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BRINGING WATER
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1/11
Bank, or demand... 1/11 1/16 Bank, 30 days" aigh:
ism by Kowloon, residents. It is fair that the criticism be brought to the acties of the Committee.
2. Simmarized, the criticism are to the following effect:
Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 4 too large Credits, 4 months". tahe tanks are far
sight. Toul is expressed that the well at
2j- Hontin Cemetery contains Documentary 4 months'
Sight anough water to fill even one of these tanks. (b). It will take between one and tw
hours to painp the wil dry. After that, of course, stoppage will take place and the well eventually re- turn to its former level of water. As it is not possible at present to my what the rate of seepage wil be, one cannot tell how log it will take for the water in the well to be restored to level. (c) There is a pond on the side of the
nullah opposite the well.
from which a large number of Chinese draw their water at all hours of the day and night. This pend could be made a supplementary feder by means of an additional automatic electric pump and on- necting pipes.
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be needed is the extension of the pipe-line down the nullah along Waterloo Road and under Nathan Rnd. The water could be deliver- ed from stand-pipts in convenient Iccalities, say, on Nathan Road and Shanghai Strict. This would obviate the long trudge for the thousands of people travelling dis- Lances over mile or more from Yaumati. Mongkok and Taikokisui to rasch the tanks put upon Copper Cash Waterton Road near the Homun-Chinese Copper Cents 6% Prem.
tin Cemetery gale.
2. The foregoing criticisms are worthy of consideration and if the suggestions, which appear feasible, could be adopted, it would reduce the labour of the people out for procuring water in the neighbour. hood of Homuntin to a minimum. 4. I am informed that the carrying out of the suggestions neeils not involve any very large amount of money.
I am,
Yours faithfully, (Sa) J. P. BRIGA. Hong Kong, June 17.
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(Continued from Page 1) Ope need not be long in the com- panj of General Bramwell Booth to discover that he has two distinct and sepirate manners, and that seither expresses the whole truth of his national life. At one moment he is full of cheerful good sense, the very incarnation of jocular heartiness, a bluf, laughing, rallying, chaffing RAY KEECH CRASHES and tolerant good fellow, everflow-
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China Buses The racing motorists, Raya butterfly, the whole plump, Kecch, ex-holder of the world's perdulous face appears to vibrate une-mile speed record, was killed with emotion the body becomes stiff when his car crashed here to-day with feeling, the lips depressed with when competing in
dark eyes shine 230-mile tragedy and the a
with the suppressed tears unimaginable pathos.
WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN
race,
MOTORIST KILLED
OTHERS INVOLVED
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The accident was due to a car bitting the railing. Three others crashed into the wreckage:
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On both of these moments there is no pretence. The two manners represent two genuine aspects of his soul in its commerce with man: kind. He believes that the world like to be clapped on the shoulder, to be rallied on its manifest incon- sistencies, and to have its hand Dairy Farms wrung with a real heartiness. Also Watsons he believes that the heart of the Der A. Wings world is sentimental, and that an Lane, Crawfords authentic appeal in that quarter Mackintoshs my lead to friendship-a friend- Sinceres Grand Prix Winner
ship which, in its turp, may lead to Wm. Powells Ray Keech, ci May 30, won the
business. Bustness is the true end 600-mile Grand Prix at Indiana-fall his heartiness. polis.
A sad coincidence was that on this occasion also there was a tragedy, when a car driven by William Spence, of Los Angeles, overturned.
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His Head For Business -It is in his business manner that one gets nearer to the innermost secret of his nature. He is before The driver suffered erything else a superb man a fractured skall, which proved business, farseeing, practical, hard lights in measuring his intelligence fatal-Reuter's American Service. headed, an organiser of victory, a against the recalcitrance of man- statesman of the human soul. You kind, a general who finds a deep annot speak to him in this practical
satisfaction of soul in moving sphere without feeling that he is a
masses of men to achieve the pur- man of the most unusual ability.
pose of his own design. He can cutline a complicated
But even here one is not at the scheme with a precision and an innermost scoret of this extra. economy of words, which, he makes
ordinary man's nature. your you feel, is a tribute to perspicacity rather than demonstration of fla powers of exposition. comes quicker to the point than nine men of business out of ten. And he sticks to the main point with enacity which might be envied by every industrial magnate in the country...
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Moreover, when it comes to your turn to speak he listens with the whole of his attention strung up to ts highest pitch, bis eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up ato a little 0 of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of machine which overcomes his deafness, in his eagerness to hear every word you say.
No sentiment shows in his face, no emotion sounds in his voice. His Is a pure mind, a practical mind taut with attention. If he has occasion In these moments to ring the bell for an adjutant or a colonel, that Dicial is adiresed with the brevity and directness of a manager giving an order to his typist. Instead of
A Real Fanatic At the back of everything, I am convinced, is the cold and command- ing intensity of a really great fana- tle. He believes as no little child believes in God and Satan, heaven and hell, and the eternal conflict of God and evil. He believes, too, as few priests of orthodox churches be lieve that a man must in very trath be born again before he can inherit the kingdom of heaven; that is to say, before he can escape the un- eternal imaginable agonies of an dismissal from the presence of God. But more than anything else he be lieves that sin is hateful; a mon- strous perversion to be attacked with all the fury of a good man's Boul
There is violence in his mind and violence in his religion. He believes. In fighting the devil, and he de lights in fighting him. I will not say that there is more joy at Salva- tion Army headquarters over one poor, miserable brand plucked from the burning than over ninety and
a text over his mantelpiece one nine cheques from wealthy sub- night expect to find the commercial scribers but I am perfectly con- legend "Business is business.fident that the pleasure experienced
TOMORROW AND Here, as I have said, he is nearer at the sight of all those welcome
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