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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.
AFTER 31 YEARS
IN COLONY...
BRITISH ROYALTY IN BERLIN.
AUSTRALIA WINS
FIFTH TEST..
DR. MONTAGU HARSTON TO ENJOY FIRST VISIT SINCE
LEAVE SHORTLY.
AN ACTIVE CAREER,
Hongkong will be losing one of its oldest and most prominent Bri- fish residents when the s.o. Nalders salls on Saturday, April 18th in the person of Dr. G. Montagu Hareton, who is leaving for home on his retirement from the firm of Dra. Haraton, Black, Balean and Koch.
Dr. Harston will have all but com plated 31 years' residence in the Colony, during which time he has been not only one of the leading members of the medical profession but has also been prominently identified with much of the Colony's public life. It was on April 15th, 1898, that Dr. Harston arrived in Hongkong from Charing Cross Hospital, London, to act for three years as locum tenems to Drs. Hartigan, Stedman and Rennie በE original intention which, through other circumstances inter- vening, resulted in an active local practice of 31 years. Remaining with the firm, whose consulting rooms were then in the old Bank Building, which was demolished to make way for the Asiatic Building of to-day, Dr. Harston became partner in 1903, and succeeded to the senior partnership when Dr. Stedman retired.
OUTBREAK OF WAR.
EX-KAISER'S PALACE.
London, Mar. 15. The Duke and Duchess of York are spending to-day in Berlin on their way to Oslo to attend the wedding of Crown Prince Oluf of Norway, to Princess Martha Sweden.
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Their visit, which is unofficial as they are travelling incognito, is the first visit of British Royalty to the German capital since 1914. There has been and will be, no official reception by the Gorman authorities, though it is under stood that the Duke and Duchess will leave cards at the residence of President Hindenburg before continuing their journey.
After breakfasting at the Bri- tish Embassy, the Royal couple out In Д car with started Lady Rumbold, the wife of the British Ambassador, on a round af sightaccing, in the course of which they went over the palace of the ex-Kaiser, where they spent two hours.
They displayed great interest in what used to be the Imperial
Buite of rooms which have been left as when they were occupied by Willem 11. In the afternoon,
VALUABLE SCORE BY
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EXCITING END COMES SOON AFTER LUNCH,
5 WICKET VICTORY.
By winning the fifth Test Match of the present series, soon after the lunch interval to-day, Aus- tralia has now a two victory lead
of Test enounters. over England in the grand total When play was re-commenced
needed 113 this morning-the eighth day of to win and still had alx the game-Australia
in wickets
hand. There WOB runs great excitement and interest dis-
played by the large crowd at Melbourne, and by lunch time Australia had earried the score lo a point where they needed only 38 more runs to win and had five wickets in hand.
It was but natural that, with such a reserve of batsmen, Aus- tralia speeded up the run-getting after the lunch interval, victory being achieved by the margin of
five wickets.
the
WILS
The story of to-day's is told in the following Reuter telegrams: Melbourne, Mar. 16. There were 16,000 on In the course of an interesting the Duke and Duchess drove out
to Potsdam where they were ground when the play was resum interview which Dr. Haraton
Free this morning. The weather. courteously granted to a Telegraph shown over the palace of representative yesterday, he recall-derick the Great. They inspected was bright. The wicket ed how he arrived to find Hongkong Sans Souci and the new palaces playing ensy and was on the hard
serious 180. They leave for Norway this side. in the midst of a very plague epidemic, The Isolation evening.-Reuter and British Wire- Inspital accommodation at Kennedy Town was inadequate to accept all the cases, and matsheda had to be erected to cope with the numbers. Two of the nursing sisters of the
A good entry has been received Government Clvit Hospital and for the Ladies Singles Handicap other Europeans, including two (American Tournament) which is members of the staff of Messrs. to be played off on the Kowloon A. S. Watson and Co., were among Football Club's courts to-morrow, the fatalities that occurred during
less.
K. F. C. TENNIS,
Greatest interest was manifested in the final stages of the game and the spectators were admitted at half-price, and poured Into the stands.
The English team were "on their tota" and Duckworth, behind the wicket, was superb. The 200 went up after 307 minutes, shortly which Kippax was run out with 28 The matches are to commence runs to his credit. At this the outbreak. It was three years at 2 pm, sharp, and tea will be stage Ryder had made 18, the previously that the cause of plague served at four o'clock. had been traced to the rat flos.
the
Sanitary Department Praised.
the College of Dr. Harston here broke his narra-pathology) at tive to pay a high compliment to Medicine, in Hollywood Rond (later, of the the Hongkong University) gave anti-plague work" Sanitary Department, saying that special attention to the opthalmic
side. few people of the present genern-
He had lived to see Chinese stu- tlon realised the tremendous achievement that had been effected.dents go Home to London and take In the early days of which he spoke, high degrees in opthalmic work, there were frequent and terrible and there were in Hongkong to visitations of plague. Enormous day Chinese doctors well qualified numbers of emigrants came down to carry on the war against eye Canton overcrowding the disease. In 1926, the whole of the western portion of the city and opthalmic department of the Tung Hongkong was, at that time, one Wali Hospital was transferred to the Government Civil Hospital, on of the most overcrowded cities of the world. It was against condi- the recommendation of the late Dr. tions such as these that the Sani- Addison, special quarters being built to accommodate it. A really lary Departraent had to work.
valuable work was being carried on.
freni
Value of University.
score being 204 for 5,
werg
The manner of Kippax'a dis- missal was curious. He went for- ward, but Ryder decline to res-
ond and both batsmen caught at one end, Tale easily breaking the stumps at the other," Ryder had a very narrow escape just before lunch. Ils score stood at 27 when he was thrown out by n smart return from Leyland The not allowed, English appeal was
players in the vicinity registering surprise at the decision.
The gates were opened free to the public at 1.25 p.m.
Th score at lunch-time 'stood at 248 for five wickets, the batsmen at the wicket being Ryder, not out, 37; and Bradman, not out, 22.
A cable received here at 2.02 p.m. announced that Australla had won by five wickets,
Scores are as follows:-
England-tvi Innlog Dr. Harston added that, the, B. Hobbe, Lb... Ryder...
W. I. Hammond, e Fairfax, D Wall establishment of the University out DR Jardine, e Uidfield, & Wall of the old College of Medicine was . Tyldesler, e Hornibrook, Hyder a great event for Chinese medical. Duckworth, Fairfax, bilemibrook students. He was still on the list Hendren, e Harnibrook, Fairfax of Lecturers,
M. rland, Fairfax, b Oxenhar
H, Iarwood.. Wall
G. Geary, Turnbook
M. W. Tate, o substitute, u Horaibrook
J. C. White, nol out
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The annual cleansing of houses and the lime-washing, together with the flushing of drains, had been carried on so thoroughly that plague had been entirely stamped out in this Colony. It used to be naserted that plague was endemic to, the Colony, but that ssertion had been falsified, and he did not think that the public. quite realised what a Speaking of the war-time period, beneficial Sanitary Department it Dr. Harston stated that there was bad: The war on rats, the cleans-an urgent appeal issued through the ing of bed boards, the disinfeeling British Medical Journal for special- of personal belongings and theists, who were needed at the front. constant vigilance of the Sanitary He went Home to offer his services, Department officials had placed the but was turned down as being too Colony under an enormous debt of old and as having a residence of 18 Wall gratitude.
years in the tropics against him. Oxenham Proceeding, Dr. Harsion recalled In face of this physical visqualifien- Grimmett how the central reclamation scheme, tion, he returned to Hongkong, thus Fairfax by which Des Voeux Road and Con- releasing Dr. Marriott, who was Kippax naught Rand were added to the over in France within the year. Colony, had just been completed,
Other Services. how "Queen's Building had just been
Total
342 10
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Fall of wickels: 1/641 2/146; 2/230: 4/240; /20: 6/405: 7/409: 8/428: 0/420; 10/210.
Bowling Anatzaļa.
Hornibrook
Hyder
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Austenilist Insings.
W. H. Woodfull, e Geary, b Larwood
A. Jackson, run out
A. F. Kippax, c Duckworth, b White
J. lyder, a Tale, Hammond
D. Bradman, e Tale, by Gear
RE. Denham, & Duckworth, b Gerry W. A. Oldfield, e and b Geary T, Wall, e Duckworth, b
Extra
erected and how Prince's Dr. Harston stated that in 1909 Building was not then in being- he served, at the request of the Fairfax, l.b.w., b Geary There' were no trams and the Government, on Commission to favourite forms of transport for enquire into the high rate of in-C Europeans were the old push-bike fantile mortality in the Colony. In and rickshas. Sir Henry Blake was his early days here he was a mem Governor, after whom Blake Pier ber of the Volunteer Reserves, was named when it was completed being Surgeon Captain; and was at some time later.
W Grimmet ut, dears
M. Hornibrook, 15.
Total ....
Walle
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Fall of wicket: 1/64; 1/149; 1/288; 4/203; one time a member of the Com-5/80; 6/809; 7/409; 8/420; 9/182: 10/491.
Bowling Analysis. mittee of the Royal Hongkong Golf
Opthalmic Work.
Club, the membership of which wood
TALE Referring to his professional Club he had just resigned after dry work, Dr. Harston stated that as over 30 years. In the early days White
Kamosond he had always been interested in there were only two courses--those land eve disease he was struck by the at Happy Valley and Deep Water fact that there was very lule ex-Bay.
houses, accommodating more than by train near Minneapolis, opthalmic out-patient department nearly thirty years.
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108
105
126
W. Hammond, a Byder, b Fairfax
E. Hendren, a and b Grimmett M. Leyland, not on M. W. Tate, Fairfax, b G. Geary, & Wall
Hornibrook
c. White, e Oxenham, Wall Duckworth, 1.b.w., Uxenham
Extra
Total
207
Pali of wickets: 121 2/10; 3/75; 4/119:
Hornbrook
England-nd innings. B. Hobbs, Fairfax, & Grimmett nadine, Oldfeld, & Wall pert knowledge of opthalmic dis- To the above, we must add that, Tarwood, b Wall cases in the Colony when he arrived, Dr. Harston, who is the author of notwithstanding the fact that there a well-known work on the care of idealer, o Oldfeld, Walt was a tremendous amount of eye children In the tropics, served on lisense among the Chinese. When the Committee of St. George's he went Home on leave in 1903-04, Society for many years, being he took a special course of study honoured with the Presidency in nt Moorfields Royal London 1926. He has also been a member Opthalmic Hospital, doing six of the War Memorial Committee, months' duty as Clinical Assistant.n Freemason since 1899 (Persever- London, Mar. 15. A man whose lorry was wrecked On his return, he suggested to the ance Lodge), and a medical officer of 4/128; 6/181: 7/212: 8/2171 9/251; 16/257,
Chinese gentlemen Interested In the the Hongkong Boxing Association, The fact that 1,230,000
newut a level crossing and carried 100ft. Tonk Wab Hospita
that an as well as a Justice of the Peace for Wall
Fairfax 5,000,000 people had been built in
On he departure, Hongkong will forummett England and Wales since the war U.S.A., was served with a sum-should be opened a suggestion
which was eventually accepted by be saving good-bye to a resident Oxenham out for was mentioned yesterday by Sir mona when he crawled
the Committee. The department and medical practitioner who has Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary failing to stop at the crossing.
was opened in 1906 and proved never spared himself in the service W. A. Oldfield, b Harmond
P. M. Hornibrook, b Hammad enormously auccessful. He was in of his fellow residents and of the W. H. Woodfull, b Hammond Secretary to the Ministry Health. British Wireless.
The Eastern Extension Austra charge of the work for many years, Colony generally. He will take A. Jackson, b Genry Jaslu and China Telegraph Co., and among the Chinese the repute with him the best wishes of all for A. F. Kippax, run out
of the consultant J. Ryder not out the Lottory prizu-money to
of the department aprend far be- the success
to D. Bradman not out value of about £200,000 in lying Ltd. announce that, normal work-yond the confines of the Colony, practice which he intenda
Extras unclaimed at the Credit Foncier in lng with, Shanghai, and beyond, patients coming long distances from establish in London, and the hope of
has been resestablished.,
all parts of the country, Perhaps all who know him that he will en- Paris, says the Matin.
the greatest value of the work done joy strength of health- pouses-] there was in connexfon with the sion he has lavishly spent in the training of Chinese medical stu-service of others: The loss of his will leave dents in opthalmic surgery. He is cheerful personality one of the original lecturers (a Hongkong much the poorer.
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95
40
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Total (for 5 wits) 280 Pall of wickets: 1 for 61 rups (Hornibrook), 2 for 80 (Oldfield), 8 for 129 (Woodfull), for 168 (Jack", son).
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