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MESSRS. WM. POWELL,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BASKET BALL.

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Distribution of Prizes, I'm glad to see that some To-Day's Company Meeting.

That the game of basket ball, interest is being taken in the| Castle Peat scheme,

The ordinary yearly meeting of like volley ball, has come to stay Parhaps one of these days we shall have Messrs. Wm. Powell, Limited, in the Colony is evidenced by the quite a thriving little suburb out took place at the Hongkong Hotel trenuous competition that has thers. It's always been a mysters Montagua Ede presided. There schools and Clubs of the Colony. this morning, when the Hon. Mr. taken place for the season's honours between the various to me why people in this Colony are sfraid to go out of town a mile were also present the Hon. Mr.

In the exhibition match that A. R. Lowe, Mr. W. E. L. Shenton or two to live. Here we are all and Mr. J. E. Taggart (Directors), preceded the distribution of the bunched up without room to

Mr. H. O. Holt, (Secretary), and awards yesterday, a team from breathe. If we manage to get a Messrs. E. M. Raymond, J. Che Y.M.C.A., who are this year's house with a few square feet of Finch, E. W. White, H. Overy, E. winners, and a team composed of garden we feel like landed pro- Alderson, T. H. Parsons, AV. The Rest" gave a clear insight prissors and we're lucky if we ward and H. J. Norton (abare-into the nature of the game.

Owing to the inclemency of the half-dozen or so other families holders).

weather, the game had to bel To have a whole house to yourself

The Secretary having read the played in the gymnasium, and, you've got to be a bally croesus notice convening the meeting. at the conclusion, in inviting and you've got to consider your- The Chairman said-en-Mrs. A. G. M. Fletcher to give self in clover if you can get hold tlemen.-The report of the Dirac-away the prizes, the Rev. G. E. S. of a decent is There's no need tors and the statement of accounts Upsdell, President of the Hong- for it. We're tons of room to for the year ending 28th. Febru-kong Basket Ball Association. spread ourselves out a bit. There's ars, 1922, having been in your voiced the welcome of

railway on the mainland and hands for some time, I will, with | Association to Mrs. Fletcher. living out a few miles would only your permission, take them as Basket ball, he said, was in its mean getting out of bed a bit read. Your Board are pleased to infancy in Hongkong, the League earlier in the morning and getting be enabled to place before you having dean in existence for only home a bit Ister at night. If the 6gures disclosed in the three years, but it was a healthy people. would only get out a bit balance sheet. which must baby and in the next season he the railway would probably cater be considered very satisfactory looked forward to seeing many for them and when it was worth in view of the difficult year pass-more teams competing. while you bet there would sooned through. There is, I think, original shield was donated by the be somebody enterprising enough only one item in the statement of American community. This to start a bus service. And there's accounts to which I need refer branch of sport provided excellent heaps of room on the island. particularly, and tha: is the exercise and it was only boys who With a deceat service of buses & machinery installed in the factory, had brains as well as health who mile or so more or less would which in the near future should could be successful at the game, make precious little difference. prove to be a very valuable assetḥas had been proved in the to the Company, as we can turn exhibition game. The speaker out first-class modern furniture advised boys who did not do very quickly and at a moderate price well in their lessons to take up I have nothing further to add to basket ball.

hat is contained in the report. and after its adoption has been reconded I shall be pleased to answer any question that may be asked.

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Joe, who glanced over my shoulder as I wrote the above, has jus: intelligently remarked that it| alt sounds very nice, bus in the first place there ara no houses. Maskee no houses; there's pleaty of money in the Colony. The money will soon find the houses, It's a rattling good investment The Chairman then propused for anybody with a bit of capital the adoption of the report and to spars. The rent will provide account. Mr. Hol: seconded and & decent interest on the capital this was agreed to. and all the time, AS the

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He mentioned the keen com- petition which had led to the close margin between the re- spective aggregated of points of the winners and ruaners-up., 90 much so that in one section the winners reached their present place by the preponderance of only one point, and that in the deciding game. There were not enough referees for these

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district is becoming more Alderson, seconded by Mr. White.matches, and those that they did populated, the value of the ground the Hon. Mr. Montague Ede, the have wore given very hard work will be increasing. Looking at Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe. Mr. W. E for which he thought they ought Joe, I don't think he goes much L. Shenton and Mr. J. H. Taggart to put on record their thanks. on the scheme, but if there are were re-elected Directors for the Mr. Upadell then announced the NGLISH MADE any company promoters about ensuing year. who want to start the thing I'l

priza wiuners, amidst loud applause after which he extend- show my confidence by coming in. All I want to consent to be- Fleming were re-elected auditors ed bis thanks to Mr. Ko Six-wai come a director and to invest my at a fee of 5600 per annum on the life savings (now four dollars proposition of the sixty-five) is one of the houses seconded by Mr. Ward. for myself and a few camsha shares. In our neighbouring colony the Straits and in the F.M.S. you don't have to be a Vanderbuilt to get a bungalow

Extraordinary Meeting. and an acre or so of ground.” You just get out into the country a bit An extraordinary general meet and a motor-bike soo3 eats up the ling of the Company followed, at railes. What you spend on which those mentioned above transit you save on rent.

were present.

The natice of meeting having It's terrible to be a gadabout been read. this hot weather. Hiking around

This was all the business, the Chairman sonouncing that divid-sion. end warrsats were now ready and could be had on application.

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After distributing the prices, which comprised two shields, a silver cup and handsome medals.. Mrs. Fletcher was presented with recipient of three hearty cheers. a beautiful bouquet and was the

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the late Dr. Charles Mitchell, The bacilli of various diseLUAS BIS also on exhibition.

looking for news in the swelter- The Chairman said the meeting ine sun is a dreadful kind of bad been convened for the put- business. Now, if I had a few pose of considering and, if thought

The medals for the individas! club? Is point of nurcbers the dent in a London journal that The suggestion of a correspon. bares in the Telephone Com. approving the draft

might be Memorandum of Association with ioners of the Open and SmallOverseas Club in Aldwych heads Coleridge was quite accurate in pany perhaps I

the list with 25,000. After that making his ancient maricer see thinking of getting a little car regard to the objects of the Com-Boys' Leagues were not ready.

come the principal "wheeling" star within the crescent of the to run around in. That would be pany, and also the draft new

clubs-Belgium's Ligue Velo- fine. I've often wondered whether Articles of Association of the my taipan would consider the Company. "With regard to the

draft New Memorandam CHINA'S idea of providing me with one. These Government people who Association. have to get about a lot have cars Memorandum is one which has Sun to take them where they want to been in force in its present form

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cipedique having 22,000, the new moon, because the top of a PRESIDENCY.League of American Wheelmen lunar mountain could be seen star in that projectad 18,000, followed closely by the Yat-sen's Manifesto. Club. Of the clabs commonly critic. To see the minute point 17,500 of the Royal Automobile position, is objected to by another In the course of a manifesto to known as "Westend" it is en- of light produced on the dark ever since the incorporation of the foreign Powers, Sun Yat-sen lightening to find that pride of part of the crescent moon by the

go. But then they can only use them on official business. you the Company in 1901 and your know. Ahem-of course. They're Directors consider that in order

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As Chief Executive of the sole Imperial, in spite of its seven- facto as well as de jure govern-guinea entrance fee and subscrip-

body in this country that is tion of like emount. fully constituted at this moment, have the honour to remind the Treaty Powers of their repeated

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sun shining on a mountain park, he says needs a telescope, and not allowed to use them to say.

the Company may that

Coleridge's poem that the matiner tbare is DO suggestion in take a few lady friends out for equipped with riding or anything like the. It's necessary powers to enable it to

was making telescopic observa not done. Ahem-of course not. keep pace with the times, and

tion of the moon. The man who Still, I wish I had a little car like maintain its position, it should

The Marquis Carzon, who late- I could see this phenomenon with some of these Government fel- increase the scope of the objects lows. Save a heap of money in ear of the Company as set forth, in pledge of non-interference in our ly entered his 64th. year, is the his naked eye ought to be proud of present internal struggles and to paly member of the House of his eyesight, forthe smallest lunar hire to Repulse Bay and Castle its Memorandum

request them to observe the Lords with two distinct qualifica-feature that can be just glimpsed Peak for bathing picnics and stion with a view to being there- same in the spirit as well as tions for admission. While only by average good eyesight, if ap- such like, you know. Abem-yes. by placed in a position to carry in the letter.

In reality, these holding an Irish peerage he was proximately circular, would beve on its business more economically and efficiently and also to carry struggles are a memorable efort elected one of the Irish Rep to have an actual diameter of at Just as I was getting into mon certain classes of business the case of every people in his later be received an Imperial title

at national readjustment. As in resentative Peers, And when least 30 miles. car (tram-car) the other day. which, under existing circam bumped into the genial secretary stances. may conveniently and tory who have had to change in he remained one of the elected of the Ex-Active Service Men's advantageously be combined with order to live, we are now engaged group, because they are invariat- The annual exhibition of pic. Association, I really ought to say the Company's present business." in the work of readjusting the old choren for life. The Irish Rep-tures at the Royal Academy, half the genial secretary because

life of China to an environment resentative Peers differ from popularly regarded as the only there are two of them. They'll The Chairman proceeded to ex-greatly changed in its political their colleagues from Scotland, excuse for the existence of the both be backed no end. about that plain the draft new Articles of and economic aspects. If this who are elected anew at the be- Academy, is really but an sc "genial—it'll be a Bass at least. Association pointing out certain readjustment is to be real, it ginning of each Parliament. Thus cidental feature of the great Well, to get on with it, he said differences, later proposing the must be effected by Chinese with the thrae Scottish peere recently society of painters. Hogarth, in- he was on his way to the new following resolutions:-

out interference by the Great chosen to fill vacancies will have deed, who actually did more than clob quarters and he invited me (1) That the provisions of the Powers.. A fresh recognition by to be elected again shortly in the anyone to promote the exhibition, to come along with him and bare Company's Memorandum of the latter of some new puppet event of a dissolution.

was decidedly hostile to the pro- look round. They've got a dinky | Association with respect to its Paking President would be such

posal. He instituted the original little lounge and a fine billiard objects be altered so as to read an act of interference and would

Academy as a school for design, room and a really sensibly-sized as shown in the print signed for lead, if that were possible, to a

Aberdeen students are having in St. Martin's-lane, in 1734, and bar, which unfortunately wasn't the purpose of identification by more calamitous cycle of events gaia week, says a Home paper. organised the first exhibition of doing any business when I called. the Chairman of this Meeting. than that originated by the inter- They are aiming at raising £2,000 pictures in Londen open to the Of course, there's a little room for

(2) That the new Articles national recognition of

£3,000 for the hospitals.pubito in 1745, in the cause, of the secretary, a verandah and an already approved by this Meet. Shih-chang;

Medical possessions make up one charity, at the Foundling entrance hall and all that sort of ing

of the attractions which the public Hospital. Fifteen years later the and for, the purpose thing, and, as the house agents of identification aubscribed by

pay for, inspecting. These in- first picture exhibition' organimed put it, the usual domestic offices.the Chairman thereof, be and the

The Chinese Ministry of Justice clude the original certificate of as such was opened on April 21, It's a real cosy little spot and I can same are hereby adopted as the is still busy preparing for the the post-mortem examination of 1760, at the room of the see it becoming quite a popular Articles of the Company to the abolition of extraterritoriality, Napoleon. It shows that he died Society of Arts, then in the baunt when it's all fixed up and exclusion of and in substitution according to Chinese reports. The from cancer in the stomach. Strand, the instrument for found- going. The members are to be for all the existing Articles lateat reform is that nobody shall There is also a death-mask of the ing the Royal Academy of Axte congratulated on the central spot thereof.

become an officer of the law in head of the Emperor. The post in London being signed on De they have found and on the com-

bis own too (prefecture), and that mortem certificate of Napoleon cember 10, 1768, by George IIL, fortable quarters they now have,Shenton and agreed to.

These were seconded by Mr. law courts will be established in was gifted to the University by who, besides conferring the title of the yamens of district magis Mr. William Mitchell, 88.C, Royal," supplied money to meet owe no small thanks to the The confirmatory meeting is to trates. The latter are to have the Edinburgh, who inherited the the needs of the new society from generosity of Sir Paul Chater. take place on June 26th.

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