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CHINESE WILLS.

PROVISION MADE TO ADOPT A SON.

A 326,000 ESTATE.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 10, 1927,

NURSES PENSIONS.

GAS AND ITS USES.

"PAPER” AT. ENGINEERS® INSTITUTE.

NOT. FAMILIAR TO MANY.

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AMENDMENT OF MINUTE

"PUBLISHED.

MATRONS AND SISTERS.

In a will to which probate has just been granted, a desire is ex-& China Gas Co., Ltd., read a paper Pension Minute which appears in

Mr. A. Hevey, of the Hong Kong

The following amondment of the pressed by purchaser to purchase on "Gas, ita distribution and uses" the Genera! Orders of the Hong son to succeed him.

The will in question is that oftendance at the Institution of En-the "Government Gazette":-

yesterday afternoon to a large at Kong Government is published in Chan Ming-kai, inte of 990, Canton gineers and Shipbuilders of Hong Road, Kowloon, who died on May Kong. 18, this year, at 2, Pún. Lui Lane, Fat Shan, Kwangtung.

His Hong Kong estate is valued was in the chair. Introducing Mr. at $2,500, and probate of the will Hevey, the President said that his has been granted to Kwong Shek that was not familiar to many and discourse would be on a subject

Hing, of 54, Queen's Road West, a

merchant.

Mr. W. J. Hill (the President)

that was why it should be all the more interesting.

Included in the will is the follow- ing:"My mother la old, my wife

After replying to several techni- is young.

I have no children nor cal questions, Mr. Hevey demon- have I brothers of the same centre. strated the working of dry and wet I recollect that I have tolled meters and explained the use of throughout my whole life and saved

other apparatus. a little surplus. I want to buy a

Mr. J. Ormiston proposed a vote boy to inherit me. If he be ad- of thanks to Mr. Hevey, for bring mitted into the clan, a sum of $500 ing the apparatus and for running should be appropriated for the An- gas pipe into the Institute for cestors' Worshipping Fund. If ad- the occasion. The proposal was re-

ceived with acclamation. mittance to the clan be refused, then let the matter of appropriation drop."

THE LECTURE.

The will concludes by saying that no clansinan shall be allowed to, in-Į

In the course of his lecture, Mr. terfere with the estate, and his wife Hevey traced the evolution of gas is not allowed to touch it at ran for lighting purposes from experi- dom. "She is only allowed to re-ments made in the early eighteenth ceive maintenance every month, century to the practical-application that she may not be hungry and of coal gas for artificial illumina- cold, and that will do."

tion in the closing years of that

Another Estate.

Estate in the Colony is valued at $26,500, and is left, entirely to the

son.

William Cornwall.

Murdoch,

ing gas to the industrial field.".

Probate of the will of Wong Fa-century, through the invention of nang, otherwise Wong Shang Kim

at Redruth, Tong, otherwise Wong Pul-yam, otherwise Wong, Kim Kee, late of The first application of the in- 6, Po Hing Fong, who died on June Vention as a commercial and econo- 20, 1928, at the same address, has mical substitute for lamps and been granted to Wong Shiu-fan (or candles was made by Murdoch at industrica that are followed there Faan), of 6, Po Hing Fong, mer. Birmingham, stated the lecturer have been attended with varying chant and son of testator, and also and it was interesting to note that the only surviving executor named to-day it was furnished with one degrees of prosperity, such In the will, the other executor, tea-of the most important industrial gas tobacco cultivation, cotton growing, tator's widow having died.

undertakings in the world supply- sugar cane, fruit, sweet potato.

The application of gas to some onion and pea-nut cultivation.

of the manufacturing processes for In this connection, it is interest-

which Birmingham had long been ing to note that one

of the last!

Probate of the will of Chan Lam-so justly famed, was touched upon, things mentioned by Sir R. E. hing, alias Chan Hing, aliae Chun also its gradual introduction for Chak-sang. à contractor of 70, Dea town lighting purposes in 1826 and Stubbs, former Governor, in the Yoeux Road West, first floor, who following years. Legislative Council Was that he died at the French Hoapital, Cause-

Hong Kong Conditions. thought the last had not been way Bay, on June 4, this year, has

The introduction of the upright been granted to Chan Pun-shi, his incandescent mantle in 1887, of the heard of plans for developing in-widow, of 25, Chinese Street, Hong inverted mantle in 1908 and the dustries in the New Territories, in Kong, second floor, and Chow Nim conversion of street lamps to the spite of the indifference of the tong, a merchant, of 13, Pottinger super-heated cluster of small-man- people themselves.

Street, Hong Kong.

tles in 1912 was also touched upon "Other than Local estate is valued at $8,000, by the lecturer who then passed on listening with their customary and everything is left on trust to to the question of mains in regard politeness to what I had to say to be invested for the equal benefit of to which technical matters were ex- them on the matter," said Sir three children as they each attain plained in a lucid manner.

Reginald, "nothing has up to the present been done by the Chinese aldera." It is encouraging to note, however, that a change for the bet-

Hong Kong, Satorday, Dec. 10, 1927. ter has now taken place and that the Chinese elders rendered every THE NEW TERRITORIES SHOW. assistance in the running of this

week's show and exhibition.

the ake

$9,000 Left.

of 21 years.

FAMINE RELIEF.

ALLOCATION FOR SHANTUNG AREA."

The Pension Minute is amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph 8 of Clause No. 1:-

(1) Every European matron of a Government hospital, and every. European nursing siy- ter, who has served for a period of 10 years and has attained the age of 60 years, or who, Irrespective of age. has served for a period of 20 years, may be allowed to retire and may be awarded a pension at the rate of ten- sixtietha of her salary with an addition of one-seven-hun- dred-and-twentieth for each month of service in excess of ten years; to the computation at the said rate five-sixtieths of the salary will be added in respect of tropical allow- ance.

(2) Personal allowances equiva-

lent to salary, referred to in clause No. 12 of this minute, shall in the case of every European matron and every European nursing sister re-. ferred to in this paragraph .8, who is entitled to free quarters, with other privi- leges (if any), be computed at the sum of £50 a year or at one-sixth of the pay. reckoned in the computation of her penalon, whichever sum is greater.

(3) Every nurse whose case does not come within the provi- sions of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph but who, being eligible for a pension, has served for a period of 15 years or upwards may be allowed to retire on attaining the age of 50 years and may be awarded a pension at the rate of eighteen-sixtieths of her salary with an addition of one-seven-hundred-and- twentieth for each month of service in excess of fifteen years,

(4) The grant of pension to matrons, nursing sisters and nurses who have attained the age of 55 years or who retire before reaching the age of 66 on the ground of ill-health will be dealt with under the preceding paragraphs of this clause.

TAILOR CHARGED. ALLEGED THEFT OF MASTER'S CLOTHI

In Hong Kong we had about 90 miles of low pressure mains cum. mencing with a 15 'inch cast iron! trunk mam from the Whitty Street works, branching and sub-dividing to the various parts of Hong Kong and the Peak. The whole distribu tory system was planned with the idea of procuring Forty-six thousand dollars. huvel

a The Indian tallor employed by One of the grentest drawbacks to

gas through an Indian tailoring establishment The present Governor of Hong work among 18 worst affected dis- each

been allocated for urgent relief continuous flow of

section of the main. at Kowloon, who is charged with the introduction of modern Kong, who numbers many

old tricts in the Shantung famine area The branches of one artery or trunk stealing 58 pieces of cloth from his methods in agriculture in the New friends amongst the New Terri-Committee of the China Interna- other arteries or trunk mains, and Kowloon

at a recent meeting of the Shantung main, were connected to branches of employer, was again before the Territories, has always been the in- tories village elders, has taken ational Famine Relief Commission at when any section of the main was Another Indian was also charged Magistrate yesterday. difference on the part of the farm- keen interest in the matter, and to the purchase of grain and winter purpose of Inserting new branches,

Tsinan. This sum will be devoted shut down for repairs or for the with aiding and abetting. ers to the whole question and to there are signs of a more acute garments. The districts which will there was gas up to the point where ed (tallor) had approached a Chin- Evidence showed that the accus- the ignorance which breeds that realisation

receive relief follow: of the benefits to be.

Class one ($3,000.00 each)-Fei This was essential, as there were some cloth. A few days after, the the work was being carried out. ese with the view to selling him indifference, It is to be regretted, derived to villagers and farmers Haien, Yen Chow, San Hsien, Lin I, therefore, that the New Territories alike in the introduction of more Lin Cn'ing, Kwan Hsien and Chin industrial concerns dependent on a other Chinese who is a tailor. A Hsian, Yen Chow, San Hsien, Lin 1,80 many householders, business and Chinese introduced to accused an- exhibition which W28 held this modern methods of production. The Hsiang. week did not attract more from the organisers of the exhibition are to Yin, Chu Hsien, Tung Ping, Ch'eng ting down of a main for a compara- for $230.

constant supply of Gas during the deal was closed and some of the Class two ($2,000.00 each)-Ping day and night. To them the shut cloth was sold to the Chinese tailor ranks of the farming classes to be congratulated on the aureoss Wu, Tung Wo, Chang Ch'ing, Wen tively short time would be a serious. witness the modern labour saying which attended the initial effort Hsiang Haien and Fei Ch'eng.

The case was then adjourned until devices which were demonstrated, and all far-seeing residents will

Friday next.

This is by no means the equivalent agree with the confidence which was

matter.

High Pressure Gas. Mr. Hevey then dealt with the various factors which had to be SERIES OF THEFTS.

ing of mains and, coming again to JEWELLERY TAKEN FROM the system obtaining in Hong Kong

EAST and WEST. in regard to high pressure gas, stat- ed that there has recently been in-

Thefts of jewellery were re- Eul-stalled in Hong Kong a booster for ported from both the eastern and

Wanchal Gas Storage Station. The follow:-

of saying that the exhibition has expressed in the future growth of EPIDEMIC DISEASES. taken into consideration in the lay- served no useful purpose. If the the New Territories industries now! apathy of the farmers is to be over-that there are signs of an increas- come, it is only by constant llus- ing interest in modern methods.

FIGURES FOR EASTERN PORTS. tration of the benefits to be derived The plea of isolation, at any rate, from a greater interest in modern cannot now hold. Ronds and rail-letin of Eastern Ports for the week supplying gas into the holders of western districts yesterday, as

The following is the Health methods that they may be led to always have made intercourse ensjer ending December 3- proper appreciation of what they and the time cannot be far distant are missing.

when the time-honoured methods of The possibilities of greater de- the New Territories farmer will be velopment of agriculture and other broken into and when by example industries in the Now, Territories and precept he will be led to take have been the subject of Govern more. stock of his soil, cattle, pro- ment attention on numerous occa- duce, etc., In order that Kowloon alons. In 1021 an Economic Rewith its hinterland may justify it- Committee was set up to self as "the beehive of industry of enquire into the possibilities of South China."

sources

making the Colony independent of "other produce marketa than the Now Territories. The report was not altogether favourable owing to the apathetic attitude of the farm-

TWO STOLEN BLANKETS.

Sentences of one month's, hard

exa to scientific production. At labour (or a fine of $50) each were

the same time, the Committee re-imposed by Mr. WSchofield at the commended that expert examination Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on of the soil should be made with a

two Chinese medicine dealers who were convicted of pawning two view to securing technical advice on white woollen blankets belonging to fertilisation and otherwise improv- Mra. Cook of No. 4, Banoo Buliding. ing the fertility of the soil. It was Building. thought that grants of small cap ital should be made to familles re quiring money to start in industry. Since then attempts have been made along these lines and the various

The blankets were stolen from the verandal of Mm. Cook's-house- on November: 28:

Both defendants relied on alibi but his Worship accepted the evi dence of identification:

Plague.

2 cases at Alexandria (2 deaths),

Kangoon (2 deaths). I case at Cheribou.

2 cases at Macassar (2 deaths).

cases at Calcutta.

Cholera.

Rangoon (1 death).

2 cases at Singapore.

1 case at Batavia, (1 death). 1 caso at Bangkok. I case

·

at Canton (1 death).

Small-pox.

1 case at Aden.

2 cases at Basrah (2 deaths).

4 cases at Bombay (1 death).

8 cases at Calcutta (1 death), 1 casa at Cochin.

2 cases at Madras (1 death).

2 cases at Rangoon (1 death),

I case at Sourabaya.

1 case at Bangkok,

I case at Dairen.

1 cane at. Changchun.

1 case at Osaka.

I case at Mukden.

re-

gns would be compressed at West! 'No. 64, Queen's Road East, 2nd Point Gas Works to an initial pres-floor-valued at $703. sure of 21⁄2 lbs. per square Inch and No. 22, Yuk Ming Street (West delivered through an existing 8 inch Point)-valued at $83. main into the gasholders at Wan- A Chinese master tailor at No. chai. The pressure thrown by the 26, Gough Street has also holders was in turn governed down ported the loss of $180 which, he to the required district pressures alleges, was collected by a foki by means of Station Governors, whom he accuses of absconding.

Mr. Hevey outlined the basic prin- |ciples of light and stated that the theoretical side of illuminating en. gineering must be applied in every case of lighting. He then dealt It'ia notified in the "Government with the development of luminous Gazette" that Mr. Jose Pedro ind bunsen burners in the evolu- Braga, being the only candidate tion of hot water apparatus and in who has been nominated, has been conclusion stated:

Small Undertakings,

SANITARY BOARD..

duly elected a Member of the Sant- tary Board as from and including December 8, 1927.

It will be of interest to note that the gas supplied by most of the small undertakinge is entirely: Coal Gaa, but with new exceptions the tion. The process consists in in- larger Works distribute a mixtura termittently gasifying the Coke of Coal Gas and Carburetted Water with steam in producers, the result- Gas. This latter Gas is made from Ing Water Gas being carburetted. Coke and Oil' and during 1925 the with off gas produced in a succead- volume produced amounted to 17 ing vessel, the carburettor, and final. per cent of the total Gas produced ly cracked into a permanent gas in In Great Britain. The advantage n further hot vessel, the superheat- The Hospital Comforts Commit-of its manufacture les in its value er, The Calorific Value of car. tee acknowledges with many thanks, as a reserve, plant, quickly put in or buretted Water Gas varies from receipt of parcels of literature from out of action, in using surplus Coko 800 to 500 B. Th. Us per cubic foot Mrs. Bartlett and Mr. Pryde and as a means of Coal conserva according to the amount of Oll used:

HOSPITAL COMFORTS.