THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE BATTALION AND A FATAL MOTORING PRIZE-GIVING AT ST.
PROBLEM.
MOTOR-CAR.
SMASH.
GOVERNOR STRESSES NEED OF BETTER SITE.
INCIDENT ON THE ROAD TO TAIPO,'
YOUNG SHIP'S OFFICER LOSES HIS LIFE.
STEPHEN'S.
MAY BE IN NEW STANLEY COLLEGE NEXT YEAR,
KABUL SITUATION DISQUIETING.
RIVAL GOVERNMENTS NOW SHIRMISHING.
NO CHANGE AS YET. DID COLONEL JUMP? CAR & STEAM ROLLER. GOOD PROGRESS MADE. HABIBULLAH'S ACTION.
Speaking at the prize-giving ceremony at Queen's College this morning, where he distributed the awards. His Excelleney the Gov- ernor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) stated that the school was heavily andicapped by its surroundings, whilst te structure and much of its equipment was out
An incident on the Taipo Road on December 22, when the Queen's Royal Regiment was returning from camp was mentioned at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when a chauffeur in the employ of Mr. H. C. Lee, the local solicitor, was charged hefore Mr. E. W. Hamilton with dangerous driving. of date, No-one was more an- xious than he to see the College re- December 22 the Queen's Regiment,
Private Callaghan said that on moved to a new and better site, was returning to Samshuipe from "but he feared it would be neces-Camp. Witness was one of a sary to hold out in its antiquated picket of two which preceded the premises for some years longer.
These present at the prize-on ascending the hill before the battalion by about fifty yards. giving included the Hon. Reservoir, witness saw a motor Sir Henry Pollock and Lady car about 50 yards in front and Pollock,
J. waved the red flag he was carry P. Braga, Mr. A. E. Wood ing as a signal for the driver to (Director of Education), Mr. W. slow down. No notice was taken W. Hornell (Vice Chancellor of the of the signal, the driver passing University) Mr. E. Halpha, Mr. the picket at the same speed. J. Ralston, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Sayer and Mr. Hing Shing Lo.
the Hon.
Mr.
Annual Report
The Headmaster's report was, as
follows:
It is also authoritatively stated, Afghan Prince that. Mohamed Omar Khan, the who absconded
from Allahabad, is in Afghanistan. quieting. It is understood that The situation there is very dis-. Amanullah's youngest brother, and several members of the Cabi net and leading officials of Amanullah's been arrested in Kabul, and their Government have
crensing, uneasiness is growing, property confiscated.
and skirmishes are reported to The security of Kabul elty is de
have taken place within twenty] miles of Kabul,
Singapore, Jan. 25. Students of St. Stephen's College
New Delhi, Jan. 31. bably be sequel to the fatal motor. Place this morning on the occasion (Amir Habibullah) is concentral-
Police court proceedings will pro-gathered in the hall at Prospect ing weeldent which occurred on the of the annual distribution of prizes ing his troops at Kabul, in readi
It is reported that Bacha Sakao East Coast Rond, Singapore, on won during the year. Prizes were Wednesday night. Mr. E A. H. handed to the successful students ness for eventualities. Ellis, the driver of the car, will be by Mr. Kwok Sin-Inu." charged with causing death by a rash net after he has been dis-R. Duppuy) presided and he was The Bishop of Victoria (Dr. C. charged from hospital,
Mr. R. D. MacLean, who was kill-supported by Mr. Kwok Siu-lau, cd was only 25 years of age. He ton), the Hon. Dr. S. W. Teo, Mr the Headmaster, (Mr. F. A. Bril- was formerly on the Straits Steam-LI Hoi-tung, Mr. Kwok Yau-ting
hip Company's vessel Kudat, snil-nd Mr. Buchanan.
to take an examination for his nuis 10 out of Penang, and he cante down to Singapore a fortnight age ter's certificate. He was staying at the Seamen's Institute, together with the other passenger in the cur throughout the year the total number Mr. Norman Birtley, who was in attendance being 167, of whom GG Our numbers romained steady
formarly on one of the A.P.C. ships were boarders. Tha hecommodation and was also studying at the School for boarders at Pokfulam has been of Navigation at the Seamen's In-filled to the uttermost, and the Staff stitute.
Thava, been content with a minimun of space for themselves. We are
Sir Denys Bray in a statement looking forward with keen anticipa to the Indian Assembly regarding tion to the move to Stanley which the situation In Afghanistan, de- should take place soon after Easter.clared that not a single soldier or On Wednesday night Mr. Ellis,;
Council. The Collego congratulate gun has been moved to the fron- who assists the Seamen's Mission Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso on his becoming tier. The daily life of the frontier the long stretch at the bottom of arranging entertainments at the Dr. Tse in one of the Founders of St. All the tribes remained steady, a member of the Legislative Council. garrisons remained undisturbed. the Shatin Itill a motorcar came Seamen's Institute, went to the Stephen's and has from the begin- round the bend. The Colonel im-Institute to take Mr. MacLean and ning, given services of inestimable though individual tribesmen were mediately stepped in front of the Mr. Birtley out to dinner. They value. Sir Henry Pollock has given unable to realst the strong natural car but had to jump out of its way dined at his flat in the Raffles In- the past year as Chairmen one side or another.
impulso to enter the turmoil on again. The car stopped after it stitution building and afterwards during the past year as
of had gone about twenty yards past went out for a drive.
the Building Committee. We But the tribesmen's support was offer him our utmost sincero thanks. the front file.
They were returning along the Dr. J. H. Sanders retired from the being canvassed by the adherents Council after many years of faithful of the three governments of Kin- service. We wish him a continun dahar, Kabul and Jalalabad, and tion of good and many happy the efforts of the British frontier officers were being taxed to pre- Staff.-In
R.S.M.'s Evidence. Regimental Sergeant Major Osbourne said that he was walking immediately behind the Colonel in front of the parade. When the picket had reached a corner after
Mr. Birtley's father, who is the chief engineer on the 8.8. Namyang, was in Singapore at the time of the accident.
The Governor's Speech. 11.E. the Governor, addressing those present, said:"I am glad to be able to congratulate Queen's College, ita staff and its. boys on another year, of successful and concientious work. The results contained in the Head Master's report are entirely satisfactory, and there is little fault to and with anything at Queen's College, except its site and its buildings, There can, however, he no doubt at all that, on the material side, the school is heavily laundicapped stracture itself and much of its being too narrow for a car to pass the road. All three were thrown B. Sc.. left us and in the same month equipment are out of date. That without slowing right down. To out and were unconscious when Rev. E. K. Quick refoined the staff. the school should continue to do illustrate the narrowness of the policemen, who heard the crash We congratulate Mr. Quick so well in spite of these draw-space, witness said that when he from the nearby Siglap Station, appointment to bucks is to the credit of all con- and the Colonel went to speak to to you. the hope that you would gerned. I wish I could hold out the driver the men had to move
In reply to the Bench, witness said that the battalion occupied about half or slightly more of the
East Coast Road when, the car, a Morris Cowley, crashed head on into the rear of a steam roller
by its surroundings and that the roadway, the remaining space/which was parked at the side of years in MT. T. J. Price, vent headstrong tribal action and
soon be better housed, and no-one, even in Queen's College itself, could be more anxious to see the school removed to a new and bet ter site than I am. still unpropitious, and I fear it will be necessary for you to bold; out in these inadequate premises for some years longer.
towards the left side of the road
to allow them to pasa.
In witness opinion if the Colonel had not jumped in front of the car, causing the driver to slow
accident.
hurried to the scene.
on his
to compel observance of the Gov- ernment policy of scrupulous non- interference-Reuter.
the headmastership of the Cathedral School, Shanghai
minutes time, and Mr. Nicoll, Griffin has been doing good work in percentage of passes in the Junior
An ambulance arrived from the we are to retain hla services until Central Fire Station in
the Summer. ten.
Mr. Lillel-uga joln Distinctions were also obtained in el us at Chinese New Year, Miss Mathematics and Scripture, The A.S.P., arrived from Police Station just afterwards. placing Rev. H. A. Wittenbach. Mr. Rochore Geography in several forins, re- The men were rushed to the and Mrs, II. C. J. Ascho arrived General Hospital. Mr. MacLean, in September, Mr. Anche is M. Sc.,
is the highest in the history of the College.
But fate is down, there would have been alwho had a fractured skull and B. C. E., of Melbourne and holds lur as over, "and the six have been Sports.-Tennis has been as popu- Mr. I. C. Lee, who was în Court,leg, never recovered consciousness the Diploma of Education. Mrs. well up to the high standard' which in intimated that the defence would and died a few hours later. Mr. Anche in teaching drawing. Roy. E. expected of St. Stephen's. In spite deny certain parts of the Sergeant is was very badly cut about and W. L. Martin, who was appointed of the handicap of having a ground "If, however, the school is un- Major's evidence. They would mind. is a complete blank as to furloughs on 28th November, when has been played regularly. Basket- Warden in September, sailed an only once a week far away, football fortunate in its buildings, it is contradlet the statement that Col. what happened, but he is making Mr. F. A. Britton was appointed ball has been revived and is popular. very fortunate in its staff, in its Ponsonby stepped in front of the good recovery. Mr. Birtley, who Acting Worden. Rev. and Mrs. G. Hockey also has been played this Head Master und In Its esprit de car..
was in the back seat, escaped with K. Carpenter arrived on 9th Decem-yen
year on the small ground at 'Pokfu- corps, Queen's College has long His Worship adjourned the case shock and cuts from broken glass. bor Mr. Carpenter is M.A., M.Sc. lam and the Students have taken commanded reputation for till next week for Col. Ponsonby to
It was about 11.5 and bright A.I.C. of Dublin University, and parties were held regularly in the St up very keenly. Swimming scholarship, and in this respect the be called,
moonlight when the accident oe- Mrs. Carpenter is a trained Kinder- Influence' and prestige of Its Hend
curred and a rear red lamp was Sympathy is expressed
garten teacher.
"Summer and boarders bathed almost Master are of very great value. Much has also been done for the school by its former pupils esperi-i ally those who belong to the Obl Boys' Association. More partiru- larly has Mr. Woo Huy-tong been a generous benefactor, not only of this school, but of many schools
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE
TELEGRAPHI" FILES.
The following items are from
in the Colony, for he has endowed the Hongkong Triegraph for the scholarships to a tolat value of week ended Feb, 1st., 1908. $8,000 a year. I congratulate hir on his public spirit, and Queen's College on its diumuua,
"Queen's College now has a for midable rival in King's College, which is far finer building and much better situated and equip ped. Nevertheless, Queen's Cullere still takes pride at place as the premier school of the Colony and hope that its future may be na distinguished as its past.”
Headmaster's Report. Headmaster (Mr. Crook), in presenting his report,
3
A. Jl.
*
The rate of the dollar on demand was 18. 10.15/16,
*
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burning on the steam roller. The sides with Rev. W. II. Hewitt upon
oni all daily at Pokfulam.
car was smashed beyond hope of his wife's continued poor health ings have been arranged throughout Christian Union.-Roligious meat- repair, the engine being forced off which has prevented. Mr. Hewitt's. the
been- its mountings back into the body of return.
your. Collections have made and sent to the Chineso Mission the car. Mr. Maclean was, sitting,
Chinese Studies-Chineso Studies to Lopers, the Pakhoi Hospital, and on the side of the car which struck have been under Mr. A. Ling, B.A., local institutions. the steam roller and suffered the Tam, B.A., with Messrs. Li Hel-nga Chinese headmaster, and Mr. C. H. greatest impact,
An Inquest will be held in due course.
classes have been formed for Over- Kwan Slu-kiu. Two additional sens Students who have joined the College to learn. Chinese,
Ifeadmastership of Yeung Sze-keung, Free Night School-Under the
and there was a constant supply of the Night School hat a good year,
voluntary teachers from amongst our Students.
Silver
Chinese casaya by Form VI. were kindly examined by Mr. Li King- STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
Anniversary-The 26th hong B.A., who wrote "Their Anniversary of the Collego ws material indicates that the Students colobrated by an Old Boys' Dinner The B.V. Remo sailed from have paid better attention to their on 3rd April, at which there was an Dividends declared included 8 per Singapore on the 29th Jan.,. and Chinese Studies' than 311 cent, by the Hongkong and Whamn-is due here on the 4th February.
previous attendance of more than seventy, years." pou Dock Co., $1.25 by the Steam- bat Co, and 8 per cent. by the nehi on the 28th January, and is passed, in the Senior Local 12 enter- of the main building at Stanley The s.s. Piave sailed from Kartion Examination, 13 entered and 6 Clementi, laid the foundation stone Examinations- the Matricula- 1928, H. E. the Governor, Bir Cecil New Buildings-On 27th April,
expected here
18th ed and 4 passed; in the Junior Local Peninsula. We have many applica February.
China Provident Co.
Mr. A. G. Wood was appointed Chairman of the Hongkong branch of the China Association.
#
The tug Darld Gillies was
said: Your Excellency, Mr. Wood, launched at Kowloon Dock, the Indies ad gentlemen-At the begin-naming ceremony being perfornied
ning of 1928 we had 618 pupils on by Mrs. Henry Keswick.
drop-
the roll as against 595 at the he- ginning of 1927. From pupils ping out and others being taken on ind their places we attained a total num- ber of 667 scholars for the year.
Divisions of Class 8 and divisions -
of Class 3 are the only classes into
on the
Sung-kui, son of our Chinese head- 16 entered and 11 passed Ling master, is to be
congratuated on obtaining a Distinction in English (Continued on Next Column)
The m.v. Vininale sailed from
tions for rooms in the new School, Massawa on the 28th January, and
and wo look forward with confidence Is expected here
the 28th
day rejoining 011
to seeing you who are presort to- February,
with us when Normally open our buildings on
Stanley Peninsula,
CHERDAY
SALAD
YANNA
*
Leutenant J. T. Hayton resigned his commission in The Volunteer Corps.
Mr. E. A. M. Williams was ap
which we admit new boys in any pointed Secretary of the General
namber, The other classes are
generally filled by promotions from Chamber of Commerce.
the classes immediately below.
In the divisions of Class 8 we re- ceived 83 new boya, and in the divi. sion of Class 3 we admitted 108 new boys from the Government District schools, who had passed the Class IV departmental Examination,
The number of school days was 227 exactly the same as last year-one more than the usual, due to the un fortunate ealamity that the Birthday of Confucious and the 10th of the 10th month (western reckoning) both fell or the same day, and thint half holiday!
D
Mr. G. E. Morrell was admitted
a partner in the legal firm of Messrs. Goldering and Barlow.
NEW TO THE PORT.
ITALIAN SHIP'S FIRST VISIT.
A vessel new to the port appeared The average daily attendance was in this morning's Harbour Office reports, being a ship under the School Italian flag and owned by the Lloyd
88,1%, just about the same as last year which чуда 88%.
teachers, I think, will agree with me
Treslino, for whom Mcaars. Dod-
that this is a good average. It is well are the local agents,
cortainly an improvement on our own average of a few years ago,
It
This vessel, the s.s. Timavo, is shows that the health of the school steel screw ship of 7,434 gross is not bad. No doubt the greatly im- tonnage, and 4,002 nett tonnage, proved general health of the Colony built in 1920 by Cantiere San Rocco ab closely affects us that it is largely 8. A. of Trieste for the Navigazione responsible for this good attendance, Libera Triestina, S.A.
No serious outbreak of any epidemic took place or affected us.
Sport Dangers.
Registered at Venice she has a length of 464.2 feet, beam 67.4 feet and depth 22 feet, engined by Stabilimento Tecnico Trastino to 681 N.H.P.
Our sparts were carried on much as usual. Through the kindness of the She entered this morning under Chinese Bathing Chub we were en- command of Captain Z, Giovanni abled to hold our amual swimming with a crew of 48 Italians and car. gala at their bathing enclosuro atried a cargo of 1,200 tons for locat North Point when we had a very auc discharge, and 4,200 tons for ports
(Continued on Pago 9.)
beyond.
SERVIC
O'TKIR, BY MA HÄNVICK, BAGS
OK 2. FALS
“Aw, this comes easy for me. Y'sco my father's a druggist,”
we
The report was then translated into Chinese by Mr. Ling.
Future Hopes.
Commenting on the report, the | Bishop said they had had a year of very real progress, especially with regard to the new building at Stanley Peninsula. He was glad that, all being well, the next speech day would be held in the new build- ing. The speaker recalled that when His Excellency the Governor was laying the foundation stone of the new building, he had said he hoped that the 'new St. Stephen's College would mark a new era of education both in Hongkong and in China. The Bishop remarked that that was the proud hope of all of them.
He continued that he was also glad they were moving to Stanley at a time when they had a much stronger staff. They had Mr. Brit- ton, with 15 years' experience at the College, Mr. Ling, Mr. Tang and Mr. Tom. In addition the staff had been considerably reinforced with men of experience.
His Lordship then introduced Mr. Kwok, saying that for many years he had closely Identified Himself with educational work in the Colony. Mr. Kwok delivered a short speech In Chinese, in the course of which he referred to the greater facilitica which would be available in the new building, after which he distributed the prizes.
In proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Kwak, the Hon. Dr. Tso pointed out that Mr. Kwok was an old frinud of the Collego and he could be re- lied upon strongly to support any educational work,
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