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broaden the basis of responsibility by calling in unofficial help. What more reasonable than that the same principle should be re- cognised not merely in time of emergency, but year in and year out?

DAY BY DAY.

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MORE MEN FAIL AS PREACHERS BY A DISPLAY OF LEARNING THAN BY A LACK OF IT-Dr. Alfred Rowland.

The B. I, s.s, Tilawa, from Singa- pore, is due here on the 17th in stant.

The Constitutional Reform movement of some years ago, aim- fng at the creation of an Unofficial It is notified that at the expira- Majority, is dead. In the form tion of three months the Lea Wing Company, Limited will, unless causo which it took, it could not persist, is shown to the contrary, be struck because there are good and ade-off the register and the company will quate reasons why the Official be dissolved. Majority should be retained.

The latest addition to the list of That, however, is no reason why medical practitionors is Dr. Allston some better system of selecting Gourdin, No. 6BB, Nathan Road

Kowloon, Bachelor of Medicine and our Unofficials should not be de Bachelor of Surgery of the Univer- vised. But that is another ques-sity of Hongkong, " tlon. In the meantime, we expect to

The following forthcoming mar- see the popular demand for a Municipal Council growing in inriage is announced. Mr. Charles Joseph Noronha, No. 224, Vite tensity. A public meeting on the Cruz, Manila, to Haze) McIntyre subject, followed by a petition to Sell, No. 1118, Maple Avenue, Los

Angeles, California. the Secretary of State, would pro- bably be productive of good re

RECORD BREAKERS.

Som Feats of the Past Recalled ·

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"The desire to break records Hos; was Intenac Faster and faster very near the hearts of men; and clippers were demanded, and built. it is well that this is so, for, if Records were constantly mado, nobody broke records, there would and as constantly broken, notably, be but little progress. To break by the ships of that master build- a record is to do something better er, Donald McKay. The McKay than it has been done before, fllers enjoyed an unrivalled ropata- specifically in the fields of trans- tion, and spread their white wings portation and sport. This is be to the wind first in the Californian cause these fields are the only ones and later in the Australian gold "in which achievement cun justly rushes. Their very names are a be measured in terms of time and chronicle of achievement: Flying space. To paint a picture faster Cloud, Sovereign of the Seas, Fly- than anyone has ever painted, or ing Fish, Great Republic, Light- to paint more pictures, or bigger pictures, may break a record, but ing, James Baines each renown- it does not sot a new standard, fored for some signal triumph, each the excellence of painting is not a record breaker in her own right. so judged. But to run a Mara- Their stories read like sagna,

Two continents looked on thon, or fly a plane, or sail a ship farther or faster than anyone has ever done is definitely to excel. breathlessly at the accomplish In these fields, broken records im-manta of these vessels and the prove upon the past, challenge the daring of the man who called future, and go. a step toward them. A new code of navigation "A reception is to be held at No. breaking down human limitations, followed the new type of ship Recently, the world has become The hoary custom of shortening 1,000,000 Bults. Is it too much to hope, that 1, Park Road on the 20th instant, used to record-breaking perfor-sals at night and during high on the occasion of the 70th birth-mances, but, with fow exceptions, winds, followed since men beran day of Mr. Fung Ping-than. His they have been limited to the air. to go to sea, went, Uterally, over- Excellency the Governor has sign- The achievement of the Bremen, board. The clippers carried' all fied his intention of being present. therefore, comes unexpectedly. salls set for weeks at a time, day

Since the Mauretania established and night, blow or calm, and brav Security Convention.

At the Crown Lands Office of her record, there has been little ored the Horn with a quantity of the P.W.D., there will be sold by no competition for speed on the canvas which would have brought While it might be said that a suction on the 30th Instant, Now high seas. For twenty years pea- the stoutest seaman's heart to his few doubts still exist, the explana-Kowloon Inland Lot 1280. Situated ple have been content to jog across mouth a few years before. One tion given at Geneva by Sir Henry at Shamshiupa, it has an area of the Atlantic at the rate of no more can inngine the exultant pride of day, her crew when a great clipper, her about 5,100 square feet, and the than 676 nautical miles a Strakosch, of the League's pro- upset price is $7,650,

consuming at least five long days canvas spread before a spanking. on the way. Meanwhile, speed in breeze, bore down upon some vessel. posal to grant financial assistance

overland travel has been steadily of the old school, cautiously mark- to States should they become the

Mr. J. Owen Hughes replied to increasing, until we are now able ing time under double-roofed victims of aggression has endowed the toast of "Sovereign and Dis to cross North America in two tope is until the blow should be the scheme with a much more trict Grand Lodge Officers" at the days. The airplane and raffroad past. The running rigging was

Few Installation meeting of the United have made this possible; and now acceptable appearance.

Empire Ladge, No. 3869, London, the ship, not to be outdone, accele frequently ordered padlocked, so imagined, with the Evening at which were present many dis-rates her pace. She, toc, makes up that the more timid of the crew Standard, that the main purpose tinguished visitors from over of the proposed Convention was seas a pledge of British guarantees to

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A HEALTHY SIGN.

of

some of our leading public men will set the ball rolling?

Count

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in

her mind to co-operate with the could not take in sail when the plane, and reduce ocean crossing masts threatened to go down be to a mere matter of but who shall fore a howling gale. And thess. The hearing of a charge of in-set a limit? She supports her daring practices were not so fool- decent assault sgainst C.. J. At-claim with a signal achievement, hardy as they sound; for they were chim of the Cosmopolitan Dock, and the race for ocean supremacy coupled with an increased know- A "new era in transatlan-ledge of navigation, by virtue of was concluded before bir. T. S. ia on,

which the great clippers consist Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Mutic passenger service" begins.

ently discharged their valuable gistracy yesterday when the defen-

Those words have a familiar cargoes in perfect order, as well. dant, whose case was taken camera, was sentenced to four sound to one acquainted with as record time. A captain who months' hard labour.

American maritime history. For rendered outstanding service to hardly more than seventy-five the owners of his ship was fre- years ago, just such an era dawned, quently presented, after some not an era of hitherto unparalleled able voyage, with a "handsome set achievement on the sea,, from of plate.” which the feat of the Bremen, and

Many of these record breakers similar feats yet to be performed, of the past hold laurels which no are a direct outgrowth,

ships of sail have succeeded in Prior to 1845 nobody hurried, taking from them. In 1851, the especially at sea. A fast pas Flying Cloud astonished the world

Observatory returns show that during August the average mean temperature was 81.1, the highest being 90.5 and the lowest 74.8. There were 179.8 hours of sun shine and 20.02 inches of rain, him the average velocity was 117 whilst humidity 85. miles per hour, on the 22nd.

The

bolster up small States in event "It is a refreshing and healthy of war, but at first glance, there unnececary sign of the times that during the appeared to be an past week very free use has been contribution by the League to the doctrine that provision for war made

the correspondence

is the best deterrent. That im columns of the Press for the pur-pression has not been entirely pose of calling attention to the

saving dispelled, but there is a Colony's needs. Save for such in

grace in the international charac- clination as the Unofficial Memter of the proposed Convention, bers of the Legislative Council and from a financial standpoint may show, at periodical meetings we see little cause for criticism. of that body, to represent the Lord Cecil puta the case for its views of the community to the acceptance in a nutshell in saying Government, the Press is the only in other words, that such a posi-

sage from New York to Liverpool consumed, at best, three or four by running from New York to medium through which the public tive step towards security should

weeks; the return journey took San Francisco in eighty-nine days, twenty-one hours; three years can make its voice heard. That enable a reduction of armament

A generous gift to the new longer. One hundred and sixty is so by reason of our peculiar programmes throughout the na- Building Fund of a four per cent days, or more than five months, later she broke her own record by form of government, which makes tions of the world. And normally Funding Loan Bond for £1,000, was considered a good run from thirteen hours, and this time has

with interest coupons thereon, bas New York to California. Progress not been equalled since. very little provision for the expres-this would be perfectly logical. beer made by Mr. T. H. White- had been made since the days of Sovereign of the Seas, another sion of public opinion. The taak The anag, however, is exposed by head, a Life Fellow, Hon. Corres- the Mayflower, necessarily, but at lightning flier, bettered all pre- Bernstorff, who finds ponding Secretary of the Royal no time was it either swift or vious Atlantic crossings, twice which falls to the newspapers, here nothing wrong with the financia! Colonial Institute at Hongkong spectacular. Then suddenly, from beating the Cunard Line's prize The James is not an easy one, and at times, side of the scheme, but foresees years in the service of the Char the ery for speed arose. The ocean Baines and Lightning, of the cele

from 1895 to 1902, and for 48 the awakening ambitions of men, steamer to port. when taking up questions of real

destructive difficulties in itstered Bank of India, Australia and had been conquered; it was no brated "Clipper Quartette" built local importance, doubts intrude political application. For the China, in recognition of the im- longer a fearful and mysterious by Donald McKay for James as to whether the public really protection of the signatories, portance of the work of the Royal opponent. Trade, passenger travel, Bainess' Australian line, both hold But we are encouraged whose credit is involved to fortify Empire Society, and of the accce- and Immigration were increasing unchallenged records. The Light

eity for enlarged premises.

by leaps and bounds, Gold was ning achieved the swiftest day's when, as at present, there is that of a borrowing country, it is

discovered in California. Time sailing ever logged-436 miles in evidence of widespread interest inlaid down that the Council of the

The offices of the Supreme Court became precious, and people twenty-four hours and the Baines the Colony's problems.

League of Nations shall be the will be open daily from 10 am, to clamoured for ships that would the highest authenticated speed One fact which has struck us sole arbiter of the question as to 1 p.m. during the Long Vacation, take them where they wanted to going 21 knots with main skysail forcibly during the past week is which of two disputants is the except on Publle and General Holi- go, and take them in a hurry. set, as her log tells us.

offices entire- Shipbuilding had hardly forcibly during the past week it aggressor, and that their decision days, when the once will be when in 200 years. From the Stuarts The Great Republic, registering shall be unanimous. As Count they will be open from 10 am to to Victoria, halls and rigging had 4555 tons, stands as the largest Bernstorff says, it is going to be a noon, subject however; to the pro- remained practically the same. and finest sailing ship ever built. putable citizens who have a stake most difficult and unenviable task visions of section 5 of the Supreme Even the fastest vessels were Her equal in beauty, strength, and

Court (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, round of bow and broad of beam.

(Continued on Page 7.)* in the Colony and who want to see to define an aggressor, and the so far as it relates to the Criminal The greatest breadth was forward, it progress. Obviously, they have size of the Council will not make Sessions. The Long Vacation com- and a ship at her launching rough-mum not written merely for the sake of it any easier. If possible another mences on the 20th September, and ened the water like a small tem writing. They have, to use an solution should be found, though terminates on the 17th October, pest. This type of bull was con- WHO WAS-? (both days inclusive)..

sidered indispensable to carrying capacity and safety, and, as such, fixture; until in the early forties, when the cry for speed could no longer be ignored, a young New Yorker named John Willie Grifiths presented the model of the first clipper ship for consideration.

cares,

in letters to the Telegraph are re-

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feel that failure to find satisfactory formula should not destroy the Convention as a whole Its existence might, at least, cause bellicose States to "count twenty before venturing a disturbance of

EXCHANGE RATES.

Americanism, felt the urge to ex« press their convictions on subjects in which they take a lively inter- eat. True, they have indulged in considerable criticism of Govern- |ment projects, but sane and con- the pesce.

structive criticism ought never to be resented. Rather should it be

welcomed as evidence of the exist ence of a growing civic spirit. In conversation, also, we have been pleasantly surprised to find people Paris

Brussels more ready and anxious to discuss

Amsterdam local government than to indulge Berlin In idle gossip. People are asking. Copenhagen and with much reason, why Hong- Vienna

Helsingfore kong cannot have its Municipal Lisbon... Council, just as Singapore and Bucharest. Ceylon have. They argue that if Buenos Airco these other Crown Colonics can Shangbai

Yokohama find a place in their scheme of New York government for a municipal body, Geneva there is no reason why Hongkong Milan.

Stockholmr @hould not do likewise. Thera is

Osló nothing revolutionary or

even Prague novel in this idea; nothing that Madrid the Government should view with Athens disfavour. Rather should the au

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thorities encourage feeling Hongkong which betokens a desire to share Silvor (spot) in civic activity. In the water Silver (forward) erdale, the authorities saw it to

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The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended Saturday last, issued by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, contains the following cases, the numbers in parenthesis indicating deaths: Plague, Alexandria 2 (1),

Some time previously, small two- Bassein 1 (1), Moulmein masted vessels (brigs) had been Rangoon (2), Colombo Bangkok (1), Pnom Penh 1 (1) Saigon 1; Cholera, Calcutta (15), Karachi (4), Pnom Penh 2 (2), Canton 1 (1) Shanghai (23), New. London, Sept. 18.

chwang 1, Osaka 18, Shimonoseki 123.9052, Swatow (1): Small-pox, Aden 34.872 Bombay 5 (3), Calcutta 7 (7), 12.094 Cochin 1. Karachi 6 (6), Madrag ..20.36 14 (4), Moulmein 1 (1), Negapa .18.205 tam 1, Pondicherry 2 (2), Batavia

.3443 1(1), Macasser 5 (1).

STORM DAMAGE.

.102%

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.818 .4.7/32

...2/34

1/11%

4.84 11/16 ..25.16

TERRIFIC WIND STRIKES FRENCH COAST.

:92.695.

.18.10

Toulon, Sopt, 13. Enormous damage was done by

PEER GYNT.

Peer Gynt is celebrated in the folk legends of, old Nor- way, and even If you have not heard of him, it is almost cer tain that you carry in your memory some fragments of music associated with his fame, for he has been made the subject of a very fine- opera by Greig,

This famous character, who represents the tragic failure of restless ambition unrellév- ed by spirituality, has been immortalled by Ibsen, the

built on the same slender, lines that Griffiths incorporated Into his model. These brigs were found to be very swift, and were used to elude pursuit in various legal activities. But it was not thought possible to apply these theories to a full-rigged ship until Griffitha came forward with his daring sug-Norwegian dramatist, in his gestions. His model roused a storm of opposition in shipbullit ing circles. She was too long, too narrow, and carried too much can- vas to be seaworthy. If bullt, she would founder inimidocean. But,

dramatic poem "Peer Gynt"

A sensualist and a man of overwhelming arrogance, Peer Gynt wanders over the sur- face of the earth experiencing many adventuros, indulging in

In spite of these ominous predic-much licence, but without at-

tions, Smith and Dimon's shipyard built and launched, in 1815, the

taining the happiness of his dreams until he returns

first full-rigged clipper ship Rainwearied and disenchanted, to bow--and a new era in ocean travel dawned indeed, A

The Rainbow did not founder in midocean. She was safe and sea-

.18.205 a terrific storm yesterday at noon-worthy. She set a record for

193

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The wind smashed shop win-, .82.876 dowa, tore down trees and tole 876 graph poles, and ripped off roofs..

A great tidal wave swept the .1/5.8/16 Quays, which are now littered with

household debris ..1/113⁄4 23.11/16

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-British" Wireless.

Scores of houses and farms were destroyed, while the vineyards suffered havoc, and roads are blocked Reuter.

speed, and dazzled the world with the prospect of what sharp bows and slender hulle beneath a wide, spread of canvas might achieve,

the mistress he deserted years before, and at lóng last dis- covers love.

Peer Gynt is a kind of northern Faust, and it you should happen to soe his name used in an allegorical sense you will know that tho author's intention is to depict a man caten up with restless ness, whose only chance of salvation lies in the finding

Ita maritime ambitions thus quickened, the world set to work in earnest. Shipbuild ing. Increased at a pheno-]-of love. mensal rate, and rivalry between nations, cities, and shipyards |