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¡it a representative affair. A good
BASKET BALL.
YESTERDAY'S GAMES.
An American game which has found much favour with the schools of the Colony is basket ball, and yesterday witnessed the;
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League season in Hongkong. when Queen's College, the win- петз in both the Senior and Junior divisions, were presented with the trophies. a challenge shield and a handsome cup. The presentation was preceded by two interesting exhibition mat- ches between the winning teams and two teams drawn from the rest of the Stundent's Basket Ball League. In both events the Queen's College easily by 12-10 and 12-9 re- Įspectively.
teams Won
A keen supporter of the same is the Hon. Mr. Claude Severn who
in presenting the trophies to the many of the guests remarked on Queen's College teams said that this. Mr. Katewall's career has he had been asked to present the.
been meteorie, and seldom has
a man risen so rapidly as hastrophies won in the first season of wen the good luck of Mr. Kote-te Students' Basket Bali Le gue made a first-class business man and he was glad to have the wall to do.
by students large and small.-- Mr. Kotewall has Laughter) It was a great honour and it is an open secret that the leading Chinese are often obliged Portunity of doing so before he to seek his opinion on many ed several good games but he left the Colony. He had witness- an important public question. H services
thought this was the best. He to the Chinese General
was glad that it had been possible) Chambers of Corn-
to form a Hongkong open League have been recognised merve
to follow the Students' League: on several occasions. The hea thus
giving an opportunity
Talk about the weather. have never in all my days known anything like it. You are frozen up one moment and all of a glow the next. The weather of late has indeed been peculiar. Still the rains have kept away, and there is none of that depresse ing feeling that remained with Cs last month before and after the Annual Rages, Thef giving a dinner to the Hon.cf widening the circle of players. week has been marked with Mr. Severn was, however, not his The matches of the upen League! more sing song for our departing and it was after the announce were expected to be finished at «Colonial Secretary, this time by ment made by the Chinese that] the Chinese community, who gave the idea was adopted by the the summer free for Volley Balt. a dinner to the Hon. Mr. Clauneral Chamber of Commerce.
the end of April so as to leave
Severn on Saturday night at the
Mr. Severn said he was sure Kam Ling Bot. It was
that lourish and he hoped when both Leagues admirably arranged affair and
would
the gathering was a must cun- vivial one. The Hon. Mr. Lan Chu
to find both Leagues in full! Pak's speech was exhilarating in remarked openly that it was swing. He was grateful to Mr. T. some parts, but the salient farts the most eloquent after-dioner Mackintosh for presenting the would have stool more distinctly peech ever made by a member handsome shield and to the Wat an able sub-editor been fof the Chinese community Students' League for presenting Hongkong. Seldom have I heard the Challenge Cup for small a Chinese gentleman speak with boys. such flow and easy deliverence.
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Mr. Severn's histrionic and musical abilities. Surely, these reimark were out of place at a Chinese dinner. What do the
The Hon. Mr. Lau's speech was the best he has ever made, both in delivery and in substance,
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aflowerd to blue pencil it before the author maic Jt.
In handing the shield is pity le did not
Ter 10 Queen's College Mr. confine himself to the estimato
Seven. Benjamin Disraeli, as often in College had certainly done very remarked that the that the Chinese community hat formed of Mr. Severn, as an ad-ther matters of policy, had the well. It would have to lose the ministrator instead of referring to last word to say on the subject of services or L. Lang next season, Exchange in his Endymion "but he hoped athers would rise where one of his characters, to take his place. Mr. Severn con. poch, remarks. I do not care gratulated the Junior Division of one jot about currency, and, so the League and wished them every far as I CAN judge, the Birmingham chaps talk a deal of nonsense on the matter." Exchange is such a complex sub- ject that few would condescend the Hongkong Open Basket Ball The following have entered for to tell you what is going to hap- League, the matches of which pen in the course of the next will be played at the YM.C.A. person would commit himself to wo
members of the Chinese com- munity "know of Mr. Severa as a musician, or as an artist? According to Mr. Lau:
"Of all the men one meets
about.
There's none like Claud--he's
everywhere:
raut-
he's there.
back.
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RECITAL.
We have seldom, if ever, seen a larger assembly at an organ recital in St. John's Cathedral than that which gathered last
At church-park-auction-dinner-aking any forecast. The sudden iversity, (two teams), South China Managers and Consulting Com gave the first of a series on his teams). Hongkong Un- Subject to audit the General | night, when Mr. Denman Fuller drop of four pence on Saturday Athletic Club. YM.C.A.Indian Re-uittee will at the forthcoming return to the Colony. The pro- Go when and where you will. The new made many dizzy Club and U.S.S., Helens. The beve company, to be hell on the and the items were such as to gave most of us a panicky feeling.creation Club, American Athletic Meeting of Shares of the gramme was excellently varied Violent falls and rises Try the bazaar, he's at your As the exchange rate between and at 8.30 p.m. South China
continue for another year or so. will be played at 7.30 p.m. to-day following allontie of profits:
mer first match. Y.M... I. R. C.. 18th. March 1929 recommend the display the all-round ability of the organist. Bach's Fantasia Meets you, like Eurus, in the London and New York falls the Athletic meets University "A".
To place to Reserve
and Fugue in G. Minor was price of silver increase. and the At 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday the
Fuori
$10,000,60 magnificently handled, the pedal with the pound, sterling rises. Queen's College (White) and at value of the dollar in comparison American Athletic Club, meets
To place to lavest-
work being very finely done, theat Depreciation"
whilst Grieg's Hyndings Marsch the key to the whole situation. University "B". The American exchange rate is 7.30 pm, U.S.S. Helena meets
Account. . . M.. 10,000 received a breadth of treatment. Tu pay ፡፡
final
which gave some idea of the Remedies for the existing state
Dividend of $1 per
capacities of the organ and the of affairs must be obvious to any
share
interpretative skill of Mr. Fuller. TP one who has studied the problem.)
Lemmen's "The Storm," so well- are rigid Government
known as a showy organ piece, retrenchment, increased home
was also beautifully played. The lighter numbers were vers 4.artistically rendered. Music. lovers will await with interest the fext recital.
You're called upon for
do, Jack?'
How
One hundred times a day at
least.
The following remarkablehand. bill was printed and stuck up once in several parts of the city of Dublin. This is to certify production with a fall in price that 1, Daniel O'Flanagan, aand narrow margins of profits. not the person that was tarred It is interesting to have it and feathered by the liberty mob
ΟΠ gnol authority that
on Tuesday last; and I am ready one of the
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
FIRST ANNUAL DINNER.
causes of the
to give twenty guineas to any-high price of silver is women's!
one that will bet me fifty
The fret and dinner of the St.; vanity. The manufacturing con- Stephen's College Assoriation was
To pay a bonus to
staf
and ti carry Daward to the credit of next year's account......
60,000,
102s
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE
CO., LTD. Subject to audit the Generi.)
THE LITTLE ONE'S COLD
AND HOW TC TREAT IT.
much
that I am the other man that sumption of silver for table waren Saturday night. Owing to Managers and Consulting Com goes by that name, Witness my band
in the United States is exceeding the banquet to ha. Dr. Chand mittee will at the forthcoming this 30th day of July. Dan. O'Flanagan.
all records, Messrs. Mr.
Samuel Sor emg on the game night Meeting of Shareholders of the Severn must have felt a desire to crease in the demand for silverb. The tots were proposed 27th March 10 recommend the Montague and Co. explain this in-some prominent, members were above company, to be held on the publish such a poster when Mr. by philosophically asserting that Mr Chan Tsun Nin, Dr. T. P. following allocation of profits:- Lau Chu Pak began recounting it has always been the ambition Wu, Messrs C. F. Woon and K. C. To place to reserve fund. $35,000. not neglect it, for neglected colds his many superfine qualities. of the wives of working men Chan, the lafter being a School pre- To place to Depreciation
If your little one has a cold do am glad to see that Mr. Severn to possess silver teapots." Hence feet. Others present included the
· lead to was modest in his reply. There
bronchitis, pneumonia is a Chinese proverb which says It will interest many people Archdeacon Burnett, Messrs J, P.
the five-and-a-half bob dollar. Warden (Rev W. H. Howitty. To place to Allowance
and Repairs Account.. 25,000.00 and dangerous illness. that craggeration is to paint to know why silver has re-Jones, La Sui Nia, Li Hoi Tung,
"When the first symptoms of a enake and add legs. The Hon. Mr.cently dropped. The cause, it ng Man Sei, Wan In Shing..
for claims and bad
cold are noticed give the child a and Ho Fook allowed himself to fall
doubtful debts
warm bath and dry carefully. into a little error. He imagined quantity of refinable silver which Kun, Prof Lai Tsia Hei, Rev. To pay a Dividend of appears, is the unprecedented Cheng Wing Kui, Dr. Wod Lov To pay bonus to staff...
13,000.00 Reduce the quantity of food a that the representatives of the
2,867.00 little and give Baby's Own Army Navy and Commerce" were at Home. This refinable silver is of the University Staff: and many has recently been offered for sale R. Shaan, and Mr R. W. Barney
Tablets to move the bowels. 7% or 70 cents per the guests of the evening. It so almost certainly, the product of thera prominent in educational To carry forward to the
Grease the nose inside and out happened that those gentlemen German and other coin, melted and business eireles in Hoogkong,
share
$7,500.00 with pure vaseline. whom he spoke of as being down abroad, and sent to England Canton, and Macao. present were really absent, which for refining and realization.
credit of next year's account gave His Excellency an opport
unity to make a little fun of Mr.
account
10,922,77
Mrs. James R. McDearmid, of
Canada, Martintown, Ontario, Mr Chau Tsun Nin said that St.
says: "I find Baby's Own Stephen's College owed much to
Tablets the best medicine for Our philanthrophic landed Archdeacon Barnett, its Dave Carson had some lines in phreys, is shortly going Home on the position now
proprietor, Mr. Henry Hum-founder. To him was largely due be met in every part of the world.
real old boys of St. Stephen's were to baby I have ever used. They break up colds, cure sour stomach his celebrated song in which he
held by the After long leave.
the dinner most and the other little ills with hit off the situation. They run the tenants of many of his build-schools of the For East. The simcluded the evening. More than have made my baby bright, strong In the meantime College in the forefront of the enthusiastic annual meeting con- which babies are troubled. They
Ho Fook's remarks. The late
Burra Sahibs to whom I talk,
I am always just what please,
Sometimes Christian.
some
Sometimes cheese, and some.
times heathen,
times chalk."
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in stood me to say specie. That
Branches already established in constipation, indigestion, diar- Dr. T. P. Woo emphasized the Canada, and the United States.rhoea, teething troubles no longer labouring variety of successes achieved by Generous promises of financial aid worms. on the Com-under any such delusion, you ll students in the scholastic were made for that part of the St. post free at 60 cents the vial by Sold by chemists, or ittee, especially Mr. Kotewall, will, I hope prove so by your world, in politics, in professional Stephen's College Association in Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 ho worked indefatigably to make present contribution."
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