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the inside, gradually. It should freshing in these micro-metric but it never does. In biology it is days. Sure it isn't a common or mutation which counts in garden half inch brass draw-off?- development.. When these muta-F.

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tional reformers grow sufficiently Dear FI measured very care- noisy to threaten interests, contally front to back, not side to crete opposition is offered. The side, but cannot be sure of any- imperturbable tolerance" which thing. The tap itself may be an Kipling asribes to the English is illusion.-A. thrown off like a coat, and the in- terests fight, either openly or Secretly. But if the idea be right, the interests must lose, sooner or later..

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We invite the Lord Chancellor Gal- INVITATION. loper" Smith) to come out and join the China Mail stall. He'll do. A Canon Lacey in the Times st. tacked something he said in Parlia uent about divorce law reform. F. E. Sauth came back at the Canon in the same raper in a way that completely shut him up. He says he has studied this subject for years, without neglecting its minor and more gecentre expres sion." Thus he became acquaint=| ed with a work published in 1912) by this same Canon Lacey. He quotes from it to show what the

Dear A. How many thumbnail lengths of tubing 'you want?-F

Dear P-120.—A. And at last the business was over. The Adversarian is an awful fool in the matter of practical details, but what better could be do with out a ruler?

LOCAL IND GENERAL

Today's dollar is worth 4s. id.

Congratulations, to Mr. W. Kay.

Subadar-Major Bhan Singh is gazetted A. D. C

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SINGAPORE, June 4. The Prince of Rumania arrived Festerday morning and at the official reception and birthday ball proposed the toast of King George, the Gover oor submitting the King of Rumania, The Prince leaves for Japan on Satur day.

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BATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920.

OLD ASTRONOMICAL · OBSERVATORIES.

BOOKS ON CHINA FOR CAMBRIDGE

MR. "YÜNNEAR'S BEQUEST.

At the meeting of the British Astro- nomical Association held on February 25 last, Mr. Waker Maunder showed The priceless collection in the. some slides taken from the illustra- | University Library, Cambridge, ol(), tions in a superb volume recently books printed in the Chinese, Manchu, issued by the Archaeological Survey of Korean and Mongolian languages, and India. The author of the book, Mr. (2) of works concerning China in other G. H. Kaye. F.R.A.S.. spem some languages, mostly English, has recent- months in studying the great-sonely received a valuable addition in the observatories erected by Jai Singh, shape of a bequest under the will of the well-known Maharaja who was Mr. Henry R. Kinnear, of over 400 appointed by the Mogul Emperor, volumes of the second class above Mohammed Shah, as governor of the mentioned, hitherto not to be found- Province of Agra and later of that of in the Chinese room, though a few Malwa. While holding this high of them already stand in the catalogue office he buik five observatories, at of the general library. Such duplic- Delhi, Jaipur, Benares, Ujjain, and ates, however, help towards complete=" Mathura, in the year 1728 to 1734. ness, in the sense that the whole col- Though these were built more than lection under the two classes is housed a century after the invention of the in one · larg딓” and lofty room, with telescope, and though he had in his Lelectric light and telephone laid on- library Flamsteed's "Historia Coeles an ideally convenient arrangement for Įtis,” and other standard astronomical purposes of reference and research: SHANGRAI, June S. | works from Western Europe, Jai Singh the more so as the Chinese room leads Recently Mr. Lewis, a local gave no place to the telescope in the directly into the Japanese room, where chemist, M. Mudes, a Frenchman, plan of his observatories, which, the student has at his elbow the exten and a party of ladies and children, though not ancient in actual time, are sive and well-selected collection, form had an outing to Woosung. It is in conception posthumous children ofed by the late W. G. Ason, CMG. alleged that the Chinese soldiers at the Stone Age. It is of interest, Woosung forts ascked the male therefore, to inquire how far they been swelled by recent additions to foreigners with sticks, bamboos and throw light upon ancient stone monu-over 5,000 volumes, nearly all of The origin of the trouble is obscure. astronomical in purpose, or as to how and are, therefore, much more handy ments which have-been alleged to be which are bound in European style,

far these monuments may explain the than when placed on the shelves with erections of Jai Singh.

or without the usual Chinese wrap- The Gentur Muntur, as the observa- pers, in both of which cases they tory at Delhi is called, contains three would fie flat on their sides.

The principal instruments, besides some Chinese volume is a pen; but these smaller ones that we may neglect, volumes contain anything from 2 to 10 a proposal so grotesque. The Commander Beckwith's appoint-

The Samrat Yana, or Supreme pên, and yield a total at moderate Canen (according to his book is ment as Harbour Master etc. is convinced that all divorce is wrong.gazetted.

Instrument," is a glorified sundial-estimate of 30,000 pên. -. Before Chief Justice H.H.J. long flight of steps leads up to nothing. Mr. Kinnear," the Ronry's latest He suggests that a passage in St.

Gompertz, in the Supreme Court this but points straight to the pole of the benefactor, had spent 50 years in Matthew was "a gloss inserted by Mr. Robert Hunter acts as morning, proceedings in the cases of heavens, and east and west. of it China (at Foochow and Shanghai), the Evangelist," or, alternatively, Assistant Marine Surveyor during The Tsun Shing Hong, hearing of quadrants have been built in the plane and was recently chairman of the that if Jesus did say it He did not Mr. Macdonald's absence.. petition, and Ma Cheuk, hearing of of the celestial equator. The sun, Municipal Council, Shanghai. So far··

petition, were adjourned sine die.

therefore, casts the shadow of the back as 1867-8 he spent a winter in Upon motion of Mr. E. B. Potter, staircase on these quadrants, a shadow Peking for the purpose of picking up the interira receiving order in the which moves over equal distance on a little of the so-called Mandarin colio- case of the Estate of Chan Lai Sang, the quadrant in equal intervals of quïal; and ever afterwards he kept deceased, was rescinded.

Mr. J. D. Lloyd is appointed custodian of Enemy property.--

Canon's views are worth, and' in- ! Lt. Comm. W. Conway Hake is cidentally what a medieval appointed Assistant Harbourmaster.

for Fariament at the first opportun Capt. Basil Taylour is standing its+ 11

man the Canon is The Canon had told him to stick to law and moral and spiritual and leave physical questions to other minis." He shows that the Canon's mind is not one that such things should be left to and doubts whether the Ltd arrogance of a minor ecclesiastic

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920.

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has in recent times involved him in

mean it.

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qu'un rain peale pense. Notre crédulité fait toute leur

science.

About a year ago PROFESSOR WA

took some BOWLEY statistics by Pro STATISTICIAN. fessor Arthur L.

of three to five.

ANOTHER SCANDAL: PLAYING FOR SAFETY.

Mr. Horace Percy Smith's acting appointment as consul for Stam is gazetted.

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The two Chinese who were arrested for the attempted murder of a chauffeur in Praya East, near Gresson Street, on May 1, were yes, terday afternoon committed by Magistrate Hutchison to the next Criminal Sessions.

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SUPREME COURT.

BANKRUPTCY CASES.

After hearing the application of 1. 1. Santos for discharge, the dis charge from bankruptcy was granted.

NO PARADS.

MANY DISAPPOINTED.

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The number of Chinese books has

M. A. Stein, etc. The collection tur-

iher includes complete sets of "the

reports of the Municipal Council

There can be no doubt about up a lively interest in the civilisation the purpose and valve of this: it is a of China, past and present, filling his Sundial, and it gives the apparent shelves with books, many of which time of the day."

were of considerable value. Of The Ram Yantra suggests at first periodicals he had complete copies of Bowler, of the

John McBean Tullceb, ex

sight a Colosseum in duplicate: at the China Repository," the "China London University, quarrelled with Sergeant of the Hongkong Police

nearer approach, the object of the two Review, Notes and Queries on them, and were reproved for it. Force who was a few months ago

buildings is as evident as that of the China and Japan," the "East of Asia To-day we quote another set, in a sentenced to five years hard labour

great dial; the two together were Magazine," * Adversaria Sinica," spirit of respectful approval, and for a serious offence on a 13-year-old

meant to form a twin altazimuth in and the “Journal" of the China without content. He shows in boat girl at Shantiwan, left the

stone; they were intended to deter Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. his last book that the property in fessor." He is not being released, Colony yesterday by the ss. "Pro

mire the altitude and azimuth of the The first three are now almost unpro- terests take 37 per cent. of our but will serve the rest of his sentence Jockey Club at Happy Valley this

On the grounds of the Hongkong heavenly bodies.

curable. Among the older books may national income, while services and at Home. It is desirable in order to

Between the Semrat Yantra and be mentioned A Short Account of work get 621 per cent., a proportion pacify our Chinese friends, prejudiced turning, two or three hundred Euro- these stone circles stand two sunken the Declaration given by the Chinese

by past everts, that some guarantee beans and many others were as hemispheres, known as the Jai Prakas Emperor Kam Hi in 1700," 1703:- H: G. Wells or proof of this be given. Verb. mbled in anticipation of the King's or the crest, jewel of all instru "Description de la China" by Du WELLS ON-

thinks it is right sap.

Birthday Parade.

ments. On the insides of each of Halde; four vols., folio, 1735% the IMPERIALISM, for America to

This parade was to have been held these two cups are engraved certain same in English, third edition, 1741; king. The question" is the wisdom |

*** turn down "the " The six Japanese and tour Chi- on the 3rd of June, but was canceled co-ordinates, and originally wires Memoirs and Remarks" illustrated, of such an insult to British intel- L.0.X. because it does not go far nese; members of the crow

awing to the inclement weather and the were stretched from north to south, by Lewis le Core, Jesuit, 1737; ligence to-day. Canonization or enough. It is, I am convinced, Japanese meter fishing boat "Keeyue order was later issued for the holding of the cups, and the shadow of the 1504: The Penzi Code of China," bad condition of the grounds. An and east to west, across the openings i Travels in China," by John BarrOW, quasi-canonization, as the Times an extremely wholesome thing for Maru," were again, before Mr. R. O. of the parade on Saturday the 5th of intersection of the wires falling on the by Sir G. Staunton, 1810: The very sensibly points out, is utter the aggressive Imperialism of Bri- Hutchison this morning, charged with June, this day being selected pertly surface of the hemisphere indicated Chinese, by Sir John Davis, 1836. ly alien to the drift of current tain in Mesopotamia, of France in the unlawful possession, on board the on account of the fact that the the position of the sun in the heavens. thought. The Church will have Syria, of Italy in Albania, that ship, of 11,950 taels of prepared celebration of the King's Birthday at For the observation of other heavenly years: Japanese Lacquer,"

Among miscellaneous works of later a longer lease of life if it lets that America should so stand out and no-Government ophum, valued at Home was being held on the bodies, the observer had to get into lames Orange, 1907: Historic by line of humbug alone.

wait. It creates just that lonely, $143.000. The first defendant, who 5th, and for the farther reason See elsewhere in this

We suggest that cold feeling which the aggressive is the master of the boat, was also it was hoped that the weather would the cup, a passage being cut into the Shanghai," by Montalto de Jesus, issue Mr. Kipling's OBSTRUCTION. the orders to the Imperialist needs."

charged with unlawfully allowing the so improve, as to permit of the hemisphere for that purpose. He had 1909 Cities and Towns of China," EMPIRE. speech on St. George's

Police regarding He thinks they ought to be chast vessel to be used for the transportation celebration of the Natal Day of the to place his eye at a point indicated by Playfair, second edition, 1910: Day, with its excellent cases of obstruction" should be ened by 1922.

of contraband. The Magistrate con- King at Happy Valley,

and observe the passage of the star "The Ruins of Desert Cathay,” by Abutabnail sketch of our racial bis- modified.. In the city it is import-

victed the first defendant on the latter A disgraceful thing charge, and imposed a fire of $5,000, the

As it continued to rain, toward across the point of intersection of the tory. We are no more stupid now and that goods should not be left on j

lalter part of the week, wires. has happened, such in we were during the dynasties the street or sidewalks; but on the

for six months' hard labour. The sixth hope of being able to hold the The three instruments may there as makes us ashamed defendant, who assumed all respon-ceremonies to-day was abandoned, fore be said to have been intended to (Land Assessment Schedule) and of mentions, and still as keen on water front at West Point, or at

to think that such asibility of possession of the opium, was The DAA, QMG, called up act as -on-which is the peace Kipsimilar shipping places, it is absurd

130 as Mr. Jag had in mind. The relaxa- to meddle except where the street

also sentenced to a fine of $5,000, one of the newspaper offices, not the (1) the Samrat Yantra as a dial, should still be allow. Ints of persecuted specialists" was is clearly being used as a godown.

or six months'. The other defendants | China Mail, he thinks on Wednesday to give the time; ed to".

It is re 4 delightful phrase to express the We have the case of Reiss and ported to us directly by a credible were discharged. The drug and boat morning, notifying them of the (2.) the Ram Yantra as an altazi- inner motives of some of us, who Company in mind, but of course we witness that he recently..

cancellation of the parade order, but myth, to give altitudes and azimuths; to his

was unable to get into communica- and are rebellious Englishmen, and get ask for similar immunity for Chi ... and that this is not the first

alled Bolshevistic" or "sedi-nese shippers. The street at West time it has occurred. No man with Mr. N. L. Smith. 21. the Magistracy anyone he could make understand tions and right ascersions.

Mr. D. H. Blake appeared before tion, he stated this morning, with

(3.) the Jai Prakes to give declina- tious "

according to the fashion of Point is to all intents and purposes a spark of decency would.. the moment. Yet all the time it a wharf, and no one should object all we can say at present, in view charged with the unlawful possession at the parade order. In future it is but his ingenuity seems to have been and this morning to defend a Chinese was also notified of the cancellation to Jai Singh himself as their designer, him. The Hongkong Jockey Club The three instruments are ascribed i we who are building the Empire, to the temporary obstructions usual of the law of libel and the natural

in search of rest and change." on wharves. Hongkong is a ship reluctance of our witness is that he on Leung Wing wharf yesterday, of a likely that arrangements will be chiefly shown in executing on a gigan- What is an anchor ping place, and it seems to us im. must be a dangerous brute, who, but said that the revolver was forced publicity in affairs of this kind, ready known in principle (e.g. the revolver. Counsel pleaded guilty, made by the military to secure proper tic scale instruments which were al chain? Thinking of portant that the police should be unless taught to

oa his client, Waist. it as a cable, we were told to wink at all but serious

The defendant was which are of interest to the general Chinese). ..the ... and become the

At Newmarket Country Court, the shocked to read in a cases, wanton, anecessary, and object of public execration.

taken to a tea bouse by two men who public.

A fourth instrument, the Rasised by Mr. and Mrs. Harely for Dowager Countess of Wilton was bunch of "copy" that a Chinese anduly, prolonged.

were strangers to him and asked to While it is a regrettable fact that The revised scale of deliver a parcel on the Leung Wing so many people were inconvenienced Valaya, seems to have been entirely damages for alleged misrepresenta had stolen one from the steamer

We do not suggest

civil service pay gives wharf. The defendant was suspicious by attending at Happy Valley in original, but its purpose was clearly tion of service. Mrs. Harley said **Kwaisang," and was found wear- NEWSPAPERS excessive police

the Chinese school and refused, whereupon the strangers anticipation of the ceremonies astrological, nor astronomical. At Jai that she was a highly qualified.cook ing it round his waist. We had NECESSARY. krenness, such as

teachers a very Irish rook him outside, and aber threaten- and were disappointed, a word pur there are no fever than twelve and always served with a proper staff visions of a Falstaffan waist-ex-

rise. We hear that ing to assault him, forced him to take may be said for seeding even, that of the Boss, or Four newsagents were summoned not only were certain extra fees for charge of the parcel. When it was although

the Press, tramples of the Rasi Valaya, all on of kitchenmalds and scullerymaids. of his friend Mr.

skirts are the same platform, one for each sign Her husband was a butlervalet. at Doncaster for Sunday trading extra technical teaching cut out,examined on the wharf, it was lound clean in this instance. Perhaps of the Zodiac: they are miniatures of They had recently returned to England A Bishop writes to In one case, where the defendant but that they were cut out without to contain the revolver. Counsel said some of those disappointed are the Samrat Yantra, but the gnomon after serving three years with Mr. B. REPENTANCE. the Times to say combined a sweet shop with his notice, after half a month of such that under the circumstances as out among the many in Hongkong whó, points to the pole of the ecliptic when A. Gould, of Toronto, Lady Wiltor, that the Germans newspaper trade, a conviction was extra duty had been done. If that lined by him, his client could not be when asked for bits of the informa the first point of its special sign is who had just taken Lanwades Hall, are not really sorry. They are registered, but in the other cases be true, it was a trick damoably rested, the defendant pointed out, the tion, lists of names, or any thing of on the eastern horizon. The quadrants told them that she had 11 servants. sorry for their defeat, but not for newspapers were regarded as unjust. It was bad enough as it two men to the constable, but the latter the kind by reporters, have nothing on exher side of the gnomon are in When Mrs. Harley and her husband their sins. Isn't it about time we works of necessity," and the was, these workers getting poorly men to the constable, but the latter to give out to the press or anything the plane of the ecliptic, instead of in went to Lanwades there was neither cut out this line of cant? What charges were dismissed. Every paid, but to dock them without took us notice. His Worship did not to say on any subject.

the equator, and the shadow of the kitchenmaid nor scullerymaid, and practical man of the world ever now and then some officious police-notice, and to dock them of the believe the story and passed sentence

That is not the case in this in gnomon would give the longitude of they left at a moment's notice. They A rafely sorry for their sins, but himself by bringing up a case under was monstrous. They should call bour. The revolver was confiscated. communication with one of our con for its purpose, if it were not that it ing to £35. expected them to, be sorry? Men man at Home tries to distinguish proportion of pay actually earned, of $25 fine or three tooths hard stance, because the military author the Sun. This would therefore stem now sued for railroad fares and for fies did make efforts to get into an ingenious and effective instrument damages and loss of wages, amount- only for the consequences, and it the ancient. Sabbatarian law. The His Excellency's attention to it,

temporaries without success. However, presumed a precise knowledge of the The defense was that the Countess in most instances wherein the Press very thing it professed to indicate they were coming, but they did not tried to obtain the maids and thought of Hongkong is accused of being de linquent in making public announce his observatories, he states that" by Judge the parties agreed to a private In Jai Singh's own report upon come. At the suggestion of the ments, one will find, if interested the aid of the unerring artificer astro arrangement, the imputation of mis enough to investigate, that it is not

SOME

we find at Home,

CHINESE TEACHERS PAY

may yet

The following cor-

is with that knowledge that society victim is usually a poor man, who in case be misses this issue of the does its best to impose con- does the work himself, without an | Cuina' Mail.. sequences. Anybody who expected assistant. Perhaps the policeman zeal repentance from the Germans is the more annoyed by Sabbath must have been a fool. It is cer- breaking because he has to work on tain that they still believe they Sundays himself. were in the right, but bad bad-

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The spiritual rehellan obliging friend who underta Chinese Recreation Club team to the fault of the Press representativesnomical instruments have been con- geprésentation being withdrawn.

- CORRESPON respondence bas taken place between the Adversarian and The following will represent the pore for to get him a rubber extension for play their Tennis League match truth than he does for a water tap.

against the Garrison team, to day at 4.30

pam on the

ock. If we are to keep level beads REBELS. Who cares we must not shut our eyes to facts,

who do the best they can understructed with all the exacmess that the rather trying circumstances. -

heart can desire, and the motions the or be led away by cleptrap about unity has played an important role Dear A.-Can do, but must bare CRC, ground, Causeway Bay Ng be held Should it be decided to he found the calculation. to agree form. But the strange thing is that

As far as can be stated now, the Stars have for a long period been con- parade ceremonies will probably not stantly observed with them," and that great stone crections, so archaic in repentance. It follows that we in history, and his mission is per- the outside diameter of tap nozzle. Sze Kwong and Lo Man Wai. Choy Hold them, on some other day, the perfectly with observation. But his they have been added to in later years, need not blame the Germans -haps not ended yet." Thus Dr.F

Man Ping and Wong. Po Keung fact will be announced in these star catakigue is merely that of Ulugh so that the Ram Yantra of the Jaipur

duly for not feeling as we should Rufus M. Jones in a recent book, Dear F.-The diameter of tap Yu Man Trun and Lo Man Pan.

ever have expected them to feel. describing the tiny baud of people is exactly the length of my thumb Their sorrow for the consequences who are always a little ahead of mail-A must be real enough,

the spirit of their age and genera- Dear A-Cut 'em fately? F.

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The Dean of Canter- tion. Their new truths' are liable Dear F-Borry. Thumbnail is A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME, bury is still sexions to be over-stated: they are sure to exactly three-fifths of one inch MAREit a rule of your home to always CHARLES. ~10 have King Charles be cranks and-unpopular; but long,A

Eeep on band a bottle of Chamber canonized is a if their yeast be indeed yeast, the Dear A-Your bath tap is unite and Dian hoca Remedy sa The question isn't at all bread is sure to rise. The others que in dimension and almost worth always cures promptly and no household asfeguard against bowel complaints It hether Charles was a good, reli-deplore schism and disunity, and an adversarial nar. Your rule of is safn without le For sale by all one man or not. Personally, we urge that reform should come from thumb method is distinctly re Chemists and Storekeepers.

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Beg with 4 degs. 8 mins. added to observatory, so far from being a relic each of the longitudes as a correction of mediaeval or prehistoric time, is for precession, and it would seem that younger by a year dan the British fco particulars of actual observations Astronomical Association. We do nx- made with the instruments are avail-know why this recent addition has ablemede

been made at Jaipur, seeing that no was Jai Singh who began these astronomical observations appear 19 have been made within living memory at any of the five Jai Singh observa-

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