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has aroused on the part of the hitherto but tions had been temporarily forgotten. A TELEGRAMS. semi-independent States of the Peninsula old story tells us that if we want to expel a an ambition of entire independence. What fly from our ear, a very effective method will was lawful for Austro-Hungary to do could bo to put in a hornet, and Europe doubeless not be unlawful for the States themselves to for the moment feels very much easier for CO. do; and Austria, in objecting to this, found the departure of the Pan-Germanic fly. At that the hitherto despised Balkan States had all events, Germany has found it in her become a formidable power with which for heart to congratulate France for the cor- NORTH POLE CONTROVERSY. Captain Taylor, A.D.C., and Captain Simson

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DR. COOK'S CLAIM NOT PROVED BY THE RECORDS.

LONDON, December 22nd. Copenhagen University has examin- ed Dr. Cook's polar records, and state that they contain no proof that he reached the North Pole.

AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC

APPOINTMENTS.

LONDON, December 22nd. Mr. H. P. Fletcher, who has been American Charge d'Affaires

unforeseen accident may bring the whole to Chile.

at

sudden stop and cause the wreck of the Mr. Jackson, now at Teheran, entire structure on which the experts have has been appointed Minister to Cuba, been working for centuries. No one with knowledge could probably be found whe his place in Persia being taken by Mr. would stake his reputation on the continu- Charles Russell. ance of peace for any definito period; still the cutlook is decidedly clearer than it has heen at any time for the last twelve months.

Mr. W. P. Ker, the British Commercial Attaché in China, is at present in Hongkong.

Mr. Peter Joy has been appointed Consul-General at Cairo.

LORD KITCHENER.

The annual distribution of prizes took place yesterday afternoon and was largely attended by parents and othors interested. His Excel- lenay the Governor, who was accompanied by

private secretary, presided, and was supported by Bishop Fonzoni, Mr. E A. Irving, Director of Education, Fathor de Maria, man- ager of the School, Father Novai, Father Spada, members of the Dominican Mission, and the Mission Etrangéro, and Mr. T. Funsten.

The Brother Director said-Your Ex- nad

in a very practical way. Papers set in Algebra and Arithmetic were very well answered by the highest standards. " Drawing--It seems a great pity that, in- stead of beginning Chinese boys with drawing rectangular models with a poseil, bruak workr is pot taught, and the pupils' wonderful facility in using this Chinese writing brush is not made use of. It has proved very suc- vessful, in solicols at Home to begin with, drawing simple objects from nature such as fruit, as interest is thus created. Thopractico of confining lessons to freehand and models is very apt to convey the idea to children that drawing is a thing of the schoolroom. Chinose-The studies are not pursued far enough to make them really valuable, and the papils leave after about three years' study. The subject in well taught so far as it goes. Grant I recommend a grant at the rate of 35/-and report the school to be thoroughly eficient.

After an opening overture and the rendering of the chorus Moonlight on the Inko,

Gentlemen, karo the bonour to sub- colleney, my Lord Bishop, Ladies

mit to you the report of the work done in the College during the past year. The total number of pupils on the roll was 450, while tho It now rerosine for me, sir, to thank you for average daily attendance was 400, as against having so kindly consented to give away the 360 the previous year, At present we have a prizes to the successful pupils. I also thank total enrolment of 489. The increase in num- his Lordship the Bishop for enos more honour- bors has necessitated the erection of two new ing us by his presence here to-day, and for the classrooms, which we hope to have ready for valuable prize he has presented to the most occupation towards the end of January: While deserving boy in the Oxford Class. I have also

are kept at home for very trifling causes. I by permitting us to include his name in our list would again remind the parents, of the of prize donors. Mr. H. N. Mody, the well. absolute nocessity of regular attendance for known gentleman whose namo la connected with. progress in studies. The monthly examina- so many bensvolent works in the Colony, sud efficient in securing constant and steady princely gift which has assured to Hongkong work. Such work enables the boys to onltivate for all time the benefits of a University educa tions and weekly testimonials are still very who has recently crowned his muniticones by the industrious habits. The conduct of our boys tien, hiss also accorded us the honour of being has been very good, and on the whole they the recipients of his bounty. This gentle- always seek to please their teachers. Our man has generously, founded a Gold Medal to boarding department continues to give much be given annually to the student who shows satisfaction. We have as many boarders as we the greatest merit in English Literature can accommodate. The health of the boys lus I beg to offer him my sincerest thanks for this been excellent, thanks to the unremitting care valuable recognition of the work done in the. of Doctors Muller, Justi and Hoch Our Oxford College. Our thanks are also das to Mr. J. M.. results this year were very satisfactory. Wo Alves, who has generously offered a soliolarship presented 35 boys and all passed, viz., 7 Seniors, of $25 for the best essay on Co-operation," to the Catholic Union for their scholarship of $25 14 Juniors, and 15 Preliminaries. J. B. Xuyen for Religious Knowledge, and to Mr. Belilior for obtained Second Class Honours and Distinction his scholarship of $25 for English in the Oxford in French in the Senior, while H. Ozorio secured Junior. To the following kind friends who Third Class Honours in the Preliminary. Six have contributed to the prize fand I also

would have been exercised in favour of the round without danger to itself or surround- Peking since the transfer of Mr. the attendance on the whole has been fairly the pleasure of thanking Admiral Sir Hodworth enemy. Now it so happens that the one ings, but there is always the risk that some Rockhill, is appointed Minister to good, still I must say that many of our boys Lambton for the honour he has confood worth bond between Magyar and Gorman,, which has been instrumenta! in conserving for the last two hundred years the Austro-Hungarian Empire, has been the consciousness that much as both Magyar and Austrian fretted over the unnatural tie that held the two peoples together almost against their wills, it was the only alternative to anarchy. In respect of culture both the ruling races stood on a platform measureably higher than the othera, and conscious of this both united in a policy of keeping down the Slavic peoples. With the gradual decay of Turkey, and the necessary enfranchisement of the Slavic and Bulgarian peoples in the Balkan lands, the spread of a higher civilisation could no longer be arrested, and both nations at- tempted to direct the new movement into congenial channels. Naturally the know. ledge gained made the Slavic populations the more conscious of the state ofdependency in which they had been kept, and the less inslined to be coerced into hostile steps against their own close relations in the

Balkan States; but it was with some A. S. WATSON & CO., difficulty, and mainly through the influence of Russia, that the aggressive attitude of Servia was calmed down without an gndeal,

and its one immediate effect

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H. E. the Governor to-day opens the new plagne wards of the Tung Wa Hospital.

We learn authoritatively that, contrary, to publis ramour, no Brilish gunboats års being sent to Canton from Hongkong.

Flower Street in wearing a Christmas aspect those days. The display of evergreens is as large as before.

Mr. Trittel; a dolmetsher of the Supreme Court of Kisochan, was given's seat on the. bench alongside Mr. Justice Gomperts at the Supreme Court yesterday.".

The warships in the harbour yesterday half masted their flags as a token of mourning on the occasion of the burial of King Loopold of

Belgium.

LONDON, December 22nd. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener has arrived at Port Darwin,

FRESH CRISIS IN GREECE.

LONDON, December 22nd.

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Chinese boys figured prominently A fresh political crisis has arisen in of

among the successful students. A noticeable tag to extend my most grateful thanks: Greece.

feature of the examination judging from Consul-General J. J. Loixin, Mr. Gonzales de Bernedo, Consul for Chili; Mr. J. R. M. Smith, The Minister for War, in introduc- the private results was the excellent pas manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank:

Composition. We are very much pleased to see Maahado, Mr. Ho Tang; Mr. Ellis Kadoorle;" ing a scheme for the reorganisation which nearly all our boys obtained in English Mr. Peroy Smith, Mr. D. Dorabjoe, Mr. of the Army, denounced the Minister, that many of our boys are working hard to fit Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. F. Tue Yat, Monare. Kelly Mr. Theotokis, who quitted the themselves for the Hongkong University with Walsh, and Mrs. E. V. Bemedios. Chamber with his supporters, demand which your Excellency's name will be for ever myself of the present occasion to offer my hearty associated. Our Shorthand and Typewriting good wishes to one and all for a merry Christmas ing the resignation of the Minister.

classes continue to do good work. · Thirty-seven and a bright and prosperous New Year.

ADJesent, when the teachers and M. Theotokis did resign, but sub-boys sat for shorthand certificates during the

for Firat Class certificates, but the results have pupils with their parents and friends are upon him by the Military Teague, not yet come to hand. Our thanks are due to assemblad nader the presidency of the highest. which threatens a dictatorship unless the members of the Shorthand Committee of has been towards peace. Those who ring to obtain the aim of Tls 5,000 from the

ocial in the Colony, and when we hear the member the condition of Europe during the China Matual Life Insurance Co, by means of appear in the Chamber.

supporters of M. Theotokis re- Hongkong, especially to Mr. A. Ramsay, of the the detailed account of the excellent work

Daily Press, for the facilities they have

dons during the past year, I consider it last twenty years of the Nineteenth Century false pretenses.

afforded in connection with the examinations. to address a few words to one and all. F daty and at the same time a pleasure will have a vivid recollection of the anxieties:

Twenty-eight boys follow the Typewriting Class thank your Excellency for your kiadness in We have arranged with the National Shorthand condescending to preside at this meeting and Association of London for the holding of distribute the prizes to the successful students. periodical examinations for Typewriting sertifi- I congratulate the Brother Director and all the cates Eight boys have entered for the first brothers and teachers on the success they have examination, which we expect will take place in achieved during the year, and I eongratulate the about a fortnight. Hygiene has been taught

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All letters for publication should be written on brought about by the military aspirations sne side of paper pulg.

No anonymously signed communications that of Russia. The undisguised aim of Russia have already appeared in other papers will be of the day was to encourage a general policy Ordere for extra copies of DAILY PRESs of Pan-Slavism, and to such a degree was should be sent before 11 am.

on day of this policy carried that it seemed likely to publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supply for Cash.

|become a political danger. As a counter- Telegraphic Address: PRESS. Codie ↑ A.B.Q. 5th Ed. Lieber,

acting element, under the influences of BISMARCK WA founded a close alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, to which it was even sought to attach Great Britain. Great Britain, while quite pre- pared to set in accord with the others should the need arise to restrain Russia, was un- willing to hamper herself with hard and fast stipulations, the result of which was by no means self-evident, and contented herself with the expression of her sympathies with the movement so far as they were

DEATH,

On December 18th, at Jurin, Taipeh, Formosa, GEORGY PADOKY Tarles, M.D., London, son of Dr. TATUER, Trowbridge, Wiltabire, aged 34 years, [1556

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Two Chinese brokers stand charged at Shang hai with being concerned together in attempt

trading junk for being in unlawful possession of A Chineso passenger who was arrested on a quantity of opiam was charged before Mr. J Wood at the Magistracy yesterday and exdered to pay a fins of 380, the alternative being six weeks' imprisonment.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Aliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the finde of the Hospitals:-

Ahmet Rumjahn ....

*.. $25 G. C. Moxon...

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A "school" of 16 gamblers, one of bem was Tuesday, The detective was admitted to bail a Chinese detective, was arrested at Tai O on in the sum of $700, and six more of the batch were liberated on depositing 85 each. When the case was called before Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy posterday none of the men merely recognizances were forfeited. Of the other who were out on bail appeared, and their

the others 31.

[FROM THE "F. C. DAILY_NEWS."] MEDICAL RESEARCH.

À MAGNIFICENT GIFT.

LONDON, December 16th.

Me. Otto Boit, the financier, has given successfully during the year. We presented ten boys also on the suscezaful issue of their endea £165,000, in addition to the 250,000 bequeathed by his brother Alfred, to endow boys for the Shield competition, but the results Tours both in the mental and in the athletic field. a chair of Medical Research at the London the College yard and take as much outdoor exer

are not yet known. Our boys drill regularly in I would remind them that the development of the mind and of the body must go land in hand. University. This gift provides for the cise as one limited playground accommodation Mens sand in corpore sano, a sound mind establishment of ten fellowships, each of a permits. Football is still the favourite game of motto. In this way they will at themselves In a sound body, should always be their yearly value of £250, for three years, which will be available to any man or woman

of the Empire. graduate of European descent in any part

SAD DEATH OF DR. & P. TAYLER,

OF FORMOSA. ....

The friends in the Far East of Dr. George

deeply regret to read the announcement of his Padgett Taylor, of Twatutin, Formoss, will

the Hongkong schools. Our boys take very great interest in it. For the first time we won

for the great struggle of life sad both trophies; our First team won the Schools' become worthy and useful members of society. Football Shield, and our Junior team won the report that many of the boys were aspir The Brother Director mentioned in his beautiful cup presented by your Excellency to ing the schools of the Colony,

to higher education in the future The library in connection with our Oxford once more and I wish them all success. In Hongkong University. I congratulate them Class is still a source of pleasure and profit to after years when these young men reap the bene- during the year, and it numbers at present close fal of their benefactor and they will associate ur boys. We have considerably enlarged it fit of such education they will not be unmind-

In the month of June Mr. Irving made his of higher education which they have enjoyed. you Excellency's name with the pricolose fressuro annual examination and reported as follows Staft-Brother Christian, 11 Asistant Mastors,

(Applause.) and 2 Chinese Assistant Teachers. Discipline-Very good.

defensive. Finally, however, Italy who had nine gamblers one was fined $100, and each of death at the premature age of 34. Deceksed on five hundred volumos.

had been the medical attendant of the foreign community at Twatutia since April, 1905, and was also honorary Vice-Conant for the United States. On December 18th while snipe shooting

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HIS EXCELLENCY-My Lord Bishop, Rever end Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen,I have listened with vary great interest to the very satis and I congratulate you, both the staff and the boys, on the continued success, prosperity, and

always since the times of the "Holy TEN years ago the Balkan States, Roumania, Alliance," and the entrance, of the Russian

The orchestra of the German cruiser Bulgaria, and Servia, could scarcely be con armies into Hungary for the purpose of Scharnnorst will perfort during dinner at the sidered substantive Powers in any discussion -establishing a military despotism, looked Hongkong Hotel on X'mas night the following at Jurin near Tripsh with a friend; he collsprad."

with suspicion on Russian ways was per-programme-Part I: "King Edward" Of importance they were, of course, but suaded into joining the Alliance, which now Marsch, v.,Ohlaen; Overture, Op. "Die Felsen. and being carried to the railway station died Organisation-The large number of Chinese tastory report from the Director of this Bohool

within three hours. The cause of his death wa#" merely as pawns to be moved about at the from the fact began to be known by the mullo," v. Reissigel, Amína, "Agyetis ches heart disesse. Deceased leaves a widow and" Standsher," v. Lincke; "Extsso d'Amour," infant son, now in England. He was buried in discretion of the greater Powers as suited name of the "Triplice." their own individual parts in the screaming

Had the Alliance confined itself to its fired! Walzer, v. Techerniawsky; Melodieu ad the Foreign Cemetery, Tamani, on the 19th farce of " Europe at Peace," and questions promises, and preserved its entirely defensive Overture, Op. Fra Diavolo," v. Anber; "Das and all the higher effcials of the Formosan

Op. "Der Vogelbaudler," v. Zeller. Part II.

inst. His Excellency the Governor-General connected with their position on the chess character, it would have continued, as it Vorgissmoinnicht," Lied. v. Supps; Mohnblu. Government were present at the Taipeh Rail board were from time to time bandied about certainly had at first, to have the sympathies men Intermezzo, v. Moret; * Gold Lad Silber," way Station as the special train carrying the

of Europe generally. Unfortunately, in Walzer, v. Lebar; Selection from

body left for Tamasni, between the players. What the governments and people of the States themselves thought imitation probably of Russia, it became Geishs," Jones, of these affairs was a matter entering very,

more and more permeated with Pan- Little into these discussions; the weight of Germanie, as the other had been with Servia or Bulgaria thrown into one cup or

Paa-Slavonic ideas, Russia, however, not another was really a matter of so little con-

sequence that not one of the assembled diplomatists gathered together to discuss

thought of pausing for a moment to con-

*The

BISHOP INGHAM'S ADDRESS TO. CHILDREN.

when Britain was conquered by the Romans,

this direction, the more so that they removed, were Christians.

WEATHER REPORT.

of St. Joseph's College. This year, aI in the Oxford Local Examination as against we have just heard, you have obtained 36 pakses 31 last year, and I am glad to notice

On the 22nd at 12.05 p.-The baromatar is steady over the Philippines, the low area apparantly remaining almost stationary to to the E. of the S. part of the Archipelago.

The faremeter has fallen quickly in N.E. the Pacific to the South of Hokkai Japan,

examination, the Northern depression having reached

Pressure has increased in 8.W. Japan and given way over Chins, Another depression appears to be approaching Manchuria from the

Westward.

but also

in the lower standards constitutes a blot the otherwise excellent organisation of the school. They do not have to pass an entrance examination in Chinese, and the time given to the subject being only hour s

day, it is impossible for them to acquire any proficiency. They seldom remain that the increase ia confined to the at the school above Standard III., and thus senior and junior sad not to the preliminary are not a real strength to it, except by examination. This is a good angary for success swelling the grant.

in the matriculation examination for the Uni- Sanitation-Very sadisfactory.

veraity which has been alluded to both by your Apparatus-Very satisfactory.⠀

Lordship and the Brother Director. I hope Floor Spico-Sufficient for 522 pupils.

that the boys of St. Joseph's will be successful English Sabjecte-English Composition is very not only in passing the matriculation

good in the higher standards. In the lower standards there is very little to criticise in one or more of the King Edward scholarshipe in carrying off

will probably be a severe one, for it will be the treatment of these subjects,

I would remind you that the toat in English absolutely necessary for the boys who pass into the Gitiversity to laxan thưpngblysound grasp of the English language in which the lectures Handwriting is good, though I do not care for specially on the fact that you make an will be delivered. Last year I congratulated you the large upright hand of the copy books. Reading The Chinese Master in one of the glad to see that that is being kept up and that eapecial study of shorthand writing. I am divisions of Class I. in taking the reading progress is being maintained. I would impress speaks auch too fast and clips his words upon you that shorthand is a most useful so- badly. Mathematics-The teaching of Geometry is very much improved as compared with what it was a few years ago. It is now taught

Geography is not taught very interestingly in Standard IV. Time is wasted over defini-

intelligible to children, but which are yet not soientifically accurate.

without the but-slightly-disguised approbatlled with children yesterday afternoon, when The schoolroom of St. Paul's College was tion of Germany, had been wasting her the Rt. Rev. Bishop Ingham, secretary of the energies in unprofitable.conquests in Asia. Church Missionary Society, addressed them. A jealousy of England which had become In simple language, understandable by the the affairs of the Balkan Peninsudu ever chronic was undoubtedly one of the predis smallest present, his Lordship told of the day sider the private opinions or predilections of posing motives, and Germany was by no and of the spying of Pope Gregory that the Sheng-puson may be expected over the

The highest pressure is shown over 3, Chinations that seem too verbose to be real "the States themselves; they had been fromeans indisposed to favonr her projects in little Angles would have been angels if they China Sen. from Turkish interference, but King Lo to a distance her possible activities. Russia's how we became a people through missionaries

He then told where and at 10a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending had never dreamt that this implied that they great check, brought about far more by the bringing to us the Gospel of Bethlehem, had title to act as independent States; and unpopularity of the movement at home than Nazareth and Bethany, and how our home life to-day is as follows!

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon insisted that all such pretensions must be at by the prowess of Japan abroad, convinced grew from Christianity. There was no aach Hongkong & Neighbourhood frosh to mote; NE. winds, once dismissed es quite irrelevant to the her that her true interests lay in Europe Gospel was unknown, but missionaries from all Formosa Channel

home life in Chins, Japan and Africa, where the

fine. situation. Probably the most unexpected rather than in Asia; and this once more parte of the world were carrying the glad Booth coset of Chins between?

Same as No. 1. result of Austria's last move of formally brought her in face of the Pan-Germanic tidings to thoso dark lands.

Hongkong and Larocks.) annexing the Principalities has been that it 'movement, which in her Asiatic pre-occupa children partook of tea and light refreshments.

After listening to the Bishop's address the South coast of Chins between

Hongkong and Hainan,

Same as No. 1.

Same as No. 1.

quisition. It is most useful to the public mar when listening to speeches to which ho las to reply, and it is most useful to the students when listening to lectures to be able to make a few notes upon them. I have always regretted that