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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1916.

The Italian Convent School

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DAY BY DAY.-

FOR THE CHILDREN.

LIFE PLACES NO LIMIT ON THE DOING OF GOOD DEEDS.

"A Modern Santa Claus.”

The Malls.

Siberisz Mail. (London, Nov. 20.)-Arrived per o...Nippon Mara to-day. sundian Mail.-Due per

Empress of Russia

From the manager's report on ́s year's work at the Italian Con- Teat School; the public an excellent opportunity of gauging the splendid work which this in- stitation is doing. One cannot

To Our Readers. have read the report without)

Monday being Christmas Day, feeling that the instraction gives there will be no issue of the at this school is not only com- Telegraph on that date, prehensive bat most thorough. We are especially glad to observa that special attention is being given to the study of domestic education among the girle, The school is evidently well-equipped for the ostrying ont of experiments, and demonstrations, and what we are especially gratified to notica is (hat, boritos the ordinary domestic instruction, the scholars are encouraged to take an interest in sach subjsota se home nursing and the feeding and care of infante, As Mr. Ralphe rightly pointed out, the

To-morrow is the 53rd anniver- school has great traditions to maintain. Apart from the im- wary of Thackeray's death, parting of knowledge, the Sistere are labouring with a devotion and a self-sacrifice which is! The Casette publishes the rates beyond all praise, and the tri- of postage on parcela to the bate which Mr. Ralpho paid them, Republic of Colombia, etc. of being especially concerned in

The Pliotage Board. teaching those ander them to

morrow.

The Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day 4.13/163.

To-morrow's Anniversary,

Parcel Rates.

Cinema Matinec.

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BY WILLIAM BILL)

Christmas Eve. Cold, bitterly cold, snow falling fast,

Mrs. Duncan lay down în so old easy chair, and was soon fast asleep from sheer exhaustion..

John sat and smoked.” Slowly the hours dragged by and silence reigned. What could he do? Nothing. And there crept into

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SHARE REPORT.

bis mind a thought which bar. The quotations which follow. crept into many mind. Why are from the Hongkong Telegraph not end it all ? - Was lile worth | (ər Dəcember 23; 1891... living?

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

Dong!.........Dong !!

-168 per cent, premium, buyers, Union Insurance Society of

· China Tradera' Insurance Öom®

John Dancan, with his well worn cost drawn tightly about

The village church clock com. bim, hands thrust deeply into hie empty pockets, head drooping menced to chime the hour of Janton-880 per share, buyers. forward, walked slowly, aimlessly, midnight. As the last scho died despairingly, down the village away in the great stillness, he got pany-61 per share, sales and streek. He was a sober, sisady, went to the window and buyers.

North Chias Insurance—The to-hard working man, but fate was looked out-looked out upon s

white world. 257 per share, buyers. unkind to him jast now. He was great desolate,

Christmsa moral · How old it Canton Insurance Company, out of work and penailom.

At home, a small two-roomed. How cheerica. How fast Ltd.-$107 per share, hayers,

Yangtze Insuranos Association. o ttage situate on the outskirts the snow was falling. He ro

membered that he had a small-Tia. 102 per share, bayern, of the villag”, waited anxions wife and four expect bottle of carbolis se'd in the Hongkong Fire Insurance Com ant children. There would be no capboard. Yes, that would do. He pany $82, 14 per share, sellers.

China Fire Insurance Com Christmas dinner, and Santa would creep quietly out and take Claus would not call this year, the path into the woods. They pany -899 per share, aslue and John's credit in the village had would never find him there. The sellera reached its limit, he was already would cover up his foot Hongkong, Canton and Maono threatened with a distraint prints. It were bester thus. The Steamboat Company-884 per

cupboard opened noislewely, Yes, | share, vellers. warrant. Unole Sol, who kept a

Hongkong and Whampoa Dock flourishing establishment in the there was the bottle. He glanced neighbouring market town, had gailtily round the room. His Company $80 per cent., pre- possession of many of Joho's be- wife was fast asleep. He slipped mium, sellers

it into his pocket. Then he tip-| Hongkong Ga· Company- longings.

Through the close drawn blinds toed to the door. Es stopped, $120 per share, nominal,

Hongkong Hotel Company of every house he pawed, shone thinking. Then he sat dowɑ and the warm, bright glars of took off his boots. Recrossing the 50 per share, sellers. Christma fire, and the happy. Stealing about the room, cent. Debentures-$501.

| room, be_cantionaly climbed the

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per laughter and joyous, shouts of

Indo-China B. N. Company-- obilaren could be heard. John starting at the slightest ozeak, had a glance under one blind. he bent down four times, and $25 per cent, dia, sellers, Yes; there was the Christos Tree, loaded with bon-bons, toys, and all the things that go to gladden the heart of a child.

And the children were there,

Captain Thomas Arthur has Te their fellow-creatures, to belp the afflicted and to comfort been appointed a member of the the sorrowing, is in every way Pilotage Board, vice Mr. Thomas All communicationsistended for publication should be addressed deserved. It is in the encourage. Philip Hall, resigned,

meat of this outlook on life! that the Convent School is doing There will be aspecial matinas an specially noble work. And on Christmas Day at the Hong this observation applies with kong Theatre at 430 p.m. Sweet equal force to those other schools and toys will be given to in Hongkong in which kindly the children present. and large-berrted Sisters are

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephoos: No. 1 A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union

"Office address: 11, Ice House St.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1916.

CHRISTMAS 1916.

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"Convention Extended.

The Gazette notifies that the

four times his lips touched a little

Douglas Steamship Company---- face; four tiny little faces were $37 per share, asles and bayers. kissed by a father's lips. Down

Chins Bager Refining Company staire again, he bent once more, | Lid.—$176 per share, mallars. this time over the sleeping form Luson Sugar Refining Company,

| spending a life in the educating Convention between the United and the mother and father, and in the chair. Then he put on his Limited--$52 per share, buyer.

of the younger generation. Dr. Wilson and Peace.

Kingdom and the United States The general feeling among relative to the disposal of real and bjote of the Allies anent Pre- personal property is extended to sident Wileon's interference in Porto Rico.

Cinema Restriction. the war situation is probably that It is notified that the authorities

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thke cat, and the dog-and all mo happy.

AsJohn turned away his cheeks were wet, and glistening beads fell fast upon the show.

Just then a party of youthful

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boots and lifted the latch.

Hongkong Joe Company Hark! What was that? Barely $80 per share, sellers,

familiar sosad. A pscalier Hongkong Rope Manufactur patting, monotonous bassing.ing Company, Ltd.-$112 par beoaming louder every second.share, buyers, Tes; there was no mistaking it Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf

noise

the

ample of a man's trying to teach of Indo-China bare prohibited carol singers broke forth into aeroplane was fest approach-and Godown Company-$61 per

ing the village. He opened the share, sellers. others how to control their house- the taking of cinematograph song, and their sweet voice, doar and stepped outside. Nearer Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. holda before having learned piotares within the territories harmoniously blended, rang out and nearer, loader and leader-$7 per share, sales and sellers.

Dr. under their jurisdiction by any on the still night air in a song of manage

grow the other than French triumph and praise :—

A. 8. Watson and Co., Ltd.- machine came Wilson's opinion is hardly called Persons

swiftly On $19 per share, buyers. "Hark! the herald angela aing Glory Then for just now. He is a

subjects.

anddenly, through

Hongkong High Level Tram. to the new born King; Pesce on

For one whom we all respect-and whom A concert is to be given in:

sarth and mercy mild, God and the snow, he ww it.

way Co., Ltd.-$65 per share- Binners Reconalled."

moment it seemed to tower right salos and sellers. we should all respect & Tery King George's Hall, Sasmen's great deal more if be ware lees Institate, on Wednesday, Decem-He quickened his pace, looking It was falling straight down on This was too much for John. over him, Then..........Good God ! tinged with "blaff”. But in ber 27, at 8.15 p.m., by the

effort there is, Diana 'Coons," a company of 16 asither to right or left. Why, he top of him? in addition to "bluff," a certain '

asked himself, should ha be Instinctively he stepped back--814 per share, sellers, artistes, including Peppin, # interesting mixture of impudence handcuff and lock chain expert, he dons to deserve it? And if same instant came a loud crash. singled out to suffer? What had into the room, and almost at the and hypocrisy. "He draws atten- Admission is frer, and a colleo. tion to the point," says Reater, tion will be taken on behalf of wife and children be punished as cottage roof. He sprang for the he deserved it, why should his The machine had strack the "that the objects which all the belligerent statesmen have de-expenses,

his latest

this bat the rankest

to ssaume

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Christmas Vacation.

Disturbance in a Theatre.

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co.;

Green Island Cement Co. Ltd.

Ltd.-$25 per share, nominal.

Struck Off.

It is notified that the name of well? He had been taught.of a stairs, tripped crer a chair and clared that they have in mind The offices of the Supreme God who was good, and of fell heavily on his shoulder. He the Ying Cheong We Hing Kee For a third time, in wishing all Telegraph readers a happy are virtually the same." What Court will be open daily from 10-

Saviour who called little children felt a nasty pain se his frightened Company has been strook of the Christme, we are obliged to do so under the shadow of war, and is

s.m. to 1 p.m. during the Christ-to come unto Bim. Where did wife put her arms around him Register.

Rough Weather. with but little hope of an immediate restoration of peace on earth. hypocries? Who knows better than mas Vacation, except on Public the goodmere of God come in in and helped him to rise. He was

The 6 B. Telemachus encounter- ' President Wilson that there is

his case ? and General Holidays when the

conscions of a great deal of bang. In the year that bae gone by since the last Christmas celebration, a

no possible comparison between offices will be entirely closed and

al

Thus meditating, be reached ing and thumping overhead. And ed very strong monsoon on the few million more casualties have been inflicted on Europe, a few the Entente snd the Central,

on Saturday, the 30th instant, home. Mrs. Duncan met him at the there stood Georgie, white-faced ran ap from Saigon, taking nine hundred thousand more houses have been filled with morning, and; Powers, where the object of the when they will be open from 10 door. Oas glance was sufficient and breathless, trying to gasp out days to do the trip.

of

to dash all her hopes to the something. from the Allies' point of view, there is but one real asset to show for conflict and the methods

a.m. to noon, subject, however, all thie; their increased determination to conquer and punish Ger- carrying it out are concerned?

"Dad, dad! Mom, Mam!!| to the provisions of Section 5 of ground, This pos of strict impartiality in the Supreme Court (Vacations) "John, dear, I'm so sorry. I Father Christmas hat come! He himself as Father Christmas, many. The recent great speech by the British Prime Minister shows by no means a new one; it is one Ordinance, 1888, so far as it wouldn't mind a bit, and no missed the chimney and fell trusting to the effect of the snow all too plainly that to talk of peace at the present moment is to waste that many of our friends across relates to the Criminal Sessions, cold manage to pull through by through the roof, but he hasn't and holly for the deception. The breath. Every mo, save those who are making good monetary the Pacific have been affecting The Christmas Vacation com- ourselves. 3at what are we to hurt himself a bit. Do coms up our of the aeroplane was loaded profit out of it, would give the half of his possessions to see the war ever since the war began.

mences on the 24th instant and tell the children? Last Christ-and see him; he looks so funny." with love and presente,

Slowly, with the help of his Thou John with tears in his ended; but no sane subject of any of the Allied countries believes "Six and Half a Dozen"!

terminates on the January 1, 1917, man they had plenty of story- For a nation that has always) (both days inclusira).

thing, and they are looking wife, John mounted the stairs, eres, told the story of his bad for one moment that he would be justified in voting for peace ander

forward for to marrow's good What a night! A gaping hole fortune and great temptation. present circometanoss. It is as much car daty to proceed with the boasted its readiness to see that

Three Chinese were charged things. Georgie has been poking in the roof through which stray And Lieut. Holdsworth, alias fight as it was incumbent on us to enter into it. If Britain's Allies are small countries are not oppressed,

long stick up the chimney to fakes were creeping, a heap of Father Christmas, stayed the in error in declining to listen to peace proposals now, then they were it is a highly useful one; it saves it before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the also wrong in defending themes ver, in the first instance, against the trouble of eating its own words, Police Court this morning, with oo that there is nothing in the tiles and wood on the for right night with John and his wife German aggression, and Britain was wrong in not skalking at home and makes the road to enormous creating a disturbance at the Tai way to stop Father Christmas between the children's two beds, While it was yet dark John stole and all of and there, sitting on the only forth and out" a Imus tres end at case while Belgium was tyrannised over. There are no half war profite tolerably easy. The PingTheatre, Inspector O'Sullivan coming down,

President has sent Notes by the said the three men were sitting in them have bung up their chair, was a me Well, it was stack it in a pot. He also took msaeuron in a case like this.

We cannot congratulate our elves get on being at peace with bushel, protesting against Ger- sesis under the gallery, for which stookings. Oh, John, it does hard to tell. Covered with snow from his pookat a little bottle Whatever shall from head to foot, a large langle of which he carefully replaced in the the world; but we may at least feel proud that the tie of friendship many's uncivilised methods of they had paid, and an employee neem cras!! between our Empire and the other Entente countries is stronger than Orrying on the war, and yet he went round to collect two cents we do?" and, bursting into holly wound round the body in capboard.

There was no more sleep that it has ever been in our history, Rassis, whom for sixty years we can now muster up the effrontery for the use of mats they had been flood of tears, she threw herself bandolier fashion, the oresture ent dintrasted and misjudged, has become the warmest and most reliable

that the Entente applied with, whereupon the on her knees, buried her head in there staring at the hole in the night for Georgie and Co. The no better, that first defendent shouted :-"Strike her arms on a chair, and wept as roof through which could be seen whole contents of the Aeroplane of friends; France, whom we fought, at intervals, for seven hundred

Car was passed through the hole years--and, thank God, always with the exercise of chivalry on bolbit is just a case of "six and half him!" The others took up the only a broken-hearted mother can part of the wrecked machine.

There he is Daddy, look at in the roof, the Christmas tree wan sides-is now our very blood brother; and with these two great dozen" between us and Gerory and there was a disturbance.

John watched her for a few him. On he speak our language?", overloaded, calcae, piar, sweets, countries as with Italy, the brotherhood born on the battlefield in many, and that we have any other A witness said the men did not

The figure in the chair, turned nate, and oranges covered the net likely to die in the years of peace to come. We and they are motive in fighting than the actually strike him, but they minutes, then gently lifted her up,

defence of Belgium's rights, threatened to do so.

dried her ayes and kissed her. its head, rose from the chair, tables, and in the kitoben was a fighting, not from slaughter-last or from greed of territory, bat in Bia anxiety for pesce at this were cautioned and discharged,"

Cheer up, little sweetheart;|langhed, and spoke. “ order that the world may enjoy permanent pssce. To-day's on stage tempia ons

big fat turkey and a wonderful "Good morning, friends, good Christmas pudding. Christmas Draw.

something may turn up yet.” flict is even more a Holy War than were those Cansades in which that his party has got all that it Members of the Kowloon Naley foot came pattering down morning. The sessons compli- And when it was daylight our ancestors shed their blood side by side with Frenchmen and wanted to get out of the war, and Cricket Club and their friande the stairs, and Georgie, the eldest mental Now let me explain. Father Christmas said he must Flemings and Italiane; and every soldier or sailor of the Entente is now worrying about its own assembled in large numbers last of the four, appeared in the door-

with a gesture de go. As bis wings were broken who has fallen in it, may be said to have sacrificed his life for the skin. This being the case, it is, night at the Clabboats on the w

manding silenos, John stepped he must catch a train. And be sake of bringing to the world peace that will endure. If the past of course, high time that a Presid- occasion of the eighth annual Good-night, daddy: good-forward and whispered in the quietly slipped out. two years have taught us nothing besides, they have at least iment who has allowed American Christmasdraw, In all, there were night, mum. We's going to stranger's ear. Then, turning to * Mr. Danepa," he said, as they' planted in on Britishers lasting friendliness for the countries, lives to be taken with impunity, 291 prizes, comprising turkeys, sleep now, Aint. Father Christ his wife, he said: Madge deer, sbook hands, I'm glad thas great and small, that are sharing with as the solemn duty of break- and who made no protest against gesse, pige, hams, hampers,

mas sest nothing yet? just take the children downstairs accident happened. Is the poor ing Germany's power for ever.

It may be that we in Hongkong will have little room to feel Germany's villainous branch of cigars, cigarettes, pipes, plum Why last year he went lots and while Mr. Christmas brashes some who want father Chris poor

solemn treaties, should feel it his paddings, Christmas oikes eto, fole of things on Christmas Eve, of the snow off his faos.**

the rios. Bere's my addzom. I especially proud of ourselves this Christmas, sad little claim, when pione daty to intimate that it is and there were 1270 ticken didn't be dad? He won't forget When they were gone, the you require any balp don't hesitate pence comer, to having been a party to bringing it about; but even time for the war to osses Un-isold. An simorphate of sesson- us, will be?

stranger introduced himself as we have learned one lesson: that, next to picking up the rifle our fortunately for him, Esrego doos, able jollity prevailed, and as the Choking back the lamp in hit Lient, Holdsworth, of total opened the selves, the best thing that we can do is to assist in the soothing of the not care two cents, what do and winning numbers were announced throat, John forced a laugh and Flying Corpe, sed told his story, bsen left ta pain caused by this war. In this, at least, Hongkong has not been the party that returned him to there was deal of good- asid:-"Of course - be won't. He had lost his way in the spaw, out s'oard soil. backward, even though it has it in its power to help still more power think or intend, Europe humoured banter. Those who What ever makes you think that? and then the souident had hap paper. On she daring the coming year, the various war sharities on whose funds feels rather that he would, be ware inficiently fortunste-or You know, ba's got so many, many pened, "He wason kis way to pay there is sok perpetual demand. Haman sollering demands relief, better seenpied in continuing to unfortunate to draw livsstook places to go to and so much to do, a surprise visit to a sich zagle and who should be more ready to listen to the cry than we who play at war with Mexico, or else | ware much in evidence after the and he's gotting older every year: who had several children. He had have lost nothing and suffered nothing? We can do nothing 10- in looking after the German plote event, and moms funny roses, Mow you bet - got to slaap | intended to land Ima wards the restoring of pesos, but we can all do something in a small tore who some pretty well to con- ware witnessed in the conveyance Ape way towards belging those whom the war has crippled in body or wel nie doen

Pof their prisen nately home."

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