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There will be a musicale at the Helena May Institute on Thursday the 27th instant at 5.15 p.m., for members and friends,
Discussing the failure TRE.
of the last attempt MARRIATE toward divorce reform.
at Home, our Lon don-correspondent re- fers to the growing lightness of the general regard for the marriage tie."
As it is notoriously a tie | that has always been too lightly and recklessly entered upon, there must have been something extraneous to explain why it was ever regarded other than lightly. That extrous ons something wis superstition. It was superstition which has again
The following approaching prevented the legal reforms neces-weddings are announced: sary. When superstition comes to Krebs to Miss Bertha be lightly regarded, as it surely Wager; Mr. J. C. Tam to Mar will, the judges and other well in Annabel Wong. formed publicists will win, and the bishops will be relegated to their proper obscurity so far as social aw are concerned. They regard the common abuses of marriage much more lightly than they do the prestige of their own profes sional organization. If they could, they would prevent Registrar a marriages, thus showing that their. regard is less fornerality than for their professional hold upon the people..
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the 13.
EMPIRE DAY.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE MIN.
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920
"COMMANDER" HENDERSON,
God gave them the wind that carried them, across the sen, here and there and everywhers. Therefore, when they again asked "Why?" he | shrwered "God's Will!"
Before Mr. N. L. Smith this morn- That brought him straight to his ing. the licensed driver a! No. 9 Catholic schools at Hongkong attend-Empire?" because there were some
This morning the children of 15 third question. "What is the British Motor Car appeared to answer a sun-
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ed an Empire Day commemoration things which were clearly not God's mons of leaving his car unattended. service at the Cathedral of the Im-will, same things which they all Mr. Wilson of the Dragon: Motor Car maculate Conception, and were ad- knew God must hate. Then what Co. on behalf of defendant admitted dressed by Bishop Pozzont. The was the British Empire? It would the offence but pleaded extenuating be something that God did not
Our appeal for reading matter is meeting with considerable response, we are very glad to say, and parcels are arriving steadily. To-day Recapital. received a large package of reading material for the demobbing soldier from Mr. F. F. Duckworth of the Hongkong Electric Company.
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circumstances. He related that a
Inspector Garrod: I leave. it to you. Your Worship, there are many of these
ALLEGED HOMICIDE.
The master of a tea house at Yau-
mati reports that he sent to the Kow- loon mortuary, the dead body of a faki, who was alleged to have been killed in the course of a fight with another foki.
cathedral was nearly full.
The speaker spoke of the disaphate because he planned it. British person who described himself as pointments following a year of peace. Empire meant, Government, and Commander Henderson ordered a Mr. H. and the large hopes with which we if they carried the British Empire car at the Hongkong Hotel, from where cary he went to Spring Garden Lane and bad struggled through the war. across the sea they must Dorleska
The L. O. N. seems to have been Government across the sea because the Naval Canteen. The "Com- bern In disappointment
The mander" refused to pay for the car, and men wanted Government. disillusion."
Bishop emphasized that nations, like threatened to hit the chauffeur and *The Council of Versailles, Institu- men, were much happier under tore the chit to pieces. While endea- ted to produce what our holy Father discipline. The British Empire meant vouring to do his duty by his employer, Pope Benedict, happily termed "a discipline. As a child, when he had the Police saw the car unattended verd Just and lasting peace" gave to the nothing to do, he was bored, but issued a summons. Mr. Wilson said astonished eyes of the world a sorry when te had completed same task it was hard fuck on the driver. display of passion and intrigue, and he felt happier. When under dis-
Mr. Smith (to Inspector Garrod): after a year of nominal peace we see cipline man enjoyed himself six times it seems a reasonable excuse?. nation warring against nation, peoples more than when not under discipline. and empires intriguing against their That showed that all the children. neighbours, and perhaps most serious in the world wanted of all, class striving against class, the cipline. He was speaking of the case. rich against the poor, labour against child nations of the world, the back- Mr. Smith: It is a very difficult ward ones that had not grown up position for a Chinese chauffeur to All over the world, here as else yet: The British might be said to have to pursue a disreputable Euro- where, discontent had appeared, "It have grown up. Sometimes he was pean. Case dismissed. is in the vivid recollection of all how, not quite sure whether all the Irish only the other day, this peaceful and had grown up yet and whether the prosperous Colony was convulsed by difficulties in Ireland were not duc The tennis match for the Singles a strike of unusual magnitude. On to the fact that there were stil Championship of the Colony between the mainland also there have been some children in Ireland, and that Ng See Kwong (holder) and M. W.grave disturbances, and I would before they could be happy, they La, which was to have taken place was you, my children, of one in required more discipline instead of this afternoon has had to be post-particular, namely the strike among freedom to do what they liked poned. The match will be played as the school children in China. Let However, he was not speaking on early as possible, probably on Thursus pray and hope it will find no echo that subject this morning. day or Friday. It all depends of the here, where it would indeed be Some people remained children weather.
senseless folly. For while the pros much longer than others. Some were perity of a country or place is largely in what was called their second child are that after the establishment bad Revenue Office Lanagan yeller determined by the excellence or hood, and he sometimes felt that the been closed for the night on the 22nd day searched the luggage of a otherwise of its schools, here in Chinese were in this stage, because inst., and the folis were sitting talk- Chinese on board the 9.5. Suivick", Hongkongwe are happy in possessing they were grown up people longing, someone threw some tea leaves at and in the bamboo handles of some an educational system of great ex- before we were and had been the deceased for a joke. The latter brooms, discovered 14 taels of raw cellence and productive of the best left behind in the race when the lost his temper, and thinking one of opium. He arrested the man and results. You, dear childen, are being Western nations took stock and ran them was the culprit,, he struck him
The other retaliated.". charged him before Mr. R. O.educated by professional teachers, faster, and now they had to learn three blows. Hutchison this morning, when a fine men and women, who have devoted to grow again. But of all the The deceased in attempting to dodge of $100 of one month's hard labour their whole res ungrudgingly to nations of the world. we wanted the other's blow, bumped into a table, was imposed. The drug was con- this noble task, to whom therefore discipline, or in other words Empire. and crashed to the Roor. When he fiscated.
you owe deep debt of gratitude The British Empire was really British ving loyalty and willing obedience." making for the world's happiness, the fact that the cause of death was which you should shew by unswer-discipline carried, through the world was picked up, he was found to be dead Medical examination revealed He feared that there was less chance and for the world's good, just as
Inspector of recovery than after the Napoléonic discipline made for the happiness of rupture of the spleen. wars, because in the middle of last the individual. Never forget that it Caygil this morning formally charged century" was instituted a godless was for their happiness and their the other man with murder, before Mr. system of education," in which the good and that it was not primarily R. O. Hutchison, and applied for a nation had grown up without any for cur profit. How were we going remand of a week. This was granted. systematic knowledge of religion to bring them discipline for their As a result the present generation happiness and their good? They is left without the sure guidance and could do that if they remembered things which most grasp of the first principles of truth one or two and justice."
always be at the back of the minds That, of course, is a point of view. of every member of the British Empire, boy or girl, man or warka, whether at Home or out here in FRESH DISCOVERIES AT WINDSOR, Hongkong, in Canada or in Australia, or anywhere. If they had these one
A very strong rumour renches us that our COMING? focul law, barring Germans from this colony for a term of years, is likely to be abrogated as a result of onders from Home. If nothing happens soon, you may regard the rumour as unfounded. If it does, you may Ltd remember that we told you so.
Not so long ago an estimable lady who had once had a sweet- heart but who had reached middle age amarried took up the are of automatic writing, and her delight found herself in con- munication with her erstwhile sweetheart. From him she learned that he had gone to war and had been killed. Their conversations were many and they enjoyed many reminiscences of their old days, reports the New York Chronicle. With fluttering heart she wrote to
When charged before Mr. R. O. a friend in Chicago only to find that her lover was very much alive, mar Hutchison at the Magistracy this ried, and the proud father of four morning with the unlawful possession children. So the spirits over of one tael of prepared non-Govern there" can pall legs or make mis-arent opium and some opium dross, takes. just like us down here, a Chinese said he was walking along Des Vœux Road yesterday when he The Adversarian saw a man drop a parcel. He picked wants a good Boy.it up, and did not know the nature who can under-its contents.-$50 or one month. stand English, keep
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There was a good attendance at a special service for children held at St. John's Cathedral this morning, when those present included H. E the Governor and Lady Stubbs. The
The facts of the case
THE CONFESSOR'S PALACE.
or two things always at the back of Captain-Vaughan-Williams, who j their minds they would know how making excavations on the supposed the British Empire was going to site of Edward the Confessor's Palace
The most interesting is what is
the Saxon place of worship. Upon this stone there is a mark of a cross. and what looks like some" Saxon let-
a three-room flat clean, look after his other clothes, and cook a breakfast
A good wage egg. paid promptly. Five per cent. By Jerze solerated. Satisfaction certain interesting event expected marked by cumshaws. Apply either in his family. As the time drew near, he wired from every port heat Chine Mail office or at Craigen-
gower Clab..
The reported purchase in Sydney touched at on his way Home, but
The kitema shows the by the Hongkong Mercantile Com-service was conducted by Bishop be for the good and happiness of in Windsor Great Park, has, made could get no reply. At last he
sun-scorched desert, pany, of the Commonwealthy feet Norris, of North China, who was as the world, and help the nations of the several important, discoveries there wired, demanding news. He got
endless acres of saad of wooden steamers, which were sisted by the Rev. V.H. Copley Moyle world to grow up fate good, happy, recently. an answer, that all was going well, nurse standing by, and that there and scrub, through which the hero purchased from America, has not and the Rev. Mr. M. W. Shewell, and contented grown-up people. Tas no need to worry. Much re-staggers in a very able-bodied manyet.been confirmed. It is understood C. F. The service was of a nature What he was going to do was to thought to be the dedication stone of
local company looks appropriate to the occasion and con- suggest one or two things such as lieved, he rather thoughtlesslyner, milling his eyes, pointing to his
upon the deal with favour, but cluded with the National Anthem, they had heard just before details as to the vessels are not as Mr. Denman Fuller presided at the in the Leason.
Fear ✔TRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE." cabled back Thanks. Hang on mouth, and finally falling to a
till I come. The baby was born stagey death.
That is thirst in yet forthcoming. It is stated that organ
God and honour all men." the day before he got Home, now-art, and it is nothing to the real the Commonwealth Government is The Bishop, taking as his text That poor beggar was just as much rening. The stone has been chipped
thirst at an BOKEKONG, TEESDAY, MAY 25, 1920.
at one corner and part of the cross office desk, during demanding a price of £85,000 for The British Empire" in the course a man as any other man. He was a which the victim gradually gets each steamer. These wooden vessels of an address intended for the chil- beggar; he was very weak; he had Tiams regards this as his most valu
destroyed, Captain' Vaughan Wit- A quantity of
mouth and throat like a starcher's are part of the war time construction dren, said that there were four next to no clothes on; he was very able find at present. Among other papers and books
box-iron. He thinks of long lemon programme of America in the days questions to be answered about likely very ugly and very dirty, but discoveries made are the remains of has reached the
squashes through a straw, of when hard-pressed to get sny tonnage the British Empire. The first was, at the bottom of all that he was a China Mail office, I machine cooled beer, of clinking ice whatever to carry foodstuffs and Where is it?"; the second, man and they must honour him as a a kitchen and banqueting hall, measur There is a long
in response to our and floating lemon peel, and his munitions of war to Europe. "Why is it?"; the third, “What is man. They should not treat himing from 80ft. to $5ft. in length, the appeal for reading matter. ganes.gony gets worse. He cannot get and involved story
In time of peace, however, they ie "; and the fourth, "How is it?" as a piece of dirt and kick him out. remains of possible Roman baths, and A HONGKONG
etc., for the soldiers going Homeout for hours yet. Soroething cannot economically compete with To answer the first question they had of the way. He did not mean give also the floor of the portico of the a Jing on the steamer Professor. The DINNER PARTY. about
should be said in Parliament about standard construction in long hauls, only to take a map and look at the him a dollar. It might be very bad Royal apartments. Captain Vaughan- are kong dinner party, thoughtful donors heartily such tortures..
chiefly on account of their bunkers red on it splashed all over the world. to give him even ten cents. He had Williams is of opinion that these dis- occupying space which would, inLook where they would they would travelled in some parts of China coveries confirm the statement of Mr. bighly amusing to the party of thanked, and we take the opportu
To the good citizen
鼈 steel vessel, be reserved find splashes of red, and when they and was perfectly disgusted at Forestier that this was the site of Beven convives who partook, but ity of reminding others that more will be welded. It is a long voy-"
every day should be for cargo, thus cutting down came right out to the East they the way the little children begged, or Roman viles and baths. which we fear must look much less age. Follow, please, the excellent DAY. Empire Day. May their carrying capacity considerably 24 was celebrated as In short hauls, and in coastwise ser funny in print. A turkey had been example set by the Little Shop
the birthday of a monarch we novice, however, they should give good presented, and put into the hard and Mr. R. A. Nicholson.
The Whitmonday holi- longer pretend to revere. It was satisfaction, as they can do nr 3 rost at the Dairy Farm, and the
booined for a permanent celebration steel ship can in a service where they host was so long in retrieving it
day season in Hong-by an old man who is a mere lime do not have to carry much in the kong usually sees B that the word went round that it was an imaginary turkey. Then diminution of loyalty, due to the lighter. We happen to know him. way of operating sappiles.
If any one day should be Empire Bome wag suggested that it would reflection that the King reigns Day, it should be the birthday of| turn out to be a scraggy chicken, The old English spelling of that
And it the reigning monarch. camouflaged by
spoils our annual holiday was boastfulness. Another went one better by referrego, and the Gerinans call it should not be used for sectional The plain implica- ring to it habitually, at every pos- that to this day, or "regen," which Propaganda.
tion of Bishop Pozzoui's Empire eible chance, 68 our promised ja pronounced the
This was played up to Swedes and Danes keep the old Day address is that the British canary."
people are at present incapable of Hongkong seems in preparing the dinner for Satur-English form
to keep the thing itself about this truth and justice because their day night. An enormous dish was borrowed, and an unsuccessful at-season. It is very rainy, and only schools were not left in the hands
rice-bird.) With pomp this mite
was carved into seven portions, and
RAIX
which
Bane. The
EMPIRE
SEA WARRIOR'S SKELETON.
STRANGE DISCOVERY AT DEAL.
Walle children were digging
would find it in Hongkong. So that rather had been taught to beg, for On the site of the chapel, which was, when they asked the question "Where cash. It disgusted one, and made discovered some time ago, an exten is it?" they would find the answer in ore positively angry, not with the sion of the wall has been found end- red scattered almost everywhere children. but with the globetrottering in a square foundation which was throughout the world.
who threw money to the children to evidently a small tower for bellry. A good many people had asked see them scramble for it. It was not Bishop Browne, an ex-president of the "Why la the British Empire 2" Some necessary to give them money but Society of Antiquaries, who recently people had asked it very crossly and to honour men as men. Love other visited the spor, said the longer altar very enviously. They wanted to and honour the King. They could in the chapel was for the worship of know why Great Britain had seized hardly improve on that.
all the best parts of the world like He wished to tell them one of the God and the smaller one for the wor the child that had got first to the things that made him as proud of ship of devils. The church (which is cake and pulled out all the plums being a member of the British Em. apart from the chapel) is 40ft. long, These people answered the question pire as anything else that had ever and ends in an apse, but not a round" "Why" by saying that we were happened to him in his life. apse. It has two small altars on each
greedy and that having got first to In Peking, some 19 years ago, side. Bishop Browne is of opinion the cake had pulled out all the plums. they wanted to do what some good that Captain Vaughan-Williams hast and There was a better answer than Englishmen and many good Scotsmen made a most valuable discovery. Un-
to match. In the midst of this rainier. Men speak of it, uncon.. that and resent it. It was in the mediately adjoining the historic ruins the top of the Peak they would goll and looked about for a course work at the digging himself and it is tempt was made to get a dish-cover a certain American beer could be of parsons and priests. We depy building sand castles on land im that. If they attempted to walk to wanted to do. They wanted to play fortunately the latter is now unable-10 ish, like a pearl stud on the chestsciously tautological, as damp wet, interests of truth and justice that of Sardown Castles, Deal, and within probably want to a down, and they It was not a very easy thing to find hoped that the Interesting discoveries salat man in evening dres, lay or something that sounds like that. libel as our godless system of discovered a few feet below the every now and again there was a outside the walls of the City. Some har
we instituted what he presumes to
a stone's throw of the sea, they would find, as he had found, that a golf course near Peking close he has made will lead others to help
对 little snipe. (They forget the
Those desirous of see education. Friestless is not neces surface the complete skeleton of nice resting place with a seat ready people looked around and found a Ning the League of sarily godless, though he would say a human being The body had prepared. Now, which was prepared place which would make a very
Nations come to fruit
apparently had decent burial, as first, the resting place or the top of pretty, though, perhaps, not a very the expressions on five of the faces must neglect no chance of inculo. Quite the contrary.
the feet were pointing eastwards the Peaks? The top of the Peak - good, golf course. Upon enquiry they wherever they went, whether in were study. They began to eating, the sense of collective re-
in proper order. The skull has a isted first and they made the resting learned that the land belonged to an Hongkong or elsewhere. The British think that the joke was being car-sponsibility. Our statesmen are
complete round hole in the forehead place because they wanted to get old Manchu prince whom they Empire went bere and there and ried too far, that there really was what they are, unfortunately, 18
Members of the Institution of between the eyes, about the size of a to the top of the Peak. That was approached for permission to play everywhere, and it was very difficult to be no turkey, and because they mixed as our weather, and quite as Engineers and Shipbuilders last night five-shilling plece, believed to have exactly what had happened to the golf on his land. The answer to keep it going without mistakes. are men that love their chow, their depressing. But even if they were presented Mr. K. E. Greig, acting been caused either by a stone from a British Empire. They had made the Prince gave made him proud Sometimes they did make mistakes, attempts to continue smiling were all ideally good, they could not manager of Taikoo Dockyard, with sling, spear, or battleaxeresting places on the way to the of being a Britisher. The Prince but they ought to keep the light gallant but rainful.
However, establish the right international handsome silver cup, suitably ins The remains, finally unearthed by distant resting places because they said that the people living on the burning It was very difficult to after the course had been served, relations without the existence of cribed, and a gold and jade bangle the police. appear to be centuries needed them to get to the furtherest land all belonged to his own family carry British discipline far and wide and the Boy solemnly instructed to a more general goodwill.
for Mrs. Greig. In making the old, and are presumably those of an resting places. Some people would. They were very poor and many of throughout the world without making serve it cold to-morrow, the
There were vari-presentation Mr. T. Neave, President ancient warrior or a mariner landed ask why had they gone to the for-them were just peasants tending, the mistakes, and if they made mistakes genuine furkey game on, and was THE "KENT.'
KEAT. ous local attempts of the Institute, spoke to Mr. Greens and buried from a ship after some therest resting places. He belleved land. He would not have these they mise exact satisfactory in both size and qual
to attack the right active Interest in the Institute exten historic sea-fight in the Downs that the answer to that was because people badly treated, Insulted, or carry the strings of love throughout ity. The curious table ornaments, note of sentiment in connection ding over many years, as a former portion of the remains has been Great Britain was a couple of islando endangered by any foreigner who the Empire. They must learn to loctel from a drug store, and con- with the end of the light-cruiser President and member of the Com, photographed
in the sea God made the path and would treat them badly. They could love God, love their brothers, and Bisting chiefly of remedies for diete Kent. H.S in the Times had mitte. The object of the presenta
carried them all over the world and have the golf course on one condi honour the King tion was to mark the esteem of the tie indiscretions were not really this about it rett
gave them the love of going to sea tion, namely that the course should This also is a point of view, sor members on Mr. Greg's recent SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY. required.
in ships. He believed that there be open to only English, Scots, complicate that we must analyse it. "wedding" which took place during
his home furlough,
THE Lame of Chamberlain's Cough they had the secret of the British and Irish, because not he was tomorrow.) pressed yet,
Remedy is world wide. At la good Empire. They did not have to carve perfectly satisfied that they would for the deep soated cough of the adult out a path for themselves. God not treat his people: badly. That or the croup and whooping cough of the made the path and they did not have was the sort of reputation they children. The same bottle serves the to fight their way, but just to make had a members of the British whole family For lo by all Chemists their ships and get aboard them and Empre, and they ought to keep it and Storeken JETZ.
At the same dín-j m THE ANXIOUS per party. ลวด TICSBAND. narrated the story from real life of anzione, husband, a ship-captain and worrying about a
"I fought at Falklands ;
Sturdee knows me well;
The soul of Cradock knots, and
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I and my sisters righted Coronel Forget me or remember. I was
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