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UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. IMPORTANT CHANGE IN SHANGHAI SCHOOLS.
ONE MIND AND ONE ARM. NEWFOUNDLAND AND IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
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The annual general meeting of the Mr. Chang Tso-bsinng, the new Chi-An important decision has lately been Direct rantribution from the Domin and specific encouragement of trado |China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ltd..
nese Minister to Tokio. and his suite, taken by the Shanghai Municipal Counions towards the cost of Imperial defenco was held at Shanghai on July 26th..
Mr. A. W. Burkill, the Chairman, who consisting of eleven persons, arrived at ci! and the Chinese Educational Cum within the Empire are among the Int presided, made sympathetic reference to Moji on the 22nd July on board the mitice, effecting a change in the stand perial reforms advocated by Sir Edward Ard of education in the Chinese publie Morris, Prime Minister, of Newfound the death in action of Major W. H. Dent,
Taicha. Murn,
schools of Shanghai, which is to take land, who arrived in England recently. who for some years held the office of
The new Chinese Minister stated as effect of January 1st, 1917 (says the He came by way of New York, whore $5,000,000 Superintendent of Agents. He proceed ed: Your attention has already been follows: The expectations he holds upon 3.-C., Daily News). Up to the present it he negotiated a join of
Sir Edward Morris, who represented drawn to the satisfactory condition of his rating over his new post are first of has been a matter of volantury decision (£1,000,000), chially for war expenditure.
When the Chairman all to strengthen the bonds of the friend whether Chinese students of the local
But Conferener of 1909 and again at the Im..... addressed you last year he referred to relations between China and Japan, public schools, underwent the Cambridge Newfoundland at the imperial Defence the fact that we has written down our le will do his best to effect this. With senior and junior examinations. investiment to the prices ruling on Marchgard to the parliament, though there from January nests it will be compulsory perial Conference and at the Coronation Whatever form of Imperial federation 31st, 1915, and had not availed ourselves are many discussions about the qualifica- for them to take the local examinations two years after, considers that:
come about, after the war. of the permission given by the authorities tons of its members these are problems for the University of Hongkong, the
to be solved by parliament, itself. When standard of which is based on the Univery at Home to take the prices on December parliament meets they will be discussed sity of London. Heretofore students who Council for Defence must immediately, b 31st, 1913, as the values to be placed on frst. The provincial assemblies will be hive bran prepared to qualify for the formed with contributions from the our securities. We are now reaping the restored after the parliament. With re- Cambridge examinations have found whole Empire. Up to the present, while gard to the political parties, it may themselves not fitted for entrance at the wo have an Empire population of benefit of our actum Inst year.
the United States and nearly eight times Our claims have been heavy this year probably be seen that there will be many University of Hongkong on account of 500,000,000, five times as large as that of
regard to the the difference in standard, beth as regards death claims and claims small parties. With
For British readers the importance of as large as that of Germany, the whole The claims by maturity facial problems, if the unity of the by maturity, were last year higher than they will be provinces is effected, and the provinces the Council's decision is that there will cost of defence has been bocu by the for some years to conte now. The inercase send in their respective contributions now b & direet incentive to Chinesa 45,000,000 of people in the British Isles. of claires by death is partly due to the there will be no difficulties in paying the students in this part of China to go on The Dortinious for the last two years have Fand a British. Consid on every sen or in fact that we love paid, or have provided work of administration of the Central and complete their education at Hong- huet the British flag, a British gunhont,
kong University. for the mynnit of, The 40,000 for claims Goyermserit.
The China Association are interested every port for the protection and develop- on lives lost while fighting for the Allies,
deeply, is the movement toward increas meal of their trade, and paid nothing for it. The Dositions were always ready and partly to that increase in mortality
ing the number of Chinese students which is evidently due to the strain and
ingkong Iniversity, and it is expected to contribute, but for simic reason the stress of the war and which has beep ex-
that a resident agent of the University matter was never dealt with. Now every |perienced, this last your by nearly every
will be appointed for Shanghai within part of the Empire recognizes not alone
The necessity, but also the justive of a., Company whose accounts have reached
contribution. a few weeks,
125.
JAPANESE MINISTER ON THE
CHINESE SITUATION. Ms. Hioki, the retiring. Japadres.) Minister to Peking, interviewed on vari-
THE DECLARATION OF WAR
England must. know to-day
Any contribution in aerficiat umat be under the absalttle control-of the central
where she is going to be tremorrow. power
There must be one mind and my arm. THUEE YEARS TOO SOON.”
It would be folly if a Dóminion were to Maior - General Sir Alfred Turner, participate in the contribution and after K.C.B. writes in a Horie paner, Three! wards reserve to itself the right to say years ago I left Sandakan. North Borneo, when and where and how that contribu for Hongkong in. a German Lloydtion should he used.
There were five transport available.
leaner, the Barnea, the only means of large steamers in the magnificent harbour of Sandakan as I leh it, every one of which flow the German flag.
The rate of interest earned on the mean fund is over 4.2 ter cut.. which is satis factory, and show's a slight increase overous questions in China, said: To solv the present complicated situation in last year..
It is a matter of congratulation that China it is an urgent ncerssity to accept the new policies issued slew a slight in-the views of 1 Southerners. With re- crease in sums assured over last year, gard to financial problems, it is first of and that the ratio of expense again shows all necessary to consolidate the Bank of a decreuse. This result we consider ishin and the Bank of Communications.
As to trade within the Empire, Inach very editable to our staff, which has At present provinces do not send in their The monthly
can be dour, but it is only when the Iwen omsiderably depleted by men going respective contributions. to the war, and we wish to express our expense of the Central Government is about $5,000,000, Unless a kind of about
Empire gets together that we shall appreciation of their hard work.
realize how vast is the trade hitlerio kent The Ger outside our boundaries by the enterprise We are paying buns at the same rate 50 or 60 million dollars is secured in as last year to policies maturing before mediately no consolidation is possible.
ons, with their push and running. had and trade organization of other coun- 1. feel I should To consolidate the whole finance, there December Blxt, ext.
ught up the Holt Blue Fannel line of į trius,...
Sir Edward Morris speaks with bride draw your attention to the fact that sings will be nond of a fund of at least 100 or the inception of the company we have 200 million dollars. There is a report steamers trading from Singapore to
that foreign bankers groups will get in Borneo, and had obtained nearly all thy of the quality of the Newfoundland paid the large sums of over T1s. 12,000,000 the U.8. By excepting Germany, but the trade from the latter, while one could troops. Two battalions are already come to our policy bolders.
only go from England to Borio, with over, and a third is in formation and The directors' report, together with the mater may be solved by the Powers con.
men fire being renared for the Nore. accounts and balance sheet In the year cerned. The reported negotiation withunt interruption and delay, by travelling will shortly follow, In addition, 2,000
in a North German Lloyd boat.
When news eanie to North Borneo by. For years Newfoundland has in ended March 4, 1916, were accepted Japan to raise a loan is a fact but until after parliament meets the loan cannot
wire, on that fateful August 1th, 1914, training mea for this run of the Service and passed.
that war had berá declared, an official of on its men account, under the servision he coeluded.
the North Borneo Government at Sanda- of British officers, on a British shin given kra went on board the North German by the British Clovernment. One result Lloyd steamer Sandakan, which was of the rent North Sea bettle was an
It was also decided That a dividend to shateholders for the year ended March 31st, 1916, be Taid and the same is hereby declared of Tis, 8,500 and that same be applied in paring pra tanto the capital uncalled on the shares."
Mr. C. R. Burkil was re-elected director of the company.
It was also agreed that the. financial your of the company shall in future coin- eide with the English calendar year, and that the next statement of accounts shed be for the period of nine months ending
Decaber 31st, 1916
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AN INTERESTING CODICH OF THE WILL
"Amongst the bills which came before the House of Commous Examiners of Private. Bills was une to revoke a codicil of the will of the Right Hon. Ceci) ··· Rhodes wider which the Rhodes Scholar- ships were founded. An adjournment was whether the measure should proceed as a agreed on it onder that the question publie or a private bill might be deter-
which is us follows: mined. The preamble quotes the codicit,
***I hole, the German Emperor has
in German schools. I have five yearly
made instraction in English compulsory
captain that war had her declared. The German startled skipper, who was
sta officers exclaimed. Between Between Great Britain and whom t A proposed display of cinematography Germany," said the official. The agital- films of the war by Frederick Coleman,
ed German threw up his hands and cried who recently arrived in Manila after a
Three years before Germans rarely WAS intended." period served with the British army in, Mein Gott!
1.) their France, has been prohibited by the munitieed have given expression eipal board which has sustained the Chief of Pulier in his action as consor of cinger feelings like this feelings that lay hidden and strong in every. Tentonie SHANGHAL DOCK & ENGINEERING matograph flus.
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Well indeed for us is it that war caud In stating his opinion on the matter to the muricinal board the chief of police when it did. Not long before the war The toitli onnal general-meeting of says that having authority
a friendly visit to North Borneo. They the Shanghai Duck & Engineering Co., films he has refused permission for the Admiral Von Spee and his quadron nais Ltd., was held at Shanghai on July 25th display of partisan pictures dealing with anchored in Marcht Bay-a magnificent
My. John Prentice (Chairman) said or alleged to-be events of the great war Under the existing conditions using to now in progress, in the interests of good inlet on the north--and were allowed to There is not the smallest doubt that the war I think you will agree with your order and peace in the community.Ifad and prospect as friends and guests. directors that the result of the year's the lectures is as he stares," says the North Borno, with its splendid har working may be considered satisfactory, Chief, an American citizen and hasure, its ri coalfields, and its ener The net profits for the year including the violated neutrality by serving with the mus power of development, was intendscholarships at Oxford of £250 per amount brought forward from last year, British army in France, in violation fed to become a Geraian colony. It would anuum to students of German birth, The and profit on sale of part of our land, the President's neutrality proclamation have furnished her with aruple and ex-scholars to be nominated by the German
Yellent coaling stations, which she so Emperor for the at the International Dock, after paying it is extremely unlikely, and in all marges and allowing for all known opinion impossible for him to deliver cided in the East while she had steamers scholarship to continue for three years. liais. lities, amounts to Tls, 603.137.70. impartial lecture." The Chief of Police
be useless to liv
there will be fifteen scholars. The object whit your directors, recommend should thinks such a series of fils would be to wal. Now and in future such would, so that each year after the first three
| right and proner in British territore or be dealt with as follows:-
is that an understanding between the in territory of one of Britain's allies.
three Great Powers will render war in- Pay a dividend of Ts. 7.30 ber
possible, and educational relations mako... share, absorbing
414,000' where it might pasist in recruiting armed
the strongest fie." Place-to-n-special reserve fundi 130.000 forend or contributing to the financiel 39,137 welfare of the combatuts, but that in Curry to new account
Depreciation--You will remember that would be most distinctly out of place aid
SIR NAM HUGHES EVIDENCE. at the meeting held on the July 10th, would serve to no good burple in 1912, 1 told you that we had decided to Marila. He recommended that the per-
Considerable surprise has been caused take Tls. 300,000 from the reserve fund mit be denied. The Municipal Toard ap and place it to the credit of a deprecia moved the recommendation hnt posted throughout Canada by Sir Sam Hughes' tion fand which would be debited with the papers to the Governor General for strong denunciation of Sir Courtenay Bennett, the then British Consul-General any sume deemed necessary or advisable anal action,
No excuse of any kind will in future be in New York, with other British agents, to write off the book value assets of the
as trying to defeat the work of the Cana Accepted for absents from or unpune- company. This fund in our accounts for
dian Imperial Shell Committee to reduce tuality in attending Police duty, unless the year ended April 30th, 1915, stood
the prices of supplies and paitions to intending absentees (a) obtain the certi- Tls. 152,840.05. At a meeting of directo
the British Government. This came out, fieste of the Surgeon Superintendent or held on June 18th last, it was decided
during the Minister of Militia's examina such other emergency medical certificate to transfer the Tls. 500,000 remaining
the Surgeon Superintendent may the credit of reserve fund to the depr
tion at the Royal Commission at Ottawa, as which is inquiring into the charges that subsequently deem sufficient, or (b) pro- eiation fund, tits, bringing it up to T 952,810.05, from this we have written off The minimum penalty provided by law graft and improper commissions were vide an efficient and unpaid subsitute, books, buildings, machinery, etc.. Tls for the offence of illega importation of allowed in connection with the letting of or (c) in person satisfy the Officer in 600,772.23, leaving the amount of opium was imposed by Judge Harvey, contracts for munitions and supplies for Charge of the Charge Roon that illness Sir Sam makes it impossible for them to perform 352,057 at the credit of the depreciatio at Manila on July 28th, upon Madame the Imperial Government. fund
Madeleine Frieche, the court sentencing Hughes denied the charges absolutely, the duty. We have ar present a considerable her, after plea of guilty, to two years and intinrated that they orginated with
The following units of the Police amount of 'work in hand, but the di imprisonment and payment of 1,000 pesos, Sir Courtenary, Bennett and his friends. Reserve will parade on the above date. culty in getting materials is causing Striking dramatic attitudes, Madame who were interested in keeping prices as
for a Route March There are lots of inquiries in the Freiche Irarangued Judge Harvey in high as possible so as to carn huge com-
Band; Nos. 1, 2, and Companiess market, and once the restrictions regard- Castilian. She made a grandiloquent missions.
With regard to this, Sir Sain Hughes Ambulante Platoon; Mounted and Motor ing materials are withdrawn I have no ples for judicial merey, stating that she
Fall in doubt we will secure orders at satisfac was unaware that opium, 10,000 pesos of said: "A ring of British agents in New Patrols and Masini Giners. tory prices.
which was found in her possession upon York set to work publicly and privately in Column of Platoons on the Praya near- defame everybody who dil Queen's Statue at 6 pm. sharp. Uniform her arrival from Hongkong on Chinhua, was on the contraband list, not deal with them. This campaign with helmets and rifles.
Bennett's All patrolmen except Water Police will she was released immediately following emanated from Sir Courtenary
The Police Reserve Band will fall in pronouncement of sentence, on 3,000 pesos hirelings in and around New York. attend.
Some of this trash has been brought up being furnished by friends,
at the same place at 5.30 p.m. here to-day."
F. C. JENKIA, D.S.P. R.).
The report and accounts were adopted, and the directors authorised to pay a dividend of Ts. 7.50 per share.
Mr. John Johnstone, and Mr. R. S. F.
McBain were re-elected directors.
ENOUGH,
Enough for me (a year ago).
A. tropic sky, the China sea Green padi field and rubber tree. And palm leaves flapping to and fro about
my shady bungalow- Enough me.
To-day a dugout on a height
Above a shadeless plain-its three By eight and leaky ne can he
MACGREGOR&Ca. And rats and frogs come in at night:
"(SOLE AGENTS,
25, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
sounds a bit mouldy, yet it's quite Enough for me...
(KLIP KLIP, in B.N.B. Herald.)
A Socialist speaker protested in the Beichstag against the payment of the
OPIUM SMUGGLING IN MANILA
WOMAN FROM HONGKONG.
J CONVICTED.
the to
A petition for Madame Freiche's pardon may, it is said, be presented to Governor General Harrison,
SHIPPING NOTES,
A NEW RECORD IN SHIPPING.
Sir Sam Hughes said that Colonel Allison, who was assisting him, had secured options which would have Raved the British Government $100,000,000, with the result that these rival agents started to defame him. Bir-S
Hughes also declared that there also existed an ammunition ring in New York which held
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE,
PATROL DEUTY.
The A. P.D. Orders are again published: for the convenience of members:
AUGUST 4TH.
MANCHURIA AND THE RUSSO: JAPANESE COMPACT.
the price to $40 when Lord Kitchener was The gentry and the people of both pro The str. City of Carinth (Captain R. calling for large supplies from the vinces of Heilongkiang and Kicin have N. Gordon), of the Bucknall Line, which United States, this ring claiming to con-organised a society called Liangtu Pa arrived in Rangoon on July 2nd, is the trol the output of every ammunition fac- chuan Hui, or the society to preserve the, first vessel to do the voyage from New tory in the United States. He had sent territory and to study the new Russo... ng Japanese compact. They havo found that York direct to India. She left New York for Colonel Allison to smash the ring," bound for Calcutta on the 22nd April with the result that within three days he the now compact does not contain any last, and came by the Cape route. She had introduced compeition which forced encroachment on Chinese territory, but is brought with her over 500 motor-cars. Of the price down to 233, the lowest price at to protect and preserve the territory, these 140 were for Rangoon, being con which the War Office had bought ammun- and the society has abandoned the idea to Bigned to different firms. An unusual tion since the war, thus saving the Bri- warn the Peking Government, though it
intended to do so at first. tecture of interest in the vessel is the tish Government. 300,000 dollars. fact that she is fitted with a patent supers heating apparatus by, which the steam
ry of the German Colonial Secretary enters the pipes at over 700 degrees "in the present conditions when his whole position is in the air."
This, of course, means an Fahrenheit.
normous saving of coal consumption.
Don't borrow trouble; almost anyone will gladly give it to you.
Nothing is wasted in this world. Where gus escapes it goes into the