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Hongkong, Friday, February 26, 1926.

WHERE IS IT?

function, or

The

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The

what is happening in the realm of education is a sealed letter. Press would like to know.." public would like to know through the Press!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Inbours which are often seen at certain social functions. It is dif ficult to see how the Society can do more than ft. la doing. We trust, Mr. Hornails appeal to "all those interested in horticulture"" will not A Fourfold fall on deaf ears. If it succeeds Assurance. this week-end should be a busy

Mr. Winston Chur..

The shortest ser chill recently made The Shortest. mon fasaid to be the one tha the House of Com-

celebrated Dean Swift preached. mona laugh by say-He is said to have given as text, He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord," and con- tinued: "Dear Brethren, if you like the security, down with the dust. He then closed the Bible. It was a charitable appeal which obtained a good response.

one for numbers of us, for we shall ny "Shortly, very shortly, at an be busy-adopting his delightful early date, quite soon" Another business phrase"shroffing up politician, many years ago, pre our gardens, or failing this, deduced: This honour....will ciding soon to have a garden even be the most honourable honour if it falls far short of the poetic than can be conferred!" ideal—and becoming exhibitors.

come

Into

To me, writes a 'soated one Port in The padre,

North.night at my that Ma-

When did shingling first

sonic Harmony, there operation? The came the Master of Ceremonies possessor of a book with his henchman, who filled each published in 1880) culls the follow-being Scotland-whisky... They flowing bowl with the country

ing from its

YOUR NAME IN?

HONGKONG JURY LISTS THIS YEAR.

Shingling in 16827

THE "SPECIAL” NAMES.

:

The Jurors List for 1926 was: laid on the table at this mort ing's meeting of the Legislativę, Council

It makes quite a bulky publica- tion, "Those who are axempted by the judiciary (apparently for previous "long service") have asterisks against their names.

The list of special furymen is:- 3. Arnold, T. Arthur, A. H. Barlow, W. H. Bell, H. S. Bennett, D. G. M. Bernard, H.

Long flaxen hair was bought from the head at. 10s, the ounce and any other fine hair at 5s,

passed me by with the remark, "The teetotal drink will be here m a minute." It was-port! I felt rather funny, but not as funny as

or 7s the ounce in 1662. With a brother cleric who, while enjoy-. in the present century the headsing his usual glass of milk at a of hair of whole families in farmhouse where he was wont to Devonshire were: lat out by the visit, overheard the eldest son say year at so much rent per poll to his mother, "If yon man hadna An Exeter periwig maker went been a minister he'd have made a round periodically, cut, the locks grand sookin' calf!?" and diled the mumskull of each NON thus left in stubble.

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Are we to class Metor-Boosters motorcar owners with those who

Birkett, J. W. C. Bonnar, JP Drink More Chancellor's hint down to the sex to fish? The idea

Braga, T.. H. G. Brayfield.

A. Cameron, D.. H. Cameron;.' A. H. Compton, A. G. Coppin, A. S. D. Cousland.

W. A. Dowley, R. M. Dyer. O..J. Ellis..

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H. Ferguson, J. Fleming

The Oxford Vice-belong to Angling Clube or who go

Beer.

is suggested by an extract from that less coffee-

Mr. Aldous Huxley's latest book. drinking •among mildness itself compared with undergraduates would be desirable.

the edict issued by Frederick the Great in 1779 regarding "the in creared consumption of coffee by

It may be of course, that the questioner is "barking up the

W. G. Goggin, A. E Griffiny subjects and the amount of money which goes out of the wrong tree that the Board has C. F. G. Grimble, A. S. Gubbay. never actually been dissolved, that | F. C. Hall, H. R. B. Hancock, country in consequence," "Every- it would be still graciously per-Hughes, H. Humphreys.

Ho Kom-tong, G. Hogg, J. O. one was drinking coffee," he de- clared, and "this must no longer mitted to function as of yore if

be. My subjects must drink beer. JE. Joseph. meetings were convened, and that H. A. Lammert, P. Lauder, C. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were his ancestors. any misgivings created by the ra-Little W. Logan.

Innumerable battles have been cent spell of silence are totally FR. Marsh, J. McArthur,

Fang Sidhang, H. E. Parkin-fought and won by soldiers nour- unfounded in substance and inson, W. L. Patterden, T. E. Fearce,shed on beer, and the King does not believe that, coffee-drinking fact, In such an event, a humble F. A. Perry, J. A-Plummer.. rétraction of our leading question, "Where is it?" will be readily pub. lished in an equally conspicuous place of a future issue!

A LOVESOME THING.

"A poet sings of his garden as—

The veriest school.

· Of peace.

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It is to him "a lovesome thing," with its

Rose plot, Fringed pool,

Ferned grot

C

may

J. Reid. R. Rodgers. D. O soldiers can be depended upon to endure hardship and conquer his Russell.

land

J. H. Taggart, D. Templeton, P.

Tester.

J. H. Seth, J. O. Sheppard, enemies," To combat this "evil," A. F. B. Silva-Netto, R. Suther-the edict went on to proclaim coffee-roasting a State monopoly, and to fix a prohibitive price for the berries. "Coffee-smellers" were appointed all over Prussia to check illicit roasting, and did their work so well that within a short time the beverage fell en- tirely out of favour..

N. L. Watson, Wong, Kam-fuk, Wong Kwong-tin. G. M. Young.

WELCOME RELIEF.

HELP FOR BRITISH SEA OFFICERS.

EFFECT OF BOYCOTT.

Office not later than noon on

THEOSOPHY.

'THE WISDOM OF THE

ETERNAL"

The spiritual effects of being a car owner are not, I notice, entirely beneficial Introspec tion and the conversation of ...other motorists have shown me, "indeed that. car owning may have the worst .effect. 021 the character. To be- gin with, every car-owner is a liar. He cannot tell the truth about his machine. He exaggerates his speed, the num ber of miles, he goes to the gullon of petrol, his prowess as

a hill climber: In the heat of, conversation I myself have erred in this respect more than once and even coolly, with malice aforethought, I have given utterance on this subject to frigid and calculated Nes. They do not weigh very heavily all my conscience. I am no casuist, but it seems to me that a lie which one tells, 'expecting nobody to believe it, is venial. The motorist, like the fisher- man, never really supposes that his vaunts will be believed.

of the Immortal Self. Criticism can tear the books to pieces yet it cannot touch the Sel, the only knower who is within us. In these days of our modern world when the mortal self often triumphe aver the higher Self the Knowledge of

At this week's public meeting of The Lodge Theosophical Society on Thursday,

the Hongkong

Rt the bo..

out to mankind the Eternal which WAS given address was given by Mr. Heginning of the Aryan Root Race, Lanpart on "The Wisdom of the wa should strive to understand the Eternal" He said ing brief-

profound wisdom contained in the The central truth of the ancient Hindu seriptures, to learn Upanishads, the ancient Hindu something of the all-pervading scriptures, is the identity of the Truth, and train our restless Universnandi the Individual mortal minds into harmony with."

The goal of all this profound knowledge of the

In these rapidly moving days. it seems comparative ages since a single word was heard of the Education Board: The usual stereotyped notice of the meet-

His is the ideal garden of ings has been mourned as a lost

course the one in which it is a

The following. posted on the and cherished friend. The deck-

delight to walk "when the eve is Harbour Office notice board, speaks sions of the Board have been an cool" There may be gardens for itself:- unknown quantity. Does it stille that in Hongkong-if not in It has been brought to the notics has its doom been actuality, then in the thoughts of of Government that, owing to the strike and boycott, certain officers proclaimed without an orthodox those who delight to do "a little of the British mercantile marine notification in the Government bit of gardening.” The en have been greatly reduced in cir- "Gazette"? Its affairs are certhusiasts of the Hongkong Horticumstances.

Government has therefore de tainly "wropt in mystery"-a cultural Society deserve well of cided to afford assistance in rea-Immortal Self, mystery which may make some the community. Year after year sonable cases, either in the form wisdom, of all devotion, of all right Eternal and pray that the light inquisitive persons. (including they show the blooms that have of a loan or relief as may be con-activity is for the disciple to con- that lighteth every man that cometh newspaper folk) ask if the mem- come to life as the result of sidered to be the most desirable, sciously enter into its full realisa- into the world may shine.cometh Applicants should communicate in tion; then the illusion of separate-within us and without as that we ness wil vanish forever, the too may see and know. We read bers of the Board have been patient and loving care. In this writing with the Harbour Master Divine, the only true Self, having in the Hindu Sacred Scriptures:- spirited away or gracefully in they encourage a love of the such letters to reach the Harbour

become one with the Life of the Know that which existeth not by formed that their advisory ser-beautiful which is beyond all Tuesday, and will be required to Universe, the Creator. It is the the voice, but that by which the vices are no longer required by a praise, and an incentive to an state their cases and produce their law of nature that man can know voice existeth, That know thou as once grateful Government? In occupation or a hobby than which papers before a Committee at 2.30 only that to which there is re- Brahman. That which thinketh sponse within him and it is be-not with the mind, but by which the event of both parts of this there are few better or more p.m. on the following Thursday.

The Committee will sit weekly cause man is essentially divine that the mind thinketh, That know thou query being answered in the nega-wholesome. There

Brahman, not this, which fan be and consider applications received he can know God through the unas

folding, the awakening of his worshipped as this. That which.... tive, yet another interrogation adequate reasons to account for during the previous week.

divine true Self. The value of theseeth, not by the eye, but by which obtrudes itself: "Where is it? the fact that the Horticultural

|Hindu God Idea is to show that the eye acoth, That know thou as Society languishes for members Seriously, when meetings of the'

God is to be found not by means of Brahman. That which heareth not and for general interest. Educa- Board of Education were held and

any objective use of the mind, not by the ear, but by which the ear tion presumably la necessary.

by all the arguments that are used heareth, That know thou as Brah. reports thereof were published in

in the West to prove the existence man, That which liveth not by the Town-dwellers and the Colony, the Press, an incentive was un

of God, but by penetrating all the life, but by which the life reth, mental strate with which mankind's That know. thou na Brahman, not doubtedly given to the cause of sesses many who have been

civilising processes have overlaid this which is worshipped as this. education. The public generally such have probably had few op

Owing to an error in the letterman's diviner, nature. It le the The three Paths leading to portunities of acquiring that was stimulated' to. evince a degree knowledge so essential to success-announcing dates of the Lenten unfolding of the consciousness liberation through Union with the of interest in education that ful gardening. If they possess a Andrew's Church, Hall (Kowloon) of God. Liberation or Salvation us in that most beautiful and most Study circles to be held at: St. within that leads to the knowledge Supreme, have been explained. for otherwise would have been lack small plot it is generally in charge the meetings have been given as as they call it in the West. Is hot widely spread of Indian Scriptures, ing. In addition, the public was of a "Fah-wong whose methods taking place a week later than they to be obtained it in ours already the Song of the Lord, the Discourse. given an opportunity of appraising and manner admit of ne dictation:hould be noted that the study knows it not so long as he sub- Gite. There it is that the Paths

actually, arba because man is divine, only he of Shri Krishna-The Bhagavad the worth of the work of the he reigns supreme. Many of circles commence this coming Tues lects to the Illusion of the blind-the three Margas se they are members of the Board, in the in-course are unmoved by blooms or day (March 2) and continue on ing matter of his bodies of action called in the Indian Philosophy---- terests of education in the Colony are interested in any way. An each succeeding Tuesday until the of sensation, of concrete thought that of Karma or Action, that of

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as being he himself. Man has only Ynana or Wisdom, and that of Conversely, through the existence other poet has sized up the repre-

to destroy the obstacles that pre- Bhakti; or Devotion are shown of the Board, the Government sentative, uninterested unmoved

vent him from realising his own as finally Glending into one, the wes given an excellent medium one. A primrose by the river's

divinity, he has only to overcome man reaching perfection, liberation The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak will the illusion of his separateness through one in wanting in none for the dissemination of its brink, a primrose was to him, and

prezent the prizes at the Central from the One, the Supreme Self, of the qualities which have been educational policy, thus creat it was nothing more. And of British School on Friday, March 5,the Logos, to consciously enter the developed along any of the thres ing and

maintaining public course those who dwell in flats at 5.30 p.m...

fullness of his divine birth-right Paths. Let men travel along one confidence therein As the know not, the delight of “turning 1955

The Hindu seriptures teach us the or the other, they all seek the The following have been select Wisdom of the Eternal, the Sefence Union with the One Self, whether Government is always ready to over

CG-2nd of Yoga or Liberation through by Action by Windom or by De "Kriinst "Union with the God in Mai Thef votion, and those who seek wall on Hindu proclaims that not by works surely And Him, for the Self of All PLY M&M liberation la ever gained but "by is One, and the goal of the Fathe TD. E the calm of the senses he beholds the same. Said Shri Krishna

de; H the Majesty of the Self. He On whatever Road men: spproach Jacks, W. Ligious booky should never be the MB on that road do I welcome them Rushton, groundwork of our faith, as books for all roadiz

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