NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE VICTORIA
TO-NIGHT'S TREAT
"THE PRIZE PACKETS"
(An English Vaudeville Co.)
For Two Nights in Entirely
New Programmes.
PEARL WHITE
IN
THE LIGHTNING RAIDER"
Episodes 9 & 10.
"THE PRIZE PACKETS":
.
Xaida Stella will sing "There go the girls" & "Follow the tramline."
Queenie Lloyd will sing "The Girls Know.
La Pette will sing Palo Mine" & "Halt; who goes there.
A Musical Melange, introducing The Rosary Bells of St. Malo by the three sisters Weatherly. La Petite Zilla will sing "Hindustan" (by request) Song Scena "Batchelor Days" Xaida Stella.
& The
"That's the stuff to give'em (by request and a few twiddleossities Queenie Lloyd."
Duo "The Costers Christening" La Petite Zills and Xaida Stella:
Final and Dance......
The Company.
The prograrame is subject to alteration as necessity may require.
FOR LIFE---£300
A YEAR
CAN BE SECURED NOW AT THE HIGH EXCHANGE AT AGE 60: FOR H.K. $14,532.70
AT AGE 55: FOR H.K. $16,785.05
FOR OTHER AGES AND AMOUNTS, IN PROPORTION. THE SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. OF CANADA. 12, Powell's Buildings, Des Voeux Road, Central, P. M. WELLER
Manager.
NOTICE.
Hongkong.
NOTICE.
LIMITED.
H. E. Sir Edward Reginald DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., Stubbs, K. C. M. G., will arrive in the Colony on the morning of Tuesday the 30th September and will land at Blake Pier at about 10 o'clock when he will proceed to the City Hall where the Adress of welcome will be read and presented to his.
The Public (including ladies) are invited to attend at the City Hall not later than 10 a.m. to welcome His Excellency.
H.J. GEDGE,
Hon: Secretary. Reception Committee.
NOTICE.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. Matriculation, Senior & Junior
Local Examinations. Notice is hereby given that these Examinations will mence on December 8th 1919.
com-
|
The Ordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices at Noon on Saturday the 27th inst.
1919.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 19th to 27th instant both days
inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th September, 1919.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
• ..AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees per Company's Steamer
Entry Forms can be obtained
* IXION" ób application to the Registrar, and must be returned to him duly
hereby notified that the filled in together with the fee $10 [are (Hongkong Currency) on or be-Cargo will be discharged into fore October 15th 1919.
N. TEESDALE MACKINTOSH,
Registrar. Hongkong, 26th September, 1919,
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
Holt's Whart, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 27th September.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival..
All broken, chafed, aud damag." fed goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am. and noon within the free storage period.
Our interest and respon in the business hitherto carried on by us under the name and style of W. R. Loxley & Co. at Hongkong, Canton and London Merchants, ceased on 1st April 1919
The said business as from that date has been soquired by J. A. Russell & Co., Kuala Lumpur, F. M. S. who have assumed all responsibility for the liabilities of the firm as existing on that date and properly contracted during the period from that date to the present date.
John Montgomery Beattie, Andrew Beattie,
ཎྜ༎
Matthew Poole Beattie. Hongkong, 24th September, 1919.
NOTICE.
We have acquired the business hitherto carried on by Messrs WR Loxley & Co., at Hong- kong, Canton and London and shall continue to trade under the same firm name and style.
The business having been taken over as a going concern as on the 1st April, 1919 the proper lia- bilities of the firm as on that date and those.contracted since in
carrying on the business are assumed by ourselves.
John Archibald Russell, Donald Oscar Russell, Robert Cecil Russell. Hongkong, 24th September, 1919.
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM ICE &
NOTICE
All persons with the exception of persons of Chinese - 2800, wishing to leave the Colony must have in their possession VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony,
All persons with certain excep- tins who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the parti- culars required may be obtained at the G. P. O. and, at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding $50.
E. D. C. WOLFE, -
C. S. P. Hongkong, 5th September 1919.
G.
NOTICE.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
FEK Undersigned has received ve instructions to sell by Public Auction an
TUESDAY the 30th
September 1919. commencing at ii a m.
at the Kaclung Ste Youk Kaifong Ferry Co., Ltd. Wharf, Mongkot
ERNST HAECKEL.
POPULAR EXPOSITOR OF
DARWINISM.
(avoided invented
Copernicus
Commenting on the death of stitutes. He Professor Ernst Haeckel, on
| August: 8 at his house at Jens Astronomers, folle
after a long, illness, the Times us and Ker says his name was familiar in an predicted the arist scientific circles as a travaller, to explain perturba zoologist, and materialistic philoplanets were gener sopher, even more familiar to the Faeckel with equal unlettered as a popular expounder predicted, drew, and of the theory of evolution in its hypothetical animals to fill The Steam Launch Sze Yak" rudest form, and, since the out-gaps which be found in
break of the war, notorious as a scheme of descent Unfortunate venomous protagonist of the none of his hypothetical German case.
animals were discovered. In the progress of knowledge the fault with Darwinian theory, but with has generally proved to lie not Haeckel's schematic and dog matic interpretation of it.
Length 60'8"
Breadth 120** Depth 53"
Tonnage. Gross 25.85 Tonnage Nett 1767 Terms: Cash on delivery.
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel was born at Potsdam, but passed his schooldays at Merseburg, where his father, Councillor Haeckel, had moved. As a boy he was Geo. P. LAMMERT.interested in botany, and when he
Auctioneer.
THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED.
Head Office: 6 Des To Road Ctl Haakow Brach: Panoff Building,
FOR THE YEAR TO COME
Prcaution is impor sat in all things, This applies to our owa Laances. The best way of providing for the future, freely,
It is hereby notified that on and after the 1st October, 1919 Rickshas will run on Caine Roadby be at the following places and Bonham Road. Stands will
1. University.
2. Junction of Boaham Road
and Centro Street.
3. Nethersole Hospital
4. Junction of Caine Road and
Old Bailey.
5. At top of Glenealy.
CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT
OF POLICE
COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. - [Hongkong. 26th Sept., 1919.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
The Twenty-third Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Share-
NOTICE.
holders in the above Company UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. will be held at the Company's". Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, The University of Hongkong Hongkong, on Saturday 11th day invites immediate applications of October 1919 at 12.30 o'clock in for the posts of part-time lecture- the afternoon for the purpose of ships in the following subjects: presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Ac- counts to 31st July 1919.
The Transfer Books. of the Company will be closed from 1st to 11th October 1919 both days inclusive.
By Order
M. MANUK,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 22nd September, 1919.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., (1918) LTD.
to
shareholders of the above named
Notice is hereby given
will be closed from Tuesday the Company that the Transfer Books 23rd September 1919, until Tues- day the 30th September 1919, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN TOMES & CU.
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th September, 1919,
NOTICE.
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.
Applied Mechanics (Lectures
and Laboratory), Geometrical Drawing," Strength of Materials, Iron and Steel. Machines Structures,
Drawing Office Work (Machi-
nes and Structures). Duties will commence on Sept. 29th 1919.
Full particulars can be obtained from the DEAN of the Faculty of Engineering.
N. TEESDALE MACKINTOSH·
Registrar.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders. The Ninth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders in the above Company, will be held at the Company's Office, St. Georges Building, Hongkong, on Tuesday the 30th September, 1919 at 11.30 am. for the purpose of pre- seriting the Report of the General Managers and Stetement of ac2 counts to 31st May, 1919.-.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 23rd September to 30th September The Annual General Meeting 1919, both days inclusive." of Members of the Kowloon Cricket Club, will be held in the Club House on MONDAY, the Hongkong, 16th September, 1919. 29th September, 1919, at 5.30 p.m.
BUSINESS. Report and Accounts 1918-1919 Election of Officers 1919-1920 General.
KOWLOON CANTON
RAILWAY." (British. Section)
NOTICE.
Additional trains will run as
On Saturdays
Notice is hereby given that the
No claims will be admitted after follows commencing Saturday Share Register and Transfer the Goods have left the steamer's 27th September and until further Books of the Company will be Godown, and all Goods remaining notice. closed from the Ist, to the 6th, undelivered after the 3rd Oct., prox. both days inclusive.y will be subject to rent.
Warrants for the Interim" All Claims against the Steamer Dividend can be had at the office must be presented to the under- of the Company, 2 Queen's signed on or before the 17th On Buildings, Hongkong, on and October, or they will not be after the 7th October, 1919. recognised.
By Order of the Board,.
RM. DYER,
Chief Manager.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Agents
From Kowloon
GORDON & CO. General Managers.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED,
"OPENING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH US. $1 to starI. SYSTEMATICALLY it will grow to
THOUSANDS.
NEW
"
None the less, Heckel schieved WBS about 18 years old it was a great and in many ways: a just decided that he should study at reputation as a brilliant popular Jena under Schleiden, the famous expositor of evolutio botanist and first describer of the doctrine
had to
driven vegetable · cell." An attack of into the resistant rheumatism, contracted as the mankind-against- result of a fall into a river, when judiced opposition
sade
often as
in quest of a rare plant, changed schematic and as dogmatic se his plans, and he studied medicine that of Heckel His General at Wurzburg under Kolliker and Morphology of Organiams* (1866), Leydig, and at Berlin, where he Natural History of Creation owed much to the famous com (1868), "The Last Link" (1898), parative anatomist, Johannes and the "Riddle of the Universe" Muller. He took his doctor's (1901) were translated into many degree in 1857, and went to languages. Their simplicity and Vienna for hospital experience. directness, and the prophetic
assurance with which the, 'doc- trines were presented as the whole truth, gained for them & popularity that a more scientific spirit would have missed.
Haeckel practised physician only for a few years, during which he took little in terest in his profession and gradually came to devote himself entirely to zoology. In 1861, soon RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS. ADVERTISEMENTS.after Gegenbauer became Pro- fessor of Anatomy at Jena,
Haeckel, like Huxley, passed, Haeckel became a lecturer in the from medicine to zoology, from same university. A year later he zoology to philosophy, and from was appointed extraordinary Pro- philosophy to a discussion of fessor of Zoology and Director of religious problems. Huxley ad- THE Undersigned has received the Zoological Institute, and in dressed his technical works to instructions to sell by Public1865 full Professor. At Jens he scientific specialists, his more Auction on
remained for the rest of his long general essays and presentment life, refusing offers of preferment of Darwinism to the general to other universities.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
TUESDAY, the 2nd Oct. 1919.
commencing at 11 am. a: No. 31 Godown of the
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
& Godown Co. Ltd. Kowloon.
34 coils Galvanized Wire Gauge
18, each 1 picul
34 coils Galvanized Wire Gauge
19, each 1 piccl
34 coile Galvanized Wire Gauge
20, esch 1 picul
34 coils Galvanized Wire Gauge
21, each 1 picul
34 coils Galvanized Wire Gauge
22, each 1 picul
at Godown L
265 pieces Mild Steel Angles 2" x 2" x 5/16" ≈ 20'(23′′
at Godown E“.
147 pieces Mild Steel Angles 2}" x 2})" ± 5/16′′ ₹ 18′ 187 pieces Mild Steel Angles 21" x 2" x 5/16′′ x 20' ;- 29 pieces Mild Steel Adgles 24′′ x 24′′ x 5/16" x 21**** 59 pieces Mild Steel Angles
· 2)′′ x 21′′ x 5/16′′ x 23′ Terms Cash on delivery
Geo. P. LAMMERT Auctioneer.
THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
-SATURDAY, the 4th Oct,
1919
commencing at 10,30 am. - at No. 1 Saifee Terrace (For Floor), Kowloon.
hold Furniture
comprising:
A ZOOLOGIST'S TRAVELS. The duties of his post made it
public, but discussions of philosophy and of religion were never in the form of propaganda addressed to the ignorant.
...
possible for him to indulge a taste Haeckel was as dogmatically
for travel, which he turned to ex-certain of the nature of God, cellent zoological purpose,
In free will, good and evil, as 1855 he had visited the Riviera ba was of the shape of with Kolliker, and investigations & jellyfish, and described them that he conducted there resulted as positively. It would require in a treatise on the microscopical an elaborate discussion to com- anatomy of the crawfish. In pare the monism of Hagekel with 1859. he spent six months at the religious views of Huxley, Messina, where he worked at and it is probable that each would marine organisms and collected prove equally interesting to the material for a monograph in two student of philosophy and equally folio volumes on the Radiolariarepugnant to those who accept the tenets of revealed religion. In 1866 he visited Charles Darwin at Down, and then sailed But Huxley, at least in his later for the Canaries, where he studied writings, did not jar on minds accustomed to: controversy.even jellyfish, later on publishing some on grave themes. Haeckel be
came the tub-thumper of what on monograph Siphonophora. In *1869
appeared crude atheism, and by his methods acquired an obnox- visited Dalmatia, 1873 Greece, Asia views hardly deserved.
Scandinavia,
1871 tous reputation which his actual Minor, and the Red Sea, the last trip supplying materials for a
of his result in an im- portant
the
he
If Haeckel had died 10 years
work on Arabian corals. In suc ago he would have secured a. ceeding years be visited Corsica more honourable place in Eng- and Sardinia, Ithaca and Corfa, ish memory. Since then two the Adriatic, and Brittany. In events have taken place. The 1881 he went to Ceylon, in 1887 progress of exact scientific work to Palestine, in 1889 to Russie, discovered many awe in his and in 1900 to Singapore, Java, work, which be neither recognized and Sumatra. He wrote three nor attempted to correct. His volumes of travel, in which per-attitude in the war shocked most sonal experiences and botanical of his large circle of English zoological, and anthropological admirers and friends. He was observations were well described one of the signatories of the notorious letter issued in October, and pleasantly mingled.
1914, in which 93 leaders of Haeckel was a clever artist German science and German with brush and pencil, and he thought proclaimed the German brought back from his travels a series of landscapes of consider-denied the Belgian atrocities, and case in its most aggressive form, able technical merit. This talent defended Kultur and militarism. be applies extensively to his work
Never a word came from him
in
systematic zoology. The memoirs to which reference has in protest against any of the already been made and his four successive crimes of Germany,
A Quantity of Va uable House-great contributions to the H.MS. and in letters to England, as Challenger Reports Deep Sea when he resigned his member- Medusa (1882), "Radiolaria ship of the Rationalist Press, he (1887), Siphonophora" (1888), stated his undying hostility to and "Deep Sea Keratosa," (1889) this country. The English pec- Teak Sideboard; dinner waggon,were superbly illustrated with ple are ready to make large NOTICE is hereby given that dining table and chairs, Ice chest, coloured and uncoloured draw- allowances for patriotic feeling that an Extraodinary General Filter Iron bedstead, Teak ward-ings.
even when exhibited by enemies, but the exuberance of his defence Meeting of Humphreys "Estate robe with bevelled mirror. Dress. This facility improved the ap of Germany and the intolerant and Finance Company, Limited ing table, Sewing machine, Japan-pearance rather than the value of will be held at the Hongkong ese Pictures, Electric Lamp, fan his work. It was his habit to from which he had received so spirit of his attitude to a country Hotel on the 10th day of October
complete the drawings and to much honour and which he knew 1919 at noon, when the subjoined resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meet- ing of the Company held on the 24th day of September, 1919, will! be4 submitted for confirmation as & Special Resolution...th
"That the new articles already approved by this meeting and
#
for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman
and fittings etc, etc, etc.
On view on day of sale. Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
Geo. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
write the text from these rather than from the actual specimens and dissections. He was not in- frequently misled by the tendency to schematize and to generalize which he had crystallized in artistic rather than scientific in- terpretation.
DARWINISM.··
so well passed all limits.
BOY'S 300-MILE TRAMP;
After tramping the 300 odd. miles from Glasgow into mid- Wales & 14-year-old boy was en- gaged by a Montgomeryshire HAMMERSTEIN'S LOST FORTUNE.
Haeckel was one of the first of farmer. He wrote home,, and. thereof be and the same are The late Oscar Hammerstein, the German converts to Dar-following a reply that his father hereby adopted as the Articles the impresario, has left an estate winism. He read the Origin of was ill he disappeared. The of the Company to the ex-of little more than £1,000, but he Species" in 1860. The doctrine farmer found that one of his clusion of and in substitution had already given a substantial at once took shape in his mind as horses had disappeared as well, for all the Articles thereof." sum to his wife during his life. an Infallible major proposition and it transpired that the lad had Hongkong dated the 26th day time. A few years ago Hanimer from which all the facts concern-taken it, intending to ride home,
42
12.01 p.m..
44
... Shum Chun 5.04 p.m. Sundays and Public Holidays From Kowloon 11:33 am. Skum Chun 5.04 p.m.
By Order,
ROBERT BAKER, Manager.
Longkong, 22nd September, 1919. Hongkong. 27th September, 1919. Kawloon, 26th September, 1919.
of Beptember, 1919.
By order of the Board,
stein's wealth, was estimated at ing the bodies of animals and At Welshpool, however, he fell in, Le million pounds, but operate plants and the minds of snimals with some soldiers of the K08. ventures in London, Philadelphia, and of man could be deduced as B., who persuaded him to return BAPP,
and New York wiped out a large clear-cut Jaws. It was an at the horse and subscribed his rail- Becretary part of this fortune.
titude totally different from that way fare home,