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Sir-May I be allowed to con-
EDUCATION.
from their shipyard in Kowloon STARTS ON MONDAY.gratulate you, sir, on the stand POINTED REMARKS. Bay the steamor Bataani:
There
London, May 127
Union and a gang of the members query as to whether. Mr. Hall general public. It is interesting launch Mr. Pio V. Corqus, repres- Monday's issue there will appear the debato" have used the term popularity in China.
spector
W08
Arturo
made the most.
Described as a follower of the Mohammedan religion, an un- LIGHTLESS CITY?
employed Chinese appeared be- fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the
you have takon against the Id (Our Own Correspondent)."
Kowloon Magistracy this morn-
'The vessel is a-steal twin Abright and entertaining troduction of non-trained teachers ing, on charges of larceny of a to have arisen, in the public mind, serow steamer of 141 ft. in little diversion for the summer Schools in this Colony? I note the second reading of the Bozer
on the staffs of Government
The House of Loïda has passed Canton, May 12:.. parambulator, the property of as to whether the Board of length, built to the order of months is to start in the Telegraph with no small amusement, your Indemnity Bill.
Mr. R. Hall, of No. Education has proved its utility Messrs Teodora B. Tangco, of workmen is now threatened. Observatory Villas, and the theft as a factor in the scholastic do- Manila, and intended for the on Monday next. It will morning contemporary's obvious The Archbishop of Canterbury Some time ago a few members of of three vases from the Rosary velopment of the Colony. It might forry sorvice with cargo and take the form of a Missing-Line 15 inspired attempt to "white said he believed that Anglo- the Mechanics Guild, having an Church, Kowloon, On the lattor be eye to business, set up an electric charge the Rev. Father Spada, of the Board was somewhat Bataan, where, with speed
recalled. that the creation passengers between Manila and Limerick Contest, and a prize of ment'slatest policy. A
wash" the Education Depart-Chinese co-operation would per
manently benefit China as a power oil press, and produced a Vicar, prosecuted. better quality and a chomper oi!
in the nature of an experiment of 12 anots, the Bataan will $10 cash will be awarded every Reverting to the recent discuss whole. The dofondant pleaded guilty by the Governmobt, and was replace two existing and slower week for the best line sent in.
ion at the last meeting of the
Lord Parmoor pointed out that: than that of the hand-press Guild,
to both chargos.
Board of Education, it was per- similar action had been taken by This annoyed the hand-press
designed to form a link between vessols. In answer to the Magistrate's the education authorities and the
Let us explain in brief the haps unfortunate that Mr. Wylie America years ago, and had im- were present at the nature of the Competition. In should occasionally throughout portantly influenced. American set upon this power oil plant and
made A hobby of having to know to what extent this aim enting the owners, Jose Estrada, wrooked the whole of the
his parambulator stolen, In- has been achieved, from the point
"certificated" when be undoubt-Lord Arnold described the Bill machinery, and captured five of
Corpus and Victoria-the first of a series of Missingodly meant "trained." There is a asa gesture of friendship towards Pincott the men, two of whom have the article
said that of view of officialdom, and, with no Corpus; also Messrs Hall, Line Limericks. Four lines of the distinction to be drawn between China. Ho hoped the money. since. been released. The
one that formed the autject of itativa expression of opinion, a Fraser,
the same the object of obtaining an author Jack, Goodwin, Haslett, Dand, Limerick will be printed; and the two and one of which, of would not only be spant in Peking Mechanids' Union at once de charge of unlawfully receiving representative of the Telegraph Ramsay, Mendham, Mr. and Mrs. competitors will be required to course, your contemporary has but be spread over a wider area.
Edwards, Ponsford, manded retribution, but the Go-preferred against a marine haw approached Mr. G. N. Orme, the Bailey and the Misses Pereira add a fifth. The last line must,
The Bishop of Exeter remark vernment showed not the slightest
If, as has been suggested, trained that the generosity of Amerion interest in the mattor, and refused her about a fortnight ago, when Director of Education, on the and Pintos.
the latter, who claimed that he subject.
to China of course, rhyme well, and factors ing is not required in the case of
was perhaps un have any dealings in the bought the parambulator legiti- to
The vessel, gaily decorated
University candidates, how is it precedented in the world's matter.
Mr. Orme at the outset pointed with flags, gracefully took the towards success will be sense and that both Oxford and Cambridge history, but had some unfortunate mately, was sentenced to one
out that he had not been long water amid the usual firing of aptness. The same Limerick have of recent years instituted results. He related the visit he Yesterday two thousand of the month's hard labour. Mechanica Guild called on the
The defendant's arrest was the enough connected with the Board crackers for "good joss", and the will appear for six days in Civil Governor, Techun Wu, and result of information given to of Education to express a decided launching ceremony was per-
chun Wu, and the police by the hawker's wife, opinion as to the actual function- formed in the time-honoured succession, and contestants may the Yunnanese threatened to cut off all the who recognised accused in the ing of the Board, but undoubtaly manner by young Master Arturo send in as many last lines as electric supply if they at once streets as the man who sold her it served a very useful purpose, Carpus, photos being taken of they wish, but each must be on did not make the hand press husband the "pram."
and he could say without hesita-group.
The party then adjourned to a separate coupon, Guild ail
His Worship said that under tion that it was doing good and make good the
the firm's office for light refresh- The task of judging the Com- damago to the machinery, as the circumstances he would was an asset to the Colony. well as return the three miss-bring the woman's action to the
ments and the usual toasts. Mr. petition has been very kindly The idea, continued Mr. Orme, Balley, in proposing success to three men have been killed. The consideration with a view to ested in matters, educational, by mechanics were assured by the having the remainder of the means of a body of representa Government leaders" that their sentencé remitted.
tives who could keep them in case would have immediate atten- Continuing with the facts
touch with the subject, while at tion and that an answer would relative to the second charge, the same time the Government be given them within Even Inspector Pincott said that when days..
arrested the defendant had in bis was enabled to keep in contact with public opinion through the possession three vases, which he said had been stolen zometime members of the Board. This gave previous, but he later admitted an opportunity to examine as the Workmen's Army the mechaving entered the Rosary Church many sides of educational prob- on Monday night and stolen the leme as possible. In his opinion anos. Attempts were also made the Board was proving very useful to steal other articles, but these an asset both to the public and in this way, and thus had proved
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Training Colleges? Does it not made to a Chinese school wholly appear to indicate that both those managed by Americans. Universities consider it necessary found that in the teaching of that students who wish to take history emphasis was laid on the up teaching as a profession should rébellion the American have every opportunity of fitting colonies against England. The themselves for the work?
influence of much of that kind of While on the subject, I should teaching had persuaded tho. Chi- like to ask Mr. Orme how he nose to proceed through revolu-
sity trains students to take up ucation had not been greater. the fact that Hongkong Univer that the English influence in ed. work in his own department. England should be able to give Surely if it is the policy of the the world a message, that any Government to discount training country could develop by peace- in the case of candidates engaged tul methods without catastrophic at Home, it need no longer spend change-Reuter. large sums of money training local teachers..
ing men. It is thought that the notice of His Excellency for his had been to get the public inter- the Bataan, presented young Mundertaken by a well-known reconciles his recent views with tion. It wie most unfortunate
It may be recalled that at the time when the Government raised
hanics refused to have anything to do with it, saying that there were plenty of unemployed to do
the
the work of soldiers without hav-
were sacurely fastened to the ing to take mochanics who were walls. The windows were not already in good employment. locked and gave easy access to Since then there has been a foud the church. between them, and the Labour. On the first charge, the defend. Day procession on May 1st was ant was sentenced to one month's particularly noticeable for the ab-hard labour and he was given a
once of the Mecanics' Guild. As further three months on the power station men are all second count.- mombers of the Guild and are quite a large body of man, things will be uncomfortable for the Government if the matter is not @gottled, for a city without light and kerosing would be in a sorry plight.
CEMENT WORKS
MODEL.
TO GO TO WEMBLEY.
MORE RUM RUNNERS.
BIG SHIPS OFF CALIFORNIA.
New York, May 12,
to the Government.
PFAK TRAM TICKETS.
Corbus with a handsome wrist local rhymeter, whose decision watch suitably inscribed as a must be accepted as final and momento of the occasion.
who will retain the right to divide the prize into two equal portions if he considers that the two best efforts are of oqua merit.
NEW FERRIES,
NOT READY YET:
1
The contest will be found both.
Yours etc..
PARENT.
entertaining and amusing. It Hongkong. 12th May, 1925. learn that the two additional big difficulties, for competitors are Oa enquiry this morning, we will, moreover, present no great
Star" Forry boats are not likely
Sir, Apropos. of
Hongkong
ARMS TRAFFIC
QUESTION OF PUBLICITY,
Geneva. May 12.
,
The Rumanian, Polish and
to be ready for some time yet not asked to write a complete education, can anyone say why it They are at present under con- Limerick, but merely to add a is that Chinese boys must wade Persian delegates in particular struction, but will probably not last line.
through those dry, dreary un-displayed much anxiety, during be completed before October at
interesting essaya of Bacon, Lamb, the important discussion of the the earliest.
Every Monday, a new Limerick De Quincey, etc., archaic in general committee of the arms When these two new vessels will appear, and every week a style, old-fashioned in thought, conference, with regard to the are in commission, it is intended prize of $10 will be given for the incomprehensible in meaning obligation of giving publicity.
concerning supplies of arms. Such old-world literature may to institute. a continuous five-
best line sent in. The names of have an attraction and value to
They contended that they minuto service..
As to the names of the new the competitors will be English readers in certain moods, should be exempted from afford- Another development croppo boats, these have not yet been unknown to the Judge, who will but it is utterly unsuitable for the ing information so long s6. D
doaided upon, but up yesterday in the case in which definitely
20th Century. Chinese boys. To Russia, was not a party to the teaching of modern English to neighbouring country, meaning oxplain a few paragraphs of most Proposed convention.
Mr. Burton declared that the
TWO MEN SENTENCED.
a number of Chinese were charg several suggestions have been merely bo supplied with the ed with the larceny of ticket made to the Harbour Department contestants efforts, each bearing coupons of the Peak Tramway on this paint, and a reply is a distinctive number. Company
shortly expected.
SOVIET CREDIT.
of these essays, takes hours, and United States in all circumstances Look out for further announce-even then there is nothing very
plain, real, or sensible, as, for ex-would give the fullest publicity ments of this bright little con- ample, De Quincay's Essay on to arms shipments by the United States Government. The people. test, and be sure to get Monday's "Murder Considered as one of the Telegraph, in which the first Fine Arts. Some of say, Arthur would be disappointed if the Mee's articles in My Magazine" convention insufficiently provided Limerick, with complete rules, would serve the purpose far, far for publicity,
The discussion was adjourned. will appear..
Reuters
COUNTY CRICKET
'SOME NEW TALENT.
Landon, May 12.
At Birmingham, Worcester beat
botter."
Chinese boys delight in writing long essays about the infinities and immensities which read .about asintolligibly backwards as forwarde, while, at the same time, perhaps not five per cent. of even the higher classes can form correctly a sent- ence involving the use of the word "until,"
UNPAID LOANS.
QUESTIONED IN PARLIAMENT.
London, May 12,
In the House of Commotis,
Previously, a number of men, including the mossongor coolic who. said he lost the tickets on a The moment the prohibition tram, had been taken into custody authorities were baginning to and information of their fate had rejoice at their apparent success circulated to others interested. VERY LOW FACE VALUE. in diapersing the rum floats of tho for yesterday Leung Hok, a con Atlantic coast, it was reported tractor's foramen, brought a from California that a consider-number of the missing coupons to
London, April 12. A model probably unique in theable rum flest had appeared on the Company's Superintendent, Hon. Walter Guinness, in the In the House of Commons the fact that it is an exact reproduc- the Pacific coast...+
Mr. Scott, with the explanation course of replies, stated that tiqa in miniature of works which They are five to ten thousand that he had been requested to applications by the Soviet trading as yet are not in being, goos from ton steamers, stocked with liquor, turn these in by Leung Chuen, a organisations Arcos and Centro- Hongkong to the Wembley Ex- and are reported to be off Sanbricklayer. A petition was also bibition by the first available Diego flying the British and
soyus, in Britain, for guarantees. conveyed to Mr. Scott for the roof two millions and a hundred Soat:
Belgian flags.
lease of the men in police custody thousand sterling, respectively, Coastguards are said to have However, Loung Chuon
Another thing Chinese boys We refer to the Portland cement confessed that the rum fleat's himsolf arrested and bis interestst June, were turned down scored 251, (Tarbox 103 not out toxt book on Grammarthe morojsked, whether the five former works of the Green Island Coment customers have launches too in the case closely investigated purely on their business merits.
Great under the Trade Facilities Act, Warwick by 38 runs. Worcester like immensely is an elaborate replying to Mr. R. A. Taylor, who Company which are to be erected at Gin Drinker's Bay. Ecelosed speedy for the dry navy to over-with the result that be was put
and then 144 (Adhoad 51), Quaife difficult and involved the better-Russian border states, euch as He added that it was the Gov-taking 4 for 31 taka.-Renter's American Service into the dock this morning in ernment's policy to refaso credit
Finland and Poland, had ret in a beautifully made,band-carved
and, unfortunately, the Govern Warwick compiled 212 (Wyattmont, I understand, pandors to settled their proportion of the stand, with glass windows on the.
company. with Leung Hung, facilities to the. Soviot or ita158), Root taking 5 for 78, and then them in this matter, in that its Tsarist Government debt cons four sides, the model, built on the
relative in. whose matabod
agents until they had restorad 145. scale of thirty feet to an inch, at
Inspector Murks v found) the their creditors' confidence. If, as
schools use a text book, which, tracted by the municipal author- the Hongkong and Whampoa
majority of the missing coupon was
At Lord's, Middlesex lost to though of service to a teacher, ia ities within their frontiers, the asferted, books. Dook Company's Kowloon estab-
difficulties were complicated by scored 98, Louden taking 5 for 41, that it provides scarcely any ex-
the Soviet's Essex by 7 wickets, Middlesex absolutely useless to students, in Hon. Walter Guinness said nono of them had made definito llehment, and made chiefly of
Both men were convicted, the fact that they had to pay and then 61, Loudon taking 4 for ercises. While there should be arrangements either in respect of zinc and shoot brass, goes with
Leung Hung boing sentenced to twenty-four per cent on the 26 sad Hipkin 4 for 18. Essex arranging, classifying and syst- the Imperial debt or the British remarkable exactness into de
six weeks' hard labour and Loung money market, it was attributable compiled 65. Tanner taking 5 for matizing of matter, by the bondholders of Riga and Vilna talls even sampans sailing on
Chuen to two weeks' hard labour to their financial record and Jack 13, and. then 93 for 3 wickets teacher, it is forever true that loops. ea of Mediterranean huo are shown. The pier four hundred feot in length, alongside which ocean going steamers can berth, and the long limestone conveyor fully 1,600 foot long aro depicted to scalo and give a good idea of a the magnitude of the undertak ing and the further means" of
THE EUROPEAN PACT.
FRANCE'S ATTITUDE
Tho
DEFINED,
French
Parle, May 12. Germany's guarantee peet pro
viewpoint of posals is embodied in a draft Note to Germany, prelimarily handed to the British and Belgian Govern- menis,
A summary is published, and
· MOROCCO WAR
NOT THOUGHT SERIOUS.
of security. Beuter.
OBITUARY.
SIR STEPHEN LEECH.
London, May 12.
down.
there can be no learning by the The benefits of the overseas Bristol saw Yorkshire boat pupils except by doing. Teachers trade and trade facilities Acts Glancestor by 119 runs. York to whom I have spoken, have were available to these States, shire compiled 116, Parker taking said: "I know is an unsuitable but a factor in considering the 5 for 49, then 77 for 4, declared,
grammar, but it is the one used grant of applications would, bo Gloucestor scored 82 and 42, in the Government schools, and the punctuality with which gov Macaulay and Kilner in the first the pupils, knowing this, will not ornments and municipalities had
discharged their obligations, innings taking 3 for 34 and 4 for bo satisfied with any other."
Pantera
24 and in the second 6 for 30 and Personally I think the English- conveying the limestone into the atatos that the Noto is profoundly
4 for 10, respectively
programme for Chinese boys for main factory are ampla indios pacific, and emphasises willing-
Paris, May 12, The death is announced of Sir At Cambridge, Lancashire and too advanced, I bold that a tion of the-up to-date organisa-nosu to co-operate with Germany M. Painisvė, replying to a quos-Stephon Luech.-Reuter.
Cambridge drew. Cambridge soor thorough knowledge of simple of which the Colony will in attaining supplementary, gur- tion after the meeting of the [Sir Stephen Leach, K.C.M.G., ed 260 (Enthoven 78), Diok Tyldu English is infinitely preferable to eventually boast, Me
rantees of ponce, provided the Cabinet, said the situation in who was knighted six years ago, slay taking 7 for 62, and then 172 tooth-rato imitation of Ma- The buildings, the palatial prosent. treatios and con Morocco was delicato, but the was born in 1864 and had been in (Duleep Sinbil 55), Tyldesley tak
cauley or Shakespeare... offices, the factory itself, cllmkor ventions be not weakened and operations, which hitherto bad the diplomatic service for many ing & for 33. Laronehiro compiled
Yours etc.. store, and Chinoso staff quartors, the rights and interests of the beer only on a small scalo, wore years, sorving in various parts of 281 (Sholmerdino 01), Meyer: tak- also wonderful reproduc Central European Stetos bo not so serious as those of former the world, including Poking Ho 5 for 89, and then 71 for one
LITTLE AND GOOD." unimpaired-Router,
yours. Reuter
rosired in 1920.).
wickot down-RouterN
Hongkong, May 12th, 1925,
jare
TO-DAY
Closing Exchange 28. 3. 1/16 Lighting Baromotori
Tomparo 6.55 p.m.
Humidity
2 pm: 29.79.
p.m. 84
2 p.m. 69.