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WEATHER KEPORT
July 14th at 16,5Warning to Hongkong. Cost Ports, de. Typhoon of unknown intens sity within 60 miles of Unt, the sheg. N. Long. 12deg, E., moving W.
July 14th at 17.06.--Proud moderately over the Bonins, and slightly at the majority of ather repenting station.
, the typluson was peer Lat. 25 deg?
124 deg. 12, moving westääni. warning: 5. Typhoon near or over Balintang Channel, direction pakuows. Recil. 136. 194 28 M
In the calenday of men who have de -served well of their country so gas will deny place to the engineer who proved that a lighthouse could be built to endure
a reel beaten by Atlantic gales. N. and Look. *=* We keep pow the bi-centenary of the girth of John Smeaton, Sixty years before he was horn the Brethren of Trinity House had reported to the Lord High Admiral that a fight on the Fahly stone would be of as great use as other light in his Majesty's dominions. Before the seventeenth century was out an ingenious and adventurous heryer called Winstanley, had set up a wooden
Manila warning. Tepimon N. of Mein - cosima moving W. Real. 167. 16 Bo
Shanghai warning : « Typhgan og vaktown- intensity within 129 miles of Lust, 27 deg. "N. Long. 124 deg. . nosing SW, Reed 154, n..
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 19 hours, July 14th, 1.8 inch, Tetal since January 1st, 6750 inches, against an average of 14 inches.
The forcast for the 2 hours eating at IS hours, July 15th is follows:-
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Moody 11th Aug.
Sanday. 20th July,
Monday,
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Friday,
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Thursday, 17th July,
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tower on the rock. It looks in the pic. tures like something from a pleasura fair rather than a lighthouse It was decked with galleries sail Vares and Lerane, and at the top was a movable chute for showering down stones upon an Inevitably พน approaching enemy," think of Lewis Carroll's White Knight, and Mr. Winstanleys who was always in- senting queer, futile devices, was very Eungkong to Gap Rock" Light,variable windia, match like an rapish White Knight. Hu
freshening From N. would hear nothing against the design
W: occasional rain. of his lighthouse," he declared that his south coast of Chias between heart's desire was to be in it during the
Hougkong and Lamocki? do. Ou greatest storm that ever blbw. November 20th, 1701, came one of the South coast of China between Swinds, most violent stires in our history, aud
Hongkong and Hainan 1 Wistanley was in his lighthouse, and he all it were washed away. John Badyerd, another mercer-the connection of light houses and marcery is mysterious was the next to adventure. His tower also was wood, but unbroken by projecting: ornaments or anything whereon the violence of the storms could lay hold."! Not water, but fire, destroyed it, and it had stood more than forty years when on a December night the keepers found it in flames. That was in 1726. John Smeaton, the son of a Leeds attorney, had alway had a turn for mechanics. As a small boy he made engines and pumped out hist father's fish pond. When he grow bigger he preferred to make mathematical in struments rather than succeed to his father's prosperous business. He opened An instrument shop in London, he, mude investigations into proaters of mechanics and engineering, he becane A Fellow of the Royal Society before he was 30, and when he was 31 the President of the Royal Society recommended him as the best man in England to rebuild the Eddy- stone lighthouse.
To our judgment his training and qualifications wem rather, nebulous. has it is to be remembered that in 1755 engineering was not a profession, Smeaton proposed to build his lighthouse
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, July 14th, "
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From Jaiy 15th to it, 1924, High Water
- Mouti,
Days of
H'kong.
Standard
Tiac.
121.
of stone. The Trinity Brethren reported Tum.; 15 m 7,41 that nothing but wood could possibly
But he Wel stand upon the Eddystone." had his way, and in three years his tower of dove tiled Portland stone was com- The building was hampered by descents of press-gangs, which IP-Fri quently carried off both his workmen and
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the boatmen." and we can hardly wonder Satur, 19 m 1045 that Smeaton found these much-tried men inclined to dissatisfaction with their lot When the light was first shown, Smeaton noted in his diary that the lighthouse Mon.
, I believe. perfect, except that it in- elines a quarter of an inch from the per- pendicular towards the north-east, Ninety years later inspection proved that it was in exactly the same condition. It might be still upon the rock if the rock itself had not failed. But the so bad worked in beneath the foundations, ani a hundred and twenty years after it wa completed Smeaton's tower was taken down. Its upper part now stands on: Plymouth HA, JL MONINIANE not unworthy of that famous height. Its base is still on the reef, though battered by the swing- ing. supoking seas for more than a Lundred and fifty years, thy best niemo rial to the first of our lighthouse buiblers, -Daily Telegraph.
THE "DAZZLING BEAUTY" OF DOISY'S UNIFORM.
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Dr. F. L. Turtois, wring to the N.. Daily News which had expressed the fear that the sartorial appearance of the British heroes could not approach the dazzling beauty of Doisy's uniform.
It may interest those who were not at Kiungwan, to know that Doiy, for his, arrival was clad as follows:--
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A khaki coat'
pair of khaki shorts
A khaki shirt
A khaki top
all bought at Calentia and alt. of conran, Pretty dirty, greasy and passably worn out. Moreover, Dolay had a spare outfit, contained in a very small kit bag.
unsisting of:-
A military cap brought from Paris. Two blue shirta
A pair of white sho
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THE NEW MASTER OF BALLIOL. PROFESSOR A. D. LINDSAY.
Mr. Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, C.B.E M.A.. Professor of Moral Ph.osophy and formerly Follow and Classicil Tutor of the College, has been elected Master of Badliof. in succession to, the late Mr. A. 1. Smith.
The appointment of Professor Lindsay, of Glasgow University, to the Masters ship of Balliol, brings back to Oxford
A white suit transformed in ani-after a short absence one of its mont
form by the addition of two gold atripes oach sireve.
That is alt, and believe ine, was badly
active and influential philosophy tutors. and gives Balliol a head in the prime of life who may be counted on, with normal fortune, not merely to guide the
in ared of a good washing as the kit bag College through the time of transition
full in the water at Kiangwan.
that lies immediately ahead, but also to For the information of people, inter-ce it securely established in the new ented in the high cost of present living,
ways.
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wishing to maintain their sartorial ap The University and the College "are penrage at little expense, I can give the much to be congratulated. Mr. Lindsay tin os from Daisy that an Annamite is not merely a fue scholar and lecturer tailor of Hanoi will make for them on he is also a man of the willext aym- der," the same suit of dazzling pathies, with courage and energy and beautyDoisy wore during his stay at practical wisdom. He is cemerabered by Shanghai..at the cost of 10 dollars..
bis undergraduate contemporaries, as a "But, of course, this suit was sent to charming and effective president of the the washing every night during Delsy's Union. As a tutor here he was always sleep
active in good muses within and with-
Dr. Tartois adds in a postscript-out the University, and his persuasive Please note that Doisy's name is Doisy and not d'Oisy as it is written even in the French, papers."
The young lady who was born on the Underground has only herself to blame
tongue was always an eat on a public. platform. He was for many years joint honorary secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee, over whith the lau Master presided. Politically he is far- ther to the Left than his predecessor; and
if she finds herself named accordingly he is said to be a member of the Labour
(says the (herner). Loo Baker, or at party. leust Loo, seems to be indicated. Neither. Tulia no Elephanta to a lady of tender age and diminutive proportions. There is, however, always the possibility of a string of T.U.BE initiala. Or there is Electra, which would enable Lord Ash field to superimpose his blessing on that of Herrick
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