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And He said, So is the King
dom of heaven, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth, and should sleep and rise night and
day, and the seed should spring
up and grow, he knoweth not how,
first the blade then the ear, then the full com in the ear."-Mark 4:26-28.
"It is so quiet here that you can
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tain that these occasional outbursts are outmatched every day by the osaseless energy which is Ending scope at this very moment in the uprush of sap in all the innumer- able millions of plant life, in the action of light, and heat, in the chemical and biological process65
sudden convulsion ever does.
one
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TUESDAY, MARCH 4. 1919.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
THE FREDONY SEASON.
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"LAERTES" LAUNCHED AT TAIKOO.
(Wah Tse Yat Po Service)
Peking, March 5. The Sino-Japanese Military which are covering thousands of A capital attraction is announc-
The news has been received Agreement has been disclosed. It square miles the world arounded by the appearance
with deep regret in Hongkong China is to buy from Japan contains articles under which with now leavage and grass and | Fredony, the celebrated trans- The thirty-fourth ordinary sa that Capt. H. E. Blunt, M.C. of annually for ten years 30 million corn, working unseen a revolution formist, together with his well | qual meeting of the above the Hongkong and Shanghai dollars worth of arms and am- in the aspect of nature such as no balanced company of performers, Company was held at the off Banking Corporation's Eastern munition to build areanals in Similarly, it is the man who at the Victoria Theatre on Thurs of the Company, to-day, at noon. Staff, has died of pneumonia Tientsin, Hankow and Shanghai |
Belgium whilst serving | casts the seed upon the earth who dar next. Fredony, who arrived The Hon. Mr. R. G. Shewan pre with
the Yeomanry Battal is the real revolutionary, not he just lately in the Far East, has sided, and there were present on of the Royal who fires the powder magazine. been been accorded flattering Meers. A. O. Lang, Regiment. The deceased offices, Susser
The earth beareth fruit of herself, Guy Fawkes is the poorest sort of press notices in both Manila and White and J H. Wallace,(Consalt who was married just over because Peking has failed to another addition to the "Blas To-day at Taikoo Dockyard revolutionary imaginable, makes Shanghai, where packed audiences ing Committee), Mr. H. F. Camp-year ago, had served the Bank no earthly thing revolve except |nightly viewed his wholly ball (Secretary) and Mesars. G. in Hongkong, Tientsin
altimatum to issus mandate Funnel" feet of Messrs. Alfred the trade in saltpetre. In the original and unique entertain-Grimble, H. Hancock, W. Adam-Peking, being on the local House of Commons it was asked ment. He has been described son, M.S. Northcote, U,B. Buyers staff for about a year, in 1907. Shensi Tuchun. Peking holds launched. The naming ceremony within 48 hours dismissing the Halt and Co. was successfully almost hear things grow," said a some time ago in good-humoured as a past master in the art of light-C. Klinck, H. Henderson and He was
& very fine Chinese that now that the Shanghai was performed by Miss Robert- resident in a remote spot in our sarcasm, "Did hon. gentleman onning change. Fredony carries E L Situ
scholar, having passed the final Conference has sant & Commisson. little island. We could indeed at the Government bench look like with him extensive stage settings,
interpreters' examination whilet any time bear the process of revolutionaries ?"
fioner to investigate, the findings What,
in Peking. He had a brother in of the commissioner be awaited. The Chairman said Gentle the Chinese Maritime Customs Chu's resignation is not accepted. the vessel are:-Length overall, The principal dimensions of so that the patrons of the Victoria absorption and expansion which wonders, is
revolution. # we call growth, if our hearing ary supposed to look
will be greatly surprised whea men-The report and accounts and was related to the Bishop like?
The Allied Ministers have 441 ft. 8 inches; breadth over-all, were fine enough, but at anyrate Does he rave and rant and tear they visit this Theatre next have been in your hands for some of HAIL
He left the East refused the appeal sither from 52 ft. 4 inches; and 33 feet depth there are times when we can long hair with a red cap on the Thursday.
days so with your permission we in Karch 1915, to join almost see it with the eye, partic- top of it? You need expect no Fredony has many distinct will not read them now, Con-up, and received the Mt the South or North regarding the to upper deck from bottom of ularly the season of early spring, real revolution from the man who changes of programme and his trary to my expectation, we have ary Cross whilst serving in not to interfere in internal affairs. baing 3,600, and deadweight Shanghai Conference, in order keel, the total gross tonnage when progress can be marked looks the part. The man who first offering will be the protean had about as good a year as Palestine. He was extremely It reported that the Allied Minis frak one 24 hours to another. really changes things is not he Any morning you may see who sets up a temporary reign of novelty "The Man in the Clock." before, so that as we have nothing popular among all who knew him, faint tinge of green on twigs and terror, but he who drops a thought He is supported by a strong com- additional to provide for deprecis and by his untimely death the fore have again sent a Memoran- carrying capacity will be about Bank has lost a most consciendum to the North and Senth 8,000 tons. The Laeries has urging an early settlement. two complete decks with an bushes which the day before had into other men's minds, brings bination of vaudeville talent. tion of investments this year we tious and capable servant
Shanghai, March 3. the same dividend
orlop deck forward, poop been wholly brown, and here is forth an idea which has in Foremost amongst the members are able to pay
Yesterday the our Saviour's immortal parable it
Southern bridge and forecastle and citadel the potentiality of life of the Company is Miss Tessie and bonus, put $70,000 against
delegates held 3 meeting in deckhouse at fore sad of bridge, of the springing corn, illustrating That man sets going the "ger-Tarner, the ragtime girl; her $50,000 to Reserve Fund, and the same thing from the fields. minating, fructifying processes of repertoire includes all the latest $20,000 besides to Investment lower costs the demand
Yuyuan Garden. Their ultim-two pole masts and ten derrick **First the blade there it mind and conscience which pass American jazz-Bongs,
foratum expired and they therefore poles, also six cargo hatches. The Depreciation Fund, sad carry cordage should improve again. decided to issue a manifesto to veel has a straight stem, ellipti is if you care to look for from one mind to another, and
This aggregation of talent forward $50,570.43 against it certainly is very slack at the inform people, officials, Tuchun, cal stern, and callnlar double bot ft, shooting up fresh and tender take perhaps centuries to come should prove a splendid attrac-$43,226.02 last year so that in moment but the conclusion of Governors, Chambers of Com-tom all fore and aft, the wings from the fawny earth. If the into their own. But come into ion for the Victoria Theatre.
every direction we have improv-the war has rather unsettled our merce, Educational Bureau and ofwhich have been carried well up yearly miracle does not impress us their own they will. So far as
ed our position. But we have enstomers who have been looking Provincial Assemblies all over the the sides of the vessel. Eight with a sense of wonder, it is only truth is in them, nothing can
however really more money now for a general fall in prices has been drancing in Shensi watartight bulkheads are carried
[country, 'that the Northerners because it recurs so regularly, stand in their way permanently. making the desert rejoice, closing So is the Kingdom of God".
than we can handle comfortably of commodities which does not during the armistice, and urging to the upper deck, giving the the dark surfaces of the world Remember it is a Kingdom, a of light and warmth and moisture. On 31st December, 1917, our seem likely to take place in spite the hastening of the formation vessel six cargo holds. The with living green faires than reslin subordinated and ruled Wall, hope, patience, kindness, accounts show $187,207 on hand, at lower rates of freight ese of a National Defence Army. Solomon in all his glory. Flower over. But the subjugation is by good humour, make up the genial which had grown to $451,049 on There is nothing that I can see.
space under the forecastle ha Tang Shay-yee time and harvest time can scarce-way of transformation. That is atmosphere in which the fragile 31st. December, 1918, and the
wired to been fisted up for emigrante is be overlooked, the seasons the way in which the force we shoots of spiritual life can grow to problem now is what to do with in the accounts that requires any Sir John Jerden saying Peking while the space under the poop has beer utilised for the when rasults appear and obtrude call life does subjugate, quietly strength through love and prayer. If it were needed for the comment but if there is I shall ordered an armistice on the 18th themselves on our ättention. But and powerfully, the inorganic But ceasure and coldness make a Company's business we should, of from shareholders after they have be therefore appeals to the ecommodation of mailom: and,
be glad to answer any question but fighting still continues, and let us not forget how much elements around it. From the bitter blight.
fremen. Pelty officer: TUOHONLİ goes on during the long period day the seed of corn' begins to Similar advice is needed by course, retain it and invest it as been duly proposed and seconded. Ministers of friendly nations to before the results are at ell sprout it goes on thus subduing some in another direction, namely, best we could, but we do not In accordance with our recom-dopala Peking to observe the the engine casing. In the citad. the necessary means to are on the bridge deck alongside apparent. Few may observe the more and more of the iners to be patient with themselves, need it and we do not see that we mendation I now beg to propose armistice, so that the Conference el house at the fore end of the springing blade, but without it and lifeless matter in its en-People are often better aware of are justified in more
or less that the report and accounts as shortcomings
local than there can be no ingathering. vironment. No man can tell how their
bridge deck, the saloon, sagia- we speculating with it in How unobtrusive it is: how quiet-this is done. It remains a my-preachers and moralista may stocks which
eers and officers' rooms havO liable to presented to this meeting be ly it pushes its way up between story after science has said its think,
adopted and passed, and that we and whan
set violent factastion at any time. Place to Reserve Fund $70,000.00
been arranged, sad on the deck over the saloon is 1 the blades! Looking down on it last word in tracing the process about stirring them up let it not If we invest at Home there
To Investment Da-
steel home containing the from above we may quite fail to which it cannot explain. We be done in ways which will only is not only the risk of exchange see it, but if one stoop down and can analyse the substance, and discourage them. It may not be and a low return bus we sll
preciation Fund
captain's day and night cabins, cast an eye along the level, then say of what material elements it very usual advice, but I have been know how the Banks at Home Pay a bonus to Staff
also two passenger staterooms the faint shimmer of its myriad is made up. But how these long enough a minister to know
at Factory...
Over his house again is the spikelets will appear, a green elements have come to be com- there are the those who need it made a fetish of Consols and
navigating bridge with wheel gauze mantling the furrow.
bined into what they are in the be forbearing with yourself. He-other so called gilt-edged securi
The house and chart room. And if we are to keep touch living plant we know no member souls ripen slowly, yours ties and how they had to write with God's ways in any direction more than did the Galilean hus-among the number. Everything off heavy losses year after year in
vessel is supplied with seventeen Several. Chinese were to-day 60,000.00 we must often condescend to handman of 2,000 years ago when meant to last does take time to consequence, so, where financial
steam winches with derricks carrying kada varying from things that are lowly, often look he went forth to sow, and after-mature. You may grow a mushroom experts rushed in, we may well and carry forward... 50,570.43 charged with keeping dogs with-
out of the profits for the year, cat licences. Some of the ex- 2 tons to 40 tons. with the eye of hope, with the ward went to his rest by night in a night, but never a fruit tree. fear to tread, in the face of such
A powerful heart to expect, the faith to and labour by day, leaving God to Also if the fruit is to be first-rate results as those. Looking at the and further that we pay s bunus planations given to Mr. Wood by Marconi wireless apparatus is believe; and the patience to wait, do His share of work while you must give it time. Hurry it
out of Reserve Fund, absorbing amusing. A woman measured
the operators on the strength of small beginn- he waited for the harvest. Won-in a hothouse and you will question from every point of view fot $5 per share to shareholders the law-breakers were extremely installed, with suitable rooms for
derful beyond words is all life,get but poor flavour,
and bearing in mind the present
off with her hand what the size
The machinery consists of Anybody can recognise an especially in its beginnings, all forget that we have to watch unsettled stats of the commercial $300,000.00
Mr. H. P. White seconded and of her dog was. It was a four-) earthquake. When great con- so still. so secret, so inexplic and pray. But let not that be world, we have come to the
month-old pup. Seeing is be- one set of triple-expansion, »
engines Are afloat no-one able, yet potent with such done in an anxious and faithless conclusion that it would be fairer the motion was carried..
Mr. M. S. Northcote proposed, lieving. Mr. Wood: "Do you want surface-condensing need point out to another large results, at work unheard. į spirit. The corn will not grow to all concerned if we simply
inches and 75 inches that something is going on. incressant, by night while we faster if the tiller should forego divided the money among share and Mr. C. Klinck seconded, to produce the dog for me to having cylinders 26 inches,
Lord is not in sleep, by day while we exert his reat by night and neglect his holders and left them, if they the re-election to the Consulting see?" The woman was delighted 44
P. and promised to bring the diameter, with a stroke of 54 the earthquake. Not of the great ourselves. So also is the King work by day to fret and worry wished to do so, to invest it on Committee of Messrs. B. convulsion with its startling dom of God, always at work but over it.
Do not of course, be their own judgraent. We socord-White, J. H. Wallace and A. O. animal to-morrow. A miserable inches. Steam is supplied to . phenomena does the
Divine often unperceived, subduing slow neglectful or indifferent, but do
was looking man kept a dog and he the main engines from two large Master 355
"So is the Kingdom ly yet inevitably the lower nature not forget that ye are God's ingly recommend in addition to Lang and the motion gave a miserable look when the double-ended boilera; one single- of Heaven." He says that of to itself. But first the blade.” husbandry." Leave something our ordinary dividend and boans, carried.
Mr. C. B. Buyers proposed, and news of the $5 fine was broken ended sariliary boiler is also something familiar and common. We have need of patience. The for God to do; after you have the payment of a further bomms place, something which makes no farm labourer needs that, much taken the seed into the good out of the Reserve Fund of Mr. G. Grimble seconded, the to him. One shipyard fellow, provided, and all the boilers have durbance, attracts little notice. more we, if we are to await the ground of an honest heart have per share, amounting to $300,000 re-election of Mr. F. Maitland when the Police visited him to working pressure of 200 lbs.
Electric light has been fitted He says it of the quietest of all developed fruits of Christian faith that He who has begun a which will still leave $50,000 at and Mr. H. Percy Smith, as give him a warning, had four the farmer's operations, "as if a grace.
good work in you will not fail to credit of that Fund. But as this auditors for the ensuing year, at dogs On the day of the sum throughout the ship. man should cast seed upon the Yet too much is often expected, perfect it in due season. the decision rests entirely with increased remuneration of mons these became one. Was it
When completed and on sɔr- earth.” How quietly it falls sown and expected in a hurry. Mature In closing, let us see that WO
$5 per each dog.
vice, the Laertes will attain a in old fashion by hand as the results are demanded in the take heart as regards the growth you shareholders and if you wish 350 each; and the motion was reductio ad obeurdum? Fined
speed of 13 knots. sower steps over the soft tilled way of Christian character which of Christ's kingdom at large and it for you have only to say so
us to keep this money and invest carried.
The Chairman then announced land, noiseless almost an dust would be looked for under sim- the progress of God's work in the but you must not blame us if that dividend warrants would be The "Vanity Fair" troupe are lighting on a down cushion, ilar conditions along no other world. Many have needless
hare for a few more nightä. To Noiseless and unostentatious line. A tourist or trader visits anxieties about this through later on have to write off in order ready to-morrow.
Mr. F. L. Sim asked whether be precise, Thursday will be the like most great acts some place where a couple of forgetting the limit set to the to make
the staff had benefited by the last opportunity that Hongkong- of faith is this by which the worker generations ago the people were workers' responsibility. Let the shrinkage. As regards our
increased profits. He noticedites will have of seeing this commits his all yearly to the keep only obscene cannibals. He sees sowing be faithfully done, and prospects for the current year, that a bonus of $8,000 was being tented company. Just think ing of the earth till in due time it a state of things some way short leave the results in the hands of it is impossible to express brings forth its long-awaited of perfection, and instead of him. Who neither slumbers nor any decided opinion. Now that paid. Did they gain any in-it over. There will not he return. Having done this act of thanking God for the beginning sleeps and Whose work goes on, peace is on the eve of being creased benefit from that? for some time an exhibition faith, the worker leaves it, goes which has been made, he cries unhasting, unresting long after declared, this year cannot bristle The Chairman-Yes. Last of those frills, frocks and about his further business with out, that the gospel work has been our own immediate part in it is with all the difficulties we had to year the staff was awarded a farbelow that captivated so the confidence of one who has a failure because these spiritual | over. There was an occasion when been laying sure trains of causes infants are not yet patterns of all the early Apostles were accused contend with last year. Although bonus of $4,000, this year they many hearts during the "Vanity Fair" season, no Leslie Holmes "and "consequence. He will now the virtues. It is the same with the as these who have turned we have made such good profits get $8,000 which is double,
sleep and rise night and day",] captiousness too common amongst the world upside down”, and our sales actually fell off and the
to rock you with laughter, mone having done his share of the duty fellow-Christians
of those coy glances of the pretty, Instead of such indeed they were, though demand so far this yest has been PsHe has appealed" to forces rejoicing in bope over the not on the terms of the accusation very poor. We hear too of
witty girls of the company delightful stronger than even the earthquake significant blade some seem but as the sowers of seed which opposition from a new, factory in tremendous as those energies are, only displeased because the ripe sank in and eventually fructified one of our best markets. The
and tuneful music. Who indead can messure the corn is not waving everywhere. long after the passing disturbance price of raw material has fallen a
In connection with the Process these things you many not get forces needed to expel miles of If the seed is there, the fruit will in the market places was forgot little lately but is far from normal ion of the Cross at Macso, on Sun for sometime and to be conscious lava from the burning mountain, come in due course if it be given ten. Not as the catastrophic, and the market over in the Philip day, the Hongkong, Canton and of wilfully not enjoying your self to darken the sky for leagues fair chance, prep fue Tween the obtrusive, the strikingly with "ash" and vapour, to open Oxygen, hydrogen carbon and convulsive, is the Kingdom of pines is by no means weak. But Macao Steamboat Company's when you had the opportunity mighty chasms in the crust of the nitrogen, they taught us at God, but as the seed which we should not fear to meet com- Sai An is to run on an excursion given to you is a cruel thought solid : earth? - Bill, for sheer school were the main elements silently falls into the ground and
Lower prices for Ta trip. The steamer leaves here Therefore, seize time by machnuical power, computable in composing the atmosphere in dies, that, many days affer; the
wa Chitik, contests.m. and returns from Macao forelock and book the seats i nouids. I should think it ser- which life can thrive by the sið unfailing karrest me wäppääry
the Theatre
ings.
vulsiona
I do not at
good losses
from
of $1 per share Pay a fial dividend And a bonus of $1
per share...
+
20,000.00
8,408.30
80,000.00
Mr. Sim-Thank you. The meeting then terminsted.
Mr. J. R. Wood is leaving on the 13th inst, for a six month's holiday.
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All
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Theatre Royal-Vanity Fair Company-9.15 p.m.
"Victoria Theatre:-9.15 p.m. Coronet Theatre: 9.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW.
Victoria Theatremt.15 p.m. Coronet Theatre 9.15 pm.
FRIDAY, MARCH AS