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THE WATER RETURN.
CONSTANT SUPPLY DURING
MONTH.
The water return for the month of June issued by the Public Works Department shows that the storage during the month was over 1,172 million gallons in the city and hill districts as compared with 1,746 million gallons during the same month last year.
JAPANESE WRITING,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH,
THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE.
Although Japanese and Chinesa are very different as spoken languages, it is probably not generally known, except to the student of languages, that their written characters are almost identical.
sounds in common usage.
There
CHINESE CHAMBER.
SUNDRY MATTERS OF INTEREST.
of Commerce General Committee The Chinese General Chamber met in regular session on Thursday afternoon with Mr. Li Yau-tsun, Charritan of the Chamber, pre- Japan is anid to have "borrow.slding, Mr. Ip Lan-chan, General cd" the Chinese characters a great mitted various correspondence.
Secretary of the Chamber, sub. The total consumption for the month was over 266 million gal-them to her own use. In addition many years ago and appropriatod lons, compared with 255 million gallons last year. There was, she has an alphabet of her own constant supply in all rider main consisting of about 48 letters of districts during the month.
At the end of the month the area fow more not commonly water in the Tytam Byowash stood used. Theses are easy to pro- at 42 fent below overflow, while nounce if one has a knowledge of last year it was lovel with it. In Italian syllables, as there is great the Tytam Intermediate it was 26 similarity between them. All the feet below overflow as compared vowels are combined with the with 2 feet below last year. In the sounds. corresponding to most of Tytam Tuk it was level this year the consonants in the English and last year also. In the Wong alphabet. There is no "i" in the neicheang reservoir it was 274 feet below as compared with 10% language, therefore the Japanese last year, and in Pokfulam 19 feet below as compared with 24
feet last year.
it very difficult to pronounce a foreign nante with that sound. They give it rather the pronunein- tion of ".""
In Kowloon the total storage du. ring the month was over 386 mil- This alphabet of Japan is called lion gallons, as against $20 mil the kand. There are two kunus, lion gallons last year. The con-one corresponding to the English sumption during the month was print called katakana and one to 72 million gallons for an estimated the script called hirokana. (The population of 116,629, given a is always broad and the "" daily consumption per head of 15.4 gallons. The figures for last year were the same
Consumption in the city and hill gallons for an estimated popula- districts for June was 266 million
tion of 401,460 giving an average consumption of 21.2 gallons per heathy per day. The rainfall for the month was 36.99 inches, as compared with 46.87 last year.
THE NIGHT STAR.
NEW FERRY ALMOST READY
FOR SERVICE.
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like the Italian, which is really the sound of ""). Whenever foreign names are written in Japanese they are put into, the katakana, But not so great a proportion of which almost everyone can read,
Japan rends the Chinese
characters,
Three Thousand Ideographs. Those who study Japanese tell
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1926.
RICH WIDOW'S MILLION.
LAW AT LAST WAKES UP.
Berlin-A matrimonial, adver-
murders, and a ten-years-long tisement, a series of mysterious, "vendetta" of a merchant against his brother-in-law are the "chup ter hondings" of an amazing story which comes from Dresden, the Saxon capital.
In 1912 Herr Trips, a well-known Dresden furniture manufacturer, died and left his widow a fortune of a million marks (any £50,000).
Widow's Lure.
Police searchers on duty at the wharves have been careless with vegetable and fruit aboard in- coming vessels, almost amounting Three years later Frau Anna, to wilful destruction, according Trips read the following adver to allegations made by the Veget-tisement in a Dresden newspaper: able and Fruit Guild of Hongkong, in a request to the Chamber for representation to the proper au- thorities, The decided to take up the matter on Chamber has behalf of the Guild.
Chinese residents on the Kowloon
side asked the Chamber to take up with the China Light and Fower Company the question of the new requirements by the Company by which consumers are required to make, a deposit and an advance payment on light bills before service is given.
It was pointed out that small families and shops, are finding this new requirement a hardship.
Gentleman, In Government service, with high title, wishes marriage with Indy of fortune, She sent a reply, and eventually she met the advertiser, an old and ugly little man, with a book now and white hair.
He gave his name as Dr. Robert. Justus Boelime, and he said he was a highly-placed army doctor.
Frau Trips would have nothing to do with him; but one day hé came to her house with a large wreath and persuaded her to ga with him to the grave of her bus band.
There he was so eloquent that she accepted his proposal of mar- ringe.
After Re-Marriage. '.
Two days later, their wedding
"You must now have no more to took place. As soon as they were
married, Dr. Boehme said to her.
do with your friends and re-
Invitations have been received
asking for representation at the from the United States and Japan
Fairs at Philadephia and Osaka respectively," but no action by thelatives." Chamber as a whole has been And certainly, they heard no taken on these matters. Individual more of her for a long while. merchants desiring to enter ex- Then, lato in September, 1916,
Chamber
Landreck, a prominent merchant
of Dresden) learned that his sis
is that a knowledge of 3,000hibits may receive further in-Frau Bochme's brother. (Herr Chinese characters is necessary formation from the before one can read intelligently any book he happens to pick up.
Secretariat. It is better to know 5,000 of them, It takes years to be able to learn them thoroughly. ;
One first begins the study of the Japanese alphabet. All the During next week the present primers and first readers in the fleet of ferry boats should be schools are printed in kana. Then ugmented by the addition of the gradually Chinose characters, are Night Star. which has been som introduced into the lessons, the pleted by the Kowloon Dock Com-characters for numbera first.
The Chinese Druggists Guild of Hongkong was admitted to mem- borship of the Chamber.
THE LATEST COCKTAILS.
NEW ONES INCLUDE
"MONKEY GLAND."
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or had had an accident in the hunting field.
He immediately went to Gross Rockrendorf, where the couple lived.
He was met at the door of the house by Dr. Roehne, who refused him admission, but Landrock brushed past him and entered a room where the family lawyer way reading out the official report of Frau Boehme's death.
"I do not believe It was an ae: cident cried Herr Landrock, the house by the back door. whereupon he was thrown out of
pany and was delivered to the Star There is an advantage in the Ferry Company yosterday, when it characters, as each expresses a was seen steaming 'nbout the 'har-whole idea, whereas spelling out) bour prior to berthing in the ferry words with the kana occupies "anchorage."
more space of the page. How-
The American ingenuity which Identical in appearance and ever, almost all newspapers in contributed cocktail after cocktail dimensions to the Solar Star, this Japan have a few columns printed to the gaiety of nations, still flour-the courtyard he had the hideous latest addition is the last of a fleat in kana so that those not familiarishes behind alien bars where experience of seeing part of his { of four ferries constructed to the with the Chinese may rend the a man can quench a thirst like a sister's body, sticking out of the
order of the Star Ferry Company by the Kowloon Dock.
The first two were completed sometime ago, and have been a much needed convenience to the
FRENCH FINANCES.
UNCERTAIN SITUATION.
re-
important news items.
gentleman.
cocktail-mixers, who left the home- Not the least inventive of the
hand, is Harry Craddock, now the mating season of gin and ver- domiciled along the Strand, where mouth is in full swing.
tourista,
As he was being hustled across
coal-shed.
His inquiries brought extraor dinary things to light. He de clares that Dr., Boehme poisoned his first wife and did to death the child of his second marriage.
Landrock says Bochme marrie Frau Trips so as to obtain money of 70,000 marks which he had to pay his daughter her heritag
squandered, and or the 'very day obtained the last portion of that (so Landrock allcges) on which he amount he killed his third wite (Landrock's sister).
if one learns Japanese he cant read the newspapers in China, pro- Year by year the cocktail-mixers
Law's Delays. vided he has learned the charae- who used to shake 'em up along
Then Herr Landrock began his ters, but he cannot make himself Broadway in the cool of the even-long campaign to bring Dr. Boch- understood in China. For the ing are. still thinking up new ones me to justice for what he' (Land- travelling public of Kowloon.. character, although meaning in the various parts of the world rock) believed to be murder.
About three weeks ago the Solar exactly the same in either country, to which they fled before the purch-
It has lasted nearly ten years Star was completed, and after has a very different pronunciation, ing winds of prohibition. The surely an unparalleled example successful trials she was also one may enter a shop in either grand tourist army of the Republic the law's delays. placed on service, but owing to an
land and know from price tags will discover this summer that there accident which necessitated
the cost of an article. But having are six different cocktails these paire, she has been absent from studied counting the Japan he can days to every one known in 1918. the run for over a week, and was Chinese merchant, and vice versa hold no conversation with. the replaced on Wednesday for the first time since her collision with.
Romaji Society And Typewriting. the Pinya wall.
There is to-day a large group of Japanese business men and others in Japan who advocate the use of the Romaji, as they call the Roman letters, in the written Japanese! Prompted, perhaps, by one of language. They call themselves these high-powered press agents, the Romaji Society. Every word which Europe is learning to use in in Japanese can be written in the attracting American letters of the English alphabet. Harry sat himself down the other
Story of the Chase. Paris, July 9,
Those commercial houses which day to write a few letters, to the obtained, the final instalment o On the day when Boehme had The Treasury's plight is indicat-now make use of the typewriter boys back home, telling them of his the 70,000 marks the couple went ed in the weekly return of the aro already doing that very thing. progress in inventing cocktails. Bank of France, shewing that When writing longhand a brush
out shooting together.. nearly a thousand million franes and India ink are required if one man House on Broadway, I tended tree root, and that his gun went
"Why, when I was at the Hoff- alleged that he tripped over worth of new banknotes have been follows custom, but with a pen, or printed, while the Treasury funds pencil one can write the Japanese the thirst with a choice of about off and killed his wife. to, meet all demands amount
for "two cents" as "ni sen" in the forty different cocktails," his letters Landrock lala the information only three hundred million.
Roman letters, taking no more said. "Forty, gentlemen. If you before a court-martial after long time than to crawl it off in Chinese cothe and look me up to-day at the delaya: but when the case appear. The Treasury has to meet the characters with the brush. Many it the regular advertisingad to be going against the accus heaviest obligations at home and Japanese dictionaries are publish- rates, Mr. Craddock, we will inserted, Dr. Boehme retired into civil abroad, and has to pay debts ed in Romaji, the equivalents in the name of the hotel....in Lon-life; so that the military proceed- which cannot be postponed. It possesses barely enough money to lowing each word in lighter type.
kana and Chinese Ideographs foi-don) I can give you a choice of two inge stopped automatically
hundred and eighty (280) different last for a week, thus a new
Then the long-drawn-out civil measure of inflation is regarded na study of the language" will be been wasting our time..
If Japan adopts Romaji, the cocktaila, which shows we have not proceedings began. On one pre- inevitable.
text or another they were con- Renewed heavy selling yester-enving of time spent in learning though he has
greatly simplified, and the "The
atatantly adjourned. American bartender, day created a new low record in the characters will be tremendous through force of circumstances Boehnle has bedo arrested, and Now, after ten years, the police francs, 103, closing at 1923, to the average man or woman who from his spiritual home, still car full judicial inquiry is opened. been expelled have taken definite action. Dr. while Belgian francs touched 209 does not care to delve into the ries on bravely. He is still proud and closed at 207%, to the pound intricacies of classical Chinese of his profession and is still waving sterling.
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the silver shaker, and is ready to
The Zurich, court awarded come back when ever he is wanted.£4,240 damages to a wealthy tradesman for injuries received
Critical Debate.
- Later.
to
...
Boehme
The fate of the now Govern- Paris, May 26.A small paint- And just to show that he hasn't during radium treatment. A doc ment is in the balance, and it was ing by Manet, & "Punchinello." been wasting his time, Harry sends tor whom he consulted. declared agreed that to-day's debate would twenty inches high and twelve along his spring list of cocktails, that he was suffering from can- be decisive. The opinion is that and one-half inches wide, has coolers daisies, fizzes, flips, high-cer of the tongue; and sent alma the Socialist plan of a capital levy brought 420,000 francs at a sale
balls, rickeys, smaslice, soura,to a radium specialist for treat- has ceased to count, after Mat the Hotel Drouot. In addition. There are almost 200 In the list, burned that he was unable to Liqueurs cordials and, frappes. ment. His mouth was a badly Calllaux in a speech estimated of nearly 20 per cent, which will and Harry says he has 100 more speak or cat, and the doctor was
the buyer will have to pay taxes: that the Government can rely on bring the cost to more than 500,000 up his sleeve that had to be omitted obliged to amputate the lower 280 votes, but the dubious factor franes, or about $17,000. It is for lack of space, perhaps, or in portion of the jaw in order to is the attitude of the moderates under M. Marin, who have not man. The little picture was
said the purchaser is a French-pure tonder licartedness
preserve the man's life. tradesman brought an action
Tho
yet participated in the debato. shown in the 1874 salon and was All the oldtimers are listed, and against both the specialist and In the meantime, francs in Lon-bought by the celebrated singer, new ones, such as Brain the doctor for neglectful tront- don this morning were rather bot-Jean Baptissto Faure. It was Storm, Sido Car and even Monkey ment. The doctor was acquitted, tor, at 187.37, Belgiana being sold in 1878 for 2000 gold francs, Gland. Perhaps this summer the but the specialist was ordered to 199.26-Reuter.
För about $400, S
Hotsy-Totay will be added.
poy damages and costs.
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