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unbe the last quar
the Lappa
was 98,094
the last q and 78 916 picula
her
of 1896 the export
the Kowloo
in the q
Hongkong,
withdrawi the ain. That
College wh Bishop SMI that time som
Viceroy and as limited per this step result in serious loss to the the actual amount in agriculturists is plainly proved by tor being 15,084 piculs of r
arguments adduced by Mr. HIPPISLEY as paddy This trade has
given above, and the Macao Chinese who ily stopped by the are proprietors of rice fields which they the ground of scarcity have let for a re in kind must also sustain the two provinces damage by it. Naturally the Viceroy is the The export of rice
ject of considerable resentment, and rumours but for some years to His Excellency's détriment are apparently past a limited exemp from the operation | being industriously circulated. One of of the law in this respect has been granted these was reproduced in a recent issue by vour of rice grown in the South. The the Echo Macaense, which apparently Glances under which this exemption believed it and gave it as a fact. At the granted are set out in the Lappa Trade foot of an article on the subject the follow 1889, written by Mr. ALFRED ing note appears Since writing the SLEY who was at that time the "above article we have seen the order of the mer of Customs there? Some ten "Viceroy of Canton prohibiting the export cars previously, "Mr." HIPPISLEY says, "of rice. The reasons given in this official representations had been made to the then document in justification of the measure Governor General, LIU KUN-I, that wealthy" are the most ridiculous that could be Chinese residing in Macao possessed con- imagined? It says that though the two siderable landed property within the neigh bouring district of China which they let
ou
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on lease, the rent being payable in Macao in kind, but that the conveyance of this rent in kind was constantly made an excuse for exactions by cruisers, on the nd that the boats concerned were ging the prohibition against the ex- of grain. The Governor-General therefore prayed to sanction the con- veyance of this rent grain to Macao, if covered by certificates issued by a special uild of local notables which it was pro-
to establish, and in quantities not seeding 200 piculs in one boat. This he did. The rice produced in Southern Kwangtung being, however, in great de- mand among the emigrants to the Straits, Australia and California, partly because of its superior quality and partly because it comes from their own neighbourhood, this concession was soon converted into a means of sending abroad large quantities grain which did not fall within its pro- visions such illegal shipments being es mated by the native officials to amount to fully 500,000 piculs of rice annually. The Governor General being desirous of suppressing this illicit traffic, he was strongly advised to legalise the export, it being pointed out that in this case there was round for the fear, whichhibition, that had been the
reason for the
if permitted, might jeopardise local food supply,seeing g that the realised by the sale of one picul of rice would purchase twice that of the foreign grain and in
to these
ations His eventually decided to legalise
within
limits, the Amount that mig be shipped through the Kowloon and Lappa offices being fixed at 500,000 piculs of rice or twice that ddy a year. In his report for Byear 1890, Mr.HIPPISLEY
rtial failure of
the
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crops of rice have been abundant the price of the grain is still high, and that on inquiry as to what might be the cause of "this dearness it was found that large quantities of rice had been exported to Japan and that the Japanese were buying glutinous rice extensively to make gun powder, and that for this reason: the ex- "port is prohibited." Our contemporary must have been imposed upon by some forged document, as we have made inquiries and are informed that no proclamation giving the reasons alleged has been issued. The reasons put forward in this spurious proclama- tion are too ridiculous even for a Chinese Viceroy, and have evidently been invented for the purpose of bringing His Excellency into ridicule and contempt. His action has undoubtedly been ill-advised, but that is no justification for making it appear worse than it is. The real reason put forward for the prohibition of the export is simply the scarcity that prevails.
THE BEST EDUCATION FOR CHINESE.
The GILES-LOCKHART controversy now being waged in the pages of the China review has incidentally raised the question of the Chinese scholarship of the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, a point of some practical sugges- in Hongkong, especially in view of the tiveness as bearing on the education problem advice recently tendered to the Chinese community by one of our evening contem poraries to the effect that they should eschew Chinese etlucation for their children and have them educated solely in English, the
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f the College! didates for the Ministry of England in China, Mr. Wu TING-PANG'S OWN subject Chinese CHOY, as he
then call ber of the Education sat in Hongkong in 1881 although he differed from t of the
of educatio
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rently fully recogni of Chinese boys language, his re every Chinese boy bei
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Central School should be found a competent knowledge of “language. – Turning now to Dr. we find him authoritativel a competent Chinese coh giving an opinion on disputed Chinese scholarship, capacity that he figures LOCKHART controversy. Mr published "A Manual of Chinese Quota
'tions" a few years ago. Mr. GILES Contri- buted, without being requested to do to, a review of this work to the China Review, in which he attacked it rather savagely. Before printing the review the learned editor guld- mitted it
* to Mr. LoCKHART and Ho KAT and it app from those gentlemen KAI being referred
"a competent native scholar Mr. LOCKHART says he GILES will not be mollified
that
Dr. Ho Kar, who, GILES will acknowledg "than"an insufficient "Chinese lang
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GILES appears to hold the Ho Kar's scholarship as in a rejoinder in the last China eview he says nest
as a competent native "never before heard; und as he has
thought fit to submit any specimens of his petent or otherwise, incontinently from the
it, however, that the
emew and Mr. LOOKHA better position to
servation editor of th
whatever th
KAI'S
ald
success of HE. WU TING-FANG and the Hon. Dr. Ho KAT being urged as examples in point. According to the Hongkong Tele graph," neither of these men has had any Chinese education in the full sense of the yet they have achieved a striking success..
What then HA the use of a Chinese education Abso Cou «lutely none at all, bey that knowledge
en languag that will per
Wo cation with the people
that the man wh ial etiquette.
hand
for
the late rep
iat neu
NG nor Dr. Ho
chiey
they
through this and the Kowloon enable them
their own withi
wish
the ne world" in Ch
wledge of a
a Western cational polic
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