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WALTER SCOTT

CENTENARY.

MR. JOHN BUCHAN'S TRIBUTE:

FREEDOM CEREMONY

AT SELKIRK.

The centenary of the death of Sir Walter Beatt was observed with Lefitting ceremony at Selkirk, his home town, on June 18.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932.

PURPOSE IN THE

UNIVERSE.

NEW APPOINTMENT FOR LORD IRWIN

SIR A. FLEMING ON TREND | PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF

OF SCIENCE.

In the annual · address, as presi. dent of this Victoria Institute at the Central Tall, Westminster, last | month," Sir Ambrose Fleming, FR.S., spoke at length-up Some recent scientific discoveries and theories" mainly in the field of astronomics and gravitation.

He dwelt on the, advances that

had been mudo in our general know

EDUCATION

[THKOVOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, July 15.

It is officially announced that Lord Irwin has been appointed President of the Board of Eduen- tion, in succession to the late Bir Donald Maclenu.

The day'a ceremonies included the conferring of the Freedom of the ledge of the physical Coamos," tha: /of Viscount Hallifax, has had con-

Royal Burgh of Selkirk upon the Duke of Buccleuch, an head of the Scott Clan, Major-General Sir Walter J. Maxwell-Scott,

great grandson of Sir Walter, and the "present Laird of Alkotsford, Mr. Jolin Buchan, the novelist, and Sir John Roberts, of Dunedin repre- sputed by his

Mr. John 500, Roberts).

Lord Irwin, who is the oldest son

siderable previous experience in ministerial posts, while from 1925 until last year ho was Viceroy of Judia.

was of the stellar universe' genera! by, be the discoveries will regard to radiation, of which what wa called light was only a very limit

Amongst the-positions he has held ed portion on the progress 13

are those of Minister of Agricul knowledge concerning the ultimati nature of matter; and on investiture, President of the Board of Education, and Under-Secretary Hations respecting gravitation and,

for the Colonies. He served in the its connection with other physical Great War, and has beet an M.P.

Sir Walter Scatt became a free agencies. He said explanatious since 1910. Ini politics, he a Con-

m 130 years ago, and was initiat-

ed into the Company of Souters (Shoemakers), at one time à flour- ishing cruft in the town

The Duke of Buccleuch and his co-freema went through the cere many ou to-day licking the birze.

|

which seemed perfectly valid when based on a certain limited range

of observed facts might fait totally

servative,

Double Duties.

to account for others which might It is also announced to-day that Henco Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for shhsequently he discovered. our scientific theories or hypotheses Indis, will deputise for Sir. Philip were in a continun! state of flux Cunliffe Lister as Secretary for the and that which was cherished to- day might have to be abandoned to

morrow.

The general trend of scientific throught of to-day was that we were bar' predecessors in the middle of the last century that we had reaen

This is a sheaf of bristles from a wild boar skin, and was used by the Somters in making their noted soled shemnes (shoes). The Duke dipped the birse in wine and drew it between his lips. This was the symbol of his initiation as Souter. His Grace afterwards unveiled the finality in our investigations of commemoration stane added to the Nature. On the contrary, musters

base of the Sentt Monument.

that scemed plain to then were There is 1. very obscur to us. the minds of many scientific work--| that anmag the names inscribed oners a strong sense hat there are Selkirk's burgher roll were those of evidences of purpose and design in Andrew Lang and the late Lord natural phenomena which are not

In an address during the pro- ceedings Mr. John Buchan recalled

Rosebery-lotheraled of the tribe the result of chair, though at the of Sir Walter."

a time there is much which

Colonies while the latter is attend- ing the Ottawa Conference; and Mr. W. Ormsby-Core, the First Commissioner of Vorus, will act for Sir John Gilmour, Minister of Agriculture, wins is also a delegato to Ottawa.

SLUMP IN BRITISH RAILWAY TRAFFIC

DUE MAINLY TO INTENSE

ROAD COMPETITION

LONDON, July 16.

"It was my privilege." he said.seems to us at present purposeless THE British trunk Railway lines are taking further active steps. to visit Lord Rosebery every faw and meaningless. The quantitative

of traffic off

due receipts

to economic conditions and the intense road competition.

weeks during the last ten years of or numerical aspects of multitudes to counteract the disastrous falling his life, and I generally found him of plienoinena suggest that the phy. with a Waverley novel in his hand: sical universo, is not so much a and his eye would brighten as he thing as a thought, and thought im -discoursed of some new perfection|plies a thinker. There are unques-

which ho had discovered.

"In those last years he suffered much from weakness and pain, and he used to tell me that he ranked Scott's Journal next to the Gospel of St. John as r manual of consola tion.

Scotland with Two “ T's,”

"There are many reasons," Mr. Buchan proceeded, "why the world should remember Sir Walter Scott. He is, by whatever test he be tried, ole of the greatest of imaginative creators. He is, by whatever text

lin

The General Manager of the tionable evidences that the material Southern Railway has made universe had a beginning in the appeal to the staff to srcure ad- sense that it has not endured in ditional traffic. He states that for its present form for an infinite the first twenty-four weeks of this past, nor can it be the result of a

year the decrease in the revenue of chance development, although our modern investigations have enor.

the Southern Railway came to a nously enhanced our ideas of its total of £10,000. age and size.

Creative Power.'

“There seems to be proof that the physical Universe is not in itself eternally enduring, but is, as it were. wasting away and moving

or

SHIPPING MOVEMENT.

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... au lenves for Manila at 5

p.m. the same day,

Money and Markets

HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.

SATURDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS.

The morning session gave no in- dication of any material change, rates being fairly well maintained and the investment section is still in netive demand..

Sales,

Hong Kong Banks 81,000, Union Insurances 8435/400, Kailan Mining Ad. 24/0. Dairy Farms 328.

Buyers.

Hong Kong Banks $1,875. Valon Insurances $153... China Fire Insurances 8000, H.K. Steamboats 8204. Union Waterboats 8191. H.K. and W, Dooks $184, Providente (Old) $4.80. Hong Kong Hotels (Old) 810). Hong Kong Lands $771. Hong Kong Realtios $11.30. Ewo Gottons, Tis. 131. Hong Kong Trams $22.10. Star Ferries $89.

Yaumpti Ferries (Old) $34. Taumati Ferries (Now). 233. China Lights (Old) $18.10... Hong Kong Electrica 872), Telephones (P.P.) $11. Malabon Sugars $20. Cements (Combined) $17,45, Hong Kong Ropes 812). Dairy Farma $73, Hong Kong Amusements $10). Constructions (Old) g0:10. - Constrictions (New) $11.

Sellers.

International Aasce, Tls. 4. Wallace Harpers $10.50.

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

A.O.F.C. QUOTATIONS,

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

30 Indus triala

20 Rails 20 Utilities

NEW YORK, July 15. LAST TO-DAY's AVERAGE AVERAGE CHANGES

41,34 45,47 +1,13

1-1.81 15,66 + .A5 17.73 18.31 + .58

Messrs. E, A, Pierce & Co. Report.

The market is strong:-Business done: 800,000.

he be tried, one of the greatest towards a state in which some fresh I think the greatest-of Scotsmen, net of creation will be required if we know for no other did so much for the physical phenomena, as soul and the body of his native them, are to continue. It is not, therefore, self-produced golf. land.

maintained, but the result of a "We spall Scotland with cnet,Creative power, and requires a con- attention to or publication for the but modern Scotland might well be tinually operative Directive Agency. arguments or facts opposing those spelt with two 't's, for it is the There are unquestionably in the conclusions. Hence there was abun physical Universe things that stimulate our appreciation of order, dant room and even necessity for beauty, adaptation, numerical re- such a society as the Victoria In- servants made one great family.lations, and purpose in our minds stitute, which afforded a platform Borden Company...... 22 He invented health insurance for we who are thinking, feeling per- on which could be discussed ques- thum long before Mr. Lloyd George, son and hence the qualities which tions lying on the borderland of excite these psychic reactions must

land of Scott.

"At Abbotsford his tenants and

EXCHANGE RATES.

DRITION WIRELESS SERVICE}

Rrony, July 16.

Paris New York Montreal Brussels Gonevi Amsterdam Milan Berlin

90 9/10

3.342

4.00)

wemo

23.00

18.1

8.81

601

14.93

Stockholm

10.50

Copenhagen

Oslo .......

19 13/32 201

Vicuno

31 o.

Prague

110;

Helsingfors

233

Madrid

44

Lisbon

110

Athens

550

597)

Bucharest Rio Buenos Aires Montevideo Bombay

Shanghai

Hong Kong Yokohama

Silver (spot) Silver (forward)

31/32 nom. Nominal

30 nom.

1/01/16

1/8t

1/31

1/08

17 1/10 17

SCOTT MONUMENT, Designed by George Meikle Kent, Beneath the ampy is a 21oz of Sir Walter State with his dig “Matza- ky. Sir John Sted

THREE DEATHS AS LINER NEARS PORT.

MOTHER AND BABY BURIED,

AT SEA.

Southampton; -dkagedy. nintrod the lust thirty-six hours of the voyage from Capetown to South

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ampton of the Union Castle liner, RADIO Experts -Work GuaranTEED Warwick Castle.

When the vessel reached here it was learned that three people had 'died on board-a young mother, her newly-bora" child, and a colonel.

retired

Mrs. Mary. P. Buchanan, aged twenty-six, who was alous to her home in Glasgow, died

Latest

travelling BRUNSWICK

in giving birth to a baby girl. The child, who war christened Bridget

&

and.

Warwick Buchanast, lived only six MELOTONE

hours.

The mother and child were buried

at sea.

About the same time, Colonel Charles John Huskinson, aged sixty-six, whose home is at Harro- gate, died from heart. failure. He had made # voyage to South Africa as companton to a friend who was recuperating after illness.

The colonel's body was landed when the liner arrived. His wife, who came to meet him, was grief- ' stricken when the news was convey- ed to her at her hotel.

The man who really appreciates good whisky usually tries a number of brands before he is satisfied.

The lucky one who starts with Johnnie Walker has finished his search. No

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more

Johnnie

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of

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J.

and he had a scheme for unemploy

have been bestowed on the Universe science, philosophy, and religion,

Sir Ambrose added that much of

ment insurance which it has taken

by a Sentient Intelligence at least

nearly 100 years to put into prac-as personal as ourselves."

tice. He watched over the careers

of every cotter's son in Darnick,

the instruction put forth in the Press, magazines, and popular

and found jobs for them. And he | books on the subject of science was made the whole countryside his uncritical, and half-baked scientific

own.

hypotheses were often accapted as

| scientific knowledge. There was a

J'

The greatest figure Walter Scott widespread effort to discard do ever presented to the world was haito belief in Creation by adher himself: A partaker of our mortalence to a vague doctrine of Evolu

lion, which bod no solid basis of proof. This was seen in conce

frailties for he had many he is

yet an example of the stature totion with some popular teaching on which; by the grace of God, a Scots the subjests of biology and anthro- man and a Borderer can attain. pology. Confident statements on As long as Tweed runs to the the evolution of humanity from the animal races and the enormous juge

millions of even

yours-gver which this developucat by natural selection had extended were put forward for public acceptance an

as there are human

in our glen to hope and to dream and to endure, the memory

Hep, as long

hearts in our glens

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facts, while no sufficient evidence

of Walter Scott will rest like a for them was vouchsafed. At the

benediction on the land he joved.”

same time it was dificult to securo (Continued on next ›culumın,}

A LITTLE

care in setting up an advertisement often doubles its

selling power

It is that little extra thought and

care,

which

every

given to advertisement drawn up in the office of the Hong: Kong Daily Press, which brings good results.

Liggett and Myers

"B" Loew's Inc. „Preifio Gas & Electrio... 201 Pennsylvania, Railway

Radio Corporation

4

Sears Roobuck

121

Standard Oil Con-of-

New Jersey Bacony-Vacuum Corp.

254

7%

Union Carbida and

Carbon

& Company, Limited

171

173.

Union Pacific

Shanghai

Hongkong

United Aircraft 'and--

Trane

United States. Steel... 23į

Westinghouse E. & M.. 17)

*Ex. dividend.

New York

389

370

Drugs, Inc.

271 29

Du Pont de Nemoura 23}

95)

Born 1820-Still Going Strong!

Eastman Kodak

371

General Electric

10

General Foods

29

22*

General Motors International

65

Harvester 12 13 International Tol and

Tel.

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421

18

20%

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