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DOCK INITIATIVE.
CONGRATULATIONS AT LAUNCHING.
YESTERDAY'S SPEECHES
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
"All night home to This admony a splendid deed o Diversen 24. supper, and it being a like mature did Nicholas in the RIGGS, now very cold and name of God, and always in secret. Congratulatory references to
in hopes of a fost and to-day we say that he comes to the surmounting of great difficult begin this night to put on a, the children's Bocking for the ties in the completion of the vessel Waistcoup it being the first winter sake of his Master-the Lover and within a reasonable margin of the in my whote memory, thus over 1.Saviour of all mankind, expected date were made yester-tuid kill this day before # did so. day at the launching of the s. "Siang Wa" built to the order of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.
The launching ceremony was performed by Mrs, Clementi.
"
PEPYS.
"I understand, sir," he said, that you are going to sing "The Village Blacksmith at the con- cert to-night?"
Harry tells the follow- Drunk some burnt LAUDER. - ing:—— EMR 25”, wine at the Bore!
Somebody proposed to 1667. Tavern door, while sing. "The Village Blacksmith." While the vocalist was resting in the constables compe juud two or three Belimen want by, his hotel a visitor was shown in. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Manag being a fuse brighth moonshine! ing-Director, Jardine. Matheson & morning, und, so home round the Co. in thanking the company for city, and topped and droppent attending, said that the name money at five or six places, which "Siang Wo" meant "Felicity and was the willinger to do, it being Peace and he could not think of Christmas day, and so home, and a more appropriate name for find my wife in bed, inil Jane, and ship that was just commencing its the maids making pyes. career in the at present turbulent waters of China. Let them hope that the sentiments "Felicity and Peace to be borne by this steamer CHRISTMAS Eva, now for engines] would soon become the general
and drums,
on wheels.
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"That is so." said the stranger... "Well," said the caller, "I just enme to say that I am the vlilage blacksmith here, and I would take It very kindly if you could intro, duce into the song a few words which would let the folk know Are they asleep? thas also repair bicycles."
PEPYS.
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Not many of these. THE BOWLER.. things seem to be
noticed in Hong kong this winter. The 'Outfitter,
state of China. (Applause) And carpentering sets and puppies any of the company were likely to bake a trip up the Yangtsze Gorges they could now travelAw they sleep? Just have a hist from Shanghai to Hankow by the You don't know how heavy ny am-4 journal which deals with men's
"Longwo" "or: "Kungwo" and, as soon as this ship was finished, complete the journey as far as Tahang. in vessels all built at this Dockyard. After that, however, they would have to proceed up the Gorges in boats built in Shanghal For at Home..
peep.
fud Navels.
fashions in clothes, says that the bowler or derby hat has had to might drop in orange or bursa a take second place to the soft
Homburg hat.
bullcom:
If they are wwike they wilt her,
the dene sound,
A, pretending to sleep. Boy'll
just have a per
Fo see what clumy fairies and
wandering, round,
1
The bowler has" had quite a long history. for it was in the early years of the eighteenth century that one Wil- liam Bowler, a Southwark hatter, This ship should have been
devised the round-crowned hard launched several months ago and
felt hat which was also called the M. E. he very much regretted thub
billy-cock, or more correctly the owing to the strike and boycott
bully-cock that is, cocked after there had been some delay. How-
December & was $5 the fashion of the bullies. Pos- ever, in spite of all the adverse
Nicholas Day, the sibly the origin of the bowler may circumstances, with which they [Savra claws, saint who was the be found in a similar headgear had had to contend. they had been
fremo Be
Sia worn by the Parsee gentlemen in able to carry on quite well, and it clans." the children's friend at Bombay, which, while just the was encouraging to find that their Christm-time. He was inite same shape, has a sort of tubular neighbours, the Taikoo Dockyard, the first Sauk Cats, us this scurved brim as we know it. «
brim instead of the flat or slightly
had also been able to continue
The REAL
work in theft Yard and were like his early life with show, as a young and rich nun he wast one day wise launching a ship that after-walking through the streets of his
noon.
i
Deadi
Marine:
"My 1 respectfully ask why Your Royal Highness applies the name of the corps to which I have the honour to, belong to an empty The Duke, with the
and are ready to do it again!".
and lowering. The epoque of Laughter and Love has arrived. of holly und sietoe, of
motive was when he heard the rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, of plum
Christened By Mrs. Clementi. squids of lamentation proveeding A DEFINITION. An empty bottle. A "Marine" or from the house of a nobly born mag Dead Marine" used in the days. puddings and turkeys of "cum-
He thanked Mrs. Clementi, for who land last all his money, and of hard drinking to be anaccept- shas"--and the numerous presents doing them the honour of com-
Latins, with his three daughters, oned synonym for an empty bottle. sent near and far-those bits of ing to launch and christen this
the verge of starvation, vessel. Mev. Clementi was known
synonymfor an empty bottle. love mute visible." How many ate many of them there that day, from his cheritve of three bure Clarence and Lord High Admiral. | Nickydas hunted home and look William IV, when Duke of this time will think of the first and when she was in Hongkong before of old one bar, and, returning to at an official dinner, is related to best Christmas story ever written and he could not think of a better or will draw the attention of the Way the Dock Company could have the use, be there the pros have said to a walter, pointing to
welcomed her back than by asking piece of melak trong nen some empty bottles: young people to it, we know nother to christen the first ship window. when it was found the "Take away those 'Marines." " An elderly Major of Marines Its Eastern origination should launched since her return; and in next morning by the nobleman and
present rose and said: have an abiding appeal at this agreeing to do so Mrs. Clementi hailed a gift from Fiol. time in the misunderstanding had given evidence of the interest The xt night Nicholas did the both she and H.E. the Governor arme with the second bar of wad. clash of Western and Eastern Look in the industries of Hong- autem the surd night with thought. It is written directly❘ kong. He had very much plea-the last bar, but on this occasion bottle" and simply as its 445 words prove. Bure in asking Mrs. Clementi to he was discovered, and the wor unfailing tact of his family, saved It has all the colour of beautiful accept a small souvenir of the of the house knelt before him. the situation. I call them language; it moves without effort occasion, and he would ask all to Nicholas ruled him, saying: "Crye Marines because they are good Join in drinking to the prosperity thanks to Chod, for it was. Fle Who fellows who have done their duty and yet with the quickness of life; and success of the "Siang Wo" and sent me to you." it is poetry in the completest her owners. sense. "But Mary kept all-these things and pondered them in her and the company drank to the assure them that their relations that in times of trade depression heart." The kindness of the sen-success of the vessel.
had always been of the most the Indo-China Co., could not ind tence and the rich knowledge of Mrs. Clementi, in replying, cordial nature and long might they Docks for their annual overhaul jobs, without the use of the old life in its simplicity! The first spoke of the great pleasure it gave remain so.
Aberdeen Dock, a place which at Christmas story and the greatest. her to launch the good ship that
World Shipping. afternoon. She thought it a great.
one time they did not regard too Bouglas Jerrold, the wit, waid
a perpetual reminder of the basisrivilege to do so. She wished the That shipping generally was at favourably and which some years of Englishmen, that the first thing
on which the Christmas season vessel many years of work, and its lowest ebb was world-wide ago might have been demolished. the survivors of an earthquakerests and the fact that its foundishe hoped it would thoroughly knowledge; the depression in ship-It would seem; therefore, that there was stli) a very considerable would do, would be to meet and
building, particularly in the tion is love. We need to get back fulfil its auspicious name!
United Kingdom was such as to amount of shipping in operation call for the most searching in-and as regards the Indo-China Co., home circle and friends, but those Jardine, Matheson & Co.. said it with our great national industries,know that after a protracted
Mr. R. Sutherland, of Messrs. vestigation by experts conversant it was a source of gratification to.. whose lot is not found in pleasant was his pleasant duty on behalf This regrettable state of trade had lay-up of a portion of the fleet, all places. The season is an expand- of the Indo-China "Co., to thank resulted in some half a million the vessels were now more or less customary ing one. Tiny Tim's words suffice the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock tons of shipping being laid up in operating in their
Co., for having so successfully UK. ports alone, and still more trades. He trusted that the im designed and launched the "Siang serious perhaps some 8,000 provement would continue and Wo which, when completed would Officers and Engineers had in that the Dock Co... would reap its
benefits accordingly.
He would now ask all to drink undoubtedly be a source of satis consequence been put out of
to the continued prosperity of the faction to her owners. He said employment.
There were occasions, however. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock" had many years' experience of the when shipping Companies, 20 Co., and he coupled this toast with good and honest work of the Dock matter how inopportune the time, the name of Mr. R. M. Dyer. Company, this being the 8th vessel were obliged to maintain at- all
Hongkong. Thursday, Dec. 24, 1925.
CHRISTMAS.
hold a dinner! Here is the ingrained tendency to observe and to rejoice. It is characteristic of the nution, ...The wanderer. wherever he may be, takes it with him, and whether alone or in com- celebrates the occasion according to tradition, It is so with Christmas, Hongkong, does not, as an eminent writer said of another place, lie "drugged and asleep in the arms of China." It is simply another slice of Home
puny.
Mr. Bernard presented Mrs.. Clementi with a diamond brooch,
to fundamentals and to remember Indo-China Co.'s Thanks.
not merely those of our own
"God Bless us everyone"; whilst Robert Burns in his epistle to Davie seems to have a special message for us here in Hongkong and the larger world around us It's.no in titles nor in rank;
"undoubtedly" because they had
The toast was cordially drunk,
with all the castoms of Home It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank contracted for with the same costs, valuable trade "connections and Mr. R. M. Dyer suitably re
Nae treasures, nor pleasures,
Could make us happy lang; The heart aye's the part aye
That makes us right or
observed as far as it is possible to To purchase peace and rest: do so. Spring is the season of the It's no in making muckle mair;... Awakening of Men to the realisa-It's no in books; it's no in lear;
To make us truly. Elest; tion of the wonder and glory of If happiness hae not her seat this world: it is essentially the And centre in the breast, season of physical youth. In We may be wise, or rich, or great, Summer we see the understanding But never can be blest. more fully developed. Autumn is. the age of mentality, the season of reflection and often of disillu- sionment, a time when we are often depressed. So, following in the train of the "Fall" comes the greatest and most wonderful. season of all the season not of youth nor of maturity nor of old age, but the season of Eternity; The season of boys and girls, yet;
but the sanson of men and women,
..
of parents, and the ancients of the family circle as well. What matters it if trade is bad, money tight, and the clouds of misunder- standing seem permanently dark
wrang
Then let us cheerfu' acquiesce; Nor take our scanty pleasures
less,
By pining at our state; * And, even should misfortunes
come here wha sit hae met wi' some,
An's.thankful for them xet They rie the wit of age to youth
They let us ken ournal;. They make us see the naked truth,
The real guid and ill.
Though losses and crosses Le Be lessons right severe,
There's wit there, ye'll get there, Ye'll find nas ither where,
builders:
MR. ERIC RICE,
COMMISSIONER.
It was certainly a and it was a situation such as this matter of congratulation to the that had some time ago to be faced plied, and said, that though the Dock Company, particularly the, by the Indo-China Co., and which last five or six months had been Executive Staff that this good led to the decision to replace, or rather difficult, he was an optimist ship, notwithstanding unexpected, supplement, the old vessels operat and was looking forward to the
future. and what at one time looked like ing on the Middle Yangtze River insuperable difficulties, had been between Hankow and Ich ng. The euccessfully launched within a steathers in question were the reasonable margin of the expected "Changwo" aged 34 years and the date. Such results culled for "Kiangwo" which was built in unremitting perseverance, and Shanghai some 24 years ago. Old patience and he might say that and faithful servants; links in that these qualities so pronounced in long and important chain of trade VISIT OF OVERSEAS LEAGUE their Chief Manager must stand extending from Chungking 1,427 the Company in good stead. miles up the Yangtze, thence to Hankow Shanghai, Hongkong and Cantur, a transport in ali of over Sir E. Stubbs' former Secretary 2,500 miles or roughly speaking Mr. Eric Rice, is well known in the distance from Hongkong to the Colony. He is now Special Australia, which illustrated the Commissioner of the Overseas vastness of China's area of com- League and has made several all a Merned by coming to Hongkong and war mercial trade. As the strength world toura in its behalf. Mr. Rice weakest link so they had seen fit be in the Colony some time next tiona, he had always sworn by them. It was only right to to bring the tonnage on the Middle month when doubtless the inter add, however, that in the ordin-River up to date by acquiring the ests of the League in the Colony ary routine of business, he had vessel which they had just seen so will receive particular attention So far forgotten himself as to successfully launched
Communications to Mr. Rice will occasionally wear at them In wishing prosperity to the find him care of Messrs. Thos, (Laughter.) However, he could Dock Company, it was significant Cook & Son, Ltd.
It was perhaps in times of stress that the Executives of the Dock, judging by his experience, reached the high-water mark of efficiency, and in combating the ever recur ring chaos caused by labour troubles. unboons in emergenes