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that we have serious reasons for believing |Á CHINAMAN at the Magistracy this morning that, in consequence of the important was sentenced to a fine of $5 or fourteen days changes which will shortly take place in the hard labour for stealing two cats. administrative staff of the neighbouring French colony, a broader and more liberal commercial policy will most probably be

lad who comes under his jurisdiction is to make a heary-eyed, sedate, stupid little blockhead of him. If he has a disposition to think and to express himself, he must at all hazards be taught to stop thinking and to repress himself. This process, continued | adopted there. long enough, evolves that marvellous com-" bination of conceit and inefficiency, called a Chinese scholar. The scope of Chinese; education, like that of all despotism, is defec- tive. The world is contracting to such an extent, the necessary intercommunications INWARD Parcels by 5.3. Coromandel are now of the nations are becoming so varied and Į ready for delivery. constant, that each is acquiring a right to

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JAPAN is erecting a consulate in St. Peters

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make certain demands of the other. The H.M.S. Alacrity arrived from Nagasaki this

morning. vices and follies of each are a menace to all

he Honghong Celegraph the others. Popular ignorance is degrad- THE French mail of the 25th August was

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1903.

EDUCATION IN CHINA,"

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ASMOKING concert in connection with the naval ratings and police of the P. N. Yard and Hospital is announced for to-morrow at 8p.m.

HINDUSTANI coolies are being recruited for the Straits Sugar Company. A batch of them arrived at Penang from Calcutta on Friday last.

FROM A late issue of the China Tlures we learn that 200 mow of land have been acquired at Pekaihow by a syndicate that proposes to build a first-class boiei there.

An Aldershot telegrami says that Capt. Sir A. Bannerman, BL, R.E., has been selected for service with the Japanese army and has left Aldershot on leave, pending embarkation.

A DEAD body was found in a boat off Laichi-

THE Government of Jamaica has asked the kok, and presented symptoms of bubonic Secretary of State for the Colonies, to raise a plague. #

loan of £500,cc, at 3 per cent, to assist the

ing and cemtaminating, and when the earth delivered in London on the 24th ins", gets small enough the nation that tries, in the interests of a tyrannous rule, to keep knowledge from the common people will be niade the subject of complaint by her neigh.

butir nations. It is so to some extent to-day- GENERAL Wolseley left Madras on the 2nd Planters who have suffered by the cyclone.

Do your r own developing without a by nong an Eastman developing LeMunyon-Advi

chine.

IT is understood that the ss. Ping Suer, due at Singapore to-morrow, will take some two thousand Mecca pilgrims to Jeddah.

AT the Magistracy this morning, Mr.Sercombe Smith fined a native $28; or two months hard labour, for being in possession of one tael seven mace of opium without a permit.

A NATIVE was charged at the Magistracy this morning with loitering about the premises of No. 1 Glenealy, with intent to commit a felony. He was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour.

THE native woman, charged with the alleged murder of her son, who was remanded yester day, was discharged at the Magistracy this morning, evidence being given which proved that the chid had died of debility,

FREDERICK CROSS, an unemployed scanian, was charged at the Magistracy this morning with being drunk and disorderly in Queen's Road, last night. Mr. Sercombe Smith im

Sept. He goes on a two months' holiday to THE Nicht Nicht states that the steamer own poseda fine of $5 or fourteen days'imprisonment. the Malay Peninsula.

One more chance to buy a Kodate for $5; a Road-Adv. good Kodak. LeMunyon, 31, Des Voeux

As the next principal count in our indict. It is this principle which is at the root of all ment of Chinese education it may be main- Chinese exclusion acts by civilized countries. tained that the spirit of Chinese scholarship These are the protest of civilization against is fundamentally wrong. The habit of the tre limitations that Chinese officialdem is | FOR stealing a pair of shoes from a woman, schular should be one of hopefulness. He putting on its own people. It will be in- a native cook was, this morning, sentenced to should look onward and upward, not downcreasingly so as years go on. China, which one month's hard labour, ward and backward. He should believe in has had such a repitation for popular humanity. Faith in humanity will cause education, has in fact no popular education WHISKY. him to have faith in the future. He will at all. The theory of her system ignores confidently expect better things, brighter altogether the whole population except the days for the race than it has yet realized, very small class of prospective officials.

He will Female education is done away with at a si | His ideals, his goal will be ahead.

have enthusiasm, will press towards his mark, gle sweeps. There is no provision for it in the and will accomplish something that will national order. The exceptional instances have a public value. He will move some- of it which do exist du so by virtue of the where, and society will move along with Chinaman's unusual faculty for inconsistency, him. General arivancement will result. in this case certainly allowing him occasion. China's "civilization is essentially hope ally a laudable departure, for his traditions less, and that is the secret of her failure. and the general practice, of his countrymen. And of all the men all that the system cares for is the education of the relatively few individuals who are to act as rulers. What little schooling the remainder get is of little value as a practical fitting for life duties, un less an exception is made in the case of school-masters, who, as has been säld, are

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INCESSANT rain has fallen for 35 days in the west of Ireland, and in consequence the bulk of the potato crop has been left rotting. A TOKYO dispatch states that the rifle manu facturing department of the Tokyo Military Arsenal is at present hard pressed with work..

FIVE greyhounds for the Tientsin Coursing Club arrived from Sydney yesterday morning by the E. and A. Company's steamer Austra.

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M. VASSILI Verest hagin, the famous Russian military painter, has arrived in Japan with the object of investigating painting and kindred arts.

THE Union Church Sunday school will re-

as a rule disappointed or expectant candi-open its session on Sunday, 27th, inst., with a dates for exainination honours. But who united service in Union Church, commencing ever thinks of a Chinanian's schooling mak- at 4 pm. scholars, parents and friends are ing him a better bușiness man, or farmer, or cordially invited. mechanic, or public-minded citizen? Such

Maru of the Mitsu Bishi Kaisha has been wrecked in the Strait of Shimonoseki and sunk, showing only one mast. Details are not given by the paper.

H.M.S. Amphitrite, on her way from Vladivo stock to Port Arthur, stopped at Yokohama to send two of her officers to the naval hospital there, one suffering from apoplexy and the other from appendicitis.

At the instance of Mr. A. Bain, engineer of the China Sugar Refinery, a native carpenter, was charged at the Magistmey this morning with stealing one brass pipe, the property of the company, The prisoner was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

The home press describes the recent heavy- gan practice of H.M.S. Albion as a record of Fresh Kodak film, plenty of them, at LeMun- one of the most remarkable straight shooting yon's, 31, Das Vœux Road-Adví,

in the history of the Navy, and states that the flagship of the second-in-command on the China Station is noted for exceptionally smart work all round. Boat-sailing, coaling, evolutions and straight shooting all come alike to the Albions.

THE General Agent of the Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Co., Ld., has received the following telegraphic advice from the Deli Maatschappiji, Amsterdam-Sold 350 bales tobacco at Gids. 0 57.*

We learn that cholera is raging with great virulence at Pektang, near Tientsin. No less than 1,700 persons have succumbed within the past few days. Happily summer is virtually over, so that the epidemic can not be of much longer duration.

MR. Orlando Daly, who was recently touring with the Broughs in the Far East, is now in

Mr. Charles Frohman to play a juvenile part London, and has accepted an engagement with

Romano, Consul-General for Portugal in this

WE are requested to-state that, owing to the indisposition of Conselheiro Senhor A. G.

Cology, the usual At Home" held at his residence, Duan," Arbuthnot Road, in celebration of the anniversaries of Their Majesties The King and Queen of Portugal, will not take place on blonday, the 28th instant. A NATIVE was arrested on one of the

able quantity of clothing, two gold rings, and in possession of a trunk containing a consider Canton steamers yesterday evening for being

two watches. From inquiries made by the police it was ascertained that he was a house- boy and that the property aforemen... presented eighty-five volumes of nursery tales Godwin. At the Magistracy this momin, this in English to the Princes Michi and Atsu, sons unfaithful servant was sentenced to twelve. of the Crown Prince, through Baron Y. San-months' imprisonment, and to be exhibited for' nomiya, Grand Master of Ceremonies.

three hours in the stocks, LLOYD'S Agents at Newcastle, Western Australia, are protesting against the removal of the Proudfoot Light by the Queensland Government, as they declare that it is of great value as a guide (both by day and night) to steamers outward and inward bound via the Jorres Straits,

in Imprudence at the Criterion Theatre.

TOKYO papers state that Mr. Alfred Stead of

What does things are not contemplated by the Chinese THE Pollards bad a full house last evening, and the Review of Reviews, London, has recently tioned belong to his employer, Mr. Arthur

system. Practically, therefore, the great industrial and trading fraternities and the whole female sex are left out in the cold by this boary and much over praised system of education, framed exclusively with reference to a privileged class. You have, in conse quence, a nation full of ignorant wives, mothers and sisters; where home life and home training are conspicuously absent; where the worst that is in man comes un- checked to the surface, for lack of the res- training and refining influence of a chivalric

to-night for which an entire change of pro- gramme is announced gives every promise of a successful performance. On Monday Are you

Mason is to be staged.

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MESSES. Skinner and Noyse, the delegates sent from Johannesburg by the Chamber of Mines to study the Chinese labour question, are at present in London on their return journey

to South Africa.

THE American Commerical treaty with China will be signed in October. It now transpires that the treats provides the opening of eight more treaty ports, the two in Manchuria are Shenking and Tatung Kou.

YESTERDAY evening. P.C. 74, Cooper, together with some excise officers went to No. 761

Second Street, West Point; with à search-war- rant. On their appearance a native, who was in one of the rooms, man to the window and jumped out, alighting on a lad who was past- ing. The boy, who was found in the gutter with his right cheek badly cut, and several teeth knocked out, was taken to the Hospital. One of the inmates of the house was arrested for having a quantity of opium in bis possession without a permit from the farmers.

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She has faith only in the past. The present is degenerate; the future is without promise. This is the essence of the spirit of inertia which must be displaced by a desire to im prove before there can be any real hope for China, Moreover, the scholar should be characterized by sincerity, by intellectual honesty. Whatever allowance may be made for insiucerity in a politician, scholarship demantis a strict regard for the truth. No one for a moment supposes that the studies of a Chinese scholar gre marked by a dis- interested longing after truth. he care about truth? What does he know about it? What is truth? What he wants to be positively certain about is that he has in memory the very identical words of the sages, that his interpretation of the sane does not vary perceptibly from that handed down by the oldest commentators, that his essays may be laid before the judges in examination faultless in diction, style, and formation of characters. These things attained, what more is there left to be desired ? Truth is not the scholar's goal.

THE medical statement in connection with It is political preferment that he is in pur-instinct, which has found in woman, that

Lord Salisbury's death is that he never really suit of. No solid advance in real leaming which commands respect and love. There

recovered from the effects of the acute attack can be made by the Chinese until they are is, too, everywhere, an amazing amount of

of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) from ready, at least in the case of those who pre- unfitness for the various occupations of life. Africa) of Colonel the Hon. Henry Frederic effects were accompanied by alarming sygp THE death is reported at Pietersburg (South | which he suffered at Whitsuntide. The after. sume to teach, to sacritice every considera- Society has set low standards and the people white, son of Baron Anvaly, who was Mayor-toms of heart-weakness. tion of a different character in the in- do not rise above them, Society has prac- of Bulawayo, served in the Suakim Expedition, terests of what can be known and tically said that the art of ruling is the and took part in the jameson Raid, for his 1ST FLOOR, 12, QUEEN'S ROAD, proven to be the truth. Another glaring only one that requires to be taught. Noth-participation in which he was sentenced to five peared among the crew of the British steamer

defect of the present system of education is ing else is of sufficient importance to require months' imprisonment. the extreme arrogance of Chinese scholar-teaching. On every other subject,-on ship. The exaggerated estimate of the re medicine, home-keeping, art, business, manu- FURNITURE spect due to everything pertaining to Chi-facturing, improvements, in fact everything

nese literature produces and encourages a belonging to the life of the common people, Ir is officially announced that the national The men are isolated on the ship. supercilious and stilted spirit among its de- it is assumed that sufficient knowledge. can lebl of the German Empire at the end of THE Chilian Consul at Yokohama has reported cheong overflow overflow votees. Scraps of paper with written or be picked up incidentally, or by a brief printed characters on, that through accident apprenticeship, to enable men to do them as or carelessness have fallen on the ground are well as they need to be done. Europe and religiously recovered by paper-pickers, who America are engaged in a strenuous effort to accumulate merit by preventing these being fit, by well adapted educational methods, the trampled under foot. Books are reverenced

masses who must work for a living to do and scholars are treated with a deference their work in the best and most efficient amounting to servility. The man who can way, and with most profit to themselves. read and write these almost sacred characters. The exclusion acts, viewed from one side, is a sort of demi-god, whom ordinary human-

are a willing sacrifice of the rich and power ity was made to serve. The teacher main-ful employers of labour in the interests of the tains this attitude of lofty superiority over labourer, protecting him against a debasingly his pupils. He is not their friend and cheap scale of wages, with all the material helper; he is their ruler, for the time being and moral loss that grinding poverty entails. and they are his abject servants. He is In China the poor masses of working men lofty, uncondescending, oracular. As a con- are left to shift for themselves. Can we sequence he makes no effort to simplify his wonder that along all these lines of popular PHOTOGRAPHIC subject, to make it interesting, to make prosperity China is to-day se tar behind the

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rest of the world? And it will continue to be so just so long as she narrows the scope of her education to a few picked men who. are to rule and ignores the mass of her peo.

including all of her women.

(To be continued.)

THE GOVERNOR OF FRENCH ·

INDU,CHINA.

A CASE of typhus and a case of dysentery ap

Glenturret, which arrived in Yokohama on Sept. 10th, from Antwerp vid ports. The Framing, fancy and artistically done by Le typhus patient is an European sailor, and the Munyon, 31, Des Voeux Road.---Adví.

man attacked with dysentery is a Chinese.

the current financial year will amount to £160,000,000. This is a considerable increase on last year, and statistics for the last two

decades show that during a period of twenty the rate of £50,000,000 annually. years, the national debt has been increasing at

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IN connection with the recent outrage on Miss Ada Bateman, at her residence at No. 18, Belilies Terrace, it is interesting and import- ant to know that the envelope which was handed in by one of the rabbers bore the imprint of the makers on the flap as follows--John Flockhar.-General Stationers Greenock. Anyone having such envelopes in use are reqested to communicate with the Captain Superintendent of Police.

By kind permission of Major Radcliffe and Officers the Band of the 33rd Burma Infantry

will play it the Hongkong Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening from 8 to 9.30.

BAND PROGRAMME. March......." Carillon et Tambour"........Rosenstien Overture....." Son and Stranger...Mendelmcolin. Selection.... The Silver Slipper "hesis Stuart Bang Retum and Stay "...AReu Selection....The Thirty Thieves "... Edwart Jones Valte........."Thise Alone ”.......... Pavate......"Comti“.

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THE vessels now in course of construction at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding yard, Kobe, are the Government mercantile Navigation College's training ship Daisel-maru (2,300 tons) to be completed in January next, and a vessel of 1,050 tons ordered by the Korean Government.

The steamer for the Korean authorities is to be ready for use on or before the 9th June, 1904.

THE Mitsu Bishi dockyard and engine works at Nagasaki are constructing two steamers of about 5,500 tons each, for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and another vessel of 1,200 tons for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha The N.Y.K. steamers Tare expected to be ready for sea in the course of next month and in January next respectively, while the O.S.K. vessel will be completed in May of next year.

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DR. James-n bas forwarded to The Times the originals of two letters, dated May, 1891, found. among the papers of the late Cecil Rhodes."

Total 480,894,000. 491,748,000 Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria and Hill District during the month of Anju r.

1903. Consumption.105,548,000 143,118,000 gallons Estimated po- 215,100 220,500

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SHIPPING AND MAILS,

MAILS, DUE, American (Korda) 28th inaj. Indian (Arratoon Apear) 28th inst:" Canadian (Empress of China) 18th inst, Indian (Laisang) 5th prox American (Goélic) 6th prox.. Australian (Taiwan) 12th prox. Canadian (Athenian) 13th prox, CE

learning as easy as possible of acquisition. Rather the effort is to make it as difficult as possible, so that all but the most talented and brilliant may be speedily eliminated from the contest for governmental honours.ple, The idea of a general diffusion of knowledge by means of a helpful system of schools and a corps of trained teachers is entirely foreign to the official Chinese conception. When a

Ar the Magistracy this afternoon two natives misguided Emperor begins to move in this

In our issue of the 17th ultimo we pub were charged with stealing ten cows and a direction he is promptly dethroned and his ill-advised counselors are either Liebeaded lished an editorial announcing and com- bullock, the property of a farmer at Mai Ham. or driven into banishment Knowledge is menting upon the return of M. Beau to Paris The theft took place on the night of the 18th inst, when, it was declared, the prisoners something high that must be struggled up and his probable supercession by M. Pierre

forced an entrance into the cowshed to. It cannot come down to the level of Baudin. Though, at the time, our state and, after having bound the owner, drove away

The P&Ass Indratelli arrived at Yokes everyday affairs. If men are ruined in the ments were denied by several of our French the cattle, which they attempted to sell Thon. English politicians think Britain will hame at noon on 24th Inst, and may be ex- making it is the fault of their defective con- confrères in Indo-China, the fuformation we Hongkong on the 20th The farmer declared always be the world's manufacturing mart, and The Boston S. S. Coss. Shawn TELEGRAMS: "CARMICHA Hongkong. stitution, not of sacred knowledge. And hind tendered was confirmed on the 25th that several men took part in the robbery and fall to understand what protection, coupled from Victoria for Yokohama and the u

after all it is a matter of small consequence August by a wire from Reuter's Agent in identified a lad of eighteen, who was brought with reciprocal relations, means," The second on 20th inst, and is due at Yokohama on 81 so long as by this severe sifting process, the Paris, and additional weight has been given into Court with five other natives, as the one later invited the co-operation of the late Sir Pmxy both of

who had bound him. The lad was conse Henry Parkes in securing from the motherland The Imperial German Mail ..Room,urry. are secured to act in to it by a similar announcement which quently placed in the deck with the two other preferential consideration for col

Sing the German Mails wij dates: fromallerlin nation's best brains a

of the rst inst, left: Singapore on:Friday,ut 8 the capacity of tulers. Accordingly, the appears in the columns of our senior local prisoners. The heaping of the case bad not as a means of maintaining the Emperial coo- rum, anal may be expected here, oni 29t1_insta 1355e first thing a Chinese school-master pro- contemporary this morning. We may add. Enished when we went to pressi

#ectinn. a §1E. Besz to drink in the tropics is the Beer THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer THE Bear to drink in the tropick is the Beer THE Bear to drink in the topics is the

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The first letter was addressed to the then Pre- mier of Canada, asking : "Can we invent some ties with the motherland that will prevent separation? The curse is, the letter went

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