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Kalloon Supplement
HONG KONG, APRIL 24, 1833
RICE BLADES
THE Dewcomer to the Colony, and sometimes even the resident of long standing, frequently fail to realise the swift and sudden changes which have effected Kolwoon since the be
Was
K.C.C. TENNIS
Championships Played Yesterday
Perfect weather favoured the Kowloon Cricket Club's annual lawn tennis championships yester day. Play commenced at 10.30 a.m. and concluded late in the after- noon, leaving. W. C. Hung and E. C. Finober as entrants to the semi. snals The finals will be played off this week.
The Senior Championships only were played yesterday, and resulted Ra follows:-
F. Grose beat . S. V. Capell, 6/4, 8/1. D. D. Mackay beat A. Spary, 6/1, 6/2. W. Wirth beat L W. Hume, 8/0, 6/0. In the third round W. Wirth sliminated D. D. Mackay, 7/5, 8/7, 8/4.
W. C. Hung beat I. P. H. Macau- lay, 8/3, 0/0 5. A. Gray, after beating 3. J. Ferguson 0/3, 0/4, was eliminated by Hung in the second round, 70, 8/4, leaving Hung for the third round, where he eliminated G. C. Barnett, 6/4, 6/2, thus qualifying for the semi- finals.
LOCAL WEDDING
XAVIER-DE GRACA'
A very pretty wedding was cele brated yesterday when Miss Celeste Maria Xavier was married in the Rosary Church Kowicon, to Mr. Henrique de Graca, by the Rev, Father Spada,
Miss Celeste Maria Xavier is the daughter of the late Mr. W. L. Xavier and of Mrs. Florinda Fraps visco Xavier of 2 Granville Road, Kowloon. Mr. Henrique de Graca is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joee Athanasio Maria de Grace of 18. Luchiel Terrace, Kowloon,
The bride who was given away by her brother Mr. Carlos..E. Xavier. looked very charming in a dress of chantilly lace and georgette with a Jace train made by Madame Leite. She carried a Sanquet of aruni The hes and asparas fern. bidesmaids, the Misses Angelina Xavier and Everdine Cruz wore frous of duld rose georgette trim med with lace and carried banquets of pink carnations. The two little flower girls the Misses Y. Franco
and H. Ozoria were dressed in blue silk tulle, Master C. Sanagollo was page boy
G. C. Burnett beat G. A. White in the first round, 6/4, 6/4, and J.
The bride's mother was becoming- S. Smith beat A. H. Dinner, 8/8, owned in black silk and lace and the grooms mother wore black: 7/5, Smith being defeated by Bursilk lave over a foundation of pink
The office of best mah was taken
by Mr. Jose Gran Osorio and Mr.. Xavier. Mr. Maria Cailoa E.
ginning of the century. Seeing the city for the first time, the visitor naturally takes for granted the splendid roads, the recreation grounds, the extensive docks and the blocks of modern Rats, and is surprised when told that within living memory pirate and robbers were executed at the Viceroy's order not far from where the 'buses now pass; that this land so dense with four and five storey buildings not long ago paddí fields. When a stroke of the diplomatic nen ceded British protection to this thickly-populated district little did the people, Chinese or foreign- ers, think that within thirty years Kowloon would be a modern, pro- gressive city, the centre of import ant industries and factories, and the terminus of a railway from Canton. Yet, sudden A8 the changes have been in Kowloon, they are in a sense not nearly so found as those which have effected in the New Territories.
The casual visitar to this part of the Colony might snporficially declare that the people were exactly as they used to ha before the Terri tories were leased to the British Government. Never were appear- ances more deceptive. In spite of their simple ways and their reien- tion of primitive methods of agri- culture, the peasants of the Main- land are far more sophisticated Years than might be imagined. ago, when their rural seculsion, was shattered by the advent of that hery monster, the for the, they were awakened to an awareness of the mechanical magic of the West, and when roads began to seam the countryside with their macadam surfaces, violating the privacy of
The game started with the Gun the hills, the ignorance and super-minutes they scored through Polake ners attacking, and within five alition of the villagers had already received their knell. The real awakening came with the migration to the towns and the opening-up of
To-
nett in the next round, 0/4, 6/4.
CA Wright beat D. S. Green satin. 62, 6/3 in the first round and in the second beat H. Lubeeder, 82. 8/2 E. F. Fincher beat C. I. Stapleton, 6/1, 8/2 in the first round, but was eliminated by Guest in the third by 610, 4/4, after Guest had best L. Jack, 6/2, 6/0.
In the first round E. C. Fincher beat N. A. E. Mackay, a walk over, pro-and in the second round met. R. B. been Hambly (who had previously de- feated W. J. R. Cragg by 0/0, 6/4), Fincher winning by 6/4, 6/4. Fin cher later qualified for the semi- finals by defeating H. O. Huber (who beat C. V. Gaubert 6/2, 6/2), by 6/4, 6/2,
schools and mission stationa
Thus the only players in the Senior Championships to enter the semi-finala are W."C. Hung and E. C. Fincher. -
FOOTBALL
Kowloon F.C. Beaten by R.A.
At Sookuppoo, the Royal Artil lery beat Kowloon easily by two clear goals. Kowloon fielded & comparatively weak side, and con- sequently they were mostly on the defence."
Rozin was at the organ.
The Reception.
A well attended reception was held after the ceremony, in the Club de Recreio. Both the church and the hall of the Club, were
prettily decorated for the occasion by Messrs. W. Baptista and F. V. Ribeiro.
The usual greetings and good. wishes having been paid to the young couple by their many friends, and the toast of a long and harpy married life duly proposed and honoured, the bride out the cake, a beautifully decorated confection in five tiera made by Marcel,
The honey moon is to be spent at Mand The brides going away dress was of salmon pink georgette trimmed with lace..
THAT SPITTING HABIT
WAR AGAINST IT IN NEW ..
TERRITORIES
The current number of the Gov- ernment Gazette announces that throughout the New Territories every licensee shall cause to be con- ous position on every door of his tinuously displayed, in a conspicu- who defireted the ball into his own licensed premises, while such pre net from a centre by Gough Themises are open to the public, a Gunners continued to prese, and notice or notices in Chinese chur- Cook, the Kowloon goalkeeper was acters, of a size and form approved kept busy, saving many hard shots by the District Officer, in the case from the Gunners forwards. The of premises in the Northern Dis- Gunners obtained their second goal trict of the New Territories, and through a misunderstanding bein the case of other premises by the tween the Kowloon backs. They Inspector-General of Police, requir were appealing for haudaing his oustomers not to spit on against Scal, but the latter adopt the floor.
day, although they follow the ways of their forefathers and despise many of the trappings of town life, whom the marvels of trains, wire- less, motor
cars and aeroplanes whistle and passed the ball to phlegm, spittle or saliva found on ed the policy of playing to the The licensee shall cause any have consed to astonish. Yet he Edmonds who netted. will have none of these gods of
the floor of his premises to.be. After the interval, play deterior-promptly swept up and removed; the West and philosophically puts uted with the Gunners definitely and in the event of his providing them out of his mind as though superior, but they failed to score, they did not exist. Let the ship
one or more spittoons, shall cause Royal Artillery-Combey Allen, a suficient quantity of a disinfect of the air wheel its droning course Wroe Roger, Pardoc, Harris; far above his head and the fire Gough.
ant fluid to be kept continuously coach rush by, like a snorting Donald and Seal..
Edmonds, Bryant, Mein such spattoons while in us and dragon; he must plough the land
shall thoroughly cleanse them daily Kowloon: Cook, Whiteheld, at the close of busine d and scatter the seed as the descen- Goulther Polke, Bliss, Stavely: dants of Tang have done for two Bickford, Hill. Willis, Webb and thousand years. Such a philosophy Phillips.
13 not to be regarded lightly. Motor cars may come and go, but the rice harvest, goes on.
When Julius Caesar vai invading · · Bri-
in, princely family settled at
grave marks the site, described by
SECOND DIVISION
KOWLOON NAVY
Teun Wan and began to cultivate its fertile oil. To-day a humble
Fielding only nine, nen, Kowicon [in poot ae 46 a orescent moon shin-
mg on the protờ were suffered a heavy defeat at the dants of the line of Tang lie hands of the Navy, on their own buried. The villagers now peak ground. They were beaten by nine on the telephone and use electric goals to one. but even had they Hight, but they emile ne they remem- fielded their full team, they would bor all that has happened since not have won; for the sailors played the Tangs came to the New Terri splendid football throughout. tories Perhaps there is a parable in the rice blade, after all.
start, and aided by the strong wind they soon opened them scoring, through, Murrell A second goal was added in quick succession by
Rawaun
Kowloon, nowever, retaliated and White receiving the ball in midfield, ran through on his own to reduce the defuit. However the
cantando
added three more goals through Murrell, Brookes and Rawson he fure the interval arrived.
At the resumption, the sailors were soon again on the offensive The Navy attacked from the I and added further goals through" (Continued at fort of nezt Volumn) Kawion (9), Brookes and Murrell.
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