THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., SATURDAY,
JANUARY · 80,
1887.
A TRIUMPH FOR BRITISH ENGINEERING: THE JUBILEE RESERVOIR
Reproduced by courtesy of the Royal Air Force this splendid photograph shows the new Jubilee Reservoir in Shing Mun Valley. The face of the dam is in the centre of the photo, with the dry bed of the Shing Mun River, cut deep into towering mountains on either side, in the foreground. Jubilee Reservoir, which will be opened by His Excellency the Governor this afternoon, can lompound 3,000,000,000 gallons of water, exactly doubling the Colony's former supply. -ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH. CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED.
JUBILEE RESERVOIR FLOODLIT AT NIGHT
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Nocturnal view of the Jubilee Reservoir, as it will be to-night when guests will remain over from the official opening at 3 p.m. Giant floating foodlights, playing on the face of the dam wall, turn it into a brilliant white, unrelieved except for the shimmering reflection on the water,
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Another magnificent view of Jubilee Reservoir from the air, showing the surface of the dam that will eventually impound 3,000,000,000 gallons of water. The contents when this photograph was taken were more than 1,000,000,000 gallons, The Pineapple Pass and main wall of the dam are in the background with the Shing Mun river, flowing into the reservoir, in the foreground. In the right-hand top of the photograph is the sea.
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MR. ELDON POTTER ROBBED
LARGE SUM LOST BY
OFFICE BOY
According to a report submitted to the Police by an office boy employed in the office in Queen's Building of Mr. Eldon Potter, R.c., a daring robbery was committed in the heart of the city yesterday morning.
Pau Kau, aged 23, the office boy, was rent to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to cash a cheque for his report $350. According to 19 Pau was stabbed no less than ave times by a robber who eventually got off with the cash and has not been seen since,
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Pat had collected the
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10 was secosted by a man who desired to borrow $50. from him. He rc- at fused the request and continued on his way to Queen's Building. On arriving at the building, however, he went to the lavatory and just as... he was about to enter he was push- ed violently from behind and stabbed twice in the right thigh. Turning round he saw that his assailant was ie man who had accosted him o few minutes earlier. After a brief
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further three wounds in the shoulder, the robber succeeded in extracting the money from an inside pocket of a docket Pau was wearing and made off.
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The wounds received by Poù superficial but he did not cry out or go for help but remained in the invatory until found a little later by another office nssistant to whom be told the story of the robbery. The intured man was then taken to the Government Civil Hospital where he was deinlned, though none of his wounds are serious.
Inspector A. E. Carey is in charge of enquiries and though no arrest had been made up to a late hour last night the Police expect an early solution of the robbery,
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