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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. According to the Chinese calendar, yesterday was the day of Great Heat." The prescience of the people who are responsible for the Chinese Calendar -is simply wonderful,at tiines,

For

We have all been hoping in Hongkong for the needed **Deluge," Instead | of the "Great Heat" though often enough the latter, precedes the former, We had enough "great heat" about three weeks in the month of June. Then a typhoon came near to the Colohy ad brought some welcome raina which cooled the atmosphere and replenished to some extent the depleted stor of water in the reservoirs. We began to hope that the rains which largely failed n in May and June would come in July. but, alas! these hopes have been unfulfilled and the water supply question remains a serious problemi.

This reminds me of a suggestion I hare heard regarding the need for increasing the water storage capacity of the island. Is it not possible to incrinse the capacity

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 26TH, 1932.

it to lead up to short review of the effects of the great shipping strike on the trade of the colony; but was disappointed to gl that all that was said of cat was that

A SALUTARY SENTENCE. TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR

KIDNAPPER.

Sentence of ten years' imprisonment with hard inbour was passed, yesterday fafternoon, upon Cheung Cheuk Chin, in- Bonham Road. The boy a scholar at theted for kidnapping a schoolboy living

Wa College has been held to rare in the interior siver October last nad 210,000 as ransom. has not fast. beau recovered by his parents. The robbers have demanded

The cas

"HONGKONG UNIVERSITY. HOW THE PUBLIC CAN HELP The University of Hongkong has just issued an interesting little brochure in industrially, the excitements of the which its aims and needs are described first few months, of the year, were kept † We reproduce the concluding pages:-- up for a time by minor Labour disputes, but I am glad to say outstanding differ-statement of the objects, the aspirations This appoil has taken the form of a ences have now been adjusted, and it is not the present measure of suceers of the to be hoped that in future away a 'niversity, an enumeration of its inure agree to work together in harmony." It is not very illuminating and rather an attempt to outline the kind of a

inmediate and imperious needs, and of tends to minimise the effects of these gramme to be followed in the future if Labour disputes. In their totality they the University authorities believe to lie sisting of Messrs. (M, W. Dorkins. C. it is to rise to the opportunities which Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood) and a jatry con- was heard by the Puisne represensia heavy tax on the trade of the before it. In the case of an institution v. Mark, H. H. Pethick. S. Ross, V. V. Colony-bat it is the consumer who pays founded almost immediately before the 4 Croucher. H. Spicer, H. B. Raymond. avery time, mud it might serve by promote before the war was endel would have. H. Kimp, K.C.), who prosecuted, said world war, any re-survey of the situation greater harmony in "the usure it some been premature.

The Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. organisation like the 'hamber of Com when the whole question of education in kidnapped on October 8th, and though At the present moment, the boy was about 14 years old. He was mere were able to compute the cost, so

China is almost an international one, piteous letters had been received from that the Chinese who represent more

any further delay would be out of place. him and negotiations for ransom had than 99 per cent, of the coumers cüuld assumed, it is because all the indications his parents. The chief evidence against, If considerable expansion in numbers is been made he had never been returned to more clearly appreciate what these strongly and definitely in that sense, the prisoner would be certain documents Labour excitements"nwan in the longvided for in advance, if financial con The evidence already given in the

atul because such expansion must be pro-in which he had made confessions. run to themselves.

fusion is to be avoided and it growing] Police Court was repeated and a state- the response to the appeal immediate and head. In this he said that, last year, he sympathy is not to be estranged. Werent made by the prisoner in Macao was sity would be rendered definitely worthy the boy. They were paid sto in order complete, it is believed that the Univefnd two other men were asked to kidnap of its position as the leading British that they might, drink and dine with the educational institution in the Far East Subsequently they induced the boy to go hay and so become well acquainted. well believe it when we read of the midi- try madness in the neighbouring pro recently been laid down by the Committee som must be arranged, the statement would even then not excruil what has aboard a sampan and kidnapped. "Ran vinee which forms the Colony's biggest of the Privy Council as the bare minimam continued. " as it is impossible to release market. But in a Manila paper, by the England. A partial respons at least is are noterious robbers stationed in the for incorporation as a Eniversity in the boy by military force, because there latest mail, natios a paragraph which immediately necessary if full advantage vicinity. They have more than 400 rifles."

Business conditions are "betters to taken, of the very generous offer in Hongkong at this present time than of which are discussed in the section by the Rockefeller Foundation, the details they have been for many months." This Medicine." is the verdict of an American traveller in i the shoe trade. Evidently nothing like leather," for it must by thi "there's

only line of the import trade which can justify such a comfortable reflection gn the trade of the part at the present time.

There are two views about the state of trade in Hongkong apparently. The Chamber of Commerce reports tell us that

of the Tytam Tuk dam by six, oë eight there is nothing doing" and gan but it is to be observed that its income to Macne with them. He was taken)

feet, by raising the present "spill water to that extent. We haven't havi the water ip to the level of the spill water this year, but last year's typhoon rains filled up the huge rewruir and great quanti- tims of nater can away. The question || have asked is "one for the engineers to doride.

"It is interesting to, read again the sperch quade" by the färretor of Pablie Works (then Mr. Chatham) when the Tythiu Tak dan was forutally opened on February ml, im. He told us that up to 1962 the comiined capacity of the resor voirs mounted to 50.000.000 million gallons. There was then in course of con-

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There is probably not another place in the world where a telephone company might hope to get a fiovernment guar antes of 12 per cent on its fall capital value, as the China and Japan Telephon

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The appeal is addressed :-- () To the friends of the University who have go generously helped it in

the past:

identity and referred to the receiving of following day prisoner admitted bis In another statement made on the

money. He also mentioned how his con science pricked him suddenly and he re pented of his actions and wished to put went on day and night. an end to the weeping and wailing that

referred to the Fhet that her illustrious A letter received by the boy's mother

of food and clothing son 27. was in good health, and had plenty |

STATEMENT BY THE PRISONER.

(4) To British firms and to individual British subjects, who recognise that wealth drawn from trade with China carries the obligation to con tribute, at a eritical moment, to the! intellectual development of her The prisoner made a statement from people:

the dock in which he alleged that the (To the Chinese, of Chinese or of boy asked him to gri to Macao. I told British nationality, who are in sym-hini," said the prisoner. " that I cannot pathy with the aims of the Univer-5 I have no money." The hay said sity or who desire that the youth he had money and they went to a tea of China, or their own won anding prisoner to wait there, as he had two house. The boy left the tea house, tell- daughters in particular, should other friends to go to Macao together have the fullest opportunities of with them...They all stayed drinking for profiting by Western learning with- out being exposed to the risks inci-sometime, then going for a walk, before dent to complete removal "from

proceeding to Macao. Chinese surroundings at a critical movements at Macao.

Prisoner described, at length, his period in their lives. faction, the inmeiliat raising of some tanatched them with revolters. The $100,000 to $500,000 is necessary, as well as rothers set sail, and went to Tolan. There amall boat, on which there were robbers. They engaged a Fully to beneft by the Rockefeller bene Darenching the other boat, the robbers the provision (at an estimated cost of prisoner and the boy were kept captivo $180,000) 'of a medical hostel. Public Service Commission "reduced the

in the house. He (prisoner) was bound telephone subscriptions to a figure which scale which will ensure that appoint five or six months until they found that To place salaries and allowances upon The robbers kept him, the prisoner, for and beaten. The hoy, was also beaten. would show a yield of only 2.36 per cent.

ments shall remain attractive to the right he had no money. Eventually they let on the cost, or 1.96 on the fair value" capital sum of 81,000,000, some half of Macno he must see the boy's mother and kind of men is estimated, to involve him go,, telling him that if he went to The Company are appealing against the which should be raised within two years. tell her to send money to redeem her son decision and claim & per veut, on the connection with the Rockefeller bene he got to Macno he had word sent to fair and reásorable value of its pro-faction may be regarded as indirectly the mother telling her to come over to Some half of the money to be raised in for they would beat hiri to death When perity." And the China and Japan Tele.available for this purpos phone Co are expecting a guarantee of

A further that place. 12 per cent." Terb wap.

struction the small reservoir knewen as the Tytom Bywash Reservoir which in "To raised the total storage capacity to 137 million gallons The storage capacity Co. are hoping to do in Hongkong, Ised | added siner 1004, mainly by the comple-

that the New York Telephone Co. has tion of the Tytam Tak schenic, mounted a suit in equity seeking to enjoin sto 1,629 million gallons, or more than

the Public Service Commission from three times the exparity of all the reser

enforcing an order which prescribes the voir existing in 1901,"

rates the Company are to charge in New York State. It appears from the report Judging by punt experience, Mr. Chat-that the New York Telephone Co. earned ham impress of the community that 9.55 per cent. on the cast price of its this great storage capacity”” would only plant and other assets, and that the Suffice to meet the ever-growing demand for water for a period of about Afteen years," As a matter of fact and experi- ence it has failed within hve years! The Director must have" been sadly out in his calculations: or is it that the growth of the Colony has been three times as rapid since the completion of the Tytan. Tak scheme as it was before? Or, is it that the general body of residents forthwith adopted the advice given to them by Sir Henry May on the occasion of the formal

pening of the dam? Let me quote:

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for future expansion of staff in respect confession was false and was made he sum of $300,000 would go far to provide The prisoner also declared that his first to subjects already included in the curri.cause the boy's mother offered him menty culum.

to get the two other men charged in the Palice Court convicted.

The boy's mother was re-called by the

The immediate provision of additional

bostel accommodation is urgently necer-Indge and denied this. of the University is not to be endangered. sary if the essential residential character

Bagineering appeal especially to a special

The needs and claims of the Faculty of

page 41. class. They will be found described on

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In another American telephone con- troversy, the Michigan Public Utilities Now when we see so much fresh water. Commission has refused to accept original around us, and know of what purity that cost, or reproduction cost, less deprecia water is, one cannot help reflecting what

THE PRISONER'S TWO STORIES. great pity it is that residents of the tion, as a rate base, and insists that "the

Puisne Judge said that before they could Summing up the case to the Jury, the Colony a thirsty place like this- do not only proper rates are those based on value adopt water as a beverage instead of and quality of the service." According

and the prisoner guilty something stronger."

they must find that part of his confession true which Well, as a matter of fact the consump fundamental theory of the cost of repro-portance but is. at the same time,

The more adequate study of the Chinese related to events in Hongkong. In his to the Michigan Commissioner, the language and of Chinese philosophy and statement in Court he had confessed to tion of water pure fresh water-per

history is recognized as a matter of incurred in China and Macro and the Court, at number of criminal acts, but these oc- head of the population is about three duction less depreciation method of valua times as large as I understand it is, for tion is not what it might cost to repro upon alequate endowment.

to which action must be conditional Jury was merely able to accept the state- was not concerned with them. If the example, in Sydney, a place of about the duce obsolete or pear obsolete equipment, necessary for purposes other than build-order to convict, the Jury must accept as The specific sums above stated to be equitted on the present charge, fur, in ments the prisoner now made he must be same population and almost as thirsty but what it would cost to procure equiping are intended to form part of the true the statements the prisoners made in summer time. I suspect, however, that ment that will produce serviet of the same general endowment, fund of the Univer-at first. The evidence against him wa the difference is not to be explained by the quality as that being rendered by the Rity, and, as such, will be available nei-practically nothing except what had pro- percentage of teetotalers in the two

equipment under consideration."

ther for purposes of capital expenditureceeded out of his own mouth.. What nor for meeting deficiencies in current. The Judge pointed out to the Jury populations, but rather by the use of

would be the verdict of the Michigan revenue, All monies stated, to be contri- that the prisoner, when he made a state- the meter system in one city and its

Public Utilities Commission in the Hong. bated for apecific purposes will be kept ment in Alacao, deliberately adopted the absence in the other. There is undoubtedly about it. Subscription rates would not

koeg case 1 There is not much doubt distinct and, so far

separately invested.

as necessary, second of his confessions and he had not enormias waste in Hongkong.

Contributions may be allotted to the explanations just made to the Court. tempted to query that statement in bis be raised in Hongkong if, the Michigan

"general endowment fund." or to the The prisoner said he and the boy were Public Utilities Commission, or the Public more specifically defined. Contributions ditionally on his promising to help in get- "building fund." or the purpose be both kidnapped, but he was released con- Service Commission of New York State ect specifically allocated will be carried ting money from the boy's relatives. had any say in the matter.

to a "general purpoars fund," to be used came to Macao for this purpose and He in the discretion of the University for there the boy's mother made a counter to the Colony's needs for fifteen years mind the liability to interruption of the

any purpose other than those of current offer, asking him to help her to get proof be foreshadowed the necessity for future telephoro communications established in that larger contributions may usefully be pursuance of the scheme of helping the against two other defendants. The pris It is suggested on page 27 and i works, while Sir Henry May said: "We cunt years with some of the more chain, more particularly those in the Jury found the prisoner" guilty and page 39 oner said he made the confessions in have only made provision for fifteen portant islands in the waters of the intermediate medical sciences. Contribu- the Judge, commenting on the serious-

affected to the endowment of existing

mother in this design. years, and the first thing we have to do, Colony, the attention of the Governmenttions may, if desired, be paid by instal-ness of the crime and the fact that the

have linked with this great may be directed to a recent announcement ments, over a number of years. Chatham has referred, is to think out a system of wireless telephony has now been maller contribution's might be affected, A number of minor needs are referred

boy was still a prisoner, sentenced the scheme for building another reservoir successful established in the British Westby donors who desire that their contriba.

bard labour. three times as big, as this Hongkong is Indies. The group enjoying it is the ions should serve to meet some specific a healthy child, and growing far apace... Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turkce. In such cases, it is probably desir. he did not propose to proceed with the "and is only in her infancy." But she has being now connected up with South Caicos should be consulted, and if possible that before the Sessions in connection with the evidently acquired an enormous liking and Salt Cay, distant twelve and eight personal visit should be paid to the kidnapping

able that the University authorities indictment against the other prisoner. for water! Bas the excise duties phone the Commissioner in now able to ed on.

milea respectively. By this wireless tele University before the allocation is decid liquor anything to do with it?

converse with officials in the neighbour ing islands. The systera cau niso be used be welcomed.

Personal visite of inspection will always When I read the speech of the Chair for wireless telegraphy, and has already man of the Chamber of Commerce last people of Grand Turk to know when proved of great value in enabling the weck and came upon a remark that so steamers are approaching or are leaving far the year"had been an eventful oneSanto Domingo, for their shores. in the history of Hongkong," I expected

One more note on this subject is re quired to mention the feet that even while Mr. Chatham judged that the storage capacity provided would be equal

after WC.

Writing of telephones and having in

revenue.

After a retirement of five minutes, the

reservoir the catchwaters to which Mr of the West India Committee that ato in the course of this appeal to which accused to ten years' imprisonment with

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RODERICK RANDOM.

Any enquiries or correspondence

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RESKIONA CONCLUDED.

The Attorney General antiquaced that

The Paisns Judge' then ordered the Sessions to be closed.

the Registrar, at the University, or, if be addressed to the Vice-Chancellor or Brunyate (Vice-Chancellor), Bir G. F preferred, to any member of the Appeal Committec.

(Continued at fort of next column).

Chater (Chairman); Hon Mr G. MeL. Messer, Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen and Mr. The appeal is, signed by Sir W. E

G. T. Edkins (University Finance Com mittee).

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