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We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.} THE RIDER-MAIN SYSTEM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PREUM,"
Hongkong, 8th December. Sin-I have read with keen laterest the letter which appeared in your iseno of Friday morning last under the heading of The Rider. main Danger" and algued "Aquarius." Your
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distribution." The expert was then reporting. on the system of that day, which was identically the game on wò hare with us here. to-day-the existing intermittent system-when he wrote:- (1) The outranes of foul air, foul liquids and possibly diseasa germs into the public water mains, (2) The growth of fun goids and corro. sion of the pipes. (3) The undue wear and tear of the distribution system. (4) The difficulty of equitable distribution of water, throughout the water-works proa (5) The waste of water. (6) The failure to provide efficient fire mersice, All this, I repeat, was end of the then existing
with what we bows boro-to-day,
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ton fell into our hands Captain_King_was Hongkong, 8th December. appointed to the responsible position of Town Siz,-In my letter of the 3rd Instant I said General Assetsut-Quarter-Muster-General. Major, and furtheracted as Assistant-Adjutant- that under the rider-main cystom we would have Having sorrod his Queen for twenty years, short supply for half the year, which is equiva-Captain King retired from the Army in 1860. lent to saying we would have a fall supply for and settled in Hampshire, and deved himself the other half. ~This was misleading. It is sport. He has always be foal of racing: clerk of the course at Hongkong for. true we had a full supply for something oversight,
sht years, and when he left the station a haud- five months this year, say from some time in May some service of plate was presented to him by natil the end of October, but we cannot count members of the Hongkong tu. While in China Capt. King imported several horses for on a season like the last ones in ten years friends, which be ward to train art side Tytam overflowed early in Juue, al Fonfolum role many race in India, at the Deese, in May; but ordinarily Tytam does not fill Ahmedabad, and Bombay meetings, but his
does not fill at all. This, this is how the he was the first Europeas to ride the Arab -ride a light weight; it is worth noting that rider-main agetom woold, most probably work Monarch, who ran for the Goodwood Cup in out. When the reservoirs were overflowing | 1847. He had owned a few race-horses; among thema Gainsborough and Juck-in-the-Green; with the overflow ceased this, owing to Chinese Majesty. This was in 1837 at Plymouth, when waste, would be no longer wife and the intermit | Capt. King's horse boat Lord George Bentinck's tout supply would step in. The Government The Drummer. He always velned the cup as would take no chance on basing to impart one of his most cherished possessions. He won the Cesarewitch of 1865 with Salpindles. The water from Kovices as last season. The inter-remains of Capt. King were interred in Exten mittent supply in the residential districts means
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correspondent very rightly introducos the sub-system which was identical, in every respect for the nad of September, and too often it -opportunities were limited by his inability to DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.
Now, the rider main system, according to the first Report quoted from the Government
all these evils.
the claims of this rider-main system as given Gazette of the 11th April last, is to dispose of water would be turned on full, but the monent the latter he won the first cup given by her Inte
-ject as one of vitul intereed to the iliabitants 91. this Colony, and, as he appears to be very sincere In his dealing i think it is only right to place before him, and the public, the facts respecting in Mr. Chulwick's Preliminary Report on the Sanitation of Hongkong published in the Concrament Gazette of the 11th of April last, pages 570 and 571. With this object I should feel obliged if you will kindly allow we space in the noluncus of your next issue.
EXTRACT FROM REPORT AND DIAGRAM,
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As to the speculative theory in which Aquarius" indulges, when he suggests that "Hongkeng will soon be known throughout the East as the town of the six-months' water. supply." To seest, such an erroneous iden, I vonture to give another extract from a further Report of Mr. Chadwick dated the 18th April 4. The following arrangement would greatly lust:"I find that during the water-year 1901-2 improve matters. At present house-services are connected directly to the strest maius. Isa average daily supply was given from pipes, of arall diameter, should be laid parallel rate of 2,400,000 gallons per day, under constant suggest that subsidiary mains, wrought iron Tytam from April to October inclusive, at the to the principal mains (rider-maine) on both
aupply for the remainder of the year. sides of the street, thus:
the average rato of supply was 1,500,000 gallons per day-se that about 1,000,000 gallons extra per day would have maintained the constant supply for the whole year." And he further says:--"During the exceptional drought of 1991-2 the stream below Tytam yielded at least 45,000,000 gallons between September and October, which would have beca a valmeble addition to the general water supply." It will thus be seen that had steps been taken earlier to courerve below the present Tylam dam there was sufficient water to keep up the constant supply, even during the most srcep- tional drought which the Colony has experienc. ed. Steps are now ander way to accomplish this,
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The house services should be disconnected from the principal mein, aud connected to the rider-mains. In this way, the town would be divided into blocke of convenient size, the water supply to which could be turned on and off, independently, and in rotation. The water could be then turned on to, and what off from, a large group of blocks in rotation. No. 1 block would receive water from 3 am, to 4 a., No. 2, 4 to 5, and so on. In short, the town would be supplied just as London was, when the intermittent system was in force. The principal mains would always be charged, wider full pressure. No pollation could enter through open ball-hydrauts--rather an important point, at the present moment especially.
41. I recommend this arrangement, not merely because it will improve and facilitate the management of an intermittent supply, and mitigate its orile, but also because it will be permanent improvement. It will facilitate the shutting off of house services, because the valves on the rider-mains may be so arranged as to be practically inaccessible to anauthorised persons, Such is not the case with the house-service cocks now in use. It will grently facilitate the application of the existing law, with regard to the prevention of waste. Arrangements may be made whereby the fest mater may easily be applied shou required. The detection of wasto will also be facilitated. The inspector need only sprly tho atethescope" to one of the valves commanding the whole block. If there be no sound of fowing water, be can pass on to another block. He nood only examine house by house if he finds symptoms of leakage within the given block Lastly, it will be most advantageous, if the streets are asphalted, or otherwise improved. The rider mains may be laid along the side walks, so that if a house-service requires renewal, the street surface noed not be disturbed., It will be plainly soon from the above that these rider-maine are to be of small dimensions and are also to be laid along the side-walks, in which case, beyond the disconnecting of present existing services from the street-wain, there need be no disruption of the streets whatever.
It will be seen also that the systoni in a thoroughly simple but practice mananer greatly facilitates the detection of waste, and provides, through the book system, an equal distribution, which if ouly for one hour & dey will always be sufficient for the inhabitants. Such a supply could easily be maintained all the your round.
Then again, the Report states that no pollu tion whatever can take place through open ball-hydrants a very important point at the present moment' and in epidemic seasons. It also points out that the new system will greatly mitigate the evils attendant on the existing intermittent supply system, and will be "a" permanent improvement. So much for the opinion of a qualified expert.·.
Your correspondent "Aquarius" in his letter saysIn all that has been said or written, no attempt, so far as I am aware, has been made to point out the dangers of the rider-muin
schema which seems likely to be forced upon us. Rider main is a good word and sms to have been lugged in to disgaise the real issue, which is free, anchocked water to the Chinese. It is advocated in the interests of owners of Chinese tenements whose tenants demand water without metering
and
if this rider main system is carried out Hong kong will soon be known throughout the East as the town of the six-month water-supply-
for investors,
With the introduction of the rider main system, which is to regulate the supply for at least the one hour per day from block to block of houses in ratation, it is obvious that should another drought overtake us the present storage capacity would prove ample for our needs, and Hongkong would never be known as "the town of the six months' water-supply."
That the rider main system is not advocated solely for the interests of Chinese landowners, suggested by "Aquarias," must also be quite apparent, when, for every house owned, a contribution averaging about $100 for the installation of the system will have to be paid down; and the only hope of getting back any of this cash contribution rests on the chance of a possible increase of rent, which, at most, will not amount to more than from 25 cents to 50 cents per fat per month. Here supply and demand comes in, so that there will be a possibility 6 landlords not being able to recoup themselves for a long time. The landlords are studying the economic as well as humans side of the question, and with this disinterested motive, as well as from a sanitary point of view they think they are serving the best interests of this Colony.
an hour and a half par day, and in the more favoured Chinese localities, any four hours. We might therefore reasonably const on a full supply from the middle of September to the end of October, if we were luckly, and an hour ad
half for the balance of the year. The reser- voirs under construction may in time be counted
on to relieve the situation comewhat, but it will be some years before the big one is ready, nud while that would have an independent catch- ment urus, yet it must depend for filling largely on the overflow from Tytam, In years when Tytam is only three quarters full it would be interesting to learn the Government estimate of the neanmalution at Tytam Tuk.
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Kathleen King (daughter). Misses Alice and Edith King (nieces), who were followed by the and others assembled to pay a last mark of horsehold. Members of the Hombiedou Hunt respect to their old friend.
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baen that it would be disastrous to the Irish cause if an R.C: wing of the party were formed; hence he has-wade unconditional surrender, London, 22nd November,
His course in that respect is generally Fogarded Mr. Morley, speaking at the National Liberal as undignified and lacking in proper solfrespect, Club, outogised Mr. Chamberlain's mission, which and those who comment upon it in most friend. be regarded with considerable confidence. Mr.ly fashion, say that it has probably ome too Chamberlain's fitness for the task of raconstruct- late to save for himself the loalership of the ing the social fabric and overcoming the party. Irish members say that the lafuence difficulties was greater than that of any man. which kedmoned formarly possessed, and the be know,
leadership, will probably pass to Healy.
Router is informed that the details of Mr. and circumstances, He will probably visit Chamberlain's voyage depend upon the weather | Cairo while the ressol is passing the Candl and is ocaling. It is impossible to forecast what he will do while the boat is couling at Zanzibar,
ALGERIAN AFFAIRS,
London, 22nd November.
Orders for thres French warships to proceed to Oran bave cansed wild rumours in Paris concerning British designs, but it is declared that this French Foreign Ulles does not share the apprehensions. It is convinced Britain has no aggressive intentions.
But what must strike nzy impartial absorver is the collossal impadence of the whole affair; the superhuman nerve of the proposition! Just think of it for a moment. The Europeaus are metered to prevent excessive' use, and waste of water. They recognise it as a fair thing and don't complain. If they wasto, the meter shows it, and their supply is liable to be teat off But John Chinaman, who never knew a public water service of any kind in kis` own country calmly says: "I most hare water and I have an abiding horror of the meter. I must be allowed to waste what I like; that is old custom. I don't stare 'f the Europeans are wasters or not that is not my pidgin. I want water and I don't want anybody to measure " If that proposition is astounding, what, may we ask, is the peculiar ferai that Chinese loyally" bas taken on this occasion to gain the powerful support of the Executive? What, I wonder, would the Hon, Dr. Ho Kai sy if it were
CRICKET AUTHENTICS IN INDIA.
Bombay, 18th November, proposed to give the Europeans an unmetered
The Oxford University Authentics command- supply, and meter it to the Chinese? What answer would the Governor make to that pro-ed their Indian tour at Poona on Monday, position? And yet everybody must know that playing aginst a sepresentative team of the The Presidency opened Bombay Presidency. if a short supply, were dependent alcns on disastrously, Greig being caught for four. European waste the mains would be fuil always. Their total was 204, of which Sprott made 12, The question is forced upon us, are the 30. The Authentics made 170 for 2 wickets. Cheetham 29, Lewis 72, Milne 96. and Waleott European taxpayers entitled to any considera Chinnery scoring 36, Hollins 33, and Williams tion? Is this Colony run purely in the interests-84-not-out.
of the Chinese? Are we to lese onr birthright fer a mess of potash, and be led-around by the nose like a tin duck swimming after a magnet?
That is the question.—Yours, etc..
----AQUARIUS.-
Then again, scoording to one of the most important Laws relating to Public Health in CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE CO.LD. force in London (54 and 55 Vie. Chap. 76), which reads as follows:-
43. An eccupied house without 's proper and soient supply of water shall be a nuisance liable to be dealt with sim- mmarily under this Act, and if it be a dwelling-house, shall be deemed unfit
for human habitation.
it is clearly proved that any house, without water being supplied through an efficient service, must be condemned sa unfit for human habitution.
The meter-system so strongly supported by Aquarias" for Chinese tenement-honses has been most carefully considered by all who are likely to be affected by it, and it has been pronounced as absolutely impracticable, for the following reasons:-
1. As the occupants of Chinese tenement houses are migratory, changing about from month to month, there would be great difficulty in collecting the dnes for meter-rent and the extra consumption of water.
2. Should one meter only be fired in every house, this difficulty of collecting would be very greatly increased, as a tenement house may some times contain from twenty to thirty tenants.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,”
Hongkong, 3rd December. BIBI am a shareholder in the above Com- pany, and I have read with interest your report of the annual meeting held on the 25th ult. I was nuable to be present at the meeting or I should have protested against the distribution of the profits of the Company in the way the directora have thought fit to divide them. The shareholders who are non-contributors of busi ness only get a dividend of $4-which absorbs 898,000. The invested funds of the Company, which belong to the shareholders, bring in interest amounting to 8110,000; and it seems to me that the shareholders, who run all tho risks of the business, should certainly receive the whole of that money. Instead of that the directors see it to use some $14,000 of such funds for the running expenses of the Company or for distribution to the contributors. The principle of giving a return to mutributors is tourd and one of which all 'skareholders wast approve, but it appears to me the directora do "not give sufficient thought as to what that return should to. The shareholders would be wuch better off if they decided to liquidate the Company and divide the assets among them selves. They could invest the proceeds to bring
VENEZUELAN AFFAIRS,
Loudon, 22nd November, Venezuela has presented a strong protest the British sloop against the despatch of Fotome to the Orinoco an à violation of Venezuelan sovereignty.
Bombay, 19th November.
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PRICE. acordance with lines suggested in a proposition involving interuational mail or other servics in a note aout out by the United States Govern- ment in 1897.
FORTUGAL, PLANS SOUTH AFRICAN COLONY.
London, 1st December. Portugal has added to its South African..-- territory by taking actasl possession of this dia- trict south of the Zambesi heretofore occupied by native tribes. The area bar always been included in Portuguese claims, but has until now been practically independent. With the news that an expedition las destroyed native KING EDWARD VII rule s project is announced for the colonisation of the territory by government aid.
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VOICANIC TROUBLES IN MEXICO,
London, 6th December. Renewal of volcauie disturbance in Mexico
is under a pall of smoke by day and the glow is specially notive in Colima, where the distrist from the crater lights the sky nightly. Internal explosions frequently occur, followed by dis charges of stones and lava. A sciontificexplor The Authentics totalled 313 in all. Willorasing party sent to the scenes from New York. mode, 103 (Clayton 68 Headlam 28, and reports large tracts of land covered deep with Tomkins 20), The Presidency have scored 254 ushes in Mexico and Guatemala.-S. Tinies, for two wickets (Cheetham 29, Sprott 19, Lowis }· --36-and-Greig-193, the last two not.ont)...
Bombay, 20 November.
The Presidency totalled 412, Greig making 204, and Sinclair 45. The Authentics 800rod 257 for 9 wickets (Chinnery being absent through illness) thus losing by 47. The fish was exciting, the last wicket falling within five minutes of closing time.
Bombay, 22nd November.
of lindas of all India the Authentics totalled In a two days' match with a combined team to-day $56 runs, Hollins taking 141. Horoby 44, Tomkinson 35, Raphael 30, and Ridley 25, The Hindus scored 97 for 6 wickets.
WONDERFUL NEW SUBMARINE. -
If everything that is claimed for it can be substantiated, the "working submarine boat ".! constructed by Cavaliere Guiseppe Pino, an Italian gentleman, is even more marvellous than the other marvellous inventione asor which a disbelieving world has recently made merry. The objects of this vessel ure by no means warlike. They are entirely peaceful. The bost is specially intended for the recovery of wrecks. By means of it, a writer in the Con- temporary Revicio ataures, as, Signer Pinu recently recovered in ten minutes a boat sunk in the Gulf of Genoa, though it lay at a depth London, 3rd December. of forty-five fathomu! No diver being able to In the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Er. work at a depth of more than fifteen fathoms, Privetti, Mivister of Foreign Affairs, said that on account of the enormous pressure to bo ho had assented to the British operations in a portion of the Italian sphere not yet under the supported, Signor Guiseppe Pino's boat has Italian flag or protection, provided these opera-been made to resist this formidablé pressure, tions were conducted so as not to endanger the and, we are told, eds work at practically any
lay at Benadir or the Cova Protectorates. depth as freely as if on the surface. A high Italiau naval officer was accompanying the expedition.
London, 5th December.
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To obtain the first result, this boat is constructed of a spheroidal form, and entirely of steel, but in such a way that it resista A despatch from Reuter's correspondent at Barbern, dated the 3rd of December, announces pressure m though made in one piece. Tol has fivishet the mrvey of the coast of the Italian thearrival of the British cruiser Pomoge, which attain the second end, Signor Pino has invented protectorate with the view of selecting a port at mechanical arm. This, we are asked to which to land the troops, Tig was found to believe, is capable of all the movements of the be unsuitable, and Obbia (rather more than fire living human arai. It can be beat, ontracted, degrees north of the equator, and south-east
3. If a meter were to be fixed on every flat in a much better return than they are now of Bohotle] was selected and becomes the base and extended in all directions, and can səizé the cost to the Government for meters only getting. I recommend this sebeme for the would be over a million dollars, besides the consideration of those interested, daring the service necessary for a regular inspection and coming year. Thanking you for the insertion the costant repairs.
of this and enclosing my card—Yours, etc.,
A DISSATISFIED SHAREHOLDER.
The reasons, I think, speak for themselves; they are muscular ones. And, as the owners of property are to be looked upon by the Gorer DEATH OF AN OLD HONGKONG ment for all these dues, it is not likely many of them will avail themselves of this troublesome water-meter system.
SPORTSMAN,
We see from the Hampshire Chronicle that On the other hand, if the Government are the death look pace at Wharnford, Hauts, it That does not appear to be a choorial prospect prepared to undertake the risk of dealing direct the end of October, of Captain John King, How many years will it with the Chinese tenants, the landlords will be formerly very well known in this Colony. take to complete this gigantic scheme and how only too pleased to see the " Aquarios" suggestion | Capt. King, a Devonian, was for over thirty about the pestilence which is likely to fellow alopted and thereby save their $500,000 on years secretary of Hambledon Hant, and the this sweeping disruption of the streets, to say tribation to the ride-main scheme, which, I youngest surviving son of the late Mr. John nothing of the block and congestion of trafo?" may here state, is only intended in blocks of King, of Fowolscembe, in that western county, From the extracts given above it is quite housen situated on the lower "lovels. Houses at "King of the West" was a noted sportsman clear that your correspondent has not taken the the Park, and on the upper roads cannot be in his day; he was Mester of the South Devon froable to make himself sufficiently acquainted brought into this scheme on account of their Hounds for a time, and afterwards of the Hambledon, over which he presided for twelve with the subject as dealt with in Mr. Chadwick's isolated positions.Yours, etc.,
years-1829 to 1941. Capt. King was op report before writing, as he has done in his
cated at the Royal Academy at Gosport, and lengthy contribution, as all his statements
at the age of 19, entered the Army. He served › would appear to misrepresent the true facts of
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London, 4th December. The correspondence with reference to the evacuation of Shanghai has been issued. Gor-
It is claimed for this invention that by its many agreed to simultaneous evacuation, but means every kind of operation for the salvage proposed to Great Britain that China should age not to grant to any Power special or recovery of ships or objects can be done with advantages above or below Shanghai. Lord great ease; that it has been tested to a depth of Lansdowne replied that he believed the principle seventy-five fathoms, and that the inventor, who of the open door was sufficiently safeguarded has descended in it to the sun-bottom at least 140 and strongly deprecated the German proposal.. times, has successfully worked at a depth of Count Metternich replied that the proposal was sixty-five fathoms; that two persons can work dropped and explained that it was not specially in it on the sea-bed for twelve hours continuously
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LANDS INDIA, PHILIP- PINES, BORNEO, &c.. ef 14 Lalhos per second; that it will stop and London, 3rd December.
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THE CHINA DIRECTORY Mr. Redmond's surrender to the demands of perfect equilibrium, and for any length of time; the R.C. hierarchy have by no means heated that it walks on the sea-bed, moving freely on factional differences in the Irish party. It is an ingenious single wheel, propelled by un thought that he taight have carried a strong electric-driven screw; and that, when amber- faction with him, but he pursued consistently ged, there is telephonic communication between the course on which he set out then he gave it and the surface, so that orders can be given the hierarchy offence. His gotico reome to have or received by the operators."
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