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THE Jews, says the Marquis de Mores, who are not at all theorists, but shrewd, fur-seeing schemers, have, by getting hold of all centralized powers, been able to wield an influence in the management of national affairs, which has been none the less absolute for being exercised in
secret.
THE Band of the A & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, to-morrow evening, commencing at 7.300'clock
March...........The White Squall" ............. Bleiers, Lancers."Dora"
Bucalasi. Vala *...****
The Marrutija "...
Godfrey. Poulton .......P. And OH seeme... !! Quadrile Promenade"......Costa. #artal
Ga op
."Fanerula”
THE Japanese Government is stated to have granted permission to the Russians to procure coal for the Pacific squadron and the Dobrovolnoe Flot at the Haronai mine in Otaru. At the present juncture this "friend pilgin" is some- what instructive in view of the latest develop. ments in the North, especially in the Korean peninsula.
THE adjourned hearing of the action for damages caused in collision, brought against the owner of the Sun Fling junk by the owner of the steam- ship Polluz, was resumed at the Supreme Court this afternoon, by the Acting Chief Justice, with Capt. Poenck, of the Namoa, sitting as assessor, After hearing the address made by Mr. Leach on behalf of the plaintiff bis lordship deferred Judgment.
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IT is rumoured that the China Merchants' Co. is about to withdraw the Kiang Kwas from the Canton line. We give the report for whatever it may be worth.
IN 1805 there were thirty-five translation of the Scriptures in existence. Since the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society in that
year ten millions of money have been expended in the work of circulating the Bible, and there are now, counting dialects as well as languages, nearly three hundred translations of" the S-riptures.
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme in the Public Gardens, on Monday, the 2nd prox, commencing at 8.30
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March...........Silver Trumpets"
Viviani. The Blue Dansbo"...: Straps, Fantasia.......d "Jacobita'
Gauner, Dust....
Excelator......Bald. Selection........." Remin, of all Nation"......Godfrey.
Tulloch Gho
PIPERS PROGRAMME.
March........ Strelepey..... Reel March.. March,
"Donald Talu"
"Reel of Tulloch
If The Hills of Glennethy "
**T a Brau Mar Highlanders "*
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THE N. C. Daily News gives the following Hankow tea statistics; for the 20th May :-—--
Oopack OUKIT Komum. Halbow chest charts, chess chests 141,720 219,700. 232,616 | 23,921
Ts al arrivals Stlements ship. tents since opening...)
115.453 161,035 173,474 20,230
Present Stock, 26,327 58,665 60,141 – 3,701 For Hankow teas the market is rapidly declining, but they are still quite out of the reach of English buyers. The stock of Kiukiang teas consists mainly of tarry Ningchows to which it is difficult to attach an exact value, Keemuns are still freely taken on arrival and the yield of first crop from this district is nearly exhausted..
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it might turn out that the money had been well from Tytam is to be supplemented from Pokfulam expended.
if necessary.
Finance Committee,
10 The third or Robinson Road district is supplied direct from Pokfulam only; it consists principally of the houses between Robinson Road and the Pokfulam aqueduct.
11. This anangement is sound in principle.
zone direct to the other, in case of fire, either Provision has been made for connecting one partially or throughout its whole extent. The several districts and sub-districts may each be shut off separately, and each may be supplied from either source. Thus the risk of interrup tion is reduced to the minimum..
Western Street to High Street and down East Street, where it will connect to the Praya and Queen's Road mains, which will branch off eastward, and connect with the Tytam system, already described. The western branches will be carried out to West Point,
22. Thus, the whole of the lower zone may be
suitable valves the supply may be divided over supplied from either one or other source, and by ares, as may be most convenient. If, on the east, the consumption were to increase beyond. that which the mains, now provided, can con veniently carry, then their conveying power could.be easily increased, by constructing, near Morrison Hill, an Equilibrium Reservoir, capable of holding, say, 300,000 gallons; and connecting it with the extremity of the main. By equalising the flow, this reservoir would have the effect of an increase in the size of the pipes. Then again, a main will no doubt be required along the Kennedy Road, when the sites along it are sold. Similar arrangements for meeting an increased demand can be made, on the west extremity of the town, when that becomes necessary, Calculation shews that the proposed pipes are ample in size for present and even future wants; for many years to come. It might, however, be well to select and reserve sites for the Equilibrium Reservoirs at the extremities of the City, 50 that they may not be found occupied, when wanted.
THE HOSPITAL NURSES. «r The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that a recommendation to vote the sum of $534, being additional sum required to defray the salarles and rations of Nursing Staff for the Civil the piano six months of 1890 be referred to His Excellency added that all the correspond. ence in conviction with the matter would be presented, but he might state that shortly before his departure Governor des Vœux was advised tha it would be more beneficial if trained, English nurses were obtained for the Civil
is. It is with regard to the extent and manner Hospital, in place of the Catholic Sisters. After of supply of the upper district, that a modifica giving the matter every consideration His tion of the original project seems desirable. Excellency, with some reluctance, decided that May houses are so near to the level of the the suggestion, was a good one, and notice was
Pokfulam aqueduct, that the water will rise but given to the Sisters that their services would❘ttle above the ground-floor,. To afford even not be required after the end of June. His this imperfect supply, pipes must be provided Excellency had not time, before his departure, of diameters out of ordinary proportion to the to communicate with the Secretary of State extent and importance of the district, 32" to on the matter, so he (the speaker) did so,
anil 8" as large as the principal mains in the asking for the home Government's approval. lower zone. The available head is so small, that loss by friction has to be reduced to a The scheme involved slightly increased expen- diture, but the staff of Sisters had found their minimum by enlarging the diameter of the pipe. number too small, and if they had been staying
13. Eastward of the termination of the Pokfu- they would have had to increase it The lam aqueduct, at the Albany Tanks, houses Secretary of State, at his request, had intimated exist, even as high as 6oo feet above the sea. his approval by cable, a few days ago, so that I see no reason why the restriction, as to build the nurses would shortly be engaged,
ing above the aqueduct, should not be abolished 23. The Motor No atthe Western Pumping along both conduits. Proper precautions being Station, is mainly intended for the Peak supply. adopted for the drainage of such districts the But it may be used to supply the Robinson Road water would be perfectly safe from contamina-district, in conjunction with, or in lieu of, Nos. 1 tion. Indeed if the the surface of the Pokfulam and a Motors, should they be stopped, from aqueduct were converted into a public road like any cause. From it, a 3" wrought-iron pumping the Bowen Road; its waters would be much main will be laid to a reservoir near the Flag. safer than in its present condition, difficult of staff, whence the Peak district will be supplied. access, unseer, and where in cutting, forming a The details of the distribution of this supply form convenient latrine for grass-cutlers and builders.
no part of the subject of this Report, and indeed 14. A district therefore exists already, and have not, as yet, been worked out." At a point will probably extend, which cannot be supplied near to this pumping-main, at about 600 feet with water, from either aqueduct, by direct gra- | above Ordnance Datum, a small reservoir should vitation, To give water to this district, either abe erected, for the Robinson Road. From it a subsidiary waterworks, at a high level, must be pipe is to be laid down to the Pokfulam aque constructed (not a very easy task )or water must duct, along it, westwards to the Robinson Road, ・ be pumped to them, from the existing works,, where it will be joined to the existing mains, It is true that it might be possible to collect along that street. water, sufficient for the immediate want of the district, from water-courses, on the hill-sides above them. This would be scarcely a satis factory arrangement. The gathering-grounds of these sources must be watched and protected from pollution. Filtration also would benecessary. These scattered waterworks would be difficult of access, and therefore imperfectly supervised. It is desirable to concentrate the works, as much as possible. Lastly a demand has arisen for a water-supply for the Peak Districi,
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GRATUITY. A vote 2975 to the widow of the late F. MacBean; } f and interpreter at the Supreme Court, was lured to the Finance Committe.
THE STANDING ORDERS. The Attorney-General moved that the Council adopt the report of the sub-committee appointed to revise the Standing Orders. He said that the existing rules had been framed in accordance with Royal Instructions which were repealed last year, and consequently required alteration. There were not many changes, and on all except two the sub-commitice were unanimous. Mr. MacEwen was out-voted in proposing that when a Bill had been considered and reported upon by a special committee only the marginal notes need be read. With respect to private bilis the sub-committee decided that they advertised in the should not only be Government Gazette, but also in a local paper. One member wanted to add “and one Chinese newspaper," but was out-vot d. The sub-com- mittee also recommended that Wednesday be the day for the Council meetings, subject to alteration.
JULES VERNE lives at Amiens, the capital of the Department of Somme, France.. Verne is not the distinguished novelist's real patronymic. His family name is Olchewitz, which is decidedly more in keeping with his Polish origin, for by birth he is a Pole. Jules left his native A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, Warsaw when a youth of eighteen, and during his years of early struggle in Paris was often indebted to his elder brother William for the means of procuring the necessaries of life. He is now sixty-eight years of age, is the youngest of three brothers, of whom the eldest died about a year ago, at the remarkable age of THE trout, says & writer in the Gentleman's one hundred and ten. Casting about for a pen-Magazine, is derived from a word meaning to name, he adopted the expedient of translating eat, just as salmon from one meaning to leap. the initial syllables of his family name (which The formur fish, has acquired some celebrity in in English means "beech into its French folk medicine. Thus it is a superstition of equivalent, Verne. He is now engaged on a Shropshire that a pie-dish full of cider should be great work, which will give a full revelation in taken down to a river and a good-sized trout regard to his true naine and early Parisian caught and drowned in the cider, would make a person recover from the whooping cough. Trout experience..
and cider' were then to be carefully carried back to the house, and the sick person must eat the trout after it has been fried and drink the cider. In Northumberland for the same ailment a trout's head is put into the mouth of the sufferer, and, as it said, the trout is left to breathe in the patient's mouth. Still more curiously, Mr. Henderson relates that a THE PROPOSED DISTRIBUTARY reservoirs constructed at a level of say 275 friend, when fishing in Cleveland, was asked by a peasant to give him a "wick" (live) trout to lay on the stomach of one of his children who was much troubled with "worms, a trout so As to the time when a fisherman should go applied being a certain cure for that complaint. forth, the Herefordshire thyme says
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Te annual meeting of the members of the Victoria Recreation Club was held in the Gymnasium last evening, Mr. F. W. Koch presided, and the attendance was amall. consisting principally of Portuguese who had rolled up for the purpose of electing one of their number to the Committees. The report and accounts for the past year were adopted, on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. H, W, Sampson. By general acclamation Mr. Thos. Jackson was re-elected Chairman, and the Bath-house: Messrs. J. M. Laing, A. G. hallot for Committees resulted as follows Stephen, and M. Souza; Boathouse: Capt. Davidson, Messrs. E. Freidrichs and A. Turner; Gymnasium: Messrs. D. Kennedy, F. W. Koch, and C. H. Thompson; hon, treasurer, Mr. R. T. Wright; hon, secretary, Mr. G. C. C. Master. In answer to a question the Chairman said that the subscriptions for the last Regatta fell off so considerably, and the expenses were so increased, that probably the Club would have to bold the next along the shore, and so save the cost of a flag-ship. The proceedings then terminated.
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When the bud of the Aul (Alder) is in big as the tmui's cyo `i Then that fish is in season in the river Wyo. "Shropshire is full of t out and Tories," says another proverb. Several others may be here gathered ----
The best trouts must needs make the best apart. You must see a fly before you can catch a trout.
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At the suggestion, of His Excellency the Council went into committee on the Bill, -
The remainder of the proceedings, will be detailed to-morrow.
SYSTEM OF THE VICTORIA WATERWORKS.
Secretary under date the 28th December, 1889:
Mr. Osbert Chadwick writes to the Colonial
I have the honour to report that I have examined the project for the distribution of water in the city of Victoria, Hongkong, prepared by Mr. Cooper, A.M.1.C.E, and submitted to you, with his letter dated 13th April, 1889, (C.S.O. No. 986),
Sald the disyin to the trout My head's worth a thy beuk (bulk), project, subject to certain slight alterations and
On chatouille a truite pour la mieux prendre. Faute de truites on mange des barbeaux, Le verfet la tru'ta on la mense kalkon. Skilled hands eat trusts,'
Trout are not caught with day laga.
It is much to be feared that this last (a Spanish proverb) basa poaching savor about (t. Evidently it only thinks of catching trout as being tickling them. Even Shakespeare fills back upan tickling on the two occasions on which he names trout. "Here comes the tront that must be caught with tickling" says Maris ("Twelfth Night" 11, 5, 25) and Pompey ("Measure for Measure," 1, 3, 92,) speaks of "groping for trouts in a peculiar river."
A CERTAIN retail merchant put a sign on his store which read "Good Butter for Sale Here." His friends, one after another, came along and criticised the sign. One suggested that that the word "good" was superfluous, for he would not expect to sell any other kind than good butter. Accordingly, this word was taken from the sign. Another said that the final word "here" was unnecessary, because a merchant would not attempt to sell butter anywhere else than in his store. Still another suggested that the phrase "for sale" was superizons, MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE for he would not have the butter for any other
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2. I beg to recommend the adoption of this
additions, which I shall describe, in detail, later on. Before doing so, however, it is necessary to describe shortly, the principal features of the original project.
3. It is proposed to connect the extremity of Tanks, with the new Tytam Filter-beds, by the Pokfulam aqueduct, near to the Albany
means of a pipe; so that any surplus water afforded by the Pokfulam system, over and above the quantity that can be conveniently filtered and distributed from the filter-beds, now in process of construction, near to Victoria Battery, may pass on to the Tytam Filters, and be there purified and distributed; just as if it came from the Tylam Reservoir.
held this afternoon. There were present Tytam is still, only partially full. Under these
A meeting of the Legislative Council was His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (Mr. F. Fleming); the Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. W. M. Deane), Mr. S. Brown, Surveyor-General; Mr. W. M: Goodman, Attorney-General; Mr. A Lister, Colonial Trea- surer; Mr. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, Acting Regis trar-General; Messrs. P. Ryrie, C. P. Chater, Ho Kai (unofficial members), and Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Acting Clerk of Councils.
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The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
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purpose than to sell. By successive alterations based upon these suggestions of his friends, the sign was at last reduced to one word" Butler." Finally, some one else came along and convinced [5 him that even that word was unnecessary because every country store kept butter. People expected to find butter in retail grocery stores, and therefore advertising that article was alto gether unnecessary, Thereupon the merchant withdrew the little that was left of the sign. THE "benefit" which was organised for the ladies who lately formed Hudson's Surprise Party drew a very large and enthusiastic audience to the City Hall theatre last night, and proved a big success. The labor of entertaining was pretty fairly divided between the fair beneficiarer and half a dozen of our amateurs, and encores were the order of the evening. The glee "Sweet and Low," by the principal vocalists, opened the Advertisers are requested to forward all ciclous Intended for ball, and was followed by a ballad about "Mother potting the babies to bye-bye," sung by Miss Clements with such pathos that it evoked an encore. Miss Linton and Miss Roberts fetched the multitude with their double song and dance"Pretty as a pink," and, subsequently, gained great The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the applause in a sand-dancing specialty, although table the Harbour Master's Report for 1889, and Miss Roberts was far from well, and was taken reports from the Hon. G. Chadwick on the Yau- rather seriously ill on leaving the stage, Miss mati Water supply, the sewerage of the High Baber, who of course was the vocalist of the Level district, and the proposed distribution Bubscribers to The Houseraph are pocildly evening, opened with "Dear heart," and when system of the waterworks. A portion of them recalled, sang Twas within a mile of Edinboro | appears separately in another part of this issue.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
toon." Buther best effort was in the recitative and aula from "Maritana," "Scenes that are brightest," in which she showed operatic powers of high order. Mr. C. Lammert essayed the boary serenade "Come into the garden, Maud," and not unsuccessfully, as he was brought back to sing "The lass of Richmond Hill; and be subsequently got through the duet "Love and War, with Mr. Crow in even better style. Mr. Crow, who also was beard
HER MAJESTY CONCURS, His Excellency bad pleasure in informing the Council that Her Majesty the Queen had rap ported his action in appointing Mr. Ryrie and Dr. Ho Kai members of the Council, and they would therefore take the oaths.
The two gentlemen were then sworn in.
RIPORTS,
THE RACK-COURSE.
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15. The reduction of pressure in the water, supplied to the lowest zone forms an available source of mechanical power. The low-level zone will be, as it were, supplied from subsidiary
fest above Ordnance Datum. That for the Tytam system would be about the level of the gardeners houses, on the Garden Road, that for Pokfulam, a little above. Bonham Road. The
water in the reservoirs, opening and admitting work of a bail-valve regulating the level of the reducing valves, already mentioned, perform the
water when it is low, shutting it off when full With this difference however, that they act, not by the rise and fall of "the water-surface in a cistern, but by the rise or fall of pressure in the pipe beyond them; and thus do away with the necessity for a reservoir.
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16. Taking the average daily consumption of Pokfulam water by the lower district at 750,000 gallons per day, or 520 gallons per minute, falling from 436 feet (the level of the bottom of the Pokfu lam Reservoir) to 175 feet ; the power developed would be as horse power, or sufficient to raise about 60 gallons per minute or 86,400 gallons of Pokfulam Reservoir, or to a height above the per day to a height of 1,364 feet above the bottom
Ordnance Datum of 1,800 feet, that of the Observatory at the Peak
17. Similarly, for the Tytam system, 1,500,000 gallons a day, or about 1,000 gallons a minute, falling from the level 354 (the bottom of the reservoir) to 275' would develop about 24 horse power, sufficient to raise 230 gallons a minute† to a height of 345 feet above it, or the level 700 above the sea, which would be more than sufficient for the Robinson Road zone, and would include the highest exlating house on the Peak Road.
4. Mr. Cooper points out that the storage capacity of the Tytam Reservoir bears a larger proportion to its collecting area than that of Pokfulam. Consequently the Fokfulam Reser
has been made for friction and other losses. voir may be full to overflowing, whilst the 18. In the preceding calculations no deduction conditions, the proposed connection allows of Estimating there liberally, however, it may be the great part, indeed of the whole, of the supply, safely asserted, that by the use of motors, work being taken from Pokfulam, so as to prevented by the surplus head of the aqueducts, above an overflow and waste of water there; whilst that proper for the lowest zone of the town, and the surplus storage of Tytam is being fully driving pumps; then for every hundred gallons utilised. In short it makes it possible, not consumed by the lower zone from Pokfulam actually indeed, but in effect, to store in the Reservoir about six gallons may be pumped to Tytam Reservoir surplus water, for which there the Peak; and for every rco gallons used by no room in the Pokfulam, Reservoir; and the same zone from Tytam Filters, about to or thus to Increase materially the available supply 12 may be pumped, high enough to supply all in dry years; which is, after all, the true houses in the highest zone up to about 500 feet measure of the capacity of a waterworks. It about the sea. greatly reduces the risk of interruption to the supply, in the event of an accident to the Tytam conduit, auch as that which happened during the recent heavy rains, and which may, there. fore, take place again. I therefore recommend the adoption of this arrangement.
5. The surface of the water in the Tytam Service-reservoir is 38318 feet above Ordnance Datam. That of the Poklulam Service-reservoir is 436 feet above mean-sea. Taking the level of the Praya to be about 12 feet above Ordnance Datum, the pressure in the mains along that street would be, at times, 373 feet and 424 feet; according as the supply were derived from the one or the other reservoirs or 161hs, per square inch and 1840s, respectively.
6. A pressure of about toobs, to raots, per square inch, or 320 to 280 feet of water, in the bighest to which heuse-services and fittings can be conveniently subjected continuously. Higher pressures than thead necessitate specially strong and costly house-fittings, or exaggerate the waste due to their imperfection. The above mentioned pressures are amply sufficient for fire-extinction, especially when, as in the present case, the pressure may, at a moment's notice, be supple mented ar augmented, by admitting water from
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14. The delivery-pipes of Nos. 1 and 2 Motors, at what may be called the Garden Road and Glenealy Pumping Stations, will unite with each other; and with the Caine Road main, near to the point where it crosses the Glenealy stream. Thence, the water pumped by both motors will rise tola service reservoir, situated immediately behind Belilios Terrace, at the level 500, and having a capacity of 100,000 gallons. A pipe will also be carried up, from Motor No. 1 to a small service reservoir, at the level 700, at the side of the Peak Road, for the supply of Queen's Gardens. In this manner, the upper zone, like those below, will have a source of supply and a reservoir at each end, though, in this case, the principal, or normal source of supply is kom ibe Tytain Filter-beds.
15. The proposed Hydraulic Motors are exceedingly simple, and practically automatic; wanting no attention, beyond an occasional
stopped by accident or designedly. The water steam-engine to replace the motors, if they are oiling. Nevertheless, it is prudent to provide a
supply from either of the aqueducts may, occasionally, be interrupted, on account of clean- ing, alteration, or repairs. Moreover the quantity of water raised to the higher level, must always bear some fixed proportion to the consumption in the lower; and it may, happen that the upper zone will; at times, require more than, this fixed propertion. It will therefore be necessary to erect, at the Western Pumping Station, a steam-engine capable of pumping to the Peak. This engine will be almost identical with that for which a specification has been submitted in connection with a report on the Peak water- supply of the upper systems is practically secure, supply. With the steam engine, the water-
If the Fokfulam aqueduct is shut off, the steam- engine can take Tytam water from the general system of main, and raise ft to the Peak, or to - the Robinson Road district. [the Tyłam water is shut off, then the steam-engine can assist the western motor in supplying both districts.
26. The proposed motors are small, occupying about 5' 0" by 3' 0" floorspace, so that no costly buildings are required for their reception, Judging from the cost of direct-acting' steam. pumps, which they generally resemble in design, they will cost, at the utmost, about 3,500 dollars economical to use one and the same motor to cach, delivered and fixed. It is not, I am aware, pump, to different lifts, because the consumption of working-water is the same, whether the motor does its full, or a reduced duty. It may, here- after, prove desirable to provide separate motors for different lifts, so as to utilise to the utmost the full available power, No. Motor is that most urgently required to supply the houses along the Feak Road. I recommend that this should be provided at once, and also the steam- engine for pumping to the Peak. With these, the supply of the elevated districts may bo commenced at once and continued, without :.. fear of interruption. The experience gained in working No. 1 Motor will be of the greatest use in designing the others, so so to obtain from them the maximum effect.
27. The reducing-valves, before mentioned, will be retained, in connection with the motors, so that if they stop, the valve will open and let the water pass on to the town at the reduced pressure, just as though the motor were not there.
19. The actual quantity pumped, in each case, is proportional to the quantity used, by the lower zone, and cannot be calculated, independently, But the lower tone includes by far the greater part of the total population. The quantity that may thus be pumped will, in any case, be con- siderable, probably in excess of the wants of the higher districts for some time to come. In say case there is an available source of power, affording a means of extending the area which can be supplied with water, without expenditure 28. The reduction of pressure has been for fuel, which is too considerable to be neglected. objected to, on the ground that it diminishes the 20, The general arrangement proposed is, "value of the water, as a source of power for therefore, briefly, xs followi :-Tytam water will working lifs and the like. I do not consider be distributed by two main pipes, serving the that the direct connection of hydraulic machinery lower and middle zones, One To" diameter, with the water-mains, is a practice to be encour already laid, down Garden Road, will serve the aged; the more an, in the case of lifts, which eastern districts, the other of 14" will serve the require large quantities of water, at irregular The Acting Colonel Secretary moved that a
central portion of the lower zone, and the eastern intervals. This, tends to produce shocks and recommendation by his Excellency that the
part of the middle or Caine Road zone. This irregularities in pressure. The water used is, Council vote the sum of $8,000 for works in the
pipe will run down the Albany Read to the moreover, wasted. The pressure, even without Woog-nel-chung Valley, Inside the Race Course,
function of Caine Road and Arbuthnot Road reduction, some 200 lbs. per square inch, at the be referred to the Finance Committee,
Here will be a connection to the existing Caine atmost, is Insufficient to work motors, such as His Excellency thought it only right to
Read main. Immediately beyond this point the lifts, economically. A large quantity of water say that that amount would not be sufficient
pressure will be reduced, and a hydraulic motor is required to produce given mechanical effect, to returf the Race-course sad fill up the
and pamps fixed. From this point again the and the working parts must be large and costly. at his best in the duct, favored the pond, but inasmuch so the work would
water for the lower central sone,ill be carried Then, the pressure in the mains of a town in We learn that Xavier, who absconded with audience with "The Demon King" and rolled take a long time, it was improbable that more elevated districts. The true art of fire forward in a' main running along Hollywood. I ever varying, according to the consumption, so $1,100 belonging to 'the Supreme Court Izet his eyes with much effect. Miss Nellie the amount expended during the present year prevention consists, valher in the provision of Road,, and ultimately: Joining the Pokfulam that not more than, perhaps, the half of the Tuesday, chartered a launch to take him to Harley had a double turn, in "Jolly little would exceed the vote, The total amount would ample means: for prompt application, than in lower-tone system. A large branch will be maximum pressure can be counted upon, for
probably reach $14,000 $1,000 would be devoted
great quantity or very high pressure of water, carried, from Arbuthnot Road, down Pollinger working machinery. Otherwise, the lift or Macao, and on arriving there told the man in chap" and "I don't care if charge to apply to the Government here for me." The words lacked the true poetic ring to the redturfing, and the rest would be available: With buildings of the ordinary height, efficient Street, to supply a main running from east to motor would be able to coase working, when- but the audience caught right on, and would for filling up portions of the pond. The Com-are-service is rendered, even with pressures west, along the Praya To the westward this ever a fite-hydrant is opened, for the purpose of payment i
scarcely be content with single recalls. Mr. mittee might possibly be la favor of the re-turfing as low as 60 to 50 feet of water (26 Ibu, to 348 | main will be connected to the Pokfulam system cleansing the mains, wa LAST evening a coolie was arrested whilst J. M. Laing mildly supported Mr. C. Lammert, and yet prefer to leave the filling-up until next lbs. per square inch).
to the eastward, with the Garden Road main “29. The usual pressute for worlding hydraulle what, in the Police Court this morning he "You swear to be good and trus," and was strongly urged as a very desirable, step, and he lect divides the towp into zones, according to the In size, to the castera extremity of the town, bs per square inch. The water, pumped to the 7. In accordance with this principle, the pro-and it will then be continued, gradually reducing machinery lifts, cranes, and the like, is about 700 altempting to commit suicide off the Canton Miss Baber, and Miss Harley in the quartette year, but he reminded them that it had been stated that as all his money had been stolen audible in the glees. Unbroken silence, excepting favored it as being not only conducive to the elevation of the ground. The lowest zone The pressure in the Garden-Read main will be. Peak, when delivered at the Frays, would have from him, he had no further desire to live, and in one last nce when the audience coccidiosis he left it entirely, to the discretion of the Come (approximately); from the Fraya, to a litle Des Voeux Road and Kennedy Road may be sup the distribution of mechanical power, by water interests of sport but also of health. Still, extends from the sex to the Fontour of 150 feet reduced, near t the gardeners' houses, so that a pressure of about 7:4 foi, per square luch.". If wished to drown himself. Mr. Wodehouse very echo, characterised the recital of Aytoun's stirring sensibly and generously ordered two dollars to lay The Island of the Scots," by Mr. R. Fraser mi to the reftrings feed it should have been above Staunton Street, Market Street and plied, under full pressure. At this point also Motor under pressure, is to form part of the scheme, be paid him, that he might return to his village. heard to better advantage, or secured warmer commenced a month or two ago. But he was City Hall it embraces the whole of the area, at
Smith. The veteran elocutionist has rarely bech as to the re-turfing, indeed been High Street, to the west.
Eastward of the No. 2 will be erected in poflam water will be Junction with the Peak supply, by enlarging the it will be most advantageously done, in con- at. On the west, the Pokfulam: plaudits. Mr. H. H. Lightwood's patter song from reluctant to expend money before it was voted, present, inhabited. The max zane is between conveyed from the filter-beds and service main and increasing the engine power. Specially the Sorcerer, "John Wellington Wells," given and though he had instructed the Surveyor the contours of 150 and 350, and consists priacl reservoir, now under construction, through a 12" constructed hydr ulic, pressure mains must be in character, was short and taking, and secured General to inquire into the matter he did not pally of the tenements adjoining Caine Road, mals to the Bonham Road, it little to the west. laid throughout the to which tha
scrked authorise him to commence operations, pre- The third zone includes the remaining, part, upward of West Street. Here the pressure will be is to be supplied tow
power ruan of the evening, though, was Mr. G. ferring to await the decision of the Finance to the Pokfulam aqueduct, consisting principally reduced, and Motor No. 3 erected. Before 30. Speci i installations, for the hydraulic P. Lammert, whe acted at accompani t. in Commitee,
of the tenements, abutting on Robinson Road, reduction taken place, a connection will be made - distribution of power, have been made id London, that capacity he helped greatly and his interpreta-
18. The low-level zone is to be supplied from with the existing 10" main, to supply the western and other large commercial cities, It may be tion of Liszt's "Rhapsodie No. 2" was nothing
both aqueducts; the distributary system being part of Caine Road district. From this point, that, when the Praya Extension is finished, short of brilliant, "At the conclusion Mr. Stanley
united throughout. The pressure is reduced to which may be called the Western Pumping there may be an opening for an undertaking of Seton, late the pioneer of Hudson's Burpse
the limit prescribed in para, 6, by reducing Station, the water for the lower sone will be this kind, which could, bower, be most easily Party, thanked the audience on behalf of the
valves.EPALA
carried for a short distance, eastward, along conducted by private enterprise. lady members in a few graceful words, express-
Bonbara Road, then, northward," along the 43". I have now described the system, for the ing their warm appreciation of the unvarying
**** Mir, Leigh har nesiitated the possible future coupon of Victoria, as devised by Mr. Cooper, and modified distribution of water, through the streets In courtesy, and kindness that had been extended
the Peak District at 48,000 guiças a dy, to them during their stay in Hongkong.
“↑ 111j6s0 gallons a day,
myself, with his assistance and concurrence,
THE Irish mile is 2,240 yards.. The Swist mile is 9.15 yards. The Italian mile is 1,766 yards.
The Scotch mile is 1,924 yards. The Tuscan-mile is 1.808 yards. The German mile is B,1c6 yards. The Arabian mile is 2.143 yards. The Turkish mile is 1,826 yards, The Flemish mile is 6,869 yardı. The Vienna post mila is 8,:96 yards.. The Roman mile is 1,628 or 2,025 yards. The Werst mile is 1.167 or 1,337 yasda. The Datch and Prussian mile is 6,4'0 yards. The Swedish and Danish mile is 7.341.5 yards The English and American mile la 1,760, yards,
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AN EXPERIMENT
His Excellency, referring to a vote of $33060 being expenses incurred, in carrying out in ex- pariment as to the possibility of successfully and economically cultivading in, the Colony bovine, vaccine-lymph, said that although it. The second or Caine Road zone le supplied, was merely an experiment, the observations principally from Tytam, under the unredaced made in connection with, it would justify the pressure due to the elevation of the reservoir on outlay. ⠀⠀ The maller was an Important one, and Bowen Road. In the eastern part, the supply