August 2, 1609.]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
A drowning fatality in the New Territory | TH has been reported to the police. A contractor's coolic who takes out provisions to the Indians in the New Territory went in bathing in the Sam Chun river on Sunday. Apparently he over-estimated his abilities as a swimmer, as he found himself weak in deep water and unable to make the bank, Ho sank and was drowned.
A Chinese was at the Magistracy on July 26 sentenced to two months imprisonment on each of two charges of obtaining goods by false pretences. He forged an order for wood on the Lun Yik firm, and presenting it at the shop on the Praya East on the 20th inst. obtained 2 pieces of wood. He tried the same on the 22nd, when he got nine pieces of timber. the total value of the two lots being S114.81. Not satisfied with this he made another attempt on Saturday to get two pieces, but he was arrested and punished as stated.
The high water in the Yangtsze and the heavy rains, says a Hankow contemporary, are jointly responsible for the telegraph lines at numerous places having given way, owing to boats and junks running up against the wires and breaking the poles. This has been the case at several places between Haukow and Shanghai, and has naturally occasioned some dislocation of the general foreign telegram gorrespondence, it being necessary to divert the bulk of the telegrams over other routes The same is the
case on the Western lines, which between the
towas of Sientaochen and Shasi are submerged
for a number of li.
With a view to placing the botanical re- sources of the Botanical and Forestry Depart. ment as far as possible at the service of the mercantile community of Hongkong. His Excellency has requested the Superintendent to collect all possible information upon the veget| able products of this neighbourhood or for which Hongkong is an emporium. This in- formation is to refer chiefly to the raw or partly manufactured products exported from China and to include the locality of their production, quantity available, country to which exported. price at port of export and in the markets to which they eventually go.
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HONGKONG
UNIVERSITY
SCHEME.
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the designs have been approved by the com- mittee and Mr. Mody.
2. That the custody of all University funds shall be in the hands of the Treasurer appointed by the committee, who, subject to the approval of the Committee, shall invest them in suitable securities.
Further papers on this subject have been issued coutaining a record of what has been done in connection with the University scheme
The committes referred to in the memoran- 3. That on the completion of the buildings dum entitled Hongkong University dated Janu- the Government shall be moved to introduce ary. 1909, was appointed in that month and an Ordinance in the Legislature of the Colony consists of the following gentlemeu:
for the incorporation of the University of Hongkong.
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Chairman.-The Governor. Members. The Bishop of Victoria, the Colonial Secretary, the Colonial Treasurer, the Director of Public Works, the Registrar General, Hon. Sir.. P. Chater. Mr. Mody, the Director of Education, Hou. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, and Mr. Clementi.
The Chinese members submitted the names of about 10 leading Chinese gentlemen (since increased by the addition of som others) to act as a sub-committen for the purpose of raising funds under the chairmanship of Dr. Ho Kai, G.M.G. This sub-committee has since held
weekly meetings, and submitted various pro. posals which have been considered by the translation of the Governor's appeal into Chin- Committee. They also made a very careful-
ose and printed 10,000 copies at their own expense for circulation, They formed corres ponding committees for raising funds outside the Colony.
Endowment Fund are as follows at this date The subscriptions or promises towards the including a subscription (just announced) of Tls. 10,000 by the Chinese Government : By Chinese residents of
Hongkong
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$174,295
By Ng Litting transferred
from Medical College 50,00 By Chinese residents in Saigon
Newchwang Guaranteed by Mr. Cheung Pat Sze
from Weichow, etc Contributed by the (hinese Govern- ment through H.M.'s Minister au Peking, Ts, 10,000 Contributed by His Excellency the
Viceroy of Canton
By Messrs. . Swire and Sons, £30,000 Taikoo Sugar Refining Co.. £5.000: Ocean Steamship Company £5,000, at 1 93 (rate of exchange at date of gift), By Mrs Stokes.
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224,295
39,00
1,450
100.000
14.000
200,00
450.440
560
4. That thereafter the Hongkong College of Medicine and the Technical Institute shall forthwith ba incorporated in the University and their endowments transferred to it.
5. That when the University is incorporated by Ordinance, the following shall be admitted us under-graduates :-
(a) All who are at that date students of the College of Medicine, who shall enter with the seniority as to curriculum which they had attained in the College, with a mini- mum course of two years at the University. (b) Such additional candidates as may have passed the Senior Oxford Local Examina- tiou, or other prescribed test, and concerning whose moral character and eligibility the Court are satisfied, provided that in the case of Chinese students a knowledge of classical or modern Chinese will be accepted' in place of certain specified subjects.
shall be such as may be prescribed by Ordin
6. That the constitution of the University
ance, but in order that the scheme for which public subscriptions are being invited may be sufficiently understood by subscribers the fol- lowing constitution, subject to future modifica- tion, recommends itself to the committee as the general principle on which the management and control of the University should be conducted:
Visitor. That if a Royal Personage will consent to so honour the University he may be appointed Visitor.
Patrons.That the Governor of the Colony (or in his absence the Officer Administering the Government) be the patron. The Governor in virtue of his office can at all times exercise
power of veto if he should disapprove of any decision of the Court, on the grounds that the interests of the Colouy would be injariously affected or the proposal was ultra vires or un- constitutional or for other good cause, but the Court may if they so desire appeal to the Secre- tary of State against the veto of the Governor. Additional patrons may be appointed on the recommendation of the Court approved by the Chancellor.-The Governor (and in his ab-
$1.029,745 Replies to the Governor's letters have been received from His Excellency the Governor of Macao (7th April, 1909) promising every assis- i Governor.
mont) shall be chancellor.
Governing Bodies. The designation, powers and functions of the Governing Bodies, shall be as follows:---
We learn from the annual report of Mr. Dunn, the Superintendent of the Botanical ani Forestry Department, that it was on the advice of Mr. Kershaw. of Macao, that the Hongkong Government suggestedthe slaughter of magpies as the best means of en couraging the increase of singing birds in the island. Mr. Kershaw advice, Mr. Dunn says, was cuergetically follow. ed during the year 1908. During th six months ending in March, 1908, the Police alone accounted for 679 magpies shot in various parts of Hongkong and Kowloon (with the expenditance in his power, and from His Excellency theisence the Officer Administering the Govern- ture of only 750 cartridges); the total for the
Governor of the Straits Settlements (24th year under report was 594."
February, 1909) warmly approving the scheme A regulation made by the Governor-in-Com-trade depression it was now, he said, a "bad time and offering any assistance. In consequence of cil under the Merchant Shipping Ordinauce states that foreign soldiers or sailors, if unarm
for an appeal, but later on the Chinese in the Straits hope to give effectual assistance. ed, may be landed in the Colony within the Excellency the Viceroy of India regretted the His harbour limits, without the prior consent of the inability of the ludian Government to con Governor, provided that when it is desired t land a number of men exceeding one hundred. Council, warmly approved the scheme and said
tribute. The Chairman. Shanghai Municipal : notice must be given to the Colonial Secretary, he would reply later regarding contributions In order that all facilities of which local condi
9th February, 1909). tions admit may be given. Applications for permission to land armed parties in connection with funerals or to take part in public cere- monies of an exceptional nature will be address- ed to the Governor through the Colonial Secre; tary. No application is necessary in the case of officers.
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Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G.. chairman of the Chinese sub-committee for collecting subscrip- tions, mentioned at a meeting of the Committee from His Excellency Wu Ting Fang, Chinese held on July 7th that he had received a letter Minister in Washington, warmly supporting the scheme and saying that the Chinese in the United States would raise funds. He had also just received a sum of $1.450 as the first instal- inent of subscriptions from Newchwang, and had heard from Canton that the Chinese gentry: and merchants had been invited by the high Provincial officials to a meeting to discuss means for raising subscriptions there.
RESOLUTIONS,
How contracts are carried out in Hongkong was illustrated on July 30 at the Magistracy. A contractor named Sung Leo had obtained the contract for repairing one of the forts at Lyeemun, and he sublet it to Wam Kong Wing. who in turn sublet it to Cheung Tam Yan. Wan,
it appeared, had been receiving advances. from Sung Lee who, however, had not paid his
owing that he would be As many of the original resolutions are now out responsible sent his foreman and a clerk to see of date, and others had been amended, the what was being done. The clerk and the fore. | following revised set is published with the man were threatened by the workmen, who said | approval of the Committee:-- they would take their lives. On Thursday about thirty of Sung's coolies met at Shauki | wan with the intention of having a fight, but Inspector Collet came on the scene and arrested the ringleader, who was yesterday placed before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy and fined $200,
1. That the generous offer of Mr. Mody to provide funds for the building of a University, and the site offered for the purpose by Govern. ment be accepted: and that the work be com menced as soon as an Endowment Fund yield- ing £6,000 per annum has been collected and
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The
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Court" shall have supreme control over the University.
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The Council shall perform all executive
duties under authority of the Court.
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The Senate shall under the authority of the Council arrange the course of study
matters of interior
economy and
und discipline. follows : -
They shall be constituted respectively as
The Court under the presidency of the chancellor shall consist of about 24 mem- bers in addition to such life members as may be created by the operation of resolution 9 and of such other life members as may be nominated by a two-thirds majority of the Court and approved by the chancellor. Life members will be entitled to vote.
The 24 members may probably consist of the following
The vice-chancellor elected by the professors
from auung the prefessorial staff, Six officers of the Government holding their seals ex officio (probably the Chief Justice, Colonial Secretary, Registrar General, Director of Education, Principal_Civil Medical Officer, and Director of Public Works). The two Bishops and the un- official members of both Conncils, together with two additional English members and six Chinese (additional to the two members of Councd) to be nominated by the chan.