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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCII 6, 1915,

Chian's Educational Policy:

DAY BY DAY.

To return for a moment to the above question, upon which we touched yesterday, the Eastern TAKE PATIENCE LABOUR TO Temes demands an educational THEIR HEARTS AND HAND FROM THY HAND, AND THY HEART AND system for Obins that will re- THY BRAVE OHEER. AND GOD'S move the immorality, superficial- GRACE FRUCTIFY THROUGH THEE TO ALL THE LEAST FLOWER |ity and weakness of the people."" WITH A DRIMMING CUP | MAY No system of education that we STAND AND SHARE ITO DEW WITA aver heard of will take away a ANOTHER NEAR-Browning. people's immorality-assuming that our contemporary is using

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS.

AFTER SEVEN MONTHS,

A Glance at the General Situation.

CIL. is most renaquring to read. almost every day now of continu ed progress by the Allies. The Overwhelming imperiance, but

1890

HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVB YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week ending March 6, 1860) The Dollar, Maroh 6-The rate of the

Socialism la Germany.

CONDITIONAL CON- TRABAND.

French Gaverament Notification..

The following notification which appeared in the Lon- dan Gaselle of the 15th Janu ary, 1915, is published in the Hongkong Government Gazette for general information:Foreign Offos, January 13, 1015. ...--

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. 66; gains registered are not an yet of dollar on demand 10-day in 3ļin. The Secretary of State for Foreiga

the word in the conventional Lower level 8 s.m. Temp. 74; sense. Bat we are not yet convinced dull. that Obins is any more immoral than other ountries. The women slight fog. will certainly bear comparison; in

GERMICIDE, this respect, with things to be found

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Count the Columns,

Yosterday, the Telegraph in other parts of the world; and, published 32 columns of solid if the same cannot always be reading matter. To-day there said of the men, the reason will will be 39 published.

be found in the fact that China is {not yet an athletic country. The

The Malls

more sport is encouraged in the American Mail.Arrived per 8.

Chili today.

Franch Mail-Olossa per 8.

Chill fö-day at 4 pm.g

Liaugehow at 4 p.m.

Up to the Minute-Share

Market News.

February 27 Twenty S:cial-

ists have been elected for the

The lone

Affairs is informed by Bis Majesty's Ambassador at Paris that the French Ministry of Forsign Affairs has issued a notification of the adoption by.. the French Government of lista of absolute and conditional con

traband identical with those "contained in the Royal Pro...”.

clamation of the 23rd ultimo, which was published as a anp plement to the London Gazella. of the 22nd ultimo.

FOOTBALL.

they are suficient to show that is. the Allies are gradually master ing the situation, and that ecund Reichstag, and probably many preparation is being made for the more at the second ballots will time when the big forward drive come in. comes to be put into operation. Marob 1. The absence of

Wanted, News | Some arm-chair critics have all along held that the first practical attributed to the utterly deserted local paragraphs to day must be test of modern warfare must sondition of the city. Even the degenerate into a stalemate. That this is what the Germans have police have no work--no regular been and still are playing for work, that is none of the be doubled. And ordinary hawker-bunting, bar unless they can pull off some glar-securing toil. To quote the miraculous coup something that inspector in charge: There isn't really spella dissater for the hatom of nowa." Allies in the west or the Russians broker left on the Risita, nearly in the east-the enemy knows made a 'local' of himself, about well enough, and is even admit-twenty minutes to four, when, he China Fires-$1473, sellers.

heard it casually mentioned that $307, ting it now, that the most he can Hongkong Fires,

hope for is to hang on tenacious-an English gentleman who had, buyers.

ly to what he bas got...

for a few days, been a conspicuous Steamboate,-$29, Bollers.

figure in the Hotel, but who left A general meeting of the H.K. Iado Chinas-$77, bayers.

In other words, the Germans on Wednesday, had an income of Football Association will be held Shells-87/6, buyers.

are fighting, and will continue to $500,000 a year. To quote again, China Sugars. $11.

Bight so long as they can, with the be gasped 'Oh, the other bish Kailane-32/-.

object of using such territorial aish I've misht ! And, at this Tronohs.-29/8, bayers..

spoils as they have seized as on very moment, be, is in a state of Kowloon Docke. $57, buyere ters in the game of diplomacy intoxicated insensibility" Wharves. $65, buyers.

that must follow the war. It is a

Guns for Hongkong. Trams.-85 20, sellers, Pesk Trame (old).—§ 10.

Chinese schools, the healthier will be the minds and bodies of the papils. As for the raper-

oiality and weakcoss-these Siborisa Mail-Oloses per s.. need not exiat because China has not, liko Japan, struck out a line for her self in matters educational. As we hinted yesterday, she has put mach into the herself too hands of foreigners. Japan sent her students all over the world to collect information as to the various school systems; and, having amassed a pile of thecries, obose, so far as she

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had to offer, and put these intoj practice all of which is a far cry from jumbling foreign system? together without rhyme or reason, aand giving foreigners them- selves almost complete control of the schools in certain districts which is what Chica has done.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915,

Shakespeare and the Germans,

It is now to find Shakespearo

spoken of as "one of the chief

Closing prices

Banks.$800,

The Dollar,

The rate of the dollar on demand to-day in 1s 9.7-18.

Langkat Output.

Mesara Wright and Hornby advise us that the Langkat output

March 5, 229 tons.

Remanded.

Re-entries Cancelled.

Futile Hopea.

Association and League;

· Meetings.

at the Royal Artillery Barracks on Monday, next, March 8, at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will receive the accounts of the recent Charity match and the notice of resignation of the Hop. Seo, and.

characteristic Prussian plan. It March 1 Major General will arrange re appointment of a Germany has her way, Belgiam forms us that he received the Association (Mr. H.R.B. Banoook) Bevan Edwards conteously in sucessor. The Chairman of this and Poland, after being made the following telegram from the War requests that every Club and helpless victims of her overween Office this morning: One 9.2 other body entitled to be present ing ambition, are to became the

should be represented.

Hard Facts.

at the Hongkong Hotel. There

pany-$375 per share, ex div., sellers,

unwilling hostages of a peace that gun is now ready for shipment.

9.2 in. gan at short intervala.”’

presentatives will be held at the would be almost more terrible Further shipment of 10 in. and A meeting of the League re- ancestors of German culture" for March 4 was 250 tons and for than this wor. But fortunately Green Island Cement Co., Ltd.

same place after the Association: there is not the smallest reason Yet this is what-according

March 1 The first snnual meeting, par for regarding such a state of to a paragraph in oar General

A League meeting will be held A Chinese was remanded al affairs as at all probable. An Green Island Cement Company, at the same place after the Aero-

meeting of the shareholders in the News colaman yesterday-Herr

as-you-ware" pesce is simply Maximilien Harden claims. Herr the Police Court, yesterday, on Earden (perhaps unklowingly) collected on behalf of the Hip the nations of Europe are now were present: Mesars. Creasy

a charge of embezzling 870, impossible. The stakes for which Ltd., was held yesterday afternoon ciation meeting. is paying an immense compl-Wo firm. Mr. J. H. Gardiner fighting are so high that the game Ewens (Chairman), J. D. Blu- ment to the British, and ja going

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank must be played out to the last chison, T. Arnold, W. Judd, Lea-192 per cent. premium, ex div., prosecuted." far nearer to the truth than bas

New Sanitary Inspectors. card, and after seven months of been the German wont of late. How could an influence like has been pleased to appoint to orush their arch enemy once (Secretary.) Mr. Arnold asked what Canton-8101 per share, bayers

His Excellency the Governor fighting the Allies are determined Sing, Foon Pong, Ip King-chio, sellers

Sin Tak-fan, and J. Foreman Union Insurance Society of Shakespeare's fail to assert itself Messrs. G. E. Roylance. George, and for all, universally? He was too great Haigh, and Walter. Old to be

was proposed to be done about China Traders' Insurance Com to be confined within the narrow Second Class Sanitary Luspectors,

Let de look at the situation unpaid calls. The Chairman said pany-$72 per share, buyers, limits of the British Isles, and with effect from the lat March, honestly from Germany's point do anything about them till 350 per share, buyers,

the directors did not propose to North China Insurancais, thinking Germans were as much 1915.

of view. First of all, ber confid- bound as other people to feel his

ent, hope of a short, sharp and after March 31. He thought that, Canton Insurance Company,

when shareholdere saw the ce Ltd:$180 per share, power and to learn from him. The It is notified for general inform-successful campaige basevaporat tronble is that our German frienda ation that the registration of ed. Then the war is costing her ment steadily selling in the mar. Yangisze Insurance Association did not learn more. Had they per-memoriale" "of re-entry by the a huge sum in actual upkeep, calls would be paid up. If not, a

ket, a considerable number of-Tla, 90 per share, bia Crown of Sarvey and, abe is suffering

Hongkong Fire Insurance Com The Hongkong Telegraph. they might have discovered that Drove, Now Kow 1000; 22715, more than all the rest of ins special resolution would have to tyranny, treachery, falsehood, sad 2206, on the 1st February, combatante through economic e pastel to forfeit the abares, covetousness, pride and unwhole-1911, has been cancelled.

China Fire Insurance Company paralysis. She has borne the Out of 20,000 shares, 10,000 were some ambitions bring their own Tenement Valuation. stupendous burden of the war for fully paid up, 2,143 having paid $013 per share, sellers. reward and a painful one.at THE COLONY'S EXPENDITURE.

It is ordered that the existing seven months, sacrificed the P 840, 2,461 325, and 6,389 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock that. If the German students of valuation of the tenements in the flower of her manhood, and has having only paid up 35" Company-56 per cent. premium, yesterday and to-day tad imbibed Colony shall be wholly adopted advanced no nearer to her real Representative Government for sellers.

Hongkong.' Our tax-paying readers will have read, with some amount of a little more, of the sweet for the year 1915-16. Any apprats objective. Sapplies essential to March 3.It is notified in the Steamboat Company-

Hongkong, Canton and Macao interest, His Excellency's remarke, at the Legislative Council meeting reasonablenes of Shakespeare, should be lodged with the Regis prolonged campaign are al- Government Gazette that Meuers. Stesso Comp on Thursday, as to the cutting down of the Colony's expenditure dar- and a little less of the egotistical, trar of the Supreme Court within ready running short, and the Phineas Byrie and James John-China and Manila Steamship ing the present year. In a word, the Secretary of State bas warned the supermannisb, icfited rubbiah 21 days from March 5.

enthusiasm and onfidence of her stone Keswick have been provi: Company Colonial Government that no financial aid can be forthcoming from of some of their modern philoso

Old Cemetery. Closed.

people have been replaced by asionally re-appointed unofficial bayers. outside, this year, and that Hongkong must meet its own expenses phers, Europe would not be at It is notified that under Section sort of sullon determination. Her members of the Legislative Coun- -to the extent of a million dollars odd-out of its own resources, war to-day

92 of the Pablic Health and Tarkish ally has proved even oil by the Officer Administering $135 per share, sellers, This, on the face of it, should be no great hardship, for the revenue

Buildinga O.dinance, 1903, His more inept and worthless the Government. We don't object Excellency the Governor-in-Coun- then was anticipated, and hor to these two influential citizens is a big one in comparison to the size of the Colony, Economy will The Muzzling Order. naturally be necessary, and the Governor has outlived, in brief, a plan

cil has ordered that the old Ma Austrian ally is in a parlous state retaining their seats on the Coun From the fact that the muzzl-Tan Wei Cemetery situated to the demoralised in the field, imcil Bard, and we are quite sure to that effect. Expenditure on Publio Worke Extraordinary is to ba reduced, by means of which reduction the outlay of half the sum ing order is still in force in the West of Ma Tan Wei Village, poverished in the exchequer and that Her Majesty will raise no ob mentioned will be saved; and the amount which was to have been Colony we presume the author shall be closed from and after the torn by internal dissension which tection; the matter may therefore 121 per cent. dis, buyers. laid out on the acquisition of private mooringe (a quarter of a ties still fear it would be danger lat day of March, 1015. has manifested itself in a desire be regarded as finally settled. But, million dollare) will not be expended at present.

for the conclusion of a separate one of these fine days, the Hong- These two savings together represent three-quarters of a million, they imagine that the present Capt. Hill, who purchased a peace. Then there is the fresh kong community will want to and one quarter sill remains to be saved or made. His Excellency arrangements are any real safe-pony at the recent auction, has danger threatening of other elect its representatives by popu has wasted no time in pointing out the maid direction to which we guard, they are sadly mistaken. had the misfortune to lose the nations joining in on the side of iar vote, and that is the object

It appears that it the Allion. may look for an appreciable margin of caving; viz: supplementary Owing to the fact that no reg- animal.

which the present unofficial, memTM votes. The Telegraph has more than once, in the past, felt if a duty plation muzzle is prescribed was run into

the Praya A Hopeful Outlook.

bera should leave no stone un- to hint that the sympathy of the Colony as a whole is not with many for, it is B common eight East hy 巋 tramcar, opposite S, looking at the situation.all

turned to attain." Asbestos Company's round, considering it frankly and of these supplementary esimales. The tax-payer's grievance in this to see doga roaming about, the

(By an interesting coincidence connection in that, after the Governor-in Council has fired upon a meeting the requirements of godown, a shoulder being dam- fairly, the prospect is as black as Dortain amount as necessary to be devoted to some portionlar branch the law by being mazzled but aged and a hind foot cut off. The it well could be for our enemies of the Government service, now claims-supplementary votes are wearing muzzles of a type and snimil bad to be abot.

and as encouraging se we could not infrequently forthcoming. We are well aware that the amount size which in no way prevent French Convent Operetta. hope for those whose prayers are to be laid out one.g. Polios or Public Works cannot always be them from biting, should they The datos for the forthcom not being offered up at the altars

ising operetts to be given at the of Frassian militarium. It was Maroh 3- Our excellent gauged beforehand to a dollar or two, but one feels inclined to ask, choose to do so. This when the sum not reckoned for comes to several hundreds of dollars particularly the case where the French Convent have been alter idle to expect that a war like this friend Mr. Woog Shing, the silent, and Godown Company, ➡$99 per Why was not a more adequate total agreed upon at the start? Why mazzles are leather ones. The ed. The matinee for children could or would be a walk-over. representative of Chinese interests share, sellers. was it pot foreseen that this extra amount would be needed? other day we saw two doge having will be on March 17, at 4 p.m., And it might even have been in the Legislative Canoil for the Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. Ltd. Some discontented tax payers have more than once gone farther still, a rare fight on "the Finest Site, Lady May will distribute the impossible to hope that the Allies past half dozen years, has retired$14 per share, sellera, and have enquired: Was the department afraid to ask for the of damage to esch other, too. 19th at 6 pm, before the per-stances anything like so satis and Mr. Ho Kai, M.B., O.K., $23 per share, sellers

A. B. Watson and Co., Ltd- and they were doing a fair amonat Oxford certificates on Friday the could have fought it in circum- into the obscurity of private life, whole amount in once?

It is an interesting coincidence that, on the very day on which Yet they were muzzled, according formance on that day, and the factory and reassuring as they are M.R.C.S., barrister-at-law, reigns Hongkong High Level Tram- His Excellency warned the departments that inconvenient little to the Hongkong conception of the

way Co., Ltd.-200 per cent. prom,, sellers,ANEN items of supplementary votes would be ruthlessly barred, there sermonsequently, if the same was only one financial minute, concerning an amount of $378, to animals, or any other similarly

Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Lid-$25 per share, used come before the Finance Committee. Usually there is quite a number fitted, were to bite a child the

Missionary Engagement.

Green Island Cement Co. (old of these votes, and against each the Governor wishes to guard owners could not be summoned, tion of three months the follow-

apless cause The engagement is announced in falute, Tax-payers should congratulate themselves that they are since it could not be said that the ing companies will,

issue)-843 per share, buyers. abroad without is shown to the contrary, be of Patrick A Braco, Trinity

Green Island Cement Co. (new likely to get off so cheaply. The quarter-million which was to have dogs were been laid out on the moorings would have beau money well spent, muzzles. If it is really necesstry struck off the Register and the College, Cambridge, of the Chiss

issue).6 per share, buyers. but the matter is not a vital one; moreover we have no doubt that that the power to bite should be companies will be dissolved Inland Mission, Peoning, son of

Hongkong Land Investment the Public Works Department will also see its way to keeping its would be wise in issuing su order Company, Limited the Geners Gloucestershire, and Jassie, restrained, then the authorities The China Comme:al Steamship S. Bruce, DD., of Norton Hall,

Co., Ld.-899 per share, bayere, expenditure at a minimum for the time being. If the remaining that dogs should wear s type of Datah Chinese Trading Company, daughter of the Right Rev. W.

$8 per share, nominal

Hongkong Electrio Co., Ltd. --- quarter million can be accounted for with as little trouble, Hongkong muzzleapproved by the polins and Limited; the Yae Tong Cotton W. Ussels, Bishop of Western

West Point Buildings Co. Ltd. will not be able to zoomse its Government of making it feel too heavily the burden which the war has laid upon the Empire.

Mall Company, Limited.

ods to cancel it. If, however,:

really suited to requirementa.

Pony Shot.

on

third performance will be on now found to be. Saturday, the 20th inst

Companies Warned.

It in nötifed that at the expira

Chins

the same question was touched upon in a leaderetta in last Tues- day's issue of the Telegraph.)

Chinese Members of the

Legislative Council.

in his stead. We shall expect great things from Mr. Ha Kai in the Legislative Council.”

189 0.

SHARE REPORT.

The quotations which follow are from the Hongkong Telegraph

for March 6, 1890.

$120 per share,

Hongkong Gaa Company

$200 per share, sellers.

Hongkong Hotel Company-

cent. Debenturea $501.

Hongkong Hotel Co.'s Six per

Indo-China B.N. Company

Douglas Steamship Company

sellers,

$63 per share, buyers.

China Sugar Refining Com pany, Ltd.-8220 per share,

Luzon Sugar Refining Com- pany, Limited-$70 per share, sellers,

Hongkong Ice Company- $110 per share, buyers.

Hongkong Rope Manufactur ing Company, Ltd - $104 per share, sellers,

Hongkong and Kowloon Wherf

-$45 per share, bayers,