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is being shown. One schemo has Beemingly been investigated, but its cost was found to be so alarm ingly large that it was decided to consider other possible solutions before committing the ratepayer to meet service costs on the huge loan that would be necessary for the bigger project. Complaints aro practitioners. now being uttered because there
has been no definite date of promise of an improved supply, in anticipa tion of which work could be carefed on, and it is suggested that the public should be informed of the progress of the problem, na such; a step would help people to accept with better grace the deep call on finances which la expected to result. In the absence of information, it is stated that no development la tak- **ing-place, and there is no guarantee that the existing supply will not, in one of the dry seasons, fall so definitely short of requirements as to constitute a disaster. These words might almost havo beer written of Hongkong.
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The name of Dr. Yang Lin, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Hongkong, has been added to the list of medieni
years.
IN THE BYPATHS OF POETRY. Art the Expression of Beauty.
"If a man has poetry in him he is never twice alike, so who can should paint, for it has all been over finish singing its beauties? janid, written, before, and they
Poetry is not a kaleidoscope with
ministering the Government has This from Gabriel Dante Rossett, just so many designs, just so many
His Excellency the Officer Ad- have acarcely begun to paint it." reappointed Mr. Wong Kwong-tina man akilled both in painting and ways for the little coloured pieces. to. bo a Member of the Sanitary
writing, challenged my attention. of glass to evolve themselves into Because I do not paint and yet various patterns, always to come lourd for a further term of three because I paint with pen instead of back to the first motive, only to re- brush and my spectrum is words peat and repant. The kaleidoscope, inatead of colours, must I then tako at first fascinating, becomes in the Rossetti'a word for it that if I end monotonous, for, after a little, translate the beauty of a frost-the eye is able to note the scope of is to be sold at the P.W.D. offees words I shall only be saying what that there is no variety, Poetry is filled sparkling morning into its possibilities for change and after on the 21st instant. The upset has already been ould? price is $3,290.
as the kaleidoscope would be if it The jewelled pageant winds had no repetition, but went always
New Kowloon Inland Lot 1199, situato at Shamshuipo and having an area of about 2,198 square feet,
For the last quarter of 1928 over distant hills before my on and on with over changing views there were 83 samples analysed eyes, scarlet, crimson, green, and ever new beauties to unfold,
Of the three gifts, music is the under the Sale of Food and Drugs bronze, copper, gold and sil Ordinance. Of these, nil wero ver, too, for on certain au- most elusive, painting the most in- genuine, excepting three of pepper lumn days, especially after a night dividual, and writing the most unf and one of milk.
shower has washed leaf and treo Versal. Music is the most, fluid, the and earth, there is a silver sheen least easily defined, it is a magic wherever the sun glances, and must which flows from the heart of the let this beauty pass for want of and to each it meane just what it artist to the heart of the hearer, brush to paint if? *
awakens in him. The musician
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Choi Chung-loi, shroff and partner of the Hop Hing Loong We will close with a brief re-according to police sport received 19, Chung China Street, who ferénce to the bearing on our own this morning is accused of moods or too fully paint them in any but each hearer will give it a namo
Is it possible to see all of nature's
may name his music what he wishes,
water supply problem of a paper having absconded with $1,790 be- medium? The painter may catch which expresses it to him. Not so
rend recently before the Royal longing to the firm.
the tender greens of May and lay with painting, what the painter. before you the unfolding colour, the conceives the layman must feel in
題 considerable It is noted that the Govern-musician may take its bird notes,
measure. Tho the initiated will understand and know
Society of Arls by Mr. J. W.
Madely. He was dealing with the Indian problem and in the course of his remarks he stressed the im-
ment proposes to erect a public brooks and playing breezes, but to painter paints a tree and the least
whom more truly than to
immediate vicinity of such site If any owner or occupier in the re-objects to such erection, such ob- jection must be sent in writing to the Colonial Secretary to as to reach his office not later than Friday, the 26th inst.
portance of arriving at real quirements and the great economy that might be effected by eliminat DODWELL & Co., Ltd. ing waste rather than by stinting
* BIRTH.
LANDSBERT.-On January 4, 1929, at the French Convent
A. L. Lundaberi, a daughter.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1929
legitimate usc. The last words of his paper are a quotation from an American engineer, who, states "Perhaps the greatest folly of our time is the almost universal attempt
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Like the painter, he lays in his masses and works out his detalls and deals in values and in lights and shadows,
latrine in Dock Lane, Hunghon, writer, belong the perfumes of May, that it is a tree though it is within line, and apple blossom distilled in what that particular trea means.. the scent of syringa, honeysuckle, the realm of the artist to interpret In writing alone, he who runs may day and blended by the breeze?
Or in autumn, a musician would, read. no doubt, catch the rhythm in the air, which just eludes my finger
The expressions of poety in art tips, or a painter might pick up the are not separate entities, but inter- coloura or blend the clear blac dia- related parts of a whole, different It is ubtified that architects', tance, but would either of them members of one body, barristers', dentists' (whether re- more aubtly than I catch the The writer sings his melody and gistered as dental surgeons or lusciousness of autumn fragrance? paints la picture in words; though exempted persons), medical prac-Would they give you the aweetness his most direct appeal is to the in- titioners', pharmaceutical chem-of wild grapes diimbing on stone tellect; he also appeals to the im Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. of cities and towns to increase their practise for 1929, as required by heaped in the orchards? Would painter, or to the emotion as dien Ists', and solicitors' certificates to walls, or pyramida of red apples agination as does his brother the water supply plant to keep pace section 21 of the Stamp Ordin- you aniff the pungence of roadside the musician. with their waste. It is a hopelessance 1921, may be obtained from bonfires? task. It amounts to the same thing the Stamp Office,on payment of
I do not deny that each of the as attempting to fill a pail which the Stamp Duty of $251,
branches of art has its limitations, has only a sieve at the bottom. The
Tho musician with the pigment The health bulletin of Eastern and I am never unconscious of them, of sound paints his picture and tells
my own beloved craft among them, amount of water which can be used ports for the week ended Saturday Often I am seized with the impulse story in unuttered words. The is limited. The amount which can Medical and Sanitary Services, with a single stroke, so laborious episodes while his colours sing in last, issued by the Director of to smear the ink-pot on the page painter plots his story and plans his be wasted has no limit." Mr. contains the following cases, thus the process of putting into any melody, harmony and rhythm of Madely evidently considers the wis-gures in parenthesis indicating form the beauty which stirs the line and colour. The man who first THE WATER PROBLEM. dom of this opinion to be applic-deaths.-Plague, Baghdad 2 (2); heart, and so inadequate are words said, "Architecture 18 frozen Cholera, Negapatam (3), Tuticorin able to Indian cities generally and 39 (18), Bangkok 3 ), Saigon 3 to express that which, to be beauti-mugle," must have seen this vividly. Composition is the one thing ful enough to deserve expression, In the matter of rainfall, 1928 we think it indientes a helpful line (1); Small-pox, Busrah 3 (2), must be beautiful beyond expres which all of these have in common. has to be classed amongst the low-where Hongkong's problem is con- Bombay 3 (1), Negapatam 4.sion. But this does not deter mo It is the beauty of composition upon
Pondicherry (2), Samarinda record years, for the total fall iscerned.
3 from trying to put a molety of it which the loveliness of each is Saigon 2, Shanghai (12), Baghdad on the page.
draped. Composition is the frame revealed to have been only
6 (1).
Yes, each art has, its limitations, which qach has dressed to suit Lis 71.16 huchies. This comparca with
but even the limitations have their fancy, it is the background for Salvation Army's Dilemma. Mr. J. Grimster, a past secretary advantages; for they are like divid- unity of harmony, diversity and 107.87 inches for 1927, and an aver
of the Doekyard Recreation Club, ing Unes which keep the. several grace, extraordinary situation who is leaving for Home to-day on arts in their proper channels and the deeply regretted illness of Devonport Yard, was presented on restraint. created in the Salvation Army by taking up an appointment at muke the channels deeper for the Eneli in the garb of the other is equally lovely. Mako writing elu- year has been an exceptionally, dry General Bramwell Booth is little Wednesday night by his friends Art is our outward expression of sive and individual and you havo ono. This circumstance has neces-understood outside the Army. The and fellow-members with a hand-the inherent, immanent, beauty, and lost nons of its appeal to the in- sitated the taking of drastic pp whole of the work of this admir-preciation at his yeoman services pression to this beauty. The Im-dividuality to music and it still ap position at the moment in that the ome souvenir as a mark of ap-we are constantly trying to give ex-tellect. Give universality and in- cautions to conserve the Island's able organisation is seriously en-to the Club. The function took pulse that stirred prehistoric men peals to the emotions. Painting, water supply, in which connexion dangered by reason of the fact place at the Recreation Club, in to make crude pictures on clay walls when it becomes elusive and univer
who takes sul, is still calling to the imaging- the latest returns show that there able to carry on the administra- during which a muafeal pro- pride in a beautifully fashioned ple, tion. All have much in common,
that while incapacitated and un-the course of an enjoyable evening persists. The woman has been considerable savingeftion himself, General Booth can fected by discontinuing the supply not depute his powers while he ré-
or puts a few unnecessary dainty and encl. expresses poetry from a stitches on a garment, or the man different angle, to touses in the rider main districts mains in Great Britain, owing to: the provisions of the Trustee Act and serving them from public of 1925. Those responsible for the street fountains. In December of direction of the worldwide opera- 1927, there was a full supply to all tions of the Army thus find them- houses in these districts, excepting by reference to a supplemental aelves in a dilemma, only solubic those west of Eastern Street, which deed drawn up by the Founder, were placed on rutions, and the re- providing against such a situation. turns now issued show that under By the Founder's foresight, power la given to the chief of staff-at the restrictions now in force the present, Commissioner E.. J. Hig- consumption per head per day for grins on the request by last month decreased to 14.8 gallons, Council and this has ben done, pre- Commissioners, to convene a ligh compared with 20.9 gallons in sent arrangements being that the December, 1927. The actual og-Council will fully consider the gregate, saving
than question of its future leadership 76,000,000 gallons.
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| who paints his born door in an orig- Rossetti may have his way, but I in way or piles his wood beauti-shall also have mine. He may con- fully, are obeying this innate urgeclude that "It has all been said, toward expression.
written, before,” but I shall always Time refined the crude expres- be sure that it can never all be said, sions of art, lines assumed more and shall go happily along my art advanced. Men ex- chosen path, out on the highroad to perimented with new means and Beauty, feeling sure of always find- methods and as the experiments of Ing delightfully surprising Ifttle yelerday became the paving stones nooks and grottoes and new ways of todays, they advanced on the of wandering off by myself. high road and hnd fuller view of I expect that I shall often the city of art-set on a hill. Who] find my path close to that of my can say that in all those vast brother craftsmen, If indeed the reaches, "It has all been said?" In paths do not sometimes cross and every avenue, looking down the merge.
vista before us, are long untravel- "I shall, if I wish, use my pen for led distances, and innumerable lita baton, or a bow to draw musk tle bypaths,
from my Instrument And when
The poetry in everything lies in words are too stubborn or too stif what has not been said; therein is a medium, I shall use my pen for a the purple mist, in which harsh brush and go merrily on, glad to lines blend, oversharp colours know that in the vast territory of soften, and the obvious becomes untrammelled thought there will al elusive. On every side, all common ways be a new way of expressing things are saying it over and over the over-enfolding beauty and again, always in a new way, with spontaneous poetry of living.—E. an ever increasing beauty. Thosky G. in the Christian Science Monitor.
at nmouting at Sunbury-on- Thames, at the Staff Training In- The Colony is still anxiously need-stitute on Tuesday next. An offi ing rain, of which, unhappily, there cial statement makes it clear that General Bramwell Booth remains are no prospects; at the moment. the head and sole trustee unless, Whilst there is no need for actual and until, removed by the High alarm, the situation can be de- Council. The business on Tues- scribed as serious. The prime whether the present General is fit
day next will first be to decide Diamonds are trumps and South necessity, of course, is that a de- or unfit to continue to act as sole has the lead. North and South finite move should be made in order trustee, and then, if the decision must win three of the four trieks. Lay out the cards on a table, as to Increase the Colony's sources of is in the negative, to elect his suc-
cessor, since the arrangement by shown in the diagram, and study supply. Unfortunately, we do not which a General may appoint his the situation. Seo if you can find seem to be making any marked pro- successor is supornedod. It In A method in which North and gress in this direction, and the the break into the hereditary prin- South can get three of the four,
eiplo that has given rise to conflict tricks. public is, in the circumstances, bewithin the Army, though it la pos coming decidedly impatient. It is sible that the choice muy fall upon
a member of a Booth family and This is an unusual problem. Hongkong, during known that the pipeling scheme thus obviate the fear of a cleavage. Although containing only four ended 31st December, 1928, as chat by Clarke Irvine, was being has been approved, but we are still The news of the convocation of the cards, it is liable to prove con-certified by the Managers of the reviewed in Melbourro, Australia, awaiting the decision of the Colonial High Council was broken to the fusing. The solution
The Solution.
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STATISTICS FOR LAST MONTH.
NOVEL FILM.
"THE BIRTH OF A FLOWER
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the month on Monday, with an entertaining
Tota!
one editor said that it was one sick leader yesterday, and appar- trumping high, and then throwing rospective Banks are:
Ászuge Apocie Offico as to which of the two pro-ently he has been greatly shocked, a trump trick to the opponents.
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341,068,802 10,560,000 actors, and Mr. Irvine shows some. that should require to be dealt with Burma and other parts of the and West winning the trick with
wonders incidentally that are as- at Home. Hong.cong is not alone world have assembled in Britain the ten. Now West Is forced to are deposited with the Crown In addition,
In addition Sterling Securities tounding.
he gives "The in complaining at official delay for the all-important meeting and lead a club to South's major Agenta valica £1,286,200.
we can only hope that the High tenace.. regarding the water supply ques- Council will steer its way anfoly Of course it is easy to see that ed with the Crown Agents and with plenty of comedy and whole. tion, for we notice that in Rangoon through the dilemma in which it North trumps the opening lead Straits Government valued at some fun. It is announced by the a almilar problem is being faced is now placed. Should the choice with the eight, East will defeat £2,000,442,
Institute that tickets should be and there, as here, considerable im Booth, there should be loyal ser- tricks. The only method lies in ad with the Crown Agents valued this
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