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Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1909
Intimations.
NORD DEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN,
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES
No. 1 DOCK.
Docking Length ...... 515 ft. Width of Entrance ... 80 Water on Blocks.....ï ̧ að′
No. 2 DOCK.
Docking Length......376 ft. Width of Entrance... 59 „ Water on
Blocks
17.
FOX.
KUDAT and SANDAKAN.
STEAMERI
...... {BORMED
Capt. F. Sembli!
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBEĮ "LUTEOW*
and YOKOHAMA magilemen) NAPLES, GENOA ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERF and BREMEN .......equ
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MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA," BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MEL BOURNE...s
YOKOHAMA and KOBE .....
Capt. O. DewATE
DERFFLINGER"..
Capt. E. Zachariaa pis
TO SAIL
THURSDAY,
16th Sept., 9 About WEDNESDAY,
zand Sept.
SATURDAY,
NO. 3 DOCK.
WESTERN EDUCATION POR ORIENTAL PROPLES.
real brand education of the rising geparation in our Colony to-day and very humbly I' w. uld' commend it to parents as sem. thing worths thinking about. Colleges, such as this, will; 1 CRYLON GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
am convinced, do all they can to fulfil their ob... ș The following is an extract from the speech jects and to give to the children of all classes made by H.E. Sir Hugh Clifford, Acting Gov of the Colony the best education according to ernor of Ceylon, at the prizò, distribution at the
the best Occidental ideas that we are capable Royal College, on Thursday, the sth instant of affording. But nobody can give to any bon The question which I would ask you all toofa native of this Colony an education, in his counider is what after all in the real manning of own country, în his own language, and abor this work of education, of this work of the in all that an understanding of his own people. IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.)|troduction of Occidental education into an except the parents who bore him. They must Docking Length......481 it. Cristal colony upon which we are engaged. I take care that ho skinit mot forget in the flood of
fake it that we are all agreed that the primary other learning, this most important, learning of " Width of Entrance... 63 object of education in its formation of charACall, a thorough knowledge of bis own country, ́ter, and we all equally would admit, I make up its people, its history and its language, 1 my Water on Blocks... 21.5 o
doubt, that racial character is the result of again with St. Pial that if a man of this Colony The average character of the individuals that speak with the voice of men and angels nad compose that race. And now I want to talk bath not love for his Oolony he has become_as_ to you a little about race. You hear a great deal about race animosity, race hatred, race jealousy and all the rest of it. I ark you all to put these phrases out of your mind, and to thrust them where they belong into the limbo of irrelevancies. I want all of you to think what race is. A race mus!" be supposed to have, just as an individust body has some. thing in the nature of an individual character, and that character, if we like to trace it into day race in the world, is, you will find, mainly shap. ed and moulded into form by three influences.. The first of these is what we call environment,
TH
THESE DOOKS am conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Englawers Is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinary of every description.
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The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always at hand, (platos and angles all being tested by 5th Sept, 4 7.M.| Lloyds' surveyors),
"PRINT SIGISMUND"........? FRIDAY,
Capt D. Lees.................
COBLENT
{"Capt. H. Raegener .......
For further Particulars, apply;to
1,
"Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for raking Vessels 16 or out of Dock,fund for taking Salling Vassets in or out of the kay, The floating derrick to capable Sta Oct., Daylight of Vfiing 40 tons.
About SATURDAY,
róth Oct.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
· GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
Hongkong, toth September, 1909.
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.
FOR
STEAMERI
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA...OCEANIEN.
TO BAIL ON CAPTAINE
„„Selliår..........1gth Sept., F.M.
· MARSHILLES, VIA PORTS..............AUSTRALIEN.......Riquier ......14th Soph, at 1 F,M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA .......SYDNEY....TAKE. ............37th Sept., P.M. MARSHILLES, VIA PORTS...POLYNESIEN Bro.......18th Sept. at 1 1.34
Staam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel' Buildings" and Roof, Bridge the climatic or physical conditions of life, that Work, and all kinds of Machinary are made on the premises.
Tandars will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be guaranteed
sounding brataand a tinkling cymbal, and he' fails to play his part in the great, development of the race which it is the duty of every indivi dual atom to play.""
For Sale.
FOR SALE
GRACA &
27, Des Voeux Road.
Stamps.
render a race that is brought into being in one part of the world distinct from any other, byIEW Post Cards and Asiatic Postage reason of certain qualities that are necessitated Novels. Books for parlour and household in order to insure its contloned existence, quali- | use. sies which in another part of the world may be
The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be 'found to comparo favourably with that entirely absent. Environment also had an of any part in the world,
A large mooring basin is available alongside our own works for mooring vessels whilst stance, which may be due to the working of under repales.
Telephone: Nov, 876, 500, or 681. ·
Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A, B. G. 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Scotts, A. 1, and Watkins. Yokohama, Aprli 18th, 1903.
To Let.
TO LET.
ING'S BUILDINGS, OFFICES facing
October, present in occupation of Mesare, Jardino, Matheson & Co., Ld.
.Apply-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
·MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1909.
IN
TO LET!
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F. BLACKHEAD & CO., SHIP-CHANDLERS," SAILMAKERS, ́ ́ COAL AND PROVISION MER","
CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS AND GENERAL COMMISSON - AGENTS,......
GROUND FLOOR
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,
HONGKONG, ....*** SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS.
SOLE AGENTS FOR H COMPOSITION RED
JARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE HAND
Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Dolombo for Calcarta No. 6, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL, BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT.
Bombay and Australia; at Port Bald for the Levant, Constantinople and Black bea.
Through Tickets_10_London'rla Pads from £37.10 up to £91,20, so hours' rallway from Marsellies to London,
Interpreters' moot passzugara at their arrival in Marsaliins,
For tarbes paniczilanı, apply to
Hongkong, 31st August, 1909,
P. de CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT,...
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
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MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
PRANOH LINE OF STHAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, DANTON and
KOUANG-SI.
6,5. "PAUL BEAU,“ (,900 100i, 14 kaota,
AS. " CHARLES-HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, są kooth,
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the lins ~Departure from Hongkong at to F,(Saturdays excepted),“
Departure from Ointon at 5.13 P.M. (Sundayí excapied),
These superb steerners carev og the French Mall are fitted throughout with Mlectric Light and Fans and wpra specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.
The Company's Own Wharf noar Wlog Lok Street and its berth in Canton opporte Skamenn.
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For further particolare, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shambon, Canton.
Hongkong, 9th October, 1908,
EYES
or to their Agents
BARRETTO # 00, Hongkong.
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RIGHT!
N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN, CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STREET AND QUEEN'S ROAD.
WILL tt your ays fres of charge, and if they are wrong will put them right,
| Loupair Kevind.
All kinda of Rapatra, Spectacles for all raquizamones, Ask, or write, for Illustrated Booklet on “Defectiva[Sight,"—frøs.
LONDON,
BÁLOUTTA.
1, John Straat; Wadlord' Row, W.G.
40. Baniinak Street
NWANGHAI," (65, Wanbing Road.
Offices and Godown.
la No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Victoria Building, Rooms saitable for Offices.~|| No.-9, PEDDER'S HILL, & Commodions Five-roomed Dwelling House with Servants Quarter, 'next to the Masonic Club.
Apply tom
DAVID SASSOON & COLD.
[581 Hongkong, 6th August, 1909.
TO LET.
TOS. 51, 53, & 55, WONG-NEI-CHUNG
NROAD
Apply to-
HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO, LTD.,' No. 8, Queen's Road Wast. Hongkong, 9th March, 1909.
TO LET.
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and
FFICES and ROOMS, on the
A. 1 De Værk Road Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shawan, Tomas & Co.).
One FIVE-ROOMED BUNGALOW, "The Garden Nosk* No. 84, Mount Gongs, Peak. and Tentis.
Furnished-Possession from rat October
next.
__Apply_ia—....
THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,
E, D. Son & Co.,
Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, a5th August, 1009.
TO LET.
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MORRISON HILL, also
NOFFICES A NO. 1 PEDDER STREET.
Apply to-
1408
Mesin, JARDINE, MATHESON
& Co., LTD. Hongkong, apth May, 1909................
TO LET.
FFICES, No. 3. CONNAUGHT ROAD,
3rd Floor.
OFFIOR
No. 3 CLIFTON GARDENS; CONDUIT
ROAD.
A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-GHONG ROAD. A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. OFFICES in YORK BUILDING, GODOWNS is ' PRAYA XAST, BLUE
• BUILDINGS, and No, xön, Das Vaux ROAD next in the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS la MONETON TERRACE, -No, so, DES VEUX ROAD GENTRAL,
TSI VIDOF.
Apply to-
-THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST!
KENT & AGENOY 00, LD Hongkang, 1st June, rong
TO LET.
GODOWN 16. In Duddele Street,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND `INVEST. MENT & AGENCY, CO, LD,
Hongkong, xat Juss/1009.
DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTUR LAUNCHES,
....
&c.,
Bois Agents for " FERGUSON'S SPECIAL ORZAM and
P. O. SPECIAL LIQUER BOOTCH WHISKY, &c.
EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK
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"REASONABLE prices.
Hongkong, vik March, te3",
TYPEWRITERS
FOR
HIRE.
REPAIR
IS OUR
SPECIALITY.
DRAGON CYCLE
DEPOT,
"The Doctor at Home"-1909 edition., Prayer Books, Religious Pictures, Pendants, Medais, Statuettos, Flower Seeds.
Relief Scraps and Scrap Albums.. Toy Books for Children.. "Maalla Cigars-and-Cigarettes.
Stamps in Bets, Packets, Bags and Single. Large Assortment of Albums for Stamps and Post Cards.
epormous effect 'upon' the formatión, of racial | character. Next comes historical circom.
outside forces, which may be due to qualities inherent in the race itself, or which may be due to the particular religious revelation. which it has accepted, but which, in the case of every race difers and is peculiar to that: particular race. These two influences you have-environment and historical circumstance -and thirdly you have the influence which wa call heredity, that is to say, an influence pissing
ing on from individual to individual Atom, as each atom replaces another-in the history of the race, an influence which has contributed to the accomulated racial character, traditions, ideas, hopes, and the circumstances which have made the environment and the history of any particular race combine to produce-tha results which, transmitted by heredity, fashion what we understand as the character of a racé which make the rice what we know it to day. A GIGANTIC EXPERIMENT.
Postage Stamps Catalogues by Lincol", Senf, Stanley Gibbons, Scott and Tailleurs. Transparent Envelopes.
Stock Books, Duplicate Pocket Books,
Moveable Leaf Albums, Tweezers, Magnify.
Glasses, Perforation Gauges. Water Mark Detectors.
Massey's Commercial Map and Directory. B2C. με
Scc. Inspection invited. Hongkong, 6th September, 1000.
REGRET
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I think you will follow from what I have said You will NEVER if you
race must
that any process of change id. a necessarily be brought about and effacted an- tirely through a change in the individual atoms that compose it;, and rightly or wrongly a large number of people belonging to Asiatic races bays decided that they will subjećt, themvolves or their children to the formative processCA #hich are to be obtained by education and training of a purely Occidental type. We must all recognise, I think, that we are to-day ib a day of small beginnings, that this is only one first step towards a great experiment which is being tried in Asia, advisedly tried,
VISIT
MOHIDEEN & THAHA
in
and tried with due consideration and judgD'AGUILAR STREET,
ment by the various Oriental, races who have determined to give their children Occi dental education, I want that to be recognised as being what it is to some extent a gigantic experiment, becabea it is in a stage which can be described as an experimental stago, And I think it should also be recognised, that an ex. |periment ofthet megollyde and of that moment and of that importance cannot possibly bo made without its being aliended by certain. risks. Dr. Coomaraswamy, in that monumen
the
NEW JEWELLERS
1,1
AND DEALERS
.in
tal work, which be recently published on the CEYLON PRECIOUS
subject of Medieval Sinhalese Art, has stated
it as his opinion that on the debit side-which he is rather fond of filling in to the discredit al my country is to be placed the fact that the natives of Coylab are bring subjected to an entirely falso xoă unnatural system of aducation." I am quoting his own' words "the result of which has been to make the 'educat- ed' a stranger in his own land. Now it seems to me, no matter baw highly we valus, and we do value, the advantages that are to be obtained by as educating in the higher schools of the Colony, schools like the Royal College, and the Universities that are open to the most success ful scholars, we must realise that no academic distinctions, that no achievements in the region of law or medicine or science are ever going to companisteanybody, who is a native of Ceylon, who has in his heart a proper love for the Colony which gave him blub for being in any sense" a stranger in his own land."
STONES
of every description, and
1
other GEMS.
Hongkong, 31st August, 1909,
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AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION, What_I_WADE.JQ_any—and all_this_loads_19 It is that although it is far from 'me to belittlo. in any way the education of a purely Occidentel type which is being given in théso fastitutions, I would strongly urge upon parents of all boys who are themselves natives of Ceylon to insist upon their children being thoroughly grounded in ikeir own language, they should be taught so understand their own great history not more. ly the names and the dates and' incidence, but the philosophy of all the events, òf all the happenings of those many hundreds of years of their history during which, their "riçe has been "la process of formation s— that. they should learn to glory in the high achláva-
THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN. meats of their race, that they should learn T CONVENT, CAIME ROAD, begs mos
By Order,
THE MANAGER, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ld. Mawakana, sand Dscnmbur, Foolt,
∙AN APPEAL,"
10 be proud of its tradklons, proud of its respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of
history and its-vérnacular as becomes those who are born in the country, and that, they should know aboveall, the people of the country -pot the educated people who have received an education such as their own, because that *acquaintance is easy to make-but to form to know the people and thoroughly to understand |88-35, Des || Venus Road, Central, | the natives of the country, so what they may be
Hongkong
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able to speak for those nativas--the uneducated natives-with the voice of authority, which must | be recognised as of immense vaine, It seems
Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires "10" BERLA that she will be pleased to receive ondary fas all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.
Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Duk and Collare zuvawed on old ones,
Ladias and Children's. Under clothing, Chil dren's Dresses, and all kluda of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required, v
The Superioress will also be most, grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Calidren of the Poor School who srụ tùnght by the Slater,