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Á CONFERENCE IN NO-MAN'S LAND,

*Little Entente of the Pamirs."

· The Times Calcutta correspon- dant writes:

SHIPPING NEWS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11. 1922,

HYDROPLANES VERBOTEN. According to the Chinese presa the Peking Government has asked the Inspector General of Customs to prohibit the removal of the hydroplanes which are A political meeting of no small being constructed at Naatso, on importanon has been held 41 Phari. the ground that they are imple- 15,100 ft. above sea level and prob-mants of war. ably the highest town in the world. Twenty-seven miles from Tatung on the road to Lhassa, it Another shipbuilding order has is the seat of a British trade out been lost, says a Home paper. It post. Equidistant from the Jelapla was for two liners for the and Nathu Passes the Thama] Netherland Steamship Co. of the Moot Cha flows by Phari, and value of about a million sterling later forms the main stream of the Quotations were invited from Chumbi Valley.

ANOTHER SHIPBUILDING

CONTRACT LÖST.

NEW LIGHT ON BIBLE.

Harley St. Doctor Confutes

Professor Huxley.

Years ago Prof. Buxley said that the story of the Gadarena swine could not be true, because nowhere around the Like of Galilee did the hills run directly down to the water.

Dr. A. T. Schofield, of Harley- street, in a lecture on "Recent Discoveries in Palestine" at the Rayal United Service Institution, elimed that he bad photographed ona steep place, the dot of whieb was aerosity in the water.

Joab's capture of the Jebusite shipbuilders and engine builders stronghold of Zion in the time of This queer place, where my-in this country and on the Con- David was explained by a recent sterious diplomatic conversationstinent, and the order has been discovery. This stronghold had af high import bare been placed with Continental firms held out for 400 years from the taking place, is bitterly cold whose prices were 20 per cent days of Joshua, and it was told and intensely filthy. It is less than the lowest British that duab gos up by a, gatter and known among the Tibetans 49 quotations.

from

nok it. No one know what Lovi Ester was antil one of our Ruvaly Engineers, barbing in poni at; the foot of the preipitada zakaj of the strenchell, discovered a tunnel which led up through the rock to the top of the hill.

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J. WICHKIL,

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the "pig town," but it is not GERMAN CUSTOMS DUTIES. altogether certain that the

The German Minister of appellative derives

the Finance has issued an order insanitary conditions, for in increasing from 1,900 to 3,900 per ouanery in close proximity is cent. the premium or gio reincarnated an historic pig-faced which is leciable when the "gold" goddess. Curiously, Phari is very duties of the Customs tariff are! salubrious, das no doubt to the paid in paper currency. The A simple explanation of the altitude and cold, though locally effect of the order is to double the drying up of Jordan was afforded the low mortality is ascribed paper currency duties by by the fact that, a short distance EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.

DRYING OF JORDAN.

to the proximity of the sacred requiring 4.000 paper marks to be above Jericho, the riverdebouches mountain of Chumulha-Rhi paid for each 100 marks "gold" from & BARTOW gorge where to duty leviable. instead of 2.000 this day there are frequent land- paper marks as under the order slips which temporarily block of the 1st. October.

the river and leave the bed dry down to the Red Sea.

Once & Tibetan military centre of great stratezie importance, Phari is now & sort of no-man's town, most suitable for conferences such as that referred to. Its sole commercial importance is as a entrepot for the Tibetan wool trade, twenty to thirty thousand lakhs worth often being in store there.

NATIONAL MARITIME BOARD,

An important meeting, of all;

Another question dealt with sections of the National Mari was where did Elijah get the time Board was held recently in water with which to flood the London. Those present included altar be built on Carmel when be Sie W. J. Noble, Bart, and Mr. J.confounded the priests of Baal?| Havelock Wilson, M.P. Among There was a spring of water on The participants in the recent the subjects considered was the top of the mount which bad conference were Lord Ronald- proposal to reconstiture the shay,

Lieutenant-Governor of panel dealing with stewards and the memory of man.

never been knows to ran dry in Bengal, the Maharaj sh of Sikkim, other members of the cateriag ▲ State Minister of Bhutan, and department whose interests havel one of the Five Councillors of been entirely unrepresented: State from Lhassa, with whom since the resignation from thej. was Mr. Bell, chief of the Politi-board in September last of the cal Mission which has been at National Union of Ships Lhs for the past twelveStewards and Cooks. It was months.

PASSENGERS ARRIVED.

Pag

Per as. Pine Tree State.-Mr. suggested that the employers and Mrs. Chas. H. Magee, Mr. Erictly what the meeting representative on that Panel Wong Shin Ping, Mr. Ching Chuan

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signifies has not transpired, but should be drawn from the cater-Ges, Mrs. C. W. Hodgson, Miss F. wufficient has leaked through ing department section of the Hodgson, Mr. Jos. F. Marias, Mr. from Darjeeling to show that National Sailors and Firemen's Or Meyer. Mr. and Mrs. S. O. what is practically a new orienta Union, and such other recognised Meyer, Mr. Chan Wa, Mrs. Yee tion of British Indian frontier society or societies of marine See, Mr. Chen Sam, Mr. Yii Chin,| policy is involved.

The frontierstewards as might be bereafter Mr. Neil J. McMillan, Mr. acd Seater will in future not agreed.

After consideration of Mrs. C. M. Saul, Mr. Jeanne Tassy,

I/T unly be more closely bound, the question the board viewed the Mr. Luis Santos, Mrs. A. A.

Damand economically and politically, with proposal with favour, and the Thompson, Mr. Joseph de Gamber, de 10 dis Indis, but with themselves. To necessary amendments to the some extant little entente of constitution were lodged.

Mr. Godfrey Aldenhuysen, Mrs. C/S ........ the Pamirs is in Ermation. To ai

MARINE INSURANCE.

H. F. Morgan, Mr. Geo. A. Jord FFT Shanghai .......... Harge extent Tibet is from the There is a project afoo: to bay. Mr. Thos. R. Scoca. Mr. and T/T Singapore.. suzerainty of China, the smash-establish a Marine Insurance Ex-Mrs. John E. Brooks, Mrs. TT Japão ap of which country has conchange at Kobe, and the Ichi H. Robnett, Master ATT India <ributed to the present develop nokikai, an orvanisation of under-Roboett. Mt. W. G. Good Demand, India menta. In Indian circles con-writers, is taking the lead, says child, Mr. A. M. Horder, Mr. and T/T San Francisco? siderable attention is being paid the Japan Chronicle. It is said Mrs. W. J. Manning, Master W. J. & New York.j co the Phari Conference, and that the proposals have little pas-Manning, Jr., Mr. Thos. R. Parker, TT Java Bengal opinion is bigbly apprecissibility of materialisation, being Mr. C. #5 Hodgson, Miss D. T/T Marks sive of it--not only as re-knitting opposed by powerfel underwriters Hodgson, Master K. Hodgson, Mrs./T Francs ......... century-old trade

connections in Tokyo. The Ichinokikai, being C. A. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. C. G.

Demand, Paris and opening new ones, but as merely a local organ in Tokyo, is Lohr, Mr. George E. Lohr, Mr.

BUYING. restoring that community of not authorised or qualised to Robert F. Lohr, Mr. L. P. Thayer, thought between Bengal and the rules relative to the business Mr. Roy E. Dickerson and Mr. border States which was at one policy of companies. If it is time very prominent.

Strange Turn in Rutherford Divorce Suit.

tempowered to do so, it is quite. Fimpossible, under the present business system of companies, for persons capable of contracting

A. V. Femch.

Chambar Electric Compa5. from Foochow

ES. Correti, from Haiphong. Harold, from Saigon. Holmes (2), from London. Mali, from Shiraz. Robtweir, from San Francisco. Russell P. and O. Dongola from Shanghai."

WOMAN VINDICATES HER every day to meet, nor is Japan- EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL

'HONOUR.

se marine insurance business ABTA & CHINA TELEGRAPH Co. active to that extent.

The pro- moters have certainly imitated the precedents in foreign countries. but the Manchester Exchange and the" Baltic Exchange Miss Amy Elizabeth Richard work on a very extensive basis won, the co-respondent in the such as merchants, transporters, Rutherford dworce suit, vindicat- underwriters, and shipowners. ed her honour in the Appeal The opponents bold that the pro- Court

posals are difficult of practice in She obtained a reversal of the all respects, though their object is inding of Mr. Justice Branson commendable, and they predict that she had committed miscon-that the forthcoming meeting duct with Lieut.-Col. N. C. will be set at naught Rutherford, D.S.O., whose wife obtained a decree nisi on the alleged ground of his misconduct and cruelty,

A curious turn to the case occurred during the resumed hearing.

Do I understand," asked Mr. Baylord for Mrs. Rutherford, that this appeal is only against the finding that Miss Richardson was guilty of misconduct ?"

Mr. Eatinga (for Miss Richardson): I think that is the soly point I can rai-e.

Mr. Bayford: If that is the anly issue, the decree must stand?

THE DECREE NISI.

☛ Lord Justice Warrington: It

NEW WORLD'S RECORD.

A new world's speed record for! any liner eince the beginning of the war was achieved by the giant Cunarder Aquitania during the last portion of a recent eastbound voyage from New York, which ended at Southampton on Man- day night. The peed of 25 66 koota was attained, or over 30 land miles per hour. There is no stip adoat at the present moment that has approached this speed within several krots, with the exception of the Marcetania, the bolder of the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. The Maur anis, with the Berengaria, is at present Do the Tyne undergoing conversion to oil-fuel burning, and when this

Retransmitted from Singapore Stand Load 8.8. Egypt, from Kristiania.

Stillwater, from Saigon.

E. G. Willema carè American Consul, from Melbournspo. Ziiveiv, from Chicago.

M. E. F. AIREY,

Superintendent

Hongkong, Jan. 5. "1922.

TIDE TABLE.

9th to 15th. Jan., 1922.

is completed the two ships will be my guar

•

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Italght.

is curious result, if you may rej in the Aquitania in the C-Th And that one party has committed express

⚫rvice between misconduct and that the other Southampton, Cherbourg, and has not.

New York. The servire of three Giving judgment for

Missant vessels, with an aggregate 10 7 19 41 Richardson, the Master of the tonnage of 129,000, "will be the

55 7.0 Rolis said the result of the fastest ocean se vice in the world. Wed. 119 12 examination of the woman was,It is significant to recall that ja the opinion of the doctor, in-aighteen months ago, the Aqui- consistent with misconduct or tanis was converted from cost to "ại 13 m2 9 47 even attempted misconduct.

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Jan. 11d. 10h. 19m.-Pressure is nearly stationary over the Philippines It has decreased AGENCY FOR --THE MITSUBISH-moderately from Weihaiwei to

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04 a 31 Wind Force (.. 4 ast 16 Weather.........

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We think the decree his she has experienced the greatest t. 1410317441 ought not to be made absolute success of her career, establishing antil the other matter as to the numerous new records, especially affect of our decision has been from the point of sumbers of argued," his lordship added.

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T.E-CLAXTON, Dizseter, H. K. Observatory, Jan. 11.

As on Wook Days. SPECIAL CARS.

BY LÁKLEPTICHETŐKE TEN SOMPART'S OPSIONI, ALUZANDALL KEELDENON, DAN TATE

|

A depression appears to have at 10a.m. only. formed to the north of Weihai-

wei.

The ball is hoisted half mass at The monsoon is interrupted to the 55th minute and fali mest at the north of Amoy.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 the 57th minute. Should the ball hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, fail to drop at the correct time, it 0.00 inch Total since January 1st. 0.50 inches, against RIT

verage of 0.27 inches. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District

Formcant.

IN.E. winds,

fresh;

1 Hongkong to Gap cloudy,

Rock

? Formosa Channel

Boe

drizzle

or mist.

} The same as No. 1

will be lowered at five minutes. past the bour and the ordiüary routine repeated at the following hour, if possible.

Should the time ball be out of order the above routine will be carried out wi b the flag"Z", on the storm signal mast.

Time signal are also given st ́s night by means of three white Imps mounted vertically on the Observatory wireless mast. From 8h, 56m. Os, to 9h, Om. Os. p.m. the

Jam pa are exunguished momentarily at the even seconds, except at the Zad, 28th, 50th, | 52nd, and 54th of such minute. SE No. 1.

3 South coast of). The same

Chins between>

H. & Lamocks.)

S.No. 1

7

4 South coast of The same

Ching between

HL & Hainan.

* T. 3. CLAXTON, Director.

E.K. Observatory, Jan. 11, 1922.

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