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written by our Chinese, correspon-
dent. There have been social enter tainments, interviews, and political discussions Time and again it appeared that all difficulties had been removed, and complete under-
*
of his mission, and as we might MR. ́A, “K. HENDERSON. say in a lighter moment, "Every
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE WATER SHORTAGE.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE. BONG IONG
DAILY PRESS."]
thing in the garden was lovely." TRAMWAY COMPANY'S Then came the time to put the re ENGINEER TO RETIRE solution into effect. That was to garded as a mere matter of routine. THIRTY-TWO YEARS IN EAST. All that Seffor DE OSSA had to da was to call upon the Commissioner
Mr. A... K. Henderson, Chief -814,—As a resident of over 30 of Finance and the Brst order for Engineer of the Hong Kong Tram years in this Colony, it has often five hundred or a thousand tons of ways Company, will be much missed struck me why nobody has advocat nitrate would be signed. This the when he leaves for Home on retire-ed the opening of weils and obtain- ment towards the end of this ing water therefrom. I do not mean Chargé d'Affaires did immediately.
month He has been connected walls in the crowded portions of He found the Finance Commit with the Tramway Company since the City: these might very well be sioner very sympathetic and fully November; 1910, and first came out suspect. But in what may be called in accord with the procedure which East in 1896. In those early days the outskirts of the City of Victoria had been followed, but, alas, here Mr. Henderson was a Ship's Engin there are
very many favourable was the little final snag,the Gor-eer and he has been a member of places at which wells may be sunk. erament had no money with which the Institution of "Engineers and
When I was a school-boy my to make such purchases and did not Shipbuilders of Hong Kong since ramblings took me often all over see its way to and any. We did not that date 32 years ago. The lastitu- the hillsides: commencing from the bear that Señor of Oas broke down tion is making a presentation to Mr. present "Marble Hall" site, west- Henderson on August 10th when his wards, to Pokfulam and Aberdeen, immediately at this anti-climax, bot
fellow clubmen will wish him bon all off the beaten track; and east we have since learned on fairly
voyage and many years happiness wards from Queen's Garden to the reliable authority that he is, conten in the old country.
outlet of the Tytan tannel, thers plating a short retirement into a
was no conduit then. nursing home in an endeavour to "recuperate" from the mental stress involved by his ten months parti cipation in Chiness Government
business.
This little episode has its amusing side which will doubtless be apple ciated by many commercial men in Hong Kong and Canton, who it may be have suffered on somewhat similar lines, but it has its serious aspect also. We are not directly interested in the sale of Chilean nitrate but if it is calculated ai a
Another presentation by the St. Andrew's Society is to be made the occasion of a tiffin given in his honour on the 18th August at the Hong Kong Hotel, and it is believed that the East Point Recreation Club of which Mr. Headerson has been a member for many years is also making a formal gift. He has been a useful member of the Committee of the Hong Kong Golf Club where he has many friends who will wish him good luck when he leaves the Colony.
Mr. Henderson is a sailor adven- turer at heart although he has spent fertiliser to improve and inereuse the last eighteen years arranging for the safe navigation of trams, agricultural produce there seems to
and he is going a long way home leason why the Kwangtung farmers via Australia and the Cape in both should arbitrarily be deprived of of which places he has many friends. its use, particularly when it enjoys He is looking forward to the sea a free sale in the Northern pro- voyage as in some way a resump vinces. In Chile, it must be remem tion of his earlier life besides being bered, the Chinese are given bin itself an adventure and giving solutely equal status with Chilena him the opportunity to pick up old nationals and no impediment of any friendships. vind is placed upon their trade. If Kwangtung persists in preventing the importation of nitrate; the ex- part of which, furnishes Chile with large proportion of its revenue,
reprisals in some form or another
A SHANGHAI GANG.
TWELVE SENTENCED TO LONG TERMS.
may not unnaturally be anticipat- POLICE REQUEST FOR DEATH
ed.
At the Kowloon Court yesterday,
à Chinese who had hidden a small
PENALTY IGNORED.
SHANGHAI, July 27th quantity of illicit opium under his described by the Police Prosecutor
Twelve members of
jacket was fined $12.
being held on Saturday, August 4th, the usual fortnightly whist drive will take place on Friday, the 3rd inst.
the period to 50,420 tons.
to
the Hotel
as "the most hardened set of
I used to quench my thirst at many a brook, very limpid and sweet water, the best being just east of the late Sir Paul Chater's residence on Conduit Road. This for preference, but the others were. good.
quan-
Cannot wells be sunk in such localiticat I am certain that very good potable water could thus be obtained and in considerable tities. This water could be period- ically tested by the Baterielogical Department and, if found to be con- taminated or otherwise. unsuitable for drinking, it could still be used for many other purposes for which filtered water is not a desidèratum.
pumped into, tanks or water towers The water so obtained could be
and led from thence by pipes or other forms of ducts to the lower levels of the City-pressure and gravitation giving the necessary
"head."-Yours faithfully,
HEUNG KONG SHUI Hong Kong, July 31st, 1998.
THE CAFE PAVILION,
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG
DAILY PRESS."].....
BIR-My attention has been, drawn to a report, published yes terday, of a claim against the Café Pavilion for payment of eggs. This has no doubt misled many of claim was against this concern, and your readers, into the idea that the
I have, therefore, to request you.
Mr. R. T. Bryan, Polive Pro- secutor, urged that all the accused SHANGHAI ROBBER KILLED, A criminal record extending over should be convicted, otherwise if eight years with five convictions they were set at liberty they would LIFE SACRIFICED FOR $400. during that period was produced only kill more brave Chinese and in Kowloon yesterday again a man convicted of the possession of foreign members of the Police force. pair of trousers which had been The Police desired the extreme six weeks' hard labour with the in safety in the Settlement. stolen. The man was sentenced to penalty so that people could live option of a fine of $50.
Evidence tendered at previous bearings went to show that pistols were seized in a house in Chapei,
AERODROME AND HARBOUR.
$500,000 MORE REQUIRED.
MONEY FROM THE PUBLIC WORKS LOAN,
MEETING OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Council will be held in the Sanitary A meeting of the Legislative
Board Room to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon at 4.30 p.m.
The Colonial Secretary will move A resolution authorising the ex- penditure of another $500,000 from the Public Works Loan upon aero- drome and harbour development.
In the Ordinance authorising the flotation of the Public Works Loan of $5,000,000 it was stated that the money would be allocated to (1) Waterworks development, $3,500,000 ;. (2) aerodrome and harbour develop works, $500,000. ment, $1,000,000; (3) 'other public
such sums were not required for.
It was provided, however, that if " the specific purposes mentioned they could be atilised for any of the The Colonial Secretary's resolution works enumerated in the Ordinance.
is, therefore, merely a formal one, transferring the half-million dollars works" to the aerodrome and har ear marked for Mother public bour development. following words:-
It is in the
Whereas by the provisions of soction 3 of the Public Works Loan Ordinance, 1987, it is (inter alia) provided that the Governor may direct that any sums which may not be required for a purpose apecified in the Schedule may be appropriated and applied to any other purpose therein specified subject to such transfer of money from one item of the Schedule to any other item thereof being approved by a resolution of the Legislative Council and by the Secretary of State.
And whereas His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern- ment has directed that the sum of $500,000 allocated to item No. 3 of the Schedule, other public works, be appropriated and ap- plied to item No. 3 of the Schedule, aerodrome and harbour development.
Now it is hereby resolved that the approval of the Legislative Council shall be and is hereby given to the transfer of the sum of $500,000 from item No. 3 to item No. 2 of the Schedule. The Companies Amendment Or- dinance, and the Widows and Orphans' Pension Amendment Or- dinance will come up for a second · reading. In all probability they
passed. will also be taken through the Com mittee stage, read a third time and
- OBITUARY.
7
SIR FIELDING · CLARKE,
FORMen Chief JusticeE OF HONG KONG.
of Hong Kong,
later he was made Chief Justice at Hong Kong, a post which he held until 1905, when he was transferred
to Jamaica.
He retired in 1911.
CO-EDUCATION TO STOP.
As the Kowloon C.C. concert / criminals who have ever come into to he so good as to explain that this Settlement and whom the the claim was against the former Police wish to exterminate," and
proprietors of the Café, of crimes, amongst which were those who were charged with a long list As sole proprietor and madager · of the murder of a Chinese mill chased the business for cash from of the present firm, having pur- The total output of the Kailan foreman in Foochow Road on the liquidators on the 30th June last TS. standing reached, but there are Mining Administration's mines for January 27th, the murder of a Chi free of all liability, and having The death is announced by wheels within wheels in all Canton the week ending July 14th amounted nese mill forewoman in the Gordon always made all my purchases for Reuter cable of Sir Fielding official business, the intricate rami-
to 81,122 tons, and the sales during Road District on March 9th, and cash. I am sure you will see the Clarke," Kt., formerly Chief Justice fications of which it is impossible
the murder of another foreman on injustice of allowing yesterday's
Sir Fielding, who was educated for any foreigner to comprehend, thatcon Hotel, was reported came up for sentence in the Pro- faithfully,
Captain Masson, a resident at the next day in the same district, report to go uncorrected.-Yours
at King's College, London, was and always some obstacle emerged as missing since last Friday by visional Court yesterday before
appointed Chief Justice of Fiji in J. VIDORO,
1881, and became Pusne Judge at just as a friendly agreement seemed Mrs. White, the manageress. How
Sole Proprietor. Hong Kong in 1889. Three years ever, it is now learned that Capt. Judge Kuh. an the point of being signed. Then Masson returned the negotiations would start again yesterday at noon. Tu experience in Canton of Señor de moto. But Señor DE O83A exer- S. DE OSSA, the Chargé d'Affaires cised an exemplary patience. He for Chile, is not without interest apparently had all official opinion to foreign merchants and corpora- on his side and his contention that
An exciting chase through the tions who wish to enter into busi- it was absurd to regard Chilean
French Concession, Shanghai a pistol fight in an alleyway, and news contracta with the Kwangtung nitrate as a dangerous commodity
then another flight into the Chinese SCHOOL REORGANISATION IN eity, ending in the killing of an Government. Befor De Os8A, whose was freely admitted. He, there-
armed robber, occurred on Tuesday headquarters are in Peking, has fore, carried on, buoyed up by his
Last week. A young Chinese em- ployed in a hong in Route Mission by the National Educational Con- Since the passing of the resolution been in Canton for ten months belief in the old English proverb.
had been sent to a money changer ference banging the system of co- endeavouring to arrange for the "It's a long lane that has no turn as follows-Plague, 1 small stored away under the roof, and in Rue Montauban in order to education, the local Department of obtain $400. He was returning Education, says the Canton Gazette, unrestricted importation of Chilean ing," and we are glad to say that
that empty shells found by the with this sum when he was stopped as preparing to effect the pitrato into South China." The ultimately his faith was justified. (fatal). There were also two deaths Police at the scenes of the crimes by a man who threatened him with { change in this province. nitrate, which has a world-wide The politicians put their heads
Gordon Road Police Station with tallied after experiments made at a revolver and forced him to give
It has been decided that co-educa" up the money. reputation as a fertiliser, is sold together and a way out of the im-
Having secured the booty, the tion will cease when the next in enormous quantities; in Japan passe was at last discovered. In
robber took to flight, running into semester begins, The girl students Rue du Consulate, but an alarm of the First and Second Provincial Middle Schools will be transferred and is admitted freely into all the order to overcome the difficulties
was raised immediately and two ed to life imprisonment, and the Chinese policemen in close prox. to the Girl Middle School. The Yangtze ports, but in South China raised by the Monopoly Bureau it
others to 18, 16, 15, 12, eight and siximity, took up the pursuit. The High Middle Normal School girl it has been clauifed as an article was decided that the Kwangtung
acquitted. However, the man found of Rue Petit and endeavoured to Provincial Normal School for Girls. years' imprisonment, while one was fugitive turned into an alleyway students will be transferred to the from which explosives might easily Government should buy the Chilean
not guilty was ordered to be hand hide, but, finding that he was dis Instructions have been given to the be manufactured and, as such, has nitrate direct, and supervise it. He made, however, the extra-ed over to the Chinese authorities covered and that the game was up changes, to be instituted when the
to answer charges in connection he entrenched himself behind a pile with crimes committed in Chinese of cases and opened fire on the next semester opene. territory, and three of those who police, one of whom was seriously received sentences were alw ordered wounded and had to be taken to to be handed over to the French hospital. Police for trial in connection with
Taking advantage of the con
cone under the rules and regula distribution to the farmers who tions of the Bureau entrusted with might wish to use it on their fields, the monopoly of handling all ex- Subject to certain safeguards in
Cases of notifiable disease report ed in the Colony last week were 4 (1 fatal); enteric, 5 (1 faul); paratyphoid, 1; puerperal fever 1
cases of small-pox and one of puer from influenza. On Monday three peral ferer were notified. All casen were Chinese.
A Chinese who was brought before the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday Nathan Road, was reminded of a on a charge of burglary at No. 659 previous conviction three years ago. ordinary statement that he had no recollection of this as he had been seriously ill. He was sentenced to two months hard labour.
A warrant for the arrest of Pak
those which were fired from the con- fiscated ETTE
Four of the accused were sentenc
Walk from the Tram Station and plosive material Naturally sales the matter of retail price Beflor p Yeung On alias Pak Shun Lee, aged crimes committed in the French füsion caused by the shooting, the
overlooking the Southern Bide of the Laland. Ready for Occupation in JULY. Firo-Boomed FLATS
sad
Six-Roomed FLATS
CANTON,
various school authorities of these
WEATHER REPORT.
with all Modern Conveniences, Drying bring about a change in these con- sary, meetings. The resolution Road East. A warrant has also the right of protest against the nese city, it was not long before. Presure is high to the north of
Boone and Outhouses, Two Lifte
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were prohibited and it has been Osas agreed to this arrangement. 20, has been issued by the Police Seffor oz Ossa's duty, as represent The subject was brought up in the The man is wanted for the alleged theft of twelve-old Chinese pictures ing the Government of Chile, to form of a resolution at the neces valued at $800 the property of Mr. Tse Shu Wa of No. 50, Queen's ditions. Our readers may have unanimously passed. The Chilean been issued for the apprehenion followed to some extent the course representative received the warm of a Chinese named Cheung Shing of negotiations through the congratulations of his friends and Wen, aged 27, for alleged embele ment of $175 the property of Mr. ensional letters on the subject helpers on the successful outcome Chu Ping.
Concession.
desperado managed to get out of Yesterday's weather report, fore. Protest By Uons' Deputy, the alleyway, but he was fatigued cast and remarks, issued by the Mr. M. Hasegawa, who sat as by his first flight and, though he Royal Observatory at 6.65 p.m., Benior Conan's Depaty, reserved succeeded in getting into the Chi stated sentences. It is believed that he is the police there comered him. Japan and low over China. The of the same opinion as the Prosecu Beveral more shots were fired, one typhoon is still about midway be tor and Police that the principal striking the bandit in the head and tween Tokyo and the Bonine. members of the gang should have killing him instantly.-C. Daily Local Forecast: South received, the extreme penalty,
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