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SATURDAY JULY 6, 1929.
THE WATER CRISIS.
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
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mains: One suggestion along these lines made in a contemporary by a resident with export know ledge was the use of storage ships as pumping stations. Ho puts forward the idea that two or three old ships should be bought, the His Excellency the Governor has main ongines removed, the engine-declared Taun Wan to be a port rooms converted into pumping of the Colony. rooms and the discharge pipes connected to the mains by special pipes with non-return valves. The cost, he asserts, would be low, and by the use of three such vessels we should imagine that quite suf- ficient water could be pumped daily into, the mains to meet eur- rent demands. There may, of course, be objections Lo the scheme, but, on the face of it, some such iden seems practicable. The suggestion is at any rate well worth exploring...
Our anxiety is that every pos- sible effort should be made to solve the problem along the line of house supplies. The existing system fa unsatisfactory almost to the point
the
daily
A JAVA VIGNETTE Sunshine and Song, ia Boli.
of
Don Paean, Isle of Bali. || And at its conclusion the two fair Here beneath this far-spread- little Dalinese maids, apparently ing banyan on such a golden f unwearied, "szilo happily at our morning as only Bali knows, wo vigorous applause and regard us have them both, sunshine aud with the confident assurance song, in measure almost heyond having well and compotently per- conception. It is no long time formed their allotted task. since the first white man looked Mr. T. 1. Rolland of the. P.W.D. upon this spectacle which has now is the only Government passenger been provided for us, a few far leaving for Homo ол tho
8.8. come Europeans gathered in this Kashgar to-day
fairy isle of the eastern sca,
Never was there anywhere auch 'banyan as this. It covers more than an acre, and on one alde its great fronds droop to within a few feet of the ground, forming a great arbor, a natural stage sot ting. And in its deeper shade are grouped the musicians of Ball with their
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C., to act as a Police Magistrate in addition to his other duties.
The name of Dr. Au King, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of Hongkong, has been added to the list of medical practitioners,
t
There comen, now a group of older girls, n score or more, all in gorgeous festival adornment,.. their natural beauty enhanced by as skillful artificial aid as *wns' ever utilized by a rolging queen of
As their immenso, the stage. golden headdresses glisten in the sunlight and the jewels of their adornment flash, they present a picture ever memorable, "Think of them on the London stage !!! whispers one of the Europeans. "I don't want to," replies my friend. " never want to see or to think of them na. apart from this. Perfect setting!"
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The
instruments, An Oriental orchestra of sweet-toned bells and gongs, xylophone-like For the quarter ended June producers of deep-noted singing 30th, there were 78 samples chords, flutes and strings, and andlysed under the Sale of Food sharkskin drums which give forth
More of modorulty characterizes and Drugs Ordinance in Honga low rumbling sound recalling this dance and the songs accom- panying it Even now and then of being intolerable. The clutter-kong. All were genuine excepting the primitive jungle days.
thore da a fleeting suggestion of At the right are the walls of the the Influence of the few movies ing up of the Colony with tanks, one of milk.
temple inclosure, strangely adern-which have thus far appeared at involving heavy non-productivo
The death is announced of Mr.ed with native sculpture not lack the port of Baloeling. Frederick Robert Charles Surplleeing a definite artistry which mani- Balinese are quick to grasp a now expenditure, and
of Worthing, late Commissioner of scramble for supplies at the street Chinese Customs, Mr. Surplice fests itself now and then in start idea, keen to express themselves in fountains these things do not died in a nursing home on June 6, ling ways. The religious and the terms of a larger life. But the socular are blended. Some of the native rhythm, the oxotle, vaguely strike us, as being at all a busi- in his 63rd year.
sculptors of Ball have seen, the seductivo undertone, the faint nesa-ke method of handjing the
more antique of the motion pic suggestion of the prlinitive Jong situation. Moreover, if the
tures at Balooling, and the result ago, aach is there as in an ancient is that on the one hand we flue the song of Tahiti or the Hebrides. drought continues and we have to
figures of the anglent divinities The singere sway, from side to face a winter on rationed supplies,
of the Hindus and on the other a side in a curious, unfamiliar we venture to think that there will
scene from a venerable movie, a movement as they sit with folded be a public outery against the per-
western "hold-up,"by a fantastic limbs upon the ground and chant | Hindu-European with an astonish-softly to the music of bells and petuation of the tank-and-bucket
ing weapon. Thus the Banese, flutes.
There his urge to expression scarce system. One thing we do gay- namely, that considerations of cost
satisfied by a continued portrayal of vague divinities, turns to are of secondary account in a
modernism. matter of such importance as the supply of life's necessity to che people."
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The Banquo Franco Chinoiso an nounces that the Chinese Maritime Customs having affected the firet payment for the year 1920 on the Boxer Indemnity, the coupons No. of the 5% Gold Loan 1925 will be redeemable from the 18th instant through their Agencies.
U.S.A. and War Debts. The opinion of Dr. Grier ben, the President of Princeton University, that the United States should have been more generous in the settlement of the war debt with Britain, may cause discussion, but is unlikely to influence Wash ington, whose officials periodically nounce that no change of policy Is contemplated. Dr. libben's statement may offer the consola-
The health bulletin of Eastern tion that the trend of weighty thought in the United States stil! ports for the week ended Saturday Inst. issued by the Director of favours revising, though we are at a loss to understand why Medical and Sanitary Services, the views he expressed should, contains the following cases, the according
have figures in parenthel Indicating Reuter, .to
Alexandria 1 -created a sensation. Dr. Hendenth-Plague,
***
But that is only a detail of the picture, not at all an uncommon one in this enchanted lale whose originality and untouched charm are already dismayed at the avid advance of a world which is just discovering them. And of that
and brneclets, saered 10 thia yet less.
14
¢
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Among the passengers leaving
is no other sound. for Homu to-day on the P. and O.
Tenacoro villagers, young women H.A. Kashgar are Mr. W. Green,
and old men and little children," Foreman Superintendent of the
watch in perfect silence. They have seen it often before, but Ita Electrical Engineer's Department, of the Naval Dockyard, Mr. P. G.
strange charm seems to grip them Hall of the R.F.A. Belgol and Mr.
even more than it does the Stribley, Commissioned Engineer
strangers. For there is an in- of H.M.S. Bruce At a nppy
herent artistry about these folk little ceremony at the Dockyard
of Ball, a capacity for appreciation Recreation Club, Mr. Green was the Hib-recipient of a handsome blackwood
and an understanding which lifts them as far above the other people and silver tray and stand. This was handed to him by Mr. E. E. originality what we are about to of the Malay Archipelago as the
the
nee is the climax. Its Betting is beauty of their enchanted isle Superintending Rephan, Electrical Engineer, who wished the environment of a golder sets it above and beyond most of the departing member all success dream. "Golden" is the only word, the other fair places of the world. Noon is at hand ere the dancing The most important develop
in his new appointment at Porta- because gold in everywhere. It the tropical
is done, and the mounting sun ment of the week so far as the
mouth. Mr. F. W. Brown, Senior filters through water crisis is concerned is the
Supervisor of the Dockyard, pra-verdure in splashes and in tiny, has left little shade under the searching fingers. It lies in broad great banyan. We return to the sided over the gathering.
pools where the shade of the village rest house for luncheon. defnite conclusion reached by the
banyan tree no longer rebuffs the And in the afternoon, through tho Government that the supply of water direct from the mains to
swiftly ascending sun. It gives adroit maneuvroings of our now forth, ita ushing reflection from thoroughly sympathetic interpre houses on the lower level is not
the gorgeous and precious hand-tor, we vlalt these dancers of Bal! fensible. This means, unless the
dress of the gayly bedecked temple in their own homes, taking with us dancers. It seems even to shine manifold gifte from the Chineso Official attitude undergoos
from their glowing eyes, as they store, highly scented waters from other charge, that so long as the has long been associated Baghdad 2, Bassein (3), Rangoon joyously, prepare to re-enact the France, even more highly coloured sweets from Sourabafa, mechanical drought continues the tank-and-with famous Americans, includ-(3), Colombo 1 (1), Pnom Penh 2 ceremonies of 100 years for a
silk handkerchiefs from Rotter. bucket system will remain in the President of Columbin Univer- kok 6 (2), Pnom Penh 5 (2). Sat-peans, Their rings, and anklets dum. As a special gift I am moved ing Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, (1): Cholera, Cafculta (51), Kan- quintette of half-incredulous Euro toys from Germany and artlicial
Koon (1), Tuticorin 4 (8), Bang- force. Already, the main grounds sity, Mr. Baker, the former Secre
to purchase a few bottles of a liquid on which the Government hos body, a noted New York lawyer, Kamaran Quarantine Station it the high, sweet notes which come of the house I am told by our in-
tury for War, Mr. Frederick Pen-Kon 17 (8), Swatow (4): Small-climatic occaulon, are
pax. Berbora 1. Aden 65
(6) golden than the morning sun. But Upon is presentation to the master eryptically specified limonado." renched its decision havd been Mr. T. P. Macaulay, of the Sun Bombay 31 (23), Calcutta 8 (6) now from their youthful lips rival terpreter that, since it is such an outlined, but we are promised an Life Assurance Company, and Karachi 4 (4), Madras 22 (4) songs of the tropical birds!
others in urging the reconsidera Moulmein 3 (3), Negapatam 3,
unusual tribute, it will be made an official memorandum on the tion and revision of debt settle-Vizagapatam 2 (1), Macasser 6 (5). And hero on the south const where
Sunshine and song-and Balloffering at the household shrine! subject, which will doutliessments with America's former Belawan Deli 1, Pontianak 1, Two years Samarinda 3 (1), Pnom Penh 2.
generation ago there was throw more light on the matter.associates in the war.
The girls are now occupied with ngo, há issued a remarkable docu- The public will await the appearment, signed by 116 members of Saigon (1), Swatow (9); Cerebr.- Balinese kingdom owing allegiance the more prosaic duties of their
spiñal Meningitis, Shanghai (6).
to no foreign potentate, iz Ball at household. They aro weaving ance of that document with intense the Faculty of Princeton, plending
Its best. Though its sturdy, alert, bright-coloured cloth, pounding folk are now the subjects of a far-whout in an old-fashioned mortar, interest, no section of the com- the cause of the Allies, condemning the settlements A unsound in
away queen, yet their songs are making straw hate and attending munity more so than those who principle and as fostering a deep
till happy, their dances still gay to the very numerous younger have to suffer the hardships and sense of grievance against the
with the olden zest, and the rich members of the various familice, United States. The great point of
exotle lure of their life and land Unfeigned delight at our visit is inconveniences of the existing these American economists and
is still unaltered, and the gold of general. We have, Booms, quite method of supply.
political scientists is that America
their sunshine tan never be won their confidence, and that is In a matter of this kind, the Amerifen should play her part in lent the money in order that
tarnished!
an unusual thing, for these girls of Balt are extremely shy and al- Jayman cannot, of course, be helping to win the war and that
Two maids with golden head-together unaccustomed to contact expected to refute the argaments "if the Allies had spared lives
dress, raiment of silk and brocade, with Europeans. Through our re- of the expert, but, all the same, or America had stinted supplies,
ornaments of jewels and precious markable "guide" wo have a our war, as well as theirs, would
metal, Invested with there in a very widespread feeling have been lost." It Is also claimed
all the sprightly chat, weaving vivid tales dignity of those about to engage in of the wondrous lands whence we that the idea of a supply to that the material interests involved
an affair of high import, come have come and houses ought not to be abandoned honour of the country is being are relatively small, that the
R~] forth from the temple gateway wondrous doings therein, telling of until it has been made absolutely bartered for $21,000,000. It is
X-and stand together, before us, my the brilliance of Broadway, the fellow wanderer and I, that we gayety of Piccadilly and the glories certain that the plan is not work- further urged that when voted by
of Parls. Our audience grows ever may bring into action the able. The Government cites both Congress, the loans were regarded
ubiquitous camera, For this arger as news of the presence of as contributions to £t common
these strange guests sprends. expense and fucreased consump cause. We haston to point out As the dummy le exposed and scene this setting beneath the abroad. Uld men listen avidly to
broad-spreading hanyan, with the tion as factors against the pro- that these are not necessarlly our the declarer plans to convert Balinese orchestra of twoscore our interpreter's efforts. Little.
those views, but posal. When ita detailed memo-Americans. It is, however, ob he prepares to utilize the working of native, villagers, the strangely babes regard us wonderingly. The of prominent losing tricks into winning tricks, pieces at the back, the great circle children, growing nfident, sit at our feet. Mothers with clinging randum is issued, it may be found vious that Britain, in being asked tools-finessing, squeezing, ruf- adorned temple and the palm pretty Balinese dancers oven offer that the figures used to back up to pay 82. per cent. as against fing, eluffing (discarding low arbored roadway wiriding on to to give another performance for qur
per cent. by France, 64 per cent. cards of another, sult upon win-ward the fundle eind hills, Bli special delectation. the ofBelal argument are capable by Bolgtum and 26 per cent. by ning cards) and throwing the this wo must of a certainty per of variation. At any rate, if there Italy, has been somewhat hardly lead. At times, when finessing, it petuato in accurate record, even tale of sunshine and rong And. 'Ah, this is far from Europe, this are residents with technical know-treated in view of the fact that we is advisable to employ the "feint" though from our memories it may from day to day, as we visit one
borrowed.not for ourselves, but on ledge on the subject which might be behalf of nur Allies, who were
finess, an illustration thereof never fade.
village after another, ever repeat- useful in reinforcing the demand for also the Allies of the United being as follows:
We photograph from manying our experiences at Den Pasan Dummy-diamonds A.J 10 ̊7..
angles while the villagers wait except the dance which is of that house supplies, it is to be hoped States. Since we have also de-
patiently, and the wandering, village alone we make other con Cast-- that they will not hesitate to make repayment from our Allies to the clared our willingness to forego
half-afraid children creep closer tacta and enjoy other experiences Declaror diamonds It 9 4 5. public. their views
At the exact extent America offers us ro-
and closer. The twin dancers almost as entrancing. And wo West
"pose" with the courtesy of a find, as we expected, that the life- moment, we cannot resist the im- lief, one is inclined to wonder re-
You will note that the dinesso friendly folk, though already the of Ball, with its wondrous back-- pression that the Government is arding the American professions may be taken either way. If there weight of their ceremonial adorn-ground of art, music, strange cerc rather over-awed by the difficulties Europo. The dictum that the debts has been no indication of the locament la bringing little beads of monial, and unfailing friendliness must be paid to the financial tion of the Queen of diamonds, the molature to their childish brows. to the stranger, is the great part capacity of the borrowers is to Juck of diamonds should be led Presently the dance, the "Legong" of the appeat of the fale, glorious some extent iniquitous in the sense from the dummy to coax cast to ritual of three centuries of Hindu as is the natural charm. Physical that it offers no prospect of real cover with the Queen of dia- worship, begins. It continues for beauty, though, le found in many progress in the countries affected monds. Regardless of whether nearly an hour, a sorica of grace places. But the combination, this
east does so or not, declarer should ful posturings, intricate steps and colourful life in a setting of tropicalTM is slow to admit herself in the play, the King of diamonds. On symbolle gestures. There Isenchantment, is not found else wrong; indeed, may in justice de- the next round he should lead the nothing about it of the fervour, the where. There is only one Ball cline to admit it, but revision at 9 of diamonds from his own hand religious ecstasy, the extreme even as there is only one Tahiti, some time seems as certain as any and finesse unless it is covered symbolism of the Indian ritualis. These are the fairest of all the fair.. thing in the field of international with the Queen of diamonds by tic dance. It is simply delicate,M. T. G. in the Christian Solenoo
exquisite in grace, oven childlike. * Monitor,
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