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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1913,

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We are beginning to wonder what conditions, if any, are im- posed in the case of the contract] for scavenging Hongkong's thor-cup, oughfares. On many occasions

MFRRIE ENGLAND,

SCHOOL SPORTS.

Hongkong Scholars Compete at

Happy Valloy..

something kindles my heart-s fanoy from the very web of Empiro's story, framed in Bur- “Saint George for Merrie Eng-gundian fields of long ago. I see land!"

Once a year our calen-tall spears of cold dawn, the clash ders reminds us that it is again of stool on steel sturdy yeomen Saint George's Day and those and lusty archers, the flatterings The annual athletic sports of Englishmen that think about the of brave pennons over knightly the Hongkong echools, postponed matter at all experience a guilty plumes, and over; as our battle from April 17, took place at sonse of something lacking in the waters, comes the deep-throated Happy Valley to-day. Compet- methods of celebrating their rallying cry: "England! Saint itors were entered from each of the patron. They hesitate to pluck George!"

following establishments:

PATALING RUBBER.

Tenth Annual Meeting.

Queen's College, Diocesan. School, Saigingpun Echool, Want Bai School, Yaumaii Sobool, St. Joseph's College, Balilios Pablio School, St. Stephen's College, 8t. Paul's College, Ellis Kadoorie School, Victoria British School, Anglo-Indian School, and the

The Malls. we have commented on this mat English Mail-Arrived per 8.8. fer, and we are impelled to return

China this morning. to it once again because of what has been taking place in the very Siberian Mail.-Closes per s.8. heart of the city within the past China at 9 s'm. to-morrow. low days. Two days ago (it was Cutting Pine Branches. a hot, dusty day) coolies could be|

At the Police Court, this morn-arose as they hurry to their work Beon sweeping Queen's Road in ing before Mr. O. D. Melbourne, and excuse or even pride them- the. vicinity

of Beaconsfield a Chinese was fined $3 for cut-selves that it is their stolidity, Arcado, and sending up, clouds ting pine branches at lung Hom. their dislike of fuss and osten- tation, that makes them so reluc- of dust which absolutely envelop- Mr. Groen prosecuted.

tant to display their 'potriotism, Case of Plague. ed passers-by, whether in ricksha tor on foot, No water whatever One case of plague was roport Lot tho subject nations of the

The tenth annual general meet-Garrison School. was used. The same thing oc-ed in the Colony during the Celtic fringe solemnize their sev- curred yesterday, about mid-day, twenty-four hours eaded at noon eral festivala with carouse and

The sports were held under the in Ice House Street.

to-day. It took place in Victoris dancing; the proud Eoglishmaning of the Pataling Rubber E- is indifferent to sach maffickings. tates Syndicate, Ltd., was held Street and ended fatally, "Quite in Order."

But lot us Englishmen ask our last month at the London Cham- patronage of H.E. the Governor

and of the following gentlemen from tho Apart

danger

For Consignees.

selves: Is this the honest truth? bor of Commerce, Mr. James H.E. Major General O. A. Ander- Consignees of cargo by the 6.8. It is a startling fact that Britone Lloyd Anstruther (Chairman of BOR, likely to be caused by charg

C.B., The Right Rev. Bishop ing the air with clouds of Namsung are reminded that all don't like to be Englishmen. if the Company) presiding.

Lander, The Right Rev. Bishop The Chairman said: Turning Pozzoni, Sir Charles Eliot, germ-laden dust, there is the cargo remaining on board after

they can help it. Anyone who inconvenience to which the public to-morrow will he landed at con- has a Scotch mother, who hop-to the trading and profit and loss K.C.M.G., The Ven. Archdeacon pons to have his birth place innocount, we have on the credit Barnett, The Hon. Sir C.P. Cha is subjected by this sort of thing.signees risk and expense. Certainly the streets have to be Cutting Government Trees.

A man was fined $2 and a box Wales, or who owns property inside the sum of £95,656 14a 100; ter, C.M.G., Commodore R. E. kept olean, but is it too much to require a sprinkling of the

Ireland, will in all not call himself English. Eng. ceads of the crop sold for Esq. The Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, thoroughfares before the coolies Melbourne, at the Police. Court, land is too large and hetero- the year, including a O.M.G., Lieut.-Colonel Chapman, come along with their brooms to the morning, for anlawfully out-geneous to be clannish, Sheought balance on hand at valuation. V.D., N. H. N. Mody, Esq., J. J.

really to have a number of patron The

haad of Leira Esq, Consul for Portugual,

T.K. Dealy, Esq. saints: One for Yorkshiremen, the previous year's crop for Cornishmen, and so on. The we have credited the amount another for men of Kont, another ably exceeded the valuation, so very mention of such names shows separately in the report in the A.F. Mills, F. A Britton, F. J..de the impossibility of St. George's second item £787 1is, 7d. On Rome, A. R. Cavalier, G. A.. task; for it were as reasonable the debit side, under estate ex Hewitt, J. P. Jones,

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Three Chinose, two men and woman, from the neighbourhood of Shaukiwau. were bound over at the Police Court this morning, when they were charged, with

Departed. assault,

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HÒNGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APDip 23, 1913,

ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

the contractor? Newspapers Blunders.

A London newspaper managed to score something of a record over the boat race. It brought out the result with surprising swiftness, but unhappily it got the result wrong. "Cambridge Won,"

Boore." A Talking Dog.

Mr. E. J. Van Delden, acting Manager of the Netherlands India Commercial Bank in Hongkong. left by the Yokohama Maru yes.

Mr. Van Delden.

a

or being accompanied by

Alleged False Pretences.

ANOTHER PIRACY.

Reported Outrage in British Waters.

balance on

eraall

considor

The allicials were as follow. Clerks of the course :-Messrs.

to bring Scotch and Irish penditure, 221,261 18s. besides Starters;-Rev Bro. Alphonsus, under one banner, as Yorkshire the items mentioned, the export Rev W. W. Rogers, Mesars H. mea and Cornish mon. Hence any tax, amounting to £2,300, or Sykes, R. W. Burney, H. Max- Englishman who wants to be 1.28d per ib, is included. In the well, and B, C. Barlow. clannish (and man is a gregarious balance sheet reserve

And can we speak any longer one of the smaller nationalities to

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account

A.

a premiura on share account of H. A. Cox, A. O. Brawn, G. A £7,500. We are recommending Hancock, A. Morris, A. Vivesah, stands at £21,000, which includes Revidges Rer A, D. Stewart,

Handicappers: Mesars H. Sykes, and R. O. Barlow.

A man charged with obtaining of "merrie" England? The poets an addition of £3,500, the same N. Macintyre, B. Jamas, G. Lang coat and $4 from a boy foster the idea that "Merrie Eug- as last year, to this account, which Perkins, E. J. Edwards. by means of false pretences, was land" signifies the England of will bring it up to £24,500. This it said, whereas Cambridge did remanded in Police custody, by the maypole and the morris-dance, represents £17,000 appropriated

Official Time Keepers:-MessTS nothing of the kind. How easy Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police Dickensian joviality and junket- from profits past and present ings on the village green. Ever for capital expenditure on the

A. W. Grant and W. Curwen. it is to make slips of this kind in Court this morning.

since Dickens' day the word astate, which, during the year

Stewards :-Rev. Bro. Chris- the rush of going to press every

Inspector McHardy's lilness.

has changed its signi under review, amounted to £3, tian, Rev. N. Pope. Rev. A. D... merry We have been informed that pressman knows, and the wonder is that they do act occur more Police Inspector Mr. Hardy, who ficance and now has a bibulous 966 12. 101. Sundry creditors, Stewart, the Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, frequently. One remembers the has not been fooling well of late, Favour it did not then possess. 56,121 138 3:1, many appear high dessrs. G. Piercy, W. D. Braid-

you wouldn't but it includes the amount due

wood, Ng Hon Tsz, Ellis story of how, in Fleet Street itself, has gone into the Government Thus we say

him drank, but be for income tax, which, on the Kadoorie, Ho Kom Tong, Lau the machines were set running at Civil Hospital. His 'many friends call.

and average of our dividende, repre- Chu Pak, La Ping, Ho Tang, T. distinctly merry WAS a great pace one day, a quarter of will wish him a speedy recovery.

On the assets merry and bright" has become senta a good snin. Slight Fire Outbreak. acentury ago, because a sub-editor

General Committee:-Rev. A, found on the tape machines the A slight outbreak of fire occur a tippler's toast. In any other side of the balance-sheet, the deve-F. Hough, F. B. L Bowley: words Queen Victoria died at red at a house in Hunghom, sence the word seems old fashion-lopment expenditure for the year, D. Stewart, Rev. Bro. Alphonsus, Windsor Castle this morning." yesterday, but it was put out by ed, suggesting the stuffy con- 1,29216s Ild, includes the open- Rev, W. W. Rogers, Rev. Bro, W. H. Cornelias, Mesars, Fortunately for him he discovered the jumates and the police before viviality of some poncerous family ing of 181 acres mentioned in the before the papers got on the streets much damage was done. A lamp function with maiden aunts in report. Under buildings, machin- Viveash, J. Smith, B. James. that the first part of the message upset and and set fire to a mos-attendance. But "merrio" Engery and furniture a liveral amount A. Viveash, H. Sykes, F. V. Brit. land simply mesnз pleasant has been allowed for depreciation. ton, R. C. Barlow, N. Macintyre, "Coachman to" Queen Victoria,quito curtain.

England and we have to ask Sundry debtors, £633 11s 3d, are A. Morris, G. Perkin, W. Curwen, had been torn off. That sort of

uurselves: Can we still consider certified as good and recoverable. F. J. De Romes, A. O. Brawn, England a pleasant land? Of It is most satisfactory to note. Hancock, H. Maxwell, A. The day capoeially noted in the Calendar os that dedicated to thing is always possible, and there was more than mere fun in

course there remain many pleasant that a reduction of 2.73d has been Hamilton, A. F. Mills, E. J. Ed. :·· St. George is the twenty-third of April, but it is probable that only J. M. Barrie's story of the sub-

places in England, as there must be effected in the total cost of pro-warda, R. W. Barney, H. A. Cox, a tiny minority of Englishmen in Hongkong bear the fact in mind, editor who received the tape

in all countries of any size, and in- duction upon the figures of last J. P. Jones. A. R. Cavailler, G. deed there are yet a few unsullied year, which, on our crop of A. Hewitt, E. Ralphe. even though, for many centuries, this Saint was everywhere regard-message "Boers take umbrage,'

There was a largo turnont of Cheung San Fu, the master of English beauty spots. which 429,547 lbs, means a anying of ed as the Patron of England. Historians point out that Englishmen and transformed it into the head-

spectators. the licensed fishing junk 722 H.O., probably cannot be beaten any nearly £5,000. (Applause.) Mr. have become somewhat mixed as to his identity; that they confuseing "Capture of Umbrage by the

But, taken as a whole, F. G. Harvey places the estimate The turf was in good condition bas reported a piracy in British where. him with Michael the Archangol; that, in reality, he was a

with the spread of its dreary for the current year at 470,000 for running and the systemtio In another column we print a waters. Cappadocian, or something of the sort, whose name was not George

He bas informed the police manufacturing areas, the reeking Iba, as mentioned in the report,

with the events increased at all, and that he knew no more about England than St. Andrew story-hailing from America-of

road-hog January and Febranry; 73.259.

the pleasure of competitors know about the Kyles of Bute. But, so far as we can see, all this a dog that can talk. This educated that about eleven o'clock on the slums of its great cities, its seedy and for the first two months, way in which the olficials dealt

its screaming lbs have been secured. Forward

and spectators alike. The band ie "neither here nor there." For hundreds of years men in England brast, an eighteen-months' old night of the 20th inst., whilst unemployables, its

collie, can any five worde: "Ob," lying on anchor in Temple Bay, motorists

"Papa" and Shan Chau Island, another junk sisterhood, England does not contracte have been made for 60 of the 8th Rajputs was in at- believed staunchly that their country was under the protection of a "No," "Now," certain Saint-whatever his name, time or nationality-and we of" Out," and his owner seems to of about 500 piculs capacity, con- seem an ideal place to choose for tops first Intex at an average tendance and played appropriats "pleasant." The feeling of a Scot average yield of rubber per cre The following is a list of the this century are free to own that Englishmen were far from being entertain hopes that "this list taining seven men drew alongside a holiday it is not altogether price of 49. 6.80 per lb. The selections during the afternoon.

results:- the worse or the weaker for entertaining such belief. Indeed there can be extended indefinitely by his boat, Four of the men jump-

patient teaching." Not only bave ed on board his boat and he saw returning tohia" banks and braes" was 338 ibs, and during the win-

Long Jump (Senior Champion- are, at this present moment, many millions of English-speaking we our doubts as to the fulfilment they were all armed with reor Princes Street; an Irishman to tering months from January

his green isle and "deer, dirty to June some of the older ship) I, W. Soo; 2, Ho Wing stronger men than they of this generation by virtue of that very be- would like to res the dog that lief; that the shaking off of the old, childlike faith which marked the didn't say all the five words attri- the boat owner over the head "home of his fathers" have no mentioned under development 171 youthful days of our great nation, was but the introduction of the buted to this particular animal, with the butt of a revolver, and exact counterpart for an English-have been planted 17 ft by 17 ft, The single bark of any dog can he fell into the water. He retained man. London. of course, is un- and when the balance of 75 Boros thin end of the wedge of that materialism and cynicism which construed as each of all of sufficient consciousness, however, ique and may perhaps be con- is planted it will complete the

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and, for to be able to swim ashore, fifty sidered "pleasant "for a short available land which we at present threaten to be the brand marks of fature ages.

Whilst the women time. But if we speak of " merrie" possess. The usual resolutions If many of our readers are unwilling to own this much, they will that, a disyllabic bark-a com-

"bow wow" and children on the boat were London, it brings to the imagins were passed. at least admit that there is strength in a recognised watchword; in mon or garden any accepted cry which will bind men's hearts together and give would serve quite well to satisfy covered with revolvers by some tion the restless gaiety of the sacked the boat and took away gin-palace sad the cinema show. them one-ness of mind in their common hour of need. To Irishmen, the requirements of really imagi of the pirates, the others ran- restaurant and the theatre, the St. Patrick is not merely a nume; he is a force; a bond of union; native minds.

jewellery and clothing to the London cannot be described as

altogether "pleasant." value of $62. and, all over the civilised world-save, of course, in Hongkong- societies bearing his name are doing charitable work and are serving to break down the barriers of coldness or enmity that might other wise exist between men of the same race. In a sense the same is true of St. Andrew and Scotamen; this is evidenced; here in this Colony, by the good work done by the Society that bears his name, "At Home, within the last few years-probably as one of the many results of the Oxford Movement-St. George's Day in winning back some of ita pre-Elizabethan popularity, and there seems every sign that the ory of "St. George for Merrie England" many yot come to its own again.

and

people who are convinced that their forebears were better and of those sanguine hopes, but we volvers.

One of the four pirates struck Dublin" or a Welebmsn to the fields were rested. The 181 acres Lee; 3, Hamid Johnson. Distance

them, except

MISSING NECKLACE,

Reported Theft on P. and 0..

Steamer.

feet away.

THE SS. HUE.

100 Yards Flat Race (Junior

Henry Chin; 3, Li Taeung-yan. Championship.)-1, J. Julip; 2, Time 14 Rec.

100 Yards Flat Race (Senior Championship.)-1, Lau Kwai- cheak; 2, Chan Man-woon; A. Goldenberg.

120 Yards Flat Race (Handi- cap, Boys under 10): 1, A. Ma homet, scr., 2, Omar Ismail:7; But what matter if England is The pirates then boarded an-

440 Yards Flat Bace (Handi. other boat and stole $18 worth of not so "merrie" as she was. If Passengers Transferred to the 3, A. A. Rumjaha 7.

American.

cap; Chinese Boys under 18) maa money and clothing. The unfor-modern travel facilities enable tunate owner of the first boat, the jaded Englishman to over-

Wo stated on Monday that the 1. J. Wong 15; 2; Loung Wing- reports that he could not tell look the claims of his own land

Chon Kau Wing 10. where the pirates made for after-and seek recreation in the High-8.e. Hue had stranded near the tat, 10:3, Lee Hon Chee 15; 4,

Kwong Chan

High Jump (Junior Champion- A theft, of a rather peculiar wards. He says the junk was lands, or Switzerland, or Nor- entrance nature, is stated to have taken numbered, bat he could not see way; who shall complain? The Wan, half way between here place on the P. and O. steamer the figures as it was too dark. The Englishman abroad can still an- and Hainan, and that the ship), F. Bilva; 2, Wong Yat- 800 Yards Flat Race (Senior China which arrived to-day.

A lady passenger, travelling salt smuggler's junk.

junk, bé also asserts, was like a ticipate with pleasure the day Hanoi, together with the salyang R, Lay, p

when he will again take a taxi at age tog David Gillies had Championship)-1, A. J. Kew Waterloo or Charing Croes to gone to her relief. first class, has reported to the

2, A. Goldenborg; 3, J. M. Braga,

One Mile Bicycle Race (Han bear him on his way to a place Wo learn to-day from the necklace.

to

It was significant that Englishmen should single out for their devotion à Saint of whom history or myth had made a fighting man; Police the loss of a valuable pearl Chinese Immigrants to Singapore, which will greet him with scenes manager of Mensre Marty's Hong-diosp: boys under 10.)-1, F and the very fact that they did so is an indestructible rebuff to thors

Daring. Maroh 34,973 Chinese who, to-day, are going about telling us that war is "wrong"; that

It is stated that she dropped the immigrants arrived at Singapore of friendly, half forgotten detail, kong branch that the Portugueso Bunje ser., 2, Chan U-kat 30, 3, men should not fight. The life story, not of England only but of the

orzament on the deck and, when compared with 22,752 in March, recalling the days when the very steamer American sighted the Raul Silva 40, draft ghete ga world, is full of the linking of religion with fighting. The Old she went to pick it up, it bad 1912. The total number of im hedga-rows helped to mould him ne soon after the accident and Half Mile Flat Raco (Civil Sor vice Challenge Cup-to be won Testament teams with instances of this strange connection; so does

migrants arriving this year an into an active representative took all her passengers and mail.

of that great country which has on board,

s three times in succession: boys the mediaeval history of England; and, oven in the dour days of mysteriously disappeared.

far has been 60,118.

made the business of Empire her The Hanoi discovered this and under 19.)-1, Chan Man-woon; Cromwell, the godliest Englishmen were often the most uncom

Baron Montoto.

Commander d'Ollone. Commander d'Ollone, whose own. "England, with all thy turned back, so that no further 2, Y. Hachems; 3, Chan Bling-wa. promising warriors. We are not necessarily defending this position;

Baron Motono, Japanese Am-

condition 100 Yards Flat Race, we are merely stating it as a fact of general interest. But if we do not offer any positive defence, we are not going to own that, in the baseador at St. Petersburg, has exploration work in Chins is faults, I love thee still," and news as to the Hue's present condition of human society, we would willingly see matters left the Russian capital, according well-known, and who left France to-day, even though I cannot war is at present to hand. Her pus: for girls 10 years of candicap otherwise. By nature, John Bull is religious; by nature he is to a wire of 18th inst. Be early in March to serve in Moroc enthusiatough I hadbourat brought and mail are being 1, Lydia Stonham (3 yds.) bellicose; and shore is every room to fart that the day he abandons the positions to you a very high oo, was rather sarichaly wounded ant and shough about rare brought here by the American, Mabel Musso (3 yds.

„doubts about your being"merrie," via Muoso, position at Tokyo,

one quality he will also throw overboard the other,

in the fight at El-Hajob