As a general rale in Hongkong we do not debate much except about the unconscionable vagaries of the dollar and the unpopular character of the Sanitary Board. We are, however, to have a fully flodged Debating Society, due to the initiative of the Committee of the Y. M. C. A.
The rules which will guide the order of procedure, will be founded on those of the British House of Commons.
There is to be a Premier and a Leader of the Opposition. I believe that the organization has not yet been fully completed, but when it is there will be all the machinery for a successful debate—except the speakers. If the fortunes of the Odd Volumes Society, which originally was literary, and gave those who attended it the opportunity to discuss any paper that was read, be any guide as to what interest is taken in Hongkong in such subjects, there will be little lib of something for the improvement of the rising generation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.