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Now, we, your humble servants, are dumb for lack of praise' Bafitting to the merit of such a
glorious Stute, All hail to you our Governor, whose
virtue e'er doth raise
you
A standard for your officers henceforth to emulate. In service to the Emperor,
reflect his loving heart," In service to his people, you
hold the ancient ways.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1925.
THEATRE ROYAL,
SPOILT SELBORNE.
Gilbert White's Village Changed.
OUR CABARET" COMPANY. An advertisement which appears olsewhere in this issue announces
There are a fow placos in Eng- that on Thursday 28th, instant, a How London Company will land to which the imagination opon at the Theatre Royal. "Our clings through the years. With Cabaret" claims to be a show out Shakespeare before us, wo think of of the ordinary run of "Follies" Stratford-on-Avon. Wordsworth or concert parties. Run on novel established another haunt for linos. It is a "amall revus" in memory at Dove Cottage, troducing the latest musical Blackmore.. gave ·បុទ the numbers, burlesques, original homes of the Doonos, in scenes, "Skits" and the latest the wild places of Exmoor, to Ideas in cabaret dancing.
Gilbert White we owe Selborne,
We hail you once again then ere
"Our cabaret" perhaps the while Thomas. Hardy has lit from this our land you part
first of its kind in the East was with the torch of romance & May happiness and fortune go described by a Caloutta paper "as dozen dreaming Wessex towns,
with you all your days]
a writer in the Daily sparkling an entertaiment as y
Chronicle. Mr. Wynne Jones' Speech. Calcutta thostre patrons have Mr. E. J. Wynne-Jones, the Dis-boen blessed with for several trict Officer, North, said: Your years.
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For me, Solborne only remain- ed, the others had been visited. tìmo and again, and one sunny
Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are told that the company day brought me to the village. I have been asked by my friend, caused something of a mild that is, one of the first English Mr. Tang Pak-knu, the chief Elder sensation in India, Burma and homes of natural history. We of the "Tongs, to say few words Coylon, and the press notices approached it through an open everywhere, including those in undulating country by way of a in English or His behalf.
have been We, of the Now. Territories, are Calcutta,
quite sanctuary for wild fowl and but simple country folk, and the enthusiastic.
other birds, but Selborne itself honour done to us to-day is over- The company present a new proved to be a remnant most whelming. The restoration of the type of entertainment and every Victorian of what it was. gate themselves, whose history is artisto is in the East for the first To be sure, there are some briefly outlined on the tablet, and time. There is a novelty and half-dozen old cottages in the in the programmes in your hands, freebness about the setting which main street thatched with a skill is an act of gracious generosity and is a distinct change from that of that is hard to find to-day, but an emblem of goodwill, the memory the ordinary pierrot show. tboy are overshadowed by villa's
of which we shall always treasure. The company includes Reginald of brick with slate roofs, by Phone C 2004. Your presence here is a further Selleck, pianist and entertaicer; modern shops with telephone in- honour and a pleasure for which Madge Carter, the possessor of a stallation and and unanticipated How the we hardly" dared to hope.
good contralto voice; Charles air, of modernity. Simple though we may be, we Chamior, light comedian; Muriel gentle rectar would be puzzled, have our pride the pride of an Varna, who contributes anything perhaps distressed, could he ra- ancient civilization-in the things from drama to comedy: Frank visit the corner of the church in handed down to us. Six hundred Milne, a vorsatile comedian; which his remains rasi. years ago the forebears of the Tangs came to Kam Tin, sailing up the creek which is now spanned by the great road bridge down below, Here they founded this township, and became Lords of the Manor of the Territories South of Sham Chunland including even, the Island
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Happily this corner bas suffer- Fred Creasey, baritone; and Jann Carill and Rene Delyse, ined least of all. The rectory is classical and cabaret dancing. hidden among trees, it looks on Plans are open at Moutrine's.""
to a piece of common land with an ash or 950amore in the mid-i dla and a rough soat round it on the far side, where the village begins, there is a fine chalk building, but one corner of the
of Hongkong. The arrival of the restoring them to their owners. I British has cost us this, but we wish long life to the inhabitants ground has been turned lato a have gained in many ways, and and prosperity to the village of rubbish heap. * our debt is great-not merely for Kam Tin. (Applause).
Even the church would appear things material, but for that kindly The Hon. Mr. Chou Shou-son re-to have suffered restoration, but sympathy and goodwill which have lied on behalf of the olders. the ground surrounding it is up- always marked our relations, and Speaking in Chinese, he said the spoilt,
which receive their final expression ceremony illustrated the goodwill There was nothing of the at- in to-day's ceremony.
of the British Government to the mosphere that Gilbert White:
or over the
Mr. Tang Pak-kau wishes me to people. The kind act of His Ex-created in the village, little in ald that he especially welcomes cellency was conducive to the pre-the church, but there was some- his old friends Mr. Messer, Mr. motion of good relationship be-thing of it in the churchyard. Wood, Mr. Orme, Mr. Tratman and tween the Government and the There the bees wure out amid the regrets that others, absent from the Chinese people, and would be long almond blossom Colony, have been unable to join remembered on behalf of the Kam celandine, the air Was full of the celebrations. The presence of Tin villagers. He thanked His their soft murmuring, while on Mr. Gerrard, A. S. P., New Terri Excellency sincerely for his kind tories, is especially appropriate asservice. (Applause),
I understand he is the only sur
viving European resident of the Development of New Territory. Colony who was actually present After shaking hands with all the at the taking of the Gates in 1899. Elders, the Governor said: Elders Speaking for myself, after two of Kum Tin village, I have to thank years. spent in the New Territories you for the kind expressions con-
the tree-tops thrushes were sing- ing and in the ivy a robin, just as though they thought their spring song could send its mess age to the spirit of him for whose sake so many are observers and lovers of the wild life around us.
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territory; but in order to develop Problems crop up continually, the country it is necessary to pro- which, owing to the difference in lyide the roads, and it is only now our civilizations, are impossible of that we are beginning to get a suit- solution by an European 'unaided.jable rond system. Now that we In all, such cases Mr. Tang Pak-have good ronds in the New Terri- kau'a sage and temperate advice Lary, I hope this prosperity will has been invaluable,
increase and bring a new era in
Finally Your Excellency we de-Hongkong und Kowloon. It always sire to thank you once again for seems to me that the future of the your kindly interest in us, I cannot New. Territory lies largely in pro- do better than end by quoting the viding for the market of Hongkong, final words of the address you have and I hope to see in this Territory just received-"May happiness and the growth of cattle breeding, f fortune go with you all your days." which will reduce cur dependance | Jon other countries and the interior] Hon. Mr. Bird's Reminiscences. of China for this necessary com The Hon. Mr. Bird said:
munity. I hope that you Elders I wish to take this opportunity of will think over the possibility of) thanking the Elders of the Tang developing these important indus- Clan for their kindness in asking tries. I am sorry to say I shall not! us here this afternoon to witness be here myself, bat I am sure you this very interesting ceremony. The can rely on the Government to cccasion is one of 'special interest (assist with help and advice, if you to me as I was present at Tai Po undertake anything of the kind. on the day the Union Jack was Now I have only to say again that hoisted there, and that same after-the Government greatly appreciates noon saw those gates of Kam Tin the good order, which has always earried into the cump--they had existed in the New Territory since been brought over the hills a dis-we took it over, and tance of some 10 miles and it took thank the Elders for the ten coolles to carry ench gate. uso of" your valuable izi- These gates have since journeyed fluence to preserve the pence. I to the Old Country and they bring heard from Mr. Wynne-Jones that back a message of British straight you are now considering the poa dealing and fair play. It was sibility of providing accommoda- necessary at the time to remove the [tion for the villagers who unfor- gates because the villagers, through tunately, have been displaced in ignorance, defled the Government: connection with the Shing Mun it is no longer necessary to hold water scheme. I know the dim- them because the villagers of Kam culties in this scheme but if you Tin have proved their loyalty, to the think there is anything that can, British flag, and have prospered be done I am sure the Government under its rule. So it comes to will assist you in the matter. pass that after 26 years and much Now, gentlemen, I wish you good- travelling these gates have come bye and all prosperity in your vil
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