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COVER THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE
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HEAVENLY PHENOMENA.
LECTURE ON ECLIPSES OF
SUN AND MOON,
The Rev. J. Kirk Macónachic
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926.
HONGKONG'S PLIGHT.
THE EMPRESS COLLISION.
ENQUIRY OPENS TO-DAY.
SIN R. STUBBS ON ATTEMPT TO RUIN THE COLONY,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghal, Jan. 13. The Court of Enquiry into the Empress of Asia collision, opens
to-morrow.
ANOTHER SHANGHAI
TRAGEDY.
AMERICAN COMMITS
SUICIDE,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Jan. 13,
SIR CHARLES ELIOT,
A NOTEWORTHY HONOUR.
Tokyo, Jan. 13. Sir Charles Eliot has been ap- pointed a member of the Japanese Imperial Academy, for scholarly contributions to philology, Bod- dhian, etc. The honour is note
Mr. D. A..Pelphrey, an Ameri-worthy, as Sir Charles is the first The collision, it will be remem- can, employed by Messrs. Liggett foreign member.-Reuter. bered, occurred on Monday morn-and Myers as an accountant, com- ing with the Indo-China Steam mitted suicide by shooting him- Navigation Company's ss. Tung-self at the Hotel Plaza. shing, which was sunk.
Earlier reports notwithstanding, it is learned that the Empress of awaiting the completion of tem Asia is still held up at Woosung porary repairs made necessary by the collison with s.s. Tungshing. She will probably, leave for Yoko the
Lord Stanley of Aldorloy prezidet! gave an interesting illustrated at a lunclicon of the Royal Colonial lecture at Union Church Lecture Institute, held at the Cannon-street Hall last night on "Eclipses of Hotel on Dec. 16, when Sir Reginald He said Stubbs, late Governor of Hongkong Moon." the Sun and that eclipses, apart from the ap-and Govenor-designate of Jamaica, poarance of a comet, were the was the principal guest.
Sir Roginald Stubbs said the so most striking occurrences in the heavens. The earliest records years' possession of Hongkong was were one of which both the English and were. Chinese, but they
All the re- Scottish races could be proud. somewhat indefinile.
Finding it more or less barren and corda did not give dates and
inhabited by fishermen and pirates, months, but taking one thing with whose successors still carried on the another, they could find out the date when a certain eclipse occur me true, the British settlers had developed a fine city, notwithstand- red.
ing that all the sites of the lases He referred to the early writid had to be hawn from the ruck ten records of eclipses, and gave an at great expense. The shipping hama and Vancouver on Friday interesting explanation of an industry certainly had good eclipse which took place just future. One of the docks was busy. after the qutbreak of war,
to-day building ships for Austrália. Warning of Eclipse.
The 100 square miles offored little The Russian commanders, being prospect for agriculture, and the cognisant of the probable effect on search for minerals had absorbed their uneducated followers, sent gold rather than produced that or fout a warning in order to prevent any other material The imper- Jany untoward happening, Atanoo of Hongkong must be no a similar course was taken so long place for importing and exporting ago as the reign of the Emperor goods, which made the place' very Chiudius;
dependent upon South China. There was some satisfaction in reporting that Hongkong had to income-tax The only import duties were upou tobacco and alcoholic liquors, and last yon" there was handad over to: the British Government a quarter o a million, which Hongkong thought, might have been more profitably applied to the Singapore buso. The problem of piracy, though for the moment held in check, would once more have to be faced, and it woul ba necessary for the Admiralty to send a considerably lurgor number | of small gunboats than had previous-
ly been availible.
On going through old records, it was found that during a very long period in the Middle Ages, Lon- ilon was only favoured with total eclipses of the sun on two occa- sions, while Edinburgh had five, It was said that Dublin also had only two.
He pointed out that there ware far more eclipses of the sun than of the moon, the proportion being 49 to 21. Despite that, however, most people had scen more eclipses of the moon than of the
sun.
Scientille Expeditions. Referring to expeditions, which were sent to various parts
The Immediate Anxiety, The immediate anxiety was the
of the world, in order to Soviet influenco in China, whence study various eclipses, Mr. Maco-cams a determined attempt to ruin nachie said that they
-no doubt were Hongkong. There WAS arranged with care. The mem that the agitation against Hong- hers of the expeditions
WIK started by Russian were kong drilled with great precision in Bolghovists: The only wine thing their various duties, many re-in the Soviet propaganda among the labourers was that which had rela hearsals being Bell beforehand.
This was necessary to ensure tion to the very high rents and the that the utmost should be obsery scarcity of houses. Accordingly he ed during the short duration of us Governor, prohibited the raising uf rents. The natives were hard- the phenomena. He remarked that the whole of the work" was hard was the habit least affected so
working. Their habit of working useless if atmospheric conditions far by contact with Western on the day of the eclipse were civilization. (Laughter.) The induce cloudy.
ments to the labourers Mr. Maconachie showed a num-Hongkong had not had, for those ber of lantern slides, which servwho had succumbed, the satisfactory ed to illustrate the more scientific realizations, which had been pro points of a lecture which was parnised.
day's eclipse.
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