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EMPIRE DAY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1913.

for the great Queen Victoria and size, by a noble and admirable for the brave men and good Queen-Victorin the Good-who women who had sacrificed them stood a living example of all do Services at St. John's, and the salves. The prescher then went mestic and scrial virtuos: · It

Catholic Cathedrals.

on to show that their motto should was honoured by her worthy san, be "laerve." That was the motto Edward the Caveath, the Peace- To-day is Empire Day and is of the highest subject of the King. Maker. It is now wirely roled

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service as a general holiday. be able to maintain the Briab His Most Gracious Majesty, Business in the Colony, however, Empire were those who were wil- George the Fifth,, ca* bo proceeded much as usual, and ling to obay. It was not what loved King-Emperor. We there were few mauifestations of they wanted to do that they are proud of it; we thank celébrations.

should do, but what they were God for it; and we contribute to- told; and in conclusion he asked wards its maintenance, with the the children to say after him :-I help of God, by our spontaneous will thank God; I will serve God and healthy allegians to the and I will oley God. SERVICE AT THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.

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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL. The annual Empire Day service was held this morning in St. John's Cathedral when the build- ing was filled with children from

with supreme authority over us. the various schools in the Colony,

When you are grown up it will His Excellency, the Governor, and

There was an overflowing con-13 your good fortune and your His Excellency Major General gregation at the Cathedral of the sacred duty to do all that may Anderson were also present. The Immaculate Conception when the lie in your power towards the service, which was conducted by children's Mass was sung by the continuation and development the Rev. A. D. Stewart, was fully Rev. Fr de Mario, assisted by the of the great name and prosperity Queen's Road, Central: The Old Supreme Court. Telephone 1450 choral, the music being supplied Cathedral clergy and seminarists. of the British Emive. by the band of the D.CL.I. and a The bigh altar and sanotusry You ought to thank God for choir of soldiers leading the sing were prettily decorated with ferns. the choies blessings He has bo- PEDDER STREET TREES. ing. The lesson was read by the palms and flowers. The number ato ad on the noble English Rev. Kirk Maconachie. The of children present was over nation and on all the peoples who Hymns sung were "Now thank 1,500 and they were placed as are enjoying race and comfort we all our God."; There is a green follows: Before the communion under the British rule; you ought We note that a corespondent. hill far away"; and "O God our rail on the Gospel side, the Army to baresch Him to continue His in the "Daily Press" supports help in ages past. The service Sohools, the Portuguess boya blessing on your flag and is our sugggestion, made on Thurs coneluded with the National An-being on the Epistle side; in the my on your brother-citizens day last, that the space be them, while as a voluntary the north part of the nave, the girls turonghout this Empire. And $wean the tipea and the band played Elgar's "Land of of the Italian and French Con- what you do this day in the pie sidewalk in Pedd Street should Hope and Glory."

vents, St Mary's school and the sence of the public, do not forget be used as a cair and rick- Mosque Junction School; in the to do every day when you besl ha stand. As un altrove The Bishop of Victoria in his south, five hundred Chinese boys down for your molaing and night scheme we suggest tbat sermon addressed himself especi- from St Joseph's College; while prayers.

the cha could to pla el. ally to those who were British one transept was devoted to Try and fit your: lves, dating in the spin question and FOR KUDAT AND SANDAKAN born, or at least British subjects, the Cbineee girle from the your shel-going days, for the lick has accommodated in Taking Cargo at through tates to and proceeded to tell them a convent schools at Shauki-worthy and a fo life hereaftr the middle of the street. This, it Menado an? Jesselton,

Tawao. Labid Datu, Labuan, Jolo, story which he had read himself. wan, Taumati and Hunghom, Ba mon already, by lofty

seems to us, would meet the whole A long time ago there were some and the other to the pupils of the thoughts, sound and gone ous very great men, handsome and St. Lewis' Indust.al School. aims, and a spotless life. Avoid brave and some good, women, The choral parts of the Mass whatever is untrue, unbecoming and God gave these people a were well rendered by the choir or mean. Be fair in all your tract of land; it did not matter of St. Josephs. At the close of dealings with your companions, where. It was filled with very the service the National Anthem and respect each other in all the long grass and in it were lions, was sung by the entire congrega details of your everyday life. tigers and big serpents and all tion.

Bishop Lander's Address.

This I esteem to be the best kinds of big bansts and reptiles. Among the adults present were Charter for a British subject c And so these brave men and good Mr. T. K. Dealy, baad master of your age. You are willing to women had to work very hard, Queen's College and Mr. Martin, remember always this Chertor, in order to make their land in-Mrs. Bird, head mistress of the are you not? If you remembr habitable. They did so. They Army School, My. Cordeiro of it and keep it con antionaly, oleared the grass of lions and tig-the Portuguese School, and Ms ers and after a time made it into a Lamb of the High School. beautiful country. Then they After the first gospel, the looked round and saw that the Bishop, addressing the children, people in the neighbouring coun- enid ---

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monthly rent "$175 exclusive of delivered the slaves and made ranting so many different races in bless and prera:ve and make Friday and Eturday with plays Taxes; Gas and water laid on. them very happy. Then they the world, nearly all of whom are happy and prosperous for the

from the Haymarket Tuestre call- Apply to COMMISSIONER, improved the land put roads instructed in our schools which welfare of the British Empire. ed A Touch of Tath" and Kowloon Customs, York Build-

8, lighted bad their leginning in the frat Amen,

Lydia and the Po zon." These inge, Chater Road. Boross it, built rai it with electric lig uilt bean-years of the reign of a British

are all plays new to Hongkong. School Loyalty, tifulcities and beaut. alchurchce; Sovereign who: glorious memory

Concerning "The Thief" a Before the Empire Day Mass, Shanghai paper says:- they educated the people and we keep green with each retan- made them very happy.

ing year on "Victoria Day." this morning, the boys of St. There came a time when the We read in the Holy Gospel Joseph's Collega, in presence of brave men and good women got that Jesus, our Saviour, had a the Rev. Bro. Uhristian (Director) very old and it became the time most tender love for children. and staff, were formed up in the

Auctions Sale, to be held on Mon- for them to die. Before they He welcomed them so gently and playground to ealute the British tre on Saturday right when "The day, the 2nd day of June, 1913, at died they thanked God for giving blessed them so fondly! And He flag. The Union Jack was 1uu Thief"rom the French of Heni 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public them a beautiful life to live and insisted that they should always up to the top of the ech 1 flag- Berne in by Cosmo Gordon In-Works Department, by Order of they charged their children not have free access to Him. Hence staff, and the whole school, in pox, om the St. James Theatre, His Excellency the Governor, of to live for themselves but to do it was always and everywhere r double file, marched past at the Indon was presented and the One Lot of Crown Land at May good to the whole world. The cognised as a Christian feeling and saluta.

artia 1 one and all receiproosted | Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, children did their best but were belief that obildren deserve Yesterday His Excelleney the the compliment by giving a pre- for a term of 75 years, commen- not so great as their paronta peculiar respect and sympathy, Governor, through MrEA. Irving, entation remarkable for all round oing from 21st February, 1912, with the option of renewal at a And the time came when they, and that great ie their merit before Director of Education, eent to excellence.

Crown Rent to be fixed by the each of the schools of the Colony Ligthy oiticism is unnec:53 Surveyor of His Majesty the too, had to die and they obarged their Divine Friend. their children to be brave and The celebration of this day, in a handsome photog.avare repro ary but it can be most emphati- King, for one further term of 75 take charge of the land. But the which you take such a leading duction of a portrait of the Kingcally asserted that in the latt children gaid: We don't like part, is really an scho of the Emperor, with a request to the acquisition to bis rere PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. work; we like pleasure. And general Christian feeling and several head-mast and mis- Dallas has a trump card which the men spent their

time belief I have mentioned to you treses that it should be placed should prove a iwe. il magist shouting at football matches, just now. There is great rejoic-in a conspicuous position in the anywhere. From Lag nning to smoking cigarettes, going to pic-ing to-day in all parts of the school, and that the significance of end it is a sassion of surprise. ture shows and the like. They did civilized world; this is a memor-its Leing there should be explain-It was always the unexp coted that not mind very much what became able day for all those who breatheed to the pupils.

of the land so long as they could that air of security, liberty and

lie abed in the morninge. What progress which is to be found

happened? The lions and tigers nowhere so pure and wholesome MILITARY PATENTEES.

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happened but nevertheless the pos- sibtlties were never once outraged while the big "ituations," which never failed in their dramatic inthasity, were led up to in a fashion that coul bave Lean con- ceived only a master of Bisgeotafk. Though Mr. Herry Dallas, who, by the way, had a emendous reception, and Mist May Hallet,

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came back again and killed many as under the glorious British flag, of the people who were not strong within the British Empire, the enough to fight them and the greatest the world ever saw or is slaves were taken back again and, likely to see at any future time. worst of all, there came a timel The Earl of Meath, who works when the people all round said: so untiringly to keep the bappy Provisional protetion, pending What is the good of letting those idea always before the people, the grant of Letters Patent, has the injured husband and ering TIONS of the letting by Public luzy good-for-nothing people throughout the length and bread- bon granted to two Hongkong wife reatively, dominated the Auction Sale, to be held on Mon- live in the land, we will take it th of the British Empire, only the military men by His Excellency production, it was not by any day, the 26th day of May, 1913, from them. They fought them, other day reminded us, in the the Governor-in-Council for in- means a two-p piece for the at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the took away the land, and said: columns of the newspapers pu-ventions whion they have origi-her cherao sis were all clearly Public Works Department, by You would not work for yoursel-blished in Hongkong, that the natad,

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ves but shall work for others. day should be kept up by all Lieutenant George Ferdinand the artista a dance to also dis Governor, of One Lot of Crown Land at Shaukiwan Road, in the They put chains about their necks children, whatever their race and Hay Faithfull, 126th Baluchistan inquieb, them, alves.

Colony of Hongkong, for a term By the way, Hongkor g theaire of 75 years, with the option of re- and made them slaves, "and made cread. I 820 in front of me Infantry, Victoria, Hongkong, his them work and work and work; children of purely British paren- been granted provisional proteger; all of whom know the newal at a Crown Rent to be and that was what became of their tage, and I see also children tion for a 1ariod of nine months geall and energetic Mr Younge, fixed by the Surveyor of His land. That was a story he had of other nationalities, who none from the 10th May, 1913, for an will be a sad to lena that Majesty the King, for one further read, but it was not true yet, and the less obres ve this day with the invention for obving the necambe and Mr. Dalle have joined term of 75 years. Empire Day was to prevent it be spirt that is taught in the watchsity for the use of or okenew, at fore and are to big out a PARTICULARS "OF THE LOT. ing true. Their parents were words of the Movement:- the same time eraming that the company of their owa to the Esst brave and good people to whom Responsibility, Duty, Sym-enten a of a bottle or 1ot have ye Unde their joat

not been tampered with, God gave a beautiful Empire,pathy, Self-Sacrifics."

management the new enterprisal who liberated slaves and taught To understand the true mean Stoff Eergeant Alfvel Golds, should prove a by success. people so much good. But if they ing of this celebration, I will ask Royal Engineers, Victoria, Hong-When Mr. Younga resigned re were like the children in his story you obildren who are spoken to kong, hos hen granted provisicaalcently Mr. Bandwara gave han that was what would happen to at home in the English language, protation for a paric of pinea baiaper benefit Shanghai, them a and what would happen to fancy that your parents asy to months from the 20th day of May, and no man derved it more. to the British Empire.

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