Page
TILLATIONS
S. MOUTRIE & Co.,
The migh
LIMITED,
{
SOLE AGENTS
for the famous
WEBER & ALLISON
PIANOS
BRITISH-MADE THROUGHOUT.
NEW
MODELS
JUST RECEIVED.
INSPECTION INVITED.
Jeamer&&
Merchany of the Cast
NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S
“SQUARE BOTTLE "
WHISKY.
UNVARIED FOR OVER
150 YEARS. THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN
1745.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. ROLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,
and from ALL WINH MERCHANTS.
CHAPOTEAUT'S
[38
MORRHUSL
Superior to Emulsions or Cod Liver oil.
Each tiny Morehuol capsule re. presents the medicinal value of a teaspoonful of oil.
Recommended at the Paris Aca demy of Medicine, for loss of appetite and flesh, so patients with consumptive tendencies.
Gold in bottles of 100 Capsules. Gold by off Chemista.
**THE NEW FRENOH REMESTA THERAPION N0-1
EVRESDENCIA ROGLEYMURES WITHOUT IN KOTREBU
THERAPION No. 2
SULES FLOOD POISON, BAD 2209, 2018 ZRUPTIONS
THERAPION No. 3 VAR LAARZEN FRICK IN ENGLAND E
DELINS, LOST VIDOR EG
SEND STAME ADDRESS ENVELOPE & CURES SPREE BOOK TO DK. LE CLENE BÉLD.CO HAVERSTOCK ED, HAMPSTEAD, LINDOL FOR YOU, TRY NEW DRAGEE ĮTASTELERS) ZOZHOF MASY TO TAKE
THERAPIONE
AND
› WORD "THERAMONo 24 UM 54.
#BIKOOP FRUDS LEcstate ALGO ZRUTHE PACKETS
SPRET ON HAVING THERAPION.
ISITORS TO CANTON
Should Purchase
FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON.
BY THE PEARL RIVER,”
CAPTAIN C. V. LLOYD,
With Illustrations, Maps and Plans.
PRICE
Hongkong:
$1.75
On Sale at: "DAILY PRESS " Office.
esars, KELLY & WALSH, LAD fesura BREWER & CO. Mesra, A. S WATSON & Go
120.5
THE BEST DRINK IN HOT WEATHER.
Large supplies have lately arrived from London. COF ALL STORBKEEPERS.
MONTSERRAT
LIME JUICE
EATING POWDER
FT SOMETIMES. HAPPENS →
Mother? „Mockar!". Mathork Uwinkle Konting's nya? m
"And caught a hungry flow.
KILLS BUGS
BAR NDALL INSECTS." WAS
ASAHI
DAI NIPPON BREWERY
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 17TB-1914.
THE NEW ENGLISHMAN BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA.
APPOINTMENT OF A TRADE COM-
AND THE NEW EDUCATION
BY A WELLS.
Trade Commissioner placed under the proposed new Ministry of Commerce,
SHANGHATS MUNICIPAL
BUDGET.
810,795, leaving a deficit to be carried forward of Tis, 87,482,
The most noticeable feature in the ac counts of the Public Works Departucar is the heavy expenditure on the vikiuten ance of roads and footways, while the ex- penditure on stocks and stores-roa materials exceeded the estimate by Tla 157,898, owing principally to enhanced costs. Of the General Uharges. Ti6, 12,407 was the amount of the damage done by the typhoon,⠀⠀
*With regard to extraordinary expendi ture, the sum of Tis. 132,320 provided by the Budget for work on bridges, buildings and for land was not spent, the principul item being Tis, 50,000 for the extension of the Isolation Hospital and the Hospital for Indians
Expendituro nouating to Tla 54.920. for, which no provision was made in the Budget, was incurred by the laying of now sewers in various roads and the pur- chase of surplus land,
MISSIONER PROPOSED. HE The report of the Treasury of the Shang- bai Municipal Council For 1914 states that Advices from Fondon state that the the original Estimates submitted for the A few days ago Mr Harola Spender was
Chinn Association has decided to give its ratepayers approval involved the raising calling attention to a very significant fact warm support to the proposal for the of a loan of Tls. 600,000, this figure establishment of a British Trade Commis being subsequently increased to Tis. indeed. The higher education in England,sioner in China. It is pointed out that, 665,000 by the adoption of a resolu- and more particularly the educational pro- while it is true that there are at present tion dealing with the expotion of a cess of Oxford and Cambridge, which has commercial, attachés, the duties of a Trade building to be used as a tuberculosis been going eu continuously since the Commissioner will more especially relate hospital. The ordinary income total'ed Middle Ages, is practically in a state of
to stimulating local British trade of ac-18. 3,081,017 and the ordinary expendi suspense, Oxford and Cambridge have cepted lines of development and progress. ture Tis. 2,761.75%, leaving a surplus ou stopped. They have stopped so completely. The suggestion made that there could the ordinary Budget of Tis. 209,205. Ex- that Mr. Sponder can speculate whether be no better man for the post than Mr.traordinary expenditure amounted to 1ls. they can ever pick up again and resume Ainscough, who he just returned to Eng- 1,008,277 and extraordinary income to T upon the old lines, sh
For my own part, as the father of two
land and reported at considerable length song who are at present in mid-school, I
as to possible openings and developments, The latter rests with the British Foreign hope with all my heart that they will not. Office, but it appears that those who are I hope that the Oxford and Cambridge of supporting the idea would like to see such unphilosophical classics and little go Greek for everybody, den's mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all. Europe except Switzerland, forensic exercises in the Union Debating Society, and caut about the Gothic, the Oxford and
Cam-life our boys have had this training in bridge that turned boys full of life how not to get there by men who have and hope and infinite possibility never got there, and it would be into barristers, politicians, monulingual difficult to imagine any curriculum more diplomatists, bishops school-masters, con calculated to produce shirking incompe- pany directors, and remittanco men, tents. They have also, it happens, re- aro even now dead Quite recently Iceived a certain training in gror fire passed through Cambridge, and, with the through the collective necessities of school suggestions of Mr. Spender in my mind life, and a certain sharpening in the arts 1 paused for a time to savour the atune of advocacy through the debating society, phere of the place. I realised that he had Except for these latter helps. they have very greatly understated the facts of the hind to face the world with mint, neither case, the laid stress tipon the fact that mor, braced, nor more trained, nor more instond of the normal four thousand under-informed than any uneducated man's, graduates or so there are now scarcely four
MODERN LANGUAGE NEEDS.
The authorized silver Loan for 1015 was hundred. But before I was fairly in The first condition we must lay down for
Tl9. 688,000. Tenders were invited for Cambridge 1, realised that that gives no the new education is that whatever is debentures to the extent of Tls 400,000 iden of the real cessation of English undertaken must be undertaken in grim carrying interest at the rate of 5h per sent, education. Of the first seven undergradutessoarnest and done. It is ridiculous to talk per amum, and the whole issue was placed I saw upon the Trumpingtom-rond one was about the character-forming value of at a premium of 5 per cent. The applicn- black, three were coloured, and one of the any study that does not go through to an tion: received totaled Tls, 822,000, remaining three was certainly or British, and. Greek inust be dropped for the simple. As the result of the year's transactions but, I should guess, Spanish-American, reason that we have practically no com.the Council's liability on silver loans (ex- And it isn't only the undergraduates who petent teachers, and because the sham of cluding the Electricity Department) have have gone, Alf the dong of military age teaching it partially and pretentiously de- | been increased by Tis, 203.400, and quality have gone tou; all the vigorous moralists student and school alike. The The Loans outstanding for general pur- teachers; there are no dong left except presence of our clergy and so forth to poses at December 31st (Tls. 3,049,100). there who are too old or tuo fat or too “know” Greck ig one of the many cor- represent, 09.04 per cent of the year's or-, foolish to be of service and, of course, rupting lies in British intellectual life, dinary incone. since the Anglican clergy incite but do not English comic writers sneer at the Hindu fight, dong in koly orders. Buildings, who claimed to be a “ failed B.A.,” but Horaries, empty laboratories, empty lec-what is the ordinary classical degree na ture theatres veetiges, réfugees and eu of an English university but a failed trals; that is Cambridge to-day. ⠀ Greek scholar? Latin, too, must be either There never was before, there never may reduced to the position of a study sup be agar, so wonderful an opportunity for plementary to English, brought up to au a cleaning-up and sweeping out of those honest level of efficiency, or abandoned. two places, and for a profitable now start French and German are governess dan- in British education
guages any intelligent boy or girl from a reasonably prosperous home ought to be The cessation of Oxford and Cambridge able to read, write, and speak either be docy not give the full measure of the pre- fore fifteen; they are to be taken by the sent occasion. All the other British uni way rather than regarded as a fundamental versities are in a liko case, And the part of education. But there can be no public schools have been practically swept doubt of the great educational value of clean of their genio boys. And not a tithe some highly inflected and well-developed of any of this wer class of public-school language taught by wren to whom it es a boys will ever go to the universities uw venuine means of depression. Educational not a tithe of the war class of under needs, and public necessity, point alike to graduates will ever returu. Between the the alternative of Russian or Hindustan new education and the old there will be to supply this sound training. If Great a break of two school generations. For the Britain means business after this war, if next thirty or forty years an exceptional our country is to do its duty by the world, class of men will play a leading part in it will not stick at the petty expense of British affairs, men who will have learnt getting a few dreds of good Russian It is stated by the Council for 1015 that there from reality and less four lectures and Hindu teachers into the country, and the prospect of a reduction of the Muni than either the generations that preceded it will place Russian and Hindustanicipal rate, which was forehadowed at the or the generations that will follow them, upon at least an equal footing with Greek the subalterns of the great war, Their in all its University and competitive ex experiences of need, their sense of defici aminations: Moreover, it will set a de- encies, will certainly play a large part finite aim of application before its ma- in the reconstitution of British education, thematical teaching. It will insist that, The stamp of the old system will not be the first rendition of character building, on them.
in all these things the student shall do What sort of training should a univer-what bo ostensibly sets out to do. It will sity give to produce the ruling, directing, grant no degree and no position for half and leading in which it exists to pro- accomplishment. It will not permit ex duce? Upon that, the country should aminations to test whether a student has make up its mind speedily. It is not adone lessons is, for example, athe matter for to-morrow or the day after; it atics or Russian; it will examine to see is necessary to decide now what it is we whether he can compute or whether he
THE OLD SYSTEM, AND THE NEW,
|
The Report of the Overseer of Taxes shows that the ordinary revenue grows steadily year by year. The revenue from the foreign rates amounted to Th, 589,053, an increase of Tla. 5.812 over last year. The income from Chinese rates amounted to Tb. 547,637 against Tis. 773,631 in 1914.
THE THE BUDGET FOR J816,
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERSTM
CORPA ORDEER BY LT-COL, A. CHAPMAN, V.D.
MUSKETRY. 1.Company Sergeant Majors are ro
queated to obtain from Headquarters, as soon as possibles the scores unde by men in their units who fired at King's Park on 12th and 15th instant. Musketry, Part II, (Standard Test),
for all trained mon and Recruits. who have not fired it this season, will be carried out at King's Park Range on Sunday, 19th instant, at 9.30 am: 00s, concerned wil) 805 that every member of their Company or Section, who has not completed hts Musketry Course by then, fires on the above date. Corpl. Grimes, RE will attend. Uniform (Drill order) to be worn, T
FARADES -Parades for Friday, 17th instant.
3.15 p. Nos, 3 and 4 Sub-sections. Artillery Battery (as detailed in Corps Order No. 4, dated 30th. De- cember, 1915). 10 pdr. gun drill at Headquarters Sergeant Bradley, R.G.A.. will attend
5.15. p. Defaulters drill at Head
quarters, under Co, Sergt-Majon. Witchel
5.30 p.m. Engineos Co., Squad drill and Musketry exercises on Kowloon Cricket Club Ground, under Sergt Major Higby.
5.30 p.m. Musketry Instruction on Kennedy Road Range for the follow- ing:-Fte H. B. Pereira (Right- Section 1.G. Co.), Pie, H. B. Arnold (Left Section M.G, Co.) and Ptes, Bevington and B. A. Brand (Scou's Co.). Uniform (Dritt. order) to be worn. Service rifles. to be carried. Corpl. Grimes, R.E will attend,
5.15 p.m. Scouts Company-Parado outside Law Courts and proceed to Polo Ground by tram for Squad and Company drill.. Remainder, mil.
DETAIL 3-On duty to-night: Right Section
M.G. Cal
On duty to-morrow night: No, a Soo-
tion Artillery Battery. Orderly Offer from this morning to
24th inst.: Lieut, C. Smith,
G. E. STEWART, Ürpt).
Adjutant, H.K.V.0.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
RESERVES.
ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, COMMANDING.
Courts, Dress: Drill order. Signsh. ling Section at Volunteer Headquar- ters to be worn.
In the Budget the ordinary income, for the year is estimated at Tis. 3.227,850 und the expenditure at Tls. 2,801,950, leaving a surplus of Tis. 326.000. It is proposed PARADE FOR FRIDAY, 17TH INST., AT 3.15 P.M. to raise by debentures during the year tthe ***A” Co, on the road outside the Law, sum of Tis. 650,000 and the extraordinary income will mount to Els 1.006,000. The deacit carried forward from 1915 is Tls. 97.482 and extraordinary expenditure is recommendet aggregating Tis, 940,710, The land tax is estimated at Tls, 682.000 the General Municipai rate at Tis 1,480,700, wharfage dues fls. 150,000, licence fees 11s. 812.860, rout of Municipal properties Tls, 97.290, revenue from pubic and Municipal undertakings Tis. 170,000.
end of 1913, must, in view of increasing expenditure, remain only a prospect untij the question of Settlement extension, with which it has been associated, is an accous. plished fact.
The following are the items of the estimated ordinary expenditure-Volun- teer Corps, Tls. 59.030; Fire Brigade. Tls. 117.000; Police Force, Tls. 838,510; Health Department, Tls. 196,510; Health Works Department Tls. 775,520 Educational Department, Tls. 151.945; General Charges,
a 98,815,000 11
The estimated extraordinary expendi
need and wants and to set to work revising knows the language Aud if he cannot ture includes Tls, 17,5660 for bridges, Tis. the admission and degree requirements stand the tests of oral achievement, he and 41,160 for bundings, Tls, 65,120 for drain. and reconstructing all those systems of his teachers must stand aside. Que courage, s. 172.800 for land. Tls. 415.670 for public examinations for the public services try is no longer in a position to tolerate buildings and The. 225.000 for reads. The that necessarily dominate school and uni the expensive production of half-baked expenditure on buildings includes the versity teaching, before the universities minds and charioters,
second year's expenditure upon the new and schools reassemble. If the rotten old
Central Offices, and the cost of the addi- things once get together again, the
tional wing of the Isolation Hospital for rotten old things will have a new lease of
the care of tuberculous patients. life
This is the hour for educational Freconstruction.
CHARACTER AND CAPACITY. Now surely the chief things we need in the education of our ruling class are these
BEER-Fi, the selection and development of
CO. TOKIO
JAPAN
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE
BOLE-AGENTS.
MITSU - BUSSAN KAISHA. HONGKONG,
TO TALK LESS AND THINK MORE, But language and mathematics do not by any mean, round off the clucation of a man of the leading classes. The essence of education is philosophy; not, the anti- quated pretence of reading " Plato and Aristotic, but the thorough and subtle discussion of those great questions of life
All
P.
that most exercise and strengthen the Character, then the selection and develop. ind. A mind untrained in swift and All ment of Capacity, and thirdly, the impart. adequate criticism is essentially an unedu- - ing of Knowledge upon broad and concated mind, though it has na uinny Ian. prehensive lines, and the power of rapulty guages as a courier and as much compute taking up and using such detailed koot ties as a bookie. We want our young men ledge as may be needed for special occa to talk less and think more; we want less sions. It is upon the first count that our debating society and more philosophy, public schools and universities have been fewer prizes for forensic ability and more most open to criticiso. We have found for strength and vigour of analysis. The our university-trained class under the central seat of character is the mind: A fiery tests of this war a vacillating man of weak character thinks vaguely, a evasive, temporising class of people, indi
man of clear intellectual decisions acte vidualistic, ungenerous, lacking in initia with precision and is free from vacillation. Finally, as the third factor in education tive, and unable either to produce or obey vigorous leadership, On the whole, it is the handing and experience of know a matter for congratulation, it says win ledge, and of all knowledge that which is derful things for our inherent natatalist accessible, must capable of being hand- qualities, that things have proved no led with the greatest variety of educa worse than they ore, considering the maturi tiona) benefit, so as to include the criticism of the higher education under which we of evidence, the massing of facts, the ex- have suffered,
traction and testing of generalisations, lics in the two groups of the biological sciences and the exact sciences. From either of these one may pass on to research or to technical applications leading directly to the public service. The biological sciences lead through psychology and sociólový, to the theory and practity of law, and to political life. They lead also to medica and agricultural administration. The exact selences lead to the administrative work of industrialism, and general economics.
Consider in what that educational pro cess has consisted. Its backbone has bee the teaching of Latin by men who can read write, and speak it rathor worse than third-rate · Babu speaks English, and Ancient Gryck by teachers who at best half know this fine loss language,
They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by their students, and naturally therefore no real mastery is attained. The boys and young men jut muff about at it for three times as long as would he needed to master completa y bosh those tongues if they had “live” teachers, and so dequire babits of busy futility that haunt them throughout life. There sab also sterile mathematical studios that new; Ket from pedantry to practice. There a pretence of studying philosophy base on Greek texts that neither teachers to taught on read comfortably, and a certain amount of bistory. These have been the essentials of the mere pretentious typed higher education available in Great Britain up to the present. Through al the most sensitive and receptive years af
These are the broad clear lines of our educational accessities, plain enough to see, so that every man who is not blinded by prejudice and self-interest can see them today. We have nowy before us a phaen of opportunity that will never recur again, Now that the apostolic succession or mufing and pedagogic humbug is broken, and the entire system discredited, it seems incredible that it can ever again be recon- stituted in its old seats upon the old lines, In these raw, harsh days of boundless op- portunity, the opportunity of the unw education is certainly the greatest of all —Daily News and Leader,
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE,
LLOUTE MARCH, MARCH 24TH.
--
ranks will parade at Valunteer Head- quarters at 5:30 pm, sharp on Friday, March 24th, for Route March through Wanchai Police district. Uniform with Helmets, W
Patrolmen will be relieved ·· from Patrol duty this night, and will attend this Parade
MUSKETRY PART 11,
co. of the following Companies who have fired Ranges A to D will fired Ranges E and F on Sunday, 19th inst, leaving Blak, Pier as follows.
9.00 8.3-No. 2 Company. ~11:30 am-No. 3 Company,
2.30 p.m.-No. 1 Company (3rd and
4th Platopus)
Inspectors Alves. Wei Wing
Sirdar Khan wil cach
San and
worn six
*
·FIELD. FIRING.
Field firing will be carried out by mem
bers of B Co. on Sunday, 19th inst. Hongkong residents wil parade an the Cricket Ground at 8.45 am, and Kowloon residents and the Taikoo Section will parade at the Wharf, Old: Kowloon "City,ap 9.30 -0, Dress: Dail order. Food to be carried in laversacks and waterbottles to ba filled. Great-cents optional. All ment bers, incuding exempted members but excinding recruits who have not fired Parts I and II. Musketry Course for recruits must attend. Five signallers as detailed by Sergt. Mitchelmore will also attend.
PARADES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 25TH. Recruits on the Cricket Ground on Mon-
A
day, 20th inst.; Wednesday, 22nd inst and Thursday, 23rd inst., at 5.15 p... under Drill Instructor Sergt. Oxherry. Dreas: Drill order.
Signalling Section at Volunteer Head- quarters on Monday, 20th inst.; Wed- besday, 22nd iust. and Friday, 24th inst.. at 5.15 p.m. Uniform to be worn. " and "B" Cos, will parade on the road outside the Law Courts on Fri- day 24th inst., at 5.15 p... for battalion drill. Kowloon Dock and Taikoo Sectiong will parade on the Polo Ground at 6.30 pm, Dress: Drill orders Ne
MUSKETRY.
All members of "D" Co. who have not fired Parts I, and II. Musketry Course for recruits will attend at King's Park Range on Wednesday, and inst... at 2.15. p.m. Dress: Drill order. The following members will also attend:
Ptes. A, . Crapnell. D. Clark, J. W. White, D. W. Fratman, A. E. Wood, H. S Earle, WJ Hodgo, H. J. Sleat. W. H. Smith, J. Hunter. B.. Tanner, S. W. Bacon, and W. E Hewitt, Dress: Drill order,
PROMOTIONS.
Pto A. W. Bliss, late Co. Sergt.-Major R.G.A.. is promoted to the rank of Sergeant,
Le-Cpl. A. S, Graham is promoted to the
rank of Lance-Sergeant,
PORTINGS,
Sergt. J. Oxberry is posted to No 7 Platoon, B Co. ae Platoon Ser- geant.
N.C.O. for Range duties when their Sergt. & W. Bliss is posted to No. 8 Platoon, "B" Co. as Platoon Ser- respective Companies are firing.
geant.
PLATOON PARADES.
No. 2 Platoon, No. 1 Compaay. The mon who paraded on Tuesday, March 14th, will parade at Water Police Station. 5.15 pan on Friday, March 17th, in Uniform with caps.---
CHUNEK PARADE,
No. 2 Company will parade at Central at 4.20 p.m.,.ou Sunday, March 19tb. Uniform, hetasets with spikes. No rifies.
SAND~PRACTICE,
Friday, March 17th, at 6.15 p.m. sharp.
NEW MEMBRES AND NO. 4 COMPANY.
The following will attend in uniform at Contra for Squad Drill on Tuesday, Thursday, March 21st and 3rd: L. G. Ribeiro, Wilson, Tobine. Mah- mood, B. Mossa, A. Hassan, Caldwell, Bay, R, A. Remedios, and T. E. Rocha, The whole of No. 4 Company will also
attend. Chief Inspector Mar Sgt. Major Roylance, and Staff Mackenzie will attend each ni
F. C. Jaskim, D.S.P. (R.)
pector
DISCIPLINE, DE
Members are reminded that all parades
are compulsory, d
Any member absent from any parade with
out leave will be required to do extra drill, or guard duty,
· G. K. H, BRUTTON, Capt.
Adjutant, H.K.V.C.
NOTICE.
The photograph of "A" Co, old organi- zation will not be taken on Friday.. 17th inst., az notified. Date and time will be notified later.
The Times' Petrograd correspondent says it has been a favourite German ancer that the Allies have failed to help their friends. The Russians, military writers assert will now await the steps the Teutons will tako for the succour of Turkey in her desperate plight that may well cool her ardour in the Tenton cause.