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Arthar. Formerly the Summer Resort of the high Bussian oficers and officials. Yama Estel and 20 villas and bungalows, mostly with detached servants quarters. Excellen

Wonderful Scenery, Historio Battlefelds. Baized and Dismantled Forta Miles

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TEACHING ENGLISH.

We are wisely suspicious in England of 1 schemes of education devised by officials who do not teach and promulgated sa the ideal, if not the law, for all sorts and conditions of schools and children and teachers. We have found good reason to believe that the methods which are ad mirable in one man's hands are mere vanity and vexation of spirit in another's,

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NOTICE TO · CONSIONBES.

PENINSULAR ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMINE. *MACEDONIA."

ALLE HONGKONG ON THE DR

DECEM, 1994. FROX ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRALTAR, MARSEILLES, PORT SAID, ADEN,

COLOMBÓ AND STRAITS.

and that children of different orizin and 0°

“YONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-

one

are not best served by uniformt

named Vasool are hereby informed

. But, there will be found no that their Goods are being landed and

of importance to object to the, new efforts of the Board of Education to foster and direct the teaching of

placed AT THE RISx in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company' Godown Kowloon, where sach Consignment will be sorted out Mark by fark and delivery

be obtained

The Goods JJA

landed. will be landed, hore nnisus Optional Goods will be Instructions have been given to the con-

lish in secondary schools in it." be

The supreme value of our OWB as a means to the development and of the mind is now generally united. The demand for

effec use of tive teaching of the

the language f clear and accurate expression by spoken and written word, is loud. The

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trary Sir

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hours before Arnval of the Steamer... Goods not cleared within 8 days, holuding lata of arrival be aubject to Heat

INDO-CHINA

NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED

__BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

STEAM

STRAITS & CALCUTTA RANGKOK via SWATOW TSINGTAU via SVATOW &

SHANGHAI

"KWONGSANG" "HINSANG"

TA SWATOW via AMOY SHANGHAI vs SWATOW HAIPHONG TM HOINOW TIENTSIN...

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"HUSANG" "HANGSANG"

**LAISANG *** WOSANG

"YUENSANG"

*FAUSNAG

"LEBAANGTM

"CA[PJAING"

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...Monday, loth Doo, 3 på .... Today 16th Dec, 10am.

Wednesday, 17th Dec. 7am. Wednesday, 17th Doo, Noon

Wednesday, 17th Dec, p Friday,

19th Dec, T

...Samrday, 20th Doc. Noon ...Sumter,

Sunder

Tacaday,

trt Dec., 7th

1st Doc, 9am

23rd Dec., Tam

REGULAR SAILINGS ARE MAINTAINED AS FOLLOWS -

No Fire Inrarance will be effected by us in Board suggests to the secondary schools any case whatever.

Packages

'must be left in the Buys and girls should be induced to read th

Sarruyor, Mesers. GODDARD beyond the texts studied in class. They

at 10 ... on Mondays and should have to learn by heart the

patches

of great books.

cercain matters as of the first magnitude.mination, by the Consignees, and | HONGKONG-HAIPHONG LINE

And

DOUGLAS, Thursdays.

All Claims must be presented within Tan daya of the Steatar's arrival hore, after which date

have plenty of practice in shall they cannot be recognized.

written composition. But how the teacher persuade the child naturalis averse from books to wide

·ide reading! Such children are not few, nor are they necessarily of a lower criter of intelif. Kence than those whe read avidly. Many of them are so made that their minds respond readily to the 'concrete fact, but slowly and inperiactly to the abstraction of the printed page Thera Are also children who do find

Kreat pleasure in reading, but read slowly, children who, as far as human wisdom can judge, will always be people of few books. Some of the greatest writers, we may remark, bave been in that class, and some of the past widely read of mankind

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have been singularly, shy of

of using their! knowledge. When the Board suggests that boys and girls should be led to the rapid reading of Hakluyt at home," we fear that it is a counsel of perfection. The children who can read Elizabethan

will always be a minority. |

haired three boys na girls

delivered from the inability, which so many of their elders aficct, to read anything written in style, which lacks the modern turns of phrase. But we canunt feel that the Board has shown us the way to deliver ang. It seems, as is the habit of Boards. rather too intent upon edification. It can see no justification for the use of novels as the English texts; rather let ferirs use Stevenson's essays as a class-book and let the children read his novels by themselves. This is an estimate of the relative importance of the works OF I. . which few sound critics will de- fend, What critic can seriously maintain that Sir Walter Baleigh and Sir Thomas are mere valuable a ministers to the minds of boys and girls than the great novelists ? For the most important thing of all in the traching of English is to teach a love of English and a zest for the fine things which have been writ- ten in English. "A school which tries to do that by eschewing the English novel is pet well advised.#family Telegraph,

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THE ANCIENT EGG.

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Generations of humorists have made casy mirth over the nice adaptation of the epithets applied by the vendors of eggs to their wares. A study thereof may indeed, farnish proof to the phil- osopher of the relativity of all mundane thought and thing

ngs. But we had supe pose that even with the egg some measure of practical certainty could be attained...

The eg

which vaunt them- selves at dairy shows, for example, we believed to be all glorious within, beyond suspicion new. It was not to be thought of that the competitors should send, ar the judges tolerate, an egg

which past its prime. But now from Scotland comes a sad tale of deceit. The Arsaire Agricultural Association has just been holding a dairy show a Kilmarnock, and large in the classes for fresh eggs number of the exhibits were disqualified

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age" Some of the eggs, we are told were recognised as having been exhibited at previous shows for years past and as having frequently won prizes as fresh eggs." How the particular egg was identified as a past prize-winner is left a mystery, mysterious as the fact that an egg could keep on going to shows for years without its antiquity attracting the notice of judges. But there scoms

for

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ennial

were

to be no doubt that it has been the cus tom of some fanny hen wives in Ayrshire, whenever a ben excels herself, to sel the chef d'uvre aside and send it to show after show. The process, apparently, might have gone on till these hardy per

old as those of the great auk Er the pyornis, if the

judges at Kilmarnock had not shall we say got wind of something. It startles us to find that there was such simple faith in Scotland. In future, we presume. komesterner

ner tests Gill be applied. It might be nominated in the bond that the exhibitor shall eat any C5 would sclccted by the judge. Thus the exhibitors certainly

persuaded ever to higher to rise on step- nes of th

and a new standard of fresh introduced into the cgg, market. cannot complain that the Kilmarnock judges have acted prematurely. **Fresh" is no doubt a relative, not an absolute. terms, but when eggs put on the antiquits of wine the hardiest curate must pro test no parts of them are excellent. Yet we are glad that the fraud was not discovered til the end of the election campaign. If the judges had been what the Prime Minister enlis precipitate, the atmosphere round certain platforms might have been still more mephitic- Daily Tricyra pir..

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• Messrs. Vickers, of Sheffield, have secured a contract for the construction of an airship of more than twice the site of the ZR 3.

Over 4,000 competitors are expected to take part in the world's dancing cham pionships, the finals of which will be held in London in January.

No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda aave left the Goilown.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 11th December, 1924. 1590

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OBTAINABLE FROM-

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