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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1933.

ECHOES OF 1858

72.-Bishop Tells of Local "Gunpowder

Plot"

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(In our issue of Saturday gave the first portion of letter written by the Bishop of Victoria to a friend at Home. Below is the continuation of the letter.)

to

man

pedient of this kind for dividing To TE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG the several hours and watches in their military guard houses 'accord- ing to the lengths of the parts con- sumed,

medial measures.

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DAILY PRIS3."]

SIR-I have the honour to in- Aa atrocious gunpowder plot to

The Governor placed Mr. Chatform you that the Reuter-telegram," blow up the English community mers in mulunication with Mr. dated: Amsterdam, August 31, while assembled for divine service Caldwell, the Government protector published in your Issue of the 1st of September, which you headed·-- in the Cathedral, is among the re- cent attempts planned at a distance of the Chiause, who after long in Attack on the Guilder by Foreign and happily frustrated by the fide.vestigation. being perfectly Speculators, caused me to inquire lity of a native Christian. As the uninted with Chinese, reported from Her Majesty's Government last mail-steamer was leaving the the truthfulness of the informant whether the report to the effect that Harbour, the Rev. W. Chalmers of and the necessity for taking re- the next budget will probably show B deficit of between 300,000,000 the London Missionary Society.

It was vlecnie advisable to let and 700,000,000 guilders was cor called upon the Governor and my-" self to communicate the details of the English community become acrect.

Although no figures have been the plot just divulged to one of his quainted with what might have native preachers by our Chinese caused a redless panic and unwill- given in reply. I have been sexton, the native Christian ta ingness to come to the church. The authorized to state that the balanc

This

Governor, the general, the head of ing of the next year's budget will whom I first alluded.

assured when the mensures obtained permission from me to go police and myself took consulta-be"

which the Government will present his native home to escape tion.

Parliament together with the punishment frown" the mandarins. The Chinese sexton could be to

of budget, are approved and passed. offers by He belonged to a place called induced

It is hardly necessary for me to reward to remain Shumbak. On his arrival there he pecuniary

to give up repent that Her Majesty's Govern. was ordered by the local gentry at his past and

tu ment does not contemplate leaving and scholars to another place to the braves who should arrive await orders. He had implicitly to carry out the plan.. He is now in the gold standard. Dr. Colijn, the obey At the second locality he was, concealment in a small village in premier, emphatically stated at the told to return and avail himself of another part of the island. His Economic Conference in London the opportunities as sexton to lay place was filed by another during that the Netherlands are adhering a train and destroy the English his absence; and thus, basing given to that standard. community in the Cathedral. Heus timely notices of the plot, he officially confirmed on more than

one occasion. objected that he had not the re- hopes also to secure his own exemp. quisite courage. He was then or-

tion from persecution. Scarcely an dered to return to Hong Kong, and Englishman is aware of the danger there await the arrival of four on the brink of which we were un- braves, whom he was to admit dur consciously reposing in security. ing the night into the church and And all that an initiated person

of change discover to conceal them in the masking of can the plot. The plan, was to have the cathedral as a preventive laid three or four piculs (a picul is measure is that a part of the garri About a hundredweight avoirdu-i son now come with their side arms poise) of gunpowder under the to the cathedral in the morning, hollow wooden platform extending whereas formerly they all came in over the area on which the sittings are raised, and then to light a slow time the match or fuse so as to explosion according to the hour of

The Chi assembling for service. nese are so expert in slow matchee án ex- that they commonly use

in

This has beer!

I trust that the above will re-

move the wrong and rather alarm- ing impression about the "financial situation of my Country, conveyed" by the Renter Telegram,

I have the honour to be,.Sir,

Your obedient servant,

M. J. QUIST.

Hong Kong. Septe 18, 1903.

YOU?

the afternoon; and two, or three ANY LETTERS FOR extra European policemen may he seen quietly exploring the localities of the edifice, and watching every

Chinese suspicious-looking

who come near the church,,

(To Be Continued.)"

AQUATIC SPORTS OR LAND SPORTS?

Amusing Debate At The Wah Yan

College

Lying

An interesting debute was held in, for character training. the College Hall of Wah Yan about lazily in the sunshine is a soft College on Saturday on the theme and effeminate form of pleasure; "That Aquatic Sports are more but footbal: hardens the muscles, beneficial and enjoyable than Land steels the character, teaches self- Sports."

control and team-spirit."

The youthful speakers preechted the arguments for and against water sports very thoroughly, and many, showed marked facility in taking up and answering an the spot op- posing arguments.

Some points from the speeches were:We like sports in summer, not in winter, when the cold north wind forces us to bury ourselves in our overcoats, and parents and children like, to sit together and chat around the fire. Now, the only sport for summer are aquatic sports. Nobody ever tires of aqua the sports; one can stay swimming for hours. In swimming the move. ments, ar even and gentle; in land spart, they are rough and irregu

Jar."

"Swimming is, frankly, a moet tiresome sport; the only thing one can do is swim, swim, swim! The more one dives, the more one hurts oneself!"

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"There is simply no comparison between land and water sporte for manliness, for clean pleasure, and

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On the division, the aquatic sportsgr. Luis Chi, E. B. Filsinger, Kai won by a single vote.

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in those who oppose him."

It was the same in the Church, added Dr. Stirton. Members of

what is at present called the Ox-

ford Group maintain they have alone found the keystone of rell-

Scots Divine's Frankon. We had all been grasping

Sermon

(Special Air-Mail Service)

shadows, they maintain, and been rendering unto Caesar the things that were God's.

"Rendering Unto Caesar"

To my mind," said the prea- cher, "their theories are just the Ballater, Aug. 30.

old ones-Egyptian magicians and The King, with Prince George, soothsayers dressed and tricked drove from Balmoral Castle to out in modern. habiliments and I Crathie parish church for Divine am certain will speedily vanish service this morning. The Duke like the snowflake on the river. and Duchess of York, with Frin- "British hard-headedness and cess Elizabeth, motored from Birk hallm

British common-sense will have none of them. The authors of such Dr. John Stirton, Domestic doctrines are neither, rendering un- Chaplain to the King and minis to Caesar the things that are Cae- ter of the parish, look, the ser- sar's nor unto God the things that

| vice. In his sermon he made sare. God's. U

vigorous attack on internations- "Some there are who would take liam and on the Oxford Group political life and separate it from Movement,WAN

God, or at least who look upon it

Referring to internationalism, as a legitimate field for all man- he said: "What a dull, uninter- Įner of unworthy practices and eating world it will be if we give stratagenis and tactics. It ought up our national characteristical not to be so

To see the people furned out, as The Rev. John Stirton, D.D., who It was said the old School Board is 62 years of age, was appointed system turned out its scholars, parish minister of Crathie in like so many cheeses all precisely 1919. Before that time he had of the same pattern. Bub the in- been for 16 years minister of ternationalist can see no daylight Galmis.

from Shanghai...

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