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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932.
THE UNIVERSITY CONGREGATION
VICE-CHANCELLOR STRESSES DESPERATE
NEED OF SCHOLARSHIPS.
.PICKED STUDENTS' MUST BE SENT TO BRITISH
UNIVERSITIES AND WORKSHOPS.
That there was no truth whatever in the rumour that the Eduestion Department and the University were sooking to abolish thọ teaching of Chinese from this schools of the Colony and from The University was a statement made by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Sir William Hornell, in the course of his spech at the twenty-third congregation of the University.
Sir William referred to the opening in September last of the Tang Chi Ngong School of Chiness. He also mentioned that in the course of last year the Hoards of "the three Faculties drow up achomos of improvement, rondored possible by the endowment to the University of part of the Boxes Indemuity Funds. The Council of the University decided, however, before finally allotting the extra income, to have investigated, tho, question of the provision which the University should make for the teaching of Chinese.. The investigation is now being undertaken by a special committee.
"The Vice Chancellor, in the course of his speech, said that the University was in desparate need of scholarships which would take its picked students to the Universition and workshops of Britain.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH.
Tea was served prior to the pro- | exchange cassion which took place at 5. p.m. When the congregation was sented His Excallany the Governor, Sir William Peel, declared the congrega
and invest "the" money locally?" 15 Heems that under existing financial conditions no one can ever do the right thing, for when the University in 1080
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FIREMEN SENT TO GAOL.
FOUND LOOTING DURING
RECENT FIRE.
Thory was a sequel to the fire! which broke out in Shanghai Street on Saturday, at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy yesterday, when three fire men were charged, with looting at the fire.
IRISH SWEEPSTAKE SENSATION.
WELL-KNOWN TRAINER FINED £100.
id
the creation of an endowment to be subsequently devoted to the educa tional purposes mentioned in the Report of the Advisory Commit teo."." It appears to the Chinese
It having been brought to the Government," Dr. Wang continued,
olive of the Stowards of the "that the most advantageous plan
Juckós Club that H." Braime, the for providing such su ondowment
trainer of Seardroy and Hot Bun, would consist in the investment of
engaged in the Manchester Novem- the greater part of the said Indem
bor Handicap, had approached per nity funds, namely the accumulated Regarding the first defendant, sons who had' drawn these horses | funds now on deposit and all future | Mok Sui, Inspector Clark, said that in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstako, instalments, in rehabilitating and he was at the fire when he saw the they called on, Bruime for an ex- building railways and in otherdofondant putting his foot over aplanation. productivo Enterprises in China. ??
ailver watch which Was ly..
Owing to certain mitigation cir- ing OF
at the ground. Result of Negotiations.
the cumstances the Stewards decided time. Officer Smish also natio that the offence did not come under The upshot of all this was thated the incident and went
up Rule 170 (iii), has considered that in 1001 the British Covernment"
to the man, who, on being searched, Braime had behaved in a grossly accepted a sum of £11,186,547 in
was found to have in his possession improper manner. Taking into con attlement of actual payments in-
a jade bangle and some money sideration the fact that he had a. curred in conuretion with the Boxor There were sozie special pocketa in previous good character, extending Rising and of claims submitted by the man's clothing and special slits over 40 years, the Stowards (Sir British subjects for losses sustained in his boots.
Samuel Scott acting for Lord Hare- in the course of that disturbance
He was sentenced to six months' wood) imposed n no of £100. The (which claims, incidentally, had, hard labour.
Stowards were "satisfied that the after caroful scrutiny, revision, and
A similar sentence was metod ous owners concerned had no know. indjustment, beer fixed originally
to another fireman who was charge ledge of the transaction, at £16,318,810) and that the
the Rules of British Government, having in as with the theft of a gold watch, and Rule 176, (iii) · of decided to devote the whole of the alternatively with receiving. It was Racing reads: If any person hav- Indemnity to the mutual interests stated that the defendant was seening official duties in relation to a of His Majesty and the Republic trying to throw the watch away at
or it goy trainer, jockey, of China, implemented in 1931 an.
the Yaumati Police Station...
ог agent,
other person having The third defendant was dischargcharge of, or access to, any race- Arrangement in accordancs with
as the Magistrate hold that there has, corruptly accept or offer to was insufficient evidence to convict, accept any bribe in any form.. It was stated that on being searched every person so offending shall be
Taco,
tion open after which the Vico in grave financial difficulties owing in, Londos, some £7,139,000 will at the Yaumati Police Station, he warned off Newnankes Heath and
Chancellor addressed the congrega- sian. The fall report of his speech
appenra below.
to the collapse of the dollar, the cry
Board of Trustees.
The Govern-
ment of Ching have agreed that the last two sums shall. forman endowmerit for educational pur- puses mutually beneficial to China" and the United Kingdom. It re- mains to be seen who will eventual--
was found to have in his possession other places where these Rules are a certain amount of money and in force, " that he failed to give a satisfactory explanation of this.
JUNK MASTER ROBBED.
»PIRACY IN PINGSHAN
DISTRICT.
which £265,000 have come to this University, £200,000 have gone t the Valveraitien China Committee
was all this might have been pre-Commission in London, and sume eventually go to the Purchasing vented if only a reasonable pro- On March 10, 1931, this Univer- portion of the University's funds
tares and a half millions to the sity's first Vice Chancellor, Bir had been invested in sterling securi- Charles Eliot, died at
Bea. Sir ties. The collapse should have Charles was a great scholar and a been foreseen." Purhaps if we had great gentleman. As I said when foreseen it, some of us would not many members of the University bo here; but. seriously, trustee met in this hall to pay to Sirurities are not easy to find in Charles their last tribute, looking Hong Kong, nor do they yield any back over this University's troubled thing hike the interest they used to history, I have sometimes wondered yield a few years ago. Attractive and Яtill wonder whether the Institution would have survived the years of its precarious infancy, had it not been for the personality and reputation of its first Vice Chancellor. May I repeat some- thing plae which I said on this summe ocension, namely, that it is fitting that we, while we deplore our loss, should determine that this Univor.
His boat with a cargo of oil and Rity which meant so much to Bir
estimated on June last that the fish maw, valued at about $600 left Charles Eliot should be maintained
additional annual income from this Yaumati at about 3 o'clock on Sun- iu a manner worthy of the great
investment would aimount Lo day. The cargo was destined for scholar who was it first executive on certain purposes specified 3.700, but this estimate will have Tai Ping, in Chinese Territory,
hend.
On March 28, 1911, the Univer.
sity's firat Professor of Modicine, Dr. John Anderson, died in. hos-
Shanghai mortgages have been taken up, but I doubt whether it would be wish to invest all the University's funds in Shanghai.
The Boxer Indemnity.
benefit from this endeyment the capital of which will be nearly eleven million pounds.
I have said that the contribution
of £283,000 which the Univerity received from the Indemnity was invested in War Loans in London. the investment was at the time cul- The rest of the Indemnity, theculated to bring in a return of total value of which is over eleven about 5 per cent. but the position million pounds sterling, has been in London has changed since the in Assigned under the Act in the fol- vestment
wing manner. A sum of £20.000 has been paid to the Universities China Committee in London, to be
in the First Schedule to the Act. The remainder of the balance of the fund, that is to say the money which had already accrued as the
pital at Shanghai. He was taken elt of payments already received on the Indemnity's account, minus the expenses properly e chargeable to
in the fulness of his vigour. To his many friends who met in this ball to testify to the affection in
the fund (in which expenses the
уля made. It was
VICTIMS LEFT ON AN ISLAND,
According to a report made to the police by the master of a trad- ing junk, he was the victim of q piracy perpetrated near the Ping Shan district on Sunday. last,
to be modifed with reference to the exchange value of the dollar
The trip was uneventful and and the possible conversion of the when night came, the little junk Loans at a lower rate of interest. -
The additional income which mays anchored off Lung Ku Tan be expected to accrue to the Univer- (Ping Shun district). The master, sity from this contribution has pot his daughter and a joki slept on yet been finally assigned to the deck. various purposes of the Institution.
HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
The session opened very quietly yesterday morning, but there was 'bo change in prices.
Bajos. Telephones (part paid),' $29,
Buyers
Douglases, ₤24. Providents (old), $5.30. Erovidents (new), 2.40, Hong Kong Lands, 882). Ewer, Tla. 15).
Star Ferries, 800. Bingapore Tractions, 3/-, Caments (old), $124. Sinceres, $18,
Constructions (new), $1.80. - Wharvas, $150).
Hotels (old), 818.35 Hotels (new), $14.90. Chinese Estates, 805. " Trams, $22.40
Hong Kong Electrics, $791. Canton Ices, 851. Dairy Farms, 820: Powells, 83.
Hong Kong Government Loans,
which they held him, I suggested amounts of £305,000 and £200,000 up schemes of improvement and the sailed alongside and producing re. 22 per eant. premium.
than John Anderson
which have now been paid respec-
In the curse of last year the At about midnight, an unknown Boards of the three Faculties drow boat with five armed men on board Senate approved these schemes. that, as the years rolled by and the tively to the diversity of Hong decided before finally allotting the occupants of the cargo junk. They But the Council of the Universityvolvers and daggers, threatened the University grew into manhood, it might be that many more eminent and the Universities Chins additional income; which is not an searched each of the three persons Committee in London are includ overwhelming amount, to have the
question of the provision which the and finding no money, took them on would occupy its Chair of Medi-) is to be paid to the Chinese University should make for the board the pirate ship and sailed Bite, but that I doubted whether overnment, Purchasing Commis-teaching of Chinese thoroughly in
vestigated. The investigation is
away (boward Ling Ting Islands. sion, a body which, in accordance any of his successory would be more
now being undertaken by a special The victims of the piracy, were universally beloved in Hong Kongen constituted in London to en- the Court of the University.
with the provisions of the Act, has committer which was appointed by eventually deposited in Tong Kiu.
When Dr. Anderson died a comparative ter into, and to superving and the claims of Chinese have bean Island in British waters where they
were put ashore,
Professors
y poor man, bus he did not forgot this University. He has bequeath-
secure the carrying out of contracts ed to the University the sum of £ase for the supply and delivery in free of duty; for the establishment China of such plent, thirrey and of a prize in the form of a gold the articles, to a manufactured medal to be given chnually to the medical student who attains the highest aggregate of marks in all the professional examinations.
in euch
epse within the United Kingdom, as the Chinese Govern- ment may from time to time request thom to purchase." Aa to the future paymcuts of the Indemnity -payments which will amount be. How Oficials Welcomed.
fore the Indemnity has been paid In December last, Dr. Leslie off in 1945, to £7,847,088.4.0-half of Davis arrived from Cairo (he had such such payment, as it is made, been previously in the Soudan) to is to go to the Chinese Government ill the vacant Chair of Pathology. Purchasing Commission in Lon- Earlier in the your, Mr. N. H. dor and half to a Board, since ap France came from Cambridge to be painted by the Government of China "the University's Reader in History. in accordance with the terms of The University has been fortunate the Act to be trustees for the in securing the services of these purpose of receiving these moneys two offleers. On behalf of you all and applying them to objects I extend to them, a hearty welcome mutually beneficial to China and and hope that they will be happy the British Empire," bore.
the
adjusted against those of the other University activities,
then scheme for assigning the whole of the University's additional income will go, before the Court of the University.
Aboard Rumours.
The marooned shipmaster and bis daughter and joki were rescued yes- terday by another fishing junk and taken to Tai-0 where a report of the outrage was made to the autho
rities.
NEW SOLICITOR IN THE COLONY
F. G. NIGEL ADMITTED
TO PRACTICE,
I hope that what I have just sid will finally dispose of the absurd rumours recently afloat, that the Education Department and the University were concocting a secret and vile cabal to abolish the MR. teaching of Chinese from the schools and the Tiniversity of the Colony. A picture of almost fascinating horror was drawn-n picture of the An application was made by the Director of Education and the Vice Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Chancellor banded together to do Alabaster, K,C) in the Supreme evil, to san the very foundations Court yesterday, before the Chief of Chinace life, Disraeli onen said Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp), for Mr.
in the House of Commons that it Ferdinand Gerald Nigel to be ad-
Sellers.
Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. Hong Kong Electrica, 8701, Raubs, $30. Ewos, Tis. 16: Entertainments (old), 8101.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Investment stocks appeared to be coming into demand, and most of them were marked up at the after- noon session.
..Sales;
Hotals fold), 815.31. Ewós, Tls. 15.90/38:06. Hong Kong Landa, 2827. Hong Kong Electrica, 8704.
· Buyers. Wharres, 8158. Star Ferries, 1087, Hong Kong Lands, $82.00. Hong Kong Ropes, $18.
HEALTH IN EASTERN PORTS.
The following bealth bulletin of
is much osier to be critical than mitted to practice is solicitor in rastern parts, for the week-ended correct. Anyway, I can assure the Colony. Mr. Nigel is connected January 2, has been issued: those who have been haunted by with Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and this dread, that their fearful im Master. aginings are entirely without foun dation.
In granting the application, his Lordship expressed the hope that The University's School of Chi-Mr. Nigel's career in Hong Kong use Studies has been a failure. would be a successful eno, there is no gainsaying that. We Mr. Nigel was admitted to prac have got to profit by the experience tion de solicitor in the Supreme and to think out afresh how we can, Court of Judicature in England on always keeping the University's Dutchber 12, 1931, and arrived in other activities in view, antinfy the Hong Kong in November. He ob.
During the course of the negotia, The Boxer Indemnity unto which tions which proceded the surrender thie University had for so many of the money, the Chinese Govern weary years of waiting lifted up ita ment had expressed their intention Byen in hope, was disposed of by an of dealing with the funds in har. Act of Parliament which on March mony, with the general views set , 1931, found its way on to the forth in the report of the Anglo- Statute Book of Great Britain. Chinese Advisory Committee which Under the provisions of this Act a was published in 1928 and was bass sum of £205,000 has been paid over ed on the recommendations of the to this University. This sum has Willingdon delegation, On Decor been invested in, War Loans in ber 10, 1930. Dr. C. T. Wang who obligation that our Ordinancs im-tained-airst-class at the Matricula- London
then Foreign Minister to poses upon us to make due pravition Examinatica of the University A loading article in one of the China, wrote thus to Sir Milos sion in the Faculty of Arte for the of London and served his Articles The Chiness Govern study of Chinese Language and of Clerkship with Mears. Manda local newspapers criticized this ampson. arrangement. Why did the Uni ment proposes in the Brat instance Literature. The University realizes and Tunnicliffe, of Arandol Hous versity not take advantage of the to apply the bulk of the funds to (Continsed on Page 11.)
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