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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. The proximity of so many typhoons is not without its advantages. They keep the nine phere spot, and anything that gives relief from the summer boat is not to be despised. At the

same time, I must admit that we would not object if the same result could be achieved by other means, Old residents--and we have 4 few among the European community-declare that they have never known such a cool summer. Of course we are not out of the wood yet.

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To treat a grave subject in a light-hearted manner is perhaps not very becoming in the ordinary person, but it is different when the Sanitary Board do so. Then it is right. Then one may be amusing without being considered guilty of unseemly behaviour. Bach, at any rate, is the impression which might naturally be formed on reading the report of the last alcoting. On that socasion members worried over the size of monuments and over the qualifications for interment in the twenty-year section of the Colonial Cemetery, and did not Beem to realise how sntertaining they were.

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In the first place, it has to be remembered that the chief qualification for burial in the twenty. year section is to be dead, and that being so, it occurs to me that it is preferable to be a live] griffin rather than a candidate for the doubtful honour of being buried with the Colonial residents. I am willing to accept the Hon. Mr. Hewett's statement as to the honour of being buried among those old residents, but it seems to me that the distinction is not worth seeking. As to putting large tombstones over the burying place, it reminds me that I have heard it alleged that monuments word not always designed to chronicle the virtues of the deceased, but were erected in order to make sure that the defunct would not rise again and worry his friends,

Can storiedt udru or nutiasted bust Back to its mansion call the footing breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust?

Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death?

The discussion reminds me of an upitapis at

The symbols of the street names in Shauki wan must sound se plenannt to the inhabitants as the realities would be. Here is a list, taken from the Gazette, of some of the principal thoroughfare :-

Tai Kat Street...(Great Luck Street). Tai Cheong Street...(Great Prosperity Stroot), Tai Foo Street (Great Wealth Street). Tai Hong Street (Great Comfort Street). Tai Ning Street......(Uzoat Tranquillity Street). Tai On Street (Great Happiness Street).

One would like to know what Government

The Colonial Secretary is ton busy, I know.. The Colonial Treasurer is in the throes of the next estimates. Surely it must be But Hé I don't think I should mention his name. might be modest over his work.

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THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 26TH, 1909.

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official has been giving play to a light fance lessons in the practical application of theoretical so thoroughly understand of co-ordinating It may have been part of the plot that ho

THERE IS SKILL AND

OF CONSTRUCTION

IN ALL

PIANOS

women and children emigrante from all parts have imagined that before launching his scheme mention if it did not throw a certain amount of of Chins on their way through Hongkong. Lord William Coeil, who was at Shanghai only light on the youth's character and the obsession which has done a great deal to check the worst a few months ago, would have upared a few of his mind.

1 called at his lodging some time in April, and abases of the emigration trade. Thus, whilst days to make personal inquiries at Hongkong

The fandindy THOROUGHNESS Chinese students at Hongkong would have in as to the merits of a University scheme which was told that he had left. the social life of their own community, as well has enlisted the support not only of so distin-thought he was living at Highgate, but did act as in the government and administration of the guished a Governor as Sir Frederick Lugard, know his address. it did not require mach colony, opportunities aaoh as no Chinese city but of so influential a Chinese community se intelligence on my part to know that Highgate affords of wooing what the grafting of Western that of Hongkong. In the eyes of a Little meant India House, Highgste, where the methods of organization and Woetara concep Englander the fact that Hongkong is a Hritis followers of Krishnavarma gathered. In ad tiane of sivic usefulness on to a Chinese stock colony might seem to be in itself a disqualifies-dition to the opinions he had expressed to me I én achieve, they would find in the European tion, but that cannot be the case with Lord had seen him at a meeting sitting among the

William Ceoil. in the great naval and mercantile

It is apparently one of the many India House routingent, and that confirmed my dockyards of the colors, and it the workshops instances of the lamentable innbility of English- impression that he had boon captured by the of the Kowloon Canton Railway valuable object men to realize the necessity which the Germans extremists.

But Dhingra did not stop long at Highgate. the national resources

"definite lines and

■cience.

along with a definite purpose," if we are to meet should live at the other end of London-for I successfully the keen competition of our times am convinced that there was a plot. At any in every department of life. I am afraid I rate, I heard a mouth or so later that he was failed to make my Chinese fellow-traveller living in Ledbury-road, Bayswater.

TRIBUTE TO SIN C, WYLLIE. ' understand why the British Government should consider it absolutely improper to do for Hong- kong in this matter what the German Govern

him the peculiar dis was only yesterday morning that I met him Attempted to explain I should have failed still more utterly had I the foul murder, Sir Curzon Wylie. abilities of the British character for concerted at Victoris Station,, where a party of us were action, of which the well-meant proceedings of gathered to bid farewell to the Mahero of SUPERIOR VALUE the "China Emergency Committee" afford Sirohi, who was returning to India aftor a short such a discouraging illustration to those who visit to this cotiatry. are interested in the maintenance of British influence as a powerful instrument of progress in the Far East.

From the British point of view the scheme is equally commendable, for it is surely of the almost importance that, at a time when un- doubtedly the leaves of new ideas is fermenting all over China, the rising generation from which so much is expected should be brought into close contact with the best aspects of British mount in the Far East, but the supremacy of the English tongue is as yet untouched, and just as the rariety of provincial dialects in China has led to the adoption of pidgin English as the lingua franca, not only of foreigners, but of the Chinese commercial classes outside their own districts, literary

English must serve as the one common medium of Western learning until China has evolved a literature of her own on the lines of Western thought, But, nuless we befix ourselves, this advantage will be lost to us in the same way as so many other advantages have been lost to ns in the field both of diplomacy and of commercial enterprise.

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So much for 'Dhingra's movements and

It

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"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be life. British influence may no longer be paya- ment deems it its duty to do for Kisochau; but associates, Now I come to the chief victim of STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY elever," is advice which His Excellency the Governor evidently likes to see passed on. He, or rather Lady Lngard, has offered a prize for the girl in the Italian Convent School who each year distinguishes herself for unselfishness, integrity and self-reliance, and I must confers to liking a competition of this sort better than the straggle of with for the highest scholastic honours. It will help to make our girls sweet, refined women, instead of developing into blas stockings.

KIANCHAU HIGH SCHOOL,

MADAR LAL DHINGRA,

LIFE STORY OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE FANATIC.

(BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM.)

I know Madar Lal Dhingra. I know both him and his family, and there will be and hearts out in the distant. Panjaub to-day when they hear the dreadful news,

I see the Rov, F. B. Moyer has been taken

The Germans, though the last comers, havə to ask for his impressions of Penang which he set to with their maust systematic thoroughness. sent to the well-known Nonconformist organ. The latest official report of the German sathari- the British Weekly, and which are stated toties at Kinochau contains instrcotive details. concerning the high school which is about to contain not only exaggeratious of existing be created thora for Chinese students. Though conditions but gross misstatements. If the in name only a high school, its scope is even

The Dhingra family is well known and highly reverend gentloman could say such nasty larger than that of the proposed University things about a resportable place like Penang, of Hongkong, for in addition to a medical and respected. at Amritsar, when they live. The a technical branch, there is to be an agricultural father of the assassin is a prosperons physiciau. I shudder to think what he has to say about

branch, including forestry, and a political Ro is more, for he takes a leading part in science branch, cumprising international law, ounicipal affairs, and he is a sort of father co. Hengkong.

fessor to the people in the neighbourhood, who State administrative law, mining and

and

come to him not only for medical help but for maritime law, political economy and finance. The technical brach; to which special im-guidance and advice in the affairs of the world.

One of his sons is a barrister, practising portance is evidently attachiol, is to include the Punjab. I met him at Amritsar only mixing, electrical and railway engineering,

last July, just before I left for England. His together with architecture and shipbuilding In connection with the high school there will be heart will be especially heavy, because, as I of six olasses on the lines shall show, be was the innocent first cause, in all 6 preparatory mohool of a German Realschule without Latin, for human probability, of his brother's crime and of which pupils will be received from Chiness the loss of two valuable lives. Government schools, as well as from other Gorman schools already existing in China.

RODERICK RANDOM.

BRITISH AND GERMAN METHODS.

AN OBJECT.LESSON

the chancel door of the Church in my native [FROM A CORKESPONDEST OF "THE TIMES." village. The chancel door is but a dozen feet from the principal entrance gates to the Church- yard, and the epitaph reads:→→

Here is at the chancel door, Hare: le. I because I'm poor; The farther in the more you pay, Here He Is warm as they,

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As I have crossed the water of the harbour auri looked at the two cruisers flying the flag of Portugal, the thought has crossed my mind that Macno does not seem to gain any great

Tokyo, May 21.

the

"WOULD DO MORE THAN TALK.”

Though I know the Dhingras in India, I did not meet the boy Madar Lal until March last. It was the 15th, & Monday, I remember, and by a strange coincidence it was an At Home of the National Indian Association held at the very Thursday place where the tragedy occurred on night. We were introduced, and as I knew his people we naturally became rather intimate We spoke about home, of course, and then I turned the conversation upon because hadar tell me he was an enginering student, and engineering is a matter. I al. interested in.

But I noticed that ho preferred to turn spoco of the Bengal extremists with only

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Sir Curzon was, as always, very kind and courteous to the Mahorou, and expressed his BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR regret that he conlil not make a longer stay in the country.

THIS CLIMATE.

I know, at sayrate, that nobody could haves done more than Sir Curzon to make the Maheroa's stay plonsant. Hearing that be was not comfortable at the apartments where he was staying, Sir Carzon took the greatest pains to find a suitably furnished house where the chief and his suite could live in the style to which they are accustomed. He was also instrumental

procuring pressutations to the King and the ROBINSON PIANO Prince of Wa

ales

and be arranged an interview with Lord Morley, before whom the Maher wished to lay a proposal relating to his territory.

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In the last letter he wrote to the chief, Sir

own people he would not give too bad an account Curzon, addressing hian as "My dear friend, expressed the hope that when he returned to his of British hospitality; and I know that the Maheroa was delighted at the welcome he received and will go back with an impression of the English rather different from that which he lad gathered from his intercourse with officials

in Indio,

HIR KINDNESS TO INDIANS, Sír Carzon showed a constant kindness to Indians. I could recall many examples of this but two are enough. A couple of months age 1 met an Indian gentleman who was almost destitute, I need not mention his name, but he was a very deserving student, who had spent all his money in securing the diploma of the Sanitary Institute. Having achieved the object with which he had core to Eugland he was at

the end of his reson zen.

of £34. was made to the

the

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bim. I can hear what they said, alecet as well as if I had been present. They told him that he would be a horn, immortal in the memory of his downtrodden countrymen, that a statue would be raised to him, on which a Free India would hang garlands on every anniversary of July 1 -the beginning of the era of emancipa tion 'Donth! What is death-7" they would say; why every year in India famine and plague

kill

millions; you may be one among them soon, and you will die unknown and un- distinguished, But if you are one of the doliverers of India from the foreign yoke you will be famous for ever

POISONED IN MIND AND BODY. This is very attractive language to a young man, expecially to a young man like Dhingra, whose mind is already in a turmoil,

Thou, having poisoned his mind, the conspir atore poisoned his body. When Dhingra com. mitted these murders he was drunk with bhang The effect of that to make a man perfectly chitous of what he does, and outwardly calm and self-possessed although his brain may on firð. Í know that Dhingra hut beon plied with bhang, because Dr. Pollen, who has

I saw Sir Curzon personally he was always readily accessible to Indians and told him of the case which I strongly recommended as suitable for help. The result was that a grant

young mon by Secretary of Stato. As a matter of fast, only 32 had been asker forto pay for a further short stay in Lonton and the passage home-be but Sir Carzon said it was as well to loase extra amount was allowed.

In another case, alo, quite recently, Sir Carzon procured admission for an Indian student to the Asiatic Home for Strangers, He stopped there a month, and since then he bas been assisted-over and over again by Sir Curzon.

I am quite satisfies that there was a deliber- Ouly four days ago, when the man called, his was given half a crown, and was promised far-ate plot, and unless the police take stringent ther help.

advantage from the Vasco da Gama and then from the point of view of moral training important educationalquestion." and substant the conversation into political channels. He little margin; so solely at his anggestion the

Patric being in the East. However, remem- boring that all of us are griffus in the Orient in comparison with the Portuguese, I did not think it proper to comment on the feet. It seemed too much like attempting to teach the grand maternal relative to sack eggs. But apparently our Chinese friends have not such scruples. One sends me a letter which I hart much pleasure in quoting in full:

to

Why does not your Government support the The German Government does not rely for Hongkong University schemes in the same way such purposes on private initiative. On the the German Government is supporting a basis of 25 scholars the capital post of the similar scheme at Kiaochau" was the probing establishment is estimated at £32.000, and the question . put to me by a Chinese fellow-passenger annual expenditure at £10,000. The German in the stemor from Hongkong to Japan. He Government undertakes the whole cost, except was a Cantonowo gentleman who had received for a capital contribution of £2,000 from the the rudiments of Western education in Hong. Chinese Government, which has agreed-and

is one of the chief features of aud, apparently done well for

this is keng, and having a vary assioun to give to accept the certificates issued by the Kingchau his sons stil: larger educational advantages. High School as a qualification for admission to the Chinos Government service. The Knowing his own country thoroughly he was also quite aware that if Chinese boys are Chinese Government," it is stated, "repone to derive the full benefits of Western educa fullent confidence in German enterprise:

in this as well as of book-learning, they must be concessions of which the expe

expediency luss removed from the atmosphere of "Chinese be provod, have been male to the Chinese cities. He was therefore deeply interested Government in order to secure its confidence by in the scheme which is now sfoot for reserving to it a certain control over the course of cresting a University in Hongkong where instruction in Chinese through a resident Chiness Chinese youths would not only receive the inspector and a special commissioner from scientide training of which the Chinese stand so Peking who will attend at the final examinations. greatly in need if they are to develop the Otherwise "the management of the whole material resources of their country, but would school is exclusively German, and the German also be subjected to the moral discipline of teaching staff will be appointed from Germany," "if only the Sikhs were equally excited: thon collegiate life ander proper supervision and for the main object of the institution is to teach the results might be disastrous to the English. the rising generation of Chinese to appreciato If I joined in this movement, I would do more German intellectual life and to Liking for

get a the German character liking, the report adds with commendable frankness, "of which there is a lack in China." Another very in- department in which German linguists

control.

THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.

que ed approval. But that was so the did not go far enough. The Bengalist," 1 remember him saying, "are very fond of neing strong language gassing" he called it

but they do not lack it up with deeds. The Government do not care what hard words are need against them--the only thing that would move them is physical foros.

thau

talk."

"Ah!" he said,

ONNÉSIS OF THE, TRAGEDY.

over thirty years in Bombay, is perfectly unitar with its effects, and mediately noted the familiar symptoms when he saw Dhingra so familiar ayu

When he was denak the plotters crammed of weapons into his pockets and

the armoury sunt him on his mission.

measures this murder will be followed by further outrages. hitherto the police have not Dhingra's brother, the barrister in the paid much attention to Indian extremists in London. - Even when, some time ago, two Paujub, did not know Sir Curzon personals, but he know of him. He knew that he was the Indians spent the greater part of a day in or amining Mr. Morley's house at Wimbledon, friend of young Indians in England. And this I did not put much value on what he said. was the genesis of the tragedy. Dhing Scotland Yard were only inomentarily disturbed.

There wa

was far more activity after Bhallacharya's I know he belonged to the military caste, and brother heard he was neglecting his studies, and had rather a contempt for the Bengalis. But was becoming mixed up with political plutters Sir William Low Warner. For some time his talk was quite common talk for an Indian in London. So he wrote to Sir Curzon asking after that most of the Indians in London were and that gave rise to much annoyance, because conversation with one another, but it is only

the bulk of thein are starlents of unquestioned loyalty. looked forward to the time when Indians would drive the British from India, but it novER occurred to me that he was an anarchist and would develop into an asmassiri.

BACIAL HATRED,

Suposo pirates come Macau night tim; low required for the erection of suitable buildings raad lines the whole scheme is worked out on College, and at that time lodged nearly in Gower-

water, and Droduct Rio Lima stuck in the mut, how fashion cau do? my no sahe.

Soms Loke my all Drednots must go Hong.

kong show Chinese big Manderia of Delamertation pidgin, that Portugcoss have, got big ship, can fight.

My la also, supose that pidgin of delamentation no good for Chinese, Canton self-government men will come Honchow with

tire, supese no cu fluish job before 8 o'clock morning tim, they cut telograph line to Hongkong, Tortugouse Drednot no can come

Blaenu.

You excase my go en rite Buglish proper, ray can rito portugoosh well because my have Luy portogoose Maudariu past, pay Governor too much money and have ge school before,

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RCHEME OF THE "EMERGENCY COMMITTEE."

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disaster.

ought not to be a difficult matter for Scotland Yard to discover who are the suspects among the Indians in London-they are quita well known, at any rate, to their

compatriots. But the English police, of course, are leadi Their first step, in order to deal with sedition in the country, should be to obtain assistuners from the detective force in India-fametoa Daily Chronicle."

give usistance if young Dhings, was in any captol by their ignorance of Indian languages.

It is this last sentence of the German report his officials. He told me of a relative of ful results we know.

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A NEW BRIDGE FOR LONDON

It is to be hoped, says a London paper, that. the recommendation which has been rande to the City of London Corporation by its Bridge

Thames ray be a

and that London may adopted, of new and magnificent bridge across the thus be provided with a fresh and valuable artery of communication between the north and onth. The bridge in question would be located between Southwark and Blackfriars Bridges. It would cress Upper Thames street and Queen Victoria-street by viaducts, and would deboucli on St. Paul's-churchyard.

Macau, 21st July, 1909.. DEAN SIR-My look see you write Daily Press good ting, people can sabe news, my send Medicine and ongineering are the two you Home Macan news, supose good yon can branches of Western science for which at present puttes paper.

there is the largest demand and the greatest scope portant feature is the creation of a talent. Many of them use snoh language in him if he would use his influence to disunde the subjected to espionage, without distinction: Vely seen one more Potuguese Drednot come in China, and to those the proposed University

at Hongkong will, in the first place, address by Chinese scholars will undertake the trausla take care. Macau, Vasgo de Gama sud Paria itself. for the scheme has grown up out of tion of German text-books and other works into froth. I took Dhingra to be an idealist, way from a course which could only end in base come keep Macau from pirates. You ses certain proposals for extending and developing the vernacular presumably, though it is not

By the sinne muil a letter arrived for Dhingra all this Brednote come take care Macau go the College of Medicine and the Technical specifically stated, into the Mandarin or liter

from his brother. It was quite mikl in tone!

stop Hongkong, how fashion! 40 miles so work in the colony. An outline of the schemement, we are further and very signifi- Institute which have already done yeoman'sary dialect. The motivity of this important

gently admonishing the boy for his conduct, giving good advice, such as an elder brother long way and Macau Telegraph Office shut

a month or two ago appeared a

The Times. in

told, will not be confined to school

might well offer, and mentioning that a letter up 5 o'clock evening till 8 o'clock morning A public-spirited citizen of Hongkong has only, but will be extended to the widest

He was an student at University had been dispatched to Sir-Curzon, who would offered the considerable sum fubout tim, how fashion can take cara Macau?

sphere.

street. I came across him in the neighbourhood trouble. condition that adequate funds, estimatedIts importance has already been fully

at the Imperial Dhingra told his fellow lodger about the shortly after one first meeting £100,000, about

shall be provided for pur- cisted, and as a result of the negotiations

We letter. No doubt he told others also. He made equipment and endowment. A small Portion of this moulege of Medicine and the afforded by Germans in the cause of adresire, and usul famithur terms, suola aus Las portion of this amount will be derived from the which have now been carried Institute, and he asked me to his room,

the two Governmeats, the assistance thas had again so desultory talk about Indian fan bitter Fun-of his brother timely advies. He spoke very strongly, as he had fe declared that it was absurd that Sir Curzon, L uglu-Indian, for whom in common with all Technical Institute, and the rest, it is hoped,

tional reform must yield valuable results in miserable gulf that is daily widening between Anglo-Indians he bad a supreme contempt, will be raised by private autoription. The

the relations between Germany and Chins." Chinese community in Hongkong is 1

Sir Curzon Wylie, with his usual kindliness, generously to the appeal which has be issued Nor do the German authorities entertain Anglo-Indious and the Indian people," and the should interfere in his private sfairs.

the slightest doubt about the advisability isolation of British Officials, leading to the

was anxious to do what he could to help his un by the Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, who

H!! of burdening the State with expenditure deplorable result of increasing racial hatred." has devoted himself heart and soul to the directed to these important ends. The moneys They are stock phrases, and I did not think very known correspondezt in the Punjab.

of the National whome, and, what is more, it lus elicited sub- that have been raised in Germany from private much of them. He made no reference to any personally asked the secretary

the next at home, and to taka particular pains 4 Custom launch only, taks Macau nightstantial support not only from the Chinese sources for educational purposes in the Far individuals-gertainly not to Sir Curzon Indian Association to invite the young man to House Estates Committee for the construction

Wyllie. communities in other colonies, such as Penang, East must be regarded as wasted unless an Singapore, and, nuder the French dag. Saigon, organization is created along definite lines

I doubt whether Dhingra was aware of Sir to get him to attend. So much stress did Sir Curzon's existence at that time. But he showed Curzon put on the matter that Miss Bock with definite sims which in close co-operation it from the neighbouring Chinese city of

strong animus against Anglo-Indians generally, actually called at Dhingra's lodgings, and in Canton, where the Governor-General has prom-

with the Chinese Government, will bring and quoted several instances to show that racial giving the invitation said that Sir Curzon want ised, to

to give vory effective expression to his

German intellectual life nearer to the new thorough sympathy and approval. Ons vary China that is now awakening."

hatred was becoming stronger every day and ed to have a friendly chat with hir. that the Indian people were regarded with con He accepted the invitation, with what dread attractive feature of the scheme is that sub-

tempt by

At the conversazione Dhinga, wearing a scribers of £1,000 to the endowment fund shall

travelling on the railway and who be cutitled to present ons scholar, who, provided

which the "China Emergency. Committeo because he happened to brush against a military jacket, was able to conceal the revolves and the

dagger with which he passes the entrance examination, shall bo

arland, received without

out payment of foes, and the would do well to take to hears before persisting officer was addressed as a damnod nigger provincial towns and cities of Southern China. in its own schemie, of which the ono revult that sad toil to got out of the way to retion. Moys, as he usually did at, functicias maurs ratepayger. The Bridge House Estates, repre- at will, it is expected, prove keen to avail

Hafely

predicated is that it will split up arpostulated, and the officer called the station. dress, where British resources and British enterprise to the master and had the Indian gentleman turned that dress was the rule. He also worea turba, sentiar the benefactions of past generations to this privilege. themselves of this

which was quite unusual with him. I have the City, would meet the heavy bill. From this While the University will be strictly unde- detriment of the Hongkong University. The off the train.

I asked the boy he is, I think, about 22 never soon him in one before. The reason for source the ity has already spent haperally on nominational,

the "China Emergency by facilities will be given to religions scheme put forward

years of age, but I regarded him as a boy, that is more subtle but I think it was a symbol the provision of bridges., Between 1824 and bodies who wish to maintain hostels of their Committee" under the powerful patronage of year

Curzon from the incume of its estates for rebuilding own, under auch rules as the governing body Lord William Cocil to also well known to your for he was very boyish in his ways-about his and a sign of his nationality-a revo t, futila no the present day it has granted over £2.400,000 of the University shall lay down. The essential rawlers: How far a "federation of schools studies, and how he was getting eu. As au donbt, against foreign dress. Sir feature of the schome is that all students shall for the colleges referred to in that schone or engineer mygslf I thought I could give him in conversation with Dhingra for at least ten London Bridge-a work twice carried out in Nobody ke knows what passed that period-for rebuilding Blackfriars Bridge, reside in colleges and hostels where they will nothing more than schools--scattered thronghnseful advice; and I was afraid he was not pay minutes.

out China can be converted into a Universityjbying much attention to his work. I hinted, between them, but to all appearances the talk for purchasing Southwark Bridge, and fur creating the Tower Bridge. The money has My small boy Allan can sabo now rite o constantly in touch with the British the mere addition of a central body of professors in faut, that he should think less of politics and was quito friendly, their voices were not oveu

fesorial staff, and this is the feature which machine pen, now he ne ge school because those all others commends itself to the Chinese is more than doubtful; but what is quite take up his studies mero seriously,

raised. The flash and the report of the hot thus been admirably utilised, and those who school shut up, Govenor no got many pay themselves.

o was that he was the first infiamtion, that anything was tion might note the wise purpose to which it

declaim against the existence of the Corpora He made various excuses, certain is that none of these establishments They will thus be withdrawn Master, he Hank too much poor, no much from the uuwholesome influences which to rent up in Chinese cities can have either had not a very good memory. Another, that he wrong,

the broad did not think the method of teaching was very I think I can reconstruct, pretty, accurately applies its revenues. business, Machu-uo opium go Australia, all often surround Chinese students in a Chinese the educational atmosphere or

loss a beginner, what happened between the time he left bis faulan money pay toomach expense, Drednots city and even in their own homas, whilst Hang outlook of a University located in Hong suitable, for he was more

Kobe papers record the death in his 65th stop Hongkong, ahyal: how fashion? no cani kong is so largely Chinese, and Chinesa at its keng. It is perhaps not unnatural that as and the classes were too advanced for him. I lodgings and the hour when he became a

best, that they will not be make pidgia Macan all mu must go

donationalized anxious to secure a preponderancy of missionary engineering school at the Crystal Palace, where the evening. His landlady saw him as he was year of Mr Alexander Milne, an old resident of leaving, and did not notice any change in his Japan, and well known both ln Yokohama uničl Hongkong, Singapore, Saigon nake money, to which those who are sont away for years influence, but a bi so distine:ly proselytizing he could get elementary training.

manner. As a matter of fact, he was just us together to

foreign country so frequently is hardly calculated to allay the distrust which too muchy trub.

snceamb. Nowhere has contact with the West still exists amongst the Chinese official classes

But the general impression he left on ne usual: the change came later. When he got Kehe. Mr. Milne went to Japan in the early served more happily than at Hongkong to in regard to Western pdaestioned moths, was that he did not care very greatly for his into the street he turned towards Westbourne develop the best feature of Chinese character. whilst the deliberate The Tung-Wa Hospital is one case in point cultivation of abs proference given to the studies, and that he devoted too much time to grove so that he was not going dreat to the Walsh, Hall & Co., in Yokohama, where he Sciences and philosophy politics and to brooding over the grievances of reception at the Imperial Instituts. Where remained for some fifteen years. About 1886

did hu spend the interral-two hours before institution maintained and directed entirely rather than to more material subjects such as

or 1887 he went to Kobo, where he entered the his country and his countrymen. The griovanes by the Chinese for philanthropic purpose his scheme to the hardworking middle class in plained, was charging him too man

engineering and medicine will scarcely commend extended as to his landlady, who, ho com- he arrived at South Kensington?

Well, there are many Indians lodging in firm of Messrs. Mourilyan, Heimann & Co., From my point of view his postscript is nothich include not only the auraing of the sicking, whose mind is set upon the acquisition.. had been a student for four years myself, and Westbourne grove. He went to one of the with whom he remained until 1890, when he the least raluable part-of the lettor. He adds and the burial of the dead, but the administractical knowledge. In its present forur had lived all that timela "diggings, I-led some houses where this extremists live, Thero vas

When you come' Macau come and see my periods of special stress. Other illustrations- the scheme is altogether too crude to repay experience, and I offered to try to arrange mat- political discussion: they talked of the wronts joined the late Captain Byrne as a hill broker, could be given, such as the the organization of detailed eriticism. What, however, smens mest ters. It seems that he was paying 259. a week of India, of how they could I redressed. I and has followed that. occupation over since. We, no all same English Fort Wine, or if you Chinese dispensarios throughout the colony regrettable to those who willingly recognise for hoard and lodging, and as he did not take lunch know the talk well. I have heard it often. Of late years, however, he has gradually retired no like my give you good Spanish Sherry more by the initiative of the Chinese themselves, the excellent intensions of Lead William Cecil at the house he thought this was too much. He Dhingra's mind was fextile scil for the plant of from the business, which was in the main

and the admirable Po Leung Kak, an institu. and his friends is their niterdisregardof opinion, made the remark that English people were very

⚫ sedition.

(you see my card cat sabot, my now fear supose Self-Government sabu. my bolong portaggioso man, he cut my hand, my ran Hongkong and chinchin you take care for my,

My liky my friend Hongkong side sabo this pidgin, he can come chop Macau, take he wife and family go Hongkong, supose this Delamentation pidgin no good for Chinese.

Goodbye you, and too much chinchin you.

My send you my eard, no show any tun, please. Yours respectfully,

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Thins it would be an improvement of the first importance The cost would not fall upon the

seventies, and entered the firm of Mesers.

better English Sherry, any ricsha cooly-Babetion, also entirely Chinese, for the rescue, whether British or Chinese, which does not selfiel, and that the Indian had no chance of Perhaps-they thought, Hero is a man who carried on by his partner, Mr. W. F. K.

maintenance, and repatriation of Chinese happen to coincide with their own. One would fairplay. This would be a thing too trivial to will really do something it we can persuade Fouron.

my house."