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Cambridge, March 9. tions prepaid $1. Every addi-T instructions to sell by Public Course, Hong Kong Club, and Society was given last week in the soul method, or the salt method, only by a earth evolution, both undergraduate, had drunk a tum- THE Undersigned have received ting) may be obtained at the Race lectures arranged by the Quest more accurate; it is known as the pass all human comprehension. 'Soon after Wilson Snaith Spor- sodium a detailed study of the borg, a 20-year-old Cambridge
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Mr. G. O. Brooks, a graduate tended on Wednesday the, annual dinher of the Twelfth Club a literary club, at which Sporborg was present with ten or eleven others.
hall of the Royal Asiatic Society, great quantity of rock matter in physical and biological, can, we an- bier of neat whisky-nearly half by Dr. G. B. Cressey, of the solution from tho landa to the preciate such a vast duration of a pint he fell on his face. Shanghai College, on "How Old is oceans. On the basia of many time. If, for the sake of compara He was picked up unconscious, Mother Earth?" Dr. H. Chatley analysis, this chemical lod of the tive values, we compresa all of and died the following day after presided and reminded those
world's rivers Is fairly well, earth history Into the period of a being unconscious all night. ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
At the inquest here to-day it gent that the next lecture would be known. It is believed that in the day, one minute equals a million en April 30, when he would speak and that all the salt has been added, terozoic eras, shrouded in the dark-to very severe concussion of the beginning the oceans were fresh,years. The Archeozole and Pro was, stated that death was due LAYING of FOUNDATION STONE on "The Mystery of the Great! Porcelain Vases, Jars, Bowls and by H.E. the GOVERNOR at Stanley Pyramids." In the course of his in this way. Over 200 years ago ness of night, lasted fifteen hours.
brain. Plates of Ancient Dynasties, Old Peninsula on FRIDAY, April 27.
it was suggested by Halloy, then The Cambrian period, which marks The Coroner (Mr. G. A. Woot- ton), recording à verdict of Acci- leave Blako Pier (Fare $1 sald;- Crystal Lions, Amber
for double journey),
here was a clue to the age of the history, in desirable part of Figures.
The age of the earth is a problem earth. The problem may be ex- hours ago. The first land vegeta- time he drank the whisky.
think Sporborg was drunk at the Governor.
follows:tion reasonable rental. Apply Box No: Soap Stone Ware, Mandarin Coats,
appeared in the Devonian, he been an older man he would since the earliest times. Many peo-, The total sodium in the 642, c/o "China Mail"
and Skirts, Old Embroideries, and 4.00 p.m. Tea on the site.
oceans about six hours ago. Dinosaurs Blackwood Tables, Chairs,
and 4.15 p.m. First bus returns to Hang ples have had legends about the divided by the annual sodium in ruled the earth for an hour about not have done such a foolish Cabinets, etc., etc.
The Band of the Queen's Regiment origin of the world and the time rivers equals the age of the ocean. two hours ago. Man has been on
thing. the by the kindness of Col. Boyd and Off- since its creation. The Chaldeans This of course is not the age of the the earth but, one minute. Since • Club Dinner.
cers, will play before and after the fixed the age of the earth as two earth, but only the period since the last glaciation but two seconda Emmanuel College, said Sporborg Dr. T. H. Heal, tutor of million years, while the Babylonians water began to accumulate, but so have elapsed. Civilisation has all was the best type of student; his considered тап
to be half a far as geology is concerned the two developed within half a second, conduct could not have been bet- million years
old. The Persian are closely related. The amount of while the Han dynasty was but sages limited
the history of the sodium in the oceans is estimated one-eighth of a second ago. Howter and he had attained a fair earth to 12,000 years, while the to be 14,180,000,000,000,000 tons, shall we compare one Hfetime or
measure of success in sports. Hebrew chronology, as interpreted while the rivers annually contribute even one century with the vast of Emmanuel College, said he at- by Bishop Ussher, fixed October 9, 142,621,000 tons. When theseness of time? 4004 B.C., as the day of creation, figurea are divided the result is just man having appeared at ten o'clock about 100 million years. Thia In the morning. On the other hand again is only a minimum figure, certain peoples in India.have con- The third method is the most re sidered the earth as eternal. These liable and is based upon radio- early attempts to estimate the age activity. In 1896 the discovery was of the earth took the form of made that when POO ON CHINESE HERBS CO. vague guesses which have no value stance was left next to a photo- A certain sub-
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to-day. Even at present any at- graphic plate wrapped in black: tempt to reconstruct pre-human paper, something happened to the history is regarded by some as be- plate. This substance was uranium. ing necessarily speculative.
Uranium gives off rays which affect} The story of the earth is written the sensitive photographic plate. Recently, under the heading of pint. in the layers of sediments and the, This discovery led to further in-"Fifty Years Ago," we reprinted a fossils which they contain. These vestigations of the property of paragraph telling of the reorgani-There was nothing in Sporborg's deposits form a trustworthy auto- uranium, and in 1898 Madame aation of the Singapore Volunteer condition to attract attention, ex- biography of the earth evolution, Curie discovered that uranfum dia-Corps under Major Gray in 1878, cept that he was very quiet. Then and in them we may read a most integrated. into a, new
element saya the "Straits Times." One of he fell on his face and cut his wonderful story. There can be no which she called radium. Since the Europeans who joined that unit chin. argument about the accuracy of then many other studies have been is still in Singapore in the person this record, for it has been written made of the peculiar habits of of Mr. T. L. Gosling, and on Sunday assistance and when Sporborg.
Six of those present went for by the earth itself. The main task, uranium. It has been found that inst he celebrated the completion was lifted he appeared to be un- of geology is to interpret the re. it automatically disintegrates into of fifty years as a Volunteer.
conscious. He was taken to his cord of the rocks.
a whole series of new substances, one, of which is radium and which Gosling is remarkably fit and well, ed
Now sixty-eight years of age, Mr. room and put to bed. He remain- The Sedimentary Record.
unconscious until the next in turn breaks down into other cle- and after over half-a-century of re-day, when, he died. The first method is based upon ments. The whole series is in a sidence is a wonderful tribute to the sedimentary record. This may constant state of equilibrium, with the healthiness of Singapore. He
The Toast. be called the strictly geological a fixed ratio between the amount is a keen member of the Swimming Emmanuel College, said he saw Mr. John Henry Fisher, of method. The age of the earth is so of uranium present and that of the Club, and goes for a swim prac- Sporborg drink the neat whisky exceedingly great, however, that it various unstable daughter eletically every day, Seeing how well from the tumbler, which someone ia necessary for us to prepare our ments The ratio between, uranium he is now, it is surprising to learn else had filled. He said, "Here's minde for the figures
and radium, for example, is about that a year before he joined the to the Twelfth Club!" 3,000,000 to 1.
Singapore Volunteers in 1878 Mr.
He had never seen Sporborg Gosling was landed here from a drink whisky before, and he was
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50 YEARS A SINGAPORE VOLUNTEER.
MR. T. L. GOSLING.
Ho recovered
After dinner, at about 10.30, they went to Mr. Aarvold's room in the First Court. They had some whisky there, which, was provided by the club.
Just before leaving, about 11.30, Sporborg drank a large tumbler of whisky nearly half a
They all went into the court.
Mr. E. Shaw, the head porter
The Yangtze River each year carries a great amount of sediment to the ocean. In addition to the mud transported in suspension Since the ratio of lead and sailing ship so ill that he was not surprised. there is a great deal of material helium and the other products to expected to live. rolled along the bottom and an the parent uranium is constant, and has made his career here ever at Emmanuel College, gave evid- even larger load carried in solu- and since the speed of alteration since, founding the firm of Gosling ence that he had never known tion. Ench year the Yangtze trans-appears to be so also, we may deter and Co., which became well-known Sporborg to drink to excess. ports about aix hundred million mine by an appropriate chemical as transhipping and forwarding At 12 o'clock on Wednesday tons of material. When the river analyals the age of the rocks which agents.
night he saw him at the gate
reaches the sea, the current is contain these substances. · Radio He is now a member of the auxi-saying good-bye to somebody. He checked and deposition takes place. activo minerala have been studied liary unit of the 'S.V.C., and still was making a little noise but was As a result the river is gradually in many Igneous rocks, and the retains a very keen interest in the not the worse for drink as far as building up a great delta. If we time necessary for the lead or activities of the corps. Apparent he could see.
Somebody squirted a soda-water see this delta, of which only a small determined, the catimate going up could be found more to do in a bottle and they all dispersed. part is.above sea level. On the to 1,500 million years.
military capacity. Only two years Mr. C. A. Shearson, an under whole the delta is building.up at Even these figures, inconceivably go he took a Lewis Gun, couree, gradunte said there was no cham the rate of about one foot in a cen- great as they are, do not represent and passed as a first-class shot. pagne at the dinner, and he only Sporborg have one small tury. This is probably an over- the whole age of the earth. They His services would no doubt have saw estimate if we consider the entire only deal with geologic time and do been recognised long ago, but Mr.whisky before the dinner. area of deposition.
The Coroner: You would con- not penetrate into astronomic his- Gosling never claimed the long ser-
similar decoration. sider it a foolish thing to drink In Shanghai there are many wells tory and the birth of the earth. vice medal or that penetrate 400 ft. into the The radio-active methods is the best The attention of the headquarters a tumbler of neat whisky ?-Now sands and clays beneath us, which available method of determining staff of the S.V.C. has been arous- I would.
He added that at the time it represent the ancient delta of the geologic time. Other estimates, ed, however, and on completing his Yangtze. We cannot be sure that considerably more speculative, fifty years of service Mr. Gosling did not enter the heads of any of the rate of accumulation in the determine the age of the earth as received a letter of congratulation them that it was a foolish thing past was the same as it is to-day, a planet by computing the aver from the General Officer Command- to do. but, if it was, the sediments in age quantities of lead and uranium ing. Major-General C. C. van these wells represent a period of, in the rocks of the earth's crust., Straubenzee. He was also per- something like 40,000 years. In the On this basis the figure is less western district the Shanghai, than 3,000 million years. Still Waterworks Co. have put down. a other methods are based upon well 920 ft. deep, going down through the same sediments of the ancient Yangtze delta. Such thickness would thus require some 90,000 years for its accumulation.
could drain off the water we should helium to accumulate has been ly be would be well pleased if he
Erosion More Active.
A
It is quite certain, however, that geologic processes are much more active to-day that they have been during most of earth history. We are living in a period when the mean elevation of the continents is greater than the average of the past, and hence erosion is more ac- tive to-day than has been the case throughout most of geologic time, Furthermore Fan has within modern history cut down the forests and cultivated the fields, so that eroalon is greatly increased, The amount of material trans-
HONGKONG HEIGHTS ported by the Yangtze at present
is thus abnormally high. If a foot For the information of visitors rate of deposition at present, the a century suggests the maximum the following liat of some of the figure during most of earth his- highest points on the Island and tory was but a fraction, perhaps Mainland is published:
Island.
Feet.
Victoria Peak
1828
Signal Station
1774
Mt. Parker
1784
Mountain Lodge.
1726
The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel.
1805
Taikoo Sanatorium Mt. Davis
1000
Bowen Rd. (filterbeds):
877. 297
Kowloon Peak''.
Malaland
one-fifth or one-tenth. Thus, a 900 ft. well represent several times; 90,000 years, probably a period of several hundred thousand years.
If we thus add together the maximum for each of the twenty jodd periods we find that in the course of earth history a total of 850,000 ft. of sediments have been deposited; in other words, about 70 miles. At the rate of one foot a contury, it would require 85 ml)- fon years for their accumulation.
The evidence of the sedimentary
1971. earth represents many hundreds of
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Column.).
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'enemics.
Dr. C. H. S. Taylor said he saw Sparborg on Thursday morning. He had a severe head injury. Alcohol did not suggest itself as Ja primary cause of trouble.
A post-mortem examination showed concussion of the brain, and the lungs were choked.
The Coroner: Suppose a man was not used to whisky and, out of bravado, he drank neat whisky. What would you expect the result to be?-I should expect him to become unconscious.
sonally. congratulated by the Gov- ernor, Sir Hugh Clifford.
Talking over the old days with a representative of the "Straits Times," Mr. Gosling said that when the Volunteers were reorganised in 1878 they were about 100 strong, and Major Gray and Sergt. C. Phillips were the only members above the rank of private. It was the custom of the Major to select a man to take a parade..
During the whole of his service Mr. Goaling has remained in the ranks. He served under Colour: Service conditions during the Great War, and in 1921, when the corps was reconstructed Mr. Gosling again. became a member, going into the auxillary later.” Mr. Gosling had four sons who served in the war. The eldest, who achieved success on the stage, died some years ago. Mr. L. D. Goaling, who was well-known In Singapore- as an athlete and singer, is now, in London in receipt of a pension on account of a serious" head wound. he sustained. Another son, Ruport, Is also at home, while the young- est, Basil, is a planter in Sumatra
land,