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A Meeting of Chinese- A meeting was held this after noon by tlie Chinese Commercial Union to discuss the situation in connection with the boycott and the new ordinance.

Rev. F. T. Johnson.

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Class 5 A:-0. Roza: General Proficiency, Geography, Penman- hip, Drawing, English, English History, Hygiene, and Religious Knowledge; A. Hart: Religious Knowledge and English History; Alarakin: Mathmatics, L. Gu tarrez: Geography; R. Marinho: Peamanship; M. Sterberg: Hy giene, L. Beto: Drawing; R. Ala rakia: Mathmatica; A. Braga: English.

DAY BY DAY, ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE. third time they won the Hong day. For the sixth year the kong Schools football Shield. college had been reported by the In October, our team entered the Director of Education to be Happiness belange to those years' hard labour, for robbery who are contented.

Hongkong Junior League com- thorough efficient and this and petition for the first time, and the results of the examinations with violence, observed that the culprit would have done better,

The annual distribution of judging from the victories won up pointed to the fact that tl.orc. had like a number of other people of

priges in connection with St. to the present, I may say the pros-been hard and persevering work similar character, to have stayed

Joseph's College look place to-day pects of ultimate success are very and he hoped that the scoesses fair indeed, At the Hongkong already obtained would encourage in Canton instead coming to Hong-

at noon in the College Hall. His kong to make it the centre of rob

Excellency Sir Henry May presid-Schools Athletic Sports in April, the brothers and the boys to work beries. It is extremely gratify

ed and there were also present after well-contested one-mile even more than they had in the ing that a Government official

on the platform. Bishop Pozzoni, ace, our team won the much past year. In conclusion he beg should thus draw public atten- We learn that the Rev. F. T. Brother Christian, Principal, Mr. prized Chater Cup, while weged again to thank His Excellency tion to the fact that so many af Johnson has accepted the living E. A. Irving, Director of Educa- have much pleasure in exhibiting for his presence and to wish them troublesome characters in the of little Castorion, Stamford tion and the Hon. Capt. Fitzroy here for the second time the Ellis all a Merry Christmas and Colony are not Hongkong Chinese Lincolnshire, which has takes up body of the hall, Prof. Smith of Two of our pupils also succeeded

Somerset A.D.O, while in the Kadoorie and Civil Service Cups. Happy New Year. at all but wastrels from Canton. on January 1 next. Te

PRIZE LIST. To our way of thinking, the stapa

the Hongkong University was also in carrying off the Senior and Jan-

The following in the Prize List. Passing Through. taken to keep auch gentry out of

for championship gold medals."

Chinese Claas 6 B-Tam Miss Bobbie" Palma, of New present.

The proceedings opened with *Thoroughly Efficient." Hongkong ara decidedly insufi For over 30 Years WATSON'S E' has maintainedient, and until Cantonese im-dienne, arrived in the Colony on overture played by Prof. A.

York, the well known come-

At the end of the scholastic Wing Kwong: Chinese, English, Hygiene, Arithmetic, Geography, migration is more strictly regulat-to-day. Miss Palms is en route Baptista after which the Choir year in July, I personally con-

and General Proficiency; See. the reputation of the FINEST SCOTCH

ed, burglary epidemics, snatto Paris to fulfil an, engagemont sang a chorus, "The Bank," inducted the Annual Promotion ex-Kiong Lund: English Hygiene,

amination. 400 boys were excellent style. During the pro-amined, 85 per cent. of whom metic, Drawing; Chok Lam: chings and boycotts will always there.

ex- and Geography; Go Ko: Arith be hanging over our heads. Surely

The Police Ball.

ceedings Master Edser sang the Government has enough The Police Ball, which is to be

Chiming Bella" with a chorus

were promoted to highor classes. Chinese; In Wai: Drawing; Kam On the whole, the work was some- criminals of its own to deal with, held on December 27th, at the by the Choir. without having to watch and keep City Hall, is being looked for

what better than last year, al-Ku: Penmanship; Chak Wam: Annual Report.

Penmanship; Tam Hung: Cate in order several hundreds or thou-ward to by the people of the

though there is still considerable The Principal in his annual

hiem; Ohok Lam: Catechism, room for improvement in some sands of others who are not Colony and is sure to be a great report said:

subjecte, principally Grammar General Proficiency, English,

Class 6 A-L. Warren British subjects, and who havO

In reviewing the work of the and Dictation." come here by French leave.

year, I am pleased to be able to "In June the Director of Eduon-Hygiene, and Religious Know American English.

report general progress. Our tion visited the College for his lodge; R. Tatam: English, and numbere ran up to 604, and this Annual inspection, and after re Hygiena Paula Xavier: Arith- accessitated the opening of two porting favourably on the general metic; E. Sonza: Arithmetic; 0. temporary classes in the base-work, once again declared the Baptista: Geography; Abbasbhoy: ment of the College. For sanitary school to be thoroughly efficient." Geography; A. Sonza: Object reasons the Director of Education

Leason; A. Remedios: Panmen- condemned these classrooms, and His Excellency said I think ship; A. Vas: Panmenship: lvised the closing of them. They that the report which we have Vasco Xavier: Drawing; J. Basto: Drawing; Z. Smith: Re- or Chinese. Every day the spokes Mr T. W. Hornby were among here from 604

Mr and Mrs L. N Leofe and were accordingly closed in July. heard read is a very satisfactoryigious. Knowledge; F. Soares:

This caused a fall in our num-one. The successes that have language of the States drifts farther and farther from English, North by the Himalaya to-day: highest number we can at presentations are certainly a great source eral Proficienny, English, English 560-the been won in the Oxford examin- Elocution; A. Cruz: E'oution;. the passengers arriving from the

Class 6 B:-J. Pomeroy: Gen and the same may he said of the while Lieut. Commander R. W accommodate in our 14 class-of credit to the college and of written language. Contractions, Lloyd and Mrs A P. Stokes left roome. Hence the reason for be- satisfaction to the community History, Hygiene, and teligions mis-spellinge, abbreviations, and

ing obliged to refuse admission to and to the government. I am Knowledge; A. Remedi 13: Eng- wholesale vulgarisms are already by the Delta for Shanghai.

so many boys. In our boarding rejoiced to learn the typewritish, Hygiene, Drawing and Re making the perusal of the aver

Special Launches. age American newspaper a posi In connection with the Special mission to thirty, owing to lack of shorthand as well. I may tell you heang: Mathematics;

department alone we refused ad-ing is receiving attention and igidus Knowledge; Ng. Shi Bing tive torture. We have seen a Service for men, to be held at accommodation. Our average at that in order to save the Govern- Chang: Mathematics,

Geo- god many of these absurdities the Cathedral, this evening, tendance was 511 as against 440 ment's time, as lawyers, in their graphy, Penmanship, and Draw- in our time, but one that "fairly special launches will leave the the previous year. I must again offices, and business men do," we ing J. Isaac: English Histor takes the cake as the Now A.S.C., Pier, for Stonecutters and remind parents and guardians of

U. Pak Fook: Permanship propose to cultivate the stenograp Marques: Geography, Yorker would say, "came under Lyemuo, at 11 p.m.; the former he obligation that rests with her and typewriter more than we our notice yesterday in an Amme-will call at Kowloon Police Pier hem. to see that their children have done hitherto. rican reprint of a poem of Ches- Bishop Taylor Smith, torton's. The author had written:

and wards attend school regular- there is good employment open to Bishop Taylor Smith, O.V.O., ly. Without this regular atten- boys who can work as atenograp arrived from the North to-day by fance, progress in study is im- hers and then take away their the 8.8. Himalaya. He speaks at possible, to say nothing of the work and reproduce it in type an At Home" at Cloverumou pornicious habits a young boy writing. I congratulate you also House this afternoon, nad to-night hereby acquires-habits which on the success of the school in the addresses a service for men at St.

ire almost certain to exert a bane-domain of sport in the football John's Cathedral.

ful influence on his after life. fold and elsewhere.

The staff has been strengthened Mr. Tait, the advance agent of Juring the year by the addition There is nothing like good the Ferris-Hartman Company, if one European master and one healthy exercise to promote a good which is to play for three nights local teacher. This increase, en-healthy tone and discipline in the Clasa 4 B-Wong Sam: Gea- in the Colony beginning with ables us to comply strictly with school. If a boy is not obedient Yesterday the captain, of the December 27th, has arrived. Mr. the requirements of the Educa to the captain of the football team 8.5. Yu Shun was fined $5 for de-Tait predicts a repetition of the ion Code, and gives an average he will not be obedient to any laying the delivery of the Sibe- Company's snocess on their of 36 pupils to one teacher. body. It is to be regretted, of rian Mail. Mr. Melbourne took former visit.

course, that some boys have been One noticeable and significant feature of the passage of the a lenient view of the case and in-

"Our Oxford classes still main- turned away from the school posed only a nominal fine, for it

Two months imprisonment tain a high degree of efficiency. owing to lack of accommodation Boycott Ordinance, at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, was quite clear that the ship's was the sentence passed by Mr. At the examination held in July, The education authorities have was tho absence of even uno reference to the Tramways trouble officers were not greatly to blame. Hazelsad, at the Police Court, wo secured 42 passes. Twelve approached the government for His Excellency travelled as far as Ireland for an illustration, but Captain Pratt tells us that he yesterday, on a Chinese who ob obtained Senior certificates and very heavy building grant. neither he nor any other mumber had a word to say of the original complied with the rule which ained money by false pretences the title of Associate in Arts, as am sorry to that I have not

says that ship-masters carrying at West Point. Mr. Lewis of gainst six in 1911. Lim Chong been able

Olass 4 A.-L. Remedios: Gen- cause of dispate. This was well, perhaps; for the Bill has been the Siberian Mail shall hoist the Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Eang obtained Honours, and that they have asked for. eral Proficiency, Hygiene, Geog- designed not alone to meet the needs of the present case-though Waglan, but that the signal was Y. flag at the fore when passing

Mastor, prosecutod.

Lang Cho Ko distinction in The Government has done a raphy, and Religions Knowledge; Classical Chinese. This success great deal of recent years to build F. Ozorio: Religious Knowledge, primarily for that purpan-hut also with the larger object of not responded to. On arriving in Mr. A. Campbell, who is then the Senior forms a record, as up a system of secondary and Mathemetics, and English; L preventing a recurrence of similar, happenings. To ead existing Port he was informed that the representative of the Distillers' in previous years we never ex-higher education and it is time Osmund: Mathematics, R. Pass: signalling apparatus at Waglen Company, Limited, of Eding ceeded nine passes. Ten and that we took in hand the proper English, and English History: trouble is important; effectually to prevent futuro trouble is even was out of repair. Surely a mat-burgh, arrived today by the S.3. dates passed in the Junior and organisation of primary education, Remedios: English History more important. So the immediate purpose of the Bill is of less ter like this should be notified to Tacoma "Maru, and states that 18 in the Proliminary. I am and I think also that the whole Noronha: Geography; Α. D'Assise Penmanship, and real concern to the well-being of the Colony thas its ultimate object. captains at as early a date as poslo will stay for a month. Mr. pleased to record the high stand-educational setem requires more

sible. At Cape Collinson the skip. Campbell has come to the colony ard of proficiency attained by our supervision. The Government Freehand Drawing: F. Coscol The Bill should and the present boycott, but more to purpose is it por flashed "Siberian mailaboard" to try and extend the company's Oxford boys in English. All the does not know at the present time luela: Penmanship and Freeh thut it should go far toward preventing a recurrence of suck and was answered merely with business here..

Seniors, with the exception of two, what is taught in many of the und Drawing; M. Marti: Hygions; boycott; though that is a truth which may not be appreciated quite

"What Ship?"

secured a pass in this section, schools. That is not as it should be. Preliminary Class: -J. Savage so readily now as it will be a few years bence.

Regulations,

W. Shannon, M. H: Hourihan, while many of them obtained, he The education of the young people Arithmetic, Gospel, English, The instructions given to oap-L. P. Lano, J. Brennan, W: J.

distinction very good." The in the colony, no matter what the Geography, Mathematica, Higher The absence of any lengthy discussion, and the rapidity and tains do not call for any answer Harron and C. Fallon, all late of Junior and Preliminary boysa so nationality, should be suporvis Mathematics, and Domestic Econ- smoothness with which the Bill passed into law, were notable. That a question, and none was given, that fine body of men the Royal acored high in English. A very ed, and kept in healthy channels ony; J. Costa: History, English, the Council members were unanimous in their attitude towards it above signals are made, the Post in as members of the Hongkong

The regulations state that, if the frish Constabulary, were sworn gratifying feature of the result This will involve expenditure and Geography, and Mathematics; L.

tho suocess attained by therefore we cannot, although we

Costa: Freehand Drawing, and was made unmistakably clear. Sir Kai Ho Kai pat a question or Office launch will as a rule call Police Farce, by Mr. C: DM Cheung Kai at the Higher Local would like to, meet the demands Gospel: L. Franco: Arithmetic two which gave II.E. the Governor the opportunity of stating quite alongside for mails." But sup-bourne, at the Police Court, this oxamination. The candidate that are made upon us by old and Freehand Drawing; E. plainly that all reasonable care would be taken to ensure that the pose she does not? Is a captain morning. The recruits arrived in secured a pass in the required established institutions such as

Ozorio: English; A. Tavares: to charter a launch at his own the Colony yesterday. Bill would not operate unjustly on innocent persons. The terms of expense, or is he to send the

sections (including English) after this. I wish this institution every

History; H. Rumjanh: Higher only four months' preparation, success in the coming year. It is Mathematics, Mathematics; Mak the measure in themselves furnished a sufficient guarantee on the mails sahore in his own boats? The 26th Punjabia will pro- highly creditable achievement. one of the best educational in Ting Ming Chinese: point, but the questions and replies will do no harm. All necessary came, and to send the mailegies' Mills for anual training on In this case no Post Office launch ceed to Sun Wai car from Reu

Junior Class: Lam Shiu etitutions in the colony and the inquiry will be made before the Ordinance is put into force at any ashoro would have necessitated January 1st. The regiment will the Oxford classes is a fruitfal is I think thoroughly appreciated Book-keeping, Chinese; F. Cal- "The library in connection with work that it has done in the past Kwong: General Proficiency, time. Will the boycotters recognise the fairness of this and show the manning of at least three he conveyed by launches and soures of pleasure and profit to by the government. (Applause.) lish; J. Braga: Arithmetic, Poli Laco: Arithmetic, Scripture, Eng. themselves amenable to reason? They have seven days in which boats, just at a time when every lighters from Rennies Mills to boys. I have no hesitation to make up their mind, and it is earnestly to be hoped that during do not for a moment cavil at the ter place for camp by special part of shoy's education is attain he was very glad to be able to as mund: Scripture, History; F. band on board was engaged. Wo Kowloon, and will leave the latin tying that a very important Bishop Pozzoni remarked that tical Economy, Physical Geo- that period the more influential Chinese may succeed in persuading magisterial decision; under the train at 12.10 p.m. The advance od, when he has cultivated a taste sist at that ceremony and to con- Reis: History, and Physical graphy, Book-keeping; A, Os circumstances Mr. Melbourne had party leaves on 31st December. for reading healthy and in-gratulate the prizewinners. On Geography F. Banje: English, To this, at anyrate, the boycotters may as well make up their

Theatrical Manager Arrives,

behalf of the broshors, the clergy and Political Economy; Chan Mr Eddie Bush, who was for "Our Shorthand and Type-and the boys he begged to thank minds once and for all-that the Bill, when it does begin to operate,

merly the manager of the Razal writing classes have done and His Excellency for the honour Wing Hun: Chinese, and Ma- will be swiftly and saverely corrective. The framers of the measure

Cinematograph in Manila, arrivaro still doing good work. Ten which he had conferred upon thematics; F. Kennedy: Ma had to face a difficult task, but they did not shrink from such strong

ed by the s.a. Kimano Maru, and of our students obtained Short them by his presence there today leaves by the 8.8. Youngaang to hand Speed certificates during and he was sure that his words of General "Proficiency, Scripture, measures as were necessary. It is for the boycotters now to decide

Senior Class-A Sequeira: Mr. and Mrs Chalkley, and morrow. We believe that Mr the year, while five were awarded encouragement would whether its weight shall fall on them or not. They have nothing Mr. and Mrs. Lowndes have Bush has come to Hongkong the much-coveted Full Certificate abundant frait. He also con- History, English, Political in and a deal to lose by a continuance of the present state of arrived from London, and intend merely to consider the possibilities of Proficiency. Twenty boys gratulated the Brother Director Esonomy, Physical Geography,

hich, so far has availed them nothing beyond incon- time.

to remain in the Colony for some of a theatre in the colony, and as follow a regular course in Type- on the success that had been Shorthand, Hygiene, and Physio

Mr. Bush has been the manager writing, many of whom have achieved during the past year. hemselves. If they are determined, so is the Grovern

logy; Masso: English, Arithme- of the Orienta Moving Pioture attained a possible that a state of matters can be continued

Mr. E. Z. Bourne, of Peking, Corporation, it is understood that proficieneigh standard of

They had heard from the reports tic, Scripture, English Literature, d, would lead to business in the Colonyeing ro- to remain for a few days. It is prove sucraful, import to the than in the classroom, our boye the success of the boys on the History, Politi Zoonomy: Chau the very flattering results obtained and Shorthand, Po Nam: Arith- has arrived in the Colony and is he will, if he tentative ventures "On the football field no loss at the Oxford examinations and metio, Mathematics; Gree Leong: cott loaders; and it is for them to decide understood that he is here on colony the best talent that he have distinguished themselves, football field which was evidenced Cheung:

tiafiable, measures have to be taken.

during the year. For the by the trophies diplayed there to Mathematics

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1912.

THE BOYCOTT ORDINANCE.

the masses to take a more reasonable view of the matter.

no alternative but to convict; but it seems rather hard that coaster- captains should bear the sins of the Postal Department.

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