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CORRESPONDENCE.
THE LATE MR. A. B. HEWITT.
[TO TER EDITOR OF THE BONGKONG DAILY. PRESS."]
you, recently reported,
SIR, As his friend here for 27 years, would express my appreciation of the Inte Mr Hewitt, whose sad death through sident at the Kowloon Cement Works
Trained as
maring engineer at Messrs. Maudelays, Mr. Hewitt came to Hongkong 30 years ago, and for 2 years
was in the employment of the Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., first as Chief Engineer
of their Macro Works, and, later, ta Superintendent Engineer of the Com- pany's business when the large additional factory at Kowloon was built. When Mr.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND. 1917.
HONGKONG WEDDING.
CHAMPKIN WILSON.
At St John's Cathedral yesterday after noon the marriage was solemnised of Mr.
kong branch of the Mercantile Bank of Cyril Champkin, manager of the Hong
Indin, younger son of Mr. James Hedges. Champki, of Eastbourne, Sussex, and
Constance Gwendolen, only child of Mr. John Boswell Guy Wilson, of Pake
Geld, Buffolk.
The bride was given away by Mr. Evan Ormiston. Her gown was of Georgette embroidered in silver over chiffon. She was attended by three bridesmaids is Angal Ormiston and the Misses Joyce and Dorothy Holyock-who wore dresses of white net with yellow sashes, and white
HONGKONG MAN AT THE
FRONT
SHANGHAI WAR BAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
REASONS WHY CHINESE SHOULD SUBSCRIBE.
NEWS OF CHINA HANDS.”
Mr. P Sydenham Dixon, formerly of
Mr. C. E. H. Beavis, says: -------- Messrs Wilkinson & Grist, writing to SIR E. FRASER ON ANGLO CHINESE
AMITE
present quartered in a dug-out, some-War Savings Asociation was held on A line or two to let you know that I am meeting of the China and Japen where on the Western Front and have February 20th in the office of Messrs. en far, managed to elude the Intermittent Maitland & Co., when there was a large
sbell fire.
I crossed on Christmas Eve, along with shoat 000 other offers of all tanks, and of all sorts and sizes In my journey to the dug-out I continually ran across Ching hands." At one of the Treas pur: Officers seized me by the hand, and he turned out to be a fellow med
attendance
Sir Everard Fraser K.C.M.G. HM.
participate
Consul General, who, presided, said When it was suggested that Chinese mer chants should be invited in our Association, which has already grown to considerable size, 18 our Trea
to
you, there arose, of course, objections, es
Hewitt joined the Company its affairs! Det hats with true lovers' knots in yellow Storrie, who used to be in Powell'surer, who is also our Founder, will tell were in very low water, the shares having panne. They carried baskets of daffodils, the Transport was an R.A.M.C. captain objections do arise to novel proposals. a nominal quotation of only $1, but Me The best man was Lieut. L. Murphy of who used to live at the Peak Hotel and Tacse objections mng, I think; be boiled
the Hongkong Volunteers Hewitt, whose abilities soon became
There was a large attendance in the known, doclined other tempting offers and devoted his life to the success of the Com-Cathedral, the chancel of which had been tastefully decorated with ferns. and pany. His answer to one such offer was:
foliage. The ceremony was of a semi *^1 will not leave the Cement Company
military nature, the bridegroom being the Captain of "A" Company, Hongkong
Hewitt lived in the works and gave the business, day and night, his closest per
sopal" attention. He lived to see the
Hamilton of the China Light and Power On the wharf at man waved to me. He was Major Wakefield, whom I last
saw on the Fall's verandah In the
club_at--I mot Richardson of B. and
S., who used to be in the Scouta
Coy In
letters, with the Hongkong postmark
down into three. First Chinese men of business would not like the security since they doubted or disbelieved in our com ing victoryIt is true that our enemies got the start of the Allies by striking at their own
time and that they rushed
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LANE
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SALVERS
prepare ourselves for the greatest struggle CANDLE STICKS.
until. I see it a success. These works run 24 hours daily, and, for 28 years Volunteer Reserves, to which he has bean Dur mess at the Base I saw a lot of where. It is true that we took long to attached from the Calcutta Rifles. The sting for Reggie Stokes, I left noto of history and that we are still strug- officers present included Col. Chapman, for him, but did not met him, so he Major MacDonald, Major Wakeman, Major Bobertson, Captain Hall Bratton, I was kept two days at the Base; wo Surgeon-Major Black, Captain Carr, Cap-E tam Cassell, Captain Lammert, Captain were kept at it all day doing bombing labour an impressing on all neutrals, and G. G. Wond, Lients. Moxon, Hancock, and bayonet-fighting.._____ Thomas
Company a success and lost his life in its
Bervice
was away somewhers.
He was a man of extmordinary natural ability and of brilliant attainment, cheerful and resourceful in all circum
Beswick, Higby, Thornhill, I got orders to join the and spent stances and of untiring industry wise Sutherland, Oven Hughes, Wright, and a whole day in the train, playing bridge Just and generous. He counted not zuere Evan Jones; and Sergt. Majors Bond and in the cattle truck with some officers, who failed with all the advantages of monetary success, but valued only duty, Dawson honour, and the best use of lits talents.
Many who read these lines will remem
The congregation also included Sir Paal Chater, O.M.G., the Hon Mr. Claud
At night I was billeted above a butcher shop in a small French town As neither the butcher's wife nor I spoke eacli
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ber his counsel and kindly holp, ever at Severn, O.M.G., the Hon, Mr. P. H. other's language, our conversation was this does not matter as regards on HUMIDITY CANTEENS
the service of his friends. During the
War Mr. Hewitt has given all his near
to his country's service and his sonaty
leisure to the Kowloon Section of the Police Reserve, the success of which chunfly duo to his tact, example, and constant attention, He waa's man and a gentioman in the highest sense & true; k
Holyoak and Mrs. Holyoak, the Hon. Mr.
Shollim and Mrs. Shellim, Mr. Lisdall, Mr. N 3 Stabb, Mr. H. Percy Smith, Mr. T. F. Hough, A.S.P (R. Monuted Section), Mr. Harry Haa cock, and Mr. H. Relpha
I reached our camp the following afternoon, and found that the battalion was about to move up to the treaches, Our march was about seven miles; we began by daylight, but finished up in darkness with French guides directing
gling hard. It is also true, that our enemies, both before and during the war, have spared neither time nor money nor
especially China, their own invincibil ty. But we believe that you shrewd men of business have sized up the situation and that you do not believe that those read ness and surprise to aid them will ever win now that in men nad in muni- Lions we have the upper hand env
A minor objections that our rates of interest are not attractive enough, but. ventiment into which come sympathy and desire to further true civilization. Which brags me to the second objection, that we British have fought with your coun try and wo resident British have hold ourselves too much aloof. Yes, 56 years go our countries were at war what of it Did not war help on Chian's pro- gress from the impossible backwater in which the tide of history had left her, and
for all of us I do not furget, of course, the Boxer sing, when foreign troops last appeared in China Nor, I hope, do you forget the manner in which our present chemies treated your people. It would have been well for the Allies if I share my dug out with two officers, they had taken that warning to hearting In private life, one in a Government THE FIRST FOREIGN TRADERS. nered Difcial from Kuala Lumpur, and the other is a London solicitor. There is just room to stand upright in the dug table. After many gallant efforts, our out; we have three camp beds, and a orderlies managed to light a free place is lit by candles all day, and one fools rather like a rabbit
The ceremony was performed by the
knight without fear or reproach, and bev. H Conley Moyle During the serus. The country looks somewhat curi did it not especially promote trade good
commanded the respect and love of his friends and subordinates, who feel they have now lost ong who cá
cannot be replaced. They will never forget A. H. Howitt and hia splendid example of unselfish work and dovation. Yours, cle
WSBAILEY
RACING IN WAR TIME.
[TO THE BUSTOE OF THE BOXIGKONG
-DAILY PRESS.
vice the hymns * Thine for Ever, God of ous, na overy farm and church we nuseed Love," and 0 Perfect Love" were had been smashed to pieces. All the sung,
Denman Faller, F.R.C.O peasantry have fled from it, and the only things one meets are soldiers, Red presiding at the organ.
Cross waggons, gun carriages, and As the newly wedded couple came down lorries, the aisle the organist played Mondels- soon's Wedding March, and the bride groom's brother offers lived up on either side and formed an archway of swords. under which the bridal pair passed, while the bells rang out a merry peal.
A reception was subsequently held at Darrington Peak Rond, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ormiston, Amongst the many valuable presents received were a gold watch and chain from the Volunteer Reserves and a handsome silver rose bowl from the bridegroom's brother officere.
THE MARRIAGE MARKET.
AMAH AND A BAMBOO PULE
traders in these parts where Gordon Yes we British were the first foreign helped to keep your father safe from try since this Settlement has attracted rebel violence. And in all the half cea- your people, who found in it justice and liberty We may be, we are, til and the same tradition, as you men of busi shy many of us, but at least we have
612-—–* Silver Bullet" singles out pony
The men live in two adjoining dug racing in China as the one thing to be
outs. I take my hat off, metaphorically, avoided in war time. Personally I can
to Tommy Atkins every time I re mess, the tradition of fair des ing And not see that it in any worse watching
He looks extraordinary in his tin hemet, not lead to such mosses as there were at our old-fashioned ways, much divident, do his gas mask, and his very muddy other ports owing to looser dealing the sport of kings" than a football
uniform; but he is always cheerful and We share China's aversion from war rantch (which he approves of) and which
seems ready for anything, and preference for suasion not for force. is not infrequently followed (in Hong
The feature, to my mind, of the new It is not so long ago that we were scoffed Army is te youth. One meets 243 at as the China of Europe. Our civiliza kong at least) by accusations of foul play
amount of captains aged 20. Our tions rest on the same basis of duty and from anonymona writers to the Press.
General 8, and was a Captain before right ant we recognize with your Sages The falling of a hamboo pole, from a the war, He lives in the caller of that the true sovereign rules by assent Neither can I see that it is any wor
verandah, on to an amsh's head was the rather find chateau The place has and not through compulsion. So we ask than" indulging in cooonnut shies and
of an action r the Hongkong Boped the universal, ahalling, as for your sympathy in practical form with Aunt Sally Our Day at ter cents
surrounded by trees. It dates from Louis confidence that will not, I'm sure, prove a time. Our forbears were not wont to mary Court yesterday. Chan Wan, a XIV and has a splendid banquetting misplaced. go about in times of trouble as if theyyoung and good-looking amah, claimed half with coats of arms on its walls The third objection was that we invited All day and all night-with intervals you to unneutral conduct. is, of had lost a severeign and found Bixpence $68, and assessed compensation from one listens to the music of the big guns course, absurd, since it is the privilege Drake finished his game of bowls before
No one is allowed to be without his gas of the neutral to deal with either or both going to meet the Spanish Armada, and
mask along round him, and elaborate sides, a freely is in time of peace, sub- precautions are taken in case of a gas fect to such, barriers as either side may the Duchess of Richmond gave a great
attack, A
place on its own people. I mention ball on the eve of Waterloo
objection simply leat the enemy use it to confuse and delude.
on
cause
Cheung Wing Tsai, a clerk employed by Mr W L. Weaser, architect. An amah employed by Cheung Wing Tsar was nled named in the writ as second de-
-
From the pecuniary point of view, pony fendant but she did not appear in Court, are always dirty, we are always flop
racing benefits charity far more then any other sport. It is expected that the Red Cross will benefit by this Race Meet ing of ours to the extent of seven or eight thousand pounds. Did the Aunt Sallys and coconut shies on Our Day" being in as many genta? Have the various football matches brought may thing at all! Anonymous garbage there Las kean a plenty. Yours truly:
HENRY HUMPHREYS.
NAME'S DISCLOSURE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THR HUNDZONG DAILY PERSS"]
Bre,Your correspondent J.- M" doubilen, thought he would frighten-me by asking me to disclose my name. On the contrary, this letter gose signed with my full name What doce Hen A man should never be afraid to confront any one when he speaks the truth - 1
1 quite concur with Silver Bullet in the contrast which he draws
I still maintain what I have written
and it was announced that upon the issue of the writ this amah, who was supposed to have been responsible for placing the bamboo pule on the verandah, had absconded.
The life is not a bad one, and at times it has an extremely amusing side. We
I come here gladly because after
alter a life- ping about in mud; and we usually sleep time in China I am as devoted to her with our clothes on, One seems to ge interest de any Chinese can be, and every used to these discomforts, and, in spite thing that draws closer the honds-the of the damp, one fecis extremely wel long tried bonds of amity between our I get a lot of amusement out of it and confrie is to me a vast joy. wouldn't he missing it for anything, FACILITIES FOR CHINESE HOMERIES. One meets so many types of men, and Mr. Lo appeared to prosecute and Mr they seem to have come from all parts of C.F. Masou defended.
Plaintiff the world-
The Weil stated that the plain claims damages for negligence of the Au revoir, and every New Year wish defendant, and one Leung Up a servant to yourself and sil in W, and G.
of the first defendant, in letting fall s bamboo pole from the varaadan of liuso in Prel Street on to the plaintiff's. head, causing considerable injury to plaintiff, on December 10th, 131530
The charges at out were Rout and medicine
at the Tung Wah hospital, $10; medical expenses after leaving hospital, 840, Jons of wages for one month, $12 - Mr. Mason, on behalf of the defendant, admitted the falling of the bamboo pole, but contended that it was a pure accident, and the only point his Lordship had to decide was one of compensation.
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.
Mr Stapleton-Cotton, of the Director ate General of Posts in Peking, loft last month to join the army.
at Goodale, Hon. Treasurer, said, unter alia: Four presence in itself in a proof that your sympathy is with the Allies in the gigantic task they have undertaken, After the words you have Just listened to from Sir Everard Fraser, I do not think it is possible that you san day longer be content to remain iE active Your Bympathy and moral sup portere valuable,
part would be still more valuable. The China and Japan War Savings Auso- ciation affords you an opportunity of - Nows hie been received in Yokohama giving practical assistance to the Allies, that Mr. W. E. Atwell, who wao with and to yourselves, at one and the same the firm of Messrs. Pearson, Mackie & time to Derupster and left Japan last February, AWHAT CHINA HAS REEN SPARED_____ tag beon wounded while serving on the Mr. W H. Trenchard Davis explained Western front at Beaumont Hamel, Bo why the Allies were at war and recalled, was shot through the shoulder by a the Kaiser's speech to his troops who sniper
were leaving for China in 1900 in which
"no prisoners: act gener-
Dr. Thomas, of the Tung Wah Hospital she had a big gash on the head, from three Mr. S. R. Parker, second son of the h asid that when the aman was admitted to four inches long. Th somewhat severe, The skull was 20 on Honan, has received his commission
ionally to that no Chioggen will oY ARTE injured, but the effects of the stock would last for some time,
as Lieutenant and been recommended for to too in the face of a German again. in the moral point of view, and, if any Replying to the Puimte Judge, witness the got his fret Promotion at the end of crimes in the present war, the submarine the Military Cross (ays to C. C. Zost). The pecker went au to refer to Gorcea urther explanation is desired, I shall to be he was not a family manlanghter)
to face anybody who deign to and would prefer not to give an opinion July, when he was wounded when in the policy of the enemy and its effect upon see me in Canton in the presence of Sui as to whether the man's injuries would seenches being then made a corposal China. He also showed his audience that Hing, rather than waste my time in writ seriously prejudice her opportunities in
News has been received in Yokohama he vistory of Germany would mean her tan controversy. I am off tonight. As the marriage market. (Laughter.) He of the death at a clearing-station in US R
tyranny over
Chin
as well as other coun- suggestion that should would require to keep the woman under France, from wounds received in action, give $1,000 to the funds be alluded to, I observation for some time yet. As to of Mr. J. Barnce, a former member of Chinese Chamber of Commerce, thanked Ch Pao-aan. Chairman of the would advise him to do so himself and whether her injuries would be of a per the staff of the Rising Sun Petroleum the Committee for so fully exp publish bis name in capital letters so manent character, he was not prepared Co Me Barnes was stationed at Haksts (4 ohjects and working of the tunt the wide world may know it.
to give an opinion; it was difficult to say Yokoham and Kobe. He left habentina. He said that the Chinese syn Eventually his Lordship awarded the 1915 to offer his services to his country thized with the Allied cause And amah $120 as compensation and also her and was serving at the front with the haanly too pleased to help.
7th Sherwood Foresters.
The bleeding was Rev George Parker China Inland Mis- Kartchyazkeneko nobody, men, wome
Thanking you, Mr. Editor-Yours
truly,
WM HUDIE.
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