SMALL-POX HOSPITAL.
New Government Site Accepted.
CORRESPONDENCE,
(To the Editor of the ** Hongkong Telegraph."')
The Theatrical Season.
Sir-As one who was privileged to see the Courtneidge-Holloway Company's production of "Abra
"THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH;
INTERPORT CRICKET.
Shanghai Makes a Good
Start.
The Interport cricket match between Shanghai and Hongkong began at Shanghai to-day,
retary of the Hongkong Cricker Mr. L S. Greenhill, Hon. Seo- Club, courteously informs us that to the effect that Shanghai batted first, on a "plumb" wicket. They made 167 for the loss of two wickets, the scorers being Qller. dessen, 96: Claxton, 29; Barrett, not out 26; and Muriel not out 7.
A ̈meeting of the directors of the Tang Wah Hospital was held yester day afternoon, to discuss the desir ability of a site at Aberdeen for a now small-pox hospital, to be built as a substitute for the existing ham Lincoln "on the occasian of he has received news by telegram ons at Kennedy Town, which has their last visit to the Colony, been found to be unit for such permit me to say that I am use by reason of its proximity to astonished to note that they do residential quarters. The present pot purpose staging it again hospital is run in conjunction with during their return season bere. the Tung Wah Hospital.
Personally, I would willingly go The meeting was presided over everyone in the Colony should to see it again, and I think that by Mr. Wong Ping-un
witness this excellent play. Apart from the play itself, which give us a remarkable study of a remarkable man, the words of the Prologue by John Drinkwater are alone worth paying to bear.
The Chairman said the conditions which permitted the building of the small-por hospital at Kennedy Town many years ago had changed, and the recent developments in the neighbourhood, combined with the steadily increasing population at Kennedy Towa, had compelled the
Directors to abandon the use of the
present structure and to build
I really cannot understand why the Campany should omit from its present programme what is
home side has made a splendid It will thus be seen that the
start.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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undoubtedly, to my mind, the Snest play in their repertoire. I new one far removed from domestic day that "Abraham Lincoln" was to the nature of ita one-time goticed from your paper the other North Sea by the Grimsby trawler Savaria may raise controversy as bousca Sanitary requirements de played no fawer than five times in manded the smallpox hospital to Shanghai. be at least four hundred yards only seen it oner. Is not Mr.logists believe that there was Yet Hongkong has owner, there is little mystery as to where it came from. Geo LWAY on all sides from human Holloway misjudging us, or does habitations. The small-por hospital ha think that anything is good Englardand for foreigners would also have enough for Hongkong?
be similarly abandoned, he said.
As
# result of representations made by Mr. Lo Chung-kue las year, when he" was Chairman
D.
the Tung Wah Hospital, the Secre tary for Chinese Affairs suggesteu |
a piece of land not far from the
dead arc
Yee Chong fa building where
Yours etc-
DRAMA Hongkong, May 16th., 1993.
An Enquiry.
occe a lard conrection between the Continent.
and a well-markel portion of an old channel has been located about 15 miles out from Grimsby, roughly 23 miles long by two miles wide, which was probably once a portion of the bed of the River Rhine. From this channel, known as the "Silver Pits, many interesting fossil remains of
Chinese
Sir-In 1846, Dr. B. J. Bettle-prehistoric animals have bren temporarily heim, a Hungarian Jew, went to brought to light by the traw! housed pending interment) as a site the Loochoo Islands as
a mis- Dets.
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for the new hospital Some Eurosionary for the Loochoo Naval peans, on the other hand, con- Mission. After about six years. Selling books in Britain is still! sidered a small island R better of labour be left and went to one of the dignified professions, sits from the viewpoint of isolation. Parts unknown. He married sajand though we have our progres
"Land Buyers' Objections.
English lady by whom they had sive publishers, they never catch Chinese being extremely averse of Padua University, and no like this American publisher who, two daughters. He was an M.D. hold of us and yell in our ears to isolating smallpox patients or mean scholar of the Chinese and of a new. series of stories, says: an island, preference was given to other languages. His translations
"Thrills every page. the site near the Fee Chong, and of the Gospels of
Every St. Luke one a riper orter! Exciting? You'll accordingly the Secretary for and St. John and the Book of say so. You whirl along breath. Chineso Affairs (the Hon. Mr. E. Romans in Hongkong about 1854-lessly from climax to climax.
Hallifax) was requested by the Directors to obtain it Since last
56 indicate his ability.
Smashing, urexpected endings
I will take it as a great favour make you gasp. Just like being year many Chinese had bought land any reader of your paper will a cowboy, a dare-ievil adventurer close to the proposed site, for the form me at the address given yourself. Live the life of the big.
below or coustraction of domestic houses. Islands, about the movements of fascicating, gripping stories will at Naba, Lorchoo pen Western world. These and the plans of the Directors hans Dr. Bettlebeim after he left Loo- pick you up, and whirl you bodily therefore been upset. The land choo about 1854. Further, if into the gun-toting life of the owners, the Chairman understood, anyone can advise me bow to get West. Every one of these books were raising objections. The Goscopies of the translations referred will make you hold on to your ernment had thas been forced, toto in the above. They are in the
1585 now
simple Japanese katakans type.
Yours etc.
(REV.) E. R. BITLL. Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan,
allot another site and offering one on a hill at Aberdeen. "If accepted, the Government would build a motor road to make thi place casily accessible. Situated May 6th. amid ideal surroundings
and
lavoured with Pangeni (a desiratum
in the general lay-out of building
ROSENSTOCK'S
"lands), the site was a most desirable DIRECTORY OF CHINA.
UAB.
The Chairman thought the|
site might be accepted and he put
the matter before the meeting.
Mr. Li Po-kwai asked if the place f was accessible by land us well
by sca
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In the churchyard of Grim-¡¡ENGLISH MADE mingham, in Norfolk, there is a remarkable monumental inscrip.
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tion to commemorate the deaths rev of Thomas Jackson, on March Drea
17,1798. It reads: "Sacred to the memory of Thomas Jackson. Comedian, who was engaged. 21st of December, 1741, to play & comic characters in this great theatre- the World-for many of which he
cast of
bis
We have received from the was prompted by nature to excel The Chairman replied that at publishers the 1923 edition of The season being ended, present it was rather difficult Rosenstock's Gazette and Cum benefit over, the charges all paid approach by land, but if the Hosmercial Directory of China.
pital approved of the site the Gov-is "ernment would build a motor road.
Water Supply.
It and bis account closed, he made the twenty-first year issue
of his exit in the tragedy of Death, of this well-known
on the 27th of March. 1798, in full reference work, which will be assurance of being called once Mr. Lo Chung-kue endorsed the
welcomed by the business com- more to rehersal; where he Chairman's remarks as to the suit territory covered by the publica- cleared, bis cast of parts bettered, munity throughout the wide
hopes to find his forfeits all ability of the site at Aberdeen, and tion. The information contained and bis situation made agreeable urged that a decision, in favour or in the directory has been brought by him who paid up the great otherwise, be reached at once, owing thoroughly up to date. to the impending removal of the
stack-debt, for the love he bare present hospital.
to performers in general."
Proposed by Mr. Li Yaurhuen and accorded by Mr. Li Fu-kwai, it was decided to accept the site at Aberdeen
Mr. Lo Chung-kur suggested that the Government be requested
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The directory is a valuable refer- ence book on matters commercial, industrial, and residential, and contains, besides the alphabetical departments, and personnel, etc, liste of firms. Government
a classified business directory of Hongkong, Sbangbai, Hankow The value of a bat, a shirt, sod tu and
Tientsin. There is also pair of socks, added together, consider the provision of an ade a commercial gazetteer of give the value of a pair of shoes, quate water supply to the new China, and an abridged his-$6.75. If the price of the hat, the hospital, and also to cut down all tory of the country and shirt, and the socks are multipli trees before handing over the site. general trade report, with a desed together, the result is again cription and trade report of each the value of the shoes. The hat city. Besides the bigger porta and the shirt are both worth the cities already mentioned, same. What is the price of the
directories of the various articles? smaller coast ports and of Peking, Yesterday's answer: The meeting appointed the Chair Canton, and Macao.. man and Mr. Lo Chung-kue to The volume may be obtained. report to the Secretary for Chinese from the publishers, at 22, Nank Affairs their decision.
ing Road, Shanghai, or from their Discussion then started as to the gents in the principal cities, at area required for the building and
$9 50 per copy. also the dimensions of the nex hospital.
The Chairman said that the Secretary for Chinese Affairs had!
and informally promised to look into the there are question of water.
TOO TRUTHFUL.
It was decided that the Govern He was doomed to failure all ment be asked to grant a site sufftoo religiously, or said the wrong bis life. He either told the truth; ciently large to allow for future thing. It began when he got bis extension of the proposed hospital first job as office boy. He hadn't.
been there long when his employer. The coarse from 1 to 12, follow- looked up frorn an importacting the lines in the diagram, and letter, and said irritably, "Don't touching every circle once only, whistle at your work, boy!" "is as follows: 1 to 7, to 9, to 2, to sin't working, sir," he replied; 8, to 10, to 3, to 5, to 11, to 4, to 6,
to 12.
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