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Entimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY NOVEMBER 25 1909

subjects; is becoming a somewhat serious ques

ties in Chios. Not only in Shanghai bu' also in other parts complainte may be heard that the conditions under which Indiana are allowed to quit their nalive' land and to 'come to China are unsatisfactory and require alteration. 'So

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KING EDWARD'S BIRTHDAY.

Leang King-oo, Lâu Chu-pak, Ng Hon-chi, And friendly Sovereigni, They desired, no" Ho Kom-tong, Le Cheung-ip, Chau Shlu-ki, doubt, in this way, to express their admiration. Yeung Hio-poog, Wong In-long, Chan Cheuk- of our Queer, to testify, to the benefits they - fan, Wo Heichow, Cheung Shi-Kai, Tong Lu, bave received under the King's Government » chusn, Wong Kam-fok; and Mok Man-cheung, | in this Colony and to bear witness to

The officere.commanding the various naval || the cordial relations which bara existed be and military contingents were

tween them and His Majesty's subjects in Colonel W. Prior, commanding the 13th || Hongkong. It will ever be a source o Rajputa,, was in principal command, bis stad gratification to me that I have been asked i

perform the ceremony of unveiling this statue to-day on the anniversary of His Majesty's births. day and the replica of the Coronation medal | which the chairman has presented to me will, ba a valuable memanto of the occasion. In. fogih Mahrattes.—Lieutu, Powell and N. G.. the name of the subser bers, I now uavail the Ford....

status and present it as a memorial for all... time to the Colony of Hongkong, (Load ap pisuse.)

ment of Sikhs in the S.M.P. may necessitale NOTABLE CELEBRATIONS IN HONGKONG. officer being Lieut. G. B. St. F. Bunbury (13th

inquiry as to the paisibility of selecting an altogether different class of fodian recruit The whole crux of this question lies in the fact that many natives of lodis are completely thrown off their balance mentally and morally on arrival in China by the, to them, extraordinary conditions in which they find themselves. Deprived of the controlling influence which their home environment sup plies in the shape of antive public opinion, and freed from the wholesome guidance which their reticions authorities exert very strongly, these mon fiad themselveï let loose to not only, one, but "abuse, the ordinary freedom of action

STATUES OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCESS OF WALES

UNVEILED:

GOVERNOR REVIEWS THE NAVAL BRIGADE,

INVITED GUESTS TO THE STATE BALL.

To-day, the official celebrations in honour of | 13th Rajputs were stationed round the pedestal His Majesty the King were carried out in a of Her Majesty the Queen's statue; the zogth manner which affaided (ba residents of thie far | Rajputs occupied the space between the statues distant appanage of the British Empire an op of the King and the Prince of Wales; a company portunity of giving fud and abundant, expres Seventh. The occasion was unique in the annals of Hongkong for not only was the nail day.recoguised by the community but statues

Rajputo).

Royal Marines.—Capt. Fletcher, RM È'?, "The Buffa.”—Capt. G. A. Worthington, se2 alor officer.

* 13th Rojpula-Sobadar Arjon Singh. Royal Engineers-Capt. Addison. Royal Garrison Artillery-83rd Coy." "Capt. Spicer; Bath Oy. Capt. Clapham

Hongkong Sing spore Battalion, Royal Gar- rison Artillery.-Cept, Berzley.. Crake, Lizuts. 1. 1. Andrew and E.D.C. Wolfe. Hongkong Volunteer Corps.-Capt. W. A.

THE GOVERNOR ARRIVES, Almost on the stroke of ten o'clock, the bazle

of a decently brought up European, and thision to their feelings of loyalty to Edward the Victoria, which by the way was not adorned by { rapped out by the officers of the troops os

because unfortunately for themselves and this community they are allowed a latitude such as Orientals brought up-under the condi- tions these todians have been cannot stand. In other words, we lake it, the Sikh who formerly worked for a few appas a day and is now earn-

of the Buffs surrounded the status of Queensounded shrilly, and half a dozen orders were even a solitary Union Jack; two companies of parade. Bayonets fixed and swords in, the band the R. G. A. were drawn up at the entrance to the square; the Royal Engineers were station His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard. A mes and officers prepared for the coming of of Queen Alexaudra-presented by the subed against the statue of the Princess of Wales,

last ba ntrived coming by way of Des Van x scribers to the Coronation Fund-and of and the Hongkong Volunteers stood facing the the Princess of Wales-presented by Mr. H. Queen Victoria Jubilee Memorial N. Mody were unveiled by His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard. An additional feature.

AT THE STATUES.

THE STATUE UNVEILED, Mr. Hewell then hastily undid the fastenings which held in position the canopy covering the Marne, hod His Excellency with a'touc', un-

Queen Alex india, amid the ringing cheers of reiled the fios presentment of Her Majesty'

the assembled spectatora."

The massed binde played the National „Anibem ̧and-at a'staccaito note from Colonel Prior who directed the troops, the royal saluta was presented. The orders ran along the lices and were carried with the precision of automata. After contemplating fora minute or two be delicate tracery of the Quee

tation of Her Majesty in bronze,

His Excellency, accompanied by the mem

Road, where he left his company of scarlet and statue, which really so mi a fragile represen-

crown-spangled chair-bearers. On entering, the Around the statues, which were to be unveiled Square, the massed bands sprang into life with 10g, a dollar a day, bat lost his financial per of the day's proceedings was the review of the bad been erected a sort of canopy, at the four the opening bars of "God Save the Kia.." Lisbers of his staff. nd suits and the Cornsation spective, in the words of the American he naval brigade and the inspection of the new siden of which stood sailor and marines, readya't outfit, which age cannot wither por custom the Princess of Wales, which was presented to Excellency who wore that famous pepper-and-Committee, walked to the other statue, that of fancies he is "it" We quote again from Colo-Admiralty dockyard. It may be asserted thea to raise the four Union Jacks when the cloud stale, and crowned by that whits top hat which the Colony by Mr. H. N. Mady. Estering the Gel Bruce's report; So far as concerns the without question that the spectacular character of canvas had been withdrawo, by the Governor.sbrives amazingly in this wonderful climate, wah

dais with Mr. Mody together with the distin of the celebrations hava seldom been paralleled -- We do not know exactly how many troops were in Hongkong before, and the only regret that on the ground, including the naval and marine

On His Excellency, prepared to unveil the quibed be di of the navy and army in Hong can be expressed is that so few Chinese were detachments, but there must have been very

shrouded furt. permitted the chance of seeing the special searly 1,500-altogether, and all of them in the features of the ceremonies..

plak of condition. The massed bands of all the regiments were placed under the command of the Buffs Bandmaster and stood waiting the signal to strike up the National Anthem,

S.M.P.and the bad characters to whom reference has been made above; the immediate trouble may be put down to reports of the Eastern Pacific coast at the present time. Ta endeavour to free themselves from their just, and legal contract with the Municipal Council has there

REFRESHING. fore been the main object of these Sikhs. It is

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aseless to try and place before such men the fraudulent nature of their actions, or to attempt toreason with them. Men of this kind are lost to áll sense of decency and can only be controlled by a disciplinary code, which, while absolutely just, is severe, and able rapidly to be enforced And there the gallant Colonel ends. No solu tion, no suggestion, no proposal for a middle mixed with aerated or plain watercourse. Might we be allowed to submit an

ides on the subject? In various places in the being kept as the speciál preserve of the alleged How the ladies managed to climb up the poles make excellent refreshing beverages, East, notably to first-class tailoring establish

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The Hangkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1909.

"LQ,ABE POUR INDIAN) If anybody should know soything about the Indlaus, it should be Colonel Bruce, the Cap taia Superintendent, of olice to Shanghal.

five and bave their being together-ame as the police. They receive eLough money to keep them in the smaller luxuries required over and above their "ch" They receive medical and, no doubt, spiritual attendance without cost. At the end of their term they are returned to India and the balance of the money earned by them is handed to them immediately on arrival. That system prevails and is extremely popular in Bangkok. Is it possible that such a scheme would work in Shanghai as well as in Hongkong? Private firms find it handy why not the Government? Then there would be lille or no talk of fabled A stante,

From an early bour this forenoon Statue Squa re was guarded and patrolled by the military and the police and entrance to the charmed circle:

AWAITING THE GOVERNOR. euld only be obtained by the possession of a

Many of the vulgar rabble, being pre- ticket. The usually deserted square was cravened by reason of their social status and med with troopa resplendent in their winter unis, inespective of their tax-paying capacity, were forms, while on all sides flags and banners perched in the most impossible places Auttered in the breeze which came in gusts One of those dilapidated-looking ticketty from the sea. Two grandstands had been shacks, which appeared to have been built of erected within the square, one beside the match-sticks and brown paper, was converted shrouded fige of Her Majesty the Queen and into a grand stand by the genius of some bare the oiber alongside the statue of the Princess brained loyalist who refused to bow to, au- of Wales. There stands were carefully set thority's mandate, and before very long the roof apart for the four ton of Hongkong, the first was thronged with equally daring sight-seers, gentry of the Colony while the other was set at the risk of their lives we cannot tell The apart for the ababby-genteel. The rag, lag and adjoining buildings were in the possession of bobtail were allowed to kick up their heals half loyal and patriotic citizens who could be seco a mils away, or they might undanger their lives at every window, and those crowded out found by clambering up to the roofs of the six or Avantage ground on the lofty parapets away up seven-storey office buildings which form ons side of the square. As for the Chinese they were conspicuous" by their absence, a fact that reflects little credit on those who had the duty didistributing the admission tickets; The fact of the

matter is the entire arrangements bore the stamp of patty class jealousy and were admirably calculated to give rise to those feelings of envy, malice and uncharitableness against which we are specially supposed to guard.

Broadwand, and Commodore Lyon, the former accompanied by His Excellency Major-General

on his right and the latter on the other, side.

Without any formalı17, because 0040, Was necessary, the Governor, Genl.roadwood. Commodore Lyon and, the Hoa, Mr. H.-A. Hewett proceeded to the raised daw, which exandra and the ceremony began when Mr. was erected opposite the status of Quaeh'Al-

Hewett, representing the Corobalion Com mutes, related the bistory of the staide. It was almost impossible to bear a single word of Mr. Hect's speech and in consequence we can only give the gist of his remarkt.

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His suite included Capt. P. H. Mitchell-

·THE, PRINCESS. Taylor, A,D.C. and N. Pimson, private secretory

Mr. H. N. Mody said :-Your Excellency, Major Hart-Sygott, D&O, Capt. Stewart, M'..

Ladies and Gentlemen,-It Is with the greatest Blanc dower, M., Commodore's secretary, pleasure that I now call upon your Excellency Lient. Forsyth, R.N., and subidermajor Ab-10 uuveil, and take over, for the community, med. Din of the Royal Garrison Artillery.

the statue of Her Royal Highnesathe Princess: of Wales. The embellishment of the vary faw open spaces we possess in this Colony is. E think, an object wonky of the attention of those who have the good fortune to be able to take a

attained than by the erection of statues of thors band,in doing so, nor can this object be beiter

to whom we owe allegiance, devotion and love it was therefore with the greatest pleasure that, on the opportunity, being afforded me to do something in this line, 1 offered, subject to the maoci of Els M. Josiy (ur King and to the consent of the Royal Pecivoage immediately. concerned, to present to the Colony the status you are now about to unveil. His Majesty's sanction was readily grabled' add Her Royal Highness vary graciously consented to give the necessary sittings to Mz, Wade, the sculptor sa- lecsed, whose work of art are numerous and wall known; and. L'am given to understand, be has, produce a very speaking likeness; which it,fa now my proud pleasure to present to thổi -- Colony. We may well be proud of the fact, that we bold the honour of possesing the

THE INTRODUCTORY SPEECH.. The Hoo. Mr. E. A. Hewett stated that the statue about to be unveiled was erected from money contributed to the Coronation Fundas a memorial to Queen Alexas.dia. So many years bad passed since the commutes was firit förm; fa the sky. Amid all this pageant of beautyed that the orginal members bad dwindled and gallantry, denso volumes of smoke were from 37 to 13 who were sull ja oojkong, lasting from the dwarf chimney of one of thes: That explained the fact why many of those unsightly contraptions erected against the Law who had been his colleagues could not be pre- Courts, spreading their foul fumes on all alike sent to receive His Excellency. Mr. Hewen waqt predice. For of course the pan. proceeded to detail the programme which was the Hindon and the bellicose builder who lo airanged for the Coropation celebrations some habit these makeshift abacks most have their eight years ago, special funds were raised, the

"chow," ceremboy or no ceremony.

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SOME OF THE SPECTATORS.

By 9.45 a.m. the grand stands were filled

His Excellency the Governor and his en with ticket-holders awaiting the arrival of outage. The last of the band who form ed the Coronation Committee of 1903 by whose exertions fands had been collected for

very first statue of our Gracious Priteurs that;

bus as yet been erected, though one is tow "Appeal fɔr subscriptions being generously re- being prepared for fodis, Like-out presint" sponded to. Soleme services were held by the Gracious Queen the Princess of Wales fins ale leading religions bodies in the Colony, tele- ways shown a keen interest in all works of grams were sent home, addresses were drawn | mercy and charity. Loog may she be spared" the city was illuminated, the Chinese illumina, your Excellency to unveil the stains. (Ap op by the general community and the Chinese, to de 10. With thạn faw remarks I' pow' aik

tion being most magnificent, the school child. plause.) rea were entertained to tea and so forth. As a

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THE UNVEILING.

.TACTLESS ARRANGEMENTS. Right away from the various entrances to the Square the general body of the public were hustled back as if they were so much dirt and had no right to be on the scene at all. Now and then a gorgeous lady accompanied by that celebration sufficient to provide a statue, memorial of the occa ing a special medal waz

His Excellency :-Mr. Mody, Ladies and top hat which did duty ten years ago, when the to the present Queen after meeting all expenses strick. At the end of the celebrations it was Gentlemen,-The addition of this statue of LOCAL AND GENERAL.

owner was a' griffin, emerged from the loi-in connection with that past and gone ceremo- found that the Commilles had a substanti Her Royal Highness complètes the group pollos and with that brand of hauteur described aisa stood is a group near the statue of Queensum in band aodat was decided to spand it in which forms our Royal Square and so sron ***THE full report of to-day's interport march, the gally decorated stand which had been prised the Committes only' is remained, sohe Alexandra The order was given to Mr. George for same time disfigure it, are removed, this as è la duchesse sought bet privileged seat oo0 Alexandra. Of the 37 who originally com- the erection of a statue to Her Majelly Qteena the building sheds, which, I regret, will still which resulted in a victory for Hongkong by specially erected for her comfort and conveni having gone to their long test while others had E. Wade and the respit would abortly be dis two zuse and ten wickets, will be found on ence. But even "my lady" bad to be scrutinised let the Colony. The remnant, headed by closed. He expressed the hope that for many proach to the Colony from the sea. The Statue quare will form a worby and dignifi ̧d up- by some functionaries before she was per the Hon. Mr. E. &. Hawelt, included the For want of space a report of the tennis mitted to deposit her large and important per Hon. Sir Paul Chater, Co., ibe Hop, Mr. E,

a long year the statue would remain not only bas been presented by Mr. H. N. Mody," who' as a memoriál" to the'gracious lady it repre- in ever ready to come forward to promote, son on the sacred beach erected for those off aborar, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., the sented but also a token of the amity which the welfare and add to the beauty and bold over,

sheep were separated from the goats so to Smith, Mr. H. N. Mody, Mr. F. J. Badeley, combined to make up the cosmopolitan populte bis spent the groter part of bie THE first woman to drive an aeroplane success-spoak, the first baing allowed to mingle with and Mr. J. Barton. her own aeroplane in a four-mila fight over the second lat, that is to say the goats who were fully is the Baronne de la Roche, who plfoted the really and truly magnificent sot. The

tion of Hoogkong, la conclusion, he asked ife in the name of the Colony. I thank

French camp at Obalous,

His Excellency to accept as a souvenir of this | hơm for his generous gift. · (Applause.) Of occasion s replica of the Hongkong Coronation His Royal Highnoit, and of the Prince of, medal--(Applause),

Wales it may be said that'no prospective King'ă. HIS EXCELLENCY'S ADDRESS,

nad Queen of England have aver travalled so` His Excellency—Mr, Hewatt, Ladies and largely, and seen so much of the British Empira'

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He was specially selected because of bla. wide matches played this afternoon is unavoidably | cially regarded as belonging to the dite.. The Hon. Mr. Wei Yok, C.M.G, Mr. J. R. M. existed between the various nationalities wheut lity of the Colony-(Applause)-in which

IT is stated that President Liang Tua-yen of

use the word-with the object of getting their will probably succeed him.

knowledge of the babits, customs and wishes of the average Indian who decides to cross the sea and so far as we know since bis appointment

THE OFFICIAL STAND. ́he has not lost his reputation as a diplomatic

Among the large and distinguished gather organiser But latterly the laics have been

just as the verge of stepping into Society anding of those on the official stand wore against bim. America has become the El

could faintly see over the brink but no farther, the following:-His Excellency General Sir word relegated to what some wild humorist had joachim Machado, KCMG, Bishop D: Poz. Dotado again and the lodian members of the twiwugu, will return to Canion on leave labelled the public stand." The members of 10s, the Hos. Mr. W. Rees Davies, Sir Gentlemen, The Chairman of the Coronation as they have. It is siguificant of the ins police force have been ementing- we may President Waug Ta-haleb, of the Yuch' usupu, nor good red herring found places for them P de Maria, Capt. J. M. R. Norton; Capt oy the circumstances connected with the Colonies are now regarded by the Mother-cour to repair his ancestral graves, and that Vice- the Fourth Estate being neither fish, flesh Francis, Lady, and the Misses May, Rev. Fr. Committee has already recalled to your mem creased importance, with which the British

seem absurd that the very people who would plato Basto, Mesars, Caldera de Amaral Queen, Its erection is an indication of the have made themselves personally familiar with selves as best they could. Candidly, it did Almeida, Lieut, Com. Salzzir Moscoso, Litat.origin of this beautiful Statue of our Graciousry, that Their Royal Highnesses should thus have most enjoyed the spectacle when the and and Heiter Arasha, H. M. F. M. deep-seated loyalty of this Colony to our Cove the sister-nations, whose desilnies are linked statues were being unveiled and the men of the Varco da Gama; Coleact Foster, R. X, regn, whose throne is the symbol of bond and Navy and Army were marching past His Isk Excellency the Governor should be the Chicay; Capt. Mysing, Capl. Von Bredow, We pride ourselves here in Hongkong upon

visitor passing through the yalty between all parts of the British Empire | only people to be excluded from the ex Lient. Bachmann, H.I.G. M. Jaguar Capt. our loyalty and patriotism, and I doubt if any THZ Minister to Belgium has lately recome a woefal want of tact and good feeling. It filia; Dr. and Mrs. E. Voretzscb, Mr. Statues at our late revered Qeen-of thei

bibilon-wo refer to the Chinese, it showed Cuba Lima H. M. F. M. Rainha Donna Crows Colony can tival this fins group of mended to the Tarons, through the Waiwop, sinucked of bureaucracy, of snobbery and Justice H. H. J. Gompertz, Mr. and Miss Gracions Majesties who now reign over ur several engineering men skilled to ship-build. Jobbery, and was redolent with the Lyon, Mr. and Mrs, Von Welser, Mi, and of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Pidue course they may reign over a "United and

dismissal so that they may proceed to the land of honey and ice cream. The tales of the fabulous wexith garnered by their friends in the land of the golden eagle have so excited their cupidity that they would almost lose their freedom in order to gain the freedom of the United States. At all events, several of those who have mutinied and stowo rank

THE Grand Council has decided to appoint Commissioners of Foreign Affairs for the Chill, Kinngen, Fukleo, Kuanglung, and Hupak provlaces and a memorial will shortly presented to the Throne asking for its sape tion for the proposal, ".

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with those of the Buish Isles, and with the Colonies, which, like Hoogkong, are so imporishtinas sat, to the trade and to the naval suprotstegief zina. Great Britain. We are also provid that our fas jure Queen will be the first for many centuries |lo ba British-born. - May Their Majesties be vouchsafað by Providence long lives, so that ́in

Innbordination have been sent to going and the manufacture of arms",and ascent of that, class prejudice, which on Mrs. Start Faller, Capt. and Mrs. Lyons, cess of Wales, who, at some future date, will be' | Loyal and Patrionic Empire 15-(Applause)" AN

and thence to their native habitat. In parenthesis, we wonder how many of these disappointed millionaires have been responsible for the unrest in India? So far as we is Hong-

· kong are concerned the type of lodian police man whom we now màst le admirible. His

·Panchant to lord it over the humble rickaba coolle or the arrogant' chair bearer may be regarded as a foible but otherwise his manors

Rescript has been received approving the recognition of such talents, GENERAL Sir J, French, O.C., X. C. . ., et Brigadier-General D. Henderson, C. B., D.S.G., and Lieutenant the Hoa M, V. B. Breit are passengers to Hoogkong by the P. & O. S. Mookan, frem Marseilles, Nov. 16, trans-ship. ping at Colombo to the Mantus,

the occasion of the King's Birthday, if at Capt. Heathcote, Mrs. Blanchflower, the Hop, our King and Queen. As we wish long life the request of the generous donor any to the concealed. At all events, the favoured: few, Medy, Messrs. R. A. Gubbay, D. S. Gubbay, R. Inng deferred (Applause). It would be super- Colony to which in so many ways he has been. no other time, should have been sedulously Mr. P. N. H. Jones, Mr. and Ms. J. H. N. to the King, so we desire that that date may be the watue, and present it in his camg to the the guaranteed ball-marked crowd and the Pestonjee, E. A. Irving, P. P. J. Wodehouse, fiscus for me to say more than a very few words silver-plated variety comprised about ball the Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart, Mr. and regarding Her Gracious Majesty the Queen

a benefactor. (Applause).

For the second time His Excellency worked dozen scores of apjourners in this land of the Ms. Frack Maitland, Mr. H. P. White, Mr. Admirailón and love for her lie deep in the the oracle and ibe, stston of the Princess of- free and the brave."

and Mrs. J. H. Kemp, Hon. Mr. F. A. heart of every British subject (Applause). | Wales was revealed, a fitting and wortby com- Hazeland,. Mr. and Mrs: E. Shellim, Mr. During all the forty-six years that, alle panion to that of the Prince on the opposite THE marriage arranged between Mr. F. S. G. the cene was suikingly picturesque and cas Mesure. D. R; Law, A. G. M. Fletcher, M. evergrown deeper and stronger. We regard

Apart from that unfortunate official solecism, and Mrs. E. M. Hazeland, Capt. Grenfell, has been among as, those feelings have side of the square.

The bands crashed out the National Anthem; have materially improved. His kla, the money Francis Piggott, Chief Justice of Hongkong, might almost say brilliant. The hidden statues. Bassoon, the Hon. Mr. and Mr. W. J♬ her at the-most regal y endowed Queen of the troops gave the royal salute and the cannon

lendars, those abarks of the impotent poor, are no longer regarded as of bis blood-at loss, so we are told. The truth is that the general appearance, demeanour and address of the Sikh Constable in Hongkong to-day is fat and sway ahead of what it was oven a couple of years ago, when we had occasion wille agalust theme What is it in Shanghai According to Colonel Bence, and we are quing

Piggott, Royal Engineers, older son of Sir

and of Little Woolpits, Behurst, Surrey, and Juanita, daughter of Mr. W. James Smith, of Gibraltar and Villa Vieja, Algeciras, will take place at the Cathedral, Gibraltar, on Dec, 1T,

aral secretary of the general commitae of the MB. Fletcher S. Brockman, of Shanghal, gen. YMCA of China and Kores, well known in Hongkong and particularly wall versed in the

THE TROOPS.

routed opt a triumphant accompaniment," ItE9A is best in womanhood. Her devotion to the 'was all very inspirieg and dramatic and the th duties of her bigh station and the success and scene on the square which is ordinarily left jó és charm with which she has performed them as the contodianstip of its silent guardians, lush vend well as her never-failing sympathy with sorrow bronce was actually imposing. The cHRDODAT

You have erected this statue not only a and suffering ato known to us all. (Applause) had been placed at the end of Status Fier and

their tremendous uproar fumed a completa (NB an emblem of loyalty but as a mark of admira mental picture of the loyalty which is begotten bet tion and love of the noble lady who is our in the British Isles, Gracions Sovereign, (Applauso.) 'It will give

were surrounded by the Naval Brigade, deinch- Gresson," Mr. and Mrs. C. Mel, Mosser, Queens and as the type and example of all that meats from the British and Indias regiments, Messrs. E. T. Edkins, C. Pemberton, J. Y. V and our own gallant fighting salt the Volun. Vernon, H. P. Tiedemann, H. L. Dennys, teers. The men of the native regiments looked J. D. Stephens, A. Shelton Hooper and Miss a particularly fit and trim set of soldiers, their Hooper, Sir Henry Berkeley, K.G, Mrs. contrast to the spectacle. The Boffs Seat D. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Looker, matty and curious uniforms leading colour and G. H. Wakeman, J. F. Wright, R. M. Dyar, C. smart, business-like company to represent that Messen, K. Pabaney, Kamalji, Mr. and Mrs, famous regiment, while the Artillery and Ea Boel, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. David, Mr. and life and thought of the New China, will give a gipsers were as firm moulded and ready as ML AVAIR Mr. and MIK A M. Essa series of addresses at the Chinese Y.M.C.A..on ever. But for all that it was the Navy that bhoy, Mesare. C. Montague Ede, H. Pink | hair Majestion, I am mare, special plan... ... His Excellency the Governor accon

THE MARCH PASTATO

from his official report to the Municipal Counc moral and religions' subjects from the 18th carried off the honours, for somehow the heart ❘ney,' E. Howard, T.; Christiani, A, Moir, A^ sure to learn that the Status was subscribed for by his sulte repaired to the steps of t of the Settlement:-The misbehaviour of cer Novambar, Friday, Baturday and Sunday at # always warms to the boys in blue, who aid as Bryan, R. J. Audap, H... M, H. Namuses," not only by their loyal subjects in this Colony Victoria's monument "and

a mach at home on bead ne they are 41 von." The Sin Tak-dan, Leung Pal-cht, Lau" Pun-chip, | but by many who own their glogiance te quhar | march past of

ta'n Indians," who are unfortunately Britisk

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