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BONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1912.

A SEASONABLE HOMILY.

Christmas is nearly come again, and exiles in the Orient wel- come it none the less gladly that they are far from Home and what

The Attempt on the Viceroy.

The outrage on the Viceroy of India, reported in our telegram

DAY BY DAY.

Precedents are only useful for

PHILIPPINES

TELEGRAPHS

FORGED NOTE HAUL,

Appear

tas

columns is one of those unhappy keeping people from going for. acts which one would only too ward. gladly attribute to a madman, but the supplementary message. which stated that several arrenta 8 have been made,” more inalides us to think that some political mal- content is to blame. Whether

A Biting Morning. The thermometer at the Peak, at am, to-day registered 44.

The Haltan.

The Dougla steamer Haitan goes into dook on Saturday for her annual survey. [?

Returned.

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Interesting view with

Superint,

Mr. R.P. Whes Kentucky, but many years Sup Telegraphain arrived in the co

Mr. Wheat, when me

the culprit was mad or bad, the circumstance helps to illustrate the

by a representative of the Hom fact that we have not seen the

Among the passengers who kong "Telegraph" to-day, stated and-mayhap - wo are only arrived from the North to-day by that he had been on a tour of experiencing the beginning of the Luetzow was Mr. Henry inspection of the telegraph our trouble with India. Indians Humphreys, from Shanghai.

systems of the world. He was glad read the London Socialist news-

Organ Recital.

to say that in comparison with papera; and there are times when On January 3, Mr. Donman the great systems, such as the labour leaders go out of their Fuller the Cathedral organist American, and the English met- way to sow discontent deliberately will give another of his monthly hoda, the one that is now in jamong them the harvest reaped organ rooitals in St. John's operation in Manila, and among wherefrom is the murder of Sir Cathedral. The vocalist will be the islands, is an exceedingly Ourzon Wylie or yesterday's Mrs. Gank. ~

good one. attempt on Viscount Hardinge. What else could we expect?

Christmas Madness.

"The ways of those foolish women dubbed Suffragists are in

Obstruction.: j

Thirty-two Cables. Mr. Wheat stated that there are

already thirty two cables among the Philippine Islands, and six wireless stations.

Eventually indeed in a very abort time the world will be cir cled by Radio-telegraphy, station connecting with station, thus fulness is inestimable". lìaking up a system whose use

He

described here

at Queen's Boad, a photo- grapher. What about bail ?

Mr. Bowley He may be a re- sident at present, but he is not a mative of the Colony. I think the same objection applies to him as to the others in a case of this sort. I don't think your Worship should grant bail at this stage of the case.

His Worship I think Mr. Mason you had better make ap- other application, at 2.15 va Monday the 30th,

CHRISTMAS SERVICES.

German Charch (Deutsche Kapsile) No. 1 High street-

24. Dazember-Ohristunchts- feier 5 pm.; darauf Bescherung im Findelhaus.

dr. Bowley, of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, appeared to prose- cute and Mr. F. O. Mason, of Mars Wilkinson and Grist, dofonded the whole of the

defendants.

Plea of not Quiltý, Mr. Bowler-apply for a re-

have

many

25. Dezember:-Erster Weih- htsfeiertag: Festgottesdienst

Segmber: ****** Gottesdienst

ahresschluss

Neujahrs

gottesdienst 11 a kong:Christmas 1919; St. John's Oshgral, Hong- Holy Communion 45 a.m.) Katins (11 m.) Choir); Responses Festival, Venito: Crotch, Pealms: Speciants, Te Deum: Stanford in fat.. Jabilate: Ayrton in E., Am:

His Worship:You appear for "Sing O daughter of

a.m.); Kyrie: Adlam la de-Hymns: 60, 62, 59.

Costly Swords. A man from Hung Hom, who was found by Inspector O'Sullivan in possession of two swords with out a licence was, at the Police Court, this morning, fined $150 all conscience past anderstand-or in default six weeks. ing. We have before commented The Cocaine Case. on numerous of their sots of Next Tuesday at 2.15 p.m. has wanton folly, bat we venture to been fixed by Mr. Hazeland, for think that their latest escapade his decision in the cass in which is more atrocious and abomina Chinese is charged with being

Mr. Wheat went on to praise able, in many respects, than any in unlawful possession of 1000 the now Federal law in the Unit-mand, your Worship? of their previous actions. Taking ounces of cocaine.

His Worship-How. advantage of the heavy Christmas

ed States, by which the entire

you got? mails, they again raided London

Mr. Bowley:-Six. Eight Chinese were fined $3 control of wireless work is taken pillar-boxes and damaged hun- each by Mr. Hazeland, at the over by the Federal Government dreds of Christmas cards and Police Court, this morning, for at Washington. Mr. Wheat pro- the prosecution Mr. Bowley? Gadeby Holy Communion letters. What earthly use these causing an obstruction by keep-wireless-equipped

ceeded to say that four hundred Yes.

American fanatical creatures imagine they ing their shutters outside their

ships, nearly one. hundred wire- are serving by acts such as these, shops, at West Point.

less commercial stations, many it is indeed hard to seo. We should have thought that women We learn that His Excellency more stations that are connected

with schools, colleges and experi were sentimental enough to the Governor has given his pa- mental laboratories, and several realise that Christmas is a time of tronage to "The Court Cards goodwill, and that Christmas entertainers, and hopes to attend thousands of amateur stations, cards and letters bring happiness one of the performances, which are affected by the regulations which have been promulgated and cheer into a sphere that commence here on December

Mr. BowleyThey must plead by acing Secretary Cable, of the should be particularly their'e 31st.

defendante. Department of Commerce and the home. But what care the

His Worship-I was only tell- Labour, and by the Act that went ing them what Mr. Mason said- into force on December thirteenth, the solicitor advised them to plead This sot, oar informant states,

not guilty. establishes a complete. Federal Mr. Bowley-He (the inter- control system over radio-com-preter) must read the charge to munication, and requires the licensing of all wireless operators working across States lines, or communicating with ships at sea.

of their

The Court Cards."

The Patria.

Booking Facilities.

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Mr. Mason: I am for the fendants, Your Worship.

His WorshipDo you plead not guilty?

Mr. Mason-Not guilty, your Worship:

His Worship (to the interpreter) Tell them to plead not guilty.

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Garrison Divine Service A Divine Service will be conducted on Christmas Day," an fillows --- Church of England Victoria Cath edral 11 am, Offg* Clergyman. Church of England Detention Barrack Detention Barrack 12 noon, Chaplain, R.N. Church of England Stonecutters Barrsoks, Under Orders, Senior Officer. Church of England Military Hospital Bowen Road, 6 p.m., Chaplain. Church of England Lyemun Barracks Under, Ordara, Senior Officer. Church of Eng-

Suffragists for the happiness At noon to-day, Mr. Leiris, the of little children or of others Portuguese Consul paid an official fellow-oreatures? visit to the Commander of the Apart altogether from the abo- Portuguese gunboat "Patria." minable nature of such an act, Mr. Leiria is giving a dinner on cannot these madcaps sed Its Saturday night to the officers of

them.

land Kowloon St, Andrew's shortsightedness? Maybe they the "Patria."

His Worship:Yes, but I was Church 10 nm., Offg. Clergyman. are, by such an insane proceed-

only advising them what the Church of England Mount Austin ing, injuring their own sym- We have been requested to

solicitor said.

Barracks, Under Order, Senior Of pathisers, and thas instead of state that for the convenience of

Enforcing the Act.

Number Five Pleaded Gulity. ficer. Church of England Sun Wai helping forward "the cause those who wish to book seats for

The Department will enforce The Interpreter-Number five Camp, Chaplain. Baptist Victoris, they are merely very successfully the opening performance of the the sot through Inspectors at New pleads guilty.

Union Church 10 a.m., Offg. retarding it. But logio makes no Ferris Hartmann Company on York, Baltimore, New Orleans His Worship:-Well, Mr. Clergyman. Congregationalist appeal to these poor folk obsessed Boxing Night, Messrs Moutrie and San Francisco, with additional Mason, number five pleads guilty. Victoria Union Church, 10 a.m., with one solitary idea. That is and Co. have arranged to have a inspectors at Boston Chicago, I have said, Mr. Mason, that you Offg. Clergyman. Presbyterian quite obvious.

booking office opened at the City Savannah, Seattle, and Cleveland. advised them to plead not guilty. Victoria, Union Church, 10 a.m., Bail from 9 am to 1p.m..on The United States has been di- I will have to take that plea from Offg. Clergyman. Wesleyan Thursday.

vided into nine wireless districts, number five.

Victoria Wesleyan Church, 10:15 with head quarters in the cities Mr. Mason Very well, your a.m. Ofg. Clergyman. Wesleyan named.

Worship.

Mount Austin, Mount Anatin, 10 The circular that embodies the Mr. Bowley-I ask your Wor-a.m., Ofg. Clergyman. Roman

aye in tune,.

A fifth or mair,

tune,

*

O' carking care.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN MOGINTY.

ment.

Unlawful Possession.

This morning in the Summary

.

Union Church. The short special service in Union Church, Kennedy Road, on Christmas morning will com- mencs at 10 o'clock. S

Catholic Cathedral. At the Cathedral of the In- maculate Conception, the Feast

atears. To-morrow High Mass will be sung at 8 a.m. t

Land Sale.

A Christmas Greeting.

Still, we in Hongkong are far Bishop of Victoria's Engage-

ments: enough removed from Suffragists

The Bishop of Victoria's En- and other ill-balanced people to regard them with something like gagements for Christmas Day are they know as Christmas weather. Not: for us here is there snow indifference." To-morrow is Christ as follow:-7.45 a.m. Celebrate/regulations, Mr. Wheat said, an-ship to grant a formal remand for Catholic Victoria, St. Joseph's clotting in the clefts of valloys and white-capped hills rearing their mas Day, and this is a season. tno at the Holy Communion at the nounces the elegibility of women a week, then a further remand. Church, 10a.m., Ofg. Clergyman. as well as men as operators, and His Worship: What day will Roman Catholic Kowloon, Rosary heads-serete, austere and pure. These things are become only greatly charged with happiness Cathedral: at Noon preach and that applications for licenses for euit you next Tuesday the 31st? Church, 9 am, Offg. Clergyman.

for us to dwell long on such un-Celebrate at St. Stephens Chinese ships stations must be sent to the Mr. Bowley-Hae your Wor precious memory; most precious, perhaps, at this gladsome season happy matters. Let us give our Church; in the afternoon preside department's radio inspector at ship Monday afternoon freethe of the year. For the Britisher abroad, Christmas is perhaps a readers a Christmas sentiment over a meeting of St. Paul's Chinese the port of departure.

30th P season less of actual and active enjoyment (though that figures from the poems of Robert Burns congregation, and in the evening Mr. Wheat continued that His Worship I had a case considerably) than of remembrance. Old faces, events and stories who, writing to a friend of his, visit the Christmas Party for the licensing of the Great fixed but luckily the solicitors

Sailors at the Seamene instituta. Lakes ships will come back to him, more acutely memorable on this than on other and a violinist, said:-

not be thought they would like a holi- Come wealth, come poortith, days. Their coming may leave him a little regretful, if only be-

undertaken until spring, and day (laughter).; late or BOO, ot

At the Police Court, this morn that licenses for coast stations

Case Remanded, cause he cannot feel the whipping rigour of the air at Home on this

Heaven send your heartstrings ing, Mr. Hazeland gave his deci will be issued by the Commis Mr. Bowley-Will you Wor- of Christmas will commence at 10 day, because he misses the sight of a landscape swooning in frost,

sion in the case from West Point,sioner at Washington. Examina-ship remand this case until thao'clock to-night, when the Office because (should he comes from the North) he misses the ululation And screw your temper-pins in which a Chinese was charged tions as to efficiency and capab- afternoon in view of the possibili" of Matins will be sung in Choir, of a bagpipe playing an air joound on Christmas morning-for

abuns,

with being in unlawful possession lity will be held at all navy yards,ty of it being thought advisable/followed by the Te Deum which these, or for reasons more sacredly intimate, most of our reflections

The cranky, melancholicus His Worship found the man and the naval academy. Amateur occasion?

of ten bage of rice valued at $80. naval stations, certain army posts to take some evidence on that will be intoned by the Right Rev. are tinged with regret and lönging at this season. It is well that

the Bishop. Pontifical High guilty on I fined him $100 or in stations are restricted in their His Worship:Yes, but don't Mass will then be celebrated, the this should be so; for Christmas regret is never bitter. It is

default two months' imprison wave lengths of transmission, let mas waste an afternoon. Will musical portions being given by no incubus (as at other times) but a stimulas. Old faces, hopes,

and must not exceed 200 meters, you let me know as soon as por assisted by well-known local am- the choir of St. Joseph's College resolves come, ghost-like from the past, not to upbraid, but to choer

Case Adjourned.

except by special permissionsible if you don't want it? us. We may have failed to make a great accomplishment, as we

Court the case was to have come Amateurs kept in Check, Mr. Bowley-We will attend once hoped to do, but they tell us that life is still before us with the

before Mr. Justice H. H. J. Mr. Wheat added that the before your Worship at 2.15 p.m. same qualities as before the sweetness, the affection, the passion,

Gompertz, Paisne Judge, in Department recognizes that radio- and, if I am not going on, I will the longing, the divine despair, the valour and the faith. So, even of a skipper who was known in 59 Bonham Strand, sued Teang form of instruction for amateurs, hand.

Yesterday the death took place which The Che Cheong Co. Ltd., communication offers a wholesome let your Worship know before

Yesterday Inland Lot 1838, for those who do not consciously lay any great religious stress on the Hongkong for many years, in the Taz Hi of 16 Hillior Street to ro but it will not license an amateur Dis. Worship-In that case the Public Works Department to below Kenedy Road was sold at day, Christmas is a time of self-inspection, of a quickened spirit, of person of Capt McGinty. The cover the sum 8687.96 alleged to who does not recognize the rights can't I fix 10 mm, on Monday? Kok Shut-ting for $2,360. The brave resolves.

deceased gentleman, who was aged be money due by the defendant to of others to the uninterrupted use I will give you 2.15 on Monday apset price was 81,198. It is a time, too, when barriers, of whatever kind, between man in command of the a.a. Sancheung ad on Sept. 6,1910. The case was public, commercial and safety

about fifty, was for many years the plaintiff on an account deliver- of the apparatus for important just the same.

Chinese Christmas."! and man, are broken down. When men wish each other "a Merry a position which he held until a adjourned.

Mr. Bowley:It would be Sunday was the Festival of Christmas," they mean it; they have, for the time being, drawn few months ago, when that boat

much more convenient if your the Winter Bolstice, and was nearer to each other, have become members of one great family. was sold. Latterly he held a berth No one need go short of a good Western Union Company's new it is not going on, your Worship Chinese community. This day is Bijou Theatre

Mr. Wheat said that the Worship fixed it for 2.15 and, if

|generally celebrated among the "A time of giving and of gratitude," we saw it termed a year ago. on one of Mesers But is gratitude quite the word? Are we not in danger of making Lapraik's boats which he left giving their performance at the was an astonishingly successful His Worship What about 2.15 Chinese Christmas."

Douglas laugh while The Follies are clasification of telegraph messages will be fres at 2.30.

known among local Chinese ne a virtue of gratitude which is, as often as not, a lively sense of shortly before his death to be Bijou. The responsible or irres one. The "Day message, at on Monday the 30th ? favours to come? Children know nothing, until they are taught, come chief mate on the On Lee. ponsible dramatis personas are regular rates, is called a "Black," Mr. Mason:That will be con-

A New Enterprise, of mere gratitude. They have something batter-love, affection,

It is reported that the Germans thankfulness, flowing from them vaguely." A father does not look About two weeks ago he was Mr. Bob. Stephenson, Miss Ada the Day letter, at reduced rates venient to me, your Worship. at Tsingtau intend to open iron for what we terra gratitude when he gives to his children. He removed to the Government Civil Bowley, Miss Dolly Swift and is known as a Blue, the night Will your Worship grant bail?

works in which Chinese capital receives more than that. And we should like to think that the Hospital suffering from dysen- Miss GladyaSpencer, and between message, at night rates, isa"Red" Mr. Bowley-I must object to will be allowed to participate. It

tery from which he died. family spirit obtains in the kindnesses and benefactions of Christmas

them they are serving a dish of and the Night Letter, is an "N.L.'” bail being granted. Although not is proposed to start upon a large Day that gratitude is not expected nor offered, that men give and day at the Happy Valley, the cor- not seen for a good while, The Wheat asked with a laugh, when of the documente seized is over lion dollars to work

The funeral will take place to rollicking fan such as we have Why write letters? Mshown in the charge the face value scale, with a capital of ten mil- receive not because they are conscious of benefits bestowed and socepted, but simply from a warm: sense of affection. It may be passing the monument at 5 ladies are got up in pretty pier-50 words go after 8 p.m. as five hundred thousand dollars, so coming from Chinling merely a fleeting sense, which rises to the surface only once a year;

det rette costumes and do some most cheaply as 10 words during the I must object to bail in this case is near the Shantung Railway. The deceased gentleman pos amusing variety turn

furna.“. Mr. day ?!

His WorshipWell Mr. Mason Outbreak of Fire.y but that it finde vent at all, during this brief season, is proof of the inherent and unquenchable goodness of man. Man seldom knows sessed one of those generous Stephenson makes an excellent The deferred" cable system what do you propose; you see the fire broke out in a cooki

at 183 Queens Road natures which never fail to make pierrot, and his witticisms all is rapidly becoming popular, for face values man. He may know much, but there are vital things and par friends, and his death will be have a fine topical and local fla- those who are not in too great Mr. Mason: The sixth defen- night, caused by the amount in the other's life, which he cannot know. But on this one mourned by many who had for Tour. The man who wants to hurry, Mr. Wheaton added dant is resident in Hongkong and of some firewood T day they come nearest to knowing each other closely. That is the hire more than an ordinary friend forget his Christmas hills for Mr. Wheat is staying at the will probably find substantial caused was alight and real spirit of Christmas the spirit of brotherhood and we end on ship and who admired the rugged half an hour should go and listen Hongkong Hotel, and expresses that note by Wilding our readers:

strength of his character, his to the funny fooleries of "The himself as having greatly enjoyed unfailing geniality and kindness Follies"

his visit to the colony.

MERRY CHRISTMAS,

p.m.

purposes.

a

bail

His Worship What about the sixth defendant

iron

which

last