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The First XI. will play the Second XL on the Club ground on Saturday, "at 2.15 p.m. sharp. Teams : --
November 24th; · 1929 Yesterday we experienced our Best heavy fall of snow. The effect was like A downpour of rain in Hongkong-it drove averybody indoors, except those who were compelled to come out; and the
First XL-R: Hancock, T. E. Pearce, streets were half deserted. A funeral was wonding it's way along Hatamen R. E. A. Wobster, H. Owan Hughes, L. J. Street. The band in front beating a drums Davies, E. G. Lammert, D. Eumphrey, at solemn intervals, punctuated with B. D. O. Morgan, D. B Peat J. D. melancholy blasts from a long trumpet, The mourners, clad in white robes (look. Crawford and A. K. Mackenzie, ing dirty against the snow on the ground) Second XL-W. W. Mackenzie, "W. followed. The coffin was covered with Galloway, D. Raid, E. W. Alderson, G. H. gorgeous trappings; and a procession of mile carts, with white awnings, brought Piorcy, M. M. Watson, H. E. Hellands, up the rear. The effect was stranguly G. A. Chadwick, L. D. McNicoll, F. H. impressive, and reminded me by contrast Pentycross and F. C. Miller of the last funeral, I saw in Hongkong, along Queen's Road, where a big bruss band was playing the "Dead March" 400 fast; and the black horses and the driver's mourning livery made a grotes- que combination.
To-ding the sun is shining brightly albeit it is freezing hard and the water barrows are covered with long icicles
CIVIL SERVICE, C.C. v. INDIAN R.C.
DISHONEST COOLIE SENT
TO BRISON.
HONGKONGWESLEYAN CHURCH.
THEFT OF AMMUNITION FROM THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY ANNIVER→
SARY. CENTRAL POLICE STATION.
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The case in "which" a "store coolle The Foreign Mimionary. "Anniversary employed at the Central Police Station, in connection with the above Church was. was charged with the theft of 600 rounds held on Sunday and Monday. The large,
ammunition from the arms store, was congregation present on the Sunday even- disposed of as the Magistracy, yesterday, ing when the special preacher, Mr. Szto, the decandant being sent to prison for Headmaster of the Canton Christian Collegy in Hongkong occupied the Mr. Wodehouse, Deputy Superin-1 pulpit, were delighted with Mr. tondent of Police, appeared to prosecute. Seto's picturesque description of his....
six months.
and informed the Magistrate that Mr. Almada, who appeared for the defend ant at the rat hearing, had now with drawn from the case. He asked his Worship to take a serious view of the case as the man was in a position of In the above league match to be played trust. He was found in possession of a on the Civil Service CC. ground on falso key which he admitted having made Saturday at 215 p.m., the following will himself. repress the Indians el Arculli (pt), J. S. Carreen, S. H. Ismail, S. D. Ismad, S. A. Ismail, S. A. R. Ismail, SA-Rumjahn, A. H. Madur, N. B. Kichell, E. A. Moosdeen pad A. H. Rumjaho,
On the evening of the 22nd, General Feng made his arst appearance on "a public platform, when he addressed the Peking missionary body. This was in the
I, R.C. v. 6OS.C.C." gymnasium of the Y.M.C.A., which was packed, many of the men standing In this match to be played on the Recreation Club ground. at throughout the proceedings. The General Indian made a striking figure as he stood there- Sookunpoo. Valley on Saturday at 2.16 he is of a huge build, somewhat after p.m. the following will represent the Lord Kitchener's style, but absolutely Indians end. XL: E. Moosdeen (capt.), I. Hassan, R. Nazarin, F. M. Arculli, His unself-conscious and unaffected. serene rubicund countenance is adorned Y. A. Wahab HD. Rumjahn, with a coal black moustache. He spoke in Rumijahi, A. Kitchell, A. R. M. Samy, A Maadaria with much gesture and intens Minnu and J. Ackber tion, often making his audience laugh, but only once smiling outright himself. An American friend was taking notes and afterwards gave an excellent gist of the speech in English.
General Feng bears the burden of his native land on his heart, and talks freely to those who are one with him in sym- pathy. In speaking of his fellow coun trymen, he calls a spade a spade; and at the same time invites criticism of him- self, declaring that the man who speaks to him and points out his faults is the man who is his friend. Hu deplored the fact that Mission Schools and Colleges are often growing too big for the staff to keep in touch with everyone of the stu- dents, as they used to do before these institutions becaine, so popular. The su dents nowadays were too fond of running off at all times to meetings and debates, instead of keeping their nose to the grind stone over their books and attending to
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student in London he lived, moved and breathed with the one thought of raising up in China a Christian Medical College with the highest standards and attain- ments."
The Magistrate : I understand that there is some more ammunition missing? Mr. Wodehouse said that about a thousand rounds were still missing but it could not be proved that the defendant had taken them. "When arrested the de- fendant had in his possession about. #65.
The Magistrate: So that he had prob. ably sold some already 7-Yes, I should say so.
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experiences of English home and church life. The preacher chose às tha subject of his address the actual and the West. Evidence of the growth of mutual ideal relations between, the East and the
understanding were marshalled with masterly skill. The groat pyramid of Gulzen provided the speaker with K excellent illustration of his theme. the base, East and West wore widely, separated by the accidents of race, colour, etc. Students of literature discovered in. their common appreciation of the world' classics that the separating distance be tween East and West was lessoned and that they were ascending the pyramid. Artists and art students were surprised to find in art a language common to -... all, a higher level on which they met. The friendly intercourse rising between the Orient and Occident, the great sti dent movements, drew them together in closer sympathy. A higher level still was reached by the anges in their study of the religions literatures of the world. The old Chinese scholar compared the Bible with his own classics, found similarities. and then pondered over the differences. The Westerd Orientalist was entering into sympathetic understanding of the BLASTING ON THE A.P.C. SITE Chinese religions teachers. The highest level would be. reached, the preacher de- BUILDING CONTRACTOR FINED.clared, when "all became one in Christ Jesus. The friendship of Jesus was the
The Magistrate ordered the sentence stated above, and an alternative charge of being in possession of ammunition without the permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police was withdrawn.
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The firm of Wing Yik, contractors of all-including friendship in which East and: No. 2, Gage Street, was summoned be- West could unite in mutual understand fore Mr. F. E. Lindell at the Magistracy ing, sympathy, harmony and love. The yesterday for failing to take the necessary ideal of the Christian family, the common precautions in connection with blasting brotherhood, was the real solution of the operations on the Asiatle Petroleum Co-race question. The address was the care pany's site on the corner of Wyndham fully reasoned position resched by a
scholar, artist, traveller and teacher. Street and Queen's Road Central.
Sergeant Dyer said that on Nov. 27th, at noon, he saw a workman lighting a piece of fuse under some stones not more than three feet from the hoarding. The In this same beautiful College Audi- proper warning gongs were sounded; but torium, the following Sunday morning, no covering of heavy timber or of any Adrian Taylor, the Professor of Surgery, eort was used. The explosion took place preached to 0 crowded congregation. and a lot of dust and small fragments of These Sunday Services are a great in stone were blown into the street through atitution in Peking and attract many the open doorway in the hoarding. If Educational movement. outsiders. The orgun has an exquisite the door had been closed, the dust and
I their classes. At one Government school tone, though almost too powerful for sucbfragments would have been prevented from received a warm welcome. He charmed a building; and during the week there reaching the road. Persons passing by are concerts, cinemag and all sorts of might easily have been blinded, entertainments, and lectures,
a young man in the class interrupted the teacher telling him it was "6 o'clock and time to close.
"No, it is only 7.30, the teacher re- plied.
In one of the College class rooms
There are
Mr.
Tha public ten and meeting took place on the Monday. Mr. McPherson, the- General Secretary of the YM.C.A. made an excellent chairman. In a short speech he recalled big associations with the « Wesleyan Church which extended over many years Ho had known Mr. Szto as foremost of the lenders in the Christian a brilliant student and now as one of the
had won golden opinions on the Sunday. Mr. Sato, who
his audience with further experiences in England, and interested all in "his ac Mr. Bennett, solicitor, who appeared count of the Missionaries and their work on behalf of the defondant, said it, was in the Wesleyan, Canton District. only a very small explosion under a pav Pilkington, a distinguished traveller in Well my watch says e, and you must amusing myself, the other day, counting ing stone. The mallest quantity of black connection with the S.P.G. followed with powder was used, and there was nothing a graphic picture of the splendidly successful Wesleyan Missions in Weet. stop. We pay for this building and the the different bationalities. light and we pay for you, and you've got were at least 4. from Canton; two Ameri.
both men and women-among the Chinese dangerous about the affair.
The defendant in the box said that wet Africa which he had visited and photo- to listen to us!
cans, three British and one Siamese. The guany bags were placed over the stone. graphed. M. Makebam told of local Chinese medical student in Peking takes The dust that rose after the explosion efforts made on behalf of Missions by himself
caine off the bags, tremendously seriously, and
means of the publication of a Church The Magistrate imposed a fine of $50. works with concentrated earnestness; nod
record and the circulation of the "Foreign Field and the yearly contribution to is very fond of asking questions in the middle of a lecture. He or she almost
the Wanchai Native Preaching. Hall. The always wears spectacles, and these with
superintendent of the Sunday School,. Mr. Kirk, reported on the generous, sum pronounced tortoise-shell rims
collected and subscribed by the scholars to Foreign Missions. Mr. Sara felicit ously expressed the thanks of the meeting Ito the speakers and to the ladies who had made a liberal provision for the tea and supper. A special feature of the anniver sary was the excellent singing by the choir and congregation. The collections. were good.
Last week I met & Chinese friend on the street who was maxious to show me over a rug factory with which he was connect ed Passing through an ordinary shop, with which it had nothing to do, be led mo to a rambling collection of mean huts, Here were horded together över 300 work- era, mostly boys, who work ten hours a day, 7 days in the week, receiving no pay beyond their food. The food seemed bardly adequate for healthy youngsters rice gruel, raisin cakes and vegetables with meat twice a month.
in
RUBBER SOLE INDUSTRY
AT CANTON.
EXPERIMENTAL RUBBER GROW-
ING AT CANTON.
The following-is-from-the Canton Times:
THE UNION CHURCH. YESTERDAY'S SALE OF WORK,
The ladies of the Union Church. organised a concert and a sale of work in aid of the new pulpit and communion
with political storms in a tea-cup. News. Peking, from time to time, is convulsed papers are greatly agitated, and at the moment it is the one topic of conversation..
"official and spectant-official circles The appren ticeship lasts 3 years. In the first hut Meanwhile the country goes on as usual-
Canton is preparing to welcome a new they were boiling the long crude strauds farmers sow and reap (if the robbers industry-rubber soles manufacturing, of wool; to get the fat out. In another allow them to) and merchants buy and A reporter of the Times visited the other hut men were immersing the boiled wool Bell, and all the other things continus day eleven small factories, obtained a in kongs of vegetable dye, pretty soft that go to make up life in China, for the list of many more in operation or project- colours of green, blue and red. In other Government is a thing apart.
ed; and if everything goes well, there will buildings there were the boys weaving
bo at least forty small rubber soles manu- the coloured strands ca to a frame work The latest sensation's is the impeach.facturing plants in Canton Several of cotton threads stretched tight on "a ment of the Finance Minister, Dr. Lo others are talking of having equipments wooden frame. Beginners are only allow. Wen-kan, on the charge of making a for the manufacture of other rubber ed to use what is left over with the wasto squeeze over the re-arrangement of Ger-
articles. from other rugs until they acquire skill. man and Austrian loans through the The Kwangtung Brothere Rubber. Factable fund. The concert took place on It was wonderful to see the, deft fingers Sino-Italian-Bank, Certain members of tory at Oachow, Honam, Canton, the Tuesday and the sale of work yesterday of the senior boys working rapidly with Parliament, sorry perhaps because they manager of which is Tang Fung Chi, is with very satisfactory financials. out hesitation and without mistakes. -
The fund has been augmented by a had not had a finger in the pie, bring turning out about 1,850 pairs of rubber "From this factory we passed to another pressure to bear on the weak good soles daily. They command something further amount of over $1,000.
The concert was held in the church hall one where only men are employed who natured President to havo Dr. Lo arrested like 50 to 60 cents a pair. The other com- have passed through their apprenticeship. by the Peking police and confined in Pany near by, the Kwangchow Bubber and the following artistes very kindly Spread out in the courtyard was a prison. When the poor man is in his Industrial Company, is turning out about provided the programme-Mr. Bowes fi
Not far away, the Smith (at the piano), Mrs. D. J. Brown, massive carpet just completed-the whole prison cell, a bare room containing a 1,500 pairs daily. was coloured a rich deep Turkey red. coolie bed, other people bring pressure Yao Ming Company, has a Japanese as Mra N. Mattheson, Mr. Zellensky, Mr. Here the men are paid by piece work also to bear on the President, who then export in charge of the manufacturing Edgecurobe and Mr. P. D. Wilson. The and each loom has four partners who besooches Dr. Lo to leave his uncomfort procem Most of the small factories have latter gave selections on his bag-pipes share the money. All over Feking theseable quarters and come to the President's a capacity of about a thousand daily. during the concert interval,
There is no large company in project.
Yesterday's sale of work must have Factories are to be found. The buildings, private residance as his guest! After equipment and apparatus are most primi holding out for some time, Dr. Lo at last at present, all being small ones with meant a lot of hard work for the ladies. Much of the preliminary organisation of tive and simple. The profits enormous yields and accepts the invitation, Mean- $15,000 or about, as capital..
Rubber planting is being experimented Mackenzie, who undertook the duties the sale fell upon the shoulders of Mrs. The rugs are of three qualities, and the while frantio telėgražia ato recoived from prices usually range from $1.20 to $160 Generals and Tuchuns in various parts of on at the Canton Agricultural Experi of How Secretary and Treasurer. Most
square foot,
the country, who all want their say on the ment Station, and a small quantity is of the articles offered for ale were made rights and wrongs of the case. He coming from the Island of Eainan, South by the ladies of the Church, a featura Last Friday afternoon many friends arrangements of hostile parties and of Kwangtung proper. The supply at being the real homemade toffee and of the Union Medical College assembled cliques follow. Bome of these busy bodies this place is at present very insignificant, candy which found a ready sale at 30- in the auditorium to witness the unveil wanted to drag in General Feng; but he and it is more of a possibility than a cents a bag Home made scones and pan- ing of a memorial tablet to Dr. H. vis "not having any" He says it is a supply at present; so Canton depends on cakes were included on the menu for afternoon tea, and naturally these were Wenham, who died in the old college Purely political question and he has his Singapore for the rubber supply,
Stone pavements on the inner streets in great demand. hospital in 1914. Colonel Gray, physician military duties to attend to." If only
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to the British Legation, Dr. Young on these other leaders were equally wise, and and concrete sidewalks along the modern The stalls were arranged round the of the staff of the College, and Dr. Heich would stick to their jobs, and cease these roads influence the use of rubber soles exterior of the church and the children one of the first graduates, all took paperpetual debates and intrigues the to a great extent. Many school girls find had a great time at the bran tub and at It was rather and performance for Government of the country might get ahen having to appear on the school The Ladies in charge of the stalls were
rubber solte convenient and comfortable the blindfold fishing tub Wenham had been the light and fire of move on and do something.
grounds for athletic exercises or physical Hickling, Mrs Craig and Miss General Stall—Mrs. G. M. Shaw, Mrg. the Collega and Hospital at its inception
training, early in this century. He died just It will be interesting to see how the In late years the Cantonese young
Wood before Rockefeller took it up and lavished President, the Speaker, and others, who people have paid more attention to footp. D. Wilson and Mrs. Gloyn
The #1 Stall-Mrs. D. Templeton, Mr. on it millions of money and made it have tied themselves up in kooks, extri wesz, and schools like Pui Ying have Tea and Cake Stall-Mrs A. §. D. what it is today. Wenham died in the cate themselves and Bave, face." Dr. factory to turn out shoes and boots of Consland, Mra J. Henderson, Mrs. J.D. prime of his manhood, after several years Lo is a graduate of Oxford and a mem- Chinese and western styles. The Pui Milne, Mrs G. Gerrard, Mrs. A. T overcrowded with life, but his pure and her of the English bar. He appears to Ying Shoe Factory and Salesroom at Sup Hamitoo, Mrs. Carrie, Mrs. A. K. Hen noble spirit still lives on and inspires be quite cheerful and enjoying the charg Fat Po is now one of the biggest shoe dorson, Miss Rodger and Miss Templeton many who personally never knew him. He still insists on being treated as a pri houses in that district. It is owrid and Toffee Stall-Mrs McCubbin and Mr. From 1800 and onward, in England, besoner, and demands that the police watch managed by Pui Ying studente This JStewart was my intimate friend. While still shim day and night until much time as he
(Continued at foot of neat column.) is cleared for convicted) by the court
shoe shop alone uses thousands of pairs of Bran Tub.Mrs. Magonachie, rubber soles from local manufacturers, - Blindfold Fishing-Mra. Dorey.