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it accordingly. With a strong man" and a strong Central Gov- ernment will assuredly come a strong China--loved by her own nationals and respected by for eignerst
numerous..
CARNIVAL,
art
GODOWN.CO.
LAST YEAR'S STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS.
"WHARVES" ANNUAL REPORT.
The report of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, for presentation at the 39th annual meeting, to be held on February 28, reads:-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Fara, 184 story f
Professor Hardy's de..
Only a Jew, the late war, which to Learned, mand for the abolition
the mind of the one
who records it, is the most beautiFullures of "wranglers' at Came ful of all the stories he has heard.
bridge will recall the A Jewish army chaplain sitw a fact that senior wranglers (who badly wounded soldier lying alone ceased to be some years ago, when and vainly trying to hold up a the lists began to be published in Crucifi so that he could see it. alphabetical order) have not made Without hesitation, the chaplain any exceptional mark in the world. "The directors beg to submit want to him as the utmost risk to Most of them have been known, to shareholders their report with himself and hold the Crucifix be-like Todhunter, chiefly for their a atatement of accounts for the fore the eyes of the dying Irish books, and many of them have been year ended December 31, 1925. soldier and remained by him, BUT passed in the race by men much
"The profit on working was porting his head until the main $982,814.11 as compared with died. I am not a Jew. $1,462,514.98 in 1924.
Bishop
lower in the class lists." Philpott was a senior wrangler destined to considerable fame, and "The balance for the year,
so was Lord Rayleigh. Alry ba Here are some of Dean after deducting directors and old Age. Swift's resolutions re Hopkinson and Larmer wore men
came. Astronomer Royal, and" auditors' fees, allowing for de-
garding old age, writton who went far. The great sensa preciation and bad and doubtful in 1699, when he was thirty-twotion in the story of the Mathemati debts, paying for ordinary re-He died at seventy-eight. The recal Tripos was that of 1890 when pairs and retiring bonuses to solutions are to be found
in Part I. Mas Fawcert was former secretary and members Lecky's Biographical Introduction placed before the senior wrangler: of the staff, is: $688,494.78. The to Swift's Prose Works. amount brought forward from last year is $382,695.83 making a total of $1,021,190.56 available. for appropriation.
"The directors recommend the following
To pay a dividend of $6 per share $480,0001
To pay a bonus of $2 per share, $160,000:
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Not to marry a young wife.. Not to be peevish, or morose or suspicious!
With the races com- Tote" Versus ing on, the follow-
"Bookle."" ing letter to
London paper seems
appropriate.
Not to scorn present Waya, or, Wits or Fashions, or Man..
Not to tell the same story over and over to the same Peoplo
Sir, Whatever Iteoventual Not to be covetous..
effect may have been, thera: la no Not to neglect decency, or doubt that in its oarly days the cloenlyness, for fear of falling totalisator was ragarded as a Into Nastyness.
menace to the prosperity of the Not to talk much nor of myself.bookmuiker. Twenty and more Not to be positive or opinions-years ago I was in China, where, in tive...
the execution of my duty on the "Directors: During the year,
Estaff of the naval commander-in- There Wa's a little chief, I had occasionally to be pre- Mesers, Gordon Mackie and O. I. Ellis resigned their seats. The Mixed Up. American boy who went sent at race meetings at Hongkong, following gentlemen were invited:
to church in the morner Shanghai and had resort to
To transfer to repairs and re- newals account, $50,000.
To carry forward $881,- 190:56.
to join the board; Hon. Mr. Ing and to a baseball match in the the totalisators to my great content A. O Lang and Mr. Frank afternoon. "Did you have a happy as a rule. From China I proceed- Austin. Messrs.. T.. G. Weall and day. sonny.", his mother asked. ad to Australia," where, again in the A. H. Compton retire according "Well, mummy," said he, "I got execution of my office in attendance to the articles of association rather mixed up. At church they on his Excellency the Governor and being eligible offer them told me to stand up for Jesus, of New South Wales I expressed Belves for re-election.
and at baseball they shouted. For to a friend on the Sydney race- "Auditors: Messrs. Percy God's sake, sit down. So I don't Smith Seth and Fleming, and know which to doj**** Messrs. Linstead and Davis have audited the accounts now pre-. sented and offer themselves for re-election".
SHIP ADRIFT".
“KWONGSANG'S” HARBOUR
EXPERIENCE.
CHINESE SUSPECTED.
Adrift
course my surprise that they had not tire totalator in that land.. His reply was: "My dear man, the In league with The Shreds man likes parsons here are
the bokles" Some people may Candour. that story of the man
wonder what he meant, but I wil who stuttered pain-
not spoil the yarn by explaining fully and, who recently wrote a friend: "Cemo over to my office unless it becomes necessary to do for couple of hours; 1 want to 80.-Youns, etc... talk with you for ten minutes.""
FRAS HARRISON-SMITH.
..
EDUCATIONAL PEACE.
He found,
Manila's annual Carnival is in full swing. attracting its thou sands; eirculating, money; in- fluencing trade and industry, and bringing joy and gladness in its train Hongkong, so admirably situated, has not yet adopted the Carnival idea? It has been moot- ed, verbally encouraged and gone the way of all such ideas.. Really, the opportunities of knitting our cosmopolitan community
There are quite a number of schemes in which all can take part to bring to a suc- cessful issue and the Carnival idea is one of them. Some years
"The last thing the country wants Government for which he speaks is ago a big industrial exhibition was Seen to have scuttled away in mooted. It was to be held on the their sampan and others to have to have its educational system bent on "reactionary" courses is Hongkong, Thursday, Feb. 18, 1928,
Kowloon side and it was to tell dived into the harbour, a gang made a battle-ground of parties. simple ridiculous partisanship. the world of what Hongkong and numbering about sen) of Chinese We had enough of that, and more The present Ministry has a clear South China was capable. Pigeon tried to set the Indo-China asthan enough of it, before the war and progressive educational pro- the day grumme; and Lord Eustace Percy from. Everyone remembers CHINA'S GREAT NEED.
| "Kwongsang" - holed! The sports-loving people must not have it all their own Jardine's" wharf (outside the when, in a House of Commons de is one of its ablest, as well as its Baron Matsui's article in the way. We have yet to meet any Wharf & Godown Co.'s premises, bate on an Education Bill almost most earnest, members. Bus he "Manchester Guardian" was con- sort of type of plus-four person near the Sallors Home) at West the last subject mentioned was found what he took to be two grave
resolved itself into a tussle be upon to administer... densed in a Reuters-cablegram a who gives up his game simplyPoint, in the small hours of yer education. More often than not it defects in the system he was called
because things are bad" orterday morning.... few days ago, in the course of money is tight" or because of
Awakened about 8 a.m., Captain tween rival Bets of theologians, fret of all that the arrangement which allusion was made to China any of the other cries that be- Bischard (who had seen everything each anxious to preserve or ex under which the State furnishes 60 and the Baron's conviction that speak depression and pessimism.secure about midnight) proceeded tend the special interests of some per cent. of the money for working the greatest need of the moment He gets on with his game, and to the forecastle head with the particular denomination, and each the approved schemes of the local chief officer. All wires were cast to that extent oblivious of the na-authorities left the Treasury per mentally undoubtedly is
whole. From these patty conten-stood or what liabilities It would' was a strong man. Many have physically prepared to meet the off and running out. The tide was tional aspects of the question as Detually uncertain as to where it been, and still are.. the aspirants conditions needing
increased ebbing and the stern had swung ons we managed during the war have to meet. The local estimates
A out to 60 feet from the wharf. There
fres ourselves.. Of all the were too frequently at fault-in for this position; but unfortunate-initiative and enterprise.
ture was taken on the bollards, to ly political and military influences is a magic and music about the both fore and aft and the ship held, lessons bequeathed to us by the the aggregate they were sometimes have found them out. "In no other itself. dictionary is not needed having got up to the ship in the for more
word Carnival which speaks for
The Chinese are suspected of confilet, the clearest was the needmillions out; and care in budgeting and better education and economy in administration country than China has the hack-to tell us for what it stands. A darkness. When disturbed, three (observes the "Sunday Times were prejudiced by the knowledge neyed phrase about "the Changing Carnival then is what Hongkong were unable to board the sampan Mr. Fisher seized the chance in that whatever happened the It' is: 1918 to provide us with what we Treasury would find half the cash. Bast" been so applicable within should have with something solid and jumped into the water.
Secondly, Lord Bustace Percy thrown in in the shape of a thought that the gang may have had never had a modernised, na- recent years and even months. trades or industrial exhibition desired to pirate the ship after tional educational system. Since decided that under this system the then the quiescence of the theo-money was apt to be spent rather Leaders rise and leaders wane Hongkong made Wembley so taking her adrift.
Laterlogians and the new status and on the accessories than the essen- almost with every moon. Security attractive, it is quite capable of
A very reliable source is of the benefits that have rightly been tials of educational development. of tenure is quite unknown. The making its own display equally
won by the teachers have encour The Conservatives have set before attractive Canton would be, best-intentioned men in the public brought into the scheme and the opinion, that the visitors were partaged the hope that the broad lines there three main reforms-smaller
of a gang of seamen agitators. eye are unable to make anything co-operation thus involved would of a stand and prove themselves do more good to both places than anything which, at the moment really "leaders of men." A cen- suggests itself. The idea is tral Government there is, it is worth considering seriously. true; but its ability to govern to
and
LAST NIGHTS ENJOYABLE
·PUNCTION..
$545,000 ESTATE.
LATE MR. CHAU SIU-KPS WILL
Lof our educational policy were classes, the renovation of unsuit- clearly marked and would be unable or insanitary buildings, and interruptedly followed the provision of central and second- This hope has been somewhat ary school places. But, under the shaken, though not broken down, percentage Aystem of payments, by the clamour that has arisen these objectives were liable to ba over Circular 1871 Nothing sacrificed through unnecessary and unify the warring factions, and DAIRY FARM DANCE.
emanating from the Board of largely uncontrolled expenditure to command the respect of its own;
Education for over twenty years on less vital but more decorative nationals and of the foreign
Probate has been granted in has so aroused the politicians; the purposes. The Fresident of the Rowers is an unknown quantity...
respect of the will of the late Mr. experts, and the vested interests Board might well, therefore, con- Edicts and mandates are made AT THE CITY HALL Chau Siu-ki, formerly a member of that grow up in the teaching a clude that a fixed, instead of a per- It centage, grant--and fixed for a the Hongkong Legislative Council, in every other profession. only to be broken, or ignored.
Over a hundred were present at who met his death at the Po Hing seemed only a week or two age three-year period would make Cabinet Ministers are reluctant the City Hall last night for the Fong disaster in July last. The not impossible that a disastrous both for economy and for efficiency. both to assume and to carry out annual staff dance of the Dairy will was only made a little over foud would be started between theIn this he is almost certainly Board of Education and the local right. But in a matter of such the duties of their respective port Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co. three months before his death. folios,Where can all this end? Ltd when an enjoyable time was Estate left is valued at $544,260. authorities with whom and through very-great moment be is doubly spent, the evening's fastivities He enjoined that the trustees, Mr. whom it works. But, after the right in not insisting on a mare When will the Chinese themselves being kept up from 9 pm until Chau Cheuk-fan his brother, and very business-like debate, and ipse dixit." The basis on which learn that the only hope of salva early this morning he two sons, Messrs. Chau Chouk particularly since the meeting be the three-year grant is to aba tion of China lies in one direction The music for the 20 items fan and Chau Kit-am, should act tween the President and the re estimated and the date on which tional committees, there is a good themselves to compromise. Lord creation or arranged was provided by Pro- as trustees until the minors.come presentatives of various educate to begin are details that lend only the
a fanno Gonzales OR band, of age,
that: harmony - and co- Eustace Percy has recognized this, strong Central Government, quadrilles, lancers and waltzes His wealth was
shared dia chance t which, again, must. presup, being among them, these providing criminately amongst his large operation will be restored. Some and the local authorities on their a change from the usual dance family. His son, Mr. Chau Kit-ain, of the objections taken to the part are apparently ready to revise. pose the appearance on the programme nowadays which was one of the trustees and also a Circular, came from a very pardon their estimates for the coming year scene of the "strong man whom appreciated particularly by the benefactor, perlahed in the Peable misunderstanding both of its if the advent of the block grant is Baron Mateul has in mind. There older guests,
Hing Fong disaster. He enjoined motivea and its effects; others from postponed until 1927. That seems
is no lack of talent. There is no
For the reels, the music of the that monthly sums should be paid a fear that it forecast a reduction a fair and reasonable way, out t pipes was provided by Mr. Gts hi mother, but she also perish in the teachers salaries others promises a not too tardy saving of paucity of men with whom Nisbet, of Taikoo Dockyard, ed. Allowances were also made to from a worthier apprehension that money, and it opens out the pros patriotism is the one and only A running bug was operated his secondary wives, but two of it might cut down educational poet of much fruitful consultation halt to educa-between the Board and the local guiding factor. And, still, China's by some of the start of the Dairy them met their deathe in the same
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