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PADDLE-WHEEL TO

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Dargo Transport by Camels. The transport of cargo by these

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AROUND THE SCHOOLS

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BY EX-COLLEGIAN,"

To schoolboys in Hong Kong] in good stend when the inter-school Many injure their health in the at-. summer brings with it one happy competition begins. thought, and that is that dur-

tempt. But with physical culture classes available, the student who neglects the development of his body at the expense of development of his intellect is indeed foolish."

Ju-Jitsu classes have been intro-

King's College hare many good primitive methods was even more ing the months of July and ping pong exponents, and although difficult than that of passengers and August school work can be left there are many tables available in mails, more especially between entirely alone. The end of June is the covered playgrounds, maris Cairo and Suez, where every pack-the period when the half-yearly have to wait for their turn. Some age had to be carried on camel's back a distance of nearly 100 mil examinations are taken in most of the students of the school repre- duced into King's College, and have

schools; and all the "wotting" that has to be done will be over

sent the China Athletic, the South China A.A. and the Chinese

Many thousands of these animals were employed in this work, which during the next week or so. School, T.M.CA, in the Open League. The

embraced, in addition, the carriage

boyR

CAN

then concentrate

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time is not far distant when King's

of water from the Nile for the wimming, picnics, excursions and College will be able to enter a team

several desert stations and for Suez.

The mail from the East, made up at Bombay, consisted of bundles of letters which were Backed in strong iron boxes of about two fect by one foot, and eighteen inches in depth, sceurely bound and sealed with salder, as it was said that wax suld be melted by the heat of the Pelimate. The number of

varied from 30 to 40 and together they constituted the mall conveyed from Bombay to Egypt.

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of its own and da quite well.

St. Stephen's Gollege.

travels, and devise other ways and

to ten weeks holidays they get. means of getting the best out of the

Out in Stanley St. Stephen's The summer holidays in Hong College has not settled down. Their Kong are the longest the schools bolidaye begin on July 19 and give, and during this period most will extend to September 9. The enter school has a bathing shed in Stanley students never so much as the school premises. Before break-which is proving very popular and a number of students bave joined ing-up the holidays are eagerly look-

proved most fascinating to those who Have taken it up. - The classes are under Mr. A. J. Mauricio, and I learn that the boys are extremely keen. It would seem that the popular fallacy amongst the Chinese that a schoolboy who has been working hard at school must neces- sarily be lean and wiry will soon be exploded, and that the most coveted prize in studies in a Hong Kong school will some day be won by the school's champion athlete..

[There being no school news to

tion, publication of these notes will be suspended until after the holi

baxes forward to, but niter a separa. the life-anring classes which the chronicle during the summer vaca- :

As time went on further improve were effected and, in the spring of 1851, the P. and O. Co. nade arrangements for the con- struction of the railway between Alexandria and Cairo. This rail- way was completed in 1839.

Things consinued pretty much ing this condition until the opering of the Suez Canal in 1669, in which the P. and O. Company had a very special interest. The first P and C. steamship to pass through the canal was the Delhi in 1870. The P. and O. Carthage was the first mail' ship to pass through the canal in 1888, and made the transit in 16 hours.

The P. and O... Company's con- nection with Eastern mail transit

tion of from six to ten weeks from one's school or college, there is a yearning to return, to meet one's companions and associates under It is per- familiar surroundings. haps due to this communal spirit that one's schooldays are generally the happiest in the memory, for are they not the days we spend amongst hosts of friends in surroundings which we proudly claim as our own't Whether one comes from a school favoured with palatial buildings or from an institution of humbler pre- tensions, there is always a spot in the heart for the "alma mater." We develop this love for the school long before we finally leave its portals, and one of the

warm

school has organised.

St. Stephen's Girls' College. The new wing at St. Stephen's days.-E.] Girls' College is rapidly nearing

for use when the College re-opens completion, and should be ready-

on September after the summer vacation. The school closes of the summer holidays on July 12

Preparations are already being made among the students for the annual M.C.L. Sale of Work in the

autumn,

Basket Ball,

Congratulations to the Tutorial | Institute, who won the senior cham- Ball League. They went through pionship of the Students' Basket

much credit for their success be- cause they are a comparatively small school.

has now lasted for nearly a hundred moments when we feel most draw the season undefeated, and deserve years, and the company was really. the pioneer of the mail service to towards our school is just prior to and from the East. The whole resuming work after a long vaca- course' of travel has undergone a tion. great change, and during all this time the company has been con- tinually increasing its fleet and ex tending its mail services. No other company has a record of the same length of public servipe combined with such a wide range of opera

tions.

the

The principal thought in

The junior league contest is not schools at present is the half-yearly finished at the time of writing, as. examination. In several schools I St. Paul's College and Ying Wab saw the halls crowded with boys College are at the top of the table struggling with question-papeis. with the same number of points. One who has had many years of A re-play has been fixed for to- experience Hong Kong schools morrow afternoon at the Chinese told me that during this period Y.M.C.A., and the winners will be and provided space for mail matter Chinese students put everything presented with the trophy at the totalling approximately 100,000 tons, comprising scarly one million else out of their minds and concen-end of the game. The trophy for trate entirely on their examinations. the senior league will also be pre

In 1828 the company performed in the course of its mail contract services no less than 2.634,032 miles

and a half of mail bags.

A comparison of the accommoda- Sports, social activities, os diver-sented to-morrow. tion of the Royal Tar, a paddlesion of any kind are entirely out of wheel steamer built in 1832, and the

Physical Culture.

latest P. and O. steamship, the the question. For this reason, the There was a time in Hong Kong Viceroy of India; shows the great present season is one in which progress which has been made in sports axtures are cut down to a just under a century. The Royal Tax plan of necnmmodation minimum, and the school authorities had 6 calins for a total of 33 generally so arrange matters that passengers, while the Viceroy of sports and studies do not clash İqdia has accommodation for 673

The

schools when physical drill was looked upon as an imposition to be avoided whenever possible. advent of new ideas amongst the Chinese has made drill and other, passengers in 311 cabins. 413 of permitting the best results in both.

lessons in physical culture an ab- which are single-berth cabine. The i With such an atmosphere in our solute-necessity in a school's carri Viceroy of India is propelled by schools, news for the past fortnight Feulum, and many have adopted or turbo-electric machinery which en- ables her to travel at a speed of has naturally been meugre. I am

are adopting this new subject.. Learly 20 knots."

glad to say, however, that sports While aequiring knowledge, stud have not been entirely neglected, ents must not neglect their health. as I find that many schools bave Not only that, they must go fur- had their weekly bathing pienies, ther and develop a sound physique, and that quite a number of students as this will stand them in good stead attended.

when it is necessary to work special.

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W. Wilberforce, Deputy Chairman, when a delicate-looking girl. Grace South. The pictures fill a large Chandler, appealed at London album and are interesting both to Sessions against a sentence of two

months' imprisonment passed by the layman and to the scientist but Mr. Mead at Marlborough-street are too numerous to be enumerated Police Court, where the girl was here. Mr. Crook has a fund of ex- charged with sbop-lifting.

Mr. W. Frampton, for the girl, planation ready for each picture, said that her mother was a widow, and it was indeed a pleasure to go with six children, and was in busi ness at Bedford. The girl had been through the album with him. A trained for a position as a dancing number of prominent men attended mistress, but had suffered from in- the conference, and the gathering

somnia.

On the day when she stole the of scientists from the countries articles from the shop in London bordering the Pacific proved a great her mother had given her money success. to buy a dress.

Mr. Wilberforce said, that what

King's College,

he had alluded to was not the prac To commemorate the official open- tice of that court, and he did not ing of the school by His Excellency think it was the practice of any the Governor, a handsome tablet in other tribunal,

The sentence passed on the girl bronze has been designed and is would be altered in the circum-

now installed in the entrance-hall stances to one of probation for two years, and she would be bound over to the school. The tablet has been for that period. She would have executed by the well-known London to pay costs.

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