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I have the honour to be
Your
My Lord
Lordship's most obedient Bumble servant,
fillinen der Veur
Enclosure
15th + 1644 MINTE
1889.
Enclosure
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MARCH 15TH, 1889.
The little difficulty with regard to the couvert which was to have taken place at the Govern- ment Civil Hospital soine two months ago has, it would seem, travelled home, judging from the following note which appears in the last issue of Truth: A piece of official arrogance some de- ! grees worse than the foregoing an incident in Malta occurred a few weeks ago at Hongkong. During the temporary absence of the Governor, the medical staff of the Government Civil Hos pital organised au Amateur concert for the amasement of the patients at Christmas time. A room in a new wing which bad not been ocoupled was prettily decorated for the occasiou. An attractive programme was made up, and all the arrangements concluded, when, the day hefore the event, a communication was received from the Governor, flatly vetoing the perfor mance. The only intelligible reason assigned for this piece of bumptious tyranny was that 'a most unwarrantable liberty had been taken--in other words His Excellency's' approval hai not been asked. This is the way our aristocratic suob blossoms forth under the influence of Oriental surroundings and freedom from public oriticism."
Gng China Juail.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889,
That I have received a communication from Manchester, asking who are the two bro- thers in Hongkong mentioned in a London daily as the possessora of Spratt's banjos, that 'quaint musical instrument which seems to be setting all fashionable London by the ears.'
That, being unable to gratify the curiosity of my Manchester friend, perhaps the Special Commissioner of the London daily alluded to may enlighten the Bome public upon this very interesting pe- collarity of some of the residents here. That those who read over the touching description of Miss Amy Sherwin's entertaiment to the patients of the General Hospital in Singapore, at which her rendering of Good There is a green hill far away was described as nothing less than an act real devotion and sweet ministration of song to the afflicted,' must have recalled the peculiar adurixture of unreasonable anwisdom and arbitrary pettiness which rabbed the Hospital patients here of a similar treat laat Christmas,
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