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SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,
ANNUAL MEETING.
A POLICE SERGEANT'S
DISCOVERY.
BODY DUMFED ON A BREAK-
WATER.
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WEST: RIVER FIGHTING.
HONGKONG STEAMER
COMMAN"
DEERED BY "DR. SUN'S TROOPS,
Two determined, but unsuccessful at
In the early hours of yesterday morn-tempts. on the part of the captain of the ing a European police sergeant was in Chung On to take his vessel up the a rowing boat in the vicinity of the Yau-West River over the week end before last:
others. The vessel left for Wusboy on
and a small girl, proceed quietly up to Arriving there the two
good" "will" "and energy, to make, the orening a success. Our hard-working Hon Scretary, Mr. Piercy, did The annual meeting of the Society of tremendous amount of work in a very St. George, Hongkong, was held at the efficient and unostentatious way, (ap- City Hall yesterday afternoon, when the plause) and can personally testify Pear's nativities were reported upon, to his uselishness and readiness to help officers otected, and arrangements made on all occasions The various sub-com.
mittees are, to for noxt St. George's day.
ngratulated on the mati Typhoon Shelter, when he saw met with a hot reception by troops and Mr. R. H. B. Hancock, President, took many excellent arrangements made for sampan containing a young Chinese may the 10th inat. with a cargo of rice. She the chair, and was supported by Mr. G. the comfort of our guests, and for the H. Piercy, honrary secretary, and Mr.gueral enjoyment of the evening On the Breakwater.
́ngniu would 'I thank Mr. Nicholson for the charming roses which morned our supper tables, and which added so much The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K. ( Lieutenant-Colonel L. G. Bird, the Rev.
20 the beauty of the scene, and reminded Copley Moyle, and Messrs. D. G. Hus, as perhaps nothing else could, of au Bernard, M. E. F. Airey, H. W. Bird. | Euglish garden. J. W. Alabaster, J. Bentley, G. T. Bird, P. S. Camidy, W. A. “Cornell, W. A. W. 1. Eldridge, A. S. Exell A. Hicks, Dowley, C. Dickens, H. B. L. Dowbiggin H. Hancock. F. C. Hall, Y. C Labrum, R. E. Lindsall, S. M. Mayes, W. Morley, FA Perry, A. Piotry, J. H. Ramsay R. J. Steavenson, D. V. Stevenson, K. J. Wilton, and H. P. Winstow
A. S. Exell, honorary treasurer. Those
present were as follows:-
from the North of the Tweed managed to rest it from us last November. How
was first of all forcibly stopped by General Cho Pui Tak, of Dr. Sua Fut 50 out, carrying a bulky basket, which Sen's Army, who commandeered her, and they dumped on the ground. They then rammed her with 1.600 soldiers - An got back into the boat and rowed away.
they passed Kwong Lee on the following. Meanwhile the officer went to the day. Kwangsi troms opened fire on them. Breakwater and examined the basket. They kept it up for about a quarter of«» He opened it and found inside the dead an hour, and acceeded in killing `oris. I am worry we were not able this year to have on our supper table the band body of a child. He immediately fol- and wounding two of Sun's soldiers..... “A peted for twice a year. some golf challenge trophy which is co-lowed the two and took them into cus-bullet whizzed past the face of Captain
Our friends tody.
Lewingdca himself, and he had a lucky This was the story täld when the two escape from death. He found it impos ever, it was not long in their keeping, appeared at the Magistracy yesterday sible to continue, so he set back for and thanks to one or two stalwarts we morning and were charged with dump Hongkong. He started out again on the regained the trophy after a very exciting ing a human body" Formal evidence 15th of the month, and reached tha struggle last mouth (applause). Whilst on the subject of the Bail would of the police sergeant, P. S. Tylor, was like to point out that this year there were taken, and the case remanded till this only a subscribers as against 230 last morning. à post abete examination your, and I hope there will be more sup of the body was to have taken place yes "The Accounts for 1092 with
our port forthcoming in 1024. Honorary Auditor's repert having been sent to all members, I will, with your permission, take them as read. Owing to my impending departure for Home of a holiday, i was anxious to hold this meeting bufore I left, and it has been rather a rush.on account of the Chitose New Year holidays to get the Accounts printed and efrculated earlier, and I hope you will overlook the delay in this respect
THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS,
The Chairman presented, the annual report and accounts for approval. report read as follows:
Tho
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This is
Our President last year drow your attention to the Society's official organ, in the hope that members would subscribe to it. I am happy to say that on being circulated some 300 members of our society are now subscribers, and I hope the list will be intransed during the current year.
terday afternoon,
ARMS TRAFFIC. ANOTHER LARGE CONSIGNMENT
SEIZED.
We have to consider at this meeting the During last week Chief Preventive manner in which St. George's day will be Officer Clark and a party of Chinese) celebrated next April. It is entirely for you gentlemen to make suggestions, which, Revenue Officers seized on board the s.8:
I am sure, will receive the consideration Tenyo Muru u large consignment of arms of your new Committee. Before Enally and ammunition. In searching one of the proposing the adoption of the accounts, I
Village of Yuet Sin without interference.
or they were called upon to stop by a umber of Chinese, though whether they were soldiers or pirates he was unable to say. He took no notice of them, but kept stright on, followed by a shower of bullets. On this way up they met another river steaner which had been through rifle, revolver, shell, and machine-gun tre. The captain realised then that it was hopeless to proceed, so be turned his. vess round for Hongkong, and arrived on Friday.
ESCAPES FROM POLICE,
TO MEET WITH DEATE.
An enquiry was held at the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon by Mr. J. R. Wood, with the assistance of a Jury, into the death of a man named Cheung Fat, who Canton Road, Youmati, and was killed, in an attempt to avoid the attentions of a party of police who were searching the premises at the time.
Messrs. H. A. R. Conant (Foreman), C.. de V, Ribeiro, and F. C. da Rocha, were the Jury.
The balance carried forward From 1922 is smaller than the previous year and aceds scane explanation. Without the special item $1,000 Two & per cont. H.K. Government War Bonds, it would, have should like to say how very much I have holds they came across 14 varrels described been stauller by some 3,195. accounted for by the larger mber of "ppreciated the great honour of beings "ordinary goods." Cha opening one fell over the verandah of a house in your President during the past year of the barrels they fund, "embedded in calls made upon us for assistance during The task has been an easy one by reason dry shrimps, 250 revolvers and 33,000 the year, which your Committee thought of the loyal support given to me on all rounds of ammunition, you would desire to be helped:
xcasions by members of your Committee, refer to this question later, om With
and especially by your Vice-President, regard to the item "Two 6 percent. Mr. Bird, and your Hon. Secretary and Government War Bonds" this represents Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Piercy, and Mr. four prizes which are still unclaimed from Exell respectively. the 1018 War Bond drawing. Under the terms of the original drawing, winning tickets not presented befon noon on the 23rd December, 1516, were liable to be cancelled, Advertisement .concerning these prizes have been issued in all papers locally and elsewhere, and they have not been claimed, Our Auditors considered that the item should now be brought into the Accounts and it has been dealt with as you see.
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In accordance with your wishes, a grant was again made last year to the Hon. Mr. Irving, Director of Education, for prizes for patriotic essays in recogni- tion of St. George's Day for children in British schools. The prize essays were afterwarda sent to your committee for
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their information.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the adoption of the report and accounts, The Hoa M, POLLOCK seconded, and the motions was carried unanimously,
THE NEW PRESIDENT AND (VICE-PRESIDENT,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the election of Mr., D. G. H. Bernard as President for the ensuing year. He thought they could not better him, and felt satisfed that they would fed kim suitable in every way,
M. WILTON seconded and the motion was carried.
Mr. BERNARD thanked the members briefly for the honour they had done him, and promised that he would do his best to follow the footsteps of his pre- decessors, and uphold the traditions of The grant to the Greenwich Seamen's the Society. He remarked that the Hospital is the usual annual one, and we election came quite as a surprise to him. also made a grant of £10.10.0. to an In putting forward the name of Mr. urgent appeal from the Shaftsbury Home H. W. Bird for the position of Vice and "Arethusa Training Ship. The roPresident, the CHAIRMAN remarked that maining outgoings, I think," explain Mr. Bird had done a tremendous amount themselves.
of work for the Society, more, probably, than any other member of the committee. He hoped that he would take the position with a view to next year becoming their President.(applause).
Mr. F. C. Hall seconded, and the motion was carried
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE,
Medical evidence was given that death was the result of a fractured skull.
They barrels used are similar to those seized by Revenue Officer Lanigan some time ago on the Kowloon Godown Wharf. In that case the barrels were labelled
shrimps" but as in the present case,. Evidence was given by Inspector large quantities of arms and ammunition Murphy, a Chinese constable, and a were discovered in the barrels. The number of inmates of the house, No. 19, Revenue Department is endeavouring to trace the consignee in Hongkong.
SPORT..
BILLIARDS.
FINAL OF THE COLONY CHAMPIONSHIP.
Canton Road, Yaumati, from which it appeared that the police entered the house and searched the male inmates for Rrats. On the roof they found four daggers, but otherwise nothing of an in- criminating nature. Whilst noon was observing him, the deceased slipped way, and tried to gag over the veranda" and " on to another verandah of an adj: iaing house. He slipped, and was picked up dead After death his finger prints were taken, and when these were com~ The final for the open billiards cham.pared with the criminal records it was found that the deccased had a long pionship of the Colony was played off at record of crime dating from the year the Victoria Recreation Club last night
1904. between Mr. Af J. Osmund, and Mr. P."S. Mr. Wood poisted cut to the Jury that Loung. The former ran to his points, the evidence clearly showed that the 1,000,-while his opponent was making 637, police had behaved in a proper manner The first session of the game was opened towards the deceased and the inmates at six o'clock. The match was an in- of the house, and their behaviour had.. teresting one, and when the sessiou nothing to do with the death of the finished Osmund was 500 and Leutg 330. deceased. Osmund's finest break of the evening was a well compiled 94, whilst his other breaks were 30, 57, 24, 41, and 45, Leung played a plucky game throughout, and was very systematic iu his methods. His best break" was 34, and he followed this up with a couple of 27's, a 29, and a 24. In the second session Osmund kept the He made lead with comparative ease. our excellent break of 70, whilst other breaks he made were 39, 34, and: 33.
The observance of St. George's Day last April was confined to the interchange of messages between fraternal societies, a grant of prizes to school children, and presentation of roses to Lady Stubbs, and Mrs. Severn. We also cabled loyal greetings to H.R.E. The Prince of Wales, who was in Japan, and received
With reference to the election" of a gracious acknowledgment
We sent a secretary, the Chairman said that Mr G. telegram of loyal wishes to HR.HH. Piercy had very kindly consented to Loung's highest break was 28, a score Princess Mary on her wedding day............ get again during the coming year, on the which he made twice. Osmund will now It is pleasing to state that 75 new condition that a "Ball Secretary bo meet F. A. Ivanovich, the present members joined the Society during the appointed at the time of the Ball." He champion of the Colony." year, and the membership now amounts had much,pikesura in putting Mr. to 680 There must still, howover, be Piercy a name forward for re-election. many Englishmen in the Colony who are Mr. DowBIGGIN seconded, and the not members, and I Eope our numbers proposition "was carried unanimously. will be very materially increased during On the proposition of the CHAIRMAN, the year...
CRICKET
H.K.CC. 7. R.N.
seconded by Mr. H. W. Bran, Mr. A. 8. The following will represent the Hong- It is with sincere regret. I have to record Exell was re-elected hon. treasurer. kong C.C. v. the Royal Navy on Satur- the death of so many of our members
On the subject of the election of a new day next at 2.15 p.m.-E. J. M. since our last report was issued. The roll committee, the Chairman intimated that Mitchell (capt.), O. A Chadwick, L. J. includes:-Mr. K. Brayshay, Mr. B. W. four of the old members were going Home Davies, F. H. Farthing, II. E Hollands, Bristow, Mr. W."T. Elson, Mr. M. A. shortly, namely, Messrs Airgy, Ede, H..O. Hughes, L. D. McNicoll, D. G. Hancox, Mr. E H. Sharpe, Mr. W. C. Hall, and Winslow, and it would be Nicholson, R. E. Webster, W W. Mac D. Turner, Mr. T O. Wilken, Mr. . necessary therefore to fill their places. krazie and G. E. Piercy.. Walker, and we extend ОЦЕ sincere The remainder were willing to serve sympathy to their relations.
Turning back to the question of
again.
following new members were added to the
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The Jury brought in a verdict of accidental death," and exonerated the police from all blame.
A SEVEN HOUR BIDE.
AND ONE UENT TO FAT THE
·RIOKSHA PULLER.
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and not the slightest prospect of obtain
With the sum of one cent upon him, ing more, a Chinese engaged a ricksha at half past five on Friday afterndon, and was riding round in it till half abs. bour after midnight the sitte day... When the rickoba, eventually stopped.. and the puller found that his client had" no more than a cont with him, he not unnaturally became somwhat indignant. and gave the man in charge of the police. As a consequence the rider appeared at the Magistracy on Saturday, and told the Magistrate that he was a bigh official of Sun Yat Sea's, and had a large num per of friends in the Colony who would almost consider it a privilege to pay for bim. Accordingly, the case was adjourned till yesterday morning. When the time! arrived it seemed that his friends had Names were then called for, and the The CHAIRMAN said that there was one
most unselfishly foregone the privilege, pocapiary assistance made during the
other point he desired to mention, and and no one, had put in an appearance on committee: Commander C. W. Beckwith, that was that the committes had deemed past year, I am pleased to report that Mars, H Hancock, F. S. Cassidy, it advisable to open an account to be
his behalf.
The Magistrate (Mr. B. E. Tandsall) arrangement has now been come to where V. M. Grayburn, G. B. Archbutt, and J. known as the "Property Account, in fined him 86, with the alternative of by all applicants for help will in future
W. Alabaster. be passed on to a Central Secretary, who,
connection with the annual ball celebra oven days' imprisonment, and ordered. will investigate each case fully, and
tlona. It did not seem fair that the cost him to pay the ricksha coolie $8, or stops report to your committco Other local
at certain articles, purchased one year charities and societies are using the same
should be debited into the ball account of on at prison for another five days. medium of investigation, and the scheme
that year, when the benefit was reaped was discussed very fully some time ago
by anoceeding balls of the following two with the Government at which meeting s
or three years. He personally thought, it representative from your Committee, Mr. The next business was the consideration a very proper way to deal with the affair Airey, attended. We hope this will lead of the arrangements, for celebrating next and the auditors concurred. to more antisfactory results than have year's St. George's Day, and what other
AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT. hitherto obtained in some cases. As your calebrations, if any, they desired during President, laat 'your pointed out, cases the year. The Chairman suggested that Before the proceedings concludod, the
An important change, the NC Daily have always been very carefully enquired they should hold the usual ball on the Chairman picked up a small brain image News reporte, has just taken place in the into by, a
Sub-Committee of your Com 4th January, the eth being a Braday of "St. George, to be used as a motor organization of Messra Jarding, Mathe- mittes, but, with the best intention in He further muggested that on the 23rd bonnet ornament. He remarked that it son & Co.'s. Engineering Department, the world, they have not the same April they send the usual telegrams to was discovered by Mr Wilton in the which has now been converted into s facilities at getting at the true root of all kindred societies in the Est, exchanging Hongkong Hotel, and he suggested that private company and registered as the the circumstances, as will be possible greetings. Also, that they make the usual it would make an excellent badge for the Jardine Engineering Corporation, Ltd. under the present arrangement. donation to the Director of Education motor car of the President of the St. The company will have its head office at BA, Tuenmingyuon Road, with branches at The main celebration of the year, St. for a prize essay on some patriotic George's Society Accordingly he (the Peking, Tientsin, Hankow and Hongkong, George's Ball; held this year on the subject for the children of the schools." Chairman), made the purchase, and and will carry on business na an entirely 5th January, was, I think you will agree, a very happy oraning in every way, and our best thanks are due to our many friends, who from year to year come for ward unscläshly, and with euch hearty
The remainder of the committee are: Messrs. E., Cock, H. B. L. Dowbiggin, W. Dorley, W. J. Eldridge, and B. J. Wilton.
NEW THAT'S OBSERVANCE OF ST. GEORGE'S
DAY.
There were no other proposals, and the Chairman's suggestions were adopted, any further arrangements being left to the committee in the usual way.
(Continued at foot of next ocluma)
AN ADORNMENT VOR THE PRESIDEST'S
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for I have motoy car," (laughter).
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