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THE MORBISON LIBRARY.

THE MODEL PROVINCE RECENT, PROGRESS OF CONSTRUC-

MACAO NOTES.

[FROM OUR COBEESPONDENT. ]

for other breeds.

TAXES.

SCOUTS AND CADETS.

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аду invidious comparisota....

ITS NEW HOME ÁT TOKYO.

I anticipation of the forthcoming, Jamboree to be held by the Hongkong TIVE WORK IN SHANSI The library of Dr. (i. E. Morrison, for

Boy Scouta, a brief comparison of ther many years Correspondent of The Times Shansi, romarks the Bureau of Economic The propound tax on dogs in Macao, objects of the Scouts with those of at Peking, is being given a permanent Information, is the only province in has been approved, but the tax is much lest the Cadets might, ba of interest home.. The library was bought by Baron China which has been kept from internal than was originally suggested. The new It is Bot Our object Iwasaki in 1917 and is perhaps the most and political disturbance during the years tax will be $3 for sporting dogs and to Dinke complete collection of works on China aine China became a Republic. General

betwesu the Cadet Corps sttached :: ever gathered together. To this collection Yen. the Governor of the province, Baron Iwasaki has added a large number acts

A tax which will-probally pass into law to the HK.V.D. and the local Scouts, concurrently in both military of books dealing specially with Japan, and civil capacities, During his is a proposal to charge $1 for each sign. but merely to endeavour to show how the principles and the two motions are to placed interrupted administration, a construc board suspended. Merchants feel that hentially different are together and made freely accessible to Programme bas been adopted this is an uncossary measure. Business which govern, those two distinct organisa-.. Japanese and foreign students,

and gradually carried out. Special attens difficult enough in Macao with existing tione either at home or abrad tion is directed to six important re

The primary object of the Cadet move- forms: namely, land improvement, silk obstacles, and they expect to be given worm rearing and mulberry tree-growing, grantor liberty and assistance, instead of mont is to give military training to lada trou-planting, opum proibition, fout further impositions.

with a view to rendering them capable binding prohibition and queue-cutting.

of bearing arms should the necessity for- Cadet Corps are intended to be foeders so doing, ariso at some future date. The

for the volunteer or territorial forore, the - idem being that when the lads reach the requisite nge, they will automatically transfer into the latter.

The site chosen for the library building is the Hongo quarter of Tokyo, which already contains the Imperial University of Tokyo and other educational and

Encouragement is given cotton ouitiva- One of Macao's Councillors jatends ie scientific establishments. Work on the ties, afforestation, and animal husbandry troducing a measure to impose a tax building has begun, and, according to work. Specul bureaux have been organis- all privata riobhan, ад account in the Far East, will be ed for the planning and carrying out of! completed this year. The librarian is this reform programme, which may be. Mr. Mikinosuke Ishida, of the Imperial summarzied as follows:-

Colonel Adriano Augusta Trigo, University, who has made a special study Afforestatim.—There is now a provim Director of Public Works in Macao, bus of Chinese history and speaks English,cial bares with six branches which are French, and German. The new institute promoting afforestation. On Government submitted to the Technical Council his will issue a publication giving the results owned land the work is proceeding slowly plans, and specifications for the proposed military brganisation: hence its recogni-" of the researches of Japanese scholars, but steadily. It is estimated that there Post Office Building in the city. It is while this year the issue is promised of are 182,700,000 mow of vacant hill land

POST OFFICE BUILDING.

a completo catalogue of the Morrison which are expected to be afforestated in stated that the Governor is in complete collection, and each volume in the library the course of time. On every piece of spare accord with the project, and goueral will bear Morrison's bookplate, in which, † ground or uncultivated plots of pri-satisfaction is expressed in Macao, in memory of his Australian birth, avate" estates, the authorities encourage the kangaroo figures prominently.

BOA VISTA HOTEL AND THE ASYLUM FOR INVALIDS.

owners to plant at least one tres such year. The toul number of trees planted during the last few years is reported to The Macao Government has nominated average about 100,000,000 a year.

Cotton Cultivation. From land in Colonal Adriano Augusta. Trigo, Dire Shansi now in cotton is about 9,000,000 fur of Public Works at Macao on behalf mor. The area is being gradually extend

The Cadet movement is indisputably.

tion by the War Uffs and the assistance given to it from that source.

The Scout movement on the other hand

is

in

avowedly non-military, Sir Robt.. Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, in his handbook "Scouting for" Boys," which is The Morrison collection includes over

regarded as the foundation on which the. four hundred early manuscript diction

whole movement is based, both as regards. aries and grammars, some twenty

its wope and aims and the nature of the thousand printed volumes, four thousand pauphlets, and two thousand maps and

training gives, contains the following engravings. Among the treasures are

14 Thero ia no- five beautiful examples of the rare books ed from year to year. The Government of the Government, and Mr. Mateus de significant passage: printed on rice paper at Macno in the is making a special effort for the improve Lima, for the Santa Casa da Misericordia, military meaning attached to scouting latter part of the 17th century, a Chinese. ment of seed cption to increase the yield to assess the value of the building pre- Pence scouting comprises the attributes of Latin manuscript dictionary finished in as well as to raise the quality.

viously used as the Boa Vista Hotel and colonial frontiersmen the way of” 1724, a Latin translation of the Nestorian General Agriculture. Experiment stu- tablet published in 1685, forty-onations for animal husbandry Have been of the Asylum for Invalids at Tap Sige, resourcefulness auch self-reliance and the editions of Marco Polo, including the established in the provincial capital. Pure with the lands adjoining these buildings, many other qualities which make them. first edition of 1498 in Italian, and the bred stocks are imported from Australia with the view to purchase as previously men among men. There is no intention

French first English,

and German for the purpose of cross breeding.

reported.

of making the lada into soldiers or of editions, the MS. dictionary used by Sir problems of general agriculture in con

teaching them bloodthirstiness. At the John Barrow in 1783, together with the action with fertilizers, irrigation, mal-

time under log book of the Lion frigate which took berry, cultivation, seed exchange, etc., ar

* Patriotism,' they Lord Macartney and Barrow to China, being investigated by experts.

are taught that a citizen must be prepared The books in the collection are in over twenty different languages; they include

to take his fair share among his fellows the most complete collection known of

in the defence of the homeland against missionary literature and other special

aggression in return for the safety and subjects, that relating to ornithology

frædom enjoyed by him as an inhabitant.”- being particularly fine,

Thu

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.. Prompted by opposition to reconstruc- tion of St. Paul's Church, and also, by comments in O Liberal, Mr. Sebastiao da Costa, Chief of the Cabinet of H.E. Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, Governor of Macao,

Spinning and weaving and the produc tion of silk, leather und paper have seen some introduction of modern methods. But, the most distinctive achieroznent is the roads which are being built through- out the province, mostly by soldier labour. denies officially that His Excellency had A fenturs of the collection is the section The plan consists of a system of trunk ever promised to assist in the reconstruc-If we may be excused for again quoting devoted to pamphlets, reports, and Blue and branch roads to link all the priation of, the Church. Mr. da Costa states from a writer who deals with this same. books: the pamphlets alone fill several cipal districts and villages. The total

aspect of the subject, the following far planned in that His Excellency is not opposed to the extract from an article which appeared hundred cases. The maps, which date length of the roads 0 from 1568, are very valuable; in one of 3,200 i, suitable for motor trafic. Some reconstruction, and that funds have to be them Korea is shown as an island. of this is reported to have been com- utilized for many necesary reforms be

It should be remembered (saya the North plated.

The system of primary education work for any can be spared for the work Clana Herald) that this collection consista wholly of foreign books, &c., that is, there ed out in Shahsf is mid to be one of the suggested, are no books in it in the Chinese language, best in China, not so much because of but among Eastern languages represented the merits of the individual schools, but are Arabic Turkish, and Hebrew. As rather on account of the extent to which to the additione made by Baron Iwasaki, popular education is carried. Ja order these contain photographic copies of to facilitate administrative reforms, the ancient Chinese manuscripts found in village is made a suit. The people are Central Asia, books relating to Mongolia, gradually being trained for self-govern the area of unused land, known as Horta one works through impression, the other. Central Asia and Persia, and translations ment. Each village is allowed to a large da Companhia, in Magio, for the estab-through expression. The Cadet training í of the Scriptures made by the early extent to draw up its own arbitration lishment of the Asylum for Invalids on imposes collective instruction up the Jesuit missionarice at Nagasaki, «

court, and organise themselves for their that site.

best from without; while the Scout own protection. The system was put in actual practice in October, 1992. No re ports are available as to how this is being worked out.

RISE IN TIN.

A recent London paper says:- The sharp rise in the price of tin

TRIBUTES AT FUNERALS.

the Times of July, 14th, 1918, mr be regarded as of special interest. The article was a comparative survey of the Hoout training and stated" Both the Cadet and Scout movements are put for With the probable sale of the building the good of the boy. The outstanding. used at present as the Asylum for Indifference between their respective valids, it is reported that the Santa Cash methods of training is that of principle da Mericordia contemplates parchasing

NEW ASYLUM FOR: INVAĻIDs.

ATHLETICS

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On March 318 and April 1st, inter, movement encourages molt-development on collegiate athletics were held before a the part of the individual from within. large concourse of residents. ELE Dr. Military drill fashiong him on to 121 Bodrigo Rodrigues and His Lordship approved standard as a part of the Bishop D. Joao Costa Nunes were pre machine whereas the aim of scouting is to develop his personal charactor sa a Macao will be sending a number of first step." athletes to Hongkong to compete against Portuguese lads there.

sent,

to £209, fos. per ton attracted SOTTO EXTRAVAGANT FLORAL attention, and the forthcoming statisties will be awaited with interest to nec. if they disclose any marked alteration in

A YOKOHAMA SUGGESTION stocks. It is believed, however, "that the figures will show American deliveries for

The extravagance noted in expenditure the month at from 2,000 tors to 6,500 tons; on floral tributes at funerals in Yokohama and that Europe will have absorbed about during recent years says the ̈ Japan 2,500 tons during February. The sanin Gazette, has led to a very general feeling factor is the continued growth of con- that some reform is needed and that the sumption, with America a keen buyer large sum of money spent on flowers, and the prospect, that a larger demand which benefits only a few florists, might, For what is believed to be the first time will be seen from that quarter in the by some organized effort, be devoted to in the history of engineering in Calcutta, next few months. The feeling is, there charitable institutions in the community, an iron bridge has been successfully lifted fore, one of confidence, for, while con At a funeral in Yokohama not many up and bodily moved to a new site, saya sumption is growing, a larger production months since it is cotimated the expendi- The Englishman."

BRIDGE BODILY MOVED. ENGINEERING FEAT AT CALCUTTA

It is because so many people have an idea that the two movements are closely akia, or in fact ona and the same, that we have ventured to pet facts. As far as Hongkong as concerned, it i hoped that the Jazabores will holy to dispel this idea and serve to demonstrate in some measure the real value of Scouting for, boys both as a mean of character training and as an adjunt to education. Contribute.

CORRESPONDENCE

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

is apparently not in sight. Last year turo on flowers must have approximated The bridge is the one crossing the the market was held in check by the fear 7.1,500, and so strong was the feeling | Circular Canal at Belgatehis on the roud that stocks held in reserve by the Eastern against such waste that several prominent to Dum Dum, at which point a larger pool would be liquidated on a rise, but residents are known to have resolved to bridge is to be constructed. To pervent with the more betive trade demand this insert in their, wills a clause that no a repetition of the inconvenience inflicted factor does not hold the same importance, flowers are to be accepted from the public on the public in the case of the Kidder At the end of 1922 stocks were reduced on the occasion of their demise.

poro Bridge, the Improvement. Trust by about 14,000 tons on the year, and, The question was brought to public decided to interrupt traffic for only the E-WI the manager of the Green consequently, if consumption remains at attention as the meeting of the Overseas shortest time possible. The old bridge, Island Cement Co. kindly explain why- the same level as last year, the quantity Nursing Association recently, when Sir therefore, has not been dismantled. It the Company is unable to supply local held in reserys in the Straits, amounting Edward F. Crowe, C.M.G., suggested that has been shifted about 60 feet further Chinese contractors with their daily to about 12,700 tons, will be needed to the money which is now spent on extra north, and passenger and vehicular trahe wants? Is this, due to defective kila or balance the difference between consump vagant floral tributes might be donated tion and production. If the trade demand by the friends of the deceased to some will very soon be able to cross the canal a scarcity of limestone? expands still further, the invisible stocks worthy organisation such as the General as before. The new bridge is to be built Is it a fact that owing to the disturbed will easily be absorbed. Not much relief Hospital, and in this way the memory of on the site formerly occupied by the conditions, very little limestone can be obtained from Canton? Is there no is anticipated from increased production friends would be honoured and humanity existing structure.

certainly not for some time--and, benefited. according to some authorities, production seems to be going back in certain directions. There is always the further point that, should the European situation improve, demand would be stimulated.

WHAT IS EYESTRAIN?

The eye has certain tiny muscles When objects we look at do not come up to a sliary focus in the OFF, these muscles exert themselves unduly and enable us to ses clearly, in, spite of the defect. Then minecles, tire, and, relax causing the objects, looked at to become blurred and indistinct. Upon closing the eyes; for a few seconds the muscles, be- came more or less rested and objects | are #clear again for a bried - period. Properly fitted glumes: correch eys-strain, whether caused by estigmation 'er "age. The Hongkong-Optiesi Co., muccessors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Refract ing Opticians, 53 Queen's Road Centyal, have the equipment to fit you glasses properly.-ADVT.

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POPULATION OF CHINA. 1923-1921.

The following figures wore published in the Journal of the Chinese General Cham- ber of Comiméreo :-

Years. 1913 -1914

1915 -1916

1917-

1918

1919

-1990 1391

Years,

1913

1014

1915

1910

1917

1918

1919

1970

Population

441,933,000 441,083,000.

ANXIOUS SHAREHOLDER. Hongkong, April 5th, 1923.

The operation was carried out with remedy, and must the Company wait til great success by the makers of the old peace and good order is restored in bridge, Mesars Burn & Co., of Calcutta Kwangtung 1-Yours truly, and Howrah. The preliminaries to the final remeval occupied a period of three months, but

not road traffic was

While we are at present without an interrupted until a few days ago when official statement in reply to this letter.. the single-line tramway track was cut and we are informed that, although there is the roadway taken up ontirely to lighten an extraordinary demand for coment, the the weight of the bridge.

Company is able to meet all local demands.

ED.]*

The original bridge 'girders were then lifted at each end in situ by means of hydraulic jacks, and a cluster of joista. 445,873,000 were placed underneath them. These joists were extended to the new site alongside. The old bridge had masonry. abutments, but its new site abutments have been made of mozorim góle. columns which will enffico for

445,873,000 -439,405,000 430,405,000

430,405,000

·440,034,000

443,382,000

651,000 651,000

1,000,000

1,000,000

Laago.

ATTACKED IN A CHAIR. UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

An unsuccessful attempt at highway Having connected the old abutments robbery was made by seven men in Caine POPULATION OF BHANGHAI 1913-1921, .'

with the new by means of the cluster of Road on Tuesday. Mr. Chu Pek Tang, Population. joists, placod ander, the bridge girders, master of a tobacco shop in Wing Lok on both banks, the hauling of the girders Street, was proceeding to his home in over the graphited and greased surface Caine Road by chair at about 10 pm. of the bunch of joista vie the next At the entrance to Caine Lane seen or operation. It presented to serious eight men jumped out on him from the side difficulty, and it was compilehed by the of the road. One man put his hand acros aid of two crab winches, worked by about Mr. Chu's mouth, butzin site of that he doren men on each crab. Eighty, tons managed to bout for help. Some of the of bridge, were than moved in the space of men struck him over the mouth, and un- a few hours. The actual time taken by other stashed him in the left hand, The the work bi haulage occupied only 5k robbers ran away without having stolen

anything.

1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000, 1,500,000 1,500,000. These figures, of course, must be largely gucas work

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