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cided loss of reputation for Siamese rice. This, I understand, is primarily due to the practice of mixing, inferior rice with the better quality and so towering the latter. If this be the correct ex- planation, then the merchants have been very short-sighted, for if Europe is suspicious of the Siamese product and cannot rely upon it, there is bound to be a falling off in demand. I under- stand that engagements have
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1930.
SOME
PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES
BY MAURICE LANE-NORCOTT
been entered into for considerURING the last few day many but, like all solicitors highly suspi
people have been asking me clous and disbelieving. They were able shipments to Japan and about my psychic experiences. then carefully blindfolded and de Hong Kong, but the European Have I ever fallen into a trance posited in 籍 Back which was demand is indifferent. The only and thrown anything at anyone? suspended from the celling by a thing for the merchants to do is Are my limbs at all teleplasmic, plece of stout rope.
to return to the old quality and and can I make my feet float in the The idea of this was to prevent depart from the practice of lower-air and glow with a pretty phos-these scientists, from deceiving ing the standard, which in the phorescent light?
themselves. It would be apparent long run is never a paying pro position.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Six cases of smallpox (Chinese)
J
Well, those are difficult questions to anawer off-hand.. Still, I think I am as psychic as some.
Of course, I have never been a
really successful medium in a large way of business, but one I ran a small spirit trade in a side street In Hong Kong were reported on off Tottenham Court-road, under the name of Ram Chunder Rance." January.2.
I was then under the Impression been that I was controlled by a small.
of Nubian goat, called Napoleon, that used to butt people in the dark and get up to other distracting tricks, such as bleating in the morning and eating shoes.
Mr. T. H. R., Shaw has appointed a member of the Court the University for three years.
A useful date pail for 1930 has been received by the China „Mail from. Watanmal. Bookthand.
Naturally this attracted a good Real of attention locally, for there
at once to the scientific mind that no goat would climb up the wall and butt them in mid-air.
Finally, the lights were turned
out, and after I had struck these wand to prove to them that they were really there, the seance com-
scientists a few times with a light
menced.
Well, I am thankful to say that it proved eminently satisfactory.
When, half an hour later, these men were leased from their sack they were all of one mind. They flatly refused to believe in a goat, although several said that they had been kicked in the stomach by a teleplasmic limb and one bearded one stoutly maintained that a spirit
A useful and informative diary were no night clubs off the Totten-had bitten him.
.
for 1930, with pencil, has been reham Court-road then, and it wasn't My profit from this seance [ceived by the China Mail from long before several scientists came amounted to fifteen pounds in cash Linotype & Machinery, Limited, 18 to me and asked me to test them. and some jewellery, and with the Ice House Street.
They said that they could believe proceeds I purchased a small jug- in all manner of things, including | gling outât and went on the halls, The name of Dr. Keisho Kiyohara, the Binomial Theory and the Force as the Great Bance, India's Most M.B. (Imperial University of of Gravity, but they weren't quite | Perilous ilusionist Tokyo), of No. 3, Wood Road, Wan- sure whether they could believe in Since then I am sorry to say that chal, has been added to the local a goat or not.
seances have never really interest- register of medical practitionera,
Well, I shall always remembered me. that test because it was carried out
"Quite Enduring?! shielding the offender, which is
Mr. G. R. Sayer, a Cadet Officer under the strictest conditions. "Ljoined the Paychical Research certainly not the correct inter-just back from leave, has beea Each of these scientists was sworn Society soon after its formation in pretation of British justice.
appointed Head of the Sanitary to secrecy by a man named Tatkins, the hope of hearing ghosts explain Department and Registrar who was a commissioner for oaths, ed away, but now I am more cer- Births and Deaths. He takes the
tain of them then I am of 81 Tavistock Square-they are more enduring."
Any risk of our place of Mr. W. J. Carrie.
Emission of harbour
Smoke
being H.M. the King has not been ade
Sir Lawrence Jodies, president of
dubbed "Smoky vised to exercise his power of dis BACK IN HONG KONG the Payne Jess Pas done,
Hong Kong," allowance with respect to Ordin- stands a good chance of being ance No. 13 of 1929 (to amend averted The Governor in Cour-the Offences against the Persons cil has taken action under the
AGAIN
made this confession in an address to members of the Oxford Univer- sity Psychical Research Associa tion, 81 Tavistock Square being the London headquartere of the society. "A ghost may be seen, or heard, or more rarely smelt," he went on.
(Ordinance of 1865) passed recently, MISS WINIFRED HENDERSON'S Morchant Shipping Ordinance. The appointment of Mr. A. E,
ACCOMPLISHMENTS The outcome is the publication of Crook to be 0.B.E. and other ap an amended regulation to Table pointments to grades of the Order GRACEFUL LITTLE TEACHER "Some ghosts may be seen or heard
M in the schedule to the Ordin of the British Empire, for five officers of the s.8. "Hajching," as án ance. For those who may not nounced in the New Year Honours have easy access to the "Govern- on Thursday, are now gazetted. ment Gazette we quote the amended regulation here:--
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A very charming young lady in Miss Winifred Henderson has re turned to Hong Kong where she
A Chinese was discharged from has a wide circle of friends. She was (1) Smoke in-uch quantity as had passed through the gateway he of years under Miss Grace Con
„...the gaol two days ago, and after he trained in England for a sumber to be a nuisance shall not be was arrested by the Police ona of London and Miss Darita Barrett sent forth or emitted from charge of being involved in an of Reading and has become a high the funnel of any steamship armed robbery at 02, Shanghai ly qualified teacher of dancing in any port of the Colony.
Street on August 18. The man was Miss Henderson la now with Miss (2) For the purposes of this re- formally charged yesterday at the Daisy O'Keefe, whose pupils
gulation the expression Kowloon Magistracy and the case "smoke" shall include soot, was adjourned. ash, grit and gritty particles.
(3) Every person who is respon- It is notified that architects', sible for or is a party to a barristers', dentists' (whether re- breach of this regulation and gistered as dental surgeons or the master of the steamship exempted persons), medical practi on which a breach of this re-tlopers', pharmaceutical chemists', gulation has been committed and solicitors' certificates, to prac shall be liable to a fine not tise for 1930, as required by section exceeding one hundred dol-21 of the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, lars.
may be obtained from the Stamp
Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 4, 1938. (4) The Court or Magistrate Office on payment of $25 atamp
STILL WATERS
Merely Departmental
We have com- mented time after time on the practice
of suppressing legitimate news from the public by the Harbour Authorities. During the week we reported the finding of a de-
hearing an information or duty.
complaint against a person Mr. N. L. Smith, a Cadet Officer, for breach of this regulation
shall not convict if of opinion has been appointed Deputy Clerk that the furnace has been so of Councils. This post carries constructed and maintained with it the duties of 2nd Assistant as to consume or burn, so far Colonial Secretary, and it was oc- as possible, all smoke arising cupled until now by Mr. I therefrom, and that such Wynne-Jones. Mr. Smith acted ab furnace has been carefully Postmaster-General while Mr. attended to.
M. J. Bréen was Colonial Treasur er during the absence of the Hon. Mr. C. Mel Messer; 0.B.E... In view of the Fertilisers opening to-day of For Rice thb Agriculturál
partmental enquiry held at the Territories it is interesting to
Show in the New POPPY DAY FUND Harbour Office Into the circum- note that the Siamese Govern- $17,000 From Colony And
stances surrounding the collisionment has Been carrying out ex- between a steam launch and a periments with fertilisers in con- cargo junk.
nection with the cultivation of
Out Ports
"FINE LATER”
At 10.45 a.m. to-day the Ob servatory reported :---
"A strong anti-cyclone is central over N: China....... Strong monsoon along the S.E. coast of China and moderate to fresh monsoon over the China Sea.**
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-morrow;-
Hong Kong and the adjacent coast:-N.E.
fresh: winds, overcast at first, finer later.
Formosa Channel: N. E. winds, strong.
by one person and not by another. I have never seen a ghost myself, but I have beard one.
There is no one explanation of ghosts, nor is there any one thing that ghosts always do. But there are so rare-for they do not seem must be some reason why ghosts to increase with the growth of the population. It may be that they mark off areas in space in which to live. This would account for their scarcity--but we do not know."
Referring to the Oscar Wilde scripts and the criticisms which had been made of them, Sir Law rence said: "I knew Oscar Wilde slightly in 1881, and the scripts are wonderfully characteristic of him. They give me a deep impression of the survival of personality! I think his character is quito unaltered by twenty-five years in the Shades."
Everyone a ""Clairvoyant" The results of certain tests seem. ed to show that perhaps a modest amount of clairvoyance was part of the equipment of everyone. When the average. person was asked to guess five cards taken at random from a pack, his success was far greater than any to be explained by the laws of chance, particularly in his first two-ahots. He would not- ably fall off in his third and fourth, and would then recover himself slightly in the fifth.
shows have so often delighted the │·· In order to prove survival of per- Colony and have been productive souailty after death, a new method of substantial contributions to of indentification by thumb-prints charity.
had been introduced. It certainly ity.⠀ .
seemed strange that a man who did not know his own thumb-print
Through Miss Henderson's talents and knowledge, Hong Kong
will have an opportunity of ba death, but apparently the incredible coming acquainted with the latest had happened. In place of peaked steps of ball-room dancing in Lon letters, collections of thumbprints don and other fashionable contres might now be deposited at the Why the enquiry rice. Plots were carefully pre- Although several contributions of Europe. was made only a departmental pared, and the same number of have not yet come in and it is
society's rooms to await identifica- Fitly endowed by nature for the tion by their owners. affair, we have. not the slightest plants were put into each plot. Impossible at the moment to pub-profession, abe has chosen, Miss. The so-called "Oscar W
Wilde knowledge. Not content with record was kept of the various fish the accounts duly audited, it Henderson is, typical of all that is Scripts" to which Sir Lawrence.
growths and it was clearly shown is expected by the Poppy Day Sub graceful and chic In dancing. Jones referred are writings obtain Holding the inquiry in the office that the fertilised plots greatly Committee of the British. Legion She insists on the strictly corrected by spiritualistic means and of the Harbour Master, and thus improved. The experiments have that the total raised for Earl technique when giving lessons in claimed to have been faspired by preventing the Press from serv- proved clearly that where scien- Haig's Fund will approximate all branches of the art the spirit of Oscar Wilde. In his ing their readers faithfully, the there is a distinct improvement mittances from the outports as Miss Henderson is an expert in Conan Doyle describes thom as, tific fertilisation is undertaken 17,000. The amount includes re- Science of Teaching History of Spiritualism, Bir Arthur
authorities concerned went one in the crops and padi growing on step further. The finding of the very interior land can be made Court was not even made known, rich and healthy. The intention nor was there any intimation left here they have the mea
is to prove to the farmers that on the Presa table. The offend a larger return from ing coxswain in the case had his but" the licence suspended for
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the Dalcroze method, Espinosa's long communications which are and Cecchetti's method of opera-not only characteristics of his tic techniqué, the revised Greek style, but which contain constant. dance, national, clog and ball-allusions to obscure episodes in his room dances (including all that is own life, and which, finally, are fashionable in
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kators waltz and the Furthermore, she has for her accomplishme science of teaching