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FRIDAY, August 6, 1990. commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street. ▲ Quantity of Fine Teakwood and Blackwood Furniture. Tarkwood:-Chesterfield and tapestry covered couches, easy chairs writing les, bookcases, Lady's desks, music and, medicine chests, aideboard, din- r waggon, dressing tables, marble top washstands, chest of drawers, ward- robers, bedsteads, occasional tables ate,
Blackwood-Corio cabinet, oni table, atcols, solas, armchair, corner .chair. opium stools, high marble top tables, flower stands, dressing table with mirror and marble top, music stool jeto, etc.
Also
Double & Slagle iron bidsteads, carpatz, rugs.
And
1 Large Enamelled Bath,
1 Enamelled Wash Basin,
1 Oval Mirror,
1 Actopiano with records and record
cabinets.
On. view from Tuesday, the Sib Augast, 1320..
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Hongkong, August 2, 1020.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
8. S. "WING HANG"
No
TONICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE STEAMSBIP *WING HANG as she lies rear Shamehaipo in the Harbour of Bong- kong.
Will be sold by
Order of the Mortgages by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
TUESDAY, the 10th day of August,
1920,
st 12 'clock Noos,
by
MESSI, LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.
at their Auction Rooms in Daddell
Street
The Ship is a Chinese Ship register- ed at Canton."
Her dimensions and tonnage are approximately as follows,
Length:-140 ft. 1 inch REGISTERED TONNAGE:-
Breadth 25 ft. 3 inches Gross-142 Net $B4 Depth: 3 ft. 6 inches" and her speed le about 15 Knots.
For further particulars and condi tions of sale apply to
HESSES. WILKINSON & GRIST, 9, Queen's Road Central,
pr to
Mrases. LAMMERT BROS.,
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THE Undersigned have received in Tstructions to sell by Public Auction,
02
FRIDAY, August 27, 1920,
at 12 o'clock (noon),
at their Selen Boomis, Daddell Street, (For Account of the Concerned),
The Wreck of the
8. 8. “CHIYO MARU,” as she now lies off the Lema Islande
Ternis: Cash on full of hammer when the wreck will be at purchaser's risk. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, July 37, 1920,
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ARE MARTIANS MEN?
FROBABLE FRUNS OF A JOURNEY PAITEJË.
What right have we to believe that: if there is life on Mars it resembles in any way that which we find on
M.P. AND FUTILE '
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Sir Percival Phillips writes as fol- lows-Haifa sits at the foot of Mount Carmel beside the sea, looking north- ward across the Bay of Acre to the bold headland of Ras en Nakoors, the earth? None at all, answers where the last British outpost Somera correspondent of the Scientific and local government votes, at a || Agents set men faces the Bedouin-swept American (New York), C. Fitzhugh meeting of the Standing Committee
zone of the French.
It is a trim, pleasant little place as you see it from the holy hill. The huddled "old town" hides its fith and squalor, its crooked streets and Reaching out crowded bazaars. from this ancient labyrinth towards Cape Carmel is the new colony of German built villas Banking tree lived streets that venture a little way up the lower morittain slope. Some 600 Germans, mostly aged people, still live here.
* LONELY SOLDIERS.
There was a lively discussion, the other day about the age at which women should have parliamentary
considering the Läbour Party's Bil to grant the franchise to women on the same terms as men. At present men have votes at 21 and women at 30.
Sir Fredericks Banbury proposed that the "full age" for women should be not less than 25.
Sir F. Banbury said that when the existing Act was passed, it was said women did not want to sit in Parlia
ment.
*
We did not say so," interjected Lady Aster.
In one end of Haifa-the German Talman, of Washington, D. C of the House of Commons which is bulit end-sits a British Governor Mr. Talman calls attention to whose province stretches from Acre the fact that in the writing of to Cesarea and comprises half of many "Atterateurs" and not a few Galilee. His northern frontier is the
professed scientists we find glib barrier beyond which Arab tribes be in revolu. Lancers at Tiberias, references to the people of this or County of London and Stafford Yeo- that planet, and that the use of this many in the hills round about, word implies that life has, in each Lieut-Golonel Archer Shee, who machine gunners in the old citadel at Acre. Such is the force that has its world, developed one, and only one moved that the women's age for a vote should be 29, said, amid base at Haifa.
species more or less like the human laughter race clearly differentiated from and Women
are captivatingly superior to all the other species. capricious, fascinatingly futile, in Nothing that we know of the evolu-resistibly irrational, ingeniously in- experienced, politically pasil. tionary process, he says, warrants animons, and wholly and charming- such an assumption. He goes only incomprehensible, and therefore
The imaginable forms which living de not want, a woman to have her matter may assume are infinitely nose in polites until she knows what
she is about diverse Look forth
upon the
Sir George Tomger, supporting myriad species of organic being Sir F. Banbury's amendment, said: plants and animals--which our own. ..."My father was wise, enough not world contains. Where among them to let me come of age until I was 24 New town and old town shelter can you find an organisme other than If I had come of age earlier, good. between them a strangely mixed man which, if placed upon Mars ness knows what would have hap population. Christian, Jew. Moslem, would be intellectually capable of pened to me. all told there are 40,000 persons communicating with us? What dwelling outwardly in amity. Add success should we have in attempting to this the diverse elments drawn to telegraph to a race of horses or together by war. The narrow High guinea pigs for example?... Street is ever full of movement and "On our own planet the develop vivid colour. There you see Britishment of life apparently entered, at Tommies. Este s and looking a little an early stage, upon two diverse knely turbaned Indians chanting roads. The forms subsequently blithely in a cloud cf dust; stately evolved, though probably of com- Bedouins from the hills shouldering on ancestry, are nevertheless clearly aside the rabtle with superb indif- and naturally divided into two great ferente: aged Germans as incor-kingdoms, the animal and the vege gruous as relics of the Stone Age, 'a'le. But there is no reason for saluting tinidly the emblems of the supposing that the course of events In the name of justice and a well- new authority; smiling Syrians, has been the same in other worlds deserved admiration for their splendid complacent Jews. important native than ours. For example it may service in the late war, men are about police in black, terboos aboy be that on Mars plant life-only to grant to women the franchise British khaki, hordes of chattering exists. Now, suppose that, as the on the same grounds as themselves. school children released from the con- speculators on this subject commonly But this equality of citizenship, the vents that dominate Haifa, bearded❘ assume, Mars has supported life long desired goal of women's political robes, stealing noiselessly like sha-case the plant forms would presum- them vasily outnumbering mer, and dows through the throng; barefooted ably have reached a high stage of the question is being asked. if, com friars of the Latin Rite sharing half development, plants would there sidering their enormous majority, the tongues of Europe between them; exist compared with which our there is danger. In this proposed ex the blare of bugle bands drowning highest plants, such as daisies and tension of the franchise. calls to prayer from muezzaio and asters are simple and rudimenta:y. The initial danger lies in the church bell, ladies in silk stockings Nevertheless it is not conceivable diversity of temperament of the thrust against the walls by files of that any plant, however high in the sexes. Women, though men may sneering camek. And high over all, scale, could hold communication with not be aware of it, are possessed of the cool, quiet monastery of the Car- the human race.
a latent, reckless daring which is melites, set on the summit of the
"However, I think it is most rea- poles apart.from-the coolheaded, mount, where a British prior says sonable to suppose that, if life has farseeing courage of men. Unless Mass above Elijah's cave.
beea produced at "all upon other called into action by extreme dir- planets than our own, it has assumed cumstances, this often lies dormant forms of which we know nothing through life; but granted such forms which may be neither animal circumstances, women have, under of Fegetable, which franscend our its influence, risen to miraculous experience, and of which we are heights of heroism and endurance. therefore quite unable to conceive. or sunk shamelessly to the lowest Given life, plastic and protean, and depths of depravity... the laws of probabilities, and such a result would seam to follow as a matter of course.
Englishwomen did,” retorted Sir F. Bankay, amid cries of "Oh!",
The amendment to make the age 29 was negatived.
Bearing on this subject, Mrs. Chifford Mills wrote to the Times as follows:
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ORDER Eastern monks in sombre flowing longer than the earth. In such a hopes, comes at a time which finds
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Haifa is steeped in religion. If you tire of convents and of shrines that mark episodes in the life of Elijah, there is the new old religion of Abbas Effendi for your contem plation. Abbas Effendi is an old man, a man of saintly character and wonderful personal charm, who succeeded his father (the founder) as the head of "Babism," a creed which is described as a blend of all weeds, "Even could we actually perform though some prefer to call it the journey to Mars, it is not likely reformed Mahometanism. Abbas that we should be able to com- Effendi bas numerous followers inmunicate with its inhabitants, and the devoted wife and tender mother, America and a few in England; he if we found existing there a great is enormously wealthy, and his number of life forms we should pro-to disorganize national affairs as un devotees send him many presents.bably have difficulty in deciding to
A fine large motorcar was conveyed which of them, if any, the designa
to him by this week's Khedivial tion, "people' should be applied." mailboat. He wears white robes, and
when he walks abroad in the sunshine
the Babists in Haifa, who regard
HATE.
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may, when armed with a vote, help: 1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
thinkingly, but as effectually, 29 a kitten entangles a ball of wool. She
of
may, as it catches her, airy fancy,
the vote for
prohibition alcohol, tobacco, men's clubs, wed. lock, racing, betting, the observance of the Sabbath-in short, the prò- bibition of anything and everything saye dancing, chocolates, and thin. silk stockings--and all this without] malice.
him as diving, stand nute with hands across the bay; a funicular cailway clasped and their eyes on the ground giving access to the mount; and a park on the top where now is only Despite the atmosphere of religion, cut down by the Turks.
scrub grass and the stumps of trees
there is regrettably enough-a I can imagine no lovelier park any. It is not, however, with this type certain amount of hate here. Zion-where in the world. The panorama of woman-over whom men will ism has few friends outside the that rewards the pilgrim for.. his always have some restraining_in-|| Jewish quarter. You find Christians ascent of Carmel is never to be for fance that the chief danger lies. and Moslems banded together for rotten. You can see Cesarea on the It is with the thousands and thou the first time in history against the Southern coast, the mountains beyond sands of women, young and old, Jews. They are obsessed by the fear the Jordan, and the white fringe of who lack the maternal instinct- that a new Palestine may mean Nazareth on the east, the purple hills these not necessarily unmarried Jewish domination, and against that encircling the bay of Acre to the north, or childless who have 2 con- possibility they have set themselves with the snowcled bulk of Mount tempt for femininity and all its resolutely. For the moment, how- Hermon Syria's highest peakabove graces these caveters of man's ever, all'is peaceful enough. Various them and on the west, the ser place in the world, who love power factions pour their troubles into the The Germans and Turks sat on better than their own souls. aching car of a British official who, Carmel until the last. They mounted
in their opinion, is all powerful and a 5.9 high velocity gun behind the bulwark against their enemies.
monastery, with which they shot at Haifa has a great future as the venturesome ships, and at the first principal port of Syria. If the plans British patrols, working round into which bave been prepared for the Haifa from the east. The gun is construction of a safe harbour are still there. When I passed it with carried out it will be a serious rival Colonel Staunton, a little boy was to Beyrut. From the top of Carmel, amusing himself swinging the gun looking down on the broad Bay of from side to side. It was so nicely Acre, you can see in a single sweep adjusted that he moved the ponderous of the eye the opportunities for ex mechanism with ease... pansion.
There was something very strange
I stood there with Colonel Staunton,
in the sight of that lonely little child, the Governor of the Haifa districtmusing himself with so sinister (for ten years Governor of Khartoum plaything. When the Governor of who is filled with a great enthusiasm Haifa called to him cheerily, with no for the town be administers. He showed me where the new barbour other intention than to chaff him, he would rise within a long breakwater gave a startled glance and ran away, thrust like a beat forefinger for two rim. I saw many of these caps wood He wore a round, flat cap with a red
Thirds of a mile from the base of Carmel towards the plain of Acre by men in grey who filled the
prisoners cages in France." harbour with forty to fifty feet of
He was a German boy. water, with a splendid site for docks on the eastern side. The rich agricultural country, of the Hauran and all the fertile valleys behind
TEETHING CHILDREN.
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When the dream of the new Haifa
la realised there will be extensions of
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by giving Chamberlain's Colic and "Diar- The Remedy. All that is necessary is- to give the prescribed dose after each operation of the bowels more than
the town modern houses climbing natural then asstor oil to cleanse
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