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OUR WATER SUPPLY.

mont

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927.

in

DAY BY DAY.

Fas.

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VALEDICTORY.

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The Very Idea!

would produce more than double that supply. The present position Is that the completion of the Shing

MEMORY 18 A PARADISE OUT OF Mun scheme is, to use the phrase WHICH FATE CANNOT DRIVE US. MR. P. T. LAMBLE RETIRING.

A Guide arrived at an ancient recently employed by a Govern- Daman, I

After completing 26 years sor- official, being held A further Chinese case of cere-vice with the Hongkong: Govern castle in England with a party abeyance," "and" the Government bro-spinal fever was notified yes-ment, Mr. P. T. Lamble, the of tourists and showed them the

terday.

Superintendent of Staff and Works moat.

"Ah, 1 wonder," one joker in the now comes forward with this new

of the Sanitary Department, will We have received a most useful shortly be departing from the party muttered, "how could a fellow project, designed to contend with precisely the same problem which office calendar from Measra. Davis, Colony on retirement, and will get one of them in his eye."

take with him the sincere good wishes and felleltations of a very At the Manálon House, before caused the Shing Mun plan to be Bag & Co., Ltd., Hongkong.

The customary Christmas fancy wide circle of friends and acquain the Lord Mayor, a carman named. devised, and, it would seem, not

Blunt, In the service of the likely to prove nearly as effien- dress dance is to be held at the Cen-tances.

trai British School, Kowloon, this It was in December, 1901, that Southern Railway Company, was summoned for leaving his horse clous. To the ordinary layman, evening."

Mr. Lamble, who is a Member of and van unattended. Mr. F. W. the logical procedure would ap- The Intest Felix cartoon, "Felix the Royal Sanitary Institute, was Wallace, who appeared for the com pear to be the completion of works Trilles with Time," is being appointed Senior Sanitary Inspec- many, said the defendant, at 7 pm. Cor, arriving in the Colony from left his horse in the company's pro- Home the following month. Heyard at Holborn Viaduct station an entirely frosh gramme at the Queen's Theatre (continued to hold that post until while he went to supper. Thá

already begun rather than harkation on undertaking."

a

current em-screened in the

rat."

non

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along with the entertaining inystery play. "The Chinese Par January, 1920, when he was ap-wheel was chained and the horse's pointed Senior Inspector of Per- nosebag was ou. Instead of ch sonnel, which post became chang-joying his meal the horse made his To-day's

Observatory reported in title and statue in 1923, to way out of a narrow opening and into the Old Bailey, says the monsoon is interrupted that of Chief Inspector. It was turned to the north of Amoy. It will re-in recognition of Mr. Lamble's evidently making his way to his tain moderate over the China Sea, valuable services that the special stable across the river. All this, to-" post of Superintendent of Staff strange to relate, was effected with forecast up to The morrow is-North or variable and Works was created in 1925, out an accident. But the horse, and it is from that position that intelligent though it was, hod winds, light; fine...

he retires after a record of "acr- evidently been oblivous of the vice of which he might well be Statute of 1839 and was stopped by a policeman, The Lord Mayor. proud.

Mr. Lamble bad made 'a' spécial-Has the company, any more of study of the malaria problem in such wonderful horses? I cannot Hongkong and his knowledge of impose a fine in such circumstances, this particular branch of the Sanit but the defendant must pay the ary Department's work has proved costs. of immense value in the campaign against mosquitoes.

A woman was asked in Mr. Justice Eve's court if she practised as a palmist.

"Nover, it is against the law," she replied.

Passengers due to arive here

In recognition of his abilities he from Home "by s.s. Devanha on Saturday morning include Mr. and was made a member of the Royal Mrs. L. C. F. Bellamy, Mrs. Eldon Sanitary, Institute and later was Potter, Capt. and Mrs. P. R. G.appointed as a member of the local

tute. Cumming, Miss W. A. Robinson Board of Examiners of the Insti- and. Mr. and Mrs. J. McKelvie.

Mr. Lauble in his younger daya ля enthusiastic For travelling by train from was a keen and Fanling to Kowloon yesterday sportsman. He was particularly

interested in cricket and for many ably off? I without purchasing a ticket, years played for the Civil Service Chin.cee of the coolie class was Cl as a bowler and a wicket fined $5 or seven days hard keeper and in both capacities labour in default, by Mr. W. Scho- ranked high. He has retained his this morning."

The fact of the matter is that there has been far too much dilly- dallying with this water supply problem, and far too many changes of official policy in rela- tion thereto. We would therefore venture to suggest that when the Aberdeen Valley scheme comes be- A Chinese, believed to be a fore the Council, Unofficial mam-scumen of a passenger boat, was arrested on board the 8.6. bers should let the Government Chenonceaux yesterday by the know that the public is tired of police. The arrested man had in all this procrastination and waver-his possession three revolvers, one ing between conflicting, opinions.magazine and five clips.. We have never yet encountered definite, clear-cut pronounce ment as to why the Shing Mun scheme should not be pushed

Mr. Justice Eve! Is it against. the law to tell anybody's hand? ahead sufficiently to give Hong-

A barrister: I am not conver- kong the supplies which its com-

sant with the criminal law. (To pletion could guarantee. A pre- cise and unambiguous statement

the woman): You are comfort-

The woman: It depends on on that point, together with com

what you call "comfortably," Mr. Justice Eye: Yes. parative data in regard to the

The barrister: You keep a THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1927. length of time and expenditure

likely to be involved in the 'Aberfield, at the Kowloon Magistracy, interest in the Club and the cricket motor-car 7-Yes, I have a car.

team over a long period of years You bought it out of the deen scheme and in the bringing

and up to quite recently turned out palmistry business 7No. It was On enquired to-day at the regularly in the capacity of umpire. bought out of the money I wan of water from Shing Mun Valley to Hongkong, is called for. Our French Hospital we learn that Fer a good many years, Mr. Lam-on Charley's Mount.

the condition of Mr. E. R. Price,ble was the Chairman of the Mr. Justico Eve: Where is Unofficial members might endea-of the China Mail, who underwent Civil Service Cricket Club and is Charley's Mount 7-I believe he is dead. He was a racehorse. He Details of the proposed Aber-vour to secure that information an urgent operation for appendici-at present the Vice-Chairman.

tia on Tuesday morning id im- Mr. Lamble also took a great in-won at a hundred to one. deen Valley scheme for increasing for the ratepayers, who, in any proyed and that he is making satis-terest in other forms of sport, the water supply of the island of case, will have to foot the bill.

factory progress;

particularly lawn bowls, at which game he has. for many years, play- "Will you marry me?" he asked. Hongkong have now been issued in

Four fingers of a coolies's left ed for the Civil Service Club.. There was a pause.... the form of a Sessional Paper.

hand were crushed through an Among his many other activities, "Tell me one thing first," she which, we presume, will be laid A Hopefal Movement, accident which occurred on board Mr. Lamble was one of those re said. Do you drink anything?"

His face lit up. the 8.8. Shansi, says a police responsible for the formation of the

"Anything," he before the Legislative Council tu

General satisfaction has to be due course. Yesterday, we gave expressed, at the fact that the Coonport, of an accident which hap Hongkong Branch of the Ration said.

pened yesterday to the coolie, em-alist Press Association, of which an outline of the main features fcil of the Trades Union Congress ployed at Taikoo." The injured he is now the President. The Book Club also owes its inception the scheme, from which it will has accepted the invitation of the man was removed to hospital.

leading industrialists at Home to

largely to the interest he took in: have been seen that the chief valve meet in conference to discuss the

Admitting the theft of a bottle the provision and distribution of elaimed for it is that it will prove industrial problems facing the of gin and a bottle of sherry from good literature.

country and to see if peace in in the officers quarters of H.M.S. Within the next few days Mr. We want the old "team-spirit a great relief to the Western dis-dustry generally can be promoted. Thracian, a Chinese steward was Lamble will be the guest of honour hack if we are to overcome in- tricts of the city, which are at To our mind, there has been no sentenced to two months hard at many functions to be given bydustrial difficulties. Mr. George present the first to be restricted, for many years past.

more important step taken at Home labour by Mr. W. Schofield at the friends and colleagues, and his de- Spencer, M.P.

The freedom girls have got with Kowloon Magistracy this morning. parture from the Colony will be and that. if needs be, distribution should be every endeavour made to Licut. Fair was the complainant. much regretted by all who know regard to dress is worth the vote him. His friends will wish him a hundred times over-Sir Alfred can also he extended eastwards.reap the fruit which this meeting promises to yield. The, disastrous The estimate of expenditure in coal strike of 1926 was an out- derers carried out a route marchpiness in his retirement...

The Kings Own Scottish Bor-many years of health and hap- Hopkinson. regarding volved is placed at $2,627,000, and standing object lesson

the wastefulness of strikes and all at full strength this morning, ac- it seems that the scheme will take suchlike industrial friction and it companied by full brass and pipe some three years to complete re- is not too much to say that the bands, Lieut.Col. Comyn being in sulting in a supply of 2:12 mil- great majority of the working charge.. The principal streets int people at Home the rank and file the Central and Western Districts Hon gallons per day.

of the great Trade Unions-are were traversed, the side walks "Ted up with strikes and disputes. being lined with interested specta- They long for nothing better than fors throughout the line of march.

and there

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vessels.

CATHEDRAL CHAPLAIN,

After 15 Years' Service.

Another well-known

Mr. Justice Eve: Yea.

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History is the only real cure for pessimian.-Dr. Cyril Alington.

Our advance in trade is the ad- vance of the treadmill. Mr. Lloyd George.

"Then you deny," said the Magistráte, "that you were rude to the policeman when he asked to ace your licence?"

"Certainly, sir," replied the motorist. "All I said was that, resident from what I could see of him, "I who is leaving the Colony shortly was sure his wife would be hap is the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle.pier as a widow." As a mark of appreciation of his

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As a scheme for enhancing the supplies of the island, the project

stendy work at fair rates of pay," no doubt has much to commend it, and it is doubtless in the full know- This morning's Harbour Offee services, a presentation is being Responding to the toast of "The but two thoughts will suggest ledge of that fact that the big in reports gave 19 arrivals and 15 de-made to him next week..

Visitors," at the annual dinner dustrialists, with Sir Alfred Mond partures, of which four and four The Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle, of the Brisbane Chamber of Com- themselves on consideration of the at their head, have made this offer were British, leaving 72 vessels in M.A., (Lincoln College, Oxford), merce, Mr. M. P. Campbell said matter. The first is that, admit- of a "get together" movement. We harbour, British 26. Tonnage was appointed Chaplain of St. that Americans were great time. ting some such scheme to be do not think that large employers showed an increase, but the total John's Cathedral, Hongkong, in savers. He attended a banquet of labour are in these days in the of British freights, both inward 1912, and arrived here in May of recently, where the Mayor of the absolutely hecessary. there has least desirous of underpaying their and through, were no more than that year. After taking his decity proposed six toasts in one been very serious delay in not stalls; in fact there is a better 3,100 tons. The heavier cargoes gree with honour in Modern His-breath, The guests lifted their

spirit and atmosphere at Home having pushed ahead with it long than has been the case for many were in all cases coal, carried in tory in 1894, he was ordained by glassers six times in quick succes- ere this. This question of the years. It is to be hoped that Bri- Chinese, Norwegian and Japanese the Blahop of Chester in 1895. sion, and drank the health of the He held curacies at Runcorn and King of England, the President of inadequacy of the island's sources tain has passed through the stage when it is generally thought that

Horsham, and in 1901 was pre- the United States, the Prince of

Wales, the It is announced that the s.s. Tai-sented to the living of Iping, Sus-

Lord Mayor of supply has been before the the interests of the employers and

of Melbourne, the Lord Mayor of Colony for years, yet we have, the employed are opposed, and that shan, of the Hongkong, Canton sex, by Lord Leconfield,

"President" of even now, not advanced any tical realisation of the truth that completes her refit over the week was Hon. Secretary of the Federato propose the toast he did not en-

From 1908 until 1912, Mr. Moyle Sydney, and the we are on the threshold of the prac-and Macao Steamboat Company,

Australia. When the Mayor rose further towards a solution of the those interests are closely inter-end and will resume sailings for tion of Junior Clergy Missionary ter into any preliminaries. He

The Canton at midnight, on Sunday, Associations In connexion with problem than the issuing of de- woven and interdependent.

year 1927 will doubtless Le taking over the schedule of the s.s. the Society for the Propagation of just spoke to his subject and sat tails of a scheme which will take

21 record for recent years

Lungshan. The Lungahan will ar- the Gospel, becoming a member of years to complete. The regarding freedom from serious rive from Canton on Saturday and the Standing Committee of the Young Tommy had been left in

disputes, second idea that occurs to one is industrial

and the will be taken in hand for reflt S.P.G. in 1909.

charge of his small brother, Bobbie, During Mr. Moyle's fifteen years while their parents were at the whether the Colony should commit benefits of this year's experience at the Kowloon Dock on Sunday

are doubtless sufficiently apparent morning.

in Hongkong he has been respon pictures, itself to such a project when it to lead to the present overtures. At

sible for the establishment of vari is borne in mind that, we have all events, a great opportunity now

ous Cathedral organizations, such as the C.E.M.S., Women's Guild, already carried out a substantial presents itself and it is with con

siderable pleasure that we note

League of Prayer, etc., and part of the Shing Mun Valley that, the T. U. C. has nominated

through his influence the Cathe- scheme, the main reason for such leading men as Mr. Ben Til-

lett, Mr. Will Thorne and Mr. J. Geneva

.124dral has been provided with Paris

26.26 bandsómé reredos, a side Chapel, | Initiating which was to assure the H. Thomas to meet the committee Berlin

20.43❘ the Cathedral Holland the Cha-I kicked him once or twice, too." island a larger and more constant of industrialists. It shows that the Oslo

18.34 plain's residence at the Peak. Mr. supply. According to the official Trade Union world has taken the Helsingfors

invitation seriously. May it be Athens details issued yesterday, the Aber: the beginning of the long-awaited Buenos Aires

Hongkong deen scheme, if put into effect, co-operation. will not yield more than 2.12 mil-

msterdam lion gallons per day. Comparing

some

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York Stockholm

To the medical student there is Vienna this with the Shing Mun, under-much of interest in the November Madrid taking, we recall that the first issue of The Caduceus, the journal Bucharest portion of the latter project (in of the Hongkong University Medi-Bombay. connexion with which lengthy cal Society. Sir Berkeley Moyni Yokohama.

han, President of the Royal College Brussels, tunnels and open conduits have nl- of Surgeons, writes on "Before-and Milan ready been constructed at great after Operation, whilst there is Copenhagen

Prague expense) was estimated to yield also an interesting article on in fantile tetanus in Hongkong by Dr. a supply of some five million gal-CY. Wang, Other contributors Shangbai lons daily, whilst the complete are Dra. S.Y. Wong, M. O.. Pfister, Silver (spot)

T. C. Wong, R. E. Tottenham and Silver (forward), gravity portion of the schemes. F. L.

Lisbon Rio

London, Dec. 21.

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11366

down.

When the show was over and the parents returned they discovered a tear-stained Bobbie in bed and a brooding Tommy, watching him. "Goodness me, Bobbie, what is the matter?" asked the mother.

"I hit him," gald Tommy, “ánd

"But whatever for?" asked the

Moyle'a tenure of office has also parents.

477 Synchronised with the provision Tommy looked very righteous as of a handsome endowment through he replied "He wouldn't say his 4.88 the generosity of the lato Sir Paul prayers!"!

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12.07. Chater. 18.07) In addition to his duties at the .34.56 Cathedral, Mr. Moyle has had "The Last Days of Pompei," the .20.3% rebarge of St. Peter's Church, as spectacular Italian film version of

700 Honorary Chaplain for some years, Lytton's famous story, again drew- .1/8.8/82

and for the whole length of his crowded houses at the World 1/10.25/32 stay here he has been responsible Theatre yesterday. This wonder-

24.01

90 for the Services in the Peak ful Alin has a cast of 46,000, players and cost $100,000 to make. 18.20 Church.

The picture, will be screened until 104%

Saturday, performances starting. 15 and 9.30. The orchestra plays promptly each day at 2.30, 5.00, at 5.00 and 9.80 and an interpre ter attends at 2.30 and 7.15,

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5.29/32 X2/7

The exchange banks will be closed 20% to the transaction of public business on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th and 27th inst

„20%

-Brillah Wireldas.