MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1925.
LAMMERT BROS. G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD
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Public Auctions
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Coral and Storage of waberin reservoles
on the 1st February 1985-
ÜZEY AND IKIL DINTRIOT WATER WORKS LIVIL.
1
194
1025
!
TIA 1. Hajow 19%, in. Below averflow
Tham Bywa
de, Bulose perdore JM. D, Halow orchow Am SatopmNĚN
Jesel with lot. Sin. Below avardow
Pyar Tuck 12. dr.
Bw who
Wang Yan 1% 1
7
!.
Jelit, din, Dalume ovatdow
6. Below nertow Lakit. Ipla. Below overdow Cming Mad
Bjær omakor
19Ln, Below overfow
VYUMAS, 11 MILLINES', AND DROIMATE OP GALLO
192.
Mu:24
Trim Dyewash
Tysam Introndhje me
155,
103.78
Iviam Tulceannas sede
100 K32
Wane Nel Chant
18.2
H SV
1,700.73
'1,342.47
Pokfulam
and
KNO
Trial 900
Consumpoon of water in the Oly !!! District is millons and decimale
¡SANITARY ENGINEERS, etc
Offices and China Building Showroom Queen's Road Central, Tel. C. 269, Hongkong
SANITARY GOODS,
FIRE GRATES,
COOKING STOVES, FLOOR & WALL TILES.
Estimates Free for Heating
Installations, Hot and Cold Water Systems, etc.
Collection of Postage Stamps.
Mounted in Books containing both
Mint and used Stamps..
af gallons during the month of January,
TOKL TAL Jossumption
?MEL $2.20 m. g email: popular_141 377,649 37,4 Optica per
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21.Ballons
500 Stamps, all different, for $4 1,000
do.
A
• Constant Sopply in all Rider Main Districts during January 1994,
Constant Supply in all Rider Main Districts East of Eastern Street during January 1915 and Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts West of Eastern stred during January 1926 ox- cepting a dose (ind to 14th Inclusivo)
• v-ben a Comment Supply was turned on
scount of Chincer New Year..
1,500
do.
8 18
2,000
do:
30
3.000
do.
50
4,000
do.
75
5,000 10,000
I do.
do..
-100 500
KOWLOOK MATSU WORNA LEVEL. 11.
།"3 Kamion Grat. la. Below, 1981. Bin, Dalow
stoso... DVNDOW
STORAGE JA KILIOJE AND DYDINÁLA IN BALLONA,
1994
1050 DO TATAYA, T
Loserval...
.
230,-
Touyamption of water in Kowloon in illions and Adrasla of gallons during the math of January.
Caption
MA.C
Keilmaleć populasin ... 143,440) * Dynetaption per 3d ||
140
T
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34449
13.8
1.8
10
Tall Suppy lo all districts during January 1914 and 1985.
Tad Goronment. Anslyst'a' recont re- ports show the quality of the water" is satisfacti
Total Rainfall lo:25
1924,
Jan. 16 la
1096.
4.34 10,
H. T. URNASY.
Water Authority.
Pabllo Works Deperipank
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.
Chá, following unclaimed telegrams are lying at the office of The Great Northem Talograph Company (limited)
Haiphong, from Shanghai
Souza from Shanghai
Ellites from Shanghai
Phasmore from Amoy
Purio from Tuckahón New York
Kelly, Fifty-one Hollywood Road
from Shanghai
Yahoo from Kuruma
• Retransmised from Shanghai Eaton
from Bradford
Nam Seng Co. 90 Des Voeux Rosd
West from Amay
Kwong Cheng from Koba
Ma Wan-ming Kwong Tai Loy from
Shanghai
han Kaiyin 2nd floor Shumecipo
15 Hospital Siret from Shanghai,
Chin Kee from may
Chen Ting Tong Leong Man-ring
from Arogy
Kwong Thi Loy Chan, Keo Fun Lau.
'from Shanghai'
4382, from amoy.
2. V. JESSEN,
Saperintendent Hongkong Station 8th Jazusry, 1925,
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EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ASIA & OWNA TELEGRAPH CO,
int of unsaimed telegrama lying in E. E. Tolagrach Office, Hongkong.
Compress from Batavia
Dateibe from Bolhoa Heights Edmondson La Prague Tyne Dock
from
Mahomeden fra Wyneberg Cape Virella from London
M. E. F. ATRET,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, 8th Januvy, 1925.
Full Satisfaction Guaranteed. GRACA & 00,
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Hongkong, March 30, 1914.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WORLD
ATHLETICS.
"LEAGUE OF NATIONS'
EFFORTS."
The League of Athletic Nations is developing through the endeavours of the Americas Amateur Athletic
Union.
Two national sprinting cham pions. C. W. Paddock of California, and Loren Murchison of New Jersey, are the emissaries who will carry America's invitation to for eign lands this year, with exhibi-
tions in Hawaii, New Zealand. Australia, Japan, Germany and Sweden and perhaps elsewhere, a step described by Murray Hulbert, president of the A.AU., as a true linking of the peoples.
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Meanwhile, leading athletes of the United States are preparing to jump the Panama Canal in renewed effort to link the Americas. Within two years the A. A. Us special committee for cementing athletic ties with South America hopes to have the best of the two continents meeting in competition. Mexico has proved a safe ground for American advance, at least in the field of sport. Basketball, boxing, and even baseball, as developed in the United States. have found root in the little re- public, with the capital the centre of activities. The Mexico City Y.M.C.A. has
.a native basketball team on a tour that ene compassed New England, and the International YMCA: College of Springfield, Mass., is sending ane of the best teams of gymnasts in the United States to the Mexican capital this winter.
sent
Manager J. J. McGaw of the New York Giants promises to carry professional baseball into the heart of South America after
the pennant races next season and he again will attempt the conver sion of Europe. But the invasion of South America at this time ap- pears to be the most interesting professional step in the upbuilding of friendly relations.
OF SPORT.
RACING.
GOOD RIDERS SCARCE
..IN AMERICA.
Most of the capable jockeys have been signed up for this season says a San Francisco message of January 15. There is a dearth of good riders and not nearly enough
GOLF.
BALL · PIRATES WORRY
MANILA PLAYERS.
.Conditions at the Municipal Golf Lioks at the present time are such, the "Manila Times" says, that it is an ordeal rather than a pleasure to play a round there, and as a result to go round. There are now hundreds of Manila golfers, unable several large stables without for financial reasons to join one of riders for this year and they have the golf clubs are giving up the little prospect of getting any. game. The course itself is in the best condition that it has ever been, but that is the single redeeming ing disgrace to the city. The feature of what otherwise is a cry- course is infested by ball pirates. One Sunday R conservative estimate placed their number at one hundred A ball driven out of a fore caddie does not help, as of sight is a bail lost. Employment"
the caddies areda league with the ball thieves..
W. R Coe., who has spent probably a million dollars since he entered the turf a few years ago and now has a score of horses in training at Belmont Park, has no George jockey for this season.
D. Widener is another, who has an extensive string of horses at Belmont Fark but no fider for them. Mrs. Victor Vivaudou, who has the remnants of the stable her husband' raced for years, also is hunting for a good "boy. J. F. Widener and James Butler are others" without jockeys for next season.
NURMI THE RUNNER,
There are several other promin- A SPARTAN TRAINER AND ent owners in the same fx. Sol HIS PERSONALITY. eager are many of them to get a good jockey that they have sent agents to New Orleans and Havana to watch for likely prospects.
If Earl Sande recovers and can ride next summer as he did before his accident at Saratoga, Henry F. Sinclair will have the best riding material in the country, for, beside Sande, he has Laverne Fator and his younger brother, Mark, under contract.
La
Harry Phyne Whitney is an other who should have little trouble about winning with the best horse. He will have the services of Pony McAtee, Ivan Parke, and the pro- mising little negro. apprentice, Hudgins...
The August Belmont horses will be guided, by Clarence Kummer Mrs Payne Whitney has signed up W. Harve the little apprentice, who is the sensation of the meeting at New Orleans, William Ziegler has engaged Clyde Ponce. Marshal Field has signed up Frank Coltiletti, and Robert L. Gerry has re-engaged Harold Thurber, and Charles Stoneham has employed
Already the leading nations of the world are linked by pony polo and lawn tennis, and to some ex- tent by soccer, football and hockey, but the effort of the A. A. U appears to be the first organized attempt to bring South America into a definite league of sport nations. The campaign will open with amateur boxing champion- ships which will be settled in North America this year. The J. Meinere following season will find the United States representatives clashing on foreign soil. Later
Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish athlete, has a personality all his own, as distinctive as his running style.
Nurmi, reticent to the point of shyness when asked about him-- self, prefers to let his performances stand for themselves. He has no secrets to, reveal. To him it all seems, the result of his long pre- paration. He does not diet ou. dried fish as he has been pictured as doing, but he lives simply and Spartan-like, denying himself all indulgences and such ordinary. luxuries as would in the slightest degree affect his general physical.
condition.
He
lo appearance" he does not look the perfect athlete that he seems to be on the track. Of medium bulld, he weighs about 145 pounds, but according to the doctors who have examined him, he has the most perfect muscle development of any athlete they ever saw. is straight as an arrow when he rune, and his strides, he says, when measured in Finland; varied only by the fraction of an inch. His friends say that every muscle in his body is exercised when he is in action, hips and shoulders He moving in perfect rhythm.
developed arm.
SANG the committee expects to establish professional and amateur baseball, bas a remarkable, chest and well-
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annual track and field relations but has not adopted the American and other forms of competition. game of football, which seems The A. A. U. programme also fated to remain for some years a considers Canada, which has sport, known only to the Unitet
McGill adopted American sport to greater States.
University da extent because it is adjacent to the Montreal has tried the game woh United States. Canada has its little success.
TRY
THE
Nurmi has filed an application for meinbership in the American Amateur Athletic Union, which is regarded as indicating that he proposes to stay, in the United States permanently,
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