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* AB I 8, **pendulum 3. mieraments," the North also why forms which formerly lived an Pole, as a fact, swinging along a first land took to the deep sea. But in view maridian to a definita latimde south of of the fact that the greatest changes of the Equator, and then swinging back climate, land-level and other factors through the opposite hemisphere. This took place along the pandulation of course, involves a periodical change of meridian, it is along this meridian that
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The following correspondence has been sant to us for publication [Copp} VICEROY NAME TO K.E. THE GOVERNOR OF
HONGKONG.” Hongkong in a profoot which it has been Sir,The founding of a University ab
purpose to ins on foos, and I here with the Your Excellendy's earnest and benevolent greats pleasure of the enthusiasm in nacribing and the favourable prospects of success have myself ordered funds
This 'sum is now provided, and can either be forwarded at any time or drawn upon Excellency finds convenient. Besides this by latter is required; whichever Your
I am ondan roaring to find funds for the
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Pole, According to Haw REBRO, it in the development of organic life. explains also the present distribution With changes of climate and other etc. of land and water. As the positions of conditions proceeding at different specde the Poles and of the Equator change, at different points of the earth's the centrifugal which determine surface, it is inevitable, says Dr. So collency's disposal to help towards the }
Telegraphie Address, "Man, "Hongkong. .Code, A. B. Ci, Afth edition,
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that the evolutionary process should be correspondingly fast and slow. This he finds, accord with facts. Australia, for instance, is situated as a potas on This asys Herr Remisen, is the cause the earth's surface where there hag veraiment proposes that it should be on 388 yatas to 209. The minority includ
second reading of the Finance Bill byr
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Karta or SUBSCRIPTION. (Payable in advance).
The degrees to be conferred by the University, however, are the subject of ORINA MAI (daily) $100 per month
considerable public attention, and while Including postage, $3.50 per month.
am informed that Your Excellency's Go PER MONTH OVERLAND CHIWA MAIL (weekly) $16.00 per your including postage, $17.00 per year.
par with Birmingham Cairarsity, I hope Free delivery to all addresses accessible of the emergence of some islands and practically been no climatic change, and Your Excellency will be good enough to ed 62 Nationalista, NEW RECORDS by EVERY by magor, including all Poak, Kowloon continents, and the subsidence of others therefore no stimulus to development, give me detailed information on what has AMERICAN FINANCIERS
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(CARD OF VICEROY.) "(Router Service to the China
Max.) South Pole) and the existence of petrified was swiftest on the pendulation merid- S-I have received Your Excellency's
LONDONY June 12. fish thousands of miles inland. Ac where tropical heat succeeded glaci-latter of June 9th informing me of your
The Times Washington correspondent,"
cording to this theory the rigidity of the
ution relatively swiftly, and where rapid geherous donation of 8200, 400 to the Fund fays that it is understood that Mr for the Endowment of University here Straight, US Consul General at Mak- changes of sea-level forced adaptability and that you are collecting farther fande dao, rosigns the Consular service for the earth would prevent its solid substance upon animal organisms as the alternative for this purpose. The receipt of this purpose of representing the group of changing form as rapidly as does the to extinction. According to this theory, letter (and abo of the manifesto issued by American Financiers who are anxicus contour of the sea under the influence the evolution of man ought to be on or Your Excellency describing the purposes to place loans with China. of the displaced centrifugal force, but rear the critical meridian. Dr. Sumor the University and emphasizing its value it would change form gradually. finds the facts confirm this part of his Chitin) has given me the livalicat
ROYAL COURTESIES. pleasure, since they afford proof that Tour Professor Story has elaborated this theory, and mentions that all pithecan- Excellency, whose first care is the interest.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) thropi fossils have been found some of China welcomes this "schema""as-que- part of the pendulation theory at some has between Vienna and Southern which will conter a boneft on the people
LONDON, June 12 length, and explains, by it the changes France. The location for primitive and promote friendship and operation
TIM. Prince and Princess Nashi- in high objects between our respective moto lunched with the Duke and in seacoast levels which have taken man be places therefore within range
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Dapat Duchess of Connaught yesterday and tlooda per, Tourane analalmed after this place in Europe within the memory of the pendulation meridian. It is
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Herr Rubisca's calculations give unkind, and with the rise of human definite line of oscillation for the Foles. culture. In addition, he affirms that He finds that the North Pole swings unsolved problems of geology, physical pendulation will explain a score of other south in the northern-hemisphere along geography, biology, and anthropology. the 10th degree east of Greenwich; in In fact, if accepted, it is a universal. fact, through Germany, Northern Italy, theory of Creation which reduces and Central Africa; and that at the Evolution merely to a secondary issue, the result of cosmic processes infinitely present time it is receding from us
more important, and with their roots in an infinitely remoter past."
Hosukong, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1908, through the opposite hemisphere. The
PENDULATION.
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from Temple Street, Yaumati. This brings Ons ense of plague was reported to-day the number of cases to date up to 97.
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QUEEN'S COLLEGE. MT.K. DEALS APPOINTED HEADMASTER
Itis numerous friends in, the Colony will. bear with pleasure that Mr Thomas correspondence which passed between Dualy has been appointed Headmaster of the British Minister, Mr Halph Paget, Queen's College in succcasion to Dr. H. and the Siamese Minister for Foreign Bateson Wright, who recently retired on Affairs, Prince Dewawongse. The latter. notified in the Government Gazette. pension. The appointment is officially sacred Great Britain that Sium would never permit any danger to arias Mr Denly has had a remarkably success-threatening British interests through ful career. Ho recaived his early educa
tion at St. Mary's College, Brooke the use of any portion of the Siamess Groan, Hammersmith, and succeeded in dominiona in the Malay peninsula for
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ARISTOTLE. When CHARLES DARWIN ad- Poles But it is plain that places lying vanced his theory of evolution to account for the origin of species, there were bold men who applied Danway's formulo to the whole cosmical system and from the "pendulation meridian" there that the Rev. J. B. Viorel has been te Highly recommended by deluded themselves into the belief that will be no relative change at all. These cognized as President in Hongkong of the
the Medical Profession at last, they held the right key to the points are Sumatra in the East and Basel Evangelical Society.
great mystery. The centennial celebm- Ecuador in the West. Both these in three strengilis, coumaining $% +10% and tion of Darwy's birth, however, though countries (strictly speaking, a certain it did not see his epoch-making theory point in them) lie eternally on the derided as out-of date, at any rate proved Equator, and wherever the Foles may that the leading men of science and be, centrifugal force is always working speculative thought were fully conscious upon them. The earth's greatest dia- of its limitations and in a frame of mind meter should therefore his between them, to consider other theories to explain the and this, it is stated, is a fact.
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double first (oud of each list) un wall Powerstin socuring the Intermediate Arts (London) Diploms, the Diplome de l'alliance Fran-
Siam will not lease to any foreign cast, and the Degré Supérieur (Paris) Later 8overnment directly or indirectly any he was student at Lincoln's Inn, and in territory southward of the southern 1881 he was appointed Headmaster at St. boundary of Mouthor Rajaburi, or in It is notified is the Government Gazette Mary's Balools, Derby, which position be
held for over two years. He arrived in adjacent ialande; of grant the right the Government Central School, and in Hongkong in 1884 an Assistant Master st to establish or lease any coaling 1888 was made bonorary Examiner in station or build or own construc his to the College of Medicine for tion or repairing docks, ar occupy Chinone, Two years later. ha
pasand the while between 1980 and 1906 he was at whereof-would-be likely to be pro- -examination in higher grade Chinese, exclusively any harbours the occupation different paridus Chief Senior Assistant Bastars and acting Becond. Master: ab judicial to British interests from a Queen's College. He was promoted Secord strategic point of view. Master in April 1908, was made a member of the Board of Examiners in September of
This understanding does not apply. the same year, and since Apt of last year to small deposits of coal for the use of he has been filling the position of acting! Headmaster Me Dealy is a man of literary shipping in the Malay peninsula. taste sad has revised and considerably enlarged the edition of Dr Chalmers, English and Cantonese Colloquial Dis bonary. He is 18 years of ageist
His Excellency the Governor har been pleased to recognise Mr John Bundor a being in charge of the Danish Consulate in Hongkong during the absence on leave of Mr O. Friesiand
Many will no Many will regrot that the Bor. F. B Meyer of London, can stay in Hongkong for only one Sunday. He has promised to preaob in Union Church to-morrow at 11 z. and at the Wesleyan Church at 6.10
The dead body of one of the night.
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Another dreadful tale of the son comed from Japan in a telegram printed by the North Chains Daly News. The steamer Nippon Kai Maru caught fire aff gang of coolies employed at Beacon Hill Victoria will not able to prench at St. Of those on board, twenty devour were saved Owing to indisposition, the Bishop of Aomori Prefecture and sank immediately. Tunnel was discovered on Thursday by some coolio women, who were employed on the The Rev A D. Stewart will conduct the fisherman, and siztoen of the crew were Andrew's Kowloon to-morrow morning, and eleven bodies wore recovered; but 130
drowned. hill sido near the south face of the tunnel,service. under circumstances which point to foul
About a year ago, we learn from an changes from the swing of the Poles. It interesting letter from the pen of the is upon the pendulation meridian that Berlin correspondent of the Westminster the climatic changes are greatest and Gazette, & ponderous tome was produced swiftcet. Here we come to the theory
play. The skull was battered in and a at Leipzig, the work of The. Her as it affects evolution. Thousands of piece of rope was made fast round the neck. SIMBOTH, Professor of Zoology at the facts collected by Professor" Sturova Mr F. A. Bazeland sentenced a "native THE HONGKONG "DISPENSARY University of that famous city, in which convince him that the climatic changes to three weeks hard labour at the Magia. in set out with all the thoroughness and caused by pendulation explain the distracy to-day, for stealing a pair of sandals. Another native "for breaking and entering meticulous care of a German savant, the tribution of animals and plants and of 68 Morrison Hill Road and stealing a topes theory of pendulation, or the periodical particular human races, the relations was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment shifting of the Foles. According to the between the fauna of deep and shallow worthy Professor this theory explains sche, between fresh water and ocean life
arly every observed fact in the develand, incidentally, he reasons that pen- opment and distribution of all animals, dulation explains the location from the lowest organiem up to man mountain ranges and the ctivity cof himself,
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