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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1918,
Ноибо of Commons qu the
The Malls,
Government's proposals. The Siberian Mail-Arrived per 6.8. now turn which the discussion: Chinhua this morning. has taken is a little surprising and distinctly to be regretted. Siberian Mail-Arrived para..
Because Mr. Churchill has recommended the construction of the Canadian battleships in England, doubting the feasiblity of their being built in Canada,
Africa at 7.30 a.m. to-day. Canadian and American Mails
Due pers.s. Empress of India at 4 p.m. to-morrow (delayed)
REV FATHER SPADA.
Presentations at the Schools
and at Kowloon,... -
HONGKONG & HANKOW.
Interesting Comparisons by a
Hankow Journalist.
Yesterday the Rev. Father Spa- The following article appeared da was the recipient of special pre- in a recent issue of the Central sentations at St. Joseph's College China Post", from the pen of the by the pupils of the school. An
way
These girls, by the way, spoke pare English, though they had never been abroad.
I had lived a year and a half in Hankow without ever meeting Chineso woman, excepting servants. Hongkong was a re
velation.
The rapid change in the address was read by Master editor of that journal:
Ohinese le merely on the surface. St.Joseph'sand then presentations signers to come to the East by equally obvious, but less trite, in Sequeira on behalf of the boys of It is the misfortune of most for. We are tired of being told that obvious fact. What is almost were made for the Senior School
of Hoogkong. They are by Master J. M. Brago, and for robbed of the delightful shook that a slower change is going on tha Junior, by Masters Musso and of a sudden plunge into
underneath. When one can soo district Western traits in th Collaco.
atmosphere entirely strange. 3 In a short and feeling speeob, meet the Hongkong Chinima, blooded Chinese of Hongkong,
They
features of many of the pure-
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the Liberals choose to construe | English Mail.-Arrived per 8.8. the Rev. Father replied to the who may be a Chinese. To ono one has a pretty sure notion that
the advice as an unwarrantable interference by a British statesman in the domestic politics of the Dominion."
A Parochial Outlook.
not
warranted and unworthy of serious
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India this morning.
States.
Destroyers Leave.
Possession of Rice.
Leave of Absence,
will leave for San Francisco on a
Mr. Halton's Trip, for the Pacific Mail Steamship Mr. J. Halton, the local agent Co., who is at present in Canton, business trip by the 8.s. Nile, During his absence Alt. Ritter We announced yesterday that will be in charge of the com- record number (407) of ea-pany's interests in Hongkong. tries from the schools of this Stole Money and Jewellery,
The Oxford Locals.
pre.
address and thanked the lads for who came to Hankow first rad is
deep.
their tokens of goodwill and affec-visiting Hongkong for the first those traits are more than skin-
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Sir Paul Chater's Gift of a Hall,
.
H. M. Destroyers Ribble, Uektion,
sime, the Hongkong Chinaman and Otter left yesterday" for Mira
Later in the day similar pre-eeema three parts Woaterner. Bay.
sentations were made, at the It matters not whether he ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, A more petty or prescribed out-
Dr. Marriot Leaves.
French and Italian-Convonts re-wears tweeds or silks. It is in look could hardly be imagined. Mr. Dr. Marriot has left by the s.s.spectively. In each case the pre-his face; it ie in his walk; it Churchill would hardly express Kumano Maru for England via sents were offered on behalf of overwhelms you wher he opens the opinion he has, did he Australis on leave. He expects the sistere, pupils and orphans. his mouth. The mook, long- have extort backing to be away six or seven months. Replying to the special addresses enfering Son of Han has become
Sir Paul Chater has very thereto, and the suggestion that
which had been made, Father a cocksure as an American bel generously promised a Church he is animated by a desire to in- A Chinese found in unlawful Spada expressed his gratitude, and boy. That is the change that all to the congregation of St. terfere in Canadian affairs is B-
passession of a quantity of rice told thechildren that he was leav strikes you first; and it strikes Andrew's Church, Kowloon s consideration. It looks as though in default one month, by Mr. F.jobedience to his Superiors forced you as magnificent or damnable the meeting last night held ia”.
at West Point, has fined $15 oring for one reason only: because
according to your mood. When the vestry for the purpose of dis Liberals the world over. are a A. Hazeland, at the Police Court, him to do so, All had to learn your hotel boy tells you with oussing the matter this gift was little too fond of imputing un- this morning.
to obey, whether children, sisters fatherly firmness that you can't do publicly announced. charitable motives. Incidentally,
or priests, and on obedience to this and you can't have that, you The meeting of eestholders The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will too, the affir shows how wido be as follows :—
Leave of absence on private the dictates of duty the very naturally roar. When you had was presided over by the Rev. a gulf divides the Canadian Liberals and Conservatives, affairs, to the United Kingdom, is essential of character were found that the hotel manager, has U. N. Pope and there was a The latter come forward granted to Colonel J. M. Irwin, ed.
about as much control over the good attendance.‹ At St. Mary's School, Kowloon, boy as you have, you begin 19 with an unconditional offer of so D.D.M.S., South China, from 8th
In explaining the purposes of many battleships, to be built in April; to 30th September, with another presentation was made think the world is turned topside the meeting, the Chaplain point Britain and used as the Admiralty permission to visit the United on behalf of the teachers and downside. And then the great ed out that from the moment he
pupils. may see fit. The former want
reason dawas upon you the boy arrived in the Colony he had felt Last night. a deputation of is westernised. Your tone of the necessity of a Church Hall for their own little Navy and desire the ships to built at Homo. One
Father for the purpose of present-amonable to no influence but one, was obvious to anyone, as at pre- parishionera waited on the Rev. command awes him not; he is the Church. The want of a hall party has the broad-minded Im perial instinct: the other's out.
ing bin with a very handsome the tip. And he has become an sont they had no place in which double-case gold watch, the gift adept at the art of "holding to hold their public meetings. He interesting study, truly. look is essentially parochial. An
of the Portuguese community. up his "mastor"as he still had mentioned the matter some one side of the case are Father calls his helpless victim. Orte time ago in quite a casual manner Spada's initials in monogram, longs for the guileless youth of to Sir Paul Chater and he said he beautifully engraved, and on the the Yangtse who will go to the would get Mr. Bryer to get out a other an appropriate insoription end of the world-or the pantry ekoich plan. At an extraordinary Colony has been registered for At the Police Court, this morn-affection of the donors.
in Portuguese expressing the-for you and who takes his Vestry meeting it was there dis the Oxford Local Exams: As a ing, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland,
Mr. William Ivanovich, in takes a biscuit.
cumshaw as a well-trained lapdog cussed and adopted. Instead of stimulus to pupils and as a de-two Chinese were charged with making the presentation, summed
seating two hundred people, as finite standard for teachers to stealing a box containing money up, in a brief bat eloquent speech, lish-speaking coolie who will take as to seat two hundred and fifty, Eut again you meet an Eng-proposed, it had been arranged so aim at, these public Examinations and jewellery from a house in the good Father's may claims on a deal of trouble to put you right They were thinking, too, of ways may have their use; but we are Third Street. They were both the gratitude of Kowloon Catho- when your ricksha coolie has and meane. Last Monday he went tempted to think that too often sent to gaol for a month, and lice. Father Spada's life had taken you out of your way; and to Sir Paul Chater to get from the abuse outweighs the use. were ordered four hours stocks been one of self-denial and rigid you wonder if he can have met him a finished plan and the latter The fact that a boy of thirteen respectively
devotion to duty, and his par- one of those rare Westerners that then told him he was going to or fourteen has passed the Junior Gambling Raid,
ishioners prayed that God would will give up his seat in a car to a give the Church Hall. The con examination is, after all, little A raid was made on the guarantee that he is being well mises 152, Des Voeux Road West bless him whereyor he might be.dy. grounded; and there is always last night and as a result thirteen Africa. His new duties as bloods" about town is amusing. thought their first duty was a gregation was to supply the Father Spada sails today by the The cooksureness of the furnishing of it. He, the (speaker) the possibility that the rest of the men wore arrested for gambling representative of the China Mis- Mostly it is accompanied by the prayer of thankfulness to God class is being neglected while At the Pulice Court, this morning sion will keep him in Milan for features of the numbskall. Bus and their second duty was to pass he is being subjected to the cram P.O. Lannigan proved the charge, A CALL TO PATRIOTS..
ming process. Sometimes we are and Mr F. A. Hazeland fined four years, after which time he almost persuaded to believe that eloven of them $5 each, or in hopes to be able to return to his in one meets Chinoss in high a vote of thanks to Sir Paul
positions who are capable, polite Chater. former parishionera here.
and just cocksure enough to The latter was carried and: Propagandist methods are nowadays employed to further almost the Junior and Preliminary Local default fourteen days, and estreat-
He came East in 1802 and after know that a man must watch is to be forwarded by the seare any and every cause, but we venture to assert that no campaign of fool parents and the public gene- Portuguese Minister Entertained. half years for the purpose of lear- office of the Registrar of Mar-
Examinations were invented toed the bail of two absentees.
remaining inland for three and a himself. I mst one such at the tary. recent times in Grost Britain has had a worthier aim than that now rally. We have heard it said Senhor Batalbis Freitas the ning Cantonese, he jonied the riages. He did all the practical plans for furnishing.
It was also decided to pass being undertaken by the veteran Field Marshal, Earl Roberts. It that boys who have passed those, Portuguese Minister at Peking, Hongkong mission. Since then work and did it- quietly and is an inspiring exercise to read with what heartiness, and enthusiasm the white-haired old warrior is throwing himself very short when oslled upon to] by Mr. A.M. de L. Soares at his both North and Soth. After the might be with a due regard for write au English letter or to residence Bemfic," Robinson Boxer rebellion he made a red tape. He spoke pure Eug- iffto his self-imposed task of awakening the young men of the calculate quickly the price of 50 Road. There were over 40 ladies special journey to Peking. lish. There seemed to be hun- country to the great need of taking a more than passive interest in many articles at so much. per and many gentlemen present. When the Church of the Holy dreds with an equal command of to tell the people of this Oolong..
It is a little late in the day now dozen. For the Senior examina-The Commander of the "Adamas Rosary at Kowloon the question of national defence. And it must surely cause one tion there is more to be said.tor" and Officers were among the plated in 1904, he was placed in
was com- the.Inngange.
that the delightful group of to pause and think whether there is not, after all, much deeper Even though that too may be a guests. A Regimental Bind was charge of it, and those who school-boys seemed like Ame-are clever, beyond ordinary. Take the youngstera! The entertainers-The Court Cards. importance to be attached to the matter than many have hitherto matter of eram," the passing of in attendance and dancing was have come under his ministrations ricans. American folk would be The Theatre Royal was well-filled. it at least excuses a boy from the kept up to early hours. During know how nobly he has worked delighted with them; other people last night and Elis Excellency preliminary examination demand supper the guests was toasted by there. In addition to his many would like to use a switch on a the Governor, accompanied by It is no easy undertaking to stir up the phlegmatic Britishered nowadays of oandidates for the the host in a brief, and patriotic other duties, he has several times few of these boisterous youngsters Lady May and Miss May, was not even when it comes to much a vital question as the one under different professions. When speech and a suitable reply was bern Rector of the Cathedral with the large kits of books. present. In the first half Mr note; and the ordinary difficulties along these lines have, in this secondary education in Hongkong made,
of the Immaculate Concaption But before the school is properly established, the particular matter, been enhanced by that section of the Press and authorities might do worse than
age Elgar Warwick sang, the old Major E: W. Comyn, Captains and, during the absence of the they are enticing, these young favourite I'm Tired" and of platform-speakers who have pooh-poohed the efforts of Lord make the Senior Local standard Spicer, R. D. Crawford, LL.M. year, he was Acting Vicar Apos- eigners with frank friendliness, it was introduced on the Halls at Right Rev. Bishop Pozzoni, last stera. They regard the for- though it is some years now since Roberts and his school, whom they have dubbed as "nervy alar their aim; but anything lower Watson, T. M. Wakefield; Lieuts tolic.
or at least familiarity. Nothing Home, it lost nothing at the mists". The best answer to critics of this" type, is that Lord than that seems to us mere wattel. S. Thompson, R. S. Wilishire,
HG. Bagnall, Indian officera, 5 to His Excellency the Governor vience of the Hupeh ebild who in aight. Later in the evening
To-day, after bidding forewell of that strangeness and subser- hands of this clever artiste, last of time. Roberts knows his business, knows thoroughly what he is talking The Nut."
British N.C.O., 100 rank and file, and Lady May, Father Spada was one breath saka for foreign money Warwick made a hit with about, while these others will generally be found to be laymen of Routledge's new "Dictionary 3. followers, H.K.S.B., "RG.A. entertained at tila by His Lord- and in the next calls you a for- Countryman's Visit to Lond the "Peace-at-any-price" order. For ourselves, we have never of English long preson the poor on 10th instant, in one ship the Bishop and the the clergy sign devit. A tiny girl, all gay Miss Marsden Owen in her sopge approved of a wholesale application of the consoript common term "nut." He is tion with with MA Camp. Major The Rev. Father Valtorta suc- the New Year, carried on a keen Ripe" and "Tho Caokoo,
fairly useful definition of the loop, on in connce of the vicariate...
with frills and embroideries for The Roses of Jane Cherry method to Great Britain, but we do believe that some a young man of the middle L.L. Hepper, Captain J. S. Cobbe, ceads Father Spada at Kowloon. flirtation with me, smiling ever secured the favour of the au modification of the principle will eventually have to glasses who endeavours to pass as Lients. F. A. S. Morgan, D. G. T.
her father's shoulder-a gresting dience, and the dainty little turn be adopted. There have been many critica of the Territorial a man about town. Said to have Saeyd, 3 Native officera, 237 rank Force, or, rather, of the inevitable limitations of the Force as young fellows who called them. (Hazara) Mountain Battery, pro-
all the more delightful because of Miss Maude Fane, particularly been originated by a club of and file, 25 followers, 24th
in the song of the twinkling eye, at present constituted, and we now have Lord Roberts's word selves the " 'nuts," which title ceeded to Ho Cheung Ho from
And the women Those brought down the house, The for it that, on its present basis, it can never become really efficient, was formed by the initial letters Kowloon, on the same date, in con-
ventriloquial contribution was clever and funny and the song It is apparent, however, that those who have the present campaign of the metto Nothing Unless nec ion with M.A: Camp.
concerning the Guardaman was young man of the middle classes? James Bartlett Hammond.
encored repeatedly. things, inasmuch as one of Lord Roberta's supporters-General We had not heard that the "nuts" James Bartlett. Hammond, pre- Bethune has been urging the Council of the Football Association were so exclusive as all that sident of the Bammond Type to influence players and spectators to join the Territorials. Here a Presumably, there is a marked writer Company, died recently hope may be, expressed that this appeal of General Bethune's will social, distinction between the at St. Augustine, Fla. Ho was the not" and the " blood," though inventor in 1889 of a typewriting bear fruit certainly thofe is big scope for recruiting in the for the life of us we could never machine which was one of the thousands of young men who spond Saturday after Saturday see the difference between them first placed on the market. Mr. watching trained men wage battle on the football field.
In respect of bounderiem they are Hammond was born in Boston, April 23, 1839 During the Civil On one point everybody will agree. There are, and always very much alike.
War he was correspondent for the will be, varying opinions on the urgency of any big question. A Betting Bill for Bengal. "New York Tribune.” He was But whether Lord Roberts is right, or whether he is The Betting Bill to be in- once arrested by Mosby's guer
all will admit that he is in dead earnest in the troduced in the Bengal Council rillas, who found on him lettera tank to whia he has put his hands. His one aim is an on March 15 will, it is stated, and dispatches addressed to efficient Army supporting an invincible Navy, and he tells us make all betting, excapt betting Horace Greeley. He was charged on racecourses, illegal. It will with writing abolition lies for that when this is achieved he will be able to pass the remainder of stop entirely betting at the town Horace Greeley's paper," and his days in quietude. There is nothing extravagantor unreasonable offices, cotton gambling, rain-condemned to death, but was about such an aspiration, and its speedy realisation will be hoped gambling and also sweepstakes, saved when Moaby's band was for by all trus patriota.
xoept those un by private clube. attacked by a party of Federale,
been disposed to baleve.
in hand believe that the Force cân bà made the basis of better
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ThoroughlySociable."But why the
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25 I arrived in Hongkong on the New 25 Year's eve and was taken at once 20 to a home where decent Chinese 20 and foreigners were dancing 20 together. Those Chinese girls Death of the Pope's Sister. 20 waltzed in a way that would have Rome, Feb. 11-Signorina 10 made them the envy of any ball-Rosa Sarto died this morning 10 room. in Europe. About mid- after a short illness at the house 10 night the party went down to neor the Vatican where, with the 10 sen the close of the annual fair. two other sisters of the Pope, che 10 Like Americans, the girls wore bad long been resident, Signorina 10 not chaperoned and, like Ameri-Barto was the eldest of three 10 cans of the same class, they did children and was only one year 5 not need to be. A young Chinese younger than Pius X., having "blood" threw a toy bomb close been born in 1836 His Holiness to one of the young ladies; she was much affected by the news, let him know quietly but effecwhich was broken to him by Mg tively that, he had made a mic Brendan, who had been present at taka
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