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EXTENSIVE DRAINAGE DONE DURING PAST YEAR
The report by the Director of Public Works for the past year states that now aowers and storm wator drains were constructed In Hongkong to a length of 11.997 feet, open nullahs to a length of 334 feet and parapet walling to open nullahs 933 fcot. Anti- malarial campaign work was com- pleted at Lycemun and continued at ML. Parker And Sookunpoo. Streama were trained to a total length of 19,597 feet.
In Kowloon, New Kowloon and New Forr) rica, ewwers n storm water drains were construct- od to a length of 14,641 feet; open Hulinks full section 110 feet, part section 1,278 feet; parapet walling. 232 feet; channelling 1,116 feet.
Anti-malarial work at Kowloon Tong.--Nullahs and channels were constructed to a length of 2,042 feet, and "eutting and ing" amounting to 6,928 cable yards was carried out.
Valuations and Resumptions The total valuations made during the year comprised 903 properties with a total estimated value of $14,547.711.09.
Valuations were made for the purpose of reaumpilon for street widenings and the development of areas in accordance with the ap proved Town Planning Scheme, for anti-malaria other purposes.
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Dornoch, Sept. 22. FORNING service in the Free Presbyterian
Dornoch
-church which Provost John Murray fused to attend-was taken to-day by the Rev. Finlay McLeod, Moderator of the Church.
The two nativer, who arg photo- graphed together with a missionary tended. The normal congrega
A congregation of thirty at- are not children, but grown up Peg-tion before Provost Murray's mics, the smallest people of the world, living in Africa.
Lived 27
dispute with the Church over dancing at a Christmas party was 90 to 100,
Days Without Provost Murray's
works and sundry A Brain
Valuations comprising 762 pro- perties with a total estimated value of $13,870,631.10 were made for sundry Government Depart- ments.
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A baby that lived 27 days without a brain has presented a challenge to important and universally accepted theories of physiological science.
The child, a boy, defied all orthodox concepts of the func tions of the brain by eating, crying, moving and reacting to pain and other stimull. Science has held for centuries that the brain directs such actions.
At the end of the service came the announcement that name had been struck off the Church roli..
"Cast Me Not Away"
Mr. Mcleod took as the text of his sermon the eleventh verse of the 51st Holm:-
"Cast me not away from Thy prescncr; and take not Thy-Holy Spirit from me." "The sins of the flesh are sweet to-day," he said.
"The drink of the drunkard and the dance of the dancer are sweet sins in present-day life. These sins, like many others, will have to be cast aside before. there will be any salvation, are called dark and gloomy. Any "Our Free Presbyterian services
Physicians of St. Vincents not in the Church but in a person's darkness and gloom which exists is Hospital, where the boy was town soul." born July 21 and died 27 days! later, said there was nothing in! the cranial cavity but fluid. The sermon ended. Mr. McLeod The hospital withheld names of made several church intimations, the parents.
then paused and said: "I have the following additional intimation to make, and 1 hope it will not be transmitted on the Sabbath Day.
A staff physician said the infant #eened normal when born, except that its lungs were slightly col lapsed, and it ate, moved and cried normally to its sixth day of life. Qu the seventh day it refused food.
to
"Its skin, starting on the face, became bluish," the physician said. "It apparently had no appetite, but, remarkable, it was sensitive pain. There was no indication to that time of an abnormality and it was impossible to tell, even then, what was wrong."
The child weakened daily for two weeks and in its lust few days of
The Sabbath Day
'John Murray, one of our members, who refused to meet the Kirk Session on three occa- sions in regard to his opposi- tion meetings in this parish, has had his name erased from our roll.
"I hope that all those who have attended the church stendfastly will continue to do so."
When Provost Murray was told of the Kirk Session's decision to expel him, he said: "They are
life its head enlarged noticeably,- acting-contrary-to-Church-law
An autopsy performed a few! "I have not been. a member of hours after its death revealed the Church since April 24. absence of Press.
How
11 brainLnited can they expel a member who is not
a member?"
Women As Chieftains Of Two Scottish Clans
A
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WOMAN and a girl of 16 may shortly become chief.
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Loods and MacLeans of Ardgour. If so the age-old tradi- TO-MORROW AT ALHAMBRA
tions of male succession and of Scottish fighting chiefs who held their clans together by the prowess of their claymores will be broken.
pendence in the sixteenth century when they held extensive posses- sions in the Hebrides, in Argyll, and in Lochaber.
The question of succession to the head of the Clan Macleod has been raised by Mrs. Hubert Walter, who, on the death of her husband, took the name of Flora Mrs. MacLeod The chief of the whole clan is of MacLeod. She is the eldest that famous veteran, Sir Fitzroy daughter of Sir Reginald MacLeod Maefenn, who celebrated his of MacLeod, of Dunvegan Castle, 100th birthday at the Isle of Skye Isle of Skye.
this year,
If Catrion MacLean, of Sir Reginald, who died on Ardgour, succeeds in her claini It Augast 21 at the age of 88, was may be that at the next Skye meet- the 27th direct male holder of the ing she will find herself dancing a chloftainship. His son, an officer reel at the Highland ball with an- of the Black Watch, died in action other clan chief, eighty-four years in 1915. Thus, by the death of Sir her senior. Reginald, a 700 years' male line of Highland chieftains las been MacLeods and the MacLeans to decide whether an Englishman and an Australian shall rule their proud records, or whether a woman shal! head their clan.
broken.
The Clan MacLeod dates back to the thirteenth century, when Olave, son of the King of Man and the Isles, married the heiress of Dun- vegan, Skye.
It remains therefore for the
Australian Claimant
"I have no intention of living in Opposition to a woman as head Scotland, even if my claim to re- of the elan goes as far back.ss the cognised. My castle IB the sixteenth century, when MacLeods Western district of Victoria, and refused to accept us only child, athere I intend to stay," declnres Mr. daughter of one of the clan chiefs, Hugh Vernon MacLeod, who claims as their chieftain.
to be the now chief of the Clan MacLeod.
Mr. MacLeod, who is a grandson John Norman MacLeod,
MacLeans Of Ardgour The sixteen-year-old claimant to of the chieftainship of the Clan who went to Australia in 1818, MacLean of Ardgour is Cutriona, says, "I possess authentic informa- eldest daughter of Colonel Alex-tion proving that there is no doubt ander Hew Maclean, of Ardgour, of my right to succeed as a direct "the best loved chief in the High- descendant of MacLeod of Talisker lands."
I do not intend to take any special The Clan Association Ens not steps to establish my claim? accepted her as the new chief, many
Mr. MacLeod, who is president
of the members preferring the of the Portlandshire Council and claims of Commander H. S. Mad-Master of the Western District Lean, an Englishman.
Hunt, served with the Anzacs nt Gallipolt.
The Clan Maclean rose to
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