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– THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL STE, 1906.
M. 101,831,917.66.
exception, M. Sabatier endeavoured to show that
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The 8. Petersburg, correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette wrote ou Mareb 9:-In view of the renewed interest aroused in Port ROBINSON Arthur by the recent condemnation of Genera) Stoessel, it may be
thaa Louis XIV. had been, or M. Clemenceau was this practice detinols very little from the from the " Voice of M0800 to tranɛlate {
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portion of the article of a Russian sorrespondent on that great Japanes fortress, who seems to be particularly observant. He ars that Port Arthar and Dalny have changed very much since the war. Under Rusian raia Port Arthur was an in-TWO IN ONE" tornational town full of life, and, after the Japanese asme into possession of it, it promised to be even livelier than ever. The roads were repaired, the quays renowed, the water supply improved, Japanese and Chinese merhaule
business booser began to be built.
"THE LATEST.
-they M. 785-934-40-love-been-paldio-the State equal to 50,91 por csat. of the entire share understand his commands. The enase of all this host the groundwork of his speech in complete began to establish themselves in the town, and MUSTICAL
Tnsurance funds. The sea-going steamers made, 1223 voyages, carrying altogether 470,200 pns sangers of all classes, exclusive of those conveyed out and back to the health resorts of the Northsea and 6,312,030 Tle, of pargo. The entire distance traversed by these steamers amounts to 7,755,47 nautical miles or 14,363,152 Kilometres being 359 times the length of the aequator,
expital of M. 2005000,000. **
at
The number of porous employed by the Back in all its offices has risen from 4096 year to 4489 in the present one.
'
THE KAIBER'S LETTER.
But suddenly something happened. All at enc, Port Arthur became a city of the dead, Business men quietly abandoned their ships, builders left their uncompleted buildings, and from that time, up to the present no private individual has begun any new building in Port Arthur. The great supplies of provisione sad other parts of Manchuris. But none except other goods were sent back to Japan or into the Japanese knew what was the word that had gone forth,
MARVEL.
THE
AUTO-PIANO
A PIANO & PLAYER COMBINED).
for some time to come. A remarkable recovery M. SABATIER AND MODERNISM." In the investment market has to be moorded on
Germany; in the first two months of the present M. Sabatier gars last month the last of bis
The February laws of the "London Maga- year loans et fixed rates of interest private and lestures, delivered under the terms of the
Jowelt Trust, on the subject of ine" contain an interesting article entitled public to the extent of 400 million Marks have Modernist Movement in the Roman Catholic Week in the Busy Life of the Premier." THE H.A.L
been issued in this country and have been taken Churcb;"--The attendance was as good as on The author, who signs himself" Amions, After the communiqué of the Hamburg America Line to the press a fortnight ago, the up by the public, proof of the gradual the provious occasions, and an analysis of the enjoyed the friendship of Sir Henry Campbell full annual report and the balance sheet of the re-establishment of healthy relations between the ideals and hopes of the Modernist movement Bannerman for many years, and visited bim company" which appeared last week possess vlogs and the monetary requirements of the and of the arguirants with which it finds itselt at Belmont Castle during the autumn.
confronted wers listened to with sympathy and
"I should not say," he writes, 'that Sir little interest for the general reader; still the nation. The continuous incresse of the popula- | appreciation. Treating first the conception of Henry was over really fitted for a great stream. following figures may be worth quoting: the ton of Geraisay, which is proportionately no Authority to which the Modernist leaders take of work, and as he is exceptionally consalen. tions in discharging all his duties, and giving pett earnings of the company during the ten lam than the immigration in the United States, it was something which evolved naturally enough persal supervision to details, the strain of years from 1898 to 1907 inclusive amount to 233 -account_si_n_constantly reviving, stimulus to from-medieval-conditione, bat was not in the The Fronterahip beára” more beavily upon him atillion Marks ont of which on an average the accomic development of the country. The least adapted to those of the present day than it would upon most statismes. In ople annual dividends of 7,85 per cent, has been tutul Larn-over of the Lund-office and the branch Just as ideas with regard to parent n' authority of his genisi amíla and pawky jokes, be worries paid and 161 million Markes placed to deprecia. establishment in the provicesz amounts to 91,61 over their children had been transformed, so out over business out of use hours, and really
worn actions with regard to spiritual never seems to have a single moment by tion and reserve accounts; 302,6 millions have milliard Marks against 85,50 fast year sad must be abandoned. The exercise of authority self. I have often bond
Sir Houry while TELEPHONE NO. 136 in so far as it applied he has been preparing a great party speech. been spent on the purchase of new stencasts the nett probls, indudes balance of M.1,115,791 was justifiable during that paricd, or, deducting the value brought forward from last year to šli impetus to development and was wred-to arouse The amount of personal care and trouble which It must learn to he has devoted to it has amazed me. What is
Hongkong; 8th April, 1908. 30,328,176.04 which it is proposed to allot a new interests and ideals,
recognise the individual point of view in the called the gift of the gab. does not come of ships sold as they stood to book, 256
followe millers, On the other hand the ospital of the a dividend of 12 per cent to the
pupil and not take to methods of repression naturally to him, and he has to take far greater when the child shows signs of original action. company represented by ordinary and pre-shareholders
... 24,000,000.00 Recently admiration had been aroused in FranceFains over apgeoh than the ordinary politician, ference shares shows an ineresse of only 114 gratuities to stuff......
1,850,000.00 for the abivalrous affection shown by the proportion of his sparches than any Minister of
"I should say that Sir Henry roadwa
larger boans to directors and the beards millions having at different times been raised
President for his aged mother, simple paysanne the front cank has ever done before. But one of management in the provinces 903,225.81 à bounet blant. But any attempt on the part of his many charms is an engaging frankness, from 58,5 millions in 1898 to 172, in 1997.
ragorre account B.
1,891,917.66 of this aged parent to give lessons in Statecraft and he never makes the faintest attempt to con- Last year the cost of now steamers amounted Dr, von Stemens Pension and aid
to her son would have been resented. The coal what he is doing. Ons despatch bor in to 40 miliion Marks. The groaz aggregate
500,000.00 Pope's claim to speak, with the bureaux of the front of him you may see a great pile of papers, reaches tonnage of the entire feet newa
Valican, as though he were the Church was which he turns over one by one na bekas than
1,134, 33.17 | indefensible one. He was no more the Church finished reading from them. Oddly enough 155,742 T. reg. or 2,9249 Ts more at the end of 1966 and the average
M. 30,329.176.64 now, the French people. Neither Pius X, Do age of the vessels, taking their respective mes
approval of the Cardinal Merry del Val, nor even the Biblical effect of his speeches But thongh he is fairly successful with an audience, he takes no marements into account, comes to safon years
funds will then Commission were sternal. . Sabatier referred plenare whatever in addressing it He does 'sleven' months. The several institutions for the
then to the immense desfection which was not care about crowds sad excitement, bat what benefit of the employés of all ranks and descrip-
M. 60,382,031,30 prezent making elf felt everywhere in the he obielly dreads in the labour of preparation."
26,417,934 01 Roman Catholic Church, and referred to an
Desorbing Sir Henry engaged in the pre- tions bave continued to be the object of specia
1131,033.17ticle in an Italian jaunal sympathetic to the paration of a speech, the writer says: care and attention on the part of the directors,
Pepe, which spoke of Pins-X. s 1. ft isolated,
** What most impr zsed me as I watched him substantial sums hazing been from time to time
and compared him to a general whore soldiers was his icinite patience, his love of detail, and either could not understand or did not mean to his great pains to ensure accuracy. allotted to the different branches, whilst no less
When at was the growing sense of the Church-as-some-be prefers to "remain stone while be idrating thing possing unity and consciousness, which up his poler. As he is not a quick worker, this the lecturer compared to the growth in the process usually takes a very long time. Once political sphere of the s nee of nationality, Mo his notes are complete be proceeds to dictato deza. poz.ded to this new phenomenon. from them to a shorthand writer. Typewritten It accepted and lived in the tradition of the copies are brought to him, and further correc It is to be hoped that the incident of the Church, but at the same time was careful to adaptions are made. When at last the final notes are Kaiser's letter to Lord Twoodmeath may bars itself to the new needs of growth and develop ready quite au siaborate procees of manufacture boen definitely closed by the declarations of the Bible compie pur savant, bat unlike orthodon that of transforming rubber from its liquid ment. In the sphero of exegesis it studied the has been gone through, almost as elaborate an ministein in both houses of parliament on Protestantism it would avoid the error of Monday last. Most people here, English as opposing the Bible to the Church. This, said M. stano the banks of the Congo to the finished
pneumatio tyre. well as German, seem inolined to agree with Lord Sabatier, was to oppose the will of mother and
For a slow worker like Sir Henry, the work father in presence of the child, In the sphers of preparing and delivering speeches during an Rosebery, who said in his speech confes dogms it was hostile in the attempt to use sutama campaign would really be sufficient to I have only one apprehension in regard to this geometrical survey of the field and fix inviolable accupy all bla time. But, as it is only one out matter and that is that as a nation we may ba limite. Moderniam regarded the dogms of of shout a hundred of his coonpations, it is a making ourselves quite ridiculous by the fans the Church as a development of which the standing marrel that be manages to pull which has been made about this correspondenso growth during the period of gestation was through. As I observed him daring an sednous тегт difficult subject of investigation. At least and to think that the whole affair does not the Modernisis contemplated no return to the week, I could not fail to be struck by the
pathetic sight of this benevolent old gentleman, The whole fortress is being reconstructed on redound to the credit of the great city paper state of the severely primitive Church, Buck intended by nature to all the role of a country
a new and unknown plen he fortifications an idea they left to the archeologically with dignity, saught up in the whirl ofre being extended beyond their old limite, and |which Brit gave it publicity in language
minded. The salient obaczoteriatic
of Modex: machinery, sred hurried forward at broathless the labourers and overseers are selected with the the approach of a turn in the tide of commergin! anything but temperate. The numerous letters nism was its possession of the sense of speed. All day long his attention must never. |
greatest
The old redoubts are not. It falt itself the child of the past; the
relax. Even meal times scarcely afford an destroyed, but all useful material in them has and industrial prosperity; it is therefore all the which appeared on this ocassion in the different life. more significant that they should in the one newspapers in England again reveal the aston. parent of the future. It destroyed Zwists, | instant'd respite, and, far into the night, when been mored to other sites. In the construction
renounced nothing, accepted · alÏ,
It's it. his temples are throbbing his weary eyes of the fortifications great attention has been. | th for 1907, just issued, draw attention to ishing ignorance prevailing amongst the publision was that of the reconciles. Fixsblicking, he must alill strugle with his endless
and over in parliamentary circles, concerning must harmonise science and faith, and then labours, far beyond the limits of his physical plunging fire can be concentrated on the paid to the selection of the best positions whence symptoms of improvement in the general situa
the position and power of the Kaiser. He is no faith and free thought." M. Sabatier referred strength. Yet he ever complains, his temper passages through the bills in front, and in order tion after the wide-spread economic disturbances autocrat ruler like the Teac or the Saltan; as to interesting meetings which have recently is never unruffed, he is always kind and con- to attain this end, constant practice firing is Level and storage of water in reservoirs on of the last six months, although they are careful King of Prussia he is bound by his cath to the taken place in Paris along this latter line siderate and courteout. I think it is the re- carried on. The land ward side is protected by the 1st April. City and Hill District Water
resulting in friendly gatherings in which M,N. to add that so far affairs have not got beyond constitution and an German Emperor he Silles. Vandervelde, Buission, Picot, and cognition of there qualities, of that quiet and long-range guns mounted in excellent forts, Works.
even min, which turns a prison into a her-
one point alone there are 120 guna On the tho first stage of convalescence. The introductory
others bare taken part. There might yet to mitage, that has caused the recent popular seaward side rows of guns are Tieible-many
1908. passage of the report reads as follona.
born a libre pensée religieuse. At the close of revulsion in his favour,
of there gans were taken from the Russians.
Below overdow. Below overflow. The past year has witnessed a severe financial
the lecture the Rev. A L. Lilley expressed the
Parhaps the task which Sir Heary finds Trial-firing is carried on more and more fre- Tylaxi .....-35 ft. 8 in.
47 ft. 5 in.. orisis extending over the whole world; it had
thanks of the meeting to NZ. Satation, and most trying of all is that of maintaining barquently at night with the help of reflectors, Tylam Byewash 34 It. Shin, 25 ft.5 in. nounced that Professor Inge, of Cambridge, mony among his colleagues. When he was and, to assist the gunners, a whole series of Tytam Intermediate ail. become more and more apparent during the
Pokfulam......... 89 ft. 1 iu. first half of the year that the flood of pros. Reichstag. If people would bear this in mina would be next year's lecturer on the Jowet called upon to form a Government there were i signal stations has been erected on the hills:`
probably about 10 times more claimants than At the bottom of both harbours, and out along Wongualchung 35 et. 10 in. offees. Old men who had foiled for the party the sea omast up to a distance of two miles from
STORAGE GALLONS. during long years in the wilderness regarded all the fortrees, some sort of work is being carried
1907, the best places as their due; brilliant youths who on perhaps mines are being laid.
148,980,0 0 781,000 All the way to Mokden strategic positions be New York correspondent of the "Mera. had done all the hard work naturally expected ing Leader" learns that the opposition to Mir ward Whigs and Socialists and repres are being slected and prepared, and strategia Harry Thaw's suit for the annulment of hor sentatives of the Nonconformist conscience, roads are being run through the mountain..
As for Dalay, it is strongly fortified on the marriage is likely to be merely of technical every section and fad and interest olamoured character. The petitioner is making no do for xssive recognition. It was only by a landward side, the entire environs of the village miracle of task and commosenis that Sir of Lonkke having been converted into fortress mand for a limony, but it is understood that Henry was able to form his Government with positions," and guns have been moarted there. Mrs. Thaw, son, has promised her daughter out making a single seriens enemy, but it must on the esward side Dalny is more weakly in-law £10,00, with an additional annual it's still groster miracle to contiane to keep it fortified, but on the whale it is very much more come of £3,000,
strongly defended than when the Ruscious Evelyn Thaw has already received an offer well in band,
"If the public only know the incessant vigi were in possession of it. The enormous from a music-ball manager for an engage. A notable statement of British naval policy ment is a brief sketch which is admirably the inanite pains the extravagant barracks in Port Arthur and Dalay are full of was made in the troute of Commons last month calculated to reveal her famous smile at a salary batteries, the trging humiliations which bare troops, and groat storms of grain, fedder, beans,
been neversary, night-tte aum which Mr. Han only be surpassed by their admiration. And appeared in Dalny a peculiar four-wheeled pity for Sir Henry would ste, have been collected. There bar iately by the Chancellor of the Exobequer. Hestated, of £609
merstein is paying. Mma. Tetrazzīnī. Amil cheers from the Unionists:
Papers in the suit were served uppa Thar apart from his work as a peacemaker, he heart iron platfrom for carrying feld guns of We must maintain the pussailable supremaoy of this country at sea, and for that purpose the in Mattsawan Asylum, and upon his mother, always had the labour of giving practica! the largest calibre.
to every department. No doubt To the fortified points of Port Arthur and chosen, but it is impossible for him to forget bailt from the main railway. whether it is a scientific formula ur no!, is a Lorraine, New York. good, practical, and workable one. There is no difference of opinion on that point between
that a bude by any subordinate will always be laid at his door." successive Administrations.
DROP IN BRAE28.
The balance sheet not being deemed tis factory by the stock exchange the shares of the Line dropped to 111,40 after the general meeting and (hose of the Norddeutsche Lloyd to about par: since then both have recovered somewhat,
but are still under a cloud.
A BANK REPORT,
It will be remembered that the directors of the Beatzeko--Bank in Berlín in their annual, report last year were amongst the first to signal
perity was receding, in the third quarter however, after a fairly good harvest, signs of renewed activity were noticeable and as dear money had been generally expected and provision made to meet the increased demand which mls in every autumn, the latter might not have proved a disturbing factor but for the sudden outbreak in October of a finstoial origin in the United States of unusual severity, which led to the withdrawal from circulation and the hoarding up of currency in that country. Not only was gold no longer obfainable but notes too became scarce and a premiate of 3 per cent.
Rather
simply primus inter pares and although Prussia in certainly the predominant partner he can take no important step without the consent of the other sovereign priness of the empire and the Free towns, and the sanction of tha
it might save much foolish talk and groundless tears Besides, as I have remarked on former occasions does anybody realize what war means in a country where every able bodied man is a soldier, liable to be called away from his daily vocation and from his family at a moment's notice, should the army be mobilized?
SUPREME FLEET.
IMPORTANT DECLARATION of British
POLICY.
|
Trust.
ayes
"THAW: DIVORCE: SUTT,
Thaw's mother (says the "Telegraph") is co-defendant, for the reason that Thaw, in the of the law, is iLootapetent, and she is guardias, as his next-of-hin.
The complaint in Mre: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's action is brief, simply reciting that Thaw si the time of his marriage and subsequently was
During the debate Mr. Balfour had referred to the remarkable programme of naval construction which was being undertaken by Germany, and to the statements which had been made as to the rapid construction which was being aimed at in insana,
The leader of the Opposition. Mr. Dan O'Reilly Mid Mrs. Thaw does not that country.
"The pointed out that if these forecasts were fulfilled, contemplate going on the stage again, the relative position of the British Fleet would bus ac plans for the future."
Mr. O'Reilly further stated that ever since the be detrimentally affected. Mr. Asquith replied to these remarks at length, and in conclusion first trial Thaw and bis wife had quarrelled, bat
Thar kept up appearances." made the following Important anti significant statement, amid cheers:
he
should say that he was more successful as a diplomatint than as a politician. This it particularly noticeable when he is entertaining foreign guests, and a scnsiderable share in the improved relations with foreign countries is due to him as well as to the King".
The relations of the Japanese authorities to and Chinese are registered and are looked after. wards the Chinese are very severe. All Russian very carefully. Notices have been inued to the effect that any Chinese found within any of the prohibited areas around the forts will be dealt with very severely: Chinese seen in Now Town after 8 pm, ere arrested and fined,
A1
care.
Targe parties of Japanese officers come not only at Port Arthur and Daizy. but in frequently from Japan to study the ground, Mukden and Lisoyang. Lately many troops have come, and have all gone to Mukden
AMUSING SPEECH
and more was extablished for ready money, a formidable demand for gold from Europe being the natural consequence.
over 100 million dollars were shipped to America via Louden of which more than one half was two-Power standard, as it is commonly called, Mrs. Mary Cipley Thaw, at the Hence in the colleagues he has Dalny special railway branch lines have been contributed by Germany and a smaller amount by Frauce. The Bank of England under the circumstances was obliged to raise the rate of discount in rapid succession to 7 per cent, and the Reichsnk in Berlin had no option at to adopt the same course rutil 73 per cent, was ranched, nixie without precedent in the history of the bank. The crisis remained Boute up to the end of the year; many of the week firma succumbed whilst others suffered so severely that fresh failures continue to be reported from all parts of the
The Thaw family are in favor of the annul world notably from the United States. The
Without in any way forecasting what the ment, sad some members will give evid-zoo. foreign trade of Germany however has again programme of shipbuilding n xt year will be, I The wife will testify. She believes her husband beaten the record imports, exclusive of gold show say without the faintest hesitation that if we to be insaar, and that if ever he is freed from ing an increase of 579 million marks over those and at that time that there is a reasonable the asylum she would be unsafe from attack of the previous year and export one of 511 mil probability of the German programme being by him.
Harry Thaw stated yesterday that he world lions. For the first time for many years, the carried out in the way that the paper Egores export owing to the urgent demand from gest, we should feel it our duty to provide, defend thesuit brought by his wife for antal at sea, she was overtaken by a terrific hurricane Secretary," he said."Are you going to pat ment. He declared that he still loved her, and he pleaded with his lawyer that she might my him just one more visit to the asylum, and he Was sms he would be able to talk her over."
Americs, the amount of gold exported exceeded that of gold imported [to the extent of 17 mil. lion Marks according to the statistical returns of the government] a fact that should induce the meresatile community to plaos a certain re. striction on the purchases of foreign goods for he present. It is deserving of note however that in spite of the enormous increase in the quantity of goods received from aboard the ba- Lance of trade has on an average during the last ten yosts been largely in favour of Germany and that from 1897 to 1907 this country has had to receive more gold from other ocuntries than her endebtedness to them amounted to, the average of the ten years being in round numbers 169 million Marks. In the present age of elsotricity arises are of shorter duration than formerly but as yet the stock ex obauges and produco parkets
and we should provide, not only for a sufficient number of ships, but for such a date of laying down thuse ships that by November or December, 1911, the superiority of the Germans, which the right hon. gentleman foreshadows, will not be sa actual fast.
I hope that is quite explicit. That is the poley of his Majesty's Government. It remains on record, and I think it ought to reassur members in all quarters of the House that we do not intend in this matter to be left behind
Unionists and Liberals alike expressed satis faction at the declaration of policy respecting the Navy, which Mr. Balfour elisited from the Chancellor of the Exohequer in the House of Commons, Cheers came from every part of the House save one that in which the economical Radicais are wont to congregate. This gentlemen looked decidedly uncomfortable, and admitted afterwards in the lobby that their only course was to wait and see how the Government gave affect to their policy. Mr. Murray Macdonald, the primomover in the recent agitation, against excessive armaments, observed that robody, of course, wanted to let Germany get ahead of England in the matter of shipbuilding. Mr. Arthur Henderson, chair. man of the Labour party, s
stated that he and his
ment did not abandon social reforms; but Mr. freeb demands on the available capital of Europe. Peroy Alden feared that the pronouncement of The requirements of the United States are still the Chancellor of the Exchequer would strike a very large and it is therefore to be assumed that deadly blow at the proper development of any at fair rates money will find ready employment scheme of Old-sge Pensions,
only be said to have entered the first stage of convalescenes, Rusais, Japan and a number of other states are anxiously awaiting the return
..
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following 11.55 am.--The depresan
On at lying over N.E. Japan yesterday bas moted into the Pacific, and the barometer has risen considerably over 8. Japan.
Pressurs remains high over N. China, bat it is inclined to give way again along the Yangtze, It is still relatively low over Tongxing, and the N.W. part of the Chiat Sea.
Fresh N.E. And Ewinds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China ces.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.04 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at mean to-day is as follows: Hongkong & Neighbourhood Formosa Channel..
N.E. winds, fresh..
STORY OF THE SEAN
SHIPWRECKED CREW'S AUTERIUNE,
th
A vivid story of the wreck of the "Eclipse, and of the sufferings of her crew reached Queens. town last month. The veses, which was of 1,469 tons register, was on a voyage from Newcastle to San Francisco, when after eighty-five days accompanied by thunder and lightning.
At the height of the storm a "thunderbolt" struck her fora-topusst, which was shattered, and then orashed through the deck, waking hole in the vessel, through which the sea poured
Work For. four days and nights the craw
at
the Propa.
In the House of Commons, during the debate an womens's suffrage, Mr. Catheert Wason (L., Orkney and Shetland), a rigantic gars, rosa from below the gangway, and in messured tones proposed the rejection of the meare. We are but passing shadows," he remarked, and the House could not repress a burst of Mr, Inaghter at the thought of the stalwart Wason as a passing shadow. He argued that men alone should bear political responsibility. Look at the responsibility of our Foreign
-such a power as this in the hands of an unknown- quantity ?".
RECITALS DAILY.
If you are interested, come to hear it..
You will not be asked to purchase.
Hongkong, 6th March, 1908.
WATER RETURN.
LEVEL
1907:
.Tytam
Tytom Byewash.... Ttam Intermediate-
-ni): 460,009
Pokfulum. Wengnaichung 1,768,000
36
2 ft. 2 in. -27 ft. Sio, 49. ft. 11 in.
1908.
97,600,000
571,000
-183,847,000-
11,740,000
403,000
203,350,000
Total 151,969,000 CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY AND HILL DISTRICT DUBING THE: MONTH
OF APRIL.
1907,
1908. Commmplion.. 109,331,000 134,783,000 geitous Estimated popu lation
236,100 206,460 Consumption per
kend per day 140
21.9 gallons Intermittent supply by Hider mains during March 1907. Constant supply in all districts. during Murob 19 8. The return of consump. tion is subject to error owing to the difficulty of accurate measurement whilst the extension works at Albaney Filter Beds are in progress,
1908. below overfow
KOWLOON WATER WORKS, LIYELL
1907.
Beservoir...... mil. 28 ft. 4 in.
STORAGE GALLONS,
Kowloon Gravitation
Kowloon Gravitation
1907.
1908.
122,133,000
Reservoir majori nil. CONSUMPTION OF WÄTER'IN KOWLOOK DUBING THE MONTH OF MARCH.
1907,
.1908, Consumption... 17,457,040 22,261,000 gallons Estimated popa. lation.
82,450 82,100 Consumption per
bead per day .०३. 8.7 gallona The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
Pablic Works Department.
W. CHATHAM, Water Authority.
LARGEST CRUISER,
The new armoured orniser Shannon, built
Every other sentence of Mr. Wason tickled the House, the deep gravity of his manner con- trasting with his conscions or unconscious humour.
is not our fault that Providence has created aneb a difference between the seXSE, Their efforts failing to keep the ship afloat, It is not the work of the Liberal Party," he Captain Larsen and his fifteen men took to the exclaimed, plaintively." The time is not yet saw the ship founder, Captain and crew, whose our spears-into spoons," and I don't know and equipped at Chatham Dockyard at a cost boats, A few hours later-on January 11-they when we can turn our praning forks-I masn
how women feel afout barmaids, but I do know exceeding £1,400,000, has been commissioned sustenance consisted of twe biscuits a day each and two gills of water, shaped a course for the how I feel, were two of his gems. He quoted by Captain J. A. Forgasson for service in the Sandwich Islands, nine hundred miles distant. a tale, the moral of which runs that the one Fifth Cruiser Squadron (Home Flest at the Exposure, heat, and thirst told heavily upoa great desire of women is sovereignty. That Nors) as flagship of Rear Admiral G. A.
means, he said, waving his hand to the Unionist Callaghan, C.B., says the "Chronicle," the men, whose sufferings reached a climax en
The Shannon is the largest and most power the thirteenth day, when three of their number benches, getting you under their thumb and died in great agony. Their remains, on being keeping you there." A minute later he was fully armed craiser now flying the white ensign, thrown overbeard, were promptly devoured by bolding aloft the importance and the dominance and is to take the place of the armoured cruiser sharks, which had been following the boats for of force in all relations of life. "Why, be Leviathan, which is to be sent from Chatham some time.
cried, "it is force and foros alone which allows to Devonport to take the place of the protected On the night of January 26th the island of us to lay down our heads on our pillows at orniser Nicbo na flagship of the Home Fleet Mani was sighted, and on the next day the boats night and wake up in the morning and Gad Division at that port made the shore. The crew were conveyed on them there," the backs of natives to places of shelter.
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LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The Apear str. Gregory Apsar from Calcutta be expected here on or about the 12th inst. left Bingapore on 6th inst, afternoon and may
The G.P.R.br.Lennon left Yokohama pm, on the 6th inat, for Victoria and Vancouver.
The Shannon is the first of three improved cruisers of the Warrior type, and was laid down on January 2, 1905. Bhe has been built with a displacement of 14,500 tons, and is fitted with engines of 27,000 borne-power, propelling ber at a speed of twenty-three knots per hour,
She is armed with four 9.Sin, and tən 7.5in. breech-loading and sixteen small quick firing
The Fifth Cruiser Squadron is now composed entirely of how armpired cruisers,
gure,