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altered, and the coast lines must in cou- | which acoms to have lived in Chins, within sequence have trended differently from the present conditions. The fading of the new fossil in the lowest bed of a vertical cutting 24.1 metres (79 feet) deep, composed of regularly deposited horizontal beds of sand and gravel, is a plain indication that pro found changes are since man was first a resident in Europe marked the position of
the coast lines.
From perfectly independent sources we know that Europe since that period has been several times connected with, and discon nected from, the island of Britain; we know likewise that the Mediterranesu aš a
great sea is of later origin than the pleisto- cene age; yet ethnographers, frightened by the terrors held out by the modern geologist,
the historic ago, and the two surviving species, the Asiatic and African; while the authentic remains of max are confined to a few detached bones in the various museums of the world. There is, of course, a reason for this; and that rosson appears to be con- nected with the instinct, ever since man became a thinking animal, of burying his
dead,
Still, withal the views of scieplife men are being devote to the subject with less prejudice, and more in accordance with scientific methods; and although we are unlikely ever to make any grand discovery of human remains, such as occur with regard to other mammals in the south European caves, these lang continued efforts are at last boginning to show some tangible
For stealing a quantity of wood from the new Post Office Mr F.A. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday sentenced a coolie to three weeks' imprisonment and six hours' stocks. Another native who was convicted for stealing two lengths of drain pipe received a like sentence.
An appeal to the Full Court at Shanghai has been lodged against the judgment of Mr. Justice Bourne in the case of the 1.9. Norman Isles v. Massra. Gibb, Livingtone & Co. The chim was for The. 1,526 paid for receiving, storing and delivering cargo, and the Auting Judge found for the plaintiffs with sosta.
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THE JOHORE PIRACY.
SINGAPORE, July 23rd. Three of the pirates, who plundered Chinese junk near Johore on April 19th, have been sentenced to death in
According to a German sociologist, mys the Kobe Herald, the reasons for the rapid increase the Singapore Court. of population in Japen are (1) early marrings,
The jurisdiction of the Court has (2) divorce and remarriage in the event of been challenged and the points of the fruitless union, and (3) the small number of namerriod persons. Those circumstances account protest will be submitted to the Full that to account for the present distribution results, on which in the near fature will for the very considerable annual increase of Court of Judges in 'August.-
hesitate to accept the necessary corollary.
of the human races we must go beyond the exisiting grouping of ocean and continent.
Seen in this new light the Heidelberg jaw AMMONIA
is of special interest, as we have actually to go to the other side of the world to find its FOR THE BATH, TOILET AND
nearest affinities. The first thing to be re HOUSEHOLD.
marked about t'e ja w is the teeth; and here Premotes a healthy netion of the skin, counter-it is the resemblance, rather than the un
acts all effects of perspiration, and is as refreshing and invigorating to this system as a Turkish Bath.
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likeness to the most advanced type of to-day, that is most striking. In one important respect it has hitherto been held that one of the most striking characteristics of the human teeth is their almost uniform vertical
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nearly all of the apes the caninos are largely developed, while in man they hardly rise above the general level. Even in such jawa of early man, as in that of Spy, &c., the in Uhren strengilan, containing 5%; 10% and 20% canines are considerably mors developed than in this still older fossil; the reason is possibly that the Heidelberg man was less aggressive than his prodecessors, and was a more exclusivaly vegetable feeder. The
of pure cacholic acid,
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doubtless be erected a tangible science of ethnology.
The Bishop of Victorin will presh at the 11 am. service at the St. Andrew's Church,
Kowloon, to-morrow.
Lost Saturday afternoon the new hend quarters of the Shanghai Portugueso Company of Volunteers was formally oppnet.
The action in which O. C. Owen sees C. E. Shields was mentioned at the Supreme Court. yesterday, when the Paisno Judge red the hearing for next week.
For infringing the exclusive privileges of the
Postmaster-Geners! by bringing letters into the Colony Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday fined a native $25,
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about 700,000.
On the morning of the 21st inst. Rear-Admiraj Teragaki, of the Japanese Banthorn Squadron, paid an official visit to Macao on the gunboat Uji. The Admiral was raseired with the hon- oara due to his rank, a guard of honour being posted at the naval wharf. His Excellency callod upon H.E. the Governor, who an hour later returned the visit on board the Admiral's ship. An official dinner was subsequently given in the Admiral's honour at Government House, mang of the leading officials being pressat.
Accorting to the Asahi weeting of the Diplomatie Corpe was held at Poking on July 10 to consider, among other things, the extension
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LONDON, July 23rd, The N.D.L. steamer "Derflinger," which rau ashore at The Needles (Isle of Wight), has been towed off apparently uninjured.
Two hundred and filty tons of of the Settlement at Shanghal, and the Huangpu cargo had previously been discharged. houses built outside the Settlement and to the night owing to the rough sea which The passengers had an unpleasant
Conservancy. It was decided that the foreign
prevailed.
THE FALL OF THE FRENCH
CABINET.
LONDON, July 23rd.
It appears that the hostile vote of
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PUBLIC ROADS.
170 THE EDITOR OF THE “HONGKONG DAILY PRESB."]
Hongkong, 23rd July, 1909. DEAR SIR,-1 would like to draw the aţi tention of the Public Works Department to the condition of Robinson Road, especially that portion in the foinity of Seymour Road and Terraco, which is badly in need of repair. this road, covered as it is with loose pobbles, I saw a lady with a perambulator, the other after-
As an instance of the impassabla natura of
noon kaving to make use of the granite side channel. Unluss the Authorities tako the matter up soon, the residents of that locality
will certainly suffer no ond of inconvenience, besides having stiff bills to pay to their shoe-
makors.
Enclosing my card.-Yours faithfully,
RESIDENT.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN ROBSON.
Nows has reached the Colony of the death of Captain A. J. Kouson, who hau for many years. been in the service of the Douglas Steam- ship Co., and was lately in command of the steamer Haimun. He went Homé en siok-leave a few months ago, and his death took place at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 27th ult. Tha news will be received with deep regret all along the coast, for he was well known from Hong- kong to Foochow and held in high esteem by all who knew him. Yesterday the flags of the Douglas B. 8. Company's steamers in port were
half-masted.
THE MACAO OPIUM FARM.
Our correspondent at Macao writes that on the afternoon of the 224d-lastaut Louders WODO. opened for the opium monopoly. The highest tonder was submitted by Mr. Liang Kiu Sap, of Hongkong, the amount being $131,700. The tender was submitted in the name of En Yen San. The committee announced that tender
could not be accepted as the Government's
form of the mandible is, however, more forms (1), to link up the railways by tele mandor Basil Taylor, R.N,, marine magistrate the French Chamber was directed reserve was $160,000. This announcement has remote from present types than any other ng yet, discovered which can be referred to bunian type. The most remarkable of these differences is the entire absence of chis, housing business, the Yokohama Dock Co. has
mainly against M. Clemenceau per- sonally.
North of it ought to be included in the Settle-i Although last year was a bad one for tradament. It was also decided to ask the Chinese Bangkok trade showed a continuation of the Government to set aside Tls. 8,000,000 for the increase which has taken plase in former years. completion of the Huangpa Conservancy work. The rice expert is of course the principal figoro. The Ministers who were present were those of The new President of the Board of Posts Great Britain, Spain and Japan; the other Legations were represented by their Secretaries. and Communications has after due considera. tion, decided to carry out the following re-
At the Marine Court yesterday before Com- P.C. Connor proceeded against W.C. Passmore master of the British steamship Hatching for having unlawfully blown the steam whistle of the said ship other than for the purpose of It is understood that the new Cab- navigation at 10.20 am. which must have given the owner a
Complainant stated that when the steamer was inet will not involve any change of particularly bestial appearance. This is a
crossing the central fairway towards her wharf foreign policy, though the German peculiarity now found in no human race, three years, the rate of interest being 6.6 per she was going ahead, and a little later three press fears the roadvent of Delcassé. but it is remarkable that in many of the rude CO..engravings by the cave dwellers in Sauthern
France the almost entire absence of chin is The proposal to send graduates of the Nobles" a marked feature. This want of chia in College to foreign countries to complete their these rude skatches seems to be accompanied studies has been given up by the Central Gov. by an enormously drop news and it laernment, after being considered by their Excel remarkable that we find similar personal students had not sufficient knowledge to fit
them for study abroad
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BIRTHS.
On July 15th at II. 1. M. Consulate, the wife of B. dizes, of a son.
so-called Hittite peoples in Asia Minor, More curious still is the fact that for a like development we have to go almost to the antipodes, where in the ancient aboriginal carvings of Easter Island we find traces of a similar developmost. Other branches of what we are seemingly justified in calling the Tauric race may be noticed in Etruscan statuary, where the artist bad not modelled bis faces on Hellenic lines, but condescended to actual portraiture.
graph; (2), to establish a mail steamship service; and (3), to open a college of telegraphy, In order to additionally carry on the ware, concluded a loan of one million yen with Messrs. One Hundredth Bank and is redeemable within
Sale and Frazar. The loan is endorsed by the
cout. per annum.
An Indian who a as formerly employed on the 8.4. Paul Beau as a watchman proceeded against the captain of that steamer and the present that when he went for his pay the second watchman on a charge of assault. He stated defendant hit him and the first pushed him off the steamer. The summonses were dismissed.
on the 21st inst
three long blasts were blown on her whistle as
more were blown. When she gat abreast of her wharf four short blasts were blown, and after letting go her anchor one long blast was blown". Witness brought the charge under Ordinance 10 of 1899, Lestion 25, which referred to collision and the summons was dismissed.
We learn from the Queen's College magazine
The
that His Excellency Sir F. Lugani has graci ously given a trophy for competition among the Junior Elevens of Hongkong Schools. design, mounted on a stand to match, is of gift,a really beautiful silver flower bowl of chaste English design and workmanship. The trophy, this year-the first of the competition-after very keen struggles, was won by one" of two The Board of Trude have awarded a piece of teams from t. Joseph's College, and, in the late afternoon of Friday, the 19th June, on the plate to Captain Carl Ludwig Rosiefsky, master presence of a fow invited guests, was handed to of the German steamship Kohsichang, of the happy winners by the generous donor in the Bremen, in recognition of his services in resen-
But we have not done with the pecuing the survivors of the shipwrecked crow cg / lawn at the back of Government House. A
THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN FRANCE.
pecasioned much adverse criticism of the
or upset price was made in the advertisements. Government, because no mention of any reserve
which declared that the highest offer would be accepted..
LOCAL SPORT.
WATER POLO.
LUSITANOS V. R.8.
A friendly water polo match took place between Lusitano Recreation Club and Royal Engineers at the R.E. Camber, on Thursday It was a very fast and excitin The galliers marked their opponents well and at The 4 goals were scored in the second half by Roza and Lopes, 2 each Both teams seem to have improved considerably.
form a Cabinet, M. Briand has half-time there was no score.
accepted the responsibility.
THE TSAR'S COMING VISIT TO ENGLAND.
PROTEST IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, July 23rd. The Labourites and the Nationalists auitably engraved miniature shield was, at the in the House of Commons united in liarities of the jaw ; others are the thickness the British steamship Charterhouse, of Singapo, niso given to sach individual member moving a reduction of the Foreign of the body, the width of the essending pors, which foundered in Hainau Straits during of the successful XL The handsome. bowl Office Estimates as a protest against ramus, and the low level of the coronoid a typhoon on September 29th, 1906. Chinantu,process, which must have considerably aided
On July 18th, at Woihniwe, to Mr. and Mrs.
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When Mr. Davidson, of the firm of Messrs Hastings and Hastings, told the Paisns Judge yesterday in the Supreme Court that he could not attend on Thursday, because the Bankruptry Court, in which he had o case, was sitting, Mr. Crowther Smith caused a smile when be said- There is Mr. Hastings in the offos : he own go into bankruptcy.”
Nastine, a inch vaunted spooffice against leprosy, is being experimented with on a large India aroused such high hopes among lepore at scate in Java. News of its alleged success in Government asylum in that island that, to help them, subscriptions were raised among the public for a supply of nastine, which has just arrived and bear forwarvied to the asylum.
remains in the possession of the school of the winning team until the final result of the next year's games is known. Queen's College in both Senior and Junior competition this year got second place only. The College hope to improve
its position next year.
A TROUBLESOME ITALIAN.
Antonio Frezzini, who caters for the Italian mess on the railway works, was charged befors Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy yester day on a charge of assaulting a Chinese.
the coming visit of the Tsar.
.
The motion was rejected by 187 votes to 79,
State for Foreign Affairs, strongly Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of deprecated discussions on the internal affairs of any foreign country largely based on biassed information.
-INTERESTING BUDDHIST
FINDS.
LONDON, July 23rd.
A most interesting discovery has been made in a Buddhist stupa near Peshawar,
Complainant, who was a bowker, told tha Coart that on the evening of the 19th instant the defendant struck him because he had lost something. Defendant, who had just returned from the railway, found that someone had broken into his house, so he seized witness by the queus and took him to the Police Station, The Superioress of the Italian Convent in-kicking him on the groin and scraping his eye Constable Atwell stated that at 10 p.m. on tion of prizes on Tuesday last, His Excellency forms us that at the conclusion of the distribuon the way. General Sir Joachim Machado, K.C.M.G., the day mentioned, defendant took the com- pressed his intoution of visiting the Convent and
noticed that complainant had a rat on the eye making himself personally acquainted with the plainant to the station by the queas, and
and a mark on the groin, and defendant pro-at this work of the institution in all its branches.
seeded to swing him around by the The defendant, the constable stated, was nearly always drunk, and caused more trouble in Tsumati than anybody.
'accused him of robbery. At the station witness
The tennis were:- B.E.-Morrish,
Goodyear,
McCrory'
Barton, Coron, Hulmes and Marshall.
LRC.-A. J. V. Ribeiro, J. M. C. Lopes, F. L. da. Roza, C. A. C. Rodrigues, C. M. 8. Alves, R. A. Carvalho and R. C. da Silva.
The Lusitano Recreation Club meet the 88tir Company R.G.&. in the third round of the Water Polo Shield Competition at the V.R.C. enclosure on Monday, at six o'clock in the evening.
BYPHOON ALARMS.
To the surprise and disgust of most people in the colony the typhoon signals were hoisted yesterday morning for the second time this
week. The black cone, point downwards, ind
west of Hongkong and the wual foutaires, heavy showers of rain with occasional gusts dram indicated that the typhoon was soath
of wind, were manifested.
As wres to ba Un the harbour WAN expected business speedily affected. Sampans and lighters moved off from the steamers and made for shelter, though on this occasion a larger number than usual remained behind and reaped a golden or silver harvest. At night the now familiar green, red, green lights were exhibital.
CENTRAL ASIAN SOCIETY.
The
in emphasing the pithecoid character of the animal. The condyloid process by which the mandible was articulated to the upper jaw possesses a much wider fact than in exist ing races, which probably gave greater power to the jaw, and was found useful in oracking the uuts which must have largely formed the food of the possessor. In the ordinary human jaw the mandibla assumes HONGKONG, JULY 24TH 1909,
the shape approximately of a slender horse- THE recent discovery of a fossil human shoe: in this Heidelberg example, owing to lower jaw, 10 kilometres S.E. of Heidelberg the greater thickness of the bone itself, and in Baden, seems likely to add considerably the different position of the coronoid process, to our knowledge of early ethnology, and the general shape approximates to a trefoil; forces us to date back another stage the and in most of there respects the nearest appearance of the human race on the face approximation is to be discovered in certain of the earth. The bone was only a lower aboriginal Australian jaws. Taken in jaw, yet fortunately it was so well preserved connection with the discovery in Java cranium of the now generally that the entire set of teeth, as well as the of a processes, are practically perkat, so that we accepted Pithecanthropus erectus, are enabled to argue with certainty as to showed many correspondences, and the many points in the early history of the race, mysterious, and hitherto unexplained
Mr. Charles J. Eoberta, inanager of the First, as to the age of the fossils it is carvings from Easter Island with their
Bangkok branch of the Standard Oil Co. of associated with remains of elephariantigussrade chinless caricatures, there are presum- and rhinoceros etruscus, both well known able grounds for connecting the South New York, was arrested at Pensug on July pleistocene species; and so marking a com- Pacide Ocean with the appearance of 16th on the Japanese steamer Binge Maru, on paratively early stage in the European ice Pleistocene man. Even at the present day age; the earliest finds up to this discovery one ocensionally may notice amongst low-gistrate remanded him till next day, when belonging to a later stage when the Eurocluse Malasians, or degenerat: Japanese, formal evidence was heard and a remand was pean glaciation had passed its maximum individuals with abnormally developed granted till Friday, the 23rd inst. Bail was and traces of modern conditions were becom- noses, and an almost entire absence of chin, allowed in the sum of $4,000. ing already apparent. It has, of course, long the two seeming to be in sime manner been held by those most competent to judge correlated. Considering the interest of the that human life must have commenced on investigation, it is wonderful how little we our planet, ut least as early as the pliocene know of the early development of the human
HOW TO BE BRAUTIFUL-Keep your comments for the burial of his father there, wate age, but hitherto the actual evidence of race, as compared with the rest of the mam
publican journal Mundo says: “At any other ed ambitions and aspirations of the Eastern remains having been found was wanting. malian fauna. We can, for instance, make
Hor time Senhur Franco could only have returned Fowers themselves. Japan, Chins, and Turkey wero already showing that they were not only The pleistocene, as all geologists, with the out a very complete genealogical tree of the (2) that the antires should be taught the plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait Presence of the ex-Dictator in Portugal gives danger for this country and for every European excaution of a small but busy clique of succession of the borse, which we can trace elementary rules of hygiene by the distribution Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Pondre rise to some comment in the Press, The Re- race was being opened up by the newly awaken extreme uniformatists, are willing to allow. from a tiny three-toed ancestor in the of. printed rules at their doors, and (3) the Specialities for the Skin, are the study of a to Portugal under the protaction of awed | was an epoch of marked geological disturb. Eocene. We can likewise make out a fair cruation of a proper system of drainage for the latime, A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. Bole Agents. force. At the present moment the-doad body desirvas but capable of assimilating something ance, when relative levels were profoundly series of elephants, down to the mammoth, city.
a charge of embezzling ticals 3,000. The ma
quene.
His Worship (to defendant)-This is rather serious against you.
Defendant-What the man says is a lie. Hie Worship -Do you say that the constable is telling lies?
Defendant-The constable could not know, because he never comes near my house.
A Hanoi paper commenting on the prevalence
His Worship You are always drunk, and of plague in Tonkin urges that it is necessary. not only to combat it at the time of its annual esse great trouble over there. You are fined appearance but to tuko all possible measures to $25, in default one month's imprisonment, ¿ (1) organisation of a rigorous medical surveillance, prevent the outbreak. Our contemporary urges
Charanat will enable you to do it.
(453
Bir
The annual meeting of the Central Asian Society was held in London last month, ander the presidency of the Earl of Ronaldshay. M.P., It consists of a bronze casket who was supported by General Sir E. Gardon, enclosing a crystal box containing Sir Alfred Lyall, Bir Mortimer Durand, Sir three charred human bones believed F. Fryer, Colonel Pemberton, Colonel Picot, and Mr. Lynch, M.P. Hou. Secretary stated that the society now had 137 raambers. au increase of 17 since the beginning of 1908, to be portions of the ashes of Gantama (Mr. E. Penton) read the annual report, which As the Chinese pilgrim Haien The sulcriptions amounted to £120. On the Mortimer Durand, the report was adopted. Sang stated that the ashes were placed motion of Sir Thomas Gordon, seconded
exact spot by Emperor The Earl of Ronaldshay was Buddha.
appointed...
Brst most of the problems that banishku at the commencement of chairman for the ensuing year. Addressing entertained as to the authenticity of cane ander their consideration were due to the advance of Russia across sia. Since then a the Christian era, little doubt is the meeting he said that when the society was change had taken place, and the relations be the discovery,
tween this country and Hnasia were for more THE PORTUGUESE DICTATOR"
atis'actory than they were. Other problems had arisen which were due to the desire of Eastern races for national development. The A Lisbon despatch dated the let inst. says: Senhor Joao Franco, the "Dictator," who utmoet watchfulness was needed to praserra our was driven from power after the amassination of own power, for only a few days ago Germany by
skilful coup
Lind elbowed her way into the King Carlos, and is now in Portugal, having returned to attend the funeral of his father, Yangtse Valley by means of a milway conces
and Queen
for their condolences on the wore needed, and members of the society would scope for research in the lands Occasion
watered Rairs to make arrange
very great
great vists of dificulty, and possibly to as to thy to thank Fing Manuel sion. There were other places where railways
wards trement. He will after find ample the Tigris and the Euphrate,A
of his father protects him."
of the methods and ideals of the Weste