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Centismen, if people have got cores then they must expect them to be trod upon. (Laughter and Applause). It was only a few days ago one of my colleagues, : * most worthy clergyman, came to me and said 'I' think we ought to arrange for a quiet day in the Cathedral in Hang- rong. I said My dear Sir, Hongkong doesn't want a quiet-day; it wants an earthquake." (Cheers). I want this Association to provide that earth. quake. (Hear, hear.) I want to put an end to all this splendid spirit of isolation that we find in this Colony, I want to put an end to all this peculiar balo that hovers round the heads of people who dwell so many hundred feet above the sea level. (Cheen). I want to bring them down from the fog. (Renewed Cheers),
"That is the work, quite seriously,
LOCAL CHARITY BAZAAR.
GLOWING THANKS FROM
ENGLAND.
The following letters have been received from England in connection with the Ministering Children's League bassar held bere in November last
ORPHAN HOMES OF SCOTLAND,
Dear Friend,
Bridge of Weir. January 21.
It is with very great pleasure that acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th December, enclosing the gift of £100 from the Women's Guild and Ministering Children's League, We are very grateful indeed to the Members for their help towards the
maintenance of our big families in the
look their blackest, that unknown friends suddenly come forward, and| this has happened most smphatically in this case. Four letter really was `a godsend.
"Do plesse thank all concured most warmly and gratefully on my behalf, They cannot interpret my thanks| too gratefully and I only wish there was no limit to wards of thanks. After all 'one cannot say more than thankyou" though I certainly never said it with warmer gratitude than Dow.
I should so very much like, as
cord of this gift to the Children's Ward, to nominate some member of the League as an Honorary Life Govenor of the Charity. No re- possibility attaches, and it is the nearest approach to an" Order of Merit that the Hospital possesses.
that I can put it forward in proper form?
You's most gratefully,
EX-ACTIVE SERVICEMEN. | life he remarked that he could 537 of this Association-to be able to Homes, and I hope you will conv y; Will you let me have s name so
JOLLY RIUNIJN DINNER.
SOME BREEZY SPEECHES.
"BONGKONG WANTS AN
KARTHQUAKE,"
members
to the donore our grateful thanks.
With all good wishes, 1 am
.
Yours in the Master's service..
(Sd) Mary Quarrier. Mrs. Young.
Hon. Sec. H.KW.G. & MOL
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THE ROYAL SOLDIERS' DAUGHTERS'
ROME.
Dear Madam,
5, Bobert Street Adelphi, W.C.2. January 23rd.
Sd. Knutsford.
(Chairman)
To Mrs. G. M. B. Young.
OFFICERS” FİMMIES FUND.
1. Chesterfield Gardens
Mayfair.
Hon. Sec.
Dowager Lady Feyton. Dear Madam,
the Royal Soldiers' Daughters' Home, mirter wish to thank you personally, I am directed by the Committes of! Lady Lansdowne and my Com Hampstead, London, to acknowledge and the members of the Hongkong the receipt of £166.13.4d. being the Women's Guild and Ministering amount of a further donation from Children's League most cordially for the Hongkong Guild and Ministering your very splendid donation of £66. kindly sent in aid of the general Children's League, which yon have so 13. 4d. It is more than kind of you!
funds of this Institution.
quite sincerely that never since his old
vide a social ground for men when College days had he been present at they arrive as freshmen in this Colony such a merry evening. At the back! It is a most scandalous thing that men of the whole thing there was obvious should come out from Home, man who 1y that remarkable spirit of friend did their bit in the last struggle, and ship and comradeship which unfor- live here for weeks, months, reare tunately was very often absent from without getting into any Club or gatherings in Hongkong. (Applause) social life at all, I want to stop that, He assured them that if the Asso and that is what the Association ciation continued its good, work it "Hongkong doesn't want a quiet would do a great deal for the rest of stands for." Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh
hoped that all the day, it wants an earthquake. Iwan the community in Hongkong. You would become recruiting agents. this Association to provide that earth-have associations with each other of They were out to recruit all new quake. Tociferous cheers greeted which it would be impertinent for comers. He would age to place the that, pronouncement when Dr. to speak." Professor Middleton Smith
Secretary on the wharf and as every Teesdale Hackintosh made it at the concluded. You are bound together ship came in get him to take the ex-active servicemen's reunion dinner by hoops of steel which were forged held in the Hongkong Hotel on Satur together in a famace which none of
names of new men and welcome thers. Returning to the visitors, he said day night. If the earthquake that Dr. Fon, I am sure, ever wish to or ever We are glad to see them here because Mackintosh years for is going to be will forget. Therefore I cannot touch half as pleasurable as the premonitory upon those memories which you recall feel it is a sign that they are tremor experienced on Saturday night to-night and which we hope you al existence. We want them to remem beginning to take an interest in our then the sooner it begins to ways will recall on these occasions."
ber when they go home that we have register itself upon the social
(Applanse).
I beg that you will accept for Lient. Malleson was cheered loudly something Ekes 150 men without a Beismograph of Hongkong the better.
It was a merry night on Saturday, when he rose to respond on behalf of Club house and it is up to them to yourself, and would set you to be
find us one" (Cheers). a night that drew from an erudite the Association. He thanke Pro-
good enough to convey to the various Gentlemen, I know I am only ex-members of the B.K‚W.G. and M.C.L University professor the confession fessor Middleton Smith for the Find that he had not had such a things he had said about the Associa-Pring the unreserved feelings of Committees our grateful and sincere metry time since his old College days. tion and emphasised the need of aful we
everybody when I say how grate thanks.
His Excellency Bright, breezy speeches, full of wit clubhouse where ex-Service men could the General for being with us this and not without their seasoning of mert and be sure of finding the glad esning. (Applause). Your Excel- wisdom helped towards making it band extended to them. He hoped lency, I do want you to believe that function that will be not Soon that in the very near future they forgotten by the 150 odd revellers would be able to get one. (Applause) have given us of entertaining you as we do appreciate the privilege you who sit down to the tasty little
Before he sat down Lieat. Malleson dinner provided by the Hotel
said that they were glad to welcome one of our guests to-night. (Cheers). I want you to believe, Sir, that you among their distinguished guests Mr. have in this Association a body of Tom Wright who would like, he felt men who are with you and ready to sure, to say something.
follow you in the battle of peace, just
a
The menu items were appropriately camouflaged. "Cookhouse" baring been blared forth in the ante-room where appetisers were being issued
STE
to
we did in the battle of war. We only want a lead from you, that should tell us where we are to go, sad I have no doubt we shall be there. (Cheers).
ور
I am, faithfully yours,
(d) 0: F. Ducs. Major, (Secretary.)
Mrs. Young.
.
CAPTAIN FRYATT MEMORIAL. FUND.
The Arcade Liverpool
January, 21st 1922.
The Honorary Secretary of the
to continue to help our Widows and Orphans and I can assure yon that it is a very great pleasure to us to feel that we have such good and kind friends so far away.
I am not sure whether you were" sent one of our last reports, but I hope ea. We are hoping shortly to get out a new one, and you shall, without fail, have a copy of that.
With renewed thanks.
Youre truly,
Mrs. Young.,
Sd. Ida Peyton.
TRAFALGAR OMPHAN FUND.
Commander-in-Chief's Office
Devonpork
January, 24th 1922.
in-Chief, Portsmouth
Complaining that he had bee
to acknowledge the receipt of the ΤΟΥ out the guests trooped into the old interrupted in the middle of his
Captain Ryatt Memorial Fund begs Madam.
As the Trafalgar Orphan Fund is Grill Room and led of with an umpteenth beer, Mr. Wright demanded
letter dated 8th ultimo, from thei
organised at Plymouth this year your Estaminet cocktail." Trench song to be told whether this was fair. He
Honorary Secretary of the Hongkong letter of the 8th December together chased that down and then came bad, he declared, had absolutely no
Women's Guild and Ministering Child with the draft for £166.13.4d has been "sole a la Whizz Bang" with Fillet of notice whatever that he would be ex-
After the toast had been honouredren's League, enclosing a further most Shrapnel on Hellfire Comer to follow, pected to push his homely countenance in proper style, General Fowler rote to generous contribution to the Captain forwarded to me by the Commander- Iced Asparagus of your dreams" in front of them on a job of this sort reply and was received with warm receipt enclosed herewith.
Fryatt Memorial Fund of £166.13.4d- The Commander-in-Chief, Ply- came next and farther down the Indeed he had every reason to hope plause. He addressed the gathering
mouth, as President of the Trafalgar were two delectable dishes that he would have been allowed to as "comrades of the great war" and
The Committee of the Capaia Orphan Fund 1921-22, desired me to *Pipsqueak on surprise" and "Mills enjoy his chow and his beer in the said he felt greatly honoared at bay- Fryatt Fund again desire to exprese ask you to be good enough to con- Bombs on Toast,"
obscurity to which he was accustomed ing been asked to reply to the toast.
to the Hongkong Women's Goild and (Laughter and applause). It was There was nothing so beneficial to the Ministering Children's league their vey to the Hongkong Women's Guild and Ministering Children's League, known that he was pro-German, whole community, he thought, as to most grateful thanks for this welcome his sincere thanks for their generous over his shoulder and to judge pro-Boer, pro-Bolshevik and in short keep up associations made during the they are under a great debt of grati- / Contribution to the Fund.
Fist
Early in the evening Old Bill put in an appearance with his old kit bag
assistance: the Committee feel that
League for the
by the look of him all his troubles pro-everything and anti-everything war (Applause). In war you found tude to the well packed away inside it. Arm that Hongkong liked or dishked. But out exactly what the man next coor in are with him was "that tearing, in spite of his peculiar idiosyncrasies to you was worth; it was the supreme help which they have so consistently swearing Son of old Nick, the and absurd views about everything test of individual raines. As ist as given to the Fryatt Furd during the
part few years. This generous
You may be interested to know that on Trafalgar Day 1921-there were 396 ory bans of Petty Officers, Non- Commissioned Officers, and Men of the
homes assisted by the Trafalgar Orphan Fund. -
Company Sergeant Major." There in general he did'teem somehow to fit he was concerned he would assist the assistance bas enabled the Committee Royal Navy and Royal Marines in
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was nearly true to tradition, the "major" pro- duced a jar of "S.ED," one of the identical jare from which comfort used to be issued in the pale grey dawn when they hauled you out of your anuggery for Stad to".
looked to the Association to help in maintaining order (Applause).
stampede when, in any company of men who were out Association all he could and be alao
for a good time. And one thing he had noticed about the members of this Association, the prosperity and long life of which he wished as hear tily as any one of them, war that they were all jolly fine fellows who liked a good time. (Laughter and applause)."
to render most timely help in a great number of cases where children hava been concerned, and many letters have been received from the Mothers expressing their gratitude for the
same.
The donation is particularly wel come in view of the fact that the Frnds in the Children's Section of the Fryatt Fund bad been exhausted, and the Committee were obliged recently to draw from the main Fonds in dealing
Yous faithfully."
Sa. E. R. RuSSELL Secretary to the
Commander-in-Chief.
Mrs. Young No receipta from, the Evelina and Oltemhaw Hospitals have been re- ceived. Enquiries are being made.
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Hoodlum," Fing National's greatest quick resource, makes a comedy with comedy which comes to the Coronet low com peers in scenen history for Theatre this evening.
Lamour and Immediate delightful
doep Professor E. Danenberg's pupils successor to "Daddy Long Legs," | sympathy.
Later on in the evening the General, whom somebody was beard to des cribe as "quite a human sort of a cave" proved as good as his word In the chair was the President of
by joining up as a life metcher of Mr. Mackintosh, who was given the the Association. the Association (Leutenant W. St. A. Malleson V.C.. R.N.) who had on his toast of "The Visitor" to prop se There was a musical programme to right the G.O.C. (Major General Fow-proved to be right at the top of his which Mesars Pearson, Glanville ler). Amongst the other guests were speech-making form. He could only Best, Hayward, Middleton and Professor Middleton Smith, Colonel proceed a phrase or two at a time Murphy contributed, Mr Bow with cases of distruse where children Street on Friday evening a Chinese Nicholson. Captain Fisher, Mr. H. because every now and then deafen- Smith accompanying at the piano Percy Smith, and Mr. C. D. Melbourne. ing applause held him up. After one and leading the company in song. The dinera were only half way or two humorous scriptural allusions The gathering dispersed soon after through the soup, when
Dr. aimed at "my old enemy, Mr. Tom midnight, following the singing of the Mackintosh, who, as ever, was a Wright" Mr. Mackintosh went on to National Anthem. radiating foens of jollity and lively welcome most cordially in the name humour, led off a rousing chorus or of the Association those visitors who two. After that there was a continual had dined with them and had shown flow of harmony that caly cessed their interest in the Association. during the impressive moment when "The Silent Toast" was honoured and the "Last Post" sounded.
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Professor Middleton Smith proposed the health of the "Association" in capital little speech. In wishing the organisation à long and prosperous
A LIFE SAVER
"I am not going to mines matters," IT is safe to say that Chan berlain's Dr. Mackintosh declared firmly," IL Colic, and Diarrhoes Remedy has
the of more people
am going to tell you quite frankly stered more subering than other
we have annoyed a great many people remedy in existence. It is known all over the civilized world for its speedy
in this Colony, that we have upset a great many people and that we have trod on a great many people's coma,
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give their eight annual pianoforte re- this **romance of A spuited Whitechapel cital in the City Hall to-morrow after heiress who dropped through January 23, 1922,
noon at 5.30 p.mm, when an attractive a coal chute into
real life" programme numbering a score of excels that famous picture in its
A What a delightful gift the League items will be submitted. Miss Elfrida winsome appeal and quick humour. has sent to as through the Treasurer. Osmund, who is associated with Pro Based on the popular story" Buzkses sections redes the langs, opus inte have just seen your letter and really fessor Danenberg in several piano- Amy" it gives Mary Pickled the Stars in mong the system ́ti = cannot tell you now grateful I am for forte pieces, has taken part in all the widest scope for her expressive art health, cdition Besides, it entiss this splendid start for the New Year: recitals since 1915. Master Georgs and sweet personality as a wealthy girl no opiates and is perfectly safe to ke
I am constantly finding, when things Bond is the only boy performer. who is suddenly swept into poverty, keepers:
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