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QUESTIONS ON WATER EXAMINATION,
·RÁBIES" POSITION OUTLINED,
The following questions were asked by Dr. W, V. M. Koch At the Sanitary Board meeting yesterday afternoon:-. (1) Is it the case that the bacteriological examination of the Hongkong potable waters is made only once a month? (2) Is it not advisable that such examinations should be made at least once a week? (3) Can and will the authorities concerned take steps to have this done ?
In reply the Chairman said that so far as the first part of the question was concerned, he was authorised to say that the reply was in the affirmative. The ex- arpination was made month. In regard to part two, a weekly examination would have
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The heavy toll which The preface to "Debrett" re-
A YEAR'S death has exacted Plates an interesting episode in TOLL among famous men which the Post Office correctly during 1926 is reflect, delivered a lotter bearing the ed in the pages of the new issue firm's 18th century addresss. of "Debrett" which, with s This communication came to 8,820 pages, is at once an indis- Debrett's marked "Burlington pensable bock of reference and a House, Piccadilly," an address national history.
the firm occupied as far back as 1784 It was delivered without delay.
+
un an average, one person men- tioned in "Debrett" died each day throughout the year, and the more famous names in the obituary [columns include:
- Queen Alexandra.
Dr. Burge, Bishop of Oxford. Sir Byre Crowe, of the Foreign Office..
Lord Curzon:
ist.
1
Field-Marshal Lord. Grenfell: Maharaja of Gwalior. Sir Rider Haggard, the novelist. "Lord Leverhulme.
Lord Milner.
Lord Pentland..
Lord Rawlinson. Colonel Repington. "Lord Ribblesdale.
Duke of Rutland, Sir Pratab Singh, Sir Edward Sassoon. Admiral Sturdee. Sir James Voxall Field-Marshal Lordi Ypres.
Last year showed an THE BOOK output of new books OUTPUT in the United Kingdom equal to that of 1918, True, 1924 came within 30 of the pre-way figure, but no er rlier in- tervening year approached H. Sir F. C. Gould, the cartoon- The war not only diminished book-publishing during its actual course, but administered a check to output which has not been completely overcome until now. If reprints are counted as well as concerns which are the result of advantages. In regard to part
new books, the recovery may be The three, the question of increasing energy and enterprise?
dated a little earlier. The gross the staff of the Bacteriological In- United States has probably better stitute was under consideration
number of new books"does not, of course, bear any fixed proportion and indus- by the Government. Without universities, docks
to the number of those which, for increase it would not be trial concerns than has Hongkong. such
their quality, posterity will care Being patriotic, we do not concede possible to make the examinations.
to remember. Nevertheless it is more frequent..
a fair hypother that the more the point: We insist that what
Dr. Koch said he thought it
facility there is for booka to up- we have is worth seeing and pro- would be very advisable for the
pear, the more stimulus and en- vides object lessons, in the matter Government to increase the staff
couragement there is on the of the Bacteriological Institute.
whole, for original and valuable · of co-operation-the co-operation There was no doubt whatever
#books to be written. On the other of British and Chinese capital that the question of water supply,
hand, the critical task of -dis- Both at home and abroad entangling them from the crowd the co-operation of British and ought to be attended to much
asen becomes always harder, the larger Chinese labour, and the aim of more than it was at present.DEATHS the year has also
Examination once 'A week, he ABROAD the passing of many the "crowd grows. Not that it British administration to bring thought, would not be much too
other prominent people was ever an easy one, or so fully Western culture to the Chinese often.
who do not come within the acepe performed in any age as to: ex- Dr. J. C. Macgown said he of "Debrett, the lengthy list include the possibility of later in race.
There is misconception in
agreed with what Dr. Köch had cluding:-
vestigators striking overlooked some American minds on the ques-raid. They knew from reports
gold 'tion of British imperialism. that often the water was not
Some of that will be removed by satisfactory and had to these world tours. This is one chlorinated. It was possible that the water might not be satisfac- reason why we urge that theory the day after it was examin Colony should be "At Home"ed and did that mean that they when each bout-load of visitors had to run the chance of poltition
tasting a month? comes to see what Hongkong is
ke.
Hongkong Wednesday, Jan 27, 1926.
TOURISTS.
Leon Bourgeois, French states-
man.
be
Fred Bramley, of the Trades
Union Congress.
Prevention of Rabies. A further question asked by Dr. Koch was whether in view of the recurrence of rabies from time to time in the Colony, and of the proved efficiency of antirabic vuce
The Chairman;remarked that If the water was found in any way defective. action was taken, Buy British Goods."
and that was followed up by fur- According
Mr. Stanleyther analysis and examination, -World tours are a feature of Machin, President of the Associa- Chambers of of British American activity, and should tien soon spread to the "peoples of Empire, "Buy British Gooda" is the slogan of the British Empire Europe. It has been been the priv-to-day. It may be the slogan so ilege of Amerien to initiate idensfar is the British Isles are con- and to see them copied elsewhere.cerned, and once a British Mer-cination as a preventive, would Somerset Maugham in one of his chandise Marks Act is on the Statute-book, the campaign may superb sketches, shows a resident make considerable progress. This in China imbibing a taste for movement has heen before the romance by getting it from high-public for some time now, but so far as evidence at Arst hand is
one
the authorities consider the pos sibility of insisting upon such vaccination for dogs previous to the issue of a licence.
The Chairman said he was authorised to reply that the matter was receiving the careful attention of the Government. He' thought it would not be qut of piace to make a statement on the rabies situation. He had seen one newspaper had reported that there were three cases in one day. That was not so; there were three during a week-end.
Hjalmar Branting, Swedish
Premier. President Ebert.. Camille
Flammarion..
the
French astronomer. Anato): France, French writer Harry Furniss, the cartoonist. Lucien Guitry, French actor. Mrs. Haldane (aged 100), Lord
Haldane's mother. Godfrey Isaacs, of Marconi's. W. F. Massey, New Zealand
Prime Minister. Joseph Rowntree, social
former.
How does an innocent man How? behave when for the first time an accusation of mur- der is flung at him?
Kean, the actor, was to play the pars of a man wrongfully accused of murder. He decided himself to accuse an innocent man of murder. Two fellow-actors and he chose us their victim a man known to have spent the last thirty years of his life helping others, while he lived in a garret.
The accusation was made. "The old man in the shabby suit Inter- re-rupted him with a ery of horror,
and raising his hands in the air- Eugen Sundow, the "strong dashed out of the room and down the stairs." A shot rang out, and the philanthropist was found dead on the floor.
man.
John Sargent, the portrait
painter.
Vice Admiral Seymour. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Chinese volutionary leader.
romance
It came out at the inquest that re-forty years before the man had
Fshot a man dead.
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CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC.
спе
ly-coloured-in more senses than concerned it is to be feared that magazines ignoring the it can be dubbed as nothing more romance at his very doors. Those or less than a beautiful piece of Last November Sir who take the trouble to "do"sentiment.
George Ellot, Chuirman of the either "Yurrup" or the "woild," Bank of New Zealand, was quoted
The spirit of romance is as old suffice to say that the eighteenth we may be sure have exhaust-by the "Daily Mail us tendering
as human language. There have, century was "classical and the the advice to New Zealanders to ed the possibilities of their own buy British goods. He stated that
been times when the, current. of nineteenth "romantic." No period
the belongs exclusively was feeble, "as in
to the interesting country, and have set in the British people insisted on
There had been no cases since ascendangy of Rome. There have category or to the other. Indeed, out to see wherein the "call of getting New Zealand butter, for last. April until quite recently been times when the frame of the it may be doubted whether any the East lies. We may not envy xample, New Zealand farming three cases appearing in a week world rested not on facts, but on single author can be relegated would be stimulated, and a wider in Hongkong. The first case WEH wonders.... When the mace of wholly to one or other of these them the method of their
en-field opened to emigrants, The along the Praya, the dog jumping. quiry, but common sense dicfates advantages of inter-imperial trade into the barbour. It was fished burbarian, beating on the rock of categories. Both elements persist, that it is the best in all the were shown by the fact that Aue-out, drowned, and was discovered Roman civilisation, culled forth a at all times and in all places. The romance which still struggle for predominance be- spring or tralia and New Zealand recently to have been suffering from freshens all the literature of tween these, opposing forces is circumstances, When private bought more, British cotton goods rebies. Enquiries were made as modern Europe. ....
everlasting in the human soul, and yachts become as cheap as Fords, than China and Hongkong people were reported to have been
The term romance was first used in literature. In both the struggle we may expect such tours to be "Imperial trade," it was pointed bitten, but none of these people to denote the vernacular language is regulated by the spirit of
the
family, besides strengthening the was in Wyndham Street, The
In later use it wan extended to and Johnson were classic, Them- with Stevenson's maxim that it is communities which in the hour of police secured the dog, and dogs related forms of speech, such as son and Goldsmith romantic. But far better to travel than to arrive, danger gave most valiant and it had been in contact with were Provencal and Spanish, until it this should not be taken in the |Hongkong · is definitely on the effective help. on the battlefield. caught and were still under obser- became a collective name for the sense
with regard to American our shrinking markets in Europe Des Voeux Road, and the Colonialed from Latin....
It also provides compensation for vation. The third case was in whole group of languages descend-smith are free from classic traits. : map
that the author of the Epistla tourists and there is at least one and Asia." In theory, of course,Veterinary Surgeon secured the
from Eloisa to Abelard (1717) ls: resulta
is a splendid one to dog himself. It was killed. The In England the word romance
romantic and that the respect for British the Iden
which every British consumer, at whole situation was receiving was first applied to a book in the writer of London 117887 and enterprise. Horne and overseas, will readily careful attention and it was only fourteenth century. From denct-The Vanity of Human Wishes COOOOOOOOOogcnnnnnnnadministration and
There may be an absence of such subscribe. The vital obstacle is fair that the public should knowing a composition in vernacular (1749) has no emotional fartour. JUST LIKE INPACKING NEW CLOTHES, things as quick lunch counters, that in practice it is only too apt there was a definite outbreak. French, Spanish, and so forth, as The very basis of these two poems.
and safety first signals, but there to be ignored, us memories of "Buy
Mr N. L. Smith presided and contrasted with works Australian Goods" campaigns members present were Dr. W. W. the meaning of the word narrowed is the impassioned discontent and is sufficient to show that quietly amply proved. It is no exaggera Pearce (M.O.H), Dr. W. V. M. down to signify a tale in verse or and steadily a work is being tion to way
the average Koch, Dr. J. C. Macgown. Dr. prose, embodying the adventures of mark of the romantic element in
some hero of chivalry: This mean-
Yet a distinction between the done here that demands respect. the hy in such campaigns, is W. Tso, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin ing continued to be the only
terme classic, and romantic le in- Allied to a natural harbour, there too easily content either to take and Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton in the Middle Ages and was,
(Secretary). Others present were
evitable..... But let us beware of .courao, well-known in the eigh-taking wide and wider sweeps." is natural beauty of scenery, what she is giveti over the counter
romances were still quite popular classic poets have a feeling for the of goods that she has been in the imagination. But there are other habit of buying. Fast experience
in the age of Pope and after-value of form and that romantic things to which the attention of has proved this up to the hilt
warda...
poeta care not for form, but con- visitors should be, drawn who Enaturally become advance agents and either condemn or recom-
less deliberate and to fall in negut, "keeps the money in the could be found. The second case of France, as opposed to Latin. age... It is true to say Pope
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cidents are very remote from those great poets? Do we not And both voyage en a ship may be one of Ancher case of sub-letting "
heart and head, both passion and In support of Mr. Hargraves's of ordinary life. the most boring things on earth portion of premises for an alleged case, evidence was given by Mr. Since the beginning of the intellect in all Bincerity, ins but that is not so on these ly greater rent than the whole J. Basto, who formerly owned and nineteenth century the adjective dignation, sathe, too, belong to all large liners. A stay in port may came before the Summary Court lived at No. 4, Chatham Road, "romantic" has been contrasted schools, become a listless passing of time,
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Kowloon. He said, that he sold with "classic" in England. Though However, when we approach the.. As there is no specific power the house to the defendants in useful and Decessary, the terms... words classic and romerie "from under the Hongkong Ordinances 1929. He had owned the house may give and frequently have an historical standpoint we are on.
After we have for the Judgo to effect pgpostiosaines 1912 and the ant salon Leian clan to confusion.They safe ground ment of standard rent, the plain exclusive of rates. The premises have been used to include so many. tiff's case was dismissed with were assessed at 3100 and up to different characters that, as sear
vacated the premises as they are applied to mens
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plaini that tempt the eve and the purse. Could flere not, be some met
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