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SANITARY BOARD,

FORTNIGHTLY MEETING.

20th Inst.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanit- asy Board was held in the Beard room this nfiemoon, when the following basinous was transacted,

THE PLAGUR BEASON. The Medical Officer of Health, in a minute, slated that would be advisable to again advertise asking people to report whenever they find their houses rat-ridden. Some do so now, but a reminder would be advisable as the plague season is now commencing,

PAINT OR LIMEWASH? »

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MARCH

THE " IVY" DISKASE-STRICKEN.

BEVEN HANDS DURIED AND THREE" SERIOUSLY ILL.

roth inst. The master ofthe sa. Diabrand, which arrived is port this morning, reports that on the 14th inst., in lat. N. 30. 39 and long, 154.45 E. the American ship Ivy, of Bath, wished it to be reported that there was sickness amongst the crow, and that they had buried seven men, while three others wore ill. There were six hands on board, not including the captain and officers, and the Zuy was bound for Shanghai, The skipper wanted medical supplies_im- mediately, but required no assistance. The nature of the sickness was not disclosed,

MEDIUMS OF INSTRUCTION

IN CHINA 1

A REVIEW.

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terms unchanged, printing in the. Rdinand to extend and improve it,

24, 1906.

ADMIRAL NOEL'S EXPERIENCE.

Good

AMUSEMENT FOR THE MILLION,

SOLDIERS CLUB CHALLENGE'

"SHIALD.

ROYAL ARTILLERY DEFEATED.

aoth inst, Yesterday afternoon, on the Hongkong Foot ball ground, kindly lent for the pccasion, the semi-final match for the above shield, was placed between the West Kents and the R.QA. The Artillery kicked off with a light wind to their favour and the opening exchanges between hot teams were very interesting. Up to a few minutes before halftime both sides were pross- jog hard, but the Kents had most of the at 'tack on their opponent's citadel and they open.. ed the score. With a goal against them, the Artillery want away on the restart, bai their quintetto falled to pass the Kents' stronghold, and their paksage was baulked on many ac casions. The Kents, who played a pretty

Rene, sprinted down the line and secured. second goal The decision of the referee Bppeared to bo vory unpo pular, for as the crowd yelled off-side Rosiedar-the R. G. A. goalkeeper-refused to: Clear and the ball passed him. The referee,.. however, called it a goal. The so-called un-

team and a game of hard kicking commenced, with the result that the Koals got in another shot. Final: Wast Kenis 31 R. G. A. MIL

HOCKEY.

The Board surely problems of all higher education in the Chinese real sa prove conclusively either that the argument now stands, and we are gratified to inquisitive coolics off another, gingerly trying popular decision did not assist the Artillery.

The manager of the Steam Laundry Com pany submiled a letter, in reply to à com- munication from the secretary of the Roard; instructing that company to whitewash certain wood and iron work on the company's Kow. loon premises, in which the manager said that the walls of their said promitos were entire- ly of glais and iron, the only wood work being the framing to the glass and certain partitions in the office. did not intend to make them whitewash this like cattle-pent, and therefore he asked that somebody be deputed to visit the premises, and point out which parts of the wood-work were required to be whitewashed or whether paint could not be used as a substitute. The offices were not the laundry itself, and the bye-laws were intended for Chinese washer- men, who ate and slept among the clothes. No one lived in the Steam Laundry, and it seemed absurd to apply the same regulations to their premises,

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THE PERILS OF JOURNALISM AT HARBIN.

As we announced telegraphically last week Colonel Antemieff, Mr. Varoshkin, and Mr. Tchernikofsky have disappeared from Harbin and their newspaper, the Novi Krat, has been stopped from publication.

it is supposed, says the N. G. D. News, that the three men in question, all well known journaliste, have been arrested and put nus of the way. These gentlemen, well- known in Shanghai, were all on the staff of the Novi Kraf in Port Arthur, went through the siege, and only left when the town was in the hands of the Japanese. They then came to Shanghai, where they remained for some months, Mr. Veroshkin proceeding to Harbin te continue the printing and publishing of the Novi Krai in that town.

an alphabetic index. Such a plan for enriching the loss is only apparent. Citizenship nikes the vocabulary might be used to some extent, itself følt in other ways through words. Ther but it means an ever growing burden ju tha; must be highly educated leaders for thought learning of the ideograms. 3. By further com- and for deeds. We believe that there pounding of characters already in use. In this thoroughly trained young men, if zealous for case accuracy will come only after year of the good of their native land, will find it no in- education in the new meanings of the alemante superabis barrier to their full usefulness that compounded, and the number of Daw words they were not taught in school the technical that can thus be formed stems necessarily Isnauage of their own people. Rather, their limited, By using the westora technical | superior mental training will enable them, as now stand, to master that langunge alphabet. This would be unpleasing to the eye, and to the literary sense, but la scientific The use of English delays the use of Chinese, and philosophic treatises it would be not unlike Dr. Bergen thinks, and leads people to think the use of Latin terms to our medical books, Chinese in pot fit for such use. If it is and would be highly satisfactory. The re not quite adequate at present, there is no cognition and pronunciation of the printed great harm done in letting people know this. terms could easily be learned, and they would if it is adequats, then the very young who have be free of all false mental associations. "We been educated through English will help to consider this an admirable suggestion, and demonstrate this fact when they go out to give should like to see it thoroughly" discussed by to their own people, through the native tongue, competent scientific men who are masters of what they have gained by means of a foreign Chives, Much may well be sacrificed to speech. In the meantime, the number of accuracy in science and philosophy.

translated books ara kardly sufficient to educate The second question wa would put to those | these first few generations of college classes, Two contributed articles in this issue of The who know the Chinese language concerns ita We repeat the invitation to a free discussion Collerian bear upon one of the fun damental syntax. We think such scholars would do a of this question, but we fool that there is cor- to all educators in the Empito iftainly room for the English school, as the empire. What should be the medium of they instruction in higher education? We regret Chinese language is capable, or that it is not know that Dr. Bergen is "in warmest sympathy that pressure of duties has prevented so com- capable, of expressing fins distinctions of with the English work."-South China Colic petent an authority as Dr. Bergen from eluci--) thought and making abstruse truths intolligible. giun nating his views on this question more fully, Our knowledge of one of the dialects leads us to think such power may be wanting to the for the need of the present is a clear and full proof, if such be attainable, either that higher language, but we are quite aware of the in education should be given wholly through the sufficiency of such evidence. Only, ibaie Chinese language, or that it should be given educators who, like the writer, are dependent wholly through one of the western languages, for the present upon the knowledge, of others, or that there is room and need for schools would be glad for some sort of demonstration following ench of these plans to the educating of the afirmative or negative of this question,

It is needless to show that Chinese fails Mr. Howelt minuted: The application should of the present generation of young Chinese. be granted. I see that the secretary, under Most discussion of this question that we have

to meet the requirements for a single lan date of February 22nd states, "he is directed had the fortune to see is weighty, or the guage and for ease of acquisition. The by the Board to write that the wood and iron opposite, only by reason of the person present twofold style of speech and writing, and the multitude of competent to slementary educa. symbols to be mastered, werk must be whitewashed." Is this correct?ng the arguments, for clear demonstration on

make the labour I have no recollection of the question being either side in the controversy is not forth

coming. No doubt the wall instructed have tion very great. The use of the printed collo- before the Board,

quial in the various sections of the land as a Dr. W. W. Pearse, Medical Officer of Health, reasons for the faith that is in them, or the but while these scholars differ the

purveyor of news and instraction would greatly minuted: I do not think we can say the dental body of educators must form their alleviate the case, but still leave the read to regulations and bye-laws apply only to

conclusions from facts clearly presented, rather knowledge strait and tortuous, We do nol Chinese washermen and not to Europeans, But of course there is the power of the Board than to rely upon more opinion. We should think it quite accurate to say, as Dr, Woods like very much takes the clearest possible does, that language is purely a servant. Lan- to exempt where such a course is reasonable. The Board has already held that painted wood rendering from English into Chinese of a few guage is an artistic possession of the race, as pages each of moderately abstruse scientific well as a tool, but the artistic quality of the work if properly cleansed need not be time. washed. Would the Assistant Medical Officer and philosophic and profound moral and tool must never be allowed to interfere with its of Health kindly see what he can do in the of the adequacy and accuracy of the render must be easy for all to master,

religious thought, accompanied by a criticism service as a tool. A language fit for education matter? I suggest that the Board allow the Laundry Company to paint the woodworking, written by two or more competent per Therefore the sugestion that the Japanese instead of limewashing it.

sons. This would do more to fix the present and the Chinese should simplify their native declaration. But we would not be misunder general use is by no means farfetched. The powers of the Chinese language than much longues by adopting a phonetic alphabet for stood. We shall considor fully the outline sole unsettled point is this: Are there a sufficient presented by Dr. Bergen, which we find very number of distinct syllables in these languages suggestive, Our criticism applies not specfio render an alphabet usable? If the distinct fically to Dr. Bergen, but to ali discussion of syllables are limited in number, there may be great confusion caused by the frequency of identical written symbols having different meanings. The Cantonese dialect can be written in the Roman alphabet, and a trained Chinese can read manuscript so written without even the tone marks. Moreover, if the syllables The article from the pen.of Dr. Woods takes are sufficient to render the spoken language the form of an inquiry into the general ques-intelligible, where the written characters do tion, What sort of language is necessary for not aid in discrimination of identical sounds, higher instruction? but is followed by a cri- why would hot a phonetic representation of ticism, in the light of these general considera the same language be intelligible? This seems tions, of the Chinese language, and some to indicate that the spoken dialects can be practical reflections as to the proper altitude of alphabetized (as, in faci, naveral of them have educators toward the two languages, Chinese been in literature). Then, why not alphabetize, and English. We shall summarize this article the Mandarin, which could easily be made as a basis for further consideration, and we universal in a generation or two? Or, il we invite full discussion of this question in our must have wen-li as the written language of journal.

China, connot the classical style be somewhat. relaxed, its concisoness some hai modified, the point where alphabetic representation will be intolligible, and will not such a concession be abundantly rewarded when we have thereby put the best thought within the reach of all who simply learn the English alphabet or some other? In this connection we should like to repeat the practical reflection of Dr. Woods, that romanized colloquial should be taught generally in Christian churches and schools, Let us help to break down the barriers of pride, if they are also the barriers of ignorance. The progressive students of China can do this far easier than any foreigners.

Dr. Mactarians minuted: I have seen the pramises. The attached letter was sent at my request, but does not embody exactly what I asked for, that was, that the wood could be either fainted or limewashed. This letter wad asked for under the impression that the same treat ment should be given 10 an English Inundry as to a Chinese laundry, or Chinese theatre, or similar places. Unless this faundry comes under some other heading I see no reason for not asking for painting or limewashing of the main wood work. This has been strictly en forced in the Chinese theatres and other such ilcensed premises, laundries, etc., lately, and it would not seem fair to have two standards-one for Chinese and one for Foglish,

TANKS IN VARDS,

Mr. Brotherton Harkerapplied for a modifica tion of the requirements of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance with respect to the maintenance of a water tank in the backyard of Nos. 8 and 81, Connaught Road Central. Mr. E. A. Hawati minuted: We should be informed of the reason for the tank to be erected before considering the application,

Mr. Lau Chu Pak minuted: The tank can "be covered up. If there is no other reason thas that mentioned in the minute of the Medical Officer of Health. I think this application should be granted.

The Hon. the Registrar-General minuted: Application very large tank. This is the first application of the kind I remember seeing. Is there some special reason for it?

The Hon. the Director of Públic Works minuted; Such tanks are objectionable, and unless there are good reasons for requiring them they should not be allowed.

The Medical Officer of Mealth minuted:

The proposed tank will not take much room, but I do not think it advisable to grant theapplication, Watertanksinyards are always liablato contamination from dirty water splashed out of windows,

THE RHENISH MISSION,

On behalf of the Rhenish Mission, Mr. Brotherton Harker submitted an application for a modification of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance with regard to building on Taland Lot 609, section A, for exemption from providing open space in the rear of those build. ing in Bonham Road, on the ground floor, as it was intended to use the ground floor as a meet ing ball patirely, and only the upper storey for domestic and scholastic purposes.

The Medical Officer of Health minuted: Owing to the meeting of three roads just in this asighbourhood there is a good amount of open space there. On condition the the ground floor of the building is not to be used for domestic purposes. I think no harm would re- sult from granting the modification asked for,

The Hon. the Registrar General minuled: Is the road at the back of the premises a pris vate one? If so, there is nothing to prevent more bulldlage in the rear.

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question that has fallen under our notice, and we regret all the more the necessity that compelled Dr. Bergen to shorien his argument, from the fact that we should naturally have turned to him as among those capable of solving this problem.

Dr. Woods' introduction, contrasting the wealth of western thought with the poverty of the thought of China, suggests that the a priori argument is certainly with those who mistrust. the fitness of the Chinese language, as it now stands for the imparting of higher education. How can we forthwith put into a language heretofore parrowly limited in content, the immense riches of the modern world? To say the language will grow is to leave the point under discussion, "We do not ask: Will the language grow?

No one doubts that it will grow. English has grown. But through how many centuries of slowly or rapidly ex- panding thought has English developed to its excess wealth of vocabulary and power of expression and discrimination. Can we, with the magic wand of our enthusiasm and good will, immediately expand the language, of the Chinese race to two, three, four, or many trucs its present capacity? If the reply that Chinese needs no such expansion, we beg that evidence be furnished, for a priori considers tions force us to fear that it does stand in such need. Consider, in the light of the thoughtful inquiry of Dr. Woods, how much is demanded

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The conclusions.reached by Dr. Woods seem save and modest. Let a limited number of young men and women learn English. The education acquired through English will give them, the knowledge and breadth of view ne cessary to leaders and they will able to improve alphabetize, or, it may be, pede their native tongue. The many must for the present be taught through Chinese. That there should be a certain number of specialists to Chiness among the foreign educators is equally necessary. The Chinese educated through

Colonel Artemieff, himself proprietor of the paper, who stayed at the Hotel des Colonies whilst here, undertook some very interesting negotiations for the Russian Government with regard to one of the Shanghai newspapers. Telegrams passed to and fro, but nothing was definitely concluded.

Colonel Artemieff went to St. Pete sburg about the end of May 1995. There he had audience of the Czar, and after a time returned to Harbin, where the Novi Krat was still appealing.

Mr. Tchernikofsky, at one time on the staff of the Port Ankur paper, and afterwards the Ruskoe telegraphic correspondent of Slope of Moscow, also spent some months in Shanghai on leaving Port Arthur he also, after the battle of the Tsushima Straits, return- ed to Russia, and thence rejoined his old chief, Colonel Artemieff. in arbin, Now, on ac count of telegrams rela ing, it is said, to affairs at Vladivostok, these three men have my seriously disappeared. Where are they?

FAR EASTERN SHIPPING.

JAPANESE COMPETITION.

All is not gold that glitters, and the prospect of extended and profitable shipping enterprise

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Admiral Sir Gerard U. Noel, who has just, gone home, will not readily forget his last experience in Hongkong. One way or another Genry," as his sailors called him-which is strictly against Service rules, because under Navy regulations one is not supposed to give a nickname.even to the gunroom cat-ånd' a many curious experiences to the Far East; he was nearly killed lo on automobile in Bangkok, he was three quarters dead when rescued from the kind attention of his friends in Manils, and the memory of Japan will be with him as long as he lives. But these were events that were exciting and agreeable. Hongkong it was another story. Just before he resigned bis command, the Admiral thought he would have a last look at the dock which is being built by Messrs, Punchard, Lowther & Co. for the Admiralty. A very proper thing no doubt; but the event proved anything but hoppy. The Admiral and his staff, besides several dock officials, marched solemnly round the deck, poked at this corner and chivvied one plank before they stepped off the other, and generally showing that what they did know of docks was useless know- ledge.

Now, it should be remarked that Admiral Noel is regarded as one of the leading strategists In the Navy; he has also a big reputation as a tactictian. He used to lead the China Fleet a merry dance round Mira Bay, and brought the Flest into first-class order. But there are some things which even an Admiral does not know, and Admhal Noel is not strong an geological formations. The tour of inspection had ended, and the party returned to terra firma-at least that was the Admiral's intention. Crossing half a dozen planks, the staff and officials moved by devious routes to land. Here was a chance for the strategist to prove his calibro. The Admiral took the high road while the others took the low road, the Admiral hoping that he would be clear of the dock before them. He was, but not in the way he had expected. There was a two foot jump from the last coping stone to the the "solid" earth. There is a quotation which goes-"Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would meli, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! I the word "earth" is substituted for "nesh" then the simile is exact in this case. The Ad- miral saw what he had thought was a fine solid piece of mother earth. It was yellow and smooth, flattened out like a pancake, un ideal funding place. The Admiral jumped. Nex: minute he was up to the armpits in fine, viscous, sticky, odoriferous mud. It was the enly mud hole in the yard, and the Admiral discovered it first time. The staff tried to look shocked and nearly choked; two Euro. pean foremen had a fit, and having nearly burst a blood vessel rose and violently kicked a wheelbarrow into the dock; one man wept silently, at least the tears rolled down his checks and it was several minutes he fore the company could rush to the nid of the Admiral, on account of their emotion, Bul the Service had vicdicated itself; there had been no lack of decurum, A poor coolie, who thought the pantomime had returned, guffawed hoarsely, Silently and swiftly a European workman flung hias into the imitation reser- voir on the ground. The coolic is still won- dering why he was treated to a free bath in these drougthy times. The naval officers may be slim, but they are all muscle, and they heaved the Admiral ashore in a jiffy he was jerked out of the mud like the rark out of a battle

plunk" And

pop" as The

Admiral had

there was the same

On the Hockey Club ground yesterday after". noon the guo-room officer of U.M.S. Andromida played H.M.S. King Alfred. The new arrivals: ploved a better game and defeated the Andro

eda men by two goals to one.

FRENCH INDO-CHINA.

INCREASING RAILWAY FACILITIES,;. In a report just published on the trade of Indo-China, Mr. G. W. Pearson, of the British' Consular Service In China, says that the French Colony shows great progress, but from the difficulty of obtaining accurate statistica it is not easy to say how great is the progress and bow much the cost to the home govemment,, The country is now, he says, in a rapid process of transition from a land of agricultural indus try to one of bustling industry. There are great natural resources, but the obstacles to development are great. There are two lines of tramways in Tongking, the first through Hanol and its suburbs, and the second from Namglang la Kesal; neither has been a commercial success. in Cochin-China there are four, all of which have been successes, namely, two. from Saigon to Cholon, the third from Saigon to the fourth from Saigon to Hoomon. In Annam a line from Toprane to Faifo is in course of construction. The rail- way liner in operation a year ago were 644. kil metres in length, of which 404 are worked by Government and the balance by the Com- pagnie de l'Indo-China et du Yannati. On These lines the Chinese mechanics, firemen and stakers have been replaced by Annamare. The number of passengers carried by the mallways in 1903 was over two millions and the freight 61,256 tons. The Bres under construccion fast year were from Haiphong to Vietri, Hanoi to Vinh, Vie'ri to Laokai, Tourane to Hue, Baigon to Kuanlica and Saigon to Langbian. The view of outsiders, is the Victri-Laokal Jinsi most important of these, from the point of

which is the chief artery of the fines intended truction, The plans for the Laoksi-Yundan to feed the Yunnan railway now under cons line were sanctioned in January, 1903. The route crosses the mountain ridges of Yunnan, through the Namti valley, and, prasing through the valleys of the Pataho.and Tachenbo, the principal branch of the West River and the

In the Far East, now that the Russo-Japancio be left the greasy swamy came to the dock outlet of the Tangzu lake, approaches Yunnan“

-been spic and span when he now it was difficult to say which was the miral and which was the tail of a khaki-colour ed merman. A consultation was held and the

remedy decided upon. The engineman ran for the fire hose and the Admiral spun round as a fat of water hit him; he kept on spinning as the water struck him si teways, and at length he was clean. Now we know why there is a scarcity of water in Hongkong. The Admiral was made presentable, and that is about all that could be said of his appearance. This being all the business, the dock inspection

now ended.

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY:

FORMAL PETITION TO THE THRONE,

19th just,

city via Ainichou. This line will unite Tong king with the capital of Yunnan,

The new scheme of mall services contem; plates doing away with the Marseilles Austra fan and the Marseilles-Bombay service, and reducing gradually the subsidy on the Saigon Shanghai line. A new hos is to be substituted from Saigon to Sydney via Singapore, Balavin and Brisbane and antler monthly service bi tween Marseilles and Palgon. But Mr. Pearson thinks this impracticable and believes that the mail service must be a line of large carriare between Marseilles and China,

of a language thai would be fit for modern English and the foreign masters of Chinase For a time, therefore, sundry British ships proceedings which took place at the meeting | exported in 1934, all but 94,379 tóns came from

higher education.

It

will units in the work of translation, and as There are four conditions that a language renovators of the language of the people. should fulfill in order to be perfectly fit for use in the acquirement of knowledge.

the forms of a brief outline, and we shall simply The second article on this question takes must be copious in vocabulary. 2. 18 Syntax must make possible the complexity of sentence structure necessary to clear and exact axposition of complex facts, 3. The 4. It must be easy of acquisition. written and spoken forms must be identical. This all stems self-evideat. The immense content of modern thought demands an im- and philosophy call for the power to construct mense vocabulary. The abstruseness of science long and involved sentences that shall be aids to the right understanding of complex facte or theories, not hindrances to such understanding, If there are two languages, the written and the spoken, then the universal elementary education demanded by modern society, and such universal instruction & comes through news papers, magazines, and popular treatises and literature, are practically impossible. The masses will remain ignorant. Lastly, the demand for ease of acquisition (requiring, of course, a single language) means simply that time is more precious than gold, more samestly to be saved than fine gold..

port

Po, published this morning an account of the Our Chinese contemporary, Chung Kwok at

railway held in Canton the other ay. It was of the shareholders of the Canton tankow axed that a telegram should be tramited to the Board of Commerce in Peking stating that the capital required to proceed with the construction of the Canton-Hankow line had been placed at za million dollars, to be raised by four million shares of $5 each,.

In Canton, shares have been allotted to the

amount of 10 million dollars, and up to the 14th inst, the sum of $1,648,700 odd had been. collected on account of the first call,

The money thus subscribed has been depo- Hip Sing Kin, the Yoan Feng Yun, and the sited in the following banks in Canto....-ihr

The most important coal mines in the colony are nose of Hongay, where three thousand workmen are employed. The output in 1984 was 130,80 tons, of which one-third was manu- factured into briquettes. There, are several other mines but these are not of any great consequence at present. There are several metal mines, principally gold, and tin, and prospecting is being vigorously carried on.

The average export of rice from Indo-Ching is about a million tons. Of the 976,419, Lans

Cochin-Chinn, France, Japan and the Philip pines being the principal destinations. Many French colonist have been given concessions for the cultivation of rice, but hitherto they have met with little or no success. They attributa their failure to lack of labour, a cause which handicaps every project in Indo-China. Even when sufficient labourers are found, installed and given advances of money, they will sad. denly disappear leaving the crops roting for want of harvesting. Further, and here is a lesson for river engineers, the inundation of two districts, Vichyen and Phooyen, has done blunders on the part of the engineers who at great damage. The inundation was caused by tempted to deliver Hanoi from all danger of int undation by cutting through existing dykes re taining the Red Rivers the result was that twa years afterwards, in 1890, an.lausdation or curred, sweeping away the weakened dyke sub- merging the surrounding region and damaging Successive foods have lace devastated the the existing works of the Yuanan railway,

district,

war is over, is qualified by a variety of con

dration. The Japanese, for one thing, appear to have by no means exhausted themselves in defeating their Muscovite enemy. We were reminded the other day, in the interesting freight report issued from Hongkong by the Norwegian firm of Messis Aagnaid, Thoresen and Co., that the mercantile abilities of the Japanese are, if anything, superior to their martial qualities, and that their steamers, no langer sequited as transports, will from by one, and dozen by dozen," be thrown on to the market. Already, it is stated, several of the regular lines which were kept up by chartered foreign tonnage have again put on Japanese boats. On the other hand, we know that this step, inevitable though it is, will not be fully carried out for some little time yet. Mr. Kondo, the chairman of the Nippon Company, for instance, announ at the recent half-yearly meeting of that undertaking that all the com pany's services could not be reinstated untit towards the end of 19-6, owing to the demand for transports by the Japanese Government. vices, but in the latter half of 10.6 we are told ill continue to ply in established Japanese ser

tuanage of its own, owing to the release of trans- that the Nippon Company will have surplus

offer a few comments upon its statements.

port, and the the company may experience “a Dr. Borgen begins by stating that since the hard time." It certainly has not done so since renaissance the use of Latin has steadily de- the war, for it boasts that it has learned how clined. This implies that Latin was used for to use foreign steamers in an economical a longer or shorter period in scholarly literature, manner, and while so employing them it has But this Just parallels, all that any advocate been earning large sums from the Govern of English education in Chiun contends for: ment. Its prost during the half-year ended that is, that a portion of the young men and September last was so large that, after paying a

English, till the number of well-trained native women be educated for the present through dividend equal to 12 per cent, and putting 1,0 0,0 yen to a special repair fund for trans scholars is sufficient for the impro ement and considerably in excess of that in previous steamers, the sum carried forward was development of their own language. Dr. Bere cor gen's argument can have no bearing upon the periods. And at the end of this half-year the present, but must refer only to some future company had still under chatter 70,000 tons lime. The immense enrichment of European of foreign shipping. All this suggests that thought and languages through the thorough when things become quite normal again, and the knowledge of Latin and Greek can be paral. whole of the company's 250,000 tons another leled in Chinese only througli a similar know.ary work, this great Japanese enterprise

cons in building—is available for or ledge of some great western language. Mean dinary STRAITS TO BURMA BY RAIL,

while let the Chinese find a plan for barrowing will be fitter than ever to deal with that "great thought and words, and when they have well era of trade with the Far East" which, among A PLETHORA OF SCHEMES,

The coltivation of tobacco has increased and begun its operation les English go. We must other things, has indured the Messageries and bear in mind, however, that all Kuropean lan- the Chargeurs Reunis Companies to organisa,

a factory is now working at Hanoi. Sugar-case At length the province of Tenatarim

also cultivated, but it is not a favourite with guages a arealphabetic, and can therefore never be service from Antwerp to China, Japan, (Lower Burma) is receiving some' attention in

more care and hard work than rice of maize,gi the matter of railways, says the Stratis Tiener, the demands made upon the vocabulary of a the creation of new compounds or borrowing of ports and the Straits of Magellan. The clever nest of the Japanese as merchant steamship and there seems every reason to hope that in language in our day: a speech fit for modern foreign words is comparatively easy; here le is

Serious attempts are being made by the owners has its counterpart, so far as other needs must possess expansive power. Thought| difficult and awkward, the near future Moulmein Will become an im-

French Colonial Government to: utilise large does not remain for even one year stagnant. Dr. Bergen calls attention to the remarkable countries are concerned, in the organising Mr. Cheug Pat St, Commissioner to the

tracts of Indo-China as cattle stations, where pontane railway centre. Besides the connection

ability of the Germans. It burats the bounds of the past and flows out fact, ofler overlooked, that the difference be-

The Norwegian Canton Board of Trade, who arrived born some

breeding can take place on a large scale. Pegu,

At which is rapidly approaching com- pletion, several other schemes are in the air,

inta new fields of truth, Specifically, a lan tween the dialects of China is chiefly a differ-report to which we have zelerred says that the time last week from Canton, made a statement considerable expense herds of cows and horses two of which deserys attention, because they age that is to borrow the whole wealth of the ence of pronunciation. In a senss China may remman have acquired practically a monopoly the other day which to all well-wishers of Chins are installed at various points and convict

world in a generation must be capable of

and that they are is of some importance. He said "When I may prove to be the beginning of very impor

be said to have one universal language. This

prisoners are employed to lend them under the Immense development.

return, and that will be in a few weeks, you charge of a French expert..... tant undertakings. The first is the recONDEIS-

is truly a striking fact. If Mandarin could be powerful in that of the Straits Settlements.

Such a station is can rely on me that the Canton-Whampoa found at the Isle de la Table, a practically un sance survey now being conducted towards The general considerations are applied by taken as the standard pronunciation of this indeed, the way in which "the German com.

to the Chinese language. We enter multiform language, and be alphabetized and "panies have been able to expand their eastern raitway will be pushed ahead, as is now being inhabited island, twenty-five miles long in the the Siamera frontier, which, if favourable, may

into the discussion of the actual powers and enriched with borrowed treasures, it would load le the faturs to connection with the

done with the line from Caston to Hankow. Bile d'Along, where experiments in the pro That the Canton-Whampoa railway, when an [duction of cross-breeds suitable to the country Slamose Fallway

system. The second is the capacity of Chinese with great difidence, fully mean a new birth of thought in China. Man-with the Japaness and the Germans, and an line to Yez, a railway which, if aware of the fact that our knowledge is defi darin has been romanized, we believe, but bow over-supply of torange to boot, the prospects accomplished fact, will be of great importanca are being carried out. The plains of Inde Survey

in the Far East of British shipping, with its is evident from the fact that it will be the Chios ac cavered with gramineous plants, ag constructed; will be the

cient for this tank, and that this discussion can we secure it a fair tria) ? step towards cont

means of connecting Kowloon and Amoy within Australia and Argentins, and the nature of The length of time peaded to master Eng- lack of co-operation, are not of the brightest.--- pection with the line in the Straits Settlements, belongs to those who are thoroughly familiar Obviously railway connection with Siam an

with the

Canton, the vocabulary, syntax, and future promise | lish is really not an argument against higher

Shipping Garetta,

the soil supplies rich pasturage, in the grass the one hand and the Straits on the other is in

Mr. Cheung Fat Sx, who takes an importent Andropogon, Tongking is, perhaps, the richess of Chinese. We repeat that our purpose is to education through English: It takes more the distant future, but it is satisfactory to see

call attention to the points that ought to be time to build a railroad than 10 make a path. ALLEN Stuart, second officer on board the part in the proposed construction of the How country in the world, and therefore should be schames under consideration which may pyon. settled, rather than to attempt a settlement of It takes more money to construct a trans- Hallas, prosecuted a coolie at the Police Court loon, Amoy and Whampoa railways, left Hong able to afford excellent pasturage for sheep. tually lead to the completion of the great

any of them, though we are bold enough to Pacific steamer than to lay down a sampan, on Tuesday, before Mr. C. A., D. Melbourne, keng on Saturday last by the a. Batman: The Erachne Chinensis is abundant on the projects,

venture an opinios here and, there. In the but the steamer goes farther and carries more for stealing a money-box containing 845 from for Bwatow. His business there is of a dries; bills, and yields an unfailing food.. Bot. Chinese vocabulary too limited? If what Those who would see the world had better take his cable on Monday afternoon. Complainant private nature, and it is expected that he in the niber hand, in the cultivated plains, the promise have we of a rapid increase of this the steamer. Besides being the vehicle of said that on Monday morning be placed the will be back in Canton in about six weeks' calcareous bigblaude, where the gramineous A HAWKER residing at St. Stephen's Collepe, vocabulary? Dr. Woods thinks the language education in the sciences for such students, the money in the box, and in the afternoon when, time. Immediately on his return, as Mr. plants do not, thrive, and in theo - abundant West Point, prosecuted his brother at the needs geographical names, nagies for now im English language is to them what the study of, he wout to open the box be found that the box Cheung remarked to some friends, he will forsato, cattle could not support themselves, Magistracy on Monday for stealing clock, pored commodities, philosophie Teligious, and Latin, Greek, German and French and other and money had both disappeared, When the take up the matter of the Whampoa and therefore the suitable area for pasturaga ja „[t.transplid that defendant want to visit ifla scientific terms. Thead may be added to the intellectual and mesibptic training are to a cop matter was reported to the Statiun, and Dotsc- | ralfway, and also the opening of Whampoa as greatly restricted. It would appear thatzike. brother and, as the latter was out, he picked present stuck of words in, bien, ways. By alderable portion of the favoured young men tilya Te rest boarded the Maffaw, the defendant's seapot [treaty pon?], Mr. Cheung is quite best country for this purpose lies between Dong up a clock, and took it to a pawnshop. The forming new Ideograms. We suppose thess and women of the wast?

wat searched and, a bunch of keys was found. confident that the Whampoa railway will not Tiled, and the Chinese; frontlet, compose brother was arrested, and this morning sen-|| might be borrowed tordall, ffansferred to Chinese To the argument that educating young mop in his possession, The first kay that was tried ¦ be long in starting and that in a few years' | chiefly; of unwooded hills, and in a strip of fenced, to three weeks' hard labour and sÌN written form. The pronunciation would have through English-meens a partint loss to their | openal the box: 'Defendant was sentenced to time a journay from, Whampoa to. Amoy ❤ill f'country' stretching from Mi Luong, bätween kours' stackable

Dry] to be learned from ibe teachipi's, lipajɛor from:l ́own (ind) we ship it-nufficient to reply that' one month's hard labour,

not be needed by sisamore,

the Red and Black River towards Bong Hou

During the fortnight ending 13th inst. 1,613 Bouses were cleansed and limewashed under the superintendance of the Sanitary officials,

of:a

1

first

Yee Shin Yuen, all leading banks in Canton,

Telegrains have been received from various quarters abread making application for shares to the amount of 6 million dollars, and a large demand still exists for shares in the now line.

The mhants of Canton bave also des- patched a telegram to the Shangpu asking that

Board to memorialise the Throne on the sub- -ject of the resolutions passed, and praying that an Imperial Edict may be issued, granting per- mission to proceed with the constraction of undertake the work and retain control of the line,

is

But there'is one farther consideration as to compared on equal terms with Chinese. There and San Francisco, and home by West Coast the railway, and permitting the merchance to the natives of Indo-Chins, as the crop demands

...

"trade commands entire admiration."

What

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CANTON-WHAMPOA -RAILWAY.