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Beptember 2, 1907.]
HONGKONG CIVIL SERVICE CLUB.
The annual meeting of the members of his club was held on Aug. 29th at the club house, Happy Valley. Dr. Clark presided over a very large attendance.
The Chairman mentioned that he had received a letter from the President, the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, regretting his inability to be present as he was accompanying His Excellency in the New Territory.
THE EPORT.
The annual report was submitted by the Secretary, Mr. L. E. Brett. It stated.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
If they con-
Mr. DAWSON thought the position of the club was very good considering that they had been in dent last year. They bad now a balance of $700 or $800. sidered the amount of drinks to visitors the profit on the bar would be about 30 or 40 per He thought the treasurer ought to be congratulated on the balance sheet presentei.
A discussion followed as to the meeting of the Finance Committee, and the report was aft rwards adopted unanimously.
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ELECTION OF OFFICE BSARERS.
The election of office bearers resulted follows:-Captaio, Mr. T. Jackman; Vice Captain. Mr. F. A. Biden; secretary, Mr. L. E. Brett; treasurer, Mr. Ε. Dawson; Captain "A team, Mr. Chawkley; Committee-Messrs. Adam, Howell, W. H. Parkinson, M. Melver, J. J. Blake and W. F. Gast.
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ALTERATION OF NAME.
Mr. WHEAL suggested that the name of the Club be altered to read Hongkong Civil Service Recreation Club.
Cricket. In the League Competition we played 18 matches, woo 7, drew 4 and lost 3. Total points 25. We finished 3rd out of 8 teams entered. The fist eleven played 4 matches other than League matches, win ing 2 and losing 2. The second eleven played IU Voting took place as to whether a bar com. matches, winning 5 and losing 5. Prize Win-mittee or a steward should be elected but the ners at Cricket were 88 follows:-League, former proposition was defeated and Mr. C. batting, (Mr. Biden's Prize), Mr. Biden, Bond was appointed steward. League bowling, (Hou. Dr. Atkinson's Prize) Mr. L. E. Brett. First eleven batting (Club Prize) Mr. E. B. Reed. First eleven bowling, (Club Prize) Mr. H. T. Jackman. First eleven fielding, (Mr. Jackman's Prize) Mr. P. T. Lambie. There was a tie for this prize between Messrs Lamble, Jord in, and Adams and it was decided to toss to see who was to take the prize and Mr. Lamble won. Weekly fielding prizs presented by the Club, won by Mr. P. R. Adams. Fecond eleven batting, (Club Prize) Mr. W. H. Kelly, second eleven bowling, (Club Prize, Mr. G. Badcock, second eleven field. ing (Mr. Kelly's Prize) Mr. H. Coombs.
Tennis.-The annual tournament has just finished and, results are as follow:- hampion- ship: 1st, Mr. F. A, Biden; 21d, Mr. G. A. Woodcock. Double Handicap:-1st, Messrs. Pile and Witchell; 2nd, Messrs. Biden and Woolley, Single Handicap-Mr. G. A. Wood. cock meets Mr. Pile in the fina'.
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It was decided that the name of the Club b Hongkong Civil Service Sports Club.
NEW PATRON.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that H.E. the Governor be asked to become a patron of the Club.
OTHER SUGGESTIONS.
Mr. SMITH remarked that as they were now a Sports Club they ought to consider the advisability of raising a football team to enter the League competition.
The meeting concluded with the usual votes of thanks.
HONGKONG COLLEGE OF
MEDICINE.
A meeting of the Court of the Hongkong College of Medicine was held in the Legislative Council Chamber on Aug. 23, when the Diploma of the College was presented by the Rector, Hon. Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G., to two students, Kwao Kiog Hung and Li Ho Ching, who have completed the curriculum of five years' study and passed all the professional examinations.
Mr. Li Ho Ching, who has been appointed to be Government Medical Officer at Tai Po, was also presented by the Rector with a cheque for $150, the amount of the Blake Scholarship, awarded after a competitive examination on the subjects of Clinical Surgery, Clinical Medicine and Diseases of the Eye, held at the Government Civil Hospital and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital.
Lawn Bowls.-Three competitions have been held, full rinks, championship, and handi- cap, the results being as follows:-1st Mr. W.H. Kelly, 2ad, Mr. L. E. Brett. Messrs. Fincher and Blowey received semi final prizes. Rink competition-1st, A. Brown, Coles B. Duncan, W. Fincher (skip); 2nd C. W Brett, R. Hudson, M. Molver, L. E. Brett (skip). Handicap Compitition-1st, Mr. R. Fenton; 2nd, Mr. L. E. Brett, Messre. Kelly and Cuthbert received semi final prizes. We played 3 matches with the Police, 2 of which we won and lost one. We have played one match with Kowloon on their ground which they woo. The annual" at Home" was held on Whit Monday. Mrs. Chatham, wife of the President, distributed the prizes won at the sports and during the year. We have plenty of cricket gear for practice, but we shall require bats, balls. &c. for matches. portant forward
new The cricket pitch and bowling greens all in good condition for which thanks are due to Messrs Fincher, Hoggarth and Wheal. Thanks are also due to Messrs. Darby and Palmer for auditing the accounts. Mr. E. Dawson carried од the duties of Hon. Secretary till Marcb, when he had to give up the post owing to being transferred to Kowloon. I expressed my willingness to act until the general meeting.
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The accounts showed a balance in bank of
$261.41.
The PRESIDENT read a letter from the audit. ors, Messrs. Darby and Palmer, in which they stated that the system of bookkeeping not altogether satisfactory. They suggested that the office of steward and trassurer should
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not be held by the same person, and when money was paid over greater details should be furnished.
On the consideration of the accounts,
Mr. HILL initiated a discussion by remarking that the working of the bar was not satisfactory. At present only a profit of 10 per cent. was shown whereas it ought to be larger.
The PRESIDENT-You think making enough profit on the bar?
Mr. HILL-I do.
we аге not
1 he PRESIDENT-The question of bar profits is simply a question of the price of drinks.
Mr. WHEAL explained that the profit was roughly shown at $100. In addition 825 as
bad debts was deducted from the bar account,
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held in readiness. His offer had been sccept- ed, and the buildings will be commenced immediately. The Hongkong College of Medicine has thus far had no visible exis- teac; but as a living organization it has had a very real existeno; and has done much sub. stantial work, and it has done its utmost by makeshifts to make good its somewhat anomalous circumstances. It has had its headquarters in the Alice Memorial Hspital, and the affiliated Nethersole and Ho Mia Ling Hospitals have also ben open to students for parposes of clinical instruction; but, in addition, the College has borrowed accommodation for special purposes all over the city. During this summer session, for example, the Surgery lectures have been delivered at the Government Civil Hospital, Biology has been taught at Queen's College, Chemistry and Physios in the Queen's College Laboratory, Public Health in the Royal Sanitary Institute's lecture hall, Pathology and Bactrio- logy in the Public Mortuary and the Bacteriologi. cal Institute; and the Tung Wa Hospital has also been made use of in tutorial classes for the clinical material it affords. The Lecturers of the College are thus, it must be apparent, doing their best under the great disadvantages that exist, to make their teaching as thorough and as practical as possible.
We understand that it is in view to make a rigorous effort early next year to raise by public subscription an Endowment Found, to enable the Court to engage the services of a staff of specially qualified lecturers for the more dis tinctively scientific subjects, and to render more effective by the provision of adequate teaching appliances the work of the present honorary staff of lecturers, who will continue
their services to the institution.
During the twenty years that have elapsed since the College was inaugurated, exactly 100 students have been enrolled; of these 31 have qualified, and most of the Liceutiates already qualified have settled in the Colony itself. AU the Dispensaries established by the Chinese themselves in various parts of Victoria, in Yaumati, Hungbom and old Kowloon city, for the express purpose of assisting the Govern- ment to enforce its sanitary laws, are manned by Licentiates of this College. Other
Licentiates are in direct Government service in the New Territory and on the Railway works; some are resident surgeons in the Hospitals for the Chinese; and several are practising their profession privately among their own people in various parts of the Colony, and in this capacity gaining access to the bomes and the confidence of the Chinese, rich and poor alike. These men are exerting a wide, and a widening, influence towards the breaking down of Chinese pre- judices and Chinese obstruction to that batter sanitation in which, it is recognised on all hands, lie a happier future and a yet greater com. mercial prosperity for this Colony.
MANSLAUGHTER AT CHEUNG.
SHAWAN.
Three Indians named Peer Bux, Namad Khan, and Parket Khan were charged before Mr. C. D. Melbourne at the Magistracy Li Chu on on Angust 29th with the manslaughter of the 22nd August. The first mentioned, who is fairly well known, is a dairymau at Cheung Sha Wan. He surrendered to his bail of $1000. Inspector McHardy prosecuted.
The College of Medicine is making an im. moyment at the present time. Towards the end of last year there care to it the beginnings of an endowment, in the form of a bequest of property valued at $10,000, under the will of the late Mr. Tang Chuk Kai, and this has been speedily followed by an offer of College buildings. For twenty years the College has been in existence, quietly and cou- tinuously carrying on the work it marked out for itself in 1887. There has been no lack of students; teachers each taking a subject for which by previous training and experience he is specially fitted, have been at all times forthcoming; an organization has existed, modelled on that of English Medical Schools; bat thus far the College has possessed no per. manent local habitation, and there has been no regularly paid s'aff devoting itself entirely to the training of the students. At length, however, College buildings are about to be erected. The Government two years ago reserved on the Tai Ping Shan resumed area a site in every way suitable for the purposes of a Medical College, convenient of access for Lecturers, and centrally placed in relation to the Government Civil Hospital, Government Civil Hospital, spoke to
Dr. Koch, medical officer in charge of the the Alice Memorial Hospital, Nethersole Hospital, deceased being admitted in an unconscious Ho Mia Ling Hospital, Tung Wa Hospital, the condition and suffering from bruises on the Public Mortuary and the Bacteriological L-head. It was one of the latter wounds which boratory, to be granted to the Court free of proved fatal. Apparently the wounds had been charge; and a generous Chinese gentleman, inflicted by a blunt instrument, such as the Mr. Ng Li Hing, an old resident of this Colony, has now offered to spend $50,000 in the bamboo produced. The scalp was not broken. Other evidence was called and the caso WAS erection of College buildings or the site thus
emanded.
On the 22nd August the deceased went to draw water from the well at the rear of Peer Bux's premises. Peer Bux objected to the bucket going into the well. An altercation ensued, and the two young Indians coming up took sides with Peer Bux. They wrenched the bamboo from the Chinaman and beat him over the bead with it. When the police arrived they ordered the removal of the unfortunate man to
the Hospital where he died shortly after admission.
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