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INTERESTING AND AMUSING SPEECHES.
following which be wrote " To a Moure, ita machine shops, its shipyards, ita far: tinclude, Mr. George Grimble arcng the showing his wrath and his execration of and inte mills, and all other forms of guesta-(Applausa. That raised the male who had killed it. There were productive energy that bad placed this number of guests that night, to three-two the several other poems, including to "A little country and its few millions of and a quarter-(Laughte=)—Mr. Grim- Mountain Maiden," in all of which shone people in the front rank of the mechanicalbie had so indentified bitself with the out the compassionate feelings which were activity of the world. The late Mr.musical portion of the programme that imbued in him at a very early age. In Roosvelt once said that the state of Now he might consider himself Scottish- "Burns Nicht" is every year duly the year 1786 he wrote the beautiful poem York was merely another name for the Laughter.) That was the accond St. observed in Hongkong by the loon! The Cottar's Saturday Night," from aggregate of the people in it, and he could Androw's dinner he had attended Ireally, Beottish community, and the gathering which the speaker quoted a couple of verses not help thinking that there must be in and.on a former occasion he was able to that was present-as-the-Hongkong Hotel The Cottar's Saturday Night" was on Saturday night, at the members dinner beautiful goom. It was solemn, and broke Dutch blood a certain deficiency of say a few words about their grant. Scottish of the St. Andrew's Society entered heart into a strain of greatness and grandeur Scotsman, however matter of fact and what he had said then. The longer one imagination. Could they imagine a poet and he could only repeat a part of and soul into commemorating the birth of which modern poetry, could not pas the bard, who, by his writings, makes eo robert's brother Gilbert was his confidant common place, offering such a definition lived and the more one get to know and strong an appeal to the Scottish people, at all times. They were told that when of his native land? The land of brown appreciate the relative values of the great rich, and poor alike.
the bard grew up he joined a dancing heath and shaggy wood, land of this moun- pocts and singers of all ages, the more The dining room of the hotel was suit party somewhat to his father's distain and the food, the land of their aires a realised that, having, regard to his ably decorated for the decasion, and a approval. They were told that he excelled must indeed be part of themselves. They cavironment, Barns was really a great large-sized photography of Robert Burns, in the art of dancing, whereby be gained knew the feeling that prompted Byron man (Applause)-He was to Scotland, was hung above the principal table, Mr.much favour with the Indies. Certain to say a
what England We beginning G. M. Young, the President of the entanglements resulted His geniality
realise now, the poet Keats was to Eng Society, was the Chairman, and over one developed and later he incurred from
land (Applause) Burn was brought hundred members sat down to dinner. some quarters adverse criticism, charas-
up as they had heard from Mr. Hough Those who sat at the principal table were, teristic of the Calvinistic age in which
that evening and as they had no doubt Mr. G. M. Young (Chairman), the Hon be ved. After referring to Burus other
read, in humble surroundings where one/ Mr. Claud Severn, Major-General Ventris, poems, the speaker went on to say
might suppose that the great thoughts ho the Rev. J. Kirk Macounchie, Mr. Geo that about the time that Burns went to
gave expression to could never have found Hogg, Mr. J. Reid, Mr. H. F. Campbell, live at Dundee he became financially em
birth He died at an early age, and, not- Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, Mr. John Macbarrassed and meditated emigrating to
withstanding the hard fight be ̈ had donald, Mr. T. F. Hough, Mr. A. G. the West Indies, but the counsel of his
through the greater part of his life, be Gordon, Mr. W. Nicholson, Mr. J. H friends prevailed and, following their
produced a mass of poetry of every Wallace, Mr. G. M. Shaw and Mr. W. advice, he proceeded to Edinburgh, in
description, which was simply marvellous. Adamson...
an endeavour to get another edition of They were what they were because the The same was true at the English poet his poems published.
He then brought land of their birth was "Bonnie Scot Kents. He was brought op amid sur out his Kilmarnock edition. While in land" as well as the "Land o' Cakes;roundings in suburban: London which they Edinburgh he made many friends, both its beauty had entered into the blood would think would be the last environ- among the nobility and gentry, and wrote (Applause)-Continuing, Mr. Gordonment to produce a great poet. He died at the poem Highland Mary." That poem said Also, whence, think you came the age of 25 and left them poetry which was not published till after Burna death.
When I see some tall rock lift ita hand
to the thy
Then I think of the hills that o'er
shadow Culbean, Why, the Scottish exile thought that the sun turned a kindlier face to his native land than it did to countrida less favoured like the one who sang:- The sun rises bright in France
And fair gets he
But He's tint the blythe blink he had
In my a'in countrie
to
The band of E.M.S. Taking was in attendance and played appropriato, Scot tish airs during the dinner. When all had been scated the Chairman said: "It is gratifying to find the members of St. Andrew's Society gathered this evening in such numbers to celebrate, the birthday The most prominent of all Burn's charact ace of melody with which every today, they realised more and more, was of Robert Burns, who, whatever bis fail teristic was his intense patriotism Theath and glen and corse of Scotland the finest in the English tongue,
was vocal, melody that wuld wives crooned (Applause.) He considered that Burns in ings may have been, never failed in time ho lived was a very troublous one in
chis next said grace, after which dinner French revolution, and the authorities of fiddlers played at weddings and christen more than Keats.ever was, Burns was a friendships." The Rev. J. Kirk Macona Europe, the climax of which was the their spinning wheel; lassen listed at Scotland and Keats in England were ewe milking before the dawn of day; types of real poets. Besides that, far was served. The bringing in of the that day considered it necessary to preings, and pipers sent echoing among the truly great man. He had great qualities, Haggis was the signal for an outburst pare for eventualities by raising local
hills to inspire the march of the warlike to some of which Mr. Hough bad referred
of applause Mr. F. Scuters brought it levies wherever possible. Burns, of living, or sound a lament for the herofequalities of patriotism, sincerity, sym-- in, being preceded by Mr. P. D. Wilson, course, entered heart and soul into the dead; a long line of nameless. Scottish pathy and independence of character. playing the bagpipes Both gentlemen movement and joined the Dumfries minstrels had lived and died generations His patriotiam came out in the welk were dressed in Highland costume. Gentlemen Volunteers. Bad Burns lived
After the dinner, speeches were delivered to day they would have found him leading before Burns, and Ferguson, Tancahill known dedication to the Noblemen and interspersed by songs from Messrs Who Hae" to answer the call to arms sweet singers took the old tunes and gave
with his soul in the thrilling lines "Scots and Lady Nairne, and all the rest of our Gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt in the year 1797, where be wrote End McLeod, Anderson, and Souters, who were that came to all lands when a domineer them a form and vesture as immortal as Bloried in the fact that he was "A Scot- accompanied on the piano by Mr. George ing depot tried to bring destruction to Grimble, and recitations by Mr. Fleming
the world. He would have been the first and Mr. Boaters.
to lead the Scots in honour of Scotland's The
name and famie. He asked them all to drink to the memory of Robert Burns garb of old Gaal for the uniform of democracy that there could be no pri (Applause).
khaki; the one would be less of a shining vilege without responsibility: In all his
Ping was the menu-
BILLO FARE MENA Some hae meat and cunni eg An' some wad eat that want ite? But we hae meat an' we can et. Sue let the Lord be thankit."! "SOME OF TEX THINGS WE'LL HAE
Soup.
Pens.
Scotch Broth,
Fish
ed Haddie wi". Butter Sauce.
An' a Dram.
- Joint Gigots o' Mutton Boastit...
Tawties, biled and champit. Bashed Neeps, an' ither orra Vegetables. Anither. Dram
The Haggis
"Far fa' your honest sonata face, Great chieftain o' the puddin" race! "" Sic a grand nicht we're hacin'. We'll hae anither mouthfu',
Entree.
Stored Hens and Ham. Heck! Anither Tastin
Dessert an Sie Like.
Apple Tairt, an' "Cream Shortbreed.
Rarebit, fine an' tasty.
Strong YIL Barley Bree free well-kent Scottish Vineyards, We're no that fou
An we'll tak' a cup of kindness yet. THE SPEECHES,
their own fame (Applause) Again it sets but the other day that there was pointed out to the Black Watch High landers the expediency of exchanging the
tish bard, proud of the name and whose highest ambition is to sing in his country a service." Like their own Edmund Burke, he was filled with the true spirit of
The toast was drunk to musical honours.ark for the enemy than the other, and writings he had shown that whatever pori- its adoption would probably result in tion a man had, whatever privileges,."'a Mr. A. G. GORDON said be supposed saving many lives. You know, their deciman's a man for a' that."—(Applause). some in the company who would find it sion. I think I hear them say "All this Nevertheless, when the French revolution hard to tell the difference between a bear may well be true; but we stand by the kilt broke out, two years later, he was filled bannock and a ponse scone. For the bene and the tartan." That, a critical Et of such, he might be permitted to say may say, is magnificient, batics world with horror at what be read, and at what that there was no question of fancy bread for the kilt and the tartan are inseparable Though it did not stifle his writings, it war. We say magnificient or not, it is war;
be came to know, just as Burke vas. about the "Cakes" with which the name from the sentiment that makes these men affected him in a way which they were all of Scotland had been associated; they the redoutable soldiers they are. Take able to realise again to-day from the these away and you break their touch with horrors they had experienced in the lata were a very plain bread indeed and as a continuous tradition which transforms war, Burns left them a magnificent book destitute of heaven as that which the every man in the Regiment, be he Scottish, of poems, and every poem rang true; and children of Israel were condemned to eat Highlander, with all the dash, vim and for them, they valued him just as much English or Irish into a Black Watch though the words were sometimes difficult in the wilderness (Laughter.) The only dare-devil courage that centres round the as the valued their English singers. It name(Applause. The Scottish blood was for that reason that when be received westening they had came from the fact in him helped Byron to understand and the invitation to come for his second that they were the fruit of honest toil express the potency of the Highland Burns, dinner he came with the greatest. and hunger as they knew was
guid tradition-
pleasure. On behalf of Major-General Ventria and himself he appreciated kitchen. Together with the "halesom
it very much and hoped it would not be the last dinner be would have the honour to attend.
1-
"
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But with the breath that fills their
mountain pipe.
So fill the mountaineers, with the fierce
native daring
Which instils the stirring memories of a
thousand years
And Evan's Donald's fame rings in each
clansian's ears.
UECOL
Ma cartie, we'll hae anither Dramparritch, chief of Scotia's Food" they
Wines
$formed the staff of life of a people whose
Responding to the cries of speech," tastes were as simple as their ideals were
speech, Major-General Ventris, who high. (Applause.)—We cultivate litera-
was greeted with an ovation, stated that up to that moment he had enjoyed bis ture on a little oatmeal was the motio May there never come a time when the the eloquence of his dear old friend the evening-(Laughter.)He wished he bad proposed by Sidney Smith for the Edin-mind of our race will be closed against Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, who was like a After the loyal: toast bad been dulsburgh Review, and jocularly, as was the such sentiment as that! Let us go on slot machine-(Laughter.) You put a honoured, Mr. T. F. Hotor, addressing suggestion it touched the keynote of scientiously, of the work of the world: (Laughter.)He was afraid he was just doing our share resolutely, faithfully, con- dinner, in the slot and out comes a speech. thoes present, stated that one of the pro-Scottish character and history for what let us keep well to the front with the same the other way. I put a speech in the dominating idiosyncracies of the Scottish had they not done on a little oatmeali uocess that we have done of yore: but slot and outcomes race was the respect in which they held Their fathers fought on it, worked on it, querable spirit in us to our Auld Mithe (Laughter.)--He wished to on
let us not forget that we owe the
the dinner." the traditions they had inherited, and the thought and studied on it, wrote ballads Scotland, that it is from her breast there
it a considered
that ha Ray a great honour and Bcolezen a mongkong were second to and preached sermons on it, and created haa nourished genius in the cottage as den laughter) amongst all those Scois- privilege has been drawn the celestial Ichor which to been invited to that dinner to be none in that respect. For that purpose the Scottish Kingship which they were gonerously, as in the hall, and that has men. He did claim to be a bit of a Scot admitted alone, like Daniel into the lion's they had gathered together that night to all so proud to claim, on a diet chiefly made the inheritance of the plowman's himself. Applause)His wife's mother do honour to the memory of one who had composed of antenkes and oatmeal por shall play our part all the more worthily often wore
son more precious than a Dukedom Wewasa Sco-(laughter.) and the very done more than any individual in uphold ridga (Applause) On such frugal fare in public or private station, if every fibre (Laughter.) However on that occasion
a tartan tie himself ing those characteristics and keeping them they subdued a hard and stubborn soil of our being thrills to an Auld Scottish be supposed he ought to say something ever present in their minds-(Applause) and made it vield" its yearly toll of, and we feel in our inmost heart- That where the caller breezes sweep.
about the army. Well, he would tell them Robert Burns frst saw the light of day harvest: they took tribute of wool and
what Scotland had done in the war. He Across the mountain's breast,"
gut his A.D.C. to look it up and he found on January 25th, 1750, just 161 years ago, mutton from the moorland and hillside,
Where the free in soul are nurst that Scotland had furnished no less than on a farm about two miles out from Ayr, and of hide and beef from the fallow lea; The Hon. Mr. CLADD SEVERN, on rising lions and kept that up all through the
In the land that we lo's best
32 battalions as well as 22 service batta and was the eldest of a family of seven, they levied on loch and sea to support to respond was greeted with loud ar That was not counting about four His carly life, he (the speaker) did not their faher folk and kept the rock and applause, those present singing "For then battalions which had been raised in suppose was any different from the early the reel, and the flying shuttle busy to said he rose to say a few words which he tion. Altogether 50,000 men had been
be's jolly good fellow," Mr. Severn the Dominions by men of Scottish extrac lives of many others of his age and clothe themselves in home spun, so that felt would be a tribute from that portion in the field That was rather ne gut station, and he had little relaxation from the old Arbroath, toast became a very to those very kind hosts who were enteral for Scotland with its scanty
of the assembly which was not Scottish schievement the work of the farm. In fact they were epitome of the vocations of that primitive taining them so magnificantly, and who, for we want a few now--and may I hope entris said "Go and breed Scotsmen, Continuing Major-General told that at the age of fifteen Robert time: "The life of man, the death o fish him. He was sure Major-General Ventris to get you all in this room for our new
when he rese, were kind enough to salute Burns was doing a man's work on his the shuttle and the plough, corn, horn, would join with him in saying that they Volunteers? (Applause). father's farm.-(Applauss.Whether atinen, yarn, lint, and tarry '00"
little Boots: Company of the Hongkong Nay appreciated it most highly. Well do the plough or the scythe Robert was unmore, defying the rigours of an, ungenial could only say that be ross as a portion The Rov. J. KIRK MACONACHIE, who was adept. He and a young brother, Gilbert, climate, they set themselves, in their dour
of one and a quarter Bassenach that even- also called upon to spenic, made a few were the mainstay of the family and they and stubborn way, to make flowers grow
bar (Laughter.)
was General Ventris, he remarks on the magnetic grandeur of
Bassenach. He Burns' poetry p were the only male labourers on the farm where nature never intended such flowers endeavoured, since his arrival in the pany to drink to the health of the Preni
amero quarter. Laughter.) He had The Hon. Mr. Save asked the at the time. He had, however, the great to be; and they became so cunning in the Scottish functions in which ha took part
to instil that fact at the various dent. by way of thanking him for the
great
entertainment he had given them. enta, whose teachings inspired his curly gardener took the place of direction must gicid to
but that night he felt be compositions, such as the poem ho Kid wherever man laid out flower-beds, or he was really a Sassenach that there was Peter Tod who had done all the wor
in reply, said it was Mr. written on the death of a sheep, the only built greenhouses, throughout the civilized must, therefore come the Major-General pliment and said he hoped that the St
nothing Scottish about him and that be Applause) ono belonging to him, which had got world (Applause) On such simple lines Vatra felt it a great honour to come Andrew's Society would always continue
MY PETER Top-acknowledge the com (Laughter.)Ho and Entangled in the tether. The next poem bf industry were laid the material grent there and they appreciated it most highly to enjoy its present prosperity in Hong Burns wrote was "To a Mountain
ness of Scotland, ite minca, ita furnaces, He had been requested by the President kong
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advantage of having God-fearing par- mystery of Adam's art, that the Scottish It was a fact prevailing opinion that
com