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THE CHINA MAIL

GOOD CHEER.

VARIED FICTURES OF CHRISTMAS.

AMONG THE NOVELISTS,

Were there ever, we wonder outalde his own pages such glorious Christmases as Dickens conjures up for our delight with the magic of his pen, saksa Home paper.

smile at Anne Kimbler, annual fallure to follow suit her breach

a measure in fancy at the ball at

NOTICES.

the Red House, provisioned for MARINE ENGINEERS GUILD

the occasion as if for a siege,!! andatoaked with feather-beda

OF CHINA AU

enough to sleep a small army HONGKONG BRANCH.

But George Eliot's Christmassa, however picturesque, lack the igie

de uture that dances for sheer by A MEETING will be held at N ORDINARY GENERAL of being alive In Dickens's per the GUILD OFFICE, SAILORS and this note of irrepressible

HOME, WEST POINT on galety even Thackeray rarely strikes.

FRIDAY, 18th DECEMBER, |[1926] at·5 O'CLOCK.

from

drabness-with

Drab Christmases. How gleefully the flames leap

Those two Christmases at up the chimney of the snug, cur-Queen's Crawley even Becky tuin-drawnian-parlour : how Sharp's sprightly tougue cannot gratefully the incense rises from redeem the steaming punch-bowl; and dreary Sir Pitt uttering his pom- how merrily the church bells clash pous platitudes, and the two heir chimes through the crisp, brothers loving each other at clear air, over a landscape agleam with its fresh mantle of snow.

One's pulses beat to the lilt of his music and the trip of dainty feet. We watch with envy the kissing under the misletoe, and involuntarily rise to Mr. Wardle's. bidding "Fill up It will be two bours good before you see.. the bottom of the bow through the

eap rich colour of the wass

Christmas and hating each other. Jall the year round. Nor is there exhilaration in the picture of the amiable Prince. of Montcontour drinking to Colonel Newcome to his misfortunes, whild Mame, de Florac and Ethel Newcome "touch their glasses with pale lips."

But at least they are a lively

those Anthony Trollope pic tures. Plum pudding such as Lily ... Dale had to eat with the fest, and blind man's buff as played at the "Great House" scarcely make an exhilarating Yuletide, with dinner at three o'clock and an endless. evening setting in when it should be teatime,

BAMBUSINESSTV ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS,

· GENERAL.---

Hongkong, 16th Dec., 1926.

HONGKONG - BOXING ASSOCIATION.

THEATRE ROYAL.

DECEMBER 23rd 1925, # 9:15 pm.

IRD TOURNAMENT OF

THE SEASON:

MAIN EVENT: CP.O. JIM CARTLIDGE

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* STOKER MORRIS: Fifteen 2-minute round Catch- weight Contest and about five other contests.

It must, Indeed, have been good to be young in those days to look nas Mr. Pickwick, in all the glory of speckled silk stockings, sada out the old lady in rich brocade," "saluting her with all ourtesy and decorum" under the nistletoe; and the young lady with No, the Christmases spent by h black eyes, and the other to these be-whiskered, peg-topped Watch the young ladies make amem and crinolined women in Members only on the 19th and GENERAL sudden dart forward, and before drawing-rooms. of magenta rep are 21st December. Mr. Pickwick, knew distinctly as little attractive is the makingPUBLIC on the 22nd and 23rd what was the matter, surround fandless wreaths for church de- December. PRICES: $7.00; $3.00. him, and with one consent present coration must have been to Trol and $1.00. their pretty tips to be kissed in ope's young ladies. turn.

BOOKING at. MoUTRIE's for

NOTE: MEMBERS of the In Jane Austen we get an occa-Hongkong Boxing Association are Can't you hear Scrooge's "Asional glimpse of "the gaieties entitled to one Ringside seat. each

Christmas erry Christmas, Bob! A mer-which

generally for $5.00 on production of their rier Christmas Bob, my, good brings"; but the glimpses are tan Membership Cards. Members are follow, than I have given you for tulisingly few. The red-urmed requested to sign their names many a year. Bet, make up the Meses Bennet "Emma, refusing when taking tickets at the ra fre, and buy another coal-scuttle the forward young, vicar when duced rate. Before you dot another Bob chut up with him in her own close Cratchit! To feast with Bob on carriage": walks to Meryton his famous goose is a banquet in "sometimes dirty and sometimes deed, though it be but in fancy; cold"; and even appetising sup- and it is an intoxication to join pera of chicken and scalloped in "Sar Roger" as led by Mr. and oysters, leave us unmoved. Mrs. Fezziwig "after the cold freast and boiled."

Merriest of Revels. One of the merriest Christmases in fiction is that described by Du Maurier in Trilby, in which, after the befated hamper had at last

arrived, "Suddenly the studio be

But a truce to dulness!

We

Hongkong 16th Dec, 1925.

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ICE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED.

bave Little patience at such a time THE HONGKONG & CANTON to dwell on that dramatic Christ- mas-day sermon in which Maxwell Gray makes Dean Maitland break

his long silence, to unburden his NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS: guilty conscience to an awed con-

gregation Let us return to our HE FOURTH ORDINARY beloved Dickens, and relive in his T. ANNUAL MEETING of

came a scene of the noisest, pages a few of the jovial Christ-Shareholders in the above Com- bustest. And cheerfulest anima-ases, when every heart was gaypany will be held at the Com tion" The three big lamps were and all the world was young. pany's Town Office, 2 Lower

it and all the Chinese lanterns;

and the revela began.

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Dodor and I'Zouzou stood up to dance with Trilby and Madame, Angele, and executed a series of such grotesque staps as convulsed

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everyone with laughter. Then THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER followed mimic cock fighting; and¦ COMPANY (1918), LIMITED. the fun waxed more and more

Albert Road, Hongkong, on: TUESDAY, 29th day of December, 1925, at NooN, for the purposa · of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July 1926,

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 14th

motous until the gens d'armes THE SEVENTH ORDINARY to the 29th December, 1925, both made their appearance-only to YEARLY MEETING OR days inclusive.

the trussed in turn and SHAREHOLDERS in the above made to join in the cock-fighting Company will be held at the of the Company, St. until most of the company were Offices rolling on the floor in paroxysma George's Buliding, Victoria, Hong- of mirth.

kpag. on MONDAY, the 21st But all our novelists do not DECEMBER, 1925, at 11.30 o'clock. picture Christmas in such gay in the forenoon for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts colours as the genial "Boz" We and the Report of the General have no wish to join Silas Marner Managers for the year ended 30th as he spends his Christmas Day, September, 1925, and electing a "in loneliness, eating his meal in Consulting, Committee and sadness of heart, and looking. dolo- Auditors.

fully on every blade of grass."*.:. The TRANSFER BOOKS" of

By Order of the Board of Directors.

J. D. THOMSON, -

Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 11th Dec, 1925.

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Rather let us turn to the "Mill the Company will be closed from MESSRS KOMOR & KOMOR, on the Floss," and watch Tohr and THURSDAY, the 10th December: Maggie enjoy that plum pudding 1925, until MONDAY the 21st which "was of the same handsome December, 1925, both days in- roundness as usual, and came inclusive.

with the symboliè 'blue flames SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

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CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR

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Domestic Occurrence

1

3560 Fine

14

Lending Articles

3 $10 for Light

14

Correspondence

Canton Shipy

14

Mr. G. N. Urme Il

14

"Anti-Foreign"

4

Fraternity Trip

14

'round it."

Interport Dates

Naval Cricket

14

Wages Claim

2

4

Rugger Practice

14

Back in Colony

4.

lockey Shortage

15

Here we catch some of the true Christmas spirit; as also when we

That New Port

Yacht Club

.15

Still Brisk

4

Cricket Notes

.15

War in South.

6:

Navy's Low Score

1817

5.

Loral Health

.17

Lawn Bowle

.18

Rugby Trial

.18

"White Wings"

18

Holders Win

.19

Golf Surprise

.19

China's Wars...

.19

Chinese Debtors

.20

Motor Accidents

:20

Tea Leaf Fire

20

8

Pence Móvei

20

A Matter of Pride

21

Better Eolations

Busy Cupid

Memories.

Flying Colours

Local Accidents

Organ Fund Concert

Midnight Fire

Hangkung Bachelors

Locat Cricket

Sim Shield

Boxing

Party Split

A Motoring Lesson

Canton Boycott

"Life After Death"

Wembley Results

Often Off-Side

Xmas Mail

Fraternising..

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Strike Year"

Honours Even

Theft Charge

9

"Change in Date

Clever Students

A Stolen Bangle

Heavy Going.

10

Motor Fatality

Mid-Week Cricket

11

Going Well-

League Soccer

11.

Praya Smash

"Rennie's Folly"

Local Weddings

Motor Mishape

Wedding Bella

War in South

11

Sack the Lot

Trade Loan

11

"Iolanthe"

.12

Good Friends

12

"Secret

Bound for Home

Tax Foreigners

Gold Bar Theft Station Tragedy Charity BazaAT ET A Wife's Dobla Meeting A Need Notable Record "Red" Partner Consul's Death "Red Shipp

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Society

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