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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY DECEMBER 31 1009

REFRESHING,g of the University Committes the students

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THE vext issue of the Hongkong Telegraph LOCAL AND GENERAL

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A cook in the Water Police was this morning fined sig for plucking a'turkey alive, " THE Osaka Shosen-Kaisha's-mall calendar for 1910 is an extremely artistic piece of colour ithography.

A SEAMAN belonging to the ak Zyndhurst was his morning gives five days' imprisonment for baing drunk and disorderly in Kamughe Read Castral.

Tx "Watch Night Service to be held at

ttending the classes are expected to Dum indeed, as if some zealous servants of the powers conferred on these officers, enabling local market by rubber stocks originally. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, to-night will

commence at 11 p.m.. Ail friends are cordially

years, with students attending from all parts unjoy the advantage of a secondary educa- which attracted widespread attention was tion of the line from Kowloon to Samchuna questions at issue stand apparently of China? It was only on the 5th of Janu- tion thymust be prepared to meet the cost conected with liquor licenses. The Govern--the Brikh section of the Kowloon Canton where they did.is Excellency the Gor- ary last that Mr. H. N. Mody gave practical in part if not in full according to the mental ment, after much „tion, sleepless nights, railway. It is expected that the first part of aor unveiled, the statues of Queen (alex- effect to the scheme to establish such a vigour of the student, but elementary educand deep thinking produced à marvellous the completed line on the British side will andra and the Princess of Wales on the centre of education in Hoogkong by offering tion is a State function not to be neglected, scheman which bad for its object: the Laxa be opened by the 1st of July next, while official King's Birthday and the new naval to provide the sum necessary to pay for the Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile the tion of hotel and publican's licenses ac- the through line shoul be in full running dockyard was formally opened on the same cust of the actual structure on condition attitude of the Governor in this respect cording to the asscared value of the pre order by the following your. As far as the date with a naval review. But, of course, that others furnished the equipment and with the provisions of the Code. Under the mites. In other words where a.first class Chinese section is concerned, the English, we could go on laterminably at this rate, andowment funds. Very few of us gave much Code the grant schools in Hongkong are hotel was being charged $2,400 per sunum cogineer is chich, Mr. Grove, has been Que feature of the year, however, which can thought to what was deemed a very visionary precluded from rejecting any eligible ap for a license to sali spirits and wines it would, pushing forward the construction with the 'not be omitted was the recognition, by ‘His if desirable scheme, for what did it mean? plicant for admission to the lower standards under the new rulas, have to pay anything greatest energy and the first 30 miles from Majesty the King of the sound work of It meant that within a certain period which forms. So that the Code would have to in the neighbourhood of $6,000 or $4,000, Upton should be carrying regular traffic by the Colonial Secretary during the past was extended till the 31st of December-or be interpreted in R most extraordinary which was manifestly absurd. On recob the middle of roro. The foundation stone twenty-eight years in the civil service. As n_year altogether-subscriptions amounting fashion if it were held that great schools sideration it wasdecided instead to impose an

of the terminal station buliding at Tai shaa Knight Commander of the Order of to something like a million and a bulf dollars should be open to all and sundry in the lower excise duty on liquors, a plan which aroused tau was laid on 7th of April so that evidence St. Michael and S. George, Sir Francis had to be raised. Now where was that money classes and yet their grants should be reduc- much opposition on account of the fact that is not wanting that the Chinese officials are: May received the congenialations of the to come from? The idea was ridiculous said. Of course that would mean that the it would destroy Hongkong's claim to be a

2 fully alive to the ultimate.importance of entire Colony, the distinction having been the majority of people who gave the matter a greater the number of pupile attending the free port in the true sense of the word. It this line as the people of Hongkong. It included in the list of the Birthday! Honours, second thought, preposterous and futile. But classes the greater the cost of maintenance was argued that the establishment of an ex- ̈

deed, we should not be at all surprised to find And so the tale is told. Therese 1909 may fhs Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard pegged and as the result of a reduction in the grant cise bureau implied that the thin end of the that the Kowloon Canton railway, is actu not have been an exciting period but it has away at the subject, and dragged it before the greater the financial loar to the schools, wedge-making provision for the introduction ly of more commercial value to the Chi-been one of strenuous hard work, and we can the public at all seasons, interested the lead. Such a state of things could not, surely, be of a Customs service was being inserted. nese thee talhe British, but time alone can only trust that the year to be ushered la to ing Chinese in the affair till they found entertained by a reasonable Government, or This view was vehemently opposed by the tell. That it will be years before it begins motow will ring in the eager heart, the themselves wonderingly routing out their the Governor har not given the question that "overnment and after interminable discus paying its way we have not the slightest kindlier hand, ring out the Harknew of the friends and compelling them to disgorge, attention which he usually directs to educa- sions which led nowhere and effected no doubt, but a His Excellency the Governor land." until there arose a belief that the University, tional matters. At all events we trust, such thing the proposal was adopted. That has said, let us be optimistle on that as well scheme might pit be so very fantastical after an absurd proposal will be promptly shelved very same night the new law was put as on other points. One feature in con- *** Owing to the publication of our exhaus- all. Once that germ began to sprout the by any responsible body of gentlemen who into force, and a considerable fruantity of nection with the British section of 23 miles tive review of the trade of Hongkong in rest was comparatively easy, although it was are capable of forming and in a position to native liquor which was being brought to or thereabouts is the magnificent staff that roog, the present issue has had to be en- uphill work right along. Only when the declare opinions of their own. With regard Hongkong from Canton was seized by the has to be maintained by a liberal and gener-larged to one of twelve pages with forty Viceroy of Cantor sent along a couple of to the work of the Hongkong Legislative excise officers and held until the owners had us government. The new superintendent columns of reading matter; which is record lakhs of dollars and another Chinese gentle Council during 1909, there will certainly be paid the duty. Such promptitude on the of the line, Mr. E.B. Lindsey, who has number for the Hongkong Tiligraph, man had promised a like amount, and a diversity of opinion concerning its practical part of the Government to take advantage succeeded Mr. G. W. wes, is in receipt Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had contri- value. Not for years has there been such a of the powers it had obtained was severely of the lordly salary of £3,000 per annum buted nearly half a million dollars and the spate of oratory as has flooded meeting after condemned by many who should have know proportionately. What the salary of a gen- while those immediately under him are paid her big firms and corporations in the meeting of the Council; seidoni have so better, but, after all, if the law is to be en- Colony had contributed their moiety was many resolutions dealing with all manner of forced it should be enforced at once, especial eral manager would be if the line which he success assured. No doubt auch a result subjects from the Clock Tower to the Law ly an excise law which is intended to not as controlled extended to 50 or 100 miles we will not be greatly enjoyed by the noble Courts matsheds and from opium to liquor, revenue raising machine. So far no particul cannot imagine. The brain reels at the Ides. and reverend lord who proposes to establisheen introduced only to be withdrawn in the lars are forthcoming to show what the effect We should certainly say that the post of a sectarian college at Shanghai or Hat kow end or beaten to a pulp by the official vote; of the new duty has been on the wine and engineer or superintendent of the Kowloon or some other place, a college where the and it must be years since the Council spirit trade of the Colony, but it cannot be Samchun line, and a single line at that, is students will be mechanically turned into passed no less than 46 original or amending gainsaid that the law has worked smoothly, worth far more than the office of Governor sanctimonious saints and plaster, divinitics, Bills in a single year. One would have thought which may be attributed to the tack and

of the Colony. It is not our province to but Hongkong is not bound by jie 39 Arti that amongst all those Bills at least à quarter consideration of the officers who were areci- deal with stocks and shares, but in recording les or the wisdom of the shovel hals. When of them would be worth recalling but as a mat ally appointed to see that any attempt at some of the features which have marked the we remember that according to the reckonter of fact not more than three or four are smuggling was nip ed in the bud, We must year that is dying away it is impossible to re of any permanent interest. It would seem, confess we had lears that the illimitable rain from touching on the invasion of the Der 500 to 1,000 we scarcely think there Government had spent their spare time in them to search at their merest whim and floated in the Straits Settlements and in will be very much need for the noble and discovering technical errors in the existing fancy the luggage of incoming passe gers of London. The unprecedented boom ex- invited.

rdinances and thereupon drafted Bills to entering private houses at the instigations of perienced in this stock to which Hongkong reverend gentleman's college of deculum.... But, of course, it is profitless to prophesy get the case and so swelled the list of Or

same evilly intended informer, of holding up was, entirely unfamiliar withdrew attention large calendar for 19′′o, from Messrs.' W. N. unless you know. Probably, then, the dinances brought into being. The principal vessels and questioning visitors whenever from the old established industrials in Hong realisation of the Governor's aspirations to Bills to which reference may be made were they thought proper to do so, would lead to kong, which from a dividend point of view see a university established in Hongkong is the consolidation Ordinances relating to gross injustice and violation of the spirit of have maintained their sound position as re- a' out the most important event of the year. liquor licenses and opium, the Trade Marks the regulations." Happily such has not been gards both their earning power as well as There is always this about it,, however, the Bill and the Railway Bill. It is unnecessary the case, although it can scarcely he hoped their producing capability. This was notably a remarkably fine calendar-indicative of the promoters perpetually harp on the advan-to say that the first two Bills were connected that all excise officers will continue to the case with the sugar companies which inconveniences afforded on their Mikopean-and

American steamship lines. ages to be derived from the education of with the raising of the Colony's revenus. be equally discriminate and discreet in the spite of an exceptionally good year for Chinese youths drawn from the interior to Right through the year the bugbear, of performance of their irksome and occasion-the refined article show only a com paratively inappreciable rise over the Hongkong in order to participate in the discussion has been the dwindling revenue ally unpleasant duties. As far as the re benefits of a university education. We are consequent on the action of the Imperial venue from the import duty on intoxicating quotations in the closing week of 1908. The disastrous depression in the stock of that he expects that in 1910, the collections opium by closing the divans. time it was the firm opicion of those in will amount to no less than seven and a half by the increased competition both in the the opium trade that the Colony was being lakhs of which one lakh will go towards north and south, by the creation of Govern- brought to the verge of bankruptcy by the the maintenance of the excise service. The meat docks and shipbuilding yards and also ordering the G vemment to make an end of however, is even more assured as to the suc. foreign navies patrolling these waters. The arbitrary action of the Secretary of State in chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, the smaller feels both of the British and the divan system even before he had heard cess of the duty for lie has declared that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has retained its preeminent position as the landing, fin- the Hongkong side of the case. The Gov amount which will be derived from the ex-

ancial institution in Chins, but by diplomatic am fold that China is bound to appreciate emment itself was of opinion that the cise duty next year will be not less than negotiations on the part of other foreign | block-advarijning,the (Ocotðlis Sanétary Fluid, our loving kindness, presumably by giving Colony's revenue would suffer enormously million dollars.

It is all speculation to 80 countries its exclusive claims upon the at- us contracts at figures which will coable, us

owing to the fall in the tendere for the inte figures and nobody will be able to aptention of the Chinese Goverment in the all to retire and live in luxury for the rest of Opium Farm. And His Excellency thepreciate the value of the duty until the offi

matter of the financing of loans has been our lives. Frankly we consider that view Governot spoke in most lugubrious tones.concial statistics are ready for publication In arrant onsense. It may seem a beautiful Cerning ways and means, although persistently any case, the finances of the Colony are safe take the position only of a participant rather the C. P. R. was yesterday morning in receipt

successfully challenged and it has now to view but it is only a mirage at the declaring himself an optimist in the highest for another year. We mentioned that a best. A graduate has tender recollections degree Apparently the Secretary of State Retrenchment Commission was appointed than that of a monopolist as regards accom of his alma manter even if it is only a recognised that he had acted with undue to find out whether it was possible to reduce modating China. n the question of land, ragged school, and he will not willingly precipitation for not only did he modify the the cost of official administration in the Coit has to be recorded that there was little allow, it to be run down, but he does original order, but he explicitly stated that lony. The members worked in camera, of general inquiry during the year. Values com- not necessarily lose his common, practical the Imperial overnment would grant the course, and eventually produced a document tinued to depreciate with certain exceptions sense in consequencer -- Hongkong, he will Colony “substantial compensation for any which was a gem in its own way. It appear and it is a safe indication of the condition of say, is a very fine place, a monument to loss in revenue that might accrue as the resulted that whenever they come across an item property when it is mentioned that in the re- valuation by mortgagees of properties' on When we pause at the end of another year British pluck in the way of overcoming na of the Colony's obedience to the will of the of a few paltry dollars allowed to some Go-which money has been advanced, surveyors to consider the incidents and events which tural, difficulties, and the University is a

me Government. What that "substantial vernment messenger,who might have to tramp provide a 30 per cent, depreciation in almost have gone to make up the daily round of very good school which furnished the best compensation is likely to be nobody has the 20 miles a day it was rigorously struck out.

nplum. The stoppage of poppy cultivation has,. discover that the first and natural impres comes to the point business is business and have been asked in the Legislative Council that sort were cut down with a ruthless hand sidential properties by reason of the fact that able enhancement in the profits of wheat culti occupied by hangs and Chinese firms. Re-it is sald, fortunately synchroolsed with a not- sion that the past twelve months have been sentiment is sentiment and like Kipling's on the subject but no satisfactory answer has In one case a high official was mulcted in they are limited in number maintained vation. crammed with epoch-marking occurrences East and West "never the train shall mest." yet beco forthcoming, All that the Govern a very large sum for travelling expenses but more or less their. value from the rental WITH the object of enspumping the study of will not bear scrutiny. It is possibly a com- What we should prefer to know is that the ment has been able to say is that the when the sezigher proceeded to turn over point of view, Turning to less speculative languages in the ariyle War Office astiñes mon frail of the human mind to regard the poor Hongkong boy shall have a chance of Imperial Government may be trusted to the pages of that particular department it was imtucdiate past as having a more important attending this institution, provided he has redeem its pledge. Now that the United found that although he had been flched of matters, it is satisfactory to note that, com- that a sans of sadney will be placed sontally at paratively speaking, no great disaster oc- the disposal of commanding efficers at certain bearing on our lives than can be quite freely the necessary brain power and application. Kingdom is in the throes of a general elec. his ricksha fare, he had actually received an

curred in the Colony, True, there was a military centres to provide for the Instraction of " justified but certain it is that so far as this That is our view, without any Hummery or tion we wonder what attention will be paid increase of salary on another ground. A miniature typhoon in October which did officers Grants will also be made to those who Colony is concerned there are but few occur artificial decorations and we diffidently sug for weeks to come. lo this question salary counts for pension the official in ques- some damage, but aa timely notice was given qualify as first-class interpreters zangelog Agen rences of such vital importance as to warrant

gest that it is the view of a large number of which affects Hongkong-not so seriously tion is not only far better off now as the of its arrival the floating population were all 414 for French to £50 for German and 480 for the belief that the year 1999 will form a readers While on this question of education now perhaps, but still prejudicially. Had it result of the labours of the Retrenchment

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THE Toya Kisen Kaisha have as usual issued

FUR meg appeared in the Polices Court tali morning for gambling on board a junk, Two of the men were each fined $50 while the re

mining two were each mulcted in the sum of

told again and again how British prestige Government in restricting the sale of liquors is concerned, the Governor has stated the shipbuilding companies is accounted for $5. The junk was confiscated.

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HONGKONG and KOWLOON,

Hongkong, 15th July, 1909

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909,

LOOKING BACKWARD,

At one

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THE Bov. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begu to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitalė :—

Hop. Mr. W. Roes Daries........$10 CALENDARS for the new year.colinng to pode in; the latest collection is from Mesure, Brad- ley & Co, by whom we are favoured with a dato

and wall cater days fanned by the Northern Assurance Co. and the Manufacturers' Life In-

*urance Co., of Toronto, Canada.

WE are informed that the Yokohama office of

of a Marconigram from the R.M.9. Empress of Chins (which left Vancouver on the 18th inst.) advising that she is due at Yokohama on the jist inst. at p.m. When the massage was despatched the steamer was 1,400 miles from Japan.

THE cultivation of poppy for oplum is now offi. fally reported to baratzen prohibited through. out British territory in the Punjab, while the Native States in the Punjab plains are also be

life's activities we are somewhat surprised to part of my mental equipment, but when it slightest conception. Fepeated questions Allowances for gas and trumpery matter of every case, notably with regard to propertising moved to put a stop to the production of

mental landmark for, those who reside inlet us turn to a matter which has cropped not been for the fact that when the tenders Commission'but he will experience the fallaug and comfortable when the blow came.

Ramlee.

from Singapore to Hongkong, was caught in The Ragnar, Norwegian steamer, bound | HONGKONG LIGHTBE ADRIFT.

a typhoon of the Paracels. H.MS. Astræd *PICKED UP BY K.§. "INDRAMAYO,”- - was sent to the rescue and brought the marooned crew, who were half dead, to 19 Long. 116 E. painted red was picked up by ¿A' derelict lighter-reported to be drifting Lat. tongkong. There was a serious fire on the Indramays at 2.40 p.ni, in Lat. 5 deg. 45 board the German mail steamer I rins fud sec. L 197 dog, 87 sacs Essbowiem, that a wig, resulting in damages estimated at a must have diffudique gra máli a million dollars. The bulk of the loss fell was towed into Singapore on the aret iust, by upon French underwriters who insured the the Indramaya. valuable cargo of silk, As regards social events, Lord Kitchener visited the Colony

that had been built by the Hongkong and The vessel is one of two "stbál ̃fighters, Whampos Dock Co, C. the e master's Department at Manila and which were lost at sea, jo arghpan, while being towed down in palla, j

Hongkong.. Yet it has been a busy year, up in connection with the elementary schools

for the Opium Farm were opened it was benefits of its generosity when he decides to busy, that is to say, in a groping, inconse: We refer to the proposal to curtail the ex-

found that the estimated decline was to retire from the civil service. Not to put too queat, tentative way, for it has been a year of penditure of the Colony by dealing with the large extent a myth the question of fine a point on it, how could it be expected conjecture as to what the future would bring school fees and the grants-in-aid under the compensation would have been of much that the heads of the administrative depart how the present was to be provided for, and Clove ment Code. The suggestion is to greater importance to the Colony than it is ments in the Colony would seek to discover bow the consequences of the past were to be appoint another commission--a sort of sup, at the present moment. The deficiency es. leakages in their own offices? In the end obliterated. For most of the year we have plementary body to that which glorified its fimated by the Governor was put at $500,000 this farcical report which resembled the been living in a land of speculative musings, with the name of Retrenchment Commission whereas the new Farm which begins opera result of the mountain's labour was framed, Gghting shadowy spectres, warding off the and retrenched nothing which will look into one on 1st March, 1910, representa asclus! scored and scored again by the Governor, and ghosts of financial xuin and seeking by every this matter of increasing the fees by reduce lose of only a little over $250,000. So much finally thrown into the acsiest waste paper mezun possible to avert the evil day which ating the grants-in-aid. Were it decided for the Farm, but it was in the handling of basket. It may be that some poor colles One time seemed to loom in the dawning to reduce the grants in question the burden the import and export trade that merchants were, dismissed and some poor messengers and went away with one of the finest collec future. It is for that reason we would say that of providing the children with a decent and were fearful leat the effect of the Imperial have to walk where once they were allowed tions of Chinese porcelain in the Far East 190g has been the year of experiments, or the sound elementary education, so far as it goes, edicts in China-and-the-British-regulations-tram-face whereby the business of the Go-Prince Shun and Admiral Bah were twice in year iconoclastic, the year when old prin would be immediately cat on the parents, In India should stifle the market. The oplum vemment bis apt been expedited or the Hongkong and Prince Arisugaws, followed to costalo quarters is is bellaved that the ciples have been flung to the winds and new many of whom find it hard enough as it is to trade in Hongkong represente a turnover of speed of messages accelerated but that is later on by the Princess, passed through on lighter becomes the property of Capt. formule adopted. Who would have imagin scrape together the wherewithal to keep fully thirty million dollars a year which is a about all that the Retrenchment Commission his way to Europe. Viceroy Chang Jen This theory is, of course, erroneous, as, accord. ed even two years ago that we abould have their boys and girls in the class room until very conservative estimate, and when to that with all its diving and delving after in- chun was relieved by his successor Viceroying to maritime law, it is a case of salvage an excise service in full swing in Hongkong they have gained at least a working know is added the cost of labour, storage, Insurance finitesimal economies managed to achieve. Yuan Shu-chup, on the occasion of the which compensation will have to tavs dicant that we should have commenced fact it is a well recognised principles of a traffic. to be despised... Fortunataly the more than that it brought the law of Hong- the position previously held by H.K. Tuan eta oyage waste, el ca have dreamt

Who would lodge of the rule of three. As a matter of and freight it will be understood that it is not of the Tradea Marks Bill we need say nothing former's proceeding to Nanking to occupy operations in connection with the erection ernment that the State is responsible for the silverlining appeared when new markets were kong into touch with the law of England Fang. The Chino Portuguese Delimitaba to be inac of Boogkong Wairent building which elementary education of its future citizens discovered and the demise of opium is inde, while the Railway Bill held down the ruler tion Commission sat for four months in the Indramays and lie Insurance le to be opened within the short space of two. ↑ If the parents wish that their children thould finitely postponed. The next item of revenue and regulations Accessary for the organien- . Hongkong but ecrived at no conclusion and Hongkong,

of Capt. Thirkell,