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apt to forget that the prison exists not se much for corrective purposes as for the reclamation of the lapsed, and particularly of those who have fallen for the first time and taste the degradation of compulsory confinement. Taking it altogether there is comparatively little of interest in the report if two births within the precincts of the prison be excepted-the only outstanding fact being the great reduction in the hum her of those who endured prison life for a spell during the past year.
was.
SHIPBUILDING COMPANY,
that
We are extremely indebted to the Rev. A. Bran, Procureur, Mission
the number would equal that of the Kowloon Ctrangères in China, for the fol.
Religious Instruction --As the year ending school. The Kowloon school was to specialias lowing information, with reference to ty did not recommend the holding of an education of boys, which the speaker consides- Dec. 31, 1995, included seven working months the education of girls and Victoria School the the telegram which our representa independent examination in religious knowed the most satisfactory arrangement, becausa tive at Shanghai telegraphed on the tedge for 1905 for the reasons that all the pupils the education of boys must be somewhat were re-classified at idsummer and 18 new different. The little girls in this school were authority of the Echo de Chine, that pupile were admittering the natum term well disciplined and were getting on very well there was danger to Potestants in An examination wouhus serve me useful with their studies. Since he saw them drilling Yunnan. Rev. Father Brun writes--he modified and more than ball the pupils had when they went home they would ask their purpose, as the syllabus of instructiuu had to with dolls, which they did very woll, he hoped "Telegram just now to hand from not received six months' instruction.
mothers to lend them the baby (laughter), It Yunuansen says:
Lelque of the Empire :-Last year being only remained for him to congratulate Mr. the Nelson Centenary the upper school pupils Williams on the flourishing condition of the received a special course of lassons upon the school and to thank the ladios, and gentlemen growth of the Empire during the 18th and 19th present for turning up in such sumbers. He centuries. On Victoria Day, May 24th, the hoped that next year the half of Hongkong children assembled at school and an address would be present at the prize-giving (Applause). was given by my reviewing the chief events during the reign of Queen Victoria, after which † ibe National Anthein was sung, and a holiday Mr. Living, and the proceedings terminated.
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Everything is at peace."
FORMOSA,
MARQUIS OYAMA RESIGNS.
VISCOUNT KODAMA SAKÚMA APPOINTED
GOVERNOR.
granted for the rest of the day. During the Xmas holidays the upper school pupils con-
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A SCENE AT THE CENTRAL STATION,
iri 'uted essays for the 'Lord Meath Empire | UNDESIRABLES IN HÒNGKUNG. Day Essay Competition, 1906'; five of the Essays were authorized by the Inspector of Schools for despatch to the. Federal Council, The results of this competition are expected shortly. It has been arranged to celebrate
Singapore from its position of distributing
Ing conditions in the vicinity of tlongkong and tives of the American and Japanese they were imperfecity prepared, having received for this school, and he decided that the present 6 weeks fuition only; (b) that the average age building would be about the best. It was a agent for the Dutch Colonies and the
rat when the nean percentage of the whole Governments at Peking, tho Chinose of the pupils was only 13 and not having little Chinese school containing one master hinterland of the Straits Settlements. In
of the stations is taken, April profas to be the Government foggiest month, 25 per cent. of the days being Mukden and Antung shall be operied course; (c) they were entered under
has promised that received any preliminary instruction they were and one scholar, and he thought they ought not mentally fit for the study of the advanced sometimes to sympathise with that Chinese deed, the idea that Singapore could ever hope to draw from Hongkong its trade with
loggy, and September has the least fog, viz,
boy, who no longer enjoys the privilege of a logy, and September has the escurves of to international trade during the from the Inspector of Schools who on learning whole school, a schoolmaster and a blackboard China is not merely absurd-it is ab
that there were not enough pupils to form a to himself (laughter). Regarding housing he solutely ridiculous. And the same applies
the maximum varies with the latitude, the S. fourth ingon (May)... -
team for the competition in the elementary thought he could vay with some
oma confidence to any hope that might be fatuously held
coast recording the maximum in March, and
HTE YUNNAN FEARS
that the Victoria School was the prettiest in course requested me to send them in for the that Hongkong could interfere with Singa
Shantung and the Gulf of Pechili between Jund or July." After describing the weather
advanced cu se rather than that Goyem- the Colony and as far ds outward equipment, pore's trade in the Dutch Colonies.
conditions which tend to the creation of foggy
ment school should be altogether unpresented went left very little to be desired. But a Singapore stands at the gate of Europe,
weather the writer observes: "To the navi.
"EVERYTHING IS AT PEACE,"
the examination. We may, however, look school wanted children. At first it seemed as forward to better results next December as the if the attendance would not be as large ‘as. ex- while Hongkong is the terminus of the
gator the practical importance of the resulta Pacific trade. There have been humor-
arrived at is this, that about the, beginning of IMPORTANT NEWS FROM CATHOLIC SOURCES.subject is now regularly and systematically pected, "but this year Mr. Williams said the taught, and I have added the elementary number touched 6, while 55 were actually our ideas promulgated by our contempor· | SANGUẠI ENGINEERING AND the year whenever it is known that low pres. aries in Manila, and even by functionaries
sure areas exist over China or adjacent watera'
principles of physiology and "First Aid "to present during March, at that rate of pro of the Insular Government, that
one of
he may expect to find more at leas tog along
the syllabus as these branches of hygiene gress they had every reason to hope that the coast, its occurrence becoming more and
appeal to English children. these fine days Manila will become While the question of the re-construction more frequent and its character probably the paramount port of the East, evict of S. C. Farman, Boyd & Co. was agitat denser, until the period of the year when ing both Hongkong and Singapore from ing the shareholders of that Company and the maximum of fog obtains, is reached their present positions, and denying them conselling the interest of all who have been on the different parts of the consi.". Fogs the privilege of claiming any right whatsoever watching the trend of events in the North, covering the most extensive areas of the const on the same day were most frequent in to precedency as centres of distribution.
we denied the assertion made by the opril, except over the area from the Yangize But as the people of Manila are at present ponents of the re-construction selieme that to Shantung and the Gulf of Techili when May quaking under the thought this another the very existence of the new Company shows the greatest percentage. April is seen port on one of the Islands may shortly be was threatened by the operations of the to be a very bad mouth along the streich of Adopted as the commercial axis of the Kiangan Arsenal decks. It was argued coast comprised by the Formosa Channel and Philippines-a port with, as yet, an unpro-that the Kipngnan Arsenal. was flourishmah of the Yangtze, the prevalence of fes nounceable name-their arrogance may be ing 56 greatly that it would shortly the same day being very frequent over the whole area. Afer April it seldoin happens that calmly disregarded for the present. Indeed, have all the work required by the tog embraces the S. coast and Ferinosa Chan- the Manilians would probably be the Chinese Government, Chinese owners nel areas at the same time, but they contioue first to wrive the point. The fact is that and other shipping in its bands. Being till about the middle of June in the are: coin. Singapore is bound to capture the Euro a Government concern and bolstered upprised by the Formosa Channel and the Yangize pean trade travelling eastwards; while the with Government money, the Kiangnan districts, and they disappear still later in the Pacific trade and part of the Australian trade Arsenal could offer better terms than the section of the coast comprised by the estuary of for South China falls naturally to the shore Shanghai Engineering and Shipbuilding the end of july there are practically no fogs the Yangtze and the Shantung districts. After of Hongkong. Both Hongkong and Singa- Company. A short paragraph in the covering extensive sections of the coast on pore have vistas of immense prosperity Daily News shows how fallacious that view the same day It is in January that they begin stretching before them. When the Kowloon-
It is as follows: The American to increase again. From the table compiled Canton railway is completed, and Haukowcruiser waleigh was unlocked and a Chin-it appears that much more fog is found a few is connected with Canton, the main part of ese cruiser dorked at the International Dock miles seaward of the river mouths than at the the produce in the area tapped by these
on the 7th instant." It is evident, therefore, purts on the rivers a little inland. The main point la the report, however, is the weather fore railways must, perforce, find its way to that the competition of the Kiangan Casts, and nothing is said as to whether the Hongkong to be distributed over the Arsenal is largely a vain creation of the Director is entirely satisfied with the results world. I would be impossible to es mind. If the 'Chinese Government find it
achieved in 15. We are left to infer that timate the increased trade which such desirable to send their warships to the In because 16 per cent, were successful and 33 a combination of circumstances implies ternational Dock in preference to the Kiangner cent, partially so the Observatory has ful for Hongkong, On the other hand, Singa-
As a matter of fact, few nao Arsenal that is surely an indication filled its purpose. pore has a rich inheritance of patrons in the that the fears of the pessimists who concern themselves with the existence of such neighbouring Dutch Colonies and Homes foresaw the speedy downfall of the Shanghai and then the Observatory's observations are of ai institution, except in the typhoon season, as consumers of the products landed at the Engineering and Shipbuilding Company real value. southern port, while the development of
may safely be disregarded. Johore, the linking up of the railway, now were also maile to prove that although Mr. in process of construction, between Singa- Koiff was a director of the new Shanghai pore and Burma, must prove of undoubted Engineering and Shipbuilding Co, and was benefit to our sister Colony, butli financially therefore likely to bring the large shipping and commercially. As for Siam, which interests whịch his tại" controls to the ser stands between, Singapore cannot pretend to
rice of the Company, the greatest amount of believe that the trade between Hongkong German ship-repairing and engineering and Bangkok can be diverted away from its would be placed in the hands of German natural channel. It must be clear from all firms at Kiauchau. This argument also is these points that Hongkong and Singapore squelched for, on the 14th of March last, will advance and prosper in like ratio. the Germana njan-of-war illis was docked ai Hongkonis interested in southern affair
Shanghai, cleaned and repaired. Here then to the extent of the traffic in goods flowing is another instance why confidence should westwards and from China, particularly in be retained in the Shanghai Engineering the commerce involved by the emigrato and Shipbuilding Company. With reference of Chinese coolies, who maintain constan
to this Company we may expipel communication with their friends and bus ness acquaintances in China; while Singe pore is similarly situated so far as Chines Malayan relations are maintained, and th 'castward trafic, asa matter of course, belong to our neighbour in the south. In these ci cumstances the policy of “live and let live is the best that can be adopted, at the sam time remembering that each Colony mas learn much from each other's methods an
by a study of each other's circumstances,
CRIME IN HONGKONG,
Hongkong's murality is distinctly on the upward grade, if we may judge from the severely statistical statement issued by the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol for the past year. It is a notorious fact that figures are by no means the best guide which we can have if we desire to form a just estimate of the crime of the Colony for a specified period, because a great deal depends not sa much on the miniber of cases as on the character of the crimes committed. It is impossible, in the absence of any explana tory remarks by the Superintendent of the Gaul, to say whether Hongkong is improv ing in this respect, but it is at least note- worthy that the number of convictions for
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an early date the official announcement that the old Farnham, Boyd Co. has been recon structed with new articles under the name of the Shanghai Engineering and Shipbuild- ing Company, Lad.", Readers will remember the resolution for the re-construction of the Company, and it is conserpently unnecessary to enter into details on that point now, ex rept to say that the new Company is to com mence operations on the 1st proximo. it is to be presumed that the new articles have been registered under the Companies Or- dinance of Hongkong, and it may be expected that shareholders will be served with a notice to the effect that the resolutions passed at the extraordinary and adopted at the confirmatory.meeting will take effect on the rst pros. In this event the directors are required to give the shareholders a clear fanteen days notice, so that the announce ment as to the registration of the new Com pany must be made on Tuesday at the latest, if operations are to begin on the 1st of May. In the opinion of several shareholder's
TELEGRAMS.
** HONGKONG TELEGRAPH **
SERVICE
YUNNAN OUTBREAK,
PROTESTANTS IN SERIOUS DANGER.
ATTIFORTHES APPARENTLY HELPLESS,
| From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 7th April, .
240 p.in. The Echo de Chine reports that serious trouble has broken out in
Yunnall
The authorities are stated to have insullicient men at their commned to
the outbreak. Strong feeling, it is said, prevails against the Protestants.
suppress
The situation is very grave.
GERMANY IN FAVOUR.
CURIOUS DIPLOMATIC MOVE.
GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA ESTRANDED FROM CHINA,
[bruar Qur Own Correspondent]
Shanghai, 7th April;
10.50 a.m..
On the other hand, the relations between the Chinese and Great Britain and America have become estranged,
~· DISTURBANCE AT KIN
HUA-FC.
The diplomatic representatives of there is a possibility that the question of dortman have unexpectedly obtained reducing the capital of the Company will the confidence of the official author- once again be nought forward by the new board of directors.
It is contended ities at Peking. that the property, market in Shanghai is, at the moment, far more favourable than actual crime-including petty offences of when the scheme was first, mooted about every description-showed a reduction of this time last year. We have no positive 1,213. In 1905 there were 6 prisomers receiv ground for suggesting that a reduction of the ed from the military authorities as compared rapital will be proposed by the new with 95 in the previous year, a significant board, but if such be the case it is anti- reduction. Under the heading of "On re- cipated that nu difficulty will be experienced mand or in default of finding surely" no in securing the Ths. 1,100,000 wherewith to less than 856 persons lost their liberly-return to the shareholders a sum of 20 tals temporarily, let us hope-during the year, per share of what is generally believed to be which was a slight increase over the number | the over rapitalised amount of the amalga- of those who failed to find bail or were un mated docks at Shanghai. It can be assumed able to give guarantees of good faith in with a reasonable degree of certainty that the 104. In considering one item of the list valuable asser in the Old Dock would pros of prisoners received,” which is the quaint vide secmity for any advance which the official way of looking at the maller, one is directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai inclined to ask-Are, we becoming more Banking Corporation might gram to enable Jenient towards those who fail to pay their debts ? Not so very long ago, when an in-suggested. We believe that such a retur dividual failed to meet his obligations the
COTTON MILL DESTROYED.
MANAGER'S HOUSE, LOOTEI
¡Fram Our Cum" Correspondent↑
Shanghai, 9th April, 2.20 p.m. A disturbance has taken place ut
the Company to make the return of capital | Kin-lina-fu, in the Chekiang province. The cotton mill, which was recent erected there, has been destroyed
would be generally welcomed by the share
folders, and it would relieve the Companyy
of the burden of earning larger profits in by the rioters. order to maintain the dividend on a propor tionately larger capital.
which
creditor did not think twice over the matter. He simply clapped the debtor into prison. Nowadays, the creditor seems willing to put off the day when he must reson to the Court hofing, no doubt, that the debtor will eventually pay up like a man-
WEATHER FORECASTS. hope tells him a flattering tale; at all events there were only 49 debtors imprisoned last The majority of people are inclined in scoff year as contrasted with 64 in 1904. Includ-al the weather prophet, but withat he continues ing those who were on remand and those his detractors to his side in the coarse of time. to thrive, and his very persistency may bring unable to find security or bail, 6,127 pri From the Report of the Directer of the Hong zoners entered Victoria Gaol last year as kong Obervatory for last year, it appears that against 7,464 in 1,904-a reduction of 1,237,n comparison is maile daily between the forecast giving a percentage of .057 to the estimated issued and the actual conditions population, the lowest recorded for the last follow, In 1905 the results of that comparison were: Success 56 per cent; partial success 33 five years. It is noteworthy, that the num ber of convictions from the New Territory was róg last year or more than double that of the previous year. It does not necessarily follow that crime has increased on the mainland; the probability is that the out- lying districts are better policed, with the result that crimes and offences which a few years ago would have passed unchecked are now, brought to light by the vigilance of the Jaw. No less than 3.383 persons came under the discipline of the gaol for offences not of a criminal character, and of that number 1,307 had contravened some section of the Opium Ordinance. Five beggars spent a term in gaolf The report notes that first offenders are completely separated from habitual criminals, which is satis factory; for too often the prison officials are
The manager's house has been
looted
RUSSIAN TROOPS. ·
EVACUATE MANCHURIA IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
[From Our Own Correspondent,}
Shanghai, 10th April, 12.30 p.m. The Russian Government has}
MUKDEN AND. ANTUNG.
[From Our Own Cori espondent.]
Shanghai, 12th April, 2.5 p.m. Marquis Oyama, who held the opet of Governor of Formosa, to which he was appointed at the clusion of the late war, has retired.
Viscount Kodana Sakama has bean appointed to the vacancy.
►
con-
GERMAN STÄTESMAN HERE.
VISIT OF THE SECRETARY FOR
AGRICULTURE.
Victoria Day this year by carrying nut Lord Meath's suggested programme for Empire Day consented to preside at a joint celebration by the and His Excellency the Governor has kindly
scholars of the Kowloon and Victoria Schools at the Victoria School,
ATHLETICS.
In response to a leuer which I sent to parents in April last, subscriptions were seal to the "School Sports Fund" to cover the ex penses for the supply of materials for cricket, foutball, and other games. The boys take a keen interest in their games:-I am pleased to say that they have competed in the Hongkong Baron von Sternebere, ecretary of State for Schools Football League, at least one match a Agriculture in Germany, arrived in Hongkong week has been played and several fixtures in on Thursday, accompanied by his suite. His both cricket and football have been arranged I attach much importance to Excellency is on a tour round the world, and it for this year. is stated that has solt object is health and plea organized school games and all boys are cam sure. If anything meets his eye which in bispelled to take part in some sports moless pinion should be applied to the German purents for a valid reason expressly desire colonies then, of chur ej he will make a note of | „otherwise., it. But the primary intention is to see the world and I enjoy life. Baton von Sterneberg is a well-known figure in the German Reichstag. His experience of parliamentary fairs dates. back to the days when Prince Bismarck-the
nan of blood and iron-was at the height of his glory, when he was at the zenith of his power, when he was not merely the man be
The Baron was on the best of terms with the
GOVERNMENT INSPECTION,
The infant and the lower schools were in- spected in November and the upper school in December by the Inspector of School, and his report in as follows:
DISCIPLINE AND ORGANIZATION. The discipline is very good considering the short time the school has been in existance. ind the throne but practically the throne uself,
The organisation of the infant and lower fierce old re-enter and held a post is his schools is quite satisfactory, in the upper Governaneut. For several years the Baron has school it is quite impossible to expressa de-. been Secretary of State for Agriculture, and al- finite opinion, as the pupils have come into the though that is a post which does not bring him school at intervals during the few months that into prominence in the outer world his ably the school has been open; and it cannot be i's Bighly appreciated
his native said with any certainly how far their attain. land, and personally he is greatly esteem.
ments and weak points are attributable to cd. Baron von Sterneberg is no longer their former education. I have therefore not a young man and his policy of travelling round attempted to criticise the wok done by then the world
commodious passenger
at examination in any detail, but I can say Steamers of to-day, in order to recuperate his that the pupils are backward in writing and health, might be followed with advantageby many arithmetic, and that their deficiencies will re- who are content to paddle in the waters washquire much attention. The elaborate course of ing the Riviera, being unaware, probably, of pleasures of a voyage to the "glorious Oricat " His Excellency and suite proceeded in Canton last night and will return to thongkong in time to catch the Manchuria by which they will proceed wha Shanghai and Japan to America.
the
VICTORIA SCHOOL.
PRIZEGIVING DAY.
2th ins!,
This was a red-letter day for the, scholars
study outlined in the cpart of the Headmaster
must be taken to some extent as an ideal to be pursued, not necessarily to the immediato
future.
A
Sanitation. Very satisfactory. Apparatus, Very satisfactory. "Infant and Lower Schools Reading very good progress made, Writing great pains are being taken with handwriting. Geography very well taught. Arithmetic very Kuod Drawing very well taught; Kindergarten good. Singing not vary much has been accom- plished, huberto.
Since this report was made the weaker points in the Lower School indicated by the inspector have been attended to. Kindergarten materials have been obtained from England and singing is now taught by note on the sonic sol-la method, This being the first year of the school con-
a vow to starlin, a fresh year's work to be
in Victoria School, Causeway Bay, the occa sion being the presentation of prizes by Mr. 1. A. Irving, Inspector of schools. There was a very good attendance and the rhum used for the occasion was full; while the smils on the faces of the children denoted the greatest plea-inuity of instruction has been difficult. With stres proprene preemiations one this, short programine of music was gone through by the chidren, which was well appreciated by those who attended.
The beadmaster (Mr. W. H. Williams) read
his report as follows.
By Government Notification, No 74, of the 3rd Feb, 1905, the Victorja Schini was open- Ed, on Monday, the sulli March, 1905, The children of European parents, both boys and gif, with this restriction, that girls over 13 years of age are not admitted or allowed to remain at the school.
Classification. The school is divided into an infant, a lower, and an upper school. Pupils are transferred to the upper school on attaining the standard of knowledge equivalent to the
fifth standard of a public elementary school in England.
curriculum UPPER SCHOOL
The course of instruction provides for
thorough madern and general education and
includes: mathematics, physical and commer- cial geography, constitutional history, English
free arm and freehand drawing, object lessons. *applied mechanics, *geometrical drawing and * Pitman's shorthand.
*Joy only,
grammar, composition and literature, lions,
*1
LOWER SCHOOL,
Reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, wordbuilding, composition, draw ing, clay modelling, object lesenas, singing, sewing, and kindergarten studies.
Infant school reading, writing, arithmetic, singing
drawing, sewing and kindergarten. In all classes the first hall hour rach morning is given to biblical instruction.
Attendance. During the last week in Marchi be-1905, 17 pupils were admitted, in July, there were 33, in December 11 and the last adinissizn number was6o. Five pupils have left the school to take employment, 210 cetura to England
per cent.; failure i per cent. ; partial failure to undertaken that all the troops per cent. Following the method used in longing to that country will be with faeteorological offices and taking the sum of
nisl and partial success as a measure of drawn from Eastern Asia within success, and the sum of road and partial failure eighteen months. as a measure of failure, it follows that 89 per cent of the weather forecasts were successful in 1935. No doubt this is very satisfactory from the scientific point of view, but the ordinary man would be well to know what the Observatory requires something more. For insance, il officia s mean by "partial success," and when they account & inrecast a "partial failure" To the commonplace individual the weather forecast is of comparatively slight interest, but to the mariver it is of supreme importance, especially in the case of those who are unacquainted with the coast conditions, In this connection an
NEW TRADE CENTRES TO BE OPENED. THE RESULT OF AMERICAN AND JAPANESE
DEMANDS.
[From Our Own Correspondent;}
'Shanghai, 10th April,
12.30 p.m.
appendix entitled "Foga on the Coast of As the result of demands pre. China," compiled by Mr. F. G. Figg, is of valus, showing as it does the variation in gented by the diplomatic representa
and 2 to go to other schools. While the avenge attendance has thus trebled itself in twelve months, I am pleased to report that the pupils themselven have attended school regularly and
espleted by the end of this year I have during the past two weeks made a thorough exaunina. tion of the schoul. To the Infant and Lower School in charge of Mrs. Wilkinson and Mrs. Mons, there is evidence of very satisfactory progress, so that each class will now be pro- moted to the one higher. With regard to the Upper School I regret to report that the results ufis are not so satisfactory. Considering that the average age of the pupits is tal years, I exert a much higher standard of proficiency in mathematics and English than is shown by the examination results. The standard of attain ment in any subject does not justify any special reward for proficiency and have not recam mended to the fovernment the granting of any prizes to the Upper School. I have now very great pleasure in calling the Inspector of Schools to present the prizes to the pupils of the lower school who have really merited them (Applause.)
The prizes were then distributed,
THE PRIZE LIST...
Infint Class-Ada Dickson, Anna Ogilvie
Mary Mercer, Ernest Wilkinson, Roy Tatam.
Standard -Norm in Robertson, George Rodger, Frieda Schoenfelder, Edgar Davey, Kailileen Jackson, Thomas Manin, John Grimshaw,
Standard 11-John Rodger, Jessie Rodger, Jessie Stokes, Queenie atam.
Standard 11-Ivan Gibson, George Baker, Kathleen Course, Jessie McNeill, Irene Max
field,
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12th inst. That Hongkong is the dumping ground for Eastern ports is a fact that cannot be disputed, Chinese criminals who find Kwanglung to cases that have been reported in these columos, hot for them, vide the innumerable extradition
seek Hongkong as their only part of refuge. Deportees from the Straits Settlements and Saigon find their way to our shores as if this Colony only existed for sheltering such un- desirables. This fact can be confirmed easily enough. Almost daily cases are reported in this journal of coolies who have been arrested for crimes committed and state unblushingly that they have on'y arrived in the Colony from the last boat. They are no doubt quite aware Canton or the interior, as the case might be, by
of the English laws and some of them are only too glad to go to gaol. If ́ we'remember rightly, and it was not so very long ago,
coolic who was coavicted remarked in the wat waiting-room that it would be to his pleasure: if the magistrate had added on a couple of maths more to his already long senience. Without the slightest compunction he said that in gaol he had his chow regularly, always n b-d, and a roof above,his head, the work they set him to do was only child's play considering what they have to do outside for 1co cash a But the latter affair day, and a regular bath.
he did not appear to appreciate, but he con- cluded with "get used to it, anyway" Such the low-class Chinaman's fear for the Victoria
Gaol.
по
Station, presented an ideal picture of Chi- This afternoon, a visit to the Central Police
nese happiness. In the compound of the station were looking Chinese who had been deported from less that 133 decrepit Saigon recently and arrived in the Colony on board the steamship Victoria this morning, One and all were afflicted with some disease, mainly leprosy, Others could not walk and had to be carried by policeman. They were all huddled up together, with their boxes be side them, to all outward appearances as happy a sand-boys, waiting leisurely the verdict of the detective office. Thanks to the detective de partment these men were secured before they were let loose in the streets of Hongkong, and in charge of Detective F. L. Clyde, these un desirables were "passed on " to pastures new.s
SIR ANTHUR MOORE.
VISITS GOVERNOR MONTENEGRO
AT MACAO.
[From Our Own Correspondent.}-
Macao, 12th April, 196. The first visit to Macao of the new Commen. der-in-Chief of the British Naval Squadron in China was made on Wednesday.. Atsix o'clock in the evening that day 13.M.B. Alacrity, flying the fing of His Excellency Vicendumiru g Arthur W. Moore, anchored in the roadstead. At ten o'clock this forenoon the Admiral landed in the inner harbour of Macao at what is known as the old Naval Station pier. Early in the morning the river gunboat Moorhen steamed out from her moorings to the Alacrity in the outer harbour; the Admiral having embarked on board the Afoorhen, she returned to Macao,
visitor a guard of honour, under an officer of At the wharf to receive the distinguished caplain's rank, was posted. Sir Arthur Moore
due to his rank, and then inspected the force, landing was received with all the hours Accompanied by his aide-de-cam, and the Commander of the Alverity, the British Admir- al, attended by the Portuguese Chief of Staff, Captain Dansao de Menezes of the Artillery, proceeded to Government House on a formul visit to the Governor of the Colony, Benhar Martinho de Montenegro. Another guard of honour in command also of a Captain awaited Sir Arthur Moore's arrival at the gubernatorial residence. The honours accorded the British visitor are what are equivalent to those given in Portugal to a General of Division,
After the usual exchange of counesies, the Admiral and the British officera returned aboard the Afoorhen in port.
At eleven in the forenoon the Governor returned the Admiral's visit on board the British gunboat. At pan, the Admiral re turned to the Alacrity, which weighed anchor Mr. Irving said it gave him great pleasure in | and steamed out in the direction of Canton, having to distribute the prizes at this, the first Had the Admiral not left to-day and had pro meeting of the school. The foundations of the longed his stay at this port, his Excellency Victoria English School were laid about eigh would have been entertained at a banquet at teen months ago, when a petition was sent to
Government House. The members of the Macao Club are entertaining their friends at HE. the Governor asking him to start an all
dinner on Easter Sunday and it was the inten- British school on this side, corresponding to Kowloon School which was started for the tion of the committee to invite the British Ad. same purpose at the beginning of 1907. No miral and his stite to honour the Clab with time was lost; luckily Mr. Williams being here | their presence at the function. and the school was started in less than seven. they did not have to send home for o master, months from the time it was asked for. They CNA's representative at the celebration of in the aggregate have put in over 90', of the were also lucky'in having a building in which the coming marriage between King Alfonso of total possible number of attendances; when to house the school, because if they had had to Spain and H.R. H. Princess Ena of Battenberg. parents thus send their children to school re-build it would have taken much longer. The we understand, is to be H.E. Wang-Ta-bsi, gularly greater justice is done to the children,speaker referred to the similarity between Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's. to their teachers, and to the school,
British schools in Hongkong and the cuckoo, The proper person to go to Madrid for the SPECIAL SUBJECTS.
remarking that they took over buildings intend purpose ought naturally to be H. E. Sir Chên- Hygico-A beginning in this subject was
ed for other purpose. For instance when it tony Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister score. unavoidably delayed till November; pupils of was decided to start a British school at Kowdited to the country. Owing, however, to the the Upper School took the Government loon they had no building, but there was a non-actilement of the new Exclusion Treaty examination in the advanced stage the results very line building erected by a Chinese gentle- I with the United States his Excellency cannot the pupils who presented themselves for this very well, so look it. Following this prece Wang Ta-hsi has been appointed-N CD of which were not satisfactory, but in Justice sa man which place Kowloon saw would suit leave Washington, with the result that H. E. examination it should be polated out~(a) that | dient- it was left to him to suggest a building News,
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