SHIPPING NOTES.
cent, the placing of $22,450 to the reserve of the marine insurance fund at two per cent.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 28TH, 1910.
THE BRITISH NAVI.
Those who wish to see the Navy ready for war
advantageously upon the exercises of the foots at sea. Six Cyprian Bridge has dono a servico to the Navy by his crusade agalust words and ought to denato,-174 Times.
SINGAPORE AND THE SHIPPING RING.
The following editorial in the Singapore Free
present situation
The Pacido Mail steamer Mongolia accom- the profit and loss account shows a debit hal-, should read and inwardly digest the paper phrases govored from the realities which they Press is an interesting commentary on the plicked some smart work during the weak-ead, aues of $43,078. The Directors regret in She reached Hongkong on Saturday morning.state that although the steamers working making fast at 8 am, and had her cargo account shows an increase of $19,649 and the discharged in twenty-two hours. She is now at engine works department an increase of 837,760 'Taikoo Dock.
compared with last year, this large increase is counterbalanced by heavy expenditure neccesary on the fleet.
The river steamer Shashi, built at Taikoo Yard for Butterfield & Swire, underwent a socesssful trip on Saturday. She is intended to ply between Hankow and Changaka
·A NHANOR CARE,
SOUTH SEA CANNIBALS,
Before the important "Freight and Steamship Ordinance 1910 is finally placed upon the Btatute Book of the Colony, as we sincerely hope it will be at no very distant date, the publie THE BETTEN OF A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. will probably have a surfeit of criticistas, e structive and constructive, on what should have been done, or what might have been done, te free It seems to as that the Government have honestly the port from the thrakdom of shipping rings, striven to find a remedy for the admitted evils of the deferred rebate system, and the closing of The essence of the matter is comparatively the ports of the Colony, to freedom of freight
The Timen of Ceylon, of June 10th, publishes an interesting interview with Dr. Mueller, a German
scientist, who was ethnologist and despatched to the Bonth Sons, to make a scien. linguist to an expedition which was recently
The efforts to raise the drydock Dewey have
A peculiar case of alleged murder, nesault falled, and additional apparatus is being taken with intent to murder, and malicious damage, to Olongapo for use in another attempt. The
was reported to the police at Aberdeen on naval authorities are still confident that the Sunday morning, According to the story of dock will soon be floated.
Chinese boatman, he and his wife wore fishing at Deep Bay at 6.30 o'clock on Saturday evening, An intersting unilortaking is in progres at when three boats approached them, and the Taikoo Dook, where the small steamer Union is male occupants of these. boats, when within Brgo is afraid that the elementary principle, collector), and myself, the ethnologist and lin
boarding distance, passed on to their boat sud attacked them. The assailants threw his wife overboard, and. assaulted the boatman with choppere until ho foll down insensible. They then towed the boat away and sot fire to it. By this time consciousness was returning to the boatman, and as the 'flames of the burning vessel leapt around and scorched
hoing lengthened
The proceedings faken in Melbourne by the Baseinu Captain Varawa, against Howard & Smith, shipowners, for falso imprisonment in connection with the negotiations for the sale of the steamer Peregrine during the Russo Japanese war, havo come to an end. The
of
tido study of the Islands and their inhabitants,
We left Hamborg in May 1908, he explained, shape. There is a combination injurions to Tropical School of Medicine in Hamburg, being and the Royal Commission on Shipping said Professor Fulleborn, who is a member of the the trade of the Colony in the Shipping Con- ferences. Locally we are practically unanimous, the losier, Dr. Dancker, who was in Colombo about July last, was the 200logist, while the plainly, that if the conditions were not (authropologist), Mr. Vegal (artist), Mr. Hallwig The Government now proposes legislation of other members of the orpedition were Dr. Rooke altered. loral legislation would bo recessary. a simple and thorough nature, by taxing all Con- gnist of the party. We took our passage to
****ference shipownors. twenty
of their por cent Hongkong by the North German Lloyd steamer trade of the Colony, and by giving slippers the freight if their combination is injurious to the and there found awaiting us the Pero, a steamier
about 750 tons, which formerly belonged to power to claim a ten per cent. rebate under the King of Siam, and had been chartered for tion is that all bills of lading have to pay a similar circumstances. The form of the legisla our use from the Hamburg American 8. S. Company. It had been specially fitted up with twenty per cent, ad valorem duty unless they are dark roems, etc., and suited our purpose admir for ships that are specifically oxempted by reason of being outside an injurione combination; at ably.
the santo time ahippors may claim a ter pur cent. rebate on their freights unless the carrying ship in similarly crompted. The object of the bill is legislation, the first of the remedies proposed by the witnesses in the South African section of which have been already raised here, we now quote these paragraphs from volume V. of the Report
LOST ISLAND9.
plaintiff, who claimed £20,000 damages, was him, he specilily came to his senses and jumped thora selves General Staff was the an Equator for about fly days. During the the abolition of the system of deferred rebates by
awarded £5,000 by the jury,
|
We sailed for New Guinea, cruising along the passage, we made the discovery that two Islands, which are marked on the old sea charts, are not Island-which the natives call Emiran and Tench Taland (Kern) in turn and then went to the Admiralty Islands-called by the natives Manus-where the Islanders are known as the wildest in West Pacifio. We camped on where for three weeks and hail rather on exciting time, haring always to keep a watch on the untives, who are far from civilized
Kinky One of our party
Of these witnesses some were of opinion that the abolition of rebates would not result permanently in fiuotunting rates on irregular sailings. Others were prepared to face the possibility of such conditions as being loss prejudicial to them than the present conditions of sea-carriago.
entitled "Naval War Councils and General Staffs" which Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridro bus contributed to the most volume of the Navie Annual" The Admiral gives more than one excellent and concise account of what is the supreme need of the Nasy. He wishes people to understand that the supreme tunstion is that of strategical direction and command, and
he lapa stress on this being therefore the chief burinses of the highest authority. That is the. REPORTED MURDER AT ABERDEEN. whole doctrine in a nutabell and forms the con- olunion of the Admiral's paper, A little earlier he pleads for the restoration of strategical and tasti which they must occupy if warfare is to be con- cal considerations to the predominant position ducted successfully, Nothing could be more admirable than thon defnitions, and if the truth security of the nation would be increased mors which they convey were grasped by Ministers the than by any increase of the Naval Estimates made without the previous recognition of the significance of the art of war. Bir Cyprian on which he lays so much stress, of the pre ominence of the arts of command is not understood by some of the who would like to see something analogous to a General Staff instituted at the Admiralty. Accordingly a to convince his readers that no good can come large part of his paper la devoted to the effort of merely giving the name General Staff to some department to be created. These polemical passages are no doubt necessary, but they may puzzle those who have not familiarised
with the subject. overbeard, Happening on some floating debris, Chief of he seized hold of this and drifted about until adopted in Prussia daring and after the wars of There is a general impression that ship 8am. on Sunday morning, when he was rescued liberation for the efficer who had before been call stewards, especially on the principal mail lines, by two licensed fishing boats. The boatman's ed Quarter-master-General. That officer was in existence. We visited St. Mothias, Squally the Royal Commission Report; As to points the Commander-in-Chief's principal assistant make a handsome income in the shape of gra- wife in bolored to have been drowned. The and was specially concerned with the orders by tuities from passengers. Some light on the complainant has furnished the police with the which the movements of the Army worn direol general subject is furnished by an inquiry which namen, ages and descriptions of his three susailed, that direction being the principal and characteristic business of a Commander in Chief line lately been proceeding at Melbourne. There ants, and investigations are being made. After the Pouce of 1815 the Commaudar-in the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Asasoia-
Chief of the Prussian Aray terorted to the tion had been haled into the Arbitration Court
who had in the recent campaigus by the Fedorated Marine Stewards' Association
General stall was thereupon left with the attri in connection with a wages dispute, which
butes of a strates ical director, or Commander-in- This system became stereotyped, and when era of WAIS began in which King William I himself exercised the authority of Commander-in-Chief, that Monarch entrusted the work of command, the shaping of plans, and the drafting of orders to his Chief of the General Staff, while himself retaining the supreme authority. Moltke, who held the post of Chief of the General Staff, was a strategist of a very high order, and to his ability were dus the victories of 1864, 1855, and 1870, He was also a good organiser, and organisal his own office so that it was the instrument which he required, and a good educator, so that he trained those who were or were to be employed in that ofco. The secrets of Prussia's success in the field under King William were thus, so far as they depend- ad upon the handling of the armies, that it was the work of a great strategist who had had tima to think out in advance the problems which he had to solve. The offics held by Moltke was not directly concerned with the organisation or administration of the Army, but only with its loading in war and with
peace propurations for that leading. Thus ifther Army or a Navy is to derive benefit from Prussia's experience in 1864, 1866, and 1870 its plan will be to discover its beat strategist, and to outrust him both in The ricabo coolies' strike is practically ended,
peace and war with the direction of all belli but thero wana mot lacking a fow discontented | gerant movements and with the design of all the pullers who sought to intimidate those cautions Fisving chosen this man and given
him the duties descrTee, avr
most feclially not to allow him to range owners of that important section of the willing to resume their labour, however, were the
the supervision of their training. That is the police were disperand over the city to guardize of a Chief of the General Staff. In the against disturbance. Thus assured, a number Frassion Army large body of offcare are of riceha coolice resumed their calling. Some attached to the Chief of the General Staff as his of them were attacked by these still on strike, assistante. Their business is to collect, the in- formation, statistical, historical, and geo- but in each in Lanco a detective was handy, and graphical, which will be useful to him in the trouble was nipped in the bud.
ROBBERY AT THE OWL GRILL ROOMS.
directly raised the question of "bunce," as tips Grill Rooms a few months age appeared before Chief, bat without the authority of command, eat Europeans although they would not hesitate
́are colloquially termed. The evidence showed that in the inter-Stato trade the tips are often substantiat, and sometimes are regularly pooled, One steward put his gratuities at just auder £100 a year. A stewardess, whose wages or £4 a month, estimated bor "buuce" at £100 a year, and another confessed to the receipt of an average of £7 per month all the year round from passengers. One steward who was examined spoke of tips as charity money, which led the judge to express his surprise that the men did not recognise that in the long run the taking of gratuities was to their disadvantage. All the same, he felt bound to take account of these payments in fixing rates. For the steamship companies" "bancs" was alleged to have got to the length that a stewardess on the Queerstand rau was making £20 a month by it. There was no option, it was urged, but to regard both wages and tips os making up the actaul earnings. Portaps it is noodless to add that the companies do not see their way to put an end to the gratuity system. They recognise that it must inevitably flourilion board whip.
A boy who was dismissed from the Owl
Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yesterday a charge of stealing three bottles of whisky, and bottle of brandy, one tip of sardines, five tins of mushrooms and two tins of cigarettes from the Grill Room. The defendant is alleged to have gained entrance by mens of a key which he had in his sien. Police Sergeant 70
porger- HAY the ac.
used with a bundle under his arm in the vicinity of the Grill Room and asked him what it contained. Defendant said he did not know, and attempted to escape by running into the Grill Room. There he was captured, and the proprietors of the Owl discovered that goods to the value of $18 had been stolen. After hearing the evidence his Worship sentenced the accused to six weeke insprisonment with hard labour and six hours' stcoks.
SEQUEL TO RICSHA COOLIES' STRIKE.
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But we had very little trouble with them. They are cannibals, but strangely enough they don
to kill them. They eat their own people in preference. They are armed with spears with Several years previously they glass heads. filled the members of a white expedition, and in another of the other Islands we visited, a party of white men, who meds an expedition into the Island, were also attacked and or two European masstored. There are one stations on Admiralty Islands, but they are far away from the main islands, where The natives are particularly dangerous. On these stations, fires are kept baruing all night, und man are ever on the watch, as the It is interesting to recall the fact that over natives frequently attack them The Europeans two years are the Hon. T. 8. Baker recom are engaged in the cultivation of coconuts, and mended a tax on Bills of Lading to fight the
The Scant is pledged to be kind to animals, do very well, the plintations being particularly Conference; and we believe that Mr. John flee. After camping here for three weeks we Anderson had a plan for making all ships are many others--but the point again and returned to Simpsonhafen, the seat of the coming to the wharves give a substantial hond always is that scouting methods have a peculiar Governor of German New Guinas, mad com- on behalf of the ship-owner that there should be and certain way of driving lessons home. A menced packing our collections, which formed a no preferential robata. These were never boy may have been a nest-robber all his life; ho very interesting array of native ornaments, publicly formulated and the history of the may have delighted in stealing birds oggs, tear- weapons, skulls, skeletons, etc. We again made remedy-building does not greatly matter. But ing out mests, shooting parent birds with
catapult, xilling things at evory chance in a move after a short stay and cruised around the it is interesting to note that the method pro-wanten sport. When that boy taras Scout, Island of New Pomerania for about three posed by Government includes both of thes months. The west half of the Telands was suggestions. Before the proposed Bill is and finds himself out with a Bountmaster who is a student and lover of wild life, and with actually crossed by members of the expedition on through Committed there will be ampla ep. two occasions, and it was evident that the portunity for the discussion of points, and it is Scouts tmined to observe, to respect, to study, natives who encountered our party had never perhaps only necessary to say now that there is a and to be merciful to birde and boasts, he before seen a white man. Wo anchored at the certain class of argument which should be catches the idea with a quickness not to be mouth of the Palis River, the natives murvel-
ruled ont. We want to hear no more about the 1 believed, perhaps, except by Scoutmasters who ling at the Petho, having never seen a vessel like blessings of the Conference system, because our auwers
have seen and defifth it, wild. SE LAZADnfgezni. Tenillinen and the first Council has droided that the branches, hooking sticks for themselves from Connell has already it to hear no Jonah Ledges, pisking dowers for the sport of picking officer of the ship explored the four s
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Disappointment is undoubtedly the lot of the who wore asxious to return to work. Thossacking of his own oflice and to have part. I damped alone on Lovely Islands, which supinely and ignorantly groaning that "you then,He would be no true Scout who had not mercantile marino nsually known as tramp promised police protection, and extra patrola of the selection of its personnel, and if ho so desired ars west of the Palie-River, Eventually, we will never make laws that the Conference will a proper respect for a hedge, crpiuskusi wild.
shipping. The improvement in freights which was promised at Home earlier in the year has not materialised, and in the meantime the competition of the cargo liners grows steadily more pronounced. The chairman of one of the best-managed of the London tramp companies predicted the other day that in tou years' timo the liner companies would practically control the world's cargo business. Meanwhile, tramp shipowners, in his judgment, compete with oach other for freights in an insane fashion. There is talk of possible action on the part of tramp owners, with a viów of restricting speculative building. The Intest move, however, is a crusade against owners who accept business on terms
returned to Simpsonhafen and, after packing the specimens we had ob nimed, want to New Gainca, where we made the passage up the Empress Augusta River.
SHAVING WITH. BROKEN BOTTLES.
of
the Conferenco
not get round." From a not inconsiderable knowledge of the history record for some yours past we are inclined to think that the very formidable looking strong hold that has to be assaulted may not he so formidable reality, and that there may he
flowers
Five of the disorderly coolics, two from. Wast framing plans. But it is himself who frames meeting with natives who had never before seen process of disintegration not beyond the powers constry town in Hampshiro a big lout the other
Point and three from the Central District, were charged before Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon with assaulting confront with intent to hinder them from plying for hire.
Indool the
only to throw them Bway. The true Scout is
s quick to take effective steps to prevent a man driving a lame horse, to stop ballying of all sorts. It has happened before now that the mere presence of a Scont in uniform. has made others think better of evil doing. A We went about 230 miles up the river, internal dissensions which will render the
ense in point the writer can vouch for: In a a white mun or a vossal such as oure. They of Crowa Colony Legislation. the plans. Nothing is zero abhorrod by the
We made the interesting fact that ours is a Crown Colony makes the day was cruelly bullying a boy-holding the boy great commandera tan councils of war, which are astcunded.
discovery that they attached no value to Euro- chance of saccess greater, for there is the saving by twisted arms, the bally was kicking his shine are the refuge of weak characters.
There are two tendencies among those who pean goods. We rure them fish hooks, clothes, grace of the power of" The Governor in Conn. with heary boots. Nobody was about save one rider, whom the bully take an interest in war.
ernor in Council" to be a tribunal in cominer. never saw, and a bog into the study of the mechanism; the other set they would prefer an empty bottle to a big axe. themselves to study the minds and spirits of the They were quite contented with their stone cial matters, but is this matter it has the of a Scout, undersized for his ten or cloven great leaders. So soon as it is a question of axes and favoured the bottle because they could practical support of the whole community. As years. Round a corner. he swag with a con-
fideat tread, swinging i
bia staff, whistling in the the Prussian. General Staff the one set try smash it and slave with the broken pieces of indeed it has in other matters which are left to to find out how the office was organised, and glass. The men wear nothing in the way of its antocratic decisions, such as the Exnismsat cheery way of the Scouts. The tortured boy find in its strangements the secret of necess, clothes, and the women's dress consists solely of Ordinatu Wa have a supreme and independent called out, "Here's a Scout," with the sort of in relief that anyone struggling with a cut-throat
One set of men plunge! etc., and it was amusing to find that sometimes oll." It is somewhat of a rarity for "The Gov. eye-witneas, aut. He wne a little bit
The first of the West Point coolies was dis. charged and the second was sentenced to ourteen days imprisonment without the option which are considered unfair to their fellows. of a flee. Of the three man charged from the The other sat studies Moltke, believing tint the a small cloth falling from the waist. Both the legislative authority here almost Rokan might express at the sight of a policeman. The Certain prescribed conditions rospecting oharter. Central District, the first and second were mainspring was in him. The General Staff at men and women wear namerens ornaments, and other places that suffer from trusts, and combina- 1 big bully turned his head, saw the little soldier
ing have been laid down by the Documentary sontenced to fourteen days' gaol, and the third Committee of the Chamber of Shipping, and was remanded until this morning.
owners guilty of flugrant breaches of those con
ditions are to bn doprived of the cover afforded SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING | administration. In the British system the fessor Kraemar, a staff sargeon in the Gorman liboration, consider necessary in the gonoradritor who asked a village boy to bring him a
by the big mutual insurance clubs. As the clubs have undertaken to oo-operate with the committee, the movement has apparently the promise of strength. Unprofitable business-on the part of shipowners is responsible for it.
One by one British owners of sailing ships are parting with their vessels. They say they can- not make them pay, what with high rates of insurance, the Workmen's Comperisation Act. nud other conses tending to increased expense, In the circumstances the question of the Buil training of officers of the mercantile marine, 50 much commended as developing courage and ia itiative, has become a serious problem. The White Star Line has solved it for itself by the
COMPANY.
The directers recommend a final dividend on the ordinary shares of 2a, ód. per share, tax free, making 222 per eont. for the year 1909. They also propose an interim dividend of la. per share, tax free, for 1919, both dividends wil be payable on July 5. Out of the preminus received on the new shares issued last November £280,000 has been placed to reserve account, making the total of that account £1,000,000 and $20,000 to reserve fund, which will then stand at £120,000, There remains a sum of £205,868 to be carried forward from 1909,
WEATHER REPORT,
the following report:---
The Admiralty would be set right by the simple expedient of defining the duties of the for the distribution and movements of ships and First Sea Lord to be concerned with all orders Beeta, and by relieving him of the functions of administration not involved in those owlers: That would of course imply that the First
Sea Lord would be selected for his skill as a
A POINT OF VIEW ON ~COUTING.
tions infucions to the State; and we have further the War Olee, created a few years ago, harare also painted. borrowed its name from Prussia, but violates When we had completed our investigations, Government wharves and docks which will of paaro in his uniform-of whom he could have the first canon of the Prussian system, which is we returned to Hongkong, ant then the second give Government great faolities for pcrioally made a mouthful lot go his hold, and shuffled to separate the organ of command from that of expedition started. This one was led by Pro- carrying out any measure it may, after do swiftly away.
A Ettle story has been told of a motor-car Chief of the General Staff is at once the organ Imperial Navy, while Dr. Hambrash, Dr. interests of the Colony.
gallon of petrol. The boy went on the errand of strato ical direction and the principal profes. Sarfett, Mr. Hellwig, and mysali wore the other
willingly enough offered a shilling on his administration, sional member of the Board that has charge of members of the party. Oar object was to study
retorn he replied, Thank you, sir, bat I'm s Thus the War Office has the Caroline Islands, We had the use of the
Scout."
It is
Scent law that no reward may bo rejected the Prussis idea while borrowing the 'eile, and every member of the expedition took We know what the Boy Scout movement is do taken for helpful deeds. Many have tried to tip Prussian nume
an Island We found the natives here possessed ing for our boys. It is making thom into good Scouts, and have boon made ashamed by a polite much higher den of civilization than those in citizens. The raw material of boyhood is turned refusal. Here is a new thing in English life. the South Sen Isla de Tu appearance they into the useful, courteous, self-reliant, upright, Who knows?-it may be the beginning of the was quite satisfactory and we returned to Hong: to do a good turn to somebody every day, and aims at giving boys self-respect, and making closely resemble the Malays. The oxpedition Luncurable, and chivalrous Bout, whose law it is end of tipping and all false charity. Seonting kong safely.
to help other people at all times. The move them self rolinut. That end gained, no sarvility Questioned with regard to the specimessment is hardly more than two years old-al- remains in the Scout. It is forbidden that collected in this course of the two expeditions, ready there are signs that it bean reflex nation ho beg for subscriptions, or onde for money Dr. Mueller said the ethnological specimens that it is bringing about more than a boy's re-in any way. Who can doubt that the effect strategist and would put the art of war in numbered about 12,000. They had also collected volation, a revolution in national ideals. The of this will be seen in the next generation? ital right place.
But the Admiralty has not about 700 skulis and skeletons and, in addition, Boy Scents are setting up among us a new. lads standing idly and foolishly at the street chosen this method. It has created a War obtained a large and interesting Ecological it an age-old, standard. They are putting corners, gaping after they know not what Council, which must either be useless and oullection. They filled a big sore in Hongkong, others than boys to shame.
(A Sorat doce not smoking cigarettes. The Hongkong Observatory posterday issued and the Admiralty Board. The organisa-orumeuts, natire weapons, buman remains, ole. erowd to stand by while some unfortunate book of Scouting.) There should be no man
injurious or must supersede the First Sex and included many interesting objects, religious
Time was when it was not uncommon for a smoke--because he is not such a fool," says the On the 27th at 12.10 p.m.-The depression tion of the Navy for war was perverted Everything they found was quite new, and drowned before their eyes. Nowadays it seems without a deep interest in life. There should lying in the asighbourhood of Vladivostok when the Board of Admiralty, formerly a details would be embodied in a large book which that if anyone is in danger of drowning a Scout be for boys who are not trained from babyhood is on the spot, sad goes promptly to the rescue, in the matters in which Boy Scouts aro now yesterday is moving slowly away towards N.E. strategical body, a sort of Commander-in-Chief it was intended to publish,
Perhaps the most interesting incident of the All Somats must learn to swim, if boy would be trained from the ages of ton to eighteen. Thero The barometer has fallen alightly over 9., in commission, had to take upon itself the Chins, Fortuoss and Luzon, and a low pressure duties of the Navy Board, which supplied the expedition, added Dr. seller, was one tip up first-olass Econts, and must learn how to rescue will be a new race of boys in Egland when the appears to be lying over the N. part of the material
of pesce, the strate.ioal functions New Guinea ure l'apuans and have strong taught how to deal with all kinds of emergencies ow China Sos in about 18" Lat.
Pressure remains high over the Pacifio in the of the Board have been overshadowed by scannibalistic tendencies, except in those parts-e-breaking, gas-fames, runaway homes, And this wonderful thing the movement has administrative duties of supplying the ships, which are under the close control of the govern-suffocation, and house-on-fire. There are an accomplished it has aroused such a general neighbourhood of the Bonins.
Tight or moderate E. winds may be expected guns, and stores. What is now needed is a new mant.
mary trained Boons now in the land, auti su interest in boys as never before was known. The in the Formosa Channel and along the B. coast classification of duties soparating command Renter, remarked our reporter, recently wired
many opportunities for gallantry, that we seem discovery of the boy has meant that peoplo all from supply, What titles are given to the of
out that a new race of Negril prganics had seen of China.
to hear every week of some fresh heroi esploit. over the country, who never thought much Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending licors concerned can hardly be a matter vital discovered in Datch Now Gaines. Can you Obviously, the Scouts are setting high example. about.
boys other thazı their personal moment, though it is seldom wise to change enlighten us on this abject?
And it is inconceivable that Britons as a race friends, now keenly support the Scents at 10 s.m. to day, 0.00 inchos.
names. Bat it would be a profound mistake
Dr. Mueller replied that he thought it must will be content to go on much longer without in their endeavours to teach themselves be a mistake. There were no pygmies in New following suit, learning to swim, learning to be character, Yung men of education, born to imagine that if the nature and duties of an office require modification the necessary reform
Guinea. It was reported to the expedition that prepared to help others at all times.
into happier estates than meet boys have new somoexisted, but though they searched for them
When one of a family becomes a Soon he sets the fortune to enter, are throwing in their lot is off by the atroduction of new names. What is wanted is that the Admiralty they were never able to discover ung. Some of a new fashion in the home. If a good Scout, he with the Senate, freely giving them their time,
the natives somewhat closely resembled pygmies, and the Navy should pat the art of war in its right place. War differs from science in being very small, but others were tall, and the that science is a theory that can be learn. members of the expedition arrivell at the con- ed in the study, whereas war, though its clusion that there was no race of pygmies exist principles can be learned by the study of history, ing in New Gaines. requires for its mastery a life devoted to practica in the application of those principles. Tactics! prastics is the tras basis of snoress in paval war, and therefore the true school of naval war is the fleets at sea, in which professora are the Admirals in command. No war college can be a substitute for this the great school, though such a college con and should give to those who can attend its courses an insight into naval history and into principles which must react
purchase of the sailing ship lfersty, which has just arrived in London Dock from Sydney. With sixty cadeta la training as future officers under the White Star flag, the Mersey left Liver pool on July 15 of last year, under the com- mand of Captain Corner. She sailed from Syd ney on Jan. 16 last for home, but the winds were unfavourabls for a quick passage. That, how ever, is a matter of he moment. The point is that her cadets got a practical introduction to soa life, and at the same time pursued their educs tion under competent instructors. One of the attractions of the scheme is, of course, that it is part of a definite programme, leting, up to antial employment in an executive capacity, and the chopen of ultimate promotion to the command of Formosa Channel famous liners.
In nequiring the Mersey South coast of China batwon the White Star Line undoubtedly set a fashion Hongkong and Inmocks, among British steamship lines which may well South coast of China bot-eon
Hongkong aud Hainan ... have to be imitated.
A meeting of the shareholders of the Eastern Shipping Company was to have boon held on June 25th at Penang, The Directors' report states that after writing off 890,677 to deprecia- tion on the fleet and water bosts at eight per
The forecast for the 24-hours ending at noon today is as follows:- Hongkong & Neighbourhood winds, light to mod'te, fair. E. and S.E. winds, moderato. Same as No. 1'
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tions Part of the Navy. During three genera, the River Empresa Angusta, The natives of the drowning. Not only that, but they are Scouts of today have liftlo roots of their
It is stated that an employé of one of the largest Britisk armour-plate-making firms has discovered a hardering process which is greatly superior to anything of the kind now in use It is further stated that, after exhaustive experi monts, the Gorexament has secured the right of the invention, which in future will be applied in the building of British warships,
and so giving the most valuable thing in the world. Local associations new control the
carries into the home the rule of helpfulness that he has learnt to understand at his headquarters However old the idea of service and chivalry may in, it is a simple fact that scouting has led voment in all parts of the country. Usually boys to believe in it and understand it like they are supported by all the leading people of the district-the landowners, the squires, the ruling nobody and nothing else. Scoutmasters, while classes, the clergy, ministers, schoolmasters, and with their Scouts, talk to them a great deal, and offers of the Services. A local association encourage them to talk, teaching them how to
a hundred vice-presidents, all have may talk, to speak softly, as beques a trout, to begin in doon sympathy with the Soonts. How many at the beginning and come to an end, arranging of them supporters would have taken any special ideas in lagimi kamence The Scout goes interest in the boys of their district if it had home, and among a babel of brothers and sistors not been for the Chief Scout's inspired and voloes is alone heard, becauas he speaks quietly, noble idea that shouting would lead hoys to teach He has learnt manners in a good school. This theme character-M. W. ia Eventing also takes effoot on our natioii customs.