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THE «HONGKONG (TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1913,

The Baseball Game,

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WE TO A was not a fire-elags.one. That WILLING CORRECT,la Ro may be ; yet it was quite good enough to be iutercating to a big orowd of English people who were prevent and the majority of

whom had not, before witnessed a

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE

score of 18 goals with only one THE recorded against.vs.

TELEGRAPH'S ACROSTIC.

The Answor

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noor.t-A-in Lotha M

Be hmoth Yahoo S Notes. (4) Job, Chap. 40. (5.). Swift, Gulliver's Travels.or.i

kan

Populla deva

The 1 ff has not changed much Annual Prize Distribution and during the year w

which is a causa Cancer1.

for thankfulnes In the spring Mr. Wong Oi-kut left after near- ¿Te annu, bez distribution y two

two years of pood service in the The Malls

and cart ini sotion with school and bis place was taken by Canadian Mail-Arrived pores. Si qul's Colleau was held on Mr Lak Shohel. About the Empress of Japa yesterday. Starday evening at the College, same time Rev. W. W Rogers

when His Excellency the Officer who had been Acting-Principa! game of baseball. In any case, it Siberian Mail.Loft For R. Administering the Government during the past year. left and is hardly to be expected that men Chenan at mid-night distributed the prizes won du has taken up work in Canton. In will be as keen in an exhibition Saturday.

ing the year, the Bishop of the bis place we have had the plea game as in one on which much de- Australian Mail.-Laft par 8.9. St. Diocese, Bishop Ludor, presid sure of welcoming Rev. G. E. 8. Du pends or that they will be quite att Albans at 10 am. yesterdaying The function was bold ja si padell who arrived from Eng- their beat when they have just

open space in the College grounds aut in September and is now which had been covered in for taking the position of a master We are linking that school to the purpose and illuminated with in the School In the Chinese this one by means of annual coloured lights in quite an artistic Studies we have bad the advant scholarships so that promising fashion. There was a goodly, at age of recuring the services of Mr scholate may be encouraged and tendauce of Echolars, who wore Lai Chi-lau, who has well filled helped to continue their studios. accommodated in a gallery: con- the post of Chinese Head Master. We are hoping to make it rain

ing ground for some of our senior, i structed at the back, and parents, apil friends, and so popular, was

boys and at the same time, we hopa the event that the seating was

to bring that moral and soon occupied.

influence, which has meant Bot. much to this school, to bear on

usy.

left one steamer and are to pro-reach MailArrived For 8.4. Paal Locat at 115 p.m. to eeed on another directly the game ja over. It seems to us that

Siberian Mail-Closes per ss. Paul Ledat at 5 pm. to-day. Australian Mail-Arrived per 8.

Tango Maru this morbing. “ French Mail, Closes per 88. Australien at 11 am to

·MOTEOW.

dongkong was singularly fortn nata in seeing these oba pions at all. A tour of this kind toss a deal of money, and other places have had to guarantee a certain sum before a game was played. That we in Hongkong heald: have been permitted to witness a Siberian Mail-Due per ss. Chi- game without having had to pay

yo Masato morrow afternoon. a cent for the privilege is s

Latest Advertisement, Í matter for congratulation. The

Consigness noties concerning champion players, and those who arranged the matter the e.s, Nansang.-Page 4. from this end, deserve hearty thanks.

Mr. Slade Leaving. Mr. Marcus W. Slade K. C. leaves Hongkong on the P.M.S. Siberia, on Wednesday.

Cutting Brushwood. A the Police Court, this morn- ing two Chinese were fined $10 each for cutting broshwood at

In the course of a programme

and plain and

A Spirit of Enthusiasm. It is impossible to say too much in praise of the effort of the staff to advance the good of the school.

of musical and dramatic itama A genuine spirit of enthusiasm yet wider circle.

The Annual Report.

it is a pleasant task to present

A school when the word vance" ia written across branch of its activities.

ad-

Baph

anch

the bead master, the Rev. A. D.haa pervaded all the work of the In closing this Report of the Stewart, presented bis annual re- school, and a real desire has been fifth year's, work we would give manifested to give all possible expression to our heartfelt grati which was as follows:- port

help, regardless of personal intude to Almighty God for thst convenience. With such a spiritm ssure of success which he has → the report of the year's work in the staff it le little wonder allowed us to ace, and for the that the boys have done well and countless encouragements which have reflected in their work some He has vouchsafed to us through of the enthusiasm of their teach these past years.

circumstances! We are now closing the filther and each year has marked a for robbed of its burdens and be year of this school's existence the charge of the school is indeed ward step in the various depart comes a pleasure. To Consigners,

As a missionary school natural Consignees of cargo by the s.s.mente of school life. Starting Coblenz are reminded that goods staff of two and an enrolment of and religions side of school life Alen he congrs that that bes

February 1909 with a ly we lay stress on the moral and thair residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by the game. It is (we are told) remaining undelivered after tobteen, we have now grown to and work Here too we are en-upon the work that, habean post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The postage on the weekly issue to say part of the world is $1.0 permissible, even proper, to try morrow will be subject to rent.

and fluster the striker by making per quarter.

comments calculated to worry

Shouting During the Game,

Probably the feature of the game which will remain longest

in

(m, proportional, Subscription for any portul less than ne month will be charged as for

the mind of those who witness Aberdeen. The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible ted it was the shouting that goes on while it was in progress. This.

full month.

mecsengor. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered

cash only).

· puriod will be continued until countermanded.

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HONGKONG telegrapH:

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

as

of course, is one of the points of

Mrs. Brotherton Harker, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Austin wish to express their sincere thanks for the many expressions of sympathy shown to them in their sad bomavement and for the beautiful floral tributes.

BIRTH.

LANG-At 1082, The Peak, on the 14th December, the wife A:O. Lang, a daughter.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1913,

THE CHINESE. PUZZLE,

of

queer to a Britisher who is at customed to games in which shout

sa oppated

game is

to off

pat

would find himself out of 'the

Lanark Election.

Haul of Clothing. Twenty-six dollars worth

of

p.m.

3

in

His Excellency's 'Spèéth

In

the presenting

His priz Excellenoy congratulated the principal on his report. It was

most satisfactory repe

Fell from a Tram,astaff of eighteen, five of whom conraged by signs of advance. done during the past five years. Aunemployed Chinese of are English, and a total on the The tone throughout the school which had brought school up to Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cente (for him. This kind of thing seems 269, Des Voeux Road was injured roll for the past year of 340 has been good. The Monitors such a pitch of excellence. The of being trusted and their efforts excellent teachers under him and Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed

by falling from a tram.. We was names, the largest number pre- have shown themselves capable headmaster had a staff of several sent to the hospital.

sent at any one time being 280.

The average attendance has to encourage self-control and self- he would like to mention in par- been good on the whole, 22 boys management in the school have ticular one of his latest recruits, having attended throughout the met with a large measure of the Rev. Mr Upsdell who was not counted anything clothing has been stolen from the year without missing a day, success, knots, kas lastega only a clergyman bat, he believed" but correct. We have seed a re-coolie quarters of the Mo Lam overal others missing only once. The daily study of the great a fully qualified electrica feree in football pull up a player garden, Kennedy Road..

this trick,

One, Chung Ue-kong, is in a fair Christian Classic which sets gineer. He was particularly glad very sharply for

Property Sale. bid cricket, the man

way to break the world's record forth the one and only perfect 10 see that athletics were making and in

Mr G. P. Lammert is selling forschool attendance, having been character which this world has such good progress in the schoola who indulged in such a practice valuable leasehold property, com at the 'hool for five years with seen, has resulted in a noticeable of Hongkong. He was Borry deepening and strengthening of bowever to see that they were team very speedily. But other prising Inland Lot No. 1057; ai ant the loss of a single day. men other manners; and if the bie sales rooms to-morrow at The work of the past year has the character of many of the bandicapped by having

been on a higher level than that boys. During the year ten of few areas on which games practica seemed strange it w decidedly entertaining. Some of Down with Smallpox of past years. The new plan those connected with the school be played. That way the rest the banter was really clever, and Mr Harley, who is well known started this year, of dividing each gave public evidence of their of living on the side of the impression left on one's mind locally as a guide, was taken off of the lower classes into A and desire to live up to the highest but he hoped that they wo was that these baseball champions the 8.6. Empress of Japan, suffer B, putting the older boys into A, and bass standards in the act of the next few years bo are a fine set of athletes who ingrom small pox, yesterday and the younger boys into the baptism; and the Scripture Union, provide more recreation space for

B, has proved a successful ex- which is managed by the boys the schools of the colony. know more than most people on the boat's arrival.

themselves, has an enrolment of The Importance of Swimminge periment. about the joy of living.

Alleged Daylight Robber Two men are reported to have Oxford Local Examination, over thirty members, a number

Especially he was glad to see robbed woman living in the In the Oxford, Lovat Examin of whem have taken part in the that the swimming club had new Cotton Mill quarters, of two atious we had a larger number of weekly meetings.

reached a record numbje sad he bangles worth $35, whilst the passes than ever before, that is a Desire to Help Others. desired particularly to ask all Many weeks have now passed since the Chinese Republic. re-

Though the bye-election at was walking in the street..

wital of 13 out of 17 who entered. One ontcome of this study has of them to learn to swim, and A Clerk Absconded.

Detailed results show that all been the desire to help others and then teach their friends. He did i ceived the formal recognition of the Powers, but, so far from any South Lanark has resulted in a...

A partner in the Man Yim ex seventeen passed in Scriptare entirely at their own request the not want to refer to an unpleasant steady advance being made along the road towards progress, the Unionist gain, there is scarcely. faot has to be faced that conditions have, if anything, become more any justification for excessive port and import shop in Wing in the Preliminary section, No boys are sabecribing to support topic, but no doubt they all know ✨? unsatisfactory than ever. The dramatic overthrow of the new jubilation by the Opposition Lok Street has reported that on Ka-kuen passed in all the eight two Christian masters in the that in the harbour of Hongkong Parliamentary system has brought in its train contusion and chaos, if the figures are closely various daya between the 3rd. subjects for which he entered and country districts where the op- some time ago there was a diesd- The loss to the and, the 14th, inst., a clerk col. fire others passed in seven sub portunities of a good education ful disaster. One of the Yaumati and even now the utmost speculation exists as to the precise inten- Forutinised. tions of the President in regard to Constitutional changes. This is Liberals is quite evidently due to lection $5,600 for the firm und jects each. Eight out of the ten are so much fewer than in Hong Ferry launches was run down by

Preliminaries passed in English, kong

plateamer and out of some sixty one of the most serious aphots of the unseating of thres hundred a "split vote, for the combined absconded.

Attacked by Indians. which is gratifying in view of in close connection with this people who were in the launch, odd Members of Parliament by President Yuan. There may have polls of the Liberal and Labour

A silversmith from Chatin has the fact that all the candidates story of past progress I must twenty-seven were actually known been the best of reasons for the taking of this drastic step, bas how-candidates total 1,423 votes.

place that of three forward steps to have been drowned, and several ever that may be, there can be no two opinions as to the harmful more than that of the success-reported that whilst walking are Chinese consequences of permitting a state of uncertainty to exist at this ful Unionist nominee, Hence we home he was attacked by four The examinations throughout which are to be taken in the more were nearly drowned, beib

bave, once again, the anomaly of Ladians and robbed of two hun- the school, during the year under immediate future. In the first brought back to life with the critical juncture in the history of the young Republic,

It is as well to quote a few instances here which will illustrate the fewer electors being repres-dred pieces of silverware valued at review have also produced very place we are seeking to make greatest difficulty has was

On the ented in Parliament by a man of $180. The men are reported to encouraging results. In several our education bore as far as proof that they could not swim the muddle and confusion which prevail in Peking.

there have been hard possible a commercial one. We because there were lanaches and establishment of the Central Administrative Conference it was their own thinking, while the have made off in the direction of opses

have been harder than that for try to do this by laying bad therefore urged them all to announced, that this body would take the place of Parliament until larger are, in that cents, norep the military camp. -

be the latter was reorganised. Since that time fears have been resented. With results of this expressed that this newly-oroated organ woul

would eventually kind constantly occurring in A Chinese who tried to bribe a the coveted position of Head of English, especially spoken Eng-learn to swim supplant Parliament Not that such a turn would necessarily triangular fights, advocates of lukong, was, at the Police Court the School, the holder of that fiel, by object lessons and con- His Excellency wished the boys impede the progress of the Republic indeed, from many standpoints proportional representation bare this morning, fined $25 or in position La Koi-isung, being versations in the lower forms and s pleasant holiday and the prin the now Conference gives promies of being a more useful body no difficulty in pointing out the default one month's hard labour. vigorously challenged by Ma frequent debates in the upper cipal further success in his work thas an elected Parliament under present conditions weaknesses of our present elector The man was being arrested con- Tuog shin. By a strange coin- forms Book-keeping is taught and he hoped that the boys would

cerning some

some lottery tickets and cidence it was found, when the in the higlier forms and a short-return punctually on January 71; but it would be a contradiction of the promises of al system.

and he gave the lukong a packet marks were added up for no less hand class formed two months to resume their duties with the the leaders of the new regime and would make a mockery of their

which he said contained dollars. than 26 examinations, that the ago has been well attended. Now greatest possible zest, (Applause) ultra-Republican declarations. The latest explanation of the mean

As a matter of fact it contained two rivals had tied for first place that we have laid in a supply of The Chairman then thanked- ing of the Administrative Conference is one given by the Minister Other Points.

with a record of 2028 mark, that four type-writers, we hope for His Excellency for attending that of Justice, who says the delegates will merely act as "a sort of

But apart from the question of Flee of $150.

is over 80 per cent. In the upper good results in this direction also, evening langit advisers to the Government, and he goes on to explain that in

Fifth there was another good,

Another step we are taking is The following was the pro calling the Conference the Government aims at collecting opinions the split vote" the fact has to be from the delegates of the various Provinces in regard to the best borne in mind that South Lanark and Russ, in defending a tan struggle for first place. Li Kai one which many of us have long gramme rendered by the scho-, methods for the reform of local administration. If this is the real has not always been a Liboral charge at the Police Court, this one Goally secured the place felt to be of the utmost importance, lars

of's boarding 1.Song, There's a Royal Ban- intent of the new body, it is safe to say that no-one suspected it seat. The late Sir William morning with being in unlawful beating Wong Tai only by seven namely the opening

establishment in connection with ner, Whole School;, Obinese and we certainly do not believe that was the idea in the President's Menzies, whose demise caused passession of two revolvers and marks out of 2236..

this school. No one conversaut Music. The School Band Chinese mind when he called it into being. Anyhow, the mere statement the present bye election, held the 183 round of ammunition, said Athletic Progrest. sulioes to show the topsy-turvydom which marks Chinese political constituenoy, it is true,, from that the man, who owned n junk, In athletics, too, we can report with the condition of things Play, Form Dialogue, How 1008 onwards, his majorities aver- had not had time to apply fo the good progress. In the Hong prevailing in the student world we learn English Small Boys, life just now.

If we want further proof of the chaotic states of affaire now aging over a thousand, but in necessary permission for an in- kong, Schools, Sports, in April of Hongkong can but feel the im- Chinese Music, The School Band existing, it is to be found in the fact that although the demand of 1900 the Unionista had an advant-creased supply. A fine of $150 let, menbers of this school portance of opening places where Deet, School Song, Ho Wing

to was imposed.

Beeared their fair share of prizes, they can be sheltered from the Hong, Li Kai Yan, Scene from the House of Representatives for an explanation of the dissolution age of over 400 votos. Prior of Parliament has been in the hands of the Government for some that, too, Unionism had triumph-Armed Robbery During the summer our swim-dangers that surround them, and time, it cannot be considered or dealt with, because there are now ed in the division. The late Sir. A report has been received by ming clab, was, the largest we receive that restraint and moral not mough Cabinet members to hold a special meeting" That William Menzies was an extreme the police that ab armed robbery have yet had, numbering over control so prouliarly necessary at is what the Minister of Justice asserts, anyhow. Another develop y popular man, being Secretary has taken place on a fishing junk eighty members a good pro their time of life. Lot

portion of whom learned to swim. Hoping for Something Better ment which is not without its evil omen is the fact that only two to the Scottisher Members of between Nam Tau and Sam-chun. This past term has seen Volley For the needs of the moment Class B-Li

Parliament, and no doubt bis galafly to Peking, the others having replied that they are unable to personality counted a good deal the junk and support the Government. The President has in consequence in the retention of the seat for the with revolvers boarded the boat great, zeet. In the Echools Caine Hoad capable of accomod Ma Tung Shin Up ordered the recalcitrant provinces to carry out their obligations, and Liberals for the last seven years, and drove the drowonto the bold Volley Ball League we managed, sting from twenty to twenty five Too Sea, Kai,,

to defeat all the other schools who boarders. It is not an ideal and if they fail to do so, the Provincial Finance Commissioners are Now for the first time a third There word eleven past

passengers on threatened with a cancelling of their positions. But a Provinco candidate has come in, and the hard and these were robbed, entered, winning even matches arrangement, but we are hoping lat gram

team for something better ister on. The Win which ignores the demand for rightful contributions is scarcely result has been a further strength-The loot comprised $293 in all, and losing only to

from the YM.0.A. In the Foot third step is tho

Bohooling likely to take notice of a threat of that kind. Altogether the outlook ening of the Umonist forco

ball League, we have managed to Juni is dark enough at the moment. Obida has yet to do much

remain undefeated so far in live justify the new Bepublicani

matches, having to our credi

w

Attempted Briber

seventy cents,..

Ruse, uf, Messrs Goldring

three, men armed

money, fish valued $11 and in the House of Commons, the

Blanket valued äti 85... Before party now having 21 more mem-rug off the robbers cell bers here than the Liberals,

the faile

much stress

on

of educat

Song Forward Julius Caesar Forms VI and watchward,

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