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Owing to the fact
fact that complain-
ant would not be fit to appear in Court, a Chinese, charged before Mr. W. Schofield on Saturday with assaulting another man, was re- manded for one week. Bail was opposed by the police,
The Canadian Pacific 3.3. Com- pany, in an advertisement appear.
MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928.
WEEK-END RAIN.
JUST OVER 4 INCHES RECORDED..
STREETS FLOODED,
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOTI
A little boy, was thrilled by a succession of wonders on his frat train journey. The train plunged
Just over four inches of rain was into a tunnel and rushed out into
ing to-day, announce special round recorded at the Royal Observatory the open. trip. summer excursions at specially from Saturday morning up "Lummie, said the little boy. - reduced fares. Shanghai, Naga- | to yesterday evening. This "It's to-morrow."
saki. Kobe and Yokohama and rainfall, which included the return are the routes selected. heavy downpour yesterday morn-
ing, almost reached the total The typist had addressed a letter
started).
was 2.255
Isaac Elman, described дв
a for the whole of the month of wet to Newport, Mon., 9
Newport' Russian Jew, was this morning days.
Monday, which in due course came fined $50 by Major C. Willson, The total rainfall from -11 a.m.
back through the Dead Letter O.B.E., for attempting to stowaway on Saturday to 10 am., yesterday. what sarcastically by her chief as Office. On being interrogated some- from Hong Kong to Singapore on (just about the time the heavy to whether she had ever heard of board a B.I., steamer. The alter-downpour native was four weeks' imprison- inches. Yesterday morning's heavy she tearfully replied: "No, but I such a place as Newport Monday, rain brought the total up by 1.850 thought it was all right because I've inches, the latter figure being re- The master of a trading junk,corded at the Observatory for the
often heard who was found in possession of 28 seven hours from 10 am to 5 pm.
day." jars containing 112 gallons of yesterday. dutiable liquor: with importing the said liquor on board a junk of less
mont.
wag
Heavier Fall. The heaviest fall of rain was
*
of Sheffield Wednes
We've unstinted applause for the diver so bold, When careering along amid dangers 'untold, Over sub
about the brave map. In his kelmet But there's one thing I wonder
so strong, and that's just how he when it itehes. cha Gio a scratch to his
поче
than 300 plculs capacity, and with from 12.30 p.m., to 1.30 p.m., yester- being in possession of dangerous day, for which the record showed murine hedges and ditches. set
goods,
fined $500 or four 1.64 inches. It was accompanied by months' hard labour on the first thunder and lightning. The streets charge: $50 or one month, (to run were flooded within a very short concurrently) on the second charge; space of time, and nullahs which and $100 or six weeks', consecutive, had long been dry were roaring on the third charge.
with swift torrents. The Happy Valley was flooded, but was well
One evening 23
a young cotton: drained before evening by the big spinner and his sweetheart were- new water way, just completed. nestled In the shadow of the trees, Queen's-road was about a foote proposed to her, and was readily under water, and the water invaded the floors of many shops whose en- trances were flush with, pavement level. No serious damage was done, however.
000 unmarried women of mar-
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AN EXPLODED ILLUSION.
clear that the single state of these women is not because there are not enough men. As a mat- ter of fact there are in England 2,500,000 unmarried men of mar- riageable age, a fact which, re- garded in the proper light, should (considerably modify the cominon. ly accepted views held as to the supposed "surplus" women. Dr. Meyrick adduces these facts in support of his theory that it is therefore not the impossibility of marriage which induces' women to seek economic independence. Quite logically he concludes that that it is much more likely to be the competition of women in the money-corning careers which is
making marriage in so many in- stances impossible for men
CHINA'S SKIES.
WHAT MAY BE SEEN THIS MONTH.
AN ASTROLOGER'S LIST.
August, 1928
6. Uranus in conjunction with the Moon, 4.14 a.m. U. 4° 02′ N. 8. Jupiter in conjunction with the
Moon, 2.09 p.m. J. 1° 07', N.
9. Moon's Last Quarter, 1.10 a.m.
10
19.
Mars in conjunction with the
Moon, 2.12 a.m. M. 0° 35′ S. Venus and Neptune in conjunc- tion, 11 a.m. V. 0° 59' N. 11. Moon in perigee, 0.40 a.m. 15. Mercury in conjunction with the Moon, 6.15 p.m. M. 3° 15' S.
15.
16.
WATER QUERIES.
BY DR. TSO IN SANITARY BOARD.
EXPLANATION ASKED FOR.
Dr. S. W. To, LL.D., has given noice of the following questions which are to be asked at to- morrow's meeting of the Sanitary
Board:-
15. Nor Moon, 9.35 p.m.
(1) "Are the following state Neptune in conjunction with the Moon, 9.52 p.m. N. 4° 43′ S. menta as appeared in the Chinese Mercury in Superior conjunc-newspapera, purporting to be made tion, 1 p.m.
by the Water Authority in explana- tion of the condition supply in the Central and Western districts, correct? namely:
(a) that the fullest capacity of
16.
Venus in conjunction with the Moon, 7.11 p.m. V. 3° 51′ S. 17. Saturn at a Stationary Point,
3.p.m.
19. Mercury and Neptune in con-
junction, 5 a.m. M. 1° 17′ N.
21. Mercury in apogee, 8 p.m.
Neptune.in conjunction with 21. Neptune in apogee, 11 p.m.
the Sun, 3 p.m.
23.
23.
Moon in apogee, 2.30 p.m.
Moon's First Quarter, 4.07 p.m.
23. Sun enters the sign Virgo,
5:53 p.nt.
by keeping them out of 24. Saturn In conjunction with the
Moon, 6.30 p.m. S. 2° 07′ N.
Hong Kong, Monday, August 6, 1928. employment. Thus the army
of spinsters
31. Jupiter at a Stationary Point, is directly I a.m responsible for increasing the Numerous Meteors of the Perseid army of bachelors, thus detri-stream are expected this month. mentally affecting the marriage The nights of most abundance being rate and to a lesser extent the birth rate.
If there is one idea more than another that has been fondly cherished and never doubted ever
since the close of the World War
rises in the eastern sky at about from the 10th to the 12th. Perseus
9 p.m. and the Moon rises 4 houra inter and therefore will not much
interfere with their observation.
at 9pm. Around the zenith: Hercules and Lyra; Northern sky; Draco, Cepheus; Eastern sky; Cygnus, Delphinus, Pegasus; South- Scorpio, Ophiucus; Western sky: ern sky: Aquila, Sagittarius, Serpens, Corona, Bootes.
Constellations near the meridian
The subject is one of very con- siderable interest, particularly at it has been that held with regard the present time when unemploy to the numerical superiority or,ment figures are not showing the as the Americans express same downward tendency evident it, the "plurality of women in the statistics of a few months over men. And it was also as ago and also when the British firmly as generally believed that and the Canadian Governments this excess of one sex was at the particularly are making strenu- root of England's social and fous efforts to cope with the pro-1 from northeast to southwest.
of immigration and unemployment.
economic unsettlement. Na cur- blem rent belief seemed more certxin or unassailable. Now, however,
it seems, that we must relegate
this idea among those other two men who were
According to a Chinese report,
cherished
suspected of illusions dissolved robbing a junk and sampan a few under the remorseless search- months ago have been arrested by light of modern investigation, the police.
woman
living at No. 8, Stone Nullah-lane, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday morning, suffer- ing from poison taken by mistake.
In the July number of "The Nine- Ip Wel-hang, aged 24, a teenth Century and After," Dr. Meyrick Booth, whose reputation as a scientific handler of statis. tics is deservedly very high, tells us that this surplus of women is not abnormal, and is much less than is popularly supposed to, be the case. In England and Wales, tracy on Saturday, for being in for example, the present day possession of 100 rounds rate of the sexes is as 100 to ammunition. 108; and the chief exoess of women is to be found at the
A Chinese passenger returning to China by the "President, Madison" on Friday was fined $100 by Br, W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis-
of
The Milky Way crosses the sky
Brightest stars: Vega, 0.1, Lyra: Deneb, 1.3 Cygnus; Altair, 0.9, Aquila; Antares, 1.2, Scorpio; Arcturus 0.2 Bootes By Canopus in the "N, C. Dally Newa."
LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
"Spirit" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, Sunday, August 5.
The Golden Text was from
of water
the, Pokulam Reservoir which supplies the Central and Western districta is sixty-six million gallons, out of which five million gallons are use- less,
accepted.
"But," she hastened to add after a few moments" reflection, "Aw: mean to make some brass first.”
"That's reight, 'Becca," agreed her lover, but after we've wed tha'll hey to make brass last!”,
one
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A man was admiring his pigeons
afternoon when he heard at curious thud. and suw one of the birds falling from a window-ledige. on which it had been perched. to see a small boy drop a catapult, Turning round he was just in time and run down a lane. short chase he was captured.
"Now, you young rascal." roared shooting my pigeon?" the man, "what do you mean by
"Please, air, 1.didn't mean to hit Xt," blubbered the youngster. "T nimed at the window."
.
After a
Two gentlemen, were talking to- gether, when a third friend came up and joined them.
"My first," one of the two gentle. men was saying to the other. "i cross-eyed, my second is dyspeptie, and my third is paralytic,”
"Well," said the gentleman who
(b) that 20 days before the re- | had just come up, "how can we striction on water supply in guess it unless you tell us what
the Central and Western dis- your whole is?” tricts commenced Pokfulam
"Guess what?"
Reservoir was full to over- "Why, your charade."
flow,
"Charade?
I
I wasn't giving a
(c) that, on full supply, the Cen-charade, sir. I was talking about
tral and Western districts my three children!" consume three million gal-
lons daily,
(d) that the Tal Tam Reservoir can give a supply of eight million gallons a day,
1
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The landlord of the "Green Jug" had a weaknes for running'. "raffles."
Bill Jones bad taken part in all of them, but always discovered that the prize was won by some member of the landlord's family.
(e) that during the period of restriction the Pokfulam Re- servoir supplies to the Cen- tral and Western districts One morning Bill walked in, and
750,000 gallons per day, and the landlord produced another. the Tai Tam Reservoir 1,750. bundle of tickets. 000 gallons; making a total | Bill," he exclaimed. supply of 2,500,000 gallons shilling a ticket, and the prize is a (f) that the force of the water
per day,
lovely violin."
from the Tai Tam Reservoir to the Central and Western districts is weak because the supplying pipe to these dis- tricts is small; And because every one draws water at the time during the hour
same
"Here you are. "Only #
"That's funny!" commented Bill.
"What's funny?" queried the landlord suspiciously.
didn't'
"Why," replied Bill. "I know that anyone in your family' could play the violin. What will! you do with it?"
1.
of supply the water cannot be forced up to the upper Affiving at school an hour late.. floors of the houses in the Tommy was asked to explain. rider-main districts,
"Well, we're going to have (g) that the difference in rain ittle boy nt our house," he
fall between the Tai Tam area announced triumphantly. and the Pokful area is that
"A little boy? How do you while Tai Tam geta 8.85 know you are going to have a now' Inches Pokfulam gets only brother?" 3.85 Inches.
ence оп
the
静
"Cause a year ago when mother (2) If the above statements are was we had a little girl, and
reported correctly
differ- now father's !" tricted supply in these two dis- full supply and reg-
tricts is only 500,000 gallons What is the reason or per day. Cause therefore that the Tai Tam
*Its the "merry month of June"~-
Bah!
.
*
re-
Psalms 143:10, "Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God; thy spirit is good, lead me into the land of uprightness" prised the Lesson Sermon was the districts an -additional 500,000 sled in an Edinburgh church
Among the citations which com- Reservoir could not give these two From the order of servlen observ- following from the Bible: "There lona a day in order to keep these on cantly:- Is therefore now no condemnation full supply?
Organ prelude-Improvisation on to them which are in Christ Jésus,
(3) What are tho measures, the tune "Luther.". after the Spirit. For the law of temporary or otherwise, taken by who walk" not after the flesh, but
Introit (Hymn gin-"rirat | higher age-levels of the popula at the junction of Queen'a-read the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus shortage of water supply to these
the Government to deal with God! what do I see and hear?" tions Thus, under the age of 25, Central and Circular Pathway hath made me free from the law two most populous, districts dur, collapsed on Saturday afternoon of sin and death.For to be there is virtually no excess. Of As the houses were uocempled carnally minded is death; but, to Ing the hot season?" women between 20 and 45, there and no one was at work at the time, be spiritually minded is life and are in England and Wales there were no personal injuries. pence” (Roimhs. 8:1, 2, 6), 7,900,000. · ́OF men between 20
The verandahs of a
blæk of
houses which are being torn down
The U. S. Congress has com
Ata siclaf gathering of Edin-
burgh and Glasrow Corporation Gas Department? Wéfaru Cluba in Glasgow the other day, Baille Pater- The Lesson Sermon also includ-pleted the legislation authorising son said, that during a Glagow' and 50, there are 8,000,000--not the Queen's Theatre for Gloria Christian Science text
Advance booking is now open-ated the following passages from the the participation of America is the Town Count meeting the death- book, conference to be held in London rate figure for the month was given so remarkable a difference, there- Swanson's big new film, "Sadle "Science and Health with Key to next year for the revision of the na 14.9. One member, was not clear fore, to justify so much certainty Thompson," a remarkable produc- the Scriptures," by Mary Baker 1914 Convention for the Safety of na to the meaning of 9 and on. as has so long existed regarding tion based on Somerset Maugham's Eddy: "The Individuality of man Life at Sea.
alking his neighbour, who was a famous "play "Rain."Sadie is no less tangible because it f the excess of women over men Thompson" comes to the Queen's spiritual and because his life is
humorous person, he was informed An expedition under the auspices thurt 14 per thedsind nd died and and the fluent statements as to Theatre on
Wednesday bathe not at the mercy of matter. The of the Chicago Geographical Society that nine wer or the point of surplus" women.'.'
fenture attraction until Saturday.understanding of his spiritual in is leaving New York next month for death... Cinema-goers should But despite these figures we owing to the length of the picture, more formidable in truth; and on-
note that; dividuality makes man moro rost; | Equatorial Africa to explore the hefirat member thought for a district around the Bawenzori monent, then, remarked "Ah weal, have the well-authenticated fact performances start at the apeciniables him to conquer sid, disease Range, popularly known as the we'll have them faded next. that we have in England 3,000,- times of 230, 500, 3.15 am 9:30. md death.” (p2 317}).
'month a' richt.”
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"Mountains of the Moon."