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Correspondence already published in Press.]
REQUEST FOR CHAMBER'S OPINION. Read letter from the Manager. China and #Japan Telephone Co., Limited, dated 10th #December, asking for an opinion ou a certain clause in their agreement with the Joint Telegraph Companies, as to whether they have the right to establish communication with Kowloon, where they wish to have a Telephone Exchange
After discussion, it was decided to reply to the effect that the Chamber is not in a position -to express at opinion unless the matter be placed before it by both parties for arbitration, and in any case, according to the by-laws of the Chamber, one of the parties must be a member of the Chamber before the Chamber can act.
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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
CHRISTMAS CONCERT AT THE
GOVERNMENT CIVILhasa
HOSPITAL. et
PART I:
WID:
The patients Christmas entertainment at the Government Civil Hospital commenced at four o'clock on the afternoon of Christmas Day with a concert, the programme being as follows:-
Violin Solo... "La Serenata”.
Wardmaster Sydney. Song............ "Tell her I love her to"
Mr. Sliman. Eong..... "The Miller and the Maid
Mrs Vallings.
Recitation Song............
Xmas Carol
CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE COMPANY
LIMITED.
| Banjo Colo
Song............
Song..
Hongkong, 14th December, 1896. R. Chatterton Wilcox, Esq., Secretary, Chafu.
**ber of Commerce, Hongkong. Dear Sir, I beg to ask you whether the Chamber of Commerce can express an opinion in the following matter.
thus
Braga De Faye.the
Marzials. Anon.
"Irish Anecdotes" Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G.
"The Islan of D:eans". S. Adams
Mrs. Craddock.
of the Lord". "On the Birthday Rev. Dr. Dykes.
PART H.
"Grand Avenue March" C. Burnand.
Lient.-Col. Faithfull. "The Jewel of Asia”. Sidney Jones
Mre. Clark. "They all love Juck ". S. Adams. Hon. J H. Stewart-Lockhart.|
"Willie's gane to Melville Castle” Song..
Mrs. Vallings.
Poniatowski. The China and Japan Telephone Co., Limited Song..., "The Yeoman's Wedding"
Hon. W»M. Goodman. (comprising the Hongkong and Shanghai Xmas Carol... “Child Divine". Dr. Bridge Branches) is under an agreement with the The most popular songs were those given by Eastern Extension and Great Northern Tele-
Mrs. Vallings, who kindly gave as an encore to graph Companies not to be interested in the the second one "Kittie Lindsey" The carol working of any wires connecting separate "On the Birthday of the Lord" was much towns in China and for Japan" and the Tele-appreciated, and to judge by the audience the graph Companies likewise agree not to be in whole of the programme was thoroughly terested in the working of any wires connecting enjoyable. Mrs. Goodman and Mrs. Cooper different parts of the same town or of a town kindly accompanied the performers. The carol and its suburbs.
Mrs. Craddock, Sister Annie, Sister Margaret, chorus was composed as follows:Soprano and Mrs. Cooper; Contralto--Mrs. Goodman and Mrs. G. C. Cox; Tenor-Mr. Sliman, Hon.
Browne, and Crook. W. M. Goodman; Bass-Messrs. Craddock,
In Hongkong the Telephone Co. have erected lines connecting Quarry Bay, Saukiwau. Deep Water Bay, Aberdeen, and Pckfulum, &c., with the city of Victoria and in Shanghai con- neot the French and American Settlements, also Zikawei, and lastly Fodtung (by cable across the Woosung River) with the Exchange in the English Settlement, and no question has been raised as to infringement of the Telegraph Companies' rights. And now to come to the question: Since Kowlcon is to all intents and purposes a suburb of Victoria, or is at least as much so as is Ale:deen, or kay Pootnng of Shanghai, bas e Telephone Company the right to establish communication with Kowloon? I may say that if on consideration it pears to you that we, by the terms of the agreement aforesaid, are not, debarred from connecting Victoria with Kowloon we propose to open an Exchange over there, connected with the Hongkong Exchange, to meet a demand from the Kerosine Tanks, Messrs. Blackhead, the Naval Yard, and others who would doubtless be glad to avail themselves of cheap and reliable communication.
Hoping this will be a matter the Chamber can deal with and that you will give it your favourable consideration.I.m, dear sir, yours faithfully,
W. STUART HARRISON,
Manager.
22nd December, 1896. W. Stuart Harrison, Esq., Manager, China and
Japan Telephone.Co., Limited. Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 14th inst. asking the Cham- ber to express an opinion as to the right of the China and Japan Telephone Co., Limited, under their agreement with the Joint Telegraph Com. panies, to establish cable communication with Kowloon with a view to open a telephone ex- change on the peninsula.
In reply, I am directed to inform you that the Chamber is not in a position to express an opinion on this question unless the matter he placed before it for arbitration by both parties, and in any case of the kind one of the parties must be a member of the Chamber. As ueither party is a member of the Chamber, the Com- mittes are debared, under by-law X, from taking any cognizance of the matter.-I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,
Secretary...
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The concert was over by 5.15 p.m.; it was pur- posely short in order to admit of the Christmas tree. At 5.30 p.m. the tree was lighted and the Colonial Secretary distributed the various gifts to the patients, of whom there were more than a hundred present, each receiving a gift; those who were too ill to attend had their presents taken to them by the nursing sisters. At 6.15 p.m. all was over, and to judge from the smiling faces both of children and grown up persons, of all nationalities, a most enjoyable afternoon was spent.
The guests were received by Drs. Ayres, At- kinson, Bell, and Miss Eastmond (matron). Amongst these present were:-H.E. the Governor, Master Kenneth Robinson, and Capt. Sterling, Mrs. Wilsone Black, Hon. J. H. and Mrs. Stewart Lookhart, Hon. W. M. and Mrs. Goodman, Hon. F. A. and Mrs. Cooper, Hon. F. H. and Mrs. May. Mrs. Bell Irving and Mrs. Dickson, Colonel and Mrs. Faithfull, Right Rev. Bishop Piazzoli, the Roman Catho- lie Chaplain, Major and Mrs. Hanham, Mr. and Miss Jackson, Mrs. Hartigan, Dr. Rennie, Dr. Clark, Dr. and Mrs. Thomson, &c.
PRIZE DISTRIBUTION AT ST.
JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON EDUCATION. The annual distribution of prizes to the scholars attending St. Joseph's College took place on the 22nd December, His Honour the Chief Justice, Dr. Carrington, LL.D, C.M.G., musical entertainment, at the conclusion of presiding. The proceedings opened with a
which Brother James read the annual report, which was as follows:-
Your Lordships rev. fathers, ladies, and gentlemen, Before reading the Annual Re- port of the College for 1896, I think it my duty to thank His Lordship, the Chief Justice, for the honour he has conferred upon the College by consenting to preside at our distribution this evening. It is, indeed, a proof of the interest taken in the education of youth by the highest Executive in the colony I have also to thank His Excellency the Governor, and our other friends through whose mediation we were enabled to take part in the
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application, and the home s
own by their sons during the week remarka
Our registers show that 283 pupils received during the year, and that the average monthly attendance of 208. sented, 168 of this number for the ar ernment examination last week, having the required number of having left school for employi presented 276 papers on spec though we have not yet had judge from the words of HM- Schools at the close of the examina he could conscientiously say that was well taught," we may expect very g results.
The pupils take kindly to military drill oricket, football, and hockey are ver popular. The boys hope that when the new part of the Happy Valley is finished, a larger portion will be allotted to the schools for their athletic contests.
thanks to the Hon. F. R. Belilios for his two We finally beg to tender our very sincerest scholarships and also to the other gentlemen who have so generously contributed towards our prize fund.
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The CHIEF JUSTICE,said it gave him very great interest in anything great pleasure to take the chair, as he took education. He saw that a conside of the scholars of the school were descent, and he might mention that something to do with the Portuguese in Guiana, where they formed a useful; an excell the inhabitants and made most admirable citi- ap industrious; and a law-abidin.
E portion of
to the English side of the community zens. He thought that those who belonged must be pleased with the efforts made by the Christian Brothers to impart a thorough know- ledge of English to the Portuguese boys. The teachers filled a great province in this moral qualities and making them good in bringing out the boys' faculties and
intellectual members of society. The of a teacher in Hongkong was a great and noble one. Here we we fringe of a great empire with some three or four hundred millions of souls all those people were entirely ignoran literature, science, and general knowledg the English more or less shared it must great pleasure for the teacher to reflect on the possibility that he in a small way was bring to bear on this vast population the mighty chine of education, and that possibly he mi have the good fortune to improve the tual and moral status of that population. Inte years the education of the middle classes in England had been very much in the back ground; not nearly the same tion had been given to the lower olasses and the Classes had gramm classes had a syst been more or less on the other hand t no systematic- educat classes had hitherto done very
but Rately been appointed to and by and by the ed would be taken int gratified to hear pupils had been pres examination, as the regu enabled one to say ho and to compare it with in the colony--- He® every boy would present #hi Junior or Senior – Oxford tion. The Christian - a good work attention to the education of the I
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