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SUPREME COURT,

Friday, May 13th,

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. F. A. HAZELAND

(ACTING PRISAN JODGE).

ULAIM FOR MONEY LENT,

R. H. Mugford med Rose White to recover. $1,000 due for money lent.

HALLEY'S COMET.

MANT POPULAR FALLACIES: DISPELLED.

The lecture-hall of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. was

crowded on Thursday evening when Mr.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 14cm, 1910.

DREADNOUGHT HOAXERS,

** ABYSSINIANS” CANED BY INDIGNANT

OFFICERS...

Abyssinian Princes on the officers of H.M.S The amazing hour perpetrated by the sham Dreadnought has had an equally amazing sequel. toolish offenders against the dignity of the British Navy any actual breach of the law. The Navy, however, has taken the matter into its own. nounce that punishment-informal, but none the less vigorous-has been meted out to the ring- leaders in a this stupid practical joke.

The exploits of Prince Makalin, Mendas, and Co., were exclusively related in these columana early in February.

It was found Impossible to bring home to these

Mr. P. M. Hodgson (of Mours. Ewens & and the speaker's remarks were lucidly tranche, must remain a permanent member of the solar the oppointed time; the error in the prediction | hands, and the Express is now able to a

Harston) who appeared for the plaintiff, enter- ed the witnes-box and swore that he had informed the defendant of the date of the hearing.

Plaintiff proved his claim, and judgment was entered for the defendant.

A PETVEION, FILED.

| an ellipse, or oral. A long narrow.ellipse, it is [ 76 years in the hope that the next appearance true, and ons it did not differ greatly from may be jumpy more favorable ofrephistanoël, a parabola, still a closed enrve, that is, a varys | We must efore make the most wesan of the that would sooner or later bring it back to tlie onse as it is. We shall none of us have the same point. It had passed through before and chance of seeing it again. We may hope to see Keep it perpetually revolving in the same way other and even brighter comete, but we cannot till some day it chances to meet another planet say when they may come, and Hallay'a is the John I. Plummer, MA of the sad be thrown into a new orbit or curve. So long any bright comes whose retain we may predict Observatory, gavo highly instructive account of Halley's Comet. Mr. J. M. Wong presided dose not meet with any such beeldent It On this occasion it was predicted and, it came at system just as much as Jupiter or Venus or the was three days only, and considering the journey ød by Mr. Ng Ting Fo

arth. It sooms that three other comets not on it had made and the disturbance and delay the same principle as Halley's owing to the notion which took place in consequence of its compara of Uranus, bat Halloy's is the largest and they close approach to Jupiter, it may be to garded as one of the triumphe of astronomy that brighest of the four.

it as so accurately predicted. The two British astronomers, Mesora Cowell and Crommelin, hands praise and commendation for their succe a and they richly deserve it.

Mr. PLOMMEE, in the course of his general introduction, maid nowadays he was fre quently asked, as he passed along the street, such questions as these-Where do comets come from sad whore do they go to ? What are they made of? What is their

From the moment when they beesnio aware that a practical joko had been played on them the officers losgued themselves together in a

The speaker next proceeded to describe the composition of the tail of a comet. It In the essa brought by C. E. Warren & Co. weight, size and construction ? What would consists of a very thin, light gas compared who made this prediction, are receiving on all determination to discover the identity of the man against W. H. Emberly to recover 830; Mr. happen if the Earth wero to run into with which the common air we breathe is Hinds (of Messrs. Brutton & Hett), who a cemet, or a comet inte the Earth? Is it trus probably a very dense and heavy material that the Earth will pass through the tail but it shines with its own light, as under certain sppeared for the defendunt, asked that the case of Haliey's Comet and what will happen if it circumstances all gases do, and it is in conse

should be adjourzed sins die as his client had filed a petition in bankruptcy.

His Lordship granted the adjournment' re- quested.

AN IMPENDING PETITION

do? Is the head and the tail of a comet made of the same kind of stuff? And so on, and so forth. He was prepared to answer all these questions and perhaps some

KODIO-

The case was mentioned in which Ah Young To begin with the first. Where do cometest to the hydro-carbons which compose a

& Co. quad Mrs. R. A. Ford to recover $649.14.

Mr. Gardiner, who represented the defendant, said a potition in bankruptey had been presented, and asked that the casa be adjourned.

come from? First of all he wished to give some ides of the loneliness of this little world of oms. It is quito true that we have ono near neighbour, the moon. If thirty globes such as ours were

queme of this that tstronomers can speak with greater certainty about the material of the tail than of the head. Firsdamp in coal mines is perhaps the glosest approach in an earthly sub

comet's tail. The head of a comet shines for the most part at least by reflecting the light of the a precisely as the moon does, or the planets It is composed of solid matter, though not in one compact lump like the moon, but a very dense

Mr Plummer concluded

There is only one other matter of which I in.] tended to speak. It is highly probable that on the morning of May 19 we may pass through the tail of the comet, and you may like to know what may be expected to happen in consequence. From what I have already said you will have come to the conclusion that I regard the tail as very showy but not an important part of the comet, and that the result will be abrelate ly nothing. The like thing happened in the case of another large comet on the 30th

Mr. Kong Bing, solicitor for the plaintiff, put together in a line like beads on a string, the crowd of quite small bodios held together by muf. June, 1881, bat no one knew anything

tral attraction and the similarity of their motions,

about it till some days afterwards, when its

who had been guilty of such a gross indignity to the British Fleet, and particularly to its Commander-in-Chief.

After diligent inquiries the addresses of the "prinses" were obtained, and a command not in any sense royal was forwarded to each of them, explaining that his presence in London. was

desired.

VEILED THREAT.

At the same time it was hinted that if the command ware not obeyed the writart of the letter might find it convenient to visit them

With a meekness not usually associated with princes, three of the Abyssiniaus" obeyed the written request.

lady prince was absolved from the invitation.. Ono was seriously ill in bed, while the

At the time he received the invitation ong

of the “princes was staying in the country,

order to obey the summons.

asked his Lordship to pat the case in next week's last of them would be just about as far from us But except perhaps in the very centre they treok was examined and it was found that and was compelled to leave a house parts in

list, and if no receiving order was made he would ask for judgmont.

The case was adjourned for a week.

A QUESTION OF COSTS,

are at considerable distances apart. Mr Plummer said the aptest illustration he could give them have passed through it. One or two persons are said to have noticed that was that of a swarm of bees. Each individual the sunset that might had a rather unusual been awaran is pushing forward in the same

colour. In the same way it may happen that

Kis instructions were to call at the reai-

donce of Admiral Sir William May and offer fall apology for the insult to the flagship. He provvedod straight to the house, but after being kept waiting on the doorstep for fully the Commander-in Chief that his presence was

of the hoax were denit with less loniently. Young The two other" princes" who were insligators naval officers hars a more violent way of adminis- of the princes" to meet them in a certain house tering justice than admirals. They invited one in London, and administered six strokes with a esne.

as the moon in. It is not therefore what one would call near. The next nearest body to the earth is the sun. It would be easy to put down figures showing how far off it is, but they are The Oriental Brewery brought action against quite unsatisfactory. Let us say then briefly J. da Beza Braga to recover 812.74 for goods that the sun is 400 times further off than the direption as its fellows; they are crowded | the sunrise on May 19 may be a littlò unasus), | twenty minutes, received a cart mossago from ' gold and delivered.

together towards the centre, where the queer but I personally do not expect it, and don't in proportion as they are farther from the queen, in order to watch the sunrise. If any of you moon is. Yet it is our next nearest neighbourbes is, and the intervals between them is greater intend to leave my denoh any earlier than usim? not dəsirəd......

there are even stragglers that appear hopelessly are awake at that time it might be well to look in the rear yet who still persevere in the for something unusual, but I do not give you same direction. Now the earth, as far nó

much hope that you will see it. At this time we know, has never ran into the head of s will, for such been might have a ating legat 14,000,000 miles long to rosch an. That comet, and it is to be hoped that it never the head of the comet will be exactly between

of a cozzet to be quite sure what it was made of may very well be the case; I do not expect But we have ocasionally ran into some of the

for that amount and costs.

ment in the ordinary way.

I don't mind,

His Lordship-You don't ask for costs, de you!

Therefore we have never secured a portion

a and the san, to the tail must be at

that it will not resoh us because it is too short. What I do hope and expect to sea

(they are in great numbers), probably sustragglers. We did so on the 13th Novembot, is the head of the comet as a dark mags upon

a

The second of the two "princes" mot with similar punishment on the following Sunday afternoon Like his fellow "prince," he also submitted to the castigation with lamb-like docility.

The officers of the Dreadnought now feel that the honour of the Navy is satisfied.

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Mr. Christopher Wilson of Messrs. Hastings I don't forget that there are a few bodies, three & Hastings) who appeared for the plaintiff, to be exact, which are sometimes nearer to us. said that the defendant had paid a certain to the fun is, bat at other times they are amount into Court, and asked for judgment much further off, so that on the whole the sun. is nearer than they are. After the sun and its Mr. Kong Sing, who appeared for the de- few attendant planets there comes a torrible gap mont, as the money confit be taken ent of Court, space extends on all sides of us and of him. Bat endant, eald there was no necessity for judgindeed. An immense and apparently empty Mr. Wilson-Isnbait Inm entitled to judg-thie groot region is not abseintely empty, though we can see nothing there. Scattered throughout Mr. Kong Sing-If he does not ask for costs it are some small bodies, possibly very far spart

enormone number of cometa, moving about in 1866, and no one who witnessed that spectacle she sun's face, but whether it will be visibis all directions, though slowly. For ages they will ever forget it. It was the tail of Tempel's depends upon the density of the crowd of small may wander in no very definite direction. Comet, which had gone on its course some four bodios of which it is composed, I am not too aimlessly it would almost sem. The gun and his planets, too, are wandering in the same space, and although it would take him also many ages to erves it still he occasionally comes comparatively near these strange bodies. Than a change takas His Lordship-That is a matter for the place; very slowly at first they are attracted minute from a place where only part of the sky his name shall be associated for ever with his interior, And the recently published work of menta will deside this point, bat it requires

by him and tend to approach, just as a stone was visible, and this continued for hours. Bet | comet, and it is well that ones at least in ce mmary of our present knowledge of this for analysis. thrown into the air is attracted to the earth; these, although exceeding bright while they tury we should do him the honour of remember. respect of the whole claim. My friend takes gradually, very gradually, the motion becomes lasted, appear to have been very small bodies. They ing the triumph of his life. (Lond applause.) quicker and after a considerable time they were all burnt up in the atmosphere and converted move very rapidly indeed but by this time into impalpable dust. All but one left a trail they are pretty near to the sun. The impetus of dust visible for 17 minutes, and this one mast

Mr. Wilson-1 do.

Mr. Kong Bing-The claim is only about

$10, and he is not entitled to posts.

His Lordship-I will allow costs up to the date of payment in.

Mr. Kong Sing-I object to costs in any

case,

Begistrar

Mr. Kong Bing-I have paid in $7.27 in

that in satisfaction of the whole amount.

months earlier so that these stragglers were at that time a long way in the rear, but they were sufficiently numerons. Meteors fell in all parts of the sky at the rate of more than 100 rex minute. The speaker himself counted 57 in

hopeful. It is all too likely that I shall see nothing at all, but it is at all events certain that I shall have more definite idens about the density of the heads of comets after the 19th a of May then I have now. Halley deserves that

DOES POLONIUM CHANGE TO LEADE The state of the unknown interior of the

But what is the final result of this branking- earth, a knowledge of which is so important in up of Polonium Since its activity is due to the many geological problems, las of late received giving off of alpha-particles one result should special attention from scientific investigators. be the gas Helium. This has boon shown to be The speculations of the great French stron the ease by Beltwood and others. It is suspected mee, Flammarion, for example, have done much that the residual substance will turn out to be to stimulate interest in the physics of the earth's load. It is hoped that Mme. Curie's experi

MAGICAL SCALES.

Dr. WL. Magar," Bewohnte Welten," given a long time to collect sufficient of the substance interesting and important mbject. The tem perature of the earth's surface is influenced by atmospherio changes, but it is a matter of common observation that this only extends to a certain depth This zone of invariable tempera- ture is given by Dr. Meyer se from 49ft. to 65ft.

uniform temperature of 9dag. C.

His Lordship... Yon and better too the Bo gistrer on the point

Mr. Kong Bing-The question is whether he they have received carries them round the saz/ have been big enough to reach the earth as a solid tail thord under a deep debt of obligation, for his Here there prevails throughout the year a

Is entitled to coats.

and they begin to recede from him, geing musse, but of course it was never fouïtt: ' alower and slower all the time till they are lost to

His Lordskip-He is entitled up to the date gight again in immense distances. But they do do fall to the earth, are seen to fall, and are

of payment in.

and Wilson I will be satistio with judgment

and costs, if any, allowed by the Registrar.

Judgment was entered for plaintiff, and the question of costs referred to the Registrar.

LOCAL SPORT,

CRICKET.

HONGKONG “A” v. "THE BEST.”

This match, postponed from last Saturday, will be played this afternoon on the Cricket

Ground, TestDA :

O. Brawn, and L. E. Brett

Reserves-P. Jacks and R. P. Land.

Umpires:A. R. Sutherland and R. B

Beattie,

The presentation of the Shield and medals will take place after the matob,

HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE.

Kowloon v. Chinese Y.M.C.A. T.M.C.A.. Watsons.

Craigongower v. Wigwam.

Taikoo v. Queen's. College.

TEAMS.

Yet sometimes, quite unexpectedly, meteors subsequently picked up. There is no reason to it doubt that these are parts of comics, of the

have passed, and it becomes interesting to strugglers along the lines over which comete

see what they are like. There are two kinds found, some are of iron mixed with a

Mr. Word, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer, thanked him for coming over to Hongkong on such asweltering night. He had

lecture. ad removed many fears which wore agitating the minds of the Chinees population at the present moment. They could go home in

peace and tell all their friends that there was Chinese from time immemorial had surrounded cometa with superstitions, fears; they called nothing to fear from Halley's Comst. The

them the heavenly broom-stick, and when they saw them in the sky took them for

TEMPERATURE AND DEPTIL Below this it is also well known the tem-

WEIGHING A SEVEN THOUSAND

· MILLIONTH OF AN OUNCE,

The room was in semi-darkness. Bo delicate

To a small underground chamber below him. own laboratory at University Collage, London, the other day, Sir William Ramsay, the famous peraturs incrasses with the depth. Numerous goiontist, lad a visitor." I will show y fans show that although the rate varies in different even thousand millionth of an ounce," localities a certain average law of increase of are these wonderful scales that their balance is temperature with depth can be determined. disturbed by the alteration of temperature. parimental observations in mines and borings said, "a now pair of scules which will weigh a

Dr. Meyer gives the latest result as Ideg. G. for caused by the turning on of an electrin light at every 109ft. Observations have been carried the other end of the room. The operator has to out to a depth of about 1,094 fathoms, and there leave them for an hour in darkness after he has the temperature is found to be 50deg. C. If tiptoed from the room so that his footfall should had shown them that they were perfectly natural thisa rate of increase were continned down to 37

swiftly before any change in the temperaturs has had time to affect them.

not go back from whence they camo. They more in a eurre oiled a parabols. This explains how remain a fair wooks visible and then are gone is that comets come suddenly at unexpected times, for ever. Halley's comet, however, pays us visits regularly, at intervals of about 76 or 77 years, therefore Halley's is not an ordinary for ounces to a few pounds in waight portents of great calamities. But Mr. Plummer

little nickel; these usually are from

conet. The speaker then went on to expiat others are of a kind of rock common enough in developments of nature, and that even if the tail miles the materials of the rocky orust of the pot set up any vibration--and then read them.

how-this-has-been-brought about. At one lesnic regions. These are unally larger, remote date Halley's Comet was attracted to- wards the sun and passed round the it is from a few pounds to perhaps a ton, though impossible to say when this first visit of Halley's very large ones are uncommon, as they are very comet took place; all we certainly know is that apt to broak into fragments while passing

interest about meteors is that nearly all of the

on May 19th the inhabitants of this tiny globe

Pealm

TEMPERATURE AT CENTER,

historial Bayesur tapestry, It appeared, too, in Halley's comet, it is going away from the sun Erenang (5,45 pm.) Rep Dimittis, Fel Breater than 62 miles. From the earth's inter-

#

Toservoir of heat, radiations are believed to

from the sun.

CONCERNING POLONIUM.

of

an dunes,

The scales rest in a motel chamber. The of the heavenly broom-stick did sweep the earth earth would be in a completely moltan state. had nothing to fear, We should not be poison-sufficient to reduce the matter of the crust to cobweb of glass with its frail supports. It is At a depth of 186 miles the best would be beam, only a few inches long, appears a mare

it would be William, but of silics, which expands and Combined League Team-R E. 0. Biruit was before the year 770, A.D., 1140 years ago,through the atmosphere. But the only point of ed by norious' gases, nor overwhelmed with the state of gas. That is to say, under sur not made of glaze, however, explaing Sir

torrential downpours of rain, er barnt alive by face conditions of pressure (Capt.), R. E. H. Oliver, Lieut. Bagnall, The records of that remote time are vaguʊ and contain little bollows in which is enclosed a the ignition of the earth's atmosphere. Mr. gaseous. What it may be under the high contests under the effect of heat for lass

enormous than glass. Hose, Bdr. Winkworth, Lt. Anderson, Sorgt doubtful and the lesturer could not assure small quantity of gas, and it is quite possible uns allaying their superstitions fears. (Pro- unknown. At any rate, there would appear seules by s strand of and it is trag. Upon

temperature combined with the Plummer was to be thanked right heartily for pressure at the above depth is altogether Hanging from one end of the besin of the Major Power, A. Young, Cerpl, Wynder, A himself that any earlier records were really that from these little pockets is derived the gas tonged applause.)

to be in this potentially gaseous matter s it is scarcely possible to see it is tray, Upon reports referring to. Halley, though it is

sufficient motive power to account for all this is placed a minute glass tube. Imprisoned in Hongkong-T. E. Pearce, W. C. D. Turner, quite possible they may be. Since that early which forms the tails of comets. We can easily

earth movemerts. volcanic eruptions, &o, the tube is a whiff of xenor, a gas discovered CHURCH SERVICE 8. HR. Makin, H. D. Sharpin, A A. Claxton, dato it has returned quite regularly, sometimes imagine that in the crowding together near the

Following the increase of temperature down by Sir William Ramsay. The movement of the -H. S. Sweeting, J. Hall, A. C. Leith, G. E. it was seen and referral to in old annals sod centre collisions are frequent, individual mem-

soles when the tabe is dropped upon them ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Hongkong. Whit Bun wards calculation shows that it may be from Aubrey, B. Irving and Dr. J. M. Atkinson. sometimes it escaped being reported upon, but bers of the crowd become broken or crushed and day, May 16th. Holy Communion (7.30 am) 20,000 degrees to 100,000 degrees Centigrade is so slight that it can be detected at Kesponses, Ferial; Venite, at the centro! What might be the state of all by the eye. But the movement is made to we can have no doubt that it appeared. The the contained gas escapes. As soon as it becomes Matis (11.m.) present is therefore the fifteenth time since thin enough it is driven sway by the radiant Goodson, Paalms, Proper (Cooke, Crotch, Cooke): matter at this enormous temperaturs, even swing from side to side a tiny mirror, apon a mere matter of which a beam of light is focussed. The result the first authentic report that it has become forces of the sun. Hence it is that the tail is Te Deum, Orkeley (18th evening); Benedictus, apart from pressors, is

Langdens Anthem, Come Holy (host,Att speculation.

is that a shifting point, of light is thrown upon a graduated black scale sir feet" sway. The visible. Some appearances have become famous, always directed away from the sun. When the wood Holy Communion (12-neon.) Kyrie, Ad- THICKNESS OF EARTH'S CRUST. for instance, in 1066, ut the time of the Norman comet is approaching the sun the tail streams lan; in F: Hymans, 307 and 166. N.E.-Pealm

A summing up of the latest results of Dr. weight of the tube, with the gas in it, is then recorded i by the movement of this pin-point of ver 1,2, conquest, when it was thought to be such a away almost in the direction which the comet verses 1, 2, 6, and 15 in unison

7, 8, 11, 12 17, 18, 23, 24, 32 and 33 in Meyer himself, Tominn and others, indicates notable event that it was figured on the has passed along. When, as at present with anison; Te Deum, verres last quarter of chant, that the solid orast of the earth cannot be light on the scale.

Then comes the interesting test. The gas is Ferial; Psalm,

released from the tabe, which is weighed again. It is now found to weigh a two hundred and 1682, in Halley's time, and it was the splendoar it stresine out almost as if pointing the way in Propers Magnificat, Smart;

tod; Anthem, God is a Spirit"-Bennett; be passing away into space continually. This of it that led him to prodiot that it would return which it should go, and when it is passing round Hymns, 209, 524 (Tune 189), Svorfeld Amen; loss, however, according to Dr. Moyer's eelenlaffty thousandth of a millio-gramme, or a seven thousand millionth of an ounce, less than it did in 1759, many years after he himself was the sun, as Halley did on the 19th of April last, Picacher. Rev. 1.0. Spink, MA; Voluntations, is compensated for by the host received

when the gas was in it. Therefore the weight of this whiff of gas was seven thousand millionth dead. It was a bold assertion in that day, and it swings round rapidly always away from the taries, Funeral March from I lederohne Worter" Mendelssohn. O Rost in the Lord." fram The Elijah Mendelssohn N.B-Fealm 104 Watsons:-D E. Clark and F. Rapp; B. Halley was perhaps a little prend of his predic-sun. With some comets which approach the sun

Polonium is one of the most motive of the The smallest object that can be picked up with the cat delicate forceps is s plecs of Tayler and IL Bapp; E. R. Millar and E. tion, as he had a perfect right to be, and he very closely, as the comet which was seen earlier (Old Metody and Travers, 20th evening (II, versen Phillipa.

asked his countrymen to remember when his in the year did, the rail is whisked round through 1,3,7, 20, 21 and 2 in unison: Psalm 145 (Cooke), radioactive elements, and is at prosent the

subject of a series of special investigations aluminiums wire far thinner than a human hair, UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road-Minister, by Mine, Caria. It is not, however, as certains twenty-fifth of an inch in length, which prediction esme fran that it was an English many millions of miles in a few hours. This vertes 1, 2, 10, 11, 11, 12 rad 21 in unison.

leads to the question, do not comets lose some Bar, C Hickling Whitsuntido Hervices.

newspaper paragraphe concerning this recent weighs a fourteen hundred thousandth of an man who had done this thing.

work imply itself a new discovery. It was, in 2000, It can scarcely be seen, and it is thing in these successive returns to the sun! a.m. Worship, Hymns, 184, 148, 133, 244, 246, An-

them. “Thine. Ú. ord, is the greatness" (Shore) fact, the first of the radio-active substances difficult to detect whether it is resting on the 6 p.m. Worship, Hymas 144, 187, (615), 189 (420), found in the piteliblonde residues by Mmo.

A section of slaminíum vire it is that Halley's comet is a regular part of. They cannot possibly recover, re-collect the

Friday 8.15 p.m. Christian Endeavour

Curie. By concentration along with bismuth weighing an eighty-four hundred thousandth of On the 13th at 1205 p.m.The barometer one solar system, returning at intervals from matter of their tails, but that is no great loss of

ounce can be prepared. But it is only visible has risen quickly in E. Japan, the typhoon its long journey into spaco, instead of being mass or weight, and the heavier matter of the EVAN METHODIST CHURON, Watchaicompounds it was found to be many thousand having moved away over the Pacific.

microscope. For this reason weights of The barometer has risen considerably on the lost like other comets. The attraction head is, it would seam, broken up inte amallar Sanday Service 10.15 . Ter, J. & A. Bakor and times as native as Uranium, Now some time B. coast of China, and fallen slightly over of the sun is shared by the eight great and smaller fragments, so that the actual loss of 0.16 p.m. Rev. C. Bone. SAILORS AND SOLDIERS later Marckwald got from 15 tons of pitchblende less than a fourteen hundred thousandth of an H.W. Japan and the Loochoos. A shallow planets of our system and they attract comes bulk is not great. Nevertheless comote that Houts, Arsenal Street. Sunday 3.0 p.m. Goa; of three milligrams of an intensely active substance onnes have to be registered in gases.

Hosting Monday 60 p.m. Fellowship Meeting. which he named Radio-Tellurium. This now have made very numerous visits to the sun are Saturday 8.0 pin. Frayer Moe'i g.

turns out to be the same as Poloniam. Again, Yangtze valley, is situated over the Busters just as he does, though they are less power: noticed to became faltater and faintor, and even ST PETER'S CHURCU, Queen's Road West- it was shown that Radium in disintegration gaye Sea,

ful and fail to produce any effect unless Halley's, which doon not rotain very frequently, Whit Sunday 16th May, 1910. Matins (11a.m.) rise, in addition to helium, to seven new products, Pressure is highest over N. China. It remains the const comes very near them. Halloy's is probably not so conspicuous an object as it Cooke; Te Deuro, corte in E; l'enedictus, Trout B, C, D, E, and F. and Rodinu F is found to Venite, Goodson: Special Fealms. Cooke, Crotch, known as the sanation, Radium A. Rodium low over Tongking.

Moderate N.B. winds may be expected in the comet on its first visit to the sun chance was a thousand years ago. Of course it makes a bek: Anthem, "Come Holy Ghost Attwood; be identical with Polonium Formosa Channel and moderate 8. to E. winds to pass very near to the planet Uranus, great difference if we happen to be near the Byrie Vrcent; Uymans, 160, 606, 229. Holy

6.30 12.30 pm Evensong Lover the northern sh; res of the China Sea. a great planet, though not the Ingent or comet at the time of its visit...On the pressut Spin Palus, Bunt. Furton, June 15, Hopkins Polonium is found to be 5.000 timer is active

Sprovin Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending heaviest, but stil much bigger than the earth. occasion we are much nearer than is frequently smart: Magnificat, Boathoven: Nung Dimittis, as Radium. Its activity, like that of Radiam, at 10 a.m. to-day, 0,00 inches.

It is also the outerrest but one of the sight, and the case; indeed, on the 19th of May this comet Felt n Anthem, "ome Holy Ghost. Attwood is due to the giving off of alpha-particles, and The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon. being sufficiently powerful and sufficiently close will pass between us and the sun at a distancurio. Mendelssohn Hymns, 101, 170, 56, Holy

But while Radian requires a period of 2,000 to Halloy on this occasion, it turned its little of only 14,000,000 miles. We are thus assured The huch launch "Dayspring" will call on years for the transformation of half its mass. to leave. Shimonsold for China on May 5th Hongkong & Neighbourhood B. to E. winds, out of the course that otherwise would have

moderate; fair.

been taken. The general effect was to diminish good view of it, but not so good as if it wero ships canying white crews to bring friends Poloniam accomplishes the same in 140 days. travelling vid Korea. They will visit Peking, Formosa Channel...moderate-

N.E. winds,

Lits speed and to make the track it pursued les 14,000,000 miles away on the other side, when it ankore to the servicos between 9.15 and 10.30 aYet Polonion is not the most active, of the Bouth coast of Chins between Same as No. 1. Pier 10.20-am nud 9 pt. 2. returning after waida)

Hongkong and Tamooks. 1

near to pale its light. This is a drawback to The Auswering Pennant is the Call flag breaking up of Badium has an activity 200,000ing Dairen They will then extend their Bouth octet rf Chins between Same as Nogether, so that it was no longer a parabola but not alter it, and it is a long time to wait another

bring the two ends of the parabola nearer to the present appearance of Halley, but we on- All the sittings are free and unappropriated times a great as that of its parent. Rachium journey to Hugkong, vid Nanking, and other

A, again, is 400 million times as active as important cities to South China. Visitors are welcome. Fooks, &c,, provided.

Kadium Vira Hongkong and Heinao.......

Sunday School 10 to 16.45. a m..

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-

depression, which has moved Eastward, frors, the

to-day is as follows:---

Mr. Plummer then went on to explain why

A

185.

Communion, 7.30 pm

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and btween 6.15 and 8 p.m. (Kowloon Paltoe

ITS INTENSE ACTIVITY.

the change of the Poloniam into something else.

scales of not.

in

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

The H-A. Linie str. Suovia left Singapore on the 13th inst., and may be expected hore on or about the 19th Irist.

The P.&O. str. Simla left Singapore on the 13th inst., at 11. &m, and is-das-here-on-the- 18th fust. at buat 11am.

A party of Japanese business men. “Fore