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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MAY 18, 1714.

A Boxing Flasco.

DAY BY DAY.

ON MOPISH MONDAYS WHEN THINGS LOOK BLUE, THERE'S A WORD FOR ME AND A WORD FOR YOU WHEN WE LEAST EXPECT ALL SILENT AND QUICE, IT WILL TAKE EFFECT, IT WILL DO THE TRICK,-es hi KEEP SMILINO, 'The Weather.

The Malls.

HONGKONG'S BIG RESERVOIR

Visit to Tal Tam Tuk and

Cape D' Aguilar. །མང་བས་ས་གས་ད་ས་པ་ནས་མ་ད་དཀྱི་

DISORDERLY SCENE.

'Two Europeans Fined This Mornlag.

"This morning" at the Police

A TOUCH OF THE SUN 7

Youth's Strange Behaviour in

were

The result of Saturday's boxing bout between Perkins and Bux appears to have cause a deal of talk in town. This was quly o

the Early Hours. bo expcato i whore a "light bud uchun uasisfactory enling.

Between 5 and 6 o'clock this Whether perkins was fouled an 1,

The version of a stream, tho Court, before Mfr. O. D. morning, num rous residents in if so, whether tho feul was

coumption by the Crown of a Molbourne, the Bequel to a Queen's Road, Central· sufficiently had to justify bis lying

village, pad the building of a disorderly scene in the vicinity awokoned by sounds of b saking down to it are questions which will be discussed for days to come.

∙lam 120 feet high are some of the of Blake Pier was enacted. Two crickery and of various other uccessary works to be done in European defendants appeared articles falling into the strest. The unfortunate thing is that the Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 82; connection with the Tai Tam Tuk The first, wben arrested whole affair cannot do the sport aloudy

on These were caused by a youth ervoir. On Saturday afternoon Saturday evening, gave the name (apparently European, but not mach good in the Colony, Coming!

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 75; he members of the Legislative of Arthur Harst and mid he was British) who had scomingly alter the cancelling of the bout rain, wind, fog.

Connoil on the invitation of His the third off er n board the ss grown tired of his household goods. pravionaly arranged between the!

Excellesay the Governor, wont Taming and was a native of and was disposing of same by the But in the A permanent, speedy and painless CURE for corns and bunions pair, which, by the way, was

rever quite antisfactorily ex-Siberian Mail-Olose per .. things for

Stanley and Manila. On Sunday morning a simple process of throwing them plained to the public, Saturday's

Polynesien at 10 am, to-day: Unfortunataly

thema lves, warrant was issued from H..S. over the verandah. The costume result was about the worst that Siberian Mail.-Closes por 9.3. weather was good at the start, Albert Donald Sayor, who was sub- self imposed task was identical though the Rosario for the apprehension of elected in which to carry out his could have attended the meeting| Chiyo Mara at 11 am to an equalls soon became the arquently recognised as the Flurst with that affected by Adam, bé.

tween the pair. It appeare that| Bux demanded better terms at French Mail.-Closes per e8f the function was more or less The second defendant, Frank parying the Sanitary Department

order by the day and the success the Police had in the cells. fore the fall. The coolius accom the ringaide than had bead pre-

Cordillers at 11 a.m. tompaired thereby.

Linden Hotchine, refused at first cart which came along about 6 vionaly arranged. A man who morrow.

The weather hold good, how to give any particulars abona.m, must have had quite a good loes that, after articles have been

ever, at Tai Tam Yuk long enough himself but subsequently said he haul, comprising, amongst other to allow of a cursory examination was an officer on the s.s. Tean. of the work being mado.

things, an umbrella, two walking- work will take about another defendant were 1. assaulting a footwear, a number of pots, pans, The charges against the first sticks, several pairs of Chinees five yours before the reservoir ricksha coplie, 2. assaulting PC. pie-diabes etc. After the dia. will be ready to store the com-James; 3. disorderly conduct; turbance had lasted a consider templated 1,500,000,000 gallons while those against the "secondable time, a European constable of water, though matters are now wero of refusing to pay a ricksha nterviewed the youth, and took so advanced that in case of fare and disorderly conduct. his card, bat he had no sooner need some 50,000,000 could be The first defendant was foed descended and got a short The drains in the Colony must Hongkong for Shanghai by thetored for pumping. This will live dollars for assaulting the distance along the road than the have had a fine flashing over the P. and O. boat on Thursday, the nut be done except in case of constable and cautioned on the noisy one threw out a wash-hand- week end and, from a health visit to the northern port being

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ADETOW.

Sale of Furniture.

Mr. George F. Lammert is ne way of dealing with a man selling by public auction to who holds a pistol to a promoter's morrow a quantity of household bead in this fashion-drop bim for furniture, at No 1, Balilios Terrace, good. If the public pays to sea Robinson Road. n fight, it should be absolutely

Golag North certain of seeing it.

Captain, Lukmanhof, of the, Russian Volunteer Fleet, leaves

The Welcome Rain.

The

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completion.

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This last reservoir, the largest The daily iseun in dolivared free when the address is accessible thing of a fright and tends to While the as. Sui T-i was on of any in the colony, is the final Laurenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at ward & diminution of a plague her way to Macho on Saturday a step in the plan which uses a their residences without say on tra charge. On copies sent by outbreak. Just At. present Chinese second-class passenger very appreciable portion of the post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

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A.B.C., 5th edition.

Western Union.

The hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1914.

A SUCCESSFUL ROAD EXPERIMENT,

duced.

Japan and China.

NEW P. & 0. STEAMER. CANTON NEWS. island as a catchment aret. Tai

The Khyber Expected Here in a Tam, on the high levels, is the

# Few Days. Canton, May 16. first reservoir and when it was The Civil Administrator is built it was found that much taking steps to promote the silk bary on the 22ad ult. of the With the departure from Til.. water in that distriot was not trade, and has despatched Mr. Khyber, the second of the six ought. Tai Tam intermediate Wong Hing-foug to the San Tack 9,000-ton twin-screw steamers "Only Passing Through."

was next built but failed to ex- District to investigate the state designed to reinforce the P. & O.. A Chinese was charged this haust the possibilities of the of the silk business. The points Company's intermediate services. morning before Mr. J. R. Wood watershed, and now Tai Tam for investigation are (1) The ares to at the Police Court with returning Tuk is being built to catch the for the plantation of mulberry East,

Calcutta and the Fir from banishment. The prisoner, overflow from the others and to trees in the district; the amount maiden voyage, her forerunner, entera upon her. who explained that he was only collect from a much larger area of mu berrisa of tained and the the Khiva, being at present passing through Hongkong on

That area can, in prices; (2) The nam ber of people homeward-bound from Japan h.a way to Swatow, was sent case of need, be much increased koeping silk worms; (3) The with her passenger accommodation, to prison for six months with four by means of further outch watera. ways in which the natives keep completely filled. The Khyber hours' stocks.

The present scheme is part of silk worms; (4) The different also bae Yokohama for her final the original idea though some kinds of silk worms; (5) The destination on the outward trip what modified. Originally amount of cocoons obtained: (6) and the considerable number of a part of Tai The number of silk shops in the her passengers at a time of the

than ever.

Ching Wah College Entrance

· Examination; The Civil Administra in

The statement made by Count Okuma to the Provincial Govor Dors in relation to the policy of tho new.. Government! Stealing Ground Nuts towards China (which ia Inspector Gerrard prosecuted a it took ia reported in a telegram appearing toolie at the Police Court this Tam Bay itself but better district. in Page 1) ie of deep significance. morning before Mr. J. R. Wood results are

year when relatively few people soticipated "from It should serve to dissipate any for stealing a quantity of ground building the dem on the shore

are travelling eastwards is evi- doubts which have been felt as pots. The man was found to be thereby lessening the aren

the new vessels are destined to dence of the public favour which to Japan's attitude towards the to possession of a hook which she and increasing the depth, A counces that .00 entrance new Republic. The Premier sage aspector said, could be used for short but high wall will hold in oxamination of the Ching Wah enjoy. Notable factures of these that, in dealing with China, tearing open the bags containing water to a depth of 120 feet, with College in Peking will be held og length of their sheltered promen- steamers are the great breadth and Japan must act only after the the nuts. A fiae of $5 WAB n level niue feet below the top the let of Jaly in the old fullest co-operation with the imposed or in default sovon days of the granite bridges on the premises of the Educational de deoke and the comfort and ele Powers, and in making that imprisonment.

Stanley Hload.

Department. Entry Forme can the dining saloons with restaurant

gence of their public apartments onouncement ho ba mado i

Namur's Cargo.

Fine Progress Made. be signed in the same place from The visitors to the spot on 10a.m. to 3 p.m. from 1st to 20th tables, and the music and mor Suurday had a fice opportunity June.

ing-saloons having been designed f seeing the progress made and

ind furnished with the usual Proposed Public Library. the immensity of the undertaking. A native of the Lok Uhang

careful regard to the needs of The stream has been diverted, the District has applied for the passengers voyaging to the village resumed, and two large purchase of an old Ya-mun in tropics. Accommodation is pro- cuttinge made. In one, through order to establish a new public vided on the hurricane and which the stream now passes, Library.

spar decks for seventy-nine first and sixty-eight second- class passengers in cabine he majority of which are outside

quite clear that no ultorior The dargo shipped from Hong- designs are entertained nad no kong by the 2.5, Namur on the alvaningas sought from China's 13th inst. included:-33 bags fluire helplessness at the of ore for Hamburg; CO cases of moment. That is a happy specia essential oil for Havre; 53 bales circumstance, for once there is a of human bair and 40 cases of break-up of the present unler essential oil for Margolles; 50 Linding between the Fowers, bites of waste silk, 3,956 sooks own onds alone, there can only 68 boxes of tes, and 45 cisks of une ench nation sale out to serve of copra, 10 bilos of leftobico he one recull-dismemberment.

preserves for indon A Beneficent Alliance.

That point was evidently in the mind of tho Japanese Pre- inier, inasmuch as he took ccos

Pilferings from the Safe. We have been informed that,

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In " 1990)" on Saturday some comments were quoted relating to the Public Works Department. The editor in 1889 was not the man to mince words, ut in his vigorous way he urged His Ex.

through which eventually pipes grauite culvert is being built, cellency the Governor to'get fid of men who could not make good

will convoy the water to the Government is to be situated on for port-hole cabins for one or two ronde and to secure men who could. Even to-day, a quarter of a

pumping station. At present it a plateau some little distance persons only. Most of the cabine century later, it is fir from definitely est blisko. that the Public

forms an cutlet for the stream, behind the light house. Plans are furnished with wardrobes, Works Department can be dopended upon to make a road that shall

Captain Lukmanhof, of the another direction foundations for the buildings, which were writing-tables oto.; in each cabia be substantial enough to stand the stress alike of ordinary tear and sion, in the course of his remarks, Russian Volunteer Fleet, bus but the linee of truck rails, room, operators' room and apart ventilating fan and to every bed sure, being excavated for the dam, circulated, provide for an engine there is provided a free electrio wear and of heavy rain. The roads in the Colony, in point of fact, hins by the Anglo-3 pines pilferings from bis office safe. small dams all form, a vague im- and transmitters, together with ed. The third of the "K" ateamers, to refer to the benefis assured to be the victim of a series of pumping apparatus and two ments for accumulators, stores a portable reading-lamp is attack- are a compound of good and indifferent and actually bad. There Alliance. But for this Alliance Investigations were made and, a pression to the lay observer of quarters for three operators. It the Karmala, will leave London are not many roads in Hongkong which shows evidence of fore-siye Count Okums, hina would result, two Chinese employees mething being done with nt is hoped to have the station on a maiden voyage to Calonta andoubtedly have been disinte-havo to render an account of particularising the direction, in completed by the end of the on the 1st August; and, following crated in the recent revolutions, being in alleged possession of a

which special efforts statement uch as that, from key that opens the Captain's safe.

are your the installation being this, the other three vessels of being made. At all

events of five kilowata, a power sufficient the new class will be added to

thought and careful workmanship,

Yet it would be churlish to make these remarks without

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making mention of the fact that the P.W.D. appears to have hit one so highly placed; would nos to whether they were con- there was sufficient to show that to operate the instruments over the 1st of the company's upon one happy experiment in Nathan Road, Kowloon, That has have been made without good corned with the missing money large undertaking was being a radius of three hundred otive ships at short intervale

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18 exposted to. arrive at Hongkong on Mya2n, will leave Hongkong for London n, after proceeding to Japa about Jaly 8.

Sent to the Pound.

never been a wholly entisfactory atrest. After heavy rain it was which merits attention and on-

reason, and the observation is one has yet to be proved,

carried through in a satisfactory miles practically, irrespective of these vessela canatow Bijou Scenic Theatre.

manner. * generally left soared and fissured. The junction of Nathan and sidoration not only by China but

the atmospheric conditions, onsiderable quantity of cargo and The excellent programme now de Hongkong Wireless. Communication will be establish their equipment of dick muehin- Haiphong roads was an especially bad part which was constantly by the Powers generally. There being presented at the above Tai Tam Tuk was not the only led between the station and the ry, in this connection, is of the being repaired during the rainy season and as constantly torn to have been many critica of the theatre continues to draw large place visited, for on the way out Hongkong Post

Alliance between Great Britian "houses," ribbons again. An experiment, however, has been tried with

"The Three Mile the party went ashore at Deep telephone. Tho post office will description.

Office by most efficient and Japan, but if its wholesome Limit" is an attractive film, full Water Bay to view the trazo of a deal with the messages in the strip of the raad, and it has been quite successful so far and give influence in the Fur. Bat were of dramatic interest; the Gibson new road. This is about a mile ordinary course of business. promise of boing so all the time. The ordinary metalled road given due weight, the critics girls are as lively and as much long and sixteen feet wide, and The idea of transporting mem unsuccessful, but an improvement on that has been found. The would be far less in number. If appreciated as ever; and further skirts the shore after leaving the bars of the council to the spot to ordinary road metal was laid down and a coating of tar laid on it save Obian from being aplit up, misfortunes) of the one and only at Deep Water Bay, rejoining it the government allowed them it has done nothing more than to episodes in the fortunes fand Green Ieland Company's works view the various undertakings of Above that again was laid a thin layer of sand which was permitted it will have justified its conclusion "Max" and of his brother mirth-near the golf links. This work to form better ideas of the to remain for some considerable time before it was swept off. and continuance,:

inaker, "Wills," together with which is to be put in hand alnost difficulty if the work and at the The purpose of this layer of sand was obviously to secure a strong

the latest Home and foreign news, nt once, will necessitato blasting came time provided an opport- Six dogs were sout to the pound binding, on the result has stood the recent rains much more

as shown by the Pathe Gazette, on the land side of the road ni nalty for A shopkeeper rosiding at 251 serve to provide a splendid building up on the other, and substantial progress that has 4 Theft From a Cubicle.

appreciating the 3osterday. successfully thin was formerly the case. More than that, the new Queen's Road East has reported evening's entertainment. Begin when finished will prove a válk- bzen made. part of the res throws.eff much less glare than was the case before, to the Police the theft from his ning this evening, for seven nights able addition towards attaining Those prosent beaide H. L. the Town has complained to 110 A Chinese woman at Kennedy and generally the PW.D. ein he congratulated on the result of its premises of articles to the vilus only. the management of the the ideal of a motor road all round Governor, were H E Major Police of the theft from her cubicle experiment, which obviously must be olieapor than tar macadam. of fifteen dollare.

Bijna have arranged with Mesere the island. General Kelly the Hon. Mr. of clothing valued at $20 and It is the more pleasint to be able to do this inasmuch as we have, from time to time, had to oriticise the Public Works Department,

Itemoa and Ramos to show, at the A visit was also made to Cape Claud Severn, the Hon. Mr. E. A money to the extent of $15, On Saturday evening the Victoria Theatre, "the greatest D'Aguilar to view the site for the Hewett U.M.G, the Hon. Mr. D. Dog Bites itsmetho le, and its shortcomings, Now that it bas, verandah to the second or of a picture evorscreened in the annals wireless telegraphio station but Landale, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pol A Chinese has been admitted - whether by accident or design, bit upon what appears to be a solid house in Yung Yeo Lans collapsed of Cinematography-The Three the rain was so bid that only the look K O., the Hon Mr. E Shellim, to the Government Civil Hospital combination of road material, it is to be hoped that the P.W.D. will owing to some of the wood work Musketeers," Boking in at officials directly concorned want the Hon. Mr. A. F Ohurchill, the suffering from bite adopt it generally and effect a much-needed improvement in the being in a rotten state. Three Mentries and intending patrons nshore and returned drenched to Hon. Mr. L. D. C. Wolfo, and the inflicted by two fox terrier roads generally. The publie hus waited long enough for a success inmates of the house, who were should note that the performance the skin

terrier dogs, ful result has waited, too, with exemplary patience-but it is not on the verandah at the time, is advertized to start at 9 p.m. The station for which the um Jaffe who explained the various Forsyth has also eu vnised injury Hon. Mr. Mol. Messer, and Mr. A colie in the em log of Dr. likely to be patient much longer when it discovers that better roads escaped injury.

sharp-not 9:15, as usual. of $100,000 has been voted by gan be provided,

from dog bi

Shopkeeper's Loss,

Verandah Collapses.

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wounds.