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Mr. Morrell-If your Worship thinks so, I will have to apply for habeas corpus.
Mr. Morrell then cross-examined a witness and the hearing was further adjourned.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
BELILIOS PUBLIC SCHOOL.
VERNACULAR SIDE.
The annual prize distribution of the vernacular side of the Belilios Public School took place on on the 19th inst., and attracted a large atten- dance of Orientals and Occidentals. Mr. E. D.
A SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT. C. Wolfe, Inspector of Schools, presided, and
a programme of songs and recitations furnished by the pupils.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."}
SIR-Renter's telegram which appears in your issue of Tuesday has been the cause of immense excitement amongst the shipping community and the pig dealers,
It is rumoured that applications for space have poured in to a well known line to such an alarming extent that no mor room is available
morp for next year.
The rate of freight and price of pigs has increased by leaps and bounds, and it is firmly believed that so soon as the railways in China more developed, special steamers will be built for the conveyance to Europe of this class; of cargo.
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No doubt capitalists at honie will be induced to pay their attention to this matter, and it is asserted on good authorit, that several syndicate: are being formed locally to develop the trade.. Trusting this may be of some interest to your readers. Yours faithfully.
NONCENTS.
A HONGKONG BOY AT OXFORD
Our London correspondent writes:-I hear that Mr. Arthur Dyer Ball, the elder son of Mr. J. Dyer Ball, L.S O.. is doing well at Oxford, having gone up to the University from Mill Hill last year. It is his intention to enter the Indian Civil Service, and already he is "eating dinners at one of the Temples to qualify for the Bar.
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He is playing regularly in the Oxford hockey team, and will probably got his half-blue against. Cambridge this winter. Oxford beat South-¡ ampton by two goals to one and Leicester by nine goals to nil. A critic of the matches writes in one of the leading papers :-
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Mr. WOLFE, after the prize presentation, con. gratulated the pupils on the year's work. He | was glad that the school was not only increasing in numbers, but in efficiency. In 1906, he said. the average attendance was 187; last year it was 237. This year the attendance had decreased slightly-about 237 27. The highest enrolment last year was not over 300. In February of this year there were over 360 names in the books of the school. The decrease in attendance was ducta the bad outbreak of plague. He hoped plague would not return next year to spoil the attendance, which otherwise was on the increase. There was this to be considered. Now that the atten. dance was on the increase the Government had been forced to increase the number of teachers, but their number was still too small, and in spite of the decision of the Retrenchment Committee and other unpleasant things of that kind, the school staff was to h further ing conclusion. Mr. Wolfe congratulated the head- master and his assistants on the school's efficiency and hoped that it would be maintained.
The Inspector's report on the school rend as! follows:-
[December 21, 1908
THE HONGKONG COLLEGE OF
MEDICINE.
A telegram we publish in another column to-day reports that the China Society in London has resolved to petition the Colonial Office to subsidise a medical school for Hong- kong. This resolution was the outcome of a lec- ture on Chinese medicine by Dr. Cantlie, and as our representative was informed in an inter- view with the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai yesterday, was indirectly brought about by the exertions of Dr. J. C. Thomson, secretary to the Hongkong College of Medicine, during his last holiday in England. When Dr. Thomson went home on leave, one of his objects was to appeal to old China hands for an endowment fund for the Hongkong College of Medicine. The Court of this College hoped to be able to raise sufficient at home to guarantee the appointment of one or two professors for a term of five years, Dr. Thom- son approached Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Har- tigan, Dr. Cantlie and other prominent medicos and pointed out that it was the desire of the Court of the Hongkong College of Medicine to have that institution placed on a footing that would justify a demand for recognition of its qualification by the General Medical Council of Great Britain. To acquire this distinction Igenitaly e mi pol buildings and specially quali- fied lecturers en anatomy and physiology were an essential preliminary. There was no lack of students. but what the Court wanted was a minimum capital sum of $150,000 as an endow- Iment for the College. With this amonat, the Government annual grant and students' fees it would be possible to engage the of duly qualified teachers of anatomy and physiology as well as improve arrangements for the teaching of other subjects. Licentiates of the College, it was pointed out, were ex- erting a wide and a widening influence towards of Chinese prejudices the breaking down
Discipline and Organization. The discipline is very good and there is a noticeable change in this respect in the lower standards.
Organization-The work of the school con- tinues to be very satisfactory. There is, how. ever, a tendency especially in the lower stan- dards to try and do too much, e.g., iu composi- tion the answers were very long but often not to the point and not written in the best style. Shorter, more concise, answers in good Chinese would have raised the standard of this work materially.
The work of the lower classes should not bu left entirely to the mistresses. The masters who teach tie upper standardkkhould give a series of lessons every week in the lower standards. The pupils will then be able to 'Oxford University do not seem able to pro-enlarge their stock of ideas especially in com- duce a good forward line. F. G. Mirfield, who is position. the only one of last year's line. is also the only one to show anything like first-class form. At outside left, A. D. Ball is fairly good, and will doubtless improve, but Marcon, Brooks and Murray are very weak.
At Leicester,
the forward line showed better combination, but suffer somewhat from the weakness of Mathew at centre-half in attack."
A GAMBLERS' RETREAT.
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Minutes of a meeting of the Council, held at the Board Room, on the 1st December 1908.
Present-users. W. H. Wallace (Chairman), J. S. Feuwick. Huang Ts'an-chew, N. Kruse, S. Okuyama, W. Wilson, and the Secretary, C. Berkeley Mitchell.
1. The minutes of the last meeting are read. and confirmed.
2. A letter is read from Mr. C. A. V. Bowra resigning his seat on the Council on his transfer from the Port. The Secretary is directed in acknowledging receipt to express to Mr. Bowra the Council's regret at his departure, and thank him for the services he has rendered the Community during the past three years, as a
3. A letter is read from the Land Com- missioners reporting their completion of the revaluation of property in the Settlement, and the Secretary is instructed to write and thank the Commissioners for their labours in the matter.
The small island of Chinchau is well-known by the Police to be a rendezvous of gamblers, but, owing to the constant and strict watch kept by the lawbreakers, it is seldom that a school is surprised. The method adopted by Sergeant Gordou, ou on Dec. 15, however, turned out successful, and as a result six gamblers were charged before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magis-member of the Council. tracy yesterday, one of the conductors of the gane being a village elder. Se cautions are the gamblers on this island that they scent danger in the arrival of any strange sampan, and in such event pay is immediately stopped. But the arrival of a little dug-out in the bay. with what appeared to be a few fishermen on board, called for nothing more than passing notice, and for some four hours this dug-out plied backwards gud forwards along the shore. Eventually it was beached hard by the Temple, before which a village elder and another native were conducting a game of pochee, in which numerous natives were participating. So in- terested were the gamblers in their play that they did not notice the arrival of Sergeant Gordon and his lukongs. The alarm was given, however, just as the police were upon them, and immediately there was a stampede. The police succeeded in capturing the conductors of the game and four of the players, and yesterday Mr. Kemp fined the first two defendants $20 each, and each of the players $10.
4. The Superintendent of Police reports only one case, that of an assault, has been heard in the Mixed Court since the last meeting, as the Court has been closing owing to the Chinese Official world being in mourning for the late Dowager Empress and Emperor.
His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:-Ordinance No. 19 of 1908.-An Ordinance to amend The Fire Insur- ance Companies Ordinance 1908; Ordinance No. 20 of 1908.-An Ordinance to amend The Interpratation Ordinance 1897 and to remove an ambiguity in the construction of the same; and Ordinance No. 21 of 1908-An Ordinance to amend The Companies Ordinance 1865.
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and obstruction to a better sanitation."
As the result of the Doctor's appeal a strong committee was formed in England, including the doctors above-named, and Surgeon-General Eratt. Surgeon-General Paterson, Sir Thomas W. J. Simpson, Mr. R. E: Jackson, Prof. Belilios. &c., and certain resolutions for the promotion of the subject in view were passed, the latest result of those being the telegram we publish in another column.
When a Daily Press representative called on Dr. Ho Kai yesterday to inquire whether the committee of the proposed University had ap proached the Colonial Office for a subsidy, he was informed that they had not. The Doctor stated further that ways and means in connection with the University project were still under consideration, and that no doubt if a university was established here, the Hongkong College of Medicine would become the nucleus of it. In appreciation of the excellence of the training at the Hongkong College of Medicine Dr. He Kai stated that the claims of two licen- tiates of this College who went home recently, to be admitted by the Joint Board of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh to their final examination without further qualifi. cations had been acknowledged.
These licentiates are now studying for the degrees of M.B., CH. D. in Edinburgh Univer- sity and the Senate of the University has admitted them to a two years' enrriculum, this concession being the utmost possible to the University under its régulations. The Joint Board of Preliminary Examiners for the Scottish Universities" has admitted them to study in Edinburgh without further preliminary examination, and the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom has ante-dated their medical registration in Great Britain to the beginning of their curricula of study in Hongkong, to permit of their avail- ing themselves of the shortened period of study granted by the Edinburgh University. We only require a little help," said Dr. Ho Kai in conclusion, to make our licentiates equal to any at home."
Singapore has recently been in the throes of a Municipal election. A Singapore paper tells its readers that "excitement was extense," but we note that the four gentlemen elected reasİy- ed only 67, 39, 38 and 22 votes respectively,
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