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Grandinother tumed, and disclosed on her back another bundle, in which was supported the cherished Tai, the child of Kwok Kau Mui, wife of the
No. 2 A TALS WITH SAMPAS FOLK. fifth son."
Tang Fook, the sampan man, an elderly individual with shrivelled, lace. bunged on the sea wall along the harbour front, against which the
"Good," said the E... when the Is introductions were completed. this all?"
From behind came a gurgie. He sat up suddenly. It occurred to him
THE CHINA MAIL.
the Tamily about Bi a day to livey sometimes $1.20. The versġë" id=" come tamed with the sampan is $20 month. There is a defch of $10
to $15 a month. The baths when
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the earnings are shove $20 fre "good NO ALTERATION OF REVISED SCALE: lock months "the more the luckier;} the months when they are below that amount are the "bad luck months."
The revised salary list for the Public Works Department, announced
OUR NEW BISHOP.
INTERVIEWED BY – CHIKK MAIL **
A CHEERY, SHREWD, AND HOPEFUL
MAN.
"I'm glad to be here, and I weat get to work at the game.”
It was the new Bishop af Victoria speaking the Right Rev. Charles Ridley Duppuy, D.D., who arrived in the Colory yesterday evening from
the P. & O. steamer England on
Somali,"
It took some time for Grandmother to explain all this. When the E.I.last May, the re-consideration of which was asked by officials of that depart- looked up for Tang Fook, he disment, has been confirmed by the covered him curled up in the bow of Secretary for the Colonies, Notifica the sampain smoking a cigarette.tion to this effect has been received There was a look of supreme peace by H.E. the Governor, and transmit on his face. The E.. left him uted to the Colonial Secretary, disturbed. It was obvious that Tang The salaries remain as they were Fook had served a long domestic revised. At the time the new salaries training and knew when to leave well were granted, they were accepted by
At the moment, he stood in the all departments with the exception enough alone.
There was no help for it; the Eof the Public Works Department, the morning sunlight in front of the diverted his interviewing in the diret; members of which were not satisfied Bishop's Residence in the grounds di tion of Grindmother. She was with the revision. Accordingly, the St. Paul's College, glancing down rapid talker. She made even the in- question was referred back to the through the trees at the city, and har terpreter dizzyshe and the extra Secretary for Colonial Affairs, whose bour spread out at his feet. It was ordinary gyrations of the sampan, decision has been awaited with at the close of an interview he had given a repressantive of the China The E.l. remembered his earlier mild Interest.
Mal He had stepped out to hid his ecstasy about the beauty of the har-
visitor. a pleasant goodbye. bour, scene. Occasionally be glanced out at it. It would nor remain still
Standing thus out-of-doors, one hid
long enough to be observed. There LATEST SHIPPING NEWS better glimpse of the new Bishop
were moments when it seemed to be whirling.
At every lall in Grandmother's utterances Kwok Kau Mui, from the stern of the sampan, chimed in, or Chan Sui, from her seat on the harchway, demanded a hearing for her views. Occasionally they reglected the amenities, and the three of them
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water slapped with signs of petulance, that he might be sitting by mistake chartered at once, each trying to Out Captain W. D. Hopcraft, 3,039 tons departing impression of the new
It was a breezy day, and the harbour on-
was a rifle ruffled. From time to
But it was all right.
Over the
than in the more subdued light inside. The sun brought out the many pos- sibilities of his expression-the depth and feeling in his eyes, the strength The ss. Yingchow," Capt. G. W. of his chin, and above all the agree Eddy, 1.216 tons, arrived this mornable lines of his lips, carved as they 560 tons of general cargo.
tially a friendly man, sympathetic and in at 645 am. from Swatow with were in warm good amour, Essens The ss. Empress of Japan," vigorous this was the interviewer's the other. As a chores, it was a great arrived this morning at 7.45 am Bishop of Victoria. success; as an interview it was
from Shanghai with 166, tons of
"In Yorkshire they say See all The as. "Kaiping," Capt Mactar- and say now, was his reply to an time lang Fook cast an inquiring eye back of the seat came a hat: then a failure. And all the time, at the ex-milk, steel, beer, general cargo, etc.
я look of lane, 1606 tons, arrived this morning inquiry concerning his plans for the said Grand sat and smoked, with on his sampan' which, moored below, small face slit thwartwise by a grin.treme end of the sampan, Tang Fook
at 7.45 am. from Chin Wan Tao work in the diocese of which he has taken charge. “What I want to do and she supreme peace on his face. bobbed in bared obedience to the lift- This Kum Sing."
The s's "Hawaii Maru." Capt. T. first is to make a survey, to get a real ing of the waves and jerked terra-mother. tively at the line that tethered it to pointed at Kwok Kau Mui, sculling Once Chan Sai dropped line Lin with 2.900 tons of coal.
unceremoniously on the hatchway, Kwok Kaz Hui acknowledged anchoring her with a bare foot to keep Suruga, 5,949 47 tons, arrived this grip of conditions; then to lay my Fate ordained that he should hail
her from sliding overboard, while she morning at 7.50 am from Manila plans. At present I shall sec all, and He went on to explain that the the Eamest Interviewer, who was possession with a delighted nod.
"Seven," said the E.T. He 150k put out an car and laboured desper with 1,224 tons, of hemp and iron, Esey little,"
The 's. "Tungshing, Capt. H. diocese includes not only the colony contemplating appreciatively the fresh beauty of the blue and white harboured around to return Kum Sing's smail-ately to work the sampan out of the goods.
ing at 7.50 1 m. from Shanghai with South China, with population of 700 tons, of general cargo.
some Sitty millios."
shore.
at theistern..
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and the brown hills beyond. If the ing greeting, and the sampar. flipped path of a launch, impudently insist- Udden, 768 tons, arrived this morn of Hongkong. but practically all of
E.I was thinking at all, he was think him across the cabin-like sheltering on the right of way. ing how pleasant would be the ex-fortunately on the interpreter.
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Seven," sald Grandmother. From an open hatch forward came the smoke of a little fire, and the penetrating, indefinable fragrance of food.
"Filth son," said Grandmother. On the opposite side was a torn yellow paper with Chinese characters printed in red.'
The sampan. Grandmother said, was owned by herself and Tang Fook. cost about $300. A new sampan They had had this one ten years.
The EI. led the subject of co- Could they versation to edication.
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Just after his consecration Bishop, which occurred on June 24, he sid, be attended the Lambeth
** That Conference of Bishops.
The ss. Taga Maru, Capt. Hbrought me in touch with a good Mori, sailed for Keelung at 10 ad- many of the live problems the Church to-day with 500 tons of general carg faces to-day. My job is to apply and 1.350 tons of rice.
these problems to the life of this ocese, but how this will work out,
The s. Sunning" Capt. Wavell, sailed for Shanghai at noon to-day with 1,200 tons of general cargo.
The ss. "Van Waerwijck," Capt. Schlette, sailed for Amay at 2 pm. to-day with 2,100 tons of general cargo.
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To an inquiry about the state of the Ladies Church in China, he replied that he could not say anything on the subject at this time. "The thing that im- presses me. " he went on." is this: what the Church of Christ stands for is stability of character, and the pro- gress and true development of mas- The "Namsang," British, kind." He emphasized the import- cleared to-day and will sail for Kobe ance of this work in the present **We are going through a period. via Moji at 6'am to-morrow."
The s.s. "Ixion, British, cleared critical time in the history of man- to-day and will sail for Manila at 10 kind, and a tremendous amount de- pends or the developments of the next few years."
perience of being able to feel, as well as see, the beauty of the picture-al floating. Fairy-like. through the scene and realizing its charm to the full.
They could not. Had they "Sampar?" said Tank Fook, in
"Broth." said Grandmother. The read? vitingly.
"The babies," he said: "will they Although to foar through the picture wind brought the smell of the lood ever been at school? They had out. in a modest sampan might not be quite directly back into the shelter. The as a fairy world do it, at least it.1. begged the navigator to shift the be sent to school, Grandmother ?”
"If good lock, "we send boy to would be an agreeable make-believe.course. It was done..
Depending from line was the school," was the reply, "but not the Further, it would give an opportu- nity of interviewing Tang Fook, and family washing, consisting of sundry girls. If very good fuck, maybe we But perhaps only the pressibly the rest of the Tang Fooks, intimate garments, flapping vigorously send giris. whose shiny heads were visible in the in the breeze. Fastened against the boy."
The sampan turned a somerault, or little craft. Therefore the E.L. went side of the shelter was a framed photo- down the steps, scrambled across a graph of a placid young man, stiffly seemed to, in the wash of a passing vessel: then stood on each end alter- couple of launches, and jumped on the posed.
nately for a few minutes; and finally deck of the sampan. The deck drop-
heeled over and shipped a generous ped mischievously out from under him as he jumped, and he sat down
portion of cool sea waters. When the E.I. picked himself out of the comer greatly to the amusement of the Tang
Good luck charm," said Grand-where he had been deposited. "It was Fook household. The interpreter.
with a question that the incident had It would mother. without a smile, followed.
Tang Fook, summoned for con- suggested. have taken more than that to shakej
What is your principal problem in Thess. "Telamon," British.cleared versation, slid along the deck, polish- his oriental dignity!
Grandmother?" he inquired-to-day and will sail for Liverpool via Tang Fook took an oir: two young led to a high degree by the activities life, ladies took pars: a baby ser up a of the little Tang Fooks, and sat toy-What have you chiefly to worry Singapore at 10 am. to-morrow.
The El. about?" It was rarural that he ex howl: the mat on which the E.1. sating with his bare toes. slid on the smooth wooden seat and made an effort to draw him out on the pected ber answer to have something
to do with keeping the ship aflost.
The Bishop was asked if he would cracked him smartly against one of state of affairs in Canton.
He knows
A new library building has been In this be was disappointed. Grand- He shook his head. pan moved out into the harbour, nothing about it," said the interpreter, mother seemed entirely oblivious to assured for Kobe Itrough the con- express his views on the present con- She tribution of Y200,000 b7 a number dition of the world's affairs. He ex- Grandmother reached around and the behaviour of the sampan. bouncing with wild abanden from one wave-to another, and missing none of lightly paddled the part of Tai's per remained squatting at the edge of the of leading citizens. The new library cased himself, as he did from discuss son that was most conveniently in shelter. poised as deftly as a tight which the city has felt the need of ing one or two other questions that for a considerable length of time, the interviewer volunteered, on the Gradually the identity of the mem-reach, that young lady having shown tope walker on a swaying wire.
"All that we worry about is being will be of reinforced concrete, to ground that he would make reference bers of the Tang Fook family, which signs of becoming restless, and began filled up the many crevices in the sam-to talk. Tang.Fook looked resigned. poor." she said, solemnly. "We do stories high, all the rooms upstairs to it in his address at his enthrone-
not worry about being sick. This is to be devoted to reading rooms and a healthy life.”
"And when this life eads-what then?"
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pan. was disclosed.
with bare "brown feet.
Grandmother went on talking.
"We do not know." "What do you think happens to you when you die?"
We know nothing of what hap pens before we liye and after we die." Another question, Grandmother Do you ever pray?"
am. to-morTOW.
"
He added that what it is aimed to do is not to reproduce the Church of England, but to secure the growth of the true branch of the Church Univer sal, in China.
He has had a wide experience with
those downstairs for offices and other ment to-moTQW, purposes. A storehouse of concrete five stories-high will be constructed men of many types and trades. As he near the new building to contain the humourously put it, in touching o book stacks of the new institution. his career, he "knows something of The new library is expected to be lift." He lived for ten years in Aus
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Knows nothing about it" she There was.first of all Tang Fook, who sat curled up in the bow of the said, emphatically. He knows a lot sampan, blinking from beneath. about it. Before it happened we shapeless felt hat that had faded to a could get 105 catties of firewood for painful shade of green. He confess a dollar; while the trouble was on we ed to an age of 66 years. The rest could only get 40; and even now, of his attire was a nondescript coat when things are better, we can only and trousers, ranging in colour from get 50. That's what he knows about
it." mauve to black. His feet were bare,
Tang Fook went on toying with his brown, and prehensile.
"We only pray when we burn joss the restraint, and fought to get away. Squatting at the edge of the shelter toes. Chan Sui shipped her oer, took
sticks on the Rrst day and the It was discouraging. The E.I. and from Grandmother's artis.
"In 1909 he became Vicar of Christ was Kwek Mai, his wife, also with Lin shrivelled, quizzical face, and also bestowed herself comfortably on a fifteenth day of the Chinese calendar? the interpreter slid helplessly from one
That is all. But of what happens side to the other, to the intense abuse- Church, Bradford, where he remained Kwok Mui closed hatchway, with bare toes grip when we die we know nothing. We ment of everyone except themselves. two years. He then became the Irackly claimed to have existed on this ping the side of the sampan, and an only pray for good luck."
There was only one thing that would second in charge of the home work of troubled earth a matter of 63 years. concernedly gave her nourishment.
By this time Tang Fook, ably have steadied the sampan-some long the Church Missionary Society. After At an oar up forward. seconding the ***Are you happy?" said the E.I,
assisted by Chan Sui and Kwok Kau spikes through the bottom, plunged a year in this position he was left prac- venerable Tang Fook's efforts, was to Tang Fook. "Are you contented Mui. had worked the sampan around deep into the ground. Obviously this tically in full charge. He was serv the cheerfully disposed Chan Sai with your life?"
and tied it to another sampan, which was impossible. The next best thing ing in this capacity when he left to ge
to France as Chaplain to the forces. Mui. A daughter-in-law she was, the Tang Fook thought, shook his head, wife of the sixth son of Tang Fook started to speak; then, as Grand-in turn was secured to an aristocratic was to return to shore.
little pleasure yacht, lying an anchor. A little later the E.I. and the inser-After the war be announced that he mother swept into the conversatio Theoretically, perhaps, the change préter mounted the steps to the, sex would go abroad as a missionary, and with a rush, gave up with something
should have steadied the craft. Prac-wall and leaned against a convenient resigned his post with the intention pl that sounded like a sigh. Grand- tically, it did nothing of the ye. The post to steady themselves. The E.I. proceeding to West Africa. He was boat by Archdeacon Barnett, secretary in their seats & 5.25, after which mother talked at length.
"She says she can't say if happy," sampan, indeed, seemed annoyed by looked out at the blue and white har- then offered the See of Victoria (Hong-
bour and the brown hills beyond. kong) and on his acceptance was con- of the Church Missionary Society; the time all seats, will be open to the Preceding the service, there will be the face of another daughter-in-law, said the interpreter. "Suppose this
They were engaged in extravagant secrated in St. Paul's Cathedral, in Rev. Mr. Moyle, Chaplain of St.public. by name Kwok Kit Mui, wife of the month good luck, yes; suppose it "bad
A FAVOURITE RUB DOWN. antics. At times the hills were where company with four other Bishops, by John's Cathedral; the Rev. Mr. Lind- fifth son also an estimable youth luck, no."
the harbour should have been, the the Archbishop of Canterbury at say, of St. Andrew's Church, Kow-a public reception at the Helena Mar Assisting the toon; and the Rev. Mr. Waldegrave of Instinte. The hour for the reception
is 4 p.m.. and employed on shore.
The elderly
Biter, the foot he'l player and harbour where the hills were intended notable ceremony. These were not all.
Archbishop of Canterbury were the the Seamen's Institute: the all found athlets koow the
"The Bishop. will preach-at St. An- Kwok Mui, mother of them all, held family, she said, lives on the sam-valge of Chamberlain's Jain Balm. It to be placed.
"Very pretty," said the interpreter, Archbishops of Capetown and Rupert's The enthronement of Bishop Dup
Land, and thirty-six Bishops from vari-puy will take place at St. John's drew's Church, Kowloon, on Sunday -in her arms a bundle. This bundle pan. The sons, contribute a small is just the thing for a rub down after a
Cathedral to-morrow afternoon at evening, the 7th. A Kowloon wel stirred. It also howled. It was, in amount to its support. But for the hard game All soreness disappears blandly.
On his arrival in Hongkong yester-15.30. As a large attendance is ex- come will be given him in the Church day, Bishop Dippuy was met at the pected, scatholders are asked to be Hall on Monday, the 15th.
an estimable young man, it was said,
who was employed ashore.
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A farge straw hat, hovering above
calling oar at the stern, was up
tilted a moment, revealing beneath it
"And by good luck ---” Grandmother explained.
The
fact, alive. being none other than most part it lives on what it makes like magic and sprains and swellings are The E.. gave him a glance of re-cus parts of the world.
ured in one-third less time than by
severely. Lin the wee daughter of Chan Sui ferrying passengers to and from ships any other testmest. For sale by all prosch. I don't see," he said, Mai, wife of the sixth son.
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