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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
b.16 p.m.--Annual Meeting Seatholders And Subscribers of St. John's Catbo- dral at St. Paul's College.
General Memoranda. THURSDAY, January 20:—"-
5.15 p.m.-Y.M.C.A. Annual Meeting 8 p.m.-Dramatic Entertainment at St
Joseph's College. pam, Lecture at Union Church Liter.
Ary Club,
FRIDAY, January 27-
German Emperor's Birthday (1850). 11.45.m.-West Point. Buildging Co.
Meeting.
Noon-Land-intest. Co.-Meeting.- SATURDAY, January 28-
11.30 ..-China Provident Meeting. 9. p.m.-Boxing at City Hall. SUNDAY, January 29:--
Accension of King of Denmark, 1906)
Mossy, January 30:-
Chinese Now Year's Day. Bank Holiday. Tukuday, January 31:-
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The China Mail
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1911
RESTORING THE PUBLIC
PEACE.
THE condition of affairs in many of the inland districts of Kwantung anð. along the waterways of the delta has' for many years past been most deplor able from the point of view of law and order. Brigandage and piracy have run riot, only the most spasmodic attempt. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. being made to check the Lawlessness
LIMITED,
Capt. G. P. E. Hunt, who is in command of H. M. B. Nowens le, just serived in port, won the Distinguished Sorvisa Order for the part he took in the South African War. His wife is a daughter of the At Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, formerly Colonial Trosturer in Hongkong.
Fresh from the successful completion of
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1911.
gaste attention to all of them, and now tho PRIZE DISTRIBUTION AT.
maximum number has been red at forty. QUEEN'S COLLEGE,
It is also due to some extent to the on Governor and Insubordination.forcement of the ago limit During Inst yenrand the previous year extra class rooms His Excelloney Sir Frederick Lugard have been added to the school, and during kindly presented the prizes in emnection this last year throu now Englah, with Queen's College. This morning and have been added to the saff. pasters subsequently unveiled a number of portraits think that Queen's College should not besides presenting the Ioyal Humano as regards adequacy of the teaching staff comparo unfavourably with any other school. Society's model to Master Gibson for having to the nuubors of its students. This has galinatly saved the life of his sister some resulted in an increased cost pur
pupil from 831 at which it stood last year, to months ago. A
orur 834. That is n vory considerably in His Excellency was attended by Captain eroase, but I confidentis beliers it repro- P. M. Tayler, A.D.U., and Captain Simson, sents a real increase in the value of the
education which id (Props Our Own Correspondent.)
being afturtled to the Private Secretary: Amongst these prosent boys, and when the school, as I hope it will SHANGHAI, January 23. were Bishop Landor, Iliskop D. Pazzoni,next year, rotarna to its normal number of There a rioting in the British Mr J. J. Leiria, Consul General for tion por pupil will be reduced to what it
About 800, that figure--the cost of educa concession at Hankow yesterday, due to Portugal, Mr E. A Leving, Director of wis list gar, about. $30 to 832. The chango during the year the Chinese believing that the police Education; Hon Dr to Kai, Hon. Mrmocond important had killed a rickshaman.
B. Pollock, KC, Rear Admiralseen the endeavour to instituto special clisses in various subjects so that boy The British and German Volunteers Kawaabinin, and peranan staf; Brother who wishes to adapt any particular profos- ware called out.
Christian, Mr Sykes, Mr. and Mrs W. Dion, or who chooses to go to the university
and study any special branch of learning. Braidwood, the Misses Brawn, Fathe shall be able, while still ni Queen's Collinge Watson, Mr and Mrs W.Curven, Mr O. U to become more proficient in that specia Arculli, Mr R. C. Barlow, Supervisor of subject than be could do in the ordinary Schooln, Mr. Piercy, Mr Nairn, MA curriculum of the school. I no parents and indian will cor
cordially ap Morris, Rev. C. H. Hickling Mr Leapreciate and welcome this new departure, Jones, Mr Ho Kom. Tong, Miss desired to give a thoroughly sound and
aspecially in the matter of English, - It Massey, and numerous athers,
good education in the English language.. In this connection I am, rury, glad indeed - to hear from the Headmaster that there has been marked improvement during the past your. Finally, thera is one other point in recent developments to which I would like to allude. All those Ara in favour of sound and thorough education for boys o averse to
system of cramming for special examinations hard geeli in post-expelinin had-n-little-mingsvinge
The British gunboat Thistle and the German gunboat Jaguar landed detach
he enys, to introduce a more lenicuttaval dockyard at Simone Town, Southments of men and also machine guns,
Alrica, Sir John Jackson in travelling
estard and will visit Singapore next month. Hs at present-in India, and his proposed visit to Singapore is in the uature of a special excursion before return. ing home.
WITH MURDER..
system when the Province has serious ly made up its mind to amend ita ways Bat the people are not wholly to blame for the present state of things. His Excellency is fully aware that the slackness of officialdom is equally at fault and that the corrupt MAN AND WOMAN CHARGED practises of some yameas have really led to the development of crime and the manufacture of criminals De gradation awaits such officials in future, and eren worse punishment may follow.. An official who fails in his duty may expect no nerey from CHANG MING-K1.
This is the gist of the proclamation which is now occupying the minds of all the gossips of Cauton and on the whole it is very favourably received It is taken to be but the preliminary clearing of the ground for action, for the stamping out of brigandage and the suppression of piracy, evils of such long standing in Kwantung, can- not be accomplished in one day or by the mere issue of a Viceregal proclamation, no matter how sternly phrased may be its miniatory clauses.
"Story of a 'Ghastly Dock
Before the Chief Justice, Sir Francia:
Figgott, at the Criminal Sessions, at the Supreme Court this morning, Chao Lak and
Temale and femalo; were charged
with murder.
Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., appeared for the. Bon. Attamey General, instructed by Mr F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, and Mr G. U. Alabaster defended, instructed by Mr B. K. Holmes...
The following were eworn in as jurors--
w.&. Puccall, foreman F. F. Barrollo,
J. C. C. Neilson, CM. P. dos Remedios,
C. Woldringh, E. B. Shepherd, O. B. Wills
Mr Alabaster mid that Rforo prisoners ploaded he moved andersections 5 and 65 of the Criminal Procedurs Ordinance 9 of 1809 that the indictment be squasticd.
Criminal Procedure Act of 1851 which
which were fired at the rioters.
Ton natives were killed and many Wounded,
Several foreign residents, as well asailors, wote injured, the Thotai being severely hurt in attempting to stop the rioting.
The Viceroy of Wachang bas sent 2,000 native troops to the scene of the
Friots"
-- THE PLAGUE IN
MANCHURIA.
CHINA REQUESTS JAPANESE HELP.
(Independent News Agency's Serviss.
to the China Mail),
His Excellency mid--My Lord Bishop, Ladies and Gentlemen: Queen's College has held for a series of decades a position in the educational sphere both in China and in this Colony which I may describo as pre-eminent and perhaps unrivalled. We now kint many old Queen's Callego bo huid noballe positions both in China and whether the examination for the Oxford -
in this Colony, but- to-day tant position is local examination did not tend towards the challonged. We have Ecard from the head-systent of cramming, but as I have
adrendy said, they aro master that during the past year alone
Very useful means of comparin the standart of education Of some 42 boya have left the College to take the different schools in the Colony, up positions in various institutions in and also of comparing the results, a our schools with those in other Colonies. China; in the Posts and Telegraphs Co-Moreover, the subjects included in the logo, in the Tangshan Railway College, Oxford local crminations are for the and in the Shanghai Institute, and most part useful subjects, and the same. as those in which the boys have been there are growing up now educated during the year. In order to China a considerable number of schools, avoid this evil of cramming for an oxxiina- Toxro, January 23.
tho-head- and universities and institutes which tion you have just Koard from the ham
master that in futuro the The Chinese authorities in Manchuria are turning out brilliant scholars. The the Oxford local examination will begin in bare requested the Japanese Govern- situation is no less inarked in this Colony. September instead of being deferred until preparation for
went to recommend several medical We have here the Oxford local examine the following February or March as it har bean hitherto. This, I hope, will do RWAY experts to work in Chinese employ to ions which is valuable as being common to with any possibility of repid cramming for all the schools in the Colony, and also to
A special
examination In order nixo to help stamp out the plague. The re-schools outside the Colony, and we see that avoid the other evil to which I alluded there is perhaps more than one entieel hare earlier in my speech, that is to way, the quest will be complied with,
which obtained better results in the Oxford excessive attention to a for boys at the top of the class with perhaps some neglect local examination in proportion to its num of the others in the
class, and in order bera than Queen's College. And with this generally speaking to promotes
of marks which are required are extension of western education among standard tumorga; nil the pupila in tho cixsa, Chinese, Queen's College must look to for its laurels if it intends to preacrve Promotion from one class to another has been, mised, and will in future be still that place of pre-eminence which it has farther raised. Morcover, scholarships and
of ono single examination, but on the per year that I have presided at the speech day contage of the number of marks gained half held in past years. This, Sir, is the fourth prizes will be awarded not on the result
and the midsummer term examina- mination Al
Mr Hjain, Japanese Minister to Peking, returned to Kobe. yesterday.
His Lordship-What is the point? Mr. Alabaster-The point is that the indictment in this cass is the form of in- PORTUGAL'S PROSPECTS, But the Cantonese take the proclamu-dictment introduced in England by the tion as a sign that their new Viceroy is not in force in this Calony. The only FLEET TO BE REORGANISED is in eamest and as the spring forros we have in force hare by law. advances they confidently expect that are the common law forms and common (Renter's Service to the China Mail.) Law forms must describe the murder with
LANDON, January 23. detail and particularity.
the
he will redeem the promise of his Lordship I am afraid I don't quite It is reported from Lisbon that that Queen's College, and during those four bedded to those in the specializa
works by active deeds. Therefore follow you...
years. I have constantly thought that per-ton
they think that brighter days are! Mr abster-The point la that by the Foreign Minister in a speech stated bape Queen's College was apt to be a little direction of awarding, scholarships, and
the
Inw of the Colony and not by the law of that the Republic would be strength too conservative, and that it was apt to in store. Let us hope so; though to England the indictment must describe in ened as a result of recent strikes, which place as ita ambilien the constant increase
murder had one who has read many hundreds of detail the manner in which
been committed. official proclamations, especially at
Sir Henry Berkeley-It has not been the practice ever since I have been here the opening of new viceroyalties, there His Lordship said that he would reserve lingers at the back of the mind a fear the point.
St
Honry Berkeley-It is enrered by leat it be but one more folio added to subsection 2 of section 18 of 9 of 1889
which is quite clent. the heap of official waste paper Me A Inbieter Will your Lordship give
me leave to move if necessary
His Lordship-Tes
THE SIBERIAN MAIL.
The Post Olice notifies that in the event. of the Mail service on theSouth Manchurian Railway being interfered with on account of plague, Mails for Europa via Siberia will be forwarded via Vindivostock.
In opening the case, "Sir Fleury Berkeley
said
"All this, I hope, will tend in the prizes and promotion to different classes, to boys who have a sound, education, and not merely to boys who have been succesul in its numbers and the signal success in a particular, examination of which they of a few of its students. An anibition have been crammed, I have detained you which is thus limited is in my opinion some time on these general subjects of Rynonymn for decadence. A large at ducation and I generally take advantego
on this occasion to any a
few words regard tendanes in the school does not guaranteeing education in the Colony, and I have that the majority of the scholars have left myself but little time to speak of a sound and thorough education, and the the past year's working at Queen's College. signal successos of a few pupils is nla no
At the outset, I must alude with very guarantee that the large majority have that great pret to that set of indiscipline which compelled us to expel 21 boye from sound education which every boy in the this school, and to deny to then the psi- school should have. On the contrary, it is vilege of education at any school in this rather an indication that the majority have is the first occasion such a thing has hap Colony for the next twelve months. This
You have, boy
ended, by increasing matual confidence between the workers and the authorities The rumours of foreign interven tion were unfounded.
British and American firma, the Minister said, had made proposals which would enable Portugal to carry out a scheme for reorganisation of that prisoners wore charged with her fleet without sacrifice the mardar of woman at No. 98, Ho Le Chum in Kowloon City, some time GERMAN PRINCE'S TOUR been neglected for the faw. Now, I am pened at Queen's College, and any between the 17th sad 18th November The woman was married to a man named Fang Kwai who lived in Hongkong, he being the licenso of boarding house here. He would tell them that he last visited his wife in Kowloon City on November 18. Sho routed the upper floor.
Suggested Abandonment of the two prisoners rented the
Paking Visit e ground floor from the same woman who sles kept some pigs there which she used to go and foed. (Reuter's Service to the China Max.) og educational establishments either ly, but I can tell you I would woone every night and morning. The dasd wo
in this Colony or in South China,First eco Cueen's College closed entirely than min used the same kitchen us prisoners for
LONDON, January 23.
tolerate any act of of all wo
indiscipline if it was. Inust get away from ropested again. (Applause); Mr Ler Cha their meal. The landlady, last saw the
Berlin newspapers are publishing re- the fetish of number. Wo bave heard Pak the ether day addressed some very dead woman alive on the 17th of November and at the time prisoners were with her parts that the outbreak of plugue in from the headmaster fust now that excelent advice to the scholars of the Ellis Kadoorie School on the subject of discipline with their child, and as far as tho
and protect the lawahiding people. THE LATE ADMIRAL GUHLER. of the hoose fra Hokle woman while It was therefore with pleasure we
Children's Department noted at the time H.E. CRANG MING-
A
SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
OF
CHILDRENS'. Coats and Millinery,
LARGE VARIETY
OF
KI was passing through Hongkong when on his way to take over the seals of office in Canton ns Viceroy,
Remains to be Transferred tú Germany.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
سمحت
*WILL THE PLAGUE AFFECT PLANS ?
determined that with the expert assistance trust it will be the
of the Director of Education and of the every opportunity of representing any jus headmaster and the hard-workingstaff of the and proper gnorance that you have to the
to the Director headmaster, to
of Education, school, we shall introduce such alterations and to myself,
you may rest Masured: na shall euable it to maintain the place not only sustice,
sympathetic treat meat. This particular act of insubordma which it justly claims as its own as foremostion was dealt with comparatively lenient-
and such improvements in Queen's Collego that if it je ace it will rooÍVA:
that he referred to the subject. He of the lake Rear Admiral Gühler will be lady could see they appeared to be on China will compel the German Grown the average attendance which used in past and good maners, nad 1 commend them to
At the wish of the relations the remains
then dropped a hint that he intended transferred to Germany, To-day at noon friendly terma At- & clock the following Prince to abandon bis visit to Peking yours to be considerably in excons of 100 taking drastic steps to clean out the the coffin lay in state at the German day the landlady went to feed her pigs and and to return in South America or the
Consulate, milors from S.ALS. Luche on pushing open the street door han German colonies in Africa. Augend stables he had inherited from forming a guard of honour.
decessed, fring in s
pook of blood. She The funeral was quite dend Lying near her was a It is, however, pointed out in official his predecessors. Naturally he found procession will leave the German Consulate chopper and the doctor would tell them his hands full on reaching the City
of Rams, but it was very quickly seen that he was a runn determined to back up his words by action. Having looked into the education question in the Province and taken steps to remedy the abuses which have-`ać-
Children's Jerseysunulated during the last two years
IN ALL SIZES AND COLOURS.
on Tuesday afternoon at 2:20p.m. that it could have caused the wounds on quarters in Bern that this is pure will be restored to what should be its and his respect for good order and discipline.
the Cathedral the procomion will start for the Naval Dock Yard when the remains will be transferred by 5.M.9. Tingtan to the German steator
NEWS OF THE DAY.:
in regard to what may be called the The Legislature of Malta has adopted "modern side, he next called a the metric system. Malta is than the first meeting of officials to enquire into portion of the Empire to adopt the avatar
THE AMERICAN-
you bonio two or three years ago regarding
the cultivation of a public school art de
hundred boys for an act of indiscipline
to hear it, and I hope that the top boys of corps has borne fruit, and I am delighted this talk will, not tolerates any bad form
your notice, I appeal to you, boys of has fallen to 642. That is considerably less Quem's College, that you should set an than the school can accommodate and for eximple to all the other schools in this Colony and elsewhere on theso uitters, and which the staff of the school is adequate, that the boy of Queen's College shall be and I hope that during the coming year it recognised by his good annnars, his courtesy whorever he is. The Dadctor of Education proceeding to St. John's Cathedral where the body. The two primers and the child journalistic guess work The Prince, normal number, about 800 to 850. It is tells us that the advice which I offered to as funeral service will take place. From had vanished taking with them a quantity it is added, is engaged on a tour of due in part to the expulsion of nuly one
of property belonging to the recessed. The landlady reported the matter to the Asia and not of the world, and even police and the body was moved to the mortuary where it was identified by the if some deviation in the route become to which I shall allude later, but it is due husband. There was a wound on the bead necessary the Trans-Siberian route can in a much greater degree to the reduction
in the size of the classes. Formerly, and bed manners in the school, and in the and a fearful grah extending right across be reached via Vladivostock. the throat. No trace of prisoners could be
as many as sixty boys were under one coming year, when the silver button is found until Decoishor 15 what they wore
naster, who could not pomilly give me instituted for Queen's College of which the discovered at Ping Chow Island near Lantio. In the house in which they were staying were some of the clothing CANADIAN AGREEMENT, belonging to decossed while on the male Prisoner wero found two "pawn tickets with regard to deceased's property which REDUCED CUSTOMS DUTIES. had been pawood, since the death of the woman. The ferido prisoner was also (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
The wearing a pair of deceased's shoes,
LONDO, January 22.- Brat prisoner bad made a long statement in defenes, which was due of the mont A message from Washington states. extraordinary that had ever been made by that the agreement arrived at by the anyone under similir miroumstances. He stated that during the night a man came American-Canadian Reciprocity Com and knocked at the door and had a conmissioners will result in a substantial versation with deceased to the effect that
raduction in Customs duties both on he had came to kill her husband for having stolen s child or some solation but not the natural and manufactured products finding the husband at home be we going to kill her, whereupon he proceeded to kill of both countries. decossed with a knife. The male prisodior did not go to her assistance and having asked the assaliant why he had done tho act he got the reply that he was to say nothing about it but take her property and go away. If anybody mid soything about
Wm. Powell, Ld., this financial resources of the Viceroy The aik ez 0, 5, K., Panama alty. We have already commented Muru which left Hongkong on the 13th on that meeting and pointed out how ulting was delivered in New York on the hopeful of better things are the indic 13th inst.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS
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COOL THE GOLDEN ROSE
A Fantastic Coloured: Picture, one of.
Patha Frare's best productions
THURSDAY, January 28
Bennet performance for MUS THELMA WOOD,
Grand Success' of",
DOLLY SWIFT
ations of the opening days of the new Four Blus Funnel" steumers, the regime which it afforded. Then for a Achilles, Antenor, Protealings and moment the new Viceroy turned his Balleinphon arrived in post yestariny, the attention to the nefarious ways of first three being Homeward bound and the Yamen- rummers and other official last for the Pacific. The total gross tonnage underlings and instituted a series of represents over 30,000 tons. reforms which the people, in Canton
-In conncution with the entertainment already any are producing good results, which is to be given at St Jonoph's College
The stage was by this time cleared f'da Tüstenday tight the time of commence the murder he was to my that the salon EAUER NOT EXEMPT.
for the question of brigandnge to be ment has been changed from 8 o'clock to taken up. With charcteristic. The excitestraf the Catholic thoroughness the Viceroy hus enquired
Union will to in attradance.
Eridince was called
TAXING UNEARNED INCREMENTS.
told him to take the property (Router
After retirement the jury returned i
verdict of guilty against the male prisoner and not guilty against the famil
Services to the China Mail)
LONDON, January 21.
The Reichstag Fin the debate on the into the matter and with the inform
The latter was discharged and the mala Unearned Increment Bill rejected an With costomy enterprise, Mee prisoner R Hentenced to death by big amendment of the Consgatives exclud- ation airedy to hand, has issued a Chenog took a large number of snapshots Lordship in the aunt manner, the received very stern proclamation He begins of the events connected with the departure the sentence nimated, ting, the reigning princes, including with an allusion to the great lawless of Sir Henry and lady May. We have Mr Alabaster moved for stay of the Kaiser, from the tax
received nine admirable photos taken Judgrant from 'Abed as the com The tax receipts will be devoted to
Toninhiggars fance, and the point is military purpuser.
MU SADIE MELROSE and news now prevailing wil the spirit of ostida the ley Tail, at Blais Fior and
Mr DENNIS OKANDY linsecurity of life and property which from a 1xuscada, the harficure
mencement
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