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may yet lead a combined Liberal and Labour Government.

If he

Lady Clementi, was to leave Home for Hong Kong In thei "Empress of Scotland" on May 18.

The engagement is announced between Lancelot Henry Calthrop, of Tiverton, Devon, and Jessie Elizabeth, elder daughter of Cap- tain and Mrs. Harris Walker of Hong Kong.

MONDAY,

CORRESPONDENCE ·

JUNE 3, 1929.

WEDDING BELLS

IMPORTANCE & NECESSITY MR. W. G. ROBERTSON AND

OF WELLS FOR HONG KONG

MISS D. V. MANN

AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

To the Editor of the "China Mail"} Sir,-"Water from wells in contaminated and dangerous to

The wedding took place at St. health." "Water from wells may

cholera

John's Cathedral, on Saturday after and kindred Bamboo barriers are being cause

diseases." "Wells should be con- noon of Mr. W... G. Robertson, of Mr. and Mrs. J. erected in Connaught-road oppo- sithe Harbour Office and Great demned and closed." Such is the eldest son Edern Hotel. Water tanks parrot ery of the biased and Robertson of Liverpool, and Miss made of brick are to be erected at sophisticated; those who do not Doris V. Maan, the only daughter scientifically study the geologi- of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mann, of Lon these spots.

cal formation of

the land don.

The bridegroom is the Manager one of the first to The marriage will take place in would be July between the Rev. J. Horace condemn and prevent the use of in China of the United Molasses bride is a new arrival in the Johnston, of Kowloon, and Kath-water from wells in sub-soil and Co. (Hong Kong), Ltd, whilst the leen, daughter of the late Mr.reclaimed areas for drinking pur T. L. Duncan and Mrs. Duncan, poses, as such well-water is liable Colony.

The ceremony was performed to be contaminated with scwage:

Rev. A. Swann, Littlecroft, Osterley.

matter and other dangerous im- by the Very

4.

A Chinese woman passenger, of purities, and is certainly a menace D.S.C., whilst the duties of best about 28 years, who occupied an to public health, no matter how it man were carried out by Mr. H. Netherlands Consul- Bas, of the intermediate-class cabin on the is treated and boiled.

ate. The sub-soil areas round "Taishan," committed suicide by

Bride's Dress throwing herself from the boat while on the voyage to Hong Kong from Canton last night.

while the vessel was on the way from Singapore. It is believed that the man is insane.

about the city of Canton, for The bride. who Was given

example.

wore

Commander F. B.

are the breeding ground of disease, and the well away by

D.S.O... R.N. (retir- water from such areas is general- Newill,

a pretty crea- with ly found to be charged with ed)

of ivory charmeuse disease germs from the sewage saturated soil, and should never be tight bodice and long skirt, pearl girdle and trimmings. Her tulle used for potable purposes.

tion

(re- maid, wore a pretty dress of mauve net with a gold girdle, with mauve picture hat to match. Sha wore gold kid shoes, and carried bouquet of msuve orchids tied with gold ribbon. --

the

A Chinese passenger on the s.s. "Seistan" was detained at the Water Police Station yesterday on a report made that he had wound- ed a fireman with a pocket knife But, the water from the old veil was surmounted y a wreath wells of Hong Kong Island is dis-of pearls and orange blossom tinctly different from that of the Ivory satin shoes, with pearl flow welis of the sub-soil areas of Can-er trimminga, completed a very charming appearance.. The bou ton city.

af arum lilies The Hong Kong Auxiliary of Hong Kong Island is of a rocky quet was a sheaf the Mission to Chinese Lepers formation, and is quite free from and maidenhair ferns..

Miss Irene Butler, as brides. will give a concert next Saturday the contaminating influences of evening in the auditorium of the sewage-impregnated areas St. Stephen's Girls' School. Many claimed areas excluded). Chinese students and patrons of Two of the principal sub-soil Western music will participate, areas are those situated in the The Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o will make Wong-Nei-Chung and Tai Hang a short address on behalf of the Villages, and water from wells in these two localities should not be

Honeymoon in Japan good cause..

used for drinking purposes.

After the ceremony, a well at- Hong Kong is noted for its tended reception was held in the Mak Hung, an office "boy" em- ployed in the Editorial Office of springs and perennial flowing Hong Kong Hotel where does so it will be largely owing to the "China Mail," was this morn-mountain streams, and the water usual toasts were enthusiastically the measure of support which the ing charged before Major C. Will-from such sources is of the honoured.

owing to The happy couple were the re- Liberals are prepared to give to son, Q.B.E., at the Central Magis- greatest purity, and

many beautiful and

the new

Labour Government tracy, with the larceny of a quan-thousands of years of infiltration cipients of

con valuable presents, which were an tity of linotype lead, the property is absolutely free from when it again meets the House of of the Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. taminating influences. The water view at the reception, and numer Accused pleaded "guilty" and was from these streams should be colous congratulatory cables from and sentenced to three weeks' hard lected and trained into tanks in-friends at Home and abroad. both Labour

The bridegroom's gift to Though

stead of allowing millions. labour. Liberal leaders have stated that'

gallons of this precious fluid to bride was a diamond and plati- their Party will "stand or fall" on

A fine of $2,800 or three run to waste daily. its merits, it is not improbable months' jail was imposed on a

a chair conditions of the China coast trip to Japan, the bride's travel- that they would much rather Chinese described as

maker at the Kowloon Court this from Swatow to Canton and I find ling dreas being of blue flowered effect at least a "working arrange- morning, for unlawful possession that all this length of coast has chiffon with blue crinoline hat to ment" by which they would be of 112 taels of opium. The ac-been smothered and drowned by match. able to cope effectually with the cused was yesterday arrested the subsidence of a large mass when he alighted from an express of contaminated land in the Paci- Conservatives. Time alone can train from Canton. The opium fic Ocean, of which the numerous MR. B. R. FORSTER tell, and old "Father Time" is, was found cleverly concealed in Island groups of Polynesia. and Melanesia are the remains of this on politics as on other matters, a gramophone.

submerged Continent (see my reticent always. Mr. Ramsay

Shortly after 3 o'clock yester-1914 publications). MacDonald, it would be observed, day morning, an armed robbery This great subsidence of land thanked the women voters for occurred at the Shing Hing Boat happened at the same time as the their support. It is probable that Building Yard at Cheung-sha- great upheaval of Central Asia, wan. Five men were concerned, and Hong Kong Island and all the it was largely owing to the votes all being armed with revolvers, islands of the China Coast are the cription exercised by millions of women Two dealt with the fokis sleeping remains of submerged highlands, a inl

merly

Commons.

of

num wristlet watch.

the

I have studied the geological | The honeymoon will he spent in

This is

con-

EX-SECRETARY TO H.E. AS CO-RESPONDENT

After the wedding in January,

SKIPPER'S DIVORCE SUIT

"Callous" was the Judge's des-

of the conduct of co-respondent (who was for- Hong Kong towards the husband he had injur- for the first time that Labour was on the first floor, and the others and mountains. again able-thanks largely to the ransacked the ground floor, occlusively proved by a close study

cupied by the master. They even of the rocks and boulders which ed. The parties were Mr. Osmond three-cornered variety of most tually got away with jewellery litter the coast and which strew H. Farrar, a master mariner, em- his the shores of Hong Kong Island ployed on the China Coast, AFTER THE ELECTION

Mildred Elizabeth of the elections to more than worth $300 and $200 in cash.

and all the islands in its neigh-wife, Mrs.

Mr. Bernard Roy hold its own with the Conserva- Corporal F. Lovell, of the 1st bourhood. This is why the Island Farrar, and The general opinion in London tives.. The ladies seem to have Somerset Light Infantry, who of Hong Kong is a rock, and prac- Forster, recently Private Secretary to H.E. the Governor of Hong and elsewhere at Home, especial-forgotten that it was to the Con- has a first class certificate as atically free from sub-soil areas. Kofig. There was no defence to is in the Press, is that the election servatives and not to the Labour-Physical Training Instructor from Consequently all water from has resulted in a condition best ites that they owe their right to Training at Aldershot, has been Island is of the purest quality. 1926, Mr. and Mrs. Farrar came

the Army School for Physical the springs and streams of the the proceedings. described as "stalemate." True, vote. But the likelihood is that appointed Swimming, Drill and and no better water could be.

out to Hong Kong. In November, the Labour Party has polled the on the present occasion. as in Games Instructor at the Diocesan found for potable purposes. largest number of votes, and 1924, victory was won as the refrst Mr. Lovell's work will be servoirs should collapse at any month. During is absence (the Boys' School and Orphanage. At What if the wells of our re. 1927, Mr. Farrar made a trip to Singapore, which lasted about a will therefore have a majority suit of the hard work and skilful mainly amongst the boarders, but time through earthquake or

husband alleged) Mr. Forster over any one Party in the House organisation manifested by the it is hoped to give instruction to faulty construction, as has hap

seduced Mrs. Farrar. pened in other parts of the of Commons, but that that is in- Labour Party long before the day boys in the Autumn.

Life in Far East world! sufficient was abundantly proved election loomed in sight.

Early last year Mrs. Farrar News has reached Hong Kong I am, therefore, in favour of a went to England, and in June last But we must get to facts and on the death, on April 27, at careful inspection of all localities she and co-respondent wrote the a brief spell of power. On the

eschew fancies. Mr. Baldwin will Arcachon, France, of Miss Geor suitable for digging and boring husband a confession of their present occasion, as in 1924, the probably decide to reorganise his gina Grace Maria Kennedy, the wells by experienced engineers, guilty association, which had be

youngest daughter of the late and such wells should be made a Conservative and combined

Cabinet and go before the House Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, permanent source of the Colony's Evidence proved a charge of Liberal vote could swamp the

of Commons hoping for the sup-G.C.M.G., C.B., former Gov water supply, as it is wise and adultery at Lauderdale-mansions, Labour Party. Hence the state port of the Liberals when in a ernor of Hong Kong from 1872 to necessary" to guard against Maida Vale, London, where the

1876. At the time Sir Arthur disaster. of stalemate that prevails. It "tight corner." The outlook, is

couple occupied a flat. Kennedy was

and a widower.

All existing spring walls, which Mr. Justice Hill, addressing the would appear, however, that on not more promising for him than Miss Georgina, who has just are free from contaraination by jury on the subject of damages in the present occasion the Labour-it will be, later, for Mr. Mac- passed away at the advanced age sewage matter should be imme-divorce cases, referred to the diffi

of 81, was hostess at Government diately re-opened and cleared for culty of estimating the money

in 1924, when the Labourites hád

ites

need not fear the Donald, and at the present mo- House. She is remembered as use. combined vote quite so much as ment nothing seems more certain tall, handsome, and gifted.

In 1924, for though the figures are than that there will be another! practically just as formidable, yet General Election at no distant'

an element of even more import-

THE ECHIDNA

gun in China. -

value of a wife, but they had to With a proper system of control ask what had the husband lost? led wells, pumps and tanks, the There were only two Years of Colony need not look to the main- married life, mest of which was land for its water supply in passed in hotels and such places, future, and we shall be freed from as was not unusual in the East. a repetition of the hardships Here was a husband in the mers which the inhabitants of Hong chant service, and probably his were less than those of an ordin

date. The Labour Party were ance is introduced by the fact able to hold together only for that the feeling existing between eleven months in 1924; and whe Liberals and Conservatives is by ther they will be able to do so for QUEER BIRD BROUGHT FROM Kong are experiencing to-day. ehances of getting another wifé

to

"DOWN UNDER”.

the men of the mother, and has

ary, man.

no means what it was in 1924. even so long a period on the pre-

If not used for drinking pur- poses, such well-water could be Indeed, while there seems to be a sent occasion is, as stated, a mat-

used for washing, bathing and

Callous Letter. disposition on the part of the ter for conjecture.

It's neither bird, beast nor rep flushing purposes, and would

It tile, but some of all of them.

The letter the co-respondent Conservatives * practically

mean an immense saving of the The situation is extremely in has a head like a bird, lays egg precious drinking fluid in times of wrote to the husband, added the ignore the Liberals and to blame

teresting and not a little Buckles its young through pores in

Judge, was "a callous letter " 28 the co-respondent The water from such wells written, them not only for their own complicated by the fact that the a cup-like depression in the abdo-drought and water scarcity. (the Conservatives') position but Government may decide to "carry form and legs of a mammal.

need not be used, when the full said, on strictly business. lines,” also for indirectly helping on the on" uniti actually defeated in the Down in New Guinea they call supply from the Colony's re-referring to his guilty association "Socialistic" cause, there is, on Commons. Constitutionally they it an echidna. Two of its number, sources is turned on, but it is al with Mrs. Farrar and adding that the other hand, something akin to have a right to do so; but the a male and female, recently reach-ways wise to be on the safe side, they wanted to get married. Still an inclination on the part of the better course would appear to be ed New York on the Canadian Na-and to have a plentiful reserve of the jury could not "punish" the steamship,i Canadian pure spring water always ready co-respondent for that in the way to hand over the Government to tional

Cruiser," under the care of Lee 5. at hand in case of drought and of damages, Liberals to indicate at least a

"I should have thought a friendly disposition towards the the Labour Party and see what Crandall, curator of birds at the emergency as at present.

Hoping this matter will receive horse-whipping would have been they can do with it, with or with-Bronx Zoo.

the best form of punishment for Labourites. To what extent that

out the help of the Liberals. The echidna has many points in the favourable consideration of

a man like the co-respondent," feeling may be manifested is, of

Parliament, re-assembles on the common with the duck billed platy. the Government and the authori

declared the Judge. Yours, etc,

THE TSAN-TAL Hong Kong, June 1, 1929.

course, merely a matter for con- 25th instant, and then many pus of Australia which also has ties concerned,

the body of an animal, suckles its

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jecture, but close observers have doubts at present existing will young, lays eggs and, as its name frequently stated that it is not he immediately put to rest by the implies, has a head with a long bill

like a duck. improbable that Mr. Lloyd George; cecision of the Government.

The jury assessed the damages. at £500 and the Judge pronounc- ed a decree nisi, with costs ac- cordingly.