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have now' a library of 260 volumes of bright, interesting, and above all pure literature, which cannot but prove an undoubted blessing to present and future students. I here take the opportunity of expressing my deep thanks to those gentlemen who so readily and generously contributed towards this good object. At the last prize distribution I was able to announce that through the generosity of the Chinese community the College had recived a Blake Scholarship of the value of $50 per annum. On the present occasion I have to p'ace on record the liberality of Mr. Ho Kom Tong, who has kindly presented two scholarships -a senior and a junior. These scholarships are of the value of $35 and $25 per aunum respectirely, and are to be competed for yearly in Forms II. and i V., preference being given to the student making the highest number of marks in English reading, composition and colloquial and in translation from Chinese to English. The hearty thanks of the Council and all 'connected with the College are hereby tendered to the donor for his generous gift. Last year
I had to complain of the irregularity in attendance, and the council in an effort to remedy this offered certain inducements to regularity by the remission of fees to those students who made the necessary number of attendances. This offer has resulted in 14 boys making the maximum number of attendances, viz. 237, yhile 46 have been present on 215 or more days. The average attendance for the Government year ending 30th June, 1904 was 185.88; for the succeeding six months it has be n 222 21. It will thus be seen that the experiment has met with a considerable amount of success.
After presentation of the long list of prizes followed
HIS EXCELLENCY'S SPEECH. HIS EXCELLENCY said: Ladies and Gentle- men-The most agreealle way of carrying out the duty which now devolves upon m" would be to dwell upon the eulogising puts of the reports of the Head Master and Inspector of Schools. I shall, however, satisfy myself with the less agreeable, but possibly more useful method of making a few remarks on a subject in which the scholars have proved themselves to be less proficient. It is difficult to under- stand why the study of geography should cot be a tractive to the boys of the Ellis Kadoorie School. In a village away up in the interior of China, which has very little connection with the outer world, it is natural that small interest should be taken in names of countries hardly ever heard of. But bere in Hongkong every boy has under his eyes the ships that come from every quarter of the globe across many seas, and bring their produce from many lands, and it would only be expected that the boys would want to know about those seas and lands. One day a ship leaves port to take labourers to South Africa; another day a ship brings from Australia immigrants who years ago went away. One day a steamer of the Empress line arrives from over the Pacific, bringing mails from the great American continent: another day arrives the German (r English mail travers- ing the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans, bringing machinery and manufactured goods from Europe, tea and silk from China, sugar from the Philippines, coal from Japan, gold from New South Wales, and numerous other products. The imagination of every boy must naturally be excited to follow these ships in their long journeys to their distant destinations, and to dwell on the conditions of life in these far away countries. Apart also from the inte- rest in the study of geography, the importance of that study can hardly be exaggerated. The official has to kuow minutely the conditions of the district, province or country in which he works; the merchant must know of lands where he hopes to find market for his goods, and also the see which have to be traversed to reach these markets. Geography is a science of the first importance to the merchant, and even the clerk must have sufficient knowledge to prevent him sending a letter to Australia which should go to Austria. In the study of natural sciences a knowledge of geography is required; the history of past ages which is so necessary for comprehension of the politics of the present day involves a necessary knowledge of geography, and such knowledge is also required for journalism While and many other important vocations.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
a knowledge of geography makes many books interesting which would b otherwise only slightly so, there are many books which teach geography itself to some degree. I have one here which describes the journey of the Prince of Wales to various parts of the empire, and I propose to close my remarks by presenting it to the boy (Lau Ya Chan) whom the Head Master points out to me as having the best geographical knowledge, and who has therefore best earned it.
Mr. BRAIDWOOD said: Your Excellency, Your presence here this morning in spite of the multiplicity and importance of your many engagements is abundant evidence of the importance which you attach to educa- tion, which influences life in this Colony. Your interest in the work of the students is a source of satisfaction to the teachers, and your approval encourages them in the arduous duties of a frying profession-duties which your Excellency will consider nulli secundus. is no small gratification to the scholars to receive from the King's representative their prizes, and to hear your remarks with regard to geography. In the n me and on behalf of the President, members of the Council, teachers' staff and students, I beg to convey to you our sincere appreciation of Your Excellency's kind- ness in coming here to-day,
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The proceedings terminated wit' cheers for H.E. the Governor, the ladies and gentlemen present, the Headmaster and the st ff.
UNLAWFUL LANDING OF ARMS.
The rehearing of th case in which Messrs. Lutgens, Einstmann and Company, were fined $1,00 for the landing of arms without a permit came on before Mr. F. A. liazeland at the Police Court on the 19th January.
Pul Remedios, clerk. in the employ of M. 88. Jardine, Matheson & Co. gave evidence that Mr. Herbst of the defendant firm brought the bill of lading endorsed to him and he countersigned it on behalf of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.
A Chinese tallyman of the Kowloon Godown Company gave evidence as to the landing of this case of arms on the 27th December last and placing it in the godown.
Detective Sergt. Grant deposed to opening the case in the godown and finding it to contain 12 American Enfield rifles. The de- The removal fendant firm had no licence. permit was issued to Messrs. Arnhold Karberg & Co., who held a licence.
E. R. Hallifas, Deputy Superintendent of Police, said that in March of last year the defendant firm's licence for dealing in arms was cancelled by the Caplain Superintendent of Police, and that the licence ceas d to operate on June of that year. Since that time they had
been without a licence.
Carl Herbst, clerk, in the employ of the defendent firm, deposed to receiving ins ructions from the man ager to get the bill
by of lading endorsed Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. and to hand it to Mossrs Aruhold Karberg & Co. to get the case landed and stored to their order,
Replying to Mr. Hallifax, witness said this was not the first time within the last six months that he had done a similar thing; he had had to do with the removal of arms on several occasions for the firm.
Mr. F. Lieb, an assistant of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Company, gave evidence that he received the bill of lading endorsed by the defendant firm, which he sent to the godown people requesting them to take delivery of the case from the steamer to the godowns, and to hold it there to the account of his firm. His firm did not buy the arms, they did not pay anything for them, and they were not paid anything The by the defendant firm for landing them. bill for landing charges was made out in the name of his firm, and presented to them by the godown company, and he believed it was paid by his firm.
Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Company dealt in arms, and had a licence to do so, and after receipt of the goods into the godowns he returned the permit for removing the goods to the police.
Mr Boisserée, manager of the defendant firm, stated that he received a letter from the firm of Messrs Brinkmann and Co, of Singa-'
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pore, stating that they were sending to his firm one case of American Enfield rifles. not ordered them, and had had no previous correspondence on the subject. They were sent without his authority, and he knew nothing whatever about the case.
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Mr. Gedge (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master's office), who represented the defendant firm, said the matter seemed to be a very simple According to the Ordinance, to import arms they must be landed, otherwise they were not imported. There was no evidence to show that the defendant firm had landed these arms. If anybody imported them it was the firm of Messrs Arnhold, Karberg and Com. pany, and that firm had a licence and a permit to remove and land arms.
His Worship held that it was necessary to prove the con igning and landing of the goods. This was proved in evidence, and he held that the defendant firm had landed or brought about the landing of these goods, also that they were consigned to the defendant firm. Therefore he would uphold his previous conviction in which he fined the defendants $1,000.
CHINESE THERAPEUTICS,
The following typical bits of native thera- pentic lore were quoted by a lady doctor at Soochow recently.
Malaria: During the sleep of exhaustion which follows a chill, a cure is effected if a arent or near relative will slip quietly up to an un'ocked box or door and suddenly lock it; thus the evil spirit is locked within, and the patient saved.
Cause of hydrophobia: To prevent hunger at the beginning of hibernation, all snakes fill their mouths with a pellet of mud, which is eject d when the winter is over; if by chance this dainty morsel be swallowed by a dog, hydro- phobia results.
Hemorrhage: The blood of a white duck killed at the patient's bedside and drunk hot will cure any hemorrhage.
To extract a tooth: Cook well the bones of a rat, pulverise, and apply to tooth. If it is foreordained that the tooth is to come out this will bring it; if not it will become more firmly fixed than ever. This was the favourite pre- scription of the great celebrity, Mo Bet-ze, who was at one time physician to the Emperor, and who lately died at his home in Soochow. An- other popular remedy is to remove the entrails of a fish, fill the abdominal cavity with arsenical acid, hang in a cool place, and wait for the fins to turn white; then scrape from the fins the small white excrescence, dry, pulverise, mix with aromatic powder, make a paste, and apply to tooth. This ensures a painless and. speedy delivery of the tooth.
How to diagnose anthrax: Have your patient eat a raw yellow bean; if the disease is anthrax it will taste as if well cooked; if it is not anthrax, the taste will be that of the raw yellow bean.
Cholera: Over the umbilicus place a plash composed of musk, brimstone, red iodide of mercury, pulverised liulipedis, the secretia from the skin of a tod's head, dried rhinocerus' stomach, heated, dried, and pulverised. Another remedy is the chewing up of cash, of which you have all heard, and which I have seen. said that a fairy gave this remedy to a Taoist priest; and it is wonderful both as to their ability to masticate the cash and the results.
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I have been told that we might double our
practice if we would only take the trouble to write our prescriptions as the Chinese do. The following is a prescription for an advanced case The writer Wang of facial osteo sarcana. Zing-kyah is a physician of high repute :-
The patient is troubled with heat and The heat causes profuse expectora- phlegm, tion. Because of this the gums are swollen and red on the right side especially. The face is swollen and tense. Pulse slippery. There is nasal discharge. In this disease if heat reduc- ing medicines are used the patient will grow worse; if diaphoretics are used the swelling will increase. Therefore we will first reduce the heat of the lung and stomach, for which I pre- scribe: Biba leaves, incense, tender bamboo skin, dish rag gourd, sheeps' horu, frosted leaves, and glycerinzza." He only saw the case once.
One of the methods of punishment inflicted upon an unfortunate physician, who has mis-