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SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW.

FALL OF THE FRANC.

LONDON, May 9. The fall of the franc, which dropped, from 67 to 63 during the past three days is attributed in ILondon to apprehension in regard. to the political situation in France Anticipations and every year as an effect of the elections in. since then more of its prophecies Germany-but-Paris papers again have seen fuldiment, while sallege-German manœuvres →→→

Towards the close of 1001 sat musing over Well

red cover is being gradually Reuter. transmuted" to patchy brown and

the publisher's name obliterated.

NAM PAK HONG. MARKETS.

17

terms, were 25

Few forms of iterature are more exhilarating and inspiring This morning's Nam Pak Hong than daring prophecy. In this quotations, for spot goods, basis respect it contrasts strangely with usual guild that old fashioned

type of follows: apocalyptic literature--the fungoid growth of a diseased society. It picut net-No. 24 rough white Java sugar, average quality, per almost requires a special illiterate type of mind to appreciate Daniel No. 24 fine white 15.30, No. 18 Futures no change: or the Book of Revelations. Not so rough brown 13.10, Java brown our modern speculative thought. Í 1.80

Mr. Haldane, in Daedalus, in his role as prophet gives us a breathless half hour. It is a-wonderfully stimulating book."

$13.55

Rice, average quality, per picul gross for net: No. Slam long white $9-70, No. 1 Saigon long white 7.75.

Flour, per sack of 50 lbs:- Sperry's 53 46, White Greens 3.55. Nutmeg Orange 253. Kingfisher 2.82, Maize 245. Big Gun 2.62, Tiger Shield 290, Globe 2.44, Old Mill 244, Reindeer 250, Melon. 2.48, White Rose 2.44 C. & C. 2.58, Dayton 2.50, Banana 2.44, Kwan Tao 2.44

As our coil and of disappear we are introduced to harnessed wind force and sun-heat which by electrolysis convert watter to oxygen and hydrogen. These are stored liquified and used as sources. of power. Other discoveries in physics and chemistry are fore- shadowed, but it is in the biological Geld ther Dacdulus is most ille uminating. We have the phy siological discovery of Prof. PREFERENTIAL RATES Embden's acid Sodium phosphate A · · RESCINDE D.

ica witch increased maseniar output by about 20%. We have

WASHINGTON, May 9.. the suggestion. of the extraction of the proteins from coal, &c., and merchants and others the Shipping In response to complaints by the practical abandonment of Board has withdrawn certification agriculture agriculture will that adequate American tonnage ♦ become G luxury, and

main operation warrants preferential.; kind will · be completely rail and occan rates, thus Haman progress automatically rescinding the order In historical time has been the granting preferential railway rates progress of cities dragging ato goods destined to be carried by reluctant countryside wake. Synthetic food will sub-can Service.

in their American ships-Renter's Ameri stitute the flower garden and the factory for the dunghill and the slaughter house and make the city at last self sufficient." No doubt an odd few museum specimensi of the countryside will be kept i let our descendants know what it was like, just as we have now a few specimens of the dodn

urbanised

SATURDAY MAY 310 1924

"COW & GATE" MILK FOOD.

is PURE ENGLISH MILK deprived of its water.

-It is obtained from COWS of the finest stock, which graze on the RICH PASTURES of the SURREY HILLS.

It is the ONLY product of its kind of English manufacture, and has been awarded gold medals and First Prizes at all Exhibitions." IT HAS NEVER BEEN BEATEN BY ANY SIMILAR PRODUCT.

COW & GATE MILK may be used for all purposes where fresh milk is required. For infants, invalids, and especially for all domestic purposes; it will be found to be more than twice as economical as fresh milk; it. will not sour but keep for a long time, and moreover it is more hygienic in use.

COW & GATE is entirely MILK, and it TASTES exactly as milk should; not like similar products that may be artificially fortified or preserved, and will be easily recognised by their peculiar "Biscuit” flavour.

It is now for the first time, available in the FÄR EAST,

May be obtained from all Chemists and Stores.

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA:

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Cotton, piece godds and fancy?! But the great experimental dis whole is unchanged, but in cation goods.-The position as a covery of the future will be the extra sexual production of our own in Cotton, Manchester prices have sympathy with the slight decline species. All the biological inven tlans have are uncanniness' about with the improved exchange, this eased off a little; in conjunction them which makes them the basts has enabled some transactions to of a kind of religion. This is certainly the case with the four miscellaneous goods. Bulk buying be put through, mostly fancies and which are prior to the dawn of is still a long way, off; clearances history the domestication

of continue to be satisfactory, and the domestication of the market should be in a receptive animals, plants, the domestication of

state as soon as prices can be

fungi for the production of alcohol, brought more into line

and the selection of the female by Cotton Yarn There is no

by the male. As forms of change in the state of our market

religion surviving in Osiris and the business done has been

Unsold stock 5,740 bales. Bar-

large office for Ladies with a knowledge of figures or Tele graphic Codes. Must be British. Mail." Apply Box No. 1488 c/o "China

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Dionysus and such like, these infinitesimal. Prices are slightly HONGKONG UNIVERSITY PORTS have deeply influenced the world's easier. Quotations are: No. 10s. thought. The great biological $220/238. No. 125. $225/245. No. discovery of the near future will 169. $240/250. No. 20s. $230:245 too, have its religious aspect. Indeed Daedalus and Mr. Chester-Sales 500 bales.

Arrivals 1,340. Shipments mil. ton might be apotheosised as the Ormusd and Ahriman of the New gains 3,130 bales. Religion, It is safe to say that

Woollens-There is a small posterity has never equalled his enquiry for light weight worsteds Daedalus) only recorded success for shipment November/December in experimental genetics. the housing and feeding of the is very quiet.

but generally speaking the market WE HEREBY GIVE NOTICE Minotaur been less expensive it is

that all consignees of dan- probable that Daedalus would have tions are

Raw Cottons. Nominal quota aged cargo that has been raised

as follows:-Indian from the wreck of 5.s. 14 anticipated Mendel.

Heung But Minos description at $40/58. Chinese Shan" held that a labyrinth and an staple $42/60.

RTC requested to take annual provision of 50 youths

delivery of same from on board the wreck within seven days from date

"

Metals. Market dull, very little

Sundries.-Market wenk. Local

and so virgins were excessive as doing. an endowment for research.'

"As a matter of fact it was not stocks heavy. till 1940 that Selkouski invented

the purple alga, porphyroCOCCUS FLOUR MARKET REPORT. ⚫fixator which was to have 50 Quiet. Quotations :~~-

Stock; about 1,700,000. Market: great an effect on the world's history," but the ethics of quota-American Straight, $2 65 per sack American Patent, $3.50 per sack tion forbids; the reader must see American Cut off, $2.70 per sack for himself.

Australian No. 1, $2.80 per sack Listen to the history of Canadian Cut-off $2.50 per sack ectogenesis. Biologists who have Canadian Clear $2.45 per sack. followed the growth and life] history of Prof. Loeb's frogs wili | not be much surprised. "Now.

Fuchten Lamp Cen! standa for conetsy in Coal value. Ailiomu Conis kayo a jarzą pozornt. aga si dut vikt an PRACTICALLY WASTE. The cast in PUCHIUEN Lamp berna ixte Lumpa ka Sown as thay are exut, isto zailuja Zuchnen iḥmy coal borns graonally, azn-is therefore aË dafn RUUNOMY.

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Hongkong, 10th May, 1924.

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that the techmique is fully deve Hindus have recognised the special loped, we can take an ovary from and physiological relation of mon a woman, and keep it growing into the cow by making the latter a suitable fluid for as long as 20 animal holy. A good Hindu woulä years, producing a fresh orum

no more kill a tów than his each month, of which 90% can be foster mother. But the holiness fertilised, and the embryos grown of the successfully for nine months.... France was the first, country to products, and the extensive use.

ly extended adopt ectogenesis officially, and of cow dung in Indian religious THE Steamship by 1968 was producing 60,000 children annually by this method." ceremonies is disgusting to the

The latter, M. "CITY OF ATHENS" New problems of course, arise however, is equally insensitive to having aurived, Corsignees of Cargo by

average European. with eetogenesis-psychological, the equally loachsome injunctions ber are informed that all goods are being political, &c, Mr. Haldane even of the Catholic Church with regard landed at their risk into the hasardoua gives us the election cries of the to human marriage. It would and/or

extra-hazardous Godowns of future Vote for Smith and perhaps be better if bot. mars Holt's Wharf, whence delivery may be more musicians'; vote for O'Leary and more girls; vote for Macpher.riage and milking could be secule obtained. son and a prehensile tail for your

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1 No claims will be admitted after the We heartily commend this Goods have left the Godowns, and all thought-provoking book to any Goods remaining undelivered after Of course there will arise the reader under fifty-five years of 18th May, 1924, will be subject to obvious téboos. and religious age. prejudices. But such arose, with I Daedalus: or: Science and the All claims against the Steamer must the previous great biological Future by J. B. S. Haldane, before 22nd May, 1935, or they prevented to the Undersigned on or

will not be recognised

discovery, the domestication of animals. "Consider so simple and time-honoured a process as the milking of a cow. The milk which should have been an intimate and almiot sacramental bond between mother and child is elicited by the deft fingers: of a milk-mald, and drunk, cooked, or even allowed to rot into cheese, We have only to: Imagine ourselves as drinking any of its other secretions; in order to realise the radical indecency of our relation to the

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