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-HONGKONG RIFLE LEAGUE.

The Proposed Interport Match.

A general meeting of the Hong- kong Rifle League was convened at the Soldiers and. Sailors Club last evening to discuss matters can- nected with the proposed interpart | match. In the absence of a Pre- sident (Mr. M. S. Northcote bav. lag resigned from this position on bis departure from the Coicas), the shair was taken by Mr. J.

Shaw.

the

TWENTY-TWO YEARS

AGO,

A Glance At Our Files.

(March 9-15, 1901.)

NURSING INSTITUTION.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH)

LONG SERVICE IN HONOKONG.

Retirement of Dr. F. T. Keyt.

On Thursday evening at the Hongkong Club, Dr. F. T. Keyt, Health Officer of the Port of Hongkong, was the guest at a farewell dinner on the occasion of his retirement from the Govern-| ment service.

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923.

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The steps taken at Saturday's meeting with regard to the estab

In proposing the toast of "Our; lichtment of a nursing institution Kfor Hongkong are such as should fuest, Dr. J. T. C. Johnson, appeal to the whole foreign com-Principe? Civil Medical Officer. A.munity. Trained nurses are mentioned that Dr. Keyt bad necessity everywhere, and much served continuously for thirty-one or so in such a place as Hong-years in the Colonisi Medical Ser- scribed as particularly healthy, spent in Hongkong. kong, which can hardly be device, twenty-one of which had been They all The prospect before the Colour joined in wishing Dr. Kert the of being left with до nurse best of luck and many years in were mentioned in connection with

available after June the election of

next is which to enjoy the fruits of his Fresh Milk .15 per bottle. Presi-

not

pleasant dent to fill the vacancy created

and long and honourable career. one,

160 that]. by the departure of Mr. Northcote, we are pleased to

Cheese .80 per lb..

The Hun. Secretary (Mr. C. Grimes) read the minutes of last meeting held on the 25th August last, and these were ap proved by the meeting.

The names of two gentlemes

B Dew

We understand that Dr. Kegt is nod it was decided that Mr. R. M.steps are being taken to remedy

the matter. The offer made by proceeding to England via Austra Drer be approached and asked to Dr. Stedman of houseroom at the lia and New Zealand early next accept this position. In this con- Peak Hospital for the nurses until week. He carrica with him the nection Mr. W. J. Eldridge who

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to Mr. Dyer's qualities as a sports On the proposal of Mr. Goodman seconded by Mr. Nicholson, the

most generous one, and the com- found for them, is certainly a

the Colony.

Dr. Kert, who arrived here on

munity should be correspondingly October 24, 1902, is 37 years of grateful to the proprietors of this age. He obtained the degrees of

Medical

Chairman was elected as Hop-offer. We cannot, ourselves, see University and was appoisted Gov. institution for their public-spirited M. D. and D. l'b. at Aberdeen) Treasurer for the year.

that there ought to be say diffierument Analyst and Mr. C. A. Grimes having culty in carrying the scheme for Other continue in office of Hon. Secre-ursing institute through. As in 1592.

timated that he would be unable to

sary, owing to ill-health necessitat- ing an early departure for Home, the meeting on the proposition of Mr. Summers, seconded by Mr. Eldridge, selected Mr. Goodman as Mr. Grimes's successor. A tribute was paid to Mr. Grimes's past ser- vices, coupled with a vote of thanks.

la expressing his regret at this enforced reverance from the League's affairs. Mr. Grimes eaid he had not expected to leave at such an early date. It might be that the state of his health would not permit him to take further active part in competitions on his return, but whatever assistance he could render the League he would always be willing to offer.

Dr.

in British Honduras

In that Coluoy hej Stedman pointed out, it was also successively Acting is not a charity which the inspector of Schools, District Com- public are asked to support missioner and assistant Colonial but BR institution which is Surgeon (Toledo District;, being certainly be established without capacity to the Orange Walk Dis- a necessity and which should transferred later in the same delay. At the present time we trick. He came to Hongkong in believe, many people are deterred 1902 3 Second Health Officer of from engaging tha. available the Port and Inspector of Emi ourses by the knowledge that grants, becoming Health Officer of they are not often available and the Port and Inspector of Emi- we think that an institution on grants on Jan. 12, 1920, after the the lines proposed at Saturday's relinquishment of his long service | meeting will lead to nurses being by the late Dr. Jordan. more extensively employed than

Add

formerly, and this wili mean that the deficit will not be so great as it has been each year in the case of the Government nurses. to this the fact that Government institutions are invariably expen- Interport Shooting Contest. aire, and we think that there In discussing the prospects of a cad be no doubt but that revival of the interport shooting nursing institute can soon be competitions of former years, the put upon a self-supporting basis Hon. Secretary said he had written in the Colony. At all events, we to Hankow, Singapore, Penang hope that-the public will come and banghai with the view to forward generously, *3 the arranging for a competition this proprietors of the Peak Hospital year, and had received replies from ibe last three. The question was one concerning the use of a uniform type of rifles for the competitions. Singapore had sent a communica.

bave already done, and so givej the new departure à fair start.

SEAGULLS AND TERNS.

It is seldom that more than a

A PUZZLE A DAY.

If a pair of dice is rolled, how chances are there that the many

amber seven will turn up? How can the answer be proved by a simple rule?

Yesterday's answer

tion in regard to this and said they dozen seagulls or terns are seen hoped to make a decision very together in Hongkong these soon in which case they would birds apparently only coming into drop Hocgkong a further line: the harbour in very cold or heavy Fenang had withheld its decision weather. Yesterday, however, until a reply bas been received there was a very large flock of inner square is only one half as The window shown by the from Shanghai. Shangbai bad two species of gull assembled near large as the original window; ret suggested the inclusion of repre- Tsin-wan Bay, where they were each window is four feet higb, sentatives of other than British busily picking up the bite of four feet wide, and square. -nationality and the use of auch garbage thrown over from the guns as may be preferred. Of dustboats. The flock must have| course they were very familiar numbered some three or four with the Springfield rifle, an Ameri- hundred birds and we do not re- can weapon which in the opinion of member ever having seen So the speaker was better than the many together in the neighbour type used by members of the hood of the Colony. The heavy Hongkong League. He thought weather reported in the China that as this was a British interport Sea of late may perhaps account competiton, they should use British for their thus congregating or it rifles. Outport shooters used any may be that the birds were assem rifle, but in Hurgkong they were bling prior to moving north. tied down to certain rifes which

imposed a great handicap.

The Chairman seconded this

it WAS pro

H.M.S. OCEAN ARRIVES.

view, and after further discUSSION His Majesty's first-class battle: by the meeting,

ahip Ocena arrived this morning posed by the Hon. Secretary that from the Mediterranean station, nly short rifles be used at the having left Malta on 2nd. Febru

This vessel is under forthcoming interport. Competiary last.

tion should National Rifle Body Wild Trub Rose Association conditions of 1922 S. R. Hon. Assbeton G. Curzon-Howe,

A. or B. and any nationality should C.B., C.M.G., A.D.C., and,

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be included in any representative Captain Curzon-Howe is no less tesim. Shanghai should be approa- than fourteen steps senior to

ched and asked for its acceptance

Commodore Powell, the latter,

of these conditions. Mr. Dawson immediately on arrival of the is a sister ship to the Nac- seconded, and the resolution was ceas, hauled down bis pennantning, whose trial we reported

carried.

Another resolution fixed the date of the interport match as the 5th May, and the venue at Taikoo, range.

• It was also decided to approach and ask the Taikoo Bife Club for the use of their range for the practice and final matches. The selection committee was to com. priso a representative from each of

according to custom.

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built of steel and specially de- signed for light draft. The depth

"NOON."

of immersion on the trial of the

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We were asked the other day Bainam was 3 feet, and the loaded the seven teams in the League.. why some public companies, etc, draft is to be only 4 feet, carrying The Belilios Shield is badly in publishing the dates of their 250 tons of cargo and several need of a little touching up, and meetings, say "at 12 o'clock hundred passengers, another resolution confirmed the moon." The dictionary saye suggestion of resilvering it.

THE ADVERTISEMENTS. · moon meana 12 o'clook mid-day, The proposal for an Open Shoot-the time when the sun is in the The advertisements during this ing Association for the Colony meridian; from Lat. nana hora, period include announcements by which the Chairman said would ninth hour. Therefore "12 the Henry Dallas Comic Opera result in many advantages-one be-o'clock hoon" seems superfluous. Co. of performances of "Flora ing the stabilising of shooting in the But any legal business appears doza," San Toy" and "The Belle Colony was left over tor discus to be incomplete without much of New York." Mesars. A. 8. sion by another meeting.. This vai repetition. We can give no Watson and Co. advertise best concluded the business of the other explanation than that it is Scotch whisky at prices varying meeting.

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