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was dirty it was easy to steam darther when that place was built in a-mystery out, or if there were children on the that only our ex-Directors of Public launch and ́s beach was needed for them, Works can explain. But a committes is it was a simple matter to move into some now engaged investigating the advan
tages and disadvantages of installing other bay where the water was clean.
Now the problem is altogether, different. refuse destructors. Thoir report, should During the week-end, hundreds, perhaps be available shortly. The committee thousands, of people use the beach, and endeavouring to find ways of improving. children are always present. In addition the bathing beaches has perhaps a less to the privately owned matsheds there are well defined objective and, in some ways: a more difficult task. It certainly, how- bathing tents for bird.
ever, has the good-will of the public. If it is successful every one will be grate- ful for in the hot summor days there is nothing so delightful as a bathe in clean
The matsheds have come under the severo criticism of at least one expert on sanitation. They are more costly to build than was the chan a few years ago, but even how the price is not pro- hibitive. A fair;nized matshed con bo erected at a cost of about thres hundred dollars. It is not the cost, therefore, that prevents people from owning mat- sheds, but the dificulty in obtaining a sits upon which to erect one. The bath ing from matsheds has become so popular that practically every available site has been taken and fortunate owners cling tightly to their privileges. If the mat-
sea water.
of
A branch of the Mercantile Bank India has been opened at Kuantan in
Pahang.
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A boy's bicycle valued at 830, which was left outside the door of the residence of Mr. C. Britzer, 6, Humphrey's Build
Tuesday, ing, Kowloon, was stolen-on
As a mark of respect, on' the Uccasion
"CITY" VESSEL
WRECKED.
STRANDED ON REEF OFF JAPAN.
HOPES OF RESCUING FULL CREW.
[TEROCȧH NEUTKE'S AGENCY.]
Toxyo, Juno, 18th. The ss. City of Naples, on her way to Yokohama from Kobe with a cargo of steel, struck a submerged reef yester- day morning during storm.
The Chefoo Maru picked up an 8.0.8. messago whilst taking refuge from the storm and immediately not out to help the disabled freighter. It is reported that the vessel in half-submerged porched perilously on a coral reef, while the Chefoo Maris and a Japanese destroyer are standing by but are provented from undertaking effective rescue work owing to mountainous sear
The Chefoo Maru has picked up 18
aleds are to be retained some method of the funeral at Nanaing of Mr. members of the crew who had escaped
ought to be devised of giving "Inte comers" a sporting chance of securing one. They might, for example, be taken over and rented annually.
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Unfortu
Philips, who is presumed to have been murdered by bandits, the fag of the A.P.C. building at Rongkong was flying at half mast yesterday.
bern are believed to be safe. in a lifeboat, The remaining 40 mem-
BAD NEWS..
A wireless message from the Chefoo Maru reports that only night or nine On Tuesday a Chinese living at No. 3, Rednazela Terrace, lost property to the men have been seen on the deck of the City of Naples this morning, and it is value of 8235. The thief got in by feared that the remainder, including the back window. Jowellery, to the valus of Captain, have been swept off during the night. Attempts at rescue are being con- 8170, was also stolen from a shopkeeper's cubicle at No. 260, Queen's Road East.
tinued but the work is most difficult.
MORE GRÆERFUL. REPORT.
Some people like the present appear- ance of the beach. They argue that it is primitive and pleturesque and consider that any attempt to turn it into a mininture "Monte Carlo" or "Margate" would spoil its "beauty.". nately, primitive arrangements Bre
Members of the Institution of Engine- owing to high seaa. usually unhealthy. No one donies that ors and Shipbuilders of Hongkong are a tiny stream meandering down the reminded that HE. the Governor (Sir hillside of Hongkong is much more Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) will perform
than picturesque
the man-designed the formal opening of the now extention granito nullah. Experience has proved, to the Club premises this evening at 5.30. however, beyond cavil that the tiny stream encourages the breeding of mos- quitos. In other words, if we have the picturesque stream we also have malaria; if we have the granite nullah we run no
such risk.
The real problem of Repulse Bay, there-
fore, is this. If the matsheds are retain. ed" çan the place be made entirely free from danger to the health of the bathers?
The hearing of the case in which Mr. C. Strange, an Inspector of the Banitary Department, is summoned for assault by a foki in the employ of the Yee Yuen firm, coconut denters, of 20, Lower Lascar Road, is down for continuation at the Central-Magistracy, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this afternoon.
Mr. Duncan Macdonald, described in
LATER. The Navy Office has received a com muniqué from the destroyer Urakaze, which reports that a group of about 50 men have collected astern, and that the
destroyer is hopeful of effeéting a rescue as the wind was subsiding at ten o'clock' this morning.
LEFT HONGKONG ON MAY 20TH. { The only news which the Bank Line, Ltd., had received up to yesterday afternoon, regarding the disaster was that the vessel had gone aground. The City of Naples left Hongkong on May 30th bound for Shanghai and Japan Ports. Thore were no passengers, as the
We believe that should be possible with one of the Shanghai newspapers to hand vessel is exclusively a cargo carrier. The
a little care and forceight. Those who as one of the most popular engineors have used this beach for years informa us who has ever been East," has departed that the root trouble of the whole buri. for home. For some years past Mr.
was, no proper
Master of the ship is Capt. O'Connor.
The City of Naples is a steel screw steamer of 6,739 tons. (She was built in 1003 to the order of the Ellerman Line, Ltd., by Mesars. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., at Newcastle- on-Tyne. Her dimensionis are:-Length, 418.3 feet; breadth, 63.3 feet; depth, 30.4 feet.
ness is the lack of supervision. In the Macdonald has been the "commodore June 10th, on board ss. Saarbrucken early days a few of the pioneer owners engineer of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's at Belawan-Deli, Sumatra, ANNA engaged a boy to lock up and generally feet, and has spent 35 years in the CATERINA WILHELMINA, agod, 50 reare, beloved wife of J. C. DERING keep the sheds and the surroundings Orient.. He hopes to take up his resid- Duna, of Canton. (Shanghai and tidy. As years passed the system was
ence in Stornaway, Scotland. Peking papers please copy). [3090 DENNYS,-At Thames Dition, Surrey, extended, but there
Mr. Clive Kingcome, formerly of ieth, HENRY LARDNER European supervision. In the course of DENNYS, Senr. (By cable) [2001
Manila, who died at Hampstead, London, time the Public Works Department put
on May 20th, 1925, loft property in Hong- in an official appearance by providing kong valued at $1,800. His English City reported to the police yesterday tube with fresh water. Rafts were sup- estate was worth £23,304. He also left that he had been attacked by three men plied by the Government and a rather property in Manila and the Straits the previous night and half-hearted effort was made to provide Settlements. The rescaling of the will jewellery, valued at 843 were stolen from money and
life-saving arrangements for those in the in Hongkong has been granted to Mr. his persón. water. But there was no apparent G. G. N. Tinson, the lawfully appointed supervision of sanitary arrangements, attorney.
Hongkong Ofios: la, Obster Boad London Offos 131, Fleet Street, EO.
The Daily Press.
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A Chinese fortune-teller of Kowloon
Some little excitement was aroused for.
Police reports yesterday contained
The coolie care-takers live in primitivo
details of a motor-car accident, which was held at the Club had occurred near the Hongkong Electrio huts near by. The nearest tap for towa Lusitano on Tuesday night, when the pro- Company's preniíses at North Point, THE BATHING BEACHES.
water is at some distance and we cannot gramme comprised dramatic and musical some days previously. The car, carrying We hope that many residents. in Houg- believe that any coolie would take a items. The artistes were Mrs. Esmee number of Chinese paasongers, in avoid- kong and Kowloon will respond to the journey to obtain pure water for making Xavier, the Misses Henriette and Minnie ing a collision with a lorry, crashed into Government's requent for anggestions on tea if he could get tainted, but not salt, Noronha, Mra, Corinne Almeida, wall. The elder occupants and the the improvement of the a bathing water close at hand...
Colony'
Mesars. Eneas de Aquino, Julio Gon-drivor escaped injury, but two children. beaches. There have been many com- Proper arrangements should be mado zalves, Carlos Ribeiro, Januario. de had to be taken to hospital, The car plaints about the state of these beaches for housing the coolies and there should | Almeida, Jose de Almeida, Applinario do was completely wrecked. TOE HIRE From 2.30 2.M. Daily, First and also regarding the poor facilities ba fresh water near to the matsheds for Almeida, Sebastido de Pinnt and Fran-
STEAM LAUNCH suitable for Bathing Parties and Picnice. Reasonable for bathing proved for those who cannot tea. A European sanitary inspector. cisco Fernandes. Terms-Apply GANDE, FRICE & Co., LTD. afford to hire motor-cars. Now is the should make a daily inspection of the
a short time yesterday morning when The Editors of the Foreign Newspapers the Central Fire Brigade were about opportunity to do something. It is beach and he should have charge of all in Tientsin were recently invited to lunch 11.35 summoned to what was thought to foolish to suppose that side one clso the coolies and caretakers. Another most at the Grand National Hotel, by the be a fire at the Hongkong Club. Fortu will make, in writing, the obvious
essential nced is the proper training of Chairman and Editorial Staf of the Far nately, however, the alarm proved to bo suggestion that has so often met with the nullahs with the object of eliminating the Kestern Times. The Chairman, Mr. On false. On enquiry at the Fire Station approval of our friends during a bathing mosquitos. The place is now used by so Tsin, being unavoidably absent, his it was learned that the Hongkong Club picnic. It is better that twenty people many people that every effort must be place was taken by Mr. Chang Liu, the has a private fire alarm installation should make what seems to each of them mads to keep it healthy.
Editor of the paper,, who was supported which would operate at the Central Fire by Mr. Chou Ming Hen.. At the end of Station in case of an outbreak. This the meat Mr. Chuang Liu made a brief alarm is tested twice a day, at 7 in the no one should make it at all...
road down to the Stanley benches should The great centre for bathing, in these be improved. There are excellent bath speech welcoming the guests, and express morning and again at the end of the day. days, is the beach at Repulse Bay. It ing facilities there; the present difficulty in the hope that notwithstanding com Yesterday morning shortly after. 11.20 petition, and at times confict between this alarm rang in the Fire Station and is a comparatively new institution for is the transport.
the various papers, there would be room the Brigade, as stated, turned out. Ap until the read from Abordeen to Rapulse The Colony's refuse now thrown into for co-operation among them. He hoped parently the cause of the bell ringing Bay was built, within the last ten years, the sea is a source of annoyance at prac that this would be only the first of was someone at the Club either acciden there were no bathing matsheds there. tically, all the bathing beaches, but the frequent meetings between the local tally touched the button, or something Launch picnics were more popular in only real cure for this is the use of journalists. Ons of the guests in a touching the contact wire, thus causing- those days and then, of course, no pro refuse destructors. Why arrangements brief reply, thanked the hosts for their the alarma to operate. When the Brigado blemma arose concerning the state of the were not made to erect one adjoining kindness and proposed the health and arrived at the Club it was soon establish
ach. If the water near to the shore the North Point electric supply station prosperity of the Far Eastern Times,
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ed that no outbreak had occurred.
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to be an "obvious" suggestion than that We would suggest also that the motor
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