The-Hong-Kong-Weekly-Press-1908-11-23 — Page 7

November 23, 1908.]

has ́s plan somewhere. I have met a number of Macso trippers who also had systems, but, sin. gularly enough, none of them had particularly large balances at the bank.

The members of the A. D. C. are working hard at "The Country Girl". It is a big un- dertaking, but we have the talent in Hongkong, if only the Talent can afford to devote the necessary time to the practices, which are now almost daily. The piece is to run for six nights, commencing on December 2nd, and I am sure the performers can rely on the public showing its appreciation of their efforts in the usual manner-bumper houses every night.

Some people have been taking the Sanitary Board to task for not having the courage to make expectoration in public places a punishable

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offence, but as the Chinese have suffered so much in the past from unintentional oppressive legisla tion, we can quite appreciate the hesitation of the Board to add another to the list of "thon shall nots. At the same time no one will gainsay the necessity of measures to restrict the filthy practice which is so offensively patent on the sidewalks and in buildings where Chinese loiter, but the great point to be remembered is that their ways are not our ways and that we cannot expect to Europeanise a Celestial by legislation or visits to his domicile by uniformed inspectors.

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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT

A commencement has been made with the works in connection with the Admiralty dock, one of the workshops having started It will be probably a year before the pumping installa tion is completed.

A batch of 40 deportees arrived from Sings- pore by the 8.8. Hong. Bee on Nov. 17, and have been quartered in the compound at the Central Police Station. They will be forwarded to their homes in China in due course,

After a service of seventeen years in the Hongkong Police Force. first-class Inspector Ritchie intends to retire. It is expected that Mr. Ritchie will return to the Homeland some- time next month. The good wishes of his the Force, will go with him. many civilian friends, as well as his comrades in

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An interim dividend of thirty cents on account of 1908, payable on the 27th_inst. announced by Mesars A. 8. Watson & Co.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. C. McI Masser to be Postmaster-General, Mr. J. H. Kemp to be Head of the Sanitary Department, Mr. J. R. Wood to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, Supreme Court, and Mr. G. N. Orme to be Assistant Land Officer for the southern district of the New Territories, with effect from November 18th.

The first annual athletic meeting of th recently formed Hongkong Amateur Athletic Association was held on the 14th inst. #4 King's Park, Kowloon, and proved very success. Government sought the surrender of Chan Sum the various events, but those who did come The extradition case in which the Chinese ful, There might have been more starters in Cheung on a charge of armed robbery with the forward made a very good exhibition. The jurisdiction of China was concluded before Mr.

hurdle race was perhaps the most interesting J. R Wood at the Magistracy on the 10th inst.

event of the programme, with the exception The defendant, who was represented by Mr. of the mile race for Asiatic troops. Prisen John Hastings (of Messrs. Hastings and were awarded by Sir Paul Chater, Messrs. R. Hastings) was discharged, but on the applica Shewan, H. R. B. Hancock, F. B. Deacon, the tion of Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, Kowloon Cricket Club, the Staff of the Eastern was re-arrested on a charge of armed robbery and Telegraph Company, and H. K. V. Q. Officers'

Mess murder.

An interesting function took place at the King's Park Range, Kowloon on the 16th int, when Major Chitty and the officers

the Mahratta Regiment of

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United Services Rifle Association.

His Ex-

Our Hongkong courts are dull and prosaic compared with those at Manila. I have just home" on the occasion of the presentation read a "comic drama which took place in of prizes won at the recent meeting of the Judge Crossfield's court the other day, between Dominador Gomes and Felipo Buencamino. It cellency the Governor attended and distributed doesn't matter how the argument began, bat it the prizes. The largest number of cups went -had not proceeded any great length when Buen- to the Middlesex Regiment, the officers of camino's abilities as a lawyer were called in the native regiments also coming in for a good question by his opponent and in reply he in- share. Music added to the attractions of the sinuated that the other man did not cut much afternoon. Cheers for His Excellency concluded ice anyway and had lost face with the Filipino the proceedings. people. Gomez retorted with some reflections on the ancestry of his rival, and the fire continued until the judge told them to "shut up. The second scene in the comedy took place at the adjournment when Buencamino "who feared the violence of the doughty doctor, who is held to be a scrapper of no mean ability", beat a hasty retreat to the sanctum of sanctums of the Supreme Court, the library, and when Gomez pursued him thither he stood at the door and threatened him with terrible anathema should he dare to cross the threshold. Gomez thereupon camped on the outer side of an imaginary line drawn from post to post of the doorway and held Buencamino prisoner in the library for the space of half an hour, all the while heaping insult upon the head of the vernerable attorney, the two consigning one another to hotter climes and less congenial surroundings. At length & curious crowd gathered to watch the show, and word of the disturbance of the peace having been carried to the sheriff, that official appeared on the scene and restored harmony for the time being. Everyone then started for the street where the wordy warfare was continued.

RODERICK RANDOM.

HONGKONG.

The Corinthian Yacht Club of Hongkong has now a membership of 250 and a fleet of 42 yachts and motor boats.

The autumn crop of rice is being harvested in

the Shatin district. The result all round is a poor crop this season.

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Mr. T. H. King has been appointed to act as Assistant Superintendent of the Hongkong Police during the absence on leave of Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, or until further notice.

The public are eagerly looking forward to the A.D.C. production of The Country Girl" in the first week of December. It will be a costly production for the Club, for special scenery, and dresses as well as new and original effects are required. Mr. John Robertson, as the stage manager, has undertaken no light respon- sibility, but the splendid proofs he has already supplied of his knowledge of stage craft abundantly assure the community that they can look forward to the performance of "The Country Girl" with full confidence that it will be well up to the high standard of all the previous efforts of the Club.

On Nov. 14th a pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral when Mr. G. Moreton Smith, of Dodwell and Company, was married to Miss Annie Irwin, of Belfast. Mr. Blason acted as best man, and the bride was attended by Misses Doris and Veda Grimble and Dodo Ritobie. The Rev. F. T. Johnson officiated and the service was fully choral, Mr. Denman Fuller presiding at the organ. The hymns were The Voice that breathed o'er Eden and The bride was given away by O perfect love." Mr. E. G. Barrett at whose residence, Hazeldene, a reception was afterwards held. The happy couple later left for Macao where the honeymoon is to be spent.

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Commendador Joao J. Leiria. Consul-General for Portugal and Brazil, was “ At Home, at his residence," Duart," Arbuthnot Road, on Sunday the 15th inst. on the occasion of the 19th birthday of His Most Faithful Majesty, the King of Portugal, Dom Manuel II. The 19th niversary of the Independance of the Republic of Brazile was also duly honoured. His Excel- lency the Governor called on the Consul

the previous day, he Was

going to Macao on the 15th. Among those who called to offer congratulations were His Excellency General Broadwood and his A.D.C., | members of the Consular Corps and numerous civilians.. A magnificent blue and white, splendidly worked silk national flag was on view, which is to be presented to the Club Lusitano by Mrs. J. Leiria. Consul-General J. J. Leiria subsequently left for Macao to attend the official ball given by the Governor of Macao.

A heterogeneous collection of articles was offered for sale to the cosmopolitan assemblage on the compound of the Roman Catholic Cathe- dral on Sunday the 15th inst. There the annual charitable bazaar held under the auspices of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul took place, and attracted as large a crowd as in former years. The compound, which was lighted up by numerous Chinese lanterns, presented 80 animated appearance, and the music discoursed by the 13th Rajputs enlivened the proceedings. The most attractive illumination was the pic- ture in transparency of the patron saint of the Society, the work of Mr. M. Baptista. The various stallholders conducted a thriving business, His Excellency the Governor being present and lending a helping hand to the cause of the promoters. The Bazaar was continued on Monday evening.

Special services were held on the 15 inst. In the Roman Catholic Cathedral to celebrate the golden jubilee of His Holiness and on Monday High prelate being His Lordship Bishop D. Possoni, Pontifical Mass was celebrated, the officiating

assisted by the Very Rev. Fr. Robert, Procur. ator of the Mission Etrangères; the Rev. Fra Agostini, Spada and Leong, as Deacons, and the Rev. Fr. Lu as sub-deacon. At 5.30 p.m. the

Tu es Petrus" hymn

will be sung, a} short sermon in English was preached, and this was followed by an exposition of the Holy Sacrament, Te Deum, and Benediction. The choir sang selected hymns in conclusion. The Cathedral and St. Joseph's College were illuminated.

The net proceeds of the recent Bassar held under the auspices of the Hongkong Ministering Children's League amount to $1,000 which will be divided amongst the following charities:----

The Hildesheim Mission Blind

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..8300

Victoria Home and Orphanage,

Kowloon

Baxter Mission School

300

100

Italian Convent

100

French Convent

50

Diocesan Girls School

Berlin Foundling House London Missionary Society

50

50

81,000

The Queen's College magazine remarks that it is peculiarly gratifying to find in the first batch of 36 students selected by examination to enter the Customs College at Peking no fewer than fourteen are from Queen's College— thirteen appearing on this year's roll. The writer in the magazine adds: The success of these boys is one of the most remarkable recommend- ations we have ever received, and one of which We are emphatically proud. The more the list is examined, the more reason we have to feel elate for of the seventeen successful candidates

at the Canton centre, all but three are our pupils. We are told that among the nineteen other boys from the rest of China, there are probably some old Q.C. boys. We shall be glad to hear of them' when their identity is satisfactorily established. From candidates who sat at Canton, we learn that above five hundred

candidates offered themselves on the first day. After an examination in English reading and conversation, this number was reduced to eighty- one. It was these boys who were examined on the three subsequent days. The first two days were occupied with Arithmetic, Algebra, Geo- metry, Grammar, Geography, Dictation, Physion, Chinese to English, and English to Chinese: on the last day, the subjects were Chinese Essay, letter in Chinese, and explanation of extracts from the Four Books. It will be seen that the examination was long and searching. Those who came through the ordeal with flying colours. have cause to be satisfied. We heartily côngra-

talate our boys on their signal success." Floreat Collegium Reginae!”

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