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REMOVAL.

We beg to notify the Public of Hongkong that We haTE remored to Corner of POTTINGER STREET and DES VIEUX ROAD Next to Fire Brigade Station.

NIKKO.

28th February, 1923.

SOUTH

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NO

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THE PRINCE IN A TARTAN KILT.

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phase of civilisation when the functions of the priest and the medicincpap were combined in the person of pas individual, Wluose pharmacyuzia consisted mainly of incantations and of magie for the treat- ment of every ill"

BRITAIN AND AMERICA IN GOLF,

arut

EDINBURGH, February 28th. The senior Scottish title of the Princo of Wales is the Dnze of Rothesay, and at the and Ancient Club make the interesting The Championship Committee of the Royal annual dinner of the Royal Caledonian Schools he wore a bit of the Ruta tartan,

announcement that the competition for the Walker International trophy will take place His spooch struck a very happy tops, and was brightened by several touches of over Old St Andrew's Course un

the

Fring Saturday of the work following the humour. In 1815, he said, there was held the inaugral dinner of the School, which he decisions mest with adverse criticisms, bat Amateur Championship, Many St. Andrew's described as "a

a healthy outpost of f Scotland in Hertfordshire." & presided, and

will be

nothing but the Duke of Kent father,

Inter America national date and a contemporary report stated that "convivial

a course away from the Amateur Championships I happiness pervaded every person present.

is a A big enough event to stand on its own In a reference to the "good old tim

lega

and times, and the contentico that the younger which our men must

with the event played on the Old Course, sadly inferior generation were,

to

know better than can, Britain ought of old," the Prince gunts

remarked visitors possibly that as one of the younger generation haastave a very good chance of winning. had always strongly objected to this theory. tnin year's selection to represent but when he saw that the toast list in 1816,

Bire satisfaction. No began contained no less than 21

speeches, bie

their best in the to wonder whether they were perhaps quite the men their ancestors appeared to have that one at least of been. He noticed, too, that the then Dake of York quitted the chair & little before players, was successful

Anthony Spalding, the well-known gulf Sussex, who kept up the conviviality of team, and has the evening for some considerable time. THE BOXER INDEMNITY,

great-grand-decision to play the Britain for the

the

not

anything

doubt

the

like general Committee

jurigment, and it should not be

matter according their

the

did

forgotten most-criticised in the natch. Mr.

criticised last Beason

accepting the offer of Mr. E. Martin Smith to back the official force then chosen for £100, be suggests, might be given to the

| midnight, and was succeeded by the Duke of Priter, has shed his case to the point

on

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by other tenui-of amateurs i

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it will be much more interesting if

But it is an OGONDAL Most beautiful and select Seaside Resort in the Far East. Two miles from Port the Boxer Indemaity to expenditure

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frain the IN nicol, What does China

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Messrs

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Ho aducated. Socially

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OVRIL is a food of such vital importance that no household should ever be without it.

Whenever a meal in a" burry is wanted, when someone feels tired or "chilled, whenever bot

drink is required-give Bovril.

Always have

BOVRIL

in the House

for British gourds, especially machinery This, of course, will take time, and the benefit to Britain will not be at once evident. There is, however, a racans whereby Britain may benefit both immediately and later without detracting from Chinn's advantage. That is by spending the money in Britian.

.....

The Chinese Student goes un to develop the scheme. It says-The sum annually available (£400,000) is by no means a large one, at least, not for the purpose of slaca. tion in China. It may be sufficient to add

C.

to some of the men who were tel. Many : the choice disagreed with the Hooman and

cor

were doubtful about Harris, and frankly of Messra Harris bus no

Aylmer

action

match; Mr. Hooman did all that could be expected of him by winning his point. Still, the poor financial response to the call for subscriptions for the team expenses Gy reflect dissatisfaction in the golf community. DEATH OF YORMER AMOY MISSIONARY.

The death has taken place, after an illness extending over several months, of the Rev. James Beattie, M.A., minister of St Ninian's United Free Church, Stranraer. A native of Roxburghshire, desed, after learing the Ney College, Edinburgh, was for short periods assistant in the New

and and Be Re

some new schools or colleges, and improve Chalmers Memorial Church, for

existing oars, but this would still leave some was ordained the latter

work nission try in China, and subsequently years in Anioy, during which he must be fully qualified teachers, and of Raw unch of Chinese life and ways in

a sufficient number.

while he wns specially

1 schools are not the only necessity: spent 13

of scholars uncatored for. Besides,

Here then, 15 the interior, the work of the Union!

these & China's most urgent want, sufliciency of

E education, her love of sports, this during t

College College Boxer Rising and the re

and of the Angl

He was in

trained teachers, Britain with her many her highly developed system irresistibly as a traning-ground for volation of the latter date. After the the future

dominies of China. The £400,000 outbreak of the war he acted as interim would

1,500 to 2,000 minister in several churches, and was in- in this country,

and

the ducted to the pastorate of St. Ninian's money

to educate about. Stranrser, in May, 1017. 25,000 to 20,000 in All Of course the money

serva to

whole annually!

Chinese

might be invested, in which case much fewer OBITUARY. students would beneut annually, although the capital would provide for

At a nursing home, Glasgow, after a

scheme of education. What China Prolonged illness, on srl February, Mar

needsgaret Smith, wife of the late Alexander 'Gregor, Shanghai, auri eldest daughter of Robert Duncan, 2, Oxford Termco, Renfrew.

however, is as many trained mon as she can have educated in the shortest possible time. At any rate, the money would be spent in this country, and the ultimate benefit would be just the same-in fact, greater than if the sum was expended wholly in China.

Thero mast, of course, be certain conditions governing the award of grants or scholar- ships to individuals. Without going into detail, two may be mentioned here as being

essential from the Chinese point of view.

(1) Preference be given to suitable Chinese graduates, while only studenta (i, un dergraduates) of proved ability, who have passed examinations equivalent to the British Cuiversity, "saštriculations," be

chosen.

(2) The recipient must undertake to teach for n certain period on his or her return to

THE BURDEN OF THE AMERICAN DEBT.

a novel suggestion was made by the

shairman at the Bovril meeting to rolieys Great Britain from the burden of the American dabt. The payment of the interest by direct remittance would in hig opinion turn the exchange against us, and to obviate this, he suggested that wo slwuld build up in Canada a reserve to wards the payment of the debt.

The Canadian and United States dollars China, or to repay the sums awarded.. • were not likely to vary soriously in value, Much has been written about expending therefore any fund wo could build up in the Indemnity funds in China, and a great the Dominion would be comparatively free dent of stress laid on the principle of adapt from exchange fluctuations Canada was ing the education given to Chinese needs, capable of being developed at a much We will say, this, that we Chinese will more rapid pace than the present capital probably adopt Western learning to our own

and man power at its disposal could deve- requirements, better than a mixed British

it and Chinese Committee can do so for us, torrow at a lower rate than it has been Our Government" could now as is suggested in some quarters.

able to do for a good many years. If AUTO-SUCLEATION AND YAITH HEALING, -it could obtain grants of land from Professor Robertson's annual report on the Canada, it could utilise, say, £100,000,000 work of the Royal Edinburgh Mental Hospital in developing wheat areas, and probably and is always a document of interest and value certain industries in that Dominion;

this work, in to the layman as well as to the medical

conjunction with practitioner. This year he deals with the considerable emigration scheme of selected method of

auto suggestion which has become unemployed, should develop in Canada

with the name of M.

of M. reproductive asset that would, after a pop has always been known," he while, annually supply dollars towards says, **that when suggestion was given by the payment to the States. Furthermore, another (hetero-suggestion) it was operate Canada instead of from the States would every bushel of wheat bought from only when it became

help to keep our exchange better with the latter

Cone.

On

in other words, by auto-suggestion Coue teaches his patients how to do the suggestion for themselves, but that

greater faith is inspired when the anggestion comes from the outside is shown by the fact that patients retura to him to be re-inspired.

some

Professor Robertson holds that hetero- HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

suggestion, the old form, "still remains

the

the

most powerful agency." Ab

Aboard

claims have been made for Coueism not, perhaps by its author, who, while ready to take credit for any apparent

ແ Succesa, shrewd and cautious enough

not to put

thi method to a a crucial test as being capable of curing ve serio

serious physical

moladice. Tire

not a

a little danger

that the disciples, imagining this that Bush is heir

'that-

chre they themselves of all

to, may

great

nay delay in undergoing proper medical treatment, with perhaps grave consequences to themselves. At the same time, M. Cone is undoubtedly doing good by directing the attention of the medical profession to the part that mental suggestion can play in the treatment of the symptoms of dis case. Professor Robertson is of opinion that in the past doctors have tended to ignore this aspect, to the detriment of their patients, to the prejudice of their their own reputation, and to the encourage- ment of quackery and charletonism. In this, last ontoger he places those who claim to possem a mysterious

"gift of

clergymen and others who seek to practice an art which is indistinguishable from o lukewarm. Christian Science,” and re- presents a throwback to that primitive

healing." He is outspoken in criticiem of

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