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TIENTSIN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22nd, 1914.

A Tientsin message of the 12th inst reported the river to be open from the sea to the Bund, two ice-breakers having bean working steadily for three weeks. Consequently shipping offices were advising steamers to come up to Tientsin.

On inquiry being made at the Shanghai office of the principal tipping company engaged in business with the North, it was stated, although the results achieved by the ice-breakers were very satisfactory, it was unlikely, as far as could be seen at present, that there would be a endden influx of shipping to Tientsin.

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It might, added the informant of the Chine Press, pay a tranp steamer or two to make their way thither, to see what cargo could be picked up, but it must be borne in mind that the Chinese New Year. is near at hand, which, in accordance with the custom of centuries, has already begun to put an end to business.

The average Chinese merchant possesses too conservative a natare suddenly to change all his preconocived notions, and arrange for the receipt and despatch of cargo at an unheard-of time of the year.

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It was not likely, also, that the Maxi- time Customs would again send out their light-ships and buoys this season now that they have already been removed for the winter. They must first be assured of the auccess of the experiment

The icebreakers have, of course, dune invaluable work in proving at this early. stage that Tientsin need no longer remain an ice-bound port, shut off from the world, during the winter months. If they aucceed in keeping clear the passago till the close of winter it is certain that shipping companies and merchants alike will make the necessary changes in their plans for the winter season of 1914-15.

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WILL. PANAMA PAY÷

SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY LECTURER'S CONCLUSIONS.

Judge Parry has approached the serious Will the Panama Canal, representing Bubject in the present issue of the Corn- an investirent of at least £90,000,000, pay hill, and lays down the lines upon which ite builders, and to what extent will it scientific research should proceed.

compete with the British route via the "A golf ball," he says, is the subject Suez Canal to the East Professor R: N. of ownership, although the ownership is Rudmose Brown, D.Sc., concluding an of a very fleeting and precarious nature.extremely interesting lecture at Sheffield There was a school of legal thought in the University last month, was able to fourteenth century that considered golf re-assure those who may be concerned at balls to be ferae nature, that is to say, the challenge to British akin to beasts and birds that are wild, sapremiacy offered by the completion of such as hares, foxes, wild geese, and the this undertaking the most mighty feat like, wherein no man may claim a of engineering ever known, which has property.

broken down another of Nature's barriers and which must prove a great work for between the Eastern and Western world, civilisation

and peace Long the nations."

found in the writings of Grotius, who "The germ of the idea is said to be

noticed that often the flight of the golf ball was like that of the bare along the ground, that on occasion after the mannes of foxes it hid itself in inaccessible holes, and that it was staffed with the feathers of wild gees. By what later writers considered a false analogy, the early jurists considereit a golf ball to have so many of the qualities of ferue dature and to be so little subject to the dominion of man, that there could be no property in it in a scientific legal sense, although you might have casual possession of it before yon struck it from the toe."

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AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

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The Professor then took his audience on fifty miles of canal, showing the mammoth a delightful pictorial tour through the

greationa of the engineers at work clear ing away the five million cubic yards of THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, Dealing with the threatened competi-earth and rock for the locks, and how the tion with the Suez Canal, Professor Americans succeeded in "making the dirt Rudmose Brown illustrated by some interesting tables of distances and route maps the superjor claims of the Al-Red route," and ventured the prediction that more than three-fourths of the trade which at present uses the Suez Canal will continue to do so, because it affords the shortest route.

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7,500 f.d. Cholmer, T.B.D., 56 tous cus4-12 pr., i.h.p.. 7,500fd, Lient. H. T. England, Hongkong. Feme, TRD, Lt-Comdr. Blackman, Hong.

kong. Hampshire, 10,850 tons, 21,000 f.d., 14 gune, Capt Marcus Rowley Hill, Colombo. Jed, T.B.D., 550 tops, guns 4-12 pr., 1.k.pund-recover the value of his goods, but will develop, under the stimulus of the

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hp Lieut.-Comdr. I. A. S. Hatton, Snipo, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 i.b.p..

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Commodore R. Anstruther, Hongkong Triumph, battleship, 11,985 tons. 12,500 ih.

Captain Philip Streatfield, M.V.O., Hong kong. Teal, rlvor gunboat, 180 tons, 2.gaus, 805 1b.p.

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In the Jacobean days of golf it seems thave been clege law in the Criminal rts that finding was keeping, Sir Eteward Coke's view-and he was James I's Chief Justice was that if one lose his own goods and another find them, though he convert them anime fuerands to his own use, yet it is no larceny, for the first taking is lawful. Se if one and treasure trove or white or straic and convert then u supra, it is no lareony both in respect of the finding, and also for that Dominus non apparet.*";

Judge Parry, however, was not dispased to running risks, ind says

trade routes,

fly with the aid of half a million pounds of dynamite every month and colossal steam shovels that pick up from six to night tons of earth and rock at every bite," loading the lengthy dirt trains at the rate of one every two and a half minutes Sone excellent cinematograph

FOREIGN | picture, also gave a realistic impression.)

if the workshe Stellariskaja

ASTOUNDING EXPERIMENT.

BLOOD OF LAVING DOG ENTIRELY REMOVES.

Four important results would, however, accrue from the Panama Canal:(1) The United States and Canada will certainly GROUND FOR ACTION. There seeing to be no doubt that if again, and the canal would, in that way man lee a golf ball and anther finds it readjust the balance which America lost the criginal owiser can have an action of

on the opening of the Suez Canal. (2) Japan would certainly gain; (3) the Trover and Conversion against the finder, Pacific coast republics of South America

The medical world is eagerly discussing canal, which will open a much shorter extraordinary experiment performed Federation of American route to their ports; and (4) the West before the Indies will emerge from their isolation Socices for Experimental Biology by and find themselves on one of the world's three doctors from the Joh us Hopkins University at Philadelphia, when the The canal would be mon useful to blood from a living dog was entirely America and American commerce than to removed, cleansed of impurities, and other nation of the world, except returned without interrupting a single pang and would do much to make the heart-beat. instead of being a backwater of the of thor. An incision was made the The dog was placed under the influence. Pacific an artery of comuneros and traffic, Atlantic. But shortness of route was not neck and shoulder, laying bare the the only consideration to be taken into carotid artery and the jugular vein. Cao account in estimating the probable use of tube was connected with the artery and

The Suez Canal possessed the another with the vein. cunni advantage of "luking two thickly. The large gathering of scientists, says populated continents, and that route went the Mail New York correspondent, then by many important ports of call, while watched the entire blood circulation of the Panama route included comparatively the dog as it was propelled by the reticu few ports of call. All things considered, : of the animal's heart through an elaborate the lecturer concluded that the bylanes evil of tubes of an aggregate length of of advantage xestel with the Suez route fifty fect. By the use of a salt solution through which the blood was passed. to the East.

whatever impurities existed in it were removed.

The next golf ball I find I shall for ward to our county coroner with a petition that the Crown will be pleased to allow me the costs and expense to which I have been put in recovering and for "We shall warding the treasure trove. then be able to discover by a practical best the views of our rulers upon this. important subject..

ENGINEERING TRIMPM. Professor Rudmose Brown prefaced the descriptive part of his lecture which was generously illustrated with many vary

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While Professor Abel, who presided over the demonstration, would venture no prediction regarding its practical

beings, doctors enthusiastically declared their belief that it would lead the way to operations by which uremia (a disease characterised by the presence of cerizin impurities in the blood) "might be cured in some persons,”

A. ROYAL COMMISSIOK, This question is all too large and intricate for one mind. The matter is really of quite sufficient importance for the appointment of a Royal Commission, striking photographs and drawing--with application to human On it should sit six golf experts such as brief history of previous enterprises Taylor, Vardon, Ray, Braid, Mr. John from the time that Columbus set out on Ball, and Mr. Hilton; Mr. Asquith and his search for the short cut to the East; the Chancellor of the Exchequer could the unhappy venture of the French under not only represent the State, which has taking under De Lesseps, which came to a vast interest in this unclaimed inere a stop in 1858, when two-fifths of the work ment, but at the same time they could was completed at a cost of 280,000,000, was adequately put forward the views of the related; of this sum the Professor long handicap golfers who are the great remarked that one third was spent on the contributors to treasure trove.

|canal; one-third wasted, and probably the "I myself, if the accretaryship were to remaining third was stolen. The work of be a well paid pest, would give up my the French engineers, however, very THE IDOL'S EYE spare time to this duty in the interests of materially assisted thoir American the community, and I feel sure that Lord successors. Mersey, remembering the grave interests He described the tremendous difficulties of Hoylake and Wallasey in this matter, encountered in carrying out so gigantic would for once consent to act as chair- Jan engineezing work, not only on account man

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