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dollars. The total supply in 1910) amounted to 3,034,769 thousand gallons. To this an addition should be made on account of the Kowloon works, which are not yet supplying to their full capacity. The total yearly supply obtainable from our present works may thus be taken at 2,295,000 thousand gallons. Dividing this into the annual cost, wo obtain the figure of 22 cents, or about 5 pence, as the coat per 1,000 gallons, This compares favourably with the coat of supplying water in other places, especially we consider the
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THE CHARM
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LESTER.-On August 9, 1911, at Fan- kow, the wife of ALFRED BATTA LET, of a son.
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FLAZON. August 18, 1911, ət Shanghai, the rife of FRANK FRAS, of a daughter
McMenbo.-At Shanghai, the wife of G. McMurdo, of a daughter.",
General Memoranda"
THURSDAY, August 24 :-----
2.30 p.m.-Legislative Council Meeting.
Saturday, August 203–
3.30 p.m. Fourth Gymkhana Meeting, 9 p.m.-The Dollar Princess' at Theatre
Royal, City Hall,
| MONDAY, August 28:---
10a.m.-Sessions.
grounds here and the difficulty of supplying a district built on such varying levels as Hongkong. The cost of Birmingham water is given at 8 pence, London and Liverpool 7 pence, and Manchester & pence per 1,000 gallons. So it seems that from the financial point of view we have little to grumble at
When, however, we turn from the question of economy to that of efficiency we do not find so
THE CHINA MAIL..
NEWS OF THE DAY.
To-day quotation for Pars rubber, per Moss. Vernon and Smyth, is 45. 85.
The body of Chimamas, aged about 30, was found fasting in the harbour by the water police and went to the mortuary.
We have received from the Christian
NEWS OF THE DAY."
H.M.S. Rodin arrived this morning from Canton
Admiral Toga is quoted as approving
of the idea of an arbitration treaty between Japan, America, England, and France.
A silver watch and gold chain, value Science Publishing. Society and the Com- $110, has been stolen from the mess of the mittoe on Publication for the Christian Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, at the Science a copy of a book entitled "Editorial | Posk. Comments on the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy."
The steamer Kalome, which was on fire in Singapore last year and had to be wank by artillery fire at Pasir Panjang, returned recently from home where she had been reconstructed, and has resumed hor
trips to Manila.
The S.MRS. Kobe Maru, which arrived at Shanghai on the 18th inst. from Taisen, brought to mail from the United Kingdom. This explains the reason of the now-arrival of a Siberian mail in Hongkong to-day.
-I is reported that San Francisco, where a big dry dock is to be prepared, will be made a "great naval base in the Pacific A battleship squadron will also be stationed on the Pacife coast by the time the Panama canal is open..
As expedition numbering 2000 will Icave early in October to punish the Abar murderers of Mr Noel Williamson sud Dr. Gregorson in Assam.
J
News has come out by the mail that the Pan-Anglican Conferenca t fund voted the sum of £8,000 far permanent work in con- usetion with the Diocese of Singapore.
*
Mr Cleaver, Liverpool solicitor, has obtained a divorce from his wife, with £2000 damages against Lord Viator Page heir presumptive to the Marquis of Angleson,
I
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1911.
THE ROARING LOOM OF LONDON.
whole the London mob
jorous, light-hearted andity, Life. | for the great majority is evidently
berrible burden and a momentous respon siblity, and this le reflected on their faces. Grim Care and Apprehensdom of the Fature too often ride on either hand. The average Londonar, too, notwithstand- ing the spread of hygeize, the opening up
(Written specially for the "CHINA, MAIL")
Many yearuago, when **Tưng Chin” wa delighting the world of Northern China "with his Brioni etusions, he unburdened his soul of the following, under the style and tile of "The Quick and the Doadof playing grounds, the disgorging of viat crowdę tach evening fato #garden stood upon the bridge whose archon span
bur, etc. is a white-faced meal. men of the race, with anxious, peevish look, Yet he can laugh merrily enough, when. for A moment the marking are of a montonous life are temporarily eased as he takes his pleasure at testre, musis hail or cinematograph. Above all he is growing inorossingly sober, as til balance shoots of the big brewing And distilling companies show. This is not due
The Thames at Westminster, and
the throug
of the great city's life, a tide that ran
Mysterious, unceasing, dark and strong, Till, wasried of the thought compelling
sight,
I sought the silence of a slumbering
streak.
what is this life, I said, which, day and
night
"so much to a change in his moral, standards
With restless ebb and Sow doth ever
boat
Upon the rocks of chance and destiny
A few years hence, and to it leaves
bobind
"
to the extmordinary increase in the number of cheap places of inusement now open to him, principally moving picture shows with a few songs and dance throws o Hers he can turn in sta hours and for a penny or so see the latest happenings in the world around; he can take "the wife
No sign henceforth to all eternity!
And, musing thus there came into my and lids" occasionally, and he does; and
mind
his old familiar pub" gradually kasall
The famous conjuror Han Ping Chien The memory of another bridge which touch with him. Surely this most be an
Atands Splendid. but silent, by an eastern
appears at the Victoria Theatre to-night and for a few nights only! His son, dose most marvellona balancing fest on stools, the legs of which are placed on billiard An idle stream, beside whose reed-girt
balls.
The rainfall registered at the Botanical
strom,
sands Ones stood a city, gone now as a dream.
Ere London was, they hurried in
Cathay.
set to the good in the gradual uplift of the mou. Despite the paarility of many of the picturo-shows, thoey flings which throw upon the screen the avonta of the day mush clearly have an educativa and widening. effect. So the avenge Londener of to-day
much cause for self-congratulation. {ed to arrive at Calombo en the 16th of Gardens from the 14th to the 20th insé / Ages ago, from dawn till close of day, Ha a little wider in his fold of ving "than.
|In 1910 intermittent supply was in force for 155 days. This has happened now for so many years that it has' come to be regarded as the regular thing. In four only out of the last twenty year has a constant supply been maintained in the city through- out the year. Since the completion of the rider main scheme and the intermediate reservoir at Tylam in 1907, this intermittence of the supply has not caused so much inconvenience, the shutting off being generally con fined to the rider main districte, while the metered supplies got a constant service. But it must not be forgotten that the rainfall of the
3p.m.--Auction of Crown Land at Public four years previous to 1910 was
Works Department.
TUESDAY, August 29
SATURDAY, Speterbar!:-
The China Mail.
for
The cruisers Kurama and Tone, which are on their homeward voyage, are expect October next and at Singapore on the 30th idam, whenes they will sail for Yokosuka disces, to arrive on the 19th of November
News comes from Canton to the effect that Admiral Li has completely recovered from the effects of all his injuries but the wound on his hip, which, however, bas become worse, renewed inflamation having set in. His doctor says his recovery
will take some considerable tlife.
was as follows:-August 14th, „54 ins; 15th, 1.02 is: 15th, 1,59 ins; 17th, 3.69. ins; 18th, 2.62 ine: 19th, 1.33 is; 20th. 1.29 in total, 11.32 inches,
was his father, though there is no Yanging that laken in the mass, he is still dreadfully These lines came back to memory more welf-centred and incapable of 'viewing" than one as traversed London from things except from the narrow stand- north to south, east to west, during the point of his immediate surroundings, but Coronation-time, for the roaring loom of that is a taule which he shares with his The Yokohami office of the O. P. R.. the great city was running at express speed countrymen in the provinces. Yet London, is in receipt of a wireless message from the then and the sound thereof was past all of all the cities of the world, offers R. M. S. Monteagle, sent at 10.30 .m., describing. Though so much of London's unrivalled advantages to those who can Monday, 21st August, when the vessel wasting has been transferred underground, partake of her amenities. Nowhere else 745 miles distant from Japan, advising all where God's good sunlight never penetrates, can one see gathered within such a com- well and that the Commander expects to the streets of the mighty Leviathan which paratively small radius more stately build- roach Yokohama at day-light on Thursday, spread so far and wide on either side of ings, mars beautiful picture galleries, more The vessels building, or to be built, at | the 24th instant,
the muddy Thames are sa congested as ever. marvellous museums, or collections of The introduction of matar traction has but|rarīțim. Here come at one time or another the Mitya Bali Dockyard at Nagasaki include a big armoured cruiser of 25,800 A violent eruption of Mt. Asamayams added to the turmoil and the crash, for all the finest of the world's artists in every tons, a second class cruiser ut 4,950 tour, 4 occurred on the lità inat. At the time these vehicles have speeded up" the rate conceivable form of artistic achievement. gun-boat for the Chinese navy, a steamer three partics of Japanose and foreigners of traffic. very considerably. Indeed, to Hence the theatres, the concerts, the operas, for the Toya Kisen Kaisha of 100 tons were on the mountain and were caught in the average person the perils of London's art exhibitions, conferences, etc., which Yasen Kaisha, and a steamer of 6,000 tons for the Nippon the eruption. Several were badly hurt streets have been added to twenty-fold London provides in profusion are of the building these ships is now engaged in Du Trailer was seriously injured, and two Tat it is surprising how faw accidents
The company besides The Rev. Mr Hall was killed, the Rav. Mr within the ace of the last few years, so very best Truly the Londoner is justified increasingly desperate has become the pace. in Es pride he is a citizen of no mean cíly,
A. B. B. ccnstructing 276 goods trucks fire the Japanese also were killed.
really lour, considering the millions of Imperial Railways.
people which pour in and out of sthé city and pursue their labours therein day in, day out. Towards this admirable resalt the London Police contribute moat The telegram quoted below was received largely. It is one of the sights of the 20th by the American Consulate General, Hong- century to see how these splendidly kong from the Manila Observatory at 830 trained men regulate the traffic and control ami to-day :--- the bruge mam of pedestrians, horse-drawn
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
On Sunday night H. E. the Governor of Macao gave a dinner in honour of Com- mander Whang and offers of the Chinese The King recently received M. 'Beat- cruiser Hnichew.. There were about 20 mont" (Lieutenant Conseau) in audience guests present, composed "chisty of and congratulated him on winning the Portuguese naval and military officers. A Daily Mail'co. band was in attendance. During the dinner
si
the Governor proposed the toast of "The We are glad to announce that Lieutenant Empire of Chira," the band striking up Commander Archdale, af HM.S. Rosario, the Chinese National Anthem, while later has returned to duty after recently sprain Commander Whang proposed "The Reing his unkles.
public of Portugal."
-,,:
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TYPHOON WARNING.
wwwwww
Manila, Angust 22/7.10 km-Cyclose or machine-propelled vehicles. And how or typhoon W. of the Ladrone or Mariana patient, courteous, and resourceful they Islande, direction unknown. are. - No wonder a country cousin who had à mosage received at 11.15 azn. 1875
rather frequently during her facent visit to town" called them those dear Bobbies." London is proud of her police
to appeal to them for aid and assistance the typhoon is moring W. or W.N.W.
SUMMONSES DISMISSED
Mr E. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy
most favourably distributed 3.45 p.m.-Sanitary Board Meeting.
waterworks purposes. An excessively
Brunsday, August 31 --
wet month in the middle of summer, Queen of the Netherlands Birthday such as we are now experiencing,
(1880)
is useless, for the reserviors overflow 9.15 p.m.-Promenade Charity Context and half the water runs to waste, but
at Volunteer Headquarters.
half the amount of rain falling in TUESDAY, September 5:
the end of September or the beginning 5.30 p.m.-Organ Recital.
of October is of great value. This FRIDAY. September 8-
is just what happened in the years
Teodora Alonza Rizal, mother of the 11.57 pm.-Full Moon.
1906 to 1909, and it is mainly on At the Shanghai Club a pleasing famous Filipino patriot, scholar and author; this account that we came through ceremony took place when Mr H. Fige, has died at her home in Calle San Fer-and it is a cheering sign of the times to
We manager of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank nando, Binondo. Mrs Rizal had reached see how the crowd supports them in their this morning, gave judgment in the ra the following winters so well.
in Shanghai, who has since left for Europe, the extreme age of 84 and her death was done duties. Of course, there are ex-besting of a case in which an Indian con may repeat what we said in dealing was presented by the Exchange and Builion due to senile debility,
ceptions, 1 know, in those desolate, God-stable was fined $5 on's cross-sammans of forsakan districts where poverty, squalor, two rickshaw colles in the employ of Dr with this question two years ago Brokers with a handsome silver ten-service.
! vien and misery herd together in pesti Jurdan for ammult and for damaging their Nominally wedding prosent, the gift was | The death is announced of MrN. Morgin, "It is doubtful if our existing- works the same time a token of the apprecia- ¦ formerly Advisor to the Yokohama Fire lential company, where we find the iritishaw in July, M would be adequate to meet such tion of the donors of the kindly courtesy Brigade, which took place recently submerged tenth, in all its ghastliness: His Worship said that the commons, fu Fears as 1895 or 1901 without cans which Mr Figge had alway extended at his residence on the Bluff. The there the policeman takes his life more which defuntiant was charged under the them during his tenure of office at the late Mr. Morgin had been blind for about literally into his own hand than in the Macions Dange Ordinance, must be six years and had been tenderly cared for midst of the crowded traffic of the Strand. dismissed. There was a doubt as to how Colony." It has been a feature in
during that time by his daughter and his
To return, however, to the question the thing happened and as plaintiff had nos THE report of the Hou. DIRECTOn the history of the Hongkong water- Considerable excitement was caused in aon; the latter having taken up his father's raised by "Tung Chiswhat in this life proved the case both summonses must be of PUBLIC WORKS for 1910 contains works that the necessary reservoirs the vicinity of the Victoria Hall, Shanghai, position as head of the Fire Brigade.
which flows mysterious, unesssing, dark recently by the appearance of two attractive much valuable information on the and works have always been duly looking young girls attired in the much dis
and strong" through London Town? A Paris message says the marriage of the water supply of the Colony. Com-built, but always a few years too cussed harem shirt. The dresses were ziade Princess Elizabeth of Roumanis, daughter fe could find an adequate answer the Commons in reference to the construction bining the information thus obtained late, so that we have not been saved of pongee silk, the trousers being draped with of the Crown Prince, and Prince George of solution of the riddle of the Sphinx of an of a second cable from Australis to. New with that given in previous reporta, their cost but merely the interest silk looped to the sides. While the dress Greece, eldest son of the Crown Prince and cient Egypt would be near at hand and poor Zealand by the Pacific Cable Board, autivor
on the whole looked sumewhat attractive it grandson of King George, will take place humanity nearer the goal of its desire: sex the board to provide the cable out are enabled to form some on their cost for those few years, is safe to say that it will not become popular in September. The Princess Elizabeth What impresses the stranger from lands of the reserve fund, and, provided the re-- judgment of the place our water and for this saving have had to among the majority of Shanghai residente inherits the wonderful beauty and vivacious afar is the terrible aloofness of each from the serve fund is thereby reduced below works undertakings hold as a business put up with an almost constant The fair wearers were the cynosure of all temperament of her mother, who before other se he or she traverses the mighty £100,000, the board is to ropay the ampat
HONGKONG, Tuesday, August 90, 1011.
GRETONNE HONGKONG WATERWORKS. ing considerable inconvenience in the
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IS SPECIALLY EVIDENT IS THE
BRILLIANCE OF THE SUMMER
TIME.
Crotonus is always favourite.fabric for covering, chairs and sofas, and
for hangings, casement curtains, etc.
German Bank in Shanghai.
dismissed,
The bill introduced in the House of
because of its dainty freshness, its oposition. The waterworks of the shortage. The Tytam Tuk schemes and could not help overhearing her marriage was Her Royal Highness city, each intent on his or her own ja 30 years at 3 per cent
pool, restful appearance and its artistic designs.
It will cost you very little to beau- tify the interior of your home.
numerous criticisms from the beholders of Marie, Princess Royal of Great Britain.
Colony, including the supplies to was shelved in 1907 for financial the novel garb.
The revenue credited to
dry season.
A ROTAPORIKK
„TIME-SAVED...
particular business, whether in pursuit of j the hard-won daily bread or the ephemeral delights of pleasure. Yeb little acts of the City, The Peak, Pokfuhna, reasons, and it behoves the Govern The Shanghai Fisheries, Ld, has been An interesting presentation was recently kindness are constantly being done by this greciate the promptneos, with which
TP you sia a working man you will sp We are therefore making a special Aberdeen, Shaukiwan, Kowloon, and ment to cast about for the means forced to acquire steam travises to operate made in the Shanghai Club to Mr C. A self-absorbed tide of maltitudinous Chamberlain's Colie, Cholers and Diarrhoe
display of the newest designs,. in the
to complete this scheme in order in the estuary of the Yanghare, and to carry Graves, resident secretary of the Royal humanity, quietly, unobtrusively, forgot-ramp colie je amally cured by one of remedy neta, LA severe attack of diastem agwust cretonne fabrics and invite the water-boat supply at Laichitok,
to meet the demand" which will or among other things the sale of fresh Insurance Society. Mr Graves, who has
ben almost as soon as done. Bo that, two doses and no lue of time will be your inspection of these and also have entailed à capital expenditure of
fish, with reference to which an agrooment held this position for some time, has just
'i required to overcome the effect of such "an our choice stock of other fabrics about five and three quarter million certainly arise efter the next really has been entered into with the native Gab boen appointed inanger of the foreign after all, the crowd is not such a terrible incurred whereas several days would be all admirably suited to the season dollars.
hongs. This Directors of the company are fire department of the Company, and has monster as it looks; it is human beneath attack ander the ordinary method of treat Menara G. M. Wheelock, Wong Bu-ping, since left for home by the P. & O. stenger the crust. Careworn and weary are many met. For sale by all Chemista and water account, which includes a Kowloon has been more fortunate. F. E. Crossley, and A. L. Anderson, and Nore for London to take up his new daties of its composent parte, for on the Storekeepers. 2 per cent rute and a charge of. 50 Owing to a rapid developement an agreement has been entered into with The presentation was from several insur- cents per thousand gallons for "excess in that district about 12 years Mesa A. L. Anderson and Co, to actance friends and took the form of a
as secretaries and general managers. The silver tea service. consumption," amounted in 1910 to go coinciding with a prosperous sites of the company in M 250,000, stato of the Colony's funnces, an divided into 25,000 shares of Tin. 13 sach, 8364,000. From this we must deduct the cost of maintenance, 875,000, entensive scheme was put in hand, and of these 10,000 are now being issued. and a proportion of the Establishment details of which are given in the The problem of the control of the for about a work from diphtheria. Captain Charges, say 826,000, leaving a profit Public Works Report. These works street hawker has long bond occupying the Carew was greatly reported by those who of $254,000, or about 41 per centre estimated to supply about. Ittention of the Shanghai suthorities, and know him. For many years he was in the per annum, which, in view of the million gallons a day, but at present certain asseures are now, to be enforced service of the N.Y.K., and afewards net
the sem about dight years ago, and sfter The hawkers, in future, must obtain a VICTORIA THEATRE substantial character of the works are only called upon to supply half for the protoction of the native consumered as Inland Sea pilit. He retired from and of the fact that a considerable that amount. One further point Municipal market ticket, before offering anaking a four in Europe settled down in Captain Carew was A Very- amount of the water supplied in not remains to be considered, and that goods for sale, and the baskets in which Yokohama charged for, may be considered a fair is the quality of the water supplied food is exposed are, in future, to be fly, well-read men, and possessed a mine of in 9.15 r.M to 11. 15 F.M. return. As however a Government, Bacteriological analysis has thrown proof. The attention of managers of olabe formation on many subjects, outside his
own profession. some doubts on the absolute purity of the Pokfulam water. Tan non-
WM. POWELL,
LD,
Furnishing Department.
DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL
7.16 p.. to 8.45 P.M. AND
THE FINEST and COOLEST HALI in the COLONY,
GREAT.ATERLOTIONS JUK TONIGHT AND FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY
Aus Famous Conferno Kno
HAN PING CHIEN AND HIS WONDERFUL SON.
the Great Balancing Post on Block
holding a monopoly of a necessity of
The Chath has conured at Y
parade of Captain Caraw, who had been suffering
and messes has been specially drawn to the fact that nearly all the illness, in Shanghai-during the summer can be traced.
** Among the passengers for home by the P.&O. steamer Dayanha was Mr Charles
China steamer E Sang who, after a lifetime in the Far East intends settling down in
life, may charge any price it likes, expert eritin haa, however, the grati- to absence of proper precautions with Maxwell, late christ gleer of the Indo and may therefore show a proff on fication of knowing that no serious regard to food. its undertakings" by charging high opidemic has over been traced – to prices instead of by economy in works our water supply, and we can but and management, it is us well to look express the hope that every reason- at the figures from all sides. Taking able precaution will be taken to
7 per cent on the capital cost and ensure that that suppl adding the cost of maintenance and deficient in quantity, establishment, brings the pannal cost be af
admittedly
reply to -half a million factorily the test of actual use.
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