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THE HONGKONG TRLEGRAPH
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The Cheats-
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1915.
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The Weather.
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At the Peak 3 am. Temp 50; Lower level 8 am. Temp. 60;
Ons irglad to chewers that police are keeping a keen eye an
STHE FÜRITĀNS HATED BEA the cheating shopkeeper. Yee- BAKING NOT BECAUSE HAGAV turday three of these gentry were: PAN TO THE BEAR BUT BECAUS brought up at the Police Court GAVE PLEASURE
[ERECTATORS ––Mariely-- two for using faulty scales and the other for being in possession of a falme cloth rule. All ware Reservedly made to pay for stray-fine. ing.from the path of honesty and rectitude, though the finesse. were, in our opinion.aly bis -
The class of trader bere dealt with was that Engbah Mail. Dus
solely, are whose dealings for Yarxlargaly, with Chiness shoppers. That, of course, does not affect the offends one way or the other. But we have, baftre made the point that the ordinary compradore he who practically lives on European cast is all too often guilty of dishonest practices, especially in the matter FATHERS.f giving short weight and of
YOUR
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MARRIAGE ·
BOYLING-ROBINSON-At Shanghai on December 15, 1915, Beyling of Bristol, England, to Clara. eldest daughter of Mrs at H. B. M. Consulate, by Sir Everard Fraser, KCMG. Harold G. James Robinson, of Shanghai.
The Hongkong Telegraph
Chias
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1915.
We
CHINA AND EDUCATION.
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"Those in
over-charging to an abominable extest. And these are the men who should be tracked down. The police cannot do everything, and hero at any rate ia. an admirable opportunity for the Food Committee to send round either some of its own membars or plain-clothed agents to catch
these greedy rogues at their little games. The thing could easily be done if the Committee were only alive to its opportunities.
And the Smugglers.
The Chinese who is bent on
The Malls
Per 2.3.Novara, Australian Mail-Due per es. Empire. Siberian Hail-- Closed
NOTES ON TER CRISIS
MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND MUNITIONS,
ITALIAN CONVENT
SCHOOL
Distribution of Prizes This Afternoon
An Interesting Mitare. Ås-not-ancommonly happens, quantity outdoes both quality and
The distribution of Prizes to definiteness where the news from Gallipoli is concerned and, were scholars of the Italian Convent wedisposed to feel over critical, we School, in Caine Road, took place might suggest that the same this afternoon, the ceremony applies to the cables from the Wes being performed by Lady May. tern and Balkan fronte Almost Prior to the presentation, a most wimultaneously with the retire-excellent musical programme to-day meat of Fieldmarshal French atributed, the variou
comes the withdrawal of the Kems of which were greatly ap- to-day famous Russian leader, General preciated. The programine WIE SE
Rusaky, Let us hope that it follows
"Marco Viremi" (F.Fasanotá), 4-handa Misses E to-day all for the best and that the
changes that are being made ino
Figueiredo and P. Campos- have not been entered upon
Recitation, "He will be without due reflection as
Soldier," Miss M. Soriano. the value of the old saying
Song, Ous. Sweetly Solemn (J. C. Warburst), arossing a stream. The Premier's bought." statement concerning the recruit isses G. Felices, F. Never, P. ing is still unavoidably withheld. Benito, M. de Terus, E. Danen The rate of the dollar on Hope deferred maketh the heart borg. 4. del Campo and E demand to-day is 140 15/16.
sick and sometimes a tiny bit Figueiredo. Accomp... Miss D. suspicions. Another itam that Morris. interests without pleasing is the that the rotorious
perka. Nivus. Canadian and Siberian Maila
Close to-morrow per as Yokohama 11 am.
to
Siberian Mail-Closes to-accrosbout not changing bares while
per 2.3. Shanteng 3 po
The Dellar.
To marrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the 1831 an-istatament niversary of the birth of Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventar.
Chinese Festival...”
of "Tung-chib," or the Winter
Solstice.
FANGKAT OUTPUT.
Memors. Wright and Ha advise us that the Tangkat outpat for the current month is a followa -----.
Dec.
Tona 15%
150
151
150
138
148
149
147
148
154
12
152
151
14
163
33
15
148
16
V
143
17
146
18
144
-19
145
20
142
21
138
ป
Total to 21st inst~ 3,008
147.52 Daily average
In the music class, enthusiasm
Recitation (in Portuguese), "Vraso," Miss M. El Cabaco.
Piano, Rapsodis Hongroise," De Wet and over a hundred of
been (Fr. Livi), Miss M. Jon.
Recitation, The Spirit of Con- his confederates have set at liberty. Surely that could have waited. The Government tradiction, Misa C. Fanlo.
"Nocturne de Concert" (Ar Tomorrow, according to the trusted to De Wet's honour before Chinese Calendar, is the festivaland what was the result? Is ranged from Goria), piano and
is a disgrace that he was not abatros, Missse M. and S. Jison, J. continusa unabated. It is a singu lar fact worth recording that out of hand instead of merely be. Braga and A. Sian.
Action Song and Fancy Drill, Chinese scholars are taking to ing imprisoned. Such stories! make sorry reading for those who Virtue, Knowledge and Bars in increasing numbers. It Voyage Report The s.. Friching, which arrived realise how the Imperial Govern many," Misses B. White, E. Salli- is hoped that the time will 2001 doing a little opian-smuggling yesterday from Shanghai, reportament's want of firmness has bash Tax and F. Neves, 24 Fairies, sive when the Hongkong Uni- versity will see its way to sward. Manager's Report.
cartificates of music in the same generally manages to display a fine weather throughout, with ed matters all through the war. As Accomp., Miss. C. Jian considerable degree of ingenuity moderate North-east wind and sex. long as the Radical spirit remains
The Manager's report for the way as they were awarded by the in the Cabinet, so long may in hiding the drug. Inst-
see foolerice of rear 1914-15 was read by the Bey-Local Committee of the London we expect to saces in which the forbiddam
Sir Charles Eliot, Vics Chan-this kind indulged in; indeed Fr. de Maris, and was as follows College of Music. I command the staff is hidden inside the shos
I have the honour to present embject to the notice of the Uni- or wound round the body in celler of Hongkong University. if it remains much longer we look cloth are fairly common, just as aired in the Philippines on De-to see half intermed Germane my report on the school for the varsity authorities.
ast at liberty and, year just closed. and is a guest at the Manila Hotel possibly erem given medala drug in a false-bottomed trunk or Embezzlement Case Remanded for their heroic endurance of a the old trick of cocessing the cember 16 on the Nippon Maro, at Hom
barrel is. Within the past couple
A care in which a man named comfortable captivity. Why of days, however, two further Fo Shui-ws was charged with won't the Cabinet either get on or clever wheessa have been revealed
Sir Charles Eliot.
Munitions
Another Opium Case, Before Mr. Bazeland,
this
excourages
despits that,
defendant.
Harbour Offences.
to
The echool's syllabur, iu so far
These
for
The Lumour of having their
It is with deep regret that I -To fall into line with the new have to record the death, on 25th Grant Code now in operation, the August last, of Sister Teodora (Sie Oxford Local Examinations were tor Dorina), who for over 40 years given ap in favour of the Junior was associated with the school and Senior Examination con--t first as one of its teichers and ducted by the authorities of the in cases which came before the embezzling the sard of $123.00, else get out? Police Court. In one instance. Ho Ling Kee, was brought the monies of his employers,
There is complexity in Mr.bsequently as the Superioress. Hongkong University the optum was discovered in a bato all Wood this morning. Mr. Lloyd George's statement regard. Although for some time before her examinations were held from the cleverly-contrived tin box made.
Davidson applied for a remand, ing masitions, but the heart of it death Sister Darins, through ill 12th to the 17th July inclusive. so as to fit close to the body, while
which was gen'èl for a week. is in the right place, and ithaith, had not taken an act ve Sir candidates were sent up for in the other the staff was found to
Junior believe part in the teaching of the School, the
and one be covered with shrimp paste and
har linguistic attainment, longer the senior Government,
examinations, of was being passed off as such ring, a Chiness was charged mismanagement and trade Perience and intimate knowledge whom four and one passed, re- These are quite typical instances. with the unlawfa! presession of union treason in the past, some is the counsels that deliberated with distinction and the senior, of its needs were invaluable spectively. The juniors passed of Chinese ingenuity in smuge opium and also with attempting thing really is being done. ing methods, but they are not
farther distinction of having A pativo paper, the Yang Shiny Pao, has been addressing its quite smart enough to trick the pan by the area The speech certainly contains for its bettermant. Her loss is Miss Un Pak Sang, enjo
police. Remembering the wily opium by these Haiching. He some awkward revelations into irreparable.
In point of attendance, the passed with Honours. She was readers in very plain language en the subject of the alleged progress folk they are up against, the was remanded in bail of $250. which the British elector will
lished a record. The number of passed with honours in the senior of education in China. It begins and ends--by denying that polits certainly do well to make D'Almada appeared for the want to enquire pretty closely school year 1914-1915 has estab- one of the only two girls to here
when the war in over; bat progress, and it incidentally points to some very weak spots in the the seizures they do, and they
no good comes of keeping these Pipils incressed to 361 in April section among all the girl co- Before Commander G. W. Beck things b ck and Mr. Lloyd George last, while the average daily didates who presented themselves country's new educational system. The number of students,, it tells are to be commended for so often as, is becctcing less, and various other calamities are being excour catching the smugglers and the wish, RN, as the Marine Court, not be conensed for his attendance for the whole year has for examination from the schools
drag at one and the same time.
in the Colony. this morning, Police Sergeant frankness. It is quite evident that, been 324.08 as compared with tered all because "zot mich real work has been done." Our
Elward Bond charged Chan Fo,
since the munitions affair was put 300.5 in 1913-1914. contemporary finds that it is merely names, and not things, that have Possession of Explosives.
As the present time the staff By the courtesy of Bev. Bro. bostmaster, with unlawfully using spora businesslike basis, waiters been changed by the country's attachment to republicanism, and,
drage within the Harbour limits. bave prospered. The speaker consists of fourteen teachers who Aimar, director of St. Joseph's The case of a Chinate woman for the purpose of lifting articles hammers nor can he hammer are efficiently assisted by papil College, and the Committee of in short, relates a state of things more or less chaotic.
who was caught in possession of from the bad thereof, on the 22ad too hard or too often on the need teachers. In crder to comply with the Old Boy's Association, the charge thought they were improving the teaching when they shor-eighteen sticks of dynamite for inst. A fibe of $5 was imposed for an erar-increasing supply of the requirements of the Education scholars of this school participat taped the hours of study or dropped soms important subjects. Tas the alleged purpose of fahing, Hidden la His Shoes, shells He tells us (as we should Department the latter have beened in the Sports held at Happy old classics were forbidden at one time; st another they were can- and was yesterday fined $50, A man was charged by Sergt. have been told at the beginning attending the Teacher Class Valley at Easier Tide. So na sidered to be the most important in the curriculam. We bars nerer raises a serious question. Every Allen, of the Naval Police, this of the war-nay, long before the Technical Institute. Their merous wars the satries for the seen that any zealous improvement has been carried out at all.” now and again instances of this morning with stealing 2 lbs. of it began) that Germany's number increased from one to fire two open races that they had to be
kind crop up, and one may be red lead, the property of His
I have pleasure in reporting that an off in beats, resulting in vins Obviously the value of the above statement lies in the fact that pardoned for wondering how Majesty's Nav.l Dickyard. Mr. hopes of success lay in the enor it comes from a Chinese and not from a European writer. When these folk get hold of this Hareidd sentenced him to two mous start that she had of us in all the papil teachers successfully by Me Leonor Collaco and we look back on all that has been written about "progressive" dangerous substance. Apart from months imprisonment and four possessing such magnificent sup- passed the Institute's examination Miss Banca Perpetua
shall find that somewhere about nine-tenths the possible danger to the hour top Daten dan war plies of explosives; and he urges held in June last
that only by means of an unend- can be ascribed to foreign authorship, and the odd tenth possess themselver, there csaght coming out of the
was adapted so as to conform with Shield belongs this year 10 Miss to extz mista among the Chinees who, in picking up information are good and sound political rea-with a packet of lead in each shoeing quantity of such car we hope as it related to the upper classes, names inscribed on the Lagard
to force our way to victory. about weatern countries wherein they have sojourned, have lost sous why the strictest precautions
Damaged Mail....
the standard set by the Hongkong Florentina Nunes, and Miss Violet The Post Office, sanoances that teach with their own, and really know less about its condition and should be taken to prevent explo
On two points does the Minister University. The syllabus for the Tsan. It will be remembered needs than many Europeans who have resided in it for a wives of any kind getting into the portion of the mail which of Munitions lay special emphasis res of the school in one approved that the Shield was presented by reasonable length of time. With all due respect to the foreign hands of Chinese. Quite rightly, arrived from Europe today by
Lady Lagard for the girls who The Inspector of English travel fetish, those who understand Chins beat are those who have the use of explosives is here, as La Novara (including registered the wonderful work of the Nary by the Director of Education,
and the neel for the working
during the year for charseter and never been cut of it; and we will even make bold to add that those at Home, against the fishery laws, articles) has been recaman's co-operation with the Schools, Mr. E. Ralphs, conducted the best example in the school who understand it least are the foreigners who will persist but the point we wish to make is damaged by ethwater owing Government and Army chiefs. minute examination of the whole metal work. To perpetuate Lady in seeing it only through Western eyes. The missionary, however that the staff, once possessed, may weather at Megapatama. It is
Navy is by 10
holidays. As a result of that ex-swarded these two girls by the gcod his intentions, sets out with the idea that the teaching is to easily be used for other and even notified that no claims in respect Mr. Lloyd George's tribute to the school before the mid-summer Logard's practice prizes have bee be all on his side and the learning on Chins's, and, to the end of his more serious purposes. And it is ofsach damage can be entertained. superflates 28 some of as may amination that afficial was pleased School of two medals which your career, be cherishes very lovingly the belief that all that China can for this reason that a far closer teach us does not amount to much. The result naturally is that check than at present exercised A Chinese was charged before think. We Britishers are terribly to report the school as "through Ladyship will be asked to pre-
In addition to the subjects pre- much of his life is passed in seeking to foist on the Chinese not only should be kept on every ounce of Mr. Gazeland, this morning, with slow to grasp an idea and we only ly efficient
cease from grumbling when the
The Lagard Scholars founded the white man's way of doing things but his very thoughts and paint explosive which comes into the stealing a bag of sugar valed fact is forced in front of us that scribed by the syllabus passate
$5. The theft took placs in the of view. Those Chinate who can be persuaded to act up to his Colony.
harbour, the ma
man being a coolie one half of the war was won, the lessons are given in Portuguese, in 1910 by the late Sir Hormujte teaching are merely making a bid for a half-and-half, fish-out-of-
employed on the Dairy Farm day that the German fleet scuttled Italian and French, typewriting Mody, under certain specific cou water mental existence; in other words, they throw away the good
launch. Mr. P. W. Goldring, away into hiding and decided and shorthand, as well as painting ditions were won last year by thing of their fathers' days and are not able to ssimilate those
who appeared for the defence said to remain there. It was on his feet and drawing. Many pupils attend Mise Belen Clarke, and Miss which the foreigner has come to offer them, they grab at the shadow
he defendant had boltad. D that the Kaiser relied, quite as these private classe, and there is Mercedes Coelho, and this year and drop the substance.
fend nt did not appear, and his muchas on his army, and our blue evidence that typewriting sad by Mr Florentins Nunes,
jackets by their tireless labours stenography are becoming in D. 7. M. Gries Ozorio bas bail was entreated.
very generously doasted a scholar That there is something like a greed on the part of a large
Two Months Hard Labour have converted that feet literally czasingly popular.
Ten scholars presented them ship in commeraneation of his left section of the Chiness for a knowledge of Western school subjects,
Before Mr. J. B. Wood, this intoa nonentity. As to the workers, it is not denied. The Chinese, like the British, are a commercially-
morning, a Chinese was charged Mr. Lloyd George has suzely made selves for theory and speel exam beather, Mr. Francisco de Gior minded race, and therefore it would be strange if there were not
with attempting to steal's lead it evident enough that the game is nations held by Praman's Comet Ozorio. Dr. Graez Ozoria's come among their number many who have a very shrewd eye to the msin chance. To them, familiarity with certain things, once regarded The following will represent water pipe from the lavatory on up to them, and perhaps we ought teeinJane,October and November, mendakis as peculiar to the West, means au increase of income. But this Hongkong in the above match on board the a. Kwang Tang. Capt. to take comfort from Mr. Thomas respectively. The result of the sac smatching at a knowledge of e.g., engineering or medicine is hardly the Cinb ground on Christmas HW Walker said that the Chief sasartaces in the House that the earliest examination has already com the same thing as education; moreover those who want to match Day and Boxing Day; Play will officer reported to him that a man response will be there. There is been received, two "Theory Dec do not represent suything like one per cent. of China's people. Those commemes at 2.15 p.m-on the 25th had been caught in the act of yet time for the trade unionists to tificates having been granted to Chinese who are given to locking squarely and bravely st facts have and 10.30 am. on the 27th stealing the pipe. Witness hand make their comrades at the Front Miss Dorothie Bazares and Miss to admit that the foreigner has brought them but little good, and Messrs. T. E: Pearce (Japt.), Bed the man over to the police, forget that they have disgraced Frances Beyce. The cartificates themselves in the past; Mr. Lloyd will he presented this afternoon constant imitating of him by many of their own people may N. Anderson, R. EO. Bird, R. A. The chief staker depoeed to sewin
George wants eighty thousand†The result of the examinati yet bằng sorrow to the imitators. We do not hanker sfter a China Brand, D. E. Doanally, 1. Te the defendant trying to wren
Defendant ho ha skilled and two hundred thousand held in October and Nore the thirties and "fortise: a Land of alosed parts where strange Glace, E. 0. Hutchison, R. Ken- the pipe off
sen- unakilled man. Is he going to ges not yet to hand. The pap
been forwarded to Bath for ems; but the more wa man of the nedy ILK. Kam E E. Inrial * previous
rection
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CRICKET.
Hongkong v. Kowloos.
- Bail Estreated.
The Workers.
mpang.
Beat this afternoon,