ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SAT
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
Ltd.
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Americanisms ".
The Daily Mail" is an excel-
lent tabloid paper, and, for those
who can swallow its journalese,
AY, JULY 12, 1913.
DAY BY DAY
“Religion is the best armour
it is a good ballpenny-worth; that a man san have, but it is but, when it lays itself out to be the worst cloak."--Baoyao.
"it is too terrible; as literary" witness its amazingly laudatory
The Malls.
reviews, some years since, of Siberian Mail-Arrived per 8.8. works by people like Mr. Hall
Mexico Marn this afternoon. Caine and Miss Corelli, its calm
patronage of Kipling and Sir Gil-Australian Mail-Closes per 8.8.
Coblenz at 6 p.m. to-day." bert Parker, and its generous admission that the late George American and Siberian Mails.- Douglas "would do good work some day." In a copy of this learned periodical which we re-
Despatched per sa Shinyo Maru at noon to-day.
Very old liqueur, Scotch Whisky.ceived from Home recently, we Siberian MailClosos per
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8.8.
Chonun at 5 p.m. tó-day, French Mail.-Due per 8.8. Am.
szone to-morrow.
find an article headed "Yankee (N,B.-The Our Celebrated E very old Liqueur Scotch Whisky Slang Increasing is a blend of the best Pot Distilled Scotch Whis-self-evident is always a fruitful kles. It is of great age, very flae, and mellow. subject on which to fall back.) Its superior quality has established its reputation We don't quarrel with the article, Sberian Mail.-Closes per as THE LEADING SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE EAST, though probably most of us were
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already aware that England and the Colonies have accepted. "boost" and "stunt" and their
66,
Amazone at 9 a.m. morrow.
to
Plague.
There was one case of plague BRANDY like most joyfully. But we do
object to that good old Norman- notified yesterday, bringing the French word "chores"--a word year's total to 202...
Sale Cancelled: Finest very old BROWN BRANDY Guaranteed that is to found half a dozen times
being written off as "Yankee." The The sale of Taipo faland Lot 25 years age, in- wood. The finest liqueur BRANDY in Mediaeval English literature-
"Daily Mail" will be telling us No. 7, with bungalow, to have on the market.
next that the word's relatives taken place on Monday, is can- "charwoman" and "journeyman" celled.
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The Hongkong Police Force has received two more recruits from and Arthur John O. Taylor..
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HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO,
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Fatal Fire.
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SHARE REPORT.
HONGKONG SCHOOLS.
The New Ordinance. For many months past, the The quotations which follow "Telegraph" has sought to jus are from the "Hongkong Telo-torest its renters in the unsatis graph" for July 12, 1888. These factory condition of education in quotations will appear every this Colony; and that its efforts week, and comparison of have not been entirely in vain ia quotations then obtaining with evidenced by the framing of a those of to-day should prove of Bill which the Hon. the Attorney General introduced into the On July 8, 1888, a big fire took much interest.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Legislative Council on Thursday place in a block of buildings near the Government Civil Hospital,-162 per cent, premium, buyers, afternoon.
This Bill is entitled "An Union Insurance Sxiety of Queen's Road West. Three lives
Couton-$37.1-2 per share, Ordinance to provide for the re gistration and anpervision of Ballers. were lost.
and those certain schools; " China Tradora' Insurance Com-
who read carefully through pany.872 per share, sellera. “
the main provisions of it, will North China Insurance-Te. Bea that it contains promise of good things for the Hongkong 285 per share, buyers.
educational world, even though it may seem only to touch the bem of the matter.
An Interesting Wire. The "Telegraph" of July 12 contains a tslegram from Europe stating that "the French Police have received a letter from the Count de Paris, addressed to the mayora, urging them to exert themselves for the restoration the monarchy.""
Canton Insurance Company, Ltd.,-$75 per share, bayers.
Yangtaze Insurance Association
Chiness Insurance Company ofls: 100 per share, sellers. $185 per share, buyera.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com pany-$342.1-2 per there, buyers China Fire Insurance Company ➡$76) per share, buyers.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Company-38 per cent. premium, nollers.
In Quarantine. July 10-The sa. Zafiro is undergoing a ten days' quarantine in Manila."
The Hot Weather.
sometimes mafoos and sometimes Home-Kenneth Walter Andrew, and was in the act of enjoying $135 per share.
A Good Prellaginary.
In reality, uulese wo are greatly mistaken, it is but the preliminary to a complete overhauling and re-establishment of the entire Lahcol system of the Colony. We do not pretend to be able to examine the Bill with. a technical eye; all that we claim to do and to have done through- out-is to present the problem of education an it appeals
who the
parent
at heart, and to the rate payar his child's tallestual relfas
share, his money is being spent.
Section 3 of the Bill sta: ea that Hongkong Gas Company-the Ordinance de a not apply to Government or Military Shools, the "or to such others as Governor-in-Council may direct;'
July 10-"The hot weather Five Chinese were fined $2we are now experiencing is trying
Hongkong, Canton and Macao elee on hand, they might cast an each by Mr Hazeland at the Police alike to our angelic tempers and
the temperature was on the Praya share, buyers. this morning we do not know to Chins and Mazils Steamship who has every right to know how eye along Caine Road in the early Court, this morning, for gamb-to our physical endurance. What Steamboat Company-$222 per
a point, but one of our Celestial Company-$70 per see what they think of the pony- morning and late afternoon and ling in Tom Lane.
cousins, aged 20, found it too buyers. riding that takes place along that thoroughfare, It is by no mean
the grateful breezes wafted in uncommon to find native youths
warm to wear his nether garments,
direct from the gas, attired in hie birthday suit, when an Indian policeman took him in charge The for making him blush." Panjabi said he had watched the indecent young man for about half an hour, and then concluded to run him in. In answser to Mr. Sercombe Smith, defendant said He was blew his pants away. the wind was so strong that it ordered to lay a dollar on the shrine of outraged decency."
a
Slik Delivery.
Seal Fisheries.
in
Hongkong Hotel Company- $175 per share, sellers.
a provision which confirms us the Indo-China S.N. Company-12
baliof that the per cent, dis., sellers.
Bill is but a preliminary; since Douglas Steamship Companywe have made it tolerably clear. in the past, that the Government $57 per share, sellers.
China Sugar Refining Com-schools themes v63' are far from pany, Ltd.-$190 per share, perfect and are very decidedly in aced of as much supervision from Fallers.
properly qualified examiners se they can get. share,
careering along on their ponies at Chinese of the richer class
The cargo of raw silk shipped danger both to foot-passengers on board the as." Magellan'
rate that constitutes a serious! and to persone riding in chairs, which left this port on the 3rd Yesterday afternoon, as the child-June 1913, was delivered at ren were leaving the Convent Lyon on the 3rd July. school, a pony was galloped along that part of the road at the rate
The Government Gazette con- of, at the very least, fourteen miles an hour (the legal speed, tains the texts of despatches from GILL-On the 11th instant, Eileen Kernett, the infant limit being seven miles an hour.) the Secretary of States regarding Had the offender heann European the North Pacific and other seal motorist, we should probably fialories. have heard of his subsequent ap-
A man who jumped from a from the Hon. Mr Paul Chater to Hongkong Rope Manufactor- pearance at the police-court; but we sometimes think that in Hong-window at No. 12, Tit Hong the Colonial Secretary, and aping Company, Ltd. $90 per unless it can be proved that
'HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1913.
BRITAIN AND AVIATION,
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of
The Reclamation Scheme.
Luzon Sugar Refining Com pany, Ltd.-$60 per
sollers.
-
Hongkong Ice Company-$80 The following is from a letter per share, buyers.
kong there is one law for the a-Lane, during a raid on the pre- pears in the "Telegraph" of share, buyers. and".
Hoogkong
tive and another for the white man. mises by the police, has been sent
to the hospital.
Custom v. Law;
A Chinese was fined $25 yesterday by Mr Hazeland for beating drums and gongs after
July 11.
Secondary Education, As we have said many times, we are by no means in favour of the Government's providing sscoudary education at all,
by no other means can it Kowloon be supplied. All that we have over asked is that the Govern ...I cannot imagine that there Wharf and Godown Company.ment, as treasurer to the rate Land Sale:
will be sny difficulty in obtaining 67 per cent. premium, bayers,
payers, should see that & Bound lementary education is at the Inland Lot No. 2028, between the cordial assent of the Secretary
disperal of every boy and girl, of 11 p.m.; and nothing at all for Pound and Fak On Lanes, Tai-of State to the agreement come to
no matter what nationality, whoes Betting the law at defiance! The pingshan, is to be sold by auction
parents are unable to meet the inspector in charge of the case at the P.W.D. offices on the 28th
higher fees of a secondary school: said that the defendant, when inst. The lot is 7,088 square feet,
At present those in control of the cautioned, remarked that "he and the upset price is $21,204,
Government schools seem bazy did not care for the police, as he
as to whether they are imparting. would be fined only a small
re-primary or secondary education; amount;" while & constable fur-
New Schedule. We are advised that the ..
SANITARY BOARD.
between His Excellency's Govern- ment and the marine-lot holders; I see no engineering difficulties, in fact no question to be sub The orders of the day for mitted to marine engineers at all. Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary The work proposed to be done is Board include: neither new to the Colony nor Letter from Government It has long since been recognised that the advent of the ther swore to the man's having Borneo will in fatere call rega- difficult. The Reclamation at lative to the erection of 4 water and boys who cannot pronounce seroplane has very seriously disturbed orthodox calculations regard-said, "I don't care about the law; larly at the ports of Jessiton and West Point, opposite the Slaugh-closets and 6 urinals at Double ing the defence of those Powers who have hitherto placed their it is a Chinese custom and it must Kudat on her way down to San- ter House and Marine Lots Nos. Wharf, Kowloon. relistae mainly ou strong naval forces. More than one nation has be carried out." Even in long-dakan, as well as on her way128,177 and 182, was successfully
nations, has to face.
01
suffering, pious, Exeter-Hall- back to Hongkong. ridden London the man who dared
raio.
No. Proof.
Jane Weather.
New Regulation.
£
or anderstand English correctly, or work out a simple arithmetical. Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, pursuant calculation, are being taught. carried out some two years ago, to notire, will move :-..
literature", algebra, physica and in much deeper water than any That the Board requests the chemistry; boya, too, who, in concentrated all efforts on aiming at the command of the sea, and
A Chinese was arrested at Stone portion of the new Praya Wall Governor-in-Council in the event most cases, are never likely to be now a new factor has arisen which threatens to transfer the centre to say "I shall get off with a fine" might asfely reckon on a
under section 285 of the Pablic more than write a grammatical of supremancy from the sea to the air. The recent remarkable pro- month's imprisonment, without Nullah Lane, yesterday while extends to, and where there were of an appeal from the Beard called upon, in after life, to do
alleged to be delivering lottery much stronger currents.
"The Godown Company's re- Health and Buildings' Ordinance, letter and add up a columa of gress made in aviation only serves to emphasise the seriousness of the option of that fine. We un- the now turn in defence affairs, and it is bat natural that Britain-derstand, that this high-souled in-tickets. At the Police Court, this
Mr Hazeland and after hearing the Government reclamation for municate the grounds of such it is the custom in Scotland, and at present the supreme maritime Power-sliculd give weighty con-dividual, to whom English law is morning, he was brought before clamation on the Praye West and before hearing the appeal, to som figures! We are well aware that State to supply higher education; off in the matter of money, If
the Sailors' Home, are being ation and report. sideration to the new problem which she, in common with other such a huge joke, is comfortably the evidence His Worship dis- the Western Market in front of appeal to the Board for consider in many other countries, for the carried out to the line of the pro Minute by the President of the but until this is the universal this is 80, a mere twenty-five charged him.
posed new sea wall, and in water Sanitary Board relative to the practice in England, Hongkong This question of aerial defence has, happily, been most dollar fine will probably not
Hongkong Observatory returns deeper, with one exception, than New Market at Reclamation Street might well waita while; especial- sleep. But meanwhile, what show that the average mean tem-along any section of the proposed Yaumati and the Old Yaumati ly as it has not yet antisfied the pablic that it can give even s vigorously taken up at Home, and there are to-day many agencies cause him to loss a great deal of impressing upon the authorities the needs of the moment. It is about the example he is setting perature during June was 81.2; works. Our engineering know- Market.
Non-Government Schools," good that this is so, though anything in the nature of the raising of to the poorer and more ignorant the highest point reached was 88.2 ledgeand experience in the Colony Application for a modification sound elementary education.
on the 2nd, and the lowest 70.6 is fully equal to pronouncing a of the requirements of Section
All the sectionsand sub-sections scares" is much to be depreciated. There have not been wanting class of Chinese ?
We mentioned in our General on the 8th. The average humidity judgment in the work proposed. 153 of the Public Health and
was 83. There were 181.5 hours "On the legal question, not be Buildings Ordinances, 1903-1911, that follow the one quoted above speakers and writers, who have given it out broadest that Britain Religion and Advertising
Of Nis 1 has already lost its power to defend, in consequence of an alleged News column yesterday that the of sunshine, and 18.035 inches of ing a lawyer Ioannot express my-in respect of Nos. 1 to 11 and 2 relate to non-Government schools, failure to mest present-day requirements in the matter of the American Quakers have entered
cellency will find, on investigation, Application for permission to somewhere about fifty, divisible provision of aeroplanes. This, however, would appear to be a dis-a protest against the use of the
that all previous reclamations erect 9 water alosats at St. Steph- into "those of superior type, tinct over-statement of the facts of the case; the most that can be word "Quaker" as a trade-mark
A new regulation made under have been carried out under en's College, Bonham Road, which will only be subject to a very limited amount of supervi- `advanced against the Government is that it started a littlo late in or advertising term. We must say
that our sympathies are very the Merchant Shipping Ordin agreements with the marine-lot Inland Lot No. 694.
Application for permission to sion" and "schools of a Issa the race; progress, and very gratifying progress too, is being much with the protesters. There ance, dealing with the scale of holders, and none of them on terms made to-day. The Secretary of State for War recently made is no more unaggressive religious charges for storage of gunpowder eo advantagests to the Crown as erect one water closet st Golf euperior type, which will be gion.' A Registrar is, pre- public some decidedly interesting and illuminating facts on this body in the world than these and safety cartridges in Govern- this and I beg to hand you, for Club House, Inland Lot No. 1374. subject to more close supervi sumably, to be appointed; no question; facts which should go far to allay public apprehensions. simple followers of Fox and ment depots says:Cases or His Excellency's consideration, He stated that a little more than a year ago we had practically no Penn; but, even though they boxes of percussion caps to be Mr. Francis opinion on the sub-
school will be able to erist other than by his permission; he seroplanes, very few pilote, no Flying School, no skilled mechanics make little parade of their faith, charged six cents for twenty-five jest. You will see that, while t and no organisation. Moreover, practically every country, excepting it may be and probably is just pounds weight a month or frac-recognising to the fallest extent
chgear and ; the rights claimed by His Ex- At the Marine Magistrate's will see that every school is ex France, was in a like position at that time; all were waiting, one for as much a reality to them as the tion of a month." the other. Today we have over 120 aeroplanes, 148 pilots of whom Salvationist's is to him. Then
cellency for the Crown in the Court this morning, before Com-amined at least once a Preventing Flower Stealing. 83 are first-class and have passed a more exacting test than the why should a gratuitous insult,
An additional condition has fore-shore and in reclaimed mander Basil Taylor, R.N., Leung will have power to strike off from French or the Royal Aero Club test), & first-olasa Flying School is such as "Quaker Whisky" be passing through pilots at the rate of 60 or 70 a year for the military allowed to pass vachacked? But been made to those imposed on laud, he questions the right of Kan, a licenced cargo boat owner, the register any one that is Im. without the content of the marine bish in the harbour.For unlaw (Section 12) "It shall be lawful for wing alone, and a very large staff of trained aeroplane mechanics. this is simply the way of the licensed hawkers. This prescribes the Crown to make reclamation was fined $5 for depositing rub properly conducted. Furthermore What is more, the Secretary of War declares that all our aeroplanes world; the patient and the much- that no licensee shall hawker, or lot holders, to whom, when it fally mooring their boats within the Governor-in-Council to mike
enduring house to put up usually have in his possession with a It is certainly cheering to read a statement of this kind after with insolts that the more truoul- view to hawk, say of following granted a lease of a marine lot, it 100 yards of low water mark in a regulations and from time to time encountering speeches and articles declaring that we are being entescapes together. We really see flowers or plants, or any flower or granted certain rights of access prohibited place and during pro- to rescind for vary sadly left in the race for serial supremacy. Our position, se are no reason why the name of Quaker plant the hawking of which shall to the sea which it cannot, with-hibited hours, two men were providing for (a) the hygienic
Left for England.
a woman $10-Three boatmen of schools or school buildings- assured, compares not at all unfavourably with that of other should be thus travestied, parti- be hereafter prohibited: Cypri- out their consent, take away. fined $7.50 each, a third 84, and charactor and the proper sanitation countries; we are certainly amongst the first three Powers, and onlarly in face of the fact that podium purpuratum, all azaleas, probably one of the first two so far as the provision of skilled pilots, those who bear that name have, Enkianthue quinquefloras, Izra July 12-The Hon. Mr. O, and a boatwoman were charged (b) the methods of enforcement propor machines and organisation for training are concerned. for more than three centuries, chinensis, Lilium browoli, Litse. P. Chater was a passenger this with making fast to the s.a. Seang of discipline in schools - Britain quite evidently realises the gravity of the situation; and vigorously opposed publicity for citrats, Bauhinia blakeana, Man-mothing by the O. and O. steam-Bee while she was under way in prohibition in registered schools
not give glictin fordians, and Paveleship Arabio for England, via San the watera of the Harbour,
were caoh fined $15. indica:
Francisco and New York, recent reports all go to show that there is a deal of quiet, steady themselves. Why
some other hot a turn ? development going on at Home in the pew arm of defence,
are remarkably efficient.
Harbour Offences,
the
The of the use of any book, the use of