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The St. John's Ambulance Brigade annual swimming sports, which were to have taken place at the V.R.C. yesterday morning, ware postponed owing to no water being available.

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"H.E. the Governor has appointed Dr. Hermann Balean to be a member of the Advisory Committee of the Peak Hospital, during the absence on leave of Dr. Wilfred Vincent Miller Kuch, or until further notice.

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Notice is given of the accession of this Colony to the Treaty of Commercs and

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NEXT SUNDAY'S SERVICES.

The At Home" of the Victoria Diocesan Association takes place this afternoon at the Helena May Institute. Ten will be served at 430, and this will be followed at five o'clock with a meeting Europe at the present time. His plays are which will continue until 13. The

members of the V.D.A, and their friends tinent and elsewhere as they are at Home. "At Home" has been arranged to give as well-known and as popular on the Con- an opportunity of hearing about serial It is, however, more as a wit than x8 a and medical work, indre especially as litterateur that Mr. Shaw excels, na the connected with the diocese. The speakers almost irresponsible flow of his wit

dustrial Conditions in China; " Miss literary merit. Indeed, most people will George, of Canton, on "Rescue Work;" readily agree with Mr. G. K. Chesterton, and Dr. Arthur Woo, Vice-President of in his admirable monograph of Shaw, the China Medical Association, on "The that as a wit there has been no writer Opportunity of. a. Medical Man in China."

comparable with Shaw since Voltaire. Not infrequently Mr. Shaw has been de scribed as one addicted to "buffoonery," and, occasionally, his public utterances. may have given some sort of justification It is notified that, at the expiration of a special character and sermons will for such a conclusion; but it is absurdly be preached on the work and needs of the superficial. Mr. Shaw is one of the most of three months, the Chung Kwok

diocese. The collections will be for serious writers of the day, as might be Restauraat, Ltd, and the Tai Tung Co., Ltd., will, unless cause is shown to

diocesan purposes.

expected from one who has been a life- the contrary, be struck off the register

Matins will follow an early celebration long Socialist-(now a days, we note, be and the companies, will be dissolved.

of Holy Communion at the Cathedral, describes himself as a "Communist )—1 And the preacher will be the Diocesanife-long Tectetaller, Non-Smoker, and Chaplain (the Rev. N. V. Halvard,

A successful carnival "dinner dacce, largely attended, was held at the Hong kong Hotel on Saturday night, and simi a successful functions were also held at Messrs. Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, and at the Palace Hotel, Kowloos.

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its new clubrooms at the Power Station, Hunghom, gave an enjoyable dance on Friday evening, Mr. J. H. Dennithorne, the Works Manager, who has just returned from Home Leave, was amongst those present.

Next Sunday will be "V.D.A. Sunday. and will be observed both in the Chinese and Colonial Churches of the Colony Throughout the day the services will be

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The China Light and Power Company Chinese can hope for Recreation Club, which recently opened.C.). A short service for young people Vegetarian. Like most reformers he has will be held in the afternoon, and will been frequently very much misjudged; be bi-lingual in English and Chinese. bat. notwithstanding, Mr. Shaw has kept The Bishop will preach at the evensong merrily on with his “ Shavian witti Service.

cisms. It must now a days be somewhat The collections throughout this day amusing to Mr. Shaw, as it is to his ad- will be on behalf of a new Chinese church mirers, that those of his plays Plea- $17,000 has been promised toward this some thirty years ago, are which is to be built at Yaumati. Already sant and Unpleasant" that were taboo purpose, practically all from Chinese

Armed robbers entered the village of late on Friday night, and stole from the Teing Shan Tai in the New Territories principal hut money and jewellery valued at 8230. On the robbers' departure lights but when the police arrived the robbers had disappeared.

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IMPERIALISM. This term is constantly being used by the Chinese as a term of reproach. It

land's name to be remembered with gratitude by the peasantry of Egypt.

So long as England is able to export the intangible but invaluable, qualities of honesty, justice and sympathy, embedded in the characters of those she sends forth to administer these tropical regions she is not likely to be asked seriously to sur- reader the task. The Empire, is a living organism, vigorous in its various parts, each functioning and so contributing something of value to the whole and at the same time deriving benefit from the other parts Great Britain has no need to fear the verdict al.those who take the trouble to examine the conditions of the Empire, and the foundations on which it is built. It is only ignorance of such

matters that creates prejudice against it.

A report of the piracy of a jurk and crew, which occurred nineteen days ago, the kidnapping of the members of the was made to the Water Police yesterday, when some of the crew returned to the Colony. Witnesses were being examined up to a inte hour last right, and no details were forthcoming.

is noticeable that within the last three so that when "Mrs. Warren's Profession" years it has been necessary to enlarge was recently produced in England-(after hoth St. Stephen's and St. Paul's Chinese having been under the Censor's ban for

church to replace the present Mission at by the general public. Mr. Shaw is churches. The need of an adequatefully thirty years)-it was merely smiled

Church in Yaumati is urgent.

undoubtedly a great moral force, and the

At St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, the power he has exercised in the realm of Bishop of Victoria will preach at the ideas during the past generation is not morning service at 11 o'clock, following only not generally understood but it is bazaar on behalf of orphans and invalids be a united service for Young People in to come.

As reported elsewhere, the annual Holy Communion at 8.15 a.m. There will unlikely to be understood for a long time was opened at the Italian Convent, Caine the afternoon, when representatives, from now that he has come unto his own" It is good, however, to note concluded yesterday, but, unfortunately, all the Chinese Institutions and Diocesan that such an outstanding award as is the the rain forced the organisers to post Schools in Kowloon will be present. The Nobel Prize for Literature should have pone the sale until to-day. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance evening service will be taken by the been conferred upon him: and, as stated, to-day, when the various articles will be Rev. N. V. Halvard, M.C. (Diocesan the choice is certain to be generally offered at very moderate prices.

Chaplain)

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Road, on Saturday. It was to have been

The choir will render special masie kong on Saturday by the P. & 8.8. Among the passengers who left Hong-

both at the morning and evening services, Mantua were, Engineer-Lieut. F. H. and also in the evening there will be a Allen, the Rev. and Mrs. E. A Bastin, short organ recital incorporated with the Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Batchelor, Engineer-

Lieut. C. R. P. Bennett, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. service.

R. H. Galdwell, Mr. Y. N. Campbell,

Mr. P. Geerling, Mr. C. Gibson, Mr. M.

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Grady, Mr. P. Johnson; Professor A. F. THE CHRISTMAS PARCELS MAIL. One Chinese case of diphtheria was Knudsen, Mr. W. Lang, Mr. B. F. notified on Friday.

Matthews, Mr. F. S. McLay, Sergt. and RECORD NUMBER SENT HOME. Mrs. Miles, Mr. B. Munro, Mr. J. T. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. D. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Rogers and Major and Mrs. W. R. Will

Cabled greetings were received by the Easma on Armistice Day from the Penang Branch.

The pupils of Mr. Harry Ore will

beginning at 6.30.

MUSTARD TEST CASE.

SUMMONS DISMISSED.

The mustard test case was brought to

a conclusion on Saturday at the Kowloon Magistracy, before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill. The Assistant Crown Solicitor, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, conducted the prosecution, and the defendant, a Chinese druggist, was represented by M. Leo. d'Almada.

The proprietor of the Poo On Dispen.

The Christmas and New Year parcels mail, despatched for Home on Saturday Harvest Festival Services were held at by the P. & O. ss. Mantua, was a record the Union Church, Kennedy Road, one, no fewer than 3,700 parcels, made give yesterday. The day was also Hospital up in 275 bags, being despatched, com- sary in his evidence said that during the Sunday. The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie,pared with 3,069 for the previous year, 35 years he has been in business, he bas ing and evening services. At the morn

indicates for them a Power which takes recital at the City Hall this evening the pastor, preached at both the mor which was also a record on that occasion. i udways sold kai lat, or mustard adulter-

control of weaker States, administers them, exploits them, and in every way seeks, by the assertion of its authority, its own aggrandisement.

H.E. the Governor has appointed Mr. Li Yau Tsun to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong.

The name of Mr. Tong Li Ta, of the China Distillery, has been added to the register of cheinists and druggists.

We are apt to think of imperial Rome which in its triumph brought home and displayed in procession the emblems and tokens of its conquests while the enslaved

or Two or Threa Rooms in Private community were, put to work as

An election of a Justice of the Peace the House for European Family--Man, Wifs and Roman praetor wished, or made into to serve on the Licensing Board is to DISTRICT Preferred. Reply giving full soldiers in the imperial army with a view take place at the Supreme Court on the particulars to Box No. 4140, c/o Hongkong to further conquests But even the po

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iog service, the anthem O Lord how In addition to the parcel mail there ated, with green peas powder. The ob manifold are Thy Works" was sung in in the Lecture Hall, et which an address and a total of 436 bags of European mail, prevent irritation when applied to sores. the afternoon, a P.S.A, service was held were 1,200 registered letters for. London,ject is to weaken its strength so as to was given by the Rev. F. W..P. Alexan- of which 36 are for London. der. Collections throughout the day were "ur for the Alice Memorial group of hospitals, and the gifta of fruit and flowers, etc.) were also devoted to these hospitals.

LOCAL WEDDING.

GUMLEY-HALL

CEREMONY AT UNION CHURCH.

Union Church on Saturday of Franc The marriage was solemnised at the the Gumley, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tait Gumley, to Elizabeth Margaret Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall, of Selkirk, Scotland. The bride groom is with Mesars. Butterfield & Swire. «

The mail is due in London on December

18th

If one wanted mustard for food, one should not go to a drug store for it. He considered 30 per cent. starchy matter is not unreasonable.

The Parcela Department staff worked until a very late hour on Friday night editering, checking and sorting the

For the defence, Mr. "d'Almada sharply parcels, and much credit reflects on them criticised the evidence of prosecution," for the speedy way in which the influx particularly that of Dr. Pope whose name,

was dealt wth.

The parcels received at the General he said, did not imply infallibility. Had Post Office were as under:-London in- he concerned himself more with commodi- sured, 277; Londen transit, 150; London ties, such as meat, and cream, he might insured and transit O.T.A., 243; London

In addition, there were the follow No one could say that the defendant had district, 807; London Forward, 2,183. have won the thanks of the community. pr parcels despatched Singapore, 43; sold adulterated mustard to the prejudice Penang, & Colombo, 38; Mauritius, 7, Port Twefick, 486; Gibraltar, 16; far of anybody and there was no fraud prac. seilles, 43.

The figures for the previous six years was no guilty knowledge.

tised upon anyone, and certainly there of Christmas parcels mails are under:-1020, 2,858 parcela: 1021,, 2,707 Mr. Whyte-Smith said that his conten

parcels, parcels; 1992, 2,713 parcels; 1923, 3,050 tion was that if one asked for mustard, parcels; 1924, 3,050 parcels; 1925, 3,060

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Home mail vid Siberia is due by the people which probably outweighed the 8.8. President Madison to-day, which is drawbacks of being governed by the also bringing U.S.A., Canada, Japan and NFLATE in the New Bull, with Romans. The tributary States enjoyed Shanghai mail.

a guarantee of peace and arcurity that

It is notified that the names of the Yee more than compensated them for the loss Lok Company, Limited, and E. F. Cox the ceremony.

The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie conducted of an imaginary freedom and indepen- & Company, Limited; have been struck brocaded satin deeply Vandyked, and The bride looked charming in white dence. The fact that the Roman codé off the Register.

hemted with pearls over a white lace The Christmas and New Year letterated mustard. H.E. the Governor has appointed Mr.ed silk net sewn with pearls, and carried 2.20 p.m., and will be despatched by the dence before him, he was convinced that

slip. She wore a veil of white embroider mail for Home closes next Saturday at His Worship said that from the evi-... a wreath of white, heather and orange. Katori Maru. This mail is due in bat

London on December 21st.

the Chinese think adulterated mustard in Misa G. Nicholas was the bridesmaid.

Last Christmas 4,218 registered packages more bencaciel, and certainly the pur Her dress was of powdered blue flowered were despatched, compared with 3,875 chaser was not victimised. He would georgette, with hat of blue taffeta and in 1924.

The Christmas and New Year mails dismiss the summons. velvet. Her bouquet was of chrysanthe mums, blush roses and molden hair.

for the United States and Canada, etc., close next week. The parcel mail closes on Wednesday, November 24th, at 6 p.m.; and the registered mail and ordinary. mail on the following day at 9.45 8.m. and 10.30 a.m. These mails will be despatched by the Protesileus, and are due, in Victoria, B.C., on December The Chistmas mail from Home will arrive on the P.: . O. AL Kalyan on December 23rd, but there will certainly ing P. & O. steamers, the Elieu, be some big consignments on the preced

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The matron of honour was Mrs. C. R

Her hat was of velvet to match M. Young, who wore dress of nigger brown marocaine trimmed with tangerine

The "best man" was Mr. J. Petrie, of Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd., and the bride was given away by Mr. C. R. M. Young, of Merary. Butterfield & Swire. Peak.

The reception was held at No. 549, the

The honeymoon is to be spent at Fan. a lawn two piccostume with crepe de ling. The bride's travelling dress was chine hat to match

21st.

NEW EYE DISEASE TREATMENT.

The treatment of certain eye diseases with ultra violet rays at Moorfields Eye Hospital, City road, E.C., during the past year has yielded such satisfactory results that the hospital proposes to continua its research work with more efficient ap- paratus. The diseases dealt with are nature which may lead to blindness if not those of an inflammatory and tuberculous

successfully treated.