To-day's Advertisements.
NEW YEAR HOLIDAY,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1898.
Intimation.
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals --
N accordance with ORDINANCE No. 6 of A. S. WATSON & CO., Tuesday, the 26th and 27th inst., and on Mon In with
be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business, on MONDAY, the 2nd January, *1899.
For the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,
T. E. SANSOM, Manager,
For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION,
.T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. For the NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,
LIMITED,
G. W. F. PLAYFAIR,
Chief Manager.
For the MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA
LIMITED,"
J. THURBURN, Manager.
For the BasqUE DE L'INDO-CHINE,
J. G. F. AUGUSTIN,"
Manager
LIMITED.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
Per Ca
I do.
10.80
C-WATSON'S
E. L. HUNTER, Manager.
CHOH,
Agent.
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Capsule
. $10.80 B.-WATSON' GLENORCHY MELLOW BLEND, Blue Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark
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HONGKONG,
For the YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED
For the IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA,
EW, RUTTER, Manager. Hongkong, 24th December, 1898.. . [1522
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
I VOLUNTEERS
T is hereby notified that the HONGKONG will FIRE from 7-pounder R.M.L and MACHINE GUNS from SANDY BAY in a South-Westerly direction, on MONDAY, the and January, 1899, from i P.M. to 5 P.M.
All ship, junks and others fessels are cau- tioned to keep clear of the range.
By-Command. -
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
14.40
QUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY, Gold Capsule
15.00 THORNE'S BLEND and WATSON'S GLENORCHY are high class Soda Whiskies, of greater age than most brands in the market.
ABELOUR-GLENLIVET is a very old Pent Whisky, (smoky) and could not -Hongkong, zqth Necember, 1898, (rig now be replaced in stock at the price:
Colonial Secretary's Office,
THEATRE
ROYAL.
CITY HAL
THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DEAMATIC“ CLUB
will produce a Pantomime entitled, THE YELLOW DWARF,"
or
'HARLEQUIN THE KNAVE OF HEART), and the
FAIR PRINCESS.'
On the following dates :- THURSDAY, 5th January, 1899, SATURDAY, 7th
MONDAY,
9th
WEDNESDAY, 1íth
SATURDAY, 14th
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19
TF
It
The TICKET OFFICE at the Theatre will be.OPENED on THURSDAY, the 22nd Dec., at to A.M. and Seats can be booked from 10 -Anal—10—4—5_35 every day; SUNDAYS-and-
GENERAL HOLIDAYS excepted. DOORS OPEN EACH EVENING, 31.8 PM. PERFORMANCE at 8.30 PRECISELY.
Stalls and Dress Circle PR
!! I
Half Price to Soldiers and Sailors in uniform
to the Pit.
Late Trams to the Peak a quarter of an hour after fall of the curtain.
E. W. MITCHELL, Hon. Sterclary, Hongkong, 24th December, 1898. [1440
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA.
'HÈ Company's Steamship THE
"SHANTUNG," Captain Frampton, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the 2nd January, a Noon
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
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Hongkong, 24th December, 1898.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP. COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
THE Company's Steamship
"HAITAN,"
Captain Half will be despatched for the above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPŔAIK & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 24th December, 1898.
1520
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
STEAM FOR · STRAITS, CEYLON AUSTRALIA, INDIA, MADES, EGYET, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULP, "CÖSTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS)
HE Steamship. / ·
ΤΗ
"PARRAMATTA,” Captain C. F. Preston, R.N.R. carrying Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, &e, on SATURDAY, the th January, 1899, at Noon taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports.
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombe, into, a steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London; other Cargo for.London, &c., will be conveyed via Bombay.
Parcels will be received at this offre until-g P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.
Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions. of the Conipany's, "Bills of Lading...
For further Particulars apply to
H. A RITCHIE,
Superintendent Hongkong, 4th December, 1895.
D is well known for its fine flavour
E is of superb quality and pro- nounced by leading local connois- seurs to be the best brand in the Hongkong market.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited,
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
Established 1841.
BIRTH.
At No. 34, Szechuan Road, Shanghai, on the 19th December, 1898, the wife of M. A. SOPHER, of a son.
DEATH.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 18th of December, 1858, ARTHUR ÖLIFF, aged 17 years.
Wan Tsing Kai.....................................$5 THE Post Office will be closed on Monday and
day, the 2nd January, except from 8 to 9 a.m. Letters for Hongkong, Peak and Kowloon may be posted up to 9am. The Night Box will be kept open. The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
THE sum of two hundred guineas was bid recently for the "sky-coloured vest" worn by King Charles the First on the scaffold. It is not an exorbitant price for a relic at once authentic and ghastly. Nothing is lacking that might make a good Jacobite's flesh creep. The stains of blood have been religiously preserved by a succession of Royalist owners; and it bas | been pointed out that of the thirteen button- holes only twelve had been fastened. The top button had been removed, so that the illustrious victim might more easily bare his neck to the
executioner.
MESSRS, Benjamin, Kelly and Potts in their Weekly Share Report state-Banks-Hong. kong and Shanghai Banks have declined slightly and shares have changed hands at 247 and 248 per cent. premium, the market closing The London quota steady at the latter rate. tion has further advanced to £54. Nationals remain quiet with shares offering at $171. Marine Insurances.-A few China Traders have been placed at $62. Unions are in the market at $23o. Straits are offering at $7. Fire Insumnces.With the exception of a sinall sale of China Fires at $88, there are no changes toneport in stocks under this heading. Ship ping.-Douglas Steamships have been placed at $52. Indo-Chinas have been bought at $60
and $61, and close with sellers at the last quot
ation. A fair number of Hongkong, Canton
and Macao Steamboats have been done at
Governor of Hongkong you had held the post for barely ten months, but even in that short time measures have been taken entitled by their importance and their merit to be placed on permanent record:
In the supervision of the various branches of the Government, in the promotion of the people's welfare, in the advancement of trade and commerce and in the encouragement of local industries Your Excellency's diligence and tact have been conspicuous and no words of ours can adequately express our admiration and our gratitude for the tranquil prosperity which we thereby obtained during your admi-
nistration.
The impartial consideration extended by you to all classes has been particularly marked in the case of the Chinese and more especially during the recent epidemic. This you met with calmness and judgment, and the measures which you took with the approbation of the whole community, were under the blessing of saving countless lives. Had it not been for Heaven finally successful and the means of
Your Excellency's sympathy and energy such good results could not have been obtained, and that is why up to this day your praises have not ceased to be sung.
Your Excellency has been too bread-minded to affect to despise public opinion, and you have always been ready to consult it when you were desirous of effecting improvements in the administration or in the condition of the people.
Without fear of adverse criticism Your Excel- tency might have confined yourself to the routine work of Government, but you were not content to rest satisfied as long as improvement was possible.
The perpetual preservation of the historical spot known as "The Watch Tower of the King of Sung" will recall to the mind of future visitors that wherever Your Excellency's sway has extended you have left some mark of your benevolence.
We respectfully present this address to Your Excellency in token of our gratitude and admiration. We trust that all good fortune may attend you in the future, and that in the enjoyment of every blessing that heart can wish and with increased honours you may attain a happy old age.
These are our carness prayers and we hope that Your Excellency will graciously con. descend to accept our address
$261. China and Manilas have again changed hands at $95. Star Ferries have been sold at All the naval and military officers as well as go and Sta. Refineries-China Sugars the more prominent of the civilians, both foreign lave improved and sales have taken place at and Chinese present then raised three hearty
cheers with the proverbial "tiger" for the $169, $169) and $175, closing in demand at the
General and his wife, the band struck up Luzons remmin neglected. Min-Auld Lang Syne" and after hearty hand ing-Purjoms are easier with sellers at $61. shakes had been exchanged the General and Raubs have been in strong demand, and shares Mrs. Black stopped aboard the launch which
latter rate.
was in readiness to convey him to the P. and O. steamer Coromandel.
Amongst those present were Sir John Carrington C.M.G. Chief Justice, Lieut. Col. the O'Gorman, the Hon. T. Sercombe Smith, Mr. J. Francis, Q.C., and the leading Naval and Military officers of the Colony,
OTTERS AND SEALS IN THE
KURILES,
-have-changed-hends-at-$399,-and-are-now- wanted at $411 ex dividend. Olivers B have been booked at 85. Great Eastern and Caledonians have been placed at £7.80 and $8, closing with sellers at $71. Queen Mines have Docks, been negotiated' at 70 and 75 cents. Wharves and Godowns.-Hongkong and Whampoa Docks advanced considerably, and sales have been effected at various rates up to 290 per cent premium, but at the close the market is easier with sellers at 189 per cent.
The Osaka Asahi states that the foreign premium Kowloon Wharf shares are in pauching senlers which at one time visited the demand at $75. New Amoy Decks have again Kuriles have disappeared since Lieutenant been done at 3148 and are wanted at the rate. Gunji settled on Shimushu Island with his. Lands, Hotels and Buildings. Sales of Hong- party, but the Japanese fishing smacks which kong Lands have taken place at 575. Hong. visit the waters of the Kuriles perpetually fire
upon the stars and seals. Licuteant. Gunl -kpng Hotels inveteen placed to a fairly large
thinks that unless the Government takes pro extent at $68 and are now wanted at $69.tective action, the otters and seals will disappear, China Providents have been sold in large in the course of a few years, the ther
Telegraph parcels, at Stok. Humphreys Estate have memorialised the fonte sister on the mather
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1898,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
AERONAUTICS.
LONDON, December 22nd. A steering balloon started by the Daily Chronicle left the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and crossed the Channel in five hours,
FRANCE IN AFRICA,
The Temps states that Capt. Largeau-com- manding at Meshaeires. Meshma-er-Rek) has joined Major Marchand and accompanies him to Abyssinia. All were well ́except a Kieutenant, a sergeant and eight Sinegalese who are returning in the Nile,
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says-On the 24th The barometer has fallen con at 11.30 uu
siderably in the extreme North, and moderately on the China coast. Pressure is still high over China, and a low area seems to have moved, from the continent, into the N. E. part of the Sea of Japan, Gradients moderate on the coast, rather steep with streng monsoon in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast:---moder ate N. winds: fine.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
MONDAY next being a Bank holiday there will be no issue of the Hongkong Telegraph..
WE wish all of our readers
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
WE would call the performances at the time of the A. D. C. D. performances at the City Hall as announced in our advertising columns, The doors will be opened at. 8 p.m. and the cunain will rise at 8.30, sharp.
THE following is the programme of music to be played by the K. O. L Band at the Officers Mcss, Murray Barracks, to-day, dopunes
cing nt 6 pán.
CoA) Sierp Holy Babo)
King
B) The Flist And, Brita
W
Chelations, cara' com
Berg (Kidonda u folo...... digzareth Funiki Chame Putada
Zube Tide.. ............... Ahida with ne #ram
Save the Qaved,
Ground
And. Hardy
„Aud. Kappay
And Tyrrel
By a slight mistake on the part of his coolie, not valet this time, a gentleman who had been entertained not wisely but too well at the
W.D.'s Concert last night, found himself in the wrong house, the owner of which, a big German. strongly objected and, not too carefully, depo alted him down stairs. Total damage reported this morning one dog bite (7 mad dog) and sundry bruises on the part of the anatomy usually used for dinking purposes)
changed hands at $8.55 and $84, Cotton Mills. No business to report, Miscellaneous. -Green Island Cements remain firm at quota- tions. A. S. Watsons are easier with sellers at
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THE VANTINE. CASE.
WARRANT OFFICERS' SMOKER,
SAYINGS OF THE MASTER.
The Master said: The people of the present day are stupid and yet deceitful" Ithasoften been remarked that a large past of whatever greatness we credit to Confucius, is due to the fact that he understood the people among whom he lived. He also understood and kirgely lived in the past. If he could have seen that pastréproduced and the people of his period steeped in it, he would have been content. To his dissatisfac tion, his disappointment, and his disgust, the people cared little about the past. They wanted pleasure and they wanted gain, objects of pursuit, it may be remarked which the last days of the nineteenth century have not altogether outgrown. In philosophising upon the events of his time, and the rationale of them, the Sage made the memomble observation which we have above cited. The word rendered" Stupid* is an important one in the Chinese vocabulary, The Chinese by an appropriate euphemism con- stantly use it in letters instead of the first, personal pronoun: "1,thestupidone." Itmay be said that the official designation of the Chinesa as a whole is "the stupid people” (rü min)" There is no satisfactory evidence that Confucius ever expected the people" to be anything but stupid" He gave them maxims and suggestions in abundance, but he knew that neither his maxims for his example would
The members of the Naval W. O's Club gave a "smoker" to their numerous naval and civilian friends at their club premises last night The entrance hall, and rooms were tastefully decorated with fings and flowers and in honour of the season plenty of evergreens and holly. It being a smoking concert no ladies were present so that the Warants did not have opportunity of showing their world renowned gallantry towards the fair sex under the mistletoe bough. Most conspicuous among the decorations were the two flags emblematic of the Anglo-American Alliance As usual in these naval gatherings the Commissioned officers were present and greatly assisted in the unmony and enjoyment of the evening, cleatly demonstrating to the world at large that in the British navy all ranks are working shoulder to shoulder to keep up their reputation for hospitality to friends and chivalrous hostility to foes. Many American officers were also present and thorouglily appreciated the true, hearty, British feelings that pervaded the whole proceedings. The programme was both long and good and mostly taken from the company present. Mr. Censai of the Royal Engineer Department set the Shining Armour and during the evening was ball rolling by singing "I fear no foe in
graciously did, sometimes with song and some not require long-observation-nor-great-insight. gain called upon to oblige which he most produce the result, and he was right. It does times with instrumental selections. Mr. Curto perceive that the Chinese, as we know them, tain who has just arrived by the Edgar, gave are not stupid." Douhtless we can poduce as in fine Coster style" "Eas my sympathy stolid specimens of senseless stupidity from infortunately this new acquisition to the colony among the Chinese, as from any civilised was suffering from slight indisposition and was
people, but these do not represent the therefore unable to come Jurvardagain. Mesrrs. race, which is quick-witted and intelligent. Williams and Ward had to appear very often dur
Even the dullest are keen, at a bargain, ing the evening, as after their first song the audi and, considering the intellectual vacuumt in which a large part of the Chinese ence were like Oliver Twist, they wanted some more, and these twoindefatigable singers always exist, it is no wonder that their ficulties are came up smiling to oblige. Mr. Turner, also inert. "Stupid and deceitful." These words a new-comer we believe, is a most versatile epitomise sociological and psychological con performer, giving fine renderings, of bass in ditions inseparable from Chinese life as it now Be Brave be True" operatic in The is. Not that the Chinese are more deceitful Sentine
from Sulivan's "lolanthe " and than other Asiatics; they are probably much
new version of "We won't go
less so than many--aay the Mahrattas and the comic in
Persians. But the "stupidity" of the Chinese" home till morning" Mr. Alexander, boatswain of the Narcissus, a splendid comic, was encored is exhibited most conspicuously in their again and again and obliged with "That's practical persuasion, despite the clear, moral when You feel all Right In the verse leaching of the Master himseif, that deceit is dealing with the "multiplication of progeny, after all the only real rule of life. The family, he inforined the young single men that business, the examination-hall, and every fibre their education on the point concemed of official life are permented with the stupidity bad been sadly neglected, Mr. Alexander also of deceit. Fathers deceive their sons, and sots made great hits in the songs called "Off goes deceive their fathers, yet each is more or less your head" and "The night I played Richard Cognisant of the fact, which is regarded as an 111 Mr. Bracey, the Chief Boatswain of the inevitable concomitant, like friction in ma- Victorious, is a baritone singer of whom we chinery. In like manner two merchants should like to hear oftener as he puts his whole systematically cheat one another in a barter, heart and soul into his song and fairly carries and while the balance is kept even, the national the audience away with him, he also has the trait is maintained. gift of knowing what songs suit his singing, and „As he has a quick ear for music has only to hear. a song once and be able to put it in his repertoire. His songs were The streak of silver sea "A Fruco-Prussian War-song " and "Mona." Amongst the other singers were Commander Henderson, Messrs. Skinner, Wingent, Muscull and Lieut., Thorpe, the last named gentleman giving the good old sea song the chorus of which starts "We'll rant and we'll roar liko true British sailors" and ends with "heave and bust'erand was enthusiastically taken up by all present. Mr. Banyard in proposing the health of the visitors" said that every sailor required the presence of the com. missioned ranks to give a finish to what ever form of enjoyment they were having and so it give the Warrant officers very great pleasure in seeing so many of their senior offi- cers present
the Warrant officers did not in- tend to spoll any of their entertainments for the want of the housle us expense which he pennyworth of tur. He apologized for the likened
to spoiling a ship for the want of a want of talent amongst the members but are as an excuse that so many had to be away, citing the case of a gentleman who had been preparing banjo music for some time previous but When the auspicious occasion came, had been ordered "up" North." If conclusion, in most feeling terms Mr. Banyard made an
stored away in one's mind, Commander Napler remembrances of these pleasant evenings of the Narcissus responded and said that it gave the commissioned ranks as much, pleasure to asseciate with their warrant officers as they were able to bestow, he alluded to the Warrants as be ing the back bone of the British Navy, Staff Com mander Crooke in drinking the health of the members of the Warrant. Oficer's Club called for 3 cheers for the reception awarded to the
An instance of misplaced confidence is re- $12. Electrics have been done at 310 ported in detail by the Kobe Shimbun. The allusion to the advantages derived from having Fenwicks are in demand at $31 but no sales, facts are said to be these:-Messrs. Vantine are reported.
and Company established a branch of their business in Nagoya, employing a Japanese Bamed Funamoto to conduct the affairs of the branch in his own name, since Nagoya, being outside treaty limits, is not a place where for eigners may lawfully engage in commerce. There was a large attendance of ladies and Funamoto proved unequal to the trust. He advanced twenty thousand pen, unwisely it
MAJOR GENERAL BLACK'S DEPARTURE.
The Literary Chancellors are men of the world, as well as Confucian scholars, When they gravely report to the Emperor that half-a- dozen candidates in some province, like Anhui,
werd
'over ninety years of age" they know
perfectly well, that these figures will be taken in "a Pickwickian sense." So of all figures, taxes, expenditures, censuses and the like, the skilful Chinese knows how to make the proper abatement, just as we do for theoretical ex- aggeration in a Parliamentary speech. One wonders how any one barn and bred in such a moral fog ever comes to see anything clearly, but that many Chinese do have such visions li indubitable.
There are growing signs that the young Chinese Emperor sees a great deal which no Chinese Emperor ever saw before-much that his late Tutor never intended him to see, Those who know best have long claimed that Kuang Hsu is not a "negligeable quantity." he has recently proved in He is high na pirations, and every one who wishes well to China must hope that he may be able to carry pidity of deceit ingmined in the Chinese char them into action. His principal fee is the sta-
acter Reforms must be not only sweeping, who carry them out, Inust have characters in but honest, and they must be through. Those which "stupidity and deceit are not cons.
tituents."
[This waswriten before the young Em peror was suppressed by his aunt,—ED.]
The Muster said-Rotten wood cannot. be carries its own explanation. It is intended to carved, This pithy apothegm of Confucing
convey by the symbolism which underlies so much of the Chinese language, the truth that there is a point of degeneration in the physical, the intellectual, and the moral nature of man beyond which reformation is impossible, It is then no longer a question of the probabilities
gentlemen at Murray Pier to-day also many would seem, to Japanese merchants, and he visitors. Dr. Sloughton of the American Navy of success, Tools can indeed be passed through naval and Military Officers as well as a very squandered an equal sum on his own amuse- made a splendid speech In which the heart of it with little obstruction, but rosten wood cannot
well turned out-guard of honour with drums & gifes and a brass brand to bid farewell to Major-General and Mrs. Black. The General and Mrs. Black have endeared themselves to the people of Hongkong by their many good qualities of heart and hospitality. It is with deep regret that we part with one who has so endeared himself to the community by his fine soldierly qualities and his generous hospitality,
ments.
the whole assembly were with him his speech brevity and quality it was "God bless the was endowed with the two cardinal, virtues Anglo-American Alliance.
terminated a most pleasant evening.
The singing of God save the Queen
THE BEHAVIOUR OF TOKYO STUDENTS.
when called to account by Messrs. Vantine and Company, he displayed at first a disposition to deny their right of interference, since the business was conducted, and the im in theirs. Ultimarely they appear to have movable property registered, in his name, not brought him to a more docile frame of mind through the assistance of a Tokyo barrister, though on what grounds the fatter inter yened, it is not easy to perceive. That is the story; a sufficiently simple tale but not without a moral. The moral is, why did Messrs. Vantine and Company repose such confidence in Funamoto? His Antecedents were good, it is true. A graduate of the Doshisha, & professing Christian and a spotless record for some years these are all favorable passports to trust. But from the moment that Funamoto agreed to act as manager of a branch of Messrs. Vantine and Company's business in Nagoya, lending his own name for purposes of dissimulation, from tha: moment he became a lawbreaker and consequently ceased to be worthy of full confidence. Messrs. Vantins and Com pany were law-breakers also. It is amusing to observe the elastic morality with which a Kobe journal treats this question. There is nothing in the treaties, it says, to forbid partnership between foreigners and japanese and “no harm can possibly be done to anybody because o foreigner holds land in a fapanese name Such pleading has not even the merit of being ingenious. To carry on commerce is not wrong per se, nor is it wrong to own land, but in Japanremarkable only in that it contained "neither neither operation is permitted to foreigners beyond the limits fixed by treaty, and no commonly honest critic can pretend that what is contrary to law is sanctioned by morality. As to the degree of the offence, little need be said, for to evade à restriction due primarily to international illiberality and racial prejudice can not be called a very blame worthy act. None the less any Japanese agreeing to become the agent in a transaction of the kind ought to be regarded with a certain
be carved, for the reason that it is certain to fall in pieces during the "process, when it is no swift way to return to dust. There is in longer but merely crumbling fragments on their important difference between the materially rotten, and that which is intellectually of morally so. In the former ease competent diagnosis can decide with positiveness as to the results. If a thing is too far gone for repairs, an engineer knows it with certainty. In the intellectual realm there is less assurance, Mental wrecks do semetimes recuperate in-a. Reports as to unmannerly behaviour of surprising way. And this is even more con Tokyo University students being not infre spiculously true of moral wrecks, for the quently heard, the authorities of the institution intellectual and the moral are practically in have vigorously taken in hand some. measures separable. History is full of contradictions to for the enforcement of discipline among the
the unqualified proposition that rotten" "wood students. Severe punishments, says the apar
cannot be carved Under proper influances it is often restored and much more than restored, Times, have been provided for students indul- ging in improper behaviour. For the control The question whether the literart of the of students outside the institution, the Chief of China of to-day as a whole are or are not dead Hongo Police Station has been requested to wood beyond the power of the carvers an we exercise ́à strict surveillancð over them.
This do not remember to have heard discused by enforcement of school discipline is occupying Western thought. But it is a problem upon attention more particularly in the Faculty of which the friends of China from the lands of Literature.
the West have thought much and long, In the. evolution of China's strange history the time seems now to have definitely arrived, witen the question can be settled.". The Imperial edict published in the Peking Gazelle of the aand of the 5th Moon (July, roth) opitomised In criticising the recent speech of Marquis in our columns at the thun, marks a crisis, Yamagata before the House of Representatives Practical Chinese Literature" and "Western - speech which the Yorodeu describes as: Leaming (two highly fluid terms,) are to be henceforth combined in Provincial and County statesmenlike thoughts nor far-sighted views? | Academics, Existing institutions are to be our contemporary says that at the outset remodelled after a definite pattern set up in Marquis Yamagata declared that the Gover. Peking All except official temples (where ment had deemed it proper to carry out the offerings or services are required from magis armament programme according to his original trates) may be, and apparently must be used plan. "This is, we should say says the as centres of the New Learning, The vital Yorodzu, "a declaration foreboding a lot of matter of revenues for so vast a system is dealt unpleasant experiences: in store for future Ja with in a line or two, and reports are demanded pan. It is now high time, we think, that within two months from provincial Governors. leaders in political and thinking circles should as to their present status and future prospers, have sufficiently recovered from the warlike Thus we have one of the greatest revolutions
in the history of China introduced almost in
THE "YOBODZU" ON JAPAN'S
ARMAMENTS.
An address was presented to the Major General by the Chinese community together with two magnificent specimens of native em- broidery through the Hon. Dr. Ho Kat, who made a short speech in in making the presentation which was briefly responded to by the recipient. Hon. Dr. Ho Kai sald-Sir, I have the honour on behalf of the Chinese Community of Hongkong to present to you an address which I hope you will kindly accept. The address, drafted first in Chinese by the Chinesethemselves and afterwards translated into English, in the spontaneous outcome of an intense feeling of respect and admiration for Your Excellency on their past, and supports in a marked manner what I stated in Council the other day that the Chinese fully appriciated your able and wise administration of the government and that the only regret they had was that it was all too short. This presentation will, I believe, form an interesting event in the history of this Colony and show that our Chinese fellow-citizens can and do appreciate a vigorous, just, and benign Government. During the ten months that have just passed away you administered the Government with great energy, kindness, and wisdom, and that administration, short though it be, bas given rise to universalsatisfaction and admiration among all classes of this mixed Community. To express their admiration and gratitude therefore the Chinese residents have requested me to present this address for your kind acceptance, and, in addition to present two pieces of Chinese embroidery for the gracious acceptance of Mrs. Black, The embroidery measure of distrust, and if the coufidence fever they contracted after the close of the has me great intrinsle value but simply serves reposed by foreigners" in such Japanese Japan China War and come to a sense cidentally, and with no explanation. In connec as a token of respect and esteem on the part of is not more frequently abused, the felt that the continuance of the expensive military tion with the previous abolition of the examina the Chinese for a lady who had by her kindliness speaks rather for the latter's integrity expansion, which the Government undertion Essay It (potentially reverses the whole and gentleness attracted so much affection and than for the formers prudence. There is, took at a time when the entire intellectunt current of the Empire. In the slow adafiration to herself. I will now call upon indeed, n singular inconsistency between nation was madly elated by the brilliant course of Chinese official dispatches it will Mr. Fung Wah Chun, one of the ablest and most the avowals of many foreign residents and victory and was crying in delirium for a occupy two months to get this edict in foru public spirited among the leading Chinese to their actions, While denouncing the Japanese Greater Japan, would fatally tell in no distant among the lower District Officials where the in general as untrustworthy, each of them future upon the material strength of the people, bulk of the changes must lie. Already they are read the address in English,
The following was the address
nevertheless claims to have in his employment From the speech of the Premier and the little rubbing their eyes and scratching their heads The respectful, address of the Chinese com Japanese deserving of all trust, and not a few objection raised against it in the Lower House in astonishment and wonder their natural munity of Hongkong, presented to His unicitatingly incur risks which in Europe (Mr. Kanauka was the only member who said comment is brief but to the point: Not easily Excellency, Major-General Wilson Black, would be thought quite unjustifiable, for they anything against the military expansion) it is done. No doubt, but will it be done at all? C.B. in grateful recognition of his able purchies real property and register it in the plain that the nation is still suffering from the The Emperor in previous Reform Edicts has nams of a native sevant or of a Japanese friend military fever. Would that there be some shown his sense of dependence upon his set. Administration
without any social status Similar ventures | quinine that would cool down this killing fever, vanta and upon the people. He now offers would end disastrously in'a majority of cases in the grasp of which the nation is tottering | rewards for those who, philanthropically" cq. When on the 25th day of Jast November, were they tried in a Occidental country--and day by day, becoming, weaker and i oporate. "How many such will there be 1: Tha Your Excellency vacate the office of Acting|| Jafnis Mathe
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magistrates are hastily summoning the local
Your Excellency