CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
a showcase in the King's view a Library there are now on member of Chinese documents of emarkable antiquity. It will be ambered that in 1907 Sir Aurel Bein, in the course of an archeolo- deal expedition through the deserts of Eastern Turkestan, came upon a very large board of Buddhist and ether manuscripts at the cave templesį
the Thousand Buddhas, near Tur Buang, which is situated on the actreme north-western frontier of Kansu. It appears that this library ad been walled up as a measure of Precaution when the country was Verrun by the armies of Hai Hail, er Tangut, in the years 1034-37, and its existence seems subsequently to ve been forgotten. Only in the arly years of the present century
s the cell accidentally discovered ya Taoist priest, when clearing! way the masses of sand that d accumulated at the entrance. The manuscripts are in a wonderful-
good state of preservation, thanks the extreme dryness of the atmo- sphere in that remote region, on the fringe of the desert of Gobi: many " of them, indeed, look almost as if they had come straight from the pen- Brush of a modern scribe. Sir Aurel Sein was successful in acquiring a large portion of this ancient library.. mounting to several thousand rolls, which two years later were safely deposited in the British Museum Since then examination of the texts thes shown tha", while the majority are sutras and other works forming part of the Buddhist canon, there are also a very considerable number of classical fragments, scraps of general "literature, and miscellaneous docu- ents of a very varied description. Many bear cates ranging from
out 400 to 1,000 A.D.
WEATHER REPORT.
October be. 1h: -No romena from Vladivostock. Japan de Fermos Pressure has increased slightly over N.F. China, and decreased slightly over Indo China and Luson.
The anticyclone is central near Shanghai.
A depression is shown to the east c Lysop.
Fresh monsoon may be expected along the south-east coast of China and aver the N. China Ses.
Hongkong Bamfall for the 14 hours. inding at 10 am-to-day, 0.00 lack.. fotal dince January 1st, 70.39 inches, i
xainst an average of 78.08 inches.
Porcast for the 24 hours ending at un on Uctober 10th. 1-Hongkong to Gap Hoek. N.E winds, fresh ; fair.
-For Channel. N.E. winds,
strong.
2-Routh coat of China between Hongkong and Lamocks. The same as So. L
4.-South coast of Chins between.
The same a Songkong and Hainan,
Yo, L.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY. HONGKONG, DAILY WEATHER REPORT.
4L
OCTOBER 9, 1919-
Station
Hour.
Wind,
st Sea Level.
Temperatura
Humidity.
Direction.
divostockTM faz Nemuroa.
Hakodate ... Tokio - Kochi 11 Nagaanki... agoebima. Oshima....! Naba........ Ichijima Sonin Zaland Weihaiwei. 6. 30.02 62 78 Hankow... Ichang Kiukang The selected specimens shown in
Changsha the King's Library include several tungbal.."
magnificent examples of caligraphy Ontzia..... Two of these bave colophons with Sharp Pk... 7 a. dates corresponding to 506 and $15 Amoy A.D. Another-a beautiful copy of Swatow
Taiboku do The Manaparinirvana-sutra, chapter Taichu 29-though not dated, is probably Tafas... about a century older still, judging Koshan From the archaic character of the Pescadores."
Cantona -cript. In the colophon to the
Hongkong Avalokitesvara-gutra, copied out
Gap Rock... M an act of merit by the Buddhist Macso disciple Yin-sse" in 696 A.D., the Wuchow Chinese scholar will notice the Pakhoi ..... peculiar form of certain characters. Holbow... LA decree ordaining that
these
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29. 6.
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99.77
Phalien Tourne characters should always be $0.8James
Titten was issued by the eccentric Aparri Empress Wu, who usurped the throne Dagupan... from 684 to 704, and altered the Manila...... Legaspi... name of the dynasty from Tang to
Tacloban...! Chou These capricious changes. (loilo however, did not survive her fall from Surigao power. The different varieties of name 4.20 29.78 paper used are often useful in deter-Cabanas & the
nising the approximate date of a manuscript; thus, one rull containing part of the Saddharmapundarika- sutra is composed of rich golden. yellow paper, perfect in texture and quality; it belongs, like most of the olls in the Museum, to the seventh century, or early T'ang period. Taoist literature is represented by a
Weather.
LIST OF PASSINGERS.
ARRIVED.
October 8..
THE CHINA MAIL.
NOTICES,
and Per 13. Hritan-Mr. Mira. Barnard, Mrs. Manray, Miss McGowan, and Mrs. Baskott.
Per A3 Tean-Mr. and Miss Fernandez, Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Railton. Mr. and Mrs. Kellog, Mr. A. Paterson, Mr. G. S: Tarner, Mr. 8. G. Wilcox, Mrs. W. Backley, Mr. P. L. Moreland, Mr. Courant, lessrs. L. G. and E. M. Baptista.
DEPARTED.
October #.
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FROM EUROPE.
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FROM JAPAN.
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ARRIVALS.
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CHUSAN, Brit, 1,928 1008, from Bangkok and Swatow, Laps. Davies, B. & 8., C39.
MUROTO, Jap., 2,545 tons, Bongas, Capt. Takano, M.B.K. Bay.
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The A. YOKOHAMA MARU, leaves Yokohama October 31 and is due here! November 14
POST OFFICE.
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CLEARANCES.
•October 2
KASHIMA MAHU, Jap., 6., for Whempas, Dodwell.
TAEENO MARU, Jap., 7.20 a.m., for Keling, M.B.K.
Hongkong Observatory, Oct. 2, 1919. GLENADE, Brit, 8am, for Yoko
T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 33 degrREE Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in inches, teaths and hundred tha
1. TEMPERATUR, in the shade in de crees Fahrenbelt.
HUMIDITY in percentage of stars. long fragment of the Tao Te Chington, the humidity of air saturated with or.Sayings of Lao Tzu, apocryphal i moliture pe OF WINE,; to two points.”
saying's
wo other treatises, hitherto unknown,
the same philosopher, and
of the later Taoist school.
& DIRECTION 1. FORCE OV Beadford Scale
100
nama via Shanghai and Kobe, J.M & Co. SNNING, Brit, noon, for Shanghai, B. & Z
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
The KITANO MARU, leaves Yokohama December 28 and is due hare January 9.
FROM WEIHAWEL
The ss. DUNERA, leaves Weihaiwei Novembar 6 and is due bars via Shanghai November 11.
FROM BOMBAY,
The a.. SHINGO MARU, left Bombay Sept. 24 and is due here Oct. 14.
The 28. TOTOMI MARU, left Bombay i
Sept. 98 and is due here via Singapore Oct 17.
Thess. DUNERA, leaves Bombay October 8 and is due here via Colombo, Perang and Singapore October 18.
The
FROM GALAUTT】.
GREGORY APCAR, left Calcutta Dctober 1 and is dus here vis Rangoon, Penang and Singapore Oct. 15. The RS: TOSAN MARU, left Calcutta Sept. 25 and is due baro vie Singapore
The F.I.E. 8.S. Toma Maru (Calcutta Line) left Calcutta for this port vis Singapore on the 8th Oct., and is Oct. 20. WIND, sccording to
expected here on the 29th Oct.
6. BEATH OF WRATH, b bine sky, u
gloomy, a hail, I lightning, overcast. posing showers, a squal, rais, 1 now thunder visibility w dew, w8L 7. RA to incter reatha and hun
tradth.
HONGKONG-TIDES.
As to the contents, it is the fragistached aloud, drizzling ran, i tog, ments of secular literature that are Perhaps most interesting. Under this bead we have a piece of the Spring and Autumn Annals the only work known to have been written by Confucius himself, and about half the Book of Filial Piety. There are some curious notes on fruits and other articles of diet, apparently forming part of an extensive work, compiled at the National Almanac Office which may be the forerunner of the London from the result of the sanlysis well-known Pen Is'ao, or Herbal, observations taken by means of so till extant; a fragment of a misutomatic tide-recording machine in the Fater Folico Basin at Tsim Sha Tsui cellany, which is interesting as a prototype of the later encyclopædia inring the years 1909- so popular among the Chinese: a
eries of agricultural
neatly
a
The tide-table- viven below has been
The zero of the table corresponda with be vero of the sounding in the Admiralty Tart which has been found to be 41ent
inches below mast sea-level
To obtain the depth of water on the ide ganze at the Victoria Naval Tam
dd 3 foot 4 inches, and on the zance
at Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 for (Inches to the height given in the table.
maxims which strongly recall the style of Hesiod's Works and Days"; a calendar for the year 978, with
executed drawings of Star-God and other lesser deities; a tattered fragment of a Chinese book of divination, once well thumbed no doubt by eager devotees; a priest's diploma, and a list of sacrificial offerings for the soul of a deceased Lady. One of the exhibits which does show unmistakable signs of age, nd had had to be strengthened with pauze, is a small roll containing part of an official census of the families living in the prefecture of us. 12 "Tunhuang. This is actually dated 416 A.D. It is startling to reflect hat when this document was written Rome was still mistress of the Western world, and neither Angle mor Saxon had yet sat foot on the? shores of Britain.
October 10th to 16, 1919.
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on the 14th October. The N.Y.E. 8.5. Aki Meru (Australian Lios) left Thursday Island for this port via Mamis on the 6th October, and is expected here on the 17th October.
arrive
FROM SINGIPORE.
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FROM AUSTRALIA.
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FROM AMERICA. -
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Japan lrft Vancouver for Hongkong duo here from Seattle via Japan Nov. 10: The 8. KASHIMA MARU, Leaven vis Japan ports, Shanghai and Manila on the 30th Peps, and is das Seattle October 12 and is dus here vis bere on or about the 22nd Oct. "Japan ports Shanghai and Manila
Tovember 12. The U.P.O.8.. Ca's EMS. Empresas Runa left Vancouver for Hongkong via Japan porta, Shanghai and Manila on Oct. 2, and is due e here on
about Oct, 23.
The Honorary Treasurer of the Besides the manuscript rolls, tero Alice Memorial and Affiliated How fine specimens of block-printing are pitale acknowledges with thanka the shown, also from the cave-library, following contributions to the funds Time of there is a complete copy of of the Elospitals:--Wo P'ing Theatre -the popular Piermond Sutra, which,
(special subscription) $150.00 and according to the colophon, was "respectfully made for universal Mr. Ma Ying Piu $50.00.
distribution by. Wang Chieh onl behalf of his two parents' nn. the
$
15th day of 4th minon of the 9h a high order. Before the discovery year of Hsien tuna," a date which of this roll, the invention of block works out as May 11. 68. As printing had been usually crecited to frontienlere to the text, there is one Feng Tao, who was born in 881 quite an elaborate wrotengraving and, died in 954. It is now evident of Buddha, who is seen sitting in that the date of this invention must state amid numerous attendant and be pushed a good deal farther back couple of Instruting his divinle Subhuti. quite probably The work of the block-cutter has centuries
more The Times been executed with technical skill of Literary Supplement.
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PARAMOUNT ART CRAFTS BIG PRODUCTION
"SPORTING
IN 7 PARTS.
LIFE
Usual Prices. Booking at ROBINSON'S.
HONGKONG THEATRE.
Tel 5511.
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October 8, 9 & 10.
Showing: A great drama film in 7 parts.
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IN
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Baturday, 11th, Episodes 5 & 6 ofy
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Booking at the THEATRE.
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VICTORIA THEATRE.
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OF
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"THE FATAL RING"
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