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GENERAL NEWS.

Ascot Street Lighting, "

Ascot racecourse authorities have decided to carry out the street lighting at Ascot, and the

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not neco58- arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph "I

whole of the expense will be To the Editor of the Hongkong defrayed from the race fund.

Taste for Luxury.

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Telegraph.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1914.

SHORT SERMON.

The Church, the Home

and the Nation.

There are somo virtues, · as Dean Church contended in hie book on "The Gifts of Civiliza- tion," which the church haa always emphasized and which have brcome the anfeguards of modern anciety. There ware, for example, the virtues that be

truth genuino eas,"

"THE IDOL'S EYE."'. Enjoying the luxury of Inglo Sir, I must say I was surpris. nook, B riverside house at ed to read "Fairplay's" letter long to Wargrave, near Reading a burglar objecting to the title and the reality, sincerity; and the virtues spent several nights in the house monastery scene in Lieut. Crosses that belong to manline the and slept in three of the be in. musical comady "The Idol's capacity for work and for liberty, Eye." I was also, I must say, the great self commuting per Week-Ends la Gaol.

rather surprised that you should of moral conrig, and the virtuos Week-ends in prison as a form publish such trash in your that relate to lawthe respect for Not only are institutions, the reverence for of punishment were advoosted excellent piper, by Mrs. Walter Runoiman, wife monastery and convent scenes authority and the jealousy for of the President of the Board of quite common in all sorts of plays, justice, and thon, supremely Agriculture, in a lecture at Not- but even scenes in churches there were the virtues that bolong A culture to personal purity-the pride, ting Hill High School on " The land cathedrals.

tment of Young Oriminals," race like the Chinese are no the dignity, the elevation of more touchy about such matters our family life, which have than we are, and at aug rate Mr. consecrated the idea and Orosse has been in the Colony a fact of home umong the very long time and knows the Teutonis peoples as the great Chinese thoroughly and i ay be possession, the great great de- quite well trusted to observe the light, the great sceinl achieve conventions of good taste without ment of our race. any interference from narrow- These virtues have no influence minded busybodies of the "Fair in history adequate to account for play" type.

In His Father's Footsteps. - The Prime Minister has pro- mised to address a meeting at Derby in the New Year, probably at the end of January, on behalf of his son, Mr. Raymond Asquith, who is the prospective Liberal candidate for the borough.

Mr. Caton Woodville'a "Rthem, except the Christian faith Peer to Raise Farm Wages, mance of India" in quite another and the Christian clairch, which power into the wilderness of the Mr. George Herbert, speaking kettle of fish. The objections went forth as a high imperial at Wilton, Wiltshire," said his to its production in its original people and lifted the whole of brother, Lird. Pembroke, who form were, political and no human life into a region of spir- owns 60,000 acres of land in the moral and come moreover from itual and eternal values, never county, had decided to do all the India office and not the Lord knows nor dreamed of before.

One can quite in his power to raise considerably Chamberlain.

Even the most unfriendly critic the wages of the agricultural understand that at the present of the medieval church is com- time it is undesirable to atir op memories of the Black Hole of pelled to admit that it was her organized and pereistent warfare, Calcutta" and such like.

Ás 8 performer, I have through those thousand years of of Course bean privileged conflict against abnormal passion to see Mr. Cross'e play and can and vicious customs and opinions vouch for it as a thing of pure that banded on the home-bat- delight and joy from beginning tling against concubinage and

workers all round.

(Oldest Medical Officer. After fifty-two years' service as

medical officer to the Dudley (Worcestershire) Workhouse, Dr. T. F. Higgs, who is over eighty years of age and is said to be the oldest medical officer in the country, bas iendered his resigna tion to the board of guardiane.

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these destroyers is the power of religion-the belief in God and in God's judgment.

We need the church to-day, as among an organized army to declare and fight for the moral standarda' Me. "Fairploy," and that is my To create happy families and of life-the severe ideale of the sole excues for rushing into print, plenty of them is the highest end monogamous family-chastity in With due apologies, I am yours of statesmanship and the real the man, chastity in the woman justification of human govern-and the covenant before God ful- ment. When the family fails filled in absolute honour; and and the home declines, the nation that not because the statistics and the race are doomed to through more than 1,000 years perish.

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Bribery Offer

For offering a bribe to'n yout employed at the Haunchwood.. Colliery, Nuneaton (Warwick- shire), Thorley Plesner, a Bi- mingham timber merchant, was fined $50 and costs at Nu eaton the other week. There was s shortagó in a consignment of timber, und Plesner, as the youth was mossuring the wood, told j bira if he would add h If an inch to bia measuremonts a post .I order would follow.

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