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[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
15th November.
A NEW LOITERY.
In place of the Wai Sing lottery, we are going to have another called the San-piu. It is reported that a sum of more than $150,000 | per annum was offered to the Government for the monopoly of this new lottery. Undoubtedly this offer must have come from the persons interested in the old Wai Sing lottery.
THE LATE FANCY FAIR.
Mr. A. Pacheco, the vice-president of the Fancy Fair held here last month for the benefit of the school for Chinese boys, requested the Rev. Adriano Gomes, the promoter of the fair, to publish the accounts. A committee meeting was held last Thursday, and decided to do BO. Thanks to the good idea of Mr. Pacheco, the public will soon know the result of this fair. Apropos this, what is done with the money for the reconstruction of S. Paulo ? Was it all frittered away ceremony? Is there any left to carry on the actual work? If there is, why is not a start made?
A BAD ACCIDENT.
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I have to report a very sad accident which befell Mr. Barros, an employee of the Post Mr. Office in Hongkong, on Monday last. Barros came over with a few friends to play a It happened friendly football match here. that near the goal, of which Mr. Barros was the keeper, there was a hole, and during the excitement of the game he slipped into it. Mr. Barros was picked up unconscious, and was found by his friends to have fractured bis ankle. He was taken to a house near by, and examined by a doctor, who said that he entertained no hope for the limb which has to be amputated. Mr. Barros was conveyed to Hongkong yesterday.
A WARNING TO SPORTSMEN.
Sportsmen going up to the hot spring river should be on the look out for pirates, who are now infesting that district. Last Sunday a party of sportsmen was near being robbed by them, but fortunately they (the sportsmen) were looking out for these piratical boats and managed to escape unmolested.
DEATH OF MR. E. R. BELILIOS.
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We regret to announce the death of Mr Emanuel Raphael Belilios, C. M.G., who for many years was a very prominent figure in the public life of Hongkong and to whose munificence the Colony owes some of its most useful educational establishments. The news was received (prior to our own telegram, yesterday morning by Messrs. Linstead and Davis, who are Mr. Belilios' agents. Though it was known in the colony that Mr. Belilios had recently been far from well, the news of his death came as a great shock to his many friends in the colony whose sympathy with Mrs. Belilios and family-Mr. Raphael Belilios (the only surviving son) and two married daughters-we may venture to publicly express. As many readers will recollect, Mr. Belilios lost one son in Hongkong of plague.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
way qualified for the position. He had large interests in the Colony, regarded Hongkong as his permanent home, and "by the princely munificence he exercised in the promotion of education he had proved how lively was his concern for the welfare of the place." Mr. Belilios was a fluent speaker and left his mark upon several Ordinances which occupy an im. portant place ou the Statue Book, among them the Keswick Bill."
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social qualities. His hospitality was unstinted and there were few in the colony who had not him. A been entertained at one time by generous patron of sport, he was always to the frout in encouraging various exercises by offering prizes, and in every respect he had some claim on the regard of the community.
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a widely travelled man and had visited almost every part of the world. He was one of the earliest travellers on the Siberian Railway and wrote an interesting account of his experiences which was published in the Daily Press.
The deceased gentleman was a large holder of owned extensive landed local stocks and properties in the colony.
Among the memorials of his connection with the colony are the Belilios Public School for girls, the building known as the Belilios Reformatory and there is also a B-lilios Trust for rewarding valour and promoting education. Mr. Belilios was a thorough believer
Mr. Belilios, who was 68 years of age, never in elucation, and showed his enthusiasm in a
believe, contemplated ending his days very practical way. One of his earliest public wo benefactions, we believe, was the institution of anywhere but in Hongkong. As the reader "Belilios Trust" in 1884, when Mr. is aware, he had built for himself a palatial the Belilios banded over to trustees the sum of $2,00) residence in Kennedy Road but it has never been for the double purpose of providing prizes aud occupied, and though the residence has been honours in recognition of conspicuous acts of
advertised as "to let, Mr. Belilios still often valour rendered in Hongkong. Macio aud expressed to his friends an intention of return- Canton, and rewards for the promotion of educa-ing to Hongkong. He lived in Piccadilly, and tion, and especially female education, in Hong- the social qualities which won him friendships kong. In the following year Mr. Belilios added in Hongkong secured for him many new a further sum of $1,000 to the Trust Fund, and friendships in England which perhaps reconciled later the deed was amended by extending the him to exile from the colony in which his benefits to boys as well as girls. It proved life-long interests were centered.
beneficent institution, and encouraged the fact that his son Mr. Raphael Belilios is Mr. Belilios to further munificence. He be- a candidate for Parliament at the next election came an enthusiast in the cause of education. was also probably an inducement for bim to remain in England. Mr. Belilios had a great admiration for the late Lord Beaconsfield and on every anniversary of the distinguished states. man's death, a handsome floral tribute from Mr. Belilios has decked the statue in Parliament
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"Let ns, he said on one occasiou, "make Hongkong the Oxford and Cambridge of China, the seat of learning for the vast empire on whose fringe we staud. Let us send forth highly educated men and women to over run this Em- pire," and straightway he presented the Colony with a palatial building to be devoted to the purposes of female education. It was in recog- nition of his services in the cause of education in the Colony that Mr. Belilios was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1893. ✔
Mr. Belilios also founded several scholarships -in Queen's College, St Joseph's College and other schools in the Colony, and also endowed wards in some of the local hospitals.
Mr.
The "Belilios Reformatory at Causeway Bay was presented to the colony just before Mr. Belilios left Hongkong. The question of a reformatory had been described as a burning question in the colony for twenty years. Police magistrates had recommended it, and the Secretary of State in 1893 deprecated the apathy of the Government in the matter for "it was found that those youths who were incarcerated in the common prison of Hongkong left the gaol worse characters than when they entered the gaol-in fact hardened criminals." Belilios came forward with an offer of $12,0:0 to build the reformatory, but when plans were prepared it was found the amount was insufficient, and Mr. Belilios offered to increase his gift to the sum necessary. The building cost Mr. Belilios $18,00, the ground being given by the Government In handing over the building to the Government Mr. Belilios said: "I trust that many youthful wanderers from the paths of virtue will in this institution learn to recognise that honesty is the best policy and that the food won by honest toil isweeter than stolen luxuries. Of course it will not do to expect Born in Calcutta in 1837, Mr. Belilios came too much at first as the fruits of reformatory to Hongkong in 1862 and developed a success-discipline, but we may reasonably hope that ful business as a merchant dealing principally when even Chinese boys are taken out of a in opium. He spent nearly forty years of crime-laden atmosphere, such as that prevailing his life in Hongkong, and by his benefactions in the gaol for adults, they will at least be more and in other ways has written his name large amenable to good influences and will, at any in the history of the colony. For many years rate, escape contact with hardened criminals Mr. Belilios had a seat on the Legislative who delight in corrupting the minds of those Council as the nominee of the Governor. We
whom misfortune or a sudden step may have do not know exactly how many years altogether cast in their way. I refuse to believe that Mr. Belilios sat in the Council, but when he
Chinese boys are wholly callous and dead to left the colony about five years ago on what he appeals to their better nature. There must be regarded as merely a visit to England, Mr.
a percentage who will strive to reform their Belilios had then served for ten years consecu-
ways when the opportunity is given to them, tively on the Council, having been appointed and to such I hope this institution will offer by Governor Sir William Robinson in 1892 that chance." to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. Phineas Ryrie-"oue of the ablest and most independent members who ever sat at the table of the Legislative Council." Mr. Belilios was recognised as having pre-eminent claims to the position, for we learn from the Daily Press of the time that Mr. Belilios had already served on the Council, and was in every
The idea, however, proved impracticable. Only one juvenile criminal entered it in two years, and then it was reported to the Govern- ment that there were no juvenile criminals in the Colony! The building is now devoted to educational purposes.
Of Mr. Belilios socially, those who were privileged to know him, highly esteemed his
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SIR HAVILLAND W. DE SAUSMAREZ.
The North-China Daily News, writes on 11th November, as follows:-In the few months in which he has been in Shanghai Judge de Sausmar has won the admiration and respect of all who have come in contact with him by his ability, his common-sense, his promptitude, and his unfailing courtesy, and it was inevitable that when the news arrived yesterday morning that the King had conferred upon him the honour of knighthood, there should be a wide-spread feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. As the Crown Advocate remarked, in conveying to the new knight the congratulations of the bar, this honour is not merely a well-deserved recognition of Sir Havilland's past services, but it is also au acknowledgment of the importance of the Supreme Court here. A great mistake was undoubtedly made by the Foreign Office, as we pointed out at the time, when the title of Chief Justice here was done away with in obedience to an insensate regard for uniformity; and the knighthood granted to Sir Havilland is to some extent an act of réparation. As such and, at the same time, as a reward for hard work well done in the past, this honour to our judge is heartily welcomed by the whole British oom- trust that Sir munity in China, and we Havilland will be long with us to wear this, and the higher honours that may follow it.
At Shanghai Supreme Court on Nov. 10th, the Bar remained standing while Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, addressed Sir Havilland de Sausmarez as follows:-
May it please your Lordship. I have heard with great pleasure this morning of the well- merited honour which His Majesty has conferred upon you. Speaking on behalf of the Bar, and, I am sure of the whole of Shanghai, I have the honour to congratulate you, Sir Havilland. Considered as a recognition of good work well done in Africa, Turkey, 'and Egypt, the honour which you have received is merely a well- deserved recognition of those services. However, here in Shanghai we welcome this honour most heartily as showing that His Majesty's Government recognises the vital interest which it is to every British subject in the East, and to every person having dealings with them, that the dignity of this Court should be maintained. Since you have come, my Lord,· we have recognised the great industry and ability with which you have dealt with the vast amount of work, both in Court and elsewhere,
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