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THE IMMORTAL-MEMORY:
BURNS NICHT CELEBRATIONS BY HONG KONG
SCOTS.
MR HANDYSIDE'S GLOWING TRIBUTE TO SCOTLAND'S
ONAL BAHI
The Immortal Memory of Scotland's National Bard was hoo- oured in Atting style at the annual Burns Nicht" "dinner held at Lane Crawford's Restaurant on Saturday night.
Mr. A. Stevenson, Chieftain of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's, So- olety, presided, others present at tas table being Mr. T. H. R. Shaw, Rev. E. G. Powell, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Mackie, Mr. R. M. Dyer, and Mr. Alan Cameron.
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TANG-CHAN,
Tang
oldest families in the Colony, is social set, being a popular race- well-known among the Chinese horse owase and rider.
The bride was given away by har was attended by Miss B. M. Chan brother, Mr. Chan Wing Kit, and i and Mim K W. Tang as brides maids. The duties of best man ware performed by Mr. T. F. La, with very large gathering of relatives Mr. Andrew Tue as groomsman: A and friends attended the ceremony:
Tho wedding between Man Chin and Mig Batth S. L Chan war solemnised at St. John Cathedral on Saturday, the 23rd, course to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyllat 3 pm. The ceremony was per and Mr. Hyde. The more I rund formed by the Very Her Doan shout. Burns the more I am out The Bride is the eldest daughter
Swan.. winced that he was a man of mat of the late Mr. Chan King Wa, tipla personality except that in hand the bridegroom, of one of the case each of his various selves was only too conscious of the existence of the others. Had this not been so, ho probably would have had a much more serene life This may seem a startling theory but there is nothing startling about it. We have all multiple (personalities. The Loyal toast having been duly Bugns differs from us and most honoured, the Chieftain explained others in that each self was highly that he might claim the honour of developed, strong and virile and being the closest Burns-ite" in demanded realisation. The tragedy the gathering, in that he frequently of his life lies in this fact. He was had passed the pines where Burns unable to bring them into harmony had spent his youth, However, can with one another in his ordinary of the evening had fallen to Mr.ing them in literary form that he honour of proposing the main toast conduct: it was only who expreas. Handyside, whom, without further attained that harmony that brought delay, he would enll upon:"
him ad much satisfaction. and us so much prof. His greatest pcoms are those in. which his whole boing, all his solves, are knit together t form an harmonious whole.
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World-Wide Celebration, Toasting the Immortal Me- mory Mr. Handyside said, inter alia:m
Wherever Sectamen are to be found, in burning desert or steamy jungle, on frozen prairie or stormy deep, you will find them at this time of the year meeting together,
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Burns: the Man.
reception was afterwards given Room where a large number of pro- ab the Hong Kong Hotel Grill minent local residents attended to offer their felicitations to the newly married couple. Mr. Ho Kom
health of the bridu and bridegroom Fong, O.B.E., is an eloquent and Appropriate speech, proposed the
After the reception the newly married couple left for the "North of China where they will spend their honeymaop.
PORTUGUESE COUPLE
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Burns needs none of that misplac ed pity that has coloured so many of his biographies. He has been judged by no ordinary standards in groups of two or three or assem port but bo was more than MISS MARIA DE FARIA AND blics of hundreds, to pay tribute la poet; he was 2 Man and to
would love
MR. DE SOUZA.
to the land of their birth and its stop aside is huzaah." If we knew greatest son. It is an amazing as little about his life as we know fact-asocial phenomenon that of Shakespearo's, wo gives us to think and think deeply, him lesa. His intelligence was The marriage took place at the There must be something in the phenomenal, the wonder of his con- Roman Catholic Cathedral yuator. people and something in the race temporaries who were not, by na-day afternoon of Miss Marin Exe to account for it
ture or calling, given to over in Lobato de Faris and Mr. Al Many reasons have been given praise one of their own social berto Francisco Xavier de Souza for the origin of this annual funestanding. If these same men and Misa de Faria is a daughter of Ma
ien and for the regularity with women had passed on some of his Baturnino Lebuto do Faria and which it is celebrated The regas conversations instead of the goup Mrs. Emily Mary Hd Lobato de larity is undoubtedly due to the about his indiscretions, how much Faria, while the bridegroom's por bigh place Buriis holds in the lives more we should have thought of ents are Mr. Jose M. de Souza and of the Septtish people. It would them: As by instinct Burns touch- Mrs. Cacilda M, G. de Souza. The be considered a siur on themselves ed all the chords of human ano-Rev. Father Rossi cfficiated. if they failed to assemble once a tion portrayed with genuine year to do honour to one who did sympathy, er gentle irony the weak. so much to make Bestland and nesses of his fellow treatures and Scottish people revered from pole poured scorn on their meanness and to pole. But why in this form hypocrisy. His was a noble, soul, Why round the festive board with wronged by himself, and soared by Bongs and stories of our native what might not affect there. land? I think we must admit that Wherever Scotsmen are to be found, it is because it was in an atmos- there will honour be done to hita phere such as this that Burns was He lives forever in the hearts of most himself. There was nothing his countrymen: nay in the hearts of the hermit about Burns.
Gf all who cherish the" Beautiful. (Applause.)
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"The Lassss,"
F. X. Lobato de Faria), the bride Given away by her brother (Mr. was attired in a dress of white satin trimmed with Jace and carried a bouquet of roses,
The Misses Adozion Lohate de Faria, Alda A Gomes, Carmen Rozario and Naterica Xavier wore the bridesmaids. They worn dressen of georgette and carried bouquets of chrysanthemums.
Mr. J. G. V. Ribeiro and Mr. L. V. Antonio were the groomsmen. Following a reception at the "Club Uniao Macaense," the couple left on their honeymoon in Macao
Scotland's Greatest Foot. Burps is not the only post that Scotland has brought forth. The
The Chieftain, before calling. place veritably teems with them upon Mr. JJ. Ferguson to propose known and unknown. Lady Nairne the toast of The Lasses, referred and Canton. Mrs. de Souza's and Tannahill sad that other poble in sympathetic, terms, to the absence travelling dress was of crepe-do spirit, the centenary of whose death of an old friend in Mr. George Chine.
we shall no doubt this year com-Grimble, who had been ordered memorate in some fitting way, Sir Home, to recuperate from a severe Walter Scott, and Hogg, the Ettrick illness. On behalf of those present,
Shepherd and Roberts Louis Steven-ho wished Mr. Grimble a speedy VARSITY JOTTINGS. son and more recently Andrew Lang recovery and a quick return to their and many more. Burns was the midst (Applause.) greatest of these but his greatness |
was in large measure due to the his speech, dealt in humorous man
Mr. Ferguson, in the course of numerous anonymous, singers who, i like himself. sang for the love of nor with the trials and tribulations singing and many of whose songs of mere man, when confronted with he saved from oblivion. Burna ex- the discernment of the lasses. celled as a lyric poet. His best Burna, he said, although he had work came whitehet from his glow-written songs to more than one ing ecul and was captured in ex- treo lyrical spirit There was un lassic, had written them in the quisite form before had time doubtedly one women that Burns to cool. His composition was spon- taneous like the singing of the had loved above all others. That mavia in the gloamin, unencrusted was Mary Campbell, (Highland by the conventions of an artificial Mary), who had inspired some of state of civilisation like that of his most exquiste songs and poems his contemporaries. His appeal The account of their parting on the was, and is to that which is com banks of the Ayr showed how deeply mon to all men, to that which ever Burns cared for this Highland and anon bursts through the crust maid. Her death later moved him of custom and convention like a to write one of his most touching Vesuvius, to cur emotions and sen- poems. timents, our loves and hates, joys and sorrows and fears, to the ale mental in us.
· Multipis Personalities,
Mr. Ferguson concluded by ́re minding the assembly of the great debt ouch and every one owed to ff the lepsies w „Mr. P. Saunderson responded Burns character, and personality to the toast in brief and witty was very complex. What be in-fashion, after pleading his jusbil herited from his parents seemed allity, as a single man, to deal very the time to clash with the environ-capably with the subject..!! ment in which he found himself. During the evening, musina! itera We have heard much in this en were given by Messrs-J. Ander tury of multiple personalitics and son, G. Macleod, R. Keown, and is took a Scotsman to give the idea Pipe-Major Mackie and his collea literary" expression" I refer of gues
الحوايا الحور
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
The University of Hong Kong: will be closed from February 3 to 10 for the Chinese New Year Holidays..
Student Balls for England.
Mr. Kwok Tai Chiu, 1st Year Engineering Student, sailed for England yesterday, on board the President. Monroe. He intends to join the University of Manchestor where he will take up engineering again. A large crowd of friends and relatives saw him off. On Saturday, a farewell tea-party wa given in his honour."
Mr. Keot ir a nephew of the lat Mr. Kwok Pew, founder of Wing On Co. He is a graduate of King College (Hong Kong).
May Go to Liverpool.
It is learned that Mr. Len. Hin Loong of May Hall intends to go to Unverpool next month." Be will take up an engineering course at the University of Liverpool.
Graduate Studying af Amsterdam.
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Ohristian Association Social. eries of "Fire" were raised. They
The Christian Association held its instantly attempted to extinguish the fames by means of Blankets, Annual Social at the Great Hall on but without success The Alarm Saturday night when a large crowd was raised and a call was sent of students and visitors was prek The prompt arrival of the Fire through to the Fire Brigade items by M. Charlar Chin and his sent, Therof were, several musicni Brigade, coupled with the fact that Within half an hour of the ar the scene of the outbreak was nearrival of the Brigade the fire was the Central Police Station, reubdued. The house involved was vented fine which broke out carly completely burned out, but the ad on Saturday morning in a house joining houses aufered but little in Wellington Street from apread damage.
company. A number of amusing awes were held under the lender ship of Miss Is A Pope Mr. B. A Hill and Mr Fang Tin You.
The Chairman of the Christian ing beyond the house involved and A few occupants of the upper Association (Mc Cheung Shiu 4he rescuing of all the immates, doors, wer resoned by the firemen Tong) asid a few words, welcoming The outbreaked occurred in Newhose arrival on the scene almost all those presint, mentioning that 83. Wallington Street, just off Pete mediately the alarm was given the object of the function was to tinger Street, the ground floor be prevented"
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