CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 141

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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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