AN EVENING WITH LONG- FELLOW
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1909.
KOWLOON BRITISH SCHOOL.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.",
Happy faces, happy smiles and happy sur. roundinge marked the occasion of the present. ation of prizes at the Kowloon British School today. It was a red-letter day for the pupils.
H.E. the. Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard who had consented to present the prízos, arrived punctually at eleven o'clock, accompanied by Miss Henniker and his A.D.C. The guberna: torial party was received by the Headmaster, Mr. Jamei, and Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Inspector of Schools, and escorted to the platform, amidst the singing of the National Anthem.
remarks about the attendance of the school this
your and is previous years, and said that there was only one scholar attending the school from across the water-and that from the Paak, He added that as the school was put to great expense, the average expense perhead amount
$400, it baboved the British people of Hongkong to take an advantage of the school. The report is at follows
Staff Mr. James, M.A, Headmaster," Mrs, Main, Headmistress, Mrs. Drummood, Miss Rodger.
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tion, and he would like to see that appre cinted by British residents in Hongkong. Couli- Duing, His Excellency said that parents should use their efforts to see that their children went to school punctually every day, and not to take too many unauthorised holidays or excuses of birthdays and so forth. The Inspector of School's report was highly satisfactory and there was not one subject that be had not givan unstinted praise. Ho congratulated the Headmaster and Mrs, Main, the latter having taken charge of the school during the Hand; Discipline and Organization.-Very good. master's absence on leave, and said they should Pupils should be made to stand op straight be proud of their achievements. Regard. when answering questions addressed to theming Empire Day, H.E. observed that it STORES AND PROVISIONS. They are inclined to lean over, the desks, should be celebrated all over the Em» that every child should be Punctuality in attendance should be insisted pire and on and parents should be requested to co taught the reason for such celebrations. operate to this end. There are 6 forms and in Last year, there was a walking picuic for the school children and he hoped it will be the addition at lafant school..
iame this year, unless he could be told of some other mode of pleasure. He wished that some instruction on the matter of Empire Day should ba given, so that the children may able to understand it" meaning," "A week or a fost eight should be put aside for that subject. He did not mean that geography should be put aside for the Empire, but there were the duties of citizenship, of loyalty and of Dictation Good. Grammar Good; Analysis, is rather an patriotism, which should naimare every citizen
of this Empire. If they concurred with him oa: advanced subject for Form 11.
Geography-Good, except in Form III, the pbject, he should be delighted to give a special prize naxt year. (Applause)." The which was weakan
History-Good in Form IV, very good in Headmaster said that when the school was Vand VI. The papers were very neatly writ-founded special ideas were to train the lan but the English of some of them might character of the pupils that they should be brought up as ladies and gentleman. That bave been better.
was the root of the Empire. Concluding, He the Dosuccessful Excellency hoped that scholars this year would be more successful
Sanitation.-Very satisfactory. Apparatus. Very satisfactory. Reading-Good throughout the school.. Handwriting, Very beat. Composition-Good. Very good ip. forma Co PO where the casxys were longer and the subject matter was more fully treated than
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MR. WILDER'S DELINEATION OF THE POET. At the meeting of the Union Church Literary Society fast evening, Mr. Wilder spoke of the place of poetry, in life, most of us reading mainly in childhood and youth, Longfellow's nature was gentle and kindly and he was in touch with child life to the end. Perhaps no post is more familiar through his verses, many of them set to music; while his more ambitions posms as "Hiawatha" and "Evangeline" and "Miles Standish crystallized the early tore of New England and approach the diguity of epics. Longfellow was a poet of daily life and thought, as was Burns and Whittier, yet a man of the finest culture; indeed be sometimes amacks of the library. His portraitures are de fure, yes not beyond reach of the average man, He ran no gamut of life and passion; rather he gave out peace, beauty and hope. He was a college professor by occupation; literature was his one calling. His wife was blameless, serene, and lofty; his verses are like himself. He was not a lyric poet; he does not touch in finite heights of poetic suggestion as deer Shelley and Tennyson; the marvel is that ab prosperous and serene a life could nei so po pular varsa. Yet the fact remains that he vies with Whittier lo this, though the crusader and man of deep feelings batter enjoys the Quaker's grapple with problems, spiritual and civic. ・・ From college days the American Indian in terested Longfellow; he forecast that the forest stoic was rich in material fornational literature and by "Hiawatha" and Cooper's Tales, "Poor Lo" came to his own. Longfellow en tertained Indian chiefs'ia bisthome; after his death the great posm was enacted on Lake Huron by redmen. It would be difficult to find a hero among the older Indians of jo-day, depletely have the vices of civilinian and Europcar officials, decreated our numbers still dependence undermined them, though governmore, until in last September we had sunk as mental edocetion of the young han preserved low as 39. Oar numbers at present are agaiaght. The results of the year's work are and the ceremony concluded with the singing found with strong seniencies' to epilepsy Road Central, Victoria, on THURSDAY, they
some, who, however, find it difficult to achieve a destiny. Yet there is no question that among the originals as the-Puritans found them there was dignity and charm of character of a kind cowhere else, to be found save among these bronzed people of the forest and prairie "Evangeline" is regarded as the poet's best work, an Arcadian picture of great beauty.
As to American appreciatios: Of the 39 not ables on whom a majority of the a judges agreed for the "Hall of Fame on the Hudson, Longfellow ranked tenth, only Emerson of literary men receiving more vales. Irving and Hawthorne were the two other literary mes agreed ou by a majority.
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Longfellow was of Yorkshire origin; his ancestors on both sides for a number of generations were of families of dominance in the simple society of early New England, A number of the men being Harvard-bred: He was devoid of jealousy in his rela- tions to other Poeta; he was ali frankness and sincerity; his pupils had reverence for bim; he won little note as a conversationalist and made no speeches; he gave himself freely
· bpt_ble, friends report that he lived in a charmed circle" into which no one broke. His brother has written a two-volume lils of the - poet; and Mr. Higginson, now in the sighties -the last of the Plutarch men who decorated Cambridge's intellectual life-contributed the biography in the "American Men of Letters 'series.
Mr. J. C. Joughin, of the Naval Yard, was 'to the chair.
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
“ADMIFAL LA' CHUN IN HÖNGKONG,
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Canton, Igth February. Admiral Li Chun proceeded, to Hongkong yesterday on official matters.
MILITARY TRAINING DEPARTMENT, The proctor of the Canton Military Training Department, Liang Tun Check, brother of H. E. Liang Tun Yin, left here yesterday for
the North.
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THE CITY OF KWELIN.
For some lime past it has been the intention
THE HEADMASTER'S REPORT, When the strains of the anthem had died out, the Headmaster tend his report as follows:-
Your Excellency, as this is the first occasion on which you have honoured up with your pro sence it has occurred to me that you might be interested in a short summary of the history of the school from its foundation. The school buildings were presented to the Colony by Mrx|| He Tong and the foundation stone was laid by His Excellency Sir Heory Biako on July 20, 1900. The school was formally opened by His Excellency Sir William Gascoigne on April 19, 1902. The school commenced its actual work on May 5, 1907, with thirty-three Furopeas pupils of both sexer; it had been decided that only pupils of European patentage on oth sides were to be admitted. Accommodation had been provided for a maximum of 80 pupils and when ibis maximum was reached two years later the Government opened a similar school-the Victoria school-on the Hongkong side, This caturally reduced our numbers and we have never again reached our maximum. As a matter of fact the lean years which unfortunately set in, and which meant that firms were reducing the number of
Jast year.
Arithmetic.-Good in the lower forms, very good in forms. IV, V and VI. The pits were very neat and the full working of the
am was shown.
French.-This is a strong subject. Con- ends, Ging, and corp indiaip French, reading, dictation and composition are highly satisfactory. The pronunciation of the pupils is distinctly good.
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Drawing and painting.-Very good. Recitation. Very good. Hygiene. The pupils who Advanced Course did badly at the Annual examination. More attention will have to be Paid to this subject in the new year
General Knowledge-Lessons on general subjects are now given to all classes. The results have so far been very satisfactory.
PRIZE LIST.
The prize list is as follows:-
Lower School-Class II- 1st Form prize-Christiana Witzke. zad Form prize-Jatnes Remzay, 1st Bible priz-Charlie Stewart... General improvement-Harry Langley,
Class 1:
up to 70-no increase of about 80 per cent in the course of four months. I bere venture to express a hope that these figures constitute a sort of barometric indication that trade is im proving and the Colony has already cutered on a new era of solid prosperity. The late Gover- mor, after an exhaustive aspection of the school, was good enough to make an entry in the log book-it was not on the occasion of a prize distribution-and to say that he highly approved of what has always been the school
Infant School~Thle division has done.satis- ideal—to train the girls and boys in the way best calculated to make them behave as ladies factory work throughout the year. The child. and gentlemen. The curriculum of subjects rep read well and distinctly and are well up in fas been frequently altered as the result of the clements of arithmetic and spelling. "The experience and changed conditions. It has discipline is very good. Children should al. remained fixed for the last two years, the pre.ways hold their books in both hands when sent Inspector of Schools being reported to have reading and not lay them on the deck, said that he had no further fault 16' find with j I do not consider that the average papil at this school--we have of course had some brilliant exceptions-ir as far advanced as the average pupil of the same age in a school at Home. $1 give what I consider to be the reasons for this. 1. The non-continuity of study. The length. of a school generation here is" about two and a belf years. Pupils join and leave during any
In 1958, 8 and all months of the year, pupils attended, the greatest number present in any one day being found the average pum~ ber 45. a. The difference in age. Pupils are admitted to this school at ages varying from < to 17 years. This means that every teacher has to take at least two classes simultaneously. 3. Sickness. Pupils, are kept. at home by anxious parents more often than they would be iu England. 4 Climate. In the summer the heat of the sun, typhoons and rumours pl typhoong interfere, sadly with the regularity of the attendance. 5. It seems rather unsports. manlike to mention, the fifth reason-the number of birthdays, 1 hóva not yet detected any pupil in the possession of more than one birthday in any one year, but at one. time there was keen competition" in attend. ing, a record number of birthday parties. and in taking a record number of school- days to recover from the effects of the gend things consumed. This state of things was co bad one year that the Iospector- of Schools dwell strongly on it in his report and, as show.
of the Central Government that the provincialing the.interest of the Imperial Government in city of Kwellin in the Kwangsi province should one of the least of Hongkong institutions, the " be removed to Nanning, but so far the proposed | Secretary of State wrote asking the Governor removal has not been effected. The Kwangs to use his personal influence to improve the Governor, H. E. Cheung Ming Ki, it is reported, will shortly proceed to Naoping where H. E. will reside for six months, and in future, H... Cheung will stay six months in Krcilio and six months in Nanning every year! *.
*****TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION, Telegraph communication is now available from Canton to the Heungshan district, and the Imparial Telegraph Administration has advertised to inform the public to this effect.
A NEW TRADE MART. Arrangements bave been made to introduce a police system into the newly opened trade mart of Kang Yick Fau in Sunding district,“
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HOSPITAL FOR POLICE, FORCE,
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The Police authorities have erected a hospital near the Fee Loi monastery inside the city, in connection with the Police Forca..
THE OPIUM CAMPAION,
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1st Reading and sewing prize-Gracie Dong.
next year.
With these concluding remarks, His Excel
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pupils
presented with a bouquet by one of the pupils of the National Anthem,"
A SHADOWLAND OPIUM
CONFERENCE, V
Tis✪ magna vis veritatia1" Cleera. "We tell the Truth in Shadowland," "Anon.
VII.
Minutes of a meeting held at the Celebrities' Club, Spooktos, Shadowland, on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 6, 1959.
Present, H.1.M. Tao Kuang in 'the Chair, and a large nuinber of the Illuminati, amongst whom were Lord Byron, Dr. Johnson, Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance. Abraham Lincoln, and Drs. Hobson, Medhurst, and Dudgeon of China Missions.
H.I.M Tao Kuang-I am sure it was with much pleasure that we all heard the confident assurance of H.E. Li at our last meeting, when he told no that at least the abuse, of opium would by-and-by be stopped in Chinn. But conversation with many who were foreigners in the Terra Obscura has convinced me that there may be some danger to us from other drugs as used in other lands. "I shall be glad to be informed how these drugs compare in
effect with opium.
ast Recitation and arithmetic-Elidors Robe of interest to your Majesty. I speak from De Quincey-Perhaps my experience may
Hertson.
Class B:
personal knowledge, With us in England the chief douger is from alcohol, that enemy which, as Shakespeare says, men put into their mouth to steal away their brains. By it self-command is always lost, more or less; the tongue he comes unmanageable, the eyes see double, the |hard aims awry, the legs are unsteady. Alco Sewing prize, improvement-Frances Coke. hot rapidly producer its meximum of pleasure
Infants-Class 11:
1st Reading and spelling prize-Saidle Main 1st "Arithmetic and reading prize-Beatrice Baker: V
rst Bible prize-Willie Langley. Writing. prize-George White.
1st Reading prize-Clyde Kynock. 1st Writing prize-Dora Richardson. 1st Arithmetic prize-Victor Ramsey. Reading prize-Dorothy Rasmussen,
Class I : ".
1st Reading prize-Jack Hand. ist Writing prize-Cuthbert Douglas. A. B, C. prize-Maggie Ramsey. A. B/C, Katie Outerbridge. Nan Redger-English, French. Annie-Robson--Arithmetic, geography, na Taylor-Mathematics, Scripture. JORD Rodger-Geography, French, Margery Rodger-History." Dorothy Rodger-Geography; History, Susie Douglas-Arithmetic. Ethel Packham-Needlework, Olive Baker-Arithmetic. Margaret Witzke, History, Farm Prize Eva Packham. Scripture-II. Stewart. Arithmetic-Eva Packhom.
regularity of the attendance at Kowloan School. "I'am glad to be able to say that the complaint on this score has been of late. yews, almost, but not quite, reduced to a miuj- mum. This school was the first in Hongkong to celebrate Empire Day. We have loyally.English-E. Clelland, observed it ever since and have appreciated the
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Needlework-Eva Packham.. Form Prize R. Langley: Arithmetic-R, Langley, English-R. Langley. Scripture-Kenseth Robertson. Needlework R. Langley.
THE GOVERNOR'S SPRECII.
but is unable to sustain it, though glasi nitèr glass is emptied in the effort. Opium acts differently. It is a narcotic as well as a stimol- Ent, and its pleasurable effects may last for "eight hours or more.
Lord Byron.-Da Qaincey is telling us of what happens amongst the Don Juans of what used to be termed polite. society, when the three-bottlë men, after, seeing" the rest of the company songly under the table, finally soc cumbed themselves, and were lugged off like |priza pigs by their serving men.
Dr. Johnson. True, Sir. But it was not all drinks that acted so. There was your claret, for example, only fit for boys. Port was the drink for men, and those who aspired to be herder drank brandy. Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him. But (cogitatively) perheps fruition come too quick by brandy,
Father Mathew--"Fruition" is an express
sive word, Doctor. Let me give you an ex- ample of its comprebedsiveness. An Anti- Alcohol Congress was held at Stockholm not so long since. During the course of its meet ings papers were read and discuselons held on all there points: The medical value of alcohol, its lofluence in sexual life, its nutrient value, its crime production, its bereditary effects, its tendency to produce accidents, its special action on soldiers, results on longevity, on literature, ars, society, and so on.
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who declares the drunkard to be a miserable criminal, and what is worse, an unmitigated poissace." He ought, adds the Judge, to be suppressed. Even in the prohibition states be persentage of crime due to drink is said to bo no less than thirty-seven
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HE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY. ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, at 12.30 PM, on SATUR. DAY, 17th instaut, to receive a statement of the Company's Accounts 10: 31st, December, 1908, and the Report of the General Managers.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 17th instant to the 27th instant, both days, inclusive,
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
THE FORTIETH MEETING of SHARE
HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Company's Offices, No. 3. Quera's. th March, 1909, at 13 o'clock Noon, for the purposes Receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1908;47
On the Canadian side, figures are mucli the same. From the Aunaler d'lïygiène, 1. find that alcoholic losanity is rapidly increas. THE FOR ing in Puds, and the children of drunkards are
idiocy, and 'crime. Chicago report the two great causes of the fall of youth are bad. company and drink. The waste of national resources from this cause is enormous; hand- reds of millions sterling in England, billions of dollars gold in America.
Abraham Lincoln-Yet, our people are doing a good deal to suppress the public sale of liquor.
Father' Mathaw-They are. Your people are highly to be commended for their carest- ness in such matters. Many of your best papers refuse alcohol advanirements. But I regret to read that as yet the results are but partially satisfactory. The movement is a little in advance of public opinion. Again I crave permission to refer directly to the Terra Obscura. In a recent number of the North | American Rerlow, the Rev. Gavan Duffy discusses this question only to condemn the present action of the reformers. He notes that the prohibition doctrine is not “Thou shalt det drink," but "Thou shalt not drink openly. And this is the result be flods-"Moral | cowardice is nowhere more deplorably in evidence than in, probibitury states and local option towns. He cites a Bishop in support.
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Abraham Lincon!--But even so, restrictive
formation (com. Harper's Weekly is appal measures are evidently necessary. My in
ling. Men in New York are, it says, "surfeited with murder." There were more than a thousand homicides in 1908, and only a fraction over seven per cent of convictions. During November last murderous assaults were reported on twenty-three out of the thirty days, and nearly a bandred persons were either killed or wounded. A good many of these cases were probably due to what our prophetic forefathers called Aqua Vitas!!!
John Russell Young-And yet we bave outcry all over the States and England because the Chinese use opium! With each delightful- inconsistency does the Anglo-Bixou race seek
to
Compound for drinks that they're laciloed
to
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 19th February to 4th March, both days inclusive.
By Order,
C. PEMBERTON, Secretary. Hongkong, 13th February, 1909.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLUSED from the 23rd isst, to the 9h proximo, both days inclusive.
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THE DIVIDEND declared for the Half Tear ending at december, 198, at the rate of Two POUNDS STERLING together with a' Bonus of FIVE-SHILLINGS TERLING per. Share of $125, is. Payable on and after MON. DAY, the 22nd day of February, current, at the Offices of the Corporation, WHERE DHARE. HOLDERS ARE REQUESTED TO APPLY FOR WARRANTS.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
- LR, M. SMITH,
Chief Manager, Bangkong, 20th February, 1909.
By damning pipes that they're no mind to, H.I.M. Tuo Konog-That's precisely what | HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DUCK
we think ourselves. We grant the terrible evils of opium. But we certainly do not reap from it all the horrors which have just been depicted. Our opium friends do not rave, and rob, and rape, and múider. It is not so mech society as themselves that they barm. Still, 1 should like to hear some who have had actual experience in China. Their testimony natural. ly bears-much weight,'
Dr. Hobson - Your Majesty, my deliberate opinion, which has long been in print,-is that opium is not pearly so fatal to file in Chion an spirit drinking is in England. Contrary to my expectations, I found the habitual use of opiam even compatible with longevity. Ono man:1 koew bad taken it regularly for fifty-one yeRTE.
-Dr. Medhurst—If a man uses only a dram of opium daily, it does his general health little injury"
Dr. Dudgeon (of Peklog)~Opium is prefer- abis to sprits, for it does not brutalize, and there ate at least some substantial gains from the use of opium, el
COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAKEHOLDERS,
THE DIVIDEND of 8% per Share for the six months ending 3rst December, 1908, declared at Monday's Ordinary Yearly Meeting, will be payable at the premiser of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporas on, on and after TUESUAY, the 23rd February, and Shareholders are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's. Office; Quesa's Buildings, New Praya, al
By Order of the Board of Directors,"
THOS. L. ROSE Secretary.
Hongkong, 20th February, 1909.
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Dr. Johnson. Well, and what then? Father Mathew. Then it was discovered to be the opinion of the very able mea there col H.1.M. Tao Kuang-Thank you, gentlemen. Sected from all lands that the value of alcohol We are now able to distinguish somewhat be in medicine is strictly limited, that other drugs tween criticism and Exeter Hall. I think that are safer and more reliable, that alcobolic, this much is clear, that were wo to exchange | ・・ WERKLY—S!3 per annum, parents produce degenerate offspring, that the opium for alcohol we should be jumping out of The rates per quarter and per meniem, pròs multient value of alcohol is not proved, that the frying pan into the fire. A somewhat portional. Subscriptions for any period·less:: crime and pauperism are its direct results, that opinionative publicist has recently said that
than one month will be charged as for a full in order to limit accidents as much as possiThe Chinese, though they produced the most
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honour copferred upon the school in past years in being invited to be the guests of His Majesty's Representative on that day, In the course of seven years 359′ pupils have passed through the school. During that time there. has been no serious accident among the pupils or any fatal illness while resident in the
H. Esid that he beard, with great interest Colony. The latter fact speaks well for the the Headmaster's report of the origin and healthiness of Hongkong. For many-years history of the school, and be was glad that the have applied to the Government for a play average attendance had jocressed since Sep The Viceroy bas received instructions form round but was always met with a regretful ember, and trusted that it may exceed that of Peking to submit a return of opium smokers refusal, as the, cost was prohibitive, in the the last two years. He realised the difficulty in each of the districts of the Kwangtung pro- courte "of the last few weeks I am glad to be under which the system of education was vince together with the amount of opium said ab'e in state that through the persistence of being conducted in the Kowloon British School In each daring last year. Those officials who the Inspector of Schools and the kinden bat was to say the difference in the ages of have been able to effect a so% reduction or more of the Vesity of St. Andrew's Church, the pupils, the climate, typhoons and the short *tas a result of their effiris in the suppression of
month. aa sccom residence of parents in Hongkong. For the opium evil in the districts under their res the play.greund has become pective jurisdictions will be recommended for plished fact. 1 rball bring my sammary his own part, be thought that rapid strides reward and those who have failed to do so will to a close by giving a list of our would be made as soon as the Railway be punished.
benefactors. In the course of its existence the was started. The fain of Kowloon was CITINA'S ARMY! Commander Cheung Wai Chi of the Ministry school has received gila from Mrs. C. W. Dix-assured. He was glad to be able to con- of War will shortly be delegated to Canion to 90, H.E. Sir William Gascoigne, Hon Sir Paul gratulate the school that they had been make an investigation into the newly-organised Chater, Mr. W. C. Jack, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. able to procure a playground, through the kind ammy in the Kwaoglung province.
Koswick, and the Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving, Forness of the Church Body. Since he had come the wherewithal to provide prízes, year after | to the Colony, he had given great attention to INFORMATION, WAI received by the Manila' year wa häva relied on the generosity of those that question, but the configuration of the government on the 10h. lost that Captain long-suffering gentlemen, the Hon Mr. Grea. ground made it impossible for any alloiment to Fatwell, formerly in the lighthouse and coast woard service, and later with a shipping firm of son, Mesir, R. Shewao, J. R. M. Smith and be made. The Inspector of Schools had stated. Hongkong, who left Manils on the last trip of the Kowloon Dock Co. (Applause) "We now that he was disappointed that not much patron The Sherkin in, very poor health, diad on the wait with fear and, trembling the Inspector of age was given to the school by British parents transport between Honolule and San Francisco School's report of the year's work.
He (the Governor) was also disappointed. The fees, ho-said, were low, The average cost par head was $115. Every facility was given to British parents for their children's aduca
The body was taken to Sin Franciscó where” the funeral was bild\;Mrs. Farwell, who win at vonentima in the public library, kus gons to
Savtäers Califoralka
THE INSPECTOR'S REPORT The Inspector of Schools, before reading bis report which we presunt below, made a few
ble, many railway companies employ abstainars inexpensive alcobol in the world, never have. only, that man's value as a fighting machine been noted for inebriety." And he goes on to rapidly deteriorates by the use of stimulanta, characterize the danger of a szbilitution of and that teetotallers can secure better terms alcohol for opium as an imaginative bogey," from insurance companies than even moderató drinkers,
With the concurrence of the Illuminati, es- pecially those of the Chinese section, we will consider that point at our next meeting.
Chorus of voices-Agreed, The meeting theh terminated N, O, D. NOW
Dr. Johnson,—A very pretty list, Faiber Maibew.Now let me torn to the other side of the world, for the drink question interests me wherever found, The National Prison Association meeting at Hartford, Conn, recently, protested against the "waste" LASE-night Mr. Lolyoak gave an Interesting kully expianto, barden of the drunkard lectors on Morocco, accompanied with illustra Seventy-five per cent is said to be his contributions in the hall of the Chinese X. M. G. A
Nearly 300 member and friends availed them.. on to the prison population. With your, of the opportunity to hear him? The gracious permission, Iwill use the words of Tecture was Interpreted by Mr. WonE TAR one yet song the Opaque, Judge Werner Kwong
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