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A VOLUNTEER WEDDING IN
HONGKONG.
HUMPHREYS - ARMSTRONG.
The wedding of Miss Dora Humphreys, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs W. G. Humphreys, to Mr. J. H. William Armstrong took place on Saturday at St. John's Cathedral in the presence of a large congregation, which included His Excellency the Governor (to whom the bridegroom, as a Captain in the Volunteer Corps, is honorary A.D.C.). Sir Frederick Lugard was attended by Captain Mitchell Taylor A.D.C., and Captain Simson, A D.Č., in full uniform. Officers and men of the Volunteer Corps, also attended in uniform-the officers in white and the men in khaki.
The bride entered the Cathedral on the arm of her father. Her dress was of rich ivory satin, trimmed with silver, and orange blossom sprays. She wore a tulle veil of worked floss silk, with a wreath of orange blossoms, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet made by Mr. G. A. Caldwell. Attending the bride were two little bridesmaids and two little pages. The bridesmaids-Misses Joyce and Dorothy Holy oak--were dressed in primrose satin trimmed with chiffon and lace fichus, and wearing lace caps, and they carried shepherd crooks adorned with flowers tied with primrose and mauve ribbons. The pages-Masters Ivor and Mervyn Jones Hughes-wore suits of primrose silk and corduroy, with lace collars and cuffs, and carried sticks with knots of primrose and mauve ribbons.
The bridegroom wore the dark blue, silver braided uniform of his rank as A.D.C. to His Excellency the Governor, and Captain G. G. Wood, H.K.V.C., in scarlet tunic, acted as
best man."
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Lander) performed the wedding ceremony being assisted the service by the Rev F. T, Johnson, M.A., and the Rev A. B. Thornhill, M.A. Mr. Denman Fuller, the Cathedral organist, presided at the organ, and the choir, of which the bridegroom is a member, was in attendance. Hymns 351 and 578 were sung.
As the bridal party emerged from the vestry, after the signing of the register, the officers and men of the Volunteer Corps, who had been occupying the end seats in the centre aisle, stepped out and formed an arch of steel-the officers with their swords and the men with their bayonets-aud as the bridal party passed down the aisle under the glittering arch the organist played the Wedding March.
The reception was held at the Volunteer Headquarters, where the wedging presents, which were both numerous and valuable, were on view. The handsome collection included gifts from the Taikoo Staff, the Officers of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, the Sergeants of the Corps, the members of No 3 Company of the Volunteer Artillery (of which Captain Armstrong is the Commanding Officer), the Clergy, Organist and Choir of St. John's Cathedral, and from H. E. the Governor (to whom, as before stated, Captain Armstrong is hon. A.D.C.). The bride and bridegroom. standing beneath a huge floral bell, received the felicitations of their many friends. and the wedding cake, which was from Buzzards
(London), having been cut by the bride with her husband's sword, the usual toast to the bride and
bridegroom was proposed in felicitous terms by Lt. Colonel Chapman, commandant of the olunteer Corps, and received with cheers. It was acknowledged in a happy speech by the bridegroom, who in turn proposed the health of the little bridesmaids and pages, Captain Wood, as best man, making the response. Later the happy couple in their travelling costumes left the building amid a shower of
confetti.
The bride's going-away costume was of blue silk cashmere, while her pretty silver Tegal hat was adorned with a wild flower wreath. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong will spend their honey. moon in North China, proceeding up the Yangtsze to Hankow and thence to Peking.
Since the outbreak of cholera in Seoul this season 1,148 cases have been reported from the capital and two neighbouring towns of Yong san and Tukto, 931 of the cases proving fatal.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
SHOOTING AT THE NEW TAGET.
King's Park Range saw ani mportant innova- tion in the training of the local Volunteer force on Sunday morning. For the first time in Hongkong the bull's-eye target was discarded, and the newer methods adopted at Home since the South African War were brought into use. No. 1. Coy. H.K.V.A., thanks to the energy and generosity of their commanding officer, were the first to cast aside old and adopt the newer and more serviceable methods.
Each man
The members of the Company were on the range by 9 a.m. and fell in for instructions. After a few minutes' explanation by Sergeant Wallace of the Buffs, the first four men lay down and the targets went up. They consisted of a square, the upper half of which was green to represent background, and the lower half brown to represent earthworks. The bull's- eye was replaced by a patch of brown in
half. the lower part of the green
The patch was shaped roughly to represent a head and shoulders, but was much smaller than life size. The targets appeared for six seconds, during which the rifle had to be brought up to the shoulder and a shot fired. had five shots at this range. The company then retired to 400 yards, where a surprise was in store for them. The target here consisted of any back- the brown head and shoulders without ground, and was almost invisible against the background of sand. At this range the targets were only up for 5 seconds for each shot. The best scores were made by Gunner Hay and Sergeant-Major Meek with 19 and 15 points respectively, and these were followed by Corporal Loureiro and Bombardier Smith with 12 each and Sergeant Herbst with 11. Immediately after the shoot a cup given by Captain Nichol- son was presented to the winner, Gunner Hay, by Colonel Chapman, V.D. Captain Thompson acted as umpire.
Sunday's practice proved to all present that no matter how good and steady a shot a man may be under old-time Bisley "conditions, he may be next to useless at an indistinct and rapidly moving target, which, after all, modern warfare conditions have proved to be the target at which practice is essential.
The ordinary monthly shoot of the Company then took place, and the following were the best scores: Sergeant Major Meek, 99; Gunner Hay, 94; Gunner Haigh, 89; Bombardier Smith, 85.
TRAGIC DEATH OF MR. H. G. CALTHROP.
FALLS INTO A CULVERT.
On Saturday the European community heard with feelings of profound regret that Mr. H. G. Calthrop, barrister-at-law, had met with an untimely death daring the night. The deceased gentleman, who was in the best of health and kept himself well by daily exercise spent the evening
[November 8, 1909.
It is worthy of note that no one apparently passed that way from 11 p.m. till 8 a.m., and. no little comment is being made on the fact that the police, who are understood to patrol the roads in the Peak district, did not make the discovery in the course of their travels,
Deceased, who was 43 years of age and un- married, was the son of the late Rev. Gordon Calthrop, and was educated at Felstead School and Gonville, and Caius College, Cambridge, He obtained the degree of B.A. in 1888, being then only 22 years of age, and he was called to the Bar in 1891. Ten years later he was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in the Gold Coast Colony, but he only remained there three years. Then he came to Hongkong, where he has been in practice for ||five years.
The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon at the Happy Valley, and a large number followed the remains to the grave. Among those present were the Hon. Mr. W. Rees Davies, Acting Chief Justice, His Honour Mr. H. H J. Gompertz, Sir Henry Berkeley, K. C., Messrs. C. D. Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett,
elbourne, E. R Halifax, J. R. Wood, G. H. Wakeman, M. W. Slade, Eldon Potter, C. E. I. Beavi, Captain Badeley, Captain Lyon, Messrs. G. C. Alabaster, J W. Orr, MeI. Messer, E. D. C. Wolfe, J. H. Kemp, F. B. L. Bowley, Percy Smith, Dr. Fitzwilliams and others. The Rev. F. T. Johnson conducted the service.
HOOLIGANS AT ÝAUMATI.
Yaumati is becoming unenviably notorious for the number of lawless characters that con- gregate in its district, and the police in this quarter have probably had more trouble with truculent Chinese than in any other district in the Colony. And, strange to relate, the head- quarters of these roughs appears to be in the immediate vicinity of the Police Station. We have previously reported combats between the police and hooligans just outside the Police Station, but such occurrences have not been frequent of late owing to the salutary lessons which the magistrates have taught. The hooli- gans, however, still seek to get even with the police, and their latest method of doing this is to stone the man on duty when unobserved. Sergeant Macdonald was made a target of on Wednesday night when removing some hawkers and stallholders from Reclamation Street, at the rear of the Police Station. In the course of this duty he was struck on the ankle with stone, and on turning to see whence it came a rock just grazed his chin. He saw the thrower, hewever, and although the Chinese made a dash overtaken by the to escape, he was sergeant and arrested. When charged before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday the defendant denied the charge. His Worship was satisfied with the evidence, however, and imposed a fine of $50, the alternative being six weeks' imprisonment.
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QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.
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In the House of Commons a month ago Mr. Bellairs (King's Lynn, Min.) asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the support which the Foreign Office had given important negotiations to the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank and the recent action of the bank in connection with a proposed rail-
way loan, of which the terms were at variance
at the residence of HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK. Mr. Percy Smith, on Mount Kellett. There were a few other guests, and after dinner the party sat and talked round a fire until about 10:50 p.m., when Mr. Calthrop left the house with the intention of walking to the Tram Station to catch the 11.15 p.m.. car. At the same time another guest left in a' chair, which presumably went ahead of the deceased, who turned to the left on reaching the road, intending to go round the hill past the Matilda Hospital. After turning into the road he must have stumbled over the deep gutter on the inside of the road and pitched forward, head first, down a deep cemented hole made by the Public Works Department, down which the water pours, and passes under the road. Apparently he must have been stunned, and subsequently smothered. The body was not found till 8 o'clock next morning, when Mr. G. T. Edkins made the startling discovery. The deceased was lying head downwards in the hole, down which his hat and stick had also fallen. Mr. Edkins called Dr. Fitzwilliams, who was at the Matilda Hospital, and he gave the opinion that the unfortunate gentleman had been dead for hours. The police were called and removed the body to the mortuary at the Latilda Hospital.
with the preferential rights assured to this country in regard to the Hankow-Canton and the Hankow-Szechuan railways, as well as with the agreement of 1898 between the bank itself and the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, the Govern ment would make it a condition of future British support that the members of the com- mittee in London, the directorate in tongkong, and all holding positions of trust in the bank should be British subjects.
Mr. McKinnon Wood (Glasgow, St. Rollox, Min.), who replied, said: The rule in such cases
is that support is afforded, when it is otherwise desirable, to companies in which the preponderance of shares is held by British or naturalized British subjects. I am therefore unable to make the condition desired.
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