THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920.
COMPANY MEETING. FROM THE PULPIT. continued to this day, for the self is the same as they have
THE LIMITATION OF WORDS.
problems involved are not wholly come to suggest in the mind of
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though we have light them in Christ which old world had not.
on spake a word unto him," for their: the sympathy was too deep.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
The story of Tennyson and The fifty-first ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Notes of a sermon by the Rev. Silence, to be sure, is not always Carlyle spending a long evening the Hongkong Fire Insurance J. Kirk Maconachie, at Union superior: often it is blameworthy. together without exchanging a Yet who has not wished many asyllable may or may not be Company. Ltd., was held at noon to-day, at the offices of Messrs. "So they sat down upon the time that the flood of speech apocryphal, the significant thing Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd. There ground seven days and seven could be stopped to let us think were present Sir Paul Chater, Sir nights, and nors spoke a word and listen? Robert Ho Tung, the Hon. Mr. unto him; for they saw that his
Church
Was
get Д
to
is that even as a story it should be a possibility. Do not laugh In our public worship for ex-
at the lover tongue-tied in his John Johnstone (Chairman), grief was very great." -Job 213. ample. The "Quaker's meeting lady's presence; if she is wise a formality like she will think more of that than Messrs. A. H. Compton: C. S. "Nove spoke a word unto him;" can become Gubbar. F. Maitland, T. E. it would have been inopportune anything else, but there is a truth of his fluent rhapsodies.
Felix Mendelssohn wrote his Pearce, G. W. Barton (Consulting and with fine perception they in the idea which we seem to Committee) J. M. Alves, Grecognised it. Silence is the tribute bave well-nigh lost sight of. If Songs Without Words for the could maitain piano, and they have given joy to Grimble, Ho Leung, F. C. Hall instinct renders to tragedy and sometimes we (acting Secretary), Lo Cheung-these three friends of Job paid it quietness instead of expecting that millions, who can find in them "None spoke something must always be going without any verbal intervention shiu, J. Arnold, D. V. Stevenson, in noble measure. L. N. Leefe,and A. Denison. a word unto him;" it
on we might find the silence the hum of the spinning wheel, The Chairman said unnecessary, their presence said broken from the other side, the the dance of the butterflies, the Gentlemen,-The report and what words could not. I was voice which is still and small peasant's chorus down the moun accounts having now been in sick." says the Lord, and ye would get a chance, or rather we tain vale. Pious folk there are who take great themes from the chance your hands for same days, I pro-visited me"; just came, that is should pose, with your permission, to the thing, whether anything is hear it. We err in thinking masters of music and adapt them to hymns, thinking it a pity ther. all time wasted in which we follow the usual custom of taking said or nothing.
should be "wasted." Sach is our them
making as reed. It gives
some common to gibe at pleasure to call your attention to Job's, comforters, but can the very satisfactory results who. make A proverb of which have attended the working them match their long journey of the Company for the year 1918. over desert sands and that" week- The premium income for this long session in silence by the
of year was $30,000 more than the side
the broken man? highest total previously reached. Their visit was no and the ratios for losses and rush between office hours expenses work out at the ex-and
theatre engagement; ceptionally favourable figures of we read of its pre-arrangement the soul's sincere desire may be in well-meant attempts to define. 24.35 and 31.06 respectively. and deliberation, and long for the The income from interest shows days when men had time for 8 shrinkage of roughly $9,000 friendship, found leisure to know entirely
to the high one another so well that speech are but a recognition of the fact rate of sterling
that mind is more than scund and exchange could become superfluoes.
due
me
It is
Are not
God.
ex-
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In accordance with Ordinance BICTON" Plantation Road No. No. 5 of 1912 the EXCHANGE 17 The Peak, area about 11,000 BANKS will be closed for the Square feet with Tennis Court transaction of PUBLIC BUS-area about 43,000 Square feet. INESS on Friday, Saturday and Apply Johnson, Stokes & Master, Monday, the 2nd, 3rd and 5th Solicitors, Princes Puildings,
ertion: we have time which is slavery to words, we think nothing best spent just in waiting, instead of enlarging the means of complete without them, but of the soul ready for the touch of expression we limit it, by such wordless expectancy, a passivity
devices. Elaborate explanations are attached to the work of great painters or sculpters, as if these did not speak for themselves,IN THE SUPREME COURT OF April, 1920, restricting where we think to clarify, losing the free suggestion
The channels of communication hurried between here and heaven can be blocked by words as well as built by them. Happily true it is that either "uttered or unexpressed" Our own stumbling efforts at thought reading and "telepathy
We may do the same in our religion; trying to express the inexpressible we only circum- seribs it.
We may do it with our Heavenly Father knows already the prayers, forgetting that far more then we can tell Him. faith, attempting to formulate it, We may do it with our feeble dissatisfied unless we can analyse ani wrap in logical cerements, whereas the part of wisdom would be to live by such faith as we have and let it grow God giving it body as it please th
at which we have been obliged "None spoke a word unto him." can make its impact on another to convert the revenue from our There are better things than mind apart from mechanism. The gold securities into dollars. High speech: it fails as when we seem skilled thought-reader claims to exchange not only diminishes our most to want it; we keep silence do his work although he and the revenue from interest, but also of because we are unable to break it, man whose mind he moves of course our premium income from or know that breaking it would is
moved by speak different gold Agencies, and the value of only misreprosent our hearts.ages. So one would expect
if wurdiess communication really go on, and who
doubt CAT
that it does?! In the gospel narratives iHim. appears over and over again that
come of this account.
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In the Goods of Euphunia! McMillan Haynes of Vic- toria in Colony of Hong- kong Widow deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that! the Court has by virtue of Section) 58 of the Probates Ordinance
Hongkong, 29th March, 1920.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
to sold in one lot by Public Auction on TUESDAY
No. 2 of 1697 made an Order Others to send in their claims at No. 6 Duddell Street, Victoria
the 6th day of April 1920 at limiting the time for Creditors and 3 o'clock p.m. at his Sales Rooms
against the above Estate to the
20th April 1920.
All Creditors and Others are accordingly hereby required to end in their claims to the under- signed on or before that date.
Dated this 29th day of March, 1920.
DEACON LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON Solicitors for the Administrator. No. 1 Des Voeux Road, Central,
Victoria,
Hongkong.
NOTICE.
MONTHLY TICKETS.
The following reductions wil come into operation from April 1st, 1920-
Hongkong.
by Mr. Geo. R. Lammert,
Auctioneer.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
43, Bonham Road. Opposite the University Tel. No. 732. P.O. Box, 593 Principal
JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.E. Min.
The Institate aBorde Special Pre- paration (Class and Private. Day and. Erening. Oral and Correspondence) for Univerzity Matriculation Degree Examinations.
and
New Session has now commenced. Tutorial Classes are being conducted
and
The property consists of:
All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoria Hong-in English. Mathematics, Trigenome- kong registered in the Land Officey, Mechanics, l'hysics, Chemistry. as Section D. of Inland Lot History, Geography, Latin No. 968 together with all the mes-French, for Hongkong Unirenity suage and premises thereon July Examinations. known as No. 65 Wyndham Street. Private Tuition can also be bad in
For further particulars and these subjects. conditions of Sale
Apply to
Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist Vendor's Solicitors, No. 9 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong
or
Mr. George P. Lammert
Auctioneer
No. 6 Duddell Street,
Hongkong.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Single Monthly Tickets will be
HE Undersigned has received reduced to $5.00
instructions from MessTS, Family-of-3 Monthly Tickets Thoresen & Co. to sell by Public will be reduced to 89.00
Auction on
The price of other sickets will remain as at present.
Hongkong, 30th March, 1920.
ROYAL
our sterling securities the "What
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you 83y to balance sheet when expressed in her?"
asked of dollars, and, in view of the fact child who had been to see that the rate of 48. 10142. ruling playmate in trouble. Nuin; 1 on the 31st December last was 1s. only cried with her." Only!
You will not take me for an 6d. above that on the samedete fur Those of ng whose very business our Lord knew what was passing advocate of unreason, but there the year previous, we may con- it is to speak the word in in the minds of others in spite of is a deeper and a higher in our gratulate ourselves on the out-season." know best, perhaps, their silence. Constantly He souls tharr words can set out in
It is early how unseasonable words can would surprise then by replying order before to say much about the year 1919 often be. We
also to their thoughts, when not a understandings, and we miss the which, as you are doubtless taking a more general view of word had escaped their lips. His best if we refuse to trust it aware. has a further twelve the subject, how easily words strong and sensitive spirit was
In that mystic region God months yet to
The can get in the way of truth, come open to impressions which would speaks and Far East was certainly not un-between us and reality, substitute have escaped others, and He read Spirit Himself making inter- energises. "the productive of fires. In Japan themselves illicity for thought men's hearts better than they cession with groanings which there were some very severe land vision. All
life could as themselves. Of himself cannot be uttered." For our very outbreaks, and.. Manchuria, I have beer. struggling to it is told that the people wondered need is our Singapore, Manila and Hankow say exactly what I mean in at the words of grace which pro- prayer, and on that ground God most appealing were all responsible for heavy such a way that it cannot be ceeded out of His mouth, as weil meets us going out to anticipate claims. It is gratifying therefore misapprehended. The thing is they might. The officers sent to our dumb and silent seeking:- that the balance, of $449,915.96. impossible, though one must arrest Him came back declaring "It shall come to pass," He says, standing at credit of Working keep on trying. It cannot be that never mat spoke as He that before they call I will Account should be so well up done even in a legal document spoke, and we say that truly answer; and while they are yet to the average, and there is where everything is sacri-still.
But ara His silences not about to speak I will bear." THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LT D. reasonable ground for expecting ficed to unmistakeable accuracy.just as wonderful and that the Account will run off Six hundred and seventy of the unique? One day they bring hearke
as Speak, Lord: Thy servants leaving us with a very sub-supposedly best brains in Britian a convicted sinner before Him. stantial gum in hand. The surare supposed to have given their with much clamour and quoting plus to be dealt with at this best consideration to every of their law; but not a syllable mecting is $445,134.28, and we Act of Parliament, throughfalls from His lips. He only stoops. recommend the payment of the three readings. committees, and with His finger writes upon usual dividend of $7 per share reports, and possibly months of the ground. But what invective "the appropriation of £40,000 discussion. Yet the moment it ever moved such a set of men
at 4s. 1014d. $164.102.56 to the becomes law controversy begins to shame as did that silence, tillgrams are lying here:- Reinsurance Fund, and that the as to what it means, was meant one by one they slunk away and balance of $55,031.72 be placed to mean, can be made to mean. left Him alone with the accused? to the credit of Investment and The layman. is absolutely Then to the accused there is no Exchange Fluctuation Account. puzzled. professional opinion preachment, no improving of the The necessity of keeping a sub-takes 2. different shade for occasion, only the one word Go, stantial sum at credit of this almost every professor, and nut and sin DO more." Wher Fredrick, A. Smith Butterfield Account has been made apparent until fortunes have been expended matchless dignity. magnificent Swire, s.s. Sunning, from Shang- by our experience of the is even an approximation to cer reserve, unexampled wisdom in a hai. past few years, and until the tainty arrived at, if indeed he dis-very difficult case! future couTSE of sterling covery be not made that a coach Again before Pilot, that scene exchange returns c a more and four can be driven through about which words of ours are normal condition provision must the whole thing. The public best when fewest-Jesus in the still be made for violent fluctua-half suspects a deliberate attempt Governor's power answered tions. The staff have not been to mystify it, but the fact is that him, never a word forgotten and you will, I trust, life is complicated and language silence pierced as no words approve, of the Consulting Com-imperfect, so that not even a could have piréced to such heart Road, W. from Amoy. mittee's action of voting a bonus corner of aught actually alive, can and con-citace as the cynical on their salaries of 15 per cent. be kept within the four corners of Roman had left him and it speaks wanten Sektongtsui. from Amuy. as has been done in past years. any document.
to the world still. poignantly, I do not think that there is any It this is so in daily affairs, is irresistibly. thing further in the accounts it not much more so when it All the reconler words of our which requires special mention by comes to our written religious Master could he read in perlaps Mouro, Hongkong Hotel, from me, but after the resolution which creeds? As tentative summaries an hour, and the four little I am about to propose has been of what is generally held at a books which record them would Leeyuenchiang from Shanghai. seconded I shall be glad to satisfy given period. among Christians make hut a pamphlet among
0295, from Shanghai to the best of my ability any of a given communion these them. Yet the very meagreness Voutongcheong, Fayt Ontäilee enquirios arising out of them documents
may be highly of the record exhibits the Son of Des Voeux Road, from Yokohama. which shareholders may wish to serviceable for many purposes, Man Himself in a way which a Mogigomei, from Osake. put.
provided always that no copious and lengthy biography | Ensign, from Kube. I now propose the following re-comminatory clauses are would most surely have blurred, Leung Yau Cheang Ming Lock, solution That the report and attached. to them. But for it permits the shining through from Kobe. accounts as presented. including when they purport to prescribe of the Personality who has made Gaan, from Shanghai. the payment of a dividend of $27 fully. unerringly, for all time, such an indelible impress upon per share, an addition to the entire content and purport of human thought and history. the Reinsurance Fund of £40,- the Christian revealation and its An obrious moral for us all is 000 at exchange 4s. 10d.; application to life here and here- the commonplace that actions! $164,102.56, the transfer of after, why then the longer they speak louder than words, tha:) $65,031.72 to the credit of are, the worse they must be, the language without life bebind it is Investment and Exchange more rigid, precise and detailed, a snare. disappointment, Fluctuation Account, and the the more certainly will they broken reed- anything you please payment to the staff of 15 per leave living truth outside their which stands for futility and cent. upon their salaries be pages and become a stumbling deception. Language, says the adopted and passed."
block rather than a help to the cynic, is given us for the purpose souls of men; temptations to in- of concealing our thoughts. It sincerity, substitutes for reality, certainly fails to instruments of intolerance and best of them, and indeed uptil express thel causes of strife.
the world's Batel is sometime in It is better to say too little than future replaced by a Divine to attempt too much in matters Pentecost, confusion of tongues éuch as these; it is easy to darken will
Testraining
Mr. Denison seconded, and the motion was carried,
The re-election of members of the Consulting Committee was proposed by Mr. Lo Cheung shiu, seconded by Mi. Afubld and tar ried,
The fa-éléction of Messrs. H Percy Smith and A. R. Lowe as auditors was proposed by Mr. Grimble, seconded by Mr. Ho Loung and carried,
The Chairman announced that, dividend wäwants were ready.
go
Sinth pekee, from Amoy. Pousette Trade Commissioner. frou Snanghai.
Soonthai, from Amoy, Vanfontong, Tafude! Street, and the from Shanghai.
Shingyick, No. 234 Des Voeux
Yatheung, Tea saloon c/o Pong-
Tousakazlu, from Osaka. Fenisch Posterestante, from Vladivostock.
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counsel by words without wisdom the children of men from the when dealing with human souls. noblest they aspire to do. At Job's friends found that. As soon the best our words only partially as the silence was broken trouble reveal us to one another; many began. Job poured forth. his times they raise complaint, discussion and argu- barriers, for you cannot even be ment followed, and it might have sure that what they mean to your
unintended
Tentsin.
T. KHING. Superintender t Hongkong, March 19, 1920.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
Good
Friday
SELECTIONS
ORATORIO
at
9.15 p.m.
THEATRE
HONGKONG
TO-NIGHT at 9.15,
LAST NIGHT
HERE OF
THE GREAT ENGLISH ACTRESS.
Tuesday, the 18th May, 1920.
commencing at 3 p.m.
at his Sale Rooms, Duddell Street The Steamer "DAGMAR "
as she now lies in the Menam River, Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear and appurten ances etc.
1457 tons gross Reg. 921 tons net Reg. 1800 tons deadweight capa city on 17 feet mean draft Speed 10 knots
This steamer went ashore in the Gulf of Siam, was solved, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patched up.
Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co. Ltd., Bangkok.
The steamer to be at purchasers risk after fall of hammer, when purchase money is to be paid.
For full particulars apply to Geo. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Or
Messrs. THORESEN & CO. Hoogkong.
MARIE TEMPEST DEAFNESS
In association with
GRAH M BROWNE
and World-Tour Company
in
Henry Arthur Jones' Famous Comedy
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Management: WILFRED COTTON
AND NOTES IN THE HEAD.----
Prospectus on application.
NOTICE.
EASTER HOLIDAYS.
This Office will be entirely closed on Good Friday, the 2nd April. It will be opened for all purposes till 'noon on Saturday the 3rd, & Monday, the 5th April, 1920. Licensed Warehouses will
be entirely closed on those dates.
C. W. BECKWITH,
Superintendent,
Imports and Exports.
Imports and Exports Office, Hongkong, 49th March, 1920.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY. UMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- ING of the Shareholders will be Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, held at the Company's Hotel, 7th April, 1920, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for for the Yeer ending 31st Decem- ber. 1919%
The REGISTER of Shares of the Company will be closed from THURSDAY, 1st April to WED- NESDAY, 7th April, 1920 (Both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. H. TAGGART. Maneger and Secretary.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that Scores of apparently "hopeless" case Certificate for 4 Shares Numbers have been completely cured by the 20985/20988 issued on 11th March well known * French Orlene." NOTHING EQUALS THIS SIMPLE Kwan, has been declared lost. 1889 in the name of Ip Ping REMEDY.
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duced before the 31st inst, the ́Orlene' Co., Station Ed: Croydon, Eng same shall be deemed cancelled. Any good class Druggist can obtain and of no effect. this remedy to your order, or it can be obtained direct from us upon receipt
of cost
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.
Agenta. Hongkong, 13th Mary, 1920.