister whose knowledge of great courage and faith in the tie language was of invaluable help. Aknighty they established St. Fran-
The sisters fitsit duty was to gather cis Convent, whose Golden Jubile gether the women and children you are celebrating to-day, Fifty who stres in need of being structed Venus is a very long period in then their religious duties. Besides. MAIL. It covers two, or swo hours eneis day were devoted to should say, three generations, and insect the little children in the rudi during this time thousands of childs finents of the Portugeese and Chinese Ten have been instructed by the god hugsages.
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A hospital for European females was inaugurated in 1805 and two ses alter, through the benevoleps: u
Chev. Dr. A. S. Genics, the loss pive of the Sacred Flint was opened
Patient Aggregate Ne, Admitted fa-arch 19
European Females
in 1874 European Males in
1876
| Chinese
in 1874
Famules
» 1897, to po a new wag was Chinese Maks in added by means of subscriptions 1977
801
»
178
3.311
1.234
trom local residents and a generous" Apart from the hospital the branch; o atsibution, from the Turin Misshas fof the institution looking after de- Association. Last year, certur re-pendent intwater calls for remark in irrangements wete carried out so vg at the total number of aged and
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS,
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THE Steamabip
"GLENAPP having arrived from the above. Port Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the bamrdous and/or extra hazardous Gudowns of the Hong- kung and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence, and/or from the
harves, delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 2nd June, 1919, at 5 pm, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged pack-
are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined by Mesars. Caddard & Douglas, on ad
June, 1919 at 10 am.".
Claims against the Steamer must be presented within 30 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by ta in any case whatever.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by JARDINE, MATHESON & Cò., Læv,
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Hongkong, May 20, 1019.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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YONSIGNEES per Co's Steamer
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to provide for the respective needs peor without any resumes whatever are hereby notified that the Cargo will European, Chinese and Japanese that had been oked after at various te discharged into Holt's Wharf, Row-
tia during the past fty years
patients.
At one time so urais was the reached the large total of over 10,000 loon, where it will lie at Consigneo's risk. son of the institution througthis hulding who have to be main- from Godown on and after May 16.
The actual tubers "now housed in The Cargo will be ready for delivery financial stress that the Wanchai
-pital was
tained entirely at the Convent's ex• · in danger of being
Optional cargo will be landed, unless" notice has been given prior to steamer's posed for want of funds for rebuild.se is no fose than 160.
Suci, in brief, is the simple history arrival. ing it through the premises filling into a state of series despair. It coded in no language of exaggera
was at this time that an appeal was
the Hony. Visiting Physician to
tion of St. Francis Convent during broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, addressed through the kind diere fifty years of its existence and here they will be examined on 807 of the Preat by the benevolent action will tel's blessings it is to be hoped Tuesdays & Fridays between the hones
at the next fifty years will provide the convent, Dr. 6. Mutag Hurs like record of zealous work perform. of 10.45 a m. and noon within the Iree
Or the 17th February, 1908. Ed in aid and on behalf of God's storage period.
Mother Gulli and her bund of No claims will be admitted after the The Reverend Mother Pr wrote: ply stutes phut none better than sisters have devoted a life time in Goods bave left the steamer's Godown, an tell of the work of the Italiane nduct of the various brunelies and all Goods remaining undelivered Sisters at the Wanebar Convent. To this Convent's activities. It re-after June 2, will be subject to rent. have been in ekwe tench with this mains to be hoped that may the Ven. All Claims against the Steamer must wettntion during the last ten years. Sister-in-Charge and her assistants be presented to the undersigned on or venture to state tims no body of spared in health and strength to before June 16, or they will not be en in Hongkong is bought more in the work so efficiently per recognized. ddy into tough wits the seamy formed for the benefit of those whom Another need that made itself appare of the Colony than the medical it has pleased the Almighty, to place
under their Christian charge. ent was a shiter and an asylum to: profession, and none are more con
Aciers of the noble efforts put forth the women who had strayed froun the path of virtue or who were in danger by a gallant Land of women of all uds of religious opinion to cope offertonlly with this hicklen side of Hongkong. One might optly
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
to see the district brunch of franjure Hongkong to a looking glass. Convont be permanently esablished Her Excellency Lady Taigard has at Warchui without further delay recently stated how much she was With the shall resident staff struck by the beauty of Hongkong Hongkong it was evident that the on her arrival, but that her feelings permanency of the institution could of pissure were mingled with feel. THE POLO GYMKHANA, which Was POSTPONED from SATUR be assured. An appeal to the Con-ings of regres that there must be a vents in Italy met with sympathetic hidden side to all this beauty. The DAY, May 24th, will be held (weather response and two Cunostian sisters public of Hongkong looks into the permitting), on SATURDAY, May as well as a Chinese sister were dekking glass and sees the compara- 31st, at 4 Fat., aut WEDNESDAY next, tailed to inaugurate the beneficent tive well-being of all reflected tire as previously advertised. work for Wasbai. Thus it was that in." In this saine looking glass there the first efforts in a Christian enden-fe at present a small spot where the vour to regenerate the Magdalenes uie eury andgun has been scratched were employed as a part of the new through and the other side of the duties, assigned to the Italian Sisters picture stands revealed; for the in Hongkong. This work was war charitable efforte of the gallant band ried on continuously until 1011 when of women workers constitute the the growth of the School, with the malgum which gives the reflection large nuinber of school children in of well-being to Hongkong. Fortu- attendance, rendered it necessary to confine the Sisters' attention more
Sisters and thousands more, ohl und Soon aften, it was for that th indir, Jaid the great fortune of pass- | nerds of the district denunded ing their hust days at earth in connemanent building" for the currying fore and quiet, toss of whom teal- on of the work this had been begun ised in good time the worth of our in such a unolstrusive munner. religion and wae. feceived into our Church. You yourselves can testify best of all.re' the extraordinary sue- cases which the Wetes have attained in their work. Your after year you | of so going astray, lave witmed great extensions to It was then that Mother Stel their premises and the continual in accepted it ne a self-imposed duty crease in the number of inmates in the pore he and the number..of chikken in the classes. The modern hospital which they recently built is filling a long-felt wane and all their activities have proved to be of very great benefit to the parish of Wan club. Your gratitude to them must indeed be great, for many of you ove your good position in life to-day to these Sisters. They carry on their work for the glory of God without any, wish for earthly recompense, collecting contributions from thras who can afford to give for the finest of the poor. They have produced nrich out of nothing and hom a very snall beginning the Italian Convent and its branches is now one of the largest institutions in the Colony, and in a great credit to the Canosin Sisters and to our Church. We are justly proud of their work and our Food wishes accompany them in the future. Most of them belong to the best of families but, being true ser runte of God, they left their homes and friends behind them to work here in your midst in the tre missionary spirit without sabiry; without gain, and of very great sacrifice. Their reward is the knowledge that they are bing good and useful work and to then is often given that Peace of mind and Peace of soul which so few of us enjoy. They do not care to
S. E GRIMSTONE,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, May 26, 1919,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
nately one knows the charitable in- THE Underaged he receiver instruc- stinct of the Hongkong public and
to the little children. The Rev. one knows that onco discovered this Mother Galli was the first sister up. temporary lefect which has developed pointed in charge and with God's in the amalgam through stress of blessings in this year of gruce-the climate will not long remain us- The Convent is indebt- 50th annivary of the foundation of remedial
St. Francis Convent-Mother Gullied to Drs. Marriott and Black for
'a ber seitutieth odd year has the professional services gratuitously ren atfaction of associating herselfdered in the past and to Dr. Balean with the celebrations on this aus und Koch. for services at the present tine. Dr. F. M. Gruca Ozorio has picious occasion.
The choice of the name of St. ako kindly offered his services.. A. Francis Selvol has to be explajnal. few brief figures will tell more elo- 14 was decided to call the branch quently than words to what extent onyent after the great apostle of the work of the alleyistion of suffur,
toas to sell by Pubile Auction. оп-
SATURDAY, May 31, 1818. commencing at 11 am
at No. 11.Austin Avenue, Kowloon., A Quantity ef Valuable Household Furniture, (Full Particolare from Catalogue}, Qn view from Friday the 30ts, inst, Terms-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P..LAMMERT,
Auctioneer, Hongkong, May 26, 1919,
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
..BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents. Hongkong, May 26, 1919.
-BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
"BENCLEUCH,” · From MIDDLESBRO, LONDON & STRAITS.
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No Claims will bo admitted after the Goods have left the Godawus, and all
·Goods repaining und-livered after the 2nd June, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned
9th or fore the
Jane ur they will not be recognized,
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns,
2nd June, et 11 am, where they will be examined on the
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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bille of Lading will be countersign. ed by
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AND
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