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November 14, 1908.)
the peceful efforts of diplomacy, and we may find abundant assurance on this point in the conventions to which England, Japan, Russia, France, and the United States have subscribed.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
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I have often wondered how many readers of a newspaper feel interested enough to read through from beginning to end a detailed des. oription of a cricket match snob, for instance, as the newspapers consider it their duty to farnish on Occasions like the interport con- testa. Speaking for myself it interests me bat little to learn how one man snioked the ball to boundary or how smartly long off fielded. am usually satisfied with a glance at the scores set out in tabular form at the end, but in so idle moment last week I was tempted to glavo - over a descriptive account of the interport inatob appearing in a sheet which is occasionally published at Shanghai. Here," thought I brightening up over a discovery, “is a reporter who can di sor be a cricket match in a distinctly interesting and oiginal manner." Let me quote: “Bird now fw out to forage for Hong kong, but came back within a minute wit only one worm in his benk, which does not cou it much in a large family of eleven." Now, Mr. + ditor my random refl-otion on this subj-ot is that if your reporters would write up your cricket reports in this unconventional, but intensely interesting, manner, I am sure everyone be he ardent cricketer or DO! - would read the accounts with avidity,
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Mother!" be exclaimed, “Why d they say here God Save the Queen'! Everybody tings God save the King.'
The fond parent daly enlightened her off- spring who, baving digested the information imparted, looked up again and innocently asked: 7 When, Mother, will it be 'God save the Jack '"'!
The absence of Lady Lagard was naturally a subject of sympathetic omment among thone who attended the Birthday Ball at G›vernment House, but the communi y will be glad to kow that Lady Lugard 'will leave London on the 27th inst, and is expected to arrive in Hongkong on Christmas Day.
"This is not doing your music practice," | OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATION said mother sternly.
A oor espondent avers that the following was picked up near the Central Police Stat on:-
Merry weather and Co., London to Hongkong Police:
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For inflamatory or eruptive tendencies in crowd try our hose with plenty of water: if soapy, so much the better. Its cooling and cleansing effects guarantee prompt disappear. ance of be malady."
Mr. T. K. Dealy, local hon, secretary, sonda as the following results of the examination held at Hongkong in July last :-es
K NʊURA LIST.
Preliminary: Third class Wilosu K. [D].
J Basto C. A. JL pes F.
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BENIOR.
Chao Ying-wing 9 Mok Kai-fook. D Chia Yan-tes J O'Brien P, J, J Fara J.
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I am assured on the most trustworthy authority that the above telegram is a pare invention. I thought "0.
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To-day as you all know, is the anniversary of the birthday of King dwird, but not many are aware of the number who are looking forward with great anxiety to the publication of the list of birthday honours, One or two Hongkong men are expected to figure in that list baɩ who thev sro “ Ì daarna teil"
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Fang Min-eni
Laos G. M.
J Sternberg M.
Q Wong Lam-oho,.
Over age 19.
Q Two Cuak-ming
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J Than J.
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Anderson H.
Ng Ka pui
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Cheng I-kam.
Prevost P.
Laung Nai-otüo.
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D Litto G. J.
D Strangman T. G. A.
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Marques B.
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Mayor J.
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Cheng Yan-tin
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I am fold that quite a number of people who boped for a riob_barv st through the visit of the American fer to Amoy have been disap- pointed, and that some of those who ventured from Shangbai and Hongkong on the make are on the verge of bankruptcy. Jack not I hope I may not be trying your pet nce.bing given liberty to roam on land up-t all Mr. Editor, by just oe other random refɔstion commercial calcul tions and the resul that 9 on the stereotyped ways, or, perhaps I should the visit of the Amerio‹n squ«dron is remember- Bay in this instance, the smooth conventionali-d with regret by som instead of being an ties of the Pressman. The other day my eye universal pleasant memory. alighted on a paragraph in a paper published in one of the neighbouring ports to this effeót : "The many friends of So and-Bo will be pleased to hear that he is to be married next month." Tell me now why on earth should a man's friends be pleased at the prospe? The papers never tell us this and yet it is probably the most interesting part of the story understand the bridegroom-elect being pleased with himself, but why his friends too should be pleased is not quite so obvious Had the paragraph to which I refer appeared in a Hong- kong paper I would have appea'ed to some of the many friends for enlightenment. But like a bad coin, this sterotyped phrase is bound to turn up some fine day-perhaps in the Daily Press, and I bope, Mr. Ed tor, you will see that the author completes the story properly by telling us the reasons for the gi dness which prevails among the friends of a man, who, like
lamb, is being led to the altar.
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But for the case of plague mentioned last w-ek, the weekly return of oss of com manicable disease in the Clay would har- been sooth r blank.
Lo Cuia-boi
SP Waa Suuk-Ching
Over age 18.
Q Longstaff J. I.
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Savares F.
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G Palmer M. A.
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Chiu Yam-tak
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Chrang Kai
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Da Los B. F.
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Jukee F.
Gootherts L.
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Gutierros V.
Ismail A.
On 121 st, Hongkong experienced its first taste of winter. The thermom-ter at the Peak tam station in the morning «t nine o'clock was down to 58 degrees; at the lower station it was 12 deg - higher.
Two Chinese were brought before Mr. C, D Melbourne at the Magistracy on Nov. 12 obarged with bing conseru-d in the rubbery of Misa Storr of the Victoris Home, KwlOOD, on Ootab r 28th whru four men set upon her and gnatob.d a bag containing $428 from her hand, Uae d-f-adio was discharg d ani other was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to reo-iv-.24 strokes of the birch.
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Lieutenant Bokwith, Assistant Harbour Mater, appear d at the Magistracy on Nov. 10 pro ecute a Chine e for allowing his dog to .rk to the sanıyane, of passengers at Biy View Road. In support of the prosecutiou be told the Magistrate, Mr. J. R. Wood, that for the last three months the dog in question bad crused a great deal of annoyance by its barking, His Worship dismissed the summons on the ground that the Ordinance did not cover this particular annoyance. The annoyance in the sted on the resul - of the Iford local “x un ne- The rohools of the Colony may be congratu- Ordinance was the ann yance of passengers, of people passing by, bat the prosecutor was not a
tion his year Wn-n it is remembered that the pesenger, he was a resident, B fre dismissing kong are precis-ly the same as those set för examination papera set for stadente in Houg. the d fendant hie Worship osationed him notandents in England it must be e asidered very to let the annoyano- rocur again,
I notice that your special correspondent at Amoy bas deplored the fact that the Fleet's visit to Amoy was robbed of some of its educationalt valne through the native c ty and the Kolanged settlement being placed out of boundary." Did he mean, I wonder, its educational value for the men of the Fleet or for the bines and the European settlers ? I need not remark it is one of the proud basta of Americans that education
follows the star spangled banner, and it would not sarprise me to hear that the next edition of the local glossary of terms in pidgin nglish will be improved by he addition of "American equi- valents," such for example, as "high bali" the American equivalent of whis y-soda; " whiz" anglice Gr. at Scott"; "jubbernecks,” inquisitive people; to be "fall of hot air" the equivalent of boastfulness, and so on. With these few-especially the "high ball "—I have no doubt it is quite possible to make good" or come up to expectations, in the art of polite
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The "funny sayings of children" often get into the papers at Home but I faney if a collection were made of the funny sayings of children brought up in Hongkong or the treaty ports it would beat Home collections hollow. Let me quote just one:
Young Hopeful, a, tut 7, s-ated at the piano with a newly-purchased but out-of-date music obok, finds in it the National Anthem.
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Hongkong is concer ed, has this time proved a The Birthday Hooars List, to far as blank, but the olony has pleasurable interest in learning that Sir Matthew Nathan receives the Grand Cross of §. Michael nod St. George and that Mr. Stewart 1.ookbart, who received the C.M.G. decoration in 1888, has now obtained
promotion in the order.
Sir J. H. Stewart
Lockhart, K.C.M.G.—to write his new designa- East, twenty-four being spent in Hongkong; and tion-has seen thi ty years' servio- in the Far
pleased to learn from the telegram pablished his many friends in the Colony were genuinely in be Day Press on Nov. 1uth that services had at last been recognised by a Knight Commandership. This is one of the honours that has long been expected,
his
8 P. 8. Stephen's Propizátory Girls' School.
T. Private Tuition.
or-ditable to the Colony that 76 Họngkong toys and girls bare pan-ed the examination, and that of them 20 were Chinese and 13 Puringusse, St. Joseph's College is represented in the liss by as many as 31 students; the Diocomma Sphool coming next with 18, including the only and Orphanage (Mr. G ́o. Pi-ray, headmaster. boy in the honours list; 13 were from Qen's College; 9 from 8. Supnen's Cllege; 3 from the Diocowan Girls' School (Mrs Tutober, headmistress); sad one from St. Stephen's Preparatory Girls School. Only list-Miss Phyllis Lammert (Mim Boulton, privately educated student figures in the
Miss Lammert's two brothers, who are at the teacher) and it is interesting to mention that Wei-hai-wel school, have this year passed the College of Preceptors examination.