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TUESDAY, MAY 6 1924

HOW HONGKONG'S ',HILLS: APPEARED.

WORLD.

TENNIS OFF..

JAPANESE PLAYER ILL.

with

appendicitis had

ashore for an

matters. These extra charges. needed who will blazon forth what told her that in this damp climate 9,000,000 YEARS OLD. might easily fall on the coat of sticky humanity needs in this one must allow something for foodstuffs carried by certain of portion of the globs to keep cool, shrinkage, and she did no press

in body and consequently in the matter.' the convoyed boats, and press temper? Our Doctors might will hardly on the consumer-prin be relieved by their Society of the

Printed in the elpally Chinese; but a benevolent hidebound customs which keep HUMORIST: book is a sketch on WHEN REPTILES RULED THE

Hongkong tennis enthusiasts British Government decides other them religiously behind brass

AND the Garden of

who were looking forward to the HISTORIAN, Eden, which is one

match this afternoon in which T. wise, and its action is probably plates, and tell us what we need In the way of diet and clothing to

of the most amusing

Honda (singles champion) was to misunderstood as a sign of weak- keep us

trifics Ovon from drowning our and characteristic

Interesting University Lecture. have been partnered, by Ohta, the. ness. But if the Government is morrows in drink, and committing Saki did. It will, however,

Japanese Olympic player who is not in a position to press its the happy dispatch on all who come as news to many of his "Taking the formation of the passing through, against Ne Sac

admirers to learn that besides world already heavy account in connec cross our harried nerves. What being a comic artist of consider 144,000,000 years ago and con-will learn with regret that the AR having happened kwong and R E. Worthington, tion with the Kowloon-Canton instead of the hot things that illustrated with

about a series of cold collations able originality (the book is densing that period into a day of match is off. When the "Kator

many happy railway to suggest that the cost of purveyors print on their menus? sketches) and a dramatist, Munro 24 hours we find that man as man Maru" arrived. Ohta was $10 convoy, insurance, etc, be added. What about a course of fruit published in 1900 an entirely has been alive for two minutes and scems absurd. A scheme of dishes? Do we need ice in all its serious work entitled "The Rise only" was the striking Statement to be taken The match has there- co-operation between British, attractive coolth to the extent that of the Russian Empire." It has made by Professor S. J. Schofield operation.

fore been unavoidably cancelled. we use it in our viands? Could it been described as better written at the Hongkong University French and Portuguese,' seems not be made in such blocks and at and more interesting than Ram- yesterday when addressing the Japanese Olympic players who Ohta is the fourth of the very necessary. It is useless to such a price so that columns of it baud's "History.”

University Engineering Society on was going to join the other, three stop piracies-they have not would be a feature in our stores?

the subject of "Geology and its in Paris He has definitely relation with other Sciences." abandoned the trip and another necessarily been eradicated-of Then again what about dress? We, see a half-hearted attempt to

The lecture is of particular will make up the quartette. British steamers, and have them introduce the Byron Collar for

interest as Prof. Schofield arrived break out elsewhere. The trouble men, but those who, at present, is simply transferred to somewhat wear this sensible thing are as easier catches. It is at least up China pony, and bring discredit on unlike Byron as is a sausage to a

to our Portuguese friends to model

a thing that is at least artistic. If their precautions somewhat on the our Sanitary Board think it same lines as the British, and expedient to issue instructions to devise some simple scheme of concerning mosquitoes, cannot they offer something on keeping coel? We put it to them and hope for the best!

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in which the marauding gangs have come to hold the flags of GARROD.--Henry George Garrod,

aged 46 years, late of the foreign nations. Ships of almost Fussed every maritimo nation have been Hongkong Police. away on, Sunday, May 4, at seized and looted, and still the Portsmouth, England.

Į repressive measures have failed to show any marked results for the

Surely the authorities must Яee how essential these things are for scouting purposes: observation, and the message-which they alone can preach. But the pressing need is co-operation.

Listening-In.

COST OF

There was a young man

A LIN. of Gatten's

Who sat up all

playing Patience.

A singular name

To bestow on a game

gations.

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The

night

in Hongkong last November from the University of British

LOCAL AND GENERAL-

There wil be no meeting of the Board of Education to-morrow.

That occasion'd such loud objur- Columbia at the invitation of the local Government to make a geological survey not only of the picture-Island but of the New Territories ENTERTAINMENT going habit as well. His researches will last

TAK.

respon-for the greater part of three years

The telephone service is liable sible much confusion fa the child mind. make a report.

for at the end of which period he will to interruption at 4 p.m. to-mOLTOW when fire drill will be practiced The Sunday school teacher ask-

by the traffic staff at the Central ing what Noah did while the

Exchange. animals were going into the Ark. drew several blanks.

Finally a little girl at the back raised a hand, "

He was taking the tickets,

If locomotive whistles were WHISTLING placed in more

forward positions miss," she said. and adapted to a single high- pitched "note, approximately £1,000,000 annually would be saved on American railway bills Today's Poem.

BO we are told.

whistles.

This is according to Professor Arthur L. Foley, head of the We are told by phe who is entitled physics department at Indiana to speak that the spread of the University. He has made a study "habit" of broadcasting has meant of sound intensity and cost of an increased interest in, and operating locomotive, whistles," request for what is wrongly and claims that the low witch or termed "high-brow" music. This one-sixth as effective as a high- "chimes" whistles are only about is all to the good. The crudely pitch signal. popular will always have its own

The shriek of the present whistle appeal, an appeal to the imagina is limited, he explains, because of tion and mind which necessitates the smokestack, bell, steam dome. no deep feeling or longing, and generator, and a blanket of hot strikes a responsive chord which gases in front of it, causing the is early satiated. The gramo sound to be broadcast to the side phone now, as in its early days, of the track, and not down the catered for all classes, particularly right of way toward a crossing, for the two classes who may be Dr. Foley has calculated that termed in favour of the popular 2,434,026 tons of coal are consumed and the less-the very less annually in generating steam to popular. But it would be truthful blow the United States locomotive to say that the gramophone stirred the imaginations-latent more often than not-which led to a desire for the best in music that it is possible to give. Thus it is that whilst those who take the gramophone seriously will have a preponderance of light and fleeting examples of music, there will also be included examples of the less ephemeral and more solacing. Listening-in locally has not yet reached the level that prevails in other places notably One at Home. But that perhaps is only a matter of time. When the demand sets in, how is it to be shows met? By a recital of dialect stories of a more or less artistic kind; by music-good and bad; songs, etc., They argued three rounds, and the etc.? It would be foolish to cater" peace party won,' for one class at the expense of But not until infinite damage was another, but there would seem to done; .

CONCLUSION:

Let the children THE LOGICAL organise debates,

we are advised, "Can war be prevented," debated the chums, When wearied of chemistry, Latin

and sums; Three boys on a side; as the argu-

ment wazed Their tempers, as well as their

noddles, were taxed.

argument landed on Theo- bald's mye.

One

red. Ben Bolt from bis

collar and tic; That force is no remedy Archibald

By holding a reddening rag to his

nose.

concussion,

be a great opportunity to make The end of the session was Irish known the great human value of cum Russian, "highbrow" or, good music. At Discussion, in short, giving way to Home there is a warfare as to what constitutese good and bad listeners lure, and the following has been suggested, for dis putants:-

B.B.C. Applause Card,

To 2L0.-

-

("Thrushes.")

The City Financier walks in the gardens stiffly, because of:

his pride and his burdens, The daisies, looking up, observe

only a self-

respecting curve.

The thrushes only

see a flat

table-land

of shiny hat.

He looks importantly about him,

while all the spring goes on without him.

-H. Wolfe.

The ground covered in yester day's lecturë, was of a general nature and exceedingly interest- ing.

The hall was filled with students and University lecturers and the speaker held their atten" tion for fully an hour.

God'a Manuscript. Professor Schofield commenced his lecture by quoting Long- fellow's couplet in honour of the fiftieth birthday of the Swiss geologist, Louis Agassiz.

"And nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee Saying: Here is a story book Thy father has written "for

thee,"

said

A stone-breaker working at Taikektsul yesterday was injured through a rock falling on hini. When examined at the Kwong Wah hospital it was found that his body was hurt in several places.

John Kahne, an Hawaiian was again remanded this morning on the charge brought against him of being in possession of over 800 taels of opium. The opium, it was previously stated, had been found a in his guitar case and in varions parcels.

The Benevolent" Society is in urgent need of funds as so many

"Come,"wander-with-me" the repatriations have come before the Committee. $1000 are needed to meet the cases at present on the books. Donations received by the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. Murray, 287 Peak-Advt.

"Into regions yet untrod: And read what is still unread

In the manuscript of God."

Dj JOINTERS Geology," said Prof. Schofield,

Yesterday, rider-main restric "is the study of the earth as we tions were brought into force in find it recorded in the rocky that part of Hongkong west of archives of the earth's crust. It Eastern Stroct and to-day there is deals not only with the rocks of another notification that the rider the earth but also with the mains, will be turned on for two remains of life embedded in those hours daily in all districts on and rocks. Thus it has to do with us, after Wednesday. the living, since it is from these

Through a gun exploding in prehistoric individuals that we 1781, Though it is a bitter north-have descended by a long and his hands yesterday, an Aberdeen east, I came hither to-day painful evolution, for even to-day sherman has had several fingers He man is not very comfortable in his of his right hand blown off surroundings because he is not was on board his boat in Aberdeen harbour when the accident occurr- completely adjusted to them.

WEATHER CALENDAR.

MAY 6.

to look at my lilacs, though a la glace. Walpole..

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Ke

"Geology is thus a study of lifeed and the gun exploded weile he

was loading it with powder. from the beginning and must was subsequently taken to hospital. therefore precede ancient history. Going back still further into the past we come to archaeology which deals with the study of ancient cultures but jo place these cultures in the time scale the archaeologist has to call in the

POINTS OF VIEW.

Competition is the life of trade. American Ambassador. It is only cowards who pretend that consistency is a virtue-Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P.

Scientific discoveries are the geologist.. possession of the whole civilised

world. The Duke of York.

A nation without a saint lacks something that nothing else can supply-Prime Minister.

Tree.

Demands for large sums have been received by the Chinese ferry company which operates the tow-boats between Hongkong and Shek-ki, the capital of the Heung- shan district. The ferries leave Hongkong and Shek-ki every morning and carry a fair number. of passengers with the usual small lots of cargo. Two steam-launches have been purchased to protect the tow-boats from any attacks pirates

according protection. may make to carry out their threats and an armed junk is also

Hongkong's-Reptiles. "Events in history are placed not only by dates but by the families reigning at the time. In a similar way geological events are not much to hide, and if she had of animals which reigned at the The young woman of to-day has dated and referred to the families she wouldn't hide it!-Miss Viola time. For example, the mountains

around Hongkong came out of the In the course of a kidnapping » You cannot in these days dis-sea about 9,000,000 years ago prosecution at the Police Court: -L. H.

cuss the problems of the working during the reign of the reptiles, yesterday, it was alleged that a class as if they did not exist.--Mr. that is at that time the reptiles Chinese boy who had been decoy- Secondhand book

E, Bevin.

were the dominant families in the ed from his mother had been HIDE-BOUND, shops are not what they were.

The young woman of to-day world; no birds, no mammals publicly offered for sale by two Once upon a time na gentleman does everything she possibly can existed and of course no man, as clansmen in the streets of Wan

chai, $40 being demanded as the was ever asked to buy a book, and to imitate the courtesan.-Lady F. man is a mammal."

price. After evidence had been any visitor, by putting in a six Balfour.

A Time Scale, I listened to your programme Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" in a able to go out and get drunk on following geological time, scale. Sentenced to six months' "hard

hour day, could get through

Professor Schofield gave the given, one of the prisoners was labour and the second discharged. evening, and on year or so with the full connivance Saturday night.-Chief Constable remarking that as in the case of a The boy has not yet been found.

of the bookseller-always provid-of Birkenhead.. the whole I thought it was Verying he didn't lunch over the book, Good (cross nut the

of course..

What do

an

It is not now considered fashion-

Chinese book, one had to com- No man, asint or layman, has mence at the bottom and read ever won the heart of Ireland to forward. we find now? We the extent that St. Patrick won a Cenozoic period (commencing Fair lines you don't find over a bookcase outside sit. Mr. T. P. O'Connor. London shop the following dis- agree with) and in particular I enjoyed the item by

Rotten

and use a

I am! miles from 2LO.

Ret.

Yours faithfully. The idea might be adopted locally, when, as we hope, listen- ing-in will be more universal than it is at the moment.

•

Phew!

courteous notice:-

Book thieves are warned that this case is under observation.

constant

Furthermore, one of the books prominently displayed in the case. is a guide to Dartmoor.

Illiterate days.

A "SAKI" BIOGRAPHY.

5 Mesozoic

SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised

4 Upper Palaeozolo.( 24 +8 Lower

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6 The Mäl.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

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The Hongkong University Union magazine, No. 2 of Vol, z

| is distinguished by a'very refresh-

8 million years ago)ing and outspoken Editorial, and .(12 million years)

an article entitled: "What city woman do I name?” which should interest, at least, the lady under graduates of the University. For the rest, the magazine is full of accounts of the occurrences at the University both on its sports and social side..

2 Proterozoic 201... (190 1 Archaeozole .....(14%

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The China Mail. better. Possibly this is because in some lake, river, or ocean, is a blography by his sister, is now Miriam Cooper in "Daughters of to the sea where it would be ance of life on the earth corres hitherto any action taken has been the population his numbers are Square Egg," (Bodley Head, 78 May 0.7.-Theatre Royal, Wildeposited in horizontal layers. ponded with the development of

During number 1-period there was no trace of life; in 2 traces began in 8 'one had the inverte- brates; in 4 the amphibians; in 5. "Sak!" (H., H.

May 6-Coronet Theatre; Lon the reptiles; in 6 the mammals. Munro), who Chaney in "The Hunchback of "How was this record obtained are inclined at all angles so that gafood fame as a Notre Dame." : ""

from the archives of the earth? by erosion the edges of the strata writer, of airy trifles, was killed in an attack on Pola Negri in Passion."

May 6-Star Theatre, Kowloon; Let us imagine a land mass such are exposed down to the lower- Beaumont Hamel in November,

as the Canadian shield which has most page" May The man, who takes his regular 1916. A collection of his late Jack Hoxle in "Men in the Raw."

6-World Theatre been land since the beginning of "A Glorious Ancestry," morning dip the whole year round, sketches and dramatic pieces, with

the Proterozoic. The rain falling In conclusion Prof. Schofield May 6.- Queen's Theatre;

on this land would carry sediment said that the order of the appear- not unknown. In proportion to published under the title of The the Rich”. largely left to individual nations relatively small which perhaps 6d.). The

volume like Britain and Portugal through is unfortunate for Doctors and many

contains liam Heughan, renowned Scottish These layers would contain the life from the egg to the adult, the letters .from Burma,

In the sea, and some of that which several periods representing the pertoire of songe. their respective colonies Hong-undertakers. There is also the written before he gained fame, Basso-Baritone in an amazing re- remains of any life which dwelt remains found in the rocks of the kong and Macao. Obviously the opposite to a rag and a bone and London, and as showing that May 6.--At Holen May Institute, inhabited the land throughout all various stages of growth. This The fatal results which have great need now is co-operation hand of hair, who rejoices in though hut in his twendes, he had moving pictures of Hongkong taken time to the present if the basin development represented the his-

that he takes porridge for bis|

the genuine Sak much Theme for Empire Exhibition, 5:30 p.m. remained fr existence that length tory of the race the gradust attended the latest piracy were As we understand the matter, the breakfast all the year round. The princess who carries enough

Is the story of the old Burmese HENKE SOCIAL.

of time..

development from the lower to the not required to make the attack Colony is being heavily saddled mere suggestion of it as we write jewels for twenty ordinary. May 7.--All Scottish night.

"How do we obtain access to the higher. Of that there could be no as serious as any that has yet been with the cost of convoys now in brings already overworked pores princesses and takes an annoying 010 p.m.

beginning of these records? In doubt at all the records that we against larger vessels in force; whilst the cost of insurance fort which is our daily portion aing me to partake of various fruits 9.15 p.m.

into action and adds to our discom-interest in me, and is always pres made

certain well defined areas of the had a long and noble ancestry were world the rocks are not so hori clear and distinct South China waters; the outrage has also to be met. Rightly this from now onwards until the at all hours of the day. She asked

zontal na around Hongkong and Professor Schof

Schoßeld was heartily is far too disturbing, as still should not be. A stable Govern-shades of night creep in nearer me bow old I was, and then fold May 34-Third extrs Race Meet all nountainous districts. The thanked for his lecture and ques- another example of the contempt mont at Canton would see to fand nearer. In not some pioneer; me I was too tall for my age. I ing of the Hongkong Jockey Club'.

rocks in these well defined areas tions were asked and answered.

BEFORUM TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1924

THAT LATEST. PIRATE

ATTACK

May 17-Dance at Peak Club, May 31-Dance at Peak Olub,

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