FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1933.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Queen's College Prize AMERICAN SAILOR'S Today's Short Stary,
Distribution
Sir Robert Ho Tung Gives Away Awards
HEADMASTER ON SCHOOL
LEAVING CERTIFICATE
SAD DEATH.
Fell Out Of Rikisha In Wanchai.
FRACTURED SKULL.
THE MAN IN THE EMPTY. CHAIR
By Barnard Stacey,
TT was hours after Alan Breck Crawley Bennett, We were in the POWELL'S ANNUAL
S. E. Sadlin, & Beaman on board the U.S.S. Ashville, was found lying dend on the first floor tanding of a stepped off the boat at Loanda Army together-signallers. 1 know house in Johnston Road, Wanchai and presented himself at the Bennett well; he was in my squad." district, yesterday.
headquarters of the South Atlan- The doctor, was scéptical. He When the discovery was made, tic Rubber Company, at Kalubo, took the photograph and held it an- suspicions of foul play were felt that the doctor finally led him der the lamp. and the Police were summoned to across the compound to his
"That's McCallum, I tell you. He the scene.The body was removed temporary home.
left only a few days ago. You'd to the Public Mortuary, where it "You'll have a night-cap behave aeon him yourself if a steam- Sir Robert Ho Tung, Kt., who beneficial effect of this general was examined by Dr. R. S. Begbie, fore you turn in?" prompted the packet hadn't put in at Loanda for attended Queen's College from reading on the English and Gen-1 Government medical officer, Dr. old man as
he turned up the repairs; he was mad to be off as 1873 to 1878, distributed the cral Knowledge of boys, and by Begbie stated that in his opinion, reeking lamp.
soon as we heard you were coming." certificates and prizes at the an- their encouragement have made Sadlin was not the victim of foul "Thanks"
Breck looked up at him dumb- nual prize day in the Great Hall the libraries a great success.
"You'll have a night-cap before founded. of Queen's College, this morning.
by Wanchaiyou turn in?" prompted the old man Sir Robert is the first Old Boy of It is significant that this year riding in
Sadiin, while as he turned up the reeking lamp. the College to present prizes. in the Junior Local Examination, Road, accidentally fell out heavily
in Johnston **Thanks." Mr. F. J. de Rome, M.B.E., four of our boys gained a distinc-on to the road.
Alan flung himself into a chair, B.A., (Headmaster) presided, tion in English, 3 of the boys skull.
He fractured his and watched the whisky trickle into and among those present on the being Chinese, This is unique I the doorway of 96 Johnston Road,Soda "
Seeking ald, Sadlin entered the tumblers.. dais were the Director of Educa-imagine for a day school like but only managed to reach the first tion (Mr. G. P. de Martin) who Queen's. I would rather have 4 floor level, when made his last appearance in an distinctions in English than 40, ated. official capacity, Hon. Sir Henry say, Algebra or Mechanics. Of Pollock, K.C., Sir William Hornell the 47 boys who sat for Matricu-stances attached to the case. (Vice-Chancellor of the Univer-lation only 2 boys failed in Eng- aity), Professor L. Forster, Ladylish.
English Successes.
play.
Enquiries made Police revealed that a rikisha
"No-it's Bennett," he insisted. "I'll swear to it. He's got a bullet wound in the lobe of his left ear- at the back. Praps you didn't! notice it, though."
The old man stopped his glass halfway to his lips, staring at his "Please." But the syphon was guest. he collapsed and empty.
"I did," he answered quietly. "I "Damn that boy of mine: Have always notice physical defects; it's There are no suspicious circum-to have water, I'm afraid. Shan't my training. Bennett, though? His
¡be a minute." And he went out-name was McCallum."
side.
the schools
Personal Pars.
But the doctor's eyes held him tenaciously.,
"You do I can see you do!" Slowly the old man subaided into a chair, and fixed his visitor with a quizzing stage.
Ho Tung, the Rev. G. T. Walde- A special English Paper was culation. Hence I consider the two shots from the table, and was turn- Alan casualy picked up some snap-
TO-MORROW'S STORY. grave, Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Lo, given at the end of the year to examinations should be entirely dis- ing them over when he came to one Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Lo and the Upper Classes on General, socinted from each other. Co-opera- that shook his composure and set
To-morrow's short story many others,
English and General Knowledge, tion between
will be "The Unprincipled The Headmaster, in the course and Library Books I was very the University
and
Affair his thoughts racing backwards.
of The Practical In of his report, referred to College pleased with the general stand-or
any shape "I say; I know this chap," he
Joker," by Dorothy L. form ig on developments, extension of Class ard.
excellent urged excitedly thing and I rejoice that they will turned. "I haven't
as the doctor ré-
Sayers. libraries, and English successes. I wish to, thank the trustees examine the School Certificate for years! Fancy running across him seca him for Referring to the decision to sub- of the Morrison Scholarships, the us: at the same time I do not think out here, Doe.
"Then he's changed it!" stitute the School Certificate Ex-jannual disbursements for which they should have any voice in the him?"
How did you meet The suddenness of the question took
"Why?" amination for Matriculation, Mr.now amount to $1,680. In the conditions of our examination The doctor shot aglance at the sheepish and coloured to the roots
Breck by surprise. de Rome said that after long ex-current year we have 132 scho- (syllabuses, groupings, standard of
He looked! perience in the schools, he did not larship holders, representing an marking, etc.)-it sould be entirely
snapshot. think that the average boy injannual sum of $13,270. I should a departmental
"That's your predecessor McCal- of his fair hair. affair, just as
"I don't know," he stam- Class I is fit to enter the Univer-like to refer to the "Stewart Matriculation should be their affair. straight at the young man. "You lum." Then he paused and looked
mered. sity. He should have a few Scholarship," founded in 1884)
Old Boys' Support. months or another year specialis-by the Chinese community in
said you didn't know him when they Both the Old Boys Association ing before he sits for the Matri-honour of Dr. Stewart, the first and the "Yellow Dragon" have had asked you in the mess." culation examination.
Headmaster of Queen's Collegela auccesful year--I wish to thank
"McCallum 7" echoed Brock in- Reading the Report, the Head-and later Colonial Secretary and the large number of Old Boys for
credulously. This is Bennett→→ master said:"The maximum acting Governor of Hong Kong. their generous contributions to the лumber of. boys, on
the This scholarship lapsed in 1927-Sports, the Prize Fund and in other
"What is it McCallum's afraid roll was 607, .with an through lack of funds, I feel ways, but it is really their abiding |
of?" he asked with slow Insinuation. average daily attendance. of sure that the position of these interest in the College which we
Mr. Jean Bourgoin and Mrs. Alice ie it he waits, and watches for-as 546: with the disappearance of scholarships is not generally value most highly. I also wish to Bourgoin arrived in the Colony from "Terribly, horribly, afraid. What the Junior Local Examination known to 0.Q.C.'s.
thank Mr. Holmes for his able Shanghai to-day aboard the Dollar soon as it gets dark?” and the disorganisation it caused; I wish to thank the Public editorship of our magazine, the liner President Garfield.
The question seemed to frighten the average number in attend-Works Department for the splen-yellow Dragon," which takes up a
፡ Breck. He took out a new ance should improve considerably. did job they made this year of good deal of his time, Messre: Mr. C. A. Kengelbacher returned handkerchief, and mopped his brow At the moment the school is full the interior renovation of the Handyside and Morgan inve lately to the Colony from Manila this "Then it WAS true," he murmured. to overflowing, 620 boys in ac-school.
been reorganising tual attendance, and large num
school morning, arriving aboard the liner "Poor Nobby!": We congratulate Mr. L. G. library, a very old, library, with President Cleveland, which berthed The doctor leaned back in his bers were refused admittance 2 Morgan, a member, of the Staff, volumes dating back 100 years-It at the Kowloon Wharf,
chair. or 3 weeks ago. A great pro-jon passing the M.A. (London) is a big job, not finished yet, but I
"Nobody liked McCallum blem that awaits solution locally; degree: we hope to see his thesis should like to express my interim Mr. Harold P. Miller and Mr.here," he said in a tone that invited and which I have drawn atten- on "The Teaching of Science to thanks to them."
Roland Grimm were among the confidence. "Nobody.. There was tion to on previous occasions, is the Chinese" în print.
Mr. De Rome thanked the Staff passengers who disembarked from no tangible reason; nothing you the annual migration of boys
for their conscientious work during the liner President Garfield which could' take hold of. It was just a from school to school. With the
The examination results for the year and concluded with a brief arrived from America, via Japan presentiment; ⠀ something unsafe, increase in recent years of the 1982 were very satisfactory: 17 reference to Mr. G. P. de Martin, and Shanghai, to-day,
something wrong, somewhere. I've number of upper-grade private boys matriculated and 12 gain-the Director of Education, who ap
watched him, when he's thought I've schools often little better I amed the Senior Local out of 47.peared for the last time on the plat
Consul Julius Koerting and his been asleep; in the midst of a con- afraid than cramming establish-Two boys were warded Honours form at Queen's College in his wife were passengers on board versation he'd suddenly jerk bis ments this practice appears to in Matriculation - Gurbux¦ official capacity, and expressed deep the Dollar liner President Cleveland head back and look over his should-
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be on the increase: they are not Singh, who has won the Chater appreciation to Sir Robert Ho Tung which arrived from Manila this er, terrified. He seemed to ex the only offenders, however, Memorial Scholarship at the for his presence and for presenting, morning, en route to America. pect to find somebody at his These boys, usually failures, are University, and Mak Chak-hon, the prizes. frequently given promotion after who has been awarded a Govern- a perfunctory (if any) test, the
ment
Scholarships. Morrison Scholarship,
Intermediate Morrison Scholar-
Educational Scholarship Senior idea being I supposes that there tenable at the Hong Kong Uni-Gurbux Singh. is glory in numbers, Schools versity for 4 years. Lee Kui- which do not lend themselves to chee has also been awarded aahip, Mak Cheuk-hon. this sort of thing, which promote Government Educational Scho conscientiously and give a strict Inrship. In the Junior Local 49 Kwok Kam-lun. entrance test, are the sufferers, No local boy is admitted to inter-passed out of 666, gaining 24 mediate classes at Queen's with distinctions.
Dr. G. W. and Mrs. Caldwell ar, Įrived here this morning from Kobe, jon the m. v. Yasukuni Maru, ⠀
Mr. A. Walker, a Shanghai mer Class 2 Morrison Scholarship, ing on the N. Y. K. liner, Yasukuni chant arrived in Colony-this morn-
Class 3 Morrison Scholarship, Fong Chun-kwan.
Ching-fong.
Maru
back somebody watching him, Tho others noticed it, too, after a time.|| He said it was a touch of fever when they asked him. As it he could deceive me-Me!" stormed the old man indignantly. "The dono emptied his glass. thirty years in the tropics,” and he
Breck "was filling his pipe. You could see his mind working through his eyes.
Junior Morrison Scholarship, Pun were among the passengers arriv Captain R. and Mrs, Longworth
"Well I'll tell you what I know ing in the Colony this morinng on about Bennett," he said, almost
Shanghai.
lam,
his name, but it's hardly a bed-time story, and 1 doubt if you'll believe
Of the 17 boys who matričulat✩ out a leaving certificate from his ed I understand that 10 of them previous headmaster, He is then subjected to a stringent testave entered the Hong Kong Blake Scholarship, Yeung Wal-the m. Yasukuni Maru; from bluntly. "We won't quibble about fasting the whole day: and if he very good reports of our old University. We continue to, get then survives he generally finds himself in a lower class than the pupils at the University 6
graduated recently: there are leung one he aspires to.
now about 30 Queen's boys: up¦ there..
-Developments.
Wright Scholarship, Lee Kui-chee. Ho Tung Scholarship, Lai Kee
Ho Kom Tong Scholarship, Chan King-hong..
SPURIOUS COINAGE CASE.
The story's in two parts. The first is like a prologue. you might say, and I must tell you-ox| you won't understand or appreciate Accused Discharged At the second. Only don't ask me to
Sessions.
explain it, because I can't."
It begins in the war, in France- The case at the Criminal Sessions June 1916 the time of the Somme charged before Mr. Justice Wood, he was a corporal in my squad, and yesterday, in which Wong Hol, was push. I was in the signallers, as I told you, so was Bennett,
with the unlawful possession of a
I am glad to say an instructor The outstanding event of the in Physical Training has been year has been the decision to sub-hing."
Ho Fook Scholarship, Ng Kam appointed, and, with the current stitute the School Certificate Ex-Alfred May Scholarship, Leung year a beginning has been made amination for Matriculation. Shiu-hung. with this most important aide of Like Belshazzar of old, Matricu Senior. Belilies Scholarship, Chan education the cult of athletics Intion has been weighed in the Tak-sang, for the few has been reinforced balance and found wanting as Junior Belilics Scholarship, Li by bodily training for all in the instrument of a good general Hon-wah. the lower, School. ***
education, and it had to go. Ex- Sports and games (inter-school aminations here dominate curri Sui-ming.
Le Hy-san Scholarship, Yeung coinage mould allegedly used for we had a pretty rough time of it. the making of Hong Kong silvered attention. It seemed as if all Jerry paid us a good deal of mark- and inter-class) have been vigor-culum-they shouldn't of course Grant Scholarship, Chan Ping-dollars at Sat Yeung Choi Street, the shells that were ever made were ously pursued as usual during but they do and so it was ne chlu.
Mongkak, concluded yesterday pouring into our Bester. For some
the year: cricket has made much cessary to seek for a new orien Kong Ki-fai Scholarship, Chow afternoon. me no great amount of damage headway this season but it is a tation. The bias will henceforth Shing-cho."
His Lordship directed there was was done but when a newly-dug
great pity that very few. Chin-be laid on the "English" sub- Taoi Kung-po Scholarships (2), no evidence against the prisoner, front line (from which a counter ese boys take to this most skil-jects (Literature, History, Geo-Mok Kai-wing, Mok Kwongrlu. and relieved the Jury of their reattack was to be made) went west, ful and social of games. I wish graphy, etc.) instead of their Lugard Scholarship, Teo Shau-sponsibility: 54. to thank many gentlemen in the being regarded as almost ling.
Cology for contributions of the Cinderellas of the others. Government Free Scholarships money and cricket, gear,
I must say a few words en ond (6) for 8 years, Ng Shun-hung,
DOG'S HOME REPORT FOR DECEMBER
Thirteen dogg were admitted to aber,
Lo Kan, Yue Shin Kwan, Wong Yuk bringing the total. Yin and So Yu Kwan19, 17 were lapos
Woo Hay-tong Scholarsh Chair low
ag-ahum, Cho
I mentioned in my last report point before it is too late and that Young Po-lin; Ngal Kong-Chung, that, apart from the school is the acceptance by the University Kpo-Chi-sing. Chan Pakchun Library Class, libraries had (from 1935), as exemption from Government Free Scholarship (4) the Dog's Home during Juat... been instituted, one authorities of the School Certificate for each class, with books Matriculation. After long exp graded according to difficulty on ence in the schools I do not Travel, History Literature, think that the average boy in Science and Poetry. The total is fit to enter the Universit number of booke in these librar it is the average hoy, we hav les is now 1,100, The books think about and have been very well used for school)
home reading and I am glad to mozt say that the Staff, realise
clalising before
Chan Sold
Ng Dest ng Sick
together with a communication trench, things became serious. The wires we'd laid through were blown to hell, and for the moment we were In a desperately tight corner. Y
In spite of the fendish bombard- ment, there was nothi for it but wires Five of us Cor Behnett, Janson
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