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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, lore cant and remasks, insued by the Royal Observatory at 8.10 p. atatical:-
Pressure remains highest in the vicinity of the Ladrones. Depres sions are situated over Tongking, Korea and to the cast of Hok- kaido.
Local Forecast:-N.E. moderate, fair to showery,
were
makes mention of the alleged fact that "extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles "
but there
no H. E. shells in those days. During the ex- cessively wet weather experienced in the earlier stages of the great war, the theory of heavy gun-fre as a cause of rain come up once again winds, for general discussion, and once again the theory was shown to be a false one. In 1911 this subject
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was actually raised in Parliament. the First Lord of the Admiralty being asked if he 'would arrange for the fleet" to carry out their firing practice with heavy guns at some period other than the middle of harvest time, when the resulting heavy Fain may cause serious loss
PIPES. reply to the question was
Hong Koxa, JUNE 18, 1999.
MAKING RAIN TO ORDER.
News and Views.
One Chinese case of entaris fever was the only entry on the report of notifiable diseases for the week end.
Under the
Snubbing the Mosquito.
Insurance for Candidates.
Candidates at the general election The mosquito, a dipterous insect, were able to cover the risks of the fedale of which is invested forfeiture of their deposit, through with great powers of investigation, failure to poll the requisite number lately has been the subject of moro of votes by taking advantage of aor less agitation in act least three novel insurance scheme initiated by States in North, America. Though a well-known firm of London insur-the mosquito long ago was östracis ance brokers acting in conjunctioned generally by human society.. The quarantine restrictions im- with Lloyd's
same which even went to the extent of posed agaicat arrivals from Shang-scheme an insurance could also be erecting network barriers to pre- hai on account of Cerebro-spinal effected whereby in the event of menigitis have been removed.
defeat the candidate can recoup any am for expenses up to £1,000, This enterprising insurance com- pany
out proposal forms to every candidate without distine tion of party, and these forms asked for a statement of the total elec torate, the result in the particular constituency for the four previous elections, whether the candidate had previously stood for Parliament, and if so what was the result of his candidature. Candidates who in the nature of things are to be regarded as "forlorn hopes" would not, of course, have their riska se- cepted under the scheme," which is really designed to cover what may be classed as unexpected reverses.
A Chinese woman made her bed on the parapet of her verandah at 32. Shangbai Street, 2nd floor. She fell while asleep and was killed instantly.
to the farming community." The Among the passengers returning that to the Colony yesterday by the "there is no evidence that the Empress of Russia, was Mr. H., firing causes heavy rain." and that Quist, the Consul General for the statement still stands good. At Netherlands. Shoeburyness there is more firing of heavy guns than at any other point on, the English coast-yet the mean rainfall is the lowest in the British
Isles !
Ovce upon a time a clergyman, wak naked by sopir "members of his con-condenses upon minute dust par That atmospheric water vapour gregation to pray for rain. His
ticles in the air is true, but un- reply was:-" My. friends, what fortunately it "does not follow that the use of praying for rain whil
by simply scattering clouds of dust the wind is in the East? The theologian was man of the world among the clouds a fall of rain will be brought about. If rain could enough to know that so long as the be inducrd so easily, periods of
sent
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rent it from invading the home, it evidently never has lost hope and apparently is as well organised and flourishing in many sections of the United States as it ever was. Maine recently passed an act which practically outlaws the mosquito. And that is about all it does do. It does not say how nor when the mosquito shall go, nor doer it pro- vide any funds with which to facilitate its exodus. But with an official ban upon it, what can a poor mosquito do but lead a sort of buccanee's life until it has found some way to establish itself in better favour with the human race? Massachusetts, 100, is strive ing to find a means whereby it can convince the mosquito that there nra, better Hunting grounds than Cape Cod in which to pursue its And in New Jersey
In addition to Tim McCoy's picture, The Adventurer," which
It is announced that a company activities. is being shown to-day and to-mor-
has been registered at Edinburgh to there is said to be indication of a andrew invasion which that State pro- row at the Queen's, a short coniedy undertake the production
will also be screened. drama entitled "Slaves of Beautyinnal Dictionary and to secure the mosquitoes become so mumerous publication of the Scottish Na- poser summarily to squelch before
A Chinese banishee was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour and 15 strokes of the birch by Mr. Whyte Smith. The man had been
The Academy and the Nude. fool of itself again. There is a The Royal Academy has made a
wind was blowing from a quarter drought" would not cause anxiety arrested for & pretty larceny and volumes, but each volume will be providence in these things. When
whence no rain-clouds could be ex-
pected, it was useless to expect anywhere providing an airplane then his record was discovered. rain to fall. Further."he probably was within easy call, Rainfall is
realised how illogical it was to mainly due to the heavy conden- small hours of Saturday, has been Adam Smith," Aberdeen: Universite: and so produces a test" case." The
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The weather, one of the things wo most familiar with, is as a
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nucleus upon which water-vapour condenses, and these drops remain
matter of fact something we know suspended in the air until they it
crease in size and eventually fall very little about. Attempts are made to read the future from the in the form of rain. That moment records of the past, and these efforts depends upon various factors, out have met with considerable, but principally upon temperature. If by no means complete, success strong current of cold air strikes Drought, more than any other the water-laden clouds, rain will factor, arouses public interest in fall, but a current of warm air at
What Sailors Read.
the necessary financial assistance, and so bold as once more to search Work on this great book of re-
the hotel registers for prospective ference has been proceeding for victims, twenty-one years under the literary directorship of Mr. William Grant, the arst volume is issued. The and it may be a year or two before completed work will consist of ten issued as it is ready. The leading its reactionary element gets its head supporters of the project are Lord on the nude question it is always Meston, of Agra and Dunnottar, grave and sincere artist, poles the Marquess of Aberdeen and apart from the frivolous and the A report of a robbery, during the Temair, Principal Sir
sensual, whose work it condemne George pray for changes in meteorological sation of moisture from air which received from Kowloon Tsai. Ten sir Robert Horne, M.P. Sir Virginal," a youthful full-length rejection of Mrs Dod Procter's were stated to have broken Thomas Jaffray, Sir Robert Bruce, figure holding a bird, resembles the conditions so that winds might have has been cooled by being caused to men
into a pig dealers' hut and stolen Principal Sir Donald Macalister, other cases in that respect, and in rise. Atmospheric dust-micros- their direction altered to benefit the
8120, which had been received the Glasgow University; Sir Herbert
the fact that serious copic particles--serVES
public the previous day from a sale of pigs. 13
Maxwell, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Colonel John Buchan, M.P.; Mr.sional, is behind the artist. Albert opinion, law as well as profes Charles Murray, Professor Mat Moore's decorative figure which An Armstrong Siddeley car, bethew Hay, Sir Joseph Dobbie, Dr. Horsley, the Royal Academician longing to Mrs. Hunter of Mesara. J. M. Bulloch, Dr. f. M. Wattle,
scratched producing Whistler's Deacons, which was parked in Mr. J. C. Smith, and Dr. George epigram Horsley soit qui mal y Chater Road yesterday, had a visit Soutar,
pense"), was a Victorian example, from an artistically-minded thief
Harvard Thomas's Lycidas,' who stole a mascot sphinx from the
which now stands in its stera beauty in public galleries with radiator cap. The Police have been notified.
Near the entrance to the Empire universal acceptance, was the last Dock in Singapore is a little attempt of that kind. Sir William At 8.15 last night an old man wooden hut in which are housed Richmond, who was one of the of 62 attempted to commit suicide books for the use of sailors in port, Academy jury, protested against Harbour from the Straits Times. The color the act of his
try of the Y.M.C.A. and while ithibited at the New Gallery. is comprehensive enough there do 1773- not appear to be many volumes by MIE. Dod Frocter's," Virginal,!')
modern authors. The crews of the Mr. Dod Procter's picture. WIS mercantile marine have a good put on exhibition at the Leicester taste in books judging from a list Galleries, and anyone could go A marriage has been arranged, published in the Daily Ners, Lon-there and wonder why of the scores and will be celebrated in Hongdon, of the volumes asked for by of nudes that are exhibited each Kong on July 22, between Mr. John the crew of a cargo vessel trading rear at the Academy this noble Reginald Laing, late of the Welch to China and the Far East. The pork, which ranks among the very Regiment, son of the late Mr. and it is as follows:-"Old Wives' best of its kind in par generation, Mrs. P. H. Laing, and Majoric Tales," by Arnold Bennett. Spin- should be rejected. No art body, Ruth Exham, daughter of Colonel ster of this Parish," by W. B. el course, gives reasons for its and Mrs. F. S. Exham, 373, The A. E. W. Mason. Revolt in be the quality of its art. It will
Maxwell,"
The Winding Stair" rejections, but the reason could not the Desert," by Col. Lawrence. Le an unusual Academy if there are. The History of Mr. Polly, by half a dozen pictures of the same H. "G. Welia, "The Vultures, rank in the present show. It is by Seton Merriman, The Count nearer in its searching for truth of Monte Cristo" by Dumas and beauty of silhouette and re- Jew Suss, by L. Feuchtwanger, verent naturalism to Mabuse or On a tramp steamer the Seafarers' schools of nude painting,d hare and any of Hugh Walpole's novels. Cranach than to the modern
by
Hong Kong General Manager rese A. S. WATSON & Co., meteorology. Ranchers whose sheep once stops the condensation process the jumping into the herb un fention was made by the general secre-san a 15 have neid and ar-
and cattle are dying of thirst and and vaporisation commences all He was rescued by members of the crew and sent to the hunger by the thousand," and oven again.. A few weeks ago a launch's farmers whose fields and orchards paper was read before the Royal Kwong Wah Hospital in an
conscious condition. Meteorological Society in London, are being scorched up by a too
dealing with a theory that the rain- fery sun,
look anxiously to the "weather man" for news of prob- fall in industrial areas is increased able change for the better. Fail- by the discharge of smoke and hot ing that, they ask in desperation as from factory chimneys. This what, hope is there of making rain? theory is based upon cbservations at Rochdale covering a period of ten years, and while it is unwise to generalise from isclated facts, it! Peak. certainly does seem that the climate
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An open air concert will be given by the band of the K.O.S.B. in the
of an industrial locality may be CHRONICLE sentimen who claim to be able to appreciably affected by the steady Kowloon Cricket Club ground on and hidden springs of water by and persistent discharge of sicke Saturday evening. Owing to the carrying a sprig of witch-hazel in and hot gas into the atmosphere.Pou last year, and the excellence popularity of these al fresce onn their hands and waiting for it to Unfortunately, the theory cannot be of the programme that has been Education Service, which provides consistent the Academy would have
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the books, found that George A. to admit that it would have refused Birmingham's "The Gun Runners" Ingres's" La Source," which it re- was the most popular book, and semibles in the youth and virginal that Edgar Wallace, came second.
"Captain Salvation". by figure, while the Tintoretto and Corregio nudes of the National Gallery they would probably have made the selecting jury faint clear sway. The whole thing is too pre- posterous. But it is good that the question should be raised over so serious and single-minded a work of art as Mrs. Dod Procter's
Virginal"
Forthcoming weddings, notice of rank and have the prospect at, may changer announces the
enused rain to fali on parched
fore Lancashire was industrialised.
Before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at arcas, When the actual facts are
The · rain-making, experiments Kowloon Magistracy Sanitary In- submitted to scientific-and there which it is proposed to make here spector Roylance prosecuted an fore impartial-examination, how-j
in Hong Kong with the assistance amah for dumping house refure in CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-ever, it is found there are several of the Royal Air Force will be that the depositing of rubbish was
the street, He told his Worship Surplus Naval Ometrs.
A correspondent writes to the SIAM, STRAITS missing links in the chaiti of cause
interesting all much experiments source of nuisance around the Times: Twenty odd years ago SETTLEMENTS, MALAY and effect. Many years ago it was rebut that they are likely to European district. The amah was 1, in common with many another STATES, NETHERLANDS believed that the discharge of ex-produce positive results is improb-
parent, signed a paper to the effect that in sending my son to Osborne INDIA, BORNEÚ. THE plcsives in the Rir would cause the
I undertook that be should make able. Meteorologists continue to
A very popular figure in the the Nary his profession. In those PHILIPPINES, Etr
clouds to release their precious discountenance the view that rain- Colony is C.P.O. "Tiny" Camp: days the Navy offered reasonable Looking Back 25 Years. load of water. Enormous sums of fall can be influenced in any way bell, the energetic secretary and chances of promotion. Then came
manager of The Royal Naval the Great War, in which junior will begin running on Augustin It is said that the new tramways money were spent--and wasted-in by human agency-except by the Canteen. Within the next few naval officers played such a con- attempts to produce rain
about six weeks time. creation or more often the destruc days, C.P.O. Campbell will be respicuous part in command of many drought-stricken areas in Europe tion of forests, and possibly by the turning to England and we under varieties of small craft. And now standing their Government sub- It is rumoured that, notwith- and the United States. A meteoro effect of large and continuous with the Canteen will be taken over the Fleet a great number of these Pani Beau and Charles Hardouin stand that his duties in connection owing to the drastic reduction of sidy, the new French river steamers logist who was instructed to watch emissions from factory chimneys. by C.P.O. Suttlie the result of rain-making experi- | Even broadcasting
splendid young officers find them are making an indifferent show selves passed over for commander's against the other Canton craft," and ments of this character in New popularly accused-and scientifical- ly found not guilty "-of causing
shortly. Arranged, with the initials as well Zealand reported that "the explo wet weather
The China Just as the wind which has been given at the local approximately, 38 af serving for as Surnames in strict alphabesions had apparently no more effect bloweth where it listeth, so does the Registry, include the following: six more years in a backwater, impending retirement of Sir Robert tical order so that any name on the vast expanse of the air than rain fall when and where atmos Mr. R. H. Rule, muster mariner, without hope of promotion, with Hart, the Inspector General of *can be found instantaneously.
pheric conditions compel the clouds of 13, Cameron Road, to Mrs out hope of increased pay, and all the Imperial Maritimes Customs. would the striking of a match in a to dissolve themselves in tears. Marion Mack, of the same address to earn the maximum pension. It Hong Kong Daily Press, June 18,
That an aviator, by sprinkling the Mr. L M. Xavier, of 6, Minden is hard to conceive anything more 1004 Time and time again it has been clouds with powder, can provide Gomes, of 10, Austin Avenue. Mr. for a young man. I do not believe/Looking Back 50 Years,
Avenue, to Miss Aurelina Antonia deadening, anything more dreadful the necessary nuclei for condena- shown conclusively that the dis- tion, is obvious. Whether the watery Suen Kam Shun, the well-known
the nation realizes, the hardship Although the Chinese have been charge of explosives in the air-can vapours will End is convenient to football player of the Chinese inflicted on the lieutenant-comman-made to feel that they are not wel- have no effect upon the conditions condense, however, is a matter he Athletic Association, to Miss Rosie ders of to-day, for if it did surely come in the Pasife States of causing or preventing rain, but yond the control of the most skilful Santos, of 12, Prince's Terrace, the Admiralty would never have America, there is likely to be a new
One can
promulgated such an inadequate and extensive field opened up to and intrepid airman,
Hong Kong the "wizards" who pretend they lend a horse to the water, yet fail
scheme as you published on May 8. their industry and enterprise in can achieve the impossible still find to make an obstinate animal drink. A Chine Police sergeant who To be kept on and allowed to the Union. The rapid exodus of enough dupes to provide them with By the same token, one may carry had served in the Hong Kongg" on reaching the age of 10 the negroes from the Southern what's the good of it? Under 40 States has left the planters in some a cargo of dust to the rain clouda, Police Force for twenty-one years,
a man still has a chance of making parts entirely without labours, and an easy living. The belief that and fail to induce them dissolve died at the Kowloon Hospital last rain or drought can be produced by and condense upon the intruding Saturday from fever. He joined god in civil life, particularly in their distress they turned he has a modest pension; over 40 promptly to the Chinese, and particles. The thirsty earth, and the Force in 1908 and served on human means is common among equally parched humanity, will street duty until 1817 when he wa he is a back mumber. There is only several large gangs of the latter barbarian tribes, who believe their wait, in vain for the hoped for promoted to Sergeans and transfer one way in which the disappoint have in consequence been engaged $12 witch-doctor's and mumbo-jumbo downpour if, below the dust-spray-red to the Detective Force. Recentment of these young men can be to work on plantations there. $8 men can bring about such changes ing aviator, there is a substantially he was sent out to the outlying mitigated, and their parents made They will get good wages in the belt of heated air, for the con- district Station at Sheungshuito feel that the original bond holds Bouth, and will not be annoyed of weather conditions as may be deased drops will be again vaporis where he contracted the disease for both sides, and that is to offer and ill-treated by
Many educated people ed. While we wish the Kai Tak from which he subsequently, died. the maximum pension immediately nor will they, we think, raise the airmen the best of luck in their He was 46 years of age. His work to those who are passed over for same prejudice among the white that they have awaken- | "experiments, for them chatte ponudiandotesti-acidopsis has king frukt, but solely owing to polish Tony Kong Dal battles as a result of intense and of success are as remote as the very boen mainly inquiries on political War conditions. Expense? No, *
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