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TENANCY DISPUTE.

ALLEGATIONS, OF COLLUSION.

defendants,

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE ORIGIN OF MAN.

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HONGKONG CLUE,

NOTICE

The ease in which the Man Fat Shing

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE HONGKONG THE POLICE IN SA QUANDARY

firm of rice merchants rued the Sam Wing

"DALLY PRESS."] Apparently until the present Stow. Firm, Yeing Fun Nam, and the Tai On

Su.-Mr. Tac Tsan Tui's attack on the aways' Ordinance (dated 1093) is amended Firut for possession of the ground four the Hongkong police are powerless to was antiqued in the Summary Court be- Darwinian theory of Man's origin from deal with men who stowaway from Hong fore is flonour Mr. Justive Gompertz the apes, published in' the Hily" Peraw

ah Tuesday, is entertaining but illogical kong on a foreign vesel and who are yesterday afternoon.

**there is Mr. A. el Arculli represented the plain. In his professed opinion found on board the vessel whilst she is on! the high seas and later returned to their C. Leon the first and nothing more impossible and absurd than. the theory that war primitive ancestors Colony. The police cẩu, apparently, only Plaintiffs' ense was that in April they obtain a conviction if it is proved that received from the defendants rocice that were monkeymen (aps) with tails,** The theory is neither impossible por the stowaways were fudud on board in they intended to quit. Ous the strength British waters, that is to say within the of this they relet: the premises to some absurd. I am no scientist, but a clase one vise, but while defendants re waters of the Colony

Plaintiffs came into perusal

younger Darwin's This point was argued at some length faxed to leave. yesterday afternoon, at the Magistracy,ssession of a portion of the premises Foundation of the Origin of Species " proves conclusively to my satisfaction

THE YEARLY DRAWING between his Worship (Mr. J. R. Wood) whilst the defendants were out of them.

The first ani real defendants. (Mr. And the Assistant Coun. Solicitorsenter-claimed for Trussession on the flesh, fish, and fowl have all changed et 30 DEBENTURES 119 BAINO

SATURDAY, the 20TH SEPTEMBER, 1983. which two young British subjects named that they hul been illegally dis-physically throughout the age. Dugs, sch) of the HexagoNG CLUB, Payal oa Patrick O'Grady, age 2 years, uftiosed. The secvtal defendant admitted cats, birds, hats, elephants, and a hun-will be hebt in the CLeu otskut 1 o'clock, dred other living things have materially on SATURDAY, the STH SEPTEMBER Ireland and Robert Spears, aged 21 years, The defence was that the second defen-

1921.

Bearers of Delentures are invited to attendl of the Isle of Man, were found on boardant was at one time employed with the altered since the infancy of the World, the American liner President Pierce first defendunt firms, and that he wrote so why not Man Is it logical to sup the Drawing.

By Orive, recently whilst the vessel was on the high

qut the notice, signing it with the firm's pose that, while other animals have been

A. H. ABHAS, stas, during a voyage from Hongkong to chop, Ile had no right either to write steadily advancing in heauty and intoili-

Secretary, Madila O'Grady uimitted that they the native or use the chop, since he was

Hongkong, th August, 1923- (1910 stowed away from Hongkong and agreed only a salesman with the firm. Callusion gence, man has been degenerting t that they were found on the high seas between the second defendant and plain- Mr. Tse should attempt to procure :

tiffs was alleged.

photographs of the prehistorie skuil-a

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE. in unearthed

South

BONHAM ROAD. man'a recently Africa. Anything more monkeylike than that same skall logically reconstructel it would be difficult to fill outsåle of a Zou or a jungle. Yet the relie is undoubtedly that of a man. There is no doubt that Man formerly possessed the features of an ape, and it is only reasonable to sap- pose that he possessed the body El_tail pf air ape aswell. - Mr.Tsu continues

the order.

His Honour reserved judgment.

HAUNCH AT, KOWLOON DOCKS TO-DAY,

ANOTHER STEAMER FOR THE INDO-CHINA S.X. CO.

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When the case was first mentioned in the early part of the afternoon, a charge! of secreting themselves on board the vessel without the consent of the Captain, was preferred against them, but Mr. Hazleriggi annonnend that he wished to withdraw the charge which was brought under section. 9 of the Merchants Shipping Act. He stated that he would proceed under an other charge. The defendants were dis missel under this charge, and brought up again before the Magistrate at 4 pan. on

The single screw. Atamer Sid. “Sang, an anemal charge framed under theilt at the Kowloon establishment of the Stowaways Orilinaner, 1900, charge wits For that you on the 25th August, 1923, arrived in this ebay on board the s.s. President Pierce without the consent of the owner, chartener, agent, master or other person in charge of the ship and having obtained a passage there in contrary to section 5 of the Stowaways": Ordinance

The new

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. Length overall

The Magistrato alvised the defendants to plead Not Guilty" which they did,

The Yi Sway is of the two deck type Me. Harbrigg then briefly outlined the case, stating that the defendants were with poop and fridgy connected, to found on the high seas after stowing away gallant forecastle, hoat deck att and amid fron Hongkong on August 22nd. On sluipa.

There are two holds forward and one Arrival of the President Pieren in Manila he understood that the American Author. ait, the cargo bring worked by two ities refused to allow the defendant to powerful winches and steel tube derries

Modern man is physically inferior to his pre-historic ancestors, and this is proof that the human race is degenerat

ing

THE Next Term will begin on MONDAY. 10TH SEPTEMBER. There will be us Estrance Examination for New Boys at 9.30-

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land. According to the 3rd Officer of at each batch. Smaller batches are tur.! since the time of prehistoric man, the DAY or SEPTEMBEpany before the 1

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THE POST of MEDICAL OFFICER i× the Port of CHISKIANO. China, is shortly falling vagant. Inquiries should be addressi to the Secretary. The Barrien Musteran. This statement largely depends on the CouNet, Chinking.

[1221 The following are the principal dimer point of view, My own opinion is that the strong man of to-day is far finer

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE #26ft. animni than the strong man of les us

CO., LTD. Length between perpendicolars... 310ft, say, the Stone Age. The modern fler.

soft. eules is a beautiful figure, beautifully TOTICE IS HEREET GIVEN that Breadth mouth

Saftproportioned, and, though he may not Net No. 2914 for 30 Shares hepth men'ded

possess the same brute strength as bisumbered $5303 to 55332; Certificato No. 4817 foreramer, he is still a higher form af for 25 Shares numbered 00851 to $9975; and lite. The prehistoric man was a hideous Certificate No. 4820 for 8 Shares sumbered figure of gnarled and knotted mutagle, low 2403 to 8410 all registered in the Name of GEORGE HOYES have been LOST or DES- of brow and evil of visage.

Again, it is only fair to suppose that TROYED, and should these Certificates not 1923. New Certificates if the Huraan Race has been degenerating be produced to the

Evi for the sail Shares will be issued and the obi the vessel, hp was informed that the uished for the deep tank and after end process has been a continuous one. British Consul came on board the vessel of main held where walk-type winches are dence fails to hear this out. Suits of Certificates will thereafter be held by the

armour and leathern jerkins preserved in Company as dull and rout. and advised them to return to Hongkong used for discharging and loading.

Water ballast and fresh water is ear the Tower of London are so small that He also knew from his own knowledge

it is impossible for a normal Englishman that they would not be allowed to land ried in the peak tanks and double bot to get into them. This does not support at Manila without a passport and with which extends the full length of the ship. the theory that man has been physically

The rudder is controlled from the bridge out the uscal capitation fco of $19.

taries. On the other hand, it merely At this stage O'Grady offered to tell the by Wilson and Pirries Telemotor system degenerating during the past few cen-

THE KOWLOON HOTEL. Court what happened when the British led to Hasties steam steering gene which proves that Man has been physically

HANKON ROAD. Consul came on board. The British is situated in a steel house on the poor

OPENING 1ST SEPTEMBER. Consul told them that he might be able deck and directly connected-to the rudder to arrange for them to land and that they stock.

pin. by it. winch, with extended physical degeneration is nonsense. Cave Residential and Tourist Hotel.

TWIRST Class and Most Up-to-date might be able to work their passage out of port. He told us he would go away and arms for warping, Attal aft and a Clark men are to be found on the Earth to-day stories of Commodious Large and Airy Rootus see about it and then came back and see Chapman steam windlass on the forcenstleif one knows where to look for them.

with every Modera Applianco. Elevator to Us later. but," added O'Grady with head completes the deck machinery. Explorers who have penetrated some of Every Floor and to Roof Garden Hot and Cold Six state-rcoms are provided for saloon the deeper South American jusgles tell Water Electric Lights, Fans and Bells through. anathetic smile, he never came back "

His statement and the manner in which passengers with all the latest and most tales of men with the strength of San- eat. Exceptionally Well Ventilated Ear and he told it caused the Magistrate to laugh up-to-date filings, ensuring a comfortable dows and the Tatelligence of animals. Billiard Room Moderate tariff and most heartily.

voyage for intending travellers."

Take a Japanese and compare him with Excellent Cusine supervised by Experienced It then dawned on the Magistrate and Mr. The dining saloon, situated at the for: your cave-men. To the latter the Japan- Chef. Monthly and Family Hates can be Hazlerigg that, the two men taust have end of the bridge leck, is handsomely cse would be a weakling, But then, arranged at Afoat Reasonable Terms, Leen brought back to the Colony with the panelled "in hardwood and furnished for again, take a well-proportioned Zulu war

For Terms, apply to

Mm. J. J. BLAKE, consent of the Captain, and this led to dining twenty persons. Accommodation rior and compare him with your cave. The ancient may have a slight

Manageress. the charge being amended once more. Afor smokers is provided in a finely finished man. reverson was made to, the original charge room at the after end of the engine casing advantage in physical strength, but he of Being found on the s.5. President on the bent ders.

has neither the other's beauty of form Pierce on the high seas with intent to

or intelligence of mind. The question of obtain a passage therein without the con-

physical size is, after all, largely a ques- sent of the Captain, etc."

tion of nationality, and has nothing to Mr. Hazlerigg then proceeded to argue The accommodation for the Captain do with the Human race as a whole. the case for the Crown on the new charge. and Wireless officers is situated on the Mr. Tso goes on to say: Ho contended that the finding of the men boat dock forward, while the engineers on the vessels on the high seas was really and officers rooms are built round the only the climax of a continued offence engine casing on the bridge deck amid- In his opinion it did not really matter ships, all the roams being furnished on u whether the men were found in British generous göle..

Second c'ass pussenger, berthed in the poop, have a roomy space for dining in the centre of the ship.

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degenerating and does not prove the The fact is that Mr. Tse's theory of

reverse..

"Dancing in all its demoralizing forms is now the rage."

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HE Undersigned hare received instructions The way this sentence is put betrays to well by

PUBLIC AUCTION, a mind either prudish or prurient Per- sonally, I see little of a demoralizing

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND waters or aarthe high seas. He did not The vessel in electrically lighted through nature in Western dances. Indeed, the

THURSDAY, think it was the intention of the framers out and fans are provided in all public, only people who see evil and viciousness

́the 11th, 12th and 13th, September, 1923, where it does not exist are people of of the Ordinance to limit the section to passenger and officers rooms,

at H.M. NAVAL YARD Hoogkong, finding in British waters, and he reiterat Propelling nmchinery constructed by the "religion" whose own evil thoughts are

and at KowLOON NAVAL DIPOT, ol his statement that the finding was only builders is amidships and of 2,000 indi- so heramed in by the walls of their be

commencing each day at 9.30 am. within sa the pulmination of a continued offence cated horsepower, consisting of, one set liefs that they express themselves more

interval from 19 Nook to 1.30 PJr. which commenced at Hongkong. The of tripie expansion surface condensing subtly, and incidentally more "harifully,

OLD and SURPLUS NAVAL STORES, Stowaway Ordinance was passed in 1903 engines having cylinders 28 03 inches by way of escape. The world has danced in view of the large number of Chinese diameter by 45 inches stroke, steam at throughout all the ages of man, and will

Comprising Electrical and Life Boats, Dingies, stowaways from Hongkong to Manila. 190 lbs. working pressure under forced probably continue to do so till the end He referred to the Objects and Reasons of draught being supplied by two cylindrical of the Human Face,

Wireless Telegraphy Fittings, Electric Cable. the Bill which qunted the case of the return tube boilers of 15 feet 9 inches of man, referred to by Mr. Tse in his Beds, Mattresses and

The Old Testament story of the origin Looking

Stovering.

Fittinge, Iron Kaijong on which 134 stowaways were diameter by 12 feet 9 inches long

Bafle, Life

Life found. The object of the Bill was to

The engine and boiler room auxiliaries contending paragraph, involves a far Jackets and Belts, Carpets, Ruga, Mats, Table make the penalty for such an offence more includes a Weir' D.C. heater and Weir's greater strain to the credulity than the Covers, Blankets Curtains, Canvas, Indis severe in respect of stowaway from Hong, main feed pumps, a Paul's independent Adam may have been created out of clay, Canvas Rags. Old India Rubber, Old Leather, theory of Man's evolution from the apex Rubber and Metallic Hoses. Old Corduge. kong t Manila "The only way, pointed out Mr. Hazlerigg. that stow-trifugal circulating pump, also general and Eve may have been created from a Old Woollen and Linen Old Asbestos..

Bags, service, and ballast pumps.

Old

Old Iron and

Uld aways between here and Maniin enn be

Copper, the other theory.

Conl Sacks, Wood, Iron and Gua Hongkong, seeing that they are not allow of ashes. ed to land at Manila."

The argument is an interesting one, and

Metal The Magistrate: I am afraid I am not the interests of the Owners have been in by those more learned on the subject Machines, Lathes, Pinnace and CutterEngine

During the construction of this vowel will, I hope, be taken up in your columins Old Steel Wire Ropes, Mineral Oil, Chais Cable Drilling, Slotting and Grinding with you.

the efficient hands of Captain F than Yours, etc., Wheeler, Marine Superintendent, and Mr Murray, Enginer Superintendent, and his amistant Mr. W. McFarlane

punished is by bringing them back to fitted in the stokehold, for the dispost noint that way, as we have on the side of Brass Tube Lamps, Gauges, Steel Tubes, A Crompton's atmospheric as hoist is rib, but we have no material evidence to head and Gun Copper and

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Mr. Hazlerigg: You still consider that the finding is the actual offence...

The Magistrate: If they were found within the waters of the Colony they would be habla to imprisonment,

S. G. H.

KRYPTOK LENSES

Built under "Lloyd's special survey to their highest class the work has been ins His Worship pointed that the object in pected from time to time by Messrs. Ling are conceded to be one of the very hent framing the Ordinance was to prevent and Morrison, the local representatives forms of bifocal lenses. The bifocal seg atowaways leaving the Colony.

Mr. Hazlerigg: Then what about of Lloyd's Registry of Shipping

"arriving" in the Colony?

The Magistrate pointed out that the mon wore brought here with the consent of the Captain.

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His Warship, then asked the defendants what they wanted to do and where they wanted to go? _...

O'Grady spoke up saying: We want to get to a White mia's country so that we can get work.

ment is ground and fused into the distant lens making the product practically one The Magistrate' (to Sub-Inspector piece of glasa The segments are totally Spear): These men have no resources?

invisible and the lens has a beautiful Inspector Spears. No, your Worship, Addressing the defendants, his Worship appearance. Kryptok lenses of any pres- said: I apologise for keeping you here cription in either regular or Toric form all day, but I wanted to consider the law

on the case. Seeing, that you were not are manufactured by the Hongkong found in the harbour you are not liable Optical Co., Buccessors to Clark & Co., The Magistrate suggested "Australia before this Court. But if you had been Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, for instance, to which both defendants found on the vessel in the harbour you signified a simultaneous assent.

would have been liable to imprisonment the most competent optical manufac for nine months. You are discharged, turing establishment in South Chin

To Inspector Spear his Worship said: located in 53, Queen's Road Central. Take these men to the Seamen', Institute for the next two days. I will be reapon Fitting glasses and testing the sight is sible for them.

their speciality.—ADTI.

Bfr. Hazlerigg: "Il we don't deal with these men to-day they will only pome be fore your Worship in a few days time as vagrants.

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

Tablas, Compostes, Clocks, Iron Drama. Fold up Lavatories, Old Packing Casca, Fasking, Boards, Old Casks, and a large quantity of Fire Ear Iron, etc.

Lata may be inspected on Monday, the 10th September, 1923.

ALSALEof Old and Surplus VictuallingStores. at Kowloon on FRIDAY, 14th September, Comprising:-

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