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ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOST.
A 3,000-Vexve-Old Wea
Compared with the skeleton found at Tilbury some years ago-to say nothing of Ecanthropes, whose skull was found in the Pitdown bed (Sesser) and whose antiquity is almost incalculable the woman whose body has been discovered baried in a hollowed-out tree trunk
HOME ITEMS.
At the Theatre Royal at Bradford | the Contents of the property-room | were put up for sale. It was a motley collection, including principal boys' bats, 600 dresses of all shapes and colours, giant sea shells, two wooden cannons, basket of animals' heads, and even a skeleton. The best bargain seemed to be a ton of rags for 6x'
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Between 6 s.m. and 2. p.m. to-day 4.55 inches of rain were recorded at the ObservatoKY.
Wuchow and
Reports from the different cities along the West River state that owing to excessive rain these cities are now inundated.
other cities on the River are now under water varying from 3.to 5 feet. Boats are being used on the streeta to facilitate travelling. It is feared that unless the rain ceases, there will be a general flood in the territory along the West River.
WHAT IS IT?
A PECULIAR OBJECT.
FOUND AT SEA!”
A peculiar object found floating in the sea about 90 miles South of the coast of Annam was picked at Egtved, in Jutland, is almost Despite the refusal of" permission.
arrived in Hongkong harbour modern. She is perhaps 3,000 years by the Bishop of London, Miss Marup by the s.s. "Lai Sang" which jastor to that primitive" lady rede Royden preached at the Three this morning from Calcutta. It is -vealed by the breaking away of the Hours Service at St. Botolph's. a sort of mooring buay made out
cliff at Walton-on-the Naze, who Church, EC. recently. The Rev. W. rede a meal of bars and blackberries II. Shaw (the rector) before the ist before she died and whose skull service asked anyone who had come measurements correspond, according to the church to make a protest to to Professor Keith, almost exactly with rise at once and, having protested, those of the average woman student go away. "No one has the right," of to-day.
concluded the rector, "to appoint the preacher except the incumbent, and I have done it."
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Nevertheless she is very interesting to people in this country, in whom there is so much Jute or Anglian blood. The ornaments buried with The cheapest concert in London her, the skirt, and the mere fact that includes a programme with a seat for she
interred in a coffin 24d, including tax, and was given is all point to the existence among Hyde Park in March by the band of these remote, and indirect anthe Royal Horse Guards (Blues). casters of ours of a higher degree of civilisation than that with which we are accustomed to credit them. For anything we know to the contrary, the skirt may have been a new fashion in Jutland in her day, but, according to one authority on Crete, ladies in that island were wearing nor only skirts but even crinolines ages before she was born.
Prohibition Joke,
The most popular joke on "the American vaudeville stage to-day is the question, "When does "the
Prekidation Law recome-effective?” and it is apparently true that no one with a desire to purchase liquor and willing to pay the prize need go without. The recent decision of the
of an "APC napthalene drum to which a dumb hell arrangement is attached by five or six fathoms of chain, German words that are barely decipherable are painted on
te drum and at each end ofį the dumb bell is a globulat arrange ment bearing a small cap. Several naval: officials examined the object during the morning but none was able to explain what it was beyond the surmise that it was used as
mooring buoy
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Another curiosity aboard the "Lai! Sang" is a young and very live foo which the boatswain, it is docer-i stood is prepared to dispose of to anyone yearning to possess it as a pet.
The court of inquiry into the sinking of the troopship Hustspill, at her moorings in Southampton Docks, has found that the master committed an error of judgment in estimating the margin of safety between the waterline and the open ports on the LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. port side, baving regard to the per- manent list to port. The court also censured the chief officer for lack of disciplice allowed.
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ARRIVALS.
The $.3.
Takada," Captain F. E. Church full" have been exhibited sing at 7.40 am, from Moji with 124 Boards bearing the words Harvey 4223 tons, arrived this mor at St. Paul's Cathedral during tons of general cargo." special service of Passion music. So great were the numbers seeking admission that the doors had to be locked.
When the service began some people were sitting on the floor.
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Public Prosecutor of the United States that physicians may prescribe
The Egyptian Government have beer and wines in unlimited quanti- ties has already resulted in reviving issued a communique stating that, to the brewing industry and stima protect the cotton crop from an un- lating the importation of wines for
justified fall in prices due to specula
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NEW TOBACCO DUTIES,
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CUTIONS.
ENTERPRISING' DEALER 'CAUGHT.
[To the Editor of the " China M«B."]
Sir,-May I use your columns to publicly thank the following geate- Prosecutions in connection with the men for their very generous dom-increased tobacco duties were dealt tions to the Hongkong Boy Scout's with this morning by Magistrate Orme Association, and also to thank the who heard a series of charges against f Hon. Mr. Laz Chu Pak for so mater shopkeepers and stall holders in vari ally helping in the collection of hands ous parts of the island and on the for this Association
mainland for possession of dutiable cigarettes.
Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak... $500 Mr. Mok Kun Sang
500
Mr. Li Po Kwei
250
Mr. Li Yick Mui
250
Mr. Yong Tsz Ming
250
Mr. Li Wing Kwong
250
Mr. Wong Kam Fak
200
Mã." Ha Kwong
100
Mr. Car Tung Sang
100
Mr. Yau Shui Chi
100
Mr. Lo Cheung Ship
100
Mr. Chau You Ting
100
Mr. Wong Kwong Tiz
-100
Mr. Pon Ywai Ting
Mr. Li Sing Ku
100 100
Mr. Tong Shin Lon
100
Mr. Wong Wut Chuer
50
Mr. Chau Ping Yue
50
II. Là hệ cho
50
Mr. Chu Chak Tung......
50
Mr. "Ma Yuk Isan
50
Mr. Li Cho Son
Mr. Lam Tak Chan
50 50
Mr. Li Sic Ching
50
Mr. Leung Chong Man
50
Mr. Chan Shu Kaj
50
50
50
50
50 50
Mr. Kwok Mak Yuen ?.. Mr. Wong Kwan Soa Mr. Chu Chung Hin Hi La Chung Lin Mr. Cong lo Sham Mr. "Shin Kadi Cizen
25
$3,875
Yours 1 pcerely.
A: O. BRAWN."
Hod Treasurer.
FIGHT WITH ROBBERS.
WOMAN'S PLUCKY ACT.
STRUGGLE IN A· FLAT.
Mr. Taylor of the Revenue Depar ment conducted the prosecution against a Chinesa tobacconist charged with the unlawful possession of 9.940 durable sigarettes of various Chinese brands.
Mr. E. Hind, who appeared for the defence, entered a plea ol "guilty to a technical offence. He explained that on the day before the new robrazo duty ordinance came into force, his client seat out his fokis to purchase all the cigarettes they could get at the old price. Among the cigarettes purchased were 25 packets marked for export." When the Revenue Officer checked the stock] and found these packets, he seized all the cigarettes. Mr. Hind said i that he would have to plead guilty” with regard to all the cigarettes as his client had no means of proving! that duty had been paid on them. having bought them from many dif-¦ ferent shops and stalls Counsel sub- mitted that his explanation, it cot satisfactory, was a possible oce, agt; he asked that in the circumstances the Magistrate impose a nominal fide. Replying to the Magistrate. Mr. Taylor admitted that there was no Idirect test to prove whether or not duty had been paid on a particular packer of cigarettes, but pointed out that ender the ordinance, the ones rested with the defence to prove that duty had been paid. Therefore the salest thing for tobacconists to do was to get their socks direct from the B.A.T. or the Nanyang Brothers.
The Magistrate imposed a fine i $100, or in default, one month's hard Kabeer.
When a Hongkong shopkeeper was charged with the possession of 1,600) dutiable cigarettes, Mr. Taylor said; that when the defendant's shop was While the inmates of the first searched, a large quantity of "empty floor of No. 1 Yeewoo Street, Wan- cigarette boxes from which the export chai, were having-a, meal in the marks-had been erased, were found front room about 345. yesterday in addition to the cigarettes
had entered the fu afternoon, they were
by The defendant said that he got the surprise by bree
who boxes by buying other articles which with-coold not be packed in-paper-Most! out their knowledge. One man sundry shops kept empty cigarette produced a knife and threatened boxes for this purpose.
taken
The ss." Ecuador," Capt. A. Cdeath to anyone who offered re- "A"ine of $50, or one month's hard Paulsen, 3,436 tons, arrived this sistance.. The znother of the woman labour was imposed.
grappled with -ose morning at 8.18 from Manila with plackily
Possession of 4.000 dutiable cigisi 1565 tons of groceries and 29 of the intruders, whereupon the eres cost one man $50, $500 olie: bags of mail.
armed man stabbed her in the $15. 800 a small boy $20, 500 a neck and another seized an ear ring Yarmati dealer $15. and 1,129 set, with jade valued at $7. During another man S25. In every case the kitchen and gave the alarm. The the struggle, an amat slipped into the cigarettes were confiscated. robbers then ran away. The wound-
The as."Pheampenh,” Capt.-D.J. Lewis, 1,065 tons, arrived this mor
medicinal purposes. A prominent tien, it has decided to intervene inning at 9.10 am, with 1,700 tons of New York doctor. instituted a test the spot Cotton Exchange by par rice and general cargo. case in the courts, in which he ques chasing cotton whenever it deems it tiers the constitutionality of the
regulation - requiring physicians to
advisable..
DEPARTURES.
The ss. "Hsin Ping Ao," Capt. Ramsland, sailed for Saigon at 8 to-day with 300 tons, of general cargo..
ed woman was removed, to the St. Paul's Hospital at Causeway Bay. The wound is not considered serious.
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prescribe a màximum of a pint of After living in the village all her spirits every ten days. He contends life, Mrs. Sarah Cathcart, 78, Panfeld, that no one is better qualified than a Essex, has died. She had been physician to knew the requirements verger at the parish church for 50 of his patients, and that the law years, and on Armistice Day, as the stricting the use of sach stimulant rector was away, she rang the bells
The marriage arranged between WANTED SHIPS SURGEON is dangerous to the life and health of to spread the news. She and her
Mr. Alfred E. Zimmera and Mme. husband celebrated their diamond the community,
The ss. "Glenfalloch," Captain Lucie A. O.. Hitech-Flotron took Apply P. O. Box 259, wedding last Christmas Day. She McKellar. sailed for Amay at 10 place quietly at St. Marylebone claimed that the secret of longevity am. to-day with general through Parish Church on March 31. was good temper.
Mixed Jazica.
WHY
DO SOME OBJECTS BEND AND OTHERS BREAK?
That there is no rose without its thorn is true metaphorically, if not botanically. For the emancipation of woman the price must be paid. In the case of Miss Martin, a scuool- teacher of Trelawn (Cornwall), the price was. £5. Miss Trelawn was semmoned to serve on the jury at the Corn wall Assizes, but she wrote the sheriff intimating that she would not attend. When the court which has been made by science, in In spite of the tremendous advance assembled and her name was called there was no response. The under-spite of the many discoveries which sheriff called thrice "Elizabeth Martin, tend to make life far more pleasant come forth and save your fine." But and agreeable than it was a century. she came not. In this age of un- o: even a few decades ago there are chivalry, there was no advocate to still many of the simplest things for urge in extenuation," Perchance she winch science has yet to find the sleepeth," and the judge, with the explanation. Among these is the lack of gallantry characteristic of his phenomenon known as "cohesion," tribe, fined the absent lady £5. Miss or the way in which particles of mat- Martin explained subsequently that ter stick together with varying de- though she was opposed to mixed grees of strength.
carge.
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C The 5.5.
Hupeh," Capt. Penne father, sailed for Singapore via Swatow at 11 am, today with 100 tons of general cargo.
CLEARANCES.
The s.s. "Hok Canton." Chinese, cleared to-day and will sail for Kwong Chow Wan, at 6 am to-morrow.
The
British,
s.s. "Takeang." cleared to-day and will sail for Har phong via Hoihow, at 10 am. to
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A well-dressed Chinese who was this morning charged before Megis-, trate Lindsell with the theft of a rollTEE Steamer of silk from the Chi Shing Co. Queen's Road Central, was alleged to have entered the shop about 7 p.
Having aired on THURSDAY, 3th yesterday and inspected several rolls May, from Copenhagen, Consignees of of silk. Remarking that they Cargo in connection with the above not suit him, he walked out. Shortly steamer are hereby notified to prosent afterwards, the shop assistant missed their Bill of Lading for countersigna- a roll of silk. After a short chase, tare. Cargo is being landed and stored the defendant was caught with the at their risk into the Hazardous &/or silk under his long coat. Sentence extra Bazardons Godowns of Holt's of four weeks hard labour, was Wharf when delivery may be obtained passed.
immediately after landing.
Storage will be sexessed.co cargo trate Orme this morning in the the 12th May,
Evidence was taken by Magis remaining undelivered after noon on Yaumati kidnapping case reported All claims must be zeat in to us on or yesterday in which a Chinese man before the 15th May. and a woman were charged--with having kidnapped and harboured a The St. Pancras (Londes) 5-year old male child. juries this was not the reason for her i It is comparatively easy, for exam?”
Inspector non-attendance, but she considered ple, to pull apart the material of Coroner, on March 21 adjourned an Brown said that witnesses would be it her duty to remain at her school, which a leaf is made, while the shred-inquest on the body of Laurence called to say that the defendant took the work of which would have been ding of the wood which makes up the doctor, late of Tientsin, in order the Kowloon City where it was found Drew Shaw, D.SO., a Harley-street the child to the woman's house in seriously prejudiced by her absence. trunk of the tree is an operation winch the contents of the stomach might on May, 8. Evidence was then taken demands a great expenditure of force.be analyzed, Dr. B. H. Spilsbury, which the defendants were New Thames Tunnel,
In this instance one reason for the made a post-mortem examina comitted for trial at the Criminal difference in "cobësion" lies in the The proposal to cut a tunnel under comparative thickness of the two sub-give the cause of death. It was stated
having said that he was unable to Sess as, the Thames between Gravesend and Tilbury will awaken a good deal of metal will resist an attempt to separ- was 39, was pathologist at the
stances, but even a thin sheet of in evidence that Dr. Shaw, whose age Five fatal cases of small-pox and Interest among the seafarers of the ate its molecules, while a mass of London Lock Hospital, and that be reported during the weekend, also two of plague, all' Chinese, WHE port of London, but not much more. more parous substance, like a sponge, had complained of overwork, and a non-fatal case of paratyphoid fever. The present service of ferry steamers can be torn apart with less exertion. said he was tired of life. On the British, another of diptheria, Chinese coming meetings, lectures and owed by the Midland Railway is very tolerably efficient and remark- It is this same principle of cohe night of the 16th, he stayed one of enteric fever, also entertainments, -sent for insertion in ably little nuisance to the other users sion, operating in a slightly different at the flat of a man friend Chinese. Last week ten Chinese died the news columns of the China Mall, of the river.
On the other manner, that leads some objects to in Bloomsbury street. Next morn from amallpox (one imported case) are charged for at the rate of $1 each, hand the service is only according bend easily while others break, ing, be complained of thirst, and, four from plague, one from enteric (as announced in May and June of to the convealence of the trains, though it is not possible to explain after having a cup of tea, returned to while the tunnel would of course be just why this occurs. We know from but, where he died soon afterwards. fever, and three from influenza (not last year) providing that they do not available at any minute at which one experience that heat has, in some Is his pockets were found a bottle enteric fever, one of paratyphoid fature if this space is exceeded they
notifiable). Thrte non-fatal cases of occupy more than four lines. chose to cross. That would be very cases, some influence upon this pro labelled poison and a hypodermic fever, and another of cerebro spinal wil be placed in the advertising convenient, but whether it would be perty-for-sealing wax will break syringe. Dr. Shaw, it was also stated, worth the matter of two and a half when cold, but bend when heated and served as a student, with a medical ever, all Chinese, were also reported columns at the prevailing rates.
Last week millicas mentioned in the estimate is as a rule; - métlie substances" will | unit to the Boer War. He qualified quite another matter. Presumably bend far easier after they have been on his return to England, and after., more, vehicles would use the tunnel subjected to heat or the process of wards took up an appointment in than now avail themselves of the "tempering. The explanation of the Far East. In 1914, he served horse ferry, but it is questionable as this elasticity undoubtedly lies in the against the Germans in China, and "te Wittner The frame would be very way in which the molécules are held iter saw service in Gallipoli and great møder any circumstances. The together, whether tightly or in a France. He was awarded the D.S.O rival scheme is to cut a tunnel from somewhat looser manner but the and a French decoration, and attained its will tallero the pain "MEX POTON Dartford, and so save a million 'on reason for this difference has yet to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Foe ia's by, till Chemistë the cost.
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-botter thati: Chamb almow is the time to put rid of it
Hongkong May 10, 1921.
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