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CONFUCIAN LEARNING.

AN'ANCIENT SEAT STILL EXTANT.

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THE COLLEGE OF THE WHITE DEER GROTTO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1905.

with the coolies, who everywhere in China | gentleman " and bis dwelling "the white deertion to a Chinese gentleman's white hose, wrangle vociferously over the terms of any grotto." A very crode stone image of a deer hey fingered, bla white duck trousers bargain, we managed to get four coolies for placed there by Ho Tsing in the fourteenth and cont, auxious to know the cost. The cach chair, several torch Bearers who carried century now stands beneath this arch. When chief Confucian, inquisitor, proceeded to ask long bamboo flare torches, and three baggage promoted to be sab-prefect at Kiangchou, now and to prove how many dels of garments a coolies apiece, and our long procession släiked | Klukiang, Plu bailt a kiosk over his former | foreigner wears on his arms. This coincided across the rice fields, or ratlier between them, ❘ sequestered abade rendering the spot memor- | with the three coats which the Chinese expect to wear in weather somewhat colder. When for they were under, water, across streams and | able from that day, along marshes, under a heavily clouded yet At a time when dynasty fast gave way to they had reached the New Yorker's pith-hat, 4th inst.

at times moon-lit sky. As we went ahead we dynasty (five successive houses holding away there was an outburst of ill-mannered laughter. PRELIMINARY NOTE.

found the chair coolles grumbling with the between 907-951) this sheltered corner was the This prince of Chinese investigators held the Theta la sight notice of this school and its refounder in man who had bought the torches for not gesting retreat of worthy scholars from far and near, piece of head gear in his hand and commented

·Williams' Ariddle Kingdom, and a fuller account is given in hick, E. Lawls Educational Conquest of the Far Rail, enough, and on persistent Inquiry we found

and here fields were bought, buildings erected,

on its lightness in comparison to its umbrella New York, 1901), and in the dart Kirin, (Shanghai, 1903) that the fellow has "squeezed" half of the students gathered, and a school opened from dimensions. He made this sally, "What is Vol:y, No. by Carl F. Kupler. Although all of these have

Mexican dollar we had given him for torches-- been consulted and matrial freely drawn from them, the

the famous halls of which were to come men your honourable hat made of? The New main source of the nation herewith presented was the trip and had gotten only fifty cents worth. Barring able to help guide the affairs of State. Si Shen Yorker being yet young in Chian could not which the weiter made to the College in August, 1904. few stumbles and one spill, however, we tao, a master of the Nine Canonical Books, recall the Chinese expression for "pith, and company with a party of American friends several of whom

succeeded in arriving safely at the halfway understood the Kiangel dialect.

was taken from the Imperial Academy to be tamed to another of the party to ask. Then house among the foothills at 4.30 am. After a

come the president of this institution, styled came an ironical burst of. glee-"This foreign short rest and a cold bite we started afoot to

the Government School of the Lu Mountains. teacher does not know what his own hat in In goo it was raised to the grade of a university made of coordinate with the other three universitics of the realm. The corolment was then one hundred students.

THE JOURNEY THITHER. A newcomer to Chico is sure to be surprised by two things at least, not to mention many athers, viz, the grandeur of the scenery in certain sections and the unexpected excellence of the means of transportation on har chief waterwayi. Both of these were factors in the trip which the writer recently made to the famous Confucian stronghold, boary with age, hid away among the bills of Central China, the College of the White Deer

Grotto.

In order to appreciate more fully the scenic surroundings and the secluded incation of this! most noted of Confucian, schools, we shall notice the scenery encountered en roufs at a

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THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR«, ¦ GRO, FENWCIE & CO., LIMITED.

ANCE ÇÒ, LID.

ANNUAL MEETING.

6th lost.

the above Company was held at the offices of The thirty-sixth ordinary general meeting of the general managers, Messrs. Jardine, Mathe son and Company, this morning. Hos. Mr. W.J. Gresson presided, and there were also present:-llon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Messrs. A. J. Raymond, I. P. White, F. Maitland, R. Michael, Ho Fook, W. A. Cruickshank, T. Arnold, S. H. Michael, M. H. Michael, G. H. Potts, S. 3. Michael, S. A. Joseph, W. H. Wickham, Lo Sul Cher, P. Tester, F. Hall, and G. T. Veitch (Secretary).

The Secretary having read the notice con- voning the meeting.

climb the steep ascent to Kuling Valley. We went up slope after slope, one long, stretch having some two thousand steps, getting as the

visitors received from the master of the school, Still more significant is the treatment these fuller light of day began to dawn magnificent views of the plains across which we had come

for it typifies in itself quite well the change in in the dark, and of the Yangtse curving in a

China's mental attitude in her contact with great beyond. In some places the drop off

Western thought as pointed out in our first the side of the path, which in many sections

paper from initial arrogance and conceited vas paved with large granite slabs, was quite

ignorance to a lively appreciation of the value thees and a fall would have plunged one some

of the Newer Learning. Before we left the wo hundred feet into the rocky bed of the

collage we found a teacher sitting at the head of one of the courts with a bandage rushing stream up whose course we were wend. ng our way in search of a cool haven from the institution which held so high a place, in the † about his head. He was not glad to see us at credit of the 1904 working account is some- national annals, thus adding to its fame the his malaria possibly accounted for his in-i eat of the plains. As we jourmayed, the sun ose, the cool of the morning gave way to the use of his own great name. He purchased civility, which, however, might have been

The fortunes of this seat of fearning suffered many reverses followed by only partial re- coveries until 1174 (1792), during the Sung Dynasty, when Chu Fu Tiz (or Chu Hui-ngan, or Chu Hi) became prefect of Nankang, and un- dertook to repair the buildings, then somewhat, as now, is rain, and to restore prosperity to the

ANNUAL

The report for the past year is as follows:--- The directors have now to submit to the sbatoholders a statement of accounts for the for the year amounts to $31,709,72 to which has year ending 31st December, 1904. The net profit to be added $10517.95 brought forward from last year's account. After payment of directors and auditor, it is proposed to pay a dividend of 15 per cent, or $31,500 te shareholders; to carry forward $8,577.67 to next year's account, $124,426.05 has been expended, to 31st De cember, 1994, in the purchase and reclamation of the new site at North Point. It is expected that the reclamation will, according to contract, be completed in August next.

and

Directors. Mr. A. Rodger, according to the articles, retires, but offers himself for re-electiop. Auditor--The accounts have been audited by Mr. Thomas Arnold, who offers himself for re-election.

WM. PARLANE, ‹ Chairman.

Hongkong, 17th February, 1905.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS.

The Chairman aid-Gentlemen,-With your permission, we will adopt the usual custom and take the report and accounts as read. I think I may safely congratulate you on the outturn of the 1903 account. Our risks ran off. without any serious losses, and with your ap proval we propose dealing with the balance of $302,712,22 by the addition of $30,222,22 to the stantial fund, which will then stand at the sub- Value of land and buildings, as per of a dividend of $34 per share. The balance sum of $1,200,510,70, and the payment

what less than last year. This is owing to the numorous fires during the past twelve months,

last report nimeki

*****......$ 70,000,00 119,495.36

4,930.79

-Cost of site of new works at North

Point to date Cost of steel wharf at North Point, to date...4) WOMENun launches and office fur- niture, as per last report $55,770.00

greater length than might, an first thought heat of the on-coming day and we earned, our additional lands for the support of the scholars, i #ggravated by the fact that two of the company none of any great extent, but the claims agre- Value of machinery, Plant, Beem suitable to our topic; for it is important ascent, if not our bread, by the sweat not only established a collegiate code, parts of which I forgot to remove their spectacles on. coming gating a'considerable aum. In addition to the'

The toiliome secent proved too much to quently visited the college to instruct the off and when it came, out that the foreigners losses actually paid, wo know of further claims, Added during the year ...

to get the full setting of this cloister within whose ivy grown walls there was in former days such deep searching into the doctrines of the "Princely Man" and the "Great Learn ing"

Crossing the Woosung bar at the mouth of. the Shanghai River at daybreak, our steamer, a modern screw craft of some 3.6co tons and 1,500 horse-power, turned her head up the mighty Yangtze, China's aorta of trade, and for four hundred and fifty miles we pushed against the swit current of that coffee-coloured stream, passing en route the important ports of Chin Liang, near the mouth of the Grand Cabal, Nanking, a former capital of the "Celestial Empire and still its most famous literary centre, and Wuhu, an immense lumbering depot, and disembarked at Kiukiang, the coun- try's chief mait for "china", while the steamer passed on some hundred and fifty miles further , the centre of the grent tea trade. The river steamers de not run up to piers, or wharves but, at such ports as we have named, they run afangs de the dismantled and anchor ed hulks of former ocean-going vessels which lje offshore and are connected to the land by a sort of pontoon bridges. These hulks are filted up on the deck as residences for the local agent, while their holls serve admirably as store godowns. At the smaller ports the ship does not make a landing, but merely re duces her speed and barges carrying freight and passengers (mostly the latter at such ports) come out from shore and are made fast along side, the transfer being made while under small headway. When the freight is sufficient at such ports the steamer casts anchor,

There are several lines of steamers plying the river and there is considerable compet tion though the British rather have the lead on the others. There are three British lines on whose steamers tickets are interchangeable, thus facilitating stop-overs, as between them they run a steamer each way each day on the six hundred mile run from Shanghai to Han- kow. An enterprising Japanese firm and a German line are pushing for trade, and be. Į tween these five regular lines and the many tramp merchantmen, the amount of freight mored easily makes the Yangtze the main trade artery of the Empire.

We approached Nanking in the small hours of the morn, and as I sat on deck watch ing the greyness of the early dawn give way to the upward slanting pinkish beams of the orb day, I beheld a glorious sight; the water at my feet, then the curving shore, beyond to the eastward the graceful towers and pagodas of the city, and in the distance the peaceful grey and bluish hills along the sculptured heights of which the first gleams of a sun, that would soon be altogether dazzling, were silently but swiftly stealing. Out on the river three vague forms, like huge monsters of the sea crept into inland waters, loomed suggestively through the diminishing gloom, and as the first rays that marked the beginning of a Central China scorcher stole aver the eastern hills, the reveille call of bugles turned my eyes upon these monster shadows, and from out the disappearing mist there came three men-of-war under as many fiaga-British, German, and Chinese; the last in showy white flying the dragon flag, the others in darksome

coats as if prepared for war, Their bugle

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four brow but of back and thigh as well.

allow the journey to be continued without a rest at Kuling, and we succumbed to the sleep- inducing effects of the mountain air of Central hina. Kuling is a long valley, with three side valleys, running abot northwest and south. east, and from the eastern slope thri ugh the gap at the northern end and over the backs of the gigantic elephant-like hills that form the western slope, magnificent sunsets are to be seen. Here a concessio: has been granted so that foreign residents may have a retreat from the summer heat of the lower land, and soma eight hundred people of various nationalities annually find refreshment in this valley. The bungalows are all simple yet comfortable one- story affairs, most of them of hewn stone taken from the adjacent hills which stand bare to view, the only attempt at covering being subby foilage of no great beauty and little height. cursion along one spur of the 1.6 Shan down

While resting here we made a half day's ex-

are inscribed on the backs of the doors, fre into bis presence... Hawaver, his frigidity wore. could write (more or less) as well as talk his studente, many of whom rose to prominence.

The publication of the Classics being at that native language, the professor rose slowly and stood as he talked with us. Inquiring if we were students he seemed first abashed and time forbidden, general education had fallen to a low ebb and all classes, officials and com. mon folk alike, felt the consequent chagrin. then incredulous when he learned that all his Chu Fu Tez in an audience with the Em-interlocutors were second degree men. He peror, as Inspector of the State Department looked as much as to say, These foreign chaps must have brought their degree, if they made a plea for more liberal education, setting really have them pot an unnatural thought forth the great disparity between the numerous and prosperous Taoist and Buddhist temples for a Chinese." (in the provincial capital more than one hun dred, and in every prefecture several tens) and the sparse and poorly supported schools (only one in a prefecture and none in the small dis- tricts), and urging the bestowal of an Imperial Tablet (a stone bearing a part of the Classics written on it by the Emperor himself) in order that the prestige of the Grotto University might be restored, honour paid to His Majesty's meri- torious predecessors, and the scholars of the realm favoured. This he ventured to beg at the risk of his life, for the civil authorities regarded even this action with suspicion,

The request was granted but the tablet did not assure perpetual blessing. At the close of the next dynasty it was cast out into the brush during a comination and not till the sixth Em peror of the Ming Dynasty (cir. 1470) was it found and replaced. It is not recorded how long Chu Fo Tsz laboured here, but legend claims that he spent the rest of his life as pre sident of this institution and was buried in the shady prove near by.

"At length whan the professor was thawed out, to the point of civility at least, the Bet tonian in the party produced from his impedi ments a large package of Chinese books. The professor, with a quizzical look on his face, re- Ceived a beautifully illustrated life of Christ, and Dr. Faber's four volums Commentary on the Classics, from a Christian standpoint. The leamed man saw the beauty of the printing, and bowed his acknowledgments. Then en- sued a scramble among the students for the remaining books. One fine-looking fellow secuted a large volumed commentary on St. Mark and St. Luke, and three or four others chased him to his room it from dim.

shmount appearing in the account, $87,566,98. at present in course of adjustment, estimated at $44,839.1. This is disappointing, and I can only hope our outstanding risks will run off in a favourable manner. Our surveyors report that in every instance the properties mortgaged show ample margins on the sums advanced. There is nothing further in the accounts calling for any special comment from me, but before proposing the adoption of the report and ac- counts as presented, I shall be pleased to answer any questions pertaining thereto which shareholders may have to ask.

No questions being asked, the Chairman moved the adoption of the report and accounts. Mr. G. H. Potts said he had great pleasure in seconding the motion, and he was sure he was expressing the feelings of the shareholders in congratulating the Directors on the very good results of the year's working and he only hoped that the Chairman's remarks about the

present year would turn out better than they anticipated.

The resolution was carried unanimously,

8,015.27

$8,191.00

85,321,00 7,798.00 963.98

63,785.27 Written offfordepreciation 5,594.37 Value of stock in trade as Written offfor depreciation 1,741.24 per stock list *.......$87,067.74

Value of work in progress s Cash with the Hongkong & Shanghai Cash on hand.........

Cash with the Chartered Bank of

Banking Corporation, current alc 15,373.14

India, Australia and China...... Cost of Union Insurance Society

of Canton's share... Sundry debtors.............................

Liabilities.

565.68

245.00 14,875.6a

$377.753.45

.$150,000.00

Capital 6,000 shares at $25 each,

fully paid upper Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

In Hammam 70,000,00

Corporation Loan account (secur

Mr. W. Cruickshank moved that the appoint-Reserve fund.. the attempt to get

ment of Mr. H. P. White to the Directorate vice Mr. J. H. Lewis be confirmed, and also that the retiring Directors be re-elected.

We left the scholar and his students earnest- ly pouring over the books, and went out of the compound. By the banks of a sparkling brook we spread our luncheon and white talking over the experience of the day, a messenger arrived from the professor. He was instructed to say that the books were much appreciated, tha! it was most kind of us to bring them and might he ask that we bring another instalment, espe cially the Commentary on the Classics? We assured the messenger that in two weeks or so books could be secured from Shanghai and would gladly be sent."

to where several water:driven incense mills were steadily pound by the side of a small stream which came tumbling down by leaps and bounds over rocky places, and at several of these sudden descents small wood over-shot water-wheels operated two long heavy horizon- tal beams making thêm ree-saw up and down about a pivot where they pierced the wall of a squatty mat-sbed, the hall of which was a small closed chamber within which the further ende of the beams carried great heavy stones, shaped like huge dull chisels and these working up and down on the stone floor of the closed The following is a rather free rendering of a room pounded into a fine powder small part of this noted preceptors collegiate code chips of previously dried pine wood. The written on the inner panels of the doors of the dry powder that results is the incense and Assembly Hall: The anciant worthies taught is carried by coolies over the mount ns to the men to seek the principles of righteousness towns and temples round about. Thus region and to cultivate a moral conduct which would was formerly the site of some foar hundred imo-influence others. They did not wish men me Two years ago some ladies who accom nasteries and temples, and our route we passed rely to exercise their memories in writing companied a party of gentlemen from Kuling in a ope sawed-off pinnacle which bore on its top positions to secure fame and profit. But the visit to the College were not allowed to enter the ruins of an old monastery while on a students of to-day (Chu Fu Tai's time) do pot the Confucian temple, and the gentlemen were neighbouring peak stood a dilapidated pagoda, follow the ancient worthies. Let all earnest required to remove the spectacles; but on our -evidences of the wreck caused by the fam-us

students give heed, inquire and discriminate. If vialt in August 1904 not only were our glasses Tai Ping rebellion (1850-1864). On our way a man nows his duty and forces himself to do allowed to remain before our eyes, but the down to these mills we had several magnificent it, will be not finally know instinctively what ladies of our party were granted ready en- views from cliffs which dropped sheer off to the is right without any rules of order? *

trance to this holy of holies. The real diffi plains far, far below. With jagged rocky peaks The important subjects taught by the ancients culty was rather that things were too free and to the right as we looked down there ran pre- I myself will investigate with all the students, casy and the long robed but rather youthful cipitously between thems and us a lovely silvery, and we will force ourselves to practise students too pert even from a Chinese point of stream, all afoam from its conflict with the them

view. Evidence was not wanting of the shift- rocks and boulders Away below stretched a

lessness resulting from Chu Fu Tsz's pro- row of small foot-hills clustered in groups of

vision of free Tuition and support of three and four and around and beyond these n

each student. Had it cost them more to gain this classical learning, they might have low level plain dotted with a thousand small lakes or ponds was intersected by dozens of

been more diligent in its acquisition and more earnest in making it bear fruit in helpful service streams and canals which at last combined to form a tributary of the Yangtze, a long grace-

to their fellows. ful curve of which appeared in the distance as it rounded a promontory bearing on its shares the town of Kiukiarg. bove all this plain and surrounding the nearer mountain crests hung great masses of cumulus cloud tinted by the rays of the setting sun, the whole effect pre- senting a picture of such beauty and sublimity" that the beholder could easily appreciate why native scholars have so often celebrated it in gladsome song,

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DESCRIPTION OF THE DUILDINGS. The unpretentious buildings, evidently designed for use and not for show, are com prised in eight paved but uncovered courts affording sufficient shelter for the four hundred students that are said to have gathered there in the palmy days when scholars prepared for the service of the State by writing verses to the stars. Three sides of each court are given up to living rooms for students, two in each, teachers' quarters and class-rooms. while the fourth or upper side gives space for

Mr. T. Arnold seconded and the motion was agreed to.

Mr. J. R. Michael proposed the re-election of Messrs. Hulton Potts and T. Arnold as auditors for the ensuing year.

unanimously carried.

Mr. Ho Fook seconded, and this was also

This concluded the business, the Chairman. announcing that dividend warrants would be ready to-morrow.

SURGEON-GENERAL G. J. H. EVATI, C.B.

ed by mortgages)......................................................... 129,707,51 Sundry creditorsosbus 4,818.17 Balance of profit and loss account... 33,227.67

$377.753.45

PROPIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT,

To Cost of labour, material and

working expenses

$120,331.37

Salaries

11

17,100.00

Crown rent and taxes...st

1,215.46

"Depreciation ...................................................

7.335.5

EJ

Amount written off, sundry

debtor......

2,17113

By

11

Balance, profit appropriated as

under:-

Dividend of 15%

on $150,000.00...$22,500.00 Directors' fees... 1,000.00 Auditor's fee......

150.00 Halance to new afc 8,577.67.

12,217.67

$180,431.14

Ralance of last year's account...$ 10,517.95 Gross earning................

Interest... 13

Transfer feasantundemn 31

Bonus from Insurance Co...

1

169,669.75

191.07

8.00

43.47

$180,430.14

W, H. WINTERBURN, General Manager.

the books and vouchers of the Company, and I have compared the above statements with found the same in accordance therewith.

THOS. ARNOLD, Auditor, Hongkong, 17th February, 1905,

Surgeon-General G. J. H. Evalt, c.a., the prospective Liberal candidate for the Fareham Division of Hampshire, delivered an address recently at the Town Hall, Emsworth. He declared himself strongly opposed to the Licensing Act. For years he had been "with the teetotal party." Surgeon-General Evatt, who, on his retirement, was Principal Medical Officer of the and Army Corps, had in the Service a career of exceptional usefulness. Of an old Service family, and born on November 11, 1843, he entered the Army in March, 1865, at the age of 21, and served in the Afghan War, in the Perak (Malacca) War, and was afterwards Medical Officer of the Royal Academy, Woolwich; promoted to colonel in Without a competent head or organized 1896, when he was ordered to Hongkong. faculty, without a governing board or scarcely There he made full use of the opportunity a janitor, the students are a law unto them which his official position gave him to push cooking utensils and build little hearths for soldiers stationed in the colony. Among selves. They bring their own furniture and forward sanitary reforma for the benefit of the private use or perhaps in clubs. The dilapi-other improvements he secured a full water But in one court, in place of the teachers' dated condition of many sections of the build-supply for the troops at Kowloon. He also quarters, there is a high pillared shrine-room where behind red curtains sits the massive, no doubt, results from a lack of other obtained an extra shirt for all the troops in the ready fuel. Some parts of the roof are crushed command, as well as two pairs of dandel sleep- wooden statue of Chu Fu Tz, an object of in and weeds flourish in several rooms. Many ing suits for all soldiers in the colony, it was of students cultured here. This room comes altogether the place has become nothing more

of the memorial tablets have fallen down, and also during his tenure of office there that the Mount Austin Hotel was purchased for the just in front of the grotto where the image than a sleepy and degenerate cloister where troops by the War Office, at the cost of of the white deer stands. An inscription in

about twenty students, free from the distur | £30,000. In addition, the sick, who formerly bances of home-life and new spirit of change were sent home from Hongkong only once à spreading over the land, can better prosecute year, left the Far East fortnightly or monthly engineers were this morning charged before At the instance of P.C. Mills two Europea their antiquated studies. As typically repre- steamers, to the great improvement and well-

Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy, with dis sentative of China's ancient educational system, being of the garrison. The solders' bed-sheets, orderly conduct on tramcar No. 7, and assault. the College of the White Deer Giotto has upon up to that time changed only once a month, ing the motorman, on the night of the 4th inst it the mildew of decline, while in many places were changed every fortnight, and in this way

Li On, the motorman, stated that on Saturday learning under foreign and native auspices are While at Hongkong Surgeon-General Evalt fendants got on the car at the Post Office and the strong and masterful civilization which she crossed the Franco-Chinese frontier into started to take charge of the car, and witness preparing the alert of China's youth to lead in visited the French garrisons in Tong King, and occupied the front seats. The first defendant is destined to attain.

Kwangsi province in 1897. A report of this stopped him. The first defendant then, sat journey was forwarded to the War Office auth down and put his feet up on the ledge of be orities. The Yangtze Valley also was visited by window just beside the brake. Witness stopped Surgeon General Evatt, and, later on, he the visited Peking. In 1898 he visited the Philip pines, accing the American army in the field and the Spanish troops as prisoners.-L. SC. Express

reverence as the intellectual father of the race

huge characters hangs above his throne and on either side are tablets to the memory of his distinguished disciples.

TRAMCAR DRIVERS ASSAULI ED

BY EUROPEANS,

6th fast,

Empire nearly in twain from East to West. pulous isleis enclosed by this most important / dopuls doors smeared with the ubiquitous throughout the Empire schools of the newer cleanliness, comfort, and health were promoted. night at ten minutes past eleven o'clock, the de

notes were answered, au by an echo, from the camps of Chinese provincial troops on shore.

When I first saw the Yangtze and travelled on lis swiftly rushing surface, it was the begin- ning of winter and her waters were low and falling; but even then i was struck at the magnitude of this great waterway dividing the

On this trip it was summer and her bed was full, the rush and width of her maddy waters even more majestic. Piloting in midsummer is somewhat easier on account of the steady fullness of the water, but in the spring and autumn during the rise and fall of the chocolate stream, the changes in the channels are many and various, so that piloting is no mean ari. Is sharp and yet pleasing contrast with the brown current, the banks and alluvial plains were green with tall reed grass, much used for fuel, which nearly everywhere attained a height of from seven to ten feet. On either side of the river away across the plains successive roges of hills were overshadowed by huge masses of cumulus cloud sharply out. lined against a very blue sky. Sometimes these foothills stretched to the river's brink and the occasional cliffs thus formed bore upon their tops graceful temples and pagodas'; for in China the beat places and sites are always given over to temples and pagodas, if not to gravel.

Passing into the adjacent court through a circular doorway we stand in the sancium sanctorum of the college, in the very midst of its buildings, occupied by a temple with great

of this temple offers shelter to large images of Chinese red. Dark and damp the main hall Confucius, Mencius and fifteen of the famous disciples of the Sage. This image of Con- fucius is rather contrary to custom, and is perhaps accounted for by the Buddhistic inclinations of Chu Fu Taz.

We made an early morning start from Keling so as to reach the Grotto by noon. On attain- ing the summit of Nankang Pass we saw spread before us the region between the south castern slope of the Lu Mountains and the sacred Poyang Lake, and on a small promou tory straight before us on the west shoe of the. take the city of Nankang with its striking pagoda was just discernable. Several steam launches, looking like mere toy boats, could be seen plying between the many lovely and po of China's few lakes (go miles by 20 miles) Descending the stong-paved trail that led us down l' ese mountain precipices, we headed toward a point about seven miles north of the city. For some distance after reaching the region of the lower hills, our path, led us along the shady banks of a beautiful stream, in the timpid water of which we stopped a while to bathe, for it was impossible to resist the temp- tation to tes: the depth of such a series of great pot holes as here invited to a plunge. Passing. on, now among stunted pines, now across stretches of arid red sandstone and clay, over In a small room in front of this Confucian on real roads but by winding, paths between temple is enshrined, curiously enough, a tutelar many small divisions of cultivated field, we god. Formerly this room was supposed to came at last to a secluded valley at the fune-bestow remarkable success in the examinations tion of two rippling brooks, with "five old for high degrees upon all those who had studied peaks" standing like parapets on a rampart for in it, because of the literary god standing in a the background, and the lake winding up a little pavilion across the brook, who holds in larger valley and spreading out beyond the his band a pencil which points directly to that undulating foothills,

more

Besides this crude wooden linage, there is also a portrait of the Sage, one of the only three reputed to have been made. It is engraved life size on a huge slab of dark siate and is evidently the product of no mean skill

room, and who guided the pen of the favoured accupant to heaven-bestowed success, In con- sequence of the favour thus vouchsafed to those who studied in this room, there was such a great rush each season to secure it that vigorous quarrelling and even murder ensued, so that it was relegated to an idel and henceforth no student has been allowed to study there.

PRESENT-DAY ASPECT,

དྷྭ ་་་།

C. K. E.

ROYAL ENGINEERS' ANNUAL INSPECTION.

7th inst.

SHOOTING MATCH,

6th inst.

At nine o'clock this morning Major General Villiers Batton, c. n., made the annual inspec- tion of the Royal Engineers, at Wellington Barracks. His Excellency, who was atiepded

It was by no means pleasant on the King's by Major A. A. Chichester, C.S.O., and Captain E. S. Ward, AP.C., Aw the troops go through Park Range last Saturday afternoon when 87 subsequently addressing the men, said he had tien met for a competition between Kowloon, the usual evolutions and review. drill, and in members of the Hongkong Volunteer Associa been very pleased with their smart appearance tricky, the light far from good and the air the Peak and Hongkong The wind was and thorough knowledge of the movements through which they had been put, and which bitterly cold. As the soo yards range with a had been in every way very satisfactory. The possible of 35 the Kowloon members fred 19 companies generally were quite up to their rounds of seven each for an average of 19 per work, especially Company 25,-which was ex- round. The Peak members 64 rounds for an ceptionally good-and the Hongkong Company, average of 18. The Hongkong members 72 The principal while the Native Company, were also very good rounds for an average of 16 and were to be congratulated on theirsmart turn-scores were as follows- out, after their European tuition and training. .A. Cameron 27.33, F. Fisher 28.31. J. H. His Excellency next made a thorough and Pidgeon 29.29, 1. Dougherty 20.39, C. R. Scott men's quarters, and had no fault to find any-glas 22.37, E. W. Dawson 12.17, E, W. Terry minute inspection of the barracks and the 23 18, Capt. Barnes-Lawerence 27.18, J. Dou where, the whole place presenting a very clean 2714, Rev. C. H. Hickling 20.26, A. C. Mac and well-cared for appearance, which did cre- Millan 26.34, W. H. T. Davis 29.21, W., H. dit to the officers and men alike. The apparaDonald 23.35, E. J. Grist 20.25, W. H. Wick tus for extinguishing fires was also examined kam 18.35, M. Stewart 25.23. A. G. Newlogton and found to be in perfect working order, and 24.17%, H. W. Fraser 24.30, 1. Rankin 14.23. the men showed great promptitude in turning Whittal 2024, P. N. H. Jones 18.23, W. R. The Inspection, in every way very satisfactory, Gomperts 16,13, G. L. Dancan 33.23, H. W. out on test alarm, of fire being given. McKay 13.83, C. E. H. Beavis 93. 23, H. H. was over by 9.45 am. when the men were an Robertson 23.19, W. Dobbs 18.33, L. A. M. abled to return to their quarters, His Excel Johnston, 31.23. T. P. Cochrane 12.00, H, E. lancy the General, accompanied by his staff, Goldsmith 20.21, G. Stewart 11,18, C. W. Brett leaving about sen o'clock, for headquarters.

car near Ship Street, but the first defendant refused to alight, and held witness by the hand, and wanted to use the start- ing handle. Witness then cut off the current and removed the handle from its place. The first defendant then struck witness in the face with his fist. The second defendant, who was standing in the street near the car, got on the car again, and struck witness on the nose, causing it to bleed. Witness produced a blood- stained handkerchief. The second defendant had all the way been telling the motorman, to forehead was caused by his falling and striking hurry up. The bruise on the first defendant's

fendants went over to the management and asked them to hush up the matter, but they re fused to do nó as it was a serious matter, and the motormen must be protected from men of

his bead against the side of the car. The da

this class.

P. C. Mills said, on the night in question, he was passing it another car and saw the defen. dante assaulting the motorman of car No.2. The second defendant was holding the motor. man, and the first was striking Bin,

ness asked what the trouble was about, and the defendants said the car was not going quick enough, so they wanted to increase the speed, the controlling gear, and had assaulted him. The motorman said they were interfering with Witness then arrested the defendants. The second did not appear at all to be separating the other two, but holding the motorman for the first defendant to strike,

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE. As we left Wuhu, we passed many lumbering Genius in Chine, as elsewhere, renders a rafts, some immense ones with a draft of twenty place illustrious, and few spots are feet or more, carrying-hut's and food, live stuck celebrated than this lovely vale of the White (mostly pigi and chick abs, etc., for some Deer, where Cha Fu Ter, the greatest com- thirty or fifty people, the families and assistants meatator of Confucius, lived and taught in the of the men who were bringing the lumber to twelfth century. It is still a place of pilgrim. market. They went with the current of course, age to Chinese literati, for Chu's writings are but they managed to keep clear of shallows, prized by them next to their Classics. Crossing

Ar, R. E. Lewis, of Shanghai, in his Educa. mud banks and rocks, by, the artful device of the Fairy Bridge over one of the rivulets fonal Conquest of the Far East, recites the sending out a small crew in a heavy skiff with whose constant murmur lent enchantment to amusing experience of himself and three a large anchor from which a hempen cable ran the otherwise quiet nook, we saw before us a American companions when visiting the Grotte to the raft and was there wound up on a high" Compound" wall, red in part and white a few years ago. The curiosity of the Chinese stout captian evolved by some twenty pairs in part. Passing the lesser gates, under gilded concerning all things foreign has often been of hands. By sending this auxiliary anchor. Ideographs, we stood at last in the courtyard noted before, but the actions of these students boat to the proper point, both in direction and of a college older than any university of may still be recalled with interest. distance, they could by winding up the cable, Europe, Salerno not excepted This ancient drag the rall even athwart the very current of seat of learning was rebuilt when the ban and presently one, two, three, hesitating, "We stood in Chu Hai's venerable college, the yellow dragon, the mighty Yanglaze. ners of the third Crusade were advancing on inquisitive men with long anger calls, ap Though only thirty miles from Kiukiang to Jerusalem, and its real beginning is hid behind proached, and stood awkwardly about. After the grotto, it is a good two days' journey on the veil of past agen foot and by chair across plains, and over hills

a word of greeting we were shown the main of no mean height, for our route'led ne across which shows no signs of a natural origin, be- with no backs, rice bowls, and chopsticks were

21.17, EB, Shepherd 21.21, A, T. Walker 20.17, According to Chinese bistory the grotto eating room where high square tables, benches the L'Mountains by way of Kuling and the ing dug out of a cliff and arched over with chiefly in evidence. Looking around for the

Winterburn 19 Sir H. Berkeley, 16, E, Ormis- Nankang Pais. Instead of arriving at noon as masonry, was the retreat of the illustrious poet. New York man of the party we saw him still DR. F. W. Eastlake, & well-known teacher and tan. 18. 16, L. S. Lewis 16, A. J. Williams 17, C. it should, our steamer reached Kinking at

Li P'a (or Li Taj peh) who flourished during in the outer court, beset by two importunate writer in Tokio, who has been, je Japan since Colter 18, W. Goodfellow 18, F. Maxfield 16, midnight, at the end of a heavy faint yet we the Tang dynasty toward the latter part of the students. They had began with his shoes, the 1884, died at Tokip on the 18th oft., al paesmo. W. T. Edwards 17:16, 1. Stubbing 18.19. decided to push tight on across the plains and ninth Century, Pu had a tame white deer laces and metal, eye-holes', being dulynis aged 46, He was conversant with the Japan The 100 yards range at King's Park will be to do our climbing in the cool of the early which accompanied him in his walks abroad explained. They took in his stockings, nose, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, available for practice op Saturday next 1,30 pan, morning. Accordingly after much discussion and thus he became known as the "white deer which were black in curious contradistinc¦ Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, and Arable languages, i to j p.m.

Defendants said they wished to say nothing, and would call no witnesses,

P. C. 55 said that defendants were both under the influence of liquor,

His Worship remarked that a motorman in

H. Grace 2010, H. T. Wilgress 19, G. Wcharge of a car was in the position of a man

in charge of the helm of a ship at sea, and in these cases such men must be protected against unwarrantable interference. The fist defen. alle. As regards the second defendant the Brit dant was fined $25 on each charge or ro'm charge was dismissed, and he was dued"-$5;am the second charge.