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HOW TO USE PROSPERTY.
OUR DUTY WHEN THE WAR IS OVER
PORTUGUESE ANNIVERSARY COTTON ADULTERATION,
CELEBRATION AT CANTON ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ANTI-
The Portuguese community of Canton celebrated the eighth anniversary of the stablishment of the Republic of Portugal
ADULTERATION SOCIETY AT
ARA SHANGHAI.
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66-4,193
829,013. 1,180, 197
QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLEWORK GUILD.
REPORT OF THE HONGKONG BRANCH FOR SEPTEMBER
Preaching at St. John's Cathedral.con Sunday morning, from the text Phil in acting style on Saturday, when The seventh annual meeting of the
CITY HALL WORK PARTY (under Mrs. zii. the Rev. H. Copley Moyle said:-practically every member of the com- Cotton Anti-Adulteration Association of Flow few there are who can truthfully munity in Canton and many from ad- Shanghai was held on September 30th, in Lammert, for Mrs Stabb): -15 mosquito echo the boast of St. Paul "I have jacent places belped to make the occasion the board-room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathenes, dressing gowns, 13 small pillows, learned both to be filled and to be success.
The Portuguese gunboat son & Co., Ltd., Mr. E. C. Peares presid 3 reversible jackets, b pairs of slippers, a milk covers, .13 belts, 1 pair operation hungry, both to abound, and to be in Vaens came from Macso to take part in 28 The Chairman stated that during the stocking, 3 bed jackets, 3, doz, handker want." I suppos moss people would at the celebrations. Licut Anthonguia, the first think that it easier to abound commander, represented H. E. the Gov-welve months ended July 31st, the chiefs, 9 scrubbers, 88 pairs of pyjamas,
comfort bags than to be in want," and yet the deep- Fornor of Macao, and the Rev. Father Association had dealt with more cotton So shirts 87 vests, and at thinkers and the wisest men in all Pitta represented the very Rev. Costa than in any similar period of its existence UCE LITTLE BIT BOCIETY (under Mrs. ages tell us quite plainly that it is much Nanes, the chief ecclesiastical authority the quantity as compared with the last Green--Five cases of work have been for.
twn reasons being:--
warded to the City Hall as follows:- harder to know how to: be rich, prosper
in Macao.
1915 1918 Pelk
Case No. 1: quilts, pillows," 14 ous and successful, than to know how to
1916/1917
mufflers, 12 pairs stretcher boots, he poor and unsuccessful,
1917/1913
swester, floor cloths, 30 vessts, and I let reading matter Case No. 2: 2 quilts
pillows, 140 suits pyjamas, and I let reading matter. Case No. 3: 80 mafiers, 44 sweaters, 30 suits
Case as I lot read- 47 quilts, 7 ing satter. pillows, 106 pairs bed socks, 4 mufflers, 13 pieces clothing, 11 ties, 3 pairs mittens, 100 pairs slippers, 21 meat covers, 250 eye and 11" collars and car bandages, 38 milk covers, 1,158 roller bandages.
In addition to the above the following left the Colony for the Front: swea have been given to local men who have
fact.
Caso No 5: 14 vesta,
The celebrations commenced with the formal opening of the new Portuguese School, of which the Vice-Consul,. Mr. Most men would say "give me riches A. Basto, is the principal and Miss Maria Of the quantity, 1,160,107 piculs; 64 por and prosperity, and I will know how to Fernanda Sequeirs is the lady assistant cent contained more than 12 per cent of use them." but most men would be wrong. The establishment of the school is mainly moisture, and 7 per cent. contained over It is much easier to become rich than to due to the efforts of Dr. Amadeu da Silva, 15 per cent, curiously enough the same be rich, though low people recognise the the Consul for Portugal, who, during his percentage as for the previous season. There is the tendency to say, as five months tenure of office, recognised Allowing the Chinese up to 12 per cent the rich fool in the parable said: "Soul that a school for the children of the com- for the so-called natural moisture in China thou hast much goods laid up for many munity was a much denized want. Every rotten, no less than 71 per cent. that came years; take thine ense, eat, drink and be Portuguese child of school age in Canton under the notice of the Association code Itained. added water. In other words merry," and the man who says that, or is now a pupil of the school.
In opening the institution, Dr. Amadeu 3,700 piculs of cotton were adulterated aims at a time when be can say that, da Silva said that he had always thought to an extene en told on Novembe knows not how to be rich. Again, there that school of their own was badly last and attended by Mr. H. H. Jobson, At a meeting on November 16th is the man who piles up wealth but needed at which their children could learn. B. L. Hsio and Mr. S. 9. Chien, grudges to spend it the man of miserly for the past glorice of Portugal, its man- spirit; he knows 'not show to, be' tich. Inars and customs, and so fit themselves representing the Cotton Department of ers, 1 mutlers, 2 pairs socks, 17 Buit Riches are given to men to use, not to be good and patriotic oitizens. He the Bureau of Agriculture, resolutions UNION CHURCH (under Mrs Macon- marely for themselves but for the Glory was sure the School had a great future were passed calling the attention of the achie):134 shirts, 135 handkerchiefs, 23
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce to of God and the good of their fellowmen.before it.
capor
13 mufflers, 1 trench sweater, 31 He is a wise rich man who can any that
great deal of all adulteration in cot-weets, 138 pairs knee caps, 150 helmets and There was a reception at the Consulate his riches are being used to promote the
ton, urging upon the Government the cholera belts, and pairs socks. at 4 p.,, and a dinner at 8 p.. Tho
WESLEYAN to make the adulteration of cot-
CHURCH WORKING PARTY glory of God and to make his fellowmen dinner was attended by every member of Accessity
above 13 per cent, a (under Mrs. Robinson):-Articles sent better and happier, but the rich man the community (about 50 gentlemen and tor with water
criminal
offence, and recommending that who uses his riches only for self-grati- | 20 ladies) as well as a number of Chinese number of cotton farms under Gov. to the City Hall for the month of Sep-
Portuguese. who are A
subjects. The Con-the aul spoke in glowing terms of the spirit orament control be increased to grow the of patriotism which pervaded the complant and to furnish improved seed to also in Macao and in Hongkong. It munity not only in Canton itself, but the farmers in the district.
These resolutions were dulv despatched right that they should be proud of their to the Minister of Agriculture and Com their Repablin by the celebration they of Agriculture and Forestry, Peking, and that they should honour merce and on December 18th last year Mr. N. S. Wang, Chief of the Bureau were holding."
fication and selish enjoyment "is spectacle to make the angels weep. The man who lets his money make him selfish, or cruel, or worse, or idle, simply does not know how to be rich. He is blunderer in a great art. It is such men who cause the violent hatred between Cifferent classes in the community which we too often- see." The rich man who Inows the power of riches and uses it to afflict and trample on his poorer neighbours is a man who knows not how to be rich. He has in his hand the means of giving happiness and doing much good in the world, and he uses it to make the world worse. most pathetic and pitiful objects in the world is the rich man, who knows" not how to be rich,,,
country"
the
An formal dance and a concert fol- replied admitting the vital importance flowed. The programme of the latter of the matter and promising that, as however, was curtailed by the receipt of soon as the report of the representatives a telegram announcing the sudden death of the Department was submitted, we
will immediately take the matter into con of an uncle of the Consul.
pyjamas, and 9 Vests
tember: 80 shirts, 8 muffers, 49 pairs. socks, 31 dos, handkerchiefs, 49 scrubbers, pyjamas, 1,188 rolled bandagen, 4 vests, balaclava caps, 96 knee caps. 24 mops, Articles sent to troops leaving the surgical stockings, 1 gloves, and I cuffs,
pyjamas, 5 balaclava caps, and 5 knew Colony in September:-4 muffers, 15 paira socks, doz. handkerchiefs, 4
caps. ¿
One of the played at the opening of the School and a water flotion & auch 'great abuses hospital squares, 336 swabs, and 1,819
at the dinner.
BANK RETURNS
SEPTEMBER.
FOR
a
By kind permission of the Chinese miliideration, and do our best to attain to tary authorities a Chinese military band the aim of
and to increase our experimenting work in order to pro- pagate the improved varieties of cotton to a much wider extent."
Since the receipt of this letter the com- mittee bad beard nothing farther from Peking. The laxity of the Chinese Goy The returns of the average amount of ernment in affording protection to one bank-zotes in circulation and of specie in of its largest domestic trades was a mat- reserve in Hongkong, during the monthter of great regret and their inaction ended 30th September, 1918, aa certified amounted almost to criminal neglect. by the managers of the respective Banks are as follows;
Average Amoust.
But the man who, as his riches in ercase. becomes more sympathetic, more generous, more ready to give his unpaid labour to the many good causes which are constantly calling for workers, that man knows how to be rich To him, moner is a power for good, and his friends and deighbours rise up and call him blessed. Ele has learned the secret of which St. Paul speaks. He knows how to be filled. He knows how to abound. He has re-
Bank cognised in his money a gift from God, Chartered
of and be used it for God's glory and the India, Australia and. welfare of his fellows.
Ching Prosperity has more dangers than Hongkong and Shang- adversity. That is true. of individuals. hai Banking Che and of nationa Our nation, togetherporation. with our Allies, has been passing through Mercantile Bank of a time of adversity during the last four years, and that time of adversity has shown what grand qualities, lay latent in our nation.
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There has been the wonderful physical courage which has been shown by men who were not brought up to encounter such dangers. Men taken from the clerk's desk and 'shopman's counter have shown a splendid courage which we have been accustomed to think of as the special possession of those who led a more Eardy life. We were so often told that our race was degenerating and losing its hardihood and vigour, that the wonderful physical courage of our men under the absolutely unprecedented conditions of modern warfare has been a revelation to many.
And the time of adversity has shown what a wonderful power of self-control and endurance has been possessed by the majority of our nation-power to work and to suffer, to bear bereavement and pain, to take up new and unfamiliar tasks, and to avoid panic,
The accounts showed that the Associa tion had at its credit on the season's work. Specie
ing Tis. 30,553,85, which, added to the in
balance carried forward last year to gave Reservis. 31,021.18, which it was
apportion ae follows:- To interest on the Guarantee
Fund 8,331,847 5,000,000* To Reserve Fund....................... To Investment Fluctuation
Account
...21,831,533:17,000,000
India, Ltd. 1,009,713 550,000+
Total 831,365,093 22,550,000
• Sterling. Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000.-
Securities with the Crown Agents £125,000.
WINTER COMFORTS FOR SIBERIA
COL WARD'S APPEAL. · The following letter has beca received by the General Officer Commanding Major-General F. Ventris) from Lieut.- Colonel John Ward, M.P., C.M.G. :-
"I write you privately to point out that under my command there are Czech and Cosand soldiers, all of whom are poorly clothed and without comforts as regards warm clothing, etc.
To carry forward
.Tls 2,578.00 15,000.00
CATHOLIC WOMEN's Laxour (under Miss Loureire):-8 mufflers, 12 belmets, 2 caps, sleeveless sweaters, 11 paira socks, 28 pairs knee-caps, 312 handkerchiefs, 584 food covers, 30 scrubbers, 5 mosquito nets,
rolled bandages.
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE (under Mrs. 31 Jordan): 578 rolled bandages, triangular bandages, & capeline bandages, 10 anti-vermin shirts," knee caps, 7 pairs socks, 1 pair surgical stockings, and 100 swabs.
PRAK CLUB (under. Mrs. Sutherland): 304 roller bandages, 90 many tail band. ages, 174 shell swabe, 216 sponge swabs, 264 gauze swabs, 9 head bandages, and pneumonia jackets.
U.S.R.C. (under Mrs. Keigwin)-538 roller bandages, 9 eye bandages, 7 mufflers 72 swabs, 25 pairs socks, 4 helmets, 2 wool caps, 18 pairs knee-caps, 5 scrubbers, and 1 pair operation stockings.
The following letter has been received:~~-~
American Consular Service.
Hongkong, October 4th, 1918, DEAR MT HICKLING, I have for 2,000.00 acknowledgment your note of October 11,443.18 3rd, and the large cas of surgical dress- Tia 31.021.18 which accompanied it.
ings and bandages made by the Q.M.N.G. The enhanced profits, it was explained, were due to the extra amount of cotton that had passed through the Association's hands. The committee were reducing the testing fees from an approximate 7 cents per picul to 5 cents per pical from Octo ber 1st.
THE
ARMISTICE AND SHANGHAI.
EXCHANGE FORCED DOWN BY CHINESE PANTC.
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Of course it is needless for me to say that we thank the guild through you for this example of co-operation, but I wish to particularly say that we thank you spirit of co-operation and goodwill which not only for the gift itself but for the prompted it. We appreciate all this good. feeling as well as your help more than I can say, and I trust that you will be able to convey to the members of the guild our feeling in the matter.
Thanking you most cordially on behalf of the members of the American Red Cross. I am, very sincerely yours.
(Signed) GEORGE E. ANDERSON,
MACAO NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
MACAO, October 7th."
Owing to a misunderstanding over the import of the display of Allied flags on September 30th, the impression got abroad in Chinese circles that the Allies were cele brating the near approach of peace, and when early telegrams on the followi
ving day continued to show Allied advantages Should the loics of Hongkong feel on all fronts, the Chinese became excited
and sterling exchange slumped ed. Those ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC. disposed to send warm clothing, or any who were glad to sell on September 30th The eighth anniversary of the establish- thing for comfort, for these men I would We may indeed thank God, that our undertake to see the goods distributed. at 5/6 were purchasing the next after mont of the Portuguese Republic wan colobrated very quietly in this city. feel sure there is hardly any necessity noon at 5/0. nation and her Allies have been able to
The banks opening T. T. quotation at There was an official reception at 11 am. bear adversity as they have done. And for ny mentioning our own men, as they 9.30 am en October 1st was 14. down at Government House, when salutes were will be thankful for anything for comfort at 5/5; half an hour later it had dropped fired from the Monte Fort and from the now it seems as though the worst is
for the coming winter, Wishing the past. We may yet have to wait some
In the afternoon a party of girls and time before peace comes. We may yet ladies every success in their undertaking" to 5/4; at 10.30 o'clock the official quota- gunbest Patria,
General Ventris proposes to ask Lieut.-tion was 5/3, the market being weak, and have make great efforts and sacrifice Colonel Ward to distribute articles re- although the official quotation stood un-
cigars and flags. A very rubetantial sumi many precious lives, but the tide ofceived from the Quien Mary's Needlework changed at 5/3 throughout the day, bust boys went round the city selling flowers, victory seems to be steadily flowing in Guild to his own men or Czechs and ness was done as low as 50 for December. wis raised on behalf of the poor and the Working on the idea that peace was in Bed Cross Society. At night the public our favour, and we ask ourselves: Cossacks, at his discretion.
sight, the Chinese early in the day, were buildings were illuminated. What is to happen after the war? The
Sin mad haste to cover imports, and A PORTUGUESE MARRIAGE Prime Minister, speaking recently in same for nations as for individuals. We speculators also bought. Toward the close
The marriage was celebrated, yesterday London. suggested that there were two
nave to see in our prosperity, not a cause those who were panicky in the morning at St. Laurence Church of Mr. F alternatives, two possibilities, lying be for selfiab enjoyment, but a call to an- calmed down and were trying to resell Rodrigues son of General Rodrigues. fore us, after the war." One in that the selfish labour. We must recognise that some of their purchases made earlier in and Miss A. Jorge daughter of the late war will have sobered the millions who we have, a great Empire, not to brag the day. have passed through its fires, whether in about, act to make us boastful and con-
It may be believed that the worst of Mr. Auseliano Jorge, who met with bia death at the Hongkong Bace Course. France or in the anxiety at home: that cited, but to use for the glory of God the storm has been weathered and that disaster. The best men were the Chief their vision will have been broadened and its good of the world. We have there is no reason for further panici Justice and Mr. Assumpção 1/ that their sympathies will have been perhaps, almost felt in the four years, (says the V. Daily News of October deepened, that their outlook will have when so many younger and better lives End) but it remains to be seen what will NEW GOVERNOR OF MACAO. been elevated, and their purpose rendered than ours were being sacrificed in the happen so far off as December settlement.
ashamed to be alive, ashamed to be THE SERVICES AND THE living in peace whilst other and better men were dying. But if we have not had the chance of dying for our country
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are millions who have been in daily contact with death, walking hourly over its trap-doors; they have come into con tact with very terrible realities-that
All who know the unfair incidence of one view. But," he went on to say, in the cause of justice and truth, God is the enhanced exchange on the anlaries of there is another alternative and an calling us to something no less dificult diplomatic and consular officials, as well other view. You have millions who have He is calling us to live to complete the naval and military officers, will echo same for months and some for years work of regenerating the world which the statement made on their behalf at the endured privation, discomfort, wretched has been begun by those who have laid annual meeting of the China Asociation peas, as well as faced terror, and who down their lives. They have died that observes the London and China Express.) have made up their minds when it is truth and honour may prevail and that Exchange at 3. Bd. to 81 vicida far fewer over to have a good time for the rest of their lives. That is a very dangerous tyranny may be overcome; it is for us to dollars to the sovereign than when the For the Junior Championship of the see that the work is completed. Never rate is a 9d. Some little relief has been Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Mr. Gedge frame of mind for a nation to be in.” has there been a time in the history of given by the Treasury, but not nearly has kindly offered a cup for the winner, It will not do for us to take it for the world when there has been greater enough. It is believed something further and Mr. G. M. Young has offered an granted that the world will be better need of men and women filled with officials, but the fighting services are for the Championship of players with be done for diplomatic and consular other for the runner-up in a competition after the war. There is the danger of lofty ideal of duty than there is to-day, senation, against which the Prima. Never has there been a time so rich in entitled also to a further measure of handicaps of over 10. Those with, handi Minister has warned us. There is a danger that when peace comes there will possibilities of good as the days that are relief. We agree that the whole position caps of 10 have the option of entering b srme who will wish at once to throw coming after the war. It is a glorious is eminently unsatisfactory, and what for either this or the ordinary champion- off the restrictions and the labours which privilege to be alive today. To-day these particularly curious is that it was ship competition.
understood that the Hongkong Govern The competition is to be played over they have recognised as necessary in times world is in the melting pat; and we are ment had offered to bear the whole burden the main course at Fanling, commencing Match play: of way. How are we to meet this drager privileged to be assietants in the world of the loss in exchange incurred by our on Handay, October 13th.
of remoulding it according to the will caval and military services for the dura preliminary rounds 18 holes; faal, 30 and overcome it. How are we to learn of God; to make it a better, freer, haption of the war, but that this offer was, boles the secret of bearing prosperity so that vier, purer, healthier, holier world and still is, declined from home. It is not Entries close to-day and are to ho we gain from it all the blessings which than it has even been before. May God a question of war bonuses, so liberally made on the lists at Fanling or Happy it gen bestow? Surely the secret is the give us grace to rise to the high standard dealt ont at home, but it is one requiring Valley, or by notice to the Hon. Secre
(Continued at foot of next Column:) demanded of us.
equitable adjustment.
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