1929-07-17 — Page 8

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929.

WATER QUESTION. ROUND THE COURTS. CORRESPONDENCE.

YESTERDAY'S - FALL.

GIVES ISLAND:37 M.G.; KOW. LOON 10 M.G.

Continued from Page)

Measured in terms of inches there was a decrease in yesterday's rain-¦ fall figures at the various feservoirs,

A MEAN THEFT,

"You are coaricred. It is a nean sort of theft. You were evidently hoping that this man was too crippled to run after you. You will go to prison for three months." This was anid by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg to a Chinese who was found guilty of stealing a brass hashbacked saucepan from a

BASEBALL IN THE COLONY:

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BONG KONG

DAILY PRESS,"

I

Sin. In spite of the repeated appene for baseball ground nothing has yet been done, with the result that ball players and their supporters have been deprived of their summer pastime.

I think it is nothing short of a disgrace that is a place like Hong

ment to a sections of the com

munity, that things should be allow ed to come to such a pass.

but valuable gaias wère recorded all hawker. The raucepan contained Kong, which boasts of fair treat- round. In the residential districts rice for the hunchback's evening the rainfall was much less than on rent!, The hawker placed the side and was saucepan by his

Why this lack of consideration for with the preceding day, but the

about to eat his meal, when deleu- the thousands of ball fans repre- -reservoirs show a valuable increase lant stole the vessel and run away.senting almost every community

district He was arrested by a of storage,

bere is tolerated by the Govern The total gain in Island reser-watchman.

The defendant poured out a torment is, and I fear will always voirs for the 24 hours ending ut

remain, a riddle, rent of excuses, which his Worship a.m. yesterday waa 37 million abruptly cut short. gallons, as compared with 44 millon the previous day. This brings the total storage figure to 378 million. or 300 million including contents of service reservoirs... During the six days, therefore, clone, on $37 million gullong flowed into the reser- voirs.

H

Kowloon reservoirs also recorded a satisfactory increase. The total rose to 214 million with the addition of 10 million gallons during the 24- hour period. The gain was only four million less than the previous day, while the rainfall dropped from "fally one inch" to quarter to half inch."

The following rainfall figures were recorded as the Island reservoirs during the 24 hours ending at 7 an. yesterday :-

.84 inch.

Trtam

Ty tam Tak Pokfulam

Wongueichong

17

"

.37

11

-44

+

A LOVE-SICK DRIVER.

To a case in which a Chinese was summoned for not having pro- per control of his car the Police stated that the defendant was seen driving the car at Tytam with one hand on the stearing wheel and another around a Indy who sat beside him.

The Police warned

the defendant but later found him doing the same thing on the Island Road.

In imposing a fine of $15, Mr, Hamilton told the defendant that if he wished to indulge in flirtation he must not do se while in charge of a motor-ear.

DRIVING ALONG PAVEMENT.

An Indian chauffeur was summon. ed before Mr. Hamilton for driving Tatal for the six days Thursday his car along a footpath at Wors:

to Tuesday:-.

Tytam

Tytam Tuk

Pokfulam

8.71 inches 11.05 0.70

Wongneichong ... 10.65

FIGURES FOR LAST WEEK.

HONG KONG WATER SUPPLY.

The total storage in the Island reservoirs on the morning of Mon- day, July 15, amounted to 352.07 million gallons showing an increase of.194.28 million gallons during the past week; the amount collected from streams being 919.12 million gallons.

The week's consumiption totals 20.77 million gallons and is made up as follows:-

From City mains ...... 17.84

Taikoo

Laichikok

.27 3.90* Taua Wan

1.74* Steamers, etc.... 3.0"

26.77

-To tanks. KOWLOON WATER SUPPLY. The total storage in the mainland reservoirs on the morning on Mon- day, July 16. amounted to 207.31 million gallons"showing an increase of 101.70 million gallons during the past week.

The week's consumption, exclud: ing supplies to Hong Kong is 17.74 million gallons plus 0.13 from the Tan Wan supply making a total of 197 million gallons.

The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week is 123.50 million gallons.

MORE COMPLAINTS.

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neichong.

Some time ago a Committee was appointed to go into the question of the allocation of playing fields, and for all the work they have put in it would have been just as well if they had gone to sleep.

If they cannot go into the ques- tion thoroughly, why don't they resign and let some people who really have the welfare of the Colony at heart take over the job

Something must be done for the Baseball Association, and the soon er the people concerned realise it the better. And to finish off the footbail ground at Happy Valley with those makeshift grandstands looks very nice isn't that sol- Youre, etc.,

FED-UP.

Hong Kong, July 5.

THE "NOTORIOUS LIE." (TO THE EDITOR OF TAX HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."']

14

51With reference to your pointed comment in to-day's issue on a letter received from a Chinese gentleman who alleges that he saw in 1816 at the entrance to the Bund gardens at Shanghai a notice read. ing Dogs and Chinese not ad mitted," it

desirable to publish once more the official re- pudiation, and I therefore enclose copy of an official statement on the subject.

seems

Truth-seeker" claims to have seen his version of the notice in

A. SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.

RUSSIAN COLONEL OF THE

·OLD REGIME.

ד'

A POPULAR FIGURE.

Shanghai, July 8:-Colonel Ad- rian Nikolaevich Kofluff, one of the best known adherents of the Caprist cause in Shanghai, committed sui. cide by shooting himself yesterday morning in his quarters at the Great Western Riding Academy where he was employed. He took his life following a dispute with a fellow employer who was also a Russian in which he thought anfair advantage had been taken of bim He was rushed to the Country Hospital but to no avail.

Was A

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

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Col. Kozloff was born of the mobility in Poltava, Russia, in 1879 and started his military career at an early age. He was a participant in the Russo-Japanese War, the Great War and later the Russian OR SALE OR BROADTOOD BOND: T and CARNARVON BUILDINGS.

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He had been honoured by aum- erous governments and among his best known decorations were the Golden Sword of St. George and the British Military Cross.

He was alone in Shanghai and left no survivors so far as could be learned

The defendant, pleaded that he had just brought his car out of the garage but had to proceed along the footpath 13 there was no wooden plank outside the garage where the car was kept..

The Police stated that the defen. dant had been driving since 1920 and his record was very good. His Worship Sned, defendant 8:0 and explained tha driving along a foot- path was a serious offence as it

*1916, whereas the notice-board was an aution which might endin

quoted bears a date in 1017. As ger the lives of others (Vontinued at foot of next column).to that, however, I would draw at "tention to the categorical state, ment in the letter of October 13. 1623, from the Secretary of the. "careful Municipal Council that investigation reveals the fact that no such notice has ever appeared in the International Settlement" NEW EXCHANGE OPENED. Yours, etc,

M. F. KEY, Hon. Secretary, China Association. Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, July 16.

A Daily Press representative paid A visit to the Tytam Tuk reservoir yesterday afternoon, and reports that though there was a steady flow the from the catchment areas, "80" was some three feet above the surface. That the general public is keenly interested in the water question was evidenced by the fact that at the time of our representative's visit there were no less than six other motor cars, with parties of sightseers present.

HOW THE RAIN GOD PREVAILED.

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OF HIS POWER.

Hankow.-Peasants in Wuhan and throughout Hupeh province breath- ed a deep sigh of relief us the six months drought, which threatened to bring a catastrophe to the various districts, finally broke and the crops were saved from total destruction. Triumphantly the native farmers Dearborn Publishing Company as are addressing their district magis to whether the expression, trates:-"Did we not tell you that dogs or Chinese admitted, appears

Nationalism must not interfere with on any public signboard in Shang

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THE RECLAMATION TANKS.: worship of gods and that if we hai.

want rain and a splendid harvest In reply, I have the honour to we must offer prayers to the God inform you that no such notices are of Rain and refrain from eating posted in any parks or in any ment for seven days. New China other places under the Council's can plunge into any adventure, but jurisdiction, furthermore, careful in to force the people to discontinue vestigation reveals the fact that no the practice of praying for rain such notice has ever appeared in would result in a national calamity."

the International Settlement.

Kuomintang Give In.

A correspondent informs us that the water obtainable from the tanks on the Reclamation is not so much anught after as the supply from street fountains because it is by no ins clear. At the huge tank in Bowrington Canal, the water is The drought in Hupeh began early positively murky, though no doubt it this year and affected many dis- is bacteriologically clean.

tricts. In several large towns the At the same tank a number of laps rice crops have been ruined owing were not in use and investigation to the lack of rain and famine has showed that no water came through set in. It was when the drought these taps. If this is due to faulty began to take serious toll of the construction or other removable crops in and around Wuban and a cause the sooner it is seen to the rice crisis threatened, that the better, as the number of tanks ip farmers, with the backing of the the Eastern district are not so merchants, arranged to hold a mon- numerous that unserviceable taps ater meeting at which united prayer can be left unrepaired.

would be offered to the God of Rain and the God of Harvest. In the The Water Control Office inform-past, such meetings were held when ed our representative that the water erer there was lack of rain, but, in question was from Bhanghai, under the Kuomintang rule, the brought by the s.5. Tiikerang. A authorities withheld permission, con- tending that it was purely a super sample produced

was certainly stitious practice and not at all in clean.

"We always draw the water used line with the enlightened Ideas of in this office from the tanks," said New China: The controversy went one of the officials. "We drink it (one on for over a month, but, as the of them had a glassful by his ade) drought continued and the situation and we make our afternoon tea with grew serious, the local officials it, and so far no one has complain. finally gave in and the united wor-

of the Rain God was held. ed."

Bain Falls! Spécial Uléaners.

Water Control Office Reply.

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much success and the the limit,

roster was to

namely, 50, whereupon it was decid- ed last year to reorganize the association and secure new quartera. The opening ceremony was of an informal nature, inasmuch as the operatives have occupied the build- ing for more than 30 days. On the other hand in view of the re-

For your information, I have organization, prospective share- the pleasure in banding you here- buyers and those interested in de- with three photographic reproduc-bentures, had an opportunity of tions of notices posted in the watching from the floor of the Ex- various parks and gardens. The change, the various fluctuations of Councit would, accordingly, greatly the market. For the convenience of appreciate it, if when replying to all concerned, the majority of these the Dearborn Publishing Company, interested in the daily market you would emphatically point out will be able to obtain, at first- that such statements as these are bond, the quotations, every minute entirely false, unfounded and un-of the day." warrantable and that their publica. tion is strongly objected to by the Council and the Foreign Community of Shanghai-I have the honour to be, etc.

"E. S. B. ROWE,

"Secretary."

MORE WATER WASTERS.

When an Indian constable accosted a coolie who, was wasting water by washing his hands and legs in run- ning water drawn from one of the street taps, the coolie claimed that it was all right as there was plenty of rain.

Mr. T. M. Hazelrigg before whom the coolie was brought yesterday, however, held a different opinion and imposed a fine of 810 or in default, fourteen days.

A similar fine was imposed on a meeting have claimed that the down-woman, who in the course of a pour was the direct result of their quarrel threw away two buckets of The broken tank, No. 12, was

FADired in yet and the prayers. Unprecedented joy pre-clean water drawn from a street work of securing sites on the 100vas Wrap feet level was in abeyance in the population and big celebrations are water carrier who left the water hope that the Colony would get fur- being held in the various districts running from a tap after he had drawn his quota was fined 810 or with the God. of Rain paraded in the streets-United Press,

fourteen-days. (Continued on nezt Volumn).

ship

Curiously enough, rain fell and Mr. S. T. Williamson added that the Commission were employing a the drought broke just a day after special cleaning gang who thorough-the mass meeting, so the farmers ly scrubbed out each tank as it was and the promoters of the mass emptied.

ther rain

It will be recalled that in earlier days of the Shanghai market, seats on the Exchange could be secured for as small a sum as Tls. 700. When the prospects of the opening of a public exchange were broached several years ago, the price of seats jumped immediately to what | seemed prohibitive proportions. Beveral

months ago a broker offered "and sold a seat for Tls. 3,000. Not many weeks ago, interested specula. tors offered as much as Tis. 7,500, but no sale.

In the new exchange two books will be kept, an official one and unofficial one, which will concern, respectively; sales between official brokers, and one broker dealing for two clients. The public, in addi tion, will be informed throughout." the day of every transaction as it takes place the naine of the com- pang, the price, terms, and number of shares involved to be quoted.

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