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hot. ii# ivu4. (cde iDeraio ano 5. (u (Wjing so maoh money in automobilism, most French people have the less for other purpose®. Indeed it is no secrot that the Kuo de la Pair exists more on English and American custom than on French.NOTICES OF BOOKS, ETC.Chinesisehe Ansichten ■ uber Bronze-trommeln. By Friedrich Hirtb. In paper, 8vo., 65 pp. Leipzig ; Otto Harrassowitz. 1904.Traffics and Discoveries. By Rudyard Kipling. (Macmillan’s Colonial library.) In paper, 8vo., 393 pp. London : Mac-millan'4A Co., Ld. 1901. The South China Collegian. October 1904. With a frontispiece and a portrait. Published by the Collegian Stock Company, Canton, China.This excellent bilingual periodical is an “ Anglo-Chinese monthly dovoted to educational interests,” carried on by the professors and students of the Canton Christian College. The chief feature of this issue is a very able aud thouzhtful article, by the Rev. Walter N. Fong, M. A., President of the Li Shing Scientific and Industrial College, Hongkong, on Some Phases of the Educational Problem in China, which we notice more at length in another column. A portrait of Mr. Fong, a most Occidental-looking Cantone*e, and a very interesting sketch of his career, follow. He was bom, we learn, in a little village in 8anning, Kuangtung, where he spent his first fifteen years. “ During this period, he lived the usual life of a bare-footed country boy. He took part in the Chinese games and festivities, manufactured his own toys, cut and carried fuel from the neighbouring mountains, attended the village school, cared for a water buffalo, and followed the Chinese plough for one season, wrote letters for young wives to their husbands in foreign lands, and did the tradiDR at the market-place for the neighbourhood, carrying thither the chickens, and counting carefully the cash.” Fired with ambition, he emigrated toCalifornia, where he soon learnt Englishschool supported by Chinese gentlemen there, ana having taken his M. A. degree, he came to the colony to anaume the work to which he had long looked forward, the school being opened in March last. The career of Mr. Fong is such an interesting one, that we may well be excused for describing it at this length. A number of notes from the Canton Christian College, specimens of the work of the students, and notes from other schools, make up a very laudable number.and engaged in any employment which presented itself at Los Angeles, “ from feeding h gs to aetting up clocks and polishing jewels. Then he became a helper in the San Joso Mission, and entered the University of the Paci6c, graduating from the Academy after a three years’ course. Then by the kindness of some Chinese friends he was enabled to go to the Leland Stanford Junior University, where he graduated in Economics, Law, and History. “His great desire was now to obtain a position in China to teach Law and Economics, but no such •peoing could he found. He therefore entered business again as au agent for a Building and Loan Association, and member of a. San Fr*ncisco law firm. The year was very successful financially, but the work was not the realisation of his ideals and he resolved that if Science, and not Economics, was what was demanded in ChiDa, he would specialise in Science.” In 1897 he married an American girl, a tormer fellow-stndent at Stanford, and moved to Berkeley, the seat of the University of California, where he pursued his scientific studies for three years, being at the same time Pastor of the Oakland Chinese M. E. Mission. Ho contributed several articles to the leading American magazines, and iu 1902 bis book, “ Introductory Notes on the Cantonese Language, was pabliahed, which is still used as a text-book in the University. He was invited last year to organise and take change of the Li Shing Scientific ©nd Industrial College in Hongkong, aTHE A. BUTLER CEMENT-TILE WORKS, LD.Statutory Meeting.The first general or statutory meeting of the above Company was held at the Company’s offices. No 45, Kiangse Road, yesterday evening. There were present essrs. H. J. Mandl (Chairman), Gilbert Davie®, H. Snethlage, D. W. Crawford, 0. P. Allen, R. B. Moorhead, and F. E. Schnorr (agent and general manager), representing in nil 200 shares.The notice cenvening the meeting having been read, it was propoad by Mr. Snethlage, seconded by Mr. R. B. Moorhead, and carried unanimously, that Mr. Mandl act as chairman for the meeting.The Chairman said—Gentlemen, As you all know, this mooting has been called to comply with the Hongkong Ordinances, which requires the first meeting of shareholders in a Company lo be held within four months after the Company’s incorporation. I have only to inform you that the Company duly registered on the 11th of July, and that the Company's works are going on a* satisfactorily as may be expected, considering that they are just at present beiDg removed into temporary premises until our new factory is completed. The plans for this, which you have here before you, have been drawn np by our superintendent, and Mr. Davies has been kind enongh to work them oat, so as to allow as to get in estimates on the proposed new buildings, which we hope to be able to have erected at a cost within the limit set aside for that purpose, and ready for occupation on or before the 1st October, 1905. The gentlemen who are to form the Company’s Board of Directors are: Mr. Lomke. as chairman, Mr. Gilbert Davies, Mr. Brenan Atkinson, Mr. Ambrose, and myself, aud we have, with your approval, drawn up an agreement with Mr. F. E. Schnorr, under which he will act as agent and general manager for the Company, on conditions which we consider fair to both parties. There is only one more resolution we have to come to, and that is as to when we should hold our next ordinary general meeting. Our financial year closes on March 31st, and to allow the auditor to draw up a balance sheet and work out the profit and loss account, think that about one month after the termination of • the financial year of the Company would be the right time for such meeting. I therefore beg bo propose that the first ordinary general meeting be held some time in May next, the exact date to be fixed later.The resolution was seconded by Mr. D. W. Crawford and carried unanimously.Mr, Snethlage asked where the proposed new buildings were to he erected.Mr. Schnorr said that the land on which the new factory was to bo erected, was on tho north embankment of the Soochow Creek, opposite Ferry Road, the land being the moet suitable part for the purpose, taken from a large compound forme-iy owned by the lat- Count von Butler. 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