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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918.
A European Fchool.
DAY BY DAY.
We are glad to hear that a movement is afoot for providing The thing that ails many peo- a school for the exclusive use of ple is not the high cost of living, European boys, though this only but the cost of high living. touches the fringe of the main
The Malle.
American Mail. The Prinz Sigismund arrived last evening. Siberian Mail-Closed at 5 pm. yesterday, despatched at daylight to-day...::
rent.
Dallas Comedy Company,
BACK TO THE LAND
Can Gardening in the now Territory be made to Pay?
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made of the land under cultiva- THE ORIENTAL BREWERY tion..
Business Purchased by Naw. Syndicate. V
The chief feeling left on one's mind at the end of the visit was that, given modern methods of manoring and watering the land,
grievance where education in
We learn that Mr Arratoon V. Hongkong is concerned, So far
Can Gardening in the New the utilisation of every corner for Apear, of Mesara Arrato T, Territory be made to par? That the rearing of some marketable Apcar and Co., has compler the as we can learn at present, this aohool will probably be like
is to say, can it be made to pay, fruit or flower, and a reasonable purchase of the Oriental, Brees as a European, who tries it, would amount of attention to the cult-wery at Lai-chi-kok, on behalf others in Hongkong—an injudici- ous mixture of primary and sec-
sek that it should, and not merely ivation of crope, gardening in the of a syndicate of which Mr ondary school, aided by the State
as a Chinese would expect. We New Territory can be a healthy Apear is a member, Art D or, in other words, by the rate-
have used the term gardening, an and an encouragingly profitable our readers are aware, there was payers. To our way of thinking,
Siberian MailThe Achilles distinct from farming, because pastime for many who are mean- at one time a likelihood that the tr this is not as it should arrived this afternoon. of Europeans securing limited leisure hours at all pleasantly.
we have in mind the possibility time at a loss to spend their brewery would be shut down be. Why not let the two classes
altogether, but, owing to the Siberian Mail-Closes per s.. portions of land-much as a mar
When will the Government enterprise of the new syndicate, of schools remain distinct? By
Chenan to-morrow at 5 ket gardener does at Home-be-consider the proposal and grant the fine plant will continue to all means let the Government
p.m.
youd Kowloon if they can be the necessary permission to make work as before, and beer of an provide an elementary school for
Coal Cargo.
perenaded that work pat into start?
excellent quality will be placed European boys (and lot it insist
The Tearu Maru arrived yes-that land will yield" them an
on the local and China markets, on their being taught to speak terday from Miike bringing 3,041 adequate return.
We understand that ik nod spell correctly by way of tons of coal to the order, of the The Best of Proofs.
THE COURT CARDS
is the intention of the pur a ohange); but why saddle the M.B.K.
From what we have heard,
ohasera to bring experienced ratepayers with the necessarily
For Consignees.
there is much heavier expense of a sec-
somis facertitude Special interest attaches to the brewers from Haiphong and other ondary school? Surely that is the Bealomond are reminded that the subject.
Consignees of cargo by the e.. and diversity of opinion on approaching return visit of The towns who will be able to improve
From business of the parents. At Home all goode remaining undelivered we have seen, there need be of Mr. Edgar Warwick, who open
what Court Cards, ander the direction the quality of the brow. 13.
An important branch industry the man who wishes to give his after to-morrow will be subject to none. There lies, close at hand, here on March 8. Those who which, we are informed, the new son a Grammar School educa tion must pay from six to twelve
the best of all proofs that garden-saw and heard them on the syndicate hopes to develop on pounds a your for the tuition
ing desa pay, in the shape of care-occasion of their first season here highly profitable lines, will fully cultivated tracts of land will need no urging to do so ba the manufacturing of ice alone. Might not a similar foo be
which are at present yielding again. A more refined and The Syndicate expects to be able quite an adequate return. There artistic entertainment has never to place both ice and beer on the is every prospect, too, of their been presented in the Far East, market at a price that will meet yielding more, so that it may be as prese and public declare, while with great approval from the accepted as beyond dispute that those who demand plenty of public. At the Police Court, this morn-gardening in the New Territory humour will also be catered for which takes place in Berlin three ing, before Mr F. A. Hazeland, osa, and does actually, pay. " The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscriptions years hence. Ever since the aÖbiness was charged with being
in no illiberal fashion. Indeed, "THE MESSIAH” for any period less than ne month will be charged as for venue was fixed, there have been in unlawful possession of twenty in these claims. A "Telegraph" said to be musically humourous, There is nothing at all Utopian the Whole entertainemt may be full month.
The first of the five rehearsals The daily issue is delivered free when the addross is accessible to ing that the German competitors $500.
numerous indications forthcom-five tela of opium and kned representative had the proof of which explains in a nutshell the in connection with the rendering messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at intend extending themselves in Hongkong and Shanghal Bank. not long ago when he visited the Court Cards give.
them abundantly demonstrated class of performance which The of excepts from the Messiah their residences without any extra charge. On copies sent by the various events, and now it is Shareholders in the Hongkong site
in St. John's Cathedral on Good post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage,
of the proposed gar- A feature is being made of Friday took place yesterday even The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 regarding the Games as an inter- tion are reminded that the ordin-tures, and many of the details, management, we are told, does thedral choir, a good number of announced that the Government, and Shanghai Banking Corpora- den city. The leading fea- entirely new programmes. The iog, when, in addition to the Ca- national event of the first imporary half-yearly meeting will be of this comprehensive co-operative not believe in returning to a helpers put in an api rirance, Single Copies, Daily, ten cents. Weekly, twenty-five cents (forance, is to subsidies those of its held at the City Hall to morrow scheme have already been set place where the company has raising the strength of the torus
cash only).. Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed to enter. From this fact it is
own countrymen who may choose at noon.
forth, and need not be repeated been successful and attempting to about 52. A very fair ulance period will be continued until countermsaded.
His Honour Sir William Rees features of the scheme is to merely on the reputation which of though there is a still room clear that real business is meant.
beyond remarking that one of the to carry through another season in the lower parts has been soour- Britishers will now begin to won Davies K.C., Chief Justice, and market whatever of fruit, veget has been gained previously. The for more sopranos. The rehear der what the United Kingdom in- Lady Rees Davies, will, it is ex-ables, flowers, eggs and the like Court Cards have been touring sals are conducted by Mr Denman
pected, arrive in the Colony on is produced by the dwellers in the for so long that it is not sur Fuller, Sunday from their stay in the proposed city over and above prising to learn that they can, Philippine Ielands.
what is necessary for their own without any difficulty, presont complete changes of programme requirements.
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DEATH.
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There should be some Titanic struggles at the next Olympiad
teads doing in the matter.
FLEMING Willian Nicol eldest son of the late John Fleming C. §. I. British Athletes Poor Form. At Bournemouth on January 8, 1913.
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong. Telephone: No. 1 AB.C.. 5th edition. Western Union
The Hongkong Telegraph.
is aure-namely,
The Dallas Comedy Company arrived this morning by the ss Nanking from Singapore. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas are staying at the Hongkong Hotel,
Oplum Possession.
Chief Justice's Retürn.
General Passenger Agent.
passenger agent for the Great Mr. C. F. McWilliams, general Northern Steamship Co., is ex- peated to arrive in Hongkong on Sunday with Mrs. McWilliams, on the s.8. Manchuria...
Affirmative Answers.
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HM.S. HAMPSHIRE
It will be recalled that at the last Olympic Games the peor form of
on the return visits which are in H.M. cruiser Hampshire, arriv British athletes was attributed
The question, therefore, of every way equal to, if not better ei in Singapore Roads on the in some quarters to the lack of
whether such producecan bemade than, those which have already 13th inst and proceeded for Hong- adequate financial assistance and
to pay is one of material import. been performed. Included in on the 15th. She is under the the consequent absence of or
Can the residents, once the scheme the repertoire which will be pre-command of Captain Cuthbert E. ganisation and sufficient training. Alice Memorial Hospital. is properly set afoot, rear, say, sented are, amongst other things, Uanter. However that may be, one thing The annual meeting of the vegetables and fruits as cheaply an old English scens, and a The Hampshire was one of the that this Finance Committee of the Alies as they can be bought? Can they hunting scene. Both of these British warships which landed question of financial sid Memorial and affiliated hospitals rear them to sell at current prices, have been tremendously success-party at Constantinople during will have to be seriously con-will be held to-morrow at 12 noon and at a profit? From what one fal in Shanghai and elsewhere, the period when it was thought sidered if the British Isles are to in the office of the Chairman, aw on his recent visit, one is and have been demanded again likely that the Balkan Allies come well out of the next great Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax,
bound to give affirmative answers, and again. Mr. Gordon Nicholls would enter the city and trouble trials. Gatherings such as, these Chamber of Commerce,
That the land can pay is proved will bring along some entirely waslikely. She left Constantinople undoubtedly have a wide sig- It will be seen from an adver- by the abundanos of its produo-sew and original experiments, on December 28 and Malts on nificance. Thousands of young tisment that the annual meeting tions. Of the 25 million square Miss Maude Fane has an un- January 15. For a period of 18 men, athletic representatives of of the Hongkong General Chamber feet of land which, it is proposed, limited store of pleasant little tags, 275 men were Isaded to The question of a tropical university which should lead, inspired by the same ideals of uld Chamber of Commerce room, 24 million square feet are in the fact the whole thing will be com- for a month 160 men were on various nations, meet each other of Commerce is to be held in the shall form the Garden Uity, some ditties from which to select; in protect the British Embassy, and steadily and surely, to the development of the immense resources of physical excellence, vying one City Hall, on March 4th, at 4 pm hands of Europeans. All of that pletely changed with the exoep duty. those lands, lying within the tropics, which belong to Great Britain,The true spirit of sportsmanship with the other in friendly rivalry.
Runaway Horse..
and is farmed by the Chinese tion of the performers themselves. She was at Salonika just before appears to be attracting some little attention at Home. It is to be is generate, and springing out years has been removed to hospi- be still better tended if the Euro- A Chinese child aged three on their own methods. It would
the entry of the Allies, and algo at the time of the battle of Varms, boped that it will not, as has proved the case before, be thrust into out of this there are indeed great tal at Yaumati, suffering from peans actually lived there, as A PRINCELY SUGGESTION. standing at the time nine miles
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918.
DEVELOPING THE EMPIRE
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bruises to the face, which, accord- would be the c350 were the
out to sea. The Turkish warship an urgent matter, and it becomes more urgent with every passing Veteran Officers Honoured.
ing to the police report, were sobems fully developed; but even
Hamidieh, which had been week and month. Up till recent years, of course, systematic
caused through the child's being allowing for a certain want of
A "Telegraph reader sende manoeuvreing around Port Said cultivation of tropical products and the study of snob cultivation, officers who served in the Crimean horse, the owner of which is not ore visited only once or twice a hails from the F.M.S. When the day after the Hampshire leff It is good to read that all Army knocked down by a runaway care on the part of servants, who as the following yarn, which and Suez, entered the canal thể was not regarded too seriously, oxcept by those most immediately and Indian mutiny campaigns
kaown at present. interested. There was a prevalent belief that the ground bad only official lists by the capital letters
week, the results are quite satis conference of Malay Potentates When maiters in Constantinople now distinguished in the
Mr: Ho Tung. factory. With daily European was held at Kuala Lumpur in quietened, the Hampshire em to bo tickled (where it required any attention at all) in order to and M." "This confere a years was un invalid, has now re-nation of erratio and haphazard Persk's proposal to offer a battle Malta.
Mr. Ho Tang, who for several supervision and the entire elimi connection with the Sultan of barked her party and left for persuade it to bring forth produce. Effort, it was believed, was not mark of recognition upon veterans gained his health, and is taking method, the land would pay well. ship to the Imperial Government,
The Hampshire's strength is necessary in order to acquire wealth in the tropics; provided you of the service and some of them an active interest in, the business That is the whole point, the Sultan of Pahang sent his son 707 including Chinese domestics. could stand the climate, wealth came easily..
will enjoy the double distinction affairs of the Colony. Mr. Ho
No Land Wasted. (the Tunku Besar) as his repre. She is an armoured crater of of having both letters to their Tung's many friends will be But all this is changed to-day. It is recognised now that games. The senior officer to pleased to learn that he has been City scheme as a whole, one
Without discussing the Garden eentative. The Tunku wass raw 10,850 tons displacement, with youth who had never been away indicated horsepower of 21,000 may tropical products require systematic cultivation and careful study stand at the head of this list is invited to join the Board of Di- remark one point here; it is ob from the hill jungle and who and a speed of 29 knots. Her the best is to be got from them. Rubber and coconut are cases in Field Marshal Viscount Wolesley, rectore of the Hongkong Land vious that with more land now, for the first time in his life, armament consists of four 7.5 in. point; they will grow wild, to be sure, but native and haphazard Sir Evelyn Wood. A glance at the advice on all matters relating fruits, the sales on a co-operative and the Saltan of Perak explained forward six six-inch in casemates,
and next to him is Field Marshal Investment Co. Mr. Ho Tung is a under cultivation, and more beheld a railway train,
gous placed single in turrets fore methode of growing cannot secure results as great as are desired list, which appears in another.
large landed proprietor and his people producing vegetables and The conference duly took place, and after and one on each beam and have become necessary to-day. Granted the need for the fullest column, shows that the number Canton Christian College Schools. That point requires no amplifica-try what a fine fellow the Raja of two maxims, and two torpedo
to property is valuable.. development of tropical produce, then, there rises the need for campaigns is fairly limited, and students now under the Ling
basis, would yiel better returns, to the young man from the coun-two, three inch, 22 three pounders, those who have served in the two experts in tropical conditions, plant habits, plant diseases, tropical that the lists are getting stondi Naam roofs, counting from pri of Europeans yields a good return should unite to do him honour.
There are nearly four hundred tion
England was, and how necessary tabes. soil and the working of it. The training of these experts isly thinner.
The land at present in the hands it was that tributary sovereigns essentially an Imperial question. Expansion of empire was once,
mary to college, says the "News because none of it is wasted. The The Tunku Beear agreed; no gift and not so long ago, a paramount question. Development of
Letter.
This figure is against utmost is made of it; almost every could be too fine for the great Two Children Drowned through Empire. is essentially the problem of to-day. It is as morally
two hundred and eighty seven inch of land in utilized. Between King. But when the Sultan sug For have twelve pounds of gun- the year before. Of this number the fields of paddy, bordering the gestad a battleship the youth wicked for a nation or an Empire to neglect its resources as it is powder in his possession without about one hundred and eighty are the pathe, on every little corner was staggered, for, in his imagi-
A man named Kwak Fuk Fang, for a man lazily to neglect the few acres of cultivable land he tor of a junk was fined $500 at This winter no new olasses are wise lie waste are fruit trees,
having a licence for, it, the man- in the Middle School and College of ground which would other nation a ship and a rampan were the master of the licensed fishing owns. A few experts there are few, that is, relative to the number the Police Court this morning.
“No,” he said, “If we junk 770 H.A., which had a crow necessary--who have been trained in the hard school of experience Hongkong and Shanghal Bank, in each class is limited strictly to mangas, figs, mulberries, pume of him and of us. Let's give him following colision.
being admitted and the number bananas, oranges, lychees, give something, let it be worthy of eight, has reported two deaths Comes now the necessity for increasing their numbers.
Whilst Mr. P. A. Barlow, accountant of thirty students. Soboola of tropical medicine-have been established and have Banking Corporation at Colombo,
los, pine-apples these are only a fire-cart, (kereta api, a railway sailing off Tam Kun Tan near- the Hongkong and Shanghai
Bishop of Victoria, done excellent work in the way of striking at the roots of disease and left for Home on a holiday via turned from his viitatifh of experimentally grown. Most of
a few of what one saw, Bamie, train)! he shouted as a happy Lemmis Jalsad, in British waters, The Bishop of Victoria has re-too, and cane, and soap fruit are inspiration came to him.
he states, a making it possible for white men to live, in reasonably good health, India last week, being succeeded, the Chinese misin churches in thess demand only a limited
Japanese steamer collided with his boat and as whero formerly life was at best a poor speculation. That was the says the "Straits Times," by Mr the Canton Delis. He met the amount of attention. They are
result, two children, male and first stop; the second is to provide means of education for white men AE. Baker, who has just arrived Church members at Shokk, hy-ducts, so to speak; but they Lance Sergeant Wills prosecuttively, were drowned, and the who would take up agriculture in the tropics. The first step was from home. Mr L. N. Marpby, Kong Moon, Shui Hingand other are useful by-products which led a man, at the Police Court this loties were not recovered.
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Alleged Optum Possession.
JUNK WRECKED
Collision.
morning, for having in his pos. The steamer stopped and lower-
made possible because State aid was allied to private effort, and the assistant accountant at Singapore, places and held several confirm yield a fair return. the establishment of auch a training college as is suggested. 11 by the Worcestershire, nad the Rov. Mck Shan Thang The pond where fresh-water fish are was stated that as the man was of the crew and the owner's same, we have no doubt, would obtain were a move made towards) goes home on holiday on March iona. He was accompanied by Mention must be made of a fish Bession a quantity of opium. It let a boat to assist in the resoning British ospitalists could be trusted family. They were tion which would make slike for the employment of British brains who comes out from London, archett, and P. Jenkins were also and fowls we have seen in Hong with eleven tina of opium hid in brought to Aberdeen by another and labour and for the investment of British capital. This is a riving on February 15 having at some of the cutres. The krag, and of sundry goats. These his coat, and twenty four tine in fishing junke matter which has been advanced, rather tentatively, for some years been in the head office at Hong- Bisbop found the country quiet again, require no great amount bag which he was carrying heThe junk was wrecked and past. It seems full time that it were faced boldly and with a full kong before he went Home on and the clinroh work very of attention, but they help to ens was stopped by watchman. The tackle and property to the value
eciation of it importance,
encouraging
sure that the utmost in being case was remanded,,
öl 62,900 was lowke