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THE CHEAP REPRINT.
A Wise Movė.
The action of H. E., the Govern or, in inviting a large number of
DAY BY DAY.
The highest learning is to bo
Hon. Mr. Hewett's Retura.” The Hon. Mr. E. A. Howelt O. M. G., returned to the Colony by the Delta to-day.
VICTORIA BRITISH SCHOOL
The
The Prizes,
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tion. Mr. Cox had reminded them of the innovation introduced daring the year of allowing older girls-those over 13 years to
THE BOYCOTT.
Vlaws of Influential Chinese,
remain at the school. He
As reported in last night's thought that that was a most ex-Telegraph," H. E. the Gover cellent step to take and he was or invited a large company of annual prize giving sure that they would have very influential Chinese to Govern- coremony in connection with the good results from it. Victoria British School took place One thing that he noted that ment House yesterday to discuss this morning, in the school room, morning was the very satie with him the boycott question. which was tastefully decorated factory appearance of the boys About # The book ground of the platform, Coz had referred to them as nice, that the proceedings were moet for the event by numerous flags, and girls at the the school. Mr. Chinese accepted the invitation and we are given to understand which was decorated with flowers, or what parents termed nice. He
influential Chinese gentlemen wise, and the greatest wisdom is it B. The Governor Distributes to Government House and to be good. in addressing them on the subject of the boycott was a far seeing one. That they should readily adopt the Hen. Mr. Wel Yak'a suggestion to ride on the cars, after leaving Government House, affords an earnest of the willingness of the well-to-do from Saigon to-day, brought up The 8.8. Phoumpenh, arriving Chinese to co-operate with the 294 Chinese passengers. Government in putting an end to on unhappy state of affairs. Their good faith in the matter had not
cars
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Chinese Passengers.
Gun Practice.
New Year Holidays.
Christmas Tree.
Six Years Hard.
education there
hundred and sixty
to
pany."
Mr. Wei Yuk was then sak-
od
in a rumour that was handed
was the Union Jack. His Ex claimed to be a judge in the matter satisfactory. H. E. made a speech Gun practios will be carried cellency the Governor Sir of children he had four himself in which he explained the Go been seriously questioned, of out from Belchers in a N. to N.W. Franois Henry May, performed and he would enter them in the vernment's attitude and" inten- course, but it is good to have it direction from 9 am to 2 p.m. the prize giving ceremony, and children stakes against any in the tions in regard to the pre- was accompaned on tho plat- Colony (laughter). When he was servation of peace, and made thus plain. Only yesterday on 21st instant.- we overheard a Chinese gentleman
the visitors expressed their Field Firing.
form by Lady May, Miss Lan- down in Fiji he did his best to en bitterly complaining that what he Field firing will be carried out der, Bishop Lander, Capt. courage the people to increase the entire agreement with H.E.'s described as Canton vagabonds" by the lat Bo, K.O.V.LI. in the Taylor, A. D. O. Mr. E. A population and prevent it from dy House some oighty or ninety of aims. On leaving Government. and the "ignorant classes should neighbourhood of Fanling on the Irving (Director of Education) Ar-ingout. To this end he used to hold oreste so much trouble in Hoog morning of the 28th instant. chdeacon Barnett, and Mr. H. A. baby shows when he went into the Chinese gentlemen got on the kong. It is for the more educated
Cox, (Headmaster). There was a the villages and the competitors are and took a lengthy ride by Oplum Possession. ・・・・ and influential Chinese to show
A man was fined $5 by Mr. and they warmly applauded the from ten downwards, so he got to
good muster of mothers present used to be those of tender years way of showing a good example. The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, inter them the error of their ways in Melbourne, at the Police Court, children for their charming open be a judge of children (laughter) viewed this morning by a "Tele- the most practical manner possi- this morning, for being in unlawing chorus "Merry Xame Bells." ble-by themselves using the ful possession of a small quantity The musical.programme was very never seen better looking chil. great satisfaction was felt among He would like to say that he had graph" representative, said that as they did yesterday; of opium. Now that the ice is broken, will
creditably rendered and the scene area than he had seen there that the influential Chinese all over Capt. Hodge, D. C. L. I. they give active demonstration of
Capt. R. T. K. Hodge, Dake of ponsible for an exhibition of his
from the Twelfth Night was res morning (applause). They looked the Colony at the result of yes their good faith, by continuing Cornwall's L.I., on promotion to trionic ability of the first water, seemed to enjoy the work they were see complete harmony restored,"
very healthy and happy and torday's meeting.
"We are all most anxious to patronize the tramway?
that rank, has been posted to the the interpretation of Malvolio by doing, and their singing and their he said, "and are ready to help the Light Sentences,
2nd Battalion, which shortly. Martin being of such excellence acting Perhaps their happines Government in every way possible. Hongkong is not the only Bri-lieves the K. O. Y. L. I. in Hong that it should not be very long was derived from the sense To-day we are having leaflets tish Possession, in which the kong.
before the boy is sought after by of humour; that crept out in the distributed among the Chinese, evil-doer finds rather more mercy
the A. D. C. The boy'selocution headmaster'sroport. He did not containing the principal points than he deserves. 'flecantly a An advertisement elsewhore was faultless and he was loudly know if those present bad noticed of Sir Henry May's speech yes tappor on a Malacon rubber estate notifies that the office of the Chi-applauded for his creditable it but he, as an Irishman, ap terday, and that of itself should murdered a planter, sad the pre-nese Maritime Customs, Kowloon handling of so difficult a part.preciated it very much. He did siding judge paseed a contence and District, will be closed to The other characters were also not think that it was quite Irish are like a flock of sheep or like to good. The poorer Chinese of ton years rigorous imprison public business on January let, ahly sustained. ment. Though the man had de 2nd and 3rd..
The headmaster in his roport like Scotch humour (laughter). in one direction or nother, humour he thought it was more children-very easily persuaded liberately stabbed his employer,
said that last year he spoke of Some people said that Scotolmen It is a pity, perhaps, that longer the jury returned a verdict of
culpable homicide reament are to hold their annual Christing that though the numbers did that made a vast mistake; they given by the Tramways Com- The Civil Service Cricket Club the progress of the school mean had no humour bet those who said notice as to the coinage was not ing to murder"-their excuse for such a finding being that the area festival at Happy Valley not materially increase, the im- had the best of all humoura on Boxing Day. Tea will be provement in the condition of the dry humour (Loud laughter) Ho murderer had pleaded provoca served at 4 p.m. and the dismant school and the standard of the wished that school every success. tion. The provocation". was one out with a cane! A few such ling of the tree will follow. Mrs. work done had much increased. He thought that in the Colonies
was there any truth verdicts and sentences #s this Chatham has very kindly con- That progress had continued, and they were very often inclined to round the Colony this morning, to and the life of the white man or Bented to distribute the presents. very considerable changes had pay to much attention to the the effect that goods already been made and he thought they educating of the native population ordered from British firms were the rubber estate will not
The case in which Tong Fuk, could congratulate themselves and too little attention to the being refused by Chinese merch- bo worth two-pence, Disci-
During the education of our own people (Apts. This is the first I have pline among a large number was charged with (1) assault by upon the results. of Asiatics is quite difficult two or more with intent to rob, firat six months of the year plause.) To-day many English hear of it, and I don't believe enough to maintain as it is, and (2) causing netual bodily harm, he received many letters from people were making it their Mr. Wei Yuk said emphatic punishment for killing a manager yesterday afternoon the prisoner their children could not remain duty to extend to them every financiers were in the room at the the that the ally. Several well-known Chinese is merely ten years imprison being sentenced to six years' at the school after they were facility for the educating of their time and, on being appealed to ment, murder will become quite hard labour and fourteen strokes thirteen years old. Girls of over children in the Colonies (Ap each confirmed what Mr. Wei Yuk a fashionable practice."
of the birch
thirteen years might now be ad-plause) The boys learning had said, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, who mitted and the change had had a elementary Male Suffragists.
Voyage Reports.
was present, said:-- Admittedly the women who The 8.8. Kumsang, from Sing beneficial effect which was at ouce would make moet excellent
This is simply one of a bun are clamouring for the vote and apore, reports having experienced evident, The maximum number material for Professor Smith. He dred idle stories that gain resorting to all sorts of violence moderate to fresh N. E. winds pupils before west in hoped the professor would take ground so quickly and have are difficult for the law to deal from Saigon, had fresh to mod. 66 and at present there were 78 into engineers in which profession difficulty is to find out the mali in the furtherance of their cause and, sea; the ss. Phoumapon, September it was 54, in October care of them later and make them absolutely nothing in them. The with, on account of their sex, siate wind and smooth sea; the pupils in the school. This was they might climb to any height cions persons with whom auch Where, however, men are caught e.e. Upads, from Rangoon, reports the highest number of pupile and become Professor Smiths tales originate. Those who start A Home paper has been belauding the sevenpenny novel and indulging in suffragiat pranks, strong monsoon at beginuing of since the school was founded in themselves (laughter and ap them should be proceeded against 1005. The number of girls plause). If he could do anything Only the other day an absurd ita, like. With that we do not quarrol; we do so ourselves the case is different, and we look voyage and normal after.
in the newly formed class was to assist the education of English story was circulated in connec uccusionally; but when the sail paper proceeds to argue that the forward to seeing the Govern
ment deal out such sentences to An interesting presentation was twelve, and the increase was children in this Colony while he tion with lavatory accommoda popularity of the cheap reprint is a sign of increased intellectual men of this kind as will quickly made yesterday evening at the mainly due to the formation held the reins of Government he tion for Chinese women. Thero activity in Englan1, we innke bold to think either that the paper is put an end to their proceedings. Corinthian Yacht Club to Mr. J. of the new class for girls of over would happily do it. He knew that was not a word of truth in it, but mistaken or else that the England of to-day has changed very if, as to-day's wire reports, a male Spitiles, an old member of the 13 years, de, had asked the the first thing that Mr. Cox wanted nevertheless it was believed and decidedly since we last saw it. So far as we have been able to suffragist, has been arrested for club, an the occasion of his mar-parents to make known the class was an addition to his library, gave great offence to the Chinese observe, the cheap reprint's chief mission has been to bring rubbish there is no reason why he should speech made the presentation hey had evidently done so. Hea list of books, running to any printed out that, in the event of a The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk thon selting fire to a railway carriage,riage. Dr F. Clark in a felicitons work done in the sobool and Well, if Mr. Cox would send bim moro within reach of the impecunious rabbish-seokor. This wo say not get the same punishment as which consisted of a handsome earnestly thanked those who had value up to five or six pounds, for individual Chinese merchants bronuse we have noticed that, whorever fiction of a paltry nature the t-amp who burns a haystack solid silver tos service, subscribed entrusted their children to their he would write Home for them refusing to accept the goods that has appeared in an inexpensive form, it finds something more than spond soven,
that every effort would be made would assuredly for by mombers of the club. Mrcare and he could assure. Them (Choore). He wished the boys they had ordered-which, he rei- a ready enle; while, on the other hand, where novels of a higher in Portland, and we hope to hear
to retain their confidence. and he asked the boys to bear in the Chinese who were loyal to His Excellency, who presented mind the advice that Mr. Cox had the Government would soon be -grade (e.g, the better work of Mrs. Humphrey Ward or Mr. II. Gthat the same fate will befal the
the prizes, in a ray address given them in promoting able to deal with such Wella) are offered for a few pence, the offer is, as often as pot, suffragist.
meeting under the auspices of referred to the report of the mas healthy tone in the school. He declined,
the National League for Physical which they had just heard was proud to be able to call Under the now defunct Manchu Education and Improvement, said read and said that he thought notice to the interest A paradox which we have given up trying to see through is regime, the authorities in Peking that according to his experience that parents would be thorougly Mr. Cox had that, while England is undeniably, the real home of the novel, there and the Provinces brought the Eton jackets formed one of the satisfied with the instruction instituting drill there
shown in is no civilised country in the world where the slipshod, the sickly, evasion of Treaties down to a fine greatest sources of danger to the which their children were received everyone of those boys he had He want the improbable and the utterly inane in fiction are so much sought the Opium Agreement of fast the fact that is a result of their fent way in which they were Volunteers by and by. If that in somety, the Czar of all art, and if the present flouting of health of youths, by reason of ing at that school and the excel-seen there that day, to join the To-day the Russian Consul had. after, and where the strong, the realistic and the convincing are so year is to be taken as indicative shortness those who wore them brought up (Applause). Perhaps did not come forward and take it Imperial Majesty, the Czar of all glossed or shirked or tabooel. For one person who reads Scott, a of the general attitude of the Re-were rendered especially subject they thought they could discount up, there would be some words of the Russia's Nameday. Among thousand gloat over the kailyard school; for one who reads publio in regard to its obligations to revere colds and obills. a little of what appeared in there about it, (Laughter and cheers), those who congratulated the Theokeray, a thousand devour Dickens; Meredith, Hardy and Kipling to the Powers, things have not Confirmation Service. port of the bendmaster because are bought, certainly; bat skimmed and then declared dry, obscene changed much since these days.
After cheers and a "tiger" had Russian Consul were: The Hon. or vulgar respectively; while of Mallock, George Douglas-and There have, within the past few held yesterday afternoon in St. favourable but Mr. Cox was an and Lady May, there was an ex Consul for the United States, A confirmation service was they believed he had made it over been given for His Excellency F. R. Somerset, representing H.E. the Governor, Mr. Carleton, acting Stevenson in his deeper vein half the novel-worshippers in Eng Indian bankers and merchants, formed by the Bishop of could assure them that, if any ceedings terminated.
weeks, been spirited protests by John's Cathedral, and was per- honest man (laughter) and he hibition of drill and the pro-Captain Lukhmanoff, of the land never heard. In France, Northern Europe, or even in America, to both the Imperial and the Victoria, Bishop Lander who thing, the master had understated
Russian Volunteer Fleet, and this could not happen. Of course there are fabby-minded persons Indian Governments, on this mat was assisted by the chaplain to the progress made in that school.
all the other Consular repronta in every country, and fabby literature must be served up for their tor, and it will have been observ- the Cathedral, the Rev. He had with him some few notes List Form Prizes; Class II The Rusian consul expressed
The following is the Prize tives. own special delectation; but of no other country but England could ed that an exclusive cable to the Mayle. Among those present was he had made from the report of it be said that its most powerful novelists had to look to other Telegraph" from Shanghai, yes H. E. the Governor, Miss Phoebe the Director of Education whose Lecable; III, 1st Grimshaw; 2nd his gratification for the way in terday, stated that the question May being one of the candidates business it was to inspect the Emberley; VI, 1st D. Bishop; Nameday had been recognized by Jacobs; IV, Lat Young 2nd which His Imperial Majesty'e nations for anything like a just appreciation of their best work. has how reached a oritical for confirmation. In all hands schools and he was glad to say that
It goes without saying that what applies to the cheaply pro- stage, and that the matter is were laid on eight young people, the report stated that the school 2nd I. Hearl; Extra prize, the diplomatic mombard of the duced novel is almost equally true of the cheap posts, essayists and of sufficient seriousness to war five youths and three girls. had made most excellent progress. 2nd Young; VIII, 1st E. Elson;
Woolley; class VII, 1st Gegg: Colony. scientific writers. The better known British poets have, for years, rant the Consular Body there to Reclaiming Kuper Island. Ho congratulated Mr. Cox and the 2nd G. Brock; Intants 1st D. been obtainable for a few coppers-but their sale is as nothing, nrge on the Foreign Ministers at A scheme for the reclamation stall working under him most Gibson, 2nd Scott. compared to that of " extracts from the poots," usually compiled by Poking the necessity of diplomatic of Kuper Island, situated at the heartily on their success (Ap Prizes Scripture Senior School, SHIP'S OFFICER FINED. hacks with as much literary comprehension and poetic feeling as intervention with a view to the east end of Canton Harbour, has plause) the beasts that periet. Every house has its Shakespeare--and observance of the existing Trea-been started, and a temporary
Grimshaw Lower School, D. nobody reads him; yet thousands of Britishers can spout Mark ties. The renewal of poppy-grow-bridge to form & connection with scholars of the Upper School were Bishop; Infants Gohool, Scott; Antony's oration over Caesar, Hamlet's soliloquy or Henry Va ing in various parts of the Re- the mainland is being erected prepared, for the Oxford Senior. Progrees in Latin and French, Paul N. Kunstend was charged speech before Agincourt; they have got these up from volumes in public and the closing of porte to The work involves the placing of Junior and Preliminary Examina Young: Progress in Mathematics, before Mr. Hazeland, at the Police which Shakespeare and Mrs. Hemans are printed side by side! Indian opium, constitute grave of about 2,500,000 cubic yards tions, and Mr. Irving had inform- Lecable; Progress in Needlework, Court, this morning, with be With scientific reprints it is the same thing were all the best that infringements of Treaty stipula of filling material, for which ad him that that part of the school M. McIntyre Needlework Infants, having to a noisy manner whilst is in Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall or Haeckel offered at fourpence tions, and unless the Peking bricks from the city walls, now had improved enormously under M. Gerrard General Dulity drunk at the Sailors Home, Weat haipponny each, the multitudo
lo would still patronise "popular" Government shows itself in real demolished, are atilised, and also the capable managment of Mr. Grimshaw. “Attendance 1st L. Point.
It was stated that defendant! nent Cox. He had just now presented Woolley 2nd Gibson. bridge in reinforced concreto some certificates for the Oxford for Lecable Preliminary for a while. He had
Offord Local Certificates: was a ship's officer standing by The reclaimed land will laid Examination and he hoped that unior out on foreign lines as a red it was only the begining of very
Grimshaw and Jacobs, Lu sidential subur
much larger resalta in that dire
pholarship Grimshaw.
The tramp
..
A Critical Situation:
Presentation,
Dr. Cantlie and the Eton Jacket. Dr. Cantlie, speaking at
biology, physice ato, while the sound stuff rotted on the shelves, earnest in enforcing the Treatise, the construction of a per
If this state of affairs is the best that England can show, after two we predi
dict very earid
and forty years of the Education Act's influence, 'one in minded to for China. The situation suggest that it is time to begin all over again: At least let na nos in
rating
The maroh of intellect in England too loudly
He was very glad to see that
*Prize List
that
'AT HOMM
before the Court before We Defendant was fined 085