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INTIMATION
A S. WATSON
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 3RD, 1909.
and his crew all framt bitten with a temper schools of the Homejosunists and Homoto TELEGRAMS.
ature of some 73 degrees below zero. Doubtless atnumerous mcotings of the Royal Geographical Society all these dilinquencies will be duly brought up to his discredit; so perhaps for the sake of humanity, we need not hers further dilate on them, but leave & CO. to others better provided with implements
of torture the morited castigation.
suniste,-oblivious of the fact till pointed out from outside that after all there was but the "jot" of difference. All these schools are equally looking to the new continent. Lo find themselves right, and Lieutenant SHACKLETON's unexpected mountain plateau at the South Pole, where, according the geclogiale, it has no business to be, will Thanks to the enthusiasm of the last doubtless prove the cause of much indiser. fifte us yeare the great southern Polar minato quill-breaking, and heart-agitating, Continent is, at last, beginning to be fairly After all, all these schools are, of coume, well known, bat curiously nearly all our right, but all are equally wrong in suppos preconceived ideas have been proved to being that their particular application of their own theories ie aufficient to explain every unfounded. It is a dreary waste of unin" WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS Labitable land, whereon not single mammal has been found, and where, except along its cosets, even the migratory Aretic birds And it difficult to establish a footing Practically life of all kinds has been reduced
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brought to see that the force of gravity thing in unture. The geologists cannot be which for him only acts in carrying matter from the tops of the mountains and dropping it in bottons, may after all be concerned in the formation of the very to a minimum, and the explorer has to bring mountain chains it momentarily is engaged from more genial climeseverything necessary in destroying. The physicist, intense in to support life, so that exploration in attend-studying the isostasy of the same mountain ed with even greater difficulties than in the chain, forgets that Jupiter and Veaus by cape latitudes in the northern circumpolar the seemingly negligeable factor of their
gravitational action lands. The stalwart explorers who under all these difficulties and bearing still more
literally even than in Arctic lands, their
that the success of the two remarkable ex-
peditions of Captain Scorr, and Lieutenant SHACKLETON has been entirely due. It has not been, of course, possib'e in o telegraphic message all the way from the antipodes to do more than give the very briefst summary of the knowledge gained by the recent ex- pedition, but from what we have been able to learn it has been neither small, var uninteresting.
ou the earth may
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TOKYO, April 2nd.
A new battleship to be named the Kawachi" has been laid down at Kawachi,
THE DESTROYED TEMPLE.
TOKYO, April 2nd.
The loss occasioned by the destruc- tion of the Zojoji Temple at Shiba is variously estimated at between three and five million yen.
There was no insurance, and price- less treasures have been destroyed,
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LONDON, April 2nd. General Sir O'Moore Creagh, who
THE BALKANS,
proces. Finally the meteorologist, who quite dissents from Lieutenant SHACKLE. actually have bad a hand in the same live in their hands, are, if possible, entitled to still higher honour; for it is to an even TON's weather experiences, is apt to forget greater extent true that it has been to careful that cosmic influences, and even gravity foresight and organisation, added to per-its If may have much to any to climate. severence and pluck of no ordinary kind, Reasoning from analogy there is good reason
to believe that the law of decrease of tem-has been Secretary of the Military Department of the India Office since peinture with increase of height cannot re quite the same where nights and days are 1907, suceeeds Lord Kitchener as of six 'monks' duration, as where they Commander-in-Chief of the Indian interchange every twenty-four hours; yet, | „Army. of course, the incrasse of temperaturo under the same in both pressure would be ins asces; this alone would afford as efficient explanation for the fact that wjilb Captain. Scorz found bis soatherly winds under Mount Erebus were invariably warm, Lieut. SHACKLETO when he came to the lofty platenu off which these same winds were blowing found the average temperature the coldest yet registered on the earth. Alto- gether there is a vast amount of scientific information to be gained by Antarctic ex the extraordinary development in the regiona ploration; and the carious result that the about the South Pole of platonic rocks, to information gained is almost invariably the almost complete effacement of sedi- contrary to previous conclusious, so far from imentary formations, This is not to be dumping our desire for
regione in
Scientific men have long foreseen that in the Great Southern Continent lie concealed many of the secrets of the past history of the world; yet it is remarkable how momentarily waal! has been the information already Curiously all the geological “UNDOUHTEDLY THE BEST BEER evidences as yet collected have gone to show
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opposite effect in The late Professor stimulating our efforts. A. S. WATSON & CO.. in the exactly antipodal
of course, would
HAUGHTON used to say of physics that his the North, which, have been subjected to exactly similar had experimente always turned out the best, comical conditions, dimentary forma-Lieut. SHACKLETON's most uncalled for tions occupy a very important place discoveries will probably in the end be We know that at various periods fro eqully hailed for the light they throw on Carboniferous to late Tertiary, sa lato as the terrestrial physics. class of the Pliocene, the lands about the North Pule must have enjoyed a mild climate, as mild, in fact, as many sub- tropical regions at the present time; the cosmical, as compared with the terrestrial bren conditions must always have similar in both hemispheres, as both must have received an equal amount of Were the Orders for extra copies of DAILY PRESS light and heat from the sun. should be sent before 11 .. on day of publication. After that hour the supply is contemporary climates in the Antarctic limited. Only supply for Cash.
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HONGKONG, APRIL 3RD 1909. LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON did not reach
The French Mail of the 2nd March was
The next Concert by the Hongkong Philhar- wonie Society has been fixed for Friday, April 23rd at the City Hall
delivered in London on the 1st inst.
At the agistracy yesterday Mr.-F. A. Haxoland sentenced a native to three weeks imprisonment and six hours stocks for stealing two hammers from the new Post Ofles,
A native who was found, guilty of armed robbery at Weiluiwel and sentenced to three years' imprisonment was brought to the Colony yesterday to serve his terma in Victorin Jail.
LONDON, April 2nd.
SUPREME COURT,
Friday, April 2nd.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION, BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. H. H. J. GOMFEETZ (PUISNE JUDGE.)
SHORT DELIVERY OF SARDINES.
His Lordship delivered his reserved judgment in the case in which Mesers. chukit and Co. were sued by Ho Wai Hing, trading as the Foo Kat Cheung firm, to recover $316.34, the price of 2, cuses of sardines short delivered.
Plaintiff was represented by Mr. Otta Kong Sing, while Mr. H. G. C. Bailey (of Messrs, Johnson, Stokes and Mastor) appeared for the defendant arm,
His Lordship entered judgment for the plain- tiff for $109.05 and costs.
A SHIPPING DISPUTE.
The Szo Yap Steamship Co., Ld brought 3155, being as to $100 for damages anil $55, cost of divers, action against the Tai We Company to recover
Mr P. Sydenham Dizan (of Mr. R. A. Harding's offea) represented the plaintiffs, and Mr. Render Harris (of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for the defendants.
The statement of claim set forth that one of the defendants' boats was improperly anchored too close to plaintiffs' wharf, and in sach position as to entangle the propeller of plaintiffs' steamer Tak Hing as she was proceeding to the wharf. This caused a delay of the ship, and necessitated the lowering of divers to disentangle the rope.
called, Evidence was
and the hearing
adjourned. MARINE MAGISTRATE'S COURT
February, April 2nd.` BEFORE COMMANDER BASIL R. H. TAYLOR, RN. (MARINE MAGISTRATE).
A CARELESS LAUNCH MASTER,
Captain Knempol teposed that on passenger boat.
the
Captain C. Kuempel, master of the German steamer Anghin, prosecuted this muster of the private steam launch K7" for failing to The "Norddeutsche Zeitung" abso-observe the rules of the road, and colliding with Jutely denies that the Russian expres. sion of readiness to recognise the an nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria was due to pressure brought to bear by Germany, which country simply suggested to all the Powers the advisability of their giving such assurance.
THE BRITISH REVENUE,
was made fast to the buoy next to the north
CORRESPONDENCE.
LIFE INSURANCE..
[TO THE EDITOR "HONGKONG DAILY PEESS."] Sie-With reference to Mr. Mansfeld's letter whisk appeared in your raper on 31st ulte., we shall be obliged if you will publish the following letter from the Susretary of the Standard Life Office in Shanghai, which ap- peared in the Shanghai Mercury on the 18th ultimo. We may mention that subsequently,
in view of Nr. Trevor's reply, the Editor of the Shanghai Mercury expressed, in the columns of his pupex, his regret that he had published r. Mansfeld's letter-We are, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully,
DODWELL & CO. LTD., Agents. EDGAB G. BARRETT, Manager
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE AHANGHAI, MERCURY."
18th March 1909. DEAR 81%. I have read the letter of Mr. R. W. Mansfield which you published in your paper of yesterday and cannot lielp expressing my regret that you have printed a communica pany without making any attempt to verify the tion so chriously intended to injure my Com- correctness of Mr. Mansfield's statements.
As a matter of fact my Head Daiso which, of course, was not in possession of the correspon. dence to which Mr. Manstiehl refers, at once took steps to have copies of same forwarded home from Shanghai, but before these copier arrived in Edinburgh Mr. Mansfield had already settlement of his claim. As the correspondence accepted the sum offered by the Company in
bring enpported the position taken up by the company it to Mr. it was not thought necessary to Mansfell'e notice. The following extract from A letter of the Shanghai Agent to the repre
it sentatives of the Company in Foochow makes
was informed in 1893 that the total bouns in addition to his policy up to 1900 would be £112 and his letter admite that £1,112.10 has been received by him in respect of his policy of £1,000 and bonuses:-14th September 1893. "Mr. R. W. Mansfeld. Please refer Mr. Mank- "field to page 11 of enclosed prospectus as to Bonus. The last division of profits, as on 15th "November 1890, was £7 per cach £100 of In November 1895, supposing the "Bonus to be the same, the amount of Bonas "attaching to his Peliog will be for the three does not vest until the Policy has been in force years, 1893, 1894 and 1895 £42, but this Bonus for five years complete. On 15th November 1900, if the Policy is still in force and the
least extremely probable that Mr. Mansfield
"assurance.
Bonus is the same, an additional bonus will "attach to the Policy of £70 for the five years "1895/1900-waking total Bonus addition £112."
As most of your readers are aware, no bonus. strange that a gentleman of Mr. Mansfield's was paid for the period 1900-5. It seems to me standing should pretend ignorance of the fact that the higher rate charged him was intended
to cover what the company believe to be the greater risk to life which is incident in the Far East, and should have formed the impres- sion that the payment of a higher rate entitled him to a higher bonus.
I think that the above extract from a letter
11.
night of the 25th ultimo ho boarded sampan from the ss. Macher, which was moored in the rice anchorage off West Point, and proceded to his own ship which Fairway Buoy. Just as liis craft was entering launch on his port side. The launch was on the far side of the South Fairway Busy and witness the fairway he saw the lights of defendant's
was passing to the east of the second mooring baoy, The launch came straight at him. The sampun menshouted and wared o lgbt, but within the hand-writing of the late M«. W. T out avail. The launch struck the sampio on the Phipps, the chief agent of the Company of vably have made Shanghai in 1893, will satisfy any impartial LONDON, April 2nd: Owing to a large linux, the walmart tarter. Then she went straight on,
as that which Mr. Mansfield alleges. Idamage had been done.
In conclusion I am bound to characteriza Defendant admitted running into a sampan
Mr. Mansfield's letter as both inaccurate and malicious-Yours etc., revenue returns of Great Britain for on board did not attempt to see what
F. LOCH TREVOR, the year umount to £151,578,000 altogether, while the net deficit for the on the night in question, but mid he did not
think it was uniuwful to do so.
Etandard Life Office, Blanghai, year is £926,000,-
[With reference to the above, we may state that before publishing Mr. Mansfield's com- munication, which reached us on the 29th alt., we inquired of the local agents whether they had any information regarding the dispute, with a view to its publication at the same time, The local agents had no knowledge of the matter. It seems to me a pity that the Head Office of the
THE DREADNOUGHT QUESTION.
APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY FORE-, SHADOWED.
LONDON, April 2nd. The "Standard" states that Lord of the Budget in default of satisfactory Lansdowne recommends the rejection assurances regarding the laying down of eight Dreadnoughts.
Earl Derby speaking at Hyde said the Lords would hesitate at no steps to force an appeal to the country.
His Worship imposed a fine of $50, the alternative being two months' imprisonment He further suspended with hard labour, defendant's certificate for six months and informed him that he woust pass another examination in rules of the road before it is
returned to him.
SHOCKING. MURDER NEAR ABERDEEN.
to Mr. Mansfield any such misrepresentation as
Secretary.
A gruesome discovery was made on the Peak Company did not await's reply from Shanghai Road, near Aberdeen, yesterday when the body before informing Mr. Mansfield that the cor of a Chinese was found lying by the roadside respondence aliuded to could not be found. It The murdered man was apparently a visitor from Leen found, and that it eutiroly axonerates the with his throat cut and his head battered in. will be sean from Mr. Trevor's letter that it has clothing, Appearances indicate that there was at Shanghai from the barge made by Mr. Shanghai, and was dressed partly in European former chief agent of the Standard Life Office more than one assailant, and, that the victim Mansfield, who is evidently mistaken in his- pat ap a desperate fight for his life. The recollection as to the tenor of the correspondence palms of both his hands were deeply ent, show. that took place when the policy was taken ont. ing that he had attempted to seize the knives Under these circumstances we regret having with which the murderers attacked him. Then pablished the imputation against the Standard he was overcome by superior force, and his Life Office contained in Mr. Mansfeld's letter--__ bloodthirsty attackers completed their ghastly F.D. H.D.P.) task. After cutting the throat, bucking the head and ripping the abdomen of the victim they battered in the head with stenos, and when the body was found a mound of stones covered the head. Little information regarding the evime could be gleaned yesterday, but the
regions similar; or did they differ to any marked degree? This is the great question, to be solved by Antarctic explor HONGKONG OFFICE: 101, Des Vœux Road (ation. Hitherto the only organic remains London Office: 131, FLEET STREET. EC that have been found in Antarotic ragions have heen some abscure remains of fossil
the Neither of the natives charged at wood, but too far decayed to display sufficient structure to enable the order to Magistracy on Thursday with returning from which it belonged to be even approximately bantalment appeared before Mr. Kemp, as determined. Now it has been long known reported in our last issue. Both were convicted that the present Marsupial animals of by Mr. Hazelund, and each man was sentenced the South Pole, it is truo, but he got almost Australia exhibit many points of resemble to six months' imprisonment and six hours" ance to corresponding animals in South
At the Magistracy yesterday two natives wore near enough to hear the Hieland Man great America, and South Africa, which the hita from the truck, with the customary naturalist school of geologists can only charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland with Coot Marnin'; and that was more than explain, they allege, by presuming a former snatching ear picks from ladies. Both were ever mortal bad done before. The guidance land connection. This theory is especially caught in the act, one in Queen's Road Central had expected him to find a great many nauseous to a certain school of geologists and ons in Wellington Street. Two months things there, and had been unwise enough who hold the theory that such as the surface hard labour and four hours' stocks was the to memorialise the Throne asking that police are now busily engaged on the case. to make out a list; but characteristically of the earth now is, so it has been for sentence passed on each of the offenders. the vaticinations turned out like Hongkong countless ages. weather forecasts, and were all untrue.
stooks.
Sergeant Wilson prosecuted the seaistant compradore of the as. Tai Ou before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday for having in his possession 28 trels of prepared opium. The defendant was found guilty and who was arrested of the Peak with a quantity of
wife told the caller that her hasband was not at
FROM THE "CHUNG NGO1 B1N_PO."] PROHIBITION OF GAMBLING.
PEKING, April 2nd. The President of the Board of Punishments, Tai Hung Chi, has been approached by some Canton officials
all sorts of gambling games be pro- hibited in Canton.
THE CANTON-MACAO- RAILWAY.
PEKING, April 2nd. The Portuguese Minister has notified the Chinese Government that Portugal is willing to allow the Chinese to constract the Canton-Macao Railway. The Board of Foreign Affairs and
JAPANESE AND JIUJITSU,
A CURE FOR SEA-SICKNESS.
Suffering humanity has so long sought in
vain for an infallible preventive of a mickness that it is prone to be sceptical of all new claims
of the character. Rut the testimony of travel. lers regarding Zot 8, the remedy advertised on page 5 to-day, can hardly fail to perkunde every- one who dreads a sea trip on account of the A Japanese clerk named Shosaki appeared distrossing inconvenience it causes them, to give before Mr. F.. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy the new remedy a trial. We have been shown some of the testimonials given by people who yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct, Assaulting the police and damaging a constable's have tested the remedy and these go to show that uniform. The defendant told the Court that Zotos capsules are regarded as a godsend to those he had been celebrating the third year of his who are unable to take a sea trip without suffer- shop, and apparently he celebrated the occasioning from that unpiessaut malady, mal de mer. not wisely. The evidence showed that as he It also claims to be an infallible preventive of was proceeding along the road at Wanchai train sickness. Some particulars of the remedy be surprised a lakong by embracing him and including the report of a well known public giving him a gratuitous lesson la jijitsu. To analyst are given in the advertisement. Jukong attempted to arrest Shosaki, but ant. ing himself unable to cope with the boisterous
the everlasting disgrace of Lieut. SHACKLE lighter than that under the neighbouring home. The man said he would wait, and while the Board of Communications have Japanese he summoned two European constabies |
to his aid. P. C. Wilson was the next man fo
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Another school, that of the physiciste, has They hadn't hit it off this time; which is recently been rising into importance, with perhaps not much to be wondered at con- theories not quite accordant with either, sidering how slender were the grounds they The earth, according to the new school, is in bad to goon. For the last century the rising a state of what they call Isostasy;-that is ordered to pay a one of 8500 Another native generation has leatut as its first lesson in to say, the internal and exterual forces are opitum in his possession was not $200, while a so nicely balanced, that the whole assumes coolie employed by Mr. Bowley was fined $6 for geography that the earth was round ; just
a similar offence. like an orange, and was flattened at the Poles; form dictated by the wants of internal
A Chinese colled at a house in Yaumati and and many of us, trusting to this wise gravitation. Thus the Himalayas are what
This talented Company staged the farcical utterance almost expected to find there, they are because the matter under them
Royal last night, and scored a decided sneces after the manner of oranges, a dimple. To which attracts them by its gravitation is said he wanted to see the master. The master's
Portugal and his skill in the Japanese art of self-defence by The piece was exceedingly funny throughout, TON, instead of a dimple, he found himself n an elevated plateau, almost two miles plaius. Geologists have long been wander waiting found an opportunity to pocket a watch agreed to the cancelling of the previous lay hands on the defendant who again showed musical skit Filibuster Brown" at the Theatre assistance of the other European, however, Bhosaki wirth. All the parts were well taken, and the audience seemed to thoroughly enjoy the prone high. The protuberance of this Equator is in search of their particular " philoso- and chain. The timepiece use missed just after agreement between
was taken to No. 2 Police Station and deposited tiou, for the clamours for encores were many and only some tirteen miles as that the pher's stone, which would enable thom to his departure, however, and the thief was sub
in a cell. There he continued to shout and hearty. After the interval a series of vande. scream for some time, but eventually calmed ville items filled the programme, including wire Lieutenant's olevated Plateau has shorn the raise up mounting where they most desire adquently arrested. At the Magistrany yester,China for the construction of this nearly breaking the constable's arm. With the and kept the antienes in a continual simmer of
them; an they are momentarily enchanted day Mr. Hazeland sentenced him to three weeks lino. lictum of the geography books of much of
with their late opponents, who, they assume, imprisonment and six hours' stocks.
HUNDRED PERCENT. DIVIDEND down. After hearing the evidence yesterday walking by Senorita Olivia, skilful dances by amusing German haracter sketches by Mr. its glory. According to the meteorologists have at last found out for them the "gleva-
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The yearly general meeting of the Redjang his Worship imposed a fine of $5 or fourteen Miss Doris M'Auley and Miss May Wallace and Incut: SHACKLETON should have found the tory forea", which they have so long desire.
Charmont and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre Lebong Gold Mining Co. is fixed to be held at days imprisonment on each of the first two Carl Wallner, Mr. Brinkman's baritone sole was
Her Bataria on April 34: weather at the Pole delightfully genial; heed. Viewed from the outside all these plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crime Charmante, Lait
The shareholders will be charges, snd ordered the defendant to pay fifty an excellent contribution and the audience the Williams Sisters proved very popular, aud theories present much the same aspect as. Charmant will enable you to do it.
earned considerable applause.. Jukong's uniform. ought, în fact, to have discarded his autere
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for 1907 stood at 71 per cent.