Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY
LOCAL AND GENERAL
AMENDED rules for the election of members of the Sanitary Board are published in the Garolle; -
A LIST of Chinase titles of Officials, approved by His Excellency the Governor, is published
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleas- ed to appoint Lieutenant H. W. Grech, and. Battalion, The Bulls, as the Military member .of the committee for the Wong-noi-chong and Queen's Recreation Grounds, vice Lieutenant' G. R. Home.
JANUARY 9 1909.
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
THE GOVERNOR'S SCHEME.
MR. H. N. MODY'S -CONDITIONAL OFFER OF COST OF BUILDINGS.
ENDOWMENT FUND OF £110,000 REQUIRED.
HIS EXCELLENCY'S APPEAL TO THE COMMUNITY.
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officials in the serv the Capitals or abroa
which should take precedence of any others, desire ware those of Medicine and Applied Science (Engineering) As regards the former it has the already been seen how intimately the origin of the University will be connected with the existing College of Medicine. In regard to
cience it will be noted that allusion is made in, best fit resolutions to the "Technical Instiute. This whather they institution consists of factures given to the evenings to classes in variona subjects, aspects ally engineering and its allied sudies, The gotten. In this connection the lecturers receive ices, and apparatus and loc. adopted as a modium, it would not ture-rooms are provided by Goversment. The found most difficult if not impossible to Fonds consist of a Government Grant (at pre-Western technical terms and inbiruction sent $13,331), a contribution from the (Chinese) but also it would not enrve as a medium Li Shing Institute of $1,100 per annum and Chinese from different parts of Chios, Stud fees of students (amounting to about the same
from different provinces would require separate as those of the Medical College, vit, 51,100 interpretam. In ordar, however, that Chinese per annum). With this may also be included students may benefit to the fallast We publish below in ericaso the Memoran or more students of the Hongkong Univer the local branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute. have said that to my opinion a small stat of ON and from the 4th day of January, 1909, the dum drawn up by His Excellency the Governor alty have thus graduated, the Governor be-6. It is proposed then to amalgamate these assistant teachers should be asgaged to explain stamp duty payable in respect of aby godown setting out the objects, and scope of the Univer. requested to apply to His Majesty in Council institutions in the University what it is in- lectures and to enable the Chinese to obinis an agra augurated, and their assets and endowments explanation of any maiter they did not fully warrant or receipt, being of the nature of an sity and appealing for subscriptions for the for the grant of a Royal Charters
understand.** 14. That in passing the previous resolutions will with the content of the donors be taken
The advantages both to China, to the Bri- We have just unpacked our NEW SEASON l'agreement, shall be ten cents in place of one endowment fond, for which and for, cost of
dollar as in Article 2 in the first schedule to equipments a sum, estimated at. £110,000 to give effect to the project of establishing a over by the University. The first two faculties Ordinance No, 38 of 1902,
(sterling), is required. The Memorandum University in Hongkong this committes under established will be Medicine and Applied tish Empire, and to this Colony of establishing stands that the objects of such a University Edlence and an adequate staff of Professors and Voiversity are thus summed up by Dr BILLIARD entbusines are reminded that the
A public spirited citizen (Mr. H, N. Mody) will be to afford a higher education, mors of local lecturers will be engered to give In-Ho Kai, C.M., Senior Dabficial Member of Billiard "Championship Match (Mr. Hinde
has offered to present to the Colony the build: especially in subjects of practical utility, such action in these subjects, Degrees will only the Hongkong Legislative Council," he him- againal Sergeant Pitt, Hongkong Police), is to
Togs necessary to start a University. Hias Applied Science, Medicias, etc., on the lines be conferred upon students who attain auto-sell holds full qualifications beib in Land take place at St. Andrew's Hall on Monday, at original offer was to give a sum of $150,000 of such Universities as Leeds and Birming dard equal to that required in England, and in Medicine 9p.m. The game is to be 1,000 up. A late for this purpose and a further sum of $30,000 ham, sod: to confer degrees of a standard. the entrance examization will be similar to (1) European youths in this Colony and theref car has been arranged for the convenience of towards endowment Plans of the necessary not inferior to those conferred by such that required to Home Universities. It is pro numerous ports of China will have an innitus buildings were prepared at his instance, and Universities in Great Britain; to develop posed that when there are students ready to tion close at hand affording them profesional generally speaking they appear suitable. The and form the character of students no less prosent themselves for degree examination the and technical education equal to that given by Colonial. Director of Public Works, however, than their intellectual faculties; to offer equal King in Connel shall be patitioned for the similar establishments at home, thus saving estimated that the buildings proposed would facilities for students of all races; to extend grant of a Royal Charter. It is possible that them much expense, trouble, and long, separa cost not less than $295,000. Mr. Mady there the knowledge of the English language in the the London or other Home University may be tion from their parents and families; Chinese degrees peading the grant of a charter. In Empire derive similar benefits, only perhaps upon, undertook to provide the buildings in Far East; and to promote a good understand willing to conduct the examinations and issue boys here and from all parts of the Chinese accordance with the plans which he had aping with the neighbouring Empire of China.
any case we deurs that the dagroa lesped shall in a greater degree; and young men of allothar proved no matter what the cost might be, stipulating, however, that he should me on the
be is no way inferior to that given by a Euro nationalities praât in the same manner, zlat buildings the $30,003 originally given for en
pean or Americo University and shall be as widely and fully recognised. dowment, if it should be required.
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"You certainly deserve a prize for 'ibat," was the remark by Mr. E. D. C. Wolle, Inspector of Schools, at: the distribution of prizes to the boys of the Ellis Kadoorie School this morning, while handing the prize to a scholar who had not been absent once during the last six years, This record-breaking instance ofa schoolboy's daily attendance is perhaps unrivalled, ON December 24 the river at Taku was still open, but heavy ice was seen at the Road and ebbtide. There were still two Japanese steam- ers at the bar, que discharging sleepers and theject of establishing a University. The follow
ing resolutions were eventually paused - other loading. Three tugs and fire lighters-
1. That it is desirable that a University are still undocked. It is anticipated that the
should be founded in Hongkong. port will actually close after the spring tides which are now nearly finished. All lights and buoys are removed.
Ar St. Andrew's Church, Kowloop, to-morrow First Sunday after the Epiphany) the Holy A. S. WATSON & CO., Communion will be administered at 8 am
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NOUUE, a Japanese doctor, residing at 24.
The Hongkong Gelegraph Prayn East, was charged in the Police Court,
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909.
CHINESE BANKS.
As interesting article referring to a recent. publication appears in a nouthern contempora-" ry on the subject of banks in China bad particularly in Shanghai, which may be described - na the centre of native back- ing Institutions, According 10 Our COD- temporary, the establishment in Shanghai of the Imperial Bank of Chien, several years ago, was heralded at the time as the harbinger of a modern banking system throughout Chias; but thit Bank has never succeeded in gaining wide popularity---probably for the reason that ils business was so largely associated with the two commercial enterprises which had the some official as Director. Geutral. This Bank has however, established a good reputation for itself, not only in Shanghai, but in Hong kong and Tientsin. Its greatest back has been its inability to do exchange
Business, on account of the lack of correr. ~pondent-banks in Europe and America. The Imperial Bank of Chinn having failed to become a national Bank, the Board of Revenue, in August, 1905, established the Hu Pu Bank, the name of which has been since changed to the Ta Tsing Bank, or Chinese Government Bank. The eriguojzation and working of this || Bank have been carefully described in a pam pblet prepared by Mr. Jules Gory of the Cur tom Service. This Back has had an office in Shanghai since its first establishment and has done a very profitable business. According to the balance sheet, translated by Mr. Gory, the working expenses of the Bank were very low, amounting to only Tacle 212,000 whicas the amount of business dons was more bas Taels 30,000,00. This lank gives promiss of becoming the centre of the financial system of China,. It has adopted a tactful policy toward the powerful guilds of Stansi bankers, and has also been of service in financing provip. cial enterprises. It is soon to bave nu im posing building in the Settlement. Other Chinese banka In Shanghai are rapid'y developing their business on modern lines. The Ningpo Commercial Bank, which has a fing now building almost completed on the corner of the Kiangse and. Nisgpo Roads as well as the Sheng Nib Chartered Bank on the Nan 'king Road, and other banks, bave altered their arrangements so as to conform to modern bank- ing methods. New forms of cheques are issund, paying-in books are used, kad in all small mat. ters of detail these banks are organizing on modern lines. As happened in Japan daring the reorganization of its banking system, many mis takes will be made, sad difficulties will arise, but a new leaven is at work and is sure to permeate the whole banking system of Chius. One of the greatest advantages of the new system will be the reducing of the powers of the bank manager, and subjecting him to strict supervision. Under the old system, the power of the bank manager was actically unlimited, and it was due to kis
shes and to his hiving (no
this morning, with assaulting a woman at 51 Ship Street at an early hour this morning. The assault was brought about by an alleged lospit, which set the medical expert on the warpath Seizing the woman by the arm he was supposed to have slapped her several times on the face. He was fined $7...
2. 1 called a meeting of representative men of the Colony to discuss this offer, and the pro-
2. That the Secretary of State for the Colonies be requested to approve of the proposed site (near the junction of the Pokfulam and Bonham Reads) on which buildings for this purpose be
Brected...
15. That these relations be submitted to the Hongkong College of Medicine and to Mr. Mody and that, if the latter askeats to them, bis generous offer be accepted."
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(2) The prestige.and influence of Great Bri tain will thereby ba enormously increased and extended in China, and indeed throughout the Far East.
(3) The commerce, Industry, wealiband, prosperity of this Oolony will be promoted by the large number of men of substance and in- fluence bringing their sons and relatives hither to be educated, and by the presence of a com siderable number of persons having a useful knowledge of modern arts and science.
3: These resolutions were (in accordance 7. So 2000 as a sufficient endowment fund with No. 15) submitted to the Hongkong has been subscribed, and the donor of the Medical College and to Mr. Mody. The former buildings is willing to commence their erection, accepted them notatervadiy, the latter replied the Commities of Management will take into that after careful consideration of the rasolu consideration the various questions of organize tions (with which in the main he agreed) betion, which present themselves, such as the amount of the fees to be charged to students, į regretted that he could ask had himself in sc
card with the proposal to commence building the numbers and salarios of the Professorial as soon as the Secretary of State bad approved Staff to be engaged, and of local lecturers, the of the proposed site, and the desigus had been extent to which residence in the University My own views both as to the advantages of approved. He demarred to the proposal that shall be enforced, and the charges for food, the scheme, and the objects which should be 3. That so soon as the approval of the Secrethe endeavour to oblaid funds for the equipment washing, &c. Until the scheme is fully inkopt to view were explained in the following fary, of State has been obtained a Special Oom and endowment of the University should be augurated, however, it is premature to discuss passages of a speech to the General Com mittee of twelve persons be appointed by the undertaken only when building operations are these. The only decisions at present therefore mittee
-- "No one with 1; think, be, found to deny Governor to approve the design and to super in actual progress. He stated that it was his are that the two faculties which shall first be vise, the erection of the buildings,
ambition to see this University established and established are Medicine and Applied Science, the statement that the Empire of China has working during his life-time, but that he did and that the University shall be open to all awakened to the necessity of acquiring Western knowledge, and [1" think that it will ba na not proposa to spend so large a sum withquences and creeds, some assurance that when completed its origin- -As regards the claims of the Faculty of Medi-lass readily admitted-looking to the close proximity of Hongkong to China, to the fact that the large majority of the population of this Colony are Chinose, and to the traditional relations which have existed between the British and Chinese that there is no com- munity which can more efficiently assist in promoting the acquisition of that knowledge
4 That the erection of the buildings should commence so soon as their design has received the approval of the Special Committee.
5. That while the buildings are in process ofal object will have been attained and that the erection the Special Committee shall endea building will not become merely a bome for the vour to obtain funds for the furnishing and College of Medicine and. Technical Tastitate, equipment of the buildings and for the en howeverworthy and deserving the institutions dowment of the proposed University,
might be. He pointed out that the sum stated to be required for furnishing, equipment and endowment represented a capital fund of aboos
6. That the minimum required for furnishing and equipment of the buildings is 10,000, and that the endowment required is a sum the interest upon which will not be less than £6,000 per annum exclusive of Government Grants!
7. That the custody and investment of all contributions and benclacions received be the duty of the Special Committee.
110,000 or $1,255,000 which must be raised by subscription before the University could become oparative. He urged that immediate steps should be taken to invite subscriptions and stated that he would leave his differ open for six months from 1st January, 1979, with thin object,
Two coolies, with a spite agriust & tailor, paid a visit to his house at 4, Chun Hing Laue to settle matters. Unfortunately the tailor was at home at the time, and the coolier did 'every-
8. That, if, when the buildings are com 4. Before proceeding further it is necessary thing, except (careful men they were) commit plete, an endowment of £6,000 per annum to explain the aliqsions to the Hongkong an assault or break up the house. A police has not yet been obtained, the Hongkong Medical College," which appear in the resoins constable was brought to the scene by the College of Medicine and Technical Institute tions: This College was founded in 1887 for noise and the trouble ended there and then. shall forthwith be located in the said build- the education chitty of Chinese in medicine Then two peace breakers appeared in the Feings, and be conducted therein on the bass and surgery. During the at year of its exiti lice Court, to-day, and being found guilty of disorderly bebavicar, were fined $5 each.
upon which they are then being conducted, ance over 103 students have been enrolled, 36 end that the said College, and the said Inst-have been declarci fa be qualified to practise tute shall contious in occupation of the build-as" Licentiates and 24 are still undergoing RETURNS of the average amount of hankings until such time as the endowment of their training. The diploms of qualification,
notes in circulation and of specie is reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1908, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks :- Banks.. Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and Chino, $3,735,318 $2,800,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Average Specie in Amount. Reserve.
(6,000 per annum shall have been collected.
9. That in view of paragraph 5 of the minutes of a meeting held on the 13th March at Govern ment House and of the fact that the College of Medicine will assist the canvas for fusdi Howards the endowment of 1 the proposed Hongkong University, the annual interest on such instalments of the said endowment as may be collected be devoted to strengthening the Banking Corpora
teaching staff of the Hongkong College of tion,.........ises ..... 16,776,9ŝa 13,000,000, National Bank of Chino,
Medicion to the extent of the provision of the salaries of two permanent lecturen in anatomy Limited,
73,036
nil
and Physiology and of such farther sums 520,585,326 15,805,0coout of annual interest as may in the opinion of the Special Committen be Decessary for the maintenance of such portion of the buildings as may be allocated to the College of Medicine.
Total,...........
(4) All who are at that date students of the
Hongkong College of Medicine
however, does not represent a medical degree and though the licentiates have practised in the Colony and elmwhere with yerg excellent fasalts, they are not of course recognized as qualified medical practitioners by the General Médical_Council of Great Britain or by the Hongkang Government. The College has no buildings, Students live in lodgings and attedd lectures" at various hospitals. Until recently the lecturers gave their services entirely gratul cously, but they now receive a small fee. The College depends for its fands on the feek of students and a Government grant of $2,500 per annum and there are three scholinbips.
At the end of 1906, the College received a bequest of property valued at $10,000,"under the will of Mr. Tang Chuk Kal; and in 1907 My. Ng Li Hing offered to erect a building
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than ourselves,
The proof of China's desire for Western knowledge is foned to the increasing somber of young men who leave their homes to study
Europe, America, and Japan, and in the Western modals which are springing up in increasing number of institutions based on
eine I may quote the following passage from the draft appeal of the College of Medicine:→→
It is an admitted fact that the ignorance of the Chinese population in reference to sacita tion has had much to do with the tremen dous commercial losses sustained since plague became endemic is Hongkong. To dispel that ignorance there can be no more. potent agency than to spread, broadcast among the Chiness community men ol their own race, carefully trained in Western medicine and Western maftary science, to go from: house to house inculcating the principles they have been taught, and leavening: the masses of the peo-China itself. On each of these two phenomena
I have a word to say: "ple with confidence in been principles..
I have already said that the cost involved by And this Callege has done, is doing, will
parent in sending bison to Europe or do, in this respect, what can be done in so
America amounts to fire or 300 per annum," other way and by no other agency.. As a matter of fact, most of the licentiatos in addition to paisages. Many are tiṣrefors :
debarred from going already qualified settled in the Colony
But the question of cost is not the only one. A itself. All the dispensaries established Chinese gentleman, who had received his educa, by the Chiness themselves in various parts tion in England, recently told me that in rede of Victoria, in Yaumati, Hunghom and old
ponse to many inquirers' he had always fonisted Kowloon City, for the express purpose of that it was useless to and a boy abroad for a assisting the Government to enforce its less period than to years. A Chinese parent Babitary,jowe, ore manned by licentiates has therefore to reckon with the fact that be of this College. Other licentiates are in will not see his soa again until he has changed direct Government service in the New Temitory and on the Railway works; some on of all recognition, and in so long a PC Fidence in a foreign country it in inevitable. are resident surgeons in the hospitals for that be should become greatly denationalised. the Chinese; and several are practising The same gentleman told me that it was the their profession privately among their own
common experience to find these young, toan ⚫people in various parts of the Colony, and an return to China despising their country and
To this capacity gaining access to the
their parentage-hybrid Europein with a homes and the confidence of the Chinese, rich and poor alike. These men are exen user of foreign manners badly, fald on a
Chinese framework, ing a wide, and a widening, influence to wards the breaking down of Chinese pre- Judices and Chinese bistruction to that better sanitation in which, it is recognited on all hands, lie a bappler future and a yet greater commercial prosperity for this Co
The
Burely it needs no demonstration (bat University in Hongkong where Chin youths maintaining a Chinese mode brought up in a Chiness navir they can, during vaca homes, or where they can be. parestry and so
family affections Medicine iskes the first place since human
appent to Chinese life comes before commercial profit, and be cause the existing Medical College in Hoog- no less than, education in Em
parents. And kong forms the nucleus of the scheme. second faculty is that of Applied Science, and I have heard, too, the Chi
by experience that their sons often retorn from it needs to demonstration to show how greatly course of slady in a foun Country Chica stands in used of engineers, surveyor,volutionary ideas and become electricians, etc, for the railways, and the stale it should be the per
Hongkong University to see 1 mechanical works which are now being in-
nicióun doctrines are secouraged, of toleraind angurated.
here.
La E is a boy of some fourteen yours, and was employed as an apprentice to a tailor in the Ceptral district. A few days ago Lo was given some silk with which to make, a long, coat.
10. That so soon as the Special Committes on a site promised by Government. The Col He slaved at the work for about forty-eight reports that she said' endowment has been college therefore wat justified in commencing its hours, and finally becoming tired of the job, rated, the College of Medicine and the buildings and in so appeal for in Endowment and, incidentally, being short of cash, beTechnical Institute shall be incorporated Fund. In 1998 the project of a University was obtained leave yesterday, proceeded to a pawo-in, and their endowments, shall, subject to brought forward by the offer made by Mr. shop and disposed of the half-finished garment, the consent of the donors, be transferred Mody who was prompted to the idea by a hope To increase the trime he gave a wrong name to the new institution, provided that it expressed by myself then addressing different and address to the pawnbroker, Lo's long has been incorporated under local Or schools in the Colony, that the inauguration of absence from the shop aroused suspicion and dinance as the Hongkong University. The a University might not be long delayed. On the coat was found missing. A report to the Special Committee shall decide upon the facul the receipt of Mr. Mody's offer 1 at once con- police led to his arrest. In the Police Court, ties to be instituted, ese of which shall be the ferred with the Court of the Medical College, this morning, he was ordered to be whipped faculty of medicine, engage the necessary staff, and they agreed to defer their building opera
tions until it should appear whether the Uni- 8. In patting forward this schema I have (tes strokes) for the theft. The charge of and admit as undergraduates
versity Scheme would take definite shape, emphasised my view that the Univemity Thers remains Japan, Education thara. giving false information to the pawnbroker
on the understanding that the first faculty should be under the management
of a Senate not so expensive si was, however, withdrawn.
(b.) Such additional students, abt being created, in the University should be one of its own, and should rely upon its own but I learn that the Chi
members of the College, as have passed for medicine, and that if the Medical Col- funds. The Hongkong Gorerament," If the m
czaradajo, sand rupis tờ, that lege were incorporated in the University its Secretary of Siste concurs, is willing to give a existing students should be at once admitted faily adequate, and very valuable site, but it experience of the past has a podergraduates. The discussion of the can accept no financial responsibility for the from Japan are ap Ideas, and (bellava scheme has been very protracted; and mean success of the project. The costinuance, for while the steps which the College of Medicins some years at least, of the grants at present only six mow and two fans of ground under 12. That the course of study of the various was about to take to erect buildings and to given to the Medical College and Technical cultivation in the whole province and this will faculties shall be such as may be prescribed by appeal for an endowment have been necessarily fostitute (aggregating $15,600) may be hop be stopped soon. With respect to the number the Managing Body-the course for medicine postponed. It is consequently of grave import for, but the sights of the Législative Com of opiam smokers, it says that there are 618 in being not less than five years Provided that pace to them that final, declion should be in voting the Annual Estimates, and Sinyang, but no reliable figures have been students of the Hongkong Collage of Medicine reached without delay, and that law University Secretary of State must be maintained
paired, obtained from the other districia As to the at the time of it incorporation shall enter with buildings should be begun ar
tbuy: kad As I have already expla quantity of oplum sold, in the three districts of the seniority
course] ment depe Changchow, Yoenhow and Woklang it is to attained par cant in the fith moon les
moon, less than in the second moon of last year and in the other
the Senior Oxford or Cambridge Local Examination or an equivalent test.
VICEROY Tuan Frog bas received the Governor of Kiangsu's report on the cultivation, sale and consumption of opium in that province, Ar regards cultivation, it states that apart from 11. That the Managing Body of the Univer thing and Chonyang from which no inity ball thereafter be such as is prescribed by formation has as yet been obtained, there are Ordinancer
usellors that bank (állezes ward no ens, districts it is, about sa per cent.. less. The
Fides for inspectors, who report concludes by mying that the prohibi
traints upon the "tionfl
being carnally enforced'
the
9. Discussing the questi
mploying Engliák, as thi
drope and