NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU-
FACTURING CO., LTD,
N INTERIM DIVIDEND Of ONE A DOLLAR (81) pe Share for the six months ling 30th June 1916, will be Pagable MONDAY, the 28th August, 1918, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained at the Company's Chice,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the
Eri August, 1916, to MONDAY, 28th August,
3516, both lays inclusive.
HOUSES TO LET
OFFICE TO LET
NE LARGE RO031 on the Top Floor of
No. 2, Queen's Building. Apply
THORESEN & Co. Hongkong, 14th August, 1916,
TO LET.
(900
DOWN in Duddell Street. Light and Airy ), ces overlooking Statue Square.
Moderate rent, SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General MarŽETA,
11020 Hougkong. 15th August, 1916.
ORGAN RECITAL
en
MONDAY, 21ST AUGUST,
AT 9.15P.M.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
Vocalist:
For rent arr other particulars apply to- Cure of Daily Press " Office. Hongkong, Zatlɛ July, 1916. (940
A
Ats. W. J. HILI.. Hakong, 17th August, 1916.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned? live received jastruc- rion from the Liquictors of Cus. J. Gaver & Co, to sell by Public Auction..
ON TUESDAY,
the 22nd August, 1916, commencing at 2.30 PM, on their Premises, Alexandra Buildings, Chater Road,
FITTINGS AND FÜRNITURE,
Comprising
Show Cases by Sage, London,
Counter Cayes by Sage, London,
Double Dial Show Clock.
Paste Glass Window Fittings.
Dessa Filing Cabinets: Watchmakers"
Diamond Scale?~~-
Work Desks: Watchmakers and Jewellers' Ts and Repair Material; Remington Typewriters No. 10.
Sundry Lots.
Also
Large Jewellers' Safe, by Chubh, London;
Ac..
40.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue}
Ou View frous 19th August.
Catalogues will be issued.
Ten-Cash.
Hongkong, 17th August, 1916.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
TO LET.
on let No. Queen's
Road Central (In Ice House Bireet). Apply to
WILKINSON & GRIST:
891
TO LET.
in PRINCES
BUILDING.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17t¤, 1916,
Fce partionlara, eto,, apply- THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE,
LTD.
TO LET.
From 1st May,
INTIMATION
| Britain could obtain the whole of the varied accomplishments, they were quite motor power now used from one-third inoxpable of producing that invaluable the quantity of the coal which is actually product "an English gentleman." This. consumed for the purpose.. It is further is undoubtedly true, but the English estimated that in the various stages of system hitherto bas been too one-sided. consumption and in the making of by In addition to providing Pro-Consuls products as much coal is wasted as would for the administration of the Empire's pay the interest on 500 millions sterling affairs, we must see that the son of the ROBERT PORTER & SON'S after the war. The reason for this is not workman is given the special knowledge that we do not possess men of the highest. he requires in his trade, and provide for scientific attainments, but that, we have our manufacturers a sufficient number not enough individuals possessing the of expert employés for the maintenance NECESSATY scientific knowledg" to
industries. g and development of our round. The appalling waste of talent is Now, whilst the people are awake to the indicated by the following figures. In need for action, is the time to initiate England, out of 2,750,000 boys and girls | the negessary reforms; Money will be between the ages of 12 and 16. only required for the purpose, and it should 1,100,000 <receive any further education | not be given with a niggardly hand, for, after they reach thirteen years of age, invested in this dirretion, it will repay Of the remaining 1,060,000, the great balk the nation a thousandfold. Caré educated only for a very short time. mostly in elementary schoots up to the
BULL
DOG
LIGHT ALE
885
IN
PINTS
AND SPLITS.
OFFICES, 2nd Floor. St. George's Baild-
Arply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
TO LET..
(616
ROCKLANDS," No. 7, Bobinson Road.
Apply
M. J. D. STEPHENS,
18, Bank Buildings
[800
TO LET.
HOUSE, in Observatory Villas, Kowloog,
Apply to-
ARBATOON V. APCAR & Co.,
14, Des Vosur Road,
(811
(1029
TO LET.
R.
FFICES on 1st Floor, No.3, Queen's Road
The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd,
Apply to- CHÎNĂ FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of |
tt letting by Public Auction Sale, to
by bold on MONDAY, the 21st day of
TO LET.
Aragust 1916, ut & P.x., at the Ofices of the OFFICES in Prince Building
Pontic WorkS DEPARTMENT, by Order of Et EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Ona Lot of CROWN LAND at The Peak, in Colony of Hongkong, for term of 25 yeım, with the option of renewal ot CROWN RENT to be fixed by the SurveYOT of His MAJESTY THE KING, for our-farther tera of To years.
Marof Aula
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Reggiatry So.
Locality.
Haltdars
Manurements [Approximates
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Homadzong, 11th August, 1916.
Annual Bent.
Upast Price
₤1004
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI RANKING CORPORATION.
THE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the faf Year ending 30th June. 1916. at # this Rate of TWO POUNDS THREE SHILLINGS STERLING pe: Share, is Payable on and after MONDAY, the 14th y of August, Current, at the Crices of the Corporation, where Sluraliolders uré réquent- ed to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager.
Apply to-
(822
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators, REUTER, BROCKHLMANN & Co
(67%
TO LET.
KYO.4, DER VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
First Floor
Russian Consulate,
· DAVID SASSOON & Co., Lưry. (415
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
محل مور ده
THE LATE MR. A. E. DAVEY,
FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY. Amid many
manifestations of dep sorrow and regret. the interment took place at Happy Valley fast evening of E. Davey, Acting Assistant Mr. A. Harbour Master of Hongkong, who died at the Government Civil Hospital on Tuesday. The carlège arrived at thin Monument shortly after 6 p.m., thiso including H.E. the Governor, the Hon. taking part in the funeral procession
Mr. Claud Severn- (Colonial Secretary); Sir William Res Davies (Chief
|
Justice); Rev. T. W. Robinson; Comman der Beckwith, R.N., Colonel Chapmau;
A mail for Europe i Siberia closes Hall; today at 3 p.m.
As will be sim from our advertising
Major Macdonald; Lient. Hutchison (A.D.C.); Capt. G. G. Woul; Capt. Wolfe; Capt. Russel; Capt. Armstrong's Capt. James Capt T. Arthur; Lieut.
Lieut. Wright Sergt.-Major Higby and Messrs. W. H. Dodwell; T. age of R Only 250,000 attend proper
Hough; E. V. D. Parr; R. M. Dyer, E. acondary school, and they only de so
Rolphs;. A. Skelton: W. Nicholson, J. for a short period in most cases, Thus
H. Wallace: T. L. Perkins; B. A. Hale; quantity as well as quality is deficient.umns, the next urgan recital will be
given in St. John's Cathedral on Mon-H. Murray Bain; H. T. Richardson, etc. Between the ages of 16 and 25 there are
day, at 9.15 pan. The collection will be in England and Wales 5,350,000 who get in aid of the Navy League War Fund. no eduention at afl. Only 9,000 have a full-time course for a period which is
A untive paper says that the British generally very bort; and 390,000 have a | Minister in Peking has sent in a despatch part-time course in evening schools. to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs con- cerning the establishment of two British Consulates at Aihun and Huluo, Man- buria, for the protection of British interests,
What chance," asked Lord HALDANK, "have we against other nations which procved on a different plan, and thereby have the power and knowledge to stimu late industrial capacity and activity!. In England each year 18,009, and in Scotland, which does much better, 7,77 & enter university institutions, That
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG,
Talupkon= 16.
Posogona Orfien: '101, Dra Vœux Rhari, E. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FIRST STREET, EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 17th Aroust, 1916.
THE NEED OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM.
-
Arising out of a neighbours' quarrel in Aberdeen Street. a Chinese was charged at the Hongkong Police Couré pester day with throwing corrosive fluid over clothing which was banging on the clothes tiny He was sent to, prison for six weeks with hard labour.
LADY.
STRUCK WITH A BUCKET:
A night coulie was summoned for assaile at the Hongkong Police Couri yesterday, the complainant, being Mrs. Frost. 1, Kimberley Villas, Kowloon. Mrs Frost, in the course of her evidence, said that she had, had a great deal of trouble with the man, who did not do
a deplorable state of things. "A great responsibility will rest on our rulers if they do not take the lead in availing of that vast TCMervoir of undiscovered talent, which may contain men and COOLIE ASSAULTS EUROPEAN women who would raise the genius of the country in every walk of life," The cruix of the whole matter is to deal with young people between the ages of 13 and 18. Continuation schools must be dove loped, secondary schools improved, and education generally made more interest- ing by showing its practical value and the great tued that there is for it. It is of course, open now to a clever boy, by means of scholarships, to make his way fran 'the Board School to the Secondary School, through the University, to the highest position in the land, but this fact does ant disposes of the national, problem, and a ninch stronger link tween the elementary, and secondary schools will have to lan forged if anything practical is to be done towards provente" ing the youth of the nation from drifting into those "blind-alley occupations," which, after a few years, do more than anything else to swell the number of the
Nur
THE COMMODIOUS DWELLING JUr as the weaker parts of any machine HOUSE, with Offer, Servants' Quartar, eta, No. 14, SHAMEEN, Canton, from 1st Jums, at will le detected under abnormal pressure, present in the coerpation of the Imperial : was to be expected that defects in employed" and unemployable.
British methods, administrative anal must it be forgotten that the struggle Apply 1
commercial, would reveal themselys which the reating of a family entails powerful 'during the stress and strain of the past upon the poorer classes has a two years. If we are tu profit by the bracing upon this vital quration, inas- lessons which recent bitter experiencs much as obliges them to send their has taught us, we must, while waiting children out into the world to become for that altimate victory which we know wage-earners as soon as the law alloys, is assuré. take steps to remedy those When this great difficulty has been over- defects in order that we may not become the minor questions will settle
unprepared for peace as themselves.
TO LET.
FFICES at 2, Connaught Road.
GARDENS,
OFFICES is King's Buildings. HOUSE
CLIFTON Conduit Bood
No. 1, and 9, WEST END TERRACF, { fon CANTON. Appir➡
THE BUNGEONS LAND INVEST. HNT a adler Co. L
12.
his work in a proper manner. She had cause to correr him on Tuesday, where
Tecame very abusive, Sopron Te
He gripped her by the arm and also struck her on the head with a húcke:
The coolie alleged that he was kicked
The bearers were Lieut.. Daily and Inspectors Gordon, Simm. Clarke, Wilden and Ps. Pitt, and the services was conducted by the Rev. T. Featherstone.
W.
There was a large number of beautifu? floral tributes, among those sending wreaths being the following: Sir Henry and Lady May: Harbour Master and European Staff of the Harbour Office; European Revenus Officers; Staff of the
Beckwith: the Attorney-General; the. Imports and Exports Office; Cammander
Bank Line: Butterfield √ Swire: Shewan, Tories & Co., the Osaka Shosen
Kaisha: From his babes"; the Corin- thian Yacht Club; the Chinese Clerical
Staff at the Harbour Department; the Nippon Yusen Kaisha; From. Lester and Mam ”; the Asiatic Petroleum Conn- pany: the Swedish Trading Company, and many others,
4.
The late Mr. Davey compenced his career in the seafaring profession as a cadet on H.M. training ship Conway,. and he came to the East many years ag as an officer in the China Navigation Co. He left the service of that Company in 1907 to join the Harbour Office in Hongkong as if Boarding Officer, and at the time of his death held the appoint. ment of First Boarding Officer and wak reting as Assistant Harbour Master. He also held the rank of Lieut.-Com-
by complainant before he became angry.mander in the Royal Naval Reserve.
A fine of $0, with the alternative of one month's hard labour was imposed.
JEWELLERY HAUL.
MAN AND WOMAN CHARGED AT HONGKONG,
Early this week the Hongkong police received a report of the theft of 9,900 worth of jewellery from the residence of Chiruse in Caine Road, Inquiries were set on foot and a man and wemah
Mr. Davey was highly esteemed both in the Harbour Department itself and among shipping men generally as a most capable and obliging officer. Since the outbreak of the war, Commander Beck- with has had in him an ideal assistant, and by his death the Harbour Depart- mut suffers, a severe loss.
For some time past, the late Mr. Davey had not been in the best of health, but it was only a week ago that he went into hospital, where an examination revealed internal trouble which, unhappily, had
a fatal terraination.
HOW TO "SAVE
SITUATION.""
THE
were arrested in connection with the robbery. At the Hongkong Police Court yesterday the two were charged with the theft, and it was stated that when the police recovered the missing 22,900 - worth of jewellery, they also discovered an additional $2,013 worth of jewellery which had not been reported, missing. The police are, suspicious regarding the second haul, and the man and wowad were remanded in custody for further reliable source states that it has been inquiries to be made.
OPIUM FROM GLASGOW.
STOPPED AT HONGKONG..
SEPARATE FRANCE FROM HER: ALLIES.
Ag Italian wireless message from
wore for war. The Economic Con There has been inuch discussion regard- forence of the Allies was the first step ing the relative importance of the in this direction, but the more closely humanities and sciener in the educational the problesus vaufronting es, are studied curriculumu. Undoubtedly, in the past too the more apparent it becomes that they much stress has been laid upon tho vals TO LET.
cannot be completely adved merely by of dead languages. Practically all the TWO
"TWO_BOOMED-FLATS ix-Nathan Bond the imposition of tarifs. In trade, that scholarships in the Universities are nation is inevitably left behind which |alented to the professions,” and even Kowloon. THREE-ROOMED FLATS in Humphrey's does not efficiently train and equip its yet it is necessary for a science student Buildings. Kowlora.
FOUR-XOOMED FLATS in May Road people for the struggle, and it is because to waste a year in the study of Greck if with every modern ovine, inleding of the recognition of this fundamentil he wishes to take a degree at Oxford. English Baths and Elkaksu Rangok, Hot Water and Water Cheelago Byslera.
Truth that we have read with plensate He acquires a smattering of the tongue NE or TWO LARGE HOUSES at lower Flata pocially doigned to accommodate are the reports of the debate, upon our cause he ruast, and forgets it as quick-stopped at Hongkong on Tuesday, and the spring of 1017, We have no other Educational system which was initiatedly as possible when the examination is at the Hongkong Police Court yestermans of saving the situation than by FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordon in the House of Lords recently bypassed. Such anomalies should be swept day P.S. Clark, who made the discovery, separating France from her Allies."
that acknowledged authority. Viscount away: Germany, it is true, has furnish-charged a Chinese with being in possen HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANOS HALANE. It is known that we have suf-ed us with a warning of the evils results of the drugs
Hongkong, 12th August, 1916.
WANTED AT OSCE
(1011
bill districts nourby Botanical Garden bashalors at reasonable renkulu, *preferred.
Apply to--
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD. Hongkong, 15th August, 1916. (1014
WANTED.
EUROPEAN NURSE, by English family
in Thingtan, to take charge of thres Children, aged 4.3 and 1. Good wages, Healthy climate..
Apply to
Mss. LOOKER, 116, The Penk
1998
Hongkong, 31th August, 1916
FOR SALE. “
ANE 101 RH.P. HORNSBY ACKROYD
OIL ENGINE complete with and; egapled direct to ona 6 X.W. Costianon Cayment Shast Wound Dynamo of 50/70 volts with absint regulator,.
ONE Arao
SWITCHBOARD ACCUMULATORS, DYNAMO, da, Domplate
with instruments for 100 Amps,
For further particulam apply to---
Immediate
pomestica.
Terrass and Balisbury Avanus, Kewioen.
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Oo., Lo Alexandru Buildings
11006
VISITORS TO CANTON.
Should Purchase
"FROM HONG KONG TO- CANTON BY THE PEARL RIVER,"
UZ
CAPTAIN C. 7. LLOTD.
With Ilustrations, Maps and Plan
PRICE
$1.75
for
Bongbong:
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
[
́Alexandre Buildings
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On Sale at:-
Derly. Press " Office! Mossen, Kater & Walsa, Las Mesara, Berwas & Co.
Baaton:
· Mauru.-A. 8. Wersor & On
A quantity of opium which had travelled all the way from Glasgow was
ascertained that a steret council was re- cently held i Berlin, all Ministers participating. The Imperial Chancellor stated:Our situation everywhere is serious, If all goes well we can resist for some months, and if the people are. satisfied with little we can hold out fil
COMIC WAR. MEDALS.
P.S. Clark said that on Tuesday he fered severely during the war from lacking from an educational system which
Mr. G. E., Keeper of Coins at of experts, but, as Lord Haase remark is built upon a strictly utilitarian basis, boarded the s.s. Kaight Companion ed, it is no use telling manufacturers to but, without following that lead, there is which had arrived from Glasgow the British Museum, showed some of the for a compromise under Cape Town, and in a tank in the after-latest war medals struck in Germany to
the Royal Numismatical Society in Lon employ more chinists if they are not surely room available. Our existing machinery is not which men may be trained according to part of the ship hi found 100lbs. of don a month aga
The real value of ray opium and 45 taels of prepared All had a comic interest, he said. One- equal to training the number required, their aptitudes. and, consequently, there are only 1.500 humanistic education," as the Earl of opium. Must of the opium was hidden showed Neptune scrambling on a sub- marine and shaking his fist, apparently in about six inches of cement and had in impotent rage, at someone who had trained chemists in England. The in- CROMER very cogently pointed out, is
Another repre adequacy of this total is realised when to create a certain atmosphero' of to be excavated. The police, he added, thrown him overboard."
sented Count Zeppelin flying over Tower had previously received information to
Bridge, gloating over the spectacle, of it is added that four German chemical thought and to give the whole, upper
the effect that the opium had been put London in flames. Another pictured" firms, who simply played havoc with our educated mind of the country a certain
on board at Glasgow.
Death sitting in the Cunard offices (after After seeing
the sinking of the Lusitania) selling trade, employed between them "no fewer direction and tendency."
The defendant gave the excuse that he
tickets to neatrals, the inscription read than 1,000 chemists. Other striking the work which the young men from our
was carrying the opium for somebodying illustrations have been given of the Universities have done in the Nile delta,`
else, but this was not believed. For handicaps imposed upon Great Britain in the sands of the Sudan, and in India, being in possession of raw opium be by her past neglect of educational re-he declined to convict our educational was fined $1,000 with the alternative
While form. An export calculation has shown system of - 'failure,"
German of six months' imprisonment, and a similar penalty was imposed in regard that, by adopting proper methods, Great Universities turned out men of very to the prepared opium. ⠀⠀
Business as usual." The fourth was the only really artistic one, said 31r. Hill, because it truly represented the Crown Prince as a regenerated type.
The president (Sir Arther Evans) offered a prize for the best design for a medal to commemorate the great British naval victory off Jutland.