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OBITUARY.
MR. JOHN CYRIL MAC-
DOUGALL.
THE CHINA MAILY.
WOMAN'S CLAIM.
INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT
WANTED.
BRITISH EDUCATION.
RECENT PUBLIC MEETING.
"N. C. DAILY NEWS" COMMENT/
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Much regrot was occasioned in. Men are continually making gen Shanghai last week by the an enl statements about women, but nouncement of the death of Mr. the women, rarely retaliate, writer Discussing the recent public John Cyril Macdougall,, for some Roger Wray in the Westminster | meeting i Hongkong to discuss years an. csteemed and very well Gazette. It is always risky to the education of British children; known resident. He became seri- generaljeo about a large clam-to the N. C. Daily News of March 16 Fously ill and was taken to the Isola- ascribe the weaknesses or virtuos of sion Hospital, suffering from corek a fow individuals to qun entire sox, brul meningitis, and passed away for example. The exceptions de there.
not always prove a rule.
Co.
•
"Trailty, thy natug is woman!"* says Shakespeare,
"
says:
School, The order of events is aut clear is that the meeting of March quite clear in this respect. What is points to a laulable determination
8
Hongkong papers of the 9th inst ant contain full reports of an The deceased, who was 12 years
exceptionally interesting meeting of age, was a native of Glasgow,
held in the City Hall the day be and was educated at Glasgow Uni-
O woman, in our hours of ease, vorsity, In those days lie was a Uncertain, coy, and hard to fore, to discuss the necessity of very keen Rugby Football, man, and
please,'
providing better education for the played for the Varsity. Whilst at says Scott,
British children of the colony. This Hoine, he joined the firm of Moser. "What does ho mean by the soft subject has apparently been one of Jardine Matheson & Co., and come sex, Saminy ?" inquired Tony Wel considerable debate, with many out to Shanghai, we believe, in her. The wimmin, replied Sam expressions of discontent. A sub- 1907, being for some years in charge dogmatically. "He ain't far wrong committee of the Board of Edu- of the Property Office. A Tow there, Sammy!" declared Tony.
cation has issued a report and years ago, he left the firm and start- "Woman is a sphinx without a ed in business for himself and was riddlo," says aither, writer. But a scheme has been propound- so engaged up, to the tiine of his perhaps the truest thing about woed for a new central school, or a There is no part of the human enth. He was last year-appointed men was said by a living novelist new site for the Victorla British anatomy which more surely betrays ont for the Beldan Tyre Ca., Woman is a species, he asserted, of the character of the individual than Ltd., of Brentford, England, under which every member is an excep Failure by China companies to the feet, writes Ella Hepbara style of the British Motor Tyre tion! It sounds paradoxically
Irish, at first, but it explains one on the part of British parents to get comply with the Hongkong Ordin- Dixon in the Westminster Gazette.
Mr Macongall made a great difficulty completely-there is n antees was the subject of further it is amazing what ambitions, what ay friends as a member of the average woman on earth:
something better in the way of education for their children than comment by Sir Skinner Turner, pride, what slovenliness, what Shanghai Club, the Shanglun flace, THE CLASS SUMMED VỶ. Chief Fatges, in an application caution, what arogance, what club, the Shanghai-Golf Cb, and I pick up a newspaper, and dis speaking, the position of British they are getting at present. Broadly which came before him at HM. timidity, may be fomnil in those the Lawn Bowls Club, and he cover at least four exninples of this parents in
Hongkong and in Supreme Court, in Shanghai last extremities, especially those of articularly distinguished himself ancient practica. A local magistrat: Shanghai in this matter is much werk. On behalf of Messrs. A. women.
in golf and lawn bowls. On three at Eastbourne says that the detee the same. There is the same Dallas and R. M. Saker, liquidators Tacy "give" their owners crains be held, the Shanghai tives of his town are pertinacious a
phenomenon of an increasing of the Yangtze Land C., Jad.."away" in most uncompromisingawn Bowls Chih singles elam weasels and "curions as women";
nopulation that never expects to Mr. Reader Harris applied for fashion, particularly when their pionship, and twice reached the defendant at West London County be able to retire to England are liberty to send to the Registrar possessor are off their guard. within 14 days a statement in the
trinal of the al-Shangri singles Court says that a weathervane is cannot afford to send its children We all know a lady, occupyi prescribed form in accordance with a great position, whe, down to thempionship taking part in last more constant than a woman in thither for their schooling. We do not wish to appear to speik adverse- section 214 of the Hongkong Ordin-skirt's edge, is all pop, power,son's final, whilst he also played whore clothes are
and moistness. Her hats and the last Hankos interport gaine, well-known Judge udvises a man with which we are not sufficiently ly of the curriculum of local schools, gowns and jewels come from the Tree Sears ago he reached the final leave the talking to his wife-wo acquainted to veature on criticism, Rue de la Paix, she has a nice if the Shanghai Golf Club chain men talk more readily than men: But we doubt if parents are alto- Arthur Dallas, a director of Messrs. stinct for fashion, yet she betrays ship, in which match he was and at Marylebone County Courrether satisfied that their children Atkinson & Daltus, Ltd., in which her uneasiness by the position of feated by Captain Deware He the mystery of women's quirrelling are getting all that they, the Aated that the Yangtze and her feet, which are always crossed as always been a very good golfer, is ascribed to jealousy of one an-parents, would wish for them; and Co.. was a private coinpaay ye. and turned awards under her end probably nobedy in Shanghai lather foto 2
chair. The youngest debutante on kaew more of the rides and Thus, women are accused of be gistered under the Hongkong Ordin- the fringe of the group shows her etiquette of the game than he did; ing (1) more curious; (2) inor, at 20, Poking Road. At the price carelessness we was as strict in observance of changeable; (3) niore Lalkative; and Ances and having its registered
grice of the pose of her slim,the rules, as he expected everybody (4) more excitable about dress thur dute of liquidation the only share-arched feet.
le to be; indeed, it may truthfully men are. holders in the company were
be said, he was stricter in bis own may be right or wrong.
These generalisations In the Messrs. Alkinson & Dallas, Ltd.. Mr. R. M. Saker and Mr. A. Dallas.
majority of stances one may con By a special resolution passed on
Mr. Macdougall is survived. by a cede that they are right. They November 22 and confirmed in ambitions are the feet--they are al-widow, a son and a young daughter. have all been repeated hundreds of December 9, 1920, it was resolved ways feminine which have deith whom the deepest sympathy times before.
the ds
French say, that the Yangtsze Land Co. should finitely,
'abrlicated." Th:
Stout soles, squat be wound up voluntarily. liquidation proceeded, and the pro-heels monstrous shapes of bulging perty of the company, consisting of leather; what a comment on the certain land in Chinking, was soll, finality of human desires, of the and, there being an eriliters, the extinction of joy and hope, of pride proceeds, after payment of ex- penses, were divided amongst the shareholders. By the beginning of December, 1921, the affairs of that company were fully wound up
ances 1911.
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TRUST PROPERTY IN DANKOW,
Counsel read an affidavit by Mr.
FEET, THAT REFUSE TO
SURRENDER.
A cynical sidelight on terrestrial
and assurance.
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concerned; E
possibly employers would share the parents' feeling.
The most important speech at the Hongkong meeting was made by the Rev. Teesdale Mackintosh who is well known in Shanghai. He boldly accepted the difficulty. of parents unable to send their children Home, saying that he firmly believed it was in the interests of the Empire, of Hong- But when men appear in Court, kong and of themselves that Britons should become "home they are treated as individuals. The makers and home builders" in the MR. J. D. M. PRINGLE.
Judge or Magistrate does not em colony; and he joined issue with Shanghai papers record the deathcial general principles about the those who hold that for a boy or of Mr. J. D. M. Pringle, which whole male sex to explain their girl to remain in Hongkong over ered from pneumonia at the the whole sex is symbolised and misfortune." Of the kind of actions. When a woman appears the age of ten or twelve is a There are thousands of cideriy Victorin Nursing Home, Shangriticised. We must wait till the training required he knew persuns who will never" abdicate,
fter a brief illness. The deceased Portias set to work in carnest. of while they have breath, and you rents, who died only recently,
nothing. so dangerous; may see them, poor souls, enduring were well known in both Tientsin There will be a long delayed oppor- he was inclined to say so criminal, tortures, tottering, so to speak, ond Shanghai, and for three years tunity to hear the other side of this a good all round education": the mer in which the liquida- prodigiously high Louis XV., heelsior to this death the father was eternally interesting question. tron-had-been-conducted was duly to-the-silent-tomb. The high played in the Public Worke De- approved at a meeting held on heel, to be sure, sometimes department of the Municipal Council, December 31. It was not, how-posits them there before their due. ever, possible to file the final time,ut we must all bow beforetterly at Pingchias Quarries The LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. somewhat curious after this to find account and call a formal meeting these veterans of the social battle was practically brought up in in pursuance of Clause 188 of the fed, whose motto is "The Old China and was a member of the Companies Ordinance 1911, for the Guard never surrenders," and who Field Artillery, S.V.C., during the following reasons: owing to an would sooner die than be relegatedly years of the War, afterwards. error or misunderstanding on the to the sad company of the framps.oing Home on war service. At Watch, abroad, a procession of oue he married, and returned to part of the manager of Messrs. Atkinson & Dallas, Ltd. in Hankow feet coming out of a place of en-Shanghai several months certain trast properties in Hankowertalament. Your Englishman, ifince then he has been in tempor- were registerel in the name of the he is properly turned-ant, will be ry employment.
unmistakable in a collection of
Yangtze Lamal Co., Ltd., instead Frenen, American, Italian, Dutch, of in the name of Atkinson & Dallas,or-Bergian boots, and this not only Ltd. who were holding these pro- from the shape of his foot, but by perties as trustees, Considerable
the way he plants it on the earth,; difficulty had been met in transfer- as if, forsooth, this planet belong- ring one of these properties, which ed to him. was in the French Concossion, to Atkinson & Dallas, Ltd., owing to
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HON. DR. SEVERN.
ago.
ARRIVAL IN SINGAPORE.
The Straits Times of Marrh 12 The Hou. Dr. Charl
BORS
was.
ARRIVALS.
Haiching, (Douglas & Co.) from Foochow, Swatow--Co.'s Wharf.
Hydrangea, (Chin On) from Swatow. Co.'s Wharf.
this for
was the
age
*of specialists and from the beginning We must begin to educate our children for a' definite end. It is
Mr: Mackintosh holding up the London matriculation as the ideal test for a boy of seventeen: not that it is not an admirable test, but that one would have thought it was precisely the good all round character of the candidates' educa- tion which it tested. However, Anjou, (Wing Fai) from Canton. the main point was that Mr. -Co.'s Wharf.
Mackintosh could not recall Kwangtah, (C.M.S.N.) from one British boy in Hong- Shanghai-Co.'s Wharf.
Andes Maru, (O.S.K.) from Oanka, Moji.-Kowloo Wharf. - Canton, (Swedish Trad.) from Singapore-Kowloon Wharf.
Song Ba (Lapicque & Co.) from Canton.-C38. Tientsin, Weihaiwei.-C34.
Kueichow, (B. & S.) from
Shinyo Mara, (T.K.K.) from San Francisco, Shuyghai-A2.
Saiyang, (B. & S.) from hai, Swatow.Br. Bangkok, Swalow-BII,
Kwangchow, (B. & S.) from
from Manila.-Kowloon Wharf.
President Madison, (Ad. Line)
Shansi, (B. & S.) from Canton,
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DEPARTURES.
kong presenting himself for this.examination, notwithstanding the unusual rewards in scholarships and facilities for entering Home universities which, it appears, Hongkong offers to boys who do so, Mr. Mackintosh thought that Hongkong's school should not be a boarding school, partly on the score of expense, partly in order to retain for children the advan Shang-tages of family life; it should cater for girls as well as boys, in order to ensure for it the greatest number of pupils; and it should eschew class distinctions. Among the re- solutipas subsequently passed, the standard of the London matri-| culation was taken as the pro- | per goal of schooling; and another. resolution rather, pointedly called on parcats to cooperate with the 'schools in maintaining strict dis-
school.
a new French regulation in an in this Court asking for relief. As Motorn, C.M.C., who is going home kow, respecting the holding of and far as I am aware, no suggestion by foreigners in trust. It was only has ever been made that anybody panied by Ms. Severa, is a passen. an leave from Hongkong, necnaț on the ith instant that a telegram has been harmed by that relief was received from Hankow stating
Morea which arrived in port that the transfer of this lot had now being granted, but it is an unsatiser un board the P. & 0, steamer been sompleted. The Yangleze cry state of affairs that oppor- from the Far East yesterday Land Co., Lu, could therefore it should have been given, it afternoon. It is with a
Owing to the the request of many people here, for of pleasure that he has to be now be dissolved. fart that to all intents and purposes the formation of linuted companies the liquidation and been concluded in China under British law and, welcomed at this port, for in 1921, the necessity for sending having got that opportunity, these not so many years ago that be was to the Registrar statements of re- companies should have been formed an important member of the Gov ernment in Malaya. The Hori. Dr. ceipts and payments at the end of and apparently no attention paid in the first year and subsequent half a large number of instances to the Severn served for 17 years in the Strita Settlements and the year escaped the attention of the legal requirements attached to BueFodorated Malay States and held Hin, Sang, J, M. & Co.) forcipline and regular attendance at
I am not the only liquidators, and the omission to companies. send such statements was entirely Judge who has had to comment the position of Secretary to the Sandakan March 21.
High Commissioner when he left} upon these applications in this way. circumstances, Mr. The penalties attaching, to these here for Hongkong, in 1911, where Reader Harris asked for his Lord. breaches are really very heavy he has risen to a much higher plane, ship's clemency in allowing 14 days believe lindators are responsible With Mrs. Bevern, he is the guest for the filing of the necessary state to the tune of $500 per day, and in of His Excellency the Governor this case there are breacher in rez-and Lady Guillemard at Govern- ments and final account.-
Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, for the pect to three statements which ment House. Dr. Sevarn and Mrs.. Registrar of Companies, said there should have been fileil. I am cr. Severn vill continue their voyage appeared to be a god deal to be tainly not going to refuse this appliestwarde, and will curry with said for the delay which had taken cation, since the liquidators have them the best wishes of many from place, but if applicants had consult. Put foxvard a satisfactory explan-this part of the world, where the Colonial Secretary ed a lawyer this application would tion and there are but few alrare, Hongkong not have been necessary. The Re- holders, in fact they themselves are climbed up the different steps of the ristrar did not wish to be severe, the shareholders. But, I do want local official ladder. but be had to point out that this to call attention again to the neces was one of-20 such cases in which Bity for those connected with Bri companice in liquidation had not tigh companies in Chinn observing done all they should have done. the requirements of the Ordine, 3. UNSATISFACTORY STATE OF AFFAIRS They are not difficult to find out
due to inadvertence.
In these
Andes Maru, (O S. K) for Bam- bay, Singapore.--March 21.
Kwal Wah, (Shun Hing) for Toutanc-March 21,
Hsin Ping Aa, (Yue Woo) for Canton-March 21,
Ling Năm, (Chung Wha Nav.) for Iquique, Tarakan.-March 21.
Kashmir, (P, & O) for London, Singapore March 21.
Tango Maru, (N, Y. K). for Melbourne, Manila March 21.
New Mathilde, (Yik Tai) for Hai- phong-March 21.
Ichang, (B. & S.) for Newchwang, Wei Hu Wel-March 21.,
Yodo Maru, (M. B. K.) for Sime
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It is curious that nobody seems to have taken up Mr. Mackintosh on the question of the importance of sending children Home to school if it can possibly, be compassed: for there must have been people at the meeting who felt as strong- ly on this as there are in Shanghai. That importance, we think, consist first and foremost in getting chil». dren away from the seductive sur-British boys and girls all up and roundings of Chinese servants, down the Far East are being very kind to children, all too ready catered for adequately to make to wait on them hand and foot, them thecitizens of the déplorably resigned to being Empire that they should be. If we Victor Hugo sold the publication" Irampled on and tyrannized over. are not satisfied of that, what are we rights of Les Miserables," fore- And secondly, there is the question going to do to make the deficiency most of his romances, for $80,000. of what we may call general in good? And in that connection It cost William Fox nine times as Canton, (Swed. Trad.) for Yoko formation, the things that are there is a very plain appeal to our much, or about $750,000, to produce Hama, Shanghai-March 21, learnt outside school hours, which millionaires. The public schools it for the screen.
Kwangtah, (C. M. S. N.) for Can-play an immense part in building of Great Britain, on which she The screen version of the famous ton.-March 21.
up character and serviceability justly prides herself, were built up story is shown at the World yet which, say what one may, are by private endowment and the Theatru to-night, with William somehow not acquired. in the For East so readily as at Home Prob people that endowed them were to Farnum in the role of Jean Valjean. nbly the Hongkong meeting felt their age exactly what the wealthy The tremendous cont of the men, of to-day might be to this picturization, according to a repre you troubled with constipation 1 that, having met to consider the There have been munificant.cndow-sentative of Fox Film Corporation "Division. — Kick-Off, Are yon billous or livorib, headschy needs of children who must be meits for Hongkong University was due to extreme attention lavi to read the ordinancea appiring to to make the general hody of eredi. 3 pm, Hawkins v. King's.
blue! If so Pinksites are your scet; taught on the spot it would be their companies and find out what tors pay the costs whan the liquida Senior Division. Kick-all, 415 being lazativa perfection thier cloir wasting time to run off on side Might there not be come to found shed upon detill in the production. away such troubles in a night Try issues. And this is indeed the fact nefuasing number of boys and done to transfer to the silversheet British boarding schools for the Everything humanly possible was thavare required to do. The result tors, through not having carried out pm, King's v. Hawkins.
he presented at the close of the por vial from Dr Williams Medicine for. Are we satisfied that the continuous series of applications apply for relief,
Spior matchi
great work of Victor Hugo,
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