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JULY 24TH, 1996
Now, revolutions as a rule
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Mr. Tang Shao Fi, the veteran Chinese pendulum too far, the distance depend-statesman and diplomst, has gone to ing on the degree of hatred for the pre- Nanking. deding conditions. There is, after a time, & tendency to retrace the steps, because the saber elements begin to assert them selves, and so achieve a balance for, as a rule, it is soon realised that what has
The search by Professor Langner, the telepathist, for an article hidden in the City will take place on Monday after-
noon.
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Among the passengers, arriving by the been forsakan, is not entirely bad, nor 3.8. Ranpura yesterday from North is the new so entirely good. Adjustments China, were Major General C. C. Laard. are therefore made and equilibrium is CB, C.M.G., and Mrs. Loard. regained. This appears to he the posi tion with regard to Chinese education to-day. What seems to be forgotten, is that modern education in China as else where cannot be dissociated from political and economic conditions. It does not direct these phases of the nation's) activity, but is rather subservient to them
The wooden structure for bringing earth down from the ridges at Stubbe Road, above the Yeung Wo Nursing Home Happy Valley, which was partly destroyed on Monday, was blown away- in Thursday's gals,
A confiscation order was made, at the
to seventeen pistols, 960 rounds of am- Central Magistracy yesterday, in regard munition and 30 taels of opium, which were seized in an empty sampan "at Yaumati, on June 29th.
The total output of the Kallan Mining
Mr. Percy H. Suckling, of the Hong- Administration's mines for the week kong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, eading July 10th amounted to 48,391 tons returned to Shanghai from California and the sales during the period to 50,880 with Mrs. Suckling on the str. President tons.
Filson during the week-end. They are. staring at the Majestic Hotel.
The concert advertised to take place ut the Taikoo Club "to-night has been account of the damage postponed on caused to the roads in the vicinity by
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A total of 1,000 bags of mail arrived modern way, and revert to the classic
The return, with regard to notiâable at the Post Office yesterday morning, the system, it would surely be necessary to
diseases,-during-the-24-houra-ended-July-details-being-as-under-1- re-estabush the ancient examinations for gand, states that there was one CARO The P. O. steamer Macedonia had the purpose of selecting the mandarin (Chinese) of paratyphoid and one case and ocial class generally for it must (Chinese) of cerchro-apinal fever.” clearly be understood that the Chinese studied the ancient classics in the past, for precisely the same reason that, broadly speaking, Englishmen studied the classics at Oxford and Cambridge, namely, to qualify for various posts.
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During the absence on leave of Mr. K. Mackenzie, the duties of Hop. Secretary of the St. Andrew's Society will be carried out by Mr. R. O. Suther land, c/o Messrs. Palmer & Turner,
Amongst the passengers who left by the Empress of Russia were Mrs. A. Dyer Ball, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Tratman, Mrs. W. C. Passmore, Mrs. P. R. Warren, Mr. A. E. Wood, Mr.... Å. E. Mackenzie and Mr. F. C. Goodman.
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The Rev. John Watson, M.A., of Carden-place, Aberdeen, for 46 years "THE SEA GIVES UP ITS DEAD: foreign missionary with the English.
Four bodies, which were in Presbyterian Church at Amoy, and one of the pioneer missionaries in the posed state, have been picked up in the Fokien Province of Chine, left personal harbour. It is thought that these per- son's were victims of the storm on Mon- estate in Great Britain £1,195.
day morning.
Nominations for the vacancy caused on the Legislative Council by the absence of Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., who represents the Justices of the Peace, closed on Thursday. The only nominations were Mr. C. G. Alabaster, KC, and Dr, W. V. M. Koch. The election takes place at the Registrar's Offices, Supreme Court,
How then can a former official who secured his own post, not by a profound study of his own language, but by the study of a foreign classic, conscientiously on Monday afternoon. persuade a Chinese to forsake the study of a modern classic-English-a know. ledge of which might lead to a correspond- ing position of importance in his own Country if not in Hongkong, and this, apart from the fact that it opens up the road to Western scientific method, a rich literature, and Western philosophy sarely, no meap objects for the student to acquire.
our cultural
We regret to learn by cable of the Mrs. death of Mrs. Percy Morris.
mother of Mr. John Johnstone, former Morris was formerly Mrs, Johnstone,
head of Ewo in Shanghai-and-of- Mrs. N. W. Hickling, to both of whom our sympathy is extended. Mrs John- stone stayed in Shanghai for several 2 few years ago.-M.C. Daily
months News.
One body was that of a child found near Kowloon Dock Two bodies were picked up at Hunghom, and the fourth was found ficating near the Yaumati Ferry Wharf, Pottinger Street..
The condition of the bodies will make The remains were sent to the Mortuary.
identification hardly possible.
CRUDE FORGERIES.
CHINESE ACCOUNTANT”
CHARGED.**
-MAGISTRATE'S DOUBT.
before Mr. R. E.. Lindsell, the senior At the Central Magistracy yesterday,
accountant of the Cheang Kee money changing Árm, Queen's Road Central, was charged with uttering two forged Hongkong and Shanghai bank notes. Mr. E. S. C. Brooks defended.
on not clear.
Mr. Brooks contended that guilty know- ledge of the forgery as well as intent to defraud had to be proved before the defendant could be convicted.
gave the
he had had possession of them. forged notes to the complainant, or that
The Chinese must, of course, know his It was stated earlier this week, in De Luz-On July 13th at the Inter-own language, but we must be careful to connection with the report of Monday's national Hospital, Hankow to Mr. avoid the charge of hypocrisy in requir-storm, that the bursting of a nullah at and Mrs. C. DE LUZ, 1 son
A man, who took a $100 Borneo note ing him to pursue his classical studies West Point had the effect of undermin Coop On July 17th--at the General for culture only, while we combine, or had to be rescued by the police and the the two forged notes were handed to him" ing a house, from which the occupants to the shop to be changed, alleged that Hospital, Shanghai, DAVID ROBERT at least have combined COOKE, Chief Clerk and Official Receiver, H.B.M. Supreme Court, studies of Latin and Greek (not our day that the basement of another house
house shored up. It was learned yester. as part of his change
Evidence that the notes were forged Shanghai, aged 37, HAMILTON At Portsmouth, England,
language, English) with an eye to future in the same vicinity has now dropped one was given, the witness stating that the on July 22nd, 1823, THOM A Promotion. The Chinese presumably foot or so below the ground level. The
Workmanship was crude, and the impres HAMILTON, late of the Royal Army understand the importance of their own occupants of the house, all girls, have Ordnance Department, Hongkong.
language. It is hardly necessary for Buch vacated the premises. an obvious truth to be mentioned to them. We should think it strange, if, Justice) at the Supreme Court yester Before Sir Henry Gollan (the Chief
The defendant said he had been em-- while we were studying French, the day, Mr. H. G. Sheldon applied, on French teacher kept harping upon the behalf of Messrs. Nickel and Lyon, for They often bought and sold Borneo potes, ployed in the firm for seventeen years. importance of English studies, and in- extension of time to file share allot but he would not accept a note that was dicated that his services would be no
ments. He explained that the firm was fairly obviously forged. He had never longer at our disposal As Englishmen business solely in Kobe, Japan. A large by the firm. He denied that he
registered in Hongkong, but carried on known of any forged notes being retained we might not resent such remarks, but number of shares were not filed, this we should probably suspect the man's being solely due to omission, and as soon sanity. The fallacy of course lies in the
as it was pointed out by the Hongkong assumption that a Chinese, who has an registrar, the error. was immediately ardent desire to acquire a knowledge of rectified. Extension for seven days was English, is in danger of becoming de-granted. praved or at least of neglecting his own language and his own native culture. The luggage were seen off the Prays at shout Exciting rescues of both passengers and
the firm. truth is that a knowledge of English helps eleven o'clock yesterday morning, after to a better understanding of Chinese and the capsizing of a passenger boat. Ac- urged to go back to the vernacular provides the student with new standards cording to a report, a cargo sampan was studies, to study Contacius and Mencius, of comparison wherewith to measure the sailing from east to west in the Southern and meditate on the "Way of Life. Not value of the content of his own classics. Fairway when she was overtaken by the
content
steam launch Hoi Hong, which had two that, but above all things they must. It also opens up the path i
to a knowledge, eschew Western ways and Western learn which has put Western nations in the of wind caused the rails of the cargo boat After two days zain, on June 14th and- esche
passenger boats in tow. A strong gust ing, for that is the road to perdition 1. The LARGE EDITION, with Maps and Treaties... 812 Chinese student must know his classic, the Chinese are determined to acquire of the passenger boats. The latter craft in Bombay for the remainder of the vanguard of the world, a knowledge which to become entangled in the mast of ons 13th, the monsoon has been most feeble. spite of the revolution or the deliberate USAR
whether we wish them to have it or not. was capsized and precipitated its posten | month, which has been one of the most turning of the back on the old system. But, after all, why should we attempt to gers into the water. No lives were lost, unpleasant experienced during the last On Bale at
On the other hand, Mr. CAVALIER points dicate to them in a matter about which however, and a large quantity of the
decade.
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The proprietor of the firm gave evidence concerning the defendant's character.
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