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oneness of matter and spirit, and refused to discuss them as separate entities, thereby avoiding the delusions that have entangled the mass of men through the ages. It would, ef course, require a book as long as the Riddle of the Universe ** to complete the argument; but a short article is enough to mention, what is self-demonstrated, that the writer of the Telegraph notice was as ignorant as he was biassed..
A mast offensive, annoying article.
A CHANCE FOR OUR UNIVERSITY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
To-day's dollar is worth 42
7.15d.
The 3.5. "Hermelin," (Capt. Sveen) sailed for Sourabaya at 2 p.m., today. She takes no cargo,
The s.s.
Taiszema," (Capt Lemos) sailed for Holhow at 6 a.m. to-day with 60 tons of general cargo.
LOCAL CRICKET.
YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE
MEETING.
INTERFORT TEST MATCHES.
IDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 19191
THE NEW GOVERNOR,'
LANDING AT 10 3. ON SEPTEMBER 30.
HONGKONG DEFENCE
CORPS.
Administrative Orders by Major J. H. M. Armstrong.-V.D., Acting Adminis trative Commandant,
STRENGTH.
No. 593 Private G. A Hastings, permitted to
A meeting of the Honkong Cricket League was held in the Hongkong Cricket Club pavilion last evening. Mr. P. M. Hodgson prasided and was supported by Mr. H. H. Tayler. (Hon. Secretary). All the local Cricket The s.5. Cheongshing." (Capt. Clubs with the exception of Craigen. van Cortlandt) arrived from Canton yesterday with 380 tons of general/Rower and the University were received on the jetty by the Hon. Mr. resign, on leaving the Colony, dated
cargo.
The 5.5
There is some talk of spending the British share of the Boxer Indemnity on education and propaganda in China, If it comes to anything, our Governor might put in a word, at cargo. Home for the very obvious and na tural claim of our University at
represented.
October 30, 1919.
LEAVEL. Private F. W. Gibbins, "A" Com
GUARD OF HONOUR.
H. E. Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, K.C.M.G., who is travelling to Hong- kong on the P. & 0. s.s. "Khiya." lett Singapore yesterday morning.. The steamer is expected in Hong "B" Company, is kong at 7am, on Tuesday next, resign, on leaving the Colony, from September 30.. at 10 am. His Excellency will be Signalling Section, is permitted to The official landing will take place No. $24 Private L. C. Robinson,
Claud Severn, CM.G, and will be in September 24, 1919. The report showed a credit balance troduced to "the members of the of $172.01. For the Shield Com Executive and Legislative Councils, "Cnenan" (Captain petition nine teams entered, and, the senior Naval and Military offipany, is granted 12 months' leave Lavers arrived from Ganten at after a very successful season, the cers, the heads of the local Judiciary, from September 26, 1919, am, to-day with 100 tons of general R.G.A. secured first place with 36 the heads of the Government Depart
points out of a possible 48.
ments, and a few of the leading re The report and statement ofsidents.
A rehearsal parade of N.C.Os and Today's return of communic-accounts were adopted on the motion
His Excellency will then inspectat Headquarters at 6 pm. on Mon Hongkong. The subject is broughtable disease shows one case of cure of Master-Gunner May, seconded by the guard of honor, which will be day, 29th instant. Uniform, option. Mer. detailed by O.Cs will take place forward in a letter to the Westminster bro-spinal fever and five of gastro-Capt. Gray. Gazette by D. Halliday Macartney (a enteritis.
supplied by the Hongkong Defence at Rifles, belts and bayanets to be The election of office-bearers Corps, with a platoon of Cadets, carried. name that compels particular interest
resulted as follows-
stationed outside Blake Pier. He in China). He says:
Ad-will then motor to the City Hall by O.Cs to form the Guard of Honour The N.C.Os and Men detailed by way of Statue Square. The route will parade on the Cricket Ground will be lined with troops.. Two on Tuesday 30th instant at 9 15 a.m. triumphal arches are being erected- one at each end of Statue Square,
Dress Helmet, Tunic, shorts, put. In the City Hall, Sir Paul Chater, rifle,
ties. black boots, belt, sidearms and the Chairman of the General Recer tion Committee and serior unofficial
ALLOTMENT OF RIFLE RANGE. member of the Executive Counci', the 2 22nd Punjabis from 26th Sept. King's Park Range is, allotted to will read the public address of wel come in the presence of the Com25th October 1919, inclusive from mittee and such other members tam. to 12 noon, daily. Sundays the general public as may be present of this Corps,
excepted, subject to the requirements All, of course, are invited.
DRESS.
Miura) sailed for London via Singa. The s.s.Alaska Maru," (Capt.
pore at noon to-day with 1,500 tons of general cargo..
It is very desirable, to the mauual advantage of China and Great Bri- tain, that not only universities should! be established in the Far East, bus that the intellectual Chinese should come in greater numbers to this country and participate in the train ing received at our great seats of learning. The work of the Chinese in France was unostentatiously per- formed, but, nevertheless, much The 35.
Thess. "Hanol," (Capt. Morvan salled for Haiphong at 4 p.m. to-day with 600 tons of general cargo and European passengers.
President: E. the Officer ministering the Government.
Vice President: Mr. T. E. Pearce. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer: Mn H. H. Tayler: »
The Chairman stated that the
question of altering the rules had been raised at several previous meet- ings. They could not alter the rules without giving seven daya. notice and calling a general meeting. The "Tuensang," (Capt.rules were undoubtedly antiquated Ltd esteemed, and in contributing to the Kennedy) sailed for Manila at 3 p.m., and out of date. It would be awkward
future peace
of the world the to-day with 800 tons of general carge to carry on the League with them, Celestial Empire has a by no means and 9 European passengers.
and in his opinion they should be unimportant part to play. It behaves
altered. He suggested that new to create an Anglo-Chinese Entente,
rules be drafted and after submission which can best be done by that un-
to representatives of each Club for derstanding founded on education.
approval, discussed at an extra We have been somewhat weak as
ordinary general meeting. nation in reference to Shantung, and Parliament might well consider its duty as concerns our relations with the England of the Far East.
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It
had they not been transmitted. is certainly, as Haecke! said, a ..indispensable foundation of the
theory of evolution.
AEROTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.'
HONAKONG, FIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1919.
THE UNIVERSAL RIDDLE.
The London Daily Telegraph has been behaving like a
Hongkong cockroach, nibbling at a book whose contents are beyond its mental reach- Happily the Telegraph's long attack en the late Ernst Haeckel matters Jess eventually than the gnawings of the other insect.
It is certain that if there had been Do war with Germany, the obituary references to Haeckel and his work would have been less malicious and stupid. The utterly untrustworthy nature of some human judgments is betrayed by this example of bias due. to irrelevant things. Haeckel was a German before he became one of the world's greatest biologists, but his biological reputation was firmly established before the Germans be
可
The Telegraph writer gravely mentions that the appendix is the cause of appendicitis. In the same way, we presume, that the stomach is the cause of stomach-ache, and the head of headache.
SAKE.
What do you think, you who have experience and the right to think, of the following tribute to suke retrieved from the Manchester Guardian ?
Sake can perhaps be less well spared from the world than vodka, far it is a drink of singular raine ment. I well remember that when the Mikado, early in the war, pre- sented a consignment of it to King George, I was curious to taste the wine, and succeeded in sampl ing. the stock supplied
to the Japanese Embassy in London. The merchant who intro- duced me to it made great ceremony
only, in a little warmed cup of egg of the serving of it a tablespoonful shell china, of which one carefully inhaled the bouquet before one sipped of a fine day sherry-too dry, perhaps, it. It had the appearance and quality bet amazingly
Tre" ss.
"Drufar," (Capt Hjorth) arrived from Bangkok yester day with 1.400 tons of general cargo and 9 bags of mails.
The sis "Tsenglee," (Capr. Watanabe) sailed for Dairen via New hwang at 6 am, to-day with 1,100 tons of general cargo.
The ss "Songma," (Capt. Ber- in sailed at 6 a.m. to-day for Hai cotton and 4 European passengers. phong via Hoihow with 150 tons of
The 3.5.
Cheongshing," (Capt. van Cortlandt) sailed for Tientsin via Weihaiwet and Chefoo at 10 am, to-day with 900 tons of general cargo.
The s... "Hyscama," (Captain Graham arrived from Pulo Samboe via Tarakan at 6.30 p.m. yesterday with 7,166 tons of oil fuel for Hong kong
Swatow at 5 p.m., yesterday with Ohnchi) arrived from Keelung via The s.s. "Bojun Maru," (Capt
1209 tons of coal. 9 tons of peanuts, 7 tons of tea and 6 bags of mails.
clean "the very The s "Itola, (Captain negation of grossness in fermented McNair) arrived from Kobe via liquor. and a fit drink for an astheti-Moji at 2 p.m., yesterday with 2,727 cally-minded people."
tons of general cargo of which 993 On the strength of an eggshellful, tons were for Hongkong. But it is after this that the that's rot at all bad. It is amusing brought 1 European passenger. Telegraph writer really shows the to speculate as to his opinion after cloven hoof, the ass's ears. He consuming a cho or two. The singu says:
lar refinement of a mouth like a.
kind.
Quite unconscious
of the
BARMAIDS.
Ste
The Peak Hotel dance Season
SHIPS IN HARBOUR.
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On the motion of Mr. E. J. Edwards, seconded by the Chairman, it was agreed that new rules be drafted by a sub-committee, which was to be composed of Liett.Col Coles, Mr. R. F. Thursfield and Mr. E. J. Ed- wards.
The Chairman stared that the Hon.. Secretary had informed him that the expenses of the League only amounted to about $15. The question, there- fore, was what were they going to do with the balance? The R.G.A. won the League last year and were anxious to have the medals. It was rather late in the day, as some of the members of the team had gone home, but it was possible to send the medals to them and they would appreciate it.
After this ceremony, Sir Reginaldi Stabbs will proceed to the Council) Chamber, where Sir William Rees Davies, K.C., Chief Justice, will ad minister the oath of office in the pre sence of a combined meeting of the Executive and Legislative Councils!
Lady Stubbs is not accompanying Sir Reginald on the Khiva. She is expected in the Colony towards the beginning of next year.
A WELL DESERVED SENTENCE
15
AN IMPUDENT THIEF.
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Sam Browne belts will be taken into general wear by Officers on and after 1st October, 1919. Orders for Artillery Company by Majst
J.-H. W. Armstrong, Y.D.
GUARD OF HONOUR.
A rehearsal parade of N.C.O.'s and Men as detailed will take place at Headquarters, at 6 p.m. on Monday, 29th inst. Uniform, optional. Rifle, belts and bayonets to be carried.
The N.CO.'s and Men detalled to form the Guard of Honour will parade on the Cricket Ground on Tuesday, 30th inst. at 9.15 a.m.
Dress-Helmet, tunic, shorts, put. A Chinese youth who had previous ties, black boots, belt, side arms convictions of larceny was charged and rifle. before Mr. Smith this morning with the larceny of a waterproct valued Ordan for Engineer Company by Captain at $35, the property of Mr. Lauritsen of the Dragon Motor Car Company. An indian' watchman gave evidence
R. Hall..
GUARD OF HONOUR.
A rehearsal parade of N.CO's, and
7
of the money be expended on the out of the latrine at the back of the Capt. Gray suggested that a portion to the effect that when he was coming
printing of a general fixture card for premises, he saw the defendant in Men as detailed will take place at the League. The Clubs would then the garage. He took the waterproof Headquarters at 6 p.m. on Monday,
able to postpone them. to the fixture list and would not be folding it up. have to play their matches according from a chair and walked away after 29th instant. Uniform, optional. He arrested him. Rifles, belts and bayonets to be Mr. Lauritsen said that at 3 this carried. Master Gunner May remarked that morning. the garage doors were The N.C.O's and Men detalled to the secretaries of clubs were obliged opened as Dr. Harston wanted his form the Guard of Honour will to change the fixtures at times.
car. During this time the defendant parade on the Cricket Ground on The Chairman thought it would be went in.
Tuesday, 30th instant at 9.15 8.m. better to purchase thirteen medals.
Defendant denied, and said that Dress. Helmet, tunic, shorts, putties, for the RG.A. and let the balance he was looking at the cakes in the black boots, belt, sidearms and rifle. remain over till next year.
This was agreed to. Lieut. Col. Coles asked if the run ners-up in the League would also receive medals.
show window of the On Lok Yuen restaurant when the watchman went up to him gave him the waterproof, and accused him of stealing.
His Worship passed sentence six months' hard labour.
ARMS MUST BE DISCOURAGED.
LIKELY PENALTY.
of
D.E.L. INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES.
instruction under R. E. Instructors a
Recruits wil parade for DE.L. Belchers at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, 1st October. These classes are obligatory for all who have not passed for the "Proficient" (1/-) rating.
Officer on duty: Captain R. Hall.
Orders for Infantry Battalion.
GUARD OF HONOUR.
A rehearsal parade of N.C.Os and
A Chinese was charged this morn-Men as detailed will take place at
Lieut Col Coles inquired whether the Committee, could suggest eithering before Mr. Lindsell with the un Headquarters at 6 p.m. on Monday an increase or decrease in subscrip- lawful possession of a revolver and 29th instant.
Uniform, optional five rounds of ammunition on the Rißes, beits and bayonets to be first floer of No. 286 Shanghai Street, carried.
tion.
Yaumati.
The Chairman gave an affirmative reply.
The N.C.Os and Men detailed to Pay.-Lient. Robinson, R.N, wished Sergeant Murphy said that acting form the Guard of Honour will this to know if, when there were eighteen on information received, he visited parade on the Cricket Ground on
players in a winning team, they the place, and saw defendant and Tuesday, 30th instant at 9.15 am.. would all be given medals..
two others sleeping on a bed in the Dress-Helmet, tunic, shorts, put- The Chairman replied that thirteen passage way. He searched the ties, black boots, belt, sidearms and medals would be, provided, and it cubicles, and in the second cu-rifle. was for the Club concerned to deal bicle, which Was occupied by with their distribution. The Chair the principal tenant, he found a bag. N.C.Os. and Men who wish to man went on to say he understood Immediately, defendant produced a fire their Musketry Course at the that eleven clubs were likely can. key from his person, and opened it, Feak Range or at King's Park Range didates for the League, and it was when the revolver and the ammuni- in the early morning, are requested a question whether they should have tion were discovered. He took de to send their names to the Adjutant" one division or two. If there was fendant under arrest and brought not later than 30th instant.
The Chairman replied that it was If Ernst Haeckel had restricted parrot's cage in the morning, and a commenced last night. There was not the custom to give them in the his literary output 10. natural head like a pebbly beach under an a large number of people present. Cricket League. As the war was history his reputation would have incoming tide, might make him These dances are arranged so as to over and cricket was again getting been unquestioned. Unfortunately revise his aesthetically minded vertake place alternately with the dances back to normal, it was possible that he carried his evolutionary theories dict. Better stick to beer, you chaps. held at the Peak Club. This arrange next year the League might have to into the realms of philosophy,
ment will enable Peak residents to purchase a shield for teams entering morals, and religion, in which
have, at least, one dance night a the Junior League as in pre-war spheres, it must be confessed, he.
week. A great feature of last night's days.. figures as a curiosity rather than
dance was the amateur jazz band. as a thinker of distinction. An extraordinary book. Die Welt. Some Americans are inclined to be ratsel, translated into English as self-righteous over the fact that they The Riddle of the Universe," have no barmaids over there. Now had a large circulation in this they are breaking out in a new place. country, and was hailed by some One of the latest demands is for a simple soul's as though it had been law in every State "forbidding wo List of vessels. in port a real contribution to philosophic men to self tobacco, on the ground morning. thought. It was nothing of the that it jeopardises morals." "In any British
hotel," declares a professor of Sy racuse University, "you will find the Chenan glaringly patent fact that those humiliation and insult that her sister Itola
cigar girl subjected to the same Hyrcania words apply with singular aptitude the barmaid formerly endured." It Cheongshing to and might well have been is rather difficult to see where Kueichow This Daily Telegraph impertinence written of the egregious Oliver this kind of campaign will end. Haiyang starts out with a quotation attributed Ledge, he quotes a criticism by When the cigar girl has become Haikong to Reuter, that Haeckel's "material Lodge of Haeckel's assertion of the
as extinct 23 the barmaid, Thongwa organic and! small essential unity of istic writings played no part in guiding the ideas which inorganic nature. This assertion is some zealous moral st is certain to Yuensang.
scent brimstouse and sulphur about Tean prepared Germany for the war," and now a truism for biologists, and a the lady who presides over the flower Glenfalioch the intelligent reader thereby knows commonplace at British Association or book stall. And O. Henry, who Brisbane what to expect strong bias and meetings. Lodge himself on the
"little old New Jason presumably knew physicist" has York" as well as anybody, has left Laisang, conspicuous ignorance. He will not Strength of being a
wandered far in the fairyland of some striking pictures of the tempta be disappointed.
philosophy, psychology, Darwin's name is As soon as
etions that beset the American shop- Norwegian and made himself laughing
a introduced, as of course is inevitable, stock. When Haeckel says that girl. It looks as though America we get the whiskered delusion that Darwin's theory gave us the solution had better revive the harem and pro- Herc his idea was that "man was descend of the origin of gan and his true hibit the public appearance of women Hermelin ed from an anthropoid ape." 1:
altogether.
Drufar character, he says what most of the seems impossible to stop the career biologists believe. When Lodge in afternoon tea? Why, there was an American
What about waitresses serving of that lie. Soon after we get the reply (as quoted by the Telegraph A. B. C. girl once, as heat. (Telegraphese) statement that the
says that is a great deal more than science of zoology or natural history Darwin ever claimed, "nor nave his
Tancerville
Russian
came openly our enemies.
began in 1858 with Darwin and
wiser disciples claimed for him,"
Wallace, thus ignoring the workers,
he lies. Ponder that phrase "wiser
That's enough. Ed., C. M.
Olaf
Tucked away among our transla-
Alaska Maru Ujo Maru Soshu Maru Amakusa Maru Hoten Maru Masayoshu Maru
Chinese-
Yangtzekiang Chikshang Shunshing Namkam
Dutch:
Tiiliboet Trigundari
French
Hanoi
him to the station.
Defendant admitted the possession. His Worship sentenced him to two years hard labour.
only one division the best thing could be for each club to play the other once. There would be ten matches then for each to play, and the rest of the Saturdays would be left for friendly matches. League cricket was an excellent thing, but friendly mat- ches were also good. With regard to interport matches he asked all clubs not to arrange matches for Saturdays November 1, 8, and 15, his
The Chairman replied that it would reason being that the Interport team be better to leave that to the Secre- would be made up of the best players tary of each club.
Capt. Murray suggested that the League Committee should arrange the dates and the grounds on which the matches should be played.
ANNUAL MUSKETRY COURSE.
A COMPANY.
Sunday, October 5.-8.30 am. No. 1 Platoon at King's Park Range. Annual Musketry Course, Part 3, Practices 13,14 and 19. Dress, Drill order with pouches.
Orders for Cadet Company by Lieut. 10. Fam.
PARADE-BATHING,
Launch will leave Blake Pier on
in the different clubs of the Colony. The Chairman then proposed that Wednesday, 1st October, at 5 p.m. It was only right to give every club the League be confined to 10 games and call at Kowloon 10 minutes à fair chance of including their besteach, and that the rest of the matches later. This will be the last bathing man in the team; for this purpose be friendly ones.
parade for the season. they wanted have test matches on. Lt. Col. Coles seconded this.
the dates mentioned. It would not be possible, therefore, to have League fixtures, as sometimes three or four members would be called upon to play in the test matches. They intended picking the best team
Mr. Edwards proposed, as AN amendment, that home-and-home matches be played as hitherto. Mr. H. Ching seconded this. The amendment was put to the meeting and lost, and the original
CORPORATION. possible to play Shanghai and British motion was then carried.
G. E. STEWART, Captain, Adjutant, H.K. Defence Carpe. Hongkong, Sept. 26, 1919.
AN ANGRY UNCLE,
and especially the German workers, disciples." It is cheeky but illuminat GOLD STANDARD FOR CHINA. whose data Darwin used. Equally ing. The worst that can be said of stupid la the suggestion that the Haeckel was that he was too positive, --theory of the inheritance of acquired but that can be said in a greater tions of Chinese telegraphic news
characters must be immediate, m1st degree of Lodge, who knows less, from Peking is an announcement ASIA BANKING
imply that if the blacksmith's right and who pretended knowledge of which, if true, will make an enor
gained
unusual muscular ether no man can possess. He may mous difference, to our trade and strength, the right arm of his son
be a qualified authority on lightning commerce. Indeed, it is doubtful if to have exceptional conductors; he may
Malaya if they came to the Colony. would tend
There was some discussion as A youth was before Mr. Smith have been even the bankers, and other experts
There was no reason whatever why to whether it would not be feasible this morning with the larceny of a strength."
knighted in 1902; he may be highly could tell us all that it would mean A change in this Bank's advertise-friendly matches should not be to have two divisions, the teams long stik coat, belonging to bis uncle. respected in. Birmingham; but as a to Hongkong. To have this so unerment shows that the Continental and arranged..
being drawn, and the winner of they The uncle who was in Court said the ancester of all the animals be critic of an intellect like Haeckel's he pectedly sprung on us, without any Commercial National Bank of Chi- Mr. Thursfield pointed out that to two divisions to meet for the cham-boy was a pupil in his private school.. granted (as it is even by this is a mere intruder, whom no honest preliminary discussions that we have cage, the National Shawmut Bank carry out the Chairman's suggestion, nionship.
A few years ago he had stolen from Haeckel) the truth student of biology regards. Haeckel heard of, is a startler. Fortunately, of Boston, and the Guardian Savings that each club should play the other It was finally decided to alter the him. a large sum of money, and the of the theory of inheritance of has been as much misunderstood as republican China is more prone Trust Co. of Cleveland have become once, they would have to alter the raws of the League so as to other day, while he was attending acquired characters is involved. How Berkeley was, by journalists and to startling promises than to stockholders in the A.B.C.
enab the Chairman's proposal to be school, he stole, the coat from his else could we have genera and other common smatterers. He was astonishing performances, and no The capital and surplus of those Capt. Gray remarked that it would adopted. species? The first worms that not a
materialist" as they under doubt we will be given a chance to three banks is about 75 million be on excellent idea, as some of the Another meeting will be held on developed legs acquired character stand the term. He saw (what these adapt our businesses to the new con. dollars gold, and their deposits fully members did not wish to be tied Tuesday to receive entries and istics that would have disappeared muddlepates cannot see) the essential tions before they actually arrive. 700 millions,
down to cricket every Saturday. arrange fixtures.
If human descent from a common
*,, sneerer
at
rules.
room.
His Worship: Six weeks', The Uncle Six weeks'?
Oh, it is not sufficient for him.