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in democratio communities, where the suffrage is as wide as the educational scheme. We can thera- fore wipe that out for Hongkong, and Jadis, and all such places where policy objects to a'native "swamping"
pot to tako that expression amongst his luggage. If you like you may tell an Australian with impunity that his forebears all wore shackles bat, if you want to keep friends with him, don't call his country a Colony
or
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
Onn fatal case of small pox and another of plague, both Chinese, were | notified yesterday.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1922.
LATE MR. C. F. MASON.
SYMPATHETIC REFERENCES IN COURT.
Sympathetic references to the death matter of fact the anniversary arrived by the ga. "Golden State" of the late Mr. C. Farsbrother Mason, were the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. V. D. partner in the legal firm of Messrs. Parr.
F. X. D'Almada and Masou, wers made in the Supreme Court this mort-
of elections. Clearly, our educational its people Colobials. Для D Among the methods, aiming at some different end, should not to modelled on tho
a Home: For a different end we need different means.
sorrows.
passengers who
Mr. J. W. Dando, traveller for
un
of the day opon which each of the Statca ceased to be a "Colony" is kept up as a public holiday, and Happiness sa an end of education though a Governor General and six Information has been received has been taken too much for granted. State Governor are still sent out that the British War Memorial las If that was the and aimed at, we from the Old Country none of them
now been shipped to Bangkok from sbould have considered it is the light has actually any more to do with Home. of psychology before we committed ruuning the show than a private ourselves to such large expenditure. citizen in Hongkong has at present to For while education does augment do with the administration of this Me srs. Robinson & Co., Ltd., Singa
Amongst the happiness of the educated, it also Colony.
the mast pore, has died at the Taiping General and pari passu augments their un recent
included ** planks**
in Hospital. happiness. la plain words, with the Australian Labour Party's culture and without, the balance of fighting platform were these:--"Coin-
Siam is converting a number of pleasure and paia emains more or plete Australian self-government military aircraft for use by the civil lese equal and so far as this end i | as a British community. No Imerica in order to develop survey concerned, we have merely wasted so perial Federation. Unlimited powers work and posts in the interior. much trouble, labour, expense, and for the Commonwealth Parliament. time. Education broadens life, Abolition of State Governors," There Accidentally falling into the hold widens its interests. True. It also in a growing agitation against the increases ite anxieties and fears and retention of State Governors who of the 8.8, "Simildar" while
coolie If it swells the joy in have long been felt to be a useless loading cargo yesterday, a beauty, it swells the anguish can ed extravagante but otherwise there is received injuries to bis head which | by greater awareness of ugliness.
no need to fear that the tie which had to be treated at hospital. Do pot forget that advocates of binds Australia to the motherland, education may advance other "enda," though it is chifly a sentimental one, and that this sigument, confined to will not be strong enough to with three, is in no way final. It is a ten-stand the attempts which are cun tative contribution toward a clearer stantly being made by Labour ex-inflicting a wound on the other's left understanding of what we really want. tremista to weaken it. So far as it has led us, it leaves Lord Inchcape as the only practical, com- monsensible commentator on the field. If the end of education be economic usefulness-not to the P. & O. share bolders, a maliciously suggested in America via Commercial Pacific Cable the quotation, but to our economic society-then the means need not be stretched to overlay the cad. No
Tuesday's Sanitary Board meet-acut in his head. more candles should be lighted than ing receives the report on the vaccion- the game is worth. Before we "jumption campaign. on" Lord Inchcape as an outrageouis Philistine, a macchiaveliao espioiter
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Cable
with
is restored.
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Communication
اسيه
THE HOUR OF THE APERITIF.
Both well dressed, well groomed, well fed, they stood in the lee of a pillar outside Powell's, between the hours of eleven and poop. Business
men, but evidently not busy.
"But listen," said the one whose
ing. A large gathering representative neck bulges over a shiny collar like of both branches of the legal profession the stalk end of a capsicum pod. and headed by the Attorney General" There's been far too much talk (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp K.C.) was about this strike by people who don't present. Tho Chief Justice (Bir know what they are talking about. William Roes Davies) was on the Lad had the management of Bench with the Puiane Judge (Mr.it I'd Lav stopped it in four and twenty hours. Yes, sir, it wouldn't Justice Gompertz).
last more than a day with me."
The other one, idly watching the people climbing on a tram at the
Here he stepped a little back to let
The Chief Justice said. Mr. Attorney and gentlemen of the solicitors' branch. The Reaper has been active in the ranks of our profussion. A few days King Edward corner, made a noise ago we assembled to pay homage to that might have weant interest and the memory of an old leader of the desire for further information, bar. To-day we have to chronichafthough he did not turn his head. It the death of a young and active was so interpreted.
I would have collared all the rice member of the solicitor's branch who has been taken in the prime of life. godowns in the Colony. Requisitioned Mr. Farebrother Mason had practised the entire tice supply, and issued here for a number of years and he ration tickets to firms. commanded the full respect o: the profession and of the community as a
string of coolies pase. They were carrying bricks. Each man practitioner of strict integrity and great honesty of purpose. carried fifty-20 at each end bad other distinguished claims of his pole. There were five of On the call of his country he respond-them. All Give kept their faces toward Russing into tree while ed spiend dly and went forward to the ground. As they passed cloen by attempting to evade arrest by the endure the hardships of the battle one could hear them pant. forest guards for cutting (overtruent field and these, aggravated by the other one idly watched them tolter
Chinese was yesterday deadly fumes of gas, were responsible wp the lane towards Queen's Road. trece. A
To firms whose staffs continued admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital for bia early death. His country, for where several stitches were put into his gallantry, awarded him the Miliat work No work, no chow. That tary Cross and we, his friends and would soon have fetched them to co-workers here revere his memory their senses. These coal roolies
Two Chinese quarrelled in Tak Tun Chung village yesterday. One was alleged to have used a dagger,
shoulder and cuts on the nose. The alleged assailant was arrested.
A
Be
The
One case of diphtheria (fatal) and ding a funeral yesterday her flat was and his family we tender our most animation of one struck with an idea.
Chinese.
of his fellows, let us first be sure what one of small pox (not fatal) were it is we want. He knows what he reported on Friday.
Both were wants. It is very clear that this cannot be said of all self-constituted champions of education. Education is a means to some end.
Feast of Lanterns.
The London and China Expresa What end and the London and China Telegraph have amalgamated and are now the China Express und Telegraph.
China's age old love of festival, still as strong a feature of the national life as ever, find: happy expression in numerous feasts, many of which have been faithfully observed these two thousand years. Saturday saw the celebration of one fully that old. the Shang Yuan-chieh, or "Feast of
A year ago the Happy Valley tying expedition ended in Aviator Lim crashing, himself escaping burt but his machine suffering severely.
The transfer books of the Bank of East Asia Ltd., will be closed from Monday, February 20 to Saturday,
While a Chinese woman living at No. 42, Wyndham Street was atten- entered by the front door which was inadvertently left open. Jewellery clothing and money to the total value of $425 were stolen,
Having fallen from a gate which he had climbed to escape from the foskis of the Kung On Poultry store at West Point, where he was caught in the act of stealing poultry, a Chinese was yesterday removed to the hospital for treatment of injuries to
his head.
The Chuo reports that it has been decided that the new detached re- sidence of H.I.H. Prince Kanin at
Lanterns," which ranks in importance March 4, both days inclusive. The Odawara will be placed at the service next to the New Year itself, which annual meeting takes place on the of the Prince of Wales. During his Royal Highness's stay there a special run betwear Court train will be
indeed, it really brings to a close. latter date at 3.30 p.m. Originally starting as a ceremonial worship in the Temple of the First Cause during the Han Dynasty, it was not until some eight hundred
FUNERAL.
years later that the feast took its Einstein, the well-known exponent of Kwangtung has approved that at Happy Valley on Saturday after!
Odawara and Tokyo. According to the Kukemin in-
The Educatical Commission of
$300,000 be spent on the Kwangtung Higher Normal College, including new $50,000 on construction of buildings. The College will also par- chase additional laboratory apparatus to the amount of $10,000.
formation has been received in Tokyo to the effect that Professor the theory of relativity, will visit Japan in the middle of August.
present form with lanterns as the main display. Covering a period of six days, the festival reaches its elimax on the 15th of the lunar month,
Major L. Cassel sailed by the but the refulgent beauty of its myriad Tenyo Maru" on Saturday on boli lanterns is usually dimmed by the day leave under medical advice. He glory of a full moon. Not only does proceeds to California first and may every house in the land flaunt its probably go to England later, return- lustrous emblem of cheer, but counting here at the end of the year. lese paper lanteras of every colour and desigo go bobbing along the crowded Among the passengers who streets borne high in picturesque arrived by the "Golden State" from procession with the usual grotesque Shanghai were Mrs. C. M. Wentworth, dragon swaying and writhing roost Mr. J. H. Blackstone, Lieut, and Mrs. sider why such a remark should have fearsomely in their lambent light. T. N. Stork, Mr. D. H. Wythe, Mr aroused so much indignation. A Music and crackers dominate the Tom Gunn, Mrs. D. E. Douty.
"Since general clamour. According to one TURNBULL.- Jan. 4, at Ipswich, sample comment on it says:
to Pressor and Mrs. H. Wit is the chief purpose in life of the authority, the candle-ends of the working class to be economically illuminated monstera are cagerly Tucobull, St. Andrewe, son.
useful to their masters, why should sought by childless women. The feast meney he squandered on pampering anyway is one of the pret iest and them with vain luxuries? The happiest in the Chinese calendar. dockers in the service of the P. & 0. manage very well with a somewhat
Ice jam Yellow River. Dykes restricted education, and it is satis. factory to know that (partly, may be, break. Land reflooded. Zero weather.
Owing to the strike the E. and A. as a result of this, and partly owing People driven to housetaps. Ice Ten- Co's B.. Eastern" item Australia to their wages having been reduced ders rescue extremely difficult. Un will omit Hongkong and her Hongkong from 16s. to 149. with a further able secure sufficient workere." This
passengers are being transhipped at reduction of 1s. coming in January) telegram received from Shantung by Manila to the s.s. Keystone State" they have helped to earn a dividend the China International Famine Relief dat to arrive here Thursday morning, for Lord Inchcape and his shareholders Commission tells its own tragic tale. the 10th instant. of 12 per cot, besides adding "China's Borow" has broken looso £500,000 to the insurance fund again.
DEATH.
CHEETHAM. ---Jan. 6. at Northwood
Vicarage, Hanley, the Robert Cheetham, aged 71.
Rev.
The China Mail.
"TRUTH, CUSTOR,
PUBLIO SERVICE"
HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEB 13, 1992.
WHAT'S THE USE OF EDUCATION?
It is to be supposed that the claim
of our contributor "Adversarius" on
"China's Sorrow."
Once mora this great
Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Cyril D. V. Cary Barnard, 0.3.0., D.8.o., Wiltshire Regiment, has been given the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel whilst comman ding a group à adquarters of the Tank Corps.
noo.
as a gallant and courteous English "What about Repulse Bay to- gentleman. To his father, mother night?" asked the other, with the
"Not me," said the talker. "I'm respectful sympathy.
The Puiene Judge: I very res-fed up with jazz dinners. I'm for pectfully concur in the words that a quiet snack in the Grill, and to have fallen from the Chief Justice. bye-bye early. Very strenuous days
Munt The Attorney General said that the these.
taka care of what d'you think members of the Bar desired to as oneself. But ciate themselves with what the Chief of
my idea? Soon kanck the Justice had said and Mr. M. J. D. Bolshevistic nonsense out of these Stephens voiced the sympathy of the pampered coolies' heads, what?
"Oh, I don't know," murmured the Colony's solicitors. Mr. Stephens said
"That pumpered is cx- that the late Mr. Mason's cheary weary one. manner left the impression of a genial actly the right word, I mean," he disposition and he thought that the added. He was watching five coolies Military Croes awarded him for bringing a heavily laden handcart gallantry must have been well earned. from the direction of the Post Office. Three hauled on ropes, their knees beat, their bodies almost horizontal, like runners
crouching for the atart of a race. The other two The funeral of the late Mr. Charles pushed and heaved bebind. The Farebrother Mason, M.C., whose death Indian policeman had signalled to occurred at the French Hospital, them with en imperious gesture Causeway Bay on Friday night, took to hasten their progress, and they place at the Roman Catholic Cemetery were obeying. They were sweating. "Oh, you haven't known them as long as I have. I tell you I know. Why, I remember the time when they were very satisfed on twenty cents a day, and thrived on it."
murmured the **So,'
other The Rt. Rev. Bishup Pozzoni con- dacted the burial service at the grave- politely, his eyes vaguely resting on side, assisted by the Rev. Fr. Noval the contour covered by his friend's and the Rev. Fr. Breton of the Spanish rather natty waistcoat, that lacked fresh from Dominican Procuration. The service as if it had come was choral and was sung by the the hands of Mackintosh, and Cathedral choir.
probably did. "Well, it is about Round at Mr. F. X. d'Almada, the deceased's time for my usual. partner, was the chiel moumer, and Bessie's, you know. You come ?" those present at the gravesidu "I'm very busy, but (looking at included:-Chief Justice (Sir William his gold watch) I may as well.” Rees Davies, K.C.), the Puisne Judge They walked along towards the (Mr. Justice Gompertz), the Attorney Hongkong Hotel. -A Chinese' was walking in Tung General (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, A Chinese woman in rage, carrying San Lane about 8 o'clock last night KC.), the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, a very small baby, possibly a striker's when he was accosted by five men KC, Mr. J. R. Wood, Mr. Eldon wife, as she looked somehow different who said they were detectives and Potter, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Mr. H. A. from a professional beggar, held up suspected him of being there for the Nisbet, Mr. R. E. Belilios, Mr. C. E. the child beseechingly, and got partly purpose of taking part in a fight. As H. Beavis, Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Mr. into the path of the oncoming they wanted to search him for daggers, E. M. Hazeland, Mr. G. K. Hall waistcoat. he submitted. The men went through Bratton, Mr. C. A. Hooper, Mr. Its owner raised his arm, as if to his pockets and stole from a purse in Bulmer Johnson, Mr. H. L. Dennys, strike her. his girdle $15 in cotes.
Mr. E. Davidson, Mr. A. R. Lowe, "Get out.” he growled.
The uniformed pages made way Major Law, Mr. W. Logan, Mr. J. Scholars returning to the C. I. M. Bell Irving, Mr. W. B. Hind, Mr. H. for them as they entered the hotel. School at Chefeo by the "Tenyo C. Macnamara, Mr. F. W. Stapleton, Maru" for Shanghai on Saturday Mr. R. E. Webster, Mr. C. H. Lyson, after some delay here owing to the Mr. R. Hancock, Mr. F. C. Vaux, Mr. seamen's strike were Miss. Winifred A. el Arculli, Mr. C. A. S. Russ, Mr. J. D. F. Mulder, Madame M.
Mr. Albert Gibson, who died in his 70th year at Cheltenham on Chistmas Day, practised as a solicitor for a year at Yokohame, but in 1876 he started coaching for the Law Society's examinations, and quickly became one of the foremost low coaches of his day.
There was a large attendance includ- ing most of the deceased's colleagues of the legal profes-ion.
At the Police Recreat on Club on M. Andation (Canton), Misa Margaret A. E. Hall, Mr. J. M. Hall, Mr. W. L. Flint, Major and Mrs. C. A. and carrying forward £100,000 to river rising in lofty Tibet and flowing Saturday evening, a very pleasant Joffray (Wuchow), Miss Mildred Weaser, Mr. J. Witchell and many Law, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter, the next accounts. It is to 1,700 miles to the sea has proved ceremony was performed when Oldfield (Luchow), Miss Josephine others. be gathered from the remainder of his itself the "Ungovernable" and has Company Sergeant Major Pearson, Conningtam (Keilia), Andrew comments that the writer of that set at nought the efforts (costing R.E., an old interport footballer Hazeland, Gordon Burnett, and ing bitter anrcasm conceives that the pura mething like $750,000 a year) to and member of the Folice team, was Arthur Smith (Hongkong) and Billie pose of education is the enlargement confine its destructive waters within
set upon a blackwood silver-mounted of happiness rather than economic its dykes. It was in 1851 that this Presented with d silver ton and coffee Miller (Wuchow).
"Scourge of the sons of Han," which
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Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Apoar, Mr. Wreaths, were sent by the follow and Mrs. R. Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. O. Witchell, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. W. Father and Mother," Wilfred Rosser, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McCann, and Sybil," "Phyllis and Goven," Mr. Mr. and Mrs. H. Underwood, Messre. and Mrs. F. X. d'Almada e Castro, Sir J. Smith, H. 8. Hall, H. A. Lammert,.
The death took place on Jan. 8 William Rees Davies, Mr. Justice G. P. Lammert, L. E. Lammert,
of Sir William Matthews, K.C.M.G., at Gompertz, The Incorporated Law A. W. Van Andel, F. E. Nash, Frank
Saturday, that he is the only person who really understands education; neefulness. Is he right, and was Lord has co (Luius countiuse lives and tray, as a wedding gift. was an example of his facetious im Inchcape wrong? This is not a padeace, otherwise he would surely matter for impulsive conclusions, inestimable damago burst its dykes Fresh from its great success at his residence. Hampstead, at the age Society of Hongkong, Offcorn of the Smyth, J. Scott Harston, H. C. Mac- have offered us some of his wealth of Towards a reasoned conclusion we now est. Kaifeng and began the costly the Coronet Thentro, The Soul of of 78, Sir William owed his cnineering Royal Artillery (Hongkong). Officers nsmara, Percy Smith, C. H. Beavie, Mens to support the bosst. Just now have the promiss thaiducation is not vagaries which ended two years later Youth," a delightful Realart fosinequalities partly to heredity, as his of the Royal Artillery (Kowloon), G, G. N. Tinson, G. Morton we need all the useful ideas on the an end in itself, but a means to some in it fading a new outlet to the sea spily named, comes to the Kowloon father was a civil engin er in practice Officers of the 2/22nd Punjabis, Smith, F. S. Thomson H.A. subject that may be available end. This is distinct gain.
hundreds of miles from its prosont Theatre the evening. As a picture at Penzance. Many times he traversed Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird and offlers of Nisbet, C. D. Melbourne, Ű. II. W. Attention has been focussed on it at Many Chinese scom to regard it mouth. Another great dyke burst spec ally suitable for children, it will the Far Boot. His Gorks may be the Hongkong Defence Corps, the Kew, D. J. Lewis, A. H. Crew, O Home by the proposed sweeping as a good and in itself, and these in 1887 caused loods which drowned be screened also at a matinee this soon in the harbours of Gibraltar, Machine-gun Company (H.K.V.D.) Hastings, W. E. L. Shenton, L. A. Supreme Harvey, W. Logan, R. B. A. Webster, "economie
of the Gotides Comte Europeans who talk all, it or handillion people. The afternoon Tomorrow night the Malta, Cyprus, Ceylon, Penang, the Bailiffs of the mittos audit is not it all unlikely were so. If it is but up tells its own story: the middle mainland kinema holds a special fancy Singapore and Hongkong. He was Court, Mesum Johnson, Stokes R D. Balilios, F. A. Maatani, J. W that the line taken at Home may means to an end, wo should first de ond lower banks of the Hwang, bo dresy danes in place of the usual made a C. M. G. 1901 and advanced and Master, Messrs Deacon, Franks O, Edgoumbe, G. G. Ed.
haye taw mities, the mouth region cabaret dance.
to K. C. M. G. in 1900 and in the Looker, Deacon and Harston warde, G. B. Layton, D, L. W influence the attitude of our local | cide whist and we are aiming at, and sakkee
following year was electo Pinsident Merere. Wilkinson and Grist, Messrs. Williams, L. T. Townsend, P. M. government. Of particular interest then consider how conducive to it dus none at all That Cblus still has
Bingham and Matthews, Mesare, Hodgson, W. L. Weaser, E. Mi hose- on here is the Home outory against operations may or may not because to dread the strength of this. It is such a rare syout in China of the Inputation f Civil Engineers.
Leo and Rios, Mesdr H. Ruttonjee land, M. S. Sassoon. T. H. G. Bray, shutterance by the Chairman of the present two ends have been named, petica giant within her doum, the for offelals to get their wages that
Bon the stall, of Mr. Leo field, . B. Read, L. C. Parken Reca, teléktám quoted at the opening of Router found a rebent payment P. & O. Company. Lord Inchcape applies and economic usefuln
Chim nóta la further proof Whuh, of and
otto's Coffed, this staff of J. B. Thomson, Lao d'Almada e interest, to lab the world: 180) #hide Education is an excelent Anotiler might be added, that
When Wil 14 spirit de lamb be camed how of it by wire. Happily, with
Hotel, Mr and Mrs. C. Castro, W. J., Tord, H. W. EUS. I. JA FORTY YEARS", TEST, shing in its way; but there are making good citizens,
ration following the BAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy akin. Me nhi Mis Murphy, Mr. Her, M. lls, A. el Arapill; Leo limitations to its economic useful. ("Voters. Now, wo have three ohjetta.
Tynos and family, Mr. Longinotto, G. W. Burton CAY. As it chauót be denied that of lucation, which is
u still live in countries is an curing cougli dedwolde and Mfrs/
to pay would be of for the pae forty years and bus gained and Mr B E de W. Abney bir. hod Mark, J. M. d'Almada Honneuse. aken Items Bus in popularity every yearls Want better Une Davidson, Mr. and Mes) 11, May, A. MeD. Black and track
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