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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924,

INTIKATIONS, PRI GREEN ISLAND CEMENT,

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fitty

cents (50 cents) per share, op the Old Shares (Fully Pald) and Three cents (3 cents) per share on the New Shares ($1.00 Pald) has been declared for the half year ending 30th June, 1924.

Such Interim Dividend will be pay- able on and after TUESDAY, the 23rd September at the Offices of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warranty.

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be closed from the 13th September. 1924 until the 23rd September, 1924 (both days inclu "sive), during which period no trans-

fer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, SHEWAN, TOMES ♣ CO.,

General Managern.

Hongkong, 3rd September, 1924.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

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TO LET.

TO LET-Two Godowns, or shops, in DUDDELL STREET For Particulars apply to:--H. Rut tonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road.

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INTIMATIONS

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA

LIMITED,

TICKETS will be issued for

Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return; calling et Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the Company's new, fast, well appointed steamer "Hai Ning" at the reduced rate of $30 for the round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer is in port.

These Special Tickets will be available for return only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her following sailing from Fouchow.

Duration of stay at Foochow 48) bours.

DOCK CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

THE OMINALMAKLÄT

HEREDITY IN HEADS:

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VARIATIONS IN MAN'S!

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wholesale, clearing 1:02. the wet forests that filled our valley-uides, With the centuries, it has gradually come down from the moorlands into the valleys for shelter and for soil. But its long tradlion is that of niral poverty, and if the poverty be not too extreme, the type is seen at its best in forgotten comers among woods and hills.

THE WELSH

[By Professor H. J. Fleure.] The claims of phronology may be said to he finally destroyed, and the work of the great brain specialists of our time-one of the most remarkable advances in Here, we often notice its interest science. under the leadership in slaging, in oratory, in poetry, among others, of Sir Charles Sher- rington, P.R.S., O.M. Tins not in religion: all channels of the tended to make it possible for us souls expression that do not to understand the brain from the those who follow them, in a Welsh require great possessions from outside as yet, save in a few details, But Elliot Smith, in his new bookbards, or in some old manor court hymn-singing, or a gathering of the on the evolution of man, has put that may still linger in the hill-. | together many points that show us

country to settle questions of sheep how, in the past history of man-

pasturing in summer on the kind, the growth of the forehead, for example, has been connected heights, folk of this type will be

found. with the increase of power of the higher faculties of the mind......

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They will know much of the He has given us clues to the be- virtues of herbs, and may practise ginning of speech at the dawn of medicine in a way the College of humanity, and also to its enormous Physicians cannot recognize. step forward, probably into the Their skil in handiwork is likely realm of abstract, names, when to be small, save in simple matters. men of modern physical type They will understand dairying, began to appear. So we get in-and may well be, fairly good dications that body and mind may weavers of homespun, so that when be linked up, and the student of their young people move off to the race can extend these hints by his big towns to make a living, they

observations, If, he be wise enough tentative. to own his work is as yet very

often become milk-sellers and that the Share Register and

drapers, as every Londoner knows from the names over shops. They Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st to 7th October HEADS AND CLOTHES,

live rather poorly-partly from necessity and partly from a 1924 (both days inclusive).

It is an amusing occupation simple acquiescence in things as Warrants for the Interim. Dividend | during a dull interval in a meeting they find them; the village poacher can be obtained at the Office of the to look round and see the kinds is most often of another type. As a Company, 2. Queen's Buildings, of people who are enthusiastic result, many of their young adults Hongkong, on or after the 8th prox. Supporters of the Association for die of consumption, often after the Abolition of Income Tax, gastric troubles in childhood due to and to see the selection of types poor teeth and to a diet too often among those who gravitate to the of stewed tea and bread and executives of our public bodies, butter Even were all dressed exactly

But if they can get food enough alike, there would be no difficulty their wiry frames are strong

By Order of the Board,..

R. M. DYER,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 15th Sept, 1924.

The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days THE and the ste wer will leave Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at S p.m. arriving at daylight. og her. return (Weather permitting).

The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.

For further particulars and dates of Sailing

Apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CÔ., LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

BY ORDER OF THE ADMINISTRATRIX Valuable Leasehold Property Situste at and being No. 11, Hart Arenas, Kowloon, in the Colony

of Hongkong,

To be old by Auction, Without Reserve.

on FRIDAY.

the 26th day of September, 1924,

kt 3 p.m.,

In One Lat

by

MR. A. G. DA ROCHA,

Auctioneer,

at his Auction Room at No. 21, D'Aguilar Street.

The Property Consists of:-

NOTICE.

DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD.

NOTIDE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDIN

ARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Towa

M. MANUK.

'Secretary, Hongkong, 19th September, 1924.

NOTICE.

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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET ING of Members will be held at the V.R.C. Club on FRIDAY. the 26th day of September, 1924, at 5.30 p.m, for the purpose of considering and passing the Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for 1923 and of transacting all other business which ought to be transacted thereat.

R. C. WITCHELL,

Hon. Secretary. ·

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whose theirs which has made it possible Jersey and its neighbour Islands: enthusiasm brings them to the for modern industry to exploit fore in a religious revival. Their them. heads are différent in shape in If we most cases and we soon grow out irresponsible multiplication of the poorer idea that types may the lower type," and modified habitants are by no means French. be sealed as better and worse, Industrial life to suit the people Most of them are of Norman or and into, the richer one that who do the work, we should soon early, Briton descent, but the different types are likely to be see less of that perilous multiplica charm of the islands lles in the good for different things: that tion, and we might rescue ourselves fact that "they remain picturesque it takes many types to build up a strong form of human society.

from the envelope of materialism į survivals in language, laws, and which is suffocating us.

nationality of peoples that have Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, Hong- Some years ago science was kong, on SATURDAY, 4th day of sorely puzzled to understand how INITIATIVE FOR GOOD OR ILLmerged into other races, as Miss elsewhere become extinct, or been OCTOBER, 1924, at Noon for the In a population like ours, with free purpose of presenting the Report of intermarriage, men could continue

The tall, fair strong-boned Blanche Elliott says in her de- the Directors and Statement of to be so diverse; but Mendel and Nordic type will be found always lightful book, "Jersey" (Fisher Accounts to 31st July, 1924.

his followers, and especially seeking adventure, be it physical Unwin, 10s. 6d.). It is certainly that the Channel Islands THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Thomas Hunt Morgan, have shed or mental; showing his initiative for true Company will be closed from much light on this problem. We good or for ill; too often prone to possess an Alice-in-Wonderland September 27th to 4th October, 1924, now understand that our bodies take to alcohol in excess if his op- oddity and fascination to be found both days inclusive.

and the physical bases of our portunities of exercise and change nowhere else in the world, and a By Order,

minds are mosaics, the individual are diminished. If he be on the holiday in charming surroundings pieces of which are passed on to heath he will often see to it that is full of rarity and joy.

CURIOUS OLD CUSTOMS. our children whole rather than an unauthorised rabbit, pheasant, blended. The bits are often or salmon is added to the family Jersey especially clings to her handed steadily on in groups, but fare. It he be caught in the wheels old time habits and customs, the sometimes the groups get broken of industrialism, we may watch origins of which are unknown to They are up and strange results ensue. In him struggle out, maybe, as a the simple islanders, any case, different groups of hits cab-driver or, now, a chauffeur said to have pleaded to Itinerant are handed on from the two apt to be charged with driving at justices in the Middle Ages that 'they were not governed by parents, and sometimes these excessive speed; or he groups are hardly one another's become the gamekeeper or other Norman Jaws bat had certain helpmeets in the youngsters member of the retinue of the rich customs and usages from a time of which no memory exists." The make-up.

The roundheads of England are most picturesque of these ancient less numerous than those of the customs is the Clameur de Haro, We may all sympathize with Continent, where, around the Alps, which is still effective in cases of Moliere's character who was we find their physical and mental real estate, when the appellant sometimes like his mother and type so well set forth in deter calls out in front of witnesses that Switzerland-that he is being wronged (Haro! Hare! sometimes like his father, and so mined Hittle lack of decision as to which he democracy is less chimerical than the case must immediately come height of 10 or 12 feet, and then never could do very much for group of small democracies, where of mon roi, l'on me fait tor!) and was to be. This all warns us amongst us-and in the French before the Royal Court. clearly, hot to make too sweep-peasantry of the centre, and the Another of these grand old grow feely above it, often to meet ing statements; but we may, east, that make up their minda customs is connected with the and interlace overhead, forming a nevertheless, say some things with slowly but unmistakably," as we roads and lanes which stretch lopty roof."

A GORGEOUS ISLAND. reasonable prospect that they will see from the recent election and some three or four hundred miles be Increasingly confirmed when from certain elections which mark- | over .the miraculous island.

cach Jersey Is a gorgeous island, with OWNERS are reminded that Entries scientific observation has advanced ed critical phases in the clearing According to Miss Elliott, MEETING close on SATURDAY,

for the FIFTH EXTRA RACE | far enough.

up of the Dreyfus case a generation Parish has ite Road Committee majestic rocky scenery and ex-to his people, who do very little. A journey on a workmen's tram ago. Their motto has usually been over which the Constable presides,quisitely beautiful, miniature bays without asking his advice, even to 27th September, 1924, át Noon. in a factory area shows us how safety first, and they love insurance and in the late spring they drive lapped by the bluest of waters getting married, when his privilege many Britishers are rather dark, schemes rather than other more round the roads armed with a ten-The dark-brown rocks are fa- of kissing the bride is still main- long-faced, long-headed people, venturesome forms of gambling foot pole. Should any projecting variably crowned by a tower or tained. Perhaps the best known with stature rather under than over Their patience has tamed forests, branches or growth of foliage fort, an eloquent testimony to the feature of Sark is the mysterious the average., If we hunt this type and created communities. whose come within the prescribed limit turbulent bistory of ancient days caves which indent the rocky coast

and touch the pole, the householder and wars and chivalry. To realize line, but the deep lakes and wild Mr A & DA ROCHA TUNG SANG outside the factory areas, we and gods are their fields.

on whore property it grows, or is the real charm of Jersey, however, coves, the picturesque cottages with them in the remoter parts of PAINSTAKING TOYMAKER. bordered by the road, is called the traveller must leave the high- their red-tiled roofs covered, with the country-side eliher where there has been apen moorland

This ways and follow the quaint lanes thatches of broom--and bracken, The toymakers, with their upon to pay a small fine. from ancient times, or, in some infinite capacity for taking pains custom largely explains the reason which meander past quiet farm above all the wonderful views to cases, where forests and woods which is yet not quite genius--are for the picturesque appearance of houses with ruined walls and fuy be obtained of the other mystic lasted down to a few centuries ago. often of this type, and this form of the lanes, for the hedges are covered Norman arches, through islands, all combine, to make a In the Chiltern Hundreds, the skill in minute work has led them neatly trimmed up to the given peaceful valleys, and over lonely paradise which has not yet begun hilisides and wild beater-crowned to suffer from the attention, of north part of the New Forest, to achieve great success in the

cliffs. For a comparatively small tourist vandals. Brandon Heath, the Pennines, new electrical industry, with its Exmoor and the south-west, and fine, small machinery; another

Island, Jersey gives, a wonderful most of all around the moorlands line of skill is, of course the

Impression of aloofness, almost of of Wales, these people are very making of watches.

inaccessibility. The winding lanes lead the wanderer to believe that he has travelled for leagues and leagues among sloping hills and wooded valleys with houses tucked away... în..... unexpected corners. Many of the houses have the ing around the rocky coast, climbe foftials of the owners engraved on the lofty cliffs and green slopes the stone porches, with a pair of which sometimes drop suddenly hearts entwined la: the centre of away into sheer depths, constantly encountering now vistas of tumbl. the engravings.

dating green;waters and bracken-clad ! The inhabitants are incredibly hills; for the more peaceful there hospitable and polite, braw men are lazy afternoons spent in and strangely charming women in listening to the silences of Nature quaint black son bonnets. They from the gently sloping hillsides, were all such Inveterate knitters, the droning of the bees, the high, in the Middle Ages that the Royal Interminable song of the crickets, Court Issued an ordinance in 1606 the shrill, piercing Cry of the that none should mit during sea-mewa as they circle and wheel harvest or graic (seaweed) cutting, over the kidon dépiás; for children on pain of imprisonment In the these are all the delights Casio of bread" and

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the south-west they may be almost as dark, at times, as the people of Southern France or Spala; but else where they often have grey eyes and hair of a moderately dark brown.

MENTAL CHARACTERS.

pound of this type and the Nord is an important element, as he is also in Denmark and, in Holland. He often combines the patience of the Alpine" with the initiative of the Nord, and the former quality seems to soften down" the Nordic Here, then, is a group of physical uncouthness into more courteous characters that often go together. strength. In a previous article he What of the mental characters that was referred to as the Beaker Man, go with them? In this matter from the association of his remains. have to face the difficulty that the in ancient burials, with pottery manifestations we notice the in the form of drinking cups, Ho ability to do some special kind of is noteworthy wherever intellectual of work, for example-are very leaders forgather, and in many a complicated things; we know little voluntary society he will be enough of the brain-characters from chairman of the executive. " The many resemblacces

on can. |which-they-spring. Again, a lot

will depend on opportunity and find between our tall Nord in education, just as in the case of our Borogo and the bony Rajput or garden crops so much depends on Sikh to North Indie on the one good manuring and weeding hand, or between the peasants of If we study this, the old and the northern side of the Alps and fundamental British type, we coon the patient tollers of Chine, with see that it has probably been in their wonderful skill in handicraft, this country from early prehistoric suggests that there is more than times untold ages before, either matter of á particular tesponse to a Celt or Saxon was heard of, We particular environment 14 this may be fairly sure it lived on the Case and that bodies and minds open moorlands in the days before are linked up in ways it still re hard metal axes were available formadas for science to work outy G

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square miles encircled by mors than forty miles of coastline. The Seigneur has much the same power to-day in his little domains as an e English, squire exercised over his property two centuries ago absolute authority. He is a father

GUERNSEY'S'ATTRACTIONS. Guernsey is the second largest of the islands, and a truly wonder ful holiday resort, as it provides For the energetic, there are plenty amusements suited to every taste. of thrills to be obtained in scrambl~