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BIBLE SOCIETY.

HONGKONG REPORT,

The annual meeting of the Hongkong Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society is to be held at the Helena May Institute on March 4 at 5.15 p.m. when the Bishop of Victoria will preside and addresses will be given by the Rev. G. H. Bandfield of Shanghai and Miss K. Woo principal of St. Paul's Girls' College.

The annual report records a steady endeavour to keep the claims of the Society before the

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26′′ 1919.

NOTICE.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Butchers Meats

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public. The issues of Scriptures SAUSACES BRAWN PRESSED BEEF.

in various languages, by sales"! from the Wyndham Street Depot in 1918, amounting to 6,432 copies, -are deemed encouraging. In ad- dition sales were effected from Kowloon, through the Revd. H. E. Anderson, Sub-Agent of the Society, who thus disposed of 3,267 copies, whilst by means of

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control of the Sub-Agent or super- vision of missionaries, there was a further distribution by sales of 112.653 copies; an advance of 30,000, approximately, on the igures of the Hongkong Auxili- ary for the year 1917. The aid from collections in Churches is less by $144.21 than that of 1917 but the funds obtained from the Ladies Committee reached a slightly higher total. In this. connection the Committee obser- ves, with appreciation, the work done for the Society by St. An drew's Church. The total income raised by the Hongkong Auxiliary during the twelve months shows a slight falling off, which is suf

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There were lots of pretty fages ficiently accounted for by condi- IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS

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In spite of popular opinion rok The Danish motorship Jut- landia which is due in Shanghai the rontrary, the ladies love races. shortly comes to the Pacific Mail Esqecially the Maiden Stakes, S.S. Company and will be operat-which might appropriately be ed by them, says the Shanghai termed the Matrimonial Stakes. Gazette. She is a twin-screw Often a maiden stakes her last steel ship and built in scent (bottle) or powder puff on

Was Glasgow in 1912 by Barclay that particular event. And she huw set the pace, Curle and Company, Ltd. Her knows principal dimension are 370 feet believe me. over all and 53 feet beam and due

to being a moter driven ship she has great carrying capacity. Her

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Is: Anzac Huiloa. dig- ger! Going to Bath?"

2nd Anzac Had one this morning, mate!"

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France will indeed come into her "aisne" as the Scotsman says, when Louraine and Alsace are finally handed back to her with compliments of the Peace Con- And, oh, the hats, the lovelyference. And Italy will roam but

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engines are two 6-cylinder oil hats, and the gowns Lu: godowns, a little way to recover her lost

slok combustion and she has speed of about 12 knots.

She is equipped with the very latest pattern winches and devices for handling cargo, her hatches being larger than the average ship possesses. She brings a cargo of steel plates. bates of cotton, glass and general merchandise for Yokohama and Kobe and sails from the latter port direct to

Manila.

INFLUENZA IN JAPAN.

55,000 DEATHS IN FOUR MONTHS.

as one of our compositors pre-possessions. And if Germany is ferred to call them) and costumes compelled to hand over any of her that will go down in the feminine

famous Spas, she will regret the historyof Hongkong as the best day she sparred up to such robust ever.

fighters as the Allies.

Father was there with the girls in their new costumes, smiling and gay to all appearances; but he must have been doing a bit of mental arithmetic in figuring out the cost-to-him.

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And when, near the finish of one event, the winter I backed stumbled badly, it gave me quite

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It was indeed a Happy Valley for the lucky backers, and they were satisfied, that, for them, it has been, financially, a. Victory Week.

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For my part I was glad to be home to take two to one of my usual night caps which for refreshing purposes, I had a

Yokohama, Feb. 11.-According to Dr. Kato, in charge of the In- fectious Diseases Prevention Bureau in Home Office, upwards of 55,000 persons in Japan have died from induenza since the be-

handy cap ginning of October to January 20th. The epidemic is more

Our Vanity Fair favourites severe in Tokyo than in any other district. The following table shows have, returned to Hongkong to the number of victims and fatal give us a return.,, And the Fair cases in various districts during favourites should again charm us with their pretty songs and the prescribed period :-

Victims.

Deaths.

dances.

Little Titchener and that droll comedian, Leslie Holmes, will again draw us from our homes Kyoto & neighbour-

hood

300.000 3,500 to enjoy their witticisms. And Saitama Prefecture 482,000 1,500 really the whole company are so full of bubbling humour that there 400,000 5,150

is a constant stream of "funny 269,000 1,300 615,000 2,100 jokes from these sunny folks.

Niigata Gumma

Shizuoka

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Toyama

Kagame

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Kumamoto

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520,000 4,200 Ships that pass in the night. 674,000 7,100 Friendship and worship. And 669,000 4,900 ships that are with us all the 566,000 5,200 time.Relationship and hardship. 221,000 60

Dr. Kato says the total number of victims throughout Japan up to the present exceeds eight

millions.

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Soldiers in Military Hospitals in England frequently complained of their badly fitting hospital clothes. In that case they must have had a bad fit of the blues.

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There is a growing feeling on the part of the public at Home that we must insist on compensa tion for our torpedoed ships, and extract paymen: in the shape of ton for ton and keel for keel. But I know of one Kiel we should get for nothing.

In my opinion, one of the most sinister spots in the history of the past five years. is Heliogoland. With devilish cunning the Ger- mans prepared this place as the primary means of Britain's isola |tion and downfull. I shall never be able to understand why the Huns did not re-name the place by deleting its lagt three syllables.

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KOREANS IN TOKYO. Some two years ago, whea ex- ploring a delightful little old MEETINGS DISPERSED BY

THE POLICE, fashioned village in England, I came upon an ancient inn with the

The Korean question of in- quaint sign of The Clave and Hoof." I thought it quite a sug.depemleace is causing some ex- When a number of Koreaus. gestive name, and one no: cal-citement in Tokyo. culated to increase the spirits, ef nervy soldiers back from fighting held a meeting at the Korean the devil with the cloren hoof. Y.M.C.A. Hall at Tukys, recen

ly, the police interfered and the meeting was order- THE

It appears ed to diaperse. that the same Koreans, number- ing over 150, held another

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A strong and wise man is he who can always say neigh." But a fop and an ass is he who always "Haw, hews!

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meeting at the same place on the THE FEATURE PAPER A lady of culture once gave me 12th instant from 8 ani, and the following feminine definition compuienced speech-naking, us- of man, which if true, is an anomaly: The older a man ising, it is allege, improper

The West Kanda on MONDAYS for the more knowledge he has language. acquired, but still he remains Police, under whose jurisdiction foolish. The younger a

"CURRENT COIN”. man is the place falls. again ordered the lesser bis knowledge but still the meeting to dissolve at 11 am.

he is foolish." What is the Finding the place inconveni- On TUESDAYS for inference?

Anyway.

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as a set-off against that opinion, here is an-

other:Whether fifty от twenty or thirty or forty, In Hougo Ward, Tokyo, eleven

A woman is always the same. primary schools were closed

People in Australia are wear-She'll camouflage plenty, is yesterday for one week owing to

flirty or haughty; the spread of the epidemic. ing a kind of gas mask as a Schools in other wards will, it is precaution against the 'la epide- But ne'er thinks of playing the mic. But it is in the Parliament reported, also close shortly."

Houses that they are mostly needed.

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In Kanagawa Prefecture, which includes Yokohama, there are now 34,000 victims of the If the ex-Prime Minister of the epidemic, which is especially

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