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CATHOLIC LECTURE.

FATHER BYRNE ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

A lecture on "Science and Re ligion" was given by Father G.; Byrne. S.J., at St. Patrick's Hall inst evening, this marking the first of a series to be given during the remainder of this month and the carly part of next.

The following were some of the main points touched on by the lec- turor:

the

VITAL STATISTICS.

BRITAIN'S HIGHER BIRTH RATE IN 1928.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

London, Jan. 23. In England and Wales during 1928 the birth rate was higher and the death rate lower than in the previous year, and the figures for infant mortality were the lowest ever recorded.

The birth rate was 16.7 per thousand of the population, which la 0.1 per thousand above that of 1927.

live births. British Wireless,

THURSDAY,

JANUARY 24, 1929,

DYNAMITE STOLEN. CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. CONSIGNEES NOTICE.

ARMED ROBBERY AT NGÀU

SHI WAN..

In the small hours of yester- day morning, a band of four men broke into a magazine where dynamite was stored on the hill- side at Ngau Shi Wan, and stole a quantity of explosives and de- tonators valued by the owner, a rond contractor, at $33.

After the men had escaped, the watchman freed himself from hie bonds and at about 9 o'clock made rather belated report of the affair to the local police station.

It is understood that no arrest

has been made.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

FROM MIDDLESBRO LONDON, STRAITS & PHILIPPINES.

The Steamship,

"BENVRACKIE”

Consignees of Cargo are hereby landed at their risk into the hazardous informed that all Goods are being and or extra hazardous Gedowns of The liongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd,, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undeliverd after the 26th inat. will be subject to rent, All claims against the steamer, must be presented to the Undersigned on will not be recognized. or before the 9th Feb, 1929 or they

JAVA PACIFIC LIJN.

From SEATTLE; SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES.

The Steamship,

"BINTANG" VOY, 4.

P. & O. BRITISH-INDIA, APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND) Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading for Straits, lava and Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, E. &'S' Africa, Australasia, including, How Zealand & Queensland Ports, Bed Son, Egpyt, Constantinople, Greece, Levantine, Portu- «Krope, Etc.

having arrived from the above porto, PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMIRA. notified that all goods are consignees of cargo by hor Are boing landed at their risk into the hazardous

(UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT;). and/or extra-hazardous godowns of the Chinn Provident

8. 8. Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves deilvery may be ALIPORE obtained.

MOREA. Goods not cleared by the 80th KIDDERPORE January, 1920, will be rent,

subject to Cargo only.

1

..Tona

From. Hong-

kong (about)'

Destination

5,273

31st Jan. | Straits, Colombo & B'bay

10,953

2nd Feb. Bombay, M'les & London

5,334

7th Fob. Straits, Colombo & Bombay

Fyrens, Bmyrna and other Levant Parts by Steamers of the Khedival Mail 8. 8. Ús, Frequent connections from Port Said for Passengers & Cargo to Constantinopis

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS

packages are to be loft in the go

All broken, chafed and damaged downs, where they will be examined Goods are to be left in the Godowns, Hongkong.

All broken, chafed, and damaged a.m. by Medars, Goddard & Douglas, DALGOMA | 5,953 | 24 Jan. 2.30 p.m.

on the 29th January, 1929, at 16

where they will be examined on the 25th fast at 10 am. by Messrs.be presented in writing within ton

SHIRALA Claims against the steamer must SANTHIA Goddard and Douglas.

wise they will not be recognized. days after arrival of steamer, other-

TILAWA TAKLIWA

No Fire Insurance has been effected."

Bill of Lading will be countersign ed by,

CIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.*

Agents,

longkeng, January 19, 1920.

by the undersigned in any

No Fire Insurance will be effected CABO

whatever.

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1929,

Agents,

27th Jan.

S'pore, only

7,841

Straits, Rangoon & Calcutta

7.754

alat Fob....

10,006

7th Feb.

7,986 i

12th Fob.

Sporo, Fenang & Calcutta S'poro, Penang & Osloutta

B'pore, Panang & Caloutta

B. I. Apoar Line steamers have excellent accommâdation for 1st and 2nd class pasyengore. All steamors are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon,

BASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) AKAPURA 6,000 1.1st Feb. 1929. (Manila, Sandakan, Thurs, TANDA

6,656 1st Mar. Island, Townsville, B'bans ST. ALBANS 4,500

30th Mar. (Bydney and Melbourns. *Calls Port Holland.

Provious to this they entered a matshed occupied by a man em- Years ago, Herbert Suveneer:

ployed by the contractor to watch The death rate was 11.7 per over the store. Rousing him, they wrote "Of all antagonism of be thousand, or 0.6 lower than the demanded lief, the oldest, the widest,

the keys of the most profound, and the most Im death rate was 65 per thousanding the point of a dagger into his previous year; and the Infant magazine, at the same time stick- portant is that between religion and science."

stomach. He was not to be daunt- Five years after Spencer's death Sir Oliver Lodge in hypotheses, he is philosophis-the keeping of a clerk who lived ed, and lied that the keys were in wrote: "I think that it will be ading. His hypothesis is worth the elsewhere. -mitted that orthodox science at proofs by which he can substan-search, they found the keys in his However, after a present, though it shows Bomate it, nothing more.

belt and used these to make an signs of abstaining from virulent Science and Hypotheses. entry into the magazine. criticism of religious creeds, is

There is clearly a difference be- still a long way from contributing tween Science and hypotheses put In any degree to their support... forward in the name of Science No doubt both sides would allow which Professor Bateson lamenta that the highest Science and the ed na "giving to the ignorant as a truest Theology must ultimately gospel, in the name of science, be mutually consistent and hur the rough guesses of to-day that monious; but they are far from to-morrow should forget." and presenting that appearance at prestill more strongly Huxley whened "Religions." Here we enter, sent."

he said, "The assertion that out-at once, into a world of conclu Spencer is known as a philose strips the evidence is not only ations and hypotheses similar to derived by false philosophising on pher, Lodge as a scientiat; whers blunder but a crime." does the Theologine come

that of the Scientists who, leaving the part of a group of Scientists. If the phyalologist or the an- aside scalpel and The answer to that question would thropologist objects that he finds begin to philosophiae. We can Religion there are a great variety ly sit down to consider what is

Amongst those who believe in microscope, thrown flood of light of what no trace of a spiritual soul in the quite conceive opposition here bo- very distinguished scientist

of religious beliefs, many cells of the brain, the clear re-tween

of meant by Religion and what can our own days, Sir Bertram Win joinder is that if he had found tista: quite a different thing than Amongst the professed votaries of would, perhaps, happily cease to Ineologians and Scien-which are mutually destructive. be really claimed by Science, they dle. F.R.S., calls one of the most traces it would astonishing paychological pheno spiritual, for the very concept of Science. If in the official creed of mutually destructive thought au Religion and Science, and they not have been opposition between Religion and Science there exist equally schools talk about the opposition between mona of our time, the belief.pirituality implies that it could of a certain Religious acct it be a study of the question of Evola- would in so far have helped the namely, that there could be up not be spread out over or locked embodied as an article of faith tion would show. Does all this cause of peace in our poor world, position between real religion and up in matter. If now he asserts that. man came into existence ex- real science. We stress the word that the arrangement of the cell actly four thousand

prove that either Religion is bank so rent and torn by the number- real. For the heart of the pro-is sufficient to explain thought he fand, on the other hand,

your'r ago1upt or Science is played out? leas disagreements of its children blem lies there. The fact is that has gone beyond his experiments, thropologists,

a Clearly not, but it shows that false to-day. Religion and Science are aceupl-for his microscope did not show Keith, claim over three hundred on behalf of Religion, and mis-clared.-If the series of lecturca as Sir Arthur prophets have pretended to speak In concluding, the lecturer de- ed with completely different bran-hins ells thinking. He is phila- and fifty thousand yours for the guided or over-hasty votarica have which we have undertaken ches of knowledge and their mesophising and other evidence is existence of man, there is clear ventured to speak on behalf of thods of investigation are differ-demanded than that of his labora-opposition but between

on PADUA what is considered a burning topic | TAKADA ent. The word Selence is used tory..

what? Science. Error can quarrel with help, ever so slightly, this ideal, new-a-days to represent the re-

Religion and Selence? No! but error, but truth in any order of we shall consider any trouble or MACEDONIA sulta achieved by the study of na-existing between man and God.

Religion simply means the bond between a view erroneously put thought cannot possibly be oppostime spent upon then amply re-TANDA tural 'events. Moa, called selen-,

forward by a religious sectored to truth. If men would calm-warded. The theologian is the official ex-

TALAMBA tists, devote their lives to examin-ponent of Religion, as the Sciert ing the inets which can be obsery-tist is of Science. He proves the ed in natural occurrences, tabula-existence of God and examines the

ICargo only. ting and arranging these facts, rature of God by methods much and to trying to find out their more similar to those of the

in?

causes and their various effects, mathematician than to those of the So the botanist will study botanist. He studies the Con- plants, the entomologist insects,nexion between God and man. the astronomer the stars. Each From the mere fact that this boy has his own branch of study and the son of those

parents, a his method of work. The results bond exista: on, the part of the of one are quite different from boy, dependence, with an oblig those of the other. The entomb-ins to translate it into Alial logist will not laugh at the con- piety. So, if there be a God as the clusions of the astronomer about theologian coneniven Him, there perihelion because his microscope arises on the part of nun a rela- showed no perihelfon in a' cock-tionship towards Him as definite ranch. "Obvious!" you will say, as that between the buy and His because cockroaches and planet parents, This relationship finds. are quite different things. It expression in Religion. ought to be equally obvious

one

None of the natural Sciences considering Religion and fell me anything directly about Science that there could be ao ap- such a God. They are all occupied position between them, as they deal with facts of the material or with different concepts. If the der. They have no machinery. astronomer begins to theorise nor do they pretend to have, for about the possibility of a cock-renetrating into an order where ranch existing in Hongkong, be-molecules and atomi cause of the earth's perihelion, he found.

at once joins battle with the en-

are not

World of Conclusions, tomologist, but he has ceased to It is quite a different question talk as scientist; he is indulging when we come to what are call-

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Saturday 9th Feb..

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Wednesday, 20th Feb

Tango Maru ...

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Anyo Maru

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Bingo Maru...

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Tatsuno Maru

Atago Maru

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Monday, 28th Jan

Sunday, 27th Jan. Saturday, 2nd Feb

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