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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1927.
AQUARIUM FOR COLOMBO,
SOCONY MANAGER
'GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
TO REPORT. ·
Government has decided to ap point a Committee to report on the desirability of having an aquarium in Colombo, The Committee is also expected to go into the details
of the scheme and submit estimates to Government...
Government is in favour of the establishment of an aquarium, and there is little doubt that one will bo established in the very near future.
ASSAULTED.
HOUSEBOAT LOOTED ON POYANG LAKE..
...
An extremely unpleasant inci- dent has just occurred on the Po- yang. Lake, where Mr. Mead, the local manager of the Standard Oil] Co., was attacked by bandits, says a Kluklang message of the 21st Instant.
He was on has way to Jaochow in a house-boat towed by a small motor bont. After leaving Chu- paoshan five small native junks, ench carrying some ten men armed with pistols, suddenly approach- to cost about Rs. 150,000, althoughed and opened fire on the crew the complete scheme will involve of the motor boat. a further expenditure of another lakh of rupees,
The initial scheme is estimated
The proposal for the establish ment of an aquarium was made to Government by Dr. J. Pearson, the Director of the Colombo Museum, as far back as 1911, and his efforts in this direction have largely been responsible for the definite stop which Government proposes take in this matter.
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The engineer was shot through was hit. The bandits then came the leg, but mercifully no one else alongside, and boarded the houss boat. They seized the native boy and inspector and bound them and then they proceeded to beat Mr. Mead with bansboo poles, the while demanding to know where he had hidden his money.
They were told there was no Very Useful Purpose. money on board, at which they' Dr. Pearson, interviewed on thised and looted the two craft were very indignant and search- subject, stated that in his opinion, the aquarium should be thoroughly. They got away with situated within
a few dollars, some clothing and the Municipal limita, in a place casily accessible the foreigner's wrist watch and to the public and the passengers all his food. They then smashed passing through Colombo.
the motor-boat's engine and throw it overboard.
The aquarium will, it is expect ed, apart from serving a very useful purpose from the education- al and aesthetic point of view, be a source of revenue to Government. A fee of about Re, 1 ds to be charged from passengers, and a lesser fee from those resident in launch happened to pass and Some hours after A native Ceylon. On one day in the week. admission will be free to enable to tow the derelict houseboat and agreed for large consideration poor people to visit the aquarium.
country people and were obviously The bandits looked. like ordinary
local Chinese believe the victims new at the game, otherwise all would have been carried off for:
ransom.
Kiukiang,
A marine laboratory is to bets outraged occupants back tu attached to facilitate scientific research work.
The aquarium will very likely be a separate department under an experienced officer.
Speaking of the advantages of An aquarium, Dr. Pearson said. that it would greatly help the Marine Biologist to conduct re- search work.
Much information regarding breeding habits and spawning periods of fishes and oysters can be gathered by means of an aquarium.
The Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers had this in mind when they erected two tanks at Marich chukkadi with a view to following out the life history of the pearl oyster.
250,000 Visitors Annually.
THE OPIUM EVIL IN CHINA.
PETITION FOR SUPPRESSION.
After months of deliberation; the of China has drafted a detailed National Anti-Opium Association petition in regard to the existing opium policy to the Nanking Government and the Central Execu tive of the Kuomintang. A gist of it follows:
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1-The cultivation of the poppy the consumption and sale of, and the traffic in opium and other nar- cotics should be totally prohibited. No compromise in whatever form should be allowed.
It would be comparatively simple to transport living pearl oysters to Colombo and to keep them under opium suppression must be entire
2. Whatever income arises from observation in an aquarium.
Dr. Pearson remarked that therely used for establishing anti-opium would be few places in the world education. No oplum taxes should hospitals and extending anti-opium better suited for an aquarium be collected. than Colombo, standing as it does within easy access of particularly rich marine fauna and in the line of one of the most important trade routes in the world. Nearly 250,- 000 passengers pass through Co- lombo annually.
3-3ince the Opium Suppression Burcat aims not at collecting taxes, it should belong to the Ministry of Home Affairs; it should not be under that of Finance.
4.-Foreign narcotics being more
The type of building required for an aquarium is simple in strucnoxious than opium should be almul- ture and inexpensive, and the up should receive the heaviest penalty, taneously prohibited. Offenders keep is remarkable light,
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ASTOUNDING · "THEFT AT TIENTSIN.
CHINESE RACE CLUE LOSES $14,601.
5.-Officers under the Nationalist Government civil or military who are found to be in any way con- nected with the traite in opium and other narcotics should all receive the death penalty.
It was agreed that the petition embodying these principles and comments on the existing opium prohibition regulations of the Na- An extraordinary occurrence took tionalist Government should be sent place at Tientsin on Sunday, to the meeting of the Central Exe November 13, which has caused the cütive of the Kuomintang 28. soon Chinese Race Club to lose a largens it is in session.end at the same sum of money.
time to all authorities of the Na- tionalist Government.
About 7 o'clock in the evening, after the day's racing, an employee of the Race Club, named Kiang I-min, was sent to the banking house of the Young Brothers Bank ing Corporation, 55 Rue de France, to deposit there a sum of $14,601.. It was out of banking hours but the
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