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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TODAY.

(October 27,)

Rotary Club Tifin, Lane, Craw. ford's Restaurant, I p.m.

Opening of Un Long School, 3 Lecture at Union Church by

R. A. Pfall

Sanitary Board Meeting. 4.15

Lammert's Sale of Household Furniture and Curios, The Star Furniture Store, Kowloon; "1030

£1,100.

"Queen's _Theatro...” “The Bad One."

World Theatre." Don Q. Son of Zorro."

Star Theatre: King's Theatre?

Nations."

Squad,"

Majestic

River

Central Theatre:

Theatres

the

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND THE UNIVERSE.

THEORIES THAT PUZZLE. ONE UPSET BY RELATIVITY.

BISHOP AND OTHER WORLDS. MAY BE SENDING US MESSAGES.

Britain's leading scientists ox | ever weakens and these are driven plained their theories relating to further off into spacc.. The earth's the universe at the most popular orbit round the sun is not so much meeting of the British Association like a circle or ellipse as like a held on September 23,

colled watch-spring-a spiral for

Dynamite:

Women of A

The Vice

Up Dinner Dance at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotal,

Peninsula Hotel Rose Room, Les The speaker at this meeting was diation. As they do so, their gra Dejebans et William Rimels,

European Mail:-Outward: Sir James Jeans. His address was vitational held on one another Europe via Marseilles (Sarpedon) one of the most remarkable ever weakens so that the whole galetic

via

It was arranged by the Mathe ever receding into the cold and

and Physical Scienco sec, dark of space. matics tion, and so great was the demandThe same tendency affects the for tickets from scientists of other galatic system as a whole,” said sections that the meeting was trans Sir James. The stars of which it ferred from South Kensington to is formed continually scatter their the Central Hall, Westminster

mass broadcast in the form of 28-

(Prés. McKinley) 10 a.m.; Europe via Marseilles (Athos II.) 2.30 p.m. Tidos:-High at 6,58 and 9.46 Low at 3.38 and 3.09.

WEDNESDAY...

(October 28.)...

savon on this topic system for over expands

"A general breaking up process

"And it must be the same with

14 in operation throughout the the other star systems in, space. universo," said Sir James. "It Throughout the universs all the might be thought that the attracämaller broken pieces-satellites, tive forces of gravitation

planets, stars-are scattering away' continually draw all the broken from one another is apparent op. St. Jude and St. Simon

pieces together again The anaot Mesting of the Ladies Section, reverse appears to be the case. Helena May Taititute, 11 a.m.

Not only is the substance of the Hockey: Radio Sports Club e H.K.S. Erigado; St. Andrews universe for ever being broke R.A.S.C., Õlub ». Bordererate smäller pisces, but theso

One.

Queen's Theatre'; “The ·Bid for over tend to scatter further World Theatre: "Don Q-Bon of further enake

Star Theatre:

King's Theatre Nations"

Central Theatre:

amite

omen of All home-the earth is for ever driv

the moon further away by The Vios agency known as tidal friction. Squad."

Majestic Theatre: Up the When we watch the waves of the

·River":

to the laws of gravita-

James explained that these r systems are receding star system at a ind rate. The last one which was investigated showed, a recession speed of 19:30

"On the face of it, be said, "this looks as though the whole universe were uniformly expand-

sea being checked by a beach or ang like the surface of a balloon while it is being inflated, with such Ten Dance at King's Restaurant: hendland we may reflect that their speed that it doubles its size Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.

impact is not only slowing down

every 1,400 million YCATE, Repulse Bay Hotel Les Dejebans the earth's rotation and so long-

“One of the great puzzles of AB- et William Rimela

thening the day, it is also length-tronomy is whether these apparent Europe via Siberia (Chichibuening the month by driving the motions of recession aro rext or not. Maru) 8.30 am.”

moon further away from the earth, the motions are real, the uni- Tides:High at 10.10 and 10.01; Incidentally, it is also, through verse is only at the beginning of its Low at 4.13 and 3.27..

European Mail:-Outward:

THURSDAY.

(October 29).

Lecture at University "Chinese Made Easy" by Fr. D. J. Finn, S.J., 8.43 p.m.

the solar tides, driving the earth' further from the sun and so lengs" thening the year.

The Sun's Loss,

career; it cannot have doubled. many times since it started. And as it appears to be doubling in size every 1,400 million years, the few "Again, every ray of sunlight doublings which these figures per- that enters our eye," he said, "car-mit cannot have occupied more ries mass with it; eight minutes than 10.000 million years at most. previously this mass was part of Star Theatre: Florodora Girl" the aun. Every second the sun Central Theatro Mexicali

loses more than four million tons Roac."

King's Theatre: The Conquer. of mass in the form of sunlight ing Herde."

and suchent,

Queen's Theatre: "Disraeli," World Theatre: "Peach Girl" (Chinese, film).

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel

Tides High at 11.20 and 10.22; Low. nt 4.53 and 2450

"As the result of this continual loss of mase. the sun's gravitational hold on its family of planets for

A⭑Hope.

"General calculations on the ages of astronomical bodies point to tar longer periods of time than this... The stars carry intrinsic evidence of having lived through far longer periods.

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