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EDUCATION IN CHINA,
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venionice of others, but shout his words at are patient, industrious, frugal, Intelligen the top of his voice for his own benefit In They are certainly capable of education,
even in the sense that puts the greatest. foreign schools maintaining quiet in the school room is a perpetual discipline in strain and test on the character that is being thoughtfulness for others, a wholesome train-educated. We have dealt largely with a
derlying principles, with broad outlines. The practical application of the principles and the filling in of the outlines must be largely the work of the Chinese themselves. The world is looking on with intense interest to see how they will do it,
BUILDING DISKUTE
IN COURT.
The Fuisna Judge, His Honour, A. G. Wise sat at the Supime Court this morning and
heard an action brought by Wong U. Kai, a trader, of 57 Hollywood Road against another trader, named Wong Choi Lam, and who resides at 85, Bonham Strand, to recover the sum of $818.12, being half the cost of pulling down and rebuilding the party wall between Nos. 63 and 71, Jervois Street.
Mr. G. K. H. Brutton, on behalf of the plain- CURRENCY REFORM IN CHINA. | if pointed out that his client owned No. 71, Jervois Street, while No. 69 belonged to the The progress of the American International | defendant. Plaintiff's premises had b. en pulled Commission on currency reform has been down, and an agreement was made to the effect most carefully watched by all who take any with the pulling down and rebuilding of the that whatever the half cost was in connection
knew his, own bodily organs, their functions, veniences as good roads, a responsible police/interest at all in commercial affairs. To us, party, wall, it should, be borne by defendant,
one
Therefore, the only point in dispute was whether the money had or had not been paid.
Mr. D'Alimade a l'astro, for the defence,
would not admit the agreement in question, and urged that his client did not know the plaintiff, and had never contracted with him respecting the wall.
Mr.
Evidence was called by both parties, and. Justice Wine eventually gave judgment for plaintiff with costs.
"SWIFT" OR "HOI CHING?"
A somewhat peculiar case was brought to the
notice of Mr. Sercombe Smith this morning when the master of the E. Yuen shop was charged with a breach of the Opium Ordinance. in giving a false and incorect name of a steam- launch when applying for a permit to export the drug
Mr. H. Hursthouse, of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and the defendant was represented by Mr. J.S. Harston, of Messrs Ewens and Harston,
In placing the case before his Worship, Mr.. Hursthouse said that the charge was brought under section 19 of Ordinance 22 of 1887, and,
quished her office. It is doubtful if she ever will. All the civilization man has attained to, even the thoughts whose formal expression man has polished and made into literature, have been taught him first in the great out-
ing in voluntary self-sacrifice of personal not you believe that in studying nature man convenience and immediate profit for the is really studying the highest earthly expres- good of the whole. But in China there is sion of thought, certain it is that such study no such thing. And us in the school room does have a stimulating effect on the mind there is no class work, so in their games of the race which no people can ignore and there is no team, work, That whole import- not suffer in consequence. And how in-ant feature of pr ctical education is entirely separably connected with the well-being of overlooked, And for the results of this the community is that part of physical neglect one has only to see the inefficiency. education which deals with man's own body of all public service, everything in the coun- and his surroundings. How important that try that requires sustained concerted action. each individual, as far as possible, should If China is ever to have such public con- and the proper care of them. The study of service, good streets well cleaned, and other in Hongkong, the success or failure of the nutrition, the proper exercise and develop such like desirable improvements, they can Commission's visit to China will mean either ment of the body, all that contributes to the only be maintained by teaching the people the that the Colony will be freed from the in- health and physical happiness of mankind, value and the art of effective and open com cubus of servility to China's old-time cur- cannot safely be eliminated from the curri bination. Socially at present China appears rency system or that the yoke will press culum of any country's educational system. to be in the gaseous state. The component more heavily upon the trade of the Colony, It would be a profitiess, procedure to
Nor can the doctrines of hygiene as to the elements are excessively repellent. It is The stagnation in every department of trade, merely expose the shortcomings of Chinese importance of cleanliness in body, clothing, possible that tremendous pressure from the whether it be the shipping or that of stock These things have a outside may crush her into a state of dealing, has long been the subject of univer, education and the consequent defects of homes and cities.
But, the more hopeful view sal complaint. The revival of business is national character and life, without at least very important bearing on national force and solidarity. trying at the same time to point out the endurance, as well as on national ideals, would be that, through the internal applica- looked forward to only with the establish | remedy. The easiest and probably must which China can no longer overlook and tion of oral and intellectual influences, the ment of the Colony's currency on a stable
be a great nation.
Just se affinities of the disintegrated parts may be basis. Since it is argued that that currency practical way of doing this will be to indiente hope to certain broad lines along which it is safe to long as she despises the farmer, the mecha-greatly increased, and the Chinese people must be indissolubly wedded to that of presume that education must proceed if it is nie, and the merchant, and looks down on may become a unit, 305,000,000 strong China, it will be cause for satisfaction to to develop the national strength, the lines all knowledge that has not been crystallized (6.) One final word of caution needs to be those who are the consistent advocates of which education actually does follow in the into literature for ages, just that long will she uttered in the ears of the agitators in favour reform to learn that the American Govern (3) No great nation of reform. It is that no nation can be greatment has, through Sir Cheng-tung Liang nations of the day which are strong and continue to be weak. whose strength China would like to imitate, con undervalue the individual as China does. in which the spirit of self-will and insub- Cheng, engaged Sub-Prefect Sze to be at- HE BEST INGREDIENTS only The mistake has often been made of sup/
In the leading Western countries all public ordination is predominant. Only that
tached to the staff of Professor Jenks, who is posing that the work of reforming China can and private training tends to form a high nation is secure whose people believe in the
now delegated to visit China and Japan on be effectually and lastingly done by the estimate among the people and their rulers ultimate justice of the Government and are
a mission relating to the exchange of gold It is this willing to submit themselves to the limita introduction "of-the appliances of modern of the value of the individual njan.
and silver. According to the China Gazette; tions and control which Government neces civilization alone. One might as well arti high' estimate which is already
Professor Jenks and Sub-Prefect Sze aie ex- The ficially attach lascious oranges to a scrub of the chief safeguards of society. The sarily imposes upon the individual. tree and then boast of the fruit of the tree. individual man has a value: Even the spirit of obedience is an element of strength pected in Shanghai in the course of a few shortly, the facts were, that a policeman board- weeks from Japan and they will go to Caned the s.s. Swit and found the opium in two chests bearing certain marks corresponding Society is just as truly a vital organism as is poorest, most ignorant, most depraved in any people, the spirit of self-wili is an
ton, Nanking, Wuchany and Tientsin to with those in an application signed by the soul has its value, which cannot be ex. element of weakness. It is to be feared consult with the Viceroys and Governors of defendant, fur shipment on the foi Ching. a tree, and no fruit that is merely tied on
And the that the rising generation of reformers in these places. Thence they will proceed to will stand any chance of becoming permapressed in dollars and cents.
et Only those improvements which are
valuation of the individual rises with his China do not estimate aright the necessityPeking to discuss the question of monetary of the spirit of subordination to national the outgrewth and the natural expression of moral power. As he is able by the force the thought, aspirations, character, and life and integrity of his personal character to greatness. They are in great danger of reform of China, Sub-Prefect Sze is a grad- uate of the St. John's College, Shanghai, of a people will continue to Dourish in the make himself felt in the life of the com- misconceiving the spirit of liberty that per- from which he went to America with Minister
are in danger of supposing that freedom by the bulk of the Chinese reformers them both preservative and constructive in charac- selves when they assert that all that is needed ter. The strength of the community depends
where he studied diplomacy, law, politics and is a change of ruters and revision of their on the multiplication of these centres of
political economy. Wa Tung-fang recom- laws. They overlook the fact that the rulers, influence. Society recognizes the value of
mended him to the Chinese Government for under the Emperor, even in China, come private character, and sees in every man a
employment and he was appointed as ad from the people and possess all the charac- centre from which good or evil influences of the whole community. As society adviser on foreign affairs in Hupeh. He went S. WATSON & CO., teristics of the people. The corruption of radiate in varying degrees, and so to varying vances from the savage state to one of from there to America with the last batch officials in China means simply that the life distances. In China the individual has no higher civilization the individual progressive- of Chinese students as superintendent of of the people from whom those officials value. The loss of a few hundreds or thously gives up more of the right to do as he studies. spring is corrupt, that their education in ands of the common people through war,pleases, and in return for the security and practical morality is defective. A pure peo-pestilence, or famine is not regarded as any other advantages, which a well-organized ple could not produce a corrupt officialdom, great calamity. Everybody grins and says, society bestows on him, submits himself to and the only effectual way to secure a per- "Have got plenty more." But if society is a greater multiplicity of restrictions and manently pure and efficient administration to benefit by the combined and cumulative control. And the measure of a nation's is by purifying and clevating the life and effort and character of her millions, she must civilization may well be gauged by the
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posing the education to be of the right the spirit of rivalry, of desire to excel even type every failure to extend its influences to their own achievements to die out in the URNITURE every member of society is recognized minds of her people. In China there is no
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Sergt. Boole, a boarding officer, deposed bat
on the 31st uh, he went on to the Swiff and found two chests of opium, and as the result of inquiries made at the Impons and Experts Office the drug was seized. Vclerk in the Imports and Exports Office stat- ship the opium on the floi Ching.
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as an element of, weakness. The right real desire for improvement. All classes education of woman is known 10 be are content to let well enough (or bad inexpressibly imponant. There are many things which the wives and mothers of the country should know to fit them for helping and prevent them from hindering the nation- al growth in power. China can no longer afford to exclude this important half of her population from the privileges of such a training as shall fit then for the lite they have to live, for the contribution they are sure to make to the national character and work. Then, too, these countries are a unit in extending the bounds of education far beyond the limits of the ruling class. All agree in the desirability of providing some sort of education and fitting for the farmer, the merchant and the mechanic, three great HOTOGRAPHIC classes that carry forward the work of the DEPARTMENT. nation, and give to its life that expression by
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that is manifested by the younger genera- tion, who are longing for better things in China, is due to innate tyranny in themselves and to a misapprehension of the motives which actuate those whose business it is to control. It would appear that every China man is at heart oppressive, and so he suspects everybody else of being the same. He does not relish the idea of submitting to
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tuz English Mail of the 10th October was delivered in London on the 7 inst.
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A CHINESE pickpocket, who stole Sto from a Dl.nheim stoker, asleep in the Soldiers' Club was this morning sent to prison for six weeks and ordered to be placed in the stocks for four
hours.
H. M. SHIPS Virago and Sparrowhatok are expected shortly to join the China Squadron. The Mutine will be recommissioned for the Australian Squadron, and the Glory, after docking, will be recommissioned for the China Station.
As a preliminary objection, Mr. Harston.
contended that the prosecution had failed to show, that to the knowledge of the person making the application, the document was false
incorrect.
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Mr. Hursthouse replied that it was impossible
to calla witness to testify as to defendant's state of mind at the line of making the application. Further evidence was called as to this point and,
His Worship 'tuled that the knowledge of the incorrect application had been brought home to the defendant,
"For the defence, Mr. Harsion called the owner of the Hoi Ching, whose testimony was to the effect that he recently issued a circular regarding the sailing date of the vessel by which defendant a-ranged to ship two chests of opium. A photograph was handed him, and witness said it was a picture of his ship, but when it was painted out that the name "Swift' appeared on the bridge and other places be explained that it was not at all unusual for a ship to have two names.
His Worship, while pointing out that techni- cally speaking, the defendant had committed an offence under the Ordinance, it was evidently': due to the notice issued regarding the sailing late of the vessel and defendant believed the Swift to be the loi Ching. He woul! he If you want a first class photo of yourself you fined$5, and the opium would not be forfeited, can get it at LeMonyon's-Aivs.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
The Interport rifle match will be fired by the Hongkung team to-morrow, commencing al 245 p.m. The following is the team:-Colour- Sergeant Cross, R.M.L. I., Sergeant-Instructor Davies, R.M.L.1., Sergeant Griffiths, R.M.LI, P. O. Chase, Sergeant Thornhill, Corporal Angus, RE, Sapper Robertson, RE, J. Parkes, R. Lapsley, and G. P. Lanimeri, Reserves; W. Pitt and A. Watson. Umpires: A. Chapman, J..Grant, and D. Macdonald.
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The P. & O. S. N. Ca's 8,5, Marika left
Singapore for this port on 8th inst, at 6 am.
The Silk ex C. PR. Co.'ssa. Tartar from Hongkong, on 7th alt, arrived at New York on 8th inst.
The E. & A. Co.'s 5.9. Fastera from Sy trey,
THE river steamer Htungskun went alongside the Cosmopolitan Dock to-day and will be&c, left Port Darwin yesterday, for this port drydocked, shonly, for the usual annual via Manila. overhaul. She is temporarily replaced on the
this post on gth inst., and is expected to arrive
means of which it comes into competitive as a dead weight to the effort of the dency over the thought and lives of his fel-public would, however, have been better pleas this port yesterday, and is expected to arrive.
The C. N. Co.'s .s. Wacking left flo lo for
here on 12th inst
The C. N. Co.'s s.s. Tiinan leff Kobe for
Macao run by the fionam. The travelling her on 16th inst. for
ed had the Steamboat Co. put her sister-ship, the Kinshas, on the Macao line during the time the Heungshan is in dock. The Macao trip is a largely appreciated one, and public convenience would be better served by a newer boat than the old Hom, good as she is.
a rule that in his own hands he knows would be,oppressive. So he submits, not willingly, enough) alone. This is in part due to the but only so far as he must. He has yet to teachings of the sages to the effect that the learn the great lesson which nature has been golden age of the country lies away back in teaching the race since the dawn of buman the Chow dynasty, 3,000 years ago; and history, that the learning of external law and that no effort of the present or future ages adopting it as one's own is in reality the can ever hope to surpass that degree of secret of attaining to the highest mastery excellence, but only remotely to approach whether of self, of external nature, or of It is only to the man to it. Then the lines of conformity to the one's fellowmen. old order being strictly prescribed all in who learns her laws and renders them im dividual initiative is stifled, and each suc-plicit obedience that physical nature lends sucessive generation, instead of improving her forces of steam, electricity, and mechani- fall cal transmission and adaptation to do his on the preceding, is very likely to a little short of its excellence, with the service. It is only the man who learns and result that society degenerates instead of obeys the laws of his own nature that at- advances. What is wanted is the cultivation tains the fullest development of his powers, in cach individual of the spirit of progress, And it is the man who studies and adopts, and the relieving of the individual of the as regulative of his own life, the laws of incubus of the clan, which invariably acts human nature that secures a lasting ascen- There is nothing demeaning individual in the direction of improvement. lowmen, (5) Then, too, every great people in the about a free man submitting to the severest world is trained in the power of concerted discipline and other great limitations of his in all the leading countries of the world. It movement. They understand the art of own free action for the sake of the whole is even looked upon as essential to the na- combination without secrecy. This is what community. It is a part of the highest culture ANDtional supremacy that these schools should may be called the power of social efficiency.and the best freedom, to be able to do so. be suitably maintained. Neither China nor The education of the people and all their These are some of the lines along which the any other country, regardless of the extent social life is a training in national unity, newer education in China must proceed, if it of her territory or the vastness of her popul. This is what makes all public improvements, is to succeed in saving the country for its own ation, can ever become great in this modern good roads, public water supply, the fire people and giving them a high place among world, while practically restricting the priv. department, systems of municipal sewage, the nations of the earth. That this can be ileges of education to any single class of her street cleaning and improvement, and all done only through the kind of education which we have tried to indicate we believe people, even to the class of rulers. (1.) No the public conveniences of modern life so great nation undervalues the physical side of easily possible. The people have learned to be incontrovertible. That it can be d negnificent background of fir-covered bills is knowledge. A purely literary education can how to combine effectively to secure these through this means we firmly believe. In of real artistic merit, and will be welcomed by all those who took part in this review, or who never make a people great. Study of, and results. In China the whole training of the is the hopeful view is the sensible view.
assisted as spectators, as a valuable, souvenir. reverence for, the laws and facts of nature people is a disintegrating process. In the Education in the sense in which we have The pictures are printed on wat paper and are inseparably connected with character as school there are no classes. Each pupil bec treating of it means "a leading out." undergo a process which prevents all risk of well as with material prosperity. Nature learns his lesson and goes to the teacher It implies a plastic nature, with a fibre to fading. from the first 25 been man's one great, and recites it alone. When he studies he it capable of being led out. The Chinese eu ective teacher. She has not yet relin- does so without any thought of the incon-have some splendid characteristics. They
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We have received from Mr. C. W. lak, the well-known photographer of No. 2 Ice House Street, a picture of the Birthday review in- Happy Valley yesterday. The view is taken from a high roign of vantage and is perfect in every respect. The panorama of the parade ground with the troops drawn up for inspection, the dense cosmopolitan crowds and the
The C. M. Co.'sss.Ningchow from Taconis, Victoria, and Seattle left Moji 9th inst, .. and is due here on 13th inst.
The I. C. S. N. 55. Laising left Calcutta for this port via the Straits on 7th inst, and may be expected here on 23rd inst.
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next French Mail left Singapore yesterday, at midnight, for this part via Saigon
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opean Line) left Shanghai for this port yester day, and is expected to arrive here on 12th inst. Nagasaki at 4 p.m., on guh inst, and left again. at midaight same day, for Kobe where she is due to arrive at 9 am, on 11th inst
The C. P. R. Coloss. Athenian, arrived at
The C. N. Co.'s ss. Changsha from Aus tralian ports was delayed in Manila, on account of bad weather, but left there on 9th inst., and
is expected to nirive here on 11th inst., p.in.
The P. M. S. Co.'s 6.5, Siberto with mails,
&c, from San Francisco to the a3rd ult, vis Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, on gth we are still doing business at 31, Des Voeux Inst 2 days ahead. She sails again from Road. Munyon, Adv.
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