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HISTORIC AND MORAL VALUR | and women who have made our country
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lived and memorated those who have NE) thought and worked that those little islands in the Northern seas are the centre and REV. B. COPLEY MOYLE'S APPEAL AT heart of the greatest Emjfire the world bus In Westminster Abbey is ever known, Igathered the essence of our history, Fox,
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL" The Iles. H. Ceplay Moyle, who presched
CORRESPONDENCE.
HONGKONG" OBSERVATORY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY "PRESA."]
St I am glad to see one Interested Mariner " has energy enough to waste ink
ARMY SCHOOÉS. - ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION." Prior toberaking up for a month's vacation," the annual prize distribution, for children attending the Army Schools Garden Roud, was held on July 30th, The prizes were kindly does busted by Mrs, Wyndham. His "Excellency
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the sermon at yesterday's murning service/nder the over-ruling guidance of God, it over the Hongkung Observatory. I ha: G.O.C., and Officers of the Staff als being !
at "St. John's Cathedral took for his text
"Let us now praise farges wen, and our fathers that begat (Ecclesiasticum)
adid
10 trach as,
was due to the individual efforts of the men and women of the past that we are to-day members of the Great British Empire. It is well for us sometimes to think of famous men. It raises us from the dead levels of the commonplace in which we are wont to linger. It helps to inspire
often" "thought of trying to express the general feeling of mariners on this Coast, but have not done so because I realian is only a waste of ink and energy.""
*Interested Marinez, has expressed the feeling of mariners in a mild form.
I often wonder whether the whole business,
us with is desire to be less mediocre than jor, als part of it, is left to the No. 1 most of us are,
And when we think of those who have achieved such greatness as to be deemed worth of barial at Westminster,
Boy.
Last time the Typhoon Signals were up they remained halted at Lyermoon Passai
present,
should proceed to Picnic Bay by launch for a pienic and sports in the after- noon, fut the hoisting of the typhoon gals informate prevented this being carried into effet, Mr. Bay, the proprie tur of the Corenet Theatre, very kindly stepped in the rich and invited tha whole of the children to an entertainment at his thontre from 3pm to 3 p., and showed a fine selection of bomić pictures, which were enjoyed and thoroughly appres ciated! by the Witle ones.
had been arranged that the children
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we shall generally find that they for 16 hours after they were dawn at the school where an excellent tra,.provided by
Success is
Observatory, and at that time there were ships sheltering in Jank Bay and watching those Signals which were the, only ones that could be seen by them from that anchorage.
In this blow, the gantline at the Obers vatory carried away, and Trai told that it was four, hours before the Signal was
again boisted.
Don't blame the Observatory-blane Jaho." Some day, when Hongkong wakes up to the fact that Hongkong là becoming very important hipping, centre, is may
After the show the children were convey. by motor-cars and chairs back to the
the Alexandra Cafe, was laid out for their option. This being disposed of the children returned to their homes, having had a thoroughly enjoyable day in spies
the vagaries of the weather
The cost of tas and prizes were provided by certain generous donors who prefer sa remain anonry noons," as well as by the parents (of the Colonial Gvernment and Dockyard Stafs) whise chillers attend the
schools.
To those who "
kinally assisted fun cially or worked for the steers of the prize-giving and entertainment, the Parents and school staff desire to tender their hearty thanks which is cehund by th childern
MARINE,
be brought little more up-to-date In the WARMEÐALFORMERCANTILE mesatide we must coatime, to depenal no what weather information we can get in the papers from Shanghai and Manila. Yours faithfully,
MANCHU.
Hangkong. July 31st, 1920. We do not know whether the Observatory enn be fairly band for the neglees of the people at Lyrrmoon Pa bal down the signal for sixteen hours after the Observa- tory had lowered its own signals, and, pre nably communicated the fact by tele phone to other signal stations; but it in manifestly very important that shipping lying, in typhoon weather, in Junk Bay shoukt be able to depend on the signals at Lysenuon Pass the only ones that ena be seen from the anchorage.--Ed.,
The Hongkong. Enverument Casette contains the following · ·
It is hereby noted that applicatioas for the British War Medal and the Mer cantile Marine War Medal will be received at the Mercantile Marine Office from all embers of the British Merenatile Marine, whether British subjects or not, who ar ao resident in this Colorry
The British War Medal will be granted to applicants who have served at se on Board at Trucks article for six th tween the 4th August, 1914, and the 11th November 1918
This morning our alms are asked on -behalf of an object which I feel are will appeal to us all, viz., the Fund for the We preservation of Westminster Abbey. have o ddebt all seen in the newspapers thin the Deus and Chapter of Westminster Bave isited an appeal for no les sum than £250,000' for the preservation of the Abbey, I have not seen what is the
people who had one overmastering impulse immediate cause of the appeal being, made, ta their life, to which all else was made but I suppose some grave danger to the
tu give place. Success comes to the man baikling must have shown itself.
feho devotes himself with concentrated par sure that the appeal for what is the most
pose to one object, be that ohjeet what it ered spot in England will wet with a
ainy. The great men and women who are *gelaeraus response, from us who live so far aid in the Abbey are not, by any means, all frim that hallowed shrine. It is a master pants, indeed in many of their lives there for deep thankfulness, that the Abbey was, are scenes and incidents which their bio aninjured in all the air raids during the graphers would pass hastily over, but in War: we must hut ww let" any danger one thing they all agreed, they had per- threaten it that money can avert. It will ; severance, in pursuing steadily one object pechaps, be, profitable ing us to turn our ¦ in life, to which all else had to give way. thoughts this morning to the Abbey of It is just that concentratat purpose that Westminster and some of the Jossons it has is so lacking in the ordinary life of ordine
ary prople.
Most of us have fou may „A" writer - who lived some 950 years ago aims in life, and so we fail to achieve any wrote, The Abbey of Westminster hath of them, for often the aims are mutually - been always held the greatest sanctuary of exclusive and contradictory. devotion of the whole island.** And since the reward of concentration. his day the Abbey has been more than ever That is a lesson the Christian often needs, connected with the history of our nation Like Martha of old, we are apt to be worried and Empire. As long ago as the time of so much over many things that we miss the Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury in one thing needful. We are went into the wurf, the site the they w the opht to promote the glory of God, and abute, of soma monks of the Benedictine too often we are so taken up with a thou Urder, but it was the last of the Saxon and other things that we fail to do so. Kings, Edward the Confessor, to whom we
Again we may say of those who have öwe the Abbey. He was a strange figure and been deemed worthy of burial in West- has been carefully described, by his con- | minster Abbey that they have lived and temporaries. His rosy cheeks and white worked and fought for others, and not for hair, and beard, gave him almost the themselves. They are men and women who appearance of w albino. His long white have, done something to help, or elevate OLD WOMAN THREATENED WITH which the applicant served is registered in thin hands, With. almost transparent į og safeguard their fellows, add so their Gingers, led to a deeg behet in his healing; lives may prove an inspiration to us, who power over the sicknesses of his people, are always in danger of letting self take He spent most of his tone in religion.; Far too large a part in one lives. exercises, and when how hot engaged in devótian he was hawking or hunting, for he was an enthusiastic sportsman, It is dad that be unde a vow, while he was in Normandy, whither he had fed from the Dangs, that if he was delivered from his encies, he would make a pilgrimage to the "grave of St. Pete at. Rome. Very soci after the making of this vow à messenger reached him with the news that the Danes had gone and that he had been elected King Edward returned to England and announced his intention of fulfilling his His intention was received with furious opposition both by the nobles and the people, who ohjected to the King Jeaving England, and urged the great perils of the journey. At last it was decided to send a deputation to Rome to ask the Pope To release the King from his vow The was done and the Pope agreed to do my on condition that the King should build or restore a tonastery of St. Peter. The
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ever will save bis life shall lose it" our Blessed Lord said. If we take that lesson to heart we may not achieve fame, but we shall do the will of God, and gain the love of men. Let me canelure with some verses by George Eliot, which are no doubt familiar to many of you.
of those inmortal dend who live again O may I join the choir invisible in lives made hotter by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, For miserable aims that end with self, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scoru in thoughts sublime that pierce the night
like star And, with their mild persistence urge' maa's. To vaster isaues.
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To make undying music in the world,
So to live is Heaven p Breathing as beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man,
May I rench
That purest Heaven, be to other souls. Thas cup of strength in some great ageny, Enkindle generous ardour, fed" pure love, Beget-the-smilex-that-have-no cruelty-
THE CATHEDRAL ORGAN.
As it was
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"DEBT-COLLECTING EXTRA-
ORDINARY.
DEATH.
The Mercantile Marine War Medal will be granted to applicants who during the xix months referred to above have served at sea on a voyage through the danger zone. .e., on a ship which hus entered or cleared
Baited Kragdom, French or Mechter ranean port.
Applications should be sent to the Mer enntile Marine Offer whether the ship on
Service an vessels engaged in purely coastal trade does not qualify for the award of these twoedels.
the United Kingdom or elsewhere and whe ther the service for which the application" is made was performed in the waters Debt collectors may take warning from
around the Unitel Kingdoni or elsewhere. a little story that was unfolded to the Similarly, applications in regard to ser- calles debts by menos al threats and where, if the applicant is now resident in Magistrate on Saturday: Don't try to vice lathe Entury of this Colony or ele by damaging another person's furniture, the United Kingdom should be made to the for it may result in your being imprisoned, nearest Mercantile Marine Office in the just as Ah Kit was. Ab Kit boarded a jogle United Kingdom.
Yaunti, owned by a poor old woman, and threatened to stub her to death if she failed to pay 860. owing her grand-son, as wages for working as a foki. Owing to the
A further notice has been issued by the typhoon she had not made any money and Board of Trade which includes in danger she explained to Ah Kit that she was zone voyager any voyage made in the penniless. Ab Kit was adamant. He first dapan Sen or Yellow Sen from the 4th all the furniture and finally, struck Hongkong from the 18th January, 1917, to trind to sink her boat. then broke August to the 7th November, 1914, and any Toyage made between Singapore and the woman on the head with a piece of the 11th Nov ber, 1918. Further parti wood. The woman cried out Save life culars will be aed later. The crown of the neighbouring boats heard, Application forms may be obtained at Kit jumped into the sen and police-whistles came in handy. Ah the Mercantil Marine Office. A policeman
waited for him "neurs the shore. He fished |
Ah Kit out. This was the third time be
had tried to get the money. The woman' SHOOTING. GAME, ÎN
proceedings, has disappeard, nephew, no doubt a party to the unlawful;
Defendant aid that the nephew was his friend. He was out of work and defendant played the good Samaritan.
The Magistrate was doubtful how to treat the case. The woman owed money, the iman fed and sheltered the person she owed
the money to.
The Police said the defendant had.no! fright to smash furniture and demand money
not owing to himself.
The Magistrate agreed and imposed on manth's hard labour on defendant.
TERRITORY,
NEW RESTRICTIONS.
NEW
It is fotified in the Güzeftë that Schedule C to the Wild Birds and Game Preserva tion Ordinone 1214, is amended-by-the inserzion of the following additional Con dition after Condition No. 6:-
No wild birds or gane shall be shot. or taken in that part of the New Territo ries situates ab or near Fan Ling, which is bounded by line drawn from the cross roads mur Thi Tau Long Village to the Chino Uri Cemetery and continued up the hills to the seven hundred foot levél thence following this level to the end of the ridge and down to the Village of Lin Tong Hi there to Tong Kung Ling and thence to Kat Tsin Village and thence LAUNCHING OF THE YUET WAH."long the autor road to the said croen
twin serow stenmer owned by the Hung The trial trip of the ss. Yuet Wah, a
CHINESE SHIPBUILDING IN
HONGKONG.
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roads,"
ently received the following telegram:
The British "Vice Consul at Omaka re
President of Chamber of Commerce, Bradford, presents compliments to Proi dent of Chamber of Commerce at Osaka expressing sympathy in the premt .CTINÍN,
building of Westminster Abbey was the result. The building occupied fifteen years and was on a scale of great magnifiertet.
# AN IMPROVEMENT. Its shape was cruciform; that is, shaped like a crom "It was the Arst church to be
The following promises towards the $500 shaped in England. Almost the first needed for the proposed Diaphonic Tuba great ceremony to be held in. it was the have been received and are hereby grate Coronation of William the Conqueror in fully acknowledged by Mr. Denman A.D. 1068. He had defeated the English Fuller:-Mr. A.A. H. Compton $50," Mr. under Harold at the battle of Hastings. C. Blason 850, Mr. A. H. Douglas $95, And from that time to the present it has Mr. A. Denison 850, Hon, Mr. P. H. en the scene of the Coronation of the Holyoak 8100, Hen, Mr. A. R. Lowe 800, Kings and Queens of England, with the Hon, Mr. N. J. Stabb "250.
Shun Shipping Company, took place on JAPANESE CANCELLING single exception of the Coronation of King!
necessary to take advantage cruise round the island. There were Gl
Thursday, the vessel making a completa uf the circumstances which make poiblo
ORNER FROM BRITISH John. But hardly anything is left of the the acquisition of such a stop at about one visitors on board (all Chinese, except Mr.
MANUFACTURERS. original building of Edward the Confesor, third the normal price, without delay, the W. Russell and Mr. Lambert, surveyors) and for the Abbey was pulled down and rebuilt -f Denman Faller until the full amount Company's representatives. The trip was balance of $125 has been guaranteed they were hospitably looked after by the by Henry III. in the thirteenth century. is forthcoming. I might be added-in smoothly performed; the average speed Not only is the Abbey the place where ply to several enquiris that the Dia attained being 9.3 knots an Hour. In the Kings and Queens Tre crowned but it is Here-Jones, the famous organ builder and dinner at a restaurant at Yaumati in con- phone is a recent, invention of the late Mr. evening the Hung Shua Company gave a als the place where, many of them are is an entirely new method of tone producmemoration of the event and about 400 buried. The Abboy has long been the tion whereby tones of great power and perroan, attended. Congratulatory speeones burial place of the most famous and distin. smoothnem are obtained. A Tuba is the were made by several guests, guished Englishmen; great statesmen, great and no modern organ of any size can be Kwong-Bang Loong Engineering Company equivalent of the Brass" of the orchestra
The Fuct Wah, built and engined by the Very anxious to get over dificulty. military and aval leaders, theologians, considered complete if this class of topois said to be the largest ship ever con
Request you by co-operate devise meihoda literary men, architects, engineers and is not represented. The proposed Diaphonic structed by a Chinese company in Hong-
less injurious to friendly relations bo. Tubs will supply this deficiency in the kong, steel being tied throughout. She is inventors, poets, musicians, bistorians, Cathedral Organ-Church Notes.
tween us thian unjustifiable cancellation." In some cases the goods were ordered -doctors- philanthropists and scientists
two masted, has two deck with three ball of the highest quality absolutely rogazione actors and lawyers have been laid to rest
heads, and is capable of carrying ·600† of price, and
very high in steorage and 64 frat class passagers. She deed. In such cases it is not only a matter is fitted with two acts of compound surface of the banks making an advanes, because be regarded as the last resting place of profanity in her long history; and inhabit boiler. (four furnaces) was made by the sow been registered and will)
extravagance has the most famous of our countrymen I supoate-of-Montana have a lamentable free Kwong Sang Loong. Her length between bo reached again. In the majority of I will probably not pose there are none here, who have not dom of speech, so it may be permissible to perpendiculars in 239 feet and main breadth cases, however, there is no doubt that it felt their patriotis excited and thair quote. the comment of a visitor from 33 feet 5 inches. She is 1,500 tons (gross) | effected, though even bere it could only be na advance were made delivery could be Montana on the subject of Ireland, want and 885 tons (net). There are three Euro- done with some Racrifice for the sake reverence called fortb, as they wandered by a friend interested in split" words pean officers, Capt. Brown (master), keeping a contrict was fant mort through the sacred precincts of the Abbor "The trouble with Irrland -is-that-she Mr. Macarthy (chief oficer), and Mr. This in a sacrifice which Denka importers and pondered on the many great deeds of wants to be too inde God-dam pendeat FP Engelbrecht (chief engine). The are not often willing to make and when A man who takes so much trouble to swear, Yuet Wah will be put on tas Bwatow, they have so good on excuse as the banks the mighty dead who rest there. There we remarks the Daily News, is beyond hope Amoy and Foochow rap, and in expected to showing a now hardness of heart the case
brought together in small space the men of refe
make her maiden trip some time this week is not very hopeful-Japan Chronicle.
THE SPLIT SWEAR.
Members of Chamber of Commerce at Bradford report very many cases of Cancellation by your members.
in the Abbey, so that it has now come, toreland has caused a good deal of condensing engines, and the multitabular the highwater mark of
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