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TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

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ENTRIES CLOSE on January 17.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING.

28th February, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 7th March, 1931

and

THE CHINA MAIL.

NERVES AND HOW TO WHAT IS THE MOON

CONTROL THEM. . MADE OF?

Interesting Psychology Surface May Be Volcanic

Lecture.

Ash.

The importance of a correct

It is possible that the surface of atlitude of mind in attaining cor-the moon is covered with a layer rect functioning of the human of volcanic ash burled, like body, was stressed in a lecture at Pompeli at a subsequent date, by a the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singa shower of ashes belched from lunar pore, by Dr. P. Fennelly, LL.D., on volcanoes? "Nerve Control-Why you are norvous and how to correct it."

Such is the suggestion made as the result of a recent investigation conducted at the Meudon Observa- tory in Paris.

Dr. Fennelly likened the human body to an engine that had to be supplied with fuel. The fuel sup-

Point a "spectroscope"-that In- plied the nervous energy. When strument that gives you a rainbow that was overdrawn, there ap-band and a lot of interesting in- peared that condition that was 80 formation about any glowing object often complained of-listlessness. you look at to any star, and it

But, however much the fuel immediately tells Are

you what gases

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GENERAL NOTICES

NOTICE.

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CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

1981.

TT 15 HEREBY NOTIFIED that REMOVED to Exchange Building.

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that was supplied, for the body to and metals are burning in its at- be able to benefit by it-use it in mosphere. the acquisition and storage of But do the same thing to the nervous energy there must be moon or a planet, and it ovades the question by telling you not what it leorrect mental balance.

The lecturer instanced a clock. is made of, but what the sun is A correct attitude of mind was to made of. For a planet has no light; the human body what the pendu-of its own, and shines by reflecting lum was to the clock.

sunlight. Interfering with the pendulum

The "Polariscope." immediately upset the delicate In Paris they have tried a new mechanism of the clock. All its method: instead they point at the nervous energy ran out. Instead moon OF planets a "polariscope," of ticking regularly, its action be- which does something quite differ- came nervous. So it was with the ent. This instrument tells you human organism. Lack of a cor- how much of the light from an ob- rect mental attitude produced aject is vibrating up and down and corresponding nervous waste,

how much la vibrating right and left.

Threats to Children.

All nervousness and fear might| In any object that glows of itself be traced to mother's and nurses candle, a coal, an electric threats to little children of the light--the vibrations are equal in great bogeys that were going to both directions. But in an object take them if they did this, or did that just reflects light-the side of not do that.

a house, the sky, a cliff, etc.--there Two things were of vital im- are fewer vibrations in one direc- portance: what a man thought of tion than there are in the other. the world, and what he thought of

The percentage of the vibrations himself. It was the thought of in the two directions varies accord- what the world was thinking of ing to the angle at which the light him that disturbed equilibrium ia reflected, and this variation in

and dissipated nervous energy. the percentage, with changing The following unclaimed tale One who was, in usual circum-angle, differs from one sort of sur grams are lying at the E.E. Tele-stances, a fluent speaker, if called face to another-e.g, sand, chalk, graph Co. Office, Hong Kong:- upon to address a gathering wouldgranite, snow and ice, are all dif-

become hesitating, ferent. Alibux Barber, from Sultanpur. suddenly Miss Chau Ah-chu, Kau Koo, 18. speech bound, nervous. What beat So the astronomers at Meudon crowd thought of him. One was substances with the polariscope, accepted at one's own valuation. and also have studied the light from The mind that weighed and judg-the moon and the planets, under ed was the master mind: the mind different angles of Illumination by that allowed itself to be weighed the sun. and judged was the slave mind.

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Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.

Sunrise and Sonnet in Hong Kong for January 1981, (Standard time of the 12th Meridian, East of Greenwich) are as follow:-

Jan.

6

Sunrise Sunset.

7.04 5.68

7.05 5.54

-7.05 5.65

7.05 5.50 7.05 6,67 7.06 5.57

7.06 15.68

7.06 6,58

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17.06.08

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TRAGIC END TO ZOO ROMANCE.

Mrs. Hippo Blamed For

Husband's Death.

Bob was probably the largest hippo ever exhibited at the 200, and he was certainly the most amiable

The London Zoo has been un- The death has occurred of Ad-fortunate in losing two well known miral Sir Richard Poore.

favourites-Bob, the large . hip-·| The loto Admiral Poore was the popotamus, and Toto, the oldest They find that the light from the

fourth Baronet. Born in 1853, his lion in the Gardon, writes a cor-... Look out upon the world! weigh moon's surface gives an effect that it up: sum yourself up; reach up. is extraordinarily similar to that of rat service was with the Naval respondent of the Sunday Times. light reflected from volcanic ash Brigade in the Perak Expedition, blown out of Vesuvius. They have 1876 to 1876, in which he was men also ruled out an old theory that tioned in despatches and received

Born in the Amsterdam Zoo in the moon is covered with lava, by medal and clasp.

He was promoted to the rank of 1917, he grew to be an enormous FAILURE TO REPORT WHILE ON showing that the light reflected

from lava behaves quite differently. Lieutenant and served on the In-specimen weighing over four tous.. PAROLE.

Of course, their investigations vincible at Alexandria in 1882. In Yet, in spite of his immensa bulk bave been by no means exhaustive. the same year he accompanied the and power Bob was so good natured They have not yet tried all possible Naval Brigade, in the Egyptian and amiable that anyone ould go grams are lying at the office of

Afghan Prince living substances, and it is still on the War, receiving several décorations, the Great Northern Telegraph here, has been arrested because cards that something other than and in 1884-1885 took part in the Company (Limited) of Den he failed to report himself, while volcanie dust might match just as Nile Expedition for the relief of

on parole, to the District Magis- Hirata Matsubara Hotel, fromtrate as ordered. Osaka.

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Allahabad, Nov, 20. Sardar Muhammad Omar

Khan, an

well.

A SIX HOUR DAY.

GERMAN FIRM'S REMEDY FOR

UNEMPLOYMENT.

Khartoum.

He became

into the den and sit on the hippo's broad back. He will be greatly missed by the public.

The cause of the hippo's death is not known, But his mate, Joan, is not altogether free from respon Isibility for it. When these two animals were first introduced many years ago. their love affair was rein garded as one of the Zoo's greatest romances, but after Joan had suc cessfully reared the first baby hippo to be born in the managerie for fifty years sho turned against

several occasions and finally, some months ago, they parted for ever, for Joan injured Bob so severely

a Rear-Admiral in 1908, and until 1905 was with the Sardar Oma Khan suddenly left

Mediterranean and Channel Fleet. Losio, from Tientsin.

for Arghanlatan during the trou-

Promoted Vice-Admiral in 1907, Schulenburg. Hong Kong Hotel, bleg culminating in King

he acted as Commander-in Chief, from Shanghai.

Amanullah's abdication.

Australian Station, from 1908 to Subsequently, he surrendered

1911, in which year he attained the to the Raj, and was then taken to

The Hamburg-Wilhemsburg oll rank of Admiral. From 1911 to Levy, care of Nomolos, from Rangoon, from where he was Industry has decided to introduce a 1915 he was Commander-in-Chief Shanghai.

brought again to Allahabad, re-six hours working day in order to at the Nore. He retired in 1917. lease on parole, and has now been give at least partial employment to He was created a K.C.B. in 1909. Bob. She fought with him on

His wife, the daughter of Blahop arrested.

Graves of Limerick, whom he mar ried in 1885, was the author of several books: Recollections of an Admiral's Wife, published in 1916,

Hong Kong, December 31, 1930.

PUBLIC AUCTION:

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

THURSDAY, the 8th January, 1931,

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,

A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

**Including

Extension Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Sideboard with Bevelled Mirrors, Oplum Divan, Couches, Armchairs, Jose Tables, Round and Half Round Tables, Stools, Optum Stools, Sereena, Jardinieres, Tea Poys, Curios Cabinet with Glass Doors and Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Whatnots, etc., etc. (An exceptionally fine lot).

Also

Large Quantity of Valuable Household

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Comprising :-

Teak Glass Cabinets, Chesterfield Couches and Armchairs, Gramophone, Desks, Carpets, Rugs, Cameras, Chinese Hand Paintings, Oil Paintings, Fine Teak Round Tables, Ornaments, Kiangel Porcelain Flower Fots, Carlos, etc, etc.

Teak Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Glass Ware, Crockery, etc., etc.

Brasa, Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Single and Double Ward robes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Wash Stands, Linen, etc, eta

1 VERY FINE GRANDFATHER CLOCK

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and

One "Herring Hall-Marvin Safe.

On View from:WI

Term

the 7th January, 1981; 24

MERT BROTHERS,

the eight hours

a larger number of workers than at present under system.

Red-Cap Rewarded

An Admiral's Wife in the Making, 1917, and Harbour Lights, 1922.

that it was not considered

let them remain together.

safe to

Toto was also a popular, Zoo, character because of his good tem-. 'per.

He was fullgrown when pra- sented to the Zoo by Sir Edward

POLISH ATROCITIES. Northey in 1929, but as be had been

AGGRAVATING POLITICAL

SITUATION,

Geneva, Nov. 27.

kept more or less as a pet he was perfectly tame, and Toto was al ways pleased to le against the bars. of his den so that visitors introduc ed to him by his keeper could stroke his thick tawny mane

A monkey, sent to hospital for a A very painful Impression has minor complaint, has been making been caused in League of Nations a name for himself by maraging to efrcles by the revelations of the un- escape three times in three days.. speakable Polish atrocities. The On the first occasion he jumped fear is generally expressed that the over the keeper's shoulder while affair will contribute to the aggra- being fed, and; pursued by two vation of the tension of the Euro-keepers; he wandered out of the pean political situation A War Zoo Into the Park; on the second saw telegrani indicates that the occasion he only strayed as far da Polish Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski, the Small Birde aviary, and was has invited M. Calander, who is captured saally, But the third President of the mixed League of time he was at large for a whole Nations Commission, to proceed to morning, and deliberately mocked the Pollah capital to discuss his would-be captors by sitting just with him the results of his por out of their reach and making for sonal enquiry into the atrocities. the nearest roof when they attempt League of Nations members have ed to catch blm Hunger, how entire confidence in M. Calonder, ever, induced him to return to This is the story of a red-cap who whose impartiality and sense of captivity. *** will retains his faith in humanityfair play has often been manffést.

Pat Ardery Bau bis stamping ground on the C.F.R. depot at Winnipeg and when a pamenger came to him one day with a request for $8 to cover expensés: on train while he visited hil lek father at Toronto, Pat didn't hesitate to hand over

German Protest, mo

Berlin, Nov. 26. -

Canadian bond sales for the ten The German Note protesting months of the current year made against Poland's high-handed up a total of $646,978,800-an in treatment of the German minority crease of $137,818,824 over the was dispatched to Genera on Wed came period of last year and of cap gave him the hearty rare, burnesday and will be published on $277.416,841 over the year before,

- day's takings in tips. His fellow red

Pat was unperturbed. His optimism was proved ine invitant when a few days latter, a portal for 3o came to him from the obliged pamenger Red-cap Ardery far of coure not ready to hand out money for the saking at moment's noties bat: malataim kêsia, sufi- Aclantly a judge of abaračied to know

han a man is home and in add tion, baga delow for in Ing trip

Friday. While the Note does not according to the weekly summary contain a request for the convening of A. E. Ames & Co, Government of the League Council, it is general issues showed a total of $220,987′′

understood that the Cabinet at 800 Municipal: $107,882,509; Cor Thursday's meeting, will decide to poration, $169,115,500 and Ralfway, demand the summoning of the $112,988,000, Purchases in Canada Gounell, which the Press Insiste is amounted to $887,078,809; 1 imperative In view of the Pollah United States: to $288,159,500 and manoeuvres to cloud the issues in Great Britain, 24,745.0002