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THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
H.M.S. Cadas, re-commander al
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL::
papers and the monthly reviews Hardly an echo of those battles long ngo waken us from our contemplation of less exalted topics. The pages which changed to the resounding march of the New Science and the Old Orthodoxy are more likely to be occupied now with Mr Lloyd George and the Insurance Act, with the Ger- The party of members of the JapaneÐI. Dr R. A. Ballfion, who during the past Diss who left Tokyo en Ostader & far- a | five years has built up an extensive macion? man nary, and the condition of the
tour of Hores, Manchuria and Chins will praction in Hongkong, his decided to leave Balkans. Even the provocative Pre-Include Hongkong in their itinerary. : the Colony and establish himself in sidential address of Professor Schüfer
Shanghai as a specialist in diseases of the the other day hardly elicited rejoinder
Sir Frederick Logard, G.0.M,UL, Canton day. H.M.S. Rosaria turn-Governor of Nigeria, who muiled for Weak ing to Hongkong.
Africe on 18th inst., was sooooopanimi-hy | Lentanut NO. 8. Simson, RA, who A small grass fire which banke cut atated se Private Socratary and Hahn "Aida" King's Park posterday was speedily de-Camp to Sir Frederick whilst he was
slogulabed by police and coolies.
Governor of Hongkong.
The mapar of a licensed ballast bost
has reported that whilst sailing his junk of Sementara island, a naval" yard bo collided with it, and damaged, is to the
PLAINTIFF TO TURK
DEFENDANT.
Prosecuted By The Grown.
A boy in the employ of Messrs. Black- and nose. A wide circle of or defence. Yet the learned presi-goods belonging to the firm to the value of success in his now sphere.
hend and Ca, was charged with stealing kong friends will with Dr Belillos ardry dent was engaged upon no smaller 1-80 before Me Melbourne to-day. He theme than that of the origin of life, was remanded. which he explained on purely mechanical and chemical grounds and he did not hesitate to affirm that science cannot admit the possibility of supernatural intervention. How that challenge would have sont, the} champions into the lists armed in all the panoply of "Freethought "95- Faith a few decades ago! But when Professor Schülfer threw down his
affent of 823
w':
The tram service interrupted this morning by a chroskdown which dis- organised the running of the cars just at the hurt when people word proceeding to business, causing moth Inconvibiance.
gauntlet nobody seemed particularly beadquarters that at 9.45 p.m. last night, Indian Constable 511 has reported to EXOS. FOR TO-MORROW.
anxious to take it up. The bold state-while on duty in Pedder Street, person 2.37pm.Ministering Children's Len-ment was accepted with languid ac
threw several stones at him from the second gue Bamar and Fête at Volunteer Head-
Eoor verandah of the Hongkong hotel. quiescence or mild dissent; it was.act | wartera,
sufficiently interesting to a hustling
9 p.m. Smoking Concert at Mascnic
*Club, Kowloon,
Natics is given that, owing to the
FRIDAY, OCTO
OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS, JULY, 183
Hongkong Bohookk
FIRET CHASE,
candidate obtained distinction in
TRIEM ČLANS,
Đời Lin Chong Danh 42. Ng Sce-ba
18 1912
Higby, WYS Ip Hong-sat Jacobs, A. GJ
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3. Anderson, P. 4. Baptista, C..0.
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Trim Chun-chlu
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No. 69 obtained distinction in clasnica) Chinese.
8. Baumann, R.;
14. Gothea, L. B 19. Eaw, A. J; ? 20. Ka typo Leng In Kwok Shiu chung
4. Lai Tim-tong 20. Tam, Fuk S Lam Hingan
M. C., B. Juliuson, of Meowin: Dennys and Howley, sólisters, made an application in the Summary Court this morning for a case in which he represented the defendant to be adjourned slow die, be the ground. that the Crown Solicitor war instituting
proceedings against the "plaintiffs for er attempting to obtain money by alm proteuses from certain people, among them
his client.
Tanng Yum-taol
Tang Sure Ing
Chan Im-lam
Chan Chik-kan Cheung" Thesha " Chow. Sik-kwan -Folk Tat-Zui
Fung Ki-sheunS Ho Luen-piik Huei Toon-kwan Tai-Tec-can Lay Fook-ling
C.S.S.
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38. Mok Hing-kir
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Mr Reader Harris, representing the plaintift, said he could not consent to such an adjournment. His action was instituted before the proceedings of the Crown Solicitor, and it was started on a proper promissory note. He would rather have Pulma Judge), and proceedings in thi court could not be stopped by proceedings instituted in an interior court, Magistracy was..
Mutical Play, Tha Cock,' at Thestru generation to wake into flame, the wishing away of the river bank, the Narth the case heard before his Lordship (tha
9,13 p.m.Variety Entertainment and.
Royal, City Ball.
General Memoranda,
SUNDAY, Oct. 30
-Excursion to Macao,
MONDAY, October 21:
Trafalgar Day (1805). Criminal Sessions Commence.
embers of the former fires. Appar Tree Bacon was on the lath September shifted to a position from which Langahan ently we have other things to think Pagoda bears 9, 76 E., distant 2.8 miles. about than the origin of life and the le speculations of philosophical biolo- gists.
This indifference is certainly not due to any of activity on the part of
A Chinese house sent pleaded guilty befure Mr Melbourne at the Magistracy to affixing a stamp of insufficient value to a ngeipt. The defendant mid one of his tokis used a two cent stamp where a five
Entries close for Second Division of U.E. {the scientists themselves. Marvellone cont stamp, was necessary
Asano, Football League,
Philharmonic Society Meeting at City
Eall. 5.15 p.m. Blesting (open to all) in City Hall under sus ices of H.K. branch of the Navy League.
Ruful. p.m.-Concert at the Seamen's Innti-in tuce, Praya East.
9
Teal Comedy Co. as Theatre
was imposed.
A fine of $5
Telegraphic Communication with lioilo,
was the scientific progress during the great Victorian period, it has probably been exceeded during the Cebu and Southern Philippines and all past twenty years. Alike in physics, places in the Philippines south of Manila is at present interrupted. Telegrame for biology, mchemistry, in these places are being forwarded to Manila bacteriology, in electricity, and in to await restoration or to be forwarded by mechanics the advance has been pro 3p.m.-Property Sale by Mr Geo, 1.digima. Our whole conception of
TUESDAY, October 92 :--
Fmpress.nf Germany's birthday (1858).
Lammert
9 p.Teni Comedy Co. nt Treatre
Royal
Wednesday, October 28:-
of Shareholders,
best available means.
We learn iu connection with the recent
the laws of nature has been revol-fre in Bonham Strand East that No. 64, tionised by the researches of Kelvin, | which was almost totally destroyed, was Lister, Weismann, Larmor, Thounson, insured for $25,000. No. 68 was insured Non-Canton Insurance Odice Meeting Mendel, and others. The theory of 210.000 was done. No. 64 was insured for for $16,000 and . damage, estimated at
electric constitution of matter is as $2,000, and damage done amounts to $600. Queen of Spain's birthday (1887). striking as the Darwinian hypothesis. 9pm. A Pair of Spectacles by itself, or the doctrine of the correlation of forces and the conservation of
THURSDAY, October 24 ---
FRIDAY, October 20
A. D. C. at Theatre Royal.
SATURDAY, October 28:-
10.30a.m.--Full Moon.
FRIDAY, November 1
9.15 p.m. Licensing Foard Meeting.
bea
Mr. Johnson said he asked for the adjournment because the evidence his client, clark in the Gas Company's office, would give would be practically the same in both cases, and it would be
rather hard to ask him to bear the costs in. the circumstances.
Mr Leo D'Almada, who was sitting at the Solicitor's table, asked his Lordship to direct the solicitors to make their argument in Chambers. It was unfair to solicitors who were waiting in cases on the list, as this case was not on it.
Bir Lordship mid be would hear the solicitors to-morrow in Chambers.
Mr Hodgson, Amistaat Crown Solicitar, said he did not know whether the man they were proceeding against had anything" to do with this caso.
instructions to defend anybody in the Police Court, and his client was certainly. not in gol. He had no evidence that he was themin concerned with the magisterial prootedings,··
Mr Reader Harrie said he had not had
An unsinkabla - motår. lifeboat how built by Mesars. Simpson, Strick and Co, of Dartmouth, to the order
Mr Hodgson maid- the summons ¿WGS, energy, Daltou's famous canon of of the Australian Government. On her issued yesterday, in respect of certai the permanence and indestructibility trials the boat has given eminently satis-promissory notes, and he believed the parties 9 p.m. A Pair of Spectacles by H..of the aton which iny at the very corset to sink her. She is not only us
Lactory regulbi, and has resisted wvory - és bé the name, though he was not certain. A. D: O. at Theatre Royal.
The case will be mentioned in Chambers. of scientific orthodoxy for nearly inkuble, but is also self-righting and century has been shattered--by the elfemptying X-rays, the discovery of radium, und
Two men ware charged "before Air the experiments and calculations of
Malbourne this morning with un- the Cambridge" mathematicians. "This ton, too solid globe" hasociety, and alse with managing or Lawfully being members of the "Triad melted, dissolved itself, so to speak, assisting in the management of an unlawf! Hosezona, Friday, Ucromax 18, 1912. ↑ before our very eyea; mutter itself, society at Trim T Teal They wore most gross and palpable of things as remanded antil Monday bir Lloyd, we supposed, is turned into a fabric Assistant Registrar Generad, exid tha
THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Three Murder Trials.
Session, which opens at the Supreme Court The Calendar of the October Criminali
Monday next, is rather sheavy sne, and incikdes so fewer than three indict- menti for mardange
SCIENCE AND THE MODERN of gossamer, nothing more than an prosecution is in the hands of the which, they are charged, "are sa follows : {
WORLD.
Registrar General, whom he represented.
an uncomfortable miler, the Waterwitch is
.
The prisvaars, and the anacces with
Ibrahim, marier; Wu Hon, murder ; falarca Khan, murder: Taand Trei and Chan Kong, robbery by two or most i an Fuk Tal dad Won Yang, larceny and mis-appropriation; Li Wong and Woog Sau, housebreaking, larceny at a dwelling Shas, child sealing: Ip Yeung Fak, the larcony of a pix
house and receiving; Li Too and Ip Pat
AN OLD ACTION...
In the Summary Court this morning wo action was mentioned in which the plaintiff, 3. J. Pereira, claimed, from J. M. Pereira aaam of $76. Mr Tender Harris, of „Menara Wilkinson and Gilsa, solicitors for
assembly of whirling charges ot electric energy. The force that sways The naval authorities, wo understand, UNDER this heading the "Standard ·
the planets sud drives the suns have decided to sell the sloop Waterwitch comments on the British Association's through space is trivial compared with as she stands at present. The officers and annual congress, which was recently that which is locked op in every scrap men who had contemplated the possibility brought to a close at Dundee. This of stone or metal; so that & French of bride to sit in her will probably year's congress, our great contem-scientist calmly tells us that the in-welcome the intelligence, for, beridas bei porary states, was fairly well-attended,prisoned power which keeps the not built to carry the complement which many eminent persons in the world of molecules of a five-centime piece to inconsiderate Adminity crowded into science were present, and there was a gether, would suffice, if it could be her. She is at present berthed at the larger body of the general public than tilised, to drive a railway tram where at Tanjong Pagar, having has been assembled at these confer. across a continent. And there is the been patched up temporarily and forted in order to give the Dock ences for some years past.
Yet it wonder of the ether, that strange enbout
Board the use of the dry dock for other cannot be said that the discussions stance which is invisible, impalpable, purposes Straits Times, were followed with the interest imperceptible, which quisers at a
flicker of light, and yet is fur stronger At the Magistracy this afternorima which used to be ovoked by the con- than steel, which is heavier than lead Chinese was charged with wrmed robbery the defendant, said the case was adjourned gress in the 'seventies and 'eighties of and thinner than hydrogen gas, atas 14 Prays Eist on the 11th inatamine die in August 1911, and he did not 1 the last century. We have had small once elastic and rigid; which pervades young lady stated that she was in her room think the procedure of Mr. Jackson, of reflection of the vivid excitement that all space and all matter, and palls, the at the above addfa whee the defendant Mesars Johnson, Stokes and Master, who was aroused not in Britain alone by tides to the moon and the earth round and two other men entered, and brandisha defending, was corect. An action the sun Science is telling as these ing a knife, mig "I have come bare to be which was adjourned for more than twelva that memorable "Belfast address"
amazing stories and we are hardly rich. Don't my word or E'll stab your months was automatically struck out, and which Tyndall delivered to the British interested enough to listen. Perhaps She took off her five pain of gold hangles, Mr Jackson should have fapplint in Association; or by the speeches and one contributory cause of this in- fire gold finger ringe, and gave them to the Chamber for leave to have, the action lectures about the period of Huxley,
difference was diagnosed by Professor men, who so took some notes valued re-instated. The case was adjourned as Keeble in a paper read on the closing $4,000 from frank. They then tied her plaintiff's equal because he was not in s Wallace, Romanes, Lords Avebury, day of the Dundee meeting. The up and gagged her and made off. Two position to go on with the action. His Sir E. Ray Lankester, Sir Archibald present generation of specialists seeme kaires were found in the room the following Landskap decided to take the care în Geikie, and William Spottiswoode to lack the literary faculty of its pre-morning, but the complainant wid they Chamber.
decessors. It has become expert in were the knives and to intimidate In those days the latest pronounce-the intensive cultivation of scientiffe hex The men also tied up an amab who ment of the latest exponent of the knowledge. We no longer get books was prevented. . The seal received a cut philosophy of evolution was awaited like Darwin's Descent of Man, on ber hond from kule that and of the
"A European "policeman" came, open, a with more eagerness than any politi-Lyell's Principles of Geology, men hat The Bonk * yild ring and these Hooker's Journal, Huxley's Emen nord in the robbery have already
dollars belonging to the swab. Two ther Chinaman gambling, with a crowd of cal manifesto by. Premiera or Imperial says. Galton's "Natural Inheritance," been deelt shh, and the esse against the small boys yesterday of the west and of Chancellors or Foreign Ministers books which gave fascinating expre-ement defendant had not concluded whan Royal Square. Tas constable succeeded These high personages could waition to the results of the great dis went to press in ostebing the toss and one of the boys, their turn till the newspaper-reader coveries and researches. There are scope and opportunity for the scientifis
went to the verandah to raise an alarm but
EHEUMATIO SUFFERERS
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had learnt what the chief ayemiles of specialist who is also a literary artist Darwinism had to say of the great for the expert who will tell the HEUMATIC psins are Aggravated bý theory, and had considered the latent world what he and the other experts Buy cold, langweither, and many hard
have done” in words to which die; working, - middle agud, parple, Bra, mad plinsee of the "conflict between reli- urld esannt choose but listen. - We misombir during mot of the deter CHINA MAIL
gion and science." Professors and need some scientific classics like those wing months by on this Typhoon Guides and philosophers carried on Just tientiuncul, so that we may really enforting city be very bunch Follived and
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Porter yet remains to be told
world, in the columga of the news-
A HOLIDAY GAMBLE.
and chuyed them before Mr Malbourne this morning with gambling:
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77." Braga, M. C. 78. Gourdin, H. Noa. 26, 32, 34, 51, 63, 58 obtained distinction in classical Chinese.
Nos. 34, 52, 53, 68 obtained certi- ficatex exempting them from responsions. ÖVERAGE LIST.
70. Wong Wai-hung C.S.3. 20. Choung-San-wa. 5.G..
Junior Candidates. Honours' List:
THIRD CLASS.
1. Abwee, GA 20. Kong Hoo-cheang 91. Woo Mai-yes
6. Au Eiriwon 6. Braga, J. M. 8: Bunjo, P.
10. Chan Suictim...
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Figueiredo, E. 31.
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Li Ting-lim
Martin, C. E.
Murray, H. I.
Tom, R
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Tuang Kam-chuen 66. Hau On-wo 72. Anderson, K.. 74. Cheung, Fook-to 78. Chinn, Yeg-ching 73. Cross, Y 77. Brins, A. 82. Kaight. V. B 83. Tam Chin-ling. M. Liang Yat-kwan AS. Teckung. To. 99. Shee Wai-ching No. 74 obtained distinction in Chiness, No. 77 obtained dietivation in religious knowledge.
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CORRESPONDENCE..
CHRIST'S SECOND- COMING.
(To the Editor of the “Curya MATUS]
Dear Sir,It is impresible, with the leisuru at my disposal, to tzeverms. the twar enlurane, which you were gettersas eùnagh tu polliad fast evening. frage the pen of Me Nagel on ** Ohrist's Bromid Comis deed, probably no good result from such a courses: Mr Angel's dogin is refreshing in thie age of underṭkinky
sems to be quite unsanacions of the com traremos that have saund around canonicity of the Book of Danl Revelation of St. Jobs. In fact that a good library will dolador seven-this is a favourite, nu friand-commentaries
Revelation, which wil different Interprefationa and more vistons,
Neither in the meaning dogmatism-OBY
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