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THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9TH, 1924

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

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MANDARIN COATE

All Kinds of LADIES' FANCY GOODS.

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Those desirous of obtaining

VALUABLE XMAS GIFTS

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CARRERO VIDAL & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF STEEL BARRELS, for the exportation of any

kind of oils.

Bole Agent for China

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OFFICE: 36, Ics Howe Street. P. O. Box 635,

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THE APPEAL OF THE EYE WEMBLEY'S IMPERIAL PAGEANT. [BY SIR J. FORTESCOM FLANNKET, BART.) This year's British Empire Exhibition" will serve a truly great purpose if it suc coda in Introducing Great Britain to the Empire. In spite of the fact that history can record no Empire of extent equal to our own, that extent is realised by no more than a few. Great administrators, suitors, soldiers know something of the rango and variety of those realms that fly the fag, though it is doubtful whether more than handful have traversed them, but the people of Great Britain taken as whole am badly informed about the Empire and their ignorance every

other form of ignorance is dangerous.

We are a simple people for many of us the parish pump or its urban equivalent is more arresting than India's New Capital the Suez Canal or the Rocky Mountains. The first is a fact to us; the reet are names. Migration has taught us a littlo. When we have relations, in Aus tralia, South Africa, Canada, India, we tako on interest however languid, in these far lands As a rule, however, we fail utterly to recognise their position in the Empire.

For this mason, if for 20 other, all travelled, serious and responsible people must welcome the British

Great Brition.

in

They know that it will bring home to the average citizen who cannot hope to visit the Dominion: and Colonies Oversas & faithful picture of their extent and variety.

It will kindle not only a legitimate pride,

justi Eed tho

by refection that British civilia still leads the world, but it will give tion birth to a new sense of duty. All gems in the Imperial crown have been won by hardy and adventurous Britons, many of whom gase their lives to make their

matry more prosperous or more accure; they established the tradition of British Government, broad based upon liberty and justice

Even where the people we rule have real grievances it is doubtful whether

ould welcom they Power in place of us

Not even the dullest Englishman can reflect upon such a fact without some measure of satisfaction. But this is not enough Ha must learn enough about the Empire to enable him to elect with dis cretion bis representative in the House of

for upon that assembly respon

for the maintenance of the Em- pire may be said to rest. He must u derstand that much of the world looks on our acquisitions with a jealous rye, ro membering that we were first in the field and have taken most of the prizes; be must remember that our positions at certain strategic points in both hemis phers Gibraltar. Malta, Aden, The Cape Falkland Isles, Hongkong,

of Good Canada, Newfoundland, Aus

Singapore,

tralia, Mauritius and many other permit us to exercise force that are out of all proportion to the size of our army and

Davy.

year

These are simple truths, they have been taught in school, college, lecture hall, but they enter the mind by way of the our and that is not the best road to conscious- DICS The eye is better. A thing soon is thing remembered, a truth heard is often to more than a fact for go displayed

The Pageant of Empire to be at Wembley this

will be

be the greatest educative faster yet placed within the seach of the British subject; it will be the most urgent

cat and withal the most attractive remainder of his obligations that has been forthcomi ing sincs the pire came into existence. Nothing could be better calculated to stir the im

imagina tion and enthusiasm of the young, Buy 46 a stimulus to the business

noods

little aid in this direction! Just now to impress upon those who pire to serve their country in the public places the nature and the variety of the service that is required of them. Even the little Englander, the worshipper at the shrine of the parish pump, may lears that there is outside his present thoughts.

all something vaster than

precious conceptions, something with whose pros. perity his own is inextricably bound up. visualise to vis

man-

No great effort is will bring the Em dimly, the future that

pire

into closer and more intimate com- munion throughout all its vast areas, the futuro that will embrace in the locso

bands of an Imperial association

stravaried goals at which the

E

the

Empire

INTIMATIONS

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB. SECRETARYSHIP.

GOLF THE ROYAL HONGKONG

CLUB require the Services of A SE- OREPART who will be required to devote his whole time to the interests of the Clab Applicants should be rel soquainted with the work connected with a

a Osif Club and should be able to conduct Correspondence

Applies ions in writing matalate Qualifies tions and Data Free, and should be addred to the ROTAL HONGEOND GOLF CLUB, 5, Queen's Road Central, Hoogkong, endorsed

Secretaryship"

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB ·

NOTICE.

N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of the CLUB" will be held in the BOARD ROOM of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., on THURSDAY, the 10th January, 1924, at 5 P.3.

..

The purposes for which the Meeting is called are:- (a) To confirm the following resolutions passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 19th December,

(b)

1923.

1. That the Rules of Racing by the Hongkong Jockey Club be amend ed by adding after Rule No. 11 the following Rule :-

11a. After the Annual Race Meat

ing 1924 a China Pony is u horse measuring 13 hands 3 inches and under.

2 That the said Rules of Racing be amended by striking out Rule No. and substituting the follow-

F

ing

77. The weight for China Fonies shall be 140 pounds for 19 hands with an additional 3 pounds for every complete inch Fractions above that height.

of an inch to count in favour of the Pony Any Pony new Buring 14 handa (Fractions of an iach to count in favour of the Pony) and under shall be eligible to compete at the An- qual Race Meeting in 1994 in any race reserved for China Ponies After the Annual Race Meeting 1921, any China Pony which measures over 13 banda 3 inches, to be ineligible to compete in any race reserved. for China Ponies (fractions of an inch over 13 hands 3 inches not to count)..

77a. After the Annual Race Meet-

ing 1994 the Stewards may re- fuse to accept the entry of any Pony which in their opinion is not a China Pony. They may, at their discretion, appoint a

decision shall be

outer of Inspection, Tho

3. That Rule No. 34 of the Rulsi and Regulations of the Hongkong Joc- key Club he amended to read:- 34. The Stewards have power to

draw up and settle the pro- gramme and fix the date or dates for any Race Meeting

4. That Rule No. 70 of the Rules of Racing made by the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB be unchanged

To propose a resolution adoptise the revised Rules and Regulations of the Club at circulated to the Members in which the following new provisions have beeu made

I. For the division of the Members of the Club into Yoting and Non- Voting or Ordinary Members. For Lady Racing Members.

2. For the increase, of,, the Entrance

Fee to the Clab.

4. For Visiting Members.

5. For the appointment of a Secre-

tary.

6. For the alteration of the date opqn which subscriptions are payable. and other minor alterations.

179]

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

aims. For we must not forget that our HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.

generation and its predecessor have heen

concerned more with acquisition and settlement than with those developments

THIRD TOURKAMENT OF THE SEASON.

towards which the most far-seeing of our | SATURDAY, JANUARY 1918, at 9.15 r.m. Administrators move.

To such changes the British Empire! Exhibition paves the way; may it teach the average Briton from whatever, part of the Empire he comes, the true nature, of his heritage.

Since it was decided to confer the "mérite agricole on French families which had tilled the same land for three centuries, it has been discovered that ro fewer than 750 families are entitled to the distinction. Among the number is a family which traces its ownership back to 772, the reign of Charlemagne,

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING "QUOTATIONS

JANUART STE, 1993 Hongkong and Shanghai

Banks

..$11.00 b. & n. Unico Insurances.......2213 b.

H.K., C. & M. Steamboats £50 b, 481/10 an

look Wharves#173 d. Soeka

Docks Hangkung Lands

Hotels

Hongkong staten.

Cemente

Hongkong Ropes

Chinn Providente

Евятой

813b

Ma. 93 b.

$941 b. +,pi......{35} b_84/24} 22.

10 6, 72 6.

Hongkong ElectricsRab.

Dairy

Chins Light's

Peak Trunways

"Hongkong Traroa

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$19. 2241.

144

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MAIN EVENT:

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Also:

Four Welterweights, One Lightweight, One Flyweight and One Featherweight Contest, ench of Six Bounda

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