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work

was stopped. That there hns been

further delay catablished by the fact that so long ago. as October, 1925, the Secretary of State agreed to the detalls of the second section of the Shing Mun scheme being worked out, "as it is obvious that this will be required before long In any case." Yet in July, 1929, the Government has to admit

DAY BY DAY.

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THE MORE A MAN FOLLOWB NATURE, AND OBEDIENT TO HER LAWS, THE LONGER HE WILL LIVE.

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The name of Mr. J. H. Bottomley has been added to the list of Au thorized Architects.

The usual morning mail Macho will not be despatched the 25th and 26th instant.

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SNAPS & TIME EXPOSURES. Interesting arallels in Life:

In every famous or picturesque determining the size of opening place on earth, one encounters the and the length of exposure in con earnest and industrieus people nexion with all these things. Here' who go about pointhug their little in other words, there is scope for round glass eye at this and that, tasic and expert knowledge, even peering for an instant into reflec- for artistry. The great advantage tors, and pressing rubber bulbs. of the timed picture is that it To this end, apparently, they sail gives shadows their due import-- the seas and climb mountains and ance while the snapshot nvolda cross deserts, their main concern them as much as possible. One being to give their cameras a look sometimes heurs it said that Call- at everything which has been con-fornia with her cloudless skies lo nidered worthy of observation, the best country for the photo- The Pyramids know them well,[grapher, but the fact is that such Mont Blane miles down upon a country is likely to produco them serenely across her miles of chiefly snapshooters, unselective The silk forwarded from long-sow, and they go up against and unthoughtful, wholly, depen- ung by the Empress of Russia on Niagara every year in tons of dent upon mechanism. the 28th June arrived in New York thousands. (St. John's Park), on the 17th July, having been 21 days in transit.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Robertson have returned to the Colony and residing at No. 5 are Bungalow, Repulse Bay."

now

that the project is stili "ander consideration," and detailed pro- posals cannot yet,hic submitted to the Secretary of State. Even 80, we cannot see what possible ob- Section the Government could have And to agreeing to the proposal by, Sir Henry Pollock that the scheme, whatever its netual details might be, should be "proceeded with and completed as soon as possible. After all, it must not be forgotten that the project emanated from the Ghverumeni, and that general His Excellency the Governor has approval was given to it in Coun-appointed Mr. N. L. Smith to be Head of the Sanitary Department cil as far as, October, 1923. and Register of Births and Deaths

Government, delay being estäbin addition to his other duties. lished, it remains to be added that the whole blame. cannot be Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ed- ward Hobart Seymour, of Hedsor laid on Government shoulders. View, Maidenhead Court, Maiden The Unofficial members of Coun-head, left estate of the value of personalty eil must bear their share of the £51,781, with net

£54,357. opprobium, also. They are the re- presentatives of the public on the Legislature, and it ought not 10 have required a water famine,

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It was reported to the police yesterday that Lau Mai (19) a boatgirl, attempted to take her life

bour from the sea-wall near Doug-

Hongkong Telegraph. with the attendant objectionable by throwing herself into the har-

SATURDAY JULY 20: 1929.

SHING MUN DELAY,

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The application of all this to To the members of this eager company it matters little what the matters much more important than particular object before them may photography must be obvious be, for a camera says exactly the enough. All day long and every same thing when confronted by a day each one of us to taking mon- herdsman's hut in the Alps that tal photographs, and the ques- it does before the Parthenon.tion is important whether we take Click" is the only word in its them by the snapshot process or the vocabulary, and when that dry by timing. Ninety-nine in

content with the and conclusive remark has been hundred are made there seems to be nothing suparficial glance that records a the most part in- to do but twirl the spindle and to fact-for

Once the Incenrately and ignores the fact's ask "What next?" camera has passed judgment upon significance; but here and there the Parthenon it is ready for the we find a person who looks longer herdsman's hut, which it will and more deeply, more intensely treat with perfect impartiality and than his fellows, Into, overything as though nothing more ambitious that he sees. Never content with in architecture anywhere existed, surface appearances, always atub- For the eye of a camera is always bornly convinced that there la worth Anding out. utterly forgetful; it has never something

beneath the dull husk of the. acen anything before.

commonplace, he pauses over every Ninety-nine in the hundred of sight and every experience until tank-and-bucket system, to have las Wharf. She was rescued, and these camera conductors are con- he has probed into its meaning or spurred them into an enquiring handed over to the police.

tent with instantaneous exposures, its value. Posts and thinkers, so that each of their glimpses at people of genius, people of ex- and Inquisitive frame of mind:

the celebrated places of the world feeptional ability of all kinds, are It is not as if they have not been

listinguished from others in this It is notified in the Gazeffe that

one-fiftieth of is limited to reminded from time to time, by the Ping On Bandit Insurance Com- secondor, on days somewhat way, that they take their mental Press comment, of the urgency of pany, Limited, will be struck off

the Compar les Register, if it falls overcast, to one twenty-fifth. Now pictures by time exposure.. This we must of course admit that is what Wordsworth was doing making adequate provision for the to obtain a certificate to commence the snapshot photograph is indis- when he "gazed and gazed" at the pensable and that one's choice field of daffodils dancing beside We cannot help think that a Colony's water supply. We our-business within two months after

the publication of this nolice,...

must often lie betweed it and noja Cumberland lake, and this, too, great deal of time was wasted in seives very early in 1927 express-

photograph whatever, Many signi- was what John Keats did when the Legislative Council Chambered our grave concern at the soy-

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medical ficant and beautiful things go by he stood for a few moments before an Thursday in the discussion of ernment's decision to hold up the

practitioners there was been added 50 swiftly that a single plate or a certain Grecian urn. Such peo- alm can record "no more than aple may be naturally slow in their name of Dr.

I. A. the resolution put forward by Sir Shing Mun scheme, and on several the

of 62, have Guterres,

Catchick moment of their passing, and we mental processes, as Wordsworth Pollock, urging that the permanent occasions since then

of the rippling the lightning speed that amazes by advocated

Mr. stressed the importance of this Street, Remedy Town, Bachelor of must be content with a mere was, or their thought may have

Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery memorandum

stream and the waving bough. The us in studying Kents, but their Henderson for increasing the project. We are still firmly con-of the University of Hongkong.

real reason, however, why the results may be much the sans if snapshot photograph is taken each one knows the speed aï his 'Quartet in A. Minor" (Schumann, Op 41, No. 1)| Collny's water supply be procealed vinced of the trevessity of pre- with and completed as soon as pos cerding with the whole scheme,

much more frequently than that film, so to speak, and adjasts his (Played by Flonzaley Quartet)

Sills. Not that the subject was cost what it may, Financial con-

known as the time exposure" la, time accordingly.

„Forhaps the 'injustice and the, not one of the greatest importance.siderations ought not to stand in

simply, that it requires no skill, no experience, no patience, m taste, no artistic discernment. The falsity of snapshot thinking, to snopshooter can always be sure of apply a term to it which it does securing some tolerable result, not deserve, is seen most clearly and he secures it with a minimum in the estimaton it tries to make of human beings. John Smith, for of effort.

The whole operation of snap example, is a college professor, and shooting is so mechanical that a ne belongs, theraform to a Type child can perform it almost as well concerning which the supshoot as an intelligent. adult, and indeeders think that they are fully in- the whole tribe of snapshooters formed. They assume that all resemble children in their restless college professors are pedantic, mere ac-forgetful, impractical, and dreamy, nesa, their delight in tivity for its own sake, and their and so they attribute all these conviction that one thing is about characteristics to Smith. They as good as another. Like children save time and effort in doing so, again, they are de cager in pursuit and are entirely satisfied with their of they know not what that one resulta. John Smith himself, who cannot be severe with them o Is the very opposite of a pedant, even seriously wish that their entirely practical and efficient, energies were better employed. may reasonably complain, however treatment. K-For not only does the snapshooter of such

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It was. But the debate seems to the way, for the east of work of

approaching a wrangle oyer the point whether the specific schemes outlined by Mr. Henderson should le endorsed, or whether the Coun- eit should merely emphasise the de-be once and for all abandoned, airability of expediting such for in the years to come with our plane as were considered "neers-increasing population we shall sary. In the final resort, an surely need all the water we can emasculated form of Sir Henry Pollock's motion was agreed to. this being in such general phraseology as ju amount to prar

met by loan. Any idea of again 550). interfering with the completion of the Shing Mun scheine should

rare.

The Rhinelund.

The older parties in the House tically nothing tangible or salis.f Commons appear to have been factory. Official remarks during taken clean out of their stride by the Labour Government's methods:

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(Abbreviations: A-ace; any card lawer than 10.)

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get as good results as he earns or Every human being is entitled to deserves; he gets as good results be photographed by time ex- as he can appreciate.

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posure.

the debate, regarding the financial even Mr. Churchill has been shaken king; Q-queen; J-jack;

question, leave from his nernal equilibrium. But of the

the speed of their progress-which

Not only every human being but with.

fear that the is causing the greatest worry to second section of the Shing Mun the conservative Torles-is the

To more discerning eyes, how-every object to the world is too scheme may be greatly modified very thing which, within bounds, of certain other cards in the suit ever, the earth is not an affair of complex and too mysterious for a but we can only hope that this in appeals most favourably to the or which is Jed. When west, the two dimensions, everywhere light- cursory inspection to discover its

dinary observer. They have suc ceeded beyond all expectations in framing schemes for combatting the unemployment problem, and So much has been said recently they have already laid down the The leader's partner should these lie all its mystery, most of with an unrelenting intensity of general principles of the polley to either encourage him to continue its beauty, and more than half of gaze, before we can see it in any regarding the delay in carrying out he adopted in dealing with the the suit or discourage him from its meaning. The snapshot photo-true sense as it is. Those who are graph shows almost nothing of determined not to be fobbed off the Shing Mun scheme that. We had main issues in the foreign field. doing so.

this, for it is necessarily flat, with surface appearances must Hoped the Government would have The main point, however, is that

When the 7 or a higher card is superficial, devoid of subtlety, have what Emerson, speaking of seized the opportunity to state the having once made up their minds, played by the leader's partner, it and it in usually taken in a blaze Carlyle, once called "devouring

the Government are determined to

must understand facts and explain the whole position. go forward without delay, and we is a signal to lead that suit again of sunshine, the least interesting eyes. They

and the least revealing of all what Flaubert meant in telling the Instead of doing that, however, the do not think there can be well-an encouraging card.

sustained accusations of over-higte, Assume that your partner's lights. One might say that a young Guy de Maupassant to walk Colonial Secretary appeared to be Mr. Henderson is now pressing opening lead is the spade King. though the snapshot can record down a certain street if necessary facts it la powerless to show their! Ia hundred times until he had seen at some pains to refute the in- strongly for the speedy holding of You hold spades, Q 9 7 3.

everything In it that anyone had Interpreting the lead, you know value and significance. plication that, there had been any the Final Reparations Conference,

a clearance which is long overdue, that your partner also holds the The taking of photographs in ever seen and then to walk down it real delay. The facta, however, and there are strong hopes that spade Ace and others in that suit. the open air by time exposure, on again until he had discovered a purely something that only he could sec. are against

contention, the beginning of next month will You should play the spade 7 which the other hand, is not that Everybody known that even the see the interested nations at work. will inform your partner of the mechanical process. Here one in Such is the method of the time # mere eposure, which does not pause at. first portion of the scheme, let inseparable from this problem, is fact that you hold strength in that something more than

another of the greatest importance

suit and want it continued. · thumb pressing a rubber bulb. the superficial facts but pierces to alone the second, was held up by to Europe, the total evacuation of

Assume now that you hold One choses his point of view. care-meanings and to values. Such has the Government after considerable the lühineland. It is gratifying to

timates the shadows, considera who have truly seen the glory of progress had been made. Bat the earn that the British Government spades, 7 5 3 and your partner fully, studies the lighting and es- always been the method of those

will strongly press for complete leads the spade King. public has never been told why, withdrawal with all possible speed, You want to inform your part. effects of proportion and balance this various world and have help- It might have been at Thursday's an official statement issued last nor of the fact that you do not somewhat as a painter does in ed their fellows to see it.—I.P.S.E.. Council meeting if the Govern- iftude as highly as this: "The Bri- should therefore play the spade

week-end putting the British at hold strengths in that auit and you working out his composition, and in the Christian Science. Monitor. ment had been perfectly frank in tish Government will be greatly dis-3., This is known as

discourag.

"It is not the desire of the the matter. This interregnum, Appointed if a few days after the ing card and is a signal to your MR. A. J. COOK AND THE

miners," Mr. Cook added, "that they assembly of the conference, it will partner that you cannot help him

and their industry should once unfortunately, does not appear to be impossible to announce that the in that suit.

again come into the picture im- have been utilised for the pur- Allies are proceeding to early

mediately a Labour Government is pose of working out the details of evacuation." The continued pre- sence of alien troops on German

COALFIELDS.

mineworkers and 'the industry com- the second section. Thus it comes soil is little short of a Europan suse they fell back upon the Treaty THREATENED CRISIS IN THE returned, but the condition of the of Versailles, us if, whatever its

pels attention at once, about that to-day we are informed, anomaly, it need hardly be painted clauses, it could, condone a situation.

"The Miners' Federation have no] "Honce our decision to meet the out that when Germany was ad- that this latter section is still inmitted to the League of Nations which the passage of time proved desire to harass & Labour Govern Government representatives, not to "somewhat hazy condition" on an equal footing with the rest to be wrong, Sir Austen Chamberment, but the present Intolerable, threaten or coerce them, but to dis- There can be no queation of the of the great Powers it must have an allen Mr. Baldwin favoured conditions, and the danger facing cuse the whole situation, in view

acknowledged been

thent the evacuation but thought it incx-us of another lock-out at the end of the pledges given, and the pro officials concerned being engaged time for exceptional treatment was pendient to press their views on of this year, compel us to deal at gramme agreed upon.

"We wish more particularly to on more Important projects. The long past. Even the last Govern France. Mr. Henderson. and Mr, once with the situation," declared

ment realised this quite well, but Ramsay MacDonald will be more Mr. A. J. Cook, the miners' secre- prevent a crials that would be a explanation is that the whole at the slightest suggestion of pre-energetic.

tary, at Hinkley recently,

calamity at the end of this year.”

leader, opens a suit, east should ed by a broad glare of common-value. The forest, the tree, the try to signal definite Information place sunshine. It has depth and single leaf of the tree, must be distance, it has shadows, and in looked at long and many times, about hie holding.

GOVERNMENT,