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THE HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
EXCERPTS FROM THE CATHEDRAL RECORDS.
In this correspondence there is the truly Gilbertian situation of the Treasur- er and Secretary to the trustees having to write to himself as Colonial Secretary. The real trouble however, begins with the iden of an organ, in 1838. As a suth ject of d scussion it easily assumes first There is one little volumes of local in-place, even taking
10th, 1959, the ing resolution someone who has the time, ability and Trustees passed the inclination to do so namely The His That the Bishop be requested to
YOUTH IN HONGKONG,
SNOBBERY
MORE APPARENT ON THE PEAK.
The ninetieth annual meeting was held terest that remains to be written by ants in the roof. over white St. John's Cathedral Notes:-
of St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong."I municate with Sir Frederick G. one of those hercic
at Elretra House, Moorgate, on June
8th, Sir John Denison-Pender ti..., K.C.MLG.," the chairman," presiding." tory
The CHAUEMA said he was glad to sty that the aeroants submitted were satis
for
the oil
by
in
The idea of building a Church, serius to have occurred very early, in the his, tory of the colony s
as the following ircular of 1812 shows:-
or
There being a very prevalent wish amongst many residing at and being: acquainted with Tiongkong, that charch
place of Worship should be rrected on the Island in the event of it ecoming a British Settlement in which Tivine Servies may be performed according to the Rites, Ceremonies and Doctrines of the Church of England wa George Cooper, M.A. Chaplain of H.J.S. Blenheim,
cable-namely, the Singapore Hongkong, the creatures were deterred by the odien! Colombo Penang (original and dupli sprarance of the former, or believed, cate), Madras-Singapore, and Singapore that there was nothing Batavia (duplicate) wetions as a total and nothing worth, attacking. Their en concentrated on Cost of £2,158,370. New others at Adewrath seems to have bee
the page which
gives instructions for the JaideMelbourne, Sydner, and quarters
preservation of the records, for it i KENT!
at several stations cozl
fairly well riddled with holes. Boss.ast, and this had been done by aug- meating the capital is to the extent of £1,000,000. (Cheers.) The time having cone zo part with their cable steamer Becerider, after forty years of excellent service th, company, the directors had made pro- vision in the accounts for her replaces ment by placing to the maintenance ships reserve fund Eron,000, which would be
LI ébut of approximately fuel Vosul now bing
buil by Messrs. Alexander Stephen Sons. Glasgow. The vessel was expected to feave Englind for Singapore towards the close of this year. There had bero a redaction of £3, in the expenditure, on partial daplication and renewals of cables, which indicated that the arrears of such work had now been practically cleared off. All their exbles were in good order, and, interruptions, during the past year had been comparatively few. said: may here mention that on cccasions of interruptions the maximum time takra in effecting repairs was 6 days * hours. On one other cernain it waN It days 4 hours, the position of the inter- ruption being 1,800 miles from the re
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The Rev. R. J. Northcott, Chaplain to the Forces, contributes the following to I ought to confess that fathedral Notes appinned to me when I first saw her as hut priceless old ladies who, wrapped in garments familiar
the These musty warm-eaten records are Hart, Mus.. Doc.. Professor of
to our grandparents, would, in "બનવ nut by any means just formal official xan for the purpanfare of E200 a year been found within or round sacred pre
securing a crun- ation that is so rapidly passing,, accounts of business dene. There is a peteat organdst at a safarg Enetary. It was true that, as compared good deal of that, but it is.** wherein duties
ty to commence on his entrance upon his enets, Hat this bathing sunson, to our with 1942 gross revenue showed a sloerennu | Felieved humaner matters
organist and instructar of astonished admiration, she has dashed of £18.205. but this was not as great ai even passion and romance display them the choir and Eu further be advanced eat if not exactly in a Jazz was anticipated at the beginning of the showing that in the whole man towards his passage, in a sling vessel certains in a modernism that is dreidely year under review. There had, however, does not differ much freins man and that rid the Cape to Hongkong with the ergan darin
daring. been a sensible decrease in working right years are friction was as freq teat father Cathesis, it might be stated that fans, Her remarka on Youth in Hong
this PAYSOR mainly in chla
glad ove of e expended as it is now, because men would assert the rate of payment was 4/2 to the dollar wire. have caught on repairs, and in liet from the
claim their
Colony's their rights, iteans
other in being.till 1989.
newspapers. But when last month one of of expenditurs mentioned laws then compete with each drziges end and that the Suez Canal way not opened, than one of the eliters of are
RIFT IN THE LIT
her writers declared that snobbery Year.
generous, The net decrease sounted to
to the records themselves With regard to
The nation was perfectly straight shaald he despised. B00.953. The balance they had to deal
ed, and altitude of be confused with eles with was £670,561, plus diser hrought of the papers on which they are written, forward set there does not seem to have vesilens must not be forward, making a total of £100.944, those which have most successfully re-been that harmony which should exist vation of mind. Gne began to wouler They had plaed £250,000 to the puralsisted the onslaught of the insects are the among trustees when appointing an or whether the red hand of Russia had reserve fund, pais! 2400,000 in dividends, his foulscap sheets, then the parchment Kanist, There Was the ripped that of the Editor, or whether and carried forward £41gt. Since kind with oil in it, while least
felling 1913 they had laid 7,200 miles of new of all are the white thin sheets. Pomnik fute, for in August, 1935, we prai the; we were only getting the echo of sube jests already too hackueyed in Hong- Moved by Alr. Ferth and seconded lay
kong.
Honestly, who first started the yar Mr. Walker,
That formal relation having been that altitude of residence ever had been sed May 18th, 183s, empowering the confused with elevation of mind? I have Bishop of Victoria to write on their be heard soldiers us pretty damnators ter half to Six P. G. „Duseloy, a letter minology at the necessity of their bodily requesting him to select an organist for elevation to Mount Austin, but it is news the Cathedral, and the Bishop having to be told that having been raised to written a letter in fulfilment of that the higher sphere Tommy may now begin farmal resoluting any letter written to turn up his nose at his comrades be subsequently by Mr. Kingsmill to Sir low. The truth is of course that what- G. Puseley, countermanding the request ever.
Hongkong it nothing
fo dd with where people live. is a matter to be regretted as being robbery there is in an irregular and unauthorized preeerd map is a snob on the Penk, he WIS a it and is hereby repadiated by the
then before he reached the Peak, only other trustees.
he is now in a position where his snobbery We pleture Mr. Kingsmil who was pre- | is "mire, apparent. I think it is a pity is like this which from sent at the meeting feeling like a naughty
a little composition has any social school lay utterly crushed. Our first its peculiar impulse
to classify him with the diffulties to suggest difficulties which do
will thoughtless. people who
write not really exist. of
hement
BE BLAD OF LIFE.” letters on the spur" fit of malice and then stand aghast at the
Even if A is true it does not do any confusion they have wrought."
good to be always nagging about the There is no hint inpleasant habits of the people in your did bodo it! J. Pearse, Comm. H.M. Sloop defetes. We are left to speculate an own family. Whether we like it or not the causes of this indiscretion. Did he this life out here 14 rather like living in Cruiser
feel that the organist should not come out in the same boat as the far hundred and twenty-five pound creni lest both were lost. Was his object to spare the
hinesel hail which he
History vines not inform us of Mr. Kingsmill's not ves bat as the pricious organ was going to cost £100 for insur pairing steamer's home port, Singapore, but it is referred to in an official riteni anee and freight hevossibly felt that who is bang ng around the doorway ho
little more than 4100 should be spent on ing for an invitation. Looking back on Only on two other pensions was the ship
the froght of the organist self for it all we know these were the little greatly delayed by strong Monsoon wea,
we had him at the uret meeting boldly humours of the family and the school, as ther. You will notice that the sum of
reposing an additional £50 be voted for they are the little humours of life in gen- hint eral
we would only look at life with 273,717 has been debited to the general
the passage of the organist to canble reserve fund as a capital loss on the
to come overland-presumably by Camel wide eyes. They are not the things that What matters is the affection abandonment of the Hongkong-Haiphong
fron Alexandria to Pt Suez, so that, he matter. might arrive about the same time as the and the friendships the varying opport et I would explain that this cable was laid in 1984 with the object of pro
organ. When "Sir . ( seler was unities of Fife have given us, the influence reassured regarding the appointment he they have had on our characters, and the riding 14 duplicate means of communica
sent out an organist with the highly happy memories with which we turn to tion between Hongkong and Cape St
appropriate name of Sangster. The situ- the state to .offer my advice to Youth
sars that are now passed. James, there being a French Government
AVUILDERTIAN SITUATION, There seems to have been considerable ton of the organ seems to have in. cable between the latter place and Hai phong. The Hongkong-Haiphong section delay in getting on with the work für in velved several intestings and much draw in Hongkong because youth is everywhere NO magnificently unheedag. But if teonsisting of 107 nuuts of new and 3741847 plans and perifications were still Jug up of plans. The South transept was nants of reserved cable) was laid through being discussed. When the fabric was proposed and rejected as the window in youth should ask me I would say.
that
quarter was always open while clad of life itself, be happly in your own the Hainan Straits, which proved to be finally completed in 1849 and the Trustees
friendships,
despise nobody and nobody u mast un'althy spot for a submarine duly entrusted with the supervision of North transept was unsuitable because
that administra-!
the Wiki
direction from structure, and its financial
will despise you. Don't bother your hend cable. Fish hook" and "Teredo"-fanits
tion, there occurs a A series comtranient typhoons care. A compromise was effec about ly things like salutations in the were ever recurrent, entailing frequent i repair work. Having now three means of tions which show the advantage of having fed by plaeng it in a special gallery street. audi grins from the windows of communication between Singapore and everything, especially in i enlon of such aleve the West dour. The East end be the Peak Tram, and don't get jaundiced- clearly de ing forbilden, this evidently exhausted views about taipans. There is more joy than x- Hongkong, namely, one direct, one ; kaleidoscopic charges as
fined on parchmesit 31. A soldier for the possible sites: fortunately for the in trying to like other people Labuan. and one eid Cape St. James. your directors decided to ababinis thexample falls ever the brick wall of the trustees the Church was not octagonal sly wondering whether other people
MASKE THE PENSION
like you. Be loyal to whatever place you Haiphong-connection, which has always compound and is nearly killed sheir It is pleasing tu recold that Mr. Sangster are living in and try to love it, because
the trustees are called up to pu
H
Alexander, Matheson.
W. Leslie.
Crawford Kerr.
"tieorge Mytins, Capt. with Foot
Pro have formed ourselves into visional Committer until a máre per-
large family of a school. And there is snabbery even in the family. There is the snob who, after his first term at school dogs hot care to be seen out with of Ourse and baby had the perambulator. Smith minor socb when he swaggers into the tuck shop with Jones miner for an orgy of strawberries and cream, and pretends he does not see Smith tertius
manent one can be found for the pur- art stie son of the orging ment
pose of obtaining private subscriptions from the British and Foreign Com
date of this circular is not given.
munity ete
af July 10th, 1944, as the Committee formed in the spring of 1812. Sir Henry Pattinger promised Government assis taure to the extent of £6.000 in return for which two hundred and fifty places had to be reserved for the milita and certain number for the members of the Cagil Service, At the same time majority of the trusters was nominated by the Government so it was really an Official Colonial Church.
I'
41
thin
which i
"Be
Batavia section has not yet lava fretrd:" and are not quite sure they are res trustees y 50 2151d half pay while put you down for a while in this Island
right of w
MALAY
(Continued on what column,}
*** WIRELEAS,”
JUA
tó ed
Bu the
The Dutch Jutely impossible for the Conspany to month. work for forty dollars per, pectacles to see things as they are not.
been, vastly in maintenaner. The com house in order. Then they enquire into proved a very efficient organist for the host places are loveable. After all the plete duplication of
Inter when he Fates have not treated you unfairly to our Singapore-
There are ΣΠΑΡΤ unly a distance of 7 writes for the share there for the compound through which applies for long leave.
is a suries au furlough. This latter request is coldly of Sweet Waters. end at Batavia remains to be completed, of letters trying to induce the Cinvernment refused though the leave is granted, beautiful things you can fit here and of THAN friends Sometimes you may get for which landing rights are still being to sort with a sum nearer to that which There is not even the usual expression-
waited from the Netherlands Indian was apparently promised namely £800 regret that the depleted state of the hot and tired and a bit had tempered. SEAL around you Government
instead of £4.00 with which ther claim, Church funds unfortunately do not per but there is always, the
mit, ute. There is just the bleak state clean and cool. full of laughter nul The Minister of the Colonies. The to have discharged the'r pligations.
ment that the committee resolve that the recovery. Let old people crab and croak Hague had agreed to the conditions
request be not acceded to. The trustees if they must, but don't do it while you
the under which these landing rights were to
lovely hot moved by the fact that their or are young Youth can only be have been granted. upon there unfort
xauist has nuls had six weeks leave of thing she is meant to he when looking untely arose a matter in connection' with In reply to a shareholder's question as
absence during the nine years. They at life in its manifold phases she finds it the Netherlands Indian Government's to wireless," the CHAIRMAN, said that sternis repress that common failing of everywhere full of loveliness. It is net financial position it is the German the Contury bad applbul for a licener being generous with other people's inaney. the world that makes us or breaks us it Nederlando Telegraph Company. With for Great Britain, and would have to Nothing daunted, however, Mr. Sangster 18 we who make or break our own world the latter mar company had certain work-wait for the fovernment's declaration of sugests that a local organist be appoint by the way we look at it. That does not ing arrangements, which were terminat policy. As to India, they had reciveded in his absence one who has volunteer man we must ask God for rose-coloured ed under an order of our High Court, the terms for a licence, bap it was abeo-
Proves acceptable to the nor need we ask Him for blinkers to ns. from August 4th, 1914. Government, being able to get payurry out those ferre. With regard to emitten which thereupen grants the hide away our fears, les, as ask Him for ments due to theth From the Gerninn China, that had been a more prolonged organist the leave and the difference in His Spirit Who sees as of old in all that Nederland Company, are claiming the business and a more difficult qur. At the the salary, History does not tell how he God has made that it is very god!!
hack hue whether he trekked across amount from the Eastern Telegraph Com Washington Conference of "19 there!
MILITARY FOOTBALL. pany, but as a conference on his subject were many interestsurying to ret into Siber a went overland by camel to is being arranged, and inay shortly take China: There was a question as Domain- Alexandrin again, of worked his passage The following matches will be played
home by that speely clipper the place, which will. I hope, lend to a satin Faining the open door." and an ar Factory settlement. I do not wish to go rangement was recommended with regard Sark which the rappers daily remind during the work at Murray Barracks in more fully into the matter. It is one of to wireless concessions by which several as existed in those far off times. There the Montague Bates Platoon Challenge Um war legacies which have been found, interested parties would co-operate, the io mention of his return passage, being Can Comptition (kick-off at 5.30 p.m.): so difficult to suite.
Company being one. There were many paid. There is a story of no official in negotiations with the Wireless Company those days, when Hongkong was not the health resort it is now, going to the of State and asking for some
I shoul publications that no-improvement has negotiated on its own behalf, and other two stumbling
not worry, bajt if I were you.", said laken place in the condition of affairs in interests. There were
ation of an actual the Secretary, "the question Chinn, which anlasps country. is still blocks which he need not mention becaUSO at the meres of conflicting political one was vital. The Wireless Company pension bas never arisen in connection parties. Under this state of affairs, the took the line that is the Cable Companies with any of your predecessors." Possibly
financial position Brave joined in the combination
the highest degree unlikely, and there condition. Her monetary obligation to give an unlestating at they were to return, passage was looked upon si He fore not worth while including in any our and the Great Northern Telegraph rates for cables, than for wireless
Beed not tell them that the Companies have fallen into arrears, both
(Continued "on nest column,)
CONDITIONS : 1)
You will have learnt from recent Press over here, who took up the questions and Secretut of his pension.
do
L'oin- that
na regards payments on account of the pany would certainly not
it got adequate safeguards, cost of the Shanghai-Choloq-Taku cables unles
which were laid the Companies for for it would absolutely tie their bands
by the Chinese Government in 1900), and in and compel them to work at a higher repayments of the Lean of $500,000 grant rate while leaving wireless perfectly free. ed to her by the Companies in 1911. In That was made a sine quw and since addition in these obligations, China finds then negotiations had fallen through it difficult to quidate the Balances due The report al accounts were "adopt-
eil, to the Companies in settlement of the
Current Traffic Accounts The situation The Chas then proposed the re is being carefully watered, and ach election of Sir Charles Addie, KC.M.G., pressure as can be brought to hear is and M. J. C. Denison Peučer, as Ilires being exercised. The existing Traffe and tors. He said that he had great pleasure Loan Agreements are due to terminate, in proposing the re-election of Sir on December 31st, 100 and that Felat-Charles Stewart Addis, becaion: any one who know anything of Chind was aware ing to the above-mentioned cables on December 31st, 1025, subject to the Com that Sir Charles was an authority, in
that country, paning having received by that date, the connection with full cost of the cables. With the support thought the Company could congratulate of the Foreign Ofice, negotiations have itself on having secured a Director who been carried on throughout the year with could reader sach great service. the Chinese Telegraph Administration, The motion having been carried, and without, however, our being able to arrive the auditors re-appointed, the meeting. clósd with a vote of thanks to the chair- at any definite conclusion
man, directors and staff. ¿Continued, on next eclumn.)
He
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Monday. August "4th.-No. 13 Platoon
pfum and blur). No. "Platoon (red and black). Thursday, August 7th-Yo. 1 Platoon (arie a and white) ". Drums and Singallers (red and white). Saturday, August 9th.-No. 18 Platoon (black and white) . No. 7 Platoon "blue and white).
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