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facie wrong, and needs altering. Not so less enterprisers" to similar agitation in the uobiassed acciologist, who knows that the world has more "bubs" than Green. wich or Boston. Our contemporary, for instance, asserts that the education of the

Japan. Even foreign observere there de. precate & Japan of New Women; and it may somʊ day bè seen that it would have been better to let well alone in China. His

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THE REPORT OF THE PARIS COMMISSION.

THE WAR

[DENTEL'S LERVICE.]

THE THIRD BALTIC SQUADRON.

LONDON, 28th February. The Third Baltic squadron has passed Dorur.

(N.C. Daily Nowa Berwice.),

JAPAN'S WAR FUND.

Torro, 25rd February, The fourth series of oxchequer bonds, for one

The issue price is 90 yen, tho interest & per

tions inseparable from the system, has poet who said " Men are God's trees, women A world all trees and no

LONDON, 27th Feb, Lozanotably failed "because it has almost God's flowers." entirely overlooked one half the popula-flowers would be a dreary place.

The majority of the Commissioners tion." But those imperfections cannot be writer whose observations we have just taken apart and ignored. If the education partly travowed bays "Protestant missions,

The CHAIRMAN said that the report was appointed to inquire into the firing of China has failed, seeing that its energies when the idea' was unpopular, when there have been spent on men, it cannot be were many discouragements and few en- very much wore favourable than the one Chairman told them that if they did not because it neglected women. That concen-couragements, have always, both by example presented at the previous meeting when the by Admiral Rojdesvensky's squadron hundred million yen, will be chords, expa tration of attention to one section of the and precept, attempted to advance femals wake up they would have to closs. Thereupon the Hull fishing fleet, held that cent, and the period for repayment, seven years. community only should have tended to education, and this will more and more had been an increase in members more there were no torpedo-boats in the success. That it has not, from the Western redound to their credit." That, from the than was Beusl Dock Ofloors were point of view, must be because of those points of view we liave tried to realise, is allowed to become associate members of the vicinity of the fishing fleet at the time

lenst the Chinainan's Institutias. Twenty-one had jained; he was of the occurrence. imperfections, the difficulty and time in not so certain.

meet- the subscription was carried at a volved in acquiring the rudiments, and gratitude for a wife who knows too much and sorry to see so fow. Thoquestion of increasing

of much afterward argues about it will not be redundant.

ing saberquest to the last annual meeting the uselessness

montal gym taught. The idea that nasties have any great value per se is out of date. Speaking of the two educational calts, the writer seems to agree that that is

Two British battleships and three crofters left yesterday for Mire Bay.

The steamers Wyofield and Burma 'have been condemned by the Japanese Prize Court,

The Singor Sewing Machine Co. is making special machine, flashed in gold, for the Empress Dowager,

The German steamer Maris Jebsen has been sold to tho Chuyetan Kishen Kaisha and renamed Gaye Maru.

The Chief Justico at Shangbai has ordered the Dallas Horse Repository. Ld, to pay Friedrick Colwital 82,000-damages-for-wrong- ful dismissal.

The name of the new building facing the new Post Office and Hongkong Hotel has boon changed from York House" to "Hotel

Mansions*

The charges against American Consul Good- Dow of Shanghai will be found embodied in an

DOW

The Commission unanimously re- Admiral tried

daniage to the

and now thera was a genuine balance in hand cognise that the of $1,889. Billiards had been mors popular to

that usual during the past year, and a handicap

prevent

had been just commonced. There had only trawlers, and affirm that there was

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an enough uncertainty about the occur

rence to induce the Admiral to con- tinue his course.

boon ORB paper on Engineering given one by Mr. J. W. Graham; but anonymous member had offered for the best paper on the "Duties of junior Engineers at Sea." The aural ball had been very successful.

The report and accounts wore passed. Mr. Nowman Mumford was elected Chairman for the sawaing year.

Mesare. H. T. Richardson and J. Lambert were aleated Vice-Presidents.

Mr. W. Robertson was elected Hon. Trea

BT-OF.

Mr. C. Cooke was elected Hon. Secretary. The question of combining the post of Secre-

being fually agreed to leave the matter to the tory with that of Manager was discussed, it

incoming committee.

JULES MUMM & CO. REIMS.best for the masses which instructs the moral faculty. "Not only so, but the average (FOURNISSEURS BREVETES DE LA education should tend to make us agreeable and pleasing in our intercourse with our fellows, and furnish us with a standard of right and wrong which may be conformed to under all conditions. Thorefure that is the best education which is secured by familiarity with the poets, the historians, and the moralists," Without wasting time over the metaphysical postulate that othical maxims lose their value the moment they RECOMMENDED BY CONNOISSEURS. dome to be dabated, we may take the writer on his own ground, and deat with the necessity of being "agreeable and pleasing in our intercourse with our fellows." It cannot be alleged that the Oriental woman has been denied training and education in that respect. Thanks to Professor CHAMBERLAIN, the world realises fairly well the education given to Japanese women on those lines; and it appears that in the case of the public roup. Fifty lots will be offered this Chinese woman similar virtues are carefully afternoon apposite the City Hall, and fifty inculcated. Mr. Drse BALL tells us that to-morrow at Kennedy's Repository. Causeway A. S. WATSON & CO."all her bringing up is with the aim of Bay.

teaching her perfect submission to the Were the paramount authority of man." missionaries indiscreet enough to quote Sr. Paul on' woman, the Chinese would doubtless hail bis wisdom, which was quite in keeping with Chinese opinion on the (as subject. The vast majority of the world's Hongkong Fire Insurance Company the credit / When the authorities had been approached they

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On 1st February, at Shanghai, Jaco Excxing sisterhood" seldom includes the ideal Eorr, aged 61 years.

On 28th February, at No. 9, Lower Castlo Road, mother. Indeed, it seems to be motherhood FELIPRE JORK MACHADO, late of the Harbour that is most shrieked against. Eeverting Office. Hongkong. Aged 72 Dooply regretted. The funeral will pass the Monument at 6 p.m. to the writer's point, then, that the ethical eduention is the best; and to his reference to-day.

to our fellows," we may ask whether the duty of the Chinawoman is to be agreeable and pleasing" to the foreigner's reforming HONGKONG OFFION: 14, DEVEUX ROAD CL-eye, or to her Chinese follows. Remember LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EC-ing also that ethics depend strictly on locality

HONGKONG, MARCH 18, 1905.

The Daily Press.

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On the subject of female education in China, the North China Daily News has long article, in which the following passage occurs:--That female education [for Chi pese) is valued where it has been tried, and

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for their code, the meddler with female education in China does not seem to have a leg left on which to stand. Having, to meet him, neglected the point that the only universal morality is that which is intuitive, we are obliged to point out that what is moral in the West may be

article appearing on page 5 of this issue, also Dr. Morrison's famous criticism of the Fort Arthur surrender.

This afternoon Messrs. Hughes and Hough commence their annual sale of rase ponies by

Some ten days ago Albert Vardan deserted from the 1. Whitford. He was arrested on Monday last, charged before Mr. H. H. J. Gomperts at the Police Court yesterday,

and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.

one

montha

In our reprint of the balance shoot of the bilance in the working account for 1904 was given as $300,372.63. The amount should have been $560,372.63 The error defective agere "B" which the printed copy looked like "0.”

was due to

PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES' INDIAN TOUR.

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THE ARTILLERY ON THE SHA.

Toavo. 22nd February.

It is officially announced that Russian beavy artillery has newly appeared north of Shashin tan and west of Tashan.

There was a collision between scouts on

Monday night at Changliangpao, fire milos west of Shahopao,

The Russian intermittent shelling continues.

REINFORCEMENT FOR JAPAN'S

FLEET.

Toro, 2nd February. The naming has been gazetted of twenty-firo destroyers, two of which were built at Kure, forme at Saneho, seven at Yokosuka, two at Maizaru, and the others at private yarde at Osaka, Kobe, and Nagasaki,

THE CHINESE SPLEEN.

As the result of a playful "spar," a coolie named Chan Ching was arraigned before Mr. F. A. Hazoland at the Felice Court yesterday on a charge of manslaughter. On the 17th Feb, in a matshed near Kennedytowa, the defendant and another coollo Cheung Ching, were having a boxing contest after their day's

work. Defendant hit Cheung Ching over the ispleen, with the result that he expired shortly con-afterwards. The evidence of several witnesses

LONDON, 27th Feb. T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to arrive in India in November next. They template staying in the Empire until March. No presents are to be offered

The Committee elected was Da follows: Messrs. E.O. Murphy, W. & Crake, J. MeLarso, J. D. Morrison, J. W. Anderson, this time, C. Templemann, J. II. MeLaron, W. J. Hill, W. H. Hutchinson, J. McDougall, V. Watson J. Eadie, J. F. Miller, C. F. Fosken, D. Macdonsid, W. Remegy, E. C. Wilke and J. D. Logan,

Mr. McLAREN, while the members were waiting for the result of the ballot, upoke

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

LONDON, 27th Feb. The Tsar has ordered M. Yermoloff,

en varicue matters encerning members of the the Minister for Agriculture and the Institution. He said that there ought to be a Crown Domains, to summon a repre- policeman stationed at the West Point Wharf. The attention of the Committee had been drawn to this matter but nothing had been dozo.

Mr J. F. Miller said proplo going of to ships at night had to go all the way from Ped-. dore Wharf to the wast end of the harbour

said that a policeman would be too expensive, but he did not think pelicemen were really so

vory expensive as all that.

Mr. McLAREN referred to other matters, such as provistons with respect to visitors, and the wast of copies of the Articles of Association, eta-Those matters were left to the committee.

sentative assembly for the purpose of drawing up a constitution.

Meanwhile, strikes and disorder In the Caucasus, the increase. situation is particularly serious.

ROYAL BETROTHAL.

LONDON, 27th Feb. Princess Margaret, daughter of the

was heard, and proved that acoused tonched

deceased on the left side. When hit, deceased

sat down and said to the defendant. Yon struck ma" He died shortly afterwards. Tho defendant and deceased were always skylarking, and were on the best of teruna.

Dr. Hunter gare eridenes as to examining the body of deceased. He found the cause of death to be ruptare of the spleen, which was six times ita normal size and weighed thres pounds. A very slight blow would sufficient to rupture it,

The defendant, in reply to the question as to whether he had anything to say, said—“I killed him by accident."

In view of this evidence the Police withdrew the charge, and the man was released.

CITY HALL.

THE OPENING OF THE DALLAS' SEASON. Mr. Heary Dallas opens his season at the City Hall with that cherming musical comedy "A Country Girl" on Thursday, March 2nd., Most of our readers are doubtless conversant with the plot of "à Country Girl" and the. Dalias Company have already earned many laurels for their delineation during their Indian tour. The apary Mr. Dallas has

Mr. J. LAMBERT offered a cup for a billiard Duke of Connaught, aged twenty- brought out this year is by far the strongest

Another of the very enjoyable organ recitals at the Calbedral wen given by Mr. A. G. Ward last evening. He had this time the advantage tournament (Applauso). ance. fr. Schmidt sang Gounod's "King of Love" and the arin "Lord God of Abraham" of Mr. W. E. Schmidt's most able vocal assint-

from "Elijah.”

On Monday the large four mastad steamer "Macquarie," after having been in the hands of Messrs, Geo Fenwick and & Co. Lá, for soms time, undergoing general repairs to her machinery, ran a trial trip to sea, and round the Island. The result was quite satisfactoryy the peed on the Admiralty meatured distance near Stanley being 141 kasts per hour.

On Thursday last a report of Chinese cruelty appeared in those columns, wherein six Chines were committed to geol for six months with hard labour by Mr. F. A. Hazoland for brutally assaulting a boy. At the Police Court yester day afternoon Mr. P. W. Goldring (of Mr. G. K. H. Bruton's office), made an application for appeal against this judgment. His Wor ship granted the application, and ordered that the first defendant be allowed out of gael on payment of a band of $5,000, and the other Eve defendante on payment of a bond of 53,000 such.

BOWLS.

The following are the scores fu the bowls competition, Hongkong Club verme The Navy, played at the Hongkong Club on Monday night--

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HONGKONG, CLUB, J. W. C. Bonnar H. Hancock J. Hooper T. C. Gray... C. H. Galo C. P. Chator P. W. Goldring B. B. C. Ross

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THE NAVY.

Dr. Horley... Lient. Gibson Mr. Baird Lieut. Warburg Commander Colomb Mr. Swan.

Lieut. Holden Lieut Snowdon

1,492

1,251

1.209

),178

1,145

1,300

1,067

1,012

Total 9,454

1,318

1,201

1,170

1126

1.114

1.114

1,099

1,092

Total 9,234

A FIRM'S JUBILEE.

The well-known ärm of Messrs. Blackhead &

three, is betrothed to the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, who is a few months younger, OBITUARY.

artistically and numerically of any of his A special feature in the previous ventures. extensive repertoire to be played during the present season will be dancing, and to this end Mr. Dallas has secured the sorrices of the "Gaisty Qunclette," from the Gainty Theatre, London, viz., Miss Dolly Grattan. Miss Tiny. Grattan (gisters of Mr. Harry Grattan, the well known Gaiety Comedian), Miss Amy Badag and Mies Jessie Williams, Mons. André Kaye Cato of the Carl Rosa Opera Co.), Mr. Frank Cochrane and Mr. Edgar Ronalds are the third Earl of Morley, chairman of baritones, whilst Mr. Edgar MacIntyre is the principal tener, In Malle. Bel Lascombe, Committees and Deputy Speaker of Miss Queenie Strachan, Miss Rachel Kemp and

Albert

LONDON, 27th Feb., Edmund Parker, P.C.,

the House of Lords, is dead, aged Miss Violet Frampton, the Company is possessed of a quartetta of stugers never before equalled sixty-two.

in the East. The oborus is powerful and woll trained and the new and elaborate scenery has Sir Martin le Marchant Hadsley

Gosselin, K.C.M.G., British Minister

at Lisbon, Portugal, is dead, aged fifty-eight.

all book specially painted in England by Mr. H. L. Lee of the Theatre Royal, Brighton.

THE COOLIE QUESTION.

EMIGRANTS UNOBTAINABLE, There are now six South African immigrant

Sir (Thomas) Wemyss Reid, Kt., steamers at Hongkong, two more up nerth and

editor of the Speaker, and formerly of the Leeds Mercury, is dead, aged sixty-three.

[REUTER'S BELTICE.]

THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

LONDON, 26th February.

The whole of the Caucasus is in a state of

still two others to arrive from South Atrion shortly. Coolies are unobtainable, and, farther-

of various descriptions who had been given this one chance of escaping the penalty of their

is understood, is evident from the success of immoral in the East, and vice versa. The

In the quiet, picturesque lane, whose fame the girls' schools in the British Colony of standard of right and wrong among the depends upere the presence in it of the Daily Hongkong. These are numerous, well Incite of the Arctic Circle permits the Press printing and pablishing out, the Public Co, shipclaudlera, sailmakers, &o., celebrato to-

more, the prospects for the immediats future are anything but bright. The Viceroy at Therein the hunter to kill his feeble and useless father Works Department yesterday started a thriving day the fiftieth anniversary of the firm's estab attended, and successful,

Canton recently raised an objection to recruiting students are taught to read, write, and com- on the approach of winter and ita scarcity stone yard, in which twenty women and a few Hahment in Hongkong. The firm was founded at youths are busy hammering boulders into road Whampoa on board a hulk, by Mr. B.

being carried out at any place but the Treaty pose, as well as to sew and embroider. The of food. The old Invit, past hunting, goes metal. It is a queer place for the purpose, and Schwarzkopf, but owing to the war, they, like

Ports, so Hongkong cesand to be the South China recruiting base in favour of Wuchow. girls who have passed through these schools to his isolated tomb as acquiessingly as the numerous people passing through daily are all the other foreign merchante, had to remove to

After considerable time some recruits were will be quite different from their sisters on ever Indian widow weat to the funeral pyre having to get armoured clothing and motor Hangkang where the founder of the firm as busi-

Bucured at the latter port, but very few indeed, ness developed took into partnership with him the mainland." That is true eo far as it of her deceased "lord. In China, whatever goggles, because of flying splinters; but the

the men only volunteering by twos and threes gots, but the success of a school does not threatens the bale and hearty son, morality P.W.D. can do no wrong. Should readers Mr. J. H. Smith and Mr. F. Rapy. The business. necessarily imply the life success of a pupil, demands that the fecule old sire be cherish-notice any errors &c in the paper, they will flourished from its foundation and Meters anarchy. There appears to be a general strike When a batch of these arrived at Hongkong it know it is because the Prete staff cannot help isckhead & Co. are new well-known through. | movement of semi-revolutionary character was elicited that they were rebels and criminals nor the social success of a nation; and thosa ed. This writer will not consider happiness neglecting their pidjin to listen to this now

out the East not only a sterekeepers and ship directed by a secret committes at St. Peters are the points which the writer, who ap-as an object of education. That, he says, anvil chorus" no gratuitously provided,

chandlers, but os soap manufacturers, and soil.. pears to have a warm side for mission work,nead not be considered here." The ethical

Wong Kam is a fuki in the employ of a shoo-makers and as one of the largest firms of coal urg. Added thereto are ferocious racial feuda, and to believe that "the future welfare of motive he is now robbed of, since he cites maker doing business at Queen's Road West merchanta in the Colony. Mesara. Blackhead producing horrible atrocities. China" depends on the advancement of social intercourse as a basis of morality Wong took a holiday on 8sturday Isst to go to and Co. originally occupied part of the site on female education on a wider scale than and the social community of China consiste, the races. When pay day came, he found he which the Hongkong Hotel now stands, but they was short a day's pay, and remonstrated with now have excellent accommodation on the ground has yet been done," ought to establish., not of missionaries and educational re- The Western missionary or educational formere, but of Chinamen. For the rest, his master. The master refused to pay Wong hour of St. George's Building. The present reformer, coming to China with a lot of the Chinese mother-in-law is understood to for the day he was absent, whereupon a brawl partners in the firm are Mosers, Fr. Sohwarzkopf followed in which the foki stabbed his master (son of the founder) and Mr. F. Hohnke. Since preconceived notions as to what is the ideal give the finishing education that makes a four times with a knife. He was charged before the acquisition of Tsingtan by Germany, Messra dourishing statua of women, and being apparently good wife and mother of the Chinawoman, Mr. H. H J. Gomperts at the Police Court Blackhead & Co. have had s quite unwilling, if not unable, to see that and a happy man of the Chinaman. The yesterday with assault. Asked if he had say branch in that part. the Eastern man has some right to a notion same sentimentalism, over the supposed un. thing to say, the defendant said the stabbing or two of his own, can cheerfully go about happinces of the Chinese woman, that was an accident. His Worship was not of this opinion, as it was extremely unlikely that a man upsetting the established order of things. prompted this advocacy of education for would be stabbed four times in succession acci- To him, everything in the East that is not females, has led what His Excellency the dentally. He committed the defendant to three just as he knew it in the West, is prima Governor calls "rash reformers and reck months imprisonment with hard laborir,

Some little while ago the Japan Chronicle commenced to publish on Sunday instead of Monday mornings, this permitting the staff to have Sunday as a free day. The Nagasaki Fress is now following suit.

LATER.

crimes. The officials in Chius seem to have coFE. pletely blocked the traffic. At Canton, intend. ng emigrants have been ordered to disembark from river steamers bound to Hongkong.

In the north the Chinese affoisis make various excuses to account for emigrants being not only sy that mon are being employed in great unibers rebuilding the

The Tsar has directed steps to be taken with view to summoning a representative assembly to draft a constitution giving in a large measure a representative Government. A meeting of Ministers is discussing what stops can be taken

works at Port Arthur, and that the farmers to give the Tsar's decision a practical form.

The workmen in the railway shops at Chita are holding on to them till after the crops are on the Biberian railway have struck work: they reaped. demand a cessation of the war.

A ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA,

Capitalists in South Africa are undergoing heavy lossen, some of the steamers now lying idla costing them as much as £70 a day. By the various charters they are unable to get the vessels off their hands, except gradually. It is officially announced that the Prince and Latest news from the north is to the effect Princess of Wales will visit Indis in November. I that "seven recruits are waiting, no more.”

LONDON, 26th February.