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THE DINNER and OAL

held at the PENINSULA HOTEL, on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 1928, at 8 PM.

The PRIZES awarded at the MOTOR CAR PARADE; the Recent GRAND TATTOO will ise presented during THE EVENING.

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G. E. S. UPSDELL,

Bon. Secretary.

CLUB LUSITANO,

CIRCULAR

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Mr. Wang Tak Kwong, Mr. Sum There, are, at the present time,

The opinion that the English approximately 1,400 million gallons Pak Ming and Mr. D, J, Lewis have public school is at the present time of water in storage on the island. been appointed members of the in no danger of super-session was During the summer months the Court of the University of Hong expressed by Mr. R. Cary Gilson,

the headmaster, at the speech day! consumption was eleven, rising to Kong for a period of three years.

of King Edward's School, Birming twelve, million gallons a' day. The

Mr. Talmon, of 3, Armend Build ham. Contrasting the public school restrictions and the colder weatherings. Kowloon, has reported to the of to-day with that of 30 years reducted this consumption "to ap-

ago.. he said that whereas the boys formerly regarded the master, se proximately eight million gallons a day, and it is probable that the

their natural enemy the reverse was cutting off of the supply through the rider mains next month will save, another two million gallons. It is difficult to estimate, exactly

what effect the additional restric tions will have until they have been in force for some weeks, but, it is hardly likely' that the consumption will fall below six million gallons daily. On this basis, our require ments amount to 180 million gallons a menth. As there are, as we have stated, 1,400 million gallons avail- able-this quantity does not include a certain proportion which must always remain unusable at the bottom of the reservoirs we have sufficient water for the next right months, or until the end of June. That is running things very close, but there is no cause for alarm breause the calculation is based on

the assumption that not a drop af

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Police the theft of $700 from a locked drawer in his "bedroom on

now the case.

BURIED ALIVE.

GEOLOGIST'S STORY OF HIS SUFFERINGS.

"MY BODY WAS LIKE A CORPSE."

The ordeal which Mr. M. K. Morehead, 2 noted geologist of The boys then hated Chicage, underwent when he was

Saturday. A house coolie who had access to the bedroom is missing.

school, now they loved it. "In the The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, English public school spirit there buried alive for some hours through Attorney-General (Chairman), "the

was an instinct of fair play with a fall of earth while testing earth Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer, Colonial which was allied that of generous formation in Ohio is related: by Treasurer, and Mr. V. M. Grayburn | treatment of a rival or antagoništ. ·| him in an American medical maga- have been appointed to consider applications and to allct the bonds.

The ricksha coolie who robbed the

Japanese purser of the sea. Tengu eru on Thursday night fast of $18 and yen 14 was on Saturday mora- ing sentenced by Mr. R.. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy to six

months' hard labour:

The undergraduate of Elliot Hall held Ann Home" on Saturday afternoon which was very much enjoyed by a large number of guests. Daucing and music sup- plied by the Rythmics provided the entertainment.

orchestra

editions in three separate offers in

zine.

The New York. Sun, the evening When I felt the ground open newspaper of which William T. beneath my feet," he writes, "and Dewart is President, now prints its sank into a chasm which immedi an effort to cope with the problem ately filled with loose earth, I of heave street traffic in New York nearly Jost consciousness and could It is the first newspaper is the realise nothing more than a tear. United States to adopt. such men-

"I could not stir. a limb, and aa

•sures. The Sun, which was founding pain in my chest, as though ed in 1833, has always had its main my lungs were being crushed. offer in the "downtown" district of Manhattan Island. Some time ago it began printing in a second office upton. but in view of traffic troubles a third office is being used new in East 14th Street. When the newspaper was originally founded there were farms in the neighbour hood of its new office.

The annual dinner dance of the Hong Kong Automobile Association

A passenger on the White Star will be held at the Peninsula Hotel on Friday. December 14th. The liner Gedric arriced at Liverpool prizes awarded at the motor, car last month froin Amerien for a three parade at the recent trand Tattoo weeks' holiday at Coventry during will Le presented during the even-which he will meet his brother whom ing.

rain will fall between now and the middle of next year, which is in-

Three lots of Crown land are to iconerivable. On the other hand it

be sold by nuction at the P.W.D. must be remembered that light show-offices on November 13th. These are ere will be of no practient valug New Kowloon Inland Lot 1184 as the rain will be quickly absorbed (2,193 square feet, upset price 83,290), New Kowloon Inland Lot by the dry ground and little will be 1183 (about 4,550 square feet, upset price $8,870) and Kowloon Inland collected for future use.

Lot 153 (about 76,500 square feet, upset price $39,250).

of one

restrictions Obviously kind or another will have to remain in force the whole of, next year, But last year we had over 100 inches of rain and this year the fall bas It is heen well up to that standard. highly improbable we shall have sa much in 1929; at any rate it cannot counted upon. If there is any. thing in the theory that wet and dry seasons come in cycles we must look forward now to series of "dry" years. What then will be the position? Sixty or seventy inches of rain would meet cur re. quirements just as well as 100 inches if they were distributed favourably over the twelve months. Naturally, however, in such a matter as water supply we have to guard against a combination of the most un- favourable circumstances. We can- not afford to take the least risk, and presuming there are only sixty. or seventy inches of rain in 1929, and we are no luckier in distribus tion than we have been in 1998 we shall; at this time next year, be facing the dry season with reser- voirs much more seriously depleted than they are to-day. That is not a prospect which can be faerd with

One Chinese case of enteric was reported on Friday.

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The as. Kuno Mars is expreted here to-day, frem, London, Mar- seilles and ports, and among the passengers on board, are Mr. N. Ohtani, Managing Director of the Nippon Yuan Kaisha, Tokyo, and Mr. S. Nakase, Manager, Supply Department of the same Company, who are now on their way home after making a round-the-world

tour.

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was

duced.

I felt, the earth pucking morà firm- y upon me I realised that my situation was hopeless. The weight was frightful, so heavy indeed that it hurt my closed eyes and pressed my watch and chain, deeply into my flesh. I bore the marks for some time afterwards,

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3ty limbs and body felt as

though they were being seared with

Not Frightened.

he has not seen for 35 years. We red hot irons. My straw hat cut have not met since we were lads into my head like a steel helmet.

said, in an interview, and Li auppose. we shall have to be intro- Soon I lost all feeling, and only We shall revisit the old un astounding clarity of thought haunts of our boyhood, and reap remained to me. up some old memories." Mr. Clare left England for the United States when eighteen years old, and after

"I was not frightened-I felt al- shoemaking for thirty years entered most as though this imprisonment the banking business, and has at fast realised the dream of a lifetime scenes of his youth.. in renewing acquaintance with the

was part of my normal life. My thoughts still ran on my geological discoveries of the previous few hours,, but over and above every- Professor Henry Fairfeld Osborn thing wna the Ceed for air. has returned to his attack against Mechanically I breathed through the generally accepted theory of half-closed nostrils, making calcu man's ancestry. Darwin thought that our progenitors, no doubt, lations to see how long I could were arboreal in their habits, and hope to live with so little air. frequented some warm, forest-clad and, and this is the view still widely held... From considerations

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"Then Terror Came." Then terror came to me as I

The Chinese who was arrested at of a general kind, however, Prof. felt sand and earth creeping into the Ping Ho Wharf on Friday bors argues that a warm, forest my nostrils, my throat, my lungs, night for being in possession of two clad area was not the sort of place My breaths grow more and more to stimulate the great progressive Luger pistol magazines and striker, was brought before Major development which led to the human deep, and with each breath I felt -

stock Recent ethnographical and sand rasping my throat and coat- C. Willson on Saturday morning physiographical evidence indicates ing my lungs. A hit of coughing He told the Court that he taking the pistol parts to his father that intelligent progressive and seized me, and with the strain T in elevated upland or semi-arid all but lost consciousness. My in the country and that he did not self-adaptive types of mankind arise know that he was contravenidge the regulations of the Colony. Hig environments, where the struggle pulse hammered more loudly and for food is intense and whera Worship convicted and imposed a fine of $100, remarking that the parts had been very cleverly conceal rd which showed that defendant knew perfectly well that he was doing wrong.

The

reliance is made on the invention more quickly until it was like the of implements as well as weapons. heating of a huge sledge hammer. Again, the first modernisation of the; Then all became dark. entire mammalian kingdom, grology "I recovered consciousness with indicates, occurred in Oligocene the feeling that someone was beat- times and was seemingly due to a ing me about the head. In my Dispatches from Brazil says that wave of aridity concurrent with the pain I realised that it was my sal.. A spade had struck me Mr. Hachire Fukuhara, president complete elevation of great con- vation. of the South American Develop-tinental platears. This geological and soon my head was irec. ment Company has requested the cage caused a branching of the breath I took was the sweetest in Brazilian Government to grant ways of mammalian evolution, for my life, and the sound of a bird concessions on conditions pre-existing mammals were compet-singing the most musical have land

led to choose between the warm, ever heard. similar to those governing the con-

"When I was completely freed Mr. enervating, forest-clad regions, or crasions recently made

Mr. Fukuhara in the temperate, stimulating plateaux, my body was like a corpse. Several Henry Ford. tends to colonize these districts and If Prof. Osborn's, speculation is hours of massage were needed be- to plant rubber. He hopes to begin Mongalia or Tibet, the top of the and needies ran through my limbs

right; he looks to the uplands of fore the delicious pain of construction of the first Japanese immigrant station at Acara, in the world, as the most favourable geo- and I was in full possession of all Province of Para, some time in graphical centres for ch develop my senses again. Both shin bones ment, the final proof of which must were broken and it was several November.

rest upon the efforts of the fossil months before my health was restored. The impression it made hunter and explorer.

on me I fear will remain to the end of my life."

home force.

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to

Three

spirit

EXPECTED HERE TO-DAY.

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· The first half-battalion of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment arrive here to-day from Reuter cable, Chinwangtao, saya bearing yesterday's date and des patched from Shanghai.

The men are aboard the s.s.

All essential purposes. Supplies have to be jealously guarded, of and restrictions, which course, enuse a great deal of inconvenience, introduced, but there is no reason to fear that a water famine, inequanimity... British Lady. ESTENOGRAPHER tow the generally accepted sense of the It is estimated that pipe lines Stanghai) desires Immediate Employ term is imminent. The crisis in can be laid at the bottom of the Deut. Address: Box No. 6885, c/o Hong Kong Daily Press. ·

that respect, it seems to us will harbour and be functioning within

It is reported from Calcutta that righteen months-that is by the end there is considerable feeling in the not arise.until the spring of 1930. of April, 1930, if there is no further Indian Army at the niggardly treat-

In the journal of the Inter But it will certainly arise then is delay. They may prove our salva-ment in the way of recognition national Institute of African Lang- WHY Continue to suffer when a most acute form unless the fatestion. Pipe lines, embedded in con of the Indian Contingent of the nages and Cultures, Professor D.

POO ON HERBS are within your reach-Fimples, Catarrb, Asthma, are extraordinarily kind, and it crete, will take longer to prepare Shanghai Defence. This contingent Westerman analyses the religious BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERT-

reached Shanghai three weeks he beliefs of Weet Africa.

FORDSHIRE REGIMENT. Bronchitis, Congh, Constipation, Dia would be absurd to shut our eyes and consequently will be no valne fore the first of the troops from groups of beings are conceived as beter, Dropsy, Rheumatism, and many

In the recent ality and worthy of veneration: other Disosses. No Drugs, Parely to the fact, because, at the moment, in meeting any shortage there may home, and a very difficult three more or less imbued with person-

be in the spring of 1930. That is weeke these were. 1830 may seem a long way off. The

Birthday Honours list two officers (1) individual tutelary spirits, (2) a grave risk and one which we think of the Indian Contingent figured, local deities, (3) the God of Heaven.

and if this represents the only res The individual tutelary Government now have to race with ought not to be taken." time in the laying of the pipe lines!

ponse to the recommendations of the enters a man at birth and deter Brigade Commander it will certain mines his character and destiny, across the harbour, and as the Hop.

ly compare very unfavourably with and protects, advises, and helps the recognition of officers of the him. As the okra or spirit bad Mr. Sourions has informed the

been married in the spirit world council that this is fully realised

before entering upon its human Taming. all that the public can do is to

A referee had to receive the atten- tenement, among the Ewe it is; tion of ambulance officials following neccssury that "at marriage the pray that the Government will win.

a regrettable incident last month spirit wife should be propitiated

WEATHER REPORT. Meanwhile it would do no harm

in a Western League match between by placing in a small hut dedicated. if the Unofficial Members kept them-

Bristol Rovers Reserves and Ply to her a small part of each present mouth Argyle Reserves on the destined for the earthly betrothed

Yesterday's weather report, fore. or wife. Local deities are the chief cast and remarks, issued by the selves closely informed regarding

Rovers' ground. The referee, Mr. A. J. Attwood, of Newport, had obiect of worship. Most are the in- Royal Observatory at 6.50 p.m., the progress of the work, and if

three times, cautioned Pullen, the corporation of natural objects or stated: the importance of the time factor

rocks, mountains, Argyle centre half, for dangerous phenomena,

Pressure has increased moderate. play, and warned him that another springs, thunder, rarely animals. over N. China where an anti- in deciding upon the form in which

offence would lead to his being sent There are also gods of war, peace, cyclone is probably forming. The the pipe lines shall be laid were

off. Pullen then fouled another of the year, harvest, etc. 45 3 1 typhoon appears to be more than stressed. Pipes embedded in con-

opponent, and was ordered to the a priest is set apart for each deity 500 miles to the N.W. of Guam, dress room, Pullen, it is alleged, He is often selected by the deity moving northward. crete may easily require six monthe

Local Forecast: Moderate "wester- immediately srtuek My Attwood a state of ecstasy is induced

and the second caused a swelling by whom the administration of first cut Mr. Attwood's upper lip, power from, the God of Heaven, or N.E., fine generally. over his left eye. Haydon, a Bristol definito sphere of living beings is player, then stepped between Pullen delegated to him. The God of

In his will Sir Francis Walker, and Mr. Attwood, and led Pullen Heaven is also connected with a towards the dressing room. Mr. natural body, namely, the visible of Ravenshill, Kielder, Northum Attwood's injuries were dressed by heavens; but he is unique in that herland, appointed his daughter, as sole minnaging director of the ambulance officials, and he then he is above everything and is every- Miss Helen Walker, to succeed him continued with the game. Bristol where. Everything owes its exist Rovers directors and police officers ence to him. He is the creator and Campeall and Earlham Estates Co.. afterwards entered the Plymouth the preserver of all that is in the and to hold office during her life Argyle dressing room, but it was world. His characteristic qualities and pleasure on the same terms and decided to leave the matter to be are power, justice, and goodness; conditions, and with the

including the power Bristol Rovers won by two and his goodness have made the con- same dealt with by the Football Ascocia but his remoteness, his university, powers as I myself now hold whe

ceptions of him vague and shadowy.' to nominate a successor.

The Daily Press.

Hoxo Koxo, OCTOBER 29TH, 1928.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

The firm of Messrs. Haskins and Sells has been added to the list of auditors in the Colony..

Two passengers, Messrs. G. Smer dan and R. Collins, arrived on Saturday by the s.a. Pyrrhus from Liverpool.

Mr. J. S. MacLaren has bech appointed an assistant to the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs with effect

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The seriousness of the water short-möre time to complete than pipes Co., Ltd., and the Man Wine two rapid blows in the face. Theft him. The local deity receives its y winds, freshening later from M

age does not require emphasis, but laid on the bed of the harbour. We

the general impression seems to be do not think this point has been that if we can struggle through sufficiently considered, and it would the present dry season all troubles be well to bring it forcibly to the arising from inadequate supplies notice of the Home authorities who will end with the coming of the have the responsibility of choosing rains in May or June next. We do between the relative merits of the not view the problem in that light, two proposed schemes "It might in- With the reservoirs full to over-fluence their decision and save us flowing a month or two ago there from the calamitous consequences of was never very serious danger that a drought."

from October 18th.

The Chinese Almanac Advertising Steamship Co., Ltd., have been struck off the register of companies in the Colony,

Silk forwarded from here by the Empress of Canada on October 3rd rived in New York (St. John's Park) on October 24th, having been 21 days in transit.

Passengers aboard the Fun Sang which arrived on Saturday from Calcutta vid Straits were the Rev. J. Thompson, the Rev. S. T. Lam- tion. ming and Miss N. N. Millican. goals to nil,

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