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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3ra, 1919.
The PRESIDENT--It has been proposed that another merober should be added to the committee, and I cannot help think- The ordinary meeting of the Sanitarying that some of the members of the Board, was held yesterday. There were present: the President, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe; the Vice-Prouident, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham; the Registrar-General, Hon. Mr. E. R. Hailifox: Dr. Fitzwilliams, Col. Irwin, Messrs. W. L. Carter, F. B. L. Bowley, Chan Kai Ming, Ng Hon. Tez, Dr. F. Clarke, Medical Officer of Health: De: Pearce, Assistant M.O.H.; and the secretary, Mr. W. Howen Howlands.
It
committed are of the opinion that, the head of the Sanitary Department being An executive officer and the Medical Oficer of Health being also on the executive, that they might override the views of the two Chinese members. is usual, when the Chinese members are not represented on a committee which is considering a question concerning a large number of Chinese, that the Chi- nese should be represented by the Registrar-General The Chinese are re- Before comiencing the business of the presented, and the addition of a further nu ting, the President accorded a brarty welcome to the new member, Mr. Carter, Rather than add a member to the com- member is, it seems to me, unnecessary. who takes the place of the Hou. Mr. Emitter I am perfectly prepared to give An undertaking that when the votes are equal for declaring au
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A NEW MEMBER,
A. Hewett during the absence of the Inter.
The PRESIDENT submitted a minute in
connection with the sum to be expended quarters for the second
on the new
that the matter shall be referred to the I shall not in my casting vote, but
full Board.
I think such a resolution
CORRESPONDENCE.
CONSIGNEES LETTERS AND THE MACAO POST OFFICE.
[TO THE EDITON OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESA.''}
Hongkong, June 3rd, 1912. Si-Your-Macao correspondent made passing remark about consigners'
and insufficiently
Jetters
to Maeno.
emphasised the inconvenienes the Post master is causing the traders by this | bigh-banded act,
In the Hongkong Postal Guide, article 38, it is put down : "Consignee letters, being privileged by inw, need not be sent to the Post Office at all, but if, they are sent they are liable to ordinary
is not dificult to understand. There is rates of postage." The language of this
no contending that the Macao Govern mart has nothing to do with this, and that they can do anything they think proper; but what I contend is that as it has been a long established custom
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GAS HEAT WITHOUT FLAME:
CHEAP NEW SYSTEM.
THE PERFECT WIFE
BY EDWARD Pugit.]
Profesor W. A. Bone, F.R.S., Livesey professor of eval, gas, and fuel industries "If everybody was somebody eles," sa'd at Leeds University, in a lecture at Leeds Mrs. Condy, "nobody would ever marry last month described a new method of gua heating which, he believes, many work a anybody. For if there is one thing in this revolution in fuel economy and have very world that every young man knows more important industrial effects. Professor about than all his friends put together, Bone is one of the greatest living authori-it is his friends' wives. Women, I must ties on the subject of combustion.
The
new process has now been put into say even mere chits who have only just faces promote the combustion of gases in nickety as men in this particular. And, practical operation in Leeds, Hot sur-put up their hair--are not nearly so per- contact with them, and it is on this pro perty that the process is based. An explo- sive misture of gas and air in the propor tions for complete combustion (or with the air in slight excess) is caused to burn with out flame in contact with the surface of a red-hat porous solid, such as a block made of particles of fire-brick bound together by some suitable means.
the reason of this is, I faney, that in the game of love all women are born experts. Whereas most men remain mere novices all their lives. And, like most mere novices, they are generally full up to over flowing with all manner o' theories, al- though a little short of practice, perhaps. purposes, such as grilling, roasting, and tell you what sort of girl young Jones
The new process in the form of “ain- phragm heating may be used for cooking Young Smith, for instance, can always- toasting. A porous diaphragm (made as already described) is mounted in a casing ought to have chosen for a wife, and it at the back. The front of the diaphragm has married. with a chamber, for introducing the gus,
is never the sort of girl that young Jones Then, when Smith's time remains ncovered. Gas, under slight pressure, is made to flow through thes, Jones has his turu, and says to insuxtor at the Kennedy Town Slaugh- rather refects on the numbers of the even at Macao, for consignees' letters to porous diaphragm and is ignited as it Mrs. Jones, one evening when his mind be so privileged it is the acme of bades at the front surface, giving a white as well as his feet are in slippers, so to
flame. The inflowing gas
is gradually speak: Good job Smith didn't marry Good job for which of policy to change it, thus adding more mixed with air until the proportion for you, my dear. Maenu has already not obstacles to trade. of which obstacles complete combustion is obtained. The us?' asks his brand-new wife. For me,
white flanse diministres in size and toessays-her-husband with a chuckle And The its white colour. Then it retronts on to Mrs. Jones stores up that priceless confes- income derived from postage stamps on the surface of the diaphragm, the particles tion in a cosy corner of her heart, along these letters cannot be much in compari at the surface of flame disappear, and with a lot of others, to be brought up as
there son with the loss in trade this action in remains an intensely glowing surface evidence against her poor innocent blun sure to bring on. The Chinese traders which radiates & genial heat.
-n wall of fire, but without flame-from dering idiot the very next time his pipe The dia-won't draw and she hasn't got one of those at Macno are already complaining of phragm may be maintained at any tem old-fashioned straight hair-pins to soothe difficulties they are experiencing from perature up, to about 1,500deg. Fahren him with. the several cocumbrances of Government the gas,
heit, according to the rate of supply of Departments. Dilatoriucas is the chief: thing they complain of, but as to this I think there is very little help, for this is a chronic disease of every Government, specially the Portuguese.
ter house, and remarked that it seemed that $10,000 was rather a large sun. The question did not come up before the
estinutes committee for 1912 11 they Board thought the sum too large, they might suggest the amount which they thought should be spent on the work.
Col. Inwin-Does that sum include the purchase of the land, or is it mere ly for the erection of the building!
committer. It looks as though they were not competent to carry out the wishes of the members of the Board. I
think my suggestion would be the best way out of the difficulty."
The PRESIDENT then moved to that effret and the motion was seconded by Me. No HON Tяz.
Dr. FITZWILLIAMN -] think, if the committee is to be as large as has been The PRESIDENTIt is merely for the suggested, it should be dissolved and not erection of the building. The land is reappointed, and that such matters granted. It might be as well if the should be dealt with by the Boart Board approved of the plan and suggest-
The PRESIDENT-The Secretary says ed that the sum be not larger than 87,500. that the only objection to that is that Mr. BOWLEY-It seems to me that the Board would have to call spreial 210,000 is a very large sum to expend meetings during the week. on the erection of quarters for the second. Dr. FITZWILLIAMS-1 think a select inspector at Kennedy Town. I under-committee, when it is composed of five stood that the average sanitary inspector members of the Bourd, is too big. had $360 per year for quarters,
The PRESIDENT-The question is, dors The PRESIDENT-There has not been the Board think the committee is not any un laid down as regards public capable of dealing with this matter ? works extraordinary. We merely make Mr. BOWLEY-1 am sorry if the men – the recommendations, and the Goyern-bers of the committer should have in ment does its best to carry them out, any way taken the motion as a reflec- tion on their capability. I simply point
Mr. Bow Ex-It is the duty of the Board, in the interests of the ratepayers, to make recommendations with due re gard to economy. The Committee had before them originally a recommendation for the expenditure of 30,000, and now suddenly the sum bus jumped up to $10,000. I am sure the Government can- not afford to provide for all its officers on such a liberal scale, I think the matter should be postponed for Tarther consideration.
ed out that the work of the committee has grown of very much more importance since the outbreak of the plague, and I thought this would expedite the work. I am sorry that I must oppose the amend- ment.
After further discussion, the amend ment was carried by five votes to four,
THE CITY WATER SUPPLY, The Government Analyst, Mr. Frank Browne, forwarded a report on the water supply of the Colony, `· stating. and fit for potable purposes.
The three samples are of good quality
Dr. FITZWILLIAMS minated-I should
The PRESIDENT--I think it would be better to refer it back to the Public Works Department and ask that plans in keeping with the amount required) should be forwarded to the Board.
Mr. Bowser-What I want to get as is,bers of the Board to the state of the vihat amount of accommodation does an
Dr. FITZWILLIAMS- The question is not whether four rooms a necessary, but whether four-roomed house should cost $10,000,
like to draw the attention of the mem-
there
El
0 few.
I understood from very reliable authority that the first time the
new rule that consignees letters must be stamped was made apparent was when
the now Postmaster-General went person- ally to the Hongkong and Macao Stram boat Co.'s steamer Sui Pai on her arrival at Maeno, and snatched the bundle of letters when it was thrown ashore by
But the perfect wife always has got one of those old-fashioned straight hair. that he requires, including no mind or pins. She has likewise got everything else
knowing it. Silly enough to think him the She is pretty without everest man that ever made mistakes, and wise enough not to seem to notice those mistakes when made. She is suf ficiently small and weak and frivolous to he is in the mood, and sufficiently strong like to be potted and played with when and big and sensible, at all other times,
In addition to diaphragm heating." the process is alaptable to the heating of tubular boilers, and the melting of metals, furnaces, the raising of steam in multi-will of her own. such as, for instance, type metal for news paper purposes. A variety of combustible gases other than coal gas can be used in the process, including petrol-air gas, natural gas, and carburetted water-gas.
Professor Bone states that the heating effect is economical and easy to control
chants.
EASTERN MERCHANTS LIABILITIES.
A first meeting of creditore was held the steamer's compradore, brought it to at Bankruptcy-buildings, London, on the charged for not having a stamp. According on April 24th against Richard Abenheim the Post Office and had every letter sur 6th ult, under the receiving order made to rule, before he can confiscate anything & Co. of Hopetoun House, Lloyd's it is necessary to obtain permission from stand that he did not apply to the the Colonial Secretariat, but I under avenue. R.C., import and export ner Colonial Secretnes for such permissio it would do well to imitate Hongkong and not try to change many of the time honoured minor customs of the Chines wiless they are absolutely harmful.-- Yours, etc.,
J. X. B.
if Macao wants her trade to increase,
MR. ASTOR'S WILL...
£1,000,000 ron YOUNG WIDOW.
Avenue, with its treasures of books, pic tures, marble and bronze statuary, and other works of art of every description. The widow also receives a sum of £30,000 in addition to her late husband's horses, carriages, and motor-cars,
to be able to hear his burdens as well as her own. When there are only two bunches of
left on the dish that he hands grapes to her with such courtly grace, she is so overcome by his unexpecte i politeness that she takes the very smaller bunch. And thongh she is woman en gh, of cours to like to have the last word, she is also man enough to let it be a word of apology for her late unreasonable behaviour.
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She never wants to talk to men who Receiver, who presided, said that the about everything. And if she quotes any Mr. W. P. Bowyer, Assistant Officia! know more about anything than he knows
der mad on March 10th, and Mr.only to add: receiving order followed an interim or opinion that she seems to agree with it is Exactly what you always Maurice Jenks, chartered accountant, say yourself, dear, as I told him. She is had been appointed as special manager naturally very much sought after, but to carry on the business of the debtors. only by people she is indifferent to the No statement of affairs had been filed kind of people who look up to you and in the proceedings, but according to ret at the same tiene help you to look WATCHMAKERS,
The kind down upon your neighbours. of people, I can, who are honoured by your company, but who would honour anybody else by taking any notice of them at all..
I never see a young man in a new suit," he went on, after a pause, but I say to myself, if you're going to be
AND JEWELLERS
OPTICIANS,
sonic figures recently submitted to private meeting of creditors the total unsecured liabilities of the firm amount ed to £51,780, and the assets were valued £2,180, including an estimated sar- plus of £12,000 in assets over, liabilities in Japan. At the present moment the Arm's business in Japon was not in bankruptcy, but it was thought that, as careful in choosing your wife as you FINEST QUALITY
that country are in choosing your clothes, you'll likely primarily, the assets
as not get sick of her in about the same DIAMOND JEWELLERY would go to the Japanese creditors.
Mr. Richard Abenheim had stated that time. For I believe in falling-falling firm of Richard Abenheim and Co. con- ing in love is very much the same as fall- when the receiving order was made the head over heels in love, I do. And fall sisted of himself, Mr. F. B. Abonheim,ing off a wall. If you let yourself go and and Mr. E. Abenheim The firm also never worry, the odds are you'll fall light carried on business at Yokohama, under and soft and ensy; but if you try to sele
half-way you
only the style of Abenheim Brothers, and its yourself
or something before ENGLISH, insolvency was attributed to the loss of rick
and then over, property £25,000, extending over a number of you
of it, complicated sinash years, in gonnection with the Japanese make a export business to Europe, to bad trade, after all. The kind of girl you marry and the heavy expenses of the business in doesn't matter half so much as the kind of man you are. A good hushand makes
your back are
The last will and testament of Mr. John Jacob Astor, who was drowned in tur Titanic disaster, provides interesting reading for the American public, says & Pokfulum reservoir at present, in order
New York correspondent. The most dis cussed feature is the condition under that they may be able to accept at the inspect for require? Does every inspector true value any further reports as to the which the millionaire's beautiful young have the Suze accommodation t
huge volume of water which so dilutes widow, who comes of age in June, inherits the organisms from the hillsides as to the income from a trust fund of £1,000, 'The PRESIDENT—No, four rooins are not
reader them innocuous, eide the Govern- until her death or remarriage.
Until her death or remarriage Mrs. necessary, but it will be easier to buildment Analyst's report, 1009, comparing Madelaine Foren Astor will also be four rooms now then another room later, London water supply and that Hongress of the Astor house in Fifth whơm we have a third inspector, which it || kong.
The Hon. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS is quite probable we will have.
minuted-Under
conditions existing is very little water entering Pokfulum reservoir, and such water as finds its way through undergoes thorough aeration before entering the reservoir, When asked once how many motor-cars Japan. Should such a rainstorm vecur as he owned, the late Colonel Astor non- Mr. Hill (Rehder and Higgs), who & good wife, uine times out of ten, and The PRESIDENT proposed that he inetter likely to convey organisms from the chalantly answered that he did not know, appeared for the debtors, said that a good wife will make a good husband he referred back to the Pub Works Department, to ascertain wh
sized simultaneously be a large volume of clause of the will represents a respectable
water as the Government Analyst has Rum in itself. MP, stated. The Analyst's report shows that okfulam water is still equal in quality
Home waters of the highest class. MOT. FITZWILLIAMS-There
muddy water at Pokfulam since the The Board then went into committee on recent rain, and I do not know how the the report of the Select Committee upganisms which are being washed down pointed to deal with the proposed arende hillsides are going to be diluted im- ment of certain bye-laws made under nediately. Further, there is more traffic section 18 of the Public Health and Build-on that watershed than ever before. There are two quarries there and new buildings ings Ordinances, 1903-1900.
are being erected.. The PRESIDENT-There buildings going up on the watershed.
Dr. FITZWILLIAMS-What about the Peak Hote!?
seconded by
house could be built for $6,000.
The motion CARTER, and tarried.
WILH
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After discussion the report was refered back to the Selcet Committee for fuhr report.
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the firm's affairs had been submitted to a Marriages (as they say) are made in ULOCKS committee of the creditors, but had been Heaven; and I reckon that the Heaven Until the estate has been adjusted Mrs. rejected. The possibility of bringing in they are made in is that state of blissful Astor is to receive an income from her
ignorance which we call Youth. It's all a satisfactory scheme was still under very well to look before you leap: but if trustees of £40,000 a year. Moreover, the consideration.
mentions a
arrangement The creditors resolved that an applica-you look too long you get giddy, or lose whereby in lieu of a dower a certain sum, tion should be made for an order of your nerve, and then you don't leap at all. not specified, was made over to her This
Or if you do leap at last, you've got so adjudication in bankruptcy, and ap- surn is variously estimated at from puinted Mr. Maurice Jenks as trustee old in the meantime that violent exercise
is bad for you. with a committee of £40,000 to £1,000,000.
of the estate, inspection.
£1,000,000 FOR A DAUGHTER.
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If Mrs. Astor should, as is expected,
"I should say, though, that there are very few bachelors under twenty-five who give birth to a posthumous child, a trust fand of £000,000 is to be created
don't know a long sight more about mar- which the-infant will inherit absolutely THE SHANTUNG RAILWAY.
riege and the aftermath than their mothers do. at the age of twenty-one.
I was talking, only the other The Shantung Railway Company of day, to a boy of that kind-a clever boy t A trust fund of £1,000,000 has been Berlin has declared a dividend of 6 per and he put it to me that marriage-was created for Miss Muriel Astor, the daugh-cent, as compared with ch per cent. for like the sea, and that married people were 1910. This reduction was expected, like the fishes: they are in it, but they Mr. F. B.L. Bowley pursuantantier The PRESIDENT-I do not think that ister of the testator, whose mother, Mr. noved :-- That the Registrar General be in the area. It is drained, I think, on the Ava Willing Astor, divorced him thre because the revolution in China has did not know half so much about it as years ago. Mrs Ava Astor, at the time influenced the receipts. The profit shares the people on shore-meaning the clever appointed as
I allowed that he was additional member of the other side, on the Victoria side.
Dr. FITZWILLIAM-It is distinctly with of the divorce, received alimony of (Genuss-acheine) receive m5 (1910, m.7), boys, of course. Committee appointed by the Board on the in the area. Again, you said something | £10,000 a year in addition to other sources The receipts of the railway for the month very likely right. At the same time, I 13th February, 1912, to carry out the about expenditure extraordinary, Might of income. Her name is not mentioned of April, 1912, amounted to $409,800 pointed out to him that the fish are happy (Mexican), against $354,000 in April, in the sea, anyway, and that the storms provisions of the Bye-laws for the proven I ask what becomes of the surplus, and in the will.
The bulk of the estate, which is various 1911, and the receipts for the first four and the dangers that seemed to him so tion or mitigation of epidemie, endemic might I suggest that something be done
in connection with Tai Tams, for instance.ly estimated at from fiftens to thirty mil- months of the current year show a total frightful didn't affect them in the least, or contagious diseases, and that the Com- The speaker then went on to say that lion sterling, and which is probably of 81,017,000 (Mexican), being an increase That made him sit up and take notice of mittee re-appointed on the same date to the Colony was at present in the middle nearer the former than the latter figure, of 8276,000, or 22.24 per cent, on theme. And before many minutes had passed carry out the provisions of the Bye-laws of an epidemic of plague. Enterie was goes to the millionaire's son, Mr. William corresponding period of the previous he had taken out his heart and was show-
also prevalent, though in a not very Vincent Astor, a Harvard student, who
ing it to me and explaining how it work for the Removal of Ceilings dis serious form. The last was due to the
ed, like a boy with a new watch. comes of age in November and who is five solved."
He said that since the com- water supply. During the week following months younger than his widowed stop- mittee was appointed several things had the rains last year, a number of Euro- mother.
peans were down with enteric, and, a This hoy is now the greatest landed pro happened, one being that a severe epidemic number, were suffering from that comprietor in New York with the exception of plague had broken out and another plaint at present in all parts of the of Mr. William Waldorf Astor, who resides in England. The latter'a real was that the bye-laws liad been amended. Colony.
Mr. Bowley asked if there wore any estate holdings in the metropolis, were The powers given by those bye-lans were very strict and sweeping indeed, especial-quarries in the Pokfalum in drainage assessed last year at £8,240,560, a asm which in no way represents their actual The DIRECTOR OF PETALIC WORKS-NO, Value.
Mr. Vincent Astor also inherits the mag there are no quarries there.
The PRESIDENT said there were men nificent Rheinbeck and Newport estates doing atone work in connectiqu with the yachts and personal property, and has building operations.
a residuary interest in the trust funds. strengthen the committee considerably if Mr. BOWLEY then moved, That this He is an athletic young man of unspotted the Registrar-General were appointed a Board is of opinion that all permits for reputation. and it is expected that his It would be the collection of building material within mother, Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, will member of the committee.
the Pokfulum catchment area should be preside for a time in his household. well if the wishes of the Chinese resi- | cancelled, and that no further permits The general bequests in the will amomt dents were considered in the matter, and hauld be granted while the water from to only £35,000. The sole sam devoted to that anything done under the by law Pokfulum is being used for drinking nublic philanthropy is a £6.000 gift to St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. should be done without any friction and uses
£20.000 is left to frienils and 20,000 to ser- harmoniously.
vants and employés.
ly in bye-law 2, in which the Board was given very strong powers in the matter of removing hollow ceilings, ete. It there fore had occurred to him that it would
area
Dr. FITZWILLIAMS sestudied the motion, which ras carried.
"It appes ed that he was very much The latest circular of the Compagnie de sought after he was so very careful not to say so that I couldn't escape his mean- Commerce et de Navigation d'Extreme ing and he could not make up his wind Orient, of Saigon, says: Our market whom to throw the handkerchief to. He is very firm on account of a strong liked this girl for her good looks (he said demand from Singapore and the Philip in effect), and that one for her good pines. On the other hand, the paddy is temper, and another for her housewifery, coining down very slowly from the and another because his mother liked her, interior and the price of the same went and so on, taking a pair of eyes from one, up in one week from 83.70 to $4.10 per and a trick of laughing at you in a way Pient. Very few transactions are done you didn't mind a bit, from another, and at present. We consider that the total a name from another, and a quality here stock available in the interior is about and a feature there from all the girls he 25,000 tons, and shipments are expected knew, until he had made a complete not to exceed 60,000 tons per month for woman out of all these odds and ends, and
In these condi- she was the following months.
tions we consider it quite certain, unless "Well, she was the perfect wife who some unforeseen circumstances were to doesn't exist," said Mrs. Condy. "And But I must make up my come, that the export will not be pro- I told him so.
We quote to mind,' he said. 'Oh, no,' I said, she hibited during this year. day for July shipment, Hongkong dollars will attend to all that when she comes $6.49 per picul f.o.b. Saigon.
along." "Westminister Gazette.
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