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At the Magistracy yesterday Vincent Wicks, a naval policeman, and Laurence Shein, from H. M.S. Flora, were charged with assaulting a ship's cook at the bar of the Imperial Hotel. It was alleged that they struck the Chinese cook because
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for this is obvious when we consider that the examination fee for a Preliminary the owners, master and crew of the steam- Certificato is $7.25 and tlist for the Juniorship Penang for salvage consideration to and the Senior $13.25. It is not that the the amount of 2130,000 against the T.KK. students cannot find the amount; its Soya Haru, her cargo and freight: rather that they are unwilling to throw away money for a certificate which they recognise to be valueless. For the truth is, that an Oxford Certificate is practically nee bas to a Hongkong boy. There is a choice of some thirty subjects in the exami pations, and a certificato is given if a candidate passos in five out of the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. thiny antjests. If the five subjects wore chosen with a view to doing the best for the education of the student, the certificate would be of some little value. But the subjects chosen are those which will give the student an easy pass, regardless of the rabe of the course of study which would help the boy to earn his living or in any way benefit him in after life. In some schools― Fer Case Per and these not Church schools-the studente of 1 Dus. Bot. I take Religions Knowledge as 'n subject, not
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The profits innde by the Yangtsze. Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, remarks a Shanghai contemporary, have been gradually decreasing year by year The dividends paid during the Inst few years have been as follows-1907, IN rent.; 1008, 15 per cent. 1999, 15 por cent. 1910, 8 per cent.; and 1911, 4 per For the twelve months ended December 31st no dividend at all can be paid.
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THE BALKAN WAR.
NAVAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST MONTENEGRO.
It is reported from Vienna that five Austrian battleships and cruisers and one
destroyer were twenty miles off Antivari on Monday night and an infantry regi- ment embarked at Zare for a southern destination.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE FLOODS IN THE UNITED STATES.
ANGLO-CHINESE BAZAAR,
OPENED BY HE. THE GOVERNON,
A bazaar of more than ordinary in- terest and importance took place in the City Hall yesterday afternoon. It was under the auspices of the Wesleyan MESSAGE OF BYMPATHY FROM KING GEORGE.
Church, and was undertaken by British- and Chinese members and friends of this LONDON, April 2nd,
denomination, the object in view being King George has cabled to President to provide funds for the installation of Woodrow Wilson that he is greatly the electric light in the chapel and to distressed to learn of the disastrous flood establish a Chinese Wesleyan Church. and the loss of life end expressing his As the resuit of efforts by friends, and well deep sympathy with the people of the contributions from friends and
wishers, there was an exceedingly fine dis- play of fancy goods as well as a good stallholders were for the most part ladies associated with the chapel work, but one or two others offered their assistance. The Chinese stallholders were represented by those who raight form part of the con- gregation in the native church which it is hoped to establish....
President Woodrow Wilson replied, expressing deep appreciation of King George's sympathy.
It is still doubtful which of the Powers United States, will participate in the naval demonstra tion against Montenegro. It is asserted in Paris that neither France nor Great Britain will join therein. France is send- ing a battleship to Corfu merely because Great Britain is sending two worships thither
Reuter re-affirms that it is the unanimous opinion of the Powers, failing Mon- tenegro's compliance, that a naval de monstration will be necessary, and com munications with that cbject in view are passing between the different capitals.
A Malta message states that the Britisk cruiser Defence has beer ordered to be
It is in readiness to proceed castword.
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TO STIMULATE BRITISH AVIATION.
PROJECTED FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. LONDON, April 2nd.
selection of Chinese works of art. The
The Rev, C. Bone briefly asked His Ex- cellency to open the bazaar.
The opening ceremony took place ... at The Daily Mail offers prizes amounting three o'clock by H.E. The Governor. to £3,000 for the first British hydro-Prayer having been offered up by Mr.
Scholes, aeroplano piloted round Great Britain in 72 consecutive hours without descending on hand, and £10,000 for the first British or foreign hydro-aeroplane crossing the Atlantic in 72 consecutive hours,
The Britisher Mr. Gordon England
Legion Licut. Col. R. Bate, F.R.G.S., Commandant, Legion of Frontiersman, Far East, informs us that Sub-Unit Ledder Morgan-Owen, Shanghai, bas. created a world's record at Revolver shooting, scoring 197 out of a posle 200. believed that she will participate in the and the German Herr Rumpler have Both hands were used in the contes We | are also informed that the Stanhope Gold Medal for the most gallant in 1612 was awarded to Frontiersman D. Palmer, another member of the Far Eastern Com
Frontiersman Palmer already. mund, possesses the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society,
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25 per cent. credit, the others bring him nothing. But
demonstration against Montenegro.
It appears certain that France and Russia will not participate in Naval demonstration against Montenegro,
The German cruiser Arelax, according message from Berlin, has been ordered to the Adriatic to participate in the Narai demonstration.
According to a telegram from Vienna, a part of the Austrian Squadron has reached Antivari, and the remainder are held in reserve at Cattaro,
THE SIEGE OF SKUTARI.
A message from Cottinje states that the
BRITISH FINANCES.
LONDON, April 2nd, The Treasury Statement shows that the revenue of the United Kingdom during the past year was £188,601,999 and the expenditure £188,921,930. The revenue exceeded the estimate by £1,012,990, and
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HIS EXCELLENCY. To stand here beside Mr. Bone carries my memory back thirty years. It was just about this time thirty years ago that I began my studies of Chinese in Canton, where I lived in 6 house next to that occupied by Mr. Bone, and I can remember the great assistance. offered to compete for the Daily Mail he was to me, not only in learning the prize for a flight in a hydro-aeroplane Chinese language but in studying the
The Bloriot Com character of the Chinese people. across the Atlantic.
BM also that people⠀⠀out pany and Mr. Cody will make flights reminded
to church- across the Atlantic and round Great China ought to go
(Hear, hear) and the church that Britain.
he took me to was a little place of worship called a conventiele. But in that place of worship was found the same ardent spirit that animates the congrega- tion down in the littlo Wesleyan Church on Morrison Hill Road, in aid of which Mr. this bazaar is being held to-day, Bone having rendered me many services, you can imagine that it is a pleasure to me to come here and render him a little
the little chapel in Morrison Hill Road. I have been there myself in the past, and I hope to go oftener in the future. The evening services there are, perhaps, the best attended, and for the proper pes. formance of these services artificial light is needed, and what we want you to do is to collect a sum of money to instul the electric light in that building. That will assist Mr. Bone, and it will assist his congregation It is a good work, and I feel sure that all you who are visiting this at building will put your hands in your as pocket's deeply and buy up all the beauti
ful things placed on the stills in order to help Mr.. Bone to get a little more light. Then there is another object. Mr. Bone is a man of progress and wants to establish a Chinese Church, That, I need hardly tell you, is a good object, an ob-
are not the Oxford classes examined by the THE BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY, Turks made a sortio from Tarabosh and the expenditure was £2,934,070 below service. (Applause.) Most people know
Education Department before the Govern ment gives the school a "grant"? They are not, and this failure to examine the higher classes is in itself a condemnation of the Education Department. What, then, is the remedy for this non-education, this aarious leakage, and this neglect of so large a majority of Hongkong'e students The care lies in the hands of the Govern. ment. The Government should reform the Education Department, and institute a thorough system of examinations, both oral and written, which would displace entirely the Oxford Examinations. The first for ward move of the Government (after the Education Department has been reorganised) should be to establish an examination compulsory for all Hongkong scholars, on the lines, say, of the Qualifying Examination
Another crowded audience, including H.E. the Governor and H.E. Vice- Admiral Jerram, greeted the Bandmaan Opera Company at their performance of The Girl and the Taxi" at the Theatre Royal last night. The Company's pre- sentation of this popular and witty niece delighted tho House, which expressed its unmistakeable appreciation by generous applause.
The many brilliant epigrams in the play, and the amusing situations were well emphasised by the good work of the artistes.
As the Girl, Miss Moyna Hill was vivacious and bewitching. Mr. Fred Coyne was excellent as Baron Dauvry, newly elected to the French Academy, whose obsession is a particularly peculiar one on the subject of heredity, Mr. Alfred Frith, as usual, greatly tickled the risibilities of his audience.
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Mr. James McGrath, as Lieutenant Rene, Mr. Thomas Pauncefort as Hu- hert, the gay young dog," Miss Violet Frampton as Jacqueline, and Mr. Victor
a desperate cugagement is proceeding..
It is reported from Belgrade that the Servisna and Montenegrins are bombard- ing Skutari, the forts being expected to surrender in a day or two,
MONTENEGRO'S DEFIANCE OF THE TOWERS,
A message from Cetinje says that the Government, in reply to the Powers, refuses for military reasons to transmit to the Commandant at Skutari the cipher message from the Porte authorising the departure of civilians there.
THE BULGARIAN LOSSES. It is officially stated in Sofia that the capture of Adrianople cost the Bulgarians 10,000 to 15,000 killed and wounded, The
expectation.
The customs decrease is £164,000 and the land tax £50,000, while the telephono service shows an increase of £2,830,000 and the postal service of £850,000 com- pared with 1911,
THE ENGLISH TURF.
·RESULT OF LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
LONDON, April 1st. The Lincolnshire Handicap, run Lincoln this afternoon,
resulted
follows:-
Berrilldon
Junior Grammont
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Twenty-two ran Betting-100 to
of the Education Department in Scotland, Gourlet as Monsieur Paraarel, husband Bulgarians captured about 14 generals, against Berrilldon, 100 to 8 Junior, 33 to Ject which ought to commend itself to
this examination to be taken by all pupils at the end of the elementary school course, and to be conducted entirely by the reorganised) Department. The Oxford Junior and Senior Examinations should be replaced by Government Exami
MONTORS Orton: 10%, Das Vœux Road O. | nations on the lines of the Lower and Inter-
of The Girl," lent admirable support. To-night the comedy will be repented.
LOVE OF GAMBLING.
BATTLESHIP, DECKS STREWN WITH BETTING COUPONS.
2,000 officers and 60,000 men.
TURKEY GRATEFUL FOR MEDIATION,
everyone here and to everyone who is 1 against Grammont. Unclé Pat started interested in the propagation of the favourite at 4 to 1 against. Junior was Christian religion. I myself am among ridden by E. Huxley, scratched.
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that number. I would go a top further, and say that the church which is opened A message from Constantinople states
under the auspices of Mr. Bone and the that the Porte has replied to the Note of
quarter of mile had Wesleyan Church of which bo is a dis- the Powers, thanking them for their offer been covered, Cuthbert went to the tinguished member has my very best sup-
After s
LONDON OHIOD: 151, FLam Sruz, E.Gmediate Leaving Certificates, respectively, strewn with betting price lists and cou- of inediation, and accepting all the points front, followed by Berrilldon, and port. Here, again, I will ask you to put
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL 3RD, 1913.
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trusting that the Powers will achieve
peace.
A picture of the decks of battleships
pons was drawn at a special meeting of the Council of the Charity Organisation Society, held in London, to consider the problem of gambling. It was attributed: to one of England's best known Admirals." The speaker who quoted this anthority, Mr. John Hawke, of the Anti- Reuter learns that the replies of the Gambling League, asserted that the state of affairs was just as bad in the Civil Allies to the Powers' mediation proposals Service, particularly in the Post Office, are conciliatory. They were to be pre-
and amongst the polico.
THE ALLIES CONCILIATORY.
of the Scottish Education Department. In this matter the Hongkong University authorities might step in with immense advantage to the name and to the funds of the University, If the Government is unwilling to supply the mousy for the establishment of A proper Education Department, if it cannot supply the money to institute these examinations without fees
The Rev. Edward Lyttelton, head-sented on Tuesday. Bulgaria abandons chargeable to the students, and if it is master of Eton College, who has for the Saros-Midia line, agreeing to a long time been connected with the Anti- unwilling to obtain the money by demanding Gambling League, wrote Latterly I slightly modified line før Midia. All
fee to cover expenses, then the Hongkong have come to see that the spread of gam University has the field to itself. The bling is due to deep-seated causes which agree to accept the acquiescence of the Hongkong University authorities could not be remedied by any superficial Powers in the principle of a war con-
I mean the undermining of home life and the feeble hold of religious principles in all classes."
A secent Resolution on Education by the Government of India begins with the state ment that "the defects of the Educational systems in India aro well known and need not be stated." This is an observation equally applicable to the Educational system in Hongkong, but the business of the Hoverament here, as in India, is, if possible, to remedy those defects, and, in the belief that any suggestions that may be offered ou establish these examinations and charge feas the subject will be welcomed by the which would leave a large margin of Government, we published recently a profit, and yet be much lower then the fee contributed article which appeared to demanded by the Oxford Local Examiners ebody some useful advice and to-day The great majority of Hongkong's studenta we print another. It does not, however, would be eager to possess & certificate from touch upon an important phase of the their own University, and if the examina subject which we consider calls urgently tions were such that a certificate would be for consideration. We refer to the Oxford some measure of the student's ability, there Local Examications. This year a record is every reason to believe that a certificate uumber of entries for these Examinations from the Hongkong University would be has been received, the number exceeding recognised and accepted as a valuation of the student throughout the South of China, 400. The fees for this year's entries must amount to considerably over $4,000. Here We commend this suggestion to the earnest is a sum of money which every year leaves consideration alike of the Government and the Colony and brings little in retura. For the Faculty of the University.
it must be remembered that only a very small percentage of bye who are eligible
The flags on the warships in the harbour really do enter for these examinations. In yesterday were half-masted as a token of sno school where the roll each year exceeds 600, the average yearly entry for such respect on the interment of the King of
Greece.
examinations falls short of 20. Of the boys in the classes that do nothing but propare A social gathering of members of the for the Oxford Examinations, not more Union Church was held last night for the than one-third of the students put them- purpose of welcoming the Rev. and Mrs selves forward for examination. The reason. Kirk Maconachie.
measures.
Canon J. W. Horsley wrote: "I'once coined an epigram: Crime is condensed beer. One might now say Folly is consolidated coupons. (Loud laughter.)
won by a head, four lengths separating second and third. An objection lodged against Cuthbert for bumping and boring was sustained, and the nwarded to Berrilldon.
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your hands deeply in your other pocket. without reservation, and confidently making the remainder of the running for I assume that all those who come here to-day have come with both pockets full of money, so that when you empty the right hand pocket for the Wesleyan Church you can put your band in your left pocket for the native church. When you have emptied both pockets, Mr. Hone says he is not above accepting chits, be- cause he knows his congregation so well, and the public also, that he knows they will all be honoured. With these few words I declare the bazaar open. (Applause.)
The Rev. C. Bone then expressed their gratitude to His Excellency for coming to open the bazaar. He recalled the time when Sir Henry arrived in Canton fresh from Dublin, and pointed out how he had rison step by step to his present, position, and said that they both had been ani- mated, with levotion to do the best that they knew..
tribution or indemnity, leaving the details for subsequent settlement.
KAISER AND TENANT.
LONDON, April 2ud. Mr. J. A. Spender said that, generally
The Kaiser has come to an agreement speaking, the Press was ripe for the proposals in connection with advertise with his tenant, Sohst. The latter nents made in Lord Newton's Billrrenders the remainder of his lease and There was no habit which appeared to be kind of speculation, and they were all inder of the Crown of the Fourth Class, so universal in human nature as some receives £6,000 as compensation and the a considerable muddle about the ethics of the question.
THE GRAND NATIONAL Rathnally was scratched from Grand National to-day at 12.38 p.m.
the
RECENT PURCHASES OF FOREIGN
·STEAMERS BY JAPANESE.
The British steamer Zurley, 1,200 tons, recently purchased by the Liactung Steamship Company, has been renamed the Astmasan Maru.
The British steamer Dunblane, has been purchased by the Kanamori Steamship Co., Hakodate, at the cost of 1.240,000. She was formerly the property of the Dunedin B. S. Co., Leith, and was built in 1897 by Messrs. Ropner & Bon, Stockton. Her gross tonnage is 3,740 and
a net tonnage of 2,407,
Dr. To seconded the vote of thanks proposed by Mr. Bone, and this being carried, the business of buying and selling
mall w
The stalls were: Work stall (English), Crockery stall (English), Competition stall English), Sweet and flower stall (English), Refreshment stall, Bran tub. Fancy work stall (Chinese), art stall The following message published on The Kishimoto Steamship Co., of (Chinese). Drown thread work stal! (Chi- nese), Curlo stall (Chinese), Sweet stall March 2nd in the Daily Press explains the Dairen, have purchased from the British (Chinese), and perfumery stall (Chinese)- above telegrami: The Kaiser has again India Steam Navigation Co. the steamer
Concerts arranged by Mr. Wesley been defeated in a lawsuit against a tenant aroonga for registration at Dairen. Long, and Mr. B. Hamer took place of his Cadinen Estate named Schst. The She will be taken delivery of by the new during the evening, while a number of previous proceedings arose out of the refusal owners at Bombay shortly. The faroonga side shows were opened throughout the has a gross tonnage of 2,513 and a net bazaar. The band of the Minotaur was in tonnage of 1,609 and was built in 1882 at attendance and plaved pleasing selections
during the afternoon.
A pretty incident in the ceremonial pro- Glasgow by the A. & J. Inglis.
ceedings was the presentation of a special copy of the programme in silk by a Chi- nese lady to His Excellency,
The
A speech made by Mr. Gerald Welles ley, of the Eton Mission, created a little sensation. It was, he said, his conviction that no amount of legislation, good, bad, or indifferent, could make any difference to the amount of gambling that went on af Sehst to comply with an order of His the love of gambling was so ingrained in Majesty's Agent involving heavy expendi the British working classes. He was ture outside the terms of the lease. absolutely opposed to legislating against Kaiser was uniformly defeated and Anally
The Liactung Steamship Co. of Dairen, gambling, for that which had already gave Solst notice to quit on June 30th. The Leen passed had not been of the slightest Emperor declared at a meeting of the bave purchased the Austro-Hungarian German Agricultural Council that he was Alberta (4,040 tons) for delivery at Kobe, There were dishonest meu in most turning out Suhst because he was no good and intend to have her registered at trades, he added; but a more generous The Elbing Court on Friday decided that the Dairen. She is well equipped as a cargo-
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice and kind-hearted lot of men than the notice was illegal, the lease having five years boat, and will be employed as an ocean-
The Emperor's speech and the going steamer.
Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to The Company has bookmakers it would be impossible to find. He did not for one moment support protests of local agricultural associations re-christened her the fagosan Maru, acknowledge with thanks the following gambling, but the evil would be better have giren the matter the importance of a She was built in 1800 at Glasgow by donation to the funds of the hospitals:-
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