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CHINESE NEW YEAR.

REGULATION REGARDING CRACKER FIRING.

Daring Chinese New Year, por mission is given for crackers to he

fred as follows :-

Within those portions of the City of ictoria and the Kowloon Penin sula hounded by the following linarts:

Victoria-South.

(1.) City of Bonham Road, North. The Praya Weat.--Western Street; East - Bai Street and Morrison Street.

(2.) Queen's Rond East from Royal

STRIKE GLOOM,

THE GODS TAKE PITY ON

HONGKONG.

Strikes are depressing things and any little help to dispel the general gloom they cast over the commanity is more than welcome. Hongkon he reason, therefore, in the midst of its travail, to thank the gods--the gods of fun and frolic for the treat unually rare and refreshing afforded by the comedy programme showing at the Coronet Theatro this evening Even for an avowed comedy bill, this entertainment is unusually rich in humour. First there's Mack Sennett's five reel super feature" entitled

THE CHINA MAIL.

CORRESPONDENCE,

EMERSON ON RELIGION.

[To the Editor of the "

China Mall."

Sir, Re Pastor Maconachie's letter and your leader of the other evening, the following lines from Emerson's essay on Religion interest your readers:--

ין

MAY

WAH YAN SCHOOL

PRIZE DAY YESTERDAY.

The Wah Yan English School, Robinson Road, held its firet distriba-

LIVING LIGHTS.

QUEER CREATURES FROM OCEAN DEPTHS.

In The Hat ints of Life" (Melrose, 98 net), Professor J. Arthur Thomson tion of prizon yesterday. Mr. Ho has given permanent form to hi Kwong presented the prizes to the Royal Institn tion lectures of last successful students. The head Christmas. Tey will interest readers

Peter master, Mr.

Тніп, gave of every age: they are packed with excellen

of the curious and interesting information account

and progress

succers. about animal life; and they come from one he is a master of his sub- THE REPORT.

ject and able to put his knowledge into the simplest and clearest form.

An

school's

In his report the

"But the religion of England is it the Established Church! no; is it the secta no; they are only perpetua- tions of some private man's dissent, and are to the Established Church nsaid :- cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more convenient, but really the same thing Yet, if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil, souffrir de tout monde et ne faire souffrir personne. that divine secret bas existed in Eng jand from the days of Allred to the of Homilly, of Clarkson, and of

and Florence Nightingale,

in thousands who have no fame

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When, 0, when are the (hurches

(established and otherwise) going to cast off their antiquated theological doctrines!

Yours faithfully,

"Ex-CHURCHGOER." Hongkong, January 20th 1922.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

beadmaster

the

He does ot di-miss the sea-serpent The progress of the school, though as a myth: "The rock-record shows in its infancy, has been a success, that there were once great sen-serpent partly due to the guidance of the and he is a bold man who says he is Education Department and

sure there are 1 one living to-day. We encouragement given by ilin Ex- remember weai ag in the Prince of cellency the Governor to all the Monaco's colle rtion a great piece of a schools of the Colony, especially toacaly cuttle-fad. It came from the this one, as it was started about the stomach of a sperm-whale, but no one same time as His Exellency took up has seen the at uimal. Unless the piece his responsible office here.

was a piece of the very last scaly cuttle-fish, the animal is likely to be still represente din the rese. Perhaps there may be a giant sea serpent foo."

THE SCHOOL'S SMALL BEGINNING. This school was established in

December 1919 with four pupils at 60 Hollywood Road. The number in. creased rapidly ad soon registered

200.

For

want о

Not many years ago thinkers were certain that no life could exist in the But space many abysmal depths of the oceans. applicants had been refunest wimission; thua sub-re « rine cable broke, and More suitable premises than 60 when the twoids were fished up for y Hollywood Road were badly needed. repair they were found to be sacrusted The school was able to remove to this with several diffrent kinds of animals. place (2 Robinson Road) February This discovery ave a great impetue 1921 through the genero ity of to investigation, and expedition after His Lordship Bishop D Pozzoni, and expedition was sunt out with special the kindness of the Director of St. equipment for a buaining apecimens of

depths.

Naval Hospital entrance to Kennedy Down on the Farm the name MOUNTED INFANTRY DINNER. Joseph s College, Rev. Bro. Marcian, the animals that inhabit the great

load, by Kennedy Road to a line running through Hing Wan Street. down Stone Nullan Lane to Wanchai

slone is enough to inspire delightful visions and then there's a capital burlesque labelled "Perfectly Firn Road and Tai Wo Street to Prayedish Flannigan" in which open fun Bast, along Praya East to Burrows Street and by Burrows Street to the Gas Works, Wanchai Road. Wanchai Market and both sides of the street are included in these limits.

(9.) Kowloon Peninsula.-North- Austin Road, from Cauton Road to

Bouth--Peking Road; East-Car. the junction with Nathan Road; marvon Rond Wes-Canton Road, between Peking Road and Austin

Road.

On Friday, January 27 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and on Saturday, January 28 from au. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. On Friday, February,

3, from 6 s.m, to 8 a.m.

Within those portions of the City of Victoria and the Kowloon l'enin- sula (Bouth of a line running from the jubetion of Nanking Street and Temple Street, Yauma i, to the! boundary of Kowloon Marine Lot No.

poked at the serious Bill 1lert type of Western her. Highly original and exceedingly amusing, this clever pro- duction makes a happy companion for Down in the Farm," a mirthful triumph featuring the ever sxhuber-

a

now

corals fixed on i he mud, or from the luminous spots of the animals slowly moving in and out among these ' por- No lealty and petual lighthouses." ac depth has yet been smel which does not arbour living amm/6 of some kind " Some of the

Who in spite of the unfinished condi-

are eers in their tion of the new building at Kennedy These abyss DI

"It is very cold; The Volunteer Headquarters were Road then, vested in time this characteristics:

аге. it is absolutely woundless; it is calm transformed into a Banqueting Hall building in which we last night, when the Mounted Infantry Admittance was then given to about and quite dark, save for the weird Section entertained their friends to 160 new comers, who were only about bine-green light radiating from the recru ting dinner and smoking concert ball the number of applicants attract The Drill Hall and Dining Roomed to this school, probably by the were tastefully decorated with flags hard working qualities of the teachers bunting and coloured lights and over and the hygienic condition of the sat down to a very premises. The staff is now eleven in number. All the teachers are ex- Other characters who figure in the enjoyable dinner. ant Ben Turpin sa Her Husbend forty people

In replying to the toasts of the perienced; some of thein lave taught diverting series of complications and surprises which is the very soul of the Guests, Lt. Col. Li. Bird, D.8.), English for nearly twenty years picture are a village swain, bie rustic mentioned the particular interest be The highest number on the roll for sweetheart, a sportive banker, an has always felt in the Mounted the year 1921 was 366 and the aver obedient wife, and a mystery man. Infantry, partly due to the act that age daily attendance was 312, the Special mention should be made also he was once a member of a Volunteer low percentage of the attendance of the trained dog and Mailere ca Mounted Rifle Regiment in England. | being due to the mouth of January, whose amazing intelligence materially and be strongly advised all those contributes to the general merriment. pr. sent who were not members of the A rare programme this, indeed! Corps to join the M. I. forth-with.

Other notable speeches were made by Major G. F, E. Rapson, 1.8.0. Major R. B. Young and Lieut. W Flight Lieut. C. L. Gordon, R.A.F., Higby.

arrived in Hongkong from | In the course

bas

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

of the evening

EXAMINATION RESULTS.

The Inspector of English Schools ports that the School is doing very good work

The results of the Junior Local Ex aminations have been satisfactory. In 1920 four candidat a passed, ona! Chinese, and another in Arithmetic.

from those alim according to the

reatures brought up at fabulous depths, Marquis de Folin

throw off flaal us of light, beside

working by were pals. The per- which the twenty torches used for vading colour w: te greenish. Minute by minute the thory lessened as the quarter of an hour they were all dead animals died, and at the end of a and withered brauches. But while they were at their best, one could read by their light the finest print in One of the most mysterious powers

40) not comprised in the above linats, England for duty as officer in charge Messrs. Farthing and Eager rendered of whom obtained distinction is a newspaper at a distance of 6 feet'

with the exception mentioned:---

hereafter

From 4 p.m. on Friday, January 27 till 4 p.r. on Sunday, January 29, and on Friday, February 3 from $

a.m. to 9 a.m.

No oracker-firing will be permutted in lee House Lane, Duduell Street, or in the lanes leading out of Duddel! Street for a distance of 80 yards from Queen's Road.

Cracker firing is to be strictly con fined to the times named above, both within and without the prescribed area, and both sides of all streets, or parts of streets named as the bounds. ries above, are be considered as within the prescribed area.

Dear

person

No burning cracker or other fire is to be thrown above the head or or inflammable material, and all reasonable precaution must be taken against accident, as every one is liable for damage arising from his carelessness.

of air duties.

musical items at the piano, and songs Great improvement has been made in that close observation has revealed were given by Sorgt. Dowbiggin 1921. There were more than thrice is the capacity of certain fishes and

The King has not been advised Cpl Macnamara, Major Kapson, the number of passes when comparing water animals to live out of water. :

to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the local Ordinance to amend the General Loan and in scribed Stock Ordinance, 1913.

An extraordinary general meet ing of the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited will be held on February 1 for the purpose of passing resolutions in- creasing the capital of the Company from $2,500, 00 to $5,000,000.

I.C.M.., C.B.,

Command Orders announce that J. S. Fowler, Major-General Sir

D.8.0., landed on January 15 and asumed command of the Forces in China on the 18th, vice Lieut. General Sir G. M. Kirkpatrick, K.C.B., E.G.B.I.

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Liest. Higby and many others.

A notable item in the evening's entertainment was an outburst of harmony by the members of the Ma- chine Gun Company, followed by a time dance ably performed by rag Privater Coucher add Potts (the Mad half-section ").

It is now Baticipated that the rauk the Mounted Infantry Section will be swollen to full strength in the course of the next few days.

BOXING.

LOCAL ASSOCIATION'S NEXT TOURNAMENT.

with that of the previous year. One of them obtained distinction Chinese.

SPORT.

in

"Some small crustaceans have been known to lie for forty yours in dried mud without losing the power of actively living when the mud was moistened again. A naturalist visiting In sports we are not far behind. Jerusalem took a little mud from the Owing to lack of ground for pratice pool of Gibon, at the Jaffs Gate, and we are not able to form a Football put it in a pill-box. Ju lay dry for team, but we entered a Volley Ball forty years but, when some of the dry team in the Spring Junior League and dust was put into a saucer full of were runner-up. Swimming parties! water, it gave rise after a short time were formed and Stonecutters and to some hively water-fleas." Castle Peak were generally the The sel, as is well known, can travel

There is si favoured spota in spite of bad weather, through damp gra98. We had also an excursion party of tropical fish, known as the climbing two hundred strong to Shumchon, perch, which has the very curious Sheung Shai and Faaling. It was habit of scrambling, by means of its an ideal one, and gave satisfaction pectoral fins.

alones, up

roots, to all those who took part in it. The and even the trunks of trees, in reduction in the railway lares, the search of the insects on which it feeds. Still more surprising is the habit of a permission of the abbot of the mon use of bis hall for luncheon, and the which is said to make nocturnal raide astery in Shumchun Market to make South African fish, called Clarias, the kindness of Sir Robert Ho Tang, on the fields in order to eat the grains

The sale of three properties one The next tournament of the Hong- Wyndham Street, another in kong Boxing Association has boen The firing of crackers is not to be Shanghai Street, and the third in fred for Saturday, February 26, rarried on in the vicinity of places of Portland Street by Mesure. Lanimert either at the City Hall or Christian Worship during Divine Bros, under instructions from the Ming Yuen Gardens, as circumcoupled with that of Mr. Fung Fi of millet.

The boute bave Cheuk in supplying the party with Service.

local Supreme Court, has been stances allow.

ant yet been definitely arranged, tea in their country house must also Attention is drawn to Government indefinitely postponed.

but the services of such good men as be remembered.

A new Harbour regulation. re- Notification No. 298 of the 8th July,

Persons using crackers in Wilkins, Britt and Jones have been 1921. No person shall make, sell,

Notwithstanding the success of the quires that, all 'tween deck space in or have in kis porscssion any fire-celebration of Chinese New Year are secured, and the tourney promises

even the last one, school it is still in need of the guidance river steamers must be measured and works which explode by detonation, liable for damage arising out of to surpass

voted the best and support in every way from those added to gross tonnage, as per Board This will or which contain any explosive in carelessness. The police have strict which gredient or mixture other than black orders to summon or arrest persons vet held under the suspices of the who are concerned with it, and those of Trade Instructions. gunpowder, charcoal, sulphur and firing crackers in contravention to the H. K. B. A. Local fans are greatly who are ite seniors in education. It apply to Canton and West River, saltpetre.

special regulations framed to cover interested in young Chadwick after also requires the help, both moral and passenger steamers. Application must. The Police have strict orders to the Chinese New Year period. The his excellent performances at the last material, of the promoters of educat be made to the Harbour Master for "electric" crackers, two tournaments and the Association ion who have or have not already re-measurement of tonnage at least summon or arrest persons firing firing of bomba,

come under their annual survey. crackers in contravention of the fore- and "Golden Coin" crackere is would do well to include him in the given their help to other educational seven days before such stearmers next

strictly prohibited.

programme again. goiu; restrictions.

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1.00

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