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to advance in the field of education with- FORMER HONGKONG OFFICEN out a corresponding advance in other directions, for education is not a subject that can be isolated, but, one that is coloured by social, economic and religi ous tradition and aims. The returning soldiers will not be satisfied with some of the old conditions. There is the hous- ing problem in town and country; the wages question, the population question
A further list of honours bestowed by the Czar contains the name of Comman- der F. A. X. Cromic, who has receiveď the Fourth Class of the Orders of St. George and St. Vladimir and the Secondi
and the decline in the birth rate, all of Class of St. Anne. Commander Cronite)
which are stirring the minds of our men, is already a much decorated officer, for From conversations with them." adler when the war began he held the medal h's Grace, I know that there will un- for the Boxer ontbreak and the Royal doubledly be discontent with the exist | Humane Society's bronze award, and he ing conditions, but 1 believe they will be secured his D.S.Ö. in June. He has been prepared to deal with all such questions connected with the submarine service
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Me. COLEMAN is said by the London Times to have seen more of the actual fighting on, the Great Western Front than any other one wen during the first year of the way.
Mr. COLEMAN Was attached to the Head. quarters of General Bir Jous FEINCH and General BEAUVOIE DE LISLE respectively as a member of the Royal Automobile Club Corps, and, as Official Photographer of the 1st Cavalry Division, took hundreds of unique photographs.
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is more closely knit than it ever, has been, and that, I think, will tell for good. The prospect is difficult it it is full of hope."
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ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES..
With regard to education there is general concensus of opinion that the time for investigation kas passed and that the moment for action has arrived. The suggestion that a Royal Commission |of Inquiry should be appointed has been promissory note valued at $500, was ad-'
deprecated on all sides, and the plan of. Į journed until Wednesday.
dant was also charged with assault
A ease in which a Chinese was charged with obtaining, by false prétences, &
The defeu
OPIUM CASE RE-HEARD.
the Education Department to appoint a number of small expert committees to enquire into the different branches of the problem has been generally · approved. One such committee will deal with the Teglect of science: others will concern themseves with the equipment of the child for the commercial struggle which had his case re-heard before Mr. F. A lies ahead, the urgent question of physi-Hazeland and was represented by Mr.
A Chinese who was fined $8,000 for being in possession of 100 lbs. of raw opium and 45 iaels of prepared opium,
Opto Kong Sing. Defendant said he was itat employed on the steamer, the Knight Companion on which he was arrested and on which the opium was found. On the day he was arrested be went on thé, All
cal training in the schools, the perfec tion of the aduentional ladder from the primary school to the university, and the rightful place of the Humanities in a well-ordered system of education.
the committees will report to the Pre-ship, and, in answer to a question from sident of the Board of Education, who sailors, he said he had come on the ship as a ** substitate.” Defendant was- will present the final schrine to Parlia
discharged. S. WATSON. &]ment in due course. There seems
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reason to fear that science will not be given its proper place in the curriculum. We have suffered too severely from past
Two Chinese were changed before Mr neglect of this branch of study to tolerate. R. Wood, with the thef: of a any systém under which it will not in jacket, a watch and gain, and $105 in future be given due attention. Nor does money from a boarding-house. Inspector- there appear to be any ground for the Brazil said the defendante quid complain- fear that Oxford and Cambridge will be ants occupied adjacent cubicles, and turned into technologien institutes while complainant was having a bath and his friens was out walking, the first de- under the new-born seal which is, per- haps, apt to regard as useless anything fendant was seen to reach over the parti- which cannot pass the test of the essention and, with a long bamboo pole, an
hook the jacket containing the watch and tially practical. There is no desire to chain and money, and take it into his follow Germany's lead, but an endeavour will be made to co-ordinate our various
own cubicle. There was so much conflict-
discharged.
evidence that the defendants
DEALING "IN PIGS,
werd
educational agencies. It is everywhere admitted that our secondary schools need serions overhauling, and if this is done thoroughly it will be a big step towards the solution of the problem. A second and still more important step will be tuj ACTION IN THE SUMMARY COURT.. bridge over, by cooperation between employers and the educational authori
لقاعة
Pigs and the purchase thereof formed"
ties, thow critical years between 14 and the subject of an action in the Hongkong 18 when so many of our boys lose the Summary Court yesterday when Cheong THE movement towards the practical knowledge and discipline acquired in Sing, a pig dealer of Jardine's Bazaar, excellent elementary claimed from Leung Fong, a trader, of admittedly reform of our educational system is gathering strength, and ways and means schools and gain nothing to take their Tung Street, the sum of $196.31, the amount- are being devised for remedying almost place. It is here that the greatest leak of damages alleged to have been suffered the plaintiff through defendant immediately some of the more glaring age in our present system occurs, and the defects. Former Governments bave goal towards which we should strive, in wrongfully withholding from the plain.
tiff eleven pige. Plaintiff claimed de coquetted with the problem, but, happi-the opinion of the Archbishop of York, ly, to-day a fresher and more vigorous who placed his finger on the weakness livery of the swine or payment of their note is heard in all the debates upon the with unerring instinct, is to make the value, and also 8 damages for the de
workshop for the boy between the gears tention of the pigs.
FOUR BOOMED FLATS in May Road wilk every modern convenience, belading subject and there is a prospect of real English Bathe and Hitshan Ranges, Hot and rapid progress. The lessons of the Water and Water Cheelago Bysiena. A few
Flata specially durigned to, nocommutate Mess war cannot be ignored. The experience kaokolors at resorable rentals. Immeliste gained at such bitter cost during the poteccion
FOUR-BOOMED
ED HOUSES in Gerian past two years has changed the nation's Tarenon and Galisbury Averta, Kowloon,
putlook, and the change has brought with Apply tom
it a greater capacity for judging things in their true perspective. In education, as in many other questions, public
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of 14 and 1 that which the school was to him between the ages of 1 aud 14. As his Grace remarked, the battle of the
hy
Mr. Mattingley appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Faithfull defanded,
Mr. Mattingley said that plaintiff's
employed by him as an agent to buy Some is showing us what splendid story was to the effect that defendant was material these boys would have been if pigs for him. The defendant was dis only they had received, for however missed by plaintiff from his agency, but short a time, an adequate training. In immediately after this defendant went comparison with th's great central difh out to different firms and bought pigs
opinion is now being formed which inculty of giving the youth of the nation just as though he was still plaintiff's instruction and guidance at the age when agent. Plaintiff had had to pay for the it can best be assimilated, the other pigs thus bought, but he had never had problems have scarcely more than a academic interest. Their solution is only a matter of time
bound to assert itself in the near future, and it is the general realisation of, this “O, 6, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRIX.
fact which gives ground for hope and No. 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, strengthens our leaders in their advocacy SHOP.
“ROSENEATH," No. 4. Hankow Road, of those reforms which are essential to
the common weal. We trust that no- attempt will be made, in any iconoclastic spirit, to reform those older educational institutions which hold a unique place
Kowloon,
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portant a part in the formation of British character, though there is little doubt that they will come more closely under the searchlight of criticism and will have to modernise some of their methods in order to bring themselves more inte harmony with the spirit of the times. Nor should we forget in our
consideration of these matters that BWEEKLY PRESS, JULYLO DECEMBER ducation does not stand alone. As the
On Bals at the Howenose DarLY Paisa Hengkong, 10th March 1916.
The nisations this year ute unuamsly hurrimos. owing to shanges incidentaly to the War,
delivery of them. There had been some interrogatories in the matter, in which defendant admitted he had bought eleven. pigs from two firms.
The defence put up was that defend--
A Chinaman, aged about 25, jumpedant's practice was to buy bigs and send from the Yaumati Ferry on Wednesday, them right away to the abattoir. He had and was drowned. His body has not yet done so in reference to the eleven pigs. and that was all be knew about them. been recovered.
The pigs had been bought by him and sent away to be slaughtered, and, that was all he knew about them.
For stealing a blanket from the Station. Hotel, Kowloon, a Chinese was sentenced to one month's imprisonment at the Hongkong Police Court yesterday.
The defendant, in the witness-box, admitted buying the pigs, and that he took them to the slaughter-house. Here.. At Mr. Coleman's lecture at Govern his responsibility ended, for the animals ment House to-night evening dress will
were then taken charge of by a foki em he optional Tickets will be procurableployed by the plaintiff. He knew at the door as well as at Moutrie's. All thing of the pigs after he had taken
Mr. Coleman's lectures in the Colony Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out in the House of Lords, we shall not be able, wil be different,
them to the slaughter-house.
The hearing was adjourned
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