AERATED "WATERS.
In view of the prevailing epidemic of TYPHOID, we take this opportunity to re- ssure our customers and the public generally of the absolute purity of our Aorated Waters.
All water used in the manufacture of our Aerated Waters is scientifically treated, and tested.
Our machinery and plant embodies all the latest scientific improvements, and the most hygienic methods and safeguards are employed in every detail of manufacture, ...
At no point during the entire process of manufacture is contamination in any way possible. At the present time all possible EX RA precautions are being taken, and we can guarantee that all Aerated Waters" as they leave our Factory are absolutely pure.
AS. WATSON & CO. LIMITED. Aerated Water Manufacturers,
Established 1841
Hongkong 25th July 1924.
we have emphasized all along. with exemplary propriety, but if uninformed meddling is to be allowed to take its course, the serious consequences are only too patent. Accordingly before that advisory committee which the
THE CHINA MAIT-
distinguished career as a cricketer.
Stirring, keen,' as desperately strong in individuality as in prowess was S. M. J. Woods. A big-hearted, big cricketer. Terrifie in his punishing powers was "the croucher," Gilbert Jessop, who always paid the best bowling was the easiest to hit.
And when she is graciously To-day's Poem.
willing
I test it, and lavishly praise; It runs like a hare in all weathers. And answers a touch of the
band,
But its whim of collecting hens'
feathers I can't understand i'
SATURDAY, JOLY 26 1924.
(Dreami Tragedies.)
Thou art not always kind, O sleep: What awful secrets thou dost keep In store, and ofttimes make us
know;
What hero has not fallen low In sleep before a monster grim,
Secretary of State for the Colonies of the professionals George HirstA. W. In the." Daily Chronicle." And whined for mercy unto him;
has appointed drafts its report let us hope the terrible lessons of Singapore and Manila will have been brought under its notice.
possessed the biggest personality, us cheery as Patsy Hendren today, but with "more punch" in him. Poor George Lohmann was the typical Englishman, "keen, clever, incisive, in every depart- Racing in Hongkong.!
ment desperately vitalized as is Varying estimates have been the case with those doomed to be made as to when Macao's race-shortlived. We all have a kindly course will, be ready and then, at memory of Johnny Briggs. what intervals race-days will be held. This year has seen many pleasing innovations in the long- kong turf-world,,, such as extra meetings in the place of gym- khanas, and the abolition of "stunt" events. With raure horse-
flesh coming South for the new race-course, it may be possible for
LIVING IT DOWN.
In a
century-old English naper the other day we came
across the articles of a Benefit Society in the West End of London. In the clause relating to persons dis-
LATEST
WILLS.
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אותינון
HOUSES CRASH.
BESULT OF THE HEAVY
.. RAINS.
NARROW ESCAPEs.
Continued heavy rain is believed to have been mainly responsiblo for the total collapse of two houses in Eastern Street shortly afternoon yesterday. Fortunately, all the occapants seemed to have been the buildings before the crash forewarned as they had deserted
came: There were no casualties.
the materiale came down with a resounding scho and dust filled the street for some minutes.
Knights, constables, and men-al- Major General "Sir Hugh McCalmont, of Have quailed and whined in sleep's 5. Carlow-place, alarms, Grosvenor square, We Thou wert not kind last night to formerly Conservative M.P. for > make North Antrim, one of the leading Me like a very coward shake-although something of a panic oc- figures in Irish turf circles, £84,038.
Sir Charles Henry Gibbs, of St. Shake like a thin red-currant bush curred in the neighbourhood when Saviour's-road, Brixton-hill, S.W. Robbed of its fruit by a strong retired insurance assessor, former thrush. Mayor of Lambeth, left £1,000 to1 felt this earth did move; more his housekeeper at the time of his slow. death and £25 to each clerk at And slower yet began to go: Messrs. Price and Gibbs. £38,991. And not a bird was heard to sing,
Mrs. Sarah Freeman Cohen, of Alen and great beasts were shiver-
John's St.
Wood-mad. N.W..
ing: directed that a Prayer Book be-All living things knew well thrt longing to her little daughter Florence and a shawl made by her This earth stood still, destruction should be buried in her coffin,
a regular autumn meeting to be qualified from membership ap- £30,581. "
Brigadier-Gen. Sir Hugh Archie
held next year. Friendly competi- tion from cur sister Colony Macao would add to the support needed to justify an autumn meeting. It
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Ltd. meeting in Hongkong, on the lines of an annual meeting in February, with Shanghai enthusiasts coming down to produce more excitement, The one difficulty is the avoidance of the clashing of dates. What would seem feasible is an annual autumn meeting in Hongkong after the Shanghai 'meetings.
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SOCIAL EVIL AGAIN.
Cricket Giants.
pears: "No lawyer, or lawyer's clerk, or any other dangerous Dundas Simpson-Balkie, late R. A., artificers!" There is, of course, of Devonshire-street. Portland- thing remarkable about that. place, W., a partner in the Stock The really surprising thing is that Exchange firm of Messrs. W. N. in the time which has since elapsed Middleton and Co., who died these dangerous artificers have while addressing a shareholders' continued to allay the suspicions meeting, left to his daughter of their fellows.
Evelyn a piece of the holy carpet of Mecca given him by the King The London of Hedjaz, £25,040. "Daily News" Mrs. Julia Mary Ady, of St. tells. a good Margaret's-road, Oxford, formerly
British of Ockham, Surrey, writer of his
torical memoirs, £21,612.
Mr. William Rea Edwards, of Eliot-vale, Blackheath, S. E,
GILBERTIAN.
story. In a district in East Africa a doctor acts as under- study to the magistrate. Both hav- ing broken the law by riding at night without a light, they agreed £12,271.. that each should be summoned before the other. The magistrate, taking precedence, tried the doctor and fined bin five rupees. Then the doctor tried the magistrate
NOT EVEN THEN.
A clergyman and one of his parish- foners were playing a round of golf, and
"Cheer, up, vicar," said his opponent brightly. you're dead out of form, that's all that's the matter with you."
The clergyman shook his head. "No,"
he said sadly and "I shall never be decisively. able to beat you....
The other laughed.
when
then
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די
Would follow with a mighty crash, Twas then I broke that. w. il
hush;
E'en as a mother, who does came Running in haste back to heri
home.
And looks at once, and lo, the
:child
She left is gone; and wild She shrieks and load so did I
"break
With a mind ery that dream, and
wake.
W. H. Davies.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
1667.
مين
"JULY 26.
It raining this day all day to our great joy, it having not rained. I think, this month before. so as the ground was everywhere so burned and dry as could be; and no travelling in the road or streets in London for dust.
-Pepys.
and fined him fifty rupees, He the former was being very severe The oft-repeated jeremiads of justified the heavy penalty byly defeated." As they returned to middle-aged sportsmen, who Teel- remarking: "This is the second the clubhouse the clergymanwas ingly declare that first class case of the kind to-day. Obvious- very silent. ericke is not what-it-wax," has 1x this.offence is becoming far too called, forth a spirited defence of common." modern cricket from the pen of Sir
The Admiralty's Home Gordon, Bart.. whose views: should prove of interest in local
ADMIRALTY exhibition at Wem- EXHIBITS. bley is worthy of cricket circles. Sir Home claims
a prolonged study, that if cricket in any branches is Those who wish-to-know how less excellent than it was, it can Trafalgar was actually won can only be in batting and bowling, see a wonderful reproduction of "Oh, well," he said, “you'll win So it is worth recalling what that this creat sea victory. Jutland, in the end all right. You'll be superb master, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, which was fought over an area burying me some day." H. H. the Jam Sahib of Nawana of several thousand miles, is too The clergyman, however, re-everyone shows his image. gar, said: "Batting is always only vast to present in a bird's eye fused to be comforted. just superior to the bowling it has view, but there are most interest- but even then-it'll be your hote." to meet. Therefore the better the ing and instructive reproductions bowling, the better will be the of other famous and historic sea battles. The historical section is
batting. The stars of the batting enriched with marvellous and Current Comment.
firmament were in the days of the giants of bowling."
priceless engravings. many of which have been loaned by Mr.
"Yes,
(Other People's Stories.). The more lovers of cricket think A. C. H. Macpherson from his An author, we are informed, has over this statement.. the more wonderful collection of mari declared his intention of writing a they will be convinced of its truth. time prints, upwards of 7000 inbeginning to. "Treasure Island." We lost the last rubber of Test number, which form a complete It is likely enough that the "streak Matches in England because our pictorial maritime history, not of Puck" in R. L. S. would have batsmen could not play the merely of England, but of the wished good luck to him, writes Australian fast bowlers. Why? world.
the London "Daily Telegraph." What may have to be said of the Because we had not fast bowlers of our own to pit against our
HOW LONG? magnitude and result we will not speculate till we see it. The continuator-if that is batsmen. The extra nip of pace
its methods the the right word for one who beging and great war was the most appalling before the beginning-proposes to. from Messrs. MacDonald Gregory was too much for our in the world's history. In range, explain how the treasure came to cricketers as was seen by the speed of fire, and explosive power be buried on the island. To us it exhibition England
at of their projectiles such guns were does not seem a very hopeful gave Nottingham.
never before known, while sub scheme, but We marines, gas,
Both in
Wis
its
15
VIGIL.
Behaviour is a mirror in which
-Goethe.
SHADOWS BEFORE,
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
July
ENTERTAINMENT 5..
26.- Coronet Robin Hood."
July 26-The Star Burglar by Proxy." July 25.- World Alimony."
July 26 Queen's "Poisoned Paradise."
Theatre
Theatre;
Theatre;
Each of the two houses-Nos. 36 and 88-comprise four floors; the ground floors are used as shops It and the others as tenements.
is stated that the buildings were declared to be dangerous some time before but effective shoring could not be put up in time.
Eastern Street runs straight up the hillside from Dès Vaux Road West to the Government Civil Hospital, and, the Diocesan Boys' School.]
MOORING BLOCK.
HONGKONG MAN'S INVENTION.
A
Today's Government Gazette announces that HE the Governor has granted the application of Mr. Charles Williain Mackenzie, of 7, Stanley Terrace, Quarry Bay, Hongkong, to use and publish, in the Colony for a period of nine. months from July 24 ab invention of "a concrete mooring block" without prejudice to the letters patent to be granted for the sald invention.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Captain and Bravet Major Hyland, M.C, R.E, returned from leave on Monday last.
Captain R D. Bennett M.C., of the Middlesex Regiment, is now in Shanghai_andry, according to Command Orders.
Departures by the" Taiyo Maru" yesterday included Mr. C. W. Bishop, Mr. W. Kay, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wildes, Rov. T. B. Powell, Mr and Mrs. Brogden and family.
Mr. G. M. Young left for Shanghai in the "Mantua. " Other passengers were Mr. C. G; Mackie. Mr. W. Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Nash, Mr. H. Birkett, Mr. W. H. Price, Mr. S. Williams,Mr. L.G. Matthews.
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To-day's "Government Gazette" contains the announcement of Lient. Comdr. G. F. Hole's appointe ment as Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate in succession to Comdr C. W. M. Beckwith, retired.
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Capt. W. G. Quinlan returned to "Malwa " Theatre; the Colony by the
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
Other passengers included Capt. de V. d'Arvieu, Mr. G. H., Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hathaway, Mr. L. Plant, Mr. W. Turner, Mr. J. Wall, Mr. F. Bail.
At the preliminary (E.) examina- officers were among those who
qualified and have been accepted for specializing in engineering H. J. B. Grylls, (H.M.S. "Durban) and W. T. Hindson, (H.M.S. "Hawkins.").
Mrs. Clift, the wife of Dr. Lechmiere Clift, gave her second address, on Missionary work in China, at the Helena' May Institute yesterday morning. Mrs, Clift dealt at some length with the missionary work carried on in the Nanning district. The meeting was, brought to a conclusion by a discussion as to what the mis- sionary's message means to China.
July 29-Lammert Bros., at recognise in Sales Rooins, lenses, belting, anti- and bombing it the secular desire of man to corrosive composition, etc., etc., Few will dispute that England
trace his stories back to earlier 11.30 an. still possesses excellent batsmen aeroplanes were terrors new to
But gunfire warfare.
To invent family July 29-Lammert Bros., at tion in March, the following naval and fairly useful bowlers. What legitimate risk of war, gas some histories which would account for their Sales Room, postage stamps,
a generations. is lacking is great personalities, times recoiled upon those who heroes being what unfortunately 5.15 p.m. There is only one in England discharged it, and aerial bombs they were is a natural impulse of COMPANY MEETINGS, to-day-Hobbs, and he has never often missed their marks unless the imagination. They did it in been quite the bat he was since airmen flew suicidally low. For ancient Greece; the Middle Ages September 16.---Extraordinary his operation for appendicitis: the threatened horrors of the next did it with the story of Arthur and general meeting of The China Personality is a wonderful asset in war there is no mitigation; and the Round Table. There is a tale Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the cricket not only has it a magical from them it appears there will be told of some hapless man who, Registered Office of the Company,
Dr. E. P. Minett, Dr. W. B. A. effect on the spectators, but also no escape. Recently we were told resolved that nobody should go Fedder Street, rbon.. on players of the opposing side of an electrical ray by means of back beyond his beginning, began October 3.--Second meeting of Moore, Dr. H. L. Clift, and Surg. The greatest of all personalities which armies may be destroyed in an epic on the fall of Troy by the China Sugar Refining Co., Lieut. Comdr. F. C. Hunot, R.N., have been appolated medical jany of us have ever seen was that a few instants; while yesterday's | recounting the origin of all life Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street officers under the Coroners Or
cables bring news of an aerial from the primeval egg. In our noon. of Dr. W. G. Grace. To the
dinance and are authorized to torpedo which, it is suggested. own time ingenious authors have October 13. Extraordinary Inquire into, deaths for the purpose younger generation, who never may be directed by wireless from tried to tell watched him play, it is difficult to great distances for the destruction Shakespeare's people were like
what some of General Meeting of Douglas S.8. of reporting to the Head of the "the corrupt influence has been so give any word-picture of the of objectives, however large. It is befo he not them into the Co., Ltd. at the Registered Office Sanitary Department
champion. Whoever else might useless to debate which of these is
of the Company,,20 Des Voeux tragedies. There is ancient acute that one can hardly distin-be in the match, "the Old Man"- the more infernal contrivance, but authority for the opinion that it is Road Central, noon.
October 20.-Third meeting of guish a real home from a house of as he was affectionately called-oither dwarfs into insignificance dangerous to walk within the
But The China Sugar Refining Co., ill-repute," Accordingly the was the dominating individual. all the frightfulnesses of the last circle Shakespeare traced police, medical
and sanitary He was the most appreciative international upheaval. How long we would not lay down a critical Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street,
judge of the merits of other is civilisation to stand an idle and law that an author's plot and noon. authorities are all insisting that cricketers, the best of fathers and powerless spectator while what characters are sacred, and that no November 5.-Further extra the present situation be remedied, husbands, and in his day he was should be beneficent selence Is band but bis must write of what ordinary meeting of Douglas 8.8. prostituted for the fashioning of Naturally reluctant though we and since it is physically as much a household name as such instruments for its da
struction? stan to touch upon an unsavoury impossible to do away with the Gladstone or Roberts.
"Ranji" is placed as the nearest Epic like the social evil again, we evil," the proposed ordinance pro personality to W. G. by Sir Home, cot forebear, in view of the vides for its regulation in a defined who adds that the Indian Prince pey grave issues involved, to district far from the public, "as a has himself confessed that he only make a few remarks about the preventive and prophylactic began where W. G. ended.
The man who has done most for movement now afoot in Manila to measure." The first provision of cricket in various parts of the have the “red light" district re- the ordinance authorizes the world, Is Lord Hawke, The one psed there, the more since the mayor to create the zone, the that Lord Hawke has always look- ons for this movement have a second to require that buildings, ed up to is Lord Harris. He looms wery strong lesson for Hongkong parks, streets, etc. shall conform a stern, dominant figure over the Last fifty years of cricket. Lord Arding to Manila papers just with the city engineer's plans, and Harris is the Michael of all the
ceived, a municipal ordinance the third to put the new law into cricketing angels. The boan submitted creating a effect as soon as the ordinance is of the next generation the e within the city limits which approved. Evidently Manila feels amateur who has exercised the alkali ba dedicated to the exclusive that drastic measures are needed most influence behind the scenes, we of Wars, saloons, etc., and to cope with the evil
il and that they the one whose tact ma a peace maker has healed: so many dis fr other purposes." The author should be enforced without delay. putes, is H. D. G. Leveson-Gower of the draft states that since the Taken alone Manila's experience in the eventful struggle of Test closing of the red light district, would be instructive enough for Matches the personality of F. S. Vice has increased not only in Hongkong, but coupled with Jackson will ever seem dominant. nila but also in the neighbour Singapore's lesson it amounts to The genius of his individuality is Especially is this the gravest warning. Hongkong shown in the fact that he alone has a greater average In Test orar districte where to-day conducts its social evil, as Matches than in the rest of his
The statement THE LITTLE that "there is no RIFT. car in oxistence which cannot be criticised in one or more respects provokes a "Dailly Chronicle" writer into verse as follows:-
The very last word in construc
tion Is Clipper's six-cylinder
"Flight," Unrivalled in breathing and
suction, ste With brakes that can bark and
The coachwork is simply luxurl
at
But one thing unleashes pay And renders Turlous The note of the horn 1
Miss Flapper's two-seater
ddily
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
went before or came after. Did Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Rood ever anyone like Ivanhoe" the Central, noon. worse because Thackeray con- tinued it? Does anyone wish the continuation had not been written? Fielding pretended that "Joseph Andrews" was! ecquel to “Pamela.“ But he only troubled to remember it at the begin- ning and the end, and It Squadron Leader MacLaren is by its own qualities that has reached Petropavlovsk, an "Joseph Andrews lives. In our Inland town on the Kamschatka own time we have had books Peninsula, Siberia. continuing the history of some of the families, in Dickens to the
Capt. T. G. Eldridge, retiring from the Maritime Customs service, was a through passenger on the "Malwa." Other through passengers were Lieut. Godlow Jackson, RN, Lieut. E. C. House, Mr. J. L. Wilson, Mr. W. N. A. Smalley, Mr. H. J. W. Adamson, Major R. H. Smith, Major and Mrs. To-day's Government Gazette D. E. Randall, Mr. and Mrs. two the century. But it is inevit announces new parcel post rates C. D. Jackson. able that such an enterprise should for Lithuania, Newfoundland, St: keep little of the originals but the Pierre and Miquelon and Tunis. ‚'Dr. Arthur H. Smith, author of
names. When Thackeray wrote a
of eighteenth-century Warringtons
:
there was small family likeness The Hung Shun Steamship between them and the George Company, Ltd, is given three Warrington of Pendennis It months in which to show why 'does not seem probable that except should not be struck off the by way of burlesque, much good register and dissolved. -- is to be done by writing first sets
"Chinese Characteristics" who has
long been associated with the work of the American Board Mission celebrated his 79th birthday rou cently at Tungchou, surrounded [by a throng of friends and well- wishers. Dr. Smith came to China 30 years ago and was first stationed Later he was', in
or list acts to other people's stories. The Italian aviator, Locatelli, left in Tlentain.
is to genius all things and possibles Plea yesterdaymorning for London Fangchang. Shantung, for many but gonius generally prefers not to old Manelles, Lausanne and years, and faally moved to Tung-
More 'tricks than a brondo "it / borrow unless it can so glorify the Rotterdam" and will attempt a chou where he has been during the
thrilling
plays...
borrowed goods as to cancel the trans-Atlantic flight to New York last decade. debt