No. 9297. NOVEMBER 18, 1892.]
tion with the proposed vote of $280,000. The Austrian Lloyd's na Maria Vaterie
or not, the vote itself ought to meet left Shanghai for this port to-day.
with the most emphatic opposition ca
the ground that the passing of it would
nothing short of a reckless squander-Ar a meeting of members of the Victoria ing of public money.
TELEGRAMS.
[RUPPLIED TO TÁR "Untina "Mark."}
(Via Southern Line)
THE MANAGERS OF THE PANAMA CANAL TO BE PROSECUTED.
LONDON, November 18
Recreation Club last night the following
crows were selected to compoto for the
SUPREME COURT.
THE CHINA MAIL.'
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION, (Before His Honour Mr Fielding Clarke, Chief Justica) Friday, November 18.
*MAIDEN BESSIONS THE ORTAY JUSTICE AND HIS WHITE GLOVES. Two das vore down for trial at the
We take the following extracts, from the coport of De Eitel, H. M. aspector of Babools, which was laid befor the Logis- lative Council by command of H. the Governor on the 16th inst.:
Chairman's Cup at the forthenung E- Criminal Bessions this morning, the defon-tutions known to have been a work in the
gatta
Victoria,
Thiste Failipa
Friedrich (Capt.)
Jeiny
Beige
Wille
HARON!
Mannk
Lammert, I. F. (Capt.)
liharrock
Descan
oyrod
Say
Kornblume.
Willik Boothley
The French Government has resolved toy (Capt.) De Robeck (Capt.) prosecute the Managers of the Isthuius of Patania Canal for breach of trust and froud.
BELIEF FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
Relief works are being started in London for the benefit of the unemployed..
(From Manila Papers.)
ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL AT
MADRID
MATRAN, Nov. 11. The King and Queen of Portagal have arrived at Madrid and wore the objecta of much demonstration. They will stay for Afless days. After their departure a par-
Hom.
Надан
Teatham
Зачеков Putta (Capt.)
Tax Oricket match for to-morrow in The Bills v. The Plains. The sidos are as follows:-
The Hills.
J. Bariou
K. J. Coron G.. S. Coxon
J. J. Bell-Irving
4. M. Quill
V. A. C. Hawkinə
J. Orman
R. A. Currie
F. Maitland
The Plains,
F. D. Markham O. M. Firth Colonel Ravenhill
.Capt. Wolman
8. L. Darby
P. I. Flower, R. A
R. H. Boys, R.E.
J. M. De Robeck, R. N. Capt. Thomas, A.8.0.
Capt. I. M. Rumsey Liont. Olivier, B. N.
RN.
E. A. Kam
R. Harding
GENERAL: DDUCATIONAL STÁTIKTIOŠ, The total nuraber of Educational Juli- dants bong in one casolfour Chinoes charg Colony of Hongkong during the year 1891 ed with conspiracy to steal and in the other sauce to 216 Schoule with grand total c.privato in the Asiatic Artillery.
of 119 acholars Bader Instriction during The jury attended and there was the the ý ne. This constitutes an increage of sanal, large attendance of the general pub470holars as compared with the preced lic.
ingyasar, Among those 10,12 scholars, Me A. B. Johuson, Crasu Solicitor, was there ware 8, 103 scholars tending 119 in Court, as was also Mr E. Rabineca, who Buhle under the supervision of the A to have defended the whole of the pri- Government and receiving Seata uit in some form or other, whilst 2016 arbolars The praanors appeared in suswer to the attended 30 Private Schools independent calling of their names. as no informations had boos flad against ing the for that these few of them which His Lordship said of Government supervision of aid, except the prisoners they would be discharged.
aro é kept for private emolument are by After the usual proclamations and formin law exempt from payment of rates and ities his Lordship said-Gentlemen of the jury will not be required to attend, there being no casas for this Sossions. T fancy a pair of white gloves ought to be present- od by somebody, but they do not sonra to be forthcoming. I hope we will be able to maintain this condition of things in the Colony.
The Curl than Tose.
tries.
GENERAL STATISTICS OF BONDEN UNDAN
...
CHILDREN. A
their
tial parliamentary orisia will be attempted. Tan Chinees proocasian has evidently lack of ecunsellors, nor will it be owing to Rumber of scholars onrol'ed ie theao 117 gradual and cautions steps to asairailato the though it was a rainy day suo 25 made for Schools of all grades is prin- ̈
THE PHILIPPINE BUDGET.
known for certain the suppression of the coasting duer, and the re-establishment of the Mint, in Manila, is probablo, Thoro are no alterations in the imposta.
THE BELGIAN PARLIAMENT. The Belgian Parliament is against the
attracted to the Colony a large collection of roguae who havu fuand, in the trasy and
for plying their nefatioua practices. Bome of these Chinese gentry, fortunately, have been caught, but the mere fact of their being here oocupants of the Victoris Gaol will have a bad effect upon the statistics of crime from which Governors are apparently inclined c draw inferences. Captain
THE SILVER PROBLEM. If the Monstary Confaresca, which is co commence at Brussole on 22nd November. does not arrive at a satisfactory solution of the silver difficulty, it will not be from any an insullisioncy of nostrums. The British representatives are to be Mr Alfred de Rothschild, Sir Charles Rivore Wilson, Sir William Houldsworth, M Bertram Sir Charles Fremantle. India will slo seui dalgsies to watok bur va particular interests; and we can only hope that some good will come of the deliterations of the ropresentatives of the various countries
the Conferenca.
Among the latest contributions to theitiorcass of 39,427 souls in the first decade Schools for secondary education only in but it would be difficult to say hɔage found, on the lust Conus day, in pris
To
suffrage. Tha people insist on vfaiming it, Hastings, who prosided over the Police Sammal Montaga, A.P.; the paper by 3r schools and scholars, during the last twenty Schools can eafdly be handed stor to pr. (dedugod from the Census of 1881, are very to fororbly detaia inmates of the only local:
and riota were frequent, the mob singing the 'Marseliais,'
LENÇOIS OF THE COLONY.
Court to-day, in one case ordered fogging, and it does occur to one that if there was more of this humane treatment in the intercess of self-preservation the statistics of the Magistracy would show a wonderful metallic exponents, and however one may years, I find that the number of school Education Department in the year 1891, Corus tables revealed the fact that, the
come
THE EDUCATIONAL REPORT FOR needs of the Colony in proportion as they Hunghem and Shaukiwan, nuder the in- edusational enterprise and to expand in
1801.
arieo or xpand
Auence of education. The only portion of every direction the Grant-in-Aid agatém Salgote, but all departmental educational neglected by the Missions were the Eura mental Schools.
In England there are no Departmental the population whose girls were hitherto rather than the mors expetshivo Depart efforts of the Government are confined to sions, and to supplement. this defect the efforts will have to be made to bring into Bat, furtzez, special giving aid to oxisting voluntary national Education Department has of late been the edgestion hat the children of those shoula and to accouraging the starting of making opcaial efforts by means of the new cases of the population which habitualis such voluntary secondary schaly or classes Government Centrid Mahdol for Girls, dany them the privilsgan of education. I von- aa are needed for technical, industrial Female education is, however, not merely fare therefore ta gege, as in formor Reports, Hongkong in the dish future. But this gathered into schools, but the quality of the registration and education of all purchased artistic purposes. This is what I desire for expanding as regards the number of girls the advisability of compelling by law the dannut possibly be done here for some instruction given in them is also improving servant girls in the Colony.I do not yours to come. Fer the present, I think, from year and year, and in this respect this know, and have no mesos of mortaining, the Government mat, whilst expanding by stimulus applied by the Belilice Medal and how many children of sabool-going age are all available means the system of aiding Prize Fond deserves special mention. voluntary efforts in education, caliuuc al TTENDANCE AND NUMBER OF UNEDUCARD Vitude. But, at a rough guess, I think under the lossl system of domestic band- or most obita Departmental Schous, all of which are really lamentaty. But whilst
thers may bo two thousand of them or the promotion of elementary education is
For the first time in the history of more. Again, I would recommend once coatiuned by sucens of butit Departmental the Colony, the Case of 1891 provided; mare to prohibit by law the employment, at and Voluntary Grant-in-Aid Schools. the the exact number of children of lasai school thirteen years of age. Next, I think, speriai. et my suggestion, the moans of ascertaining
labour, children apparently under promotion of secondary education must be going uge (6 to 16 years) in the Colony. The efforts will have to be made to apply woul Grant-in-Aid system and met by means of the resident civil population is concerned, children. This can be done by the appaints wncouraged exclusively by the cheaper result is a saddening revelation. So far as pressure to the best population to arouse thes Departmental Schools. What I recon- the result is indeed very near to what, by a
to a muse of the educational needs of mend therefore ia in effect to assimilate the rough setimate, I annually calculated it to eat of a Chinese Altondance Officer, sa educational systems of Bougkong, to far be, In his Ceneas Report of 15th August, the decretary of State for the Colonies, and auggested in 1889 by the Right Honourable principles are concerned, to that of Eng-1891, (19) the Registrar General states
tom of Govern. THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. land, by expanding the system
that on 20th May, 1891, there were in by the supply of additional Schools al Tai- Apart from the Polica Sobol with 361ment Grants-in-Aid le favour of all forms
kok tsui, fanmai, Aberdeen and Shanle Reformatory attended by 70 young partmental Schools strictly to their pressat 184 nationalities other than Europeans, at an additional strain on our annually in- scholars of mature age and the West Point of education and confining accordingly De. Hongkong, of persons of school-going age (6 to 16 years) 783 Euripeans or Americans,
wan. But as the foregoing measures will scholars, both of which Schools are ex-logitimate sphers of elementary education, Americans or Chinese and, 21,331 Chinese rearing educational expenditure, I venture empt from the control of the Kōneation. Is my last Report I qusted the preced (children), auling total of 22:293 finally to submit for the consideration f Department, the total number of Subools ont act by the Indian Government, because children of school-going age)." Refer the Government, with partianlar reference to subject to sapervision and examination by like the Government of Hongkong, it had ing (in 20) to a Roturn, tabea the need of School-houses and Building the Education Department, amounted in of necessity at first to start. Depecluortal the Census day of children actually Grants, the question whether it may not be the year 1891 to 117 Schouls, es-empanad Schools. Since 1883, however, the Indian
found present in Bohool, the Registrar advisable to create, in some way, a special with 72 Schools under the Education Government new seeks to correct the a General farther remarks, This rotura School Fund. I find it stated un good at Department in the year 1891 and 25 maly of the Government's assuming the Schools in the year 1871. The total schoolmastor's rals. and endeavors by as 8,085 whildren actually attended school, the United States, in the absence of the tu... shows that on the Mith May as many thority that the equalledt provision which olent educational endowments of Europe, Schools during the year 1891 amorated to educational organization of ladia, so far 19 am informed, keeps about 10 per 7,672 scholars, as compared with 4,372 its root principle is concerned, with that of children from nohool. If this 10 puraipally due to a law made in 1785, that in scholars in the year 1891 and 1,202 scholars of Eaglaid, by stimulating private offt meat, be added, the number of children all new States thereafter to be added co.tho of the Philippine Budget, it is only crowded streets, on adtairable opportunity Wadohome Carrie (of Glyn's Bank), and the decido 1871 to 1881, an increase of 40th educational work of the Government which sum cases near the number actually and should be reserved for the purpose of in the year 1571. Thorn was thna, daring in every branch of education and confining attending saho, may be estimated at 3,893 prostosa then existing a special appro
priation Schools with 8,050 scholars, and a similar (with the exoption for the present of the unrolled in 1881, viz., 9,081. Deduoling
ona sixteenth of the public increase of 45 Schools with 3,300 scholars sphere of elementary education for which the number of children attending school, supplying a School Fund. It seems to me during the deade from 1881 to 1891. Departmental Schols are still reeded) to The population of the Oolony incranaad, giving Grants in Aid and general supervi-0.893, from the number of persons of school that some similar measure is needed in from 121,985 people in 1871, to 160,402 in sign to effectivo schools of al: grados that going age, viz., 22,293, there would be left Hongkong to provide for the fatura.
13,405 perena net accounted for. Of this onclude this list of the most prossing of our laking part in
1881 and to 224 214 in 1891, showing an require is, whilst continuing Departmental number some are educated by private tutors, prosat odneational needs, I beg to point outs with reference to 14 boys of school-going never failing supplies of literature oa the
Bod nearly double of that in the second places where voluntary effort will not, or and the remainder must be presumed to silver question may be mentioned the decade, viz, 61.412 scula ft in clout, cannot supply that public interests require, uneducated? These statistice, article to this month's Fortnightly by Mr therefore, that the ratio of ingresa in or only until sush Departmental Socondary the children of the resident civil populations segregating and aduoating juvenila offenders that the present impossibility of effectively refurcing to
whilst in prison, and the absence of power Clarcoal Deniali in the latest issue of years, has been lagging for babind that of vais efforts,
mush what I had expected, confirming my Blackwood's Magazine; and the pacophiet the rapidly increasing poptation of the
NATURE OF FAR SUUCATION GIVEN IN THE former annual calculations, viz., that informatory, constitutes not only a serious- Effingham Wilson & Co. this week. Mr PROGRESS DURING THE LAST THREE TRANS. by Mr H. J. Jennings, published by Colony.
Hongkong, as in England, about one half of educational defoc', but one that is likely As regards the 117 Schools with 7,07g the obidren of aahool-going age. actually to greato habitual criminals, Montagu is ono of the ablest of the bi-
Comparing the statistics of individual scholars under the supervision of the ander instruction is public or private Schools. But a careful saalyste of the disagree with his conclusions, they are always pat forward clearly and effactivaly. Education Department rese from 104 list, Portuguese, Indian or Chiuese extrad-above given number si 22,298 children of and scholars under the supervision of the 20 Schools gave to 2,879 scholars of Eng Be expressen the belief that the chief Schools with 7,107 scholves in the year tion on English education (combined with school-going age takes a account of the advantage of bi-metalliam wanid harus to 1889, to 112 Schools with 7170 scholars in clasical Chinese-tendhing in the case of 9 look boat population, in whose case the re- ting in silver which will niticnately have 10, and to 117 Schools with 7,678 scholars of these Schools with 1,379 scholars, mostly turns furnished only the number of children under 17 years of As we may safely little international value it bi-metallism behu about increase of scholars Chinese); 4 Schools gave to 184 Portagusso
amounted in the year 1868 to 284 scholate, children a European educatiu 1 children of 5 years und under. to those of 6 assamo that the proportion of bost-people's rocate the uss indifferently of geld and not re-established. Ho goes on to ad-
in the year 1989 to 349 scholies, 1899 Portuguese language; 3 Schools gave to 171. to 63 scholars and in 1891 to 502 scholars,
Chinese children a European education to 16 years, is about tim same as in the cas silver, valy gold to be valued at twenty The ananal rate of increase, anaually high in the Ohivene Inaguuge; and Su of the resident olvil population, viz., times the equal weight of silver (the setuu!
in the year 1889 and excoptionally low in Schools. gave to 4,444 Chinone child per cept., 1 find that Eere were, among the
Д cheaton Obica education in 10,927 boat-people's children under 17 Palinurus, Bastry, Kostroma, 20
the local Chine veruacalars (Panti (6,196 bays and 1,731 girls) as many as 7,601 Achilles, Chingwe, Mebourne, 28
or Haks). In other words, among 7,572 children (4,310 boys and 3,291 giring of Gleurde, Nor. i; Kalson, Thisbe, 8.
sebuluts under instruction in the year 1801 whol-going age (6 to 16 years). Hevos In this contention it seems to es tut kirefurring now to those 117. Shools, within Schools under the supervision of the have before as the startling feet that in The P. & 0.9.8. Sutlej, with the ENOLISH
1801 there were in the Colony sitogether MA of Oat. 21, left Singapore on
Montage ignores the fact that gold and 1,672 scholars, which were auder the super. Education Department, 12 93 per cent. ro- silver are commodities, just as tiu and cop-vision of the Education Departent in the ceived a purely English education, 24.49 20,599 ohildren who sught to have come Monday, the 14th instant, at 6 p.m., young girl who was watobing the procession or ruu, wand that the astaral forces of year 1891, there were as mun as 5,132 per cant received on English education under instraction, whilst the registers of all and may be expected hers an or aboutin Qunen's Road Cantral pasterday. Sanday, the 20th inst This pocket
Other supply and demand must inevitably out-scholars attending 81 Voluntary Gran combined with instruction in the Chiness the Schools under the Education Department
Aid Schoose where they received a Christian classics, 239 per cent received at lumen in the year 1891 and the returns of bringe repiles to letters despatched two masa had attempted to ateal the unklet weigh pay acidcial, zating fixed by hoy education, whist 2,940 scholab. attended tary European education Ita. the Porta- vaty Schools show za súrolment of no Let the pri anmber conference. but were failed. The accused was more in the day, we are convinced, to discuss bi- 36 Departmental Government Schoule - guese and 2.23 per cent, in the Chinese than 9,768 children leaving the Polies successful, bat in snatching the anklet he metallion, for the people of this country deiving a secular education. The secular Language and finally 57.01 per cent. recsir. School our of the calculation). In other severaly braised the girl's sukle. Captain old vainly refuse to tolerato mroh a
Government Schoola are all feo sebealsed a purely Chinese education. As all words, the saddening fact stares us in the with the exemption of two (Vioris College these schools were either sutiraly suppose Schools in the Colony (ce proved by the Tokio. 50.12 radical change in our currency system *s
ted face, thain spite of the existence of 215 Wl'ostock. Hastings, in addition to sentaneing the it involves, even if it could be proved that and Girls' Central School), the fea of which by the Government or aided on the accused to ninety days' imprisonment, the adoption of a be-ractallic ratio would are, however, below the average of similar basis of payment for results ascertained by Census) which are with the exception of Nagasaki..
Victoria College ordered ham to receive twelve siroken with parruazuutly rostore prosperity in the Lan- Voluntary Schools. The latter afer Chi-examination, it may be of interest to state
cashire textile trades.
the Education Do-Foochow.. a rattan on ontering: gaol and eighteen
seo in action free of charge but require the proportion of public funds daruted, in of every effort made by the dad, and in spits Shanghai.. 50.04-64 39 The, Mr Clarmont Daniel's remedy for English instruction school fees ranging the year 1891, to the support of those sopartment, and the Registrar General who may 20.96) strobes before dischargo A Chinede sol-may be set forth in his own wozde. Fa from one to three dollars a moith for each veral branches of education! For the pro- has always most cordially assisted (by means Anping 29.96 dier from Cauton, who had come down to says:It is proposed that the Govern scholar, with extra charges for certain motion of purely Eaglish education the of his Distriot Watebmen), to stimulate Swatow.... 30.00 The R. M. 8. Empress of Japan loit see the procession, complained of being re- the stock of gold ballion in the hands of
meat of India should coin say portion of special subjects. The secular Governinett Government paid in the year 1891 the school attendance, there were in 1891
Es many longkong 20.95 Schools having all their expenses provided susauf $6,185 for the promotion of as 20,141 children of school-going age in the Vict. Foak Vanositver on Nov. 14, fur Hongkonglierad of $5 by a hawker while looking on the Indian populations which may be by Government tru, as a rule, køtter house | English education combined with Chinese Colony who attend no school. Of a toist of Canton.... 29,{ via Yokohama, Kobe and Shanghai,
the uints for the purpose into and kuyu butterschool materials and a large iustenation S25,004; for the proaction of 15,748 boye of school-geing, aga only 6,607, | Hoihow... 90,00 brought t The O. &0. us, Gaelic, with mails, &io., loft at the provonatot in Queen's Road Central, coins identical with the 14. starling, of the and beter paid state than the religious Vooropean custico in the Furtaguse 952- Specs and at ended schol, (ris., Roho... 33.
Ban Francisco for this port via Yoto- Prisoner, who on a formor ocasion was realms; that the rapoo currency should be stary Schools. Nevertheless, the late language $1,255; for the promotion of 4,0ien 13-0) be ander dovernmeo: exper-Haiphong 23, 2
sentenced to twe gears' imprisonment at left allered on its present footing; und
are annually growing iu public favour la 1 European education in the Chinese Jan-1 Vielen und 1,708 in Private Schools). Manila.....20.84) BY the Supreme Court, was auniunced to nius skel, the new gold and Zambesi left Victoria, B.O., for Japan! months hard labour, For stealing a fow another at the mark togather for one Schools, whose salarice depend upon the Chinese education (in the Chinese language only 3,101, or 21.91 per cent., came under i
money should circulate
rate of the day aficioncy and results of their teaching, are only) $17,750. The English educat.on school-instraction (viz., 2,791 în schools couts from a boatian at Praya West, a full-alos, legal-tender coins, this rate to as a rule compelled tending to the pro-ary, trouda, in the higher clases vi sove in Private Schools). The oase of the boys Tokio
above referred to, though mainly element under the Education Department and 310 Wostook. by sait-interess to bu cook was sent to prison for forty-two days, effective manner possible, and set forth in
be ascertained in the most public and more painstaking in
grows of each individust scholar. The sub-Joon-adhoola, upon the subjects of is not bad, stainly no were than in Feng Hing, hawker, and Ho Cheung, Chi-a State actification as sidem as often joined Table whibits the comparativo defo-scuoudary education, as including not only Ireland, in neatly one half of the boys of Shanghai...
CONVALENT, K belopment of Yaigntory and Government | Drawing, Music, Latin, Algebra, Policial defaulters in the matter of school Amoy.
school-
-going age do attend Gohoo!. But the Foochow "nosa. coastabile, were charged with steal declared: as steh to be that at which Schools gings the starting of the Grant-n=( and Physical engraphy, but alas Bock-attendance are dearly the girla, and of this Anping....
may be
keeping Chemistry and Animal Physio-
Schoola (St. Joseph's point the Government has been aware all Swator... logy. Two legal ROUCATIONAL EXPENDITULE OF THE
College and Diocasu School) which, as long. Of the 7,001 children
to 16 yours) Hongkong 30.06 77 in the year 1891, for educational prapto local auds, have added to their pre-present hadir 200 or 300 coming under Macao. 59.07 79
stated in my lant Report, lately termed into of the boat population and of the purchased Vict. Peak The sum intal spunt by the Government, distinctly commercial schools, in response Servant girls (of the same aga), there are at Canton (872,983) suminted, after deducting the school fees ($12,024) paid into the
Hoihow Things are however not half as bad as Elaiphong. 29.96 71 Treasury, to $50,559. This sum is equal to 3.20 per cent of the total caveman of the
they look. It moet be understood that al-Bolinao.... 20.90 83 FEMALE EDUCATION,
though car local school-age is corroetly Mantin...... Colony and constitutes an increase of Though to a certain exwat still in a back-fixed, not at 5 to 13 years as to England, 0.8.James- 34,217 as compared with the expenditure
Berometur steady. Gradients vary wiɔde
DYNAMITERS IN PARIS. Freely alarios have been created in Paris by the dynamitere
LOCAL AND GENERAL
PASSED BOBZ Oanal,
improvement, more depovially if the flogg ing was followed up by deportation. This morning a coolie, the happy possessor of no
Indiv, në it has baudreds of milliom eter-
}
leea then three paros, containing, in the HOTWARD BOUND: --Ere, Oct. 11 Doug-aggrogute, i cants, was aleeping on the las, 18; Cathay, Electra, 21; Payang, top of a box outside the Mau Mo Femple, 25; Ulysses Bellona, 29; Darmstead, Benalder, Nov. 1; Qapark, Promethens, kan another Chinaman of the same Puria, &
social standing gently removed the 'filthy HOMEWARD BOUND -Strahlesen, Oct. 31
ners of the uacusacions eloberer. Aelation being 25 to 1). This appears to 1890, was therefore rather go in the ran
boa uoteswhat aukind out at the proas bi-year 1891. metallista who ballers in the ratio of 154 to 1, be: M- Montagu thinks the ratio could be
eventually altered to 154 to 1.
from Hongkong on Sept. 15. The 0.0. Co.'s a. e. Cosanic, with the AMERICAN MAIL of October 25, left Yokohama on Tuesday, the 18th instant, at daylight, and may be ex. pected here on or about Sunday, the 20th just. Tao P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamship City •j Rio de Janeiro, with muile ¿za., left San Francisco for this part, ris Yokohama on Nov. b.
han on Nov. 16.
The
and Hongkong on Nov. 16.
The s. 6. Plintshire left Singapore on Nov.
about Nov. 20.
14, and may be expected Life on of
friendly constable was handy, and the thief was Boat to prison for ninety | days. Another coolia was charged with
stealing
3 silver anklet from
or
Tie & Kutang, from dalentta anding a pore from the pocket of a silver
Buaite for this port, left Bingsporo an Nov. 16, and may he expected here on or about Nov. 23.
Tas P. & O. s. a. Shungkai left Bombay
for this port on Nov. 16.
UNIDA CROSSI-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1 .. Rymns, 18. 224 (Maidstone), 117;
19; Anthem, 1.
The Northern Pacific chartered & R. Zam-
Tur first concert for the season of the
farmer. The purse contained five centa This theft was committed in Queen's Road Central a little after noon waile the proces nion was going past. The first prisoner was sant to print for four months, while the constable was bound over in the sum of $25
zonment.
rupees
It
may
But it is late
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF GOVERNMENT SEDVOLS AND VOLENTALY SİHOOLS.
Aid Scheme of 197
GOVERNMENT..
of the preceding year. The principal items
10
gramma, one the subject of short-hand and the other the working of a type-writer.
קת
Instructing.
sge.
Years
wo
making regid strules in Hongkong to reach of children in this Colony do require. for want afate, female education to evidently but at 6 to 18 years, because the majority
Quotations. HONGKONG, Novembar 18, 1999,
Old
OPIUM-New Patna, asb... 585
Ola
saab
cash,
New Bouares, cash, 585 New Malwa credit, 620 Allowance, Catties, 2/5 Old Malwa, credit, 390/40 Allowance, Catties, 24 Persists, Oily, caah, Allowance, Qutties, Feralan, Paper tied 493 Allowance, Untlion, h
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
November 17.-AT 4 ́P.M..
wind.
Berometer rod
Temperature.
Humidity.
Duestion
Weather
Macao..... 29.
J.)
Bge observed arong scholars is actually 6
STOGESTIONS
November 18.
AT 10 AM.
30.00 72
W. DOBKACH, Director of the Observatory. Hongkong, Observatury, Nov. 18, 1892.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 32-degrees Fahren heit, and to the level ofthe sas in inches, southe and hundredth
Z. TEMPERATORE, in the shade, în degrees Fahrenholt.
humidity of air castrated with moisture bekug
3. Enzwert, in percentage of saturation, the
4. Dimorian or Who, la two pointe. xaba
6. FORCE OF WIRD, senording to Beaufort
Seal
6. STATE OF Waïrsen, & blue sky, a de
egally, rain, snow, chunder, visibility Lachel loads, drizzling sin, flag, a gloomy, A hai,lightning, overcast, p passing shawers.
dow (wet)
be legally converted into gala puyuxcats ud gold sabstituted for silver money, in payment of laxen, ment, these gold coins to be legal tender at the option of the party making the pay.
at the State rate of conversion for pay. meats die in silver amounting to 5,000 ward upwards, and the Government to take payment of any su in silver due Paala,
19. be of good behaviour for three months to gold without any minimum timit. Mr or in default to suffer six months impri-and that is about the only merit we can Daniell's panacea has the merit of novelty, see in it. It would clearly be impractic of the educational expenditure, incurred by normal condition. As to the proportion of proper educativa, at least 4 years at Chinese orato for N... winds. Weather-Cloudy ablo, for with a market valus aclunting the Government in the year 1891 are boys and girls ander instruction, one could and 6 years at English studies or 10 years warin and rather dry. (Isened at 10.66 beri sailed from Victoris, B.C., on Wednes→ SR Augustus Harris hpa muda a particularly make an elaborate calculus Schools $13.960, Victoria College $18,169, † equulty represented in the Sobools of a classical studies and the averaga
from day to day a aun would have to as follows-cautarin Aid to Voluntary sut expeos hitherto to see the twu sexes day, the 16th instant, for flungkong via fortunate commencement to his season of he changed a sovereign to seo many Departmental District Schools
Cotons like ours, where the mass of the peto 16 years, yet of the 20,111 children of $8,271, Japan.
sutama opera at Covent Garden. It was rapees be should receive for it, This fuspectorate of Schools $5,750, Gavita palation (the Chinese), whilst goterally apto 16 years of age net attending any school mada ubundantly evidoat wn the 10th ullo. would be about as absurd as fixing ment Central School for Girls $4,855, G. preciating the value of a scholarly education in 1894, a large number had been in Chi- that the musical public is still sensible to gold standard in India, where the verament fishclarships 32,269, sto. The in the case of their boys, are yet to a great nese Schools purviously for 2 to 3 years and the antique but unfaded ebarms of Gluck's messes of the population are paid total number of scholar educated in the extent sceptics as to the good that their then weet dato business life without fuish- Hongkong Sacking Concert Olab takas Orfeo, as well as to those, more reesat and abent id. day for sheir labour, Colony at the expenas or with the aid of daughters gan get by attending school, or, ing their education. Consequently we may, place in the Theatre Royal to-morrow. Hardly us any of the most a silver standard at once. blr Jen 7,672, the education of each sabolat est starehe za domestic slaves or children of local school-going age who, in highly-coloured, of Masugai's Cavalleria would be far preferable to adopt the Government, in the year 1891, being looking upon girls generally as destined by I think, safely say that of the 20,141 evening.
successful of last sasson's Genuss nights' ainga's pamphlet is written with a view the Government (after excluding cost of ages, dread the cafeanchising effects of 1991; attended a school at all, a large has the great theatre been more crowded; of dealing with the silver arisis in a brief two Gerernment Scholarships held in female education. Nevertheless tho uo-number, possibly and half, though they 101 Ar the Maglatracy to-day, bofere Captain portainly the season on seldom have been and intelligible way for the information England) $7.49 per scholar.
In the easing efforts made by the Government, must technically be classed with the Hastings, widow admitted having taru. Beth operas were received with experts, and the design has been carried cost
inaugurated with greater promise for the of those who are not City mener monetary saveral educational fistications the particularly through the Grant-i-did educated, have received sotae sort of educa thirty-two tuels of raw opium in her immense enthusiasm. When the curtain or sucosefully. There is nothing partition of each gebodar enrolled in 1821 to year the opportunities offered to the poor and are not abutely illiterate
Goveruttent of tag sdaca Babanie, to enlarge and improve from year tim, such as their parents think sufficient, possession yesterday, and was God $120, fell on the last act of Orite-somewhat cularly new in the pamphlet Mr Jen-was as follows in the Government ple to get a gratuitons' education (including with the option of three months' imprison Ravagli was recalled four tirace, and even the pros and cons of the matter without hired building) $20.13 per poholer, in the daughters, he had good effect with the Under these circumstances I think that, curtailed, it may be noted--Signorina Giulianiogo, horecer, deserves erodit for stating Central School for Girls (including rent of industrial needlework teaching for their ment. San Fat, boatman, was ined $16,then an embers of the Cho farb' was suggesting any trash remedy for acolodies) $16.38 per scholar, ist iho De.dies against ismalo education, are toŭ | Increasing in Hongkong at a greater ratio i Victoria Collage (not including cot Chiness who, with all their national preju- though there is indeed a danger of illiteracy the difficulties which undoubtedly exist.
It is rumoured that the United States parimental District Schools (including rent shrewd to reject advantages offered free of than the population, still the drastic Euro- Government will regard it as a set of of hired buildings) $6.19 per scholar, in pense. In 1861, when the Celsay was pean remedy of a compulsory attendance LRT Jenao, answerlag in the North hostility it threat Britain does not agree the Grant-in-Aid Schools $3.68 per schola ten years old and the pepulation amounted American Review the critics of her previous for itself end its dependencies to accept The latter Schools, however, or rather the 32,983 peuple, there were 219 scholars Beboel-Tax, Schach-Boarda,
law with its friational working-gear of Attendaice We understand that telegraphis informa-Osborne Morgan that her remarks on the cause quesos, & policy of retaliation will be spent feen their own private resource when the population bad risen to 119,321 losal gironestamoss. I am satisfied that he
artiste on London Society, Assures Mr silver at some arbitrary price, and that, Missionary Societies conducting them, under instruction in Public Schools, Committoes and Police Court prosecutions BAROMETER 30.05 tion lax be received here from Singapore girl of the nineteenth contury are the ro-resorted to. It is to be hoped, however, the year 1981, the sum of $51,444,1102 peuple, the attendance of the pablic Schools Raverament will suficiently dischargs ite whom 183 were boys and 25 girls. Lo 1861; is neither secessary or practicable under salt of her own observation, and not of that no feeling of this kind exists among the education of 5,182 scolare, or $10.02 to the affect that an extraordinary meeting any conjugal confdances. Lady Frances business toon and moderats politician in per scholar, receiving from the Gorart-on to 1,017 boya and 201 girls. In 1871, duties by giring to our oval school system, of shareholders in the Singapore Tourance Balfoor's reply to Lady Jenna has elisited the United States. This country is cer- meut as Grant-in-aid for 1891, (after de- the population numbering 124,198 sula which has slowly but healthily developed in Do Company was held there to-day. The reso- from the latter a long and frank disquisi tainly not reponsible for the envies asteri- ducting the bonus paid to the teachers) Lere were, as proved by the Census of 6th the shadow of the Coleby's exuberant lations for voluntarily winding up the she pids that the retirement of the Queen mans over-production of the white metal, actual expezar, (strially epoaking 32,97 girls under instraction. Two years after inancial means allow, with a view to pro
tion on the Queer's inlature apon. Souraty. can legislation which bas led to the quor- the same B10,933.03 or one third of their May, 1871, as many as 3,230 boys and 278 growth, as wide and as rapid
expansion Company, for the consideration of which I has done more to democratis: English not only in the United States, but in other por ceni.). The Grant-in-Aidiato operation, and from that time orwani tīk ide, as sova sa possible, additional adigel
wards (1873) the Utand-in-Aid Bchame Usme the meeting was called, have bean paried, society than any of the many paases which silver-producing countries. The Act pro- compared with the system of gromolatyproportion of girla to boys improved uneducated or imperfectly educated children, · thecommodation for about one half of our helped to
hout the changes to bring
ages of riding for perchases of 4,600,000 az, a education by means of The inilaanés of month had the effect of greatly stimulating Government Schoyla, goumenda tuself not rapidly, with tolerably steady regularity. In other words, what we have to sims at is
Departmentel quser's private
rongly to the country at large and en- that had been abandoned for sorge years above figures show, but by its being mors shewing the proportion of boys and giris children of socal-going age, say afteen Quiz-Inspector Methicson, at the Magia, dearing bar to the mass of her people, la were respiced, and so the apply has gane olastic, in adapting to work to the forging attending schla subject to the supervision thrusand scholars, ancer instruction ta much more potent among the masses, op increasing until it has become over-monds of the people, sad inore in touch of the Fraccation Department from 1973 to local schoals. But as we have provided af where the fooling to her is ons of deep and whelmingly in excese of the demand. Ub with their duasads. A Grant-in-Aid 1881. It will be observed that in 1891 present for hardly ten thousand of them, accountant, trading junk Kera Sun Yik, shivalrous sentiment, than it ie among the vinesly, than, she first step towards the solu Bobool for ionlance, cannot forco unser there were 3,791 girls under instruction in and as the cuber to be taken leto on-
thair ene
tion of the problem is to give up all artificial viceable subjects upon unwilling scholars the schools referred to. Of these 2,791 aideration increases from yeas with cruelly Il treating datilo at Kennedy rious acts of Soalety who tal
fram dihard in a more walted position measures for maintaining the price of as a Governmen: School do, nor can agiri, se many as 8,652 attended firant-in determined effort will have to be made in Temperature
year, Barometer .. Torn yesterday. He stated that the ostile than themselves, but whom they soo and gilver, whether by Trosaury paraua or Grant in-Aid School refuse to torn itself Aid Schools, whilst only 259 attended mediately to further the expansion af al-Bumidity. were being lowered into the water by aith whom they come in contact ocession by other means. Sash a policy would into a distinctly Commercial School when Government Schools. As a muiter of fast, mentary education in the most economia Direcijan of
ally only. It is obvious how little control probably for a time have the effect of still public needs demand it. Grant-in-Aid the extension of temale education in the and efficient way possible, zopo without sling and that the cattle had the Sovereign, as long as she abstains farther mducing the price of the white School takes up secondary education at the Colony in aluet otisly due to the Grant think has to be done therefore is, to swim ashore, a distants of 100 feat. from taking her recognised place in metal, but supply and demand waald be precise time, and to the exact extent, call in Sid system end to the effects of the ional in the first instance, to retreath expendi Weather
Society, can have over the haterogeneous placed users rational basis, and until that od for by the actual demand of the public, Minent which are vigorously pushing on fare in all Daper neutel Schools, so far sa mess of which it is now composed, and is done all the panaceas in the world will and I have no doubt.balover there can be no disloyalty in admitting fail to produce a permanent care. Stack that the Grent-in-Aid aystem of Hongkong and latterly striving algus to bring the efficiency, and secondly to make every education both in town and the villages, it can be done without impairing their what must now be indisputable. :
Bachanga
lju gapable of supplying all the educational girls the best population, in Yaumati, pasible effort to encourage yoluntary
with the altostive of forty-two days' insisted on. imprisonment, for having two fighting poles |
in his possession.
These resolations will, of course, require confirmation at a subsequent meeting.
tray to-day, charged Hou Wing Ming,
Captain Hastings imposed a Gue of 925,
with the alternative of six weeks' imprison, ment.
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the last thirty You Hite, while appealing | mining operations, and may properties only by its comparative cheapness, so the as will be seen from the subjoined Table to bring at least half of the number of
What
2. in festes, teathe and hundredths.
Temperature.
(Taken at Messrs Falioner & Co.'s Premises, Quo's Road;}
116,
Do
THERMOMETER-9
Do
12.M... 29.97
29.06
Do. (Wet balb) 9AM. TO
Do. Do.
Da Maximum
JEM TO
Do. Minimum over ulaht 7
Hovoxone, November 19, 186R,
HONGKONG REGISTER
ទ
duymart 10 Thi
20.90.
20.00 -29,90
75
76
72
Wind
167 TA
EST
Forca
3.
CV
UV
Rain
ના જોતા હોવાન
best upen air amperature on the 17th.....96. Inwest open wir temperature on the 17.10.
Hongkong, November 18, 1892.