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ALEXANDRA DAY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH. 1924

HER MAJESTY'S THANKS.

SIXTY-ONE YEARS IN ENGLAND.

Her Majesty Queen Alexandra address ed the following letter to the Duchess of Portland, chairman of the executive committee of Alexandru Day:

SANDRINGESH, July 4th. My dear Duchess I have deferred writing to you until I know the result of Alexandra Day. anil I bave just been informed that the amount of the street collection"in the Metropolis reached the total of approximately £40,000..

WEATHER REPORT)

August 17th at 17.3-Warning to Hong- Long Cast Ports, de.: A novure typhoon within cù miles of Lat. 27 deg. N. Long, 13 deg. E, stationary of 175 Pressure changes be

August slight at all reporting stations.

The ten

17th at

about limit of Oshima

Manila

appears to be nearly stationary Typhoon of Naha warnings: moring N.E. Rec. 156. Taka 30m,

Hangkong rainfall for the 2 hours ending at 19 hours, August 17th, 2.00 inch. Total since January 1st, 79.31 inches, againat au average of 60.41 inches,

The forcast for the 24 hours ending at 15 houn, Aug. 18th is sa follows

DISTRICT

FORECAST

Hongkong to Gap Rock Light,variable winds:

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ine at first, some rain later.

Formosa Changel South coast of Cats between Hongkong and Lamocks

South coast of China between

Hongkong and Hainan.

do.

do.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

I am so pleased with this surprising response to our appeal for hospitals and charitable institutions, and I hasten to express to your committee and to the Silk and Valuades and Tea for Italy, Franse many kind ladies and gentlemen who worked so energetically for this and London (unler arrangerent) will be tran shipul at Bontay into the Mail Steamer progood cause my hearfelt thanks and best ceeding direct to Marseilks and London.

congratulations upon the success which has attended their devoted efforts. «.

remember with feelings of gratitude that this is thirteenth

Aniversary of the day which was augurated in my honour by the ladies of England, and that this is also the sixty-first anniversary of my arrival upon these shores. I look back with thankfulness to these happy years, and to the constant kindness and con sideration always shown me by the British

Their People

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grently value the help given to Alexandra Day by the Lord Mayors and Lady Mayoresses,

the Mayors

and Mayoresses of our cities and

towns, and ly the chairmen of urban districts in thei metropolitan and provincial areas, and

trust they will accept and convey to all those who have worked with them for

the great cause of charity my earnest, ap- preciation of their loyal support.

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

Mr C. R. Kerr Mr Joha Korff

YM: D. Yung

Arn. I. Yung

From August 18th to 24th. 1923, HIGH WATER

Mr & Mrs J. Lafferty

Mr M. D. Zang

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OF KWANGIUNG.

"It was, as I have already stated in my BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS former letter to the Lord Mayor, a great disappointment to me not to take my customary drive through the streets ou the 25th of June. I greatly missed' the

Waterlevels in English Feet ut 10 AM

Place of

Friendly Creetings which bevr so often received from the people of London, but

thoughts see with them, and I felt} "Observaca sure of their ever ready response to our appeal for the sick and xiffering, änd for the aged and needy.

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recorded.

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Yuchow, To the ladies who devoted the whole of River a hot and thỏng day to collecting in the Kongmoon, streets, I cannot sufficiently express my

V. River thanks. Their devotion is the use Lukonghow, deeply, touches me, and I know that if

River must be a source of gratification to the Shidshow, A. to feel that the labours have been 50 River well rewarded. I hear with appreciation| Samahui, N. also of the kiness shown by the mean

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bers of the Rotary Club in the election

the

money and conveying it to the

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I cannot conelude my letter without! once more placing on record my sincere appreciation of the splendid work which has been carried on by the organising. secretary, Miss C. Mas Beeran, to whom the success which has been achieved by Alexandra Day is mainly due.--Be lieve me yours sincerely..

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CHARGED.

Mes Allison and

Mr & Mrs M. Bayer Mr & Mrs Bitzu Miss Blair

JH Davenport

Browne

Miss H. M. Fang Mias Gwere

Mr & Mrs 1. H. Gears Mr P. M. Hodmon

MCA. E. J. Knight Mr & Mrs R.,

Licklenen and child Mr & Mrs Faine! and

children

Mrs Lopes and child Mr & Mrs E. Land AirG. H. ferriott Mr. A. Mage

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Mr & Mrs W. A.

Eustace Mr&Mry S. Fitz Noy

Solly Joel, the South African milion. Nellie Joel, aged 23 years, danghter of aim was prosecuted on July 7th for A. Forbes

Mr & Mrs W U. Failure to pay £7,000 inherited from her mother's estate.

Mr Justice Rowlact ordered the de- fendant one year's imprisonnent unless the duty was paid within ten days. lost the £7,000, and also another £20,000. The defendant pleaded that she had She was on unfriendly terms with her father, and would get no help from him.

Goodfellow Mr & Mrs. A. Hale Mr & Mrs J. M. Goñion Capt. E. Hall

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Mr & Mrs J. Hancock

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G. 3. Hemsworth Mr J. E. Hawker

Mr & Mrs W. J.

Hawker

Mr. Justice Howintt: If millionaires like to see their relatives go to prison it MPH. D. Hilliard cannot be helped. bat the defendant will.

MT, W. imprisoned for a year unless she pays liss 0. C. dräkis Mr H. Hosoby Mr W. W. Jordan

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Phillip Mrs R. Robertson Lt. Col. & Mre ).

Sanders

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ON CHOOSING NAMES. The generation which is still earnestly dancing to jazz luda is full of Eliza beths, Annes, and Michaels: its immed iate forerunners, who still attend but are, growing a litth tired of ball-rooms. were chiefly Jouns of Peters. In names, as in all else, there are waves of popularity or neglect, so that those who have fashion. able parents had when they grow up The virtue of those who name a child M. P. Key that thousands of their contemporaries consists, then, chilly in this--that they" are also their samesakes. This may bebe "not too prrei A merciful vague. Kooreman mildly annoying: "the victims may comess is required of them. They may call plain that their fathers and mothers daughter Victorin. for that might well (who, poor souls, were only trying to have happened at any time during mor be up to date) were, in fact, abominably thas sixty years, but do name her after Mr. J. A. Harrett unoriginal. But there are wors: fates battle is to proclaim her age for ever than the possession of a common name. those who are uncharitable enough to

Mr W. A. Bennett Sometimes the deed done at the font trok up the date. Similarly, it was apen Lapt. T. Brown turns out to be an act of real and lasting to any father, about the time of the Ampl persecution. Er be it from us to wag mistice, to express his political enthus gest that the naming of President Ebert's jasm by calling his son David, for there MW Earle

Mr WES Cen grandchild, Hagen Ramsay, is an in have been ather Davids, and all the stance of this though he may find it harpists in the world have not come out

Mr & MT: Golden. "Mr G. Tüllsch difficult as he grows older, to live up to of Wales But if there be anyone now MCH

berg MR. Vromet both the heroit, and some will say con-called Lloyd George Smith, he will prob- Mr J. Jack

Halewood -Me ANS. Walmore flicting legends. But there are probably ably curse his parents thoroughness when enough Hageny in Germany to dissipate in, perhaps, the year 1980 he is forced to the first emphasis, just as there are stand at the altar and Begin, in an aud- enough Williams in England to deliver bir voice. I Lloyd George- every bearer of the name from the neers. And his embarrassment will be altogether sity to be a conqueror or a dramatist. independent of his opinion of the states As for the second name, Ramsay, the case man. Indeed, the higher his opinion, the is a little differat, but is not nearly so greater may bis embarrassment be. No bar as it might be. The MacDonald one goes to sex without an admiration tradition may or may not rank in future for Trafalgar, yet what cadet in his arst with the Siegfried tragedy; it may well term would not sink into the ground to the ginnt proportions across the Rhine

answer to the name of or it may be forgotten. If it is forgotten. Horatio Nelson Whatpot 1, Horatio alone

rather than Hagen Ramsay Jaen icke will go as free world he, a little awkward, but there As Bay Tom, Dick, or Harry: if it is have, after all, hen other "Horatics, and gloriously remembered, he will still be the name is not intolerable, even to a able to any airily enough: "My grand-cadet, if tactfully diluted with a few father had a great admiration for Scot inconspicuous Georges or Henrys. But land. It is quite a common name there add the great surname and the christen- The names given to a child are, only cruel ing becomes r birden. Parents have no when there is no way of escape from right to saddle their children with their. ciernal identification. Hagen Ramsay own enthusiasms or their own exaggerat can always kick himself free if he wants ed hopes. The way of kindness is to give to: but if he had been called Ramsay child a name which the future may Machonald Jaesicke he would, for botter either make freshly famous or may con- or worse, have been bound hand and foot. sign to an oblivion which at least is not

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