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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.
OUR LONDON AIR-MAIL LETTER
An Ancient Parliamentary Custom; Windfalls for London University; Lady Oxford's Books; A Garter Appointment; French Art Exhibition; Caledonians in London.
(Special Air-Mail Service)
M.P.'S AT PRAYER
New Garter Secretary.
LONDON, March 14. Mr. Frank Mitchell, who after The weekly prayer meeting of a long period of service as Press members, of Parliament at the Secretary at Buckingham Palace House of Commons reached its has now been appointed Secretary 100th anniversary yesterday. to the Order of the Garter, is the fourth son of the. late R. A. H. Mitchell, the famous Eton house- master and cricketer.
prayer
Mr. Mitchell himself, who was ons of Lord Milner's kindergarten in South Africa, is a redoubtable hthlete. He was two years in the Eton XI., and in his two matches against Harrow took 18 wickets.
On March 9, 1933, a number of M.P.s mot in the King's Arms Hotel, Old Palace-yard, and form ed a Parliamentary group "far the purpose of holding weekly." The practice has been regularly maintained ever since.
Tuesday is the day of meeting in the present Parliament, and the custom, is that the member who inj the first to arrive takes charge of the proceedings. He selects a pas- sage from Seripture and reads it, and then members take part in prayer as they are moved to do so. The meeting usually about fifteen minutes. It cuts, The Secretaryship of the Garter right across party distinction and should be a pleasant and interest- members who regularly attend in-
ing occupation. clude:
Insts
Sir John Birchall, Sir Thomas Robotham, Mr. R. J. Russell, Siri Thomas Inskip (Attorney-General), Mr. Ernest Brown (Secretary for Mines). Mr. G. Lansbury, Mr. T Magnay, Mr. J. Blindell, Mr. Morgan Jones, Sir John Haslem, Mr. Gordon MacDonald, and Mr. "Isaac Foot.
At Oxford he went to Balliol and obtained a Blue for golf. In his three matches against Cam bridge he was never beaten.
Changing the Gartor.
For
YACHTING
'İLLINGWORTH CUP
The race For the Illingworth Cap was sailed yesterday.
Owing to the heavy swell autis eipated off D'Aguilar Point the Committed altered the Course, In- stead of racing round the Island, the yachts sailed the following course:-Channel Rocks (P), Stones cutters Island (P), Discovery Bay Islets (S). A distance of 34 miles.
Finished
Tinie. Pos'n.
4.00.39 11
3.31.46 8
3.10.8-4 3
3.53.22
3.27.37
Carpenter, A1 (MP.
G. Gandy) Oslo, 49 (Mr. B.
Bergaust) Wasp II, A3 (Major
Griffin) Artemus, A4 (Mr. S.
Berg) La Linda, A5 (Major
Lochner)
Jan, AB Captain
Krogh Moe) 3.16.56 Isobel, A7 (Comdr.
Cowland)
3.28.10 Josa, A8 (Mr. J.
Stanton) Gael, A9 (Mr. B.
Nuese) Cicada, A10 (Messrs.
10
5
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6
3,20.25
"
3.36.48
0
7
27
Day & Blako) 3.29.47 True Blue, Al1 (Mr..
Rouse)
3.19.15 *Subject to protest,
Protest against "Jan."
SATURDAY'S RACE
This Order has had several vicis-race on Saturday the fret position
In the special: menagerie yacht- situdes in its long history. instance, the present colour of the Wasp II, who beat Capt. J. Krogh was secured by Major Gathing in ribbon dates only from the reign Mos in Jan by 60 seconds. There of George I.
were eight starters.
The change of colour was made to check the bestowal of the Order by the Old Pretender on his sup porters,
The meetings are held in the room of the Serjeant-at-Arms, who takes
Thess Jacobite recipients of the a keen personal interest in this Carter wore the original light Parliamentary institution. Either blue ribbon. When James III., as he or the Assistant Sarjeant-athe styled himself, conferred the Arms is invariably present.
Order on the Earl of Mar, King George changed the ribbon to its present royal blue.
The following, were the results:--- Course:-(1) Channel Rocks, P., (2) Kowloon Reck, P.;.(3) Famsey Shoal, P.; (4) Channel Rocks, S.
Special Menagerie Race for Win- ners-Started at 14.55.
Times. Fin. Cor, Pan. 4.22.48 4.17.32
Colleen
5
(Comdr. Drummond). Daphne
4.33.40 4.10.16
6
(Capt. C. T. Ingle) Ailsa Zephyr....
Did not finish
4.36.36 4.16.51
4
い
Did not finish
4.94,16 4.13.04
(Major Griffin) Jan
4.25.18 4.14.074
bel
4,25.20 4.34.08) 3
Gifts to London University... When the London University
Three French Reigns Exhibition. Court met yesterday, the chairman (Lord Macmillan) presiding.The
The Queen and the Princess(Major J. Wron) pleasant announcement was made loyal recently visited the Three Joan that the Armourers and Brasiers French Reigns Loan Exhibition at Waap II. Company and the Carpenters' Company had decided to makes 25, Park-lane, the residence of Sir Philip Sassoon. This was the grants to the university of £2,000 and £1,000 respectively in the Queen's second visit. Her Majes shape of annual payments extend- ty and the Princess were received ing over ten years, and that the by Sir Philip Bassoon and Mrs. Ironmongers' Company had grant- Gubby, his cousin. rd £500 and the Dyers Company £105, These benefactions will bo applied towards meeting the cost of the new ceremonial hall to be erected on the university's site in Bloomsbury.
.
In the afternoon an illustrated lecture on the French furniture of the period was given by Mr. H. Clifford Smith, of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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"A" Class-Started at 14.23. Oslo
(Mr. Bergaust) Artemis
(Mr. S. Berg) Cicada
4.00.46) 4.00.48 2
3
1 4.00.40 1.00.40 The lecture was largely illustrat A munificent bequest made to the
4.03.52 4,03,62 university by the late Mr. Arthured with the paintings of famous
artists, many of (Mr. H. B. Day) L. Leon has been accepted. The contemporary bequest, amounting to some £20, whom, as the lecturer emphasised, "1" and "y Class-Started at
themselves. practical crafts-
14.30. 000, is for the promotion and en- wero
4.16.35 4.10.35 2 couragement of post graduate or men, and often collaborated in the Why Wonder advanced research work.
design and workmanship of the
(Mr. F. E. Skinner) furniture of the period. The sc- Boojumi... 4.10.40 4.10.40 1 Glasgow Juridical Society. curacy of detail with which the (Capt. H. Marshall)
"G" Class-Started at 14.35. The dinner of the Glasgow Juri furniture is shown in their paint- dical Society will be held in the ings becomes all the more inter Toynette 4.24.97 4.29.28 1 Governer Restaurant on the even-esting since the counterparts of ing of Friday, March 17. The many pieces are on view in the ex-
hibition itself. toast of the evening will be pro posed by Lord Thankerton, and The exhibition, which is held in Mr. D. G. Steen, the president of aid of the Royal Northern Hospt- the Society, will reply. Other tal, Holloway, will remain open tcasts and replies will be given by unti April 5. the Rev. Dr. Arthur C. Hill, Lord Wark, Sheriff Robertson, and the Lord Provost, Mr. A. B, Swan.
Dr. Finkerton's Memorial,
:
A memorial to Dr. Peter Pinker ton, Rector of the High School of Glasgow, is to be unveiled in the club house at Old Anniesland by Lord Wark, & former pupil of the school. The memorial takes the form of a medallion of Dr. Pinker- ton done in bronze by Mr. Benno Schota, who designed the memo rials to Sir Henry Campbell-Ban- nerman and Mr. Bonar Law which have been erected in the shool Dr. Pinkerton's memorial will be placed in the club house because it is felt that but for his initiative and energy Old Anniesland would not have become the High School playing field.
Lady Oxford's Book Sale. London March 14. The Coun- tess of Oxford and Asquith sold a library of modern literature at Hodgson's yesterday. There were apwards of a thousand volumes, and there were as many as fifty booke in a number of the "lots." There was only a small attend-
ance.
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Caledonians Not So Wild.
I attended last night's dinner of the Caledonian Society of London, which was founded nearly a hun- dred years ago. I went there fully mindful of Will Ogilvy's poem:
When the last big bottle's empty and the dawn creeps grey and cold,
And the last clan-tartan'a folded and the last damned lie is tokl, When they totter down the foot- paths in a brave, unbroken line,
2.
To the peril of the passers and the tune of Auld Lang Syne, You can tell the folk at break- fast as they watch the fear- some "sicht, j
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Mina O. Patchett)
4.47.45 4.47.45 2 Sirius
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HOCKEY
CHAMPIONS HELD TO A DRAW
In the final game of the seasons. the Club de Recreio Ladies; run- ners-up in the Caer Clark Cup drew with the "Y" Ladies on the latters' ground on Saturday.
The "Y" Ladies much to the sur- prise of their opponents, were on the aggressive for the majority of the game and towards the end they! were unlucky in not finding the net on several occasions.
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They have only been assisting
The Hong Kong Ladies' Hocky Club, champions of the Caer Clark
at a braw Scots nicht."
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"BAND PRACTICE."
Thero will be a Full. Band Prac
consume vast quantities of whisky kuupoo and were held to a draw nor-During the absence on leave, tice on Monday (to-day), at 5.30 and haggis to the accompaniment for the Saints in the first half, and Kemp, Kt. C.B.E., or until further
of one goal-all. M. Woolley scored of His Honourt Sir Joseph Horsford Dm., at Headquarters in mufti, of skirling pipes.
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Mr. William James Lockhart Smith to act as Assistant Land Officer during the absence on leave of Lious Col Frederick Eaves, until further notice.
will The following weddings shortly, be solemnised:-Mr. Alber to Eduardo Xavier, 21, Jordaa Road, and Miss Everdina Augusta Cruz, 2, Granville Road, Kowloon; Mr. Edward Goval Bapley and of Claremont Hotel; and Mr. Mies Florence Irene Drake, both
PM. Harrop equalised shortly notice, His Honour Mr. John Roskruge Wood to act as Chief There was haggis. There
were after.
Justice, with effect from March 97, drunk with pipes. Toasts were
1033.. 'But there Caledonian honoura were no sore heads.
One Minute Speeches, The first lot, classics in half- The Society is, in fact a charit leather, and Kipling's "From Sea able organisation, which conducts
Mr. Hugh Blackwell Layard Roberto Estavas Marques, Penin to Sec-in-lambskin, was sold for its proceedings with almost ma
Dowbiggin, Q.BE, JP to be asula Hotel, and Miss, Alberto Cor. 321, Beaconsfield appeared in sonic ritual. Its inembers are Tokyo, March 28 The Japanese Visiting Justice to the Fo Leungdoiro, of 222, Wanchai Road, Hong the next lot of fifty books, which limited to a hundred, and there is Govanateht docs not look for any Kok yica Mr. Marcus Theodore
Koog realised 12s. Twenty-five volumes always a long waiting list. There attempts on the part of western nn Johnson, J.P., resigned, of novels by Conrad, Wells, Kip are few so-called public figures tions to enforce an economic block- The Secretary for Chinese Affairs ling, and others went for 258.
among them.
ade, the Minister of Finance, Mr is to be the Protector of Labour Rupert Brooke's "1914" and other
poems were, with twenty- The inauguration of new mem Korokiyo Takaishi, said, to-day, for the purposes of the Factories Norman Lockhart Smith, Chair- seven other volumes, sold for 108: bers is impressive. They are piped "Any move of this kind would and Workshops Ordinance, 1932, man, Yu Wan, Hon Secretary, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage round the
room, and are then naturally mean that Japon would Mr. Francis Mende to be the In. Members: Reverend Herbert Rich Out with an, Insoription, soared read & homily on the virtues of stop buying western goods, as well spector of Labour, and Mr. Williammond Wells, O.B.E. John Rosk to Z, Md. Anda ham tatty topic theater and we shining them, and I do 208 be: Elliott to be. Assistant Inspector effuge Wood, David William Tra sentation copy of Strachey
lieve any nation cares to lose trade), dourt Clifden Krukasa Woods "Eminent Victorians" was speedi- *** The Sooleby has other virtues now the aged Ministor zmorted.
His Excellency the Governor has Roger Edward Lindsell Law Tan which might be copied with ad Any nation acting such a approved of the promotion of Cap- Pak, Gooffrey Robley Sayer Roland The books brought in a totali about £100. The principal library bors sie limited to, one minute.
pan, he added. An economie block OBE, to the rank of Major in the drow Darmod Forrest, Assistants of the late Est) of Oxford and the|---- Auld Lang Syne ??
sung at ade would disrupt international Hong Kong Volunteer Defence to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Countess of Oxford, which was at ten o'clock By flye The Wharf, Sutton Courtenay, I the room was empty inre :781 but he does not look for it to take | 1923.,
Polson, and Assistant: Superinten- utes past trade to a great degree, he said, Corps, with effect from March 21, Divisional Superintendents of now in London,
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The present constitation of the dents of Police, ex-
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Board of Examiners is as follows:
ly taken away at 20. vantega. The speeches of its mom move would suffer equally with Ja tein-Eric John Reinhold Mitchell, Arthur Charles North, Bobert-An-
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