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| PREHISTORIC CROMER
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There are far hobbies that tend to make one so healthy and philo-35 d., Bydney and Maibanzne 8/5,7/16 New York/London sophic as that of prehistoric archaeology. To prosecute it with any hope of success it is necessary to go out into the open, to visit certain fields where the
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of antiquity, or to journey .grave! and other pits
to
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to be found. The disappoint Guide which provide that residents in the Colony cannos bars their correspondanc ments awaiting those who follow addressed to the Posts Restania or to the C P.0. to be called for, and that corrampon the spoor of our remote ancestors desca addressed to Betitions or incomplete name will be treated at once as undeliver. are many, but these, and the able glimpses they get into the great history of the human race, make prehistorians philosophic--that
Australia & Manila is, if they are of the true and
Shanghai anadulterated order. In search-Shangba ing for Eint implements in Shanghai ancient beds of gravel or clay it is Europe via Nagapalam (Letters only
London 14th Feb) necessary either to conduct die hanghai gings in these deposits-& very | Astralja i Manila laborious and costly operation -0.3.A. Japso & Shaoghai
ex-Barops is Nagapatata (Papare only, visit to
commercial
Landon 14th Feb.) -__ -- brickfields cavations, such as
1.3. A. Canada, Japan & Shanghti and ballast-pits., which
are.A., Japan, à 9hanghai nothing less than godsends to
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the excavation, and the greater
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Straits specimens; but even the largest
Swalow artificial pits scem sometimes hangh too small for the ardent pre-Saigon historian. and he longs for hanghai illimitabią, sections, where, per-wa, Amoy & Fooche chance, the Eldorado of which Java is Batik The dreams awaits him.
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The Cromer coast of Norfolk Sandakan. Australis à Now Zaklad
via Thanday affords the nearest approach to this ideal condition of affairs. There. between Happisburgh and Wey- bourne, exist about 40 miles of Amoy & "Yanila implement-bearing cliffs, which pa Nature appears to have made for the delectation of the archaeo- logist. And in places along the coast these are to be seen at low Saigon water, large exposures of ancient forest bed, where massive flint! implements and the fossil bones. and teeth of gigantic elephants: and other beasts are to be found, The Cromer coast
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Shanghai. Japan, Canada, U.S.&. O& B. America & Europe via Victoria
wind holds true and strong, and if
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and rough weather, he will in all Philippine Island, Australia, & New
Zeland via Thursday Island probability, see, when the gale subsides, a sight not easily ip be forgotten.
WHERE THE RHINE FLOWED. It is at such times as these. when the sand and shingle at the foot of the cliff- are swept away.Į that it is possible to CXAMITE the lowermost deposits of
the Cromer Forest Berl, laid
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PAUL REGENDANZ TROUBLE.
down by an ancient northerly rigid wildness of Nature, and to Man. 124. 11h 50m-Pressure extension of the present. Rhine, feel happy in his extended tramps has decreased considerably at which flowed through a wide along the coast in the company Shanghai, moderately at Chefoohallow valley new submerger of hooded crows and hovering
Seamen's-Union Want and lightly at the majority ofeneath the North Sea. In these sea-birds. To those to whom
deposits are to be found many these things appeal it is a great Offenders Punished. of other reporting stations.
roots and other portions of trees and lasting experience to stand
The Hongkong, Canton and The anticyclone has wackened. the bones of various kinds of upon the shore at East Runtos,
animals, and the great fint for example, when an on-shore Swatow Seamen's Union, accord- Fresh to moderate monsoon
made by the people who, in those incoming tide in foam and fury forwarded the following telegram will be held in the Parade and may be expected along the S.Echoppers, scrapers, and handaxes gale from the north is driving the ing to the Eastern Ti, accorde on Saturday 15th March at 3pm. Cost of China and over the far distant days hunted, and before it towards the cliffs. The to Mr. Hau Yuan, the Com-
lavel, and died in a land overflow- rusa of the wind and the roar of missioner for Foreign Affairs: -
others There will be classes for all kinds China Sea. of dogs, including cross-brcede Hongkong minfall for the 24 ing with game, and enjoying a the sea cannot fail to give rise to "Ho Ching-yung and and puppi, also litters of pup hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, warm and equable climate. When a realization of the ruthlessness 'joined the s.s. Paul Regendanz in pies. If sufficient entrietare re- 0.02 inch. Total since January a big scour of the beach takes of the forces of Nature, a realiz-Hongkong on January 4. The ostred there will he classes for 1st, 5.61 inches against an average indeed is hear, and the writer soos in the cliffs the impressive p.m. on January 19, while the place. the archeologist's bag may ation which is deepened when one ship left for Shanghai, and at 8
Oficer Commanding the Hongkong Defence Corps, a Show
cute also.
Entry forms may be had from the undersigned.
of 4.00 inches.
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
Forecast.
remembers one memorable orga-signs of ice-action in the past. For crew were at work on the vessel, the sion when no fewer than 250 at East Runton the seaward face which was anchored in humanly flaked flints-compris of the chiffs shows the most Whacgpod River, which is in jing chiefly fakes defached in the violent contortion of the strata your jurisdiction, the Captain, Fuh Ming, camed manufacture of implements-composing it, and contains huge a
man
the crew
District.
Entries close on Tuesday 11th inst. at 5 pm and intending com- patitors are notified that owing to the trouble in compiling the cata- 1 Formosa Channel N.E. winds, logue no entries can possibly be accepted after that date.
B. L. FROST.
Hon. Secretary & Treasurer, cio. The E. Ex. Telegraph Co.
BIG LEICESTER SCHEME. The people of Leicester are faced with 7. scheme which means the reconstruction of their city. As an expenditure of over three millions is involved, and the destruction of between
2 South coast
fresh.,
of
China between H.K. & Lamocks
3 H'kong to Gap | E. winds,
Rock....
moderate; fair.
4 South coast of
China between H.K. &Hainan
4. F. CLAXTON, Director. Hongkong, Mar. 12.
were recovered in the course of masses of chalk, carried along suddenly dismissed one winter morning. Above the and deposited there by the irres-and ordered them to leave the forest bed, and forming the high istable power of the ice of the ship. The men demanded an ex- planation, but none was given. cliffs of the Norfolk coast, areto Glacial Period.
be seen great masses of glacial Ent, though these things are Both the foreign and Chinese clays. Fands, and. gravels laid almost terrifying in their revela- [officere then used force in sa down by a vast iee-sbeet which tion of the immensity of natural attempt to drive the crew away, advanced from Scandinavia over forces, it is comforting and uplift some of the former opening fire the land now occupied by the Noing to know that man has, so far, on them, kining hio Ching-young. rth Sea. These glacial beds contain circumvented them, and has won severely wounding three and fint implements derived from de-through in safety. We see him slightly wounding others. These posits torn up by the slowly mov- all through the ages, from the severely wounded are now in a ing ice, and, if one is blessed with dim days of the Pliocene until critical condition.
"The dismissal of the crew a cool bead and physical fitness, now, gradually obtaining a con-.
a day upon the cliffs. results, trol over Nature, and by degrees without notice and the killing of generally, in a good haul of entering into his kingdom. And the seaman ara acts infringing specimens and a voracious and in this great struggle we see oar sovereign rights, and you are strong to оред not easily appeased appetite. clearly, by means of the discover requested
The archaeologist who goes tojies of archeology, what a re-negotiations with the Consular thee and four thousand dwelling quarters it is strong; but the houses, it might be expected that scheme seems to have a fair Cromer in the winter must be no doubtable part has been played Body, in order that the offenders Leicester would offer an exas chance of receiving the approval armchair scientist, nor one who by the early races of men whose may be punished and compensa- perated opposition to such re of & majority of the 99,000 has the gregarious habit strongly, vestiges now lis entombed in tion be paid to the families of quirements. Nothing of the sort. citizens who will probably be developed. He must be able to ancient strats beneath the earth's the murdered man, and the
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