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IBANEZ ON HIS EARLY STRUGGLES.

SOLD AMERICAN RIGHTS OF THE FOUR HORSEMEN" FOR-2300,

the

WHO ARE CHINESE? INTERESTING CONCLUSION BY A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR. Members of the Royal Asiatic Society

But whether it is the will to live, to sur- his researches. moune obstacles, merely to obtain sutficient

Beginning with some general remarks daily bread that makes for successful

on anthropological investigation, the leo authorship, I cannot say. I believe in my case it helped, because I learned to know tarer said it has been concluded that life through intimate suffering which man originated from some animal species would have been impassible in any other and later differentiated into races. It way,

But surely your profits from the was very difficult to say where we could The so "Four Horren of the Apocalypse" find traces of the first man.

1924

UNION CHURCH.

THE MINISTER'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE.

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COAL PILFERAGE IN THE HARBOUR.

MESSRS. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE THE VICTIMS.

In a circular letter to the seatholders ~While the famous Spanish writer Ibanez at Shanghai last week, listened to an able and members of Union Church, the RevA case which shows to what extent pievage is carried on in the harbour of (who is making a round the world trip lecture of great scientific interest, touch-J. Kirk Maconachie says →→

According to the calendar my second Hongkong was mentioned in the Police on the Franconia) was in Peking, being upon the origin of the Chinese people, inspected the plant of the For Extera the lecturer being Professor S. M. Shiro-term of service here ends, strictly speak Court yesterday when a Chinese, alleged Times, and we extract from our contem kogoroff, anthropologist at the Museum ing, at this time. The Church also conto have been a partner in the firm of porary the following extract from, the of Ethnography and Anthropology of thepletes its 80th year, which will remain Wing Tai, con merchants, should have Russian Academy of Science at Petro-marked auspiciously by the definite appeared before Mr. G. S. Orme on a account given of the visit

Success is sweet. In fact it is doubly grad. Professor Shirokogoroff has since undertaking of the most enterprising sten charge of having received about eo toas so when the early struggle, the privatious 1912 carried out investigations in Siberia, in the way of Church extension in our of coal, knowing it to be stolen property. disappointments, and the heart Mongolia and Northern China, and the history. I find myself impelled in the The defendant had previously bevo releas breaking defeats have been so great address embodied some of the results of circumstances to address to you a fewed from custody on bail of $3,000, and to make one almost give up the struggle.

words of special greeting nud reminder, this he jumped.

Mr. T. H. Bennett appeared for the along with, the heartiest wishes for a

owners of the coal, Messrs. Mackinnon, happy year to you and all yours.

We have abundant cause for thankful- | Mackenzie & Co., agents for the F. & O. ness and praise in the past history of cur S.N. Co., L., and Mr. F. G. Vaux re Church, which amidst whatever vicissi-presented the defendant..

The Magistrate made an order for the tudes, has never ceased to sustain its part in the work of God in this important bail of $3,000 to be estreated and a war- Colony. Others have laboured, and we rant to be issued. have entered into their labours: many It appears that Mesars Mackinnon, who schemed and strove in the past would Mackenzie & Co. have a contracting firm' rejoice to share our privilege in taking by the name of the Hop Yick which took the forward stop which is now before. 23. delivery of several thousand

We are pledged to support the new Hongay coal on arrival of the s.s. Wong work in Köwloon, and there is no doubt Shek Kang. The Hop Yick Firm should whatever that the best way in which we have landed the coal into the P. $0. can advance that or any other good work godown at Tai Kok Tui. It is allged is by a reconsecration of ourselves to that, 280 tons were stolen from this ship God's service, and a determination to ment, whilst it was in lighters or störed live more to His glory.

on a picer of vacant ground near the **

must have been phenomenal 1"

thehen rights for called Neanderthal man who by his

"I sold

human" knowledge more or less as $g.300" he answered simply. You do not believe me, but I assure you that it sured his existence among wild animals is the truth. When riy book was pub-had already his culture and stone imple lished in Spanish, a translator offered me

$300 for the privilege of translating it ments, but he was so different from into English by which I renounced all fur-sent day man that if he appeared to-day ther rayalities. I would have done it for on the streets of Shanghai he would be much less, because i did not know then that I had written a masterpiece. I wag treated as an extraordinary animal, whilst ton close to the scene of my writing and we ourselves would appear, to him to be therefore could not obtain a proper pers- not less dangerous than his ancient pective.

enemies, the wild beasts of the cavern.

AN AMALGAMATION.

writ

tony of

An interesting feature of the case is addition to the defendant have absconded, chas ut leg: three other Chinese, in

Mackinnou, Mackenzie & Co., and one Chinese partner in the contracting firm.

It is a rather curious circumstance hoir I happened to write it," Mr: Ibanez!

Proceeding to describe his investiga- continued lapsing into a reflexive mood.

Our Church is strong enough to spure Water Pulics Basin at Yaumati. Of this "I was living in Paris in the Autumn tions in Siberia, Professor Shirokogoroff

some of its members to form the ineleas to tons are ciaimed to have been moved' of 1914 in a miserable fint on the Rne said he had definitely come to the con- Roanequin. The other flats were occupied, clusion that the so-called "Mongol" race by music students; n piano below me, was not a race at all but an agglomera of the new congregation which will ere to another coal yard near Yaunati ferry and two in the fat above going at all tion and amalgamation of various anthro- long, we helieve, be gathered. But we wharf. Yesterday morning's charge was hours of the day and night nearly drove pological types. In his opinion, the Chi- shall miss those of our Kowloon friends in respect of this 60 tony and Bennett ms frantic. Food was scares and there nese were an amalgain and not a pure who detach themselves from the old applied to add an additional chargo was a total absence of coal for civilians race. They were a group of people com- What with nearly shivering to death, being posed of different ethnical units, using Church, and we ought to see in the pre relating to the 200 tons. He also asked driven mad from the terrible music, in the same written language but speaking sent circumstances-a call to more regs his Worship to make an order for the an attitude of despair over the whole dialects, and long ago welded into many lar attendance on our own part and alse return of the conl to Mrs. Muckinnon, situation which seemed so black for States. Their common method of France and the Allies at that time, every ing combined with close identity of poli- to friendly efforts to bring others into Mackenzie & Co. paragraph of suffering that I wrote was tical interests and physical amalgama-association with the Church There are tion gave the impression of unity. The reil. Oh very real,

Finally, I resolved to try to get a question of their ultimate origia was enough unattached people in Hongkong nermit for just a little coal from the purely speculative, but it was "probable to crowd every Church at every service including a Chinese employé of Messrs.

and a large number of them would ser- French Foreign Offer. I obtained the the Chinese motherland must lie some- permit alright but could not get the coal where west of Central China They must because I was not in uniform, and this have appeared as an netive ethnical unit tainly be influenced were worn of our despite the fact that I was attached to in Asia in the Stone Age, and in a com elves to set them a regular example and the French Foreign Office in charge of Paratively advanced state of culture, his offer them a kindly word of invitation.

There are many strong tendencies at disseminating propaganda for the Spanish torical data proving that they lived by Language newspapers. was desperate hunting. fching and agriculture. The and so went to President Poincare, an old development of this culture was followed work in our Colony making for a secular friend, and asked him to help me. He by a natural increase in the population ise Sunday and tempting every one of us to let the higher interests be sub gave me a letter to the President of The and thus the Chinese went in search, of and when I presented my kiter to the were opposed by Mongol and Turkie merged. We are all aware of these; Paris. Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, new territory, In this movement they ethnical groupe, and this caused them to

some of us have yielded to their pres latter official he asked me how many hunt

replied un

turn eastward and amalgamate with the dred tons of coat I needed. modestly that half a ton would do me local population, the Tungus and other sure almost unawares, till we find wo quite nicely. He insisted that I take three tribes. They appropriated some of the have parted with our Sunday for all tung which was a good thing because, I cultural clements characteristic of these higher purposes, and have lost the best bribed the music students with the surplus people, and with the new territory, new to practise only at certain hours and China as she has been known to record-

population and new knowledge formed which it stood for.

I have been told regretfully by not a noc simultaneousls. Thus, the Four Horsemen enw the light of publication. ed history. There was also migration few that they have been so long away P.S. Butcher said he blew four blasts

I and they

that I had written my best novel."

Mr. Ibanez stated that although he only zrevived $200 a direct royalties, he was given a check of 60,000 francs by Mr. Dutton, his American Publisher, as his personal contribution. Subsequently he sold the Motion Picture rights for SG.200.000, the high price ever paid for A novel

JAMAICAN REFORM.

The Legislative Courell of Jamaica has finished

discusion of the Proposed Constitution,

and

com mitire is engaged in

ebodying it revolutions in tion to the Duke of Devonshire. It has bren

that

AL

report

for

presenta

Freel notwithstanding that

the cleeted members retain the veto of nine in finascial.teatter, the Governor -ball have power to declare any measure be of paramount importance and take the vote of the entire House, provided that he is able to justify his position to the

Colonial Ofice

to

tions formed the southern Chinese who created a peculiar ethnographical com- plex beyond the growing influence of the northern ethnical groups.

THE MONGOLIAN ETZ."

HONGKONG MARINE COURT

Four minor charges came before the a Marine Magistrate (Lieut. Comdr. Hake), yesterday morning.

Hau Ting Tai, assistant coxswain of the ten launch Ching for us uned $10 for failing to observe the rule of the road

Cheung, master of the steam launch in Victoria Harbour

Repce.

Ler, was fined $20, for a similar Lo. Kaw, master of the steam hunch Frong To, was fined $10 for failing to stap when called upon.

come lick. Let me beseech all such with Defendant aid he heard two, whistles, The first time he did not think it was all the earnestness I can command not intended for him By the time the to let any such feeling stand between second whistle sounded his launch had

Sang. Dealing with the special-Mongel char- them and their Christian privileges any reached its journey's em, the w.s. Chin neteristics; yellow skin and black hair, longer. Every one of us bas slips nod Professor Shirokogoro oheerved that mistakes to regret, and it is a hopeless high class Chinese who did not expose their bodies and faces to gan and wind can indeed if we let ourselves be afraid and who practised elementary hygiene to go back on them.

were not yellow at all, not even light Much is said about the difficulty of the brown, but rather as white as Europeans, times for religious and spiritual life and The narrow Mongolian eye" was' not

But every time has its own

is

so common among the Chinese but, was purposes, absolutely characteristic of the Tangus difficulties, and all of them are but the and other groups living in the regions other side of opportunities if we will sec where snow is abundaut during winter and seize them. I invite you, with my and the sunlight so, intense that the in-sell, to think of the opportunity and the

Far Eastern settlement create, for Bahitants put on protectors for the eye necessity which our circumstances in this with a narrow slit to look through

Whilst it cannot be said that there is clearer and stronger stand on the side of any Mongol race, and the Professor. what we know in our immost hearts Chinese do exist and can be recognized right and good, for our own sakes, our at once. The Chinese culture, or complex children's, "dur neighbour's and our of knowledge, method of thinking and Lord's.

If we give heed to this call as con- The Executive Committes will he form acting, were absolutely different from ed pf five elected members selected by the those of other peoples. Their art and science and heart, may commend it 16 us literature, and especially their writing, then this 81st year will be one of the best Governor and five unica me have no parallel anong living peoples in our Church's honourable story, and except those hound up with Chinese civil-in our own experience we shall realise a unization. Their houses, food and clothing happiness which cannot reach us from

are not less different. All these elements any other source. result in characteristics peculiar to the Chinese facial expression, formation of the muscles, etc, and the problem of their differentiation from other peoples psychic and must be narrowed down to

The original physiological functions. Chinese were a powerful ethnical group which absorbed many peoples of Asia, subjugating them to their cultural power, but the problem of the real elements Composing the Chinese complex bad yet to be solved.-N.C. Daily News.

and the Privy Council Theatre hent

umbers reduced from seven The functions of the Privy Council will be unaffected by the change of con- stitution.

Under the present Constitution of Jamaica the Governor is aristed by a Privy Council not exceeding eight mem bere, and by a legislative Council consist ing of five er-officier, 10 nominated, and 14 elected members. The latter have the right of vetoing financial proposals if nine of their number desire to do so.

OLD CUSTOMS AT THE SAVOY.

Some 2.000 Scotamen celebrated St. Andrew's Day at the Savoy Hotel. The haggis was pipet in by the pipers of the

DONOGHUE IN INDIA.

A recent arrival in India in the jockey, 1st Battalion Royal Scots Guards, and Steve Donoghue, who has been engage before it was eaten a more was dropped by Mr. Gaistaun, of Calcutta. Ha cime by the regimental pipeanajor into a bowl

to Mabalakshmi, and rode in the last of sea-water which stood on the head

was the red hot favourite for that event.

table, this being a quaint 9- / Arab race on a horse callest Skiety, which according to legend-canned wine haggis Sa

Safety could not, however, take the start

of the time when Mary

SAIGON RICE MARKET. The Compagnia de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extremo-Orient, in their re port dated Saigon, January 2nd, state;

Owing to the holidays, our market bas heen very quiet during the last fortnight and there are no important transaction to report. The general tendency, how

over, remains firm.

The final case concerned 19 boat people, who were charged with lying in shore in prohibited hours. Five them-bodemen were fined $5 each and the other 14- sampan men were fined $3 each:

LARGEST BUILDING IN SINGAPORE..

THE NEW POST OFFICE. The contract for the new Post Offer, which, the Straits Times says, will be far and away the largest building in Singa pere has been awarded by Goviment to Mesra. Perry & Co. (Bow), Ltd. This firm have had a branch in Singapore for two years, and are constructing the new Sailors' Institute.

Messrs. Perry & Co.. are a very well- known firm in London, and carried out, among other public works, the Royal colony building, St. Thewas Hospital, the Tower Bridge, the Baker Strect and Waterloo Railway, and the recent recon struction of Waterloo Station.

The new Post Office, which has been designed by the Government architect, Major Keyes will cost about $4,000,000 and will be buite on the site now occupied by the Singapore Club and the vacant ground adjoluing it."

It will have eight storeys including the basement. it will be built of ferro concretes faced with artificial granite, and will

designed in the classic style. It will house not only the Post Office, but the Singapore Club, the Master Attendant's The total amount of rics exported from Office, and other Government offices. January 1st to December 15th, 1923, was condition of the contract is that it mu 1,108,286 tons against 1,165,028 in 1929. he completed within four years, and in We quote today:-White Saigon rice, this connection it may be noted that No. 2 sifted, Japan quality, Hangkong Messrs. Perry & Co. are comploting the $0.40 per picul, f.o.b. Saigon, for January Sailors' Institute five months before the

contract time..... February shipment.

Westrs, Win. G. Halo & Co., Ltd., of Saigon, in their circular dated January and say

Messrs. Thot. -Cook & Rom, who are the to be thrown into the men on her journey in time, and never figured in any good from France to Sentland. The sen-water position in the race, disappelating its Although during the last fortnight very Chief Official Passenger Agents for the little busiuces has been done, our market British Empire Exhibition writs caying large following. had been brought to London from the math of the Trted. After dinner in the Donoghue ne bright as bis secretary is very firm with an upward tendency that it is quite posible the demand for

Recor

the billards champion, who There has been a revival of business with hotel accommandation during the period ball-room the pipers danced the

Aravil

told Press representative that Stern Broadswords, a strathspey, and a and a young girl threw some white heather Tonoghue had received a raininor of Songkong whose market is gradually of the Exhibition will excoed the quantity £2,500 from Mr. Galstan to ride all his advancing. Market closes very steady with available Their Hongkong Office have hetween their swords as they danced for horses during the Calcutta, and Bobe very few sellers as the arrivals of paddy full particulars of accommodation and racing seasons, and that a report that be from the interior are not very large, rotes at Hotels in London, etc., and can is to ride for Mr. Galstass in only the growers holding back expecting better effect reservations for hotel accommoda

prices

tion in advance In view of the great Viceroy's Cup was not correl

New Crop Last month's fine weather demand for hotel accommodation intend Prices are things nó, drastically cut (in

the sound jockey to the King, Wragg the shipbuilding trade) that we would he B. Jones, who was placed fifth in the list brought great improvement in the condiing visitors to London are recommended much better off without the work-Fr. of riding honours and Smith, well- tion of new crop Season Paddy harvesy to make early application for such ac

The outturn so far is satisfactory. I through Thor. Cook. & Son, R. A. Workman (Irvine's Shipbuilding own Australian rider, were others who ing in full progress in all the provinces, commodation, which can he easily arrangeul Company).

came by the same deamer

inck to everybody" She wore t tradition

al dress of white with a touch of silver