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WE WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE receipt said to my servant Do!" and he didn't. At. Hankew, on the 19th of December, of of a very neat calendar, combined with toilet His jest called a faint smile to ourfaces and we scarlet fever,-ALAION, eldest son of Juan Men-case containing mirror and comb, a souvenir listened to the sermon that followed in a less carini, of the L.M. Customs, in his 16th year.
of the Holiday Season from Mr G. Girault. unbending frame of mind. Back to barracks with aching fingers and numbed feet we LI YAU was delected yesterday in the act of marched; and the men rushed to add a few pilfering, on board the Japanese s.&. Maid-Bnishing touches to the decorations of their zuru Mary, and to evade arrest, jumped over rooms, or to crowd round the fires and laugh beard, injuring himself hadly. He was rescued
aver the padre's joke in a more appreciative and taken to the Hospital where his injuries mood.. received attention,
Oas the roth inst, at The Tors, Kitano Cho, -Kobe, the wife of F. J. BARDENS, of a son,
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NOTICE is hereby given that the PETI- SPECIFICATION and DE- CLARATION required by the above-cited Ordinance have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong and that it-is-the-Intention-of-the-said-WILLIAM. LAWRENCE VOELKER by DENNYS and BOWLEY, his Solicitars, to apply at the Sitting of the Executive Council,hereinafter mentioned, for LETTERS PATENT for the exclusive use within the said Colony of Hongkong of the above named Invention. And Notice is hereby also given that a Sitting of the Executive Council, before whom the Matter of the said Petition will come for decision will be held in the Council Chamber, at the GOVERNMENT
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1901." REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. AUSTRALAIA,
THE R. E. N, C. O's are giving a children's Christmas party to-morrow, and as fathers are invited too, both parents and children are bound to have a good time. The R. E's, know how to work these functions and can entertain the small folk as easily as they build a pontoon bridge.
At one o'clock the great annual ceremony of the British Army took place. The Christmas Dinner's! The colonel and the few officers present proceeded in state to visit the barrack- rooms of the various companies and wish all a Merry Christmas. In each mess the men stood by their tables piled with good things; and the senior non-commisoned officer gravely uttered the sacred formula to the Commanding Officer. AN ACCIDENT AT KOWLOON DOCKS will you 'ave a glass of sherry-wine to drink occurred yesterday, by which Chung Fat Yau-our-ealths, Sir ?"--And-with-the-solemnity. lost his life. To the west of the Dock the hill befitting the occassion the wine was poured The Captain of the N. D. L. steamer is being cut down, the earth being used in out and handed to the Colonel, who raised his Neckar, imprisoned at Freemantle for non-reclaiming land in the neighbourhood. A glass and said to the men, "Your healths, my payment of the fine imposed for contraven-landslip occurred killing one man and injuring
one other quite badly. ing the new Australian Customs law, has been released, the agents of the vessel having
CODLIN'S THE FRIEND-A Tientsin given their bond for the payment of the fine
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SOUTH AFRICA. ENGAGEMENT WITH DE WET. General Sir J. G. Dartnell has had an en- gagement with the Boers under De Wet near Langberg. Fighting lasted for four hours, the enemy being eventually driven off. THE FRENCH LOAN AGAINST CHINA'S INDEMNITY.
December 22nd. The French loan against the security of the Chinese indemnity has been covered twenty four times. :
CHILI AND THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
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SMALL-POX-During the week ended 21st December there was one case of small-pox re- ported as orcurring in the Colony.
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THE TRADE COMMISSION -Sir James L. Mackay and suite, and Mr. C. J. Dudgeon, returned to Shanghai on the zoth inst. from the Yangisze Ports, APPOINTMENT :-Mr. Phillip Watts of Armstrong's Works, Elswick, succeeds Sir William White, K.C.B., as director of Naval Construction at the Admiralty,
telegram to the Jiji says:-The Russian
Ministerto Peking has forwarded a note to Prince Ching regarding the movements of Great Britain, Japan and Germany and advised bim not to allow the foreign powers to interfere with domestic affairs in China. THE KOWLOON MARKET SITE, near the Tsim-tsa-taui Police Station is being rapidly levelled. There can be no possible doubt that the Market will be a boon to Kowlon re- sidents, but it is to be hoped that the pestilen- tial Godown latrine, which taints the whole neighbourhood, will be done away with before it is opened.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING-The various stores dealing in Christmas goods have been doing a roaring trade all the past week, and day they have been working "double tiles."
Toyshops, bookshops, cakeshops, wineshops and all other varieties of shops have been filled by a constantly changing stream of purchaser, until one wonders if the day's spendings will not occasion a run on the local Banks.
lads, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas." Thank you, Sir, The same to you, Sir," came the hearty response. And then the other
officers did the like. It was no empty ceremony.
At that moment (the deep feeling of comrade- ship that unites all ranks of the British Army stirred our hearts; and as we looked on the faces of the men we hoped to lead in battle, we knew indeed we were "brothers in arms."
Next we proceeded to admire the decorations of the room. Clever, indeed, were most of them. The regimental crest and motto Agured usually over the fire place, flanked by large in- scriptions of good wishes to the company officers. Festoons of holly and evergreens hung gracefully on the walls, which were barely dis cernible under the wealth of ornament that covered them..
From room to room we passed in tern. In each the same ceremony was gone through, And after visiting eight companies, the Band, and the Drums and drinking the inevitable glass to the health of ench miss, we felt glad For me the rest of the day dragged wearily. that such a trying ordeal come but once a year, in interviewing my companions in misfortune, the guards and the sentries. The latter, hold- ing their rifles in numbed fingers, repeated "THE YELLOW DRAGON"-We have their orders in a mechanical way that showed received the Queen's College magazine. "The that their thoughts were with their luckier Yellow Dragon." Needless to say, it does not, comrades revelling round the barrack-room as its name might be taken to imply, adopt the fire. "Yellow" form of journalism, but devotes itself to school news and interesting matter. The editorial this month deals with the festive season and puts forth some excellent moral precepts. We wish the staff of our contem porary a Merry Christmas.
CRICKET-On Christmas Day and Boxing Day a match Civilians v. United Services will
be played on the Club Ground, Theffollowing will play for the Civilians -R. Hancock, P. A. Cox, J; A. Woodgates, A. G. Ward, A. Mac- kenzie, J. Hooper, J. E. Lee, W. E. Dixon, W. H. Howard, H. Arthur, T. Sercome Smith (Capt.) There will be tiffin in the Cricket Club Pavilion at 12.30 p.m. on Christmas Day and the match will start at 1.30 p.m. and will be continued the following day at 11 am.
At Mass that night three senior captains and I sat down to a dreary mockery of a Christmas feast. As Vice president I sat at one end of a long table in icy isolation, and cursed the fate that had kept me from accepting some of the cheery invitations to spend the day in merrier fashion. From the barracks the sound of music and song fold that duliness beld vo place there. And the hearts of our men were
moved to pity as they thought of their luckless officers in their cheerless Mess,” And so, as- after dinner we sat in the Ante-room and tried to find an interest in the newspapers, a joyous burst of song beneath the windows startled us. We looked out. Below in the snow stood a
swaying mass of soldiers, the band-sergeant in front vainly endeavouring to keep them in some vague semblance of time and tune as arrived from Japan yesterday afternoon, and the QUEEN'S ROAD, at the time of writing, looks they bellowed but "When good king Wences
well as far as the roadway is concerned and is laus." The beginning went without serious. good trayeiling; but do not let anyone delude 'mishap. But when the second verse was. himself with appearances. The whole com- reached it appeared that only a certain num- position is a delusion and a spare because the ber knew more than the first, so they weak present thin, smooth veneer of myd, tem- on with the whole carol, while the majority porally hardened by the sun, will wear away as
sang the first verse over and over again, quickly as shoddy chafing gear. If we have a punctuating it with cheers for every officer in spell of wet, the pet bogs of the P. W. D. will the corps, or occasionally stopping to attempt a come to view and, if a week's fine warm small fight. The musical members of the weather, the choice bubbly bits will stick up a crowd drifted away in disgust; while the othern foot, more or less, and another supply of mud remained, still hammering away at that wretch- will be wanted. Is this state of things to lasted first verse; until our senior captain, the terror of the regiment, lost all patience and; charging out upon them, put them to fight. And we heard the hiccuped strains of "Good King W" dying away in the distance amidst a chorus of cat-calls and cheerful yells. And so ended my first, and dreariest Christmas Day'in the Army. When Yuletide came round again, the regiment celebrated it in South ern India. For snow and ice. we bad glaring sunshine; and the sentry, sweltering in the shade of the guard-room verandab, wondered had he ever knowa what it was to feel cold,
OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER:-There has been such a run on our Christmas number that we haven't a single copy left. We shall have CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE ARMY to print a larger edition next year.
SIGNS OF CHRISTMAS are apparent on all hands. The hotels are sporting their deco rations and the Wyndham Street flower sellers have done a roaring trade all day in evergreens. THE. S.S. SKRANSTADT is being raised slowly but usely. The stern is now well off the ground and no difficulty is anticipated in getting her well afloat in a short time.
ENQUIRER:-Gilah says he can't publish the initials of the hero of "Veronica's Vengeance," Surely you must see that it wouldn't be fair to rake up old scores! Besides, they don't live in
Hongkong now. ↑
·
BY THE SENIOR SUB.
(Specially Written for the "Hongkong Telegraph").
sat under punkahs, thinking of the byegone white clothing we marched to church and day when we longed for stoves. But when the merry strains of "The Roast Beef of Old Eng and rang out, off trooped the Colonel and every officer of the regiment to go the round again of Christmas Dinnera" As the door of the first barrack room was thrown open, we started back in surprise. Inside was a.. snow-covered sentry-box with a tiny robin perched on the roof. In front stood sentry and guard ankle-deep la snow. Their helmets and great coats were covered with snow-flakes. The little bugler, muffled to the eyes, blew a salute as we paused'in surprise at the door to the huge delight of the men of the room. The whole effect was wonderfully realistic; though a second glance showed that a liberal use of cotton-wool was the magic agency that for a second bad transported us back to a colder clime.
The man who follows the drum musi expect to see Christmas Day dawning in many latitudes in his service, and will celebrate the festival ami i novel and varied scenes. On the 25th December when revetlled rings out, wherever England's hugles are blown, from the snows of Canada to the dried-up veldt of South Africa, among the tropical splendours of Burma, or on the barren Peak of Hongkong, jour staunch friend Thomas Atkins, wakes to a chorus of "Merry Christmas, chum!" The stay-at-home Britisher, atolid in his insular ignorance, thinks of this annual feast as only in keeping with whitened roofs and snow-clad trees. Little he recks of the millions of his fellows who are holding high revel under a glaring sun länd a brassy sky, where holly and misseltoe are unknown and Ice seen only in cooling drinks. The cherub that guides the innocent subal. tem's faltering footsteps decreed that my first Christmas in the Army should be passed at Aldershot. A malign fate had ordained that my turn of duty as orderly officer should fall on that day, and sarcastically bade me be merry in an almost deserted Mess, while my comrades enjoyed themselves by hospitable hearths. In
And so in every land where England's banner: the morning, in the bitter mockery of scarlet and gold, I marched the men through deep snow to Church. The sacred building was usually waves, Tommys prince of good follows, set, warmed by large stoves, which on this bleak day himself cheerily to the task of worthily celebrate had not been fit and so we sat and shivered in ing the Briton's great feast. And never in all the anything but a pious mood. The padre, a well, world's history was there a merner festival known member of the Church Militant, felt than a Christmas Day in the Army. KOWLOONITES are gruffly growling at the called upon to apologise for this neglect; and
SANITARY BOARD.. raising of the first-class fare by the Ferry Com-prefaced his sermon with a few penitent words, pany, but there is so little cohesion and public "Before I begin my discourse" he said, "I spiritedness amongst them that it looks as must ask the forgiveness of my congregation yesterday afternoon in the Board Room Pre Olvil though the imposition would be meekly sub-for the state of the Church this morning. It sent (Dr. J. M. Atkinson) Prins mitted to Surely the European population of really is not my fault; as I ordered my servant Medical Officer (President); Hon. A, W Kowloon is now large enough to take up the before service to light the stoves. But unlike the Brewin Registrar-General (Vice-Prealden(); cudgels in its own defence and start an op story of the centurion in the Scriptures who, we Dr. F. W Clark, (Medical Officer of Healt position forry 1
are told, said to his servant Do!" and he did;
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