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Commenting on the recent dis- covery of a new saying of Christ A controversy has been aroused which we published the other at Coventry by the campaign t day, a writer in the "Nation" raise £6,000 for the Y.M.O.A ex speculates on the possibility of a tension scheme. The clergy and Fifth Gospel being discovered. several of the Nonconformist "It is always possible," he
No. 2 Mountain View, The ministers decline to support the says, "that something old may
Poak. Apply LINSTEAD & DAVIS. soheme on the ground that the come out of Egypt. More truly
Hongkong, 9th June, 1913, 1345 association is believed to encour-than of the Romans it might be age the view that its members aid of the Egpytiens that they no'd not attach themselves to any built for eternity, but their SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, ED FLAT with Two" Bathrooms To let or for Bale GLEN TO LET-AT KOWLOON, Christian body. The promoters buildings were not designed, like Teak, 5 rooms from 1st March, Pantry, Kitohen and Servants of the campaign are receiving the Roman; for eternal memory letters from all parts of the coun- fara constry where for at least Peak to lot; fine situation; 8 English Baths. Kitchen has En- CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with try on the controversy.
four thousand years the eye of its rooms; tennis and croquet lawns.glish Cooking Range and Hot Shortage of Army Recruits.
people was fired upon the past, To let, furnished "KIRKEN- Water Boiler. Electric Light Captain W. Faber, M.P., speak for their purpose, the learne who 30th September. Immediate pos- TERRACE HOUSES
and the finest arts had sepuluhre DOA" No. 113 The Peak, till throughout. Immediate Possos- sion. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED ing at Bursloy, sail he know for
WITH certain that the anthorities looked upy their business in the resession. with dismay on the decline in re with perpetual hope. Lapped
TENNIS COURTS. Now ready search for antiquity may delve Το lut, No. 111 Peak,
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occupation. Apply .to:- oruiting. They were nearer 10,000
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & than 5,000 short of recruits this of a tomb, what' treasure might repaired and painted throughout, Among the immemorial corements.
sion; 5 roomed Bungalow.justi year, and the authori ies were at their wits ende as to how to keep oval plaything, or annale of a king ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- not be discovered! What prim-
FOR SALE-HARTING and be strength of the Army up in Indin. It was quite clear that ham arrived in Egypt than Abra-
ancient when Abra-land Lot No. 1154. they would have to pay big bonus him now is! But there are minds es for the men to remain in to whom all the treasuries that couttry to keep up the and aris and memorials of sepul strength.
chral Egypt, poured out together Canal Across Scotland, in jostling abundance, would not An application has been made turn the scale against one little to the Davelopment Commis line of Greek buried beside some sioners by the Mid-Scotland Shipcholar when the light of Greece Canal Association for a grant if was breaking in upon those $3,000 to defray the expense of hieroglyphic repetitions. surveying the roure of the pro- "The industrious gubbing of posed einal between the Forthxploration has alrewly yielded and the Clyde, and of preparing many such joyous, discoveries- estimates. Until a survey has lines ant paper fragments of been made no cract estimate of well-known poetry, whole farces TO LET Furnished or Un the cort can be obtained, but the even and criticisms, and a cull or of Kitchen; highest level; good furnished, 3 rooms with use money required would probably two of the philosophers, copied view: Reasonable,"
"Hong- be about £24,000.
before Cleopatra was queen. It kong Telegraph." New Sultan of Turkey ? in a great result, but undoubtedly The "Times" Constantinople the off chance of a still more A HACIENDA EAST, 74, correspondent sends the interest-splendid find has stimulated the ing news that the Tchelebi of explorers efforts. Might it not ho Konin has arrived in Constan- possible to unearth or disentomb tinople. It is the privilege of me copy of the Gospels, or of this dignitary to gird new Sultans of the Gospels, witten down with the Sword of Osman, and two centuries or nearly three he practically never visits the earlier than any manuscript now
known? If we may assume tha capital for any ether purpose, His presenca in Constantinople some record of Christ's life was made in writing, even as hap may be expected - to enusé a re-
hazird notes, by people whoactual- newal of the persistent rumour that it is intended to deposely knew Him, or had at least con Mahomed V. and install a new versed with others who did, there
Heema nothing to prevent such discovery.
Sultan in his etead.
Home Circus Causes Fire."
At Wiltshire Assizes, last month the executire of William Iremonger, owners of Fox Farm,
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Queen Victoria's Highländer. "No, A'm no going. I was alre. Story in-her 'leminiscen- speakin' to the, Queen aboot it, ces has the following delightful an' she said I wadna care for 't." anecdote of John Brown, Queen Victoria's favourite Highlander.
Channel Swimming Insurance. Dr. Story and a few personal Underwriters were last month friends of the Dake of Argyll offered 15 guiness per cent.. to to meet the Queen, and during Channel be swum -this season. were invited to Inveraray Castle pay a total loks should the their visit a fishing excursion was The rate, however, was thought. as preservation goes, the difference arranged, in which John was to be too low, the idea generally
found, and sobolars easily de "Older manuscripts are being cipher and tutorpret them. So far
certain was most characteristic:-
one against...
on the main London road between between sixteen and eighteen asked by Lord Arobibald Camp-teng that the risk was worth 20 Andover and Whitchurch were centuries hardly counte, and boil, to take part. The answer per cent, equivalent to four to awarded £951 as damages for a fire caused by sparks from the engine of a travelling cirous owned by Mrs. Haines.
Lash for. Procurers. The Court of Criminal: Appeal dismissed an appeal against log. ging inflicted under the recent Aot. Mr Ju-tice Darling said the appeal justified the opinion held by those people who foresaw that that particular form of punish
it ReemЯ fairly that within thirty or forty years of Christ's death there were large numbers of men and women in various parts of the Empire who would have acoonated it their greatest privilege to copy all that was remembered of His words and actions, and their greatest treasure to possess be record even in the grave. It may well happen that with the bones or mummy of
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example the buried treasure itself will some day be exbumed. It is What is a Sardine? " ! not impossible that an entirely The bearing of a charge under new record will be found a filth the Merchandise Marks Act Gospel, of more indisputable against Masars, Angus. Watson date; some and Co. of Newcastle, was begun at Bow-street Police Court last month.
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written down by somefcontemporary who knew the Lord, and kept his memories by him as a secret Mr Bodkin, who appeared for possession; or some original his- the prosecutors, the Congress of tory from which many details in French Packers of Sardines, said later writings "many have been that the proceedings had been derived. Such are the conjec taken for the purpose of patting tures of imagination, but they a stop to the sale of sprats as are conjectures well within the sardines. Laat year a similar reach of hope." summons was heard at the Guild- hall in respect of the same brand, "Skipper" sardines. The magis trate held that "Skipper" sar- dipea were a Norwegian fish etknown as bristing, which was practically identical with the English sprat. He dismissed the summons on the ground, that the defendanta had acted innocently Mr Bodkin now: submitted that in face of the magistrate's warn mg the defendante could no longer plead innocence.
The hearing was adjourned.
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