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HONGKONG.
and every Englishwoman sincerely trust that the charge
of the Philippine Islande would never be severed from
the Stare and Stripes. He wished that our relations
with the Philippine Islands were a little closer. "My
wife and family," continued His Excellency," following
the Hongkong fashon, are going off for a change of air
to Japan, I have been trying to persuade them, and
so has Bishop Brent, to go to Baguio. I am afraid I
am not so strong in my household as I ought to be-
(laughter)-but I think it would do Hongkong people
a great deal of good to tear themselves away a little
bit from the heathen lands with which they are surrounded
and to bind closer the relations with those great islande
which are administered by our cousins, the Americans,"
(Applause).
The Bishop of Victoria presided at the
meeting, and there were also present, in addition to
R. E, the Governor, the Honourable Mr.Claud Severn, the
Honourable Sir, Paul Chater, C.M.G., and Archdeacon
Barnett,
Bishop Brent gave a most interesting picture
of his work among the peoples of the Philippines,
illustrating his remarks with many telling anecdotes
and examples. His stries of the work among the fierce
tribes in Sulu, who are descendants of pirates and are
proud of their ancestry, were especially entertaining.
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