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«ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. THE MON. MR. A. G. STEPHEN ELECTED, PRESIDENT.

Hall last night, the President (the

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1989.

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

MR. LESLIE E. HAYNES.

CORRESPONDENCE.

STUDENTS' SERVICES

ASSOCIATION,

L THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS."}.

[ AN ENGLISH TRAVELLER}

A NOTE ON HIS ÇAREER.

Friday night in hot a good time to

We have had many inquiries as to the The shanal meeting of the Hongkong arrive in Montreal unless you have to Eastern connections of Mr. Leslie. E St. Andrew's Society was beld at the City served room beforehand. The 'hotel Haynes, who during the past year or

people will tell you that the rooms are two has enjoyed a great deal of publicity sin-1 shall be grateful if you, will ten dollarga day but there are nona in the London and provincial papers for j vacant. The explanation is that U.S.A. communications bearing his name as the

allow me space in your columns' to clear is "dry" and Quebec is not

up difficulties which appear to have arisen Montreal is Secretary of the Sino-British Trade As- therefore the week-end Mecca for the Newsociation. We had heard of Mr. Haynes

in certain sections of the Colony with reference to Yorker, who has a car to carry him as being for a short period, a tencher in

the Students', Services Association! The object of this Asso along this, New York Montreal Road. one of the schools of Hongkong, but, we Montreal is thriving. It looks prèsperous. now

ciation is to provide "A" Eniversity) learn from a publication called Sermon on each Sunday during term Buildings are going upi and there is an !" Men, ôf the Day”, which publishes "a air of optimisia about. Quebe is the full page, coloured portrait of

time on lines similar as far as possible, only province which shops a surplus of specially drawn by "Rex" (R. Having reference to local conditions; to five millia dollars in its budget. ItsJerrold-Nathan, A. medallist that the Cniversity Sermon preached at financial position creates envy among the Mr. Haynes bus claims to distinction as

and Shanghai Banking Corporation, for having audited the mounts"

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him

Oxford and Cambridge. Our efforts, in

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the phrase so-called try because it term of his residence in the "East." 1 called dry proviures of Canada. I use Sinclogue, notwithstanding the brief the first place, must of necessity be ex

perimental, but thanks to the courtesy was forcibly braught to my nuties in une

Men of the Day" is an important,

of the authorities of the Rhenish Mission prohibition law is evaded. My host went looking monthly publication. The July Church Building in Bonham Road, as town in Saskatchewan how easily the out in his car and after ten minutes he number tears on its cover a portrait ofwell as to the generosity of Sir Paul returned saying he had been to a drug the Rt. Hon.

Chater, we the Earl of Reading. gist's Five minutes later a, messenger

able to continue the came to the door, saying he had a tele Viceroy and Governor-General of Indie,

experiment for one more year. Our great! gram for Mr. X.. my hust

sity, and may perhaps be a means of The latter und besides five full page varroous similare is that these sermons may form a Mink between the Colony and the Univer- ringing the Colony to realise more fully that this is a University town, and that there are opportunities in a University.

not to be found else where. We hope that the clergy and

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took the telegram, which he showed me to to that of Mr. Haynes the magazine has be a bottle of London Gin, which he had oltaiard in this way from one of the lead- numerous portraits of men of uchieve ng druggista in town.

It seems to me meat." distinguished in many-walks of that inhibition is a grand thing in life. theory. Far away we get the impression of a real puritanic people determined to

Local interest, however, is in the town,, which are

Fion. Me. A.-O. Lang) in the chair, . There was a large attendance of members. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said:-It is gratifying ito report ny increase in sub- scriptions to the extent of $100, buz aj

till further increase is possible as "understand there are quite a namber of Scotsmen in the Colony who are not mem. ars of the Society. I hope an effort will be made to get everyone" who is eligible dato the fold, and in that contection manbers are earnestly requested to give their assistance by bringing forward "new; uanies. In accordance with the resolution passed at our last ännial resing a draft for £350 was forwarded to Field Marshal Earl Haig's Fund' for ipemployed sex- service men," anal an appreciative uckuow ledgment of the society's gift has since Iwon received from Loudon, During the year there were an unusually farge um ber of applications for assistance from Scotsmen in distress, and you may rest assured that each case was carefully con. sider before relief was given. Invest. ments remain as before, and the Ball rid of the cursed thing. There is achievenients of Mr. Leslie E. Haynes, ministers of all denominations as well as artint dura hot seem to me to require thing Cromwelling about the whole and his acquaintances in Hongkong and the leading layarn in the Colony will any comment, ur best thanks are again thing

I suggests strength, of will. those who know of hini only as Secretary preach during the year on subjects of real thi to Mr. H. Bruce, of the flag of character and all manner of lofty of the Sino-British Trade Association will and we hope that the Colony as a whole

nobility of purpose, self-denial, hardness

importance in relation to modern thought, qualities. At a distance it is all very doubtless be interested to read the follow. will avail itself of the opportunity" of Miss Marjory Jane Stuart, of the Kowacquaintance modies, one's admiration

Impressive and inspiring, hut closer ing biographical note which we repro- is being printed for the year, and I shall hearing these sermons. The programme Toon British School, was successful in obtaining the J. R. Smith Scholar and von turns it to contempt. Here is duce from the magazine: ship" and we offer hen our hearty co

Mr. L. E. Haynes has been well is interested. This also will appear cach he pleased to send a copy to anyone who gratulations” on

described as China's Ambassador of week under the advertisement of Church her achievement,-

Trade, Mr. Haynes is the eldest son Services" in your paper. From this it (Applause). ..

of Mr. Ernest Haynes, well-known, as will be seen that tomorrow the preacher a connoiseur of textile hrt, and fro will be the Rev. WT. Featherstone, ceedell to the Far East en medical ... Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys', mouths providusly. By acquiring a fluent The position of the modern Church- advice in 1917, leaving the army a few School, who is takings for his subject

guages he soon gained the confidence, vant, knowledge of the Malay and Chinese man."-1 am, Sir. Your obedient ser= | and respect of the Chinese (of Malaya ?)", in which country he was planting rubber. Proceeding to China shortly afterwards, his whole time was devoted to studying the Chinese language and the Chinese people. At the request of veral leading Chinese aierchants in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements he returned to England in November last for the urpose of organising the Sino-British Association, which organi- sation he brought into being with the assistance of Mr. Douglas. Halliday Macartney on the ith December Izst Mr. Haynes has published several book-

At the request of Mr. I. B. McHale, lets dealing with matters, Chinese, the Assistant Chief Steward on the .s. principal one being Observations Empress of Canadu, the police, jester- Past Bellum Problems in the day, charged f young unemployed Malay States in 1919, and reprinted and of two towels and one bed-sheet. revised in Hongkong in 1931. His many case was beard before Mr. R. E. contributions to the London Press are Lindsell.. well-known and have been reprinted; Sub-Inspector Craht said the articles and translated in the principal ver were found round the accused's waist. nacular newspapers in the Far East. His hobbies are music, ancient Chinese literature, and lawn tennis."

Saint Andrew's Day was celebrated by the usual Ball, and your" Committee take this opportunity of thanking the convener and members of the various Sub-Co mittees who contributed so ably to a very sugraful function, There are one or two cold friends to whom my personal thanks are dar for assistance in connection with the Ball, but as it is invidious to mention unes I would ask them to accept this reference, as an appreciation of their special services. (Applause),

the real puritan and yet snugly enjoying a people seeking abroad the reputation of the pleasures of life to the full. Charles II is the outward sign. is privately the model, though Cromwell

privately-owned saloons but there is a No one wishes to go back to the strong feeling towards a system by which the Government benefits instead of the boot-legger, to a system which will put and once again ruise the law to a position an end to the present national hypocrisy, I where it can be enforced and respected and thus put an end to the prosecution of really decent citizens, whose convic tion is merely a reflection na the law! rather than an themselves. There is said to be a lot of money behind prohibition. The motor and oil interests.--Ford and

The Burns Night Dinner, held a 28th January, at the Hongkong Hotel will long be remembered for the eloquent spech in which the Hon. Mr. A. the Standard Dil-are both said to be in Stephen proposed. The Immortal Memory. Mr. Stephen delighted us all by quotations, from a well stored memory, of characteristic passages from the poems of or National Bard.

Sir

reasonable to suppose that it money is favour of the present system, for it is not ment in drink it will be spent on motor cars and petrol. If it is so it is a good thing, yet it is hard to believe that the mortality from alcohol is quite so staggering as the mortality from motor Recidents. In the former case the weak. willed kills himself, but death is no respector of persons where the motor-car is concerned,

A E PERRY, Hon. Secretary. Students' Services Association. Hongkong September 22nd,

THIEVING

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Concernublished in the Federated Chinese, named Ah Kam.with the theft

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The Magistrate That they were not

In answer to the charge the defendant said he found that the things had been left behind by one of the fokis. He

wanted inderd Besides, what right had thought they were not wanted.

employed on board for two days doing you on board at all?

In reply, the accused said he had been

Bath has claimed a large number of members during the past year. air. Murray Stewart, President of the Society in 1910, passed away in California some few months ago. He was one of the finest types of Scotsmen it was possible to meet, and his services to the Society are well Having "put over prohibition, as the known to mist of those present, American says, there is now a campaign Patrick Manson, K.C.M.G., be his study against smoking. A persor is not long of Tropical Diseases while resident in the States before he is made to feel Hongkong. raised himself to eminence it that smoking is not quite the thing. On his profession, and by his death, at home the train, he must sneak into a sort of The man who in a space of four years, the capire les one of its most celebrated cubby hole screened off from everything in the intervals of earning a living at medical specialists. Mr. 3. D. Legnt, a the small place where he washes and planting or teaching in an Anglo-Chinese kany rears and probably our oldest mem place. It cannot be argued that smoking ledge of the Malay and Chinese lang keen and active worker for the Society for waves in the morning-a most depressing school, is able to acquire a duent know ber, passed away only a few days ago, and would add to the dust and dirt of Suages, to the extent in the latter case of odd jobs, he will be missed in, connection with all carriage; it would be very difficult to matters relating to Scottish intercata in

ancient Chinese literature" a making ..

hobby, is certainly entitled to rank among this Coloty. Messrs. A. Mackenzie,

men of achievement”. Frank Maitland, W. G. Lay, D. M. Mac kay, J. McCorquodale and John Wilkie old and valued members-have niso beet taken away, and it is fitting that this opportunity be taken of expressing our sympathy with the relatives.

Mr. D. TEMPLETON seconded and the report and accounts were approved.

swallow more dust than one does in journey across America. A friend in California told me that if a man put up for election, his chances of success were very considerably reduced if he smoked cigarettes. In fact one might say that is America divorce has become a respect- able habit and cigarette smoking an abominable vice. Now I hear that coffee drinking is the next thing to be attacked. There is apparently some insidious drug The CHAIRMAN said he had very much "devilish in defying opinion and drink in coffee. Already some people feel quite pleasure in proposing the Hon. Mr. A. G.ing coffee three or four times a day." Stophea as President for the ensuing There seems to be considerable scope for year. Mr. Stephen needed, no recoman American Punch which will enable mendation; his ability and genial dis- people to see themselves in a proper pers position were well known and all were five and so preserve the national much impressed with the ease and elo-sanity. quence with which he spoke. popular Scotsman could be nominated for this important position.-(Applause).

THE NEW PRESIDENT.

No, more

Mr. R. M. DER: It gives me a great deal of plenare to second that resolution. The CHALISIAN: Though Mr. Stephen is absent from the Colony, he will be back early in November, and has informed me that, if elected, he will be proud to accept ofice.-(Applause).

The resolution was carried with ac clamation and the CHAIRMAN intimated that he would eable the decision of the meeting to Mr. Stephen.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

Thy Committee was elected by ballot. The following nominations were before the meeting: Members of the out-going Committee: Mesars J. Reid, W, Nichol son, Dr. G. D. R. Black and Dr. J. C. Dalmahoy Allan. Additional nominees Dr. C. Forsyth, Messrs. A. K. Hender ROD, G. M. Shaw, J. L. Crockett, J. B. Ross and D. Templeton.

The following were elected : Dr. C. Forsyth, Dr. G. D. R Black, Messrs, J. Reid,

W. Nicholson and A. K. Henderson.

THE ANNUAL BALL

A BRIBERY CHARGE.

OPIUM SMUGGLER'S ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A CONSTABLE,

The Magistrate:

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Who took you on

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The accused; A friend employed the ship. I don't know his name,

The Magistrate: That will do. You will go to prison for four weeks,

A COMPLAINANT'S FIRST DUTY.

of 23 taels of raw opium, valued at $48, dent of the Kowloon-Canton Railway,

A Chinese, who was found in possession

Mr. G. A. Walker, Trafic Superinten-

alleged to have increased the enormity of Magistracy, yesterday morning, when a at the Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloon, i was the complainant in a case at the the offence by bribing an Indian Con- Chinese was charged before Mr. Hamil. stable with 80. Should this latter ton, with the theft of two lengths of charge be proved the defendant will have chain, the property of the Railway Com- to be sent for trial before a jury at the next Criminal Sessions.

pany.

Inspector Aris explained to the Magis- the Magistracy, yesterday, the Indian morning and could not attend Court; if, Giving evidence before. Mr. Lindsell, at trate that Mr. Walker was very busy that constable, No. 271 said that on the pre- however, his services were required he vious day he saw the defendant come out would make an appearance. of the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's premises and walk, towards compliments and tell him, if he does not The Magistrate: Give Mr. Walker my the Star Ferry Wharf. He had a small appear shall have to discharge the man. parcel wrapped in paper under his left It is his first duty to attend Court. The arm. The constable asked the man what case is adjourned until-to-morrow morn- the parcel contained..

ing.

The defendant was released on bail of $25,

The Magistrate: What made you auspicious f

The witness: I suspected him. He was making peculiar movements and appear

Mr. G. M. YOUNG proposed Mr. B. On the motion, of the CHAIRMAN, second-ed nervous.

Sutherland no Vice-President and remarked by Mr. J. W. C. BONNAR, it was decid. Continuing, the witness said the de-

tion was carried.

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The OHAIRMAN announced, with regret,

Tast three years, found it impossible to accept office for a further term He took

nsual Ball TAKA, “

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SCOTTISH VOLUNTEER COMPANY,

"THE LAND OF HOPE.",

That elusive thing, the, spirit of the

ed that there was no more enthusiastic ed to celebrate St. Andrew's Day by the fendant said the parcel contained "some aluma, was caught by the camera in the Bcotetaan in the Cology,

Mr. Jo BRID seconded and the resoln. Mr. J. MoUs aroused great mirth queried the constable. The defendant, Hope," Alice Brady's latest picture thing good to Bat" "What good1" filming of one scene in The Land of by the suggestion that at the next Ball who was walking with another man, which is being shown at the World that Mr. T. W. Hill, secretary for the the President and Vice President should said "What I have got is the same as Theatre. Just as the atmosphere of some

appear in kiltä -

the other man's parcel, ask him and he of the scenes of Humoresque" was will show you what it is Witness contributory factor in the success of that this opportunity of thanking Mr. Hill for Mr.-T. W. Hill, as “0.0.," made an anally, took the parcel from him and die beroun drama, so it will prove to be no his energetic work (Applause). The appeal for recruits to the Scottish Com to the Police Station the defendant offer vesicle. In the great shop socne, Eaapia covered it to contain opium. On the way less important in Alice Brady's present Bociety was very fortunate that Mr. D. Kpany of the Volunteers. He expressed the ed him $16, saying "give me a chance and Fred. Hattan, two of the three Blair had been persuaded to stand for Company's great appreciation of the A little further along the defendant authors who wrote The Land el Hoge," election as hon, secretary and he was generosity of individual Scotsmen who doubled the offer, saying if you will re aand B. H. Grifith, the Director, created sure, if elected, Mr. Blair would carry and defrayed the cost of additional equip loase me out the duties in his usual efficient mont. It was se great a disappointment Witness took the nates from him and fur shop of the lowest order bleak, will give you $60 altogether." picture of exceptional power. It is * manner(Applause). He proposed Mr. to the donors as to thow responsible for handed them. over to Inspector Grant in goot-and-smoke stained, dau, where gaunt Blair's election,

the Company that the recruiting had been the Water Police Station Mr. J. MOCUBBIN esconded and the reso bad. As the Chairman last year, said,The defendant denied the chargo of hits of noite cut from cast of garmente and dreary men and women, slave over solution was carried.

there was no reason why the Company bribery and said he did not offer any or fitched from abchiny Bleeker Street should not be 200 strong if members money at til.

and Tower Third Avenue-in New York would do their best to get recruita.

After Inspector Grant had given evi-City, know. is such placed. It is berd Boveral new members were elected and dence of receiving the money the case was that Miss Brady, na Marys, and Jason the proceedings concluded with a vote of put back until this morning for the Robards, s. Boecke, the Young immig thanks to the Chairman.

Sergeant Interpreter to" attend Court.. ránta, are broncht by their friends.

Mr. JWB McPhail was reelected hon, freasurer, on the proposition of Mr. A STEVENSON seconded by Mr. A. K. HENDERSON

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