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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TOTAL
DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928.
ing supplies, In raising this question as to the uses to which Altered water is put, Mr. Braga, we feel sure, would not argue that the dry closet system is to be pro- ferred to water carriage. His chief point, as we understand him,
is that, with supplies-at-present- Inadequate to the needs of our growing population, care should be taken that those supplies should, as far as possible, bo con- served. In our view, the ideal to bę Aimod at is that the water ear- riage system should be extended rather than restricted. This is desirable on grounds of public | health, quite apart from considera- tions of convenience. So long as
the Colony is liable to be faced with periodical shortages of wa-
DAY BY DAY,
LET US GIVE NEW FORCE TO THE OLD LAWS, AND ENDEAVOUR TO RE- STORE THIS NATION TO ITS FUNDA MENTAL AND VITAL LIDERTIES, THE PROPERTY OF OUR GOODS, AND THE FREEDOM OF OUR PERSONS--Edmund Waller.
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The B.I. 8.8. Talamba is due here this afternoon from Singapore.
The 8.8. Norviken was taken in hand for overhaul at Taikoo this: morning.
Yesterday's health return shows two cases of typhoid, one being British and the other Portuguesa.
His Excellency the Governor is to open the Club de Recreio's new Saturday, February 4th, at 8.30 club-house at King's Park on
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CANTON'S BANNED
UNIONS.
NOT TO BE PERMITTED TO
REOPEN
None of the recently proscribed Labour Unions in Canton will be permitted to re-open, according to a decision by the Government at a recent meeting of the Canton Political Council,
The Very Idea!
A young couple that had received many valuable wedding presenta es tablished their home in a suburb, One morning they received in the mail two tickets for a popular show in the city, with a single line- "Guess who sent them."
The pair had much amusement in trying to Identify the donor, but In an cdict to the Chief of the failed in the effort. They duly at- Polico, Mr. Tang Yin-wah, tha tended the show, and had a delight- Council. Instructed him to see ful time. On their return home late that all existing Unions should at night, still trying to guess the be placed under the strict super identity of the unknown host, they. vision of the Ministry of Agricul, found the house stripped of every ture and Labour Affairs. It will, | article of value. moreover, bo à punishable offerice. And on the bare table in the din- to organise a new Union without ing-room was a piece of paper on the consent of the authorities. which was written in the same hand The 5th Branch Union of the as the enclosure with the tickets- Chinese Seamen's Union, in Can- "Now you know?". ton, has been dissolved by order
NO PERIODIC REFILLING ter, however, an olivious duty rests that within the past few days stated that the Union was formed. trampled on but not seriously hurt
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· MARRIAGE..
PEREIRA-ROSARIO. — On 26th
January, 1928, at Rosary „Church. Kowloon, of Roy, eldest son of late Mr. Alfred Pereira and Mr. C. D'Souza, of Singapore, to Mercedes, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. S. Rosario, of 12 Austin Avenue, Kowloon. Shanghai (Singapore and papers please, copy)..
The
Albums of Musical Masterpieces. Hongkong Telegraph.
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S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
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6 A. M.
from February 1st 1928.
our
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928
THE WATER SUPPLY QUESTION.
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The vernacular press reports on the authorities to see that sup-more than one hundred complainte plies are not diverted to non-essen-have reached the police against
the firing of fire-crackers, tial purposes, and, for that rea- aon, permission to draw water from the mains should, for the present, be sparingly given. We certainly do not think it right that large quantities of filtered water should be used for flower gardens and lawns, much as we like
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Kowloon cineman-goers should note that there will be no movie per- formance in the Star Theatre at î.15 this evening, as The Academin de Liceu Central will be giving a con:
cort at that time.
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of the Canton Government. It is A number of children were immediately after the "Red reign when G00 adults and children, pack in Canton, without the consent, ofed into the Mechanics Hall at the Government, and was under Aurora, Toronto, a northern suburb, the management of a small party stampeded after a cry of "fre." of labourers whose sole intention The power had failed and the lights was to secure the monopoly, of word extinguished. Windows were putting members of the Union to smashed that children might be work in the small vessels in passed out quickly and the clothes Canton River.
of many persons were torn before it was known that the cry was &
false alarm.
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All the labourera working in the Chinese oll shops in Canton struck work yesterday at 1 o'clock As a result, the price of coconut oil
A wife complained at Tottenham and wood oil increased by leaps that her husband did not entertain and bounds, according to a tele- her Husband: Why, I introduced gram which a vernacular paper her to our M.P. and people above received this morning.
FALSE PRETENCES ALLEGED.
The Japanese freighter, Mat sumoto Maru, arriving from Europe, states in her Harbour such places well-kept, Office roport, that a casualty oc- and we are also glad that in-curred on board in the Bay of structions have now been given Biscay. No further details are
ascertainable. to discontinue the use of filter-. ed water for washing down A Chinese who was recently ar the decks of river steamers. The rested on a charge of tendering two forged $10 notes, was this morn- Colony will not, of course, bo tu aing discharged by Mr. W. Scho- safe position, so far as its water field at the Kowloon Maglotracy, there being insufficient evidence "upply goes, until steps are taken of guilty knowledge. Mr. P. M. to increase the supplies available Hodgson appeared for the defence. for the island. This is the urgent. Most of the river services were need of the moment, and, the pro-resumed yesterday, with alternate A reflection of prevailing crime blem should be dealt with from departures. Both the West River conditions in Shanghai was man and Canton services will be at fest in a Police Court case heard that angle without delay. As to full strength, with the exception before Major C. Willson this morn- flushing, it may be that some use of the ss. Yuet On, which went ing, when Ho Tin, 82, a seaman, could be made of our sea-water, for the repair of machinery de-outain $4,000 from a widow named into dock at Kowloon this morning was charged with endeavouring to fects,
oither distinct from or together with any other scheme that may be devised. That point is, at any rate, worthy of serious considera- tion.
British Trade,
The im-
because the South Africans con-
from the Liceu, Central de Macau Thirty-five girls and 76 boys are on a visit Hongkong. They are visiting the University to-day, whilst to-night they give a con- cert at the Star Theatre. To-mor- row they will visit Kowloon Dock und in the afternoon will play the Club de Recreio at tennis.
British..
STORY OF SHANGHAI KIDNAPPINGS.
our class.
East Ham landlady: It is a pity my lodger does not drink; he would not hang about the house so much. He is a teetotaller.
A woman asked Mr. Cairns, ma- gistrate at Woolwich, to read à let-" ter which she said troubled her. | Mr. Cairns, after reading: If this is the only trouble you have in the. world go home and sing the Doxolo- gy.
Barrister at Bow County Court: Did you see the motor-car approach- ing? Man: No, I felt it, that was
sufficient for me.
husband deserted me before, but I Young wife at Willesden: My kind of ran after him and fetched him back.
So Qiu, at Hollywood Road, and also from Chan Lük, a second wo- Judge Sturges, at West London He was alleged to have obtained one boxing match, and never went man, living at Staunton Street, County Court: I have seen only the money on false pretences, by to another because it was so dull.. stating that he was authorised to collect this sum, which was re- A small but alert country lad ape quired for the ransom of threa plied for work in a factory, and was kidnapped rolatives of the twe wo-sent to the manager..... men in Shanghai,'
Replying to the charges, defen- dant said that it was a fact that he was so authorised.
"BEN HUR.”
OPENED.
"What is your name, my lad?" "Scott, sir," replied the boy promptly.
"And your Christian, name?" "Walter, sir," equally promptly.
The boy looked pleased. "A very well-known name, if I may say so," said the manager.
groceries round here for quite two
"Yes, sir, I've been delivering
years now."
Schoolboy howlers:
The Court of Chancery is.so-call- ed because there is no chance of getting your property from it when it has once been looked after by it. Equinoxes are people who live in Greenland.
The diminutive of man is man- kind.
A sheriff is a French cook.. A costume is so-called because it is an expensive dress. "Richard II," is the decomposition The chief feature of the play, of
After three years of severe economic "depression, it seems to This morning's Harbour Office be generally agreed that in 1927, raports gave 14 arrivals and the Great Britain's trade barometer same number of departures, with expected to come down
Certain important witnesses are Considerable light was, at Tacs showed a striking and definite rise. Japanese recording the highest Shanghai to-morrow, and, on the from day's meeting of the Sanitary By no stretch of the imagination number of arrivals and British the application of Detective Sergeant Board; thrown on the matter of could be described as a halycon best of the departures. Tonnage Donovan, defendant was remanded
year, but, particularly towards the was high, but inward cargoes low. for three days in police custody, the extent to which Government-latter half, considerable progress There remained 87 vessels in har- main water is used for sanitary was made, and there are encour-bour at 9 a.m., 31 of these being flushing purposes in Hongkong, that the upward trend is not aging algas, that 1928 will prove The statistics supplied, in answer merely transitional.
The following vessels, are ex- to Mr. J. P. Braga's recent ques-mense success of the Motor Show, pected to be in wireless communi- the highly favourable response to cation with Hongkong to-day:—— tions, showed that out of a total the British Industries Fair to be Haruna Maru, Laisang, West Hen- SPECIAL BOOKING COUNTER of 4,748 lavatories, urinals, etc., held at the White City shortly, shaw, President Wilson, Delta, 1,301 were flushed from the main, the announcement reported only Linan, Gleniffer, Arafura, Sado yesterday that a Birmingham firm Maru, Nanning, Benledi Antenor,
A special booking counter has this sumber being largely in res-had secured a huge South African Hellas, City of Madras, Anhut, been opened for "Ben-Hur" in the pect of Government buildings and contract, not because of the pre-llcllos, Talamba, Annum Maru, lobby of the Queen's Theatre, and of houses on the Peak. In regardsentation of the lowest tender, but Paling Maru, Chenan.
seats can now be reserved there for the entire season. The picture to the latter, the official reply sidered they would be getting Before Major Willson, at the hegins a run of eight days on stated that an independent supply better value for their money by Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Monday. Owing to ite exceptional of the king.
spending a little more, are indien- Chiang Shiu-chu, an interpreter length, there will be only three is impossible, but probably "ime-tions of the revival. Britain's attached to the Central. Police performances daily, starting [prnoticablo" would be a better financial expents, the big bank Station, was charged with steal-promptly at 230, 6.00 and 9.16.
Cinema-goers who intend to word, for, if our memory is not chairmen, at recent meetings have ing a Chinese long coat, sald to at fault, there were until a few trial year, and Mr. A. M. Samuel's sions of a man detained in con-well advised to book their seats all prophesied a favourable indus- have been taken from the posses-ace this famous film would be
years ago some Peak residences optimism at the Woking Chamber nexion with a recent prosecution.early, as there are sure to be re-means of the recording van which
The case was adjourned for acord. which did have their own supply. of Commerce on Wednesday ap-
pears to make It almost unanimous week, It was in 1923, on the advice of a Mr. Samuel declared that indus- Committed appointed to consider trial activity in the Home market
A sale of Government land was the feasibility of extending the while simultaneously the British afternoon, the lot consisting of was greater than ever before, held at the P.W.D. yesterday | water-carriage system, that per-expont industries were mosting New Kowloon Inland Lot 1119, mission began to be granted for with constant success against adjoining Prince Edward Road, foreign rivals. His calculations having an area of 3,380 square the use of Government, water in led him to suppose that from an feat at an annual Crown Rental this district, the rate for excess adverse balance of $12,000,000 in of $16. There was only one bid, consumption being then raised to trading figures for 1926, the at the upset price, and the lot country has recovered to an extent was knocked down to Mesara, Hua one dollar per thousand gallons. which will show a favourable of 12 Gough Street for the sum of The considerable increase in re-balance of about $78,000,000. The $3,380. cent years in the number of water-1927 figures are now officially die-
EXCHANGE RATES.
closed and they reveal a credit flushed lavatories, on tlie Peak is balance of £96,000,000 for overseas due to the facilities thus offered. trade. Eloquent figures Indeed, Without further going into the which need no juggling to satisfy "shareholders." Still greater en- figures laid before Tuesday's meet-couragement is to be derived from Paris ing of the Sanitary Board, except the new Labour Party atmosphere, Brussels to note, in passing, that only ten classes in relation to their employ-Berlin
and the attitude of the working Amsterdam offices appear to be utilising water ers. The tendency is to replace Copeningen
Vienna from the mains, it is apparent that damaging industrial struggles by
co-operation,
Helsingfors big inroads are being made on wield a greater power than ever Bucharest.
The Moderates
Lisbon our supplies for flushing purposes. before, due in some measure to the Bombay The Government spokesman apuntena find themselves, but, we be- New York low financial water in which the Hongkong peared somewhat inclined to mini-lieve, more to a sincere and patrio- Geneva mise this point when he suggested tic desire to pasist in getting the Milan that the mere number of water country out of its difficulties, The Stockholm
settled policy of the T.U.C, is the Oslo. flushed installations in any one achievement of peace in industry.Prague Madrid building is no index to the amount The Labbur Party politically,
Athens of water consumed in that build-with perhaps one eye on the
General Election, la deserting Shanghai ing, but obviously the more such platform propaganda for the de Yokohama installations there are, the greater velopment of practical politics. Bliver (spot) drain there is likely to be on exist. The outlook has never been more Silver (forward)
hopeful for many years past.
A casual question by a woman during the Three Choirs' Festival record of Cesar Franck's symphony. was aufficient to ruin a gramophone
tival music was carried out by The work of reproducing the fea houses daily. Prices of proved so effective with the Oxted admission are as follows:-At nightingales, but, though some good 2.30, $1.50, $1.00, 60 cents and 40 results were obtained, the Cesar cents; at 6 pm and 9.15, $2.00, Franck is lost for ever. All went $1.50, 80 cents and 60 cents, well apparently till the end of the first movement of the symphony, when the music ended in an Im- pressive pause
A NEW COMEDY.
"THE IRRESISTIBLE LOVER”
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At that moment a whisper travoll- ed from the cathedral vin the micro-- phone and broke the silence in the ON SUNDAY.
recording van: "Tell me, my dear, where do you buy your stockinga 75 It was a simple, womanly ques-- Norman Kerry, star of many dramas, will be seen for the first tion, but it had an exasperating time as a full fledged comedian in effect on the men who had spent "The Irresistible Lover," which a days preparing to record the perfor special advertisement in to-day's mance. By an acoustic accident the Issue announces will be the chief woman's voice--probably fraudiblo picture at the Queen's Theatre on
to any one more than a few inches 124 Sunday. Kerry is starred with from the speaker had been picked 84.99 Lola Moran in the picture which up by the sensitive microphoto. 12.084 was directed by William Beaudine.
There remained just a chance that 20.46 The supporting cast embraces the gramophone wax had not res ceived the impression, but the neld 18.20 Gertrude Astor, Myrtle Stedman, .14.57%
51% Lee Moran, Arthur Lake, Phillips baths have shown that the delicate 198
Smalley and a host of others, the words. The music works up apparatus had faithfully reproduced .2.20/04
,700 The Irresistibla Lover" will be to pno overwhelming climax: "Tell 1/8.1/16 acreened for one day only. Ben- me, my dear, where do you buy
.2/04 Hur" starting on Monday.
your stockings 7
London, Jan. 26.
4.67%
26.81
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The work is now known to gramophone officials as "The Stock-
19.16 H.M.S. CUMBERLAND LEAVES. Ing Symphony."
28.70
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5.20732
British Wirelsen,
London, Jan. 26.
Commander G. C. Muirhead- The new cruiser for the China Gould, D.3.C., has been appolated Squadron, H.M.E. Cumberland, the to H. M. B. Hawkins, Ideut. Com- first of the County class left mander R. Loeds to H. M. E. Argus Sheerness for the East to-day Bridge to H. M. 8. Tamar
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