CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN
SCHOOLS...
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
COMPETITIVE DESIGNS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS
After a long and carefully conducted en- quiry the Coroner's jury have come to the conclusion that Toxa WING, a pupil of the Diocesan School, did not die as the result of a blow dealt by Mr. RALPHS, his teacher,
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In the Building News of the 23rd October we find the following: The President of the Royal Institute of British Architects "has been requested by the Secretary of 'State for the Colonies to nominate three or "four architects of good reputation who will "undertake to prepare designs, working 'drawings, specifications, and estimates for "proposed Government Buildings at Kings- "ton, Jamaica. The architect who may "be selected will have to visit Kingston, "and attend the committee there with re- "ference to the general plans and architec- "tural character of the designs. He will "subsequently be required to furnish to the "Government full and detailed working drawings and specifications for the con- "struction of the buildings. The remunera "tion of the selected architect for the work "will be 24 per cent. on the estimated cost, "which is not to exceed £100,000. Arohi "tects desirous of being nominated are in- "vited to send in their names, with parti "culars of their work and experience, to "the Acting Secretary R.I.B.A. before to- morrow (Saturday), the 24th."” The Secretary of State seems to have taken a very different view of this subject as affecting Jamaica from that which he took respecting the erection of new
His Lordship I do not know. the Public Offices in Hongkong. He stated that he was not prepared to approve accept that altogether. I have power t the proposal to invite competitive designs the Supreme Court Ordin
$100 or send you to prison for two for new Government Offices at Hongkong, This was a very important trial and you and that it would be desirable to employ to have been there. If you could not be the consulting architects to the Crown you ought to have let the officers of the Cour Agents for the Colonies, Messrs. ASTON know that you could not come. You WEBB and INGRESS BELL. In the case to prison for three weeks and think ab
find of Jamaica we no reference to matter,
WEBB and INGRESS Messrs. ASTON BELL. Jamaica, like Hongkong, is Crown Colony, and the question suggests itself why, if Hongkong is considered
the result of an accidental fall. can be no dispute, we think, about istice of this finding. "Mr. RALPHS the verdict of the jury, been properly erated from blame, and we fail to see any other verdict could have been re- There was not a tittle of evidence him,
1, and none of the witnesses could that they had seen Mr. RALPHS hit a one of the pupils on the head with a or stick. The deceased boy, it is twice said while in the hospital, and a hours before his death, that he had truck on the head by Mr. RALPHS, "much more likely that the different version which he gave the amaha and another scholar was the true one, and that his mind when he was lying on his death bed in the hospital was not at all clear as to the precise way in which he suffered the fatal injury. Sym- pathy must be expressed both for the parents of the boy and for Mr. RALPHS, who must ave undergone considerable anxiety of mind nce the contents of Dr. ATKINSON'S letter giving the boy's statement were made known to him. But a side light has been thrown on the way in which corporal punishment is sometimes inflicted by schoolmasters and it is to this that we wish to draw special at tention. It was stated by many of the Witnesses, and admitted by Mr. RALFES himself, that the boxing of a boy's ears sometimes served as a punishment. This is, to our way of thinking, a very under- sirable mode of correction to adopt in any school. Time after time the highest medical anthorities have pointed out the extreme danger of boxing a boy's ears, and numerous cases of injury to the ears and partial and ven total loss of hearing have been recorded being directly due to this highly re- prehensible practice on the part of school teachers. The infliction of corporal punish- ment in a school is absolutely necessary for the well being of the school and the scholars, but it certainly should not be within the power of every teacher in a school to inflict punishment whenever he thinks it desirable add certainly not to box a boy's ears, which is a harah and stupid form of punishment, and one likely to be administered when the teacher is irritated. The Education Depart ment in England, as Mr. RALPHS said in his evidence; may consider any certificated eacher competent to administer corporal punishment, but the Department certainly does not tolerate the boxing of a boy's ears. In many, and perhaps all the Board Schools in England, only the headmaster and in his bsence the second master can inflict corporal punishment, and such punish- ment consists merely of caning on the hands buttocks, the boxing of ears being strictly forbidden. The Right Rey. Bishop BURDON recently referred to the Diocesan School as one of the best schools in the colony, and it is to be hoped that its well deserved reputation may not be allowed to suffer through in- discretion on the part of individual teachers
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Prisoner I was under the your Lordship would not so soon as that. About the received a very important letter that one of the corners was buri
I looked through the letter- mother was very ill and there her recovery, and so I was obliged to
A story is whispered in the North, illustrative of the tension in the capital at the present time. While H.E. Li was absent on his mission, Shêng Taotai, it is said, sent in a memorial to the Throne denouncing his former patron When La returned, he of course got a copy of it, and when Sheng came to call on him the story goes-Li said to him,
You're в nice fellow! I made you what you are, and when my back is turned, you denounce me to the Throne." Sheng at once denied the impeach ment, on which Li, drawing the copy of the memorial from his boot, held it up before Sheng and then, slapping him on both cheeks with it, C-Daily drove him from his pres
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Mr. Robinson (instruoted by Mr. Holmes) prosecuted and Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (in structed by Mr. Dennys), defended the prisoners. who pleaded not guilty
The jurors sworn were Mesars, Ho Yuet Cho, Fritz Lieb, J. A. V Ribeiro, Li Wai Ching, F. A. Ozorio, Muck Tung Lum, F. F.. Barretto.
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