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China could be wished for than that to be obtained by contrast-| ing the stat Talogiao nam with the Laditions. whichĮ, **; ANNUAL ́ ́INCOME TWENTY [POUNDS, ANNUAL EXPENDITURE prevailed when the place was NINETEEK HIHETEEN SIX, RESULT occupied by Germany 'and by HAPPINESS, ANNUAL INCOME Japan. The mismanagement TWENTY POUNDS, ANNUAL EX- and corruption now reported, RESULT MISERY.-Charles | PENDITURE TWENTY QUGHT AND

also give us soms inkling of Dickens. |what might be’expected in hap-

pen "If" ́extra-territoriality were | There were three Chinese cases abolished in China. The position of smallpox notified in the

Colony yesterday. of foreigners then would be

FROM

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Unseen

By Robert G. Shewan.

Whatever sach believes and counts for trus Of things to Heaven or Earth, or greak or small,

If he believes it, let him stand and say, Although in soom a thousand lips ara curled, "Though no-one aise believes, I hold my faith "Lika Athanasius against the World."

Geo Wilson.

"They have cars to hear, and fthey are, alearly remembered afterwards in the waking stuga.

heor not.”

than one experianos în-his-visions, ide object of which is

As one who has had more These, I am sure, are valuable. You can forget that intolerable. The plain fact is Amongst the passengers leav-life of what seems to him to usually apparent sooner or later. burglars exist when that Obina is still incapable of ing for Home to-day by the me.be the action of unseen powers, Of these I have had several, al< . governing herself. We sincerely More are the Hon. Mr. Claud I feel that I should try to though, owing, to my lack of Seven and Mrs. Severn, Mr. and record them for the benefit of intelligence or imagination, I have you put a Yale wish it were otherwigs for no-one Mrs. H. P. Winslow and Mr. and those who are seeking for the not benefited by them as fully as

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Ja 44 is a combination night-latch

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truth in psychic matters, and who ought to have done. But that will not dismiss what I say as these viafons were specially shown

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A Canton correspondent states mare delusions or inventions of to me in order to guide and en- that Sun Yat-sen .bas personally mine. But these notes are worth-courage me, I have no doubt advised the Civil Governor that less to anyone who is not prepar whatever.

ad to take my word for the truth Before I went out t› Rongkong ference must be given to those sentence of the spring lock, together The recent report of the Insped-who assisted in the overthrow of offer and none, I fear, that come myself co great height, with the most perfect securitytor appointed by the local Society General Chan King-ming. up to the requirements of the lin darkness, and seeing.

for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Society for Psychical Researob. far balow me ionomerable Adimals must be pleasant reading

bright lights, and for the moment. The forthcoming weddings are

Dream Which Came True. for all who have at heart the

I thought I was looking at-the welfare of dumb animals. It is announced of Mr. Robert Spiers

My first experiente occurred sky, and staɑ boceath me. I. good sign that, despite the so- Lozan, Assistant Engineer of the when I was not more than ten could never explain the position- called decadence of modern civil- Public Works Department, to years old. I was passing my at all to myself until in Halakong isation, the general mass of people Miss Jessie Jacks, of No. 1, mother's room one Sunday morn-one night, years, afterwards,. I are becoming more and more Canton Villas, Kowloon; and of ing when she came out and as I was waiting at the top station of sympathetic towards animal life. Captain Isaac Chalmers, of the greated her and told her I was the Post Tramway, outside, In all parts of Europe and America, 5. Nairung, to Miss Margaret going to Church, she informed me where there were no lights, and during the past few years, we Pipar, editress, of New York. that she had had a curious dream looking down at the Harbour. "FRIEDMAN-01 March 1, bave observed the spread of know.

labout the minister. She found below, where every ship and small 1923, at the General Hospitat,ledge about animals and birds, Mr. M. S. Northcote, who leaves herself attending service, but sampan was showing at least one Shangbai, Angie Friedman, with a better understanding of for Home on retirement to-day, when

the time came for light and was murmuring to beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs, their needs. As we have stated has been presented by the Hong the minister to give out the myself "It'e just like the sky. 4. Friedman, aged 19 months. previously. nociatia like the kong AD.C with a beautiful text, he got up and said he upside down" when the dream. LARSEN.-On February 27, S.P.C.A deserve the whole-heart-silver salver, whilst twenty-two could not preach but would ask flashed on my memory and I saw 1923, at No. 7 Keeble Gardens, support of all who pretend to members of the Hongkang Club, the leading elder, Mr. Gibb, to do that in some way I had been Shanghai, Martha, beloved wife possess a proportion of the personal friends of his, have so for him. I laughed and went given a vision of Hongkong long of C. E. Larsen, aged 35 years.

ordinary milk of human kind-made him the presentation of a off to church, but I did not laugh before I saw it with my bodily, ness. Many persons bare silver cigar bor bearing facsimiles when, in the course of the service, eyes and at a date when bests actively associated themselves) of their signatures.

Mr. Edmonds, the minister, ssid were not compelled to carry a he could not preach on account light after dark and when there of the state of his throat and was no Tramway to the Paak is

DEATHS.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 7th March, 1923.

(with the local movement, and

Many propla dream of flying and I have also done so, the sensation being delightful, but I have never heard of AD5016. dreaming of walking on the top of the water, dream I have often had. It never occurs to me that I am dreaming; on the contrary, I always wonder why

the support given by not a fow distinguished citizens has made In consequence of the recent would ask Mr. Gibb to read aall; so that what I saw in my success and further progress death of his father, Dr. J.H chapter of the Bible to us instead, vision was not then in existence. assured. In the Inspector re Sanders, of the Matilda Hospital, which Mr. Gibb thereupon, did. It was a clear vision of the futures port we have evidence of his is leaving for Home to-day by the from the pulpit. I ran all the energy in carrying out the duties. Mores, accompanied by Mre way home to tell my mother that allotted to him. Obviously he Sanders and family. He hopes her dream had come true and was THE EXPECTED HAPPENS. has enthusiasm for his work, and to return again in July, and dar reminded that this was not the that mdens a great deal. There ing his absence Dr. H. Lechmere first time sad that we children is an encouraging tone about the Clift, of Nanning will be in had never believed her.

Looking back, I can now so The sorry tale of Chinese paucity of cases of cruelty noted. oharge of the hospits).

“I have only had one prosecution

that my mother must have been baladministration at Tsingtao since my last report, owing to the Another round-the-world tourist more open to urazeen influences telegram yesterday does not in flagrant case of cruelty, which Long shortly on a mammoth been termed psychic to-day. If in this way. The last time I und he least degree surprise us.

submit proves so all round Cunarder, the tour being one of 25 Prentice Malford says, and as this dream was just before. I went. improvement." It is good to know the most elaborate that has yet I believe, our spirits travel while fishing in Scotland. I dreamt was only a few months ago that, that. As is pointed out in the set out The 25,000 ton .. we sleep, I can understand the then of casting as I went from in accordance with the decisions report, much more good could be Samaris, a sister ship to the spirit of the minister meeting my place to place on top of the water reached at the Washington Con- done with extended legislation on Laconia, will bring 480 passengers mother's spirit and telling her sed again the old thought, "Why ference, Japan relinquished con- the subject of prevention of cruelty here. This will be the third visit what be intended to do about the don't we all fish in this way ?

to animals. The authorities, we of world tourists this season.

Eervice, about which he had; no came to me. In my own mind I trol of the Kiaochow territory in feel sure, are in sympathy with

doubt, been worrying. But I had no am quite satisfied that this dream favour of Chios, and yet already the objects of the 8.P.C.A.

such explanation ready then, was a foreshadowing of the fish- The wedding was solemnised by and the incident made such an ing that came late on, when the we are told that all the public and no doubt it is merely

before the Rev. 9. G. Teakle at All impression on me that I have only difference was & matter of time

that I utility services are badly mis-the Society's officials will have Saints Church, Tientsin, on never forgotten it. Some will say waded about the river and msnaged, whilst the railways, the necessary power behind them. February 22nd, of Mr. James telepathy between unconscious and went through the water in-

Kellacher, Assistant Inspector of minds, but until the Society for stead of on top of it. rolling-stock and permanent way

the B.M.C. Police, and Miss Ethel Paycbical Research can tell us Millward, second daughter of Mr. plainly what the unconscious or

A Vision of Baguio. and Mrs. J. C. Millward, of Tien-sub-conscious mind-is, and what In 1911, I went to Manila for tsin. The service at the Church the difference between it and the the first time, Some months followed the civil ceremony at the spirit is, I prefer to use the word previously, when I had not the British Consulate.

spirit" This was my frat least idea of going to Manila, I glimpse of the Invisible World, dreamt of being up in a town or

which was brought to light in fact that I have not found any party will be arriving in Hong. than most of us and would have more people do not oroes watan Kos

are going to rack and ruin Smoke and Fog. through sheer carelessness and

One of the drawbacks to other incompetence. More than that, wise not unpleasant existence in Hongkong is the smoke nuisance. the chief of police is busy in- For some reason or other prob corporating ex-bandits into the ably an indifferent, quality of force and is openly accused of coal-there is an abundant A fine of $10 was imposed by but when I was much younger I village on very high mountains corruption. If these are the con-pply of blacks in the local Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Felice used to dream of seeing the most and of enjoying myself there, atmosphere, especially on a cold Court this morning, on the junk. wonderful, beautifully coloured being, as it seemed to me, the ditione after so short a period of day, to the detriment of one's master charged with cruelty to slights dashing and changing on object of extra attention on the time, what, may we ask, ́will clothing, curtains, and belongings crate of pigs, after a statement a background of solid darkness, part of those around me. I happen after, say, a year or more in general. But there is one has been heard from the Colonial and I can remember the pleasure particularly remembered that the of so-called Chinese government pect of this matter still more Veterinary Surgeon. What should I took in watching these lights mountains in this place had not important the detrimental effect have been done, this official esid, and their ever-changing colours sharp peaks as in Hongkong, but of Boot on one's health. We have was to have divided the cargo against the dark back ground. were very blunt and rounded at we ponder the foggy weather of a kind in Hong into two crates. Leaving the piga

the tops, with plateaux which koog, and it would appear that on their backs after binding up

gave ample room for houses and Washington decisions in regard | the Scot nuisance combined their legs and feet would interfere

The next incident to call my roads, and I noticed how well the to China, the more convinced do with local mists provides with breathing.

attention to the occult world part I was in was laid out with we become that they were a huge *

to gaz mensce

well.

was when I was about six-bungalows and torf and gravelled that we have a not] mistake.

teen years old and had just roads leading up to them, and

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begun work in a shipping office also how tall my companions. in London. Oas afternoon, Mr. were. I remember going over this

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Another Incident.

Tsingtao under the previously realised. The recent Six men were killed outright A well-ordered, thick fogs in London have led to and several others injured follow capably-governed city. Japan's an investigation of their effecting an explosion on board the Lillie, the bead of the Depart-dream in the mornings and occupation was also a tribute to on the community's health, with U. 8. S. Halbert, a destroyer of ment, called me up to where he wondering whether such a place the result that it has been proved the 45th. Division, when it was was standing, talking to old existed. I was certain of age methodic government-she carri-that soot and moisture combined lying at anchor in Manila Bay Captain Burgees and another of thing about it, and that was that ed on worthily the tradition af have a most deadly effect on the on March 1st. The explosion Anderson, Anderson & Co. I had never seen the place before her predecessors. Yet, on purely lungs. Pulmonary complaints are took place in the firercom, and oil Captains: As I waited, it seemed One day it was suddenly decid- sentimental lines, the Powers caused, or aggravated, by these from the burners escaped in great to me that I had been in that vary ed that I should run over fo elements in the atmosphere, and quantity, igniting, and causing position before, and as they spoke Manila and see the Governor- willingly acquiesced in the hand the death rate increases corres-rescue work difficult. Steam had I turned to each, knowing at once General. Mr. Cameron Forbes, ing back of the territory to a pondingly. There is, in fact, a to be turned into the fireroom what he would say, until. I was about a matter of business with country whose officials would, large increase in mortality. That to extinguish the flames. The sent off with a message. It was the Government of the Philip is something for Hongkong cause of the accident is not only when I got out into the pines. When I reached Manila it was obvious to see, make a residents to know. Stepe have known,

street that I realised that some. I received an invitation to go up hopeless mess of the place. If been taken in many European

thing very strange had happened at once to Baguio, the bill station.. that is the real meaning of self- and American cities to abate the Mr. J. H. Underwood, analytic to me. The occurrence made there, and stay with Governor, determination, then we could smoke nusance, with an accomal chemlat at the China Sugar deep and lasting impression on Forbes. One day a friend took

panying decline in pulmonary Refinery, is leaving for Home ob me. Since those days my interest me for a drive through the pinos .. wish that the phrase, had never affections. Perhaps, some day, retirement to day by the s. in the things which are not seen and through the Military Dis been invented or the idea at the somebody with the power to do Mores, after over 34. yesṛs" has grown deeper and deeper, trick or Usatonment, and as wa back of it put into operation. so will introduce local regula residence in the Colony. At one end at Home and in Americs I clighted at the Clab and went up tions designed to control the time, Mr. Underwood took a keen have tried — táv improve my the trim path, I anddenly found The same may be said regarding creation and distribution of smoke interest in gymnastics at the acquaintance with them by means myself in the exact posision Wel-hai-wei. Does any sane from our constantly-increasing V.E.C, whilst he was an enthusia-of-mediums, clairvoyants, pal-" was in in my dream...-* person for one moment imagine chimneys. Until then, let us be tie Volunteer, having been Captain wists, etc. These experiences I was over six fear” and all the that Okina will administer affairs thankful for such small mercles of the "C" Machine Gun Com will try to classify and describe. Governors Staff, and D. C

as the climatic conditions vouch-pany. He was also a keen Free-

wore tall there so efficiently as Britain safe us, and realise that matters mason, being a life member of the

Same "Visions,”

mám did? Of coures not. Yet the might be worse than they are. Victoria Lodge, of which he has ~ I seem to dream reat deal, keep from

fmany the transfer is made, all the same, Nevertheless, we trust that our been Senior Warden. The staff as I remember parts.

drawing attention to this subject of the Refinery recently pre-fdreams on waking And the point to be emphasised of soot will not have been in vain, sented him with some fine seldom retain the men in that it is the Chinese people and that we might have dropped blackwork furnit

wide for long. Buta who suffer from the change, a few seed in fertile soil, destined circle of friends will wish for Mr, dreams, probably those

No better illustration of what (control could do

to sprout in time, for the benait and Mrs: Underwood Loy years referred to in Job as

who pass their lives, or a of happy retirement in the Old which seem to be purpose!

ir lives, in this Colony, Country.

„can fare the tslit

though

pressed on ons.”. memory so that

friend

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