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the motion relative to him changes. Relativity therefore nothing Time can no longer be regarded as more important than the relative

something independent of position ability of the observer, to be accor-

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The Arst Europeans to visit China by seg for the purposes of trade were

A FIRE AT SKA.

TEL BOAT AHLAKY.

NEW VESSEL DESTROYED.

and motion, and the question is,ate in his measurements, affected the Government and many other HE the Officer Administering What is the reality? The only by the behaviour of his standards friends went on board the Blue possible answer is that objects must in varying circumstances which Funnel sa. "Fynbos yesterday to be regarded as existing in four have the appearance of acting with best reyogs to Sir James and dimensions, three of these being them. the onlinary ones of length, Therefore there is no need for the

Lady Stewart Lockhart. breadth, and thickness, and the new ides of "time-space," which fourth, time."

the Fortuguese. Vasco de Gama and of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha this mor On inquiry at the Hongkong Office The London Daily News, which his bold sailors were prospecting ning It was ascertained by a China That is where the "catch" either on earth of in pure ides, so published a letter from a correspon-arbend these shores soon after the Mail reporter that the Tokoye

aan ihalon, and geometry is true f comes in. If you want to know long na it gets fair play. Avoirde det implying that the directors of year 1500 and a settlement wis made Maru, whose destruction by re the time, ask a policeman." Time po is watter of gravitation. Frow's Bank had bees guilty of in the tale neighbouring city of is reported in our cables, vax (says he) is not independent of posi- They tell that a pound of lead defication, the charge being then Macao Macao, had for hundreds of freighter of about 8,800 tons. Soe tion and motion. A dimension is would weigh less than a pound on £100 for contempt of Court and or South China and many traces of constructed only last year, and her still under inquiry, has been fined years "a monopoly of the trade with was quite a new vessel, having been an independent quantity. So let the men. There is felativity here dered to pay the cost. Correspon Portuguese influence are still appar maiden us call time a dimensjón. Amaz also, but nothing changes for dents who think the columns of the ent. Among these is the word Com-American run from Hongkong to ing-

A pound of lead is for is an earth Press are available to them without pracare Time is not a reality at all. pound of leat, and even if we could editorial supervision are invited to loebuyer." The Chinese term is December 9. is a mental fiction, conditional to take it to the moon, and feel it take note

which is pure Portuguese Valparaiso was commenced thinking, by which we measure or grow lighter in our hands, we

“Mapan" and this has exactly the note the rhythm of happenings or

The Takuro Mam" was dose sensations. If nothing happened, carried had remained unchanged bourne, Australia, who has been in pradore was the individual appointed after she left Fortland. The vouch sarse, significance. It would seem here on May 28 and it is thought Archbishop Mannir of Mel therefore that in former days the com-that the fire must have broken sood there would be no time. When and thus Bitself.

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the observer goes. fime ceases. Let us be fair at this point, and Rome for the past few weeks, had to make she firm's purchases, prob would meet likely have been carrying Remember the ring man's isthe confess that our argaments were interviews with Pope Benedictably for the export trade in tes, silk, a cargo of nitrates From South amatical demonstration, that if he foreseen, Mr. Balton, after ex-concerning the Irish question. Rester and other China prochace. No doubt America and lumber from Portland could fly faster than the earth re-plaining the Gaumian co-ordi-ports that the Australian prelate the buyer then as now reserved a big- vultes, and in an opposite direcnates" that are now (we gather) aboard the steamer Kleist, of the to mention the occasional opporra- is sailing from London on May 14 ing commission for his services-pot tion, he would travel back in time, necessary to replace selesa (1) Nippon Yusen Kaisha for Tokohama nity for a little honest squeeze with through previous years, beyond his geometry, writes: The concep Ardhhisop Mannix will pay a short the result that compradores very offen own binhday into bygone cen-tion is somewhat difficult, and it visit to Japan before returning to became extremely wealthy and im REAL FUK AT THE CORONET. turies. Which is mathematically may easily be aggravated into im Australia. true and exact, but still absunt possibility by anyone who thinks

portant. Winist so-day the compra- There are more realities" of ax- that he is expected to visualize it. perience than time which, if we Fortunately, this is not necessary in H. M. Supreme Court by Mrance, to the firm with which he is Coronet, had a great idea. Probably

dore's function has altered consider Concluding argument was heard ably, yet he is still of great import Baby fim, now showing at the attempt to consider them outside it is merely one of those irrelevan Skinner Tamer, Acting Judge, and associated. His present work is prin- some collaborators came in and The conceptor of the "Twilight experience itself an absurd atcies to which those who are Capt. Hartford, B.MS. "Klusha," in cipally that of garantor. He stands mixed things, for it contains fun of tempt become absurd. Thus, a accustomed to think in symbols are the claim by the owners of the ss between the foreign frm and the Chi- the horse play variety that is out of Ltd. man setting out to get to the op liable."

posite side of the street Lever gets those who think in mathematical the as. Nancy Moller which has risk of trading with his countrymen humour of the main idea.

To that we reply that Cheng Lee against the owners of nese dealer and takes much of the keeping with the refined and subtle there, because orer there they tell symbols (altogether emancipated bees before the Court for several on his own shoulders.. him that the opposite side of the from all other symbols, such as days. Mr. R. Evans (Tientan) ap street is the side he left. posite is a reality, a fixed realizualization) are under delu- McKean for defendants. Argument lated country and it is the easiest thing most human actors. Sly skits at the Op words, or from mind pictures peared for plaintiffs and Mr. S. EL the edge of a vast and thickly pou there

Hongkong and Shanghai both lie on effects, especially with animals; and photographer achieved marvellous its, and yet it is relative to the sion; and liable to be further de- having been concluded the Court re-in the world for a dealer who sees ordinary sensational or melodramatie 13 a dog-cleverer than observer. Do we therefore talk of Inded, as by this Einstein foolish-served judgment. oppositeness as a possible dimen-ness. All symbols, mathematical

Not ontside the lunatic or other, are analogous to our clock Mr. W. E. Frazer, Second Officer terior. The compradore is the buffer whom infancy appeals, and all who bankruptcy ahead to take down his film, and its conventional actors sion? asvinm. Of all the transparent measurements of time, devices of the British steamer "Persian who bears the shock of such bask-fave the rudiments of a sense of sign-board and slip off into the in-tricks. All lovers of animals, all to absurdities of philosophy, this one fix thought, and the parent of the Prince" who was sentenced to three ruptcies and disappearances. He is humour, are bound to get pleasure of setting ap time as a dimen-all is the picture: The symbol is years imprisonment a hard labour on expected to recompense the firm for from seeing this film. tion is most absurd. Although, 3 convenient (shorthand) picture of April 19 by the Yokohama District any loss sustained in this fashion and noon in London may be eight or nine o'clock in Hongkong land so pointer to the thought, otherwise of a pedlar on board the ship, has terms of his engagement. And to picture, and the picture is the Court in connection with the death her be is bound to do so by the BE ger relativity) fifteen inexpressible. We must never for appealed his case to the Court of prevent the compradore, himself from minutes is a quarter of an hour inget (no, not for a moment, if we Appeals at Tokyo. The civil case in vanishing he is required to find guar- either place, whether measured at would think rationally) that the which the parents of the pedlar asked amtors or to deposit securities in the right angles to the direction of symbol is not the thing, that semi- for Y26,000 damages for the death name of the Brm. Compradores have IS "MAUNDY THURSDAY” 53° motion or not. And so we get the quavers are not the music, nor of the youth has been settled out of been known to clear off suddenly and real and the permanent, the mea- words the ideas, nor poems the court, according to Mr. Fraser's at leave their guarantors to make good enre we may trust and abide by emotions, but only pointers and torney. The sum paid the parents any deficits for which they were re- A clock does not make time: it is figures on the dial of mental acti-was in the neighbourhood of Y1,000. sponsible and cases of both compra-called, "Shere Thursday" is known only an imperfect instrument for vity. Expressed more clearly, our

Maundy," or as it is sometimes meseuring it, and the fact that a idea is that so far is it from being clock in the arctic region may go true that thinking in mathematical the Union Insurance Society of Can Usually, however, the guarantee takes dore and guarantor disappearing to Sabject to audit the Directors of gether are said to have corred. on the ecclesiastical calemiar as "Holy faster than one in the tropics, or symbols is pure thinking, all sym-ton Ltd., will recommend the pay the form of a deposit of money of Friday, the day on which is com vice versa, or faster in an aeroplane bols are handicaps, extra weight we ment of a final dividend of sixteen of deeds of valuable property which memorated the Last Supper with the Thursday," the day before Good than on a train, does not establish have to carry in the race for the shillings and bonus dividend of will come into possession of the firm Apostles. The word "relativity

as regards dumtion. pure idea. We know this because twenty shillings per share for account in the event of the compradore to comes through the old French, mande Heat and cold may contract or ex-ords are symbols, and we traffic 1919, an interim dividend of twenty-soooding.

"Maundy. " pand a measuring rod, but not the in them, while at the same time four shillings per share for 1920 and The foreign house has protects & command, the reference being to eternal permanence of the dimen-ying our best to think. The sym bonus of 20 per cent on contribue itself from loss as far as it possibly the words of Christ at the Last Hop- from the Latin mandatum, meaning sion of length, wherein, anywhere bol does detract a certain amount tory premiunt. They will further can. Owing to the presence of the per: A new commandment I give and anyhow, the length we call six of attention from the ides to itself, recommend that £100,000 be passed compradore the fam is freed from the unto you, that ye love one another. inches must always be six inches.

and as the saying is, we are led to Reinsurance Fand, £70,000 to trouble of ascertaining the Enancial Einstein asks us to note the ex-atay, as the Einsteinians are by Building Reserve Fund and £25,000 standing of every dealer as once the religions rite performed on this day periences of an observer on a rotat the exuberance of their own ver- to Equalisation of Dividend Fandompradore has chopped" the con- was the washing of the feet of poar In early Christian times the chef ing disc. We have done so at the

leaving about £200,000 to be carried the responsibility for payment persons or inferiors by the priests, civus, and been amused, though

If Einstein has discovered that forward to Underwriting Susperse we do not think the observer on the light is affected by gravitation, we Account 1919. To those Shares on him. Expansion of business the prelate or some noble of the com disc observed much. That, how- have no desire to deny it. Let him holders who are not ordinarily resi ever, is not Einstein's notion. His Bat he hasn't weakened the values will be paid by warrant on the Hong the protection accorded to the firm br/Penance, a custom which still survives

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to say, they are stable, and may be trusted. It seems to follow that lengths are not affected "because they are in the line of motion, bar only seem to be, as two parallel lines seem to come together when we look down a long railway gauge. Then why quarrel with the New

observer has to be unconscious of

the motion of the disc on which he is. He is to walk about on it. which is just what they couldn't manage in the circus. Then he is to stand where be cannot Ivel the centrifugal force, and to watch someone else comparing by repeat-

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It must be noted, however, that manity, as an act of humiliation and

well-defined limits and is meant to or Greek Catholic Church is the official the compradore Fes within certain certain sections where the Roman apply only to normal times. During religion. Up until the sixteenth cen Commenting on the increased quite good dealers gre in a very shaky Cathedral in England had his face the present depression of trade many tury every charity-boy at the Durham Equor and tobacco duties in Heng position and if a general run of bark washed by a monk, and every monk" kong, the Japan Chimicie potes that ruptcies were to ensue, losses would then kissed the feet of a boy, and gave the policy of the freedom of the port soon exceed, the amounts deposited him thirty pence, seven red herrings ing red the Circumference of a on board the "Kamo-maru" when to be like clinging to the shadow circle, having its centre at that she sailed from Hongkong for Kobe after the suberance has gone. When Shanghai as there the compradore the feet of the poor has been gradually is to be maintained, according to the by most of the local compradores as three loaves of bread, a wafer cake A. Filipino stowed himself away Governor, but observes this appears their securities. Point, with its diameter: The mea. He was locked up on board but the duties were first imposed at

ring when laid along the cir-managed to escape, and was arrested Hongkong it was understood that does not usually undertake to cover abandoned, it is still the custom in

The position is better here that in

and something to drink.

While the ceremony of washing ference is moving-lengthwise in Moto-machi and taken in charge, passengers landing there would not the total amount but merely a certain many places to make Maundy Thur therefore subject to contraction by relatively to the observer, and is He is now being examined.

be searched, and according to a state- Previously arranged percentage.day a day of sims-giving, a practice ment made by the Governor no will thus be realised that while the which has led to the erroneous state- The death at the age of 65 of change in this policy is intended, compradore's guarantee is valuable yet

ed applications of a small wEGSA?--

his reckoning. When laid radially

The

tonian theory, when we do not in to measure, the diameter this con- the Rev. Father M. Blachot, O.MI, although he rave a warning-that if its value is limited. The suggesting/ment that "Manndy" is derived a panic stop the train? It is a traction does not occur. The rod veteran missionary of Jaffna, Ceylon, the increase in the duties resulted in its been made indeed that he could from the French word for basket, Imitted that these alleged variations will therefore require a greater pro-occurred at the Bishop's Palace there large amount of sunggüng it might very well be disperised with entirely, pposedly on account of the fact in what should be stable measure-portional number of applications to on April 21. He was founder and be necessary to reconsider the matter. He is no longer required as ar in- that the alms were doled out of large ments are very small, and onls de the circumference than to the dis- until the time of bis death the historical thin end of the wedge termediary since the numerous brokers baskets carried or the arm. monstrable mathematically.. Not that the mathematician can picture ing the ratio of the circumference Aloysius in Jaffna.

meter, and the number represent Director of the Confraternity of St. has been inserted, and it will pro-have supplanted him in this activity. the thing mentally any better than of the circle to the diameter thos BFGIANG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921.able him to abstract the relevant than 3.14150 which is its that at a special general meeting of other people, but his symbols en measured will therefore be greater

bably be found, impossible for Hong- Formerly his knowledge of English koog to maintain the freedom of the was of assistance, but now an ever natural ability to work its way up. properties from it, and to express normal value. Moreover, the rela-the Sporting Club a resolation was

A Singapore correspondent wires Part

increasing number of the dealers talk Often sprung from lowly origin they THE EINSTEIN RELATIVITY them in a fons suitable for exact tive velocity decreases as the centre nanimously carried granting Mr. G. general meeting of the Constitutional on their business without compradores

English. Most of the Japanese firms rise by sheer intelligence and force At the fourth ordinary annual and a few for ign firms in China cry of character to positions of great RUBBISH.

picturing anything, or troubling tion of the measuring-rod is less pension of $600 per niensem free of City Hall on May 11, at 5.80 p.m. the Their brokers are required to exercise of the principles of business which is treatment without the necessity of is approached, so that the contracP, Owen, the late Secretary, a life Reform Association to be held in the and deal direct with the retailers / Vezlth and dignity and show a grasp Confound Einstein and all his those on which others rest for their and the ratio of the circumference his valuable services members of the Legislative Counch that adat- they lose in the way of compradores-in China who are not whether or not the properties ate when applied to a smaller circle, Straits income-tax in appreciation of following resolutions will be cop-caption regarding those, with, who not excelled by that of our best Euro

conceptions."*

***

often expressed that its successors

works! His Theory of Relativity threatens to become a bore. The

Quite so; but that ignores the than the normal, will be nearer to to the diameter, while still greater

sidered: (1) That all non-Chinese they do business and the firms reckon pean merchants. It is said that there apore it is !!

explained," the less unnatural properties, as illusory as circle the less the difference from 10g, after a long liness of Mr Colin Bach non-Chinese members, with the large firm totalled many thousands of the Brut has implicit trust which has ...

poster of mathematica to produce is than before, and the smaller the The death is announced at Pen- body be adopted in the case of a compradore's commission which in a post' and in whose word or chop

be elected (2) That a larger electoral defanking buyers they save at the bound down by any guarantee or de- there seems to be in it. The more those of words. Once deprived of the normal. For circles whose Reginald Crawford, of Moulmels exception of the representative of the dollars a year. There is no question never been broken. The old class of*** we study it, the more we suspect what are here called pictures" centres are not at the point of zero Road, Singapore He had been in Hongkong General Chamber of Com of the dispensability of the compes compradore with his pidgin English, 2 volgar bamboozlement. educated men talk of it respectfully, descend to absurdities, like the since the velocities relative to the Board for many years and had to go official majority on the Legislative time but the wisdom of this step is sive figure secus destined to theap

Yet ideas and concepts) the mind may force, the confusion is still greater, the employ of the Singapore Harbour meres; (3) That there be an Un dore. He can be abolished at any as if it mattered. Is there a con- mathematician who argued in this observer of points on them now to Fenang to recuperate his health Council with such safeguards as are very doubtful A protection, though pear. He is being succeeded by the spiracy to pull the public leg, or are way. My brother Jim is 10 years change from point to point. The one few months back,

his-Bowing garments and his expansi they less wise than we thought older then I. When I was two whole scheme of geometry as we them? Or is the very clear and years of age, he was six times ss know it is thus disorganised. News has been reived in Kobe in the House of Commons, asiding for various types some useful and others reign of Chinese society.

provided in the Constitution of Cey only partial is better than none slim, keen, well-tailored Western lucid mental state we fancy we old as I was. When I was fi Bigidity becomes an unmcaning of the death of Mr. F. Popert at the support of the Members in secure less so. The latter are often content the old type and the hope lon; and (4) That a petition be sent Compradores like brokers are of educated individual equally at home have attained an illusion? As we be was only three times as old as term, since the standards by which Hamburg on February 14 of hearting the above change in the Legisla to sit in their departments calculating see it, nothing is changed, nothing I was. When I was ten, he was alone rigidity can be tested are stroke: Mr. Popert was the manager tire Council. The meeting will their commission on every contracts new advanced save new tricks with only twice as old as I was. Here themselves subject to alteration. in Kobe of Memes, Ahrens & Co. consider in conjunction with the issued.

Europeans as a rule feel more at old words. A prize of $5,000 (gold) a mathematical progression down- These facts are, expressed by the Nachf, the agents of the Nord. Member of the Kowloon Residents Luckily, however, this type is rare was offered for the best explana wards is demonstrated, and it re-statement that the observer's mea: deutscher Lloyd, and was a resident Association, any-resolution, which and the Hongkong compradores tion, which was won by L. Bolton, mains only to ascertain the age at sured space non-Euclidian; that of Kobe for some twenty-five years M.A., of the British Patent Office, which I shall catch up with him." and published in the Scientific Equally absurd, to us sppears the sideration measurements do not From, the speech of the Bishop and Committee for the ensuing year the interests of his firm and often very

is to say, in the region under con- American. This essay we have just Einstein four dimensional con conform to the system of Euclid,

may be moved in regard to the generally a man of sound sense, wide Increase of House Rates, and any experience and tested worth read..

other Municipal matters. Officers It is to his advantage to attend to It is admitted that light waves

timum, which is thus explained:

of Singapore: Sir Arthur Young will be elected. in racue (spart from gravitation, alterable, have not the absolute are willing to take Einstein's word Governor of the Straits Settlements ****Lengths and times are not da traction by his reckoning? We butter. He thought hard for a Why is the rod subject to con told him he could not afford to buy the shifting observer, or the moving character formerly attributed to for it that it may appear shorter, to retire from Singapore and not he

valuable suggestions have their origin source) travel in a straight line at them. [Seven inches does not but not that it is shorter. It fusy able to afford butter Very hard

in the mind of the compradore.ION regular pace. It is admitted that remain permanently seven inches; be true that on a revolving disc

He is the referee who settles dis GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME putes between firm and dealer. « He even allowing for the fact that the nor fifteen minutes a quarter of an cannot meare accurately. observer mates (on our whirling hour What userse 1] As we could, the measu

indeed. But has his lordship get 1)

your home to is an unexitustible source of inform globe; lengths (measurements) at they present themselves to us they constant and right angles to the direction of are relations between the objects or not, the motion are not affected, that is and the observer which change as ence to

would be hated extrava

have been Her Bishop?

Pinang Cat

Con, are matzers relaang io.com merce-and-commodities in China and

"judge," "of "what" is most

as a selling line

re Sposzer

British trade in China will depend on-- will display the same worthy qualities.

It is quite likely that the future of

successor will he inval the closeness of our co-operation with this end the aid of the compradore the Chinese themselves and to attain

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