HONGKONG · WATER REGULATIONS.
NEW RULE WHICH PROHIBITS WASTAGE.
METERED SUPPLIES.
The Gazelle contufus mend- ments of the regulations under the Waterworks Ordinance, of which the principal change is # new regulation reading:
"No person shall wilfully or 'negligently misuse or waste, or cause or allow to be misused or wasted, any water laken from a publie. fountain or public tank."
Regulation 8 has been amended in two respects, the new form being as follows fadditions in Italica):
"If a meter is found to be out of order, or if it is remover for repair or alteration, ca account af dng other rougiat, the fact will
noted on the memorandum men- oned in regulation No. 6 of these regulations, Du fixing #new meter or re-fixing the old meter, a second, memorandum will be teri at the tonement. The consump ffon for the time that the meter was out of order or for the time
that the service was without meter will be calculated according to the average daily rate of con sumption that obtained between any two successive readings, whilst the meter was, in good order, immediately preceding the removal of the muter, or, at the dis- cretion of the Water Authority, dccurding to the average daily rate of consumption during the period befiron the ten successive readings immediately surreeding the firing of a are meter ne the retiring of the old malez,“
Regulation 13 is also amuded, ita new form being as follows: "In all cases of metered supplies. an acenant shall be delivered quarterly, if the amount to be pait for the wafer consumed in the paveeding quarter and for the muter rent. The secount #half
be in Form B in the Schedule to these regulations, with such varia- tions of any】 us the Water Authority may consider dexivalir, and the amount shall he paid into the Treasury within fourteen days of the presentation of the
account.
SHAMEEN WEDDING.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HONGKONG LIQUOR
REGULATIONS.
NEW RULES APPLYING TO
IMMATURE SPIRITS,
The following regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under section 55 of the Liquors Conan lidation Ordinance, ure to come into force on January 1st 1930:
The definitions of brandy and whisky set forth on pages 450 and 460 of the Regulations of Hong kong, 1844-1925, shall apply to these regulations.
In these regulations the terms: "uncertifiented brandy" and "un certificated whisky" "shall include respectively all brandy and whisky hereafter imported into the Colony except such brandy and whisky as shall have been proved, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent, to have been matured in wood for not less than three years.
of
No uncertificated brandy whisky shall be removed from any ship except into a general bonded warehouse, or to another ship, for the purpose of exportation.
whisky shall be removed from any
No uncertificated brandy ship except Into a general bonded warehouse, except into another bonded warehouse, or Lo a ship for the purpose of exportation.
Notwithstanding anything in these regulations it shall be law ful for the Superintendent in his discretion to allow removal for any
purpose of such smull quantities of uncertificated brandy or whisky as he may think, fit, if he is satisfied that such brandy or whisky has been imported by a person for his private consump than,
THE SINO-RUSSIAN CRISIS.
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three full brigades of Fentien troops to leave
gehull, and it is believed that for their commander is, under orders to drive the Soviet forces buck over the frontier.
The Manchurian Government has been reliably imformed that the Russian Government it Moscow us resolved not to an- INTERESTING CEREMONY 'AT.vernment protesting against the
swer the Nate of the National Go-1 Russian shelling of Chinese troops at Manchuli,
CHRIST CHURCH,
"Christ Church, Shaneen, was the scene of a Very quiet, wedding com Sunday afternoon, when Miss In Lois Chapin and Mr. Frank Earl Swisher were united in marringe by the Rev. Percy Jenkins.
OUR FRENCH NAVAL VISITORS.
SOME FACTS ABOUT VICE-
ADMIRAL MOUGET.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929.
The Very Idea!
A woman in Budapest who had been legally separated from her husband discovered to her amaze- Vice-Admiral Mouget,
Comment, on taking a walk in the gar mander-in-Chief of the French den of a local cemetery, that her Squadron in Asiatic waters, who is une appeared on one of the tomb- at present in Hongkong aboard the stones, the corrvel date of her birth
agship Waldeck Rossenu, was born being added,
on October 7th, 1807. He was It transpired that her husband elevated to his present rank on had buried his recently deceased March 15th of last year. Before sweetheart under the name of his being appointed to the present com-wife so that he might be enabled to mand by M. George Lergue, the marry again. Legal proceedings Minister of Marine, Rear-Admiral have been commenced against him. Mouget occupied, at Paris, the post of Assistant Chief of Staff at Naval Headquarters.
The Waldeck Rousseau is com- manded by Captaine de Vaisseau, J. Fernet. The cruiser left France on May 10, of this year, and before coming to Hongkong, had stayed a month at Saigon. She is leaving Hongkong on Monday at 2 p.m., direct for Tsingtao, after which
he will go to Shanghai,
Vlee-Admiral Mouget.
Mrs. Newlywed was determined that the grocer should not take advantage of her inexperience.
"Don't you think these eggs are rather small?" she asked critically, "Indeed, I do," agreed the grocer. "But that's the kind the farmer fresh me. They were sends from the euntry this morning."
"Yes," said the shopper, "that's with the farmers. the trouble They're so auxious to get their eggs Hold that they take them out of the tests too soon."
UNRULY SHANGHAI
STUDENTS.
CROWD OF TWO HUNDRED IS DISPERSED.
DOZEN
ARRESTED.
Shanghai, Aug. 12. With the dispersal of a crowd of over 200 Chinese following a demonstration in the Pooton Road District yesterday morning, and the arrest of ten of the most prominent of the agitators, n threatened procession through the Settlement was averted by the police of Pocton Road, station. Following the breaking-up of the demonstration, two more Chinese were arrested a few blocks away in the net of distributing munist and anti-Kuomintang pro- paganda,
com.
The trouble commenced at about
10.45 o'clock yesterday morning at one of the regular meeting grounds of demonstratora at the córner of Macno and Ferry Roads in the Pootoo Road District. Feltham man--It is difficult to Obviously fearing the methods of pset motor cycle, combination.the Chinese authorities, Chinese You see it has three legs,
Nottingham motor cyclist-The communists of the student type commenced to gather on a vacant policeman gave me a lecture, as piece of ground in the mill dis- he always doen: we do not get on
trict at about 10,30 a.m. Carrying well together.
aloft banners denouncing the Kuomintang, a number of students assembled in the vicinity' uf Macho, art Ferry Roads by arrangement.
Migrate at Brom a man with bad record You seem to les ckguard of the deepest dye, Man Tearfully)- Ma, sit, don't say that.
Man at Chegow Certival Police Court three years and eight) muth was under hervy shellire Magistrate How td you manage to delge them all? Mun--I was Jurky.
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Motorist (after knocking down hutcher's boy)"Are you hurt, my lady
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Butcher's Boy picking up the The cruiser Waldeck Roussenu contests of his basket)"Dunno. was commissioned in 1911, and en-Here's my liver and ribs, but tered inta service in the following where's my kidneys?" year. During the World War, she assisted in the evacuation of the Serbian Army, after the retreat of the soldiers of King Peter,
Still more howlers:
As to wify we have fireworks on November 5th-"To remember Guy Fawks when he blew up the house of the Lord."
Thousands of Pamphlets.
Pamphlets were distributed at this point and the small band moved to a piece of vacant land nearby. Speeches were made and more pamphlets distributed, thou- the ground. In a short time, a sands of these being strewn about crowd of ever 200 people gathered and was being added to every moment. Everything was ready for the threatened proces sion into the Central District when the police arrived.
Immediately upon the appear- ance of several officers in the familiar uniform of the Municipal Between 1920 and 1921, the
Police, the crowd began to thin. cruiser was stationed at Constan- theple and in the Black Sea. After
Pamphlets were thrown in. all As to why eats have whiskers-directions and those carrying the the Waldeck Rousseau lias just been because it is its nature. They do effort to make their escape. Others. wing being in reserve since 1921, the cat can't help having whiskera, bannera cast them aside in, an re-armed and order
re-commissioned innat pake the eyes of a mouse out, however, stoad their ground and to carry the pennant f but help cats to pure." Vice Admiral Mouget.
defled the police, claiming that And finally, members of the they were doing ΠΟ wrong. Sleek Exchange will learn with sur-Evidence to the contrary Was prise that it is a place where any found in their possession in the one in England can go if they want form of bundles of pamphlets of a a workman."
communist nature. Nine men and one woma 23. were arrested and taken to the Pootoo Road station whilst the police stood around to prevent a repetition of the offence,
Distributors Arrested.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
"THE GIRL OF CHICAGO"..
COMING.
The decision of the Moscow authorities to severe all negotin- Warner Brothers production, co- The Girl From Chicago," a with the Chinese government starring Conrad Nagel and Myrna is evidenced by the departure from Tehita of M. Melnivok. This Loy comes to the Queen's Theatre renders it impossible for the Man- on Tuesday and Wednesday. The gewn of beige georgette with hatchurian and Nanking delegates to Cast includes William Russell, Carrol Nye, Paul Panzer and Erville Alderson. This mela- dram of the underworld is based
The bride wore an atinelive
to nich nul enrried a luquet of pale pink roten.
danveer
After a wedding breakfast at the Victoria Hotel at Shameen, the bride and groom left for Bengkong, Inter sailing for America on the
President Li..com.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Swisher have been resides in Canton for some time. The bride, who is from Herds port, Oregon, has been teaching in The Sebord for Western Children. Paak Hok Tong, and Mr. Swisher, who is from Boulder, Colorado, was on the staff of the Ling Nan University for several years. Mr. and Mrs Swisher will reside this winter in St. Louis, Mo., where Mr. Swisher will continue his studies f Washington University.
ACCEPTED TENDERS,
RE-SURFACING OF KOWLOON |
ROADS.
resume negotiations.
War-Like Attitude,
There was an old golfer of Biggar Who made a sensation at Troon, Not at all on account of his figure, Which resembled a rising bal
loop.
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But his way with the game
Some little time later, two Was conducive to glue
Chinese were caught in the act of (Though some called it a shame), distributing similar pamphlets in For he used from each tee-the vicinity of Pootoo and Tong No matter the distance-a jigger,king Roads and were promptly And for putting he fancied a arrested. All these in-custody lant
spoon.
right were of the typical student agitator class in the familiar semi- foreign clothes, straw hat and horn-rimmed spectacles. Most of them claimed to have come from
愁
General Chang Isuch-liang has Roche. It recounts
on the story of Arthur Somers "So you saw the woman drop her dispatched a long cable to Military rising adventures of a Southern Did you advertise it?"
the hair-purse, but lost her in the crowd. leadquarters at Peking stating girl, who leaves her father on the "Oh, yes; I was honest enough tious of the Russian troops it for the purpose of freeing her swer to the advertisement. I put that judging by the war prepara-old plantation to come to the city to do that, but I didn't get an an seems that they are ready for any brother from the gang whose in this eventuality with China. General Chang adds that the Russian in- vasions along the frontier more than mere demonstrations, They are daily becoming serious in character.
are
more
PRIZE RECORDED AT BISLEY.
MAN WHO HAD NEVER
WON BEFORE,
R. S. M. Apsey, of the Rifle Brigade, who has 21 years. service
his credit, set up a 10
record The acceptance of the following at the Army Rifle Association cou- tenders is notified in the Gazettest at Bisley.
Megers, Li Sung and Co., $30,545
When the competitions began
for re-surfacing main roads, he had never won an individual Kowloon (Nathan Road 1st See- tion-commencing from Sallabary prize at these gatherings of rifle Road).
Messrs. Johnley Ching $1,040.80 for the erection of latrine and arinal at. Connaught Road West (a) Wilmer Street (2 seats), (b) Water Street (2 sexix) together with drainage and any other con- tingent work.
WARSHIPS IN PORT,
The following is the disposition of warships now in, port:
Basin H.M. Ships Tamar and Moth.
North Arm-HI.M. Ships Storm- eloud.
In Dock.-1.19 and Sterling. Foreign.--French cruiser Wal- dock Rousseau, U.S.S. Guam and Chinese Gunboals Kwang Kum and Chung Shun.
Lieut. Commr, R. G. H. Milligan has been appointed to H.M.S. Tamar and is coming out on the Curysfort,
shots.
:'
He secured the record for the number of prizes won by an in- dividual at an Army rifle meeting. He won in the four days of the
contest:
The Watkin Cap.
The Army Rifle Association's i
gold jewel.
The Army Rifle Association's) medium silver medal.
•
The Army Hundred Cup.
with C. S. M. Giles of his regi
The Roberts Cup (after the
meat), and
Two other silver medals.
In the championship R. S. M. Apacy's aggregate was 381, the next highest scores being Lieut. Arekdale, Manchester Rogiment, 360, and Lieut. King-Salter, Rifle Brigade, 859.
Leading scores in the Army Hundred Cup were: R. 3. M. Apsey, 173: Staff Sergeant-Majar Kendrick, Srd Carabineers, 182; C. S. M. Mapp, Smallarma School, 160.
muchinations huve placed him in "If the plain woman, about forty- The shadow of the chair. Many five years of age, wearing a dress extremely exciting incidents take and a hat of the style of three years place of e the final climax ags, whe lost a purso containing which, according, to advance re-seventeen shillings, in Main Street ports, in worked aut in a thorough- on Saturday, will apply to-, the ly agreeable manner.
property will be returned."
FEANCE
"Jove, that's almost it, if it only had the cherry on It"
Chaper and their intention was to the Kuomintang. address workers on the evils of
K.C.C. CONCERT,
PROGRAMME BY BAND OF
SOMERSET LI
An exceptionally fine programme has been arranged for the Kowloon C. C. concert to be held to-night.
By kind permission of Lt-Colonel C. H. Little, D.S.O., and Officers of the Regiment, the Band of the 1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Princo 'Albert's) will play:
1.-Invocation to Battle from
Reinzi, Wagner. 2.-Overture, "Tam O'Shanter," Learmont Drysdala,
3.-Fantasia, “Aida," Verdi.
4. Cornet Solo, "Loves Garden
of Roses," Haydn Wood. Saxophono Solo,
La Cinquantaine,"
Gabriel-Marie. -Excerpts from "The Merry
Widow," Lehar.
Interval.
6.-Tone Poem, "Finlandia,"
Sibelius.
7-(a) Serenade "La Paloma," Yradier...
(b) "O Sole Mio," DI Capua, 8.-Xylophone Solo, "The Imp .. Alford, Trombone Solo,
"The Joywheel," Sutton, 9.-Morceau Militaire,
"The Outpost, Mackenzie. 10.-Excerpts from the Romantic
Play, "Blue Eyes," Kern, Regimental. March,
(Prince Albert).
God Save The King.
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