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CRAIGENGOWER
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CLUB.
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1923,
AT FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES
"SARPEDON "
ARRIVED 8.7.33.
NOTICE is bereby given that
Bill of Lading No. 52
Original countersigned LAMMERT BROS. HUGHES & HOUGH
(900x
apply to Box 969, c/o Hongkong A CINEMA show will be given covering shipment of N, 1
Tolegraph."
COMPRADORE WANTED.
on SATURDAY, the 28th. inst., at 9.15 pm.
R. BASA, Hon. Secretary.
WANTED-By a large firm
with big Trade connec tions and agoncles; a first class Compradore. Very good terms to a good man. Must have Suitable Guarantees up to $50,000. Apply by Letter first 10 Box No. 968, e/o "Hongkong Telegraphe""
Pо
MONOKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
ich
WING to weather conditions the JULY SETTLEMEN is postponed till. MONDAY, 30th. net and until such date no OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS will bo fsaned.
By Order,'
P. TESTER,
Secretary. Hongkong, 27th, July, 1923.
NOTICA.
HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS'
1 case Velvet is said to have been lost and is therefore declars ed null and void,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents 0.8.. O». L1. &` CHAN, ĐÓ L
"DO NOT MISS-
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Every Tuesday Thursday
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have receiv. ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on Monday, the 30th. July, 1923.
commencing at 3.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture. comprising :-
Brass and brasy mounted beds eade Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Marble top washstands,
atc., etc.
chairs,
Dining Table and Chesterfield Chairs, Couches. etc., etc. Phone 2032
& Saturday At 2.30 p.m. Specialist is the Valuation of Household and Oflee Furniture.
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If not look to yourliver and aid year digestion by the use of Pin. (keltes. These gentle little lax. ativen 'keep you in the pink" by
OSITION WANTED; by British subject now resid- ing in Manila P.J. Superinten dont of construction, Master Mechanic, or Chief Engineer of Power Plant. Experienced in Power Plant erection, Sugar Central erection & Shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation. Electrical A.C. & D.C. distri bution. Turbine and R-ciprocat- ing units. Just completed in- stalation of two 5.000 K. W. Turbine units, re-erection ofWING to weather conditions, inducing daily regularity, thus
the July Settlement is post-ensuring good digestion, clear)
MONDAY, poned till
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TO BE LET.
~0 LET,-European flats in
To
ASSOCIATION,
"
J. W. KEW,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 27th. July, 1923.
Loo Building, Wanchai Gap CE. WARREN & CO, LTD.
Road, Apply to 32 Kennedy Rd.
O LET-Office Rooms at No.
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ALL FANS GREATLY REDUCED,
With the hottest part of sammer still before us, the purchase of an electric fan ie the wisest investmank you can make
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIITED.
A FAMOUS CANADIAN BEER
U.B.C. (LION BRAND)
A young man from Deepwater Bay
Remarked
On a hat summer's day, "When you've finished your dip,"
"Lion Beer is the típ ".
For it clears that salt teste right away
Sole Distributors
COLONIAL COMMERCIAL
CO, LTD.
19, Queen's Road, Central.
Pinkettes keep you well.
} Also
One Cottage Piano by "Collard & Collard".
One Cottage Piano,.. One Victor Viutrols,
One Oramaphone, e Three Cameras
And
Two Ceiling Fans.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS
AND
BROKERS.
on MONDAY,
the 30th July, 1923, at 11 a.m., at Ing Co., Gordon Street. The Hing Wah Paste Manufactur Valuable Furniture and Sundries
Therein Contained.
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong
Telegraph."}
Philippine Independence.
EDUCATION REPORT.
Further Points from. Annual Report:
We take the following from the aunual report of the Director of Education:-
Sir,-B-fore replying to your Health of Children.. correspondent, W. B. Watson, on
Inspections of British Soho la Philippine Independence. I wish are undertaken by officers of the to comment on his assertion that Medical Dedartment with the I mutiliated the King's English assistance of the Medical Officer in my previous totter. Perhaps of Health. The Kowloon Schools, Mr. Watson can point out my Senior and Junior, and the Vio- grammatical shortcomings I did toria School were each inspected not write the letter for his once during the year. The report particular benefit, hence the
on the Kowloon School states ---- absence of the King's English.
"I was very much struck by the I also ignore the last paragraph good physical condition and ap- of his correspondence. It savoure pearance of the children in the of mud-slinging. wish he would. Senior School: they in my opinion be more explicit and I challenge compare quite favourably with him to disclose which community the school children of the Pacific he was referring to when he Bay Coast of America of whom I saw "We have the spectacle bere in a good deal, whilst on leave. The Hongkong of the members of a smaller children in the Junior A foreign community making School seem to have a tendency demands upon the Government to anaemia hut seem to outgrow for educational facilities toward it as they get older." At the Vic- which they contribute little or tria School, with the exception of nothing."
trifling ailmente, the health of the Your correspondent also shows children was excellent", No ignorance of what I previously inspection of the Peak School was wrote about the Chinese under made. "Philippine Independence." I 81 Large lot of wood (for mentioned "Peoples of the Far
boxes).
To be sold as follows:- Lat. 11 Large Motor Truck.
21 Let furniture: compris
ing-Marbletop wash- stand, sideboard, tables, 12 tesk chairs, 4 counter tables, 5 Clocks, 65 stoves, & Pair steps, I desk and chair, 1 lot bins, and treasels. 91 Large lot min drying
frames.
42 Large scales and 7 table
.scales.
51 Small snfe.
68 Electric fans.
7
1 Large lot ampty boxes.
宁静
་་
East." If Mr. Watson confines
University Examinations.
A table is given showing the 91 Large lot of. boxes come to that category, can he tell Matriculation and Exteras! Ex- Buoccases in the University taining min, maccaroni, me if a dog born in a manger is aminations. It is stated that paste, stars etc., (about 500 cases).
Catalogues will be issued. Terms Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
10
1 Lot cooking gear.
11
Auctioneers.
TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY
COST PRICES SALES
Bordeaux Wines (Red & White) Burgundies (Still)
Brandies & Liquours Brandies Champagnes
Sparkling Wines
Sparkling Burgundy
Liqueurs.
Rhine Wines
etc.
ring up Central 950, or call at 4 Queen's Building.
P. A. LAPICQUE & CO.
WORLD THEATRE
ROBERTSON-COLE
TO-DAY
ONLY
Presents
Good Women
by C.Gardner Sullivan directed by GASNIER
An Impelling story of a
WOMAN'S DÉFIANCE
OF THE OLDEST LAW
had not told ber he had a wife. >he bad not told him she had a past. Their love for each other was purc Then came e sfidence — and they
G100 WOMEN: INTERESTING ?
horse?
except for a trifling reduction in In my correspondence I speci Junior successes among the fically cited the Philosophy" The Schools outside the Colony, the
1 Large lot paper hoxes glory of creation consists in figures for 1922 are all 'records." (about 230 cases and 1 diversity in uoity and unity in The most noticeable increase is diversity." also quoted Kipling in the Matriculation and Senior
lot labels). 12 21 Cases paper bags.
paper, And
(loose).
146 Cases of string.
ד'
15 1 Lot old iron.
..16
1. Lot timber.
to bear cut my statement that the Successes of the Outside Schools,
18 1 Lot brown paper, wax same form of government with notably those of Shanghai. It is labels effective application to certain a matter of congratulation that in
races cannot be applied to every the past ten years
over 800 Tace of people. I mentioned that students of the Colony should a Power administering govern-have passed the University Matri ment here is successful because, calation or Senior Local; but this while it follows the hard and-fast year's figure 149 promises a great Terms. Cash on delivery.
rule, its control is firm yet increase in the next decade. HUGHES & HOUGH,
kindly. looking after the Auctioneers, improvisation of the people's the King Edward Scholarship.. The Diocesan Boys' School' won, needs. Education. I maintain, is and Queen's College the Pre- a band maiden of discipline, Mr.sident's Scholarship. Wateon did not understand the
There is a general feeling among
LAMMERT BROS, ist of my letter, hence his the Heads of toral schools that
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have receiv. ed instructions to sell by Public Auction Monday, the 30th. July, 1923. commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sples Roome, Daddell Street,
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps,
(Full particulars from Catalogues) On view from Saturday, the 28 E, July, 1923.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT EROS,
Auctioneers.
LADIES'
BOOTS
and SHOES
made in
new
styles. ROYAL & CO. Footwear Specialists. Tel. 3237.
1, D'Agular Street, Central.
A BEAUTIFUL CARDEN
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eriticisme, are ridiculous per an.
the Jucior Examination is-some-
Mr. Watson states-Yourwhal too easy. correspondent seems to think that the advocacy of national indepen dence by any dependent people is
that aware
de
Nova in 1502,
a crime." I did not make this by Joao inference; but is Mr. Watson, who Madagascar by Tristao da Cunha pledges the cause of humanity in in 1506. The latter also planted his letter,
the be banner of Portugal in the eoi! appropriation expanded by of the Ascension Islands in 1508... the Treenry
P.I. queira also discovered Sumatra towards the recent independence in the same year and the Por Commission to Washington can tugures are also credited with be better used to the salvation of the discoveries of Borneo and in 1513. I can quotu many of the countless thousands Java
of
the
of lepers in the little Island of countless others, Cullion; those straggling units of In 3898, your correspondant the United States bumanity for whom science has resumes,
at last devised a cure? Here is Government established a school humanity I
of modern political thought Your correspondent then ola- in the Philippines. The U. S. borates on evolution, which is too Government has since established great an undertaking. I agree, schools in the P.I. for all sorts of Mr. Watson, that we "cad no industrial and mental develop- more stop the progress of a people ment until to-day schools and.
flourish
the than we can stop an infant from universities growing up" As you say, but Philippines as typhoone in Hong- wa CAT certainly strive to kong. You have seen the result. stop the retrocession of a people of these "Halls of Enlighten- when that back sliding is impliedmont." The Philippines now have» in a distortion of the word Io-to combat this superfluous educa dependence." I emphasize that tion. They have too many law. independence from American rule Fers and doctors and no-one to can only culminate in confusion till the land. The vagaries of and the laying-bare of Philippine these professional men territory to the invasion of other lachrymoga to contemplate. covetous powers. The Philippine Speaking. again of education Government, as you know, do not in
Philippines, has retain its independent Army or never occurred to Mr. Watson, Navy.
that while the U.8. Govern-
the
are too
it
In the second paragraph of his ment, rxpanded large sums of letter, Mr. Watson states that he money on all sorts of educa has had the opportunity of study.tion in the P.I. yet they have ing, at first band, the question of never relished the fonsibility of Philippine. Independence. 1 do inaugurating & firat-rate naval - not presume to have done so, but I and military school there when believe the Filipinos en mosse do no country can exist independen- not advocate such an indej endtly, without molestation unless they have an adequate army and ence as yet.
Mr. Watson also comments on
Navy? national aspirations. Inasmuch The only discrepancy in my as aspiration belongs to the original correspondence was that highest order of human intellect, part relating to the abolition of E- yot aspirations detrimental to the ropesn habiliments in the Ayun- interest of one's country and tamento. But why attack" the elevation of self cannot be deemed missionaries ? worthy. There are divers Yourcorrespondentebould have
categories of aspiration. Mr. read "Political Economies." and Watson.
acquire an understanding of what Your correspondent reverts he means to criticise before- to the Portuguese Campaign of ensaying an expression.
Portuguese 1580 against Spain. History, I am afraid; is too glorious for his understanding..
Yours elé.
HL. M. SILVA. Hongkong July 28th, 1929.
THE DANCING PRINCE, The Prince of Wales has had an Answering: bis query I would unixpected honour thrust upon say that the Portuguese Sir. Your dorrespondent, Mr. bim by a United States organiza-were justified fu embarking on H. M. Silva, certainly needs a tion. He has been voted "the that campaign because they were great deal of sympathy la bis. premier dancer of the world" by then not only capable of managing aspirations to become a
"politi- tho National Insitute for Social their own affaire at Homo, but clan." especially on such an. Dancing of New York which an- their intrepid navigators who intricate question as that of nounces it has sent him a number adorn the pages of Geographical Philippine Ind-pendance, I would of new steps, ons named in bia History before that epoch already most strongly advies him to horour, Addressing the Privce, sallied, forth to the discovery of divert more of his attention to the institute, through its secretary, new countries and perpetuated the political affairs of his own says: "It is our unamin us vote the capacity of the Portuguese for country, in which he could And that your Royal Highnessdeserven coping with the reins of colonial more scopa to achieve success, first place among the dancers of government, For instance the rather than delve into a subject of the world by reason of which discovery of Brazil In 1500 which he knows precious little. position w4 Bad it only befitting by Pedro Alvares Cabrali
Yours sto, thai your Royal Highness be the the Labradore by: Jeronimo FILIPINO JOHNSON, first to learn the steps."
Corterreal in 1501, Saint Helena) Hongkong, July 28th, 1923.
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