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THE HONGKONG . TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931.

DIOCESAN GIRLS' SPEECH-DAY.

SIR WILLIAM HORNELL ON SCHOOL BENEFACTIONS.

FINANCIAL MATTERS.

The Principal and Staff of the Diocesan Girls' School were at home on Saturday afternoon to

well-wishers of the Insiliution,

the annual distribution of prizes to successful scholars being

HELD UP BY FOG.

MR. BROPHY SAFE AT: "

SWATOW.

Shanghai, Feb. 7.

LOCAL WEDDING.

PORTUGUESE FAMILIES

UNITED.

OBITUARY.

FORMER ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DIES.

Rome, Feb. 8.

ex-

lowed by a sports made, and I should like to remind I Spada officiated, and the bride. to politics and was elected to tha

Bir William Hornell, cellor of the University, gave away the prizes, he being supported on the dais by the Bishop of Victoria (the Rt. Rev. CR, Duppuy, D.D.), the Rev. W. Walton Rogers, Professor L Forster, Professor M. H. Roffey, Mrs. W. Faid, Misa E. K. Waltere, Mr. F. Groso and Mr. S. Churn.

you that the staff of this school (as of our other church schools carry on their work on what prac- tically amdunta to a maintenance allowance. We are therefore the more indehted to them.

In

The marriage was solemnised A telegram which had heon de-at the Rosary Church on Satur: layed for 48 hours, has been re-day, of Miss Tholmn Rocardina Signor Tonasao Tittoul, on

The death has occurred of celved here from Mr. G. W. Fachoco d'Assumpcao, daughter Foreign Minister, who was the Brophy, Manager

of L. E. Gale of the late Mr. Joao Carlos Rocha Italian delegate to the Peace Con- and Company, who left Foochow d'Assumpens, and Mrs. Mario ference in 1919.-Router.

Amalin Pacheco d'Assumpcao, of recently for Canton.

Signor Tomaso Titton was It announces that he arrived at Macad, and Dr. Antonio Paulo Swatow

on Thursday, having Guterres, eldest son of Mr. Jose born in Rome in May, 1849. He large gatherin.... of parents and been forced down by fog, which Cundido Guterres, of the China was educated in Rome, Liege audi

still prevents him from taking off Provident Loan and Mortgage Oxford, and then took a post in the municipal_nd- for Canton.---Reuter. fol-

Co., Ltd., and Mrs. H. M. L. connexion with — Guterres, of Hongkong.

ministration of Rome. The Very Revd. Father G. In 1883 he turned his attention who was given away by her uncle Chamber as a Conservative. and guardian, Mr. Carlos Augusto 1897 he was appointed Prefect of Rocha d'Assumpeno, wore coming

a be the province of Perugia and threo gown of white velvet pars later Prefect of Naples, chiffon, and carried a bouquet of Meanwhile, his political reputation roses with maiden hair fern. was increasing and in 1901 he be

Her attendants were the Misses came a member of the Senate. On Clasy Noronha, Lina Noronha, Nov. 3, 1903, when Giolitti recon- Maria Pia Guterres and Hida atructed his Cabinet, Tittoni took Ulrien Guterres, with Miss Celeste over the Guterres as flower girl and Mas-Affairs which he held till 1900 portfolio of Foreign Lor Tony Lopes,

page. The bridesmaids wore dainty dresses with a short interruption in 1900 of georgette of sky, blue, light when he acted as Ambassador in London and on Apr. 7, aigned the yellow, pink and apricot, and they each carried a bouquet of gladioll. Act of Algeciras.

During his term of office rela- The duties of Best Man wore carried out by Mr. Carlos A. R. tions between Italy and France stendily improved. Nevertheless, d'Assumpeso.

Following the ceremony, a ro-ho always laid emphaste on the reption was held at the Club de necessity of Italy adhering to the Recreto, and subsequently the Triple Alliance--a policy which In

The Principal (Miss H. D. Sawyer) in her annual report, said In part:

Vice-Chancellor's Speech. Sir William Hornell said: Those who are responsible for the ordering of this afternoon's "estivities have done a wine thing To get girls in the right way of They have limited to an hour the becoming good and useful women prize-giving and the ancech-mak- in whatever sphere of life their which, for some extraordinary future may be is, I think, my him reason, has always to accompany in the education of girls sent to the public rewarding of boys and fool at times that girls. Ono of the results of this tno here. I parents do not always realize this bold Innovation is that brevity,

should which

always be And so many people seem to think that examination results are the

"peaker's ideal, in this afternoon aim and end all of every school, }I would candidly own that that is at my opinion. Public examinations have a distinct value, and I for one would not be without them, if for no other reason than because they are a means of helping a girl to de cide upon a future career. I think that these pupila who have dis funct ability, and those only. The School motto is "Dally Giving the recipients of handsome pre-met the King of Italy at Racconigi

his obligation.

the school on ouplo left for the honeymoon his opinion did not militate against

I congratulate successful year's working and on behalf of the public and the University of Hongkony-com- munities which are both vitally in School--I thank the Headmistress terested in the Diocesan Girls' and her Staff for their devotion.

Service" and doubtless it is the pleasure of Miss Sawyer and her fellow workers to live up to that motto. But I want to make it clear to all those and they are many--whom

It may

in

which is being spent in Canton, Italy being friendly with Britala the bride's travelling dress being and France. The annexation of

Austria-Hungary of green satin with fur cuffs and Rosnin by green hat to match. collar, flare skirt and coat, with 1968 induced Tittoni to cultivate closer relations with Russia and The bride and bridegroom were on Oct. 24, 1909, Tsar Nicholas II

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world is passing is giving to those In Dec. 1999, Sonnino formed a forces a special opportunity. NOW Cabinet in which Count You have all probably heard of Guicciardini was Foreign Minister, the Soviet Government of Russia Paris where he drew still closer concern, the five-year programme which Tittoni going as Ambassador to

bonds between Italy and Anderson Music

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is now organising. It is a terri-the

should be sent in for the Matri- culation examination and I would limit this even more and would say that only those intending to Lake una University career should be allowed to enter for the Matri- that, without this devotion, this rulation. For other pupils the school could not be carried on. Senior should be looked upon There is an English proverb which fic attempt to organise, throughout France. This led on the outbreak a good school-leaving certificate. showing that a girl has had a good Samson, was a strong man, the tremendous tracts of Russia of the world-war, first, to Italy's all-round education, and for this but coul: not say money before and Siberin, ona vast system of declaration of neutrality and then

Vice-Chancellor reason I feel that the subjects he had It." As

State factories and farms which to her coming in against the Con- taken should be

of the University of Hongkong will numerically

bo 80 conducted by the tral Powers. In Nov. 1916, Tit- greater but in standard of effi- sympathies ara entirely with Government that their products toni gave up his Paris post, and it riency considerably lower than

Samson, confined as he apparent- can be dumped throughout the

was not til June, 1919, that he within this exasperating world at prices below any possible took another the portfolio of ly was that required as an entrance to a University.

limitation. But no less a person cost of than Don Quixote once remarked The Soviet Government will then Cabinet. But in Nov. of the same

production olsewhere.

Foreign Affairs in the Nitti Value of Examinations.

that "where wages are paid. arms embark on the economic It is not given to all of us to do

conquest are broken"-n truth which, he of the world and all that which year he resigned ostensibly for arnelves justice in eximinations came subsequently enshrined in it will Involve. And they are in reasons of health.

I was assu)- and we are not all equally endowed another English proverb which deadly earnest, so much so that cd, however, that he did not see eye with brains, I should mach ke

runs "Whan wages are paid, work amid the prevailing squalor and to eye with Nitti an to the further to convince both parents an"

la over." pu, its that, provided that a child

misery of the country, no school negotiations regarding Flume. He Labourer Worthy of Hire, or college in Rusia lacks funds.as then elected President of the has done her best honestly through-

It would he hypocritical and They are said to be spending

Senate. an out the year and then failed either dangerous to overstress this. We the Physics Department of in an outside examination or in have indeed the highest authority single University as much as I counsels and by their understand the school me, that no daurace is for believing that the labourer is Majesty's Treasury is now spending men attached. The pupil has not been able

of learning for the to reach the standard demanded be worthy of his hire and though ing on all the Universities of people; wise were their words in i

England, Scotland, Wales the examinera. Nevertheless, the

North Ireland.

und their instruction; such as sought hard-working pupil who has failed

I know that many of you are versca

out musical tunes, and set forth

In writing: rich has gained far more educationally

now hard put to to live decently furnished with ability, living than the one who haa merely

and keep out of debt, but you peacefully in their habitutions; crammed and learnt up her work

know as well as I do, that child- all these were honoured in their for a few weeks before the end of

hood and youth come but once to generations, and were a glory in term. Some of us work much To those whose joy it is to give any human being and that for their days; there be of them, that more slowly than others and the themselves in devolion to others. your sons and daughters there have left a name behind them, rosult is not always brilliant, but neither caunting the cont nor ask-

will be no going back to school to to declare their praises, there are other things in educationing for recompense, I would recall try and recover what they might some there be, which have no And besides hooks and hookwork. that wonderful ancred song in have found there, had circum memorial; who are perished as hope you will forgive me for this which the Panimist desertbea him-stances been more in their favour. though they had not been, and are apparent digression but have self an oné of Jehovah's flock, safe And there is wealth in Hongkong, become as though they had not. long wanted the parents of my under his care, absolved from all nor do the rolls of this school luck been born; and their children pupils to know my views and to anxieties by the sense of his pro-

the names of those whose parents after them. But these were men understand that failing to pass tection and gaining from this con- could. out of their superduty, of mercy, whose righteous deeda an examination or to get promo-fidence of safety the leisure to relieve those who are working have not been forgotten. With tion is by no means synonymous enjoy, without antlets, all the here for the education of their their seed shall remain continually with disgrace.

simple pleasures which make up children and the children of theira.good inheritance; their children Bishop Duppuy's Address.

life-the freshness of the fellow citizens from the anceasing are within the covenanta. Their In the course of his address, meadow,

of harassment of continuous finan-seed standeth fast, and their the coolness Bishop Dupuy referred to the stream. "It is," wrote the author cial anxiety.

children for their sakes. Thoir various improvements effected to of Ecco Homo, "the most complete

"If I were, Rich."

sced shall remain for ever, and the School by the Principal, and picture of happiness that ever

Some of you have perhaps beet their privileged to attend some of the lout. shall not bo blotted remarked that in going Home,

(was, or can be. drawn. It

bodies were buried in Miss Sawyer carried with her their presents that state of mind for implo anniversaries of Oxford peace, and their name liveth to all best wishes for a speedy recovery of which makes life a fallure for remember the wonderful bidding

which all alike algh and the want and Cambridge Colleges and may generations." Continuing, he sald: I want a

If I were a rich man, I should also to say a word about school which is everywhere, if we could benefactors of these colleges are wealth had been dissipated by my

mont; it

represents that Heaven prayer in which the founders and like to feel that, long after my finance. If the dollar had mained what it was at

but enter it, and vet almost annually remembered. the e-H

heirs and my identity had been "Let us now praise famous men submerged in general oblivion, my name would be repeated year by

re-

there is no limit to the self-sacri- fee and devotion which some rare souls may be found ready to give, there is a very distinct limit to what those who profit by theft devotion have a right to expect in

this direction.

men

ginning of 1930, our problem would The two or three who win it may and our fathers that begat us. nowhere, because so few can. have been a fairly straight-forward be called victors in life's conflict: The Lord, manifested in them year in some collage or school one and the year's expenses would to them belong the regnum have been met without

efgreat glory, even his mighty power which I had endowed out of my Buy diadema tulum." re-adjustment. As it is, passages

from the beginuing, Such as did bounty."(Applause). Economic Crisis,

hear rule in their kingdoms, and have to be paid to England and I would once more venture to were

On the behalf of the School laave pay provided for and with remind the public of this Calony power, giving counsel by

men renowned for their Committee, Mr. F. Grose express- the dollar at its present low rate that disruptive forces are

their ed words of thanks to Sir William the committee will have to consider loose in the world and that the brought tidings in propheclos; for his kindness in distributing t

now understanding, such

have Hornell for his presence, and also what readjustments must bel economic crisis through which the loaders of the people by their the prizes.-(Applause), '

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