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THE HONGKONG DALLY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 300m, 1985
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Per Coupon (Gross)
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HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS'
ASSOCIATION.
INTIMATIONS da
DEWAR'S
WHITE
LABEL'
FINEST
Admiral Prochot, Commander-in-Chief of the French Naval Forces in Far Eastern waters, left Hongkong on Sunday, after arriving from, Shanghai, on the sloop-
tyol, for Canton,
The Colony had a clean bill of health. The East at the present time, is full the tools unconscious perhaps, but nf object lessons of the maxin that a bevertheless, tools, of their Chinese for the 24 hours ended on June 28th. The little knowledge is a dangerous thing." members. The way in which the students return for the 48 hours ended on June In India, the progress of higher education of a missionary university at Shanghaith, shows Chinese case of enteria
fever, on Western lines-Especially of legal either deceived or intimidated the heads education incided with an increase in of that university to By the Chinese "Sag sedition. China, the same process at half-mast, and to perform other acts seems to have bred the present anti-which were apparently intended to show foreign" attitude! At Erst sight there the university's sympathy with the rioters More recent, fore, it might seem that there was some-is ancient history now. thing intrinsically wrong with the higher however, had still more startling was
The Empress of Canada, which should education itself; since it has produced the extraordinary action of the various have arrived yesterday with mails" fron such dangerous results. This is not the members of the staff of the Canton Canada. U.S.A., Japan, Shanghai, and That the Chinese Europe pia Siberia (Londen, Jume stb), case, because higher education in Europe Christian College. and Amerien produces, not agitators and portion of the staff, together with the will arrive to-day, being duo in út sam." unscrupulous scoundrels. but normal students, should have believed that the
The driver of the Chinese owned nistor-
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The SCOTCH WHISKY citizens, whose common sense usury European forces of Shameen fired into a car, who was thrown out head first and re-
Postponed JUNE SETTLEMENT THE
take place en TUESDAY, 778 JULY.
Leer Thr at - in the £
Net Amount Payable
ON £1009 DzAKSTURES:
12.10.
2. 4. 4/5
- 7.1/5
23. 0.0
By Order of the Committee.
J. W. KEW.
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Secretary,
NOTICE.
Per Coupon (Gross) Lose Tax at 4 in the
Net Amount Payable
12. 0.
THE SHARE & REALESTATE BROKERS SOCIETY OF HONGKONG.
ES. 8. 6. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The
Postponed JUNE SETTLEMENT will take place on TUESDAY.7 JULY.
By Order of the Committee,
M. FERNANDAZ,
Secretary.
On £500. DEBANTURES:
els. 0, 0. Per Coupon (Grom) Lens Tas at 4 in the 23. 0. 0.
2055)
Net Amount Payablo 212. 0. 0.
"
Fayment will be made in Dolls at the STOCK EXCHANGE IN CLOSED Pentand Buying Rate of Exchange of the Day the Coupon is presenter..
By Order,
THE KAILAN MINING
ADMINISTRATION, .
E. J. NATHAN,
Acting General-Masager.
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the From THIS DATE and that the June Settle- inent IS POSTPONED patil TUESDAY, 7TH JULY.
By Order of the Committee,
A. NISSIM,
Secretary, HONGKONG STOCK Exchiner
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SETTLEMENT DAY.
OF GREAT AGE.
AWARDED 50 GOLD AND PRIZE MEDALS,
indicates the spheres in which their peaceful procession is not surprising,ceived very serious injuries, when the car intellectual gifts will be at once
judging by the prejudice and credulity he was driving dropped over the embank profitable
to themselves, and valuable to the com.of their colleagues elsewhere, but it is meat a distance of thirty feet at Sassoon munity. In the East, however, the regrettable that the College should have Road on Saturday afternoon,' died in students pass quickly from the complete published such a declaration as it did, hospital on Sunday night. subordination of family life into the in without troubling to ascertain the true finitely freer atmosphere of the higher facts of the case, especially when it was school or University. At the same time they known, in Canton and even in Hongkong,
DEWAR'S are taught to look upon their instructors, before the procession actually took place,
"VICTORIA invariably infallible.
VAT"
THE VERY FINEST OLD
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. BY Permission of His Excel no, the SCOTCH
NOTICE
TO
PEAK BESIDENTS.
RRANGEMENTS have been unde to koop Stocks of AERATED WATERS
at the Peak Horzz Premise... Peak Residents should Send for their Requirements, as Delivery to Houses Cannot Noy be Made.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
Hongkong, 9th Jane, 1925.
BANK HOLIDAY.
Governor of Hongkong, the Hongkong Stock Exchange has Postponed their Settlement i from TO-DAY, (June 231) antil Tuesday, July 7th.
Sgd. H. BIRKETT,
Chairman of the
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANG1.
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SHARE AND REAL ESTATE BROKERS SOCIETY OF
HONGKONG,
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to
with No. 3 of 1912,
NOTICE.
Unforeseen Circumstances Jane Settlement Day which ought to have taken place TO-DAY 280 JUNE, 1925)
I The EXCHANGE BANKS will Has Been Postponed until further Notice
CLOSED for the Traamction of PUBLIO
BUSINESS
On
WEDNESDAY, the IT
JULY, 1925.
Hongkong, 29th June, 1925.
(0359
INSURANCE OFFICES.
NOTICE
GENERAL HOLIDAY-IN JULY, 1995,
Τα
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that All FIRE and MABINE INSURANCE OFFICES be CLOSED for the Transaction af PUBLIC BUSINESS on WEDNESDAY, the 1st of JULY 1925.
By Order.
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Secretaries, - FIRE INSURANCE ÅLBOCIATION OF HONGKONG, MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF
HONGLONG AND CANTON.
Bongkong, 29th June, 1925.
BANK HOLIDAY.
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following Hoon; cz JULY
By Order of the Committee.--.
M. FERNANDEZ,
NOTICE.
Mecretary.
HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS
'ASSOCIATION,
FRE HONG KONG SHAREBEURENS' ASSOCIATION
will be CLOSED until further Notice.
By Order of the Committee,
J. W. KEW,
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Secretary.
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DEATH. SITE.At the Matilda Hospital, on Jane 28th, AGNES SMITH (née MCLELLAND), wile of J. T. Surn, Tungshan, Canton,
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The Daily Press.
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Inspector Purden, of the Hongkong Police Force, left the Colony on Saturday on retirement. Before his departure he reveived various gifts from his colleagues not as individuals with a higher order of that it would mest probably be used as in the Forer. The gifta consisted of a intelligence than their own, but as com-a cloak for a treacherous attack upon silver tea-set silver tray, silver coffee panions whose judgment may not be Shameen. Such actions merely emphasise, pot and a silver hot water jag.
At first they are yet more forcibly, that the missionary
Four robbers entered No. 8 Clarence side of Chinese Street. Wost Point, on Sunday · evening too surprised at the completeness of the often only sees change to be other than grateful for character, and that is the one he wishes and committed robbery "with violence
A little later, they jump, with to see. It is a grave responsibility when After gagging and blading the occupante, so they made off with money and jewellery surprising quickness and unanimity, to the missionaries have "undertaken the conclusion that their views are in all much of the present education in China. to the value of $400. Two of the mea respects as gned as those of their It has frequently been said that the were arrested by the police shortly after- teachers, and that their continued attend Chinese are incapable of appreciating the wards in possession of part of the pro- ance at school or university is, in fact, true significance of religion. Confucius ceeds of the rubbery.
When the steamer St. Albans reached something in the nature of a favour to wag a moralist in the old classical sense
rather than in the more restricted Sydney on May 22nd, it was stated by that institution. Meantime, their pres
modern one.
In any case, he can scarcely the officers that when off the coast neaz. sence becomes noisily obstrusive, and they proceed to make great play with be regarded as a religious teacher. Cairns a sealed tub was dropped over- such words, as representation," "rights" Seemly conduct the Chinese can under board, and a speed launch dashed up and took it aboard. It is supposed that the but standi Obviously, the pro-
religious devotion. and grievance."
tub contained opium. The launch cess of change, from subordination to co- Accordingly a number of them (there are
vanished in the dark. Customs officials, operation, which takes place so naturally many exceptions) have Appreciated the in European schools and universities, is fail commercial value of Christianity, but of danger in similar institutions in the have failed to penetrate further. The the Nt. haar left Hongkong the ship's 4 officers made a search, and found £1,000 East. As a direct consequence of their old classical Chinese education was natural instincts, and environment in discipline, but a modern Christian edu. worth of opium in a suitcase. This was early life, the students' minds are not cation only too frequently a botchpotch put ashore at. Manil
A Chinese woman, named Chung Ching sufficiently prepared for it. and as of commerce and religious formulae," result. it is not unnatural that they This is not what the missionaries intend Tung, who was selling pork ite acquire such wildly exaggerated notions it to be. It is the form into which the Western district on Sunday was attacked by two men and received very severe of their own importance as we have students themselves twist it. recently, observed so, plainly, not only in
Thus, the missionary institution is wounds on the head, which proved fatale Shanghai and Canton, but also here in solution to the problem of Chinese The men, it appears, stopped her and ask÷ Hongkong. In England such an exag. education, Meanwhile, we are faced with ed the price of the pork. Whenthey were gerated view of his own importance is the fact that, in Hongkong, at any told it was being sold at 70 cents per quickly dissipated in the student by rate, the fabourers and coolies, in their cattie the alleged attack was made on Another attack, allegedly on this ridicule from his elders. In China, haw. reluctance to strike, except when in her.
not
who had boarded the steamer as Cairns.
were surprised by this daring act. After
ever, the natural timidity of numbers of timidation has compelled them, have instigation of men concerned in the trade the people, together with their anxiety to betrayed far more common sense than was that on a man who was also engaged in selling park. This man was seriously "'enlightened "
at all
costs the students in our schools. Putting the appear
injured. cnuses them to be stampeded by a mob action of the labourer in its lowest terms,
At the Central Magistracy yesterday, of children who should be soundly birched, it is at least a recognition of the utter and sent back to school.
futility of this present business. Is there, before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, three the armed robbery committed at 154 But there is still a more serious then, any solution to this educational Chinese were charged in connection with problem! We believe that the students Connaught Road Central, third floor. side to the problem than the one We
In Europe; the of China can only continue to wreck their opposite the Ping On Wharf, on Satur-
an exceedingly low have just indicated.
WEbeg to do OPENED at the
YE beg to Announce that Our Depot and For some weeks now, whenever public, possess brains of
WEDNESDAY, IN opinion has sought to discover an ex-order, being totally incapable of con- student is taught to use his intellect, and country's hopes of recovery so long a day, June 20th. It will be remembered planation for revent calamities in China, sistency in their own actions, and the freedom which ita proper training the mass of the people remain illiterate that seven Chinese, armed with revolvern DEPOS KOWLOON AND QUALET BAY-From 7 Bolshevism and the Chinear students absolutely devoid of any sense of pro-givex, honestly, and in the pursuit of and passive. The chief aim of all and knives, 'entered these premises, ce-
.A.M. to 12 Noos
portion We will not labour the point truth. Reducing the problem to its educators in China should be to educate cupied by the Chin Hing Econg firm of have been coupled together in such a
the "lower classes in their respon-exportera, and after binding and gagging
·Prix-8.30 to 12 Noan, and
way that the ordinary person may be
lowest terms, we may say that no-one will believe him if he does not. To take sibilities. Too much attention has been six merchants and eleven employees, forgiven if he fails to dissociate the two
an obvious example, a statesman may paid to the large towns, and too little rifled the safes and decamped with Moreover, as we have previously pointed
to be drawn from these outbreaks is that-lery. The prisoners were remanded. An- out in these columns, the mere fact that
put his own construction upon a certain to the villages. And the final conclusion $14,000 in bankudies and 81,000 in jewet- Chinese student has been educated in
set of facts, but he will never he allowed higher education on Western lines should other Chinese was committed for trial to proceed even as far as 3. seat in be withheld from students until they are last week on a charge of receiving part
of the property. Parliament unless he gets his facts right old enough to appreciate its object.· first. In China, the educated student
Ice Deror-Sax. to 8 A. & 2 .. to 3 r..
DAIRY FARM, ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED.
that no-one compels them to attend schools in Hongkong, but that they them selves are exceedingly anxious to obtain the benefits of n Western education, Neither will we elaborate the fact that an institution under Western, control, a good number of them betray an almost wear European 7TH reference to the "Ofer of New W Shares dated the 15th May, 1925 or even that he has been educated childish eagerness to (made to Existing Shareholders of the Company) abroad, is no guarantee at all that clothes, and to adopt mannerisms which by the term of which the sum of
of $7.50 per share
his country they mistakenly imagine are in the hest will deliberately falsify his facts in order was to be paid on the 30th June, 1920, and the he will not return to sum of $5 on the 30th September, 1925, the full of hate for Europe and full of English tradition, but which they have to justify his own conduct, and the Directors hare decided (in view of the present
enthusiasm for Bolshevism. For a long in all probability gleaned from some of Foreign Secretary of the Canton Govern Those Dates of affairs) to astan condition
The Date for Payment of the First Instal
extended time we believed, however, that although the more striking film versions of Englishment will send to Peking as an offcial until the OM SEPTEMBER, nabl the 31st
Arrested at a boarding house in Con- There is to be a meeting of the Sanitary aught Bond Central after commítting an assault, a Chinese feigned sickness Board this afternoon,
after being taken to gaol and was re-
A Chinese was arrested in Kowloon City
ment of $7.50 per fare is accord, and the there opinions were perfectly true of the social life. Not everything is bad which account of an episode which directly on Sunday night in possession of a lauded ved to the gaol hospital. While there
Dato
Instalment
those
he attacked an Indian, warder one
night
revolver, and a dagger
last week with a broom handic. During
J
A creche has been installed at the Peak the attack the handle broke, and the
for Payment of the Secomi 1925, DECEMBER
rest of China, they did not apply to they copy, nor do they copy everything raused the loss of the lives of a number regard Sharobalders who take advantage Hongkong. Even after the Shanghai Badly. What we do wish to emphasise, of his own countrymen what is nothing
artended these.
the New Bharta. times ailottel to them will rank for Dividend as from disturbances, it seemed, taking a general however, is the desire to be Westert mere nor less then a deliberate lis. Thess Club, which should be found of great Indian securing one piece, 'n general the lar Ocroxxa, 1925, in respect of half the
conditions. nominal raise thereof and as from the IST view, that the students of Hongkong at all costs, in order to impress their are merely examples of 'n general process service during the present unsettled scrap ensued. During the tumle the JANUARY, 1928, in respect of as fall nomias realised that no service is rendered to less fortunate "countrymen. We wish, of exploitation, carried ou by
Any Shareholder who makes payment priorChina by deliberately-planned riots and however, that with Western ideas, they whose education" has apparently only
the and Oss, area on May 30th, was to the due date will be allowed interest at 7
sent. per sonam on the amonat paid by murders, and senseless demands to could manage to absorb a little of that taught them to lie convinemg him from the date of payment until the due declare war on at least three first class chivalry which at one time was not ex-fdsent ignorant state of the vast mass delivered in Marseilles on June 27th, injury. At the Central Magistracy yes
Thin Notice wil not affect thor Share-powers. In other words we believed that clusively Western, being, in fact, inter the working population of China transit of 28 days, holders who make payment on the original
valne thereof.
date.
Indian attuck the Chinese prisoner on
The silk which left Hongkong by the
the head and rendered him unconscious.
The Chinese subsequently died from the
terday, Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, held a coroner's inquiry. The evidence of Dr.
Ah, 4.0, an rogarda the First Instalment the Hongkang students pussessed the national. It was merely one of the in-allows them to continue this miserableWednesday being a holiday MessTValentine showed that the Chinese: dird
the 30th Jowz and as regards the Seccad Ins-normal quota of intelligence. In view cidents of this present trouble that Eng-state of affairs indefinitely. talent on the 80th SETTEMBRE The Shares to be allotted to them will in accordance with of recent events, and more particularly,ish ladies, teaching in Hongkong schools
for Difidand
the original terms of the offer rank &
from the remembering the feebly silly declaration immediately before the strike, bad to put 1. Or, 1925, and on the Full Nominal raine of some Queen's College students in up with insolence and rudeness, and in as from the 1st OCTOBER 1925, NE
3, H. TAGGART,
By Order of the B
Managing Director,
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Canton, we are reluctantly forced to the some cases, even vulgarity, conclusion that a certain proportion, et Chinese students, who azyrale, of the Hongkong students enough to know better.
At frat night, it might seem that the
... ,
true solution of the difficulty would be
Lane, Crawford, Ltd., will open for from a fractured akull, which was abnor- business in the City and on the Peak mally thin. The jury returned a verdict from 9.a.m. to 12 boon only,
an extension of missionary enterprise in The death occurred at Singapore of Mr. a few Chinese education. Unfortunately, re- Edgar Hulland, who for four years had fully old cent events have taught us that only loo been, musical director of Raffics Hotel
atten, mirzionary universities are merely Deceased was about 18 years of age.
in accordance with the medical evidence, exonerating the warder from all blame, About fifty Europeans arrived in holding that he had acted in self-defence. Bongkang yesterday by the s. Tung including a number of missionaries
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