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Mr. Hastings-Yes, but until they are pro- duced we cannot decide. If your Lordship will allow me to look up the regulations--
His Lordship-Very well, I will adjourn the case sine die. Of course you had better see whether there is any truth in the man's story about getting permission from the Captain Superintendent.
Case adjourned sine die.
THE SERVICE OF SUMMONSES. Mr. Grist appeared for the plaintiff in an action to recover money due. The case was not on his Lordship's list, and Mr. Grist said the summons had been served, and therefore the case ought to be on the list.
His Lordship Who served the summons? Mr. Grist My clerk, and the summons is made returnable for to-day.
His Lordship He did not inform us that the mmons had been served:
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Mr. Grist-It should have been on the list. We do not make up the list.
His Lordship-No, but the case cannot be put on the list until we know the summous has been served.:
Mr. Grist But the summons is made re- turnable for to-day by the order of the Court.
His Lordship Are you trying to argue that you are right in not giving us notice?
Mr. Grist Yes.
His Lordship. Very well; case adjourned
till next week.
Mr. GristWill your Lordship have it called
on now?
His Lordship-No,
Mr. Grist-But the order specifies to-day.
for next week.
8th October.
THE MONEY LENDING POLICEMAN.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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care the value and effect of which cannot pro- perly be indicated here. But some notion of its effect upon the familiar stories of the Bible may be given by quoting its “modern parody the narrative of the Hexatouch, a parody skilfully designed to show in a concrete instance what the book otherwise demonstrates by re- condite learning. Here it is :-
B.C..
Now King Celtus took unto him to wife Belga, and she bare him three daughters-Hibernia, Caledonia, and Britannia, and the sons of Hibernia were these: Ulster, Munster, Leinster, and Connaught, and Leinster
was the father of Dublin.
"A.D. 400. Now the sons of Teuton were
And to Saxo were born four sons-Essex, these: Anglus, Saxo, Juta, Danus, and Horsa. And the son Middlesex, Wessex, and Sussex. of Juta, Kent. Now Kent sat by the sea-shore, and ordered the waves back from his chair, but lo, they surrounded him altogether; then said he unto his servants- Call me no more a god, for God only ruleth the winds and the waves.' Therefore was the name of that place called Godwin, for there, stove he with God, but could not prevail. And to Danns. were born sons, Northumber, Durham, and York. Now, York was a great man, and had three sons riding upon horses; to each of them gave he a province; therefore is the name of that province called Riding unto this day; and his servants conspired against him and smote off his head, and set it up
on the walls of his city that he had built for himself withal, so he died. Therefore, they that speak in proverbs say, 'Alas, poor Yorick.' “A.D. 1066. And the high priest said unto
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His Lordship—And I will make another order him, Thus saith the Lord, Get thee up and take the land, for to thee have I given it; and he said, Good is the word of the Lord;
I am willing to go up. Therefore was his name called. Will-i-am. Now the chief city of that land was great exceedingly, and much business was wrought there, and many a loan done. There fore called they the name of that city London.
"A.D 1314. And Bruce fled from the face of his enemies, and a woman said unto him, Turn in, my lord; and she was baking cakes, cakes burn not. And it came to pass that as and the woman said unto him, See that these his heart was heavy because the enemies of God possessed the land, lo, the cakes did burn. Therefore was that place called Bannockburn; and there did God give him great deliverance."
The action in which Police Constable Jewan Singh sued S. A. Ramjahm for $128.70, money due on promissary notes, came on again for hearing. Mr. J. Hastings (of Mr. V. H. Deacon's office) appeared for the plaintiff. The case was adjourned on Friday in order that the regulations respecting the leading of money by policemen might be considered.
Mr. Hastings said the only regulation on the subject was one dated 3rd November last, and it was as follows :— No subordinate officer or con- stable shall act as a money leuder." He sub- mitted that this regulation did not in any way prevent a man from suing, but simply made him amenable to punishment in case he did act as a money lender. But as a matter of fact, the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police gave the plaintiff permission to sue.
His Lordship said he did not know what power the Acting Captain Superintendent had
sion was given it was sufficient.
If, as Dr. Wright maintains, with a much more serious learning than the above parody would indicate to any one ignorant of the cons ditions of the problemn, the Hexateuch is made up of history like that, it will be difficult to confute the argument in which he maintains that either the Hexateuch should not be taught to children as history, or it should at the same time,belexplained to them what it really is-a
to give permission in any case, but as permis-collection of garbled stories defaced by the ac
Plaintiff then proved the debt and judgment was given for him.
REVIEWS.
Was Israel Ever in Egypt? or, A Lost Tradi- tion By G. H. BATESON WRIGHT, D.D., &c. London: Williams and Norgate. DR. G. H. BATESON WRIGHT'S book, Was Israel Ever in Egypt, is n contribution of considerable weight to the literature of what is called the Higher Criticism. It opens with a thoughtful exposition of the general principles which animate critical research, and maintains with an interesting and highly suggestive in- sistence that the critical spirit supposed to be a thing of peculiarly modern growth was at work in the writers, editors, and compilers of the early books of the Bible in the shape in which they have come down to our times. It then goes on to examine into the methods of the writers of the Hexateuch, and finds that story rather than history preponderates in their narratives; and that there is really no true history of the people of Israel until the time of David. The examina- tion of the manner in which the stories of the Mosaic books were made up from conjectural etymologies of the names of places and persons, of the habit the authors had of antedating the events with which they dealt, and of the peculiar significance of the genealogies which they re- cord, is made with a profound learning in the technicalities of the subject, and with a scholarly
It is
[October 10, 1895.
The Lo-Fou Mountains. An Excursion. By F. S. A. BOURNE, H.B.M. Vice-Consul, Canton. Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh,
Limited.
LEAVING Canton on the 17th September, 1892, Mr. Bourne and his fellow travellers had a very hot time of it on the journey up the East River, the maximum temperature recorded at the Hongkong Observatory on that date being 94 degrees. The temperature would probably be higher on the river. On the 20th Septem- ber they were at double the height of the Hongkong Peak in a temperature of 66 degrees. As Mr. Bourne remarks, during the clear weather of October, November, and December the temple at which they put up
would be a paradise to a small party of sports- men or botanists, well provided with the neces saries of western life. It would be a paradise, we should say, also during the summer heats, even taking fog and rain into consideration. The Lo- fou Mountains lie about sixty miles east of Can- ton and seventy miles as the crow flies north of Hongkong. Mr. Bourne's account of his trip may perhaps induce others to make the excursion, and possibly in years to come the Mountains may be a recognised sanatorium for the jaded residents of Hongkong. Mr. Bourne's party appears to have consisted of himself, Dr. Wales, of Canton, Dr. Atkinson and Mr. Badeley, of Hongkong, and Mr. Wyon.
Chinese Characters for the Use of Students of the
Japanese Language. By ARTHUR HYDE LAY H.B.M.'s Consular Service. Tokyo: Shu risha.
THIS book, which has been forwarded to us through Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Limited, will be a useful assistant to the student of Japanese. It supplies a list of the Chinese characters he will be likely to require in the course of his studies, close
four thousand characters being upon
given. A supplement to the Hoch? Shimbun appeared three or four years, age containing three thousand characters, to the use of which. that paper promised to limit itself, except on special occasions. In his preface Mr. Lay says permission was kindly granted for the publica tion, with English translation, of that list as it stood; but on the whole it seemed advisable to prepare an independent list and adopt a different includes most of the characters to be met with arrangement. The present volume, however,
in the columns of the Hochi Shimbun, a number of Japanese names are furnished, and the names of some foreign places in common use are given. in an appendix.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
On the 1st inst. in accordance with the notice
issued by Hon. F. A. Cooper, Water Authority, the water supply of the colony was limited to few hours, and it is an absolute certainty that residents will have to suffer this curtailment
cretions of criticism and correction of successive ages The work is one which well deserves the attention of all serious students of the Higher until the beginning of the rainy season next Criticism; and while it sums up and confirms
year, unless we are in the meantime visited by some conclusions of prior critics, it has an ori- prolonged tropical rains, and it is now almost ginal and independent value as offering a new theory of the Exodus, which, if it must shock useless to hope for such rains. On Monday morn many respectable people by showing that Josephing, 30th ult., Tytam reservoir containedonly never really was in Egypt at all, will ease the 205,000,000 gallons, whereas the capacity before the dam was raised was 312,000,000 gallons. minds of some scholars who have been troubled
Pokfulam reservoir contained 37,000,000, and its by discrepancies in narratives which churchmen holding capacity is 66,230,000 gallons. It will be are content to take as inspired without looking
seen from these figures that the outlook for the dry season is anything but cheerful, and every very closely into their meaning or effect. a carefully reasoned and acute book, which will resident is in duty bound to see that not a drop add to its author's already high reputation as a
of water is wasted or misused. With the exer- critic of the Scriptures.--Scotsman.
cise of ordinary care on the part of the con- sumers there will be sufficient water to allow of - eight gallons per head per day until April,, but of course if the water is improperly used even THE Executive Council of the Imperial In- that allowance will have to be materially stitute has decided that new editions of the reduced. The rains at the end of September have year-book in its entirety shall in future be not made very much difference to the condition The rain was not very heavy published only triennially, so that the next issue of the reservoirs. will not take place until 1897. It has, however, at any time, and a large quantity will be lost been considered desirable to publish for each in- by absorption and evaporation, while it will tervening year a supplement to the work, giving take a long time for much of the water to the latest authoritative statistics and information percolate through the earth and find its way received from the Governments of the various to the streams feeding the reservoirs. Naturally colonies and possessions, and from other official the heavier the rain the less the quantity of sources. This is the first issue of the supple-water that soddens the earth. If the rain falls ment and, it does credit to the compilers. Un fortunately, however, the statistics are in most cases only brought up to the end of 1893.
Supplement to the Year-Book of the Imperial
·Institute. 1895.
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gently, as it did last week, there is more time for, absorption, whereas a real tropical storm means the head long rushing of the water off