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matter; that a physical ache has a detarlor TELEGRAMS.Į
bamboozled." The most lucid presenta ating effect upon the immortal substancer tion of the "Christian Science" position If that be authoritative, it is plain that given to us was this: a mother (Christian Christian Scientiste believe in duality as much as wo do. It shows that mind Science") watching her child (the nu- CO. initiated) in its cot, des it manifesting influences matter, and matter influences the symptoms of nightmare terror. To mind, and that the Christian Baie itiste dra the dreaming child, the place in peopled merely guilty of over-emphasising half the with horrid creatures. The mother truth. Here appropriately comes in the gently awakes it, shows it that those promised sunlogy. Matter and miad to horrid creatures do not exist sare in its gother represent a married couple. The perverted imagination; that the grinning husband is (let us say) mattor, and the dragon is merely a wardrobe, the incubus wife is mind. The muried pair is an merely a crumpled blanket, its real comobjective reality, an entity of extensión. panion & loving mother. On the strength Christian scientists seem to be inclined to of this pretty analogy, the exponent claimed, take a quifragette" view of the pair- so far as we could understand him, to be mind (the wife) is the real self" of the howing logical reason for the faith within pair, and matter (the husband) is not real him. We did not argue, as there was time enough to matter much, though his rality only to lears, and we really desired to get is occasionally admitted, as on "pay day correctly the point of view that they held. for instanco. [e. The diseases are very Otherwise, we might have taken up their real to prove the cures; but only "seeming "
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GERMAN SOCIALIST RIOTS/
LONDON, January 13th, Socialist riots have occurred at Berlin.
NEW SULTAN OF MOROCCO.
LONDON, January 13th. Mulai Hafid has been proclaimed Sultan at Fez.
THE EASTERN SHIPPING WAR
SUPREME COURT,
Monday, January 13th.
IM SOMMARY JURISDICTION,
Barora Hin Honore My ▲ G. Wix (Púlaam Judos).
DISPUTED WOOL CORNBLOT.
MARINE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Monday, January 19th.
Baron HON, Commander BASIL, R. H. TAYLOR, E.N, (Marina MagistRATE),
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James Mosobam, A.B., of the xi. ↑ Empress of India" was prossouted by Chief Ofisar W. D. Hoperaft for absenting himself from his ship without leave, and without sufficient reason
Ip On and Co. sought to recover from the Fa Kat Cheong firm the sum of $597.85 for gooda seld and delivered, and agreed inferoh
Mr. W. D. Hoporaft stated that at 8 am, on and commission, therson. Mr. P. Sydenham the 9th instant the bostawala, reported to him Dixon (of Mr. R. A. Harding's office) appeared that the defendant wished leave to go shore for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Otto Kong Bing Wissam refused, bassare he considered the for the defendants.
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Mr. Dixon stated that the plaintiffs' claim he was required to work on board. At nine was for Berlin wool, and the defendants had'eloak the bostawain reported that the dafend- paid into Court the sum of $107.71, aut refused to turn to, and at ten o'clock there was about $100 difference between the Mssolinis took a sampan and left the ship. parties. He supposed the parties were agreed Witness cilled the sampan alongside, and defend. to great extent upon the fasta, Onani then went into Lane Crawford's staangas LONDON, January 13th. November 17th, 1906, the plaintifs entered launch which was lying alongside. The mag The Nippon Yusen aisha has with-into a contract with the defendants by which | as arms was sent down to order him on bated, drawn from the Further India trade agreed to buy fire ouses of Berlin wool at and he returned to the steamer. He is than the invoice price plus 21 per cent commission, in shore clothes. Witness hoisted the police
point of the objective unreality of disense, and unreil to effect the cures.] Christine in favour of the Norddeutscher and the terms of payment wera ninety days from fag, the police answered, and difendant wa
WHISKY and evil in this way: observe the same mother and the same child in another situation. The objectively real mother bebolds frous a real window her real child in a real yard. Approaching the admittedly real child is a mad dog, which we, not being "Christian Scientists," claim is just as ebjectively actual and real, and likely to give the child real hydrophobia. As a Christian Scientist "what does the mother do? Tell the child that the peril is im ginary, like ita previous nightmare, or call real father with a real gun to shoot the real dog and roally save the child? Should these lines be sea by the gentlemen who instructed us, we suggest that this is a questions they might publicly ausser without any of the disadvantages we warned them against, always providing, of course, that here is an answer expressible in logical terms to dispose of the difficulty in favour of "Christian Science." On the point raised by us of the menace to public safety, both
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Science divorces the man and wife, so te speak-and then denies the existence of the couple, the pair. There never was, they "real-self," the argue, more than one woman (or spirit). The man was illusio We fancy we have herein fairly define the Christian Scienc position, and we claim again that it is nonsense, intellectually or logically indefensible, and in so far as it promises to "bamboozle" vacant-minded folk into foolish e aduct in the matter of disease and health, we denounce it as dangerous. At the same time we propose to lead no persecution: our renders shall have the benefit of hearing both sides, if both sides care to argus. We are assured that the promised lecturer will endeavour to be Incid, although he will not ayits questions or debate, and his attention is going to be called to our presentment of the diffentics of the subject as they occur to the general public. It will be noted, we
hope, that we have avoided purely religious issues, and kept only to theerial issue that concerns us all, the question of health and disease.
Vamels arrived in port yesterday report heavy fogs at sea, which in many instances delayed passages.
Last week's ralarn of communicable disease
and nine cases of smslipoz.
Lloyd.
THIRD TEST MATCH,
LONDON, January 13th. England's first innings closed for 363 runs. The Australians have scored 133 runs for four wickets in the second innings.'
STRIKE AT TEHERAN.
LONDON, January 12th. The Zoroastrians at Teheran have abandoned work owing to the murder of a banker.
GREAT FIRE AT NEW YORK.
LONDON, January 12th. A fire in a New York "skyscraper"
resulted in damage estimated at one million pounds sterling.
FATÂL CRUSH AT A CHILD. REN'S ENTERTAINMENT.
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ordered to turn to in their presso He said he would, but as 8003 as witness and the police had left he again refused. Then he readled the police and said he would not work any more.
•Edward Walker, master-at-arma ‘on the Empress of India" corroborated the evidence of the Chief Officer.
William Hutchinson, one of the crew, was, '
called by the defendant. He did not hear the Chief for oill defendant names. The boata- wain told defendant, after the police bad left
delivery of the goodis, · As soon as both parties had signed the bostrat plaintiffs wrote do their agents in Hainburg to procure the goods for them, absting in the letter that they enclosed a trial order for fire cases of Barlin wool whigh possible in order to give them a start in that was to be taken in hand at the lowest prics
lius. On April 4th they received a letter from their agents in Hamburg stating that they had shipped the goods, and enclosing an involée. The mode of payment was by bank draft. On the same day as they received the farcice the Hongkong" that he hadn't the extrails of a spring shicken. " and Shanghai Bank presented a draft for Then defendant called the polios back. £48.11.3. On April 20th a toki from the plaintiffs' shop was sent to the dafandante” shop, told them when the goods were expented to arrive, and gave them a copy of the inrcien which the defendants acompted, Ahonë s week After this the goods arrived and were placed in godown, On May 10th defendants went to plaintiffs' shọp and naked" for delivery of the goods, Plaintiffs and the goods were in godown, and gave the defendan is ⚫ delivery order; they also told them that for the goods on August 10th, under the bank draft they would have to pay
Kramined by the Chief Officer, witness said he had never sean him give any ona In charge before. The craw wees wall treated. [-]
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David Clark, who refused daty, with the defendant in the Best instance, bat finally turned to, said the boatswain told Masahsin that he "hadn't the spirit of a loans,'
Defendunt, who pleaded not guilty, mid ko bed permission to go ashore from the boata- wain and Chief Offiser. Both refused him, 87 he got info shere clothes and left the ship. He called the police back on accouas of the remark The defend-off the boatswain.......
anta said “All right." At the end of July, and on Angust let, plaintiffs want to see defendants at their shop, and reminded them that the bill had to be met on August Osh, On the second visit the defendiata ssid they did not think they would be able to meet the draft.
His Lordship-Had they bought the goods P Mr. Dixon-You.
His Lordship—Lud taken delivery ?
Mr: Dixon-You.
Proceeding, Mr. Dixon stated that on August
His Worship fund the obargə provad, ordered the defendint to forfeli sight days' pay, and sentenced him to six weske imprisonment. with hard labour:⠀⠀
MAÇÃO'S GOVERNOR IN BONGKONG.
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their conscience to satisfy the law," but they claimed that they would "as a rule" loyally obey the doctor's orders, They could not, however, deny the possibility that at Hongkong mentions one case of diphtheria to death at an entertainment given at some might ignore the doctor's prescriptions, so we could not withdraw our serious suggestion that on this ground alone Christian Science "is a meuace to society. Logically, of course, if the doctors are working on wrong lines, and "Christian Science" alone has the whole truth, as they ONLY.COMmunications relating to the news column waintain, it is nu menace, but a promise of stranding of the "Smi-an" in the West 285 runs, The English Elevan have meet the draft, Then defendants, for the first vening an official dinner was given i
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salvation; but then we take it the majority end the law believe still in real disease and to some extent in material medkine. This brings us luck to the apparent inconsistency of "Kristian Scienco" views of mind and matter. We find the literature supplied to us ns inconsistent as the two exponents who called on us; and we think we can, in few words, and with a simple analogy as good as theirs of the mother and sleeping child, expose the misunderstanding. The official literature is full of "Mesopotamian " London Optics: 131, FLEET STREET. F.C. Phrases like "to human sense" (what other
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A burglary is reported to have bosarred at the house of Mr. Wong Po-Chan, agent for the China Matual Life Inearance Co., Ist week. Money and jewellery to the extent of $1000 was stolen. The police have the matter. in hand, and hope soon to eff sot an arrest.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library. and Museum for the wook ending the 15th January, 1998, shows that of non-Chinese i bers weys 406 to the Library and 226 to the Museum, and of Chinese 148 to the former and 3,742 to the latter. The Library was therefore used by 449 persons and the Mresume by 3,069.
"THIRD TEST MATCH.
LONDON, January 12th. The Australians were all out for
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2nd the defendants asked for an extension of the | House to kɔ the gasst of H.E. the Goricñor, time of payment. Plaintiffs ald they could and Lady Lugard during their stay in not grant this themselves, but would have to Hongkong. Yesterday morning Admiral cable to Hamburg. They did, and on August 6k Arthur Moore paid an offgist visit 7th were informed by the bank that they were to the distinguished visitors, the call be- perfectly willing to extend the time of payment ing returned in the afternoon. After this Lo December 7th. On October 10th plaiati Sanbor Coutinho and his wife called on again sout to defendants to know if they could Consul General and Mrs. Romano. In the Govern-
time, raised the point that the price was ment House by Sir Friderick and Lady Lagard too high As a matter of fact it was a fair in honour of the visitors, at which the following market price, and plaintiffe informed them attended:His Excellency Monsieur Coutinho that they would not say that under the con- (Governor et Mamo) and Madame Coutinho, treet. Ox Beccomber 7th the bill became dae, Captain Menes (Chief of Staff, Macao) and plaintifs applied to the defendante os Captain da Fousses Monteiro, A.D.C., payment. Defendants refused to pay, so plain Lord and Lidy French, Leawonant Sanbir, liffs paid the bill. What they were now suing A.D.C., Captain Marseaux (Kent), Cap. for was 48.11.3. Defendants ought to have tain Arautos Pedrosa (Bio Lima), Lisutan. paid in the first instance on August 7th, but the aut Coulari de Medieros, Lieutenant time was extended to December 7th. They did Vital de Freitas, Comm sader Glennie (Water- SHANGHAI, January 13th.
not wish to be out of pocket; all they ask for with); Major Bayliff R.M.LI, Lieutenant The Chinese bank manager charg-under the contrast was their 2 per cent Broek (Clio), Lieutenant Blackwood (Alaority), ed with inciting to riot at Shanghai commission has been handed over to the Mixed Court. The Taotai of the latter has issued a proclamation in stringent terms prohibiting the boycott. The popular feeling seems to be very strong, but the incident is expected
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His Lordship-What did you pay? Mr. Dizon-8632 That was at the rats of exetange ruling on December 7th ?
Mr. Kong Bing-The bill was drawn on yon, was it not?
Mr. Dixon-Yoz
Mr. Koog Sing-That is the point, my Lord. At the time things goods were ordered
there was a prios liss of 19 and that was
to close without any serious outcome. the price given to my clients, who agreed A case was called on before Mr. H. H. J. The native press, which has hitherto to it. The goods arrived in April, but no
vessels in part with water from streams at Gompertz at the Police Court yesterday in which supported the idea of the boycott, notice was given to my client. He had to make a waterboat man was abarged with supplying has now agreed to refrain from com- personal application. This bill is drawn on the plaintiffs, and when exchange rose my clients Haaghow. He failed to appear and his bail of ment
The actions 20 far of the offered to pay in dollars, which the plaintiffs $25 was entreated. The master of a rowing Peking and local officials have been refused to onept. I have paid what we admit host was also called on to angwer a charge of exemplary. carrying excess passagers. He also was absent, and His Worship estreated his ball of $25..
There was a large attend snoe at the City
to be due into Court. Plaintiffs are liable on
the bill.
Mr. Dixon-We extended it expressly for your benefit.
After hearing theevidence his Lordship gare in, and judgment for the defendants for the difference between the amount paid in and the amount claimed.
Captain Brierly, Captain and Mr. Murray, Captain McCullock, Captain and Mia, Collingwood, Hen, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. May, Mr. Bramble B.M.LL, Mr. Batterthwaite R.E.. Mr. Dalyell (129th Baluchis), Consul & G. Romano, Mr. and Mrs, J. J. Loiria, Bor. and Mra Ensis, Mr. and Mrs. Eres, Me Carruthers, Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton, Mr. and Mr. Leste, Mr. and Mrs. Lafrents. Mr. Char
Mitchell-Taylor and Mr. A. J. Brackenburg
Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mr. Williams," "Captain
(Private Secretary).
IS THIS JUSTICE?
Hell last night to witness' one of the most adgment for the plaintiffs for the amount paid The riesha paller, running too close to him
more will be said about them in next issue.
WEATHER REPORT.
At the Police Court yesterday Mr. F. A. Hassland ordered a rissha coolie to pay $3 compensation for running over a lukong's took The lukong, it appear, was on duty in Queen's Road West of the time, and like most policemen held his course, regardless of traffte. was able to clear and thus the accident occurred. Ip-ignorance of the full details of the case, we do not oare to be dogmatic; but if the lakong had room to step aside, and if he did not “motion by coolie to turn'sside, we say-this is a gros mass of justice, and a very dangerous precedent
seuse is proved; what else can a" Christian Two seaman from the steamer "Chien Mai" Scientist" claim?) "ein, and disease loes appeared before Mr. F. A. Haseland at the their reality in human consciousness "
Police Court yesterday charged with stealing (what other consciousness can a human 3 Obs of rice which formed part of the ship's HONGKONG, JANUARY 14TH, 1908.
cargo. They were found guilty and each man being boast ?) and so од Honestly was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment sad THERE is now scarcely one European in endeavouring to grasp their point of view, six hours' stocks, Hongkong who cannot claim a "Christian we pondered the last quoted saying, and Scientist ” ns a friend or acquaintance, and decided that it meant that a Christia we have sufficient evidence that the public reality for the believing patien, inasmuck Scientist's disease has lost its subjectle is now really interested in the movement.
as he has persuaded himself it has left him, This warrants a return to the subject, that is no longer exists, but it objectively which, moreover, has been prompted by in
persists, it is really there, but burts less or interview with two local leading exponents not at all because the patient won't believe of the cult. They came, not to complain, in it. Is that fair? If we have not mis but to reason with us, and we regret to say represented it, it is nonsnae, intellectually that we met the same difficulty mentioned foolish. It is difficult, however, to pin Patang Consolidated Company was held at The first ordinary general meeting of the by our original, correspondent. They them down, for they jump from one position Winchester-house. Mr. John E. Champany exciting bering tournaments that has been claimed logical grounds for what we had to another, both mutually antigonistic, and presided, and, in moving the adoption of the
Bean in Hongkong. All the erents' în just described as their intellectual folly, juggle with unanalysable phrases just a report, referred in deteil to the position of the cluded in the programme were willing, and but had to admit that their pisition was they ignore premises. This, from the mines. He said that while the development on difficult to express in terms of logic, with official organ of the society, is pain enough: Nicholson's and Friger's (Semiliang) lodes had The first event, a ton round contest between been rather disappointing, they had opened up Coyne and Schuter, ended in a draw. The. the crystalline clarity colloquially debristian Science shows us the unreality what appeared to ban grost wins in the Williak's second, between "Lotus" Collins of the H.G.A.
of sin and disease siderated by our correspondent, when he
ne revealed by property. The opening up of the Fraser lode and Fred Anderson of the Middlesex Begment, ́asked for definitions in plaid English. We Christian Science, the unreality of mutter
had exposed about 40,000 tons of low-grade ore, ended in a win for the latter on points. Mar- withdraw nothing of what we suid before
is also seen, that it came fryin nothing, which, so large a lode, could no doubt be worked riott beat Thomas of the King Alfred" for the the depression which is moving Bostwards tu The interview, and ho litemture that was [Oh, logical science is nothing, and at a satisfactory prefit. The lowest level of the featherweight championship of the Colony after Pressure has increwed on the N.E. cost of its original nothing- mins was aí a depth of only 180ft, and the a brilliant exhibition; Neumann of the Mid-China, and decreased in S. Chins It continuus loft with us, so far only confirms our will return to
shows the unreality of death, board had faith in the lower levels. When diesex Regiment was defeated by Tait" relatively high over the Pacifs to the Sof repugnance to the growing cult. One of that, mau's real self is eterual, immortal" crushing was "in full swing," the Eemiliang Childa of the "King Alfred and in one round pight to moderate variable winde uy be
Light the two gentlemen stated that "Christian Science" positively cures actual organic Could anything be plainer? Yet, in that property, would unquestionably be reopened. Polly" Perkins of the Middlesex Regiment expected in the Formosa Channel and light United States As to the Willink's mine the developments had taught " Taft'
King monsoon over the China Sea. discases; the other stated that it proves case, why so much literature to prove that be most satisfactory. The new plant was Alfred" how to box.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 9.00 inches.. the unreality of such ills, and quoted Mra. the many "cures" were cases of real expected to start operations early next March.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon Eoor's paying that "if you admit the organic disease, aduiicted physical wrecks, In spite of the extra outlay which had been "given up" by doctors? Is that consistent ? incurred on equipment, there was no reason to
to-day ie se follows:-- presence and possibility of disease, you
We must sieze up in this point, and ask at fair that the capital subscribed would not be HONGKONG CLUB V MIDDLESEX REGISENT, Hongkong & Neighbourhood() cannot cure it." Those apparently con-
fully adequate, and the board did not contemplate The following. playing in colours, · will
Formosa Channel... tradictory statements were made oach in once why, if disease is unreal, and man's teal any increase in the capital. Mr. H. Frisby, in represent the Club this afternoon on the Clab
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com- the presence of the other, and they adolf immortal, Christian-Solence healers seconding the motion, saked the shareholdere ground at 4.45 p.m. sharp-
South coast of Chies between Į
plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crême Charmante, Lait mitted they could not reconcile them should bother about curing areal disease, to ignore the rumours which had been circulated
Hongkong and Lamooks, )
Charmant and Special Skin Tenis and Pondre Same as No. 1. Charmant will enable you to do it. Her except to someone initiated." It was and taking real money for so doing? The with regard to the property; the shareholders
South odest of Chins between? could easily guess why they had been spread
Hongkong sad-Hainan..}
Specialities for the Skin are the study of a friendly interview, so we did not like to say startling reply, was made (to a similar about. After a few questions had bean saswered,
(*) E. or variable winds, light to moderate;ifetime. A S. Watson & Co., Ltd, Hole Agents
564 cloudy, misty.. what we thought, that in such a case to be question) that these unreal pains do the report was unsaimontly adopted.
ness...
Williams of the
HOCKEY.
C. W. Jeffries, 'T. M. Kastt, T: 0. Gray, H. L. Garrett, C. P. Chater, E. Gaster, O. Esger, E. Kutchison, H. V. Wilkinson, İB. F. Bioketta sind I. G. Bird (Captain), ·
the following report:
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued On the 13th at 11.55 am-The barometer bae fallen r pidly orer N.E. Japan saing to the North of Hokkaido.
£1,377,780,000 WORTH OF GOLD.
HOW THE WORLD'S' STORE. IS, DIVIDED.
Washington, Dao. 13. The Treasury Department estimates the world's gold stook on December 31, 1906, at £1,377,780,003, divided as follows:
Germany usemns Russia
France
Great Britain
£318,660,000 208,000,000 187,88 000. 185,280000 97,340,000 382,620,000
Remainder of the world.. The world's product of gold in the calendar year 1906 is placed at 290,049,089, and the Variable winds," | silver, commercial value, at £22,422,100.
light to moderate. Samens Ne, 1.