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The amount collected from streama was 18.62 million gallons, The
the Shing Mun supply.
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J.P. CHARGED.
Alleged Possession of Opium.
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The total storage in the island
An Aberdonian, blind in Mul Kok-leung, the Singapore reservoirs on Monday, March 31 3.P., made another appearance be-eye, wanted to get into the cinema amounted to 771.69 million gal-fore Mr. R. E, Lindsell yesterday at half-price. lona, showing a decrease of 20.41 afternoon in connection with the million gallons during the past week. opium charge against him.
An amusing story is told by Mr. Evidence was given by Mr. J. D. Kaye Don, the well-known racing Lloyd, Superintendent of Imports motorist, concerning a week's consumption amounted to and Exports. He said, with regard who was describing the merits of 50.43 million gallons which into the duties of Revenue Officers, a car to a prospective purchaser. cludes 11.40 million gallons from that they had strict instructions not Said he "it runs so smoothly
Kowloon Water Supply
to touch out-going, luggage unless that you can't feel it, so quietly or that you can't hear it; while, as The total storage in the mainland they had definite information,
Re- for speed--why, sir, believe me, it reservoirs on Monday, March 31 the very strongest suspicion.
ventle Ocers also had definite travels so fast that you can't acc amounted to 420.65 million gat- lons, showing an increase of 41.28 orders that a suspected smuggler it."
sajd "That 807"
the other. million gallons during the past must be brought to the office im- week.
mediately and not allowed to com-Then after a moment's thoughtful He could pause, he asked: "Well, how do you The week's consumption amount-municate with anybody, ed to 25.61 million gallons, not in- not explain why these orders were know the blessed thing is there at
all, then?" cluding Hong Kong supplies and disobeyed in the present case. 2.43 million gallons supplied to
Mr. D. L. Strellett, for the de- fence, questioned Mr. Lloyd with water boats at Laichikok.
The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week was 80.75 million gallons.
Storage
The following shows the amount in storage (million gallons) the dates named:
1029
April 22
May 6
June
June 17
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Silly Old Man: Yes, I'm on the
regard to the rights of Revenue lookout for a nice little wife. Now, in If I were to come to you wouldn't Officers in, arresting persons possession-of-oplum,
you make me happy by murmuring
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Searcher Vague Questioned by Mr. Strellett on cident to inspector): There was an the point of "ring" possession of escape of gas in the boiler-room, the opium, Mr. Lloyd said that the and I sent down to locate it sir, and oplum was expected to come to the Murphy (the man I sent down), Empress Hotel and to go out of struck a match and
What! Inspector: the Hotel in the possession of a man. The acarcher had a rather vague match! I should have thought that idea as to who the man was, and he would have been the last thing on had to be pointed out by the in-earth be would have done. Sergeant: It was, sir.
Struck a
on
320.38
911.72
237.90
Hong Kong Mainland
138.81 121,65 $7.56
Mr. Lloyd-stated that a detective] "Ask mamma?"
Frank Young Lady: Why, of was allowed to use his discretion regarding the arrest of any one per-course I would, and what's more, son out of a number whom he knew she'd accept you. But oh! Wouldn't was in possession of opium, with the it be funny to call you papa?” idea of trying to "Ax" the principal.
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fatal Sergeant (reporting
192.75
80.51"
July 8
157.70+
August 5
1,251.86
September 2
1,878.13
October 7
November 4
December 2
1980 January
105.52 488.58 487.98 1,880.10 514.98 1,699.58 51464 430.54 ... 1,514.80
IS
AS A WHISTLE
February
1,279.77 458.50 1,235.50 450.51 1.198.87 438.87 1.145.65 412.83
these garments that come: back from the International
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1,097.85 1,054.18 1,011:11
430.14 424.80 419.80
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364.42 408.00
Dry Cleaning Co. No matter
March 3
915.10
916,10
392.64
10
872,80
872,80
389.68
14
828.17
• 376.60
702.10
379.37
The other persons
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771.69
402.65
who brought it In did not know where
they
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*Lowest for 1929 in Kowloon.
+ Lowest for 1929 in Island. Consumption
former.
And so you expected it to come from a place and from a man and to be brought in by a person. You must assume that Mr. Lloyd ?---Well It would not fly-la.
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Burglar: What about this burglar alarm?
Mate: Aw, put it in the bag: might get something for the belle.
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Darkness was falling
Over the picturesque Scottish Highlands, and
Knowing that much, do you think the three girls who were enjoying
it is right that the other persons the view from the top of the creak-
The following figures show the who brought that oplum to the ing, stage-coach, began to shiver in weekly consumption (million galHotel were not traced
lons) on the dates mentioned :—
1929
Are there not pre- Hong Kong Mainland and "fixed"?
cautions taken to see who brought the oplum into the Hotel?—No, do not think that is so at all.
Exercises Discretion
73, Calne load, Íong Kong.
April 22
87.50
May 6
39.03
80.76* 27.17
June 3
27.48
24.86
24
27.14
11.08+
July 1
37.31
20.71
29
August 6
35.828
23.28
31.85
25.17
September
50.80
27.62
58.411 29.67
October 7
54.90
{November 4
54.22
20.70 20.81
December 2
.46.90
26.54
1930 January
48.01
26.33
46.60
24.17
47.50
26.47
47.10
25.21
February 3
50,75
23.74
44.71
23.71.
17
46.11
24.80
16.00
10:00
Da
20.22
March 3
48.87
26.88
10
48.71
24.99
17
47.82
43.84
50.43 **
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at the time the evening breeze,
"I say!" called the driver to the below, "Is there a passengers mackintosh down there big enough to keep three young ladles warm."
"No," came an eager voice from Do you
not consider that the the window, "but there's
a big C.R.O. should take steps to inter-MacPherson, that's willin' to try." sent the oplum before it goes to the
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MEDICALS MEET.
Specialists at Congress in Osaka.
RED MENACE,
Anti-Foreign Feeling Worse,
The
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
TERRIBLE ATROCITIES
Osaka, Yesterday.
Peking. Yesterday. In the presence of 5,000 medical
bandit and Communist men, the eighth Medical Congress menace in Klangsi ia continually was opened" at Osaka this morn-growing worse. Ten thousand "Red" Ing.
troops under Chu Teh and Mao
hotel, and to catch the person tak- A Chinese was being frightened ing it there?-No, the officer exer-by a dog, which was barking at him. "Don't be frightened," eald # cises his discretion.
Gutting out all ceremonies, the Te-tung control many parts of the Is it his discretion then to com-Briton. "You know the proverb. congress proceeded with the reading north and west of the province as mence to "fix" a person with pos-'A barking dog never bites." of papers by Japanese and foreignwell nd the entire river from Kian- session, where it is known to him "I know ploverb, you know specialists, including M. M. Madsen, u to Kanchow, committing terrible
but does that a whole series of people have ploverb,
deg know Hoffman, and Axenfald.
atrocities and depredations, and successively been in possession? ploverb?" asked the Chinese.
Hoffman's paper was entitled "Is | dentroying - Government buildings Yea.
Syphilis Courable?" the lecturer and missionary and other foreign giving 20 years' experience with property, kvif Salvarsan treatment.
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A Revenue Officer then who Two men went fishing. One of knows that a series of persons have them was quite new at the sport, old hand. Successively been in possession of and the other was an opium, has the discretion to The new man kept asking ridiculous when he shall put in an appearance questions. and make an arrest?--Yes, I ex- "What will I do now?” he asked pect him to get the principal. after having wound his trout in The case was further adjourned until it was near the end of the † Lowest in Kowloon recorded taļuntil next Thursday afternoon, rod.
1029.
"Oh, climb up the red and stab
Lowest in Island in 1929.
Highest in Jaland in 1929. **Including first supply from Shing
Mun
WAGNER'S WIFE.
Death at 93 Years of Age.
MALARIA LECTURE.
the beast."
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"Alabaster?" asked a young wo man of the museum gulde as be approached a statue.
"No," he replied, slightly raising his brows, "Venus"
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It was after the welfare lecture,
Mr. Shibata, the Governor, en- tertained the foreign guests and officers of the Congress at a lun- cheon.
The newspapers
are favourably commenting on the progress of medical science in Japan.-Router.
SIR W. WILKINSON.
Former Consul-General
in China.
London, Yesterday. Sir William Henry Wilkinson, Kt.,
Sanitary Board Decision to Reproduce..
CHINESÉ TRANSLATION
Pursuant to notice, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga asked the following and the lecturer was speaking to a died at his home in Bathampton on questions at the fortnightly meet-burly navvy. Bayreuth, Yesterday.
ing of the Sanftary Board:
"So you envy Diogenea, do you?" Cosima Wagner, the widow of the "I. Will the Government under-he inquired. "To be sure," answer composer Richard Wagner, has died take the translating into Chinese ed the navvy. at the age of ninety-three.
of the recent lecture delivered by Cosima Wagner was almost blind, the Honourable the Director of you envy a man who lived in a tub?" "But you don't mean to say that and had been confined to her bed Medical and Sanitary Services on reasoned the speaker. for the past three years-Reuter.
the subject of Malaria? [Cosima Wagner, was born
"A tub!. I thought you 'zald On II. Will the Government cause to pub'!" December 12, 1837. She was the be printed, In separate pamphlet daughter of another famous com- forma, in English and Chinese, the poser and planist, Franz Liszt, by said lecture for distribution at such his temporary alliance with Marie times and to such
persona Comtesse d'Agoult, who later wrote and educational and other] as Daniel Stern." During her institutions as may be .conel- father's years in Woimer, (1847-57) dered most beneficial in connection she married Hans von Bulow, tho with hearthropaganda in the well-known conductor. but in Colony?"
DIDN'T BELIEVE.
A Tale of Noah's Jealousy.
We make no apology for taking
Anti-foreign · feeling is worse than at any time since 1927.
The Reds" attack undefended points, and when Government troops are sõht against them they dash to other district.
Atrocities at Yuanchow In a recont attack on Yuanchow the Cominunists seized the city on March - 23- and evacuated it on March - 26. The city magistrate was bolled-in-öll, and other pro- minent persons were brutally mur- dored, including the principal of the leading high school and the chief pastor of the China Inland Mission.
Magy shopkeepers and others tribute $60,000 to the "Reds," were tortured and forced to con-
| Monday night-Reuter,
Six foreigners were bound and and was educated at Wolverhamp-cupation. Three
He was born on May 10, 1858, made prisoners during the OC- were carried ton, and Ballo! College, Oxford, be-off, while Mr. R. H. Glazier Davis Scholar of Chinese in 1879, Rugg (British) escaped. coming an Exhibitioner in 1876,
and his wife (Americana) and Miss The land a B.A. în 1880.
Government troops at Nanchang re- Sir William joined the China cently were only a thousand in Consular Service in 1880, and was appointed Acting Consul General in number, and half of them are now distributed along the railway, hence Korea from 1893-94, Consul at the capital is very weakly held and Ningpo, in 1899, Cohaul General in Yunnan, and afterwards in Kwel-fs liable to fall into the hands of chow, 1902-11.
Missionary familles, He was Consul General at Chengtu 1909, Mukden are leaving Nanchang, 1911-12 and at Hankow in 1912. the upper Yangtze, Many towns Bandits are also very active on He retired on pension in 1918, after in the vicinity of Shaal have been 88 years service:
the "Reds".
November, 1868, she transferred: The Chairman (Mr. G. R. Sayer) her affections to Richard Wagner. replied: "The lecture referred to this from an exchange:, ni
The late Sir William Wilkinson looted, with the usual atrocities. She was not, however, divorced is being printed in the Caduceus
published several works on China,
Standard O agents in that dis until July, 1870. In August of that a publication of the Hong Kong at Mudcombe some years
During the great Thames Floods the best known being, "The Korean trict were captared but sub- year she and Wagner were married University Medical Society. The certain Mr. Brown behaved with of European Playing Cards," and
ago, a Government," "The Chinese Origin sequently released. at Lucerne, and her understanding translation and production in pam-conspicuous gallantry.
There is increased banditry in and sympathy were invaluable to phlet form is proposed. hearty support of all Mudcombe, the
With the "A Manual of Chinese Chess.".
all the outlying districts around HankowReuter. him in the product of his music-
Other business before the meet papera named him the "Hero drama at Bayreuth..
ing was of routine nature. The of the Mudcombe Floods." All the
Mr. Scullin, the Australian Prima After his death, in 1888, she following were present: Mr. G. E. vialtors were introduced to him, and Minister, alluded to attacks on garded it as her mission to carry Sayer (Chairman), The Hon. Dr. listened spellbound to the reminis Australian soldiers made in war on the Bayreuth tradition and keep A. H, Weillagton (Director of Fences of the Hero of the Mudcombe books, and said they would be treat Wagner's memory green. This she Medical and Sanitary Services), Floods.
Hero of the did with great success, bringing Dr. W. V. M. Koch, the Hon. Mr.
the festival performances to a bigh H. Creser (Director of His fame spread far beyond Mud- pitch of excellence. Later, she Public Work-Hon. Mr. J. P. combe, but at last be was called to handed over the task to her son Braga, Mr Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. his fathers. Shown round Heaven Stefried Wagner, but remained for T. N. Chaa, Dr. G. W. Fope, M.0.H, by Gabriel, he was introduced to a long the outstanding figure at Bay Col. C. Dyles O.BE. RAMC group of very vonorable men as the reath thanks to her wide culture and the Beory (Mr. J. Watson), Hero of the Madcombe Floods. and fascinating conversation,
They listened enthralled, except ons ture of Porto Rico has very old man, who continually
to all literate sniffed.
HULLOA BRAZIL !
The
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for the elections of to one
old chap
ed with contempt throughout the Commonwealth.
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