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Hongkong University.

KING EDWARD VII. SCHOLAR-

"SHIPS.

CONFINED TO BRITISH-BORN CHINKIE. We have been, levound with the following letter for publication (——

Government House, 14th October, 1909.- Sir,—I recently informed you by direction of His Excellency that His Majesty's Goveta- mant had decided to provide an annual ss of £300 for scholarships at the Hongkong Univer- Bity open to British subjacts, y .

His Excellency has to-day received an intimation that His Majesty, so a mark of his. personal interest in the proposed University, --has been graciously pleased to direct that the Holders of scholarships shall be styled “King

dward Vil. Scholars,”

Lord Crewe adds that he is sure that the

Community of Hongkong will receive this inti mation with much gratification and that it will enhance the prestige of the scholarships. Their

́number and valgs, and: the conditions under which they are to be held, and the Faculties to which they are to be attached, are left to the discretion of the Governor, with the suggestion that they should be confined to Hongkong or Straits-born Obinero,

1 ani, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

N. SIMION, Private Secretary.

· THE BELLE VIEW HOTEL,

ACTION AGAINST PROPRIETOR.

Inthe Summary Uourt, yesterday morning, Mr.- E. & Konardy, of No, 21, Shau-ki-wan Road, brought an action against My Mak Nam Woon, proprietor of the Belle View Hotel, to recover the sum of 57,000, being $500 damages for breach of an agreement dated, 19th August, 1909, whereby the defendant agreed to employ the plaintif as manager of his hotel, and as to S5oo damages caused to the plaintiff by the wilful and intentional act of the defendant with- out just cause of excuse in proventing the plaintiff from continuing with his application for a license adder the Liquor Licenses Ordin- ance of 1898.

Mr. M. Reader Harris (of Mesurs, Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for the plaintiff while Mr. Eldon Polter, instructed by Mr. Crowther Smith (of Massis, d'Almada, and Smith) wai for the defendant.

Mr. Harris dropped the second part of the *claim for $500, as it was very difficult to prove

right of action.

It was stated for the plaintiff that an agree ment was entered into between the plaintiff and the defondant, whereby it was agreed by ́defendant to employ the plaintiff as manager of the Bella View Hotel. The agreement wasto start from the date of the grant of an application for * license to the defendant. On the joth August, the application' came on for hearing. The ap plication was adjourned and plaintiff asked the defendant when he was required and was told not till the 10th September, Plaintiff sub- sequently proceeded to. Canton. On the 6th September, plaintiff saw as advertisement in the name of one Williant Winch, from which ke surmised that defendant did not intend to hold himself bound by the agreement.

Plaintiff stated that in August last, be re-

ceived a chit from the defendant asking him to come and discuss business with him. Flaintiff was asked what salary he was willing to accept to act as licensee of the Bello View Hotel, The defendant at first offered $650 a month which went up to $100. It was subsequently agreed at the office of Mosers. d'Almada and Smith that the salary should be fixed at $125 a month, with board and lodging and an allowance of Sas for drinks. On the 18th of August, plaistis left his employment at Quarry Bay shipyard and on the following day, the agreement was signed.

Mr. Potter-You were in the Customs, weren't

you? - Yes.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY OCTOBER 15 1900

Canton Opium Monopoly.

SUGGESTED ABOLITION,

PROPOSED RAISING OF PRICE OF THE DRUG.

[From Qur Own Correspondent.]

Canton, 9th October.

submitted a suggestion to H. E. Viceroy Yuan The Canton Ezti-Opiam Association has to the effect that the Canton Prepared Opium Tong Company, should be abolished and that Monopoly, now granted to the King Sheng the price on prepared opium should be simul- might be effected in the suppression of the taneously raised in order that speedier progress habit of opium smaking. H. B. Yato considers the suggestion a wise one and is evincing every disposition to accede to it, but there are certain financial difficulties, to be overcome, before it can be given effect to, se H. E. Yuan bas given instructions to the Canton Government Anti Opium Bureau and the Board of Reorgani question and to report thereon. sation to hold a commission of inquiry into the

- REFUGE AT HONAM,

A branch refuge of the Canton Anti-Opiem Association has been established at Hosam and was formally opened yesterday, where opium smokers who desire to gat rid of their habit will be admitted for medical treatment free of charge.

RONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK.

A BULWARK IN THE EAST,,

This great banking corporation, which may almost be described as a British bulwark in the East, piles prosperity on prosperity, and these prophets who looked for further good things, have them in the report. One of our customery comparative tables is perhaps the quickest and most effective way of showing the position:-

Half Year to June, 1909.

Brought in'.........$1,003,248 Profit

3:487,198

Hall Year to Jone, 1908,

$1,000,388 3.403,530

......$5,403,918 Soooob

£2

Total available ...$5,493,446 To silver reserve... 750,000... Dividend...... Carried forward...$2,001.819$2,005,775 The prosperity has thus been more bap maintained, and even if some had hoped for greater things, there is surely enough to satisfy?-Pall Mall Garette,

PEKING-KALGAN KAILWAY.

PRESIDENT HŠU'S SPRECH,

CORRESPONDENCE.

¿We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondenta in ahli column.)

THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET SPEECH.

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The following officers and parsons shall be members of the board :---

The Director of Education.

The Resident Councillor, Peñang, The Resident Councilior, Maláciu. The Colonial Treasurer. Two persons to be appointed for each year by the Governor.

Two persons to be elected for each year by the unofficial members of the Legislative Coun-

The Director of Education shall be ox-officio. chaifman of the board.

succession and a common soalį it may take, | Among other duties thar the Second Mate was bold and dispose of property, moveable and supposed to perform he was to baresponsiblefor. immevable and may sue and be sued in its the wheel house being kept clean, scrub it out said name. »

and polish the brass in it, and on the home- ward" passage the whole of the upper and lower bridges, including two boats; was painted solely by the Master and Second Main." as to who would be held responsible if any accident happened during my watch and I was not un the bridge, nobody seemed to consider that point, but I presume it would fail to my lot. One more item i should like to mention, on the passage down from our discharging port to Buenos Ayrus, a run of ten days, there was na quantity of coal, (less than xoo, toma) to be taken up out of No. 3 hatch and put on dock, the Mate and myself were asked alther to tura to and work coal, with the crew or elsa take' four hours wheel and let the man go from the wheel and work, the Master of the Ship him- of shovelling all the time. I might mention this was quite unnecessary as it was fine wen. ther and there were the Carpenter, Bos'un, three sailors and one fireman, six men at work the whole time, and the fact of the Master and

· I would like to stalo, through the medium of your columns, for the Information of the Legis- Întive Council, that the imposition of the ox- cise has already produced ons effect---an effect, which, by the way, the Hongkong Telegraph. bad With prophetic instinct anticipated. Writing from my own expérience 1 Câi say, without TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkong ThingRath." fear of contradiction, that, whereas before the ** SIR,—Taxpayers—or such of them as have | levying of liquor duties, the daily proceeds of perdsed the excellent editorial columns of the sales in my store represented an average of Hongkong Telegraph last svönlog—are under | from Si25 to $150, they have since dwindled "an obligation to you for the illuminating "Bly | to not more than a thisid of that amount, As |

Glances at the Estimates." When on the pró- | far as I hava bana able to gather my experi columns of the Governor's presentation of the all retail stores carrying on business similar-cil vious evening 1 "ran through" the nive once is not quique; it is typical of the cases of Colony's Goancial position in the coming year, to my owni only by an avalanche of words but positive I rose from the task as if ons bewildered not ly dazed by an accumulation of figures that payers stand in relation to the Government in made me but little the wiser as to how the tax 1910. It may be dus either my mental myopia de intellectual density that I failed to grasp the salient features of the Govamor's budget speech. Certain it is that it was not until I perused your last evening's, exposition that I discovered the immensity of the slas of omission, that had been unwittingly committed by the head of the Executive.

More than that, I have been brought-like many with whom I have since discussed the matter-into a realisation of the farcical character of the recommendations of the Retrenchment Commitee. Contratt the do ings of the present Committen with the last Commission of the kind that sat in the Colony and the disparity will become more pronounced to the older residents, like myself, who will recall the Commission appointed at the initia tion of the late Sir George T. O'Brien (then Colonial Secretary in Hongkong) and on which Mr. T. H. Whitehead had a sent. va

and oilmen's stores carrying on the business of It was a fallacy to baliove that the grocer's wins dealers as an adjunct were reaping a bar vest from local, that is, resident consumers. The inhabitants of the Colony, are not those upon whom the trade" relied absolutely for the turn-over in their business. It is the ship- ping coming in and out of the port with clock- like regularity that was our best customers.

.Since the operation of the new law with its consequential increase in the price of liquors, the shipping (excluding, of course, the river stsamers) has very materially reduced their demand on the Hongkong grocess. At one time they used to replenish their larders in port before resuming their voyages. Now what hap- pans? Steamers come in from the North wilb their pantries well provisioned with winds and spiriti purchased at Shanghal and the Northern parts where liquors are exempt from the surtax imposed by dealers in Hongkong because of the duty. They carry a large enough supply for the return journey and so ao drawing, or a comparatively small proportion of it, is made on Hongkong.

In view of this fact it does not require much explaining to show that the diminished sales will have a detrimental effect uppo the imports, and accordingly the estimate of revenue may fall considerably below Government anticipa tions.

It is well, therefore, before passing the Ap- propriation Bill, that the unofficial members. of Council should give careful thought to the possibility, and, even the probability, of the liquor dusick not realising anything like the round five- lakhs which is confidently looked forward to in certain quarters. Youre, etc.,

TRADESMAN.

In the first place this present, Retrenchment Committee consists of four members three of whom are officials. assisted by a single un official member. So far as it appears from their "Recommendations presented to the Council, the taxpayers are completely in the dark as to the line of reasoning that led them to the adoption of their recommendations There is no evidence that any witnesses had been exomized, and if any bad been called the "paper" gives absolutely no idee as to the statements made by such witnesses. All | we have before us is a series of recom- mendations which seem to be concerned more Hongkong, 13th October, with the cutting down of petty allowances to [The meeting of the Legislative Council, call- underpaid "noknows servants" and a "dised for the 14th inst, has, we are officially missal of the voiceless, than the princely paid, informed, bees postponed to to-morrow week over-manned department of the "hupper cir tha zist inst We commend the subject of our cles. As lostance in. point may be cited in correspondent's communication to the notice of the case of a low grads clerk whore doties take Government and unofficial members-Ed., him about the city the best part of the day | A.K. F.). and whose conveyance allowance of $15 month was recommended for withdrawal, Whereas another official, drawing over $1,000 a month, whose functions confine, bim to

the office and the laying down of the law in the departmental sanctum to a gang of subservient under-strappings, gets his $30 Conveyance, allowance without so much as a question by the Retrenchment Committee. Yet another instance; a $600 allowance to a The following is a full report of the speech highly-paid official (hitherto non-pensionable) made at Haskow on Saturday afternoon, zudis merged into the salary of that fortunate inst, by the President of the Board of Com individual and the allowance becomes pension:

unications, Hen Shi-chaog, at the formal able, opening of the Peking-Kalgan Railway (the

Instances may be quoted ad infinitum tá sub. English version being spoken by Dr. Listantiate the assertion that officials are, after Fang):

ell, but humen and like the rest of that ilk know how to feather their nests comfortably.

here to-day to witness the opening of the Ladies and Gentlemen,-We are gathered

Peking Kalyan Railway--an event that, will remain an indelible landmask in the history of railway development of this conaury. The presence of solarge an assembly emphasizes the importance of, the occasion, and we do not. hesitate to say that the feeling in the heart of every man at the present moment is one of tested by the completion of the Paking-Kalgen triumph-the triumph of modern science, at

appreciation you have munifested by partici- Railway. We are highly honoured by the pating with us in this inaugural ceremony, and from the sight of your countenances we believe thusiasm of this event,

I have indulged in this digression to show how in the selection of the Committes upon. whose recommendations the savings have been effected the happiest choice has not been made, with the result that justice has not been meta out in a way calculated to satisfy the ratepay. ors' sense of equal treatment,

The Governor's brief allusion to the subject of the Kowloon Railway is hardly what most people expected. It is all very well to dismiss the explanation that it had been decided the thoroy question of the unstable bridge with divert a certain road here and build another there. Certainly, this is a matter gulike tho

the Government entrenched itself in an ex-

HONGKONG, RUADS,

TO THE EDITO or vitż "štanakónG „TELEGRAPH.“

DUTIES OF THE BOARD..

The duties of the board shall be as follows: To determine the amount of fees to be charg ed in Government schools and to receive all such fees; to submit to Government the annual estimates for education purposes, and to make recommendations thereon; and to advise the Government as to the purposes for which mo-

weys devoted to education should be expended and upon any matters connected with education which may from time to time be referred to it by the Governor.

Officers doing that sort of work does not tend to improve discipline amongst the menu certainly was not much to complain of, except. As regards, the accommodation, etc., there

ing the fact that we two maten (who were bf EDUCATION RATE, ..

course on two watches, which, fact: along ‹is The Commissioners of each Municipality is enough to torn most man away from the ship). the Colony shall in the year 1910 and in each had nobody to look after our rooms properly: subsequent your make, assets, and collect a rate the Engineare of course had their boy to keep of one per cent, of the annual valus of the their rooms tidy and clean, but the Mates were property rated on all houses, buildings, land | evidently not supposed to want theirs dana, and topements within the Municipality, for the the Steward (a milly excellent man, bat being. purpose of education.

*..... rapidly spoilt by being made the Captain's con- Any Rural Board that may be requested" fidant) washed the floor of our rooms once a to do so by the Government shall in the week but finished at that, and was not backs - year or years to which such request extends ward in reminding as of the fact that it was not make, assess and collect a like rate of not actually part of his work and he only did it as more than ons per cent of the annual a kind of favour; as for getting our brass clean value of all property assessed for Rorated or beds made, that was quite out of the ques Board purposes within the district or within tion (the Company made us supply our own such part thereof as may be specified in the bed and bedding). Our washing basing worn request for the like purpose.

filled at 7.30 am. but should we require say more water during the day, we had to fetch it dorsalvas or go without.

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Such rate shall be called the education rate and abali be payablo half-yearly in advance without demand by the owner of the property rated at the same place and time as and shall be assessed and lovied, in the same manner di a rale or rates made and assessed under the provisions of The Municipal Ordinance, 1909,"

OBJECTS AND REASONS,

In the face of these facis, can it be wondered at that boys do not care to go to sea, or that parents do not care to send their boys to can? because if a parent has to pay a premium of anything from £30 upwards, beasdas - buying as expensive outät and keeping the boy in The objects and consour, slated by Mr. Row. pocket-money for the four years he is serving his time and has the expense of fees, etc., for laad Alies, acting Attorney General, state- committee on the estimates for 1909 re

1. The unofficial members of the select is examination for second Mate when his time is finished, with the idea of bla son be- commended that in view of the serious in. coming an officer, and then for the son to come nusily recurrent in connection with education, 10. G. or £8. per month, then he had far batter to this sort of thing at a nominal salary of £7 crease of establishment and other charges an- ibe Government should now consider the keep his son ashore and put him in as ofica necessity of creating a board for the manage-

or apprentice him to a good trade, fór as long- as Masters of vassals insist on routines of this ment of all education in the Colony, As a result of this recommendation a committee description being carried out on board the (consisting of the then Attorney-General, the ships they command, then the conditions of Hou, Dr. Galloway, the Hon. T. S.-Baker and things for officer will never improve. “Punkt the Director of Education) was appointed to will say i

Perhaps some people reading these remarks consider the question and the present bill is

"Oh he is one of those man who introduced to carry out the recommendations want to be pampered and is afraid of little of such committee with regard to the constitual labour, to which reply: Neither da tign and powers of a Board of Education.

I wish to be pampered, nor am I· afraid of 2. Provisions have also been introduced into manual labour when it is necessary, for I happen rate to meet the locreasing cost of education, the hill to authorise the collection of a special to be one of those individuals who, as the sky- ing goes, 'has come up through the hawse-pips, a fact of which I do not think I need be ashatz- ed. But what I do, maintain is that when men have worked their way up and duly quali fied to hold the position of an Officer than let them be treated as an Officer, and not as à sort. meals". sort of thing. For one must admit at "glorified-boatswain-relieving the bridge for

by and the part of the work which is generally that it is decidedly hard lines to have to stand recognised as part of the Second Officer's dety, and for which he has to pats no exam being entrusted to the Steward, the g

LIFE ABOARD TRAMP STEAMERS. "

TO THE EDITOR or the "Ilonowong TelegráPU,”

Si-Your interesting little paragraph in last evening's Telegraph re the surfacing of Robin 100 Road elicits the following question: Why was that section of the road selected for treat ment with asphalt?" That material is an admittedly expensive one for metalling roads and tear justifies the larger expenditore, by all with, if its power of resistance against wear

But the point is, why pick out a secluded means let it be aulized for surfacing our roads.

stretch of roadway like the one you mention P. W. D. officials cannot be ignorant of the fact "for such exceptional treatmast? "Surely the that the eastern extremity of Robinson Road on the Robinson and Conduit Roads maka uso traders the "tramp" steamers (vessels that trade is only very little used. As a rule residants Dear Sir,-Apart from mail-boats and regular

to and from town, while those residing in ships of this country, form approximately over of the garden road by Glonealy ravine coming to any port where a freight offers) and sailing Belilios Terraco and the densely populated eighty per cent of the whole of, the Mercantile Caine Road make use of Shelley Street for pre-board these vessels are ably detailed by the district comprised within Mosque Junction and Marius. The costs are fly desiled by the Terence in getting to their places of business, enclosed copy of a letter recently received from The small stretch of roadway mentioned in Guild, the largest association of certificated a member of the Imperial Merchant Service your paragraph is utilized by a comparatively British Captains and Officers in the world, small number of ladies who journey through ít, As a warning to parents and others who in nach Macdonnell and Kennedy Roads by a tend sending boys to follow a seafaring career abort cut.

as a profession i should be glad if you would -Considering the notoriously.dilapidated con--find-upsco.in the columas of your valuable. constant stream of traffic-pedéstrian and confer a great bentat on the public at large, vabicular (I mean, chair)—56 Public Works

Apologising for occupying so much of your the majority of whom are quite ignorant of the valuable space. Yours etc., Department would have shown greater con- sideration for those who are compelled to use as far as Officers are concerned

conditions that exist in the Merchant Service shank's mare as their mode of locomotion bad they selected the steep road down from the Mohammedan Morque to the steps in Shalley Street for surfacing with the improved material instead of the badly laid concrete. ensuring a smooth surface asphalt makes it Pleasantor for the foot to walk upon. At the present time boots wear no time for those rosiding in Mosque Street and have without choice to 'pagotiate the steep gradient to take them down to Caine Road.

daily.

Now I think these few items will come as of our cloth whose life is spent in Mail boats a surprite to at any rate a fow of the_mambers and regular Lices, and when they have read them they will be inclined to agres with mA. that it is not to be wondered at that by of the present day do not consider there is

You were discharged? —No, dismissed. There that you share also with us in the joy and en subject of the Bruca aligament bebiad which dition of Moique and bhelloy Streets and the paper for this letter. By 10 deing, you will sufficient inducement offered for them to go to

is a great difference between discharge and (dismissal, s

When were you discharged P-Altar · two' years and three months of good service.

Before the application came os before the Justices, were you informed that the Police would take an objection ?—No.

You brought bundles of papers to Mr.Smith? -Yes, my recommendations.

Your case is that if you had not seen the advertisement you would not have known anything about.the.matter?-Yes,

You came across the advertisement by ac eldda??—No, not by accident. It is my usual practice to read the papers,

And you came under the conclusion that

your agreement was withdrawn ?--I don't know to this day whether my agreement was with- drawn or not.

AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPUL.-

To those who have studied the topographical features of this region, it is apparent that the engineering problema met with in the construc- tion of the line ware not of the ordinary kind, for to solve these problems wai a task requiring the expenditure of money and mental energy The tunnelling at several passen-ane being over 3,000 feet in length-was a workpractically new to our engiusers, whila the mountainous nature of the country demanded the building |of the line on a steep grade. With, but little experience to guide them these men met to work to construct. . Happily for them they were placed under the supervision of a man

who by his untiring diligence, high capability and unwavering integrity has brought this great undertaking to a success. To this mao, Do you swear that Mr. Smith did not tell you bis Excellency Jome Tien-yn, and his able coi cagues we extend our beamiest congratula- that your application was refused - da.

Farther evidence having been called, judg-hons. May the work of these men serve as a ment was given for the defendant, costs being.| noble example to our countrymen. certified for Counsel,

RUBBER CROP

THE RAGALLA SALE.

Kuala Lumper, Oct. 4- The Highlands and Lowlands September crop was 23,089 lbs; and for the nine months 234,005. Damansara for the third quarter produced 68,699 lbs; and in the nine months 142,686 lbs.

LOCAL RETURNS.,

Messrs. Guthrie and Co, send us the follow. ing returns of rubber companies, for which they are agents:~~~

KAMUNING. September, 4,500 lbs dry rubber; $6,400, August returns were 5,000 lby; $2,400,

September, 48,000 lb; for nine months ended September 373.500 lb. Corresponding figures

LINGGI.

Jest year 28,000 lb; 184,000 lbs.

LABU (F.M.9.) September, gorg iba, totalling 52,487 lb for the nine months, Corresponding figures last year, September 3,4gr Ib wot; 21,897 lbs wat

WHAT THE RAILWAY WILL DO. ' The Peking-Kalgan Railway extending about 370 li and traversing difficalt mountain passes and wioding valleys, touches various important trade centres on its route. Kalgag; its terminos, an important city even in the Ming dynasty, has lost none of its trade, but is on the contrary increasing at a rate that forbodes a splendid mature. By the construction of the highway the trade between Peking and the outlying districts of Mongolia will again be stimulated to activi- ty, and it is not too much to say that we may soon look forward to a time of commercial pro- sparity in those regions, .`-

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KEYNOTES TO SUCCESS, There are two points in regard to this rail- responsible head. From the very start the Im perial Government has entrusted the building of the lies salirely to H.E. Jeme Tian-yo. De this wise policy we attribute the success of its contruction. Second, strict economy. Not withstanding the natural dificulties that were

way that deserve our attention › ́ First one

planation of the phecomenal.increase in the cost of the railway. The abandonment of the projected road is itself only a disappointment to those who had unwisely pinned their faith in the plans of the Government. But the major bridge is a largish question. Sure: ly, responsibility must attach somewhere for the instability of this costly structure and the relegation of its reconstruction to the Greek Kalends. And yet did the pains- taking Committee endeavour to enlighten the community on the subject at all? It might be possible that their referendum did not take. them into an examination of the railway expen dilure, in which case the daty devolved upon

the Goveremónt to enlighten a suffering public. It is curious that the all-important subject of education should have been relegated to a secondary position and a casual reference to departmental changes brought about by the retirement of Dr. Bateson Wright. At a period of Chisa's evolution like the present, when the intellectual regeneration, of her people is engaging the earnest attention of people removed ten thousand miles away from the threshold of the Empire upon which we stand, we find no enunciation of policy in the Government's pronouncement upon the opening of a dew session of the Legislative Assembly. True it is that, at one time, the Government became abaassed by the Daiveris ty project, but there are many who hold to the theory that the duty of the State should be in the direction of the adequate provision of primary education. Now that the teaming millions of Bouthern China are looking up to Hongkong day after day for their mental pabu. lum, the Government might have led the Co ony into its secrets as to the method which it is proposed to adopt to educate young China rather than defer action until the return of an official and the subsequent appofatment of a Committee who like the Retrenchment Com- mitte-may produce the proverbial labour of the mountain.—Yours, etc.

TAXPAYER, Hongkong, th October."

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Berides

If the Public Works officials considered the

convenience of the bon ton of the higher levels in giving them a better roadway on the almost flat and little frequented stretch of Robinson Road; they could not have done better, Rate payer for ratepayer the humble residents of the more modest district claim quite ge much con- sideration from a paternal Government. Whe ther they will get it is another question,-Yours, etc.

BELILIOS TERRACER. Hongkong, 14th October.

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EDUCATION IN HONGKONG, TO THE EDITIX OF THE "ỶоKurong. TelegraPH." Dear Mr. Editor,-If my momory serves me aright, I think in our of your recent leading articles on the Governor's utterances in con nection with the Estimates for next year, you mentioned the fact that Government will, upon the return of the Director of Education from leave, appoint a Committes to inquire into the question of éducation in the Colony. This subject is one that concerns and interests every individual in the Colony, be he European or Chinesa.

letters of a similar pature which baya baen re

The enclosed is but a sample of hundreds of caived by us from time to time.

Yours faithfully,

T. W. MOORE, Secretary

The Imperial Merchant Service Guild.

Liverpool, 8th September, 1909.

To the Secretary,

sea.

PRESS RATES REDUCED.

CONCESSION GIVEN BY TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

We are officially informed by Mr. Olaf Nielsen, Superintendent of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Hongkong, that, on and aher the 15th instant, the company's routes to Europe via Russia will be opanså for press Imperial Marchant Service Guild. can spare me a small space in the Guild East and the following countries in Europe

Dear Sir,—I shall feel much obliged if you' || telegrams at reduced ratus,, bötween-tho Far Garette to make a few statements which I think Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Germany, might prove of interest to some of the members Great Britain, Italy, Norway, and Spain. The press rate via Russia from the whole of China and Hongkong to any of the above mentioned. rate as that in force vis India, vis, ninety dol- countries in Europa has been fixed at the same lar cools per word for the quarter ending sist December, 1909. This rats will vary according to the fluctuations of the rate of exchange.

VOLUNTEER CORPS ORDERS,

of our cloth.

INFANTRY COMPANY,

الهواية الله

With reference to the alleged shortage of and officers, etc., I believe the general opinion Officers recently discussed among shipowners as to the cause of this "shortage was, that there are not the number of boys taking up | the sen as a profession as in former days, and the reason of this is due to the fact that there is not sufficient inducement to justify a boy in following the sea. Being myself one of the many that "go down to the sea in ships”, I

NO, 2 COMPANY ELEVA Air Aut al should like to point out one or two reasons, why there is not the necessary inducement, At The first monthly Cap Shoot of the season present I hold a First Mata's certificate and up for the above company will take place at King's to quite recently was engaged as Second Mate Park Range on Sunday, 24th instant, com- of a tramp steamer owned by a well-known Lot-mencing at 9.30 am. The conditions for the dos shipowner, and as this was my first exper competition with be issued before that Can ience of a tramp as an officer, I must admit that the method of working considerably surprised

A shoot for Captain Woods Cup Will me, and, as I imagine there are hundreds of

will tak officers who do not realize what sort of a life place at Tai Hang: Range, on Sunday, the 17th the Mate or and Mate of this class of ship has instant, commencing about 19, s.m. :: Rangas, I see that this highly debatable” matter is to put up with, I hope these few facts will bene- 200, 500, and 600 yards. Every member, bas engaging the attention of our brother-colonists fit. those gentlemen and, should any of them still an opportacity of putting in four shouts in the Straits Settlements, As conditions there ever consider going in a tramp, make them and of winding this Cup; it is therefors hoped and here are almost analogous will you ɖo me | think twice before finally Asciding. -

to bave a record attendence on Sunday, Am the favour of granting the some space for a I joined the ship in Hamburg and found that munition cannot be obtained on the Ranga.

PARADES AT HEADQUARTERS 'AT 5.30. P.M.. press clipping for the information of those who | there wate only just the two offeers. We want

Monday, October 18th-Rehearsal for Kida'z are more immediately interestedën ■ subject round to the Bristol Channel in ballast and on of vital importance to the community? The the passage round I found I was expected to be Binhday Parade. All members are, requested extract is from the Perak Pioneer of the zod a sort of general bandy man but having to attend. Infantry, drill with arms, members fast-Bellave me, etc.,

new crew (and a Hamsburg one at that 11), to bring their own rifles, bolts and side-sims. concluded It was just until things got, into a lustructor, Bergt, Wallis, and Buffs, Hardco regular swing and so said nothing however, Taarday, October 19th--Specialists' training. PRODUESS WELCOMED.

after leaving our loading port and, having gogan Layors, range takers, signallars and fore sway to son, I was informed I was neither ro settern. Instructors, Sergts, Moore and Gar This is thn.age of apaod. The steam home has made its appearance in Chios: The

quired nar expected to have anything to do with man, K. G. A. Schools in the Colony and the F. M. 5. are the Navigation of the ships all sights, animals patient beasts, that tread wearily over the

divided into two distinct divisions; these and bearings were taken by the Master { a passes with their heavy loads, now yield their

directly controlled and fannced by the Educa-Joong mus and sot a Guild Member) and kept burden to this new arrival. Time has wrought

tion Department and Grant-in-aid Schools by him; the chart was certainly on the table is many changes in China in recent years. Not

I remember reading in the Telegraph the The Government institutions are few in com•: the chart-room, which leads out of the Master's long ago the people Wern up in arms against Governor's estimate of revenue. In refer ber and are the Raffles and Cross Street cabin, consequently we were not by any means the introduction of the railway; to-day ence to the liquor doties the figure is sat School Singapore, St. George' School, encouraged to look at the chart. When at son, under the influence of modern education, down at $500,000, deducting therefrom Penang, Malacca High School, Residential | the Master wound and rated the Chronometers, Keasm. Hooglandt and Co., agents, have they welcome it as the harbinger to their $60,000 for Salaries and Expenses of Cas- School, Kuala Kangsar, and Anderson School, and when in, port, and the Master was not on received the following telegrams from the country of, a new and glorious, era. The toms and Excise Stal and for contingencies, Ipoh. All other schools have to depend for on board, the Steward wound them and jam Sumatre Park Rubber, Plantations Limited, day is therefore not distant when China will Government expect to nat a round five lakhs of facial axistence upon the annual Government before leaving port. It was not the Mate or London: The Directors have authorised the have her twenty-one provinces and her depen-dollars during the coming year. Now this grant and foes, while a minority, very small Second Mate who got the necesarY:CRLETY. payment of a final dividend making the total dencies connected by a network of steel that estimate was arrived at it is possible to dis indeed, have private and independent sources rulers, dividers, etc., out and screwed the Chro- dividend for the book your 15%-

will daw her people into closer union by recover. There having boon no Customs in the of revenue

porta nometers in their places, but the Steward CUANDO SINGSPORE PARA.

moving the differences of dialect and enitomie, past in Hongkong, no statistics of the Colony's

* When at 968, I' was expected during my watch "Maasin Baha Mayor and Gas report the pro: "facilitate the exchange of commodities and Wine Imports have ever, boon kapt and-the The Singapore papers set forth the objecta | on dock to always be doing something, either duct for September as 6,000 iba dry,

promote friendly relations with a countries amount of consumption; therefore, is wholly and ressons of the proposed legislation, which swing canvas, manding fags or looking around KEMANNKINGAPORE AND JOHORE..

When that day comes it will be the greatest in | unascertainable..; The presumption is that the is to be consised to the Colony, as balows after the Boron and the watch, but never by Gr. Ra Nurdanal (from Mooses, V. W. Barkar) for | China's history; and we still yet live to 180 seline of revenue from that sourca la entirely

*. The text of the bill shows that: the proposed any chance" sporoting Sundays, herning my permitted beard shall be a body corperate with perpetual mach 1 the bridgn se a which should be kapli

LEDBURY.

Messrs. W. Barker and Co. report the fol- lowing: September 6,748 lbs; last September 1,610 lbs; nĺbe mouths 1909, 43,948 lba; last *year 15,889 lbs.

RAGALLA OR ALLAGAR. Messrs. McAlister and Co. inform us that 'cable advice has been received from London to the effect that the name of the Company which acquires the Property of the Ragalla Rubber Co. Ltd., is the "Allagar Rubber - Estates Ltd." and that the capital thereof it in shares of 25. od. each. They have also been s-advised that the capital of the "Allagar Rubber

Estates, Lid,” has been fully subscribed.

SUMATRA PARA.

overcome, the cost of the line is less than that of any other railway of the same nature, built in China. This fact speaks eloquently for the management of the engineer-la-chief. Hence we behold the keynote to the success of the Peking-Kalgan Railway-respo uzibility and economy.

LIQUOR DUTIES..

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG Talkgrayil". Six, Op Thursday the Legislative Council meets again when the Appropriation Bill comes on for second reading. Following the usual- coarse it will, no doubt, ba referred to' the Finance Committee by whom the Bill will be discussed in all its detaile,

For a proper consideration of the Appro- priation Bill, an intimate acquaintance with the Estimates is requisite..

Hongkong, 13th October."

PEDAGOGUE.

[Enclossera]

THE EDUCATION BOARD.

and a Companies B. 14 howitzer. 3 and.# Wednesday, October 20th-Gen Drill og Companies 2,950 F Fastroctors, Baryta, Moore and Carman, R. G.

Friday, October sand-Officers and Spe cialists' Fire Discipline. Instructor;: Sargs, Carman, R.G.A.

PARADE-AT TAIKOO AT 3.15 PM. Thorsday, October 1st-2.95" Q. F. Gas Drill and Instruction of gun layers, fastructor Sergt. Moore, R.GA

(astant assigned Corps Naks,to bed pores Mr. F. J. Eims Joined the Corps on the oth to No.'s Company.

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