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THE SHING MUN VALLEY WATER SCHEME
The proposal-which has not yet been definitely decided upon,
but which the Legislative Council
at their last meeting unanimously agreed should be resumed by
which water will be taken from the Shing Mun Valley in much larger volume than at present, is one that is naturally of immense importance to the Colony in its present difficulties with the water problem. The officials of the
“MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1929.
Twenty cases of small-pox, all FLOWER SHOW
Chinese, were reported yesterday.
Messrs. Lalchand' & ' Gagadans &:8. Narain have removed their offices to, China Building, 4th Floor.
NON VOLUNTEER PARADE
GROUND
DATE FIXED
THE HIGHER SLANG
14“RIGH COMMONPLACES" OF
SPEECH
CLICHES OF THE LANGUAGE
Flower lovers in Hong Kong: A committee appointed by the The Java-China-Japan Lijn an- should reserve the date, Thurs- Board of Education has just issued. nounce their appointment agents for the Royal Netherlands day, the 21st inst. to attend the a report in which it is stated that Horticultural Society's Annual children, no longer understand the Indies Air Lines Ltd.
Show of lovers and vegetables rich, commonplaces of traditional
. дя
16.30 p.m.
A pick-pocket was this morning to be held on the Volunteer English speech," such as a "iness of sentenced to two months' hard la- Parade Ground from 2 p.m. to pottage," Job's comforters," and hour, by Major C. Willson, O.B.E.,
"barren fig tree." The Show will not only be the "In so far as this is evidence that for stealing a purse containing six cents from the pocket of a small one occasion of the year that modern children, or a great number brings flower-lovers together, of them, are less familiar with the enabling them to see what others Bible than their fathers were, it is
boy in town yesterday.
CHINESE MEDICOS
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES THIS YEAR.
hues.
(writes Robert
to Lynd in the "Daily News.")
It is important that everybody
Mr. L. A. Parker, M.I. Mech. are doing and give encouragement E., M.I. Mar. E., will give an illus- to the gardeners, but will also to be regretted treated lecture on "The Lubrica-Provide unique opportunity tion of Motor Car Engines" at the general public to view such the Institution of Engineers to fine array of flowers of all should know the great cliches of the language and that nobody should use morrow at 5.45 p.m.
New blood is wanted, of them.
I remember a woman who, on the course, among the exhibitors The management of the Peninsula Hotel announce that the because we do not only wish to appearance of tea, used always to a prima smile, "Ah, Grill Room and Roof Garden see the same names appearing on exclaim with have been completely booked for the list year after year, but a the cup that cheers!"-a phrase, by Friday evening next, Feb. 8, as is number of new flower enthusiasts the way, which is not in the Bible, the Rose Room Grill for Saturday, they can do.
who can show our veterans what and, apart from that, is a misquota. It is hoped that tion. I never heard her ualug it Feb. 9.
at the coming show, Kowloon without wishing that she had been will be well represented, parti-less familiar with the classics of cularly in the "cut flower" sec- English literature, and at least that tion. It is no more difficult to she could have concealed her famili- convey cut flowers from Kow-arity in the presence of a teapot. loon than from the Peak. The
Not For Talking Show is open to all and the fee The uso of phrases like this is for non-members is fifty cents merely a kind of higher slang. It THE ANNUAL DINNER
per, exhibit. Those possessing is comparable to the old fashion of a garden can exhibit in the quoting Latin tags in the House of The Hong Kong Chinese Medi-scetion comprising pot plants, Commons. It is an excellent thing cal Association held their first din-cut flowers, ferns and vegetables.to know Latin, but there nor on Friday night when a large For those who do not possessi по more merit in quot- gathering of local Chinese doctors garden, there are open classes in
ing a Latin
than In ing attended.
which they can display their talking the latest slang recorded in Dr. Man Wong, the President- skill at table decoration. Not the the works of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse. elect, was the host. He outlined least attractive exhibit will be "A It is a pity not to know the latest the programme for the ensuing Vase for decorative effect." No alang, but it is equally a pity to talk be with regard to any such pro-year, in which scientific and questions will be asked as to ject anywhere else in the Colony social activities are to be emphas whence come the flowers used in it-or, at least, to talk nothing else. At the same time, I think the these two classes;, they may bej for New Territories,
He was followed by Dr. Phcon bought, borrowed or in whatever gradual disappearance of the higher is an The problem is of such urgency Seck-wah, the Vice-president, who way exhibitors may
come into alang from conversation
that It means ominous sign. that it does not now seem feasible pleaded for more cordial support possession
Another
school-children aro from the members of the Associa-great feature in the forthcoming
being educated to waste further valuable time in tion, and enumerated some of the Show, which should be encourag more and more on modern authors the consideration of any other things the Committee had done in ed, lies in three flowering plants and are being given the works of site. The Council are unanimous the interest of the profession. He grown from seeds and new to the contemporary poets and essayists also made a few important pro-Colony. There is whispering to to read instead of the works of the in their acceptance of the proposal posals for the consideration of the the effect that one gardening en acknowledged masters of the past. that it should now be prosecuted members.
thusiast is entering catmint in I am sure this is all wrong. as expeditiously as possible, and The officials for the year is as this class. That being the case, It is highly important that a child
be interested in it is therefore to be hoped that the follows:-
one can envisage a Hong Kong should President: Dr. M. Wong: Vice-garden of the future with its porary life and contemporary powers-that-be at the Colonial President: Dr. S. W. Phoon; Hon trim borders of catmint a plant things, but it is equally important Office will wisely conclude that Secretary Treasurer: Dr. F. I so beloved of Flora Pilkington, that it should have a sense of the As it does not need to go those on the spot are in the best Tseung; Committee: Dr. Y. S the artist, who portrays so well past.
Wan, Dr. S. F. Lee, Dr. Jeu Hawk, the lavender spikes and grey to school in order to become inter- position to judge of the project Dr. Chau Wai-choung, Dr. Arthur green foliage in her paintings of cated in contemporary things, I and, even of more importance, of W. Woo, Dr. K. C. Cheng.
that should be inclined to leave garden borders in England. its speedy realisation. At beat it It was resolved by the Com-
Intending exhibitors should part of its education to itself. It cannot be hoped to complete it for mittee that the scientific meetings communicate with either Mr. it does not discover Shakespeare or
should be made as practical
as J. A. H. Blummer or Mr. Andrew Milton at school, however, it may
Tse (care of Messrs. Bradley & never discover them.
ised.
many years to come. Therefore possible.---Contributed.
the best step forward at present must be to urge upon the Home authorities to acquicace in the Council's unanimous decision and sanction the proposul.
·
of them.
contem-
Co. and Nippon Yusen Kaisha re- Not that we of the older gan- spectively) the joint hon. secre-erations were taught very good our infancy. *The tarics, who will be glad to help poetry in them in every way possible. Village Blachemith" is all very well.
and I should be sorry be ignor
£9,325, IN FARTHINGS ant of it, but Mr. de la Mare has
LAST YEAR'S OUTPUT AT
The
. A FORMER G.O.C.
MAJOR-GENERAL VENTRIS DIES AT HOME
written better poems than that. Thanke, to wireless, we are by
General Officer Cornmanding,
Then there was "The Arab's Fare- way of recapturing the freshness South China, during the War,
THE MINT
well to His Steed," and Mr. W. B. of the early world. The living when the North and South China
Yeats rises to a higher level than voice is coming into a domain Commands were incorporated in question of whether far that. "Hohenlinden" and "The such as it never occupied before. Hong Kong, Major-General things are likely to go out of Battle of the Baltic" were livellar, Where the ancient tale-teller or Francis Ventris, C.B., Colonel of circulation is again raised by the but no one to-day would dream of minstrel commanded an audience the Essex Regiment, died on Jan. report that Liverpool is putting Into counting them among the glories of no bigger than could be collected at his home at St. Leonards at operation a scheme to eliminate the English literature. At the same at a street corner or in a hall, his the age of 72.
coin. Goods usually marked at 1s.time, they were all part of a trad!- modern successor can speak to He was the second son of the 114d are now elther to. 11d. or 25. tion, and reminded us that we had tens of thousands. The boundaries late Rev. E. F. Ventris of Church in the shops of the city,
ancestors. of his auditorium are, indeed, Aston, Salop. He was educated An official at the Royal Mint said
A Phy those of the round world. It is at the Newport Grammar School that thera Was no prospect a tremendous new factor in civil-and entered the Army in 1875,
Apart from this, it would be a of the farthing disappearing pity to see the higher slang fading isation, and one whose conse-
He had war service with the "Every year we coin a large number entirely out of common speech. If attempt to calculate. The pheno- was with the Egyptian Field necessary because of the great num- quences it would be daring to Nile Expedition of 1884-5, and of forthings," he said. "This is the higher slang disappears mena le comparable only to that Force in 1885-6. He was A.A.G. ber lost yearly.
slang, which will We do not know the
be EL had Imita-
Post," London,
lower
its place.
of the sudden acquisition by man- din from 1895 to 1902, and what happens to them they just probably the excellent slang kind of a new sense." Morning was then appointed Major-General disappear. Last year we minted tion of will take
Commanding in North China, a £9,325 worth of farthings compared of America,
The And the higher slang can only be post which he held till 1906. On with £6,110 worth in 1914. Whilst a small Chinese girl was the outbreak of the Great War he figures for the intervening years learned from the standard authors walking in Hollywood-road yester- was appointed to command the were: day with her baby brother on her 26th Division, and in 1915 he came back, a sneak thief approached to Hong Kong, and was relieved from behind and snatched a jade after the Armistice. bangle from the baby's left wrist
A detective in the vicinity Imme
diately seized the thief who, when
Colonial Office in London will have charged before Major C. Willson,
NAVAL DEATHS
MORNING
the whole mattor laid before them O.B.E, this morning, was sentenc-A.B. WHITE'S FUNERAL THIS by Mr. R. M. Henderson, the ed to six months' hard labour and
20.strokes of the birch. Assistant Director of Public Works, who is shortly procceding Home for that and other purposes
in connection with the project.
The death occurred on Satur- Seaman Edmund day of Able
1915
£'s worth.
7,000
1916
11,000
1917
20,000
1918
21,000
1919
16,000
1920
11,000
1921
9,000.
1922
10,000
1923
0,000
1924
...1926
1926
1027
Shakespeare, Milton, Pape, Gold- smith, Gray, Wordsworth, Dickens and Tennyson,
Imagine a world so ignorant tha it could not understand an allusion to "what the soldier said." that schooner knew nothing of the "Hesperus" or that had never heard that an honest man's the nobleat work of God, and you will realise how impoverished it would be in imagination. If you met a man who did not know that full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste. Its sweetness- on the "You will see that the figures desert air, would you not regard vary considerably," the official add-him ds little better than an in-
9,000 11,000 10,000. 3,000
Aamall Chinese boy was yester. day observed by a detective steal- Harry White, of H.M.S. "Sepoy." ing five Chinese, silver dollars He was married, and his Home from the counter at a money address was in Bow, London. It may be that
even yet changer's shop, and seized the The funeral took place this ed. "We mint farthinga according beelle? the present site may not be re-little rascal as he was about to morning, the cortege leaving the to the demand, and there is no garded as the best economically, sneak away with the money. He Royal Naval Hospital at 10 o'clock. prospect, as far as I am aware, of but judging by what was seen by son, O.B.E, at the Central Magis- was charged before Major C. Will-
their going out of circulation." Petty Officer Timms the party inspecting it yesterday, tracy this morning, and was or The death was also reported, and taking into consideration the dered to receive 12 strokes of the from Shanghal, of Petty Officer
"BABY MINE" R. A. Timms of HMS. urgency of the matter, we should rattan, pleas
"Gnat" in the Shanghai General Hospital on Saturday.
sleeve
EXCELLENT COMEDY SHOWING
- AGAIN
TO-MORROW AT QUEEN'S!
are
►
Thass cliches, odlous as they.
in their excessive
ukė. ire novertheless evidence of a rich and varied Imagina- tive background in which cer
century. tury s piled behind For this reason I am inclined to think that It is better that a child should be brought up so as to be able to quote Dr. Johnson wrong than so na to be able to quote aven
Observing a Chinese walking in Hollywood-road with his left arm
aging stiff by the side of the A clergyman, who was a widow- botly, a detective stopped the man er, had three grown-up daughters. and sear im Six new 12 Having occasion to go away for a The famous comedy team of,, Mr. Bernard Shaw right.
Tanda concealed in few weeks he wrote home from "Rookies" returns to the Queen's Fonte time to time. In one of his letters to-morrow in another hilarious' farce
ning up he informed them that he had based on the famous Broadway stage ceedingly frequent. Amusing com- Willson, married a widow with six child-success," Baby Mine. The picture plications and a thrill or two lead to
lawful ren
Anti-This created a stir in the house. Arthur as college boy Chit lotto solves for Dane a problem witch has portrays Karl Dane and Gabige Kan extremely laughable climax which hold. When the Vicar returned areenwood, Acomparative new long puzzled his befuddled
brain. confer to the screen, and Dine page.) Tha:spletura has an excellent cast snumber of cómical love scenes. Including: Loiteo Lorraine, and Is Then they all ge
| say that no more suitable site than that of the Shing Mun Valley is kely to be found. It seems to be an ideal spot for the laying down of catchments and the erection of dams by which millions of gallons of water will be conserved. Some 2,000,000 gallons daily are now ___ flowing into Kow- loon from the Valley and with a rise in the water of the por Shing Mun river this amount can, Mr. of course, be very g
greatly increas 4 ed The cost will necessarily be erable, but so must it
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epoken or as being, quite out of the ordinary run of comedy pruffetion. Baby, Mĺné" so being shown again In reponse to numerous requests,