A SCHOOL-BOY'S THEFT, FINED $30 AND BOUND OVER..
THE
FIRST STANDARD SHIP BUILT IN HONGKONG.
'MAY.
SIR PAUL CHATER'S FORECAST OF THE COLONY'S INDUSTRIAL
FUTURE.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 1918.
within our borders, that most important item to all manufacturers, we know that it is abundant not far off in the neigh
when once we can get. China to work these mines, it will not be long before the stab lishment of large smelting works in Hons. kong becomes an accomplished fact
You have no doubt read in recent Home papers the proposals of the Government to foster and assist Home and Colonia) Trade when the war is over, by the estal ishment of an Industrial Bank. Well,
At the Hongkong Magistracy, beforn LAUNCHED AT KOWLOON BY LADY bouring province of Kwangtung, and Mr. J. R. Wood. Antonio Ng, a student of St. Jomph's College, was charged, on Femand, with stealing a quantity of jewellery From the Victoria Recreation. Club and pawsing it, at the same time giving a false address Str. T. Mook stated of the theft he was on the V.R.C. reading a
four or five yards away from witness, "opposite the dressing-room.
Defendant said he found the envelope "Containing the articles of jewellery and took it away to make inquiries as to the
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between these girders. The shell plating is in excess of Lloyd's requirements. Latest Government practice, which en- sares speedy loading and discharging of cargo, has been adopted, there being 10 derricks of 5 tons capacity operated by a steam winches.
The officers are accommodated on the hridge and the crow in the poop. The Captain and officers are berthed in large and well lighted cabins, and, in accord ance with the latest regulations of the Board of Trade, the crew are provided
lavatories, separate dining-rooms being set apart for the firemen and seamen
defendant was sitting on a chair about is aptly christened the r Drummet, gentlemen, 1. have no doubt that such with two berth cabins, wash places and
<<WEET.
The first standard ship built in the that on the day Colony was launched on Saturday morn. the verandah ofing at the Kowloon Docks by Lady May, newspaper, and who acted as sponsor. The ship which for she has being expressly, constructed for war service was built by the Hong kong and Whampoa Dock Company, who have several other ships in course of con struction for the Government.
Sergeant Blackman said that overal freeflies had been committed at the Y.R.C. during the past few months.
Mr
generated in two boilers euch 15′ 0 internal diameter x 10' 8" long. con trusted to Lloyd's requirements and survey for a working pressure of 180 lbs. per square inch. Steam for the auxiliary machinery (windlass, winches, steering genr, dynamo, etc.), is provided by a donkey boiled 8 & diameter x 9' e long, constructed to Lloyd's requirements.
messure will be of untold benefit to the Empire's Trade in all parts of the world as well as to this Colony, Hong-
A completa wirelem telegraphy instal- kong forenw the use of such institutions lation and electric light is fitted, the so far back as 1983 and we have had since dynamo being steam driven and of 10 There was a very large gathering which that date our local Bank. an institution.. capacity. The vessel will be pro- included H.E, the Governor, Major Gen-of purely local birth, which, by its ever pelled by one set of triple expansion cral Ventris, Commodora V. Gurner.ready assistance, has enabled such under surface condensing engines, the cylinder B... Commander Myburgh, R.X., Sur-takings as ours of to-day to be success. Wond said that defendant was
geon General Deraper, R.S., Commander fully carried out, and which has, by its dimensions being H.P. 23 dia, I‚P: 297 dia.. L.P. 81′′ dia,, stroke 42". Steam is charged with giving a false address at Gibson, R.N., Commander Beckwith, support, done so much to foster many the pawnshop, and for that he would be .N., Colonel Mayhew, Major Morgan, other of our local enterprises and thus fined #35. with the alternative of ten days Major Macdonald, Major Cassell, Major has to a large degree, assisted in the hard labour: with stealing a watch be-
Hammond. Major Arduino, Captain Prosperity of the Colony. Nothing fur longing to Mr. F. France, and on that Russell, the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, there remains for me to say except to charge he would be fined 823, with the C.M.G, Sir William Rees Davies, K... with a prosperous career to our offspring, May she alternative of six weeks' hard labour. In Sir Fiavilland de Sausmuurez, the Hon. the good ship War Drummer.
ful all that is expected of her. (AP regard to the other larcenics he would Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr
plause.) bend over in $100 in two sureties to E. H. Sharp, the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham,
LADY MAY saide-Sir Paul Chater. be of goat lebaviour for six months. ICMG, the Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, the ladies and gentlemen.I am deeply sen and survey for a working pressure of he appeared before the Court again he Hon. Mr. D. Landale, Mr. N. J. Stabb, aible of the honour of having been chosen 100 lbs. per square inch. The auxiliary
and Messrs. A. O. Lang, W. C. Jack, Ross Thompson, RM. Dyer, H. P. to launch and christen the fine ship which machinery is very complete for a vessel White W. O. Lambert, F. Sleigh, T.
we have just seen revived upon the bosom of this class and consist of two inde EURASIAN WOMAN SENT TO Hough, J. H. Wallace, L. N. Leefe, 0
of the ocean-her mother by adoption-pendent simplex feed pumps, ong direct HARD LABOUR.
Adler, and many ladies"
and the sense of honour is deepened by cintaer exhaust feed water heater working When the company bad assembled on the consciousness that this is the first in conjunction with the feed pumps, one a gaity beflagged platform which had been standard ship completed in the Colony, 13 ton evaporator, one large "simplex erected for their accommodation, Mr. R. and that in launching her we are adding ballast pump, one winch condenser with M. Dyer hunded Lady May a wallet with yet another item to the many valuable
drain tank and independent vertical which she severed a coloured silk cord by contributions in men, material and money duplex pump for circulating condensing striking a chisel. A bottle of cham- this little Colony has already made pagne was broken on
the bows of towards the successful prosecution of the water through same, one general service the vessel, which then slid gracefully war.
We are all rejoiced to learn that pump of the vertical type, fitted with all connections for the bilge. Defendant stated that she had found down the slip-way to the accompaniment get other similar items, are
to follow. necessary her friend, but he was not, present in of cheers, the blowing of stem-launch The name "War Drummer'
ballast, and wash deck service, and a awakens Court. He had asked her to speak for ustles and the firing of crackers. The in me recollections of Fiji where, in days vertical duplex feed pump for the donkeye
would be sent to prison.
FOR RETURNING FROM
BANISHMENT.
At the Hongkong Magistracy, on Satur. day before Mr. J. R Woord. Violet Brown was charged, on remand, with returning from banishment.
herself.
At this juncture a Chinese came for ward and went into the witness-box. Fie said he knew defendant's grandfather and motiver, but he did not know defendant very well. She was not married and she led a wandering life.
launch was
an unqualified success, the of old, warriors--men of, perhaps, the boiler. Condenging water for the main vessel taking the water without a hitch. finest stature in the world-were sum condenser is supplied by an independent Sir PAUL CHATER, Chairman of the moned to battle, by the Lali or dram, steam driven centrifugal pump. Except- ing the dynamo, the auxiliary machinery Duck Company, said:-Your Excellency, sounded from village to village. Thus comprising windlass, steam and band Lady Mas, Indies and gentlemen-It is shall this War Drummer" go forth to steering gears feed pumps, feed water now, not quite months ago since a play her part in the strife which is ravag-heater, teed water alter, evaporators, similar function to that we have just ing Europe, a part which has been re-ballast and generat service puups. "feed performed took place at this Dockyard-served for the British Mercantile Marine, the launch of the Indo-China Steans and has been and is being played with a Navigation Co.'s steamer Auing." On resourcefulness and heroism which has that occasion my predecessor in office, Mr. inspired the admiration of the Empire Dodwell, remarked that it was another pay more--of the whole civilised world. nail in the coffin of the enemy and that I would ask you to wish for the con- we had many more such nails to hater tinned prosperity of the Hongkong and He also remarked that he thought Whampoa Dock Company, to record our that it was up to owners at Home and appreciation of the successful labours of Mr. Dyer, and of the able staff working. "to the Government to see that the fullest";
under him, to congratulate the Chairman TWENTIETH LIST OF THE LOCAL Usc was mute of the facilities, which
of the Company. Sir Paul Chater, and
Mr. Wond asked witness if he could suggest anything in regard to defendant. Witness replied in the negative. #
Mr. Wood sentenced defendant to three months hard labour: Defendant was led out of the box servaming Excuse me, sir: excuse me, sir."
WAR SAVINGS-..
ASSOCIATION,"
During last month a record amount of
War Loan was purchased by the Hong- kong and South China War Savings Asunciation for its members, amounting in value to no less than 8271,000 (Straits Currency).
The amount paid in were all invested in War Loan of the Malaya Trust at par cent.
The total amounts received to late are as follows:--
Local currency $1,009,105. Straits Currency $250,347.51. Sterling 27,08, 118, 15d Guid dollars 1,386.94. France 5,310...
·Taels, 434.
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BANK RETURNS FOR JULY. The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st July, 1918, as cortified by the managers of the respective Banks
in
ats:
Banks.
Specio Average" in Amount. Reserve.
Chartered Bank of India; Australia and China
...... 8,392,495 5,000,000* Hongkong and Shang-
Ji Banking Corn21,913,210 17,000,000 Mercantile Bank of
India, Ltd.
1,194,186. 550,0001
31,400,887 22,550,000
Total
*Sterling, Securities deposited with the Crown Agenta valued at £150,000.
+Securities with the Crown Agent's £110,000.
TYPHOON WARNING.
in.
were at their disposal -the labour and
offer theni. The launch that we have just plant which the Dock Company equid
dustrial progress of the Colony. (áp pray for the fulfilment of the roseate dreams he has outlined of the future in-
plause.)
Mr. R. M. Dyer said he thanked Lady May for the nice, things she had said about his staff and himself, and asked her
diamond broochas
so successfully made is yet another and even more important nail is that coffin, since this vessel is not, as is the Kevi ung, merely a mercantile ship but one built to the order of the Admiralty for Imperial purposes, and it is a source of great pride to me to have enjoyed the privilege, as Chairman of this Company, of taking part today in the launching for Lady May, after which the company adjourned to Mr. Dyer's office, where
accept a to
memento of the occasion:
Three hearty cheers were then given
of this the first standard ship ever refreshments were served.
launched in Hongkong. While this is
the first ship of this class to be floated
DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL. The Far Drummer is a steel single
from our yard. I think I may, without screw steamer of the single-deck class any breach of confidence, tell you that it
"C" standard type, having 3 poop
pump for donkey boiler, steam driven ash oist, and centrifugal circulating pump for the main condenser, have been de- signed and, built by the Dock Co. The Lloyd's highest class. In details of de- sign sundry war-emergeacy, have been adopted. 4 deadweight of 3,000 tons will be carried during steam trials when "a mean speed of 10; anots is anticipated.
ar, Drummer has been constructed to
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SUBSTITUTES.
measures
He thought he saw a Banker's clerk,
That studied. d., He looked again and saw it was
A very pink sweet pea.
If he's not going home," he said,
I shall not stay to tea."
5
He thought he saw a Lawyer bird
With musty tomes galore,
He looked again and saw it was
A mermaid on the shore.
This must be swept away," he said,
the
"Or we can swim no more."
is to be by no means our one and only bridge, and top-gallant. forecastic. Her effort. We already have several others of |
dimensions are:-Length overall," 338ft. ; greater tonnage in course of building, or on orders from the Admiralty, as well length B.P., 25ft. breadth moulded, Next 45.; depth moulded, 26ft; poop, bridge as four powerful tugs for them." to the manufacture of munitions of war, and forecastle, 7ft 9ins. high,"
A cellular double bottom extends fore shipbuilding is to-day the greatest and most important industry at Home, and it and af, and is divided into six tanks is only right and proper that, with this for oil cargo or ballast, the centre girder Company's facilities for turning out being watertight. Both free and after stips, we should do all we can in this peaks are constructed for water ballast. important direction.
Machinery is titted amidships.
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At the present time, of course, we are watertight bulkheads and one portable dependent for our building materials | wood bulkhead forward, of boiler room, upon importation either from England provide five cargo holda, four hatches or from American hource of frequent being a long x 10' wide, and the cross delay-but I predict that the day is not buaker hatch 10' long x 16' wide. By far distant when we shall be able our.
extra sub-division of bottom and holds the margin of safety" has been increas
He thought he saw an Architect
Intent on building ships,
He looked again and saw it was
A waiter taking tips.
11 he should coufe near me," he said,
"Then good-bye to my nips."
He thought he saw a Superman, To nothing he said." Can't ";
He looked again and saw it was His sisters cousin's aun1 5. "Did I but rule this land," he said,
"I'd certainly Bay shan't"."
He thought it was omnipotent,
Like the P.W.D.,
He looked again and saw it was
A remnant from Class D.
I be's to win the war," he said,
May I be there to see.
MASKEE.
There's a little bit of foreshore on the road
to Causeway Bay,
There's a little granite bridge across the
sea
There's a host of rotten smells that abound
there sight and day, And the Government for ever
** Maskoe."
any's
It's a source of irritation, of disease to all
who pass
It's a crying shume to all the Colony; But it's the happy hunting ground of the
lower poolis 0.388,
and
Maker.
Se the Big Bugs wink their eye ed over that of the pre-war class without reducing the stowage of cargo. Except ing four pillars, the holds, which are Oh,
selves to manufacture all our require ments in this direction. We bave in the New Territory a large quantity of iron, and recently other minerals including wolfram and molybdenite, both of which ara axed in the production of steel-have very large and void of obstruction, pro vide stowage lengths of belt to eft. been discovered there. Only recently, a
The structural arrangement of the deck. shipment of over 30 tons of wolfram taken
differs from the usual practice. Con-*** The following telegram has been re-from the New Territory bas been made ceived by the American Consulate for the Home Government to their agents, tinuous girders in line with hatch coom- General, Hongkong, from the Manila Messrs. Watson & Co. of Liverpool, and lags cat the deck fore and aft. These this is, I hope, only the beginning of girders, cross-tied to deep beams which Observatory:—.
6.09 p.m., August 10th."
what will eventually develops into a large are arched to web frames, are supported Cyelone or typhoon east of Luzon, more than three hundred miles distant, direc-business to the benefit of the Colony.at hatch corners by tube pillars. Dock Although we have not as yet found coal plating and beams are fitted intercostally tion unknowD.
Kay
it's money for the golf links and little
things like that;
Money for things of no use to you or me;" But let it be a question of our grievances,
you bet The Government will surely say "Maskee."
e's a little bit of foreshore-on-the-7964.
to Causeway Bay,
Bea;
There's a little granite bridge across the There's the smells which always sicken there
who pam along that way,
the Government for ever; anys "Maskes.
PIP."
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