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THE IDEAL IS THE REAL. DR. HODGKIN'S CONCLUDING

LECTURE.

Br. H. T. HongIs, secretary of the Friends' Misionary Society, gave the last of the series of four lectures in Hong kong, last night, on Revolution" when he addressed a large audience at the Helena May Institute, Commodare Bowden Smith presided.

"The Christiao

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 1991.

Summarising his view of Christian THE OLD POST OFFICE SITE. idealism. Dr. Hodgkin asked, Was it a ghastly mistake which Jesus made and

YESTERDAY'S AUCTION.

was it proved to be a mistake by the fact THE WHOLE SITE SOLD IN THREE

LOTS. that H, in trying to carry it out, was crucified Or is it a matter of history that the result of that life has been a

in a new social order than if He had

THE FLY PEST.

PEAK RESIDENT WHO CREATED HIS OWN NUISANCE. HINTS FOR ANTI-FLY MEASURES, The site of the old Supreme Court and A meeting of the Banitary Board was far more creative thing towards bringing Post Office, fronting on Queen's Road held, yesterday afternoon, Mr. G. R adjusted His life to what we call the und Pedder Street, was sold at auction Sayer presiding." The members present practical facts of life '1 The things I

yesterday afternoon, at the offices of the War: the Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins, the have trying to my have not been enay; Public Works Department for a total of Hon. Mr. S. B. C. Boss.. Mr. Chau Shon- 81,309-310. Mr. Parker Rees, Principal sen. Mr. C. G. Alabater, the Medical Land Surveyor, was the auctioneer. Ofeer of Health (Dr. W. Peurse), and Though there were several persons pre- the Secretary (Mr. Reynolds). sent at the auction, European and Chin- ese, there was no keen bidding, the total price obtained being just $3,000 above the upset price.

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um afraid I havi spoken elusively and that some of my statements will not so every relevant to the problems you are

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Incing. But I do not admit the charge. These great questions of social and inter national reconstruction are not" FO be solved primarily in the ATHAL con- claves of men, in national assemblies or trade Federations" The real solution mista with the common men and women like ourselves. Every person whose. life.. related in some clear, well-thought-out way to this real world" of the unseen is one who is helping forward the time) Lot 1-Inland Lot No. 2316, Queen's when the world may be lifted out of its Road Central, aren, about 11,300 square erils into purer and truer ways,--(Load feat; annual rental $782; upset price, and prolonged applause).

DISCUSSION.

** A CERTAIN ELURI VENESS.

Dr. HODGKIN, before beginning his sure, said that, as this was the closing lecture, he would like to express his appreciation of the welcome extended to him and his thanks to those who had presided and to Mr. Gerken and the committee who had made the arrange ments. He would like to express, also. his appreciation of the Press for the very "ful way in which they had reported him and his thanks to the Authorities of the City Hall and the Institute for lending the rooms for the meetings. "I teel," added Dr. Hodgkin, that it has been a privilege to. lecture here and I am Questions were invited and Dr. Hudg glad that it has brought me into touchkin rend a series of thoughtful questions with the work being done in this Colony. where you have great difficulties yet great possibilities, and where, I cannot help feeling, there it amongst the differ- ent nationalities mixing here a spirit of determination to realise, some of the possibilities and overcome difficulties to be found in any such meeting place of races as this. There is not a more urgent problem in all our common if that the Problem of the right relationship of races to one another. We have to go on trying to solve it by many experiments, and here efforts are being made, and I hope will continue to be made, to reach a real solution of this question, which if it be not solved in the next hundred years ent only mean grent and grave difficulties in human life.

he had received in writing. The ques tioner asked if the supernatural should nos now be removed from the Christian ethic will suggested thay, the leaders of religion had been too dogmatic on matters about which no our could be errtain.

The property was divided into four lots

As under:-

$511,470.

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Lot 2-Inland Lor, No. 2317, Junction of Queen's Road and Pedder Stret about 7,939, square feet; annual rental 8498; upset price, 8325,400.

The CHAIRMAN mentioned that there had been oon or two complainta from the residential district of Magazine Gop of the prevalence of flies. He would ask the Medical Officer of Health, to make a statement as to the meana he regarded By necessary to prevent the nuisance..

The Medical OFFICER OF HEALTH said that on Saturday forenoon he visited the portion of the Peak mentioned by the Chairman and found, in the garden of the very person who complained of the By nuisance, a very considerable quantity of stable manure, exposed and swarm. There were other gardens Lot 3-Inland Lot No. 2318, Peddering with fies

in the vicinity, and, although he did not Street; about 732 square feet; annual

see any other stable manure exposed, he rental, 3498; upset price, $325,440.

Lot 4-Inland Lot No. 31, Pedders inclined to think, from inquiries, that other people 'used, stable manurg'on Street; about 7,4 square feet; anual their gardens. Many people seemed to

atal 8316: upset price, $338,960.

imagine that if they covered stable The Government reserved the right to ina.nure no harm could result. That wa The LECTURER said he believed there put up to auction the lots singly, or asja great mistakes, if flies laid their was a supernatural" element in religion a whole, or in such combination of two eggs before the stuff was covered, the land that it was not contra-natural. The or more of the lots as it might think fit, maggots would still hatch put and would. task was to show forth that element "in The auctioneer stipulated that no bid travel through many feet of the light a way that did not oppose reason but was to be less than $1,000.

garden soils in Hongkong. Flies would led his and the realma to which it was Patting up first Lot No. 1, the ferred excretal ruatier, eg. that of human breed in every kind of offul:"they pre- possible for seirnce, logic and philosophy ioneer, after a little time, got a bid of beings, al stable and cattle manure. to attain. Ee welcomed the questioner's $1,000 over the upset price, and the pro- taxistien tatt i se should be sentive perty was knocked down to Messrs. So specially horse manure. Elorse manure with regard to the things not yet com Chun Shun, Ma Tsui Chiu and Ng Wah,s extremely liable to form an active bieding ground for flies on account of pletely revealed."

for 312,47Ü.

its very friable batur.

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Mr. G. T. Eoxins said he had listened

The next lot offered was No. 4. For with much appreciation, great interest this los also only one bid of $1,000 over and Very much sympathy to Dr. the upset price was obtained and the The Real World" was the" title CE Hodgkin's advocacy of ideals and ideal property was knocked down to the same typhnid. ven cholera, in

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Dr. Hodgkin's address and its cemral theme may be best indientest by giving the well known lines be quoted:-

Earth's crammed with Heaven, and

every bush are with God: But only those who see take off their

shoes;

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The rest sit round and pluck black

berries.

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Occasionally," he said, we get this sense of another world, of the absolut reality of the world of thought, of emotion; the world that is not to be mnsured, weighed, seen, touched the Ral World. And then we slip out of it. as it were; and we pluck Clackberries,

Plucking blackberries is the normal attitude of most of us in this world and yet, every now and then, we get this extraordinary glimpse of the world we do not touch that is the nitimate reality. The tragedy of the evils that befal mou- wars, revolutions and the likes that we do not live in the real world: we live in the world of time and space and sense in the world of business and com- morce, and we do not see that these unseen things are the,, actual realities. If we did, when evil breaks but in the world we should find means of meeting it without having ourselves y descend to the methods of evil."

Mr. Edkins, “referred to the absence of

had been a spirit of adventure.

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Fii were to be blumeil for the.com- eye of many diseases typhoid, para-

certain vir cumstances and such dispases as infee- Dr. Hodgkin continued, a certain ism but he must confess that he found, syndicate for 89337.950,-

tive enteritis, manifesting itself, 125 Lot 3 was then offered, but there was extremely severe and even fatal choleraie lusiveness in what he had to say. It no bid for it us a separate lot,

diarrhoea might be conveyed by firs. was difficult to express one's thought; This Lot and Lot 2 were then, offered He felt that the time had come for the following on such an address, but what he had in mind was-Could Dr. Hodgkinson Lot, the combined premia being Board to forbid the use of all such crude express more clearly the relationship and the total about Crown manures in gardens in crowded and resi between the idealism he advocated and

until the present dry rent 8006. After a few moments a biddential areas. of 81.000 was offered, and there being system could be replaced by the water the obligation everyone" was under to

no advance this, the property was carriage system. observe the standards of the common

knocked down to Mesars. R. H. Kotewall,

Flies would live for many werks. and day! He did not think Dr. Hodgkin quite ti Ya Taun, Li Wing Kwong and somme would hibernate all the winter hid- did justice to our educational methods; Leung Shi U, for 2851,550.

ing in sheltered places in houses, rendy education in the schools did advocate idealism and altruism. This had been l The Lots are let for a term of 75 years to produce the next generation of flies demonstrated in the spirit of self-sacrifice with the option of renewal at a Crown when the warm weather came. exhibited in the recent war. Dr. Hodgent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His written out some notes on antidy ma- ki, in a previous address," continued Majesty the King for a further term of sures; he had not given thern very fully but had selected a few notes on traps, The conditions of sale require that poisons, and protection of refuse and a spirit of advecture in our people. We should not have seen these colonies and within eight months of the day of sale food. He thought. if the local news- the purchaser shall submit to the Build-Paper would find room for phen, that great enterprises built un unless thering Authority plans for the erection of the antes might be of use to the com- not clear what Dr. Hodgkin is advocat buildings as required by Section 9 of unity and help them to protect them-

the Public Health and Buildings Ordi- selves against flies, ing in regard to idealism. I canno nance. 1903. He must also build and

The CHALEMAN: Do you mean imagine that he wants us to throw ordinish, fit for occupation, before the ex- where we find acumulations of manure nary methods on one side. We must be pirntion of thirty-six calendar months shall have to take action under See- practical, we must consider the pros and from the date of passing of the plans, tion 28 cons of the situation. You are advocat in a good, substantial and workmanlike Dr. Past: Yes. ing ideals; what I miss is where we shall manner, ode or more, good permanent The meeting, then courtuled,' apply those ideak."

building or buildings which must be non-

ANTI-FLY MEASURES. Dr HODGKIN said he appreciated the domestic, except with the consent of the Gareful statement of the point which had Governor-in-Council, or a Hot!, upon just been made. In his second lecture he some part, of his Lot or Lots with walls of idealism of stone or brick and lime-mortar and sealt with the "carry over into every-day life. In thos, regions of roof of tiles or such other materials as our common life which were being work may be required by the Director of ed out at a point lower than the ideal Public Works, and in other respects in the method, he advocated was that people accordance with the provisions of all who saw a better way should make ex Ordinances. By laws and Regulations re- periments as social pioneers. His point lating to buildings or Sanitation as was that the sparis of adventure did shall or may at any time be in fore in not find adequate expression, except in the Coleny, and shall expend in respect times of national crisis. It might result of rach Lol, not less than the following in a man becoming a great adventurer stans, viz:-Lot No. 1. 8170,000, Lot No. on the Stock Exchange and have no other 2 $108.000: Lot No. 3, 8109,000 and Lot The years to bring the inevitable yok" outcome than personal enrichment. The No. 4. $112.000 in rateable improve with I'per cent.. solution of a disinfect-) The unspoiled child-spirit, he seriously problem was to harness the spirit of adments: provided that in the event of believed, was the spirit which grown men venture to social needs.

the plans not being passed within thre and women needed to-day to bring thein again into the world of reality. Relation fair to tax Dr. Hodgkin further at that for, the completion of the buildings shall The CBALEMAN said he did not think it months of the date of their submission the aforesaid thirty-six months allowed "to the real world was the great gift hour. In his four addresses, the Lecturer reckoned as commencing on the ex- that children had to make to humanity had expounded, with great eloquence and piration of three months from the date and was there not a danger, while we power, a number of questions of great of submission of the plans. were teaching the child how to earn his living and how to fit himself into the importance. Dr. Hodgkin had given These addresses in addition to great social order that we were taking out of

As interesting reference followed to the development of the child mind and the tendency of adults deliberately to aim at breaking down the naivete und trust. fulness of the child, until the romance of life was driven out and the child was left like his elders-pretty blass and not very sure that even God Himself was free to act in His own world. In this connection. Dr. Hodgkin proted:--

Why, with such earnest'uns dost thou

provoke

wards of those who desired to discuss

As it came conveniently within the with Dr. Hodgkin the practical applic unbit of this lecture, Dr. Hodgkin.dealt. tion, locally, of the principles he had with a question, addressed to him, "What expounded.

your iden of Heaven 1"

It may seeri Later in the evening" Dr. Hodgkin surprising to say that he handled this spoke again this time, at St. Andrew's question mathematically, but it will be Church, Kowloon."

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FPECIAL CONDITIONS.,

The purchaser ust within right

molish the existing buildings, exempt one |

The notes mentioned by the Medien! Officer of Health were as follows:

L TRAPS. (a) Japanese mechanical trap; (b) Tanglefoot spread on glazed

per or other uuabsorbent surface.

Posos,Milk 20 per cent;" line water 77 per cent.; formalin 3 per cent. Mix and add one teaspoonful of sugar une soup plate full of the mixture. Place a small cute of bread to form "an island for flies to alight on in the middle of the plate,

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3. GUARDING REFUSE, ETC (@)Latrines, Keep content of night soil pans covered. ant such as Sanitas Okoi or Izal; (6) Ash hins-See that they are sound and kept

pantries protected by fly proof safe or covered.

4. FOOD PROTECTION.—Have all food in

· covers, e.g., wjre gauze covers.

THE WORLD THEATRE..

The Westerners,” a powerful drama

the child the very thing the world deal of other "Work they had evidently ed? And a little child shall lead the been the fruit af much study and thoughttonths of the date of sale entirely des was smild commonere. Education should he would take away with him riding on 4 portion of Lat No. 4 of the Black Hills, which is being screened aim at developing and directing the crea-grateful thanks and very best wishes for shown on sale plan which is not included at the World Theatre, is the novel that tive instincts of the child, not simply is future.-(Lond applause.) fitting him for, and taking him content

in the sale. They must also clear away all made the fame of Stewart Edward White. Dr. HUDGKIN in acknowledgment said old foundations, drains, mains, pipes. The story opens with caravan wend. with, things as they were but making him he had been well rewarded by the patient culverts or anything below ground level, ing its way across the Dakotas toward a worker for things they ought to and close attention that he hand receiv which appertains to them, as required the Black Hills gold fields. The pioneers Such people would have vision and el "where there is no vision the people An informal meeting took place after by the Director of Public Works, prior are led by Jim Buckley, and in the party

to the erection of new buildings.

are Professor Welsh, his wife Prue, and perish."

No building is to be erected on the site their baby daughter Molly. The outfit. to a height exceeding 125 feet.

also includes Mishae) Laford, a half- The design of the exterior elevation of breed, who is driven ont by Buckley when any building to be erected will be sub- caught in the act of forcing hia atiro- jet to the special approval of the Directions upon Prue Welsh Meeting a band tor of Public Works, who shall have of Indians, the half-breed determines to power to regulate the height of storeys kill Buckley. Molly's mother is murder, clearer when it is explained that he used,

and may require the main feature of ed and the child kidnapped. As the in illustration, the theory of the fourth

any building to harmonize with those years pass, Laford becomes a power in dimensional world. Dr. Hodgkin put,

of the adjoining buildings.

the hills. He brings Molly, now grown very clearly and simply, the argument

Subject to the submission of satisfac into a beautiful girl, to Copper Creek for the existence of another world derived

tory designs, permission will be granted to accomplish her ruin as a dance-hall from this theory. Just as a being in our three-dimensional world may be in cer-

to the purchaser or purchasers to con- girl; A battle ensues between Laford and struct over public foot. Huckley, who leaps in the nick of time, tain circumstances, unseen and unknow

paths in Queen's Road and Pedder leaving Laford to his fate-death mongst able to a being moving in a two-dimen-

Street extending the full beight of the the rocks below. Laford finds Molly and sional world, so we may be unconscious

In the case of the professor happy in the knowledge of The bogey Pool competition, played building or buildinga, of the existence of a world outside our last week-end over the Old Course at such verandahs, there must be a clear their relationship, and Cheyenne Harry own. "We may be infinitely near,"

This magni said Dr. Hodgkin, " to another world. were taken out.

Fanling, resulted in a tie. Sixty cards space of at least 9 feet between the face happy with Molly's love.

Major H. G. Bagnall of the external wall of the building and ficent drama will be shown from the 11th There may be a world beyond, & possi- (ser.) and Mr. A. E. Ashton (12) wern

the inside face of any portion of the bility of being that will be open to us both one down to Bogey,

piers or columns upon which such veran- when the gates of death give way, which The Mixed Foursome competition, The ground floor of the building or

dahs are supported. will bring us into a new relation to our played over the Old Course, on Monday, buildings to "be kept at such levels na own world and not take us far away from resulted in a win for Mr. and Mrs. B the Director of Public Works may direct ernment, camely 15 feet, and it would it but still leave us wonderfully near." " Crawford Morgan, who returned the ex-

in order that it may be in conformity contain nine stories. Mr. So remarked,

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COMPETITION RESULTS AT

FANLING.

Dr. HODGKIN also dealt with the in-cellent score of 03-11-82. Other scores with the proposed future alteration to quiry, na to his conception of justice. returned were: Those who lived in the sense of." The Miss D. M. Smith and Mr. Real World," he said. would be more R. M. Smith concerned to get justice for other people

Mrs. F. M. Crawford and

Mr. A. E. Crapnell ra. Hornell and Mr. A B. Stewart

shan for themselves. The principle that

it is more blessed to give than to receive" transcended justice, and the existence of a body of men and women Mre, Bean and Mr. B.:D. who believed that would powerfully coun-

Evana teract the suspicions and antagonisma Krs. Evans and Mr. A. L that threatened to diarupt socisty.

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03-7-88

INTENTIONS OF THE PURCHASERS.

to 13th inst.

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with satisfaction, that the price for which the Tot had been purchased worked out at $45 a foot, as compared with a price of 800 when it was last offered for Bait.

95, 8-97 Mr. So Chung Shus, a member of the Mr. R H Kotowall intimated that syndicate which purchased the first two he and those associated with him, being 998-00 lots offered, stated, after the sale, that in need of office accommodation, had it was the intention of the purchasers purchased the two lots "put up together, 107-17-00 to erect a handsome building to be let aleo for office accommodation.

After as offices. The structure would be taken providing for their own requirements | 108-1098

(Contimed at foot of neat column.). they would let the remaining floors.

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