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day, and the Milleniom will not suddenly dawn in China. Whilst we keep these thoughts In mlad, wo have a right to expect that the National Government will not seck to excuse itself unduly by reason of those encumbrancos, but will make a very real effort to tackle first things first. Mis- directed enerev is often, worse than none at all.

One of the remarks made by Dr. Wang was that the Chinesa phoplo were quick to resent unjust or in-

DAY BY DAY.

GREAT MEN BILOULD DRINK WITH HARNESS ON 'THEIR THROATS.-- Shakespeare.

The B.I. B., Gazana, from Sin- on the 18th gapore, is due here Instant.

The Ben Line a.. Benmehr, from Europa and, the Straits, is due hero on the 20th instant.

The pupils of Quarry Bay School are giving a display of drill and action songs on Tuesday afternoon.

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Capt. E. I. M. Barrett, Commis- sioner of Police, is leaving Shang had on the 18th instant for a short holiday during which he will visit Hongkong,

A qualifying examination for of Probationer appointments Clerks in Government Service is to be held in Quicon's College Hall on Monday, 14th January, at 9 a.m.

tolerent treatment, but were just as quick to respond to gestures of friendship. In the main, wo be- lleve that to be a correct reading of the Chinese character. But it ls equally true to say that there is no greater intolerance than that! displayed by the averago Chinese crowd when it allows its passions to be played upon. We have just had an instance of that fact in the unseemly happenings in Nan- king, where anti-Japanese agita- Į exotism tion developed to such an extent

About Hong Kong that Dr. Wang's own residence was attacked and considerable injury and damage, done. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was called upon to inter- vene, and we note with much satis- faction the deserved rebuke which he administered to the mob. Those

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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1928.

BRITAIN & CHINA,

No-one can have read the speech

Do you know that→→

The jubiles of British occu- pation of Hongkong was en- thusiastically observed?

This was on January 21st, 1891. A telegram was receiv- ed during the day from the Secretary of State for the Co- lonies congratulating all con- cerned in its administration and expressing the hope of Queen Victoria that the Co- lany would continue to enjoy increasing prosperity.

tical ends are worthless creatures, doing more harm than good to the cause which they profess to serve. Mob rule has been too much in evidenco in China during recent years, and it appears obvious that if it is to be suppresi-mm ed, stern action will be needed by the National Government...

French Reconstruction.

An interesting document issued

the

A patent for improvements in sextants or the like, by Mr. J. R. G. Wyatt, of "Kingsclere," Kowloon, has been registered under the United Kingdom Patents Ordi-

Trence.

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FORMER HONGKONG GOVERNOR. Recollections From Australia.

In selecting Governor Kennedy as william, the two Princes being at-- the subject of this sketch, it is tached to the Bacchants. During chiefly on account of several in their visit there were many festivi.. cidents of an interesting, not to say ties at Government House remarkable and sensational, naturoj One of my most vivid and happy which occurred during his ad recollections in connexion there. ministration.

with was that of a riding party to

Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy was Onb-tree Hill, in which the Princes the fifth Governor, and succeeded took part. Our Governor and Earl his Excellency William Wellington Clanwilliam also were members of Cairns, C.M.G., He was sworn in the party, besides a number of on April 10, 1877, and his term of naval and military officers. olico extended tHi May, 1883. He

The two Princes bore unmis-- was descended from an ancient takablo evidence of their riding Scottish family, at the head of school training, their sent in the whom is the Earl of Cassilis saddle being perfect. The party Born in 1809 ho was the third son rode through Queen-street, of Hugh Kennedy, of Cullha, County Princes being loudly cheered on. Down, Ireland. Educated at route. Lieut.-Col (thon major) Trinity College, Dubin; entered the Moore, with the exception of he British Army in 1827 na an ex-

vivor of that riding party..., tenant in 1832; captain in 68th sign in the 11th Regiment; lieu-Majesty the King, is the inot sure. Light Infantry in 1840. He re tired from the British Army in 1848. He then entered the Colonial Department of the Civil Service.

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Many of the old residents of Brisbane will remember the Gover nor and the picturesque Sgure ho presented as he took his daily rides, Miss Kennedy,

Hla Grst appointment was that accompanied by of Governor of Vancouver Island, through the suburbs. He rode thence he went to Sierra Leone, and superb snow white charger, and, from there to Hongkong, leaving with de smart military appear the latter port for Queensland to ance and snow-white hair, moust- take up the reins of office. An out-che, and imperial, looked overy break of smallpox occurred on the inch a soldier.

Every Saturday afternoon, dur- China mall boat in which he and ing the winter months, there was his daughter were travelling, and which caused a great sensation on an informal reception and garden. party at Government House, at

board.

happen.

When the ship reached Moreton Buy the passengers had to line up for medical examination, but here the

trouble commenced. Miss Kennedy would not submit,

The Chinese servants, ali

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temps. When the doctor turned his "Miss Kennee-des not a home to Theso back she showed it again, and, day, you coome Sat'dec."

The Governor's action in Import- with a merry twinkle in her eye, ladies were never again scen. considerably elongated that organ.

It is notified that, at the expira- war was still in progress a warn- tion of three months, the Kwong

The Kate cast off at once, and ing these Chinese servants aroused ing was issued to the German Shun Steamship Company, Limited

Nixon-Smith's) wharves, Petrie was a strong anti-Chinese feeling Government that damage infleted will, unless cause is shown to the landed the party at Kennedy (nown good deal of resentment, There con- without military reason or excuse contrary, be struck off the register | Bight, half an hour later than throughout Queensland at the time, and the Company will be dissolved. schedule time. The Governor and and the fact of the Governor acting very against the wishes of the people by his daughter soon became Observatory returns for Novem-popular with the people, all social appointing theso "helpa" to every ber show that the average mean functions being graced with their position in his household, from Indies maid to hall porter, caused temperature was 60.3, the highest patronage and presence.

much dissatisfaction." belung 82.2 and the lowest 67.5.

The Governor took his final leave There were 177.2 hours of sunshine and D.186-inch of rain. The aver- age humidity was 07.

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There was also a large aft of which the band of No. 1 Battery Chinese male servants, whom the V.A. (of which I was a member), supplied the music on the lawn. I Governor was bringing from Hong- thus saw much of the Governor and kong. These servants had been his amiable daughter, both of whom thoroughly trained by Miss Ken-mixed freely with the guests. nedy. The outbreak on board naturally caused the latter much anxiety, as the quarantine regula-gorgeously attired in Oriental cos tions were being rigidly enforced.tume and with pigalls reaching to These young men were a very and nobody knew what might their heels, walted at the tables. superior class to the ordinary Chin- se one meets in daily life, being polished in manners and cultured. Besides these al fresco -garden. parties, Mias Kennedy, on Wednes- The fealth Officer, Dr. Prentice, day afternoons, received ladies, per- said that he could.not give the ship sonal friends of her own, to dis- A declaration by H. E. the Officer a clean bill of health unless she did cuss matters concerning charitable delivered at the British Chamber by the French Foreign Office Administering the Government so. She again refused, and told and other work of a philanthropic of Commerce dinner in Shanghai which has just come into our states that Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., him he could go to Hongkong (or nature. These meetings were held

private. by Dr. C. T. Wang without being hands, is evidently intended to is again capable of discharging his somewhere else). Things looked A small eaterlo of ladies (?) de-

the steamer Kate struck by its obvious note of ain-bring

English-speaking duties as a member of the Executive very black, as

was alongside, and waiting to take sirous of entering this magle circle, cerity. Attributing many fric-peoples in closer touch with and Legislative Councils.

the Governor and party to the city, but who had no right to, called on tions in the past to mutual misrealities concerning German re-

presented their cards to the and the devastated.

At the P. W. D. offices, on the where the people were assembling Miss Kennedy one afternoon, and understandings, the Chinese For-paration

Eventually the matter was set-Oriental hall porter. He took the eign Minister expressed his beffer regions of France. Without men-31st instant, there will be offered to give his Excelleney a welcome.

for sale Kowloon Inland Lot 2162,tled by the doctor requesting Miss cards and disappeared: After an that the trying times between Dri-toning the word 'reparation situate at Mong Kok Tsui. It has Kennedy to show her tongue, which interval he returned, bowing and outlines the many directions of an area of about 4,716 square feet she did, thus ending the contro smiling, and this is what he said: tain and China are now past, and France's big efforts at reconstrue- and the upset price is $11,750. to the British desire for a beller tion in the devastated territories. understanding and mutual Co-It will he recalled that while the operation be responded by saying that his Government is ready and enger to grasp the invitation. If the Treaty negotiations are ducted in the spirit which this would have to be made good. speech betakens, we have every When their armies had been driven back, a large part of France had reason to believe that an agree been reduced to the condition of a ment acceptable and beneficial to desert, even such harmless things

AL д carly period of Sir both sides will result. Especially as fruit trees and garden frames

joyful event occurred. This was term of six years, the summer sea-. welcome was Dr. Wang's declara- having been ruthlessly destroyed,

Arthur's term an interesting and in 1883, having completed the the arrival of a British squadron of sons being spent in Toowoomba, tion that he wished to see British It is shown that the soil was swept

warships, accompanying the two where the Government provided him trade continue to flourish in China, clean over an area of 3,304,780

It is now ordered that the Co- Royal Princes, the Duke of Clarence with a residence, and where he and and it is to be hoped that his hectares, that 893,750 buildings Government will make some scri- were destrayed, and railways and lonial Auxiliary Forces Long Ser and Prince George (the latter now Miss Kennedy made many friends, vice Medal shall be worn after all our beloved King), on a training who greatly regretted their depar- ous attempt to remove the many roads torn up. Within ten years, British War Medals in such order cruise. The flagship was the In- ture.-W. Stone in the Brishana

France has returned 1,818,235 as may from time to tinte be as-constant, commanded by Earl Clan- Courier. hectares to cultivation, over aigned to it, suspended from the which the Chairman of the Cham-611,000 houses have been re-built, left breast by a green riband of ber alluded in his speech.

and over 53,000 kilometres of road one inch and a quarter in width, Dr. Wang is evidently under nó ré-laid,. Millards of francs have delusions regarding the immensity beon expended yearly in this con- of the task to which the National | nexion, and Germany's contribu-

George IV., however, discreetly Government has put its hands, tion to make good this ruin haa

brought his demand under the head- been steadily whittled and when he asks for sympathy

ing of "repairs" to Buckingham and understanding it should be With the reparation problem again figures in parenthesis indicating (1), a dominate feature of European deaths: Plague, Rangoon

Much Interesting Information House, the mansion which had been freely given. This, of course, does not imply that the new Ad-polities, an elaborate propaganda Colombo 1(1), Pnom Penh 1 (1) with regard to the building of built on the alte in the first decade machine has been at work recently, Cholera, Bombay (1), Calcutta Buckingham Palace, which was of the Eighteenth Century by ministrallon is to be free from striving to create an atmosphere (38), Tuticorin 1, Bangkok 2; completed in 1885, is contained in John Sheffield, first Duke of Buck- Small-pox, Suez 11, Basrah 5 (4), "The Story of Buckingham Palace" ington. The vote was passed with penses, £252,690, should be do- criticism, for criticism of the right favourable for a further heavy re- Bombay 2 (2), Calcutta 4 (2) (1lutchfrison, 24s. net) by Mr. the proviso that the estimated ex-

Bruce Graeme. type can be of the utmost value.duction-needless to say, at the Negapatam 7 (1), Pondicherry

Mr. Graeme tells the story of the frayed out of the innd revenue of But it is probably true thut most expense of Britain or France. It (4), Belawan Dell 1, Samarinda 1, site of Buckingahm Palace, rather the Crown and by the Department Westerners are a little too in is being stated that Germany can- Saurabala 1, Pnom Penh 23 (9), than of the Palace itself, going as of Woods and Forests. patient regarding the relative not meet her obligations under the Shanghai (G), Canton 4, Dairen 2, slowness of the progress made by Dawes plan unless she is let off The French China's leaders. Dr. Wang no another big sum. doubt had this thought in mind counter-nropaganda, if it may 80 he regarded, merely draws atten- when he suggested that in a coun- tion to what has been done to re- try with a past like that of China, pair the ravages of war, and the Parts which is slowly changing its immense amount remaining to be Brussels political foundations, the eriti done. In. the circumstances, It Amsterdam who expected absence of not surprising to find M. Polatare Copenhagen anomalies, uncertaftily and in- declaring that his Government will Vienna stability to a certain extent, could stand Ormly to French claims, in Helsingfors

Lisbon Bucharest not have taken account of his-the matter of reparations from tory. That is an aspect of the Germany In one thing we are, Buenos Aires

however, agreed, Germany ought Shanghai question which many of us are

to be told what is the whole sum New York apt to overlook, but if we cultivate she will have to pay.. the habit of nlacing ourselves in. the position of those into whose hands the refus of government

An order by the Governor-in-Prague |-have-now-passed, we shall pro- Cauneli declare at the duration Madrid bably have a little more toleration of the rights, powers and privi Athens for those who wish to lift the leges granted under the provisions Rio.

Bombay of the Rope Company's Tramway Hongkong status of their nation but who are Ordinance, 1001, shall be extended

Silver (spot). hampered by the legacies of the for a period of one year from the

Silver (forward). 15th Instant. past. Roma was not built in a

vexations taxes on commerce to

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The health bulletin of Eastern porta for the week ended Saturday

HOW A KING GOT HIS building of

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last, lasued by the Director of THE ORIGIN OF BUCKINGHAM Medical and Sanitary Services, down. contains the following cases, the

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tho Pavilion at Brighton, and the restoration of Windsor Castle, refused, In 1825, to allow the King any money for his new project.

When it was discovered that the far back as the records of Jamea I's Mulberry Garden, or Goring architect, obeying the letter, if not Ноине, от Arlington House, or the spirit, of the condition, had Buckingham House. The predeces-razed the old building to the ground sors of the modern Palace, reveal and was designing an entirely new palace, the public digrast found ro- anything worth telling.

Apparently the new palace plan- lief in a series of lampoons, one of London, Dec. 14.

.124.146 ned by Nash and George IV., and which, parodying the old rhyme,

84.80 still unfinished at the deaths both calls the palace:

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of the King and of his architect. 20.366 was, as an expensive project, the... .12.18 subject of popular dislike and, as a B4.475 completed building, the subject of .102% architectural controversy..

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The most unkind critic wrote that 807 "this palace, therefore, stands as a 47.11/32 very dear proof that wealth, with

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It is notified that a competitive examination for the Indian Civil Service, open to all qualified per-

It was only by the use of a subter-sons, will be held in London in 20.805 fuge tint George IV. obtained the July and August, 1929, and that 875 Parliamentary vote necessary to copies of the regulations, syllabus, 6.29/82

cover the expenses of building the of examination, and forms of ap 1/6.1/82

palace. Parliament, remembering plication to, bo filled up by the 1:2/0%

the enormous sums already spent candidates may be seen on applica 26.

on the altering, furnishing, and re-tion at the Colonial Secretary's .20

decorating of Carlton House, the office.

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