SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING · · CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND -QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
From Топа Hongkong
About
J. B.
NELLORE
*KIDDERPORE
MACEDONIA
JALIPORE
6,863 6,334 28th 11,120 5,273
"KHIVA
136
KASHMIR
8,985
+MIRZAPORE
MANTUA
KARMALA
KALYAN MONGOLIA NAGPORE HOREA TASHGAR JEYPORE
MALWA DEL A
NOVARA
RANPURA
KHYBER
NANKIN
25th Feb. Feb. örd Mar. 7th Mar, mar. 10th Mar. 13th Mar. 18th Mar. Ć DUZ8 | 24th Mar,
1716
10.046 31st Mar.
0,1447 7th
16,504 14th Apr. 5,288 23at Apr. 10,953 28th Apr. 9,005 12th May 5,318 10th May 10,088
8,097 6,080 16,001
26th May 9th June 16th June 23rd June
9,114
7th July
7,058 14th July
Destination
Macneilles & London
Straite, Colombie & Bombay. Marseilles & Indon
Colombo & Bombay
les London & Antwerp Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Huil Straits, Colombo & Bombay Marseilles & London
* London
cs, London & Antwerp Marseilles & London Marseilles & London. Marsellies & Landtion.
Marseilles, London & Antwerp. Marseilles & London Maraeilles & London.
Marseilles, London & Antwerp. Markoliles & London.
Marseilles & London
Marseilles, London & Antwerp. Marseilles & Lordon.
* Passengers to Singapore only. Limited accommodation available for
2nd class passengers from Hong Kong to London.
Cargo only.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Forts by steamers of the Khedival Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
FALAMBA TILAWA
TALMA
8.018 24th Feb. 10,006 6th Mar.
10,000 20th Mar.
Singapore, Penang & Calcetta
Singapore, Penan & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
B. I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for Ist and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (Soutn)
*TANDA
Sydney &
6,966 2nd Mar. Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, ST. ALBANS 4,500 20th Mar. Townsville, Brisbane, ARAFURA
6,000 4th May J Melbourne +Calls Port Helland'
Regular manibly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia.
The E. & A. 6.8. Co., Ltd, steamers will also call at Shanghai, Tello, Cebu,
CO-EDUCATION
IDENTICAL EXAMINATION
FALLACY.
THE CHINA MAIL,
WOMEN TEACHERS. GENERAL TENDENCY OF TO-DAY.
TRAINING GROUNDS.
USES OF HISTORY.
HOW IT DOES ‘A VAST'
DEAL
HERCULEAN TASK..
WHERE THE BENT... Equality between the sexes is one I have no wish to deprecate the thing, Identity another; and there expenditure of public money on utility, it can nevertheless do a If history be of no practical is much to be said in support of the Higher Education of Women, vast deal for us within the region the conclusion reached by the head-or to regret the facilities by which of its uselessness. The task of mastera in conference that it is outstanding boys and girls, how the, historian is like the task neither, necesanry nor desirable ever poor, may have the chance which Hercules performed in try- that conditions of examination im- of a period of advanced studying a fall with death. posed shall be identical for girls But it is to be regretted that torian is asked to bring back the
The his and boys." Nobody with any ex- there are not among women stud- dead again from...the grave, and pertence of growing girls and boya ents a greater proportion of sometimes, alas, the beauty of his will maintain that both sexes are those who are not oblig-Alcestia is marred and worn. It at any period precisely similar ined to regard their thair abilities, their interests, their sity
univer is, after all, but little that wè can 群 mere know of what is past. aspirations. Girls at certain ages training for a career, for whom Trevelyan says,
As Mr. are in many respects more fully the acquiring of knowledge can where Time casts up its stray "On the shore developed than boys; boys, on the be more of an end in itself and wreckage, the historian gathers ather hand, while they are fre- who, moreover, add to the educa- casks and broken planks, whence quently less well equipped with the tion afforded at school and col-much indeed may be argued and acathetic sense, have a far stronger lege-a tradition of taste and cul- more guessed; but what the great perception of logic, a far better ture which cannot be gained in ship was that has gone down into grasp of the exact branches of one generation.————
the deep, that we shall never see." learning.
If education is to produce the best possible results, it must allow more latitude to natural tendencies than it at present affords. The in- clusion of a considerable range of alternative subjects for examina- tion purposes in obviously indicat- ed; for it is not so much the com mon standard as the increasing de sire to produce in girls' schools an exact replica of conditions in boya' schools which is undesirable and absurd. "Naturam expellas furca. | tamen usque recurret," and no ex-] amination on earth will make good mathematiclan out of a girl whose bent is for languages, or an able modern linguist out of a Loy in whose head there is; room only for the joys of engineering.- "The Sunday Times"
A TRÉE POISONED:
ARSENIC AND SPIRITS
OF SALTS
Efforts made to poison a popular tree with araenic were described at Surrey Quarter Sessions, when Langley Road, Surbiton, appealed Mrs. Ann Cripps, of Lulworth,
against a conviction and fine by the Kingston-on-Thames Bench in
August for damaging a tree.
Mrs. Helena Colombatti said the tree was the centre one of three poplars standing near the fence separating her house from that of Mrs. Cripps. She bought the house because of the beauty of the poplars, but as the result of the tree being interfered with it had
turned black on one side.
Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other porta en route as inducement thing which she had not told him to
offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:- The Union 88. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Lealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, ste.
The P. & O. Royal Hall steamers to London via Suez Canal, The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London vis the Cape. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TALMA *MIRZAPORE KALYAN
10,000 21st Feb. 0,716 21st Feb.
9,144. 25th Feb.
MONGOLIA 16,604 2nd Mar.
TAKLIWA
ST ALBANA
NAGPORE'
MANTUA
*LAHORE
NOREA
ARAFURA *JEYPORE KASHGAR MALWA TANDA NOVARA DELTA
.7,930 2nd Mar.
6th Mar
4,500
6,283 12th
10,046
12th
10,048 16th
Mar. Mar. mar.
5,252 19th 'Mar 10.953
6.000
80th Mar.
BUTA Mar.
3rd Apr.
ard Apt.
Mo, Kobe & Osaka, Moli & Kobe
Mojl & Kobe.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams
Amey, S'hal, Moj, Kobe & Oaks.
Mojl, Kobe, Coaks & Yokohama Shanghal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai.
S'hai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Mail, Koho & Yokohama.
5,318
2000. Osaka & Yokohama. 10th Apr.
Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 0,005 13th Apr. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,986 27th Apr. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
6,950 8th May Moj Kobe. Osaka & Yokohama. 0,989
8th May
S'hai, Mofi, Kabe & Yokohama. 11th May S'hai, Meji, Kobe & Yokohama. 25th May S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama.
4th June S'hai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama
8,097
RANPURA NANKIN
16,601
7,058
* Cargo only.
-All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
* Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hetal expanser at singspore while swaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Faus free of charge.
·
Lamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft x 1ft will be received
as the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to calling.
For further information, Passage Freights, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
·MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO
Agents.
e. & Q. Building, Connaught Rd, C., HONGKONG.
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While there are happily always few persons alive to the profit to the individual of the pursuit of learning, the general tendency to-
SEREY MILLER, MEANNA ALS Little Stanton Picker. DE LO AD Cain, who was kidnapped and stala by WHlom Edward Hickman. Slarion was kidnapped from school and held for ransom by Hickman. who killed the little girl and dia membered hor body before collect ing the ransom.
Its
to be partial, History can give us Yet if our knowledge is doomed much pleasure and solace. very usefulness enables us to pur- sue it for its own sake, without guile or the hope of gain. In Mr. Trevelyan's words, "It can give a noble education to the mind," it "can stimulate thought," it can "intensify intellectual emotion." How great a pl sure we should deny ourselves if we lived wholly and solely in the present!- "Blackwood's Magazine."
AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT LINE.
Operated for
U. 8. Shipping Board
By SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS
"ANGELES.
S.8. "CROSSKEYS"...Feb. 18 S.8. "BEARPORT"....Feb. 29 S.S. "WEST TOGUS"Mar. 17 S.S. "WEST FARA
LON..............Apr.
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THE
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An 80-years-old gardener Baid that Mrs. Cripps told him to destroy the centre poplar tree. He stripped the bark from one root and insert-day is to look upon the univer-Bordeaux and ed some arsenic and sawed around sities as training grounds for the trunk as far as he could reach careers, rather than as places where the mind may be enriched. to stop the aap from flowing.
Mrs. Cripps did not pay him be- In particular, they are apt to be concerned, as institutions for the cause she said he had done some regarded, so far as women are training of teachers an idea fos- tered by the high proportion of women graduates who actually enter the teaching profession. The figures at my disposal show that this proportion lies some A Previous Dose.
where between 50 per cent. and 75 Mrs. Cripps said that one root of per cent. The limited choice of the tree ran on the lawn of her careers open to women forces garden, causing it to turn brown, them thus to enter a profession She declared that two years before for which they have not neces Mrs. Colombatti gave her permissarily a vocation: Margaret Jin the presence of the Consignees sion to do what she liked with the Tuke, M.A. in "The Contem tree..She put some spirits of salt porary Review.”
It was stated that since the tree had been poisoned some of the boughs had fallen, and that the tree was suffering from progressive deterioration,
Into the roots, but without effect.
Mr. L. Horton-Smith, for Mrs. ASSES IN THE ROW. Cripps, said she had absolute un deniable right to cut away such parts of the tree whether branches or roots as encroached on her property.
Mr. Moresby, prosecuting, sald that Mrs. Cripps had done more than cut off the encroaching part. She had poisoned and sawn the tree as well, so that when the sap rose the polson would be disseminated through the whole tree.
After a hearing lasting for eight
appeal. hours the court dismissed the
PEACE IN INDUSTRY.
Living Wage Enquiry,
NEW RULES FOR'.
RIDERS.
Rotten Row has up to now been world famous for horse-riding. But a kindly Government, in revised re- gulations just drawn up, makes special provision for the riding there of asses and mules as well.
But while you may ride your 685 down Rotten Row you may not take with you dog. Beyond horses, ponies, asses, and mules the Govern ment will not go, and without written authorisation no other animal may be taken into the Row -a blow to giraffe-lovers!
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In these new regulations the Serpentine has a special set of rules, London, Jan 3
among which one sees that neither The Labour correspondent of
dogs nor Intoxicating liquor may be "The Times" apropos of the coming taken on board any boat. It is also meeting between employers and em
stipulated that "No person shall fish ployees, saya:"It is a coincidence in the Serpentirie."
The rulers of the nursery are
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE. of considerable importance that regulated correspondingly, and was
JOINT: SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL'
LINE.
(OCEAN 8.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.)
AND....
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE (ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.S. CO., LTD.)
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
8.9. "CITY OF KIMBERLEY". Via Suck Canal
8.S. "LYCAON ...
6.8. "CITY OF ADELAIDE
8.8. RHESUS":"*-
8.6. "CITY OF DUNKIRK"
Via Susz Canal
Vía Suez Canal
Via Suez Canal
............Via Buez Canal
20th Feb. 9th Mar, 23rd Mar. 8th Apr. 20th Apr.
pitallers preceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners Upton
Bubject to change without notice. podat
'For Freight and purticulare apply tu:-
·M*TTERFIELD & SWIICE or THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong ›Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Cantus
an
the Labour Party and the Council of the Trade Union Congress has betide the perambulator-pusher who already begun a joint enquiry into obstruction or a nuisance" in the
causes her vehicle to-be the question of a living wage park, or who proceeds with col- Much ground must be covered and leagues and their vehicles so that probably it will be a year before they are more than two abreast.. is completed. First a living wage must be defined and means
Drunken persons are sternly for gested for making, that wage por park,
aug bidden to enter or remain in the aible. The enquiry has according Absolute powers would appear to ly been outlined, thus-defects of be given to the police to say appear to present system of production and Desist!" to anyone playing games, distribution, Anance, the problem or practising gymnastics, or boxing, of foreign markets, and interna or wrestling-but the police, rarely tional competition, immediate in Interfere provement In the level of wage threatened.t
unless. disorder is rates including a high wage policy, Unauthorised photographing or family allowancen and social in cinematographing le forbidden: 60 surance. The outline covers many are unauthorised other phases,
music and wire less:
. All claims must be sent in to me on or before FRIDAY, the 24th February, 1928, or they will not be recognized.
DAMAGED PACKAGES will be examined by the Company's Surve vor Messra:-Goddard & Douglas
at 10 am. on MONDAY, the 20th
February, 1928.
No Fire Insurance will be effect ed by us in any case whatever.
J. LIMAGE.
Agent. Hong Kong, 14th February, 1928:
.Feb. 28th, .Mar. 13th,
.Mar..27th
Apr. 10th
TO SHATTLE and VICTORIA The short, Straight Route to America Fortnightly waillon Wednesday's Pres. Jackson .Feb. 22nd 8 a.. Pres. McKinley......Mar. 7th. Pres. Grant
.Mar. 2inf. Pres. Cleveland .Apr. 4th
Special Through Rates to Europe, via United States, £120, £112. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of railway| lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileged for sight-seeing.
To EUROPE and NEW YORK
M-AROUND THE WORLD
Fortnightly selling on Tuesdays via Manila, Seraler, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marcillas, Boston and New York
Pres. Hayes... Feb. 26th 6 m. Pres...Mar. 31th 6 m. Pres. Adams ...Mar. 25th 8 .m.
Pres. Garfield ..Apr. 8th 8 a.m. Pres. Harrison Apr. 22nd 6.a.m. Pres Monroe..May 5th 8 .. TO MANILA
Prea, Taft..... Feb. 20th 6 p.m. Pres Hayes ....Feb. 26th 6 a.m. Prea McKinley Feb. 28th 8 pm.
Pres. Jefferson Mar. 5th 6 p.m. Pres Polk....Mar. 11th 8 a.m. Pro Grant Mar. 15th 6 p.m.
For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information Apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address **Dollar**
Dollar Steamship Line
and
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ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER. MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Blipways and can accommodate.any craft of 200 feet long.
Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. Tel. Central No. 459. Shipyard: Sham-Jul-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel Kowloon No.
**Estimates farolshed on application.
Hong Kong, April 1, 1924,
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
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address
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