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FRIDAY
NOVEMBER
DAY BY DAY.
1926.
HE GAINS WISDOM IN A HAPPY WAY WHO GAINS IT BY ANOTHER'S EXPERIENCE Plautue
Yesterday's health return show two Chinese cases of typhold fever.
The Wanhsten Fund in Shang hai hat up to October 29th tetal- led £254 38., Tls. 7,200 and $7,545.
H. M. S. Dartmouth sailed for Home early yesterday morning with relieved ratings from vessels of the China Squadron:
POPPY DAY.
STREET SALE-NEXT THURSDAY,
The Poppy Day Sub-Committee have arranged for the usual sale of poppica on the 11th inst. and
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
MANCHESTER TO HONOUR VISITORS.
Rugby Nov, The Dominion Premiers will de
Mrs. D. G. R. Black has again con- part for Manchester to-morrow. sented to take charge of the ladies where they are to receive the Free- selling same in Hongkong, whilst dom of the City but, before leaving Mrs. Eastorbrook has kindly London, they will attend a short agreed to continue her good work meeting of the Imperial Confer- In Kowloon in this respect. It is ence to receive several reports hoped that the ladies who have which have been prepared by sec signified their willing sa to soll tions of the Economia Committee Doppies will draw their supplies as of the Conference. These include early as possible. Members of the recommendations bearing on in- The sple of Liu Shing Cheung Committee will be at the City Hall dustrial standards, cold storage advertised to take place at Mesars. on Tuesday and Wednesday mor and the compilation of wool statis- Lammerts auction rooms yesterdaynings, the 9th and 10th inst, re-ties and of Empire statistics gen- spectively, between the hours of erally. It is possible that other afternoon, was postponed.
11.80 and 12.80, and on the evening reports will also be in the hands of Tuesday between 5. and 6.80, of the Conference to-morrow, and for the purpose of handing out they will represent first the results supplies of hoppies and collection of detailed examination of some of the economic problems before the boxed
A Chinese boy jumped off a moving motor bus at Kowicen on Wednesday, and received injuries from which he died soon after admission to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
YOU The statement that the new scheme MUST would not cost more than the pipe fine across the harbour, does not OWN IT
dispose of the point, for had it not been intended to supply Hongkong as well as Kowloon from the Shing Mun scheme, a far less costly undertaking for Kowloon alone could have been planned. The point cannot be too strongly stress- ed that the Shing Mun scheme was originally devised for the purpose, not of supplying Kowloon along with water, but to place the supplies of the whole Colony on a satisfac tory basis. One of the most im portant aspects of the scheme was the plan by which large quantities of the water wers, to be brought across the harbour and stored in re- servoirs on the island, thus greatly supplementing the existing supplies. The portion of the scheme which It is now aimed to complete will, we believe, produce a yield of some-
A wireless message from the s.8 thing like eleven million gallons a City of Cairo state that owing to day, which is far more than Kow-strong monsoon she will arrive Hongkong on Saturday daylight, loon or the adjacent "districts can 6th inst, instead of this morning possibly need for many years to As previously advised. come. The conclusion, therefore, is that the Shing Mun scheme ought never to have been embarked upon unless it were intended to give Hongkong island some of the bene- fits accruing from the tremendous' expenditure involved. Some idea of that cast may be gained from the fact that up to the end of this year the estimated expenditure on the scheme is well over two million dollars, whilst it is considered that by 1928 a sum approaching three Pride of place in the subjects and a half million dollars will have dealt with during the debate on the been absorbed. To spend that "Budget yesterday must be given to, amount of money merely to increase the water supply question. We say Kowloon's supply would," in our this because few things are more opinion, be wicked waste of public essential to any community than an funds. It must be remembered adequate and dependable supply of this connection that, in the past, water, and we fear that the pre-Kowloon has not suffered to nearly
Demonstration without obligation.
Mustard & Co., Ltd.
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The Telegraph.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1926.
OUR WATER SUPPLY.
Shareholders are reminded that'
the Hongkong Realty and Trust Company's annual meeting will take place at Exchange Building to-morrow. (Saturday) at 11.30
a.m,
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A collision occurred in the city yesterday between a taxi and a car driven by Chinese. As a result, a pedestrian was knocked down and was taken to hospital suffering, from severe injuries.
Mr TA. Gordon Leask (Tel, delegates. Central No. 681) ds the Secretary To-day was again entirely devot of the Sub-Committee and he willed to work in committed. Two be pleased to receive contribu- meetings of the Inter-Imperial Re- tions to the Poppy Day Fund. He lations Committee, were held and will also be very glad to give any at the Economic Committes the information he can regarding work of the Imperial Shipping same. Secretaries of Clubs would Committee, which was set up by be performing a public service if the 1925 Conference, was investi- they notified Mr. Leask of any gated with a view to determining arrangements they are making to what is to be its future. The also met and considered by units collect money for the Foppy Day Overseas Settlement Committed One thousand poppies have been such matters as land settlement, despatched to Chefoo and 500 to the cost of passage, opportunities Capton, and the result of their for women workers, and other sale will be made known in due questions affecting the settlement of British people in Australia, The total amount remitted Home New Zealand and Canada, with a last year was £1,324. 98. lid, and view to extending and improving, it is hoped that the support of the if possible, the schemes now in public, will, despite bad times, operation. British Wireless. onable a much larger aum to be
Fund.
course.
kindly.consented to; devote the col- Messrs. Melchers and Co. an- Bent Home this year.
The Roman Catholic churches lections taken by them on Sunday nounce that Mr. Stevan Reimers to sign for the frm, and that a having left the Colony has ceased throughout the Colony have very to the Poppy Day Fund. partner of the firm, Mr. Carl Meir chers, has taken over the manage- ment.
The Very Idea!
Not everybody knows, was to thing to do, just keep on fighting
a former Duke of Richmond that is due the prosent manner of wear
and fight your way through. Schoolboy howler
According to the annual report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, for 1925, arms smug- gling remained rife during the first half of the year, the chief sources Seing Germany and Belgium; but sent attitude of the Government on the same extent from water short-arms were shipped at other Cox- and Marseilles. British ships this matter is not wholly satisfar-age as Hongkong, has. Making tinental ports such as Rotterdam tory. When the Shing Man Valley every allowance for future needs, touching at Continental ports were
it is clear that a scheme applicable extensively used...
Lot's wife, for her curiosity, waH. It is stated that the Canton Go-zeceived the Order when he was only to Kowloon could have been a man o fog the Gryter ribbon. This duke
verament is in receipt of a reply only 9 years old, in the reign of turned into a pillow of salt by from Mr. Wong Ching-wal to the Charles II, and one day the lat day, and a pillow of light by night. invitation to resume his official ter saw the child wearing the rib Magna Charta provided that mo operation has proved successful, was possibly a childish prank so the same offence."
Sir Walter Raleigh was the first duties, as follows "The surgical bon over his left shoulder. What freeman could be hanged twice for an early recovery is expected. impressed the King that he said Will return as soon as medical ad- the Order was always to be worn to see the Invisible Armada. not to come, to avoid the futility vice permits. Inform deputation in that manner in futura.
"of its mission."
devised at a tithe of the cost of the project now in hand: As Sir Shou- son Chow so well put it, true economy does not consist in the postponement (or, we might add, the curtailing) of essential publie works, but in the prudent use of
of bringing the water across the rive from that fact is harbour was to be entered upon, this particular stage of advance ment has been held up. The posi-
tion at the moment would seem to
be that an alternative plan for pro- viding Hongkong island with water is under consideration, and.there is a distinct fear that the Shing Mun scheme as originally projected will not come to fruition..
acheme was decided "upon, it was accepted by the public, despite the huge cost involved, to represent the considered view of the Government as being the best possible solution of one of our biggest problems. Assurances were given, and accept
A number of recruits were prae- ed, that when this great project
ticing, the art of taking cover. was finally completed, the Colony
To thousands of men in Man- The officer in charge turned to one need not fear any shortage for very money,
hattan such matters as hair, com of his rawest men. "Get down many years to come. In due Judging from Hist Excellency'a'
Mee Cheung, "the well-known. course, the scheme was begun and remifrks, the question of proceeding photographers, have shown complexion, dress and manicare are behind that hillock," he ordered,
of women who keep the cash re- sound!" excellent progress has been made with the whole of the Shing Mun mendable enterprise in preparing quite as important as to the army "and, mind you, not a move or a with it. But just at the moment scheme has not yet been finally act an excellent series of Christmas gisters of beauty shops busy. A fow minutes later he looked. when it was thought that the task tled. The only comfort we can de- and New Year greeting cards And; strange to say, they are not round to see if all the mon were
that These are very effectively design-
ed and are in the form of actual professional Beau Brummels, but concealed, and to his distress ob dignified men of many professions served something wriggling behind there is still time for a feversion art photographs, showing local chiefly lawyers, doctors, brokers the small mound. Here, yon?" he to the original policy. After the beauty spots, and typical Chinese and the like. The Fifth avenue shouted. "Do you know you have
Fatudies. In all, there are over. amount of thought which was given forty different kinds to choose dandy, with his immaculate grey given our position to the enemy?" to the question before the Shing from. These carda are just the spats, striped afternoon pants, "Yes, sir" replied the recruit,
derby, has already been widely ad- hill Mun scheme was decided upon, and thing to send to friends in the Old trick vest and carefully shaped "but did you know this is an ant
Country.
vertised. The “sugar papa" and the amount of money which has
his little brother, the "afternoon At a Porlock, show they have tea hound," are all accepted models. been giving a prize for the ugliest already been spent, it is surely very
dog. It is a pleasant change from late in the day to take up the whole ing of outcrop coal. And if they of sartorial flash.
If foolishly elected to carry on the Smaller cities are not so well the stereotyped programme; and water supply issue de novo. there is any real reason why the strike in its present incomplete acquainted with these types but in the spirit of innovation might be Whilst we know that there are project cannot go through in its form, it would only mean the drag- Manhattan the number to whom pushed further. It was an idea of ging out of the dispute until the appearance is everything the late Sir Francis Galton's that instead of breeding dogs for speed, other factors accounting for the entirety, it should have been fore- drift back had defonted it There countless.
or the detection of game, or the Government's hesitancy to proceed seen long ago. As we view the was one very significant point of
Melon qands have, akoody, been shape of the nose, we should bread with the whole scheme-factors matter, there is none. We there principle emphasised at Wednes
day's meeting of the Trades Union. which, in our opinion, are given fore appeal to the Government to Congress, which was that if the used 98 dress and has trimminga, them for general eficiency. It undue importance the official ex-follow the policy fold down in 1923, miners accept financial support and now has arrived a frock made would be an interesting occupation planation put forward, restorḍay in the interesta of riding the from the other Unions they must entirely of rice graine Thou for a country philosopher to pick also be prepared to accept sulu sands of grains, dyed brilliant up the everest dogs he could doar was that with the natural develop land at an early date of the tion of the dispute suggested by colours and strung together to f and mate them together, gene ment of the Colony, Kowloon is recurring fears of water shortage the T. U. C. on behalf of those sub-form a fringe, make the unusual ration after generation-breeding disregarding shape, size, and every destined to grow to such an extent and also in order that there be no scribing Untons. That is wholly frock which Miss Eva Moore, as purely for intellectual rower, and other quality." But a race of in accordance with the democratic tress, wears,” ́ ́
Super-Dogs might, in the end, be- that the time will come when the needless wastage of public money idea of "taxation and representa
tion" and it is hardly conceivable.
What is an obstacle? One hard-come dangerous-competitors to a poninsula and mainland districts
that the miners will reject that con- will need all the water that the
The Coal Dispute.
dition. The fidal decision in con-y knows. Something, I guess, race who only derive from mon- Shing Mun scheme can supply.
nection with the future conduct of that continually grows, stopping keys. The answer to this argument is The failure of the miners' leaders the strikers rests, now in the hauds your progress and making you that that day is most assuredly very to carry the proposal for a compul of the Delegate, Conference of the think. Jolting success, sory levy of other Trade Unions in Miners Federation, which it is to you're right on the brink far off. A far more pertinent support of the minora now on strike be hoped will be persuaded to grant Roads that are easy, we all of in the world." point is to be found in the query must spell, for all practical pur- their Executive authority to con- is learn, sometimes grow rough as to what the island is to do in poses, the end of the Federation's clude a settlement on the best terms when we reach the torn. Safing the meantime for its supply. True, ght. Reuter terms the adoption available in each district with safe seems smooth. till we hit the de- After the berat for men comes of a resolution recommending the guarding provisions respecting tour. Then we feel backward, and the Valentino-hat for women! a new and independent supply is worktern of other Unions to make national principles. It may be that not quite so sure.
Working girls, especially, of Lon- mentioned as a solution of the pro-a voluntary contribution of one this Delegate Conference will inslet Maybe you wonder why things don bave been seized by the craze. blem, but that, again, can be coun-peny per dag as "a compromise, on referring the matter to their must turn up. That's just the fate, and shop-keepers are hard put to but that must have been nothing District Councils but even in that that's in everyone's cup. Setbacks keep pace with the demand. Tho tared by the same query, besides more than an attempt to soften the avont it is difficult, at the moment and such are the things we all hat is like the one worn by the which there is the further point blow. The miners' leaders Have of writing, to imagine that the need to bring out the thrill when late star in his Spanish scene in that instead of one expensive lost. They have failed to get an stoppage can continue very much we really succeed. The Four Horsemen of silk, schema which of itself would be bargo, they have felled to get a longer. Of course, in hoping so Wiss is the man who is me'en with a flat crown, wide brim and compulsory levy, and they have much, the fact must never be over licked by strife. Problema and chin strap. We may yet sea young sufflelent for all needs, the Colony failed to stop either the drift back poked that our friends the miners such are a portion of life. When men playing guitars in our
a one suburbs! would have to bear the cost of two, to work of the miners or the work leaders are nothing if not contrary, you are stumped, there
when Henst, night I dreamed I married the most beautiful woman
She-Were we happy?"