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TWENTY-TWO YEARS

AGO.

A Glance at our Files,

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(Jim, 26-Feb. 1, 1901.)

KING EDWARD'S

ACCESSION.

The proclamation announcing the accession to the throne of England of King Edward the Seventh was made by H.E. the Governor (Sir Henry A Blake. G.OM.C.) to-day at 4 p.m. on the Cricket Ground." Special arrange- ments had been made, the route from Gorarnament House to the Cricket Ground being lined with soldiers.

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WE WONDER.

In a recent speech delivered by Lord Salisbury, the speaker des cribed London sa an overcrowd. ing scandal to civilization. How, wo wonder, would his Lordship describe Hongkong?

THE EDUCATION PROBLEM.

We think that His Lordship the Bishop will bave earned the ap- proval and respect of the whole of the European community of the Colony, as he most certainly has ours, by his very sensible remarks, made

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prize distribution at the Dio- cesan School, OD the subject of reparating the Chinese and European children in the schools of the Colony. The fact that there is no purely European) rabool in the Colony is not only a disgrace to our beasted civilization but is one of the greatest hard- ships. We do not see why the Government should not either found a separate school for the children of Europeans or at least. set apart certain portion of Queen's College for their accom. modation, where they would receive an education apart from the Chinese. It was the British who made the founding of the Colony of Hongkong possible, and it is to the children of the British that we must look to carry on the Colony.

THE

COATS AND, CAPES ·

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1923.

The coat pictured blouses at the waist and droops from the shoulder wrappily-but that is due to the very new sleeve.

For those who like the comfortable voluminous folds of

a cape there is the style illustrated. Panel-like trimmings are the real reason for its very popular and fashionable existence.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

their CASO

The Norwegian experiment of using electric light to attract fish into the trawlers" nets is not without precedent. More than The tradition that wedding twelve months 130 French rings should be of plain gold is shermen off the Const At likely to survive the present Boulogne adopted somewhat craze for jewelled ones, for it bas similar methods with marked come down to us from Saxon

Io success. times and defied many previous powerful electric lights

two were sitempts at change. at the fixed to the trawl. one or exoti marriage of Queen Mary with side of the mouth, and the bright, THE OLD STORY.

Philip of Spain the Council coususiglareapparently attracted When are Hongkong landlords debated the question of the ring the fish, which swarmed icto

and wished to have it jewelled, the nete. Ia going to cease from squeezing the but Mary herself intervened by experiment the light is projected the Norwegian last possible dollar out of their declaring that she would no into the deep waters from a just been reported to us in which ve it set with gens, for she the rent of a shop has bean chose to be wedded with a plain trebled a one fell swoop. If hoop of gold like other maidens."the bristling and other fish known

unfortunate tenapis?' A case has

things go on at this rate we shall

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soon all have to live in the street Sow that pennies bearing the or starve. We are assured that uncrowned head of Queen many residences in Hongkong Victoria are to be withdrawn are now let at rests that pay for from circulation, it is interesting the house in less than five years. to recall that the penny is one of Happy landlords-miserable ten- ants!

THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

the olcest coins of the realm, the ancient penny piece being

powerful lamp on the deck of the trawler, the ides being to attract

to lie in the ses at too great a depth to be caught by ordinary fishing methods. The light, it is stated, tempts the fish towards the surface, and so trings them within reach of the nets.

the first silver coin struck in PASSENGERS DEPARTED. England, and the

оде only current among the Anglo-Saxons.

ago

Per... PRES. MCKINLEY

A meeting of the Hongkong Although the first copper pennies for Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, branch of the British Medical were not made until 1797, a large victoris & Sestile. Mr. Warran Association was held at Dr. copper coinage putting an end to Jordan's office, Prince's Building, the circulation of private leade. Achuck, Mrs. Alice Bower, at nine o'clock last evening. Dr. pieces was introduced in 1620, Cameron, Dr. E. C. Dudley, Miss Miss C. Caneire, Mrs. Ethel Stedman was in the chair and while exactly 250 years after the official business bad halfpence and farthings were Edas Nelson. Dr. Davino Val been gone through. Dr. J. C. fest coined by the Government, terrains, Mr. W. J. B. Waite, Mr. Thomson read a very interesting! It was not until 1860 that bronze

A. C. Watson, Mr. A. C. Watson, I paper on Malaria with specia superseded copper for the coins

Mr. Eugen B. Callahan, Miss reference to Local Conditions."

Katherine J. Dennis, Mr. Wm. H. Flint, Mrs. C. N. Williamson, Mr. M. A. Katz, Mr. S. G. Lowrie, Mr. Frank Paxton. Mr. E. S. Winters, Mrs. E. S. Winters, Miss Winters,

GOA EXPOSITION OVER.

The Closing Ceremonies.

of lesser value.

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traditional

800.

Most people will agree with the opinion expressed in the pre- face to the new Debrett-that Mr. T. Kitano, Mr. Q. S. Cobat, | pine Christian Dames are too Mr. T. B. Cabat. Mr. L. T. Pre- many for a child. However, suchston, Mr. B. 3. Ellsworth, Mr. was not the opinion of a member LP. Kent. Mr. J. Takikawa, Nova Gos, January 7th-The of the family of Tollemache Mrs. P. Carneiro, Mrs. M. expositon of St. Francis Xavier's Tollemache, in which Fone Garibaldi, Mr. W. Brandt. Miss body came to a close on Saturday is the

Bame for

A. Hardy, Mr. Albert R. Carman, after thirty-five days of venera-the eldest

The Rev. Mrs. Albert R. Carman, Mr. R. Mao. The Charch of Dom Jesus W. L. Tollemache-Tollemache, Luther, Mr. C. E. Welch, Rev. was fall to overflowing by crowds having had one Lyonel by his G. E. Lerrigo, Mr. C. C. Wu, Mr. of pilgrims when the closing first wife, married again, and bad H. V. Millington, Mr. H. Tom, ceremonies were performed, soother son. He determined to Mr. M. Tom. amidst imposing solemnity and call the eldest eon of his new devotion.

family Lyonel the Second, and After the pontifical high mass Ydwalls Odda Nestor

this was how he did it: Lyalph

COW's. £200 MEAL Egbert A farmer in the Isere Depart- conducted by the Patriarch, the Lyonel Taedmag Hugh Ere- meat, en visiting the cowshed, Bishop of Macao delivered a benwyne Saxon Eas Cromwell took off bis cast and hung it over sermon, in which he referred to Orma Nevill Dyssert. the faith of the early Portuguese

in their military enterprises and

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religious propaganda. The Patri The King of Italy's uncle, the Arch then gave the Papal bene- Duke of Genoa, when a pupil at

a stall. On his return he found

a cox chewing his pocketbook.

French National Loan Bonds to the amount of frs, 10,000 had dis- aletion and a procession was Harrow, lived with Matthew appeared along with some fre. formed of all Ca'bolic dignitaries Arnold, who describes bim in one 1,700 in bankustes (nearly £100 present. The Patriarch, after of his letters as a charming, in all).

MISUNDERSTOOD. kissing the saint's feet, spread docile boy. During his term at the cloth on it and the lid of the Harrow the Duke was elected A portly lady had inadvertently coffin was closed with three keys, King of Spain by a vote of the taken a seat in a railway-com- which remain with the Patriarcb; Cortes, and this honour brought partment reserved for smokera. the Governor-General of Portu tribulation in its train. "He was With unconcealed indignation, guesa India and the Administra quite popular," relates G. W, E. she saw a man beside her fill his tor of the Convent.

Russell, his conteraporary at pipe. "Sir," she said in frigid The coffins then drawn Harrow, "and none of us had tones, "smoking always makes out of the shrine and borce the slightest grudge against him; me ill." The man calmly lit his on the shouldere by Caurch but for all that, everyone made pipe and puffad contentedly, and dignitaries in procession to the point of kicking him in the hope vestry adjoining the St. Francis of being able to say in after life Chapel and deposited on the altar, that they had kicked the King of Victor where it will remain until it is Spain. Unfortunately,

fearing dynastic replaced in the silver sarcophagus. Emmanuel, The pilgrims are returning to complications, forbade him to their tomes and the city of Old accept the Crown, so he got all God is assuming its original the Harrow kicks and aoue

the Spanish halfpence." aspect.

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at the same time replied: it, now, ma'am? Well, take my advice and chuck it."

You don't need to be riva ure

A VICTROLA.

of Aak Mutria's about their easy paymens

kyrim.

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