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- İEUCER
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25th May
15:h June 6th July
Vietaris, Seattle and
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(via Kode and Yokohama).
WEATHER, REPORT.
May N. lah. 09-Pressure has Increased considerably over 8: Man- churia, and slightly to moderately else. where. The authern depression has moved eastwards, the southern diepers. sion remains over Tongting.
Hongkong Bainfall for the 24 hours! anding at 10 am. to-day, 0-15, inch. Total since January 1st, 19 inches,
· against an average of 1399 inches.
Forecast for the 24 hours ending st noon on May 10th.
1.-Hongkong to Gay Rock, E and SE winds, modacatè; cloudy. rain.
1-Formoes_Channel. The same sa
No 1.
3-South coast of Chies between Honkong and Lamocks The same is: No. 1
4-South coast of China, between Hongkong and Hainan.. The ache s Na 1.
MONDAY, MAY
ENTERTAINMENTS.
THE CORONT
At 290, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15
HOUSE
PETERS
and
„AN" UNFORTUNATE MEANTRE
מנו
A FASCINATING LECTURE.
San,
stand Gibeon:
thou still upon
And thou. Moon in the valley
of Ajalón.
The proposal to increase postage rates for transmission overseas this Higher criticism of Biblical texts month could not have been made at is sometimes dry, but Mr. E. Walter amore inopportune moment. Never Mannder, a former official of the Royal was there greater need than at present Observatory at Greenwich, made a to make the dissemination of the most fascinating' contribution to the written and the printed word between subject in a paper read before the country and country as easy and as Victoria Institute on Monday. His cheap as posible. It is an
subject was the miraculously long fortunate augure for the spread of
day gained by the intercession of that better state of international Joshua at the Battle of Gibeon. In feeling upon which the hopes for the the first place there is a certain amount success of the League of Nations are of material for the astronomer to work -founded that an artificial check should!
on in the famous lines. be placed on one of the principal means by which mutual understand- -ing and goodwill may be fastered, But the matter gws much deeper even 15an that. It is patently obvious that the coronic fature of this country and of the Empire as a whole depends, as Lori Blyth said recently, upon the opening of every portal, and the broadening of every avenue. likely to promote our commercial and industrial expansion, not only at home, bat in every part of the globe. We heartily agree with Lord Blyth is his statement that increased charges for essential services such as the telephone, the telegraph and postage, constitute an impost on production, and are fatal to the creation of new business and the expansion of exist ing enterprises, says The Empire Jail.
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If the san to Joshua was "upon Gibeon in the midst of heaven,"
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Telegraphic Communication with Gap Hoef Lighthouse is interruplać
Ebanghai
Shanghai......Ever USA and Mamla Calcutta and Straits...
ROYAL OBSERVATORY,
HONGKONG.
DAILY FRITHER REPORT.
Stadion.
MAY 1991. Britte
Hour.
Barnefor
at Son Larol.
Temperature,
Vidivostock 8a20.87, 61
Wantin Eskodate
Eckio
Zochi.
Nagasaki... Kagoshima. Jstibus
tahfjima
Benin Island Walawel.6.19.29.
Hamidity,
chang
Changib
Shanghai ... 29.96 Juta
39.31
Sharp Fk... 74. 29.01 Ay Svatom
62.29.79 74 ·
29.88 150
Talbok
29.54 7098
29.86 71-
*
29.49 751-
19.84 75
Taichu
Kochum.
Pescadores. Canton Hongkong Gap Rock's
» Balbo *
39.84 77: 99.77: 7395) 39.76 75.90
29.74
as the chronicle says elsewhere--it KEGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the must havebeensummer and high noon. dine given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails sure advertised to close Kindang If the moon could be seen at all it at or before & a.m. registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 pm. on the must have been far away from the sun
previous day. and low in the horizon. If it was over the valley of Ajalon it was north-west of Gibeon. It was, therefore, a setting moon end in its third quarter. This, the lecturer explained, fixes the date at about the 21st of the natural month, and, from the position of the sun, the months could not have been earlier than the fourth of the Jewish year. It is impossible to decide the year, but the actual date of the battle, We particularly deplore the effect according to the modem calendar, which the proposed increase of over-was.probably July 22. seas postage rates is bound to have
Then enters the question of what is upon the distribution of British
really meant by Joshua's long day, the Literature specially designed to en- courage trade within the Empire and one which had no day like that be with foreign countries. We should fore it or after it." The offered ex- have thought that instead of penalis planation depends partly on commen ing and obstructing the work which sense and the putting right of a mis- is being done in the interests of translation, and partly on a common British "business by sach journals Joshua and the Israelites, it will be psychological symptom of fatigue. as The Empire Mail the Government would have taken every reasonable remembered, went up from Gilgal means to assist their free circulation all night" and fell upon the Amorites Have our Government Departments
Swatow
Shanghai
Straits U.B.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai
INWARD - MAILS.
From
MONDAY, MAY 2.:
„Soochow
„TUESDAY, MAY) 10.
AmaZODO Eccador **Biria Maru
Wnchow. Pakbo
+
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11.
THURSDAY, MAY 12,
Fbalsa 170}
Scrying
Tour
C.St. James
„Ahidznaka Mara Empress of Japan.
Dagupta 15 Mania
OUTWARD MAILS,
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PER
-MONDAY, MAY 9.
TIMES.
Hydranges Taiming- Taitwa Maru Glenfalloch Yue Ying Wa Esin Ping On *** Kaiping.....
1.20 p.m.
5 p.m.
5 p.m
5 p..
Haibow And Haiphong Saigon... Pathoi and Haiphong
TUESDAY, MAY, 10.
Hapeh Luchow....
Satow Braits and "Bangkok. *Swatow and Bangin'k ----- Amoy. "Shanghai, & North China Shantung., Straits, Bangkok, Colourbe, Mauritius, L.
suddenly" After a night march- forgotten already the lessons of the probably a forced one-they were thui and Wochow war in regard to the value of publicity? still fighting and pursuing under the "Pathoi and Haiphong If they have, we can assure them that blazing sun of noon. It is hardly likely Amoy
that Joshua would pray for that sun other countries, including Germany,
to "stand still" over his exhausted are very much alive to the importance
flooding overseas markets with rope, and, seeing that the first meaning of the word used in the text propaganda' on behalf of their trade, is to be silent" or "to cease." as witness the highly illuminating
Joshua's original prayer is conjectured article from our Special Correspond- ent in Germany, which appears in to have been for protection from the beat of the day rather than for its this number. We are constantly receiving testimony from all parts perpetuation. The protection arrived of the world to the service which Then the hailstorm which is mentioned in the chronicle a hailstom whose Empire Mail, and the valuable special- ised intelligence organisation which clouds, sweeping up from the coast is associated with it, are rendering must have screened the sun
It is still to be explained why the to British manufacturers and over- seas buyers. Is that work to be story states, that at the end of the pursuit the sun had “hasted not to
down about a whole day.
handicapped because of an unaccount- able lack of commonsense and busi-go mess acumen on the part of the Treasury?
launder pointed out, the rout
Seigno,
Marques, South Africa, India via Dhanasakudi. BOMBAY and ADEN .......... Dilwara
-Straits, **Bangkok. *Ceylo *Mauritius, LA Marques. South Africa “ *India via Dosaurhkodi, Aden, Egypt & EUROPE via MARSEILLES. Registra- tion 9.45 am.. Letters 10.30 mesta Åmazone Bwatow sad Amoy
*....................... Earyales Saigon
Bourben
10.
10.00 ata
Legaspi eine Talobea...
Surigao 29.80
Forde, ****
Direction:
***C. W. Jurraies, Director. Hoogkong Observatory, May 9, 1987.
I. BANGKITE. reduced to St degrees {' Fahrenheit, on the level of the res in inches, tenths and hundredths.
2. TEKERLIKE, in the shade in de- geses Fahrenheit.
Hrament in percentage” of maturi tion the humidity of; air saturated with meistare being 100.
DIRECTION OF WIN, to two point. Win, according to
6. FORCE OT Beadford Scale.
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HONGKONG. provement and cheapening" of the telegraphic communication between Tel. 2143. 10, Queen's Rd. Cocicl
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CHINA OYERSEIS-TRÍDING
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7. Ears in Inches tenths and hused the pressing importance of this Tel. 1104. 18, Queen's Rd. Cončak,
HONGKONG REGISTER.
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→WEDNESDAY, MAY 11.
Java Pors via Batavia Hoibow and Haiphoon
Macassar Maru
Bestow Amoy and Foodbow..
Hatching
Hasperng
Waishing
Teucer
THURSDAY, MAY 12.
of the Amorites was ended at Mak- | "Swatow, "Shanghai and "North China. kedah, in the ordinary way a very full Swatow, Shanghai and North China
If the proposed new rates come day's march from Gibeon. Some at Philippine Islandsverkondige anto operation the postage on The least of the Israelites must have ¡Empire Mail will be something in the covered the distance in daylight, and Straits, Bangkok, Calcutta and ADEN...................... Takuds w aegion of 3d. per copy, and other the hours from noon to evening, after a Japan
Shanghai and North China mundes monthly trade journals will, of course, night's march and a morning's battle, state, Bangkok, Calcutta, & ADEN ..................... be similarly affected Added to the might well have seemed in themselves tremendously increased cost of pro-about a whole day" to campaigners sfaction, this places an unfair burden who carried no clocks or watches. Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Hailong on a class of joumal which we an- When time is measured merely by Philippins lands beritatingly claim is performing an its personal content it is common
St. Albans Boochow Laiseng
FRIDAY, MAY 13.
-- Loongsang
Forsis Maru Buiyang
SATURDAY, MAY 13. essential and patriotic work for the experience that the recording instru: Dairen, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, United nation and the Empire. It high meat plays some queer tricks State Certral and South Americs & time that the absurd differentiation "Every moment seemed like an **EUROPEVIL, SAN FRANCISCO. Re- which the Post Office makes between eternity" is the conventional cry of Shanghs and North China
·gistration 8.15 am. Letters 92 monthly journals and their weekly humanity in times of stress. Oft Bangitor, Ceylon. - Mauritius, contemporaries were swept away course Joshua's miraculous day is The former are less ephemeral than none the less moving if it is capable the latter, and no one who examines of a human explanation.
the matter, dispassionately would
deny that they are thoroughly entitled
to equality of treatment as regards
postage rates with the weeklies. If
Marypes, South Africa India
Desnakkedi, Bombay, Adeo, Egypt, & EUROPE via MARSEILLES. gistration & p.m. Letters & p.z, man Nagoya The Parcel Mail will he closed on Satur
day, 14th, May at Noon..
Saigon
Pheampenh SUNDAY, MAY 18.
no other alternative is open to the that we cannot make special arrange Government but to increase the over. ments with other countries as we seas postal charges a contingency made with America in 1908, and as which we regard as inconceivable it was suggested we might make with "3stow, "Straits and "Bangkok then we urge that preferential treat-France, That seems to us an emin
Japan, Honolulu and "SAN FRANU18 0 -- Beiyo Ma
MONDAY, MAY 16.
TUESDAY, MAY. 17::
Exechuen
ment should at any rate be given to ently sensible way out of the difficulty. Shanghai and North China those publications whose sole policy So far as the British Empire is con- sto, Amoy and Foochow in the advancement of British trade cerned, some general agreement to and industry a
Lingeho
Haibong
WEDNESDAY, MAY - 18. keep down postal rates might surely Amoy and Philippine Hands . . Taming be resched without much trouble. |-
THURSDAY, MAY 19.
Loud Blyth, in the letter which we No stres means could be taken tomy, zhangbai and #North China-dye Banning. have already quoted, expresses the promote that unity of feeling and off
SATURDAY, MAT NA
hope that the decisions arrived at the purpose among the constituent state Hohow, Fakhsi and Haiphong. recent International Portal Congress of the British Commonwealth which
at Madrid will not-tie our hands so is vital for the future,
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question, says "the Empire Mail. At the same time it 13 very re grettable that Mr. Illingworth was not able to make a definite state- ment as to the Government's policy. Business men are getting tired of the Tel. endless delaya-and interruptions on many of the most vital cable routes. Mr. Illingworth said that efforts were being made to improve ‘apparatus|Tel. and speed up the cable services,
special attention being paid toļ
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Canada. That is good news, so far | New Films and Cameras junt arrived.
as it goes, but we should like to know Tel. 2170.
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with the present unsatisfactory state- of affairs. Mr. Aspinall, the Secretary
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LAZIKUS, I
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Richest par air Temperature the of the West India Committee, is much Tel. 2203, 12, Queen's Rd.
open on 9th-7
TF. CLAITOS, Diretor. Hongkong, Observatory May B.. 191.
HONGKONG TIME SIGNALS. -
MUMETA" &'KINO. Japanese Photographers.
concerned about the continual break- downs/in cable communication be tween the more important islands -in the West Indian group, He piends fra cable to be laid from Bermuda Tel. 254. 8a, Queen's R4. Cent to Bardoes so as to link up the other, West Indian Islands" with
Halifax. This was urged six months they were experiencing competition ago at the Canada and West Indies from the increased tonnage of the Conference at Ottawa, but nothing. Anserican mercantile marine, the in- The Time Ball on Kowloon Egnal Hill has yet been done. Mr. Illingworth terchange of commodities between is dropped daily at 10 am and 4pm. also stated that good progress is these two great continents of the except on Saturdays when it is dropped st 10 am and 1 pm and on Burdays and being made in the scheme to provide Western hemisphere bad increased Holidaya wten it is dropped at 10 am a chain of wireless communication considerably. The moct pressing The Ball is histed had mast at the 55th round the British Empire. A service problem at the moment was to keep minate and fali mist at the 7th minute. Ito Cairo is expected, to be open in their chips running profitably, now Khould the ball fall to drop at the exrect May.
8.
†-time it will belówænd 155 miliates-past the hour wad the ordinary nuntine repest- led at the following hour, if possible, just
· Should the Time - Ball, be cubs of order
3 p.m.
that freights were down and cargoes
scarce. He wis hopeful, however,
Sir Owen Philipps, chairman of that the present depresión would not Lamport and Holt, spoke in a hope. Irst as long as some people seemed fnl: vein at the annual meeting of to antichate, Some other shrewd that Company. They were pioneers, judges, too, have this optimistic, feel he said, in the USA South American ing. - sizhough the signs at the [al'in the Observatory wiendengritat, ea destande inhonebias wašžnatutal- moment cannot be considered godz
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