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AVERAGE MARKET PRICES.
October 2 th, 1911 The Prices are given in Dollar Cents.
BUT MEAT.
A Mei Lang Pa Yuk-Beet, sirloin
and prime out. It. 20. Hem Ngau Yok--Corned Beef 20 Shiu Ngau Yok-Roast Bout Nga Nam-B
-Breast of Beef
ĐỰ Đ
Tong Yok-Beef for soup. BA Ngan Yok Pa-Beef Steak.......
Ngau Yok Ch'ong-Sausages » Ngan No-Bullock's Brains sat Ngau Lao-Beef Stoak, Brložu Ib.. 30 Ngau LeBullock's Tongue,
fresh, each
#
828299** *8** * ***
14 Him Ngau Lo, corned
#4 Ngau Tau-Hallock's Hand...
Heart... Ib. 12
Hi Hán Ngan Kiz-boot Harap
Ngu Kik-Bullock's
fu-Bullock's Kidney Mei-Bulbook's Tail
...asch
Ngau Kan-Bullock's Liver.., b. 12 Ngau To-Bullock's 'Iripe, -undressed
Lee Ngoc Trai Tan Kok Cairo,
-8
head and Feetés passi ..set $1.00. **Yong Pai Kwa-Mutton Chop lb. 22 Yong Fe-Leg of Matton-22 Yong Shad Mutton shoulder Tong Fan-Sheep's Hestfoot get 50 Yong Sam-heep's Heart each Yong Iv-Shoop's Kidneys... each. 9
20
### Chi Pái Kwat-Pork Chop .. Ib. 20
Sam-Pig's Heart
#Cha Trai--Sucking Pig's (to
uzder)
AGENTS,
American Dagh- -R #tai Chi-Lishoes, Fronhis
200 3rd
J
25
Lai Chi Kon-Lioboos, Swall -Ning Mong-Lemons, Saigon, A Luisung Mong-Mango, M ́la esch --- On Now Hong-Mango, Saigon „--- #Shau Chat The-Mangosteens,
Yong Sai Kwa-Water Melon,
American............ per lk. M Sai Kwa-Water Melone China,
Heung Kw Musk Melen Amarica........
Passion Fruit,
American +40
Pak Lam-Olives
Chug-Oranges, Sweet
Chie Chau Ching Orange,...
Ibi
a
7
O Man Chng-Oranges, Macao,
Chu 88 Kat
Tim Kat-
Small Mandarin
Fa Shang-Poraute Shanghai L-Peare American PS Li-Pears Canton
Hung M-Plung Swatow.....
2) Bin Ta-Pasts, Cooking Canton
Hung Tal-Persiminons Large Pan Ti Po Lo-Fine-apple,...... orange (Canton);.. Ib.. 6 All Fears (Amries) ABAX Papa Jet quality
Plopple Cooking only...and
Brd
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Tai Talu-Plantains Luk Yau-Pamely, Amoy
"
each → Chin Lo Luk Yau- Pamelo, Saim, 12 San Hop Ta-Valouts, Fresh lb. Hop To-Walnute Groen Shanghai Lo Kwat
VIGSTABLES, &
Ayat Shanghai Ya Chi Obat-
Artichotza, Shanghai
A Loong Seo Trai
-Asparagus...don:
Chut shon-Bamboo Shoot ... lb. 5
gaTidi-Beans, Sproat.....
Mean Bin Tau-Beans,
THE LETTERS OF AN FNGLISHMAN,
UNIVERSITIES ÓLÐ ÁND ÝÍV.
And Oxford herself, if ae be thus "intelle tualised what will become of her, "steeped ia sentiment as she Hes, spreading her gardons to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Midio" Ages"? She will become the nourishing mother
ik ongineers and bright young folograph.
It is part of the democratic conspiracy which clorica. A freed at last, with Cambridge holds away in our midst to disparage tus Udi-om her social" suosphere, she will satisfy varsities of Oxford and Cambridge. The at perchance the "intellectual "oravings of Bishop. tasks are made upon these ancient institutions Welldon and assage the class hatred of the without thought or knowledge. When it is
WEATHER REPORT.
acknowledged that they encourage learning and Lebar Party-AN ENGLISHMAN, in the Daily not the mere cult of majorities enough has been Mal said in their coudemuntion. The doctrine of equality, once favoured by the People, is out of fashion. The proletariat alone is entitled to **equal "justice and "equal" privileges. Those who de ast bolong to the favoured class ace fit to be stamped under foot. It is not enough only that
Oxford and Cambridge should open their doors to what Lord Curzon describes as the poor," They will not win the approval of the sacrosanct People until they have gone a stop farther and closed their doors against "the
rich,"
Or the 25th at 11.55 a.m.-The depression wing or N. China yesterday morning has reached the N. part of the Son of Japan.
The barometer has risen moderately on the N.E. coast of China, and fallen slightly over S. China and Tongking,
Pressure is relatively low over the latter areas, and relatively high over the Pacific between the
ooohoos and the Philippines.
Light or moderate H. and B.E. winds may be expooted over the N. part of the China Sea.
at 10 am,, to-day, 0.09 inches.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending
today is as follows
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon
The popalar disparagement takes many forms. A hasty glauce convinces the superficial observer that at Orford and Cambridge there are no orione students." Not long since Rishop Welldon, who once described himself with exquisite humility as "the ons normal and visible link between Eton and Harrow,"
the #surped voice of Democracy to condemn our older universities. The atmosphore of a inodorn university," said be, is intellectual. At Oxford Cambridge. the atmosphora in zuchr tencial."
js mor What he menus by
"social clear. It evidently connotes an intellectual is not quite inferiority, and as it is the barshest word Formosa Channel...
of reproach in the mouths of politicians,
DISTRICT
Hongkong & Neighbourhood
for whom truth, honour. and righteousness are South const of China beźwoenį bound up in the blind worship of numbers, we may take it that "social" is not a compliment.
serve
FORECAST.
Same as No. 1,
South coast of China between game as No. 1. Hongkong and Lamockt. Samo as No. 1.
7
Hongkone and Найнав
E. and 8.E. winds, moderate; fair.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Station.
REGISTER.
October 25th-Ar A..
USES OF THE MODERN UNIVERSITT. What measure of truth, then, fa there in Bishop Welldon's statement? The modern uni- versities of England discharge, no doubt, a very useful purpose. Established in manufactoring centres, they provide the technical eduestion which is necessary if our industries are to pro-
their supremacy.
Their professors of science aro abora suspicion. They set about their work unhampered by the customs of the paat They take their duties in a proper spirit of soriogenes. Like all universities, they num. her among their studouts bookworms and idlers. What they broked chiefly, one would have thought, was auiutellectal atmosphera," Their interest in the humanitiesia Blender. Their steraly practicat minds seo ia education not an and in itself, but a means to the solid end of scientific or commercial success. Thus they fail the law of their being. Thus they add vastly to
***Viostook our strength and prosperity. It is, and should Nemuro be, no reproach to them that they do
Hakodate 'not on hance the intellectual life of their conutry. Kochi
Or Of Tokio what avail is their atmosphere if acholars do not breathe freely in it? Why raunt their Nagasaki...... superiority to the old universities, which havo Kagoshima dons the intellectual work of England. in justice Oshima and statesmanship, in sciens and scholarship,
Naha for many centuries, when they must still weak Ishijina their professors in Oxford and Cambridge?
reproach that Oxford and Canbridge are Chet
Chefoo may easily he dispelled, if indood it Wothatwei
Of the suobbishness which Honkow
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I ng Kon-Sheep's Liver. ........
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Chu Kök-Pig's Foot
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Chi Iu-Pig's Kidney
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where is a career open to the talents.
There,
if anywhere, a man is accepted for what he is Sharp Peak..... and what he knows. The history of Oxford and Amoy Cambridge is the history of talent, easily recogTaiboku Swatow nised and worthily rewarded. As it has always beau, so it is to-lay. The fact that Wolsey's Taish father was a butcher at Ipildid not hinder Tainan his proferment at Oxford. The great heads of Koshan houses af Cambridge-Milaer, the famous Pescadores President of Queens' Whowell, the autocratic Canton Mastor of Trinity-did not owe their pre. Wongkong eminence to high connections or to social Vi
Vlot distinction, Nor, fadeed, would this foolish Gap Rock. charge need refutation wore it not made Ma constantly at labour congresses and other Washow meetings of the "half bakid,"
Hoikow Pakhoi
Hour.
Baromater
Silistratiasson SHRI ||| Temperature.
Humidity
** Direction.
Weather.
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F. G. Fro0, Director. Hongkong Observatory. October 25th, 1911. 1 BAROMETRE, reduond to 39 degrees Fahrenheit on the level of the sea in inchos, tenths and hundredths,
TEMPERATURE, in the shade, in degress Fahren-
H ,, 13
5
3
B
B
The prices necessarily and the Sanitary Board from day to day etallholders to sell at the price quoted..
hsa no power to compel
W, BOWEN-ROWLANDS,
Secretary, Sanitary Board.
ON SALE.
A TABLE OF THE RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG
For Demand Drafts on London on the day of or preceeding the departure of the Engusts -Mails; also Table of the Yearly
Approximate Averages for 36 years
FROM 1874 TO 1909.
3 HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, the
humidity of air ruturabod with moisture being 163.
THE TRUS BOCIAL" SPIRIT. If by "social" is meant the spirit of equal Phulion interesaran in games and studies, the inter- Tourana changed thought and wit, the strugle of brain: C. St. James against brain, then it in to be hoped that Oxford Aparri and Cambridge will never cease to be "social" Manila For-undergraduate day toach one another wiser
Le zaspi... laseous than they will ever Tearn from their
Booled. tutors, and so far from there hoing any hostility
Iloilo between what is "social" and what is intellec- Cebu tual they are one and the same thing. He is but
Labuan ..... au unworthy student who carries away from his university nothing more than is taught in the lecturo-room and tasted in the Senate House. Thore is a passage la FitzGerald's Euphranar" which
explains more vividly thor would a page of argument the "social" value of Cambridge. And so we went on." he writes, partly in jest, partly in earnest, drawing philosphere of
same net in which we bad e- tangled the Poet and the Critic-how the moralist who worked alone in his closet was a to mismessure bomanity and be very when the cloth
he cut for bin would not be the best histories were written by those who themselves had been actora in them. .... And so on a great deal more." And the scene would not have been perfect if the disputants had not been overtaken by the boats," the crews pulling with all their might, compacted into perfect rhythm," and the crowd the shore waving their cas and cheering. Thus they walked homeward, where the dosky troops of gownsmen seem'd as it were evaporat- ing in the twilight, while a u
a zightingale began to be heard among the fowering chestants of Jonas." Here Is a memory, call it "ecial.""In- Baromatar tellectual," or what you will, such as many a Temperature mas will treasure more faithfully than all the Humidity...... statistics that evor were packed into a useful Wind Direction... taxt book.
Forceti Weather Rain
4 DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points. 5 FORER OF WIND, according to Benfort Scale, cloud, 4 drizeling rain, fog, g glomy, h bail,
6 STATE OF WEATHER b blue sky, o detached lighting, ooveronat, p paling showers, & equally, rain, snow, thunder, y visibility, dew (web).
Bar-in inches, tenths and hundrethe.
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, October 25th
Previous On Pation Date
Day st
ut 4 p.m. 70era.
z』Feads
29.98
30.06
29.97
75
77
75
60
East
3
2
◊
19
0.12
Highest open air Temperature on 24th...77 Lowest open six Temperature on 24th: 72
"HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 26th October to 1st November, 1911.
X DEMOCRATIC CONSPIRACT. The truth is that all the abuse of our old ani- versities comes from an inverted snobbishness, the result of class hatred. That strange thing called the
People, from which the large and wise minority is wantonly oreluded. is a veritablo cuckoo Not content with clearing for an entrance into Oxford and Cambridge, which has never been denied it, it a date-mined to throw out all whom it finds there. Though it nerer rearios of insalting the universities and their teaching, though it eloquently extols the modern institutions which have grown up during the last quarter of a century, it still meditater an assault upon the despised reats of learning. Is it to make them intellootusl," wonder If that be the intent on, the method proposed to suppress a
sall the time honour- ed studies is strange indeed. We know the vague suggestions, the two years course of Thurs commercial geography and bookkeeping, the school
HIGH WATSE.
LOW WATE
Horg Mean
H'kung
Mean
Time.
T-irat.
b. m.
ft. in. 260147 48m 5 54
b. m. ft.
2
27
to the forefront of the time; and we canoot Sat. believe that any wise as should approve them. You
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of carpentry, sad the rest which are to Fri regenerate Oxford and send ber hustling
cannot with safety pat new wine into old, Buz, bottles. There is no place on earth where the rudiments of commerce and carpentry
cannot be Mou better taught than in Oxford. If boy is des tined to a career in business it is in an office Tees, that he will learn the most pr. ftable lesons:
be found in Wed. every village, more apt to teach the young mechanic than the class-roms of Oxford.
Price
$2 Cash.
On sale at the "D.:LY A carpenter's bench may PRESS" Office, or Local Booksellem
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