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December 6, 1902.
Another circumstance which draws upou ! Que's pity is illustrated by the following. In the very pretty scene where Magda "nicets the distinguished visitors, the stage lights suddenly went out, and really one of the love mentioned offendors almost curled himself up into a ball of laughter! Truly, as the circum. stauce would testify, it must have been a terrific and a most stupendous joke, and one which none but the intellect of the sail gentleman perceived! Truly. home keeping youths have ever homely wits." How fortunst; it is to be old, when laaghter is less spoutaneous.
The rationale of playgoing is surely to see and to note the whole play, and not the disturbed by a hundred preventable annoyances that one has to tolerate outside the theatre.--
Yours, etc.,
A STUDENT AND
LOVER OF THE PLAY.
SAMPANS WANTED.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DILY PRESS.
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Hongkong, 2ad December. STR. May 1, through the medium of your, widely circulated paper both in the Flest and j elsewhere, ask if it is possible for something to be done so that we, the men in H. M. Fleet, cau obtain sampans after sunset without waiting fifteen. twenty, aud thirty minutes both at Murray Pier and at the Naval Canteen steps. To get aboard his ve sel a man has to be at either pier at 10:30, otherwise he cannot depend; on reaching his ship by 11 o'clock. Only last evening. I muid another waite fifteen minutes on Murray Pier; plenty of sampaus were there; too, but they did not care to com, and it was exactly another fifteen minutes before wa got to our slip, which might mention is qui · close to the Naval Yard. Hoping an abler writer than myself will take the matter up- Yours, etc..
THE RIDER-MAIN DANGER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRIN
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As I have said. the rider-main system | will simplify the application of the intermittent supply, and we will find that intermittance has come to stay; it will be always with us. It certainly sounds vay reassuring to be told that in a year or two we will have a reservoir at Tytam Tak capable of holding twelve hundred milli a gallons, but how about the years of scant or even normal raiafail, when Tytam itself scarcely fills ? Increase your reservoir capacity if you will by twelve hundred million gallons, but you cannot, increas“ your catchment arya in anything lik" pr portion; and if this, ri'er-mrun sy fo.. is carried oat Hongkong will soon be known throughout the East as the town of the six months water supply. That does not appear to be a cheerful prospect for |
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,'
Hongkong, th December. SIR. The letter which appeared in your issue of to-day over the signatura of Messrs. Deacon and Hastings has created consternation among at least the majority of the shareholders of the Dock Co. It is well that the public should be reminded of the exact facts. At the meeting of the 18th a't. the Chairman, Mr. D). E. Brown, reading from a pap r in his hand, declared to the meeting that there was oue point he wished to refer to, and proceeded to say that that point was the reason for holding that meeting at such a long interval after the o igival one. · The interval of three months was settled solely by the advice and suggestion of the Company's solicitors, and was not at all. a seems to be the impression among shareholders an idea originated by an; of the directors then- selves."
The solicitors of the Company are Messrs. Deacon and Hastings, and they now write to say that they neither originated the idea thereof or suggested its adoption." They merely advised upon the legality of the adjourn- meni. It is plain that their advice was asked, and they gave it. Many a shareholder who heard the Chairman's remarks at that meeting
In addition to this evil there will be the touring up of the entire town, aud when anes this is begun when will it be finished?
We spe how long it takes the P.W.D. to put throngh small jobs: how many years will it take to complete this gigautic scheme, and how about the pestilence which seems likely to follow this sweeping disruption of the streets, to say nothing of the block and congestion of traffic?
The simple and effective way to guarantee full mains, and the only way, is to prey nf uspected that sneh was the case, but gave Mr. Chinese was′e. Give them th' chote, between (1) E. Brown credit for accuracy aulse upted meter and hydraut, as ori inally contemplated: his explanation. Now what cut he have to say, in other words treat them exactly as Europeans Is it possible there could hav, beeu any mis are treated, and thy maius will be always full understanding on such a point? Is it the and there will by no short supply for half the business of solicitors to siggest or originate. year.
idea? If the Government permits this scheme such au
There has been lot of to go through it sms a pity that the Governor | correspondence in our local juruals about (provided he is the responsible party) should not some classes of directors and their ways, stop here and enjoy the effoes of it, but if and this latest episods is a valuable illustra- he doesn't stop he will have the satisfaction tion. The shareholders' deliberate and express of being long remembgel in Hongkong, for | wish, carried in du form, wax put iu th people will curs his memory, as the Kaiser | alexaurs for three months for no other reasou, would put it, for a thoustul years. As to the as Mr. D. E. Brown took care to tell them, bland and Honourable non oficials who, favour than that the Company's slicers suggested at it will take something amare to embarrass that ours to the Board, and now it thens out them.--Yous, ole.
such a suggestion was never wa›¦
AN
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INCIDENT AT THE S. ANDREW'S BALL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS“ Hongkong, 3rd December.
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St. Kindly allow me through the medium of your columns to congratulat the dy who advertis d in your paper of yesterday the loss of a sapphire bracelet at the S. Andrew's Bal not on the recovery of the bacelet, bu' ou the recovery of her e umoasense. I also take the opportunity of informing her that from ex- perience gained by attending public balls, etc.. in the Colony usecutively for the past uine years. I understand the usual course pursued by a person Bading anything at such a fauction, or one lesing anything, is to im- mediately inform one of the offic'als of the Committee of the fact, and not to rudely accost aul examine an innocent person when by chance may be wearing an article similar to that which is lost Yours, etc..
W. J. TERRILL, Care of Puncha:d, Lowther & Co.
Hongkong, 3rd December. STR. No subject of vital interest to the Colony has roused more attention during the last year or two than the water supply. Columns have been written on it. g ntlemen have loudly declaimed what they would do it their fellow townsmen would only vote them into the Legisl tivo Council. Honourable mem- bers have repeatedly asked vexations and Lifting questions. but with it all we have got 110 ** forrarder than if the Government had been left alone. Now, however, there appears to be a battle impending which will tax the cuergy and ability of every honest Man: amongst them. In all that has been said or written, 10 attempt, so far as I am aware. has been made to point out the dangers of, the rider-main scheming which seems likely to be forced upon us. Bider-wain is a goud word and seems to have been lugged into dis: guise the real issue; which is, fro, uuchecked water to the Chinese. The system, briefly, consists of two auxiliary mains, one on each side of the pincipal mains throughout the towu.. It's merits are that the present mains cau re maiu full at all times, to be available in case of THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA fire, and that it renders resort to the intermit tent system more easy. It is advocated in the interests of the owners of Chinese tenements, p whose tonauts demand water without metering. That is the crux of the whole affair; it goes without saying that the system adds not a drop to the reserroirs.
Some years ago, ou the completion of the Tylam reservoir. the Chiuse property-owners raised the cry for unrestricted water, and the Government, most déplorably weak-kneed in this respect. gave in to thei. The Chinese had never known what it was to have water in strest hydrants in their own cities; in their, wildest dreams they had never imagined such a thing as fragraut and filtered waters wurmuring through their houses: bnt when the possbility was pointed ont to them they were willing to pay a little more rent. and in an evil hour the Government gave in. In a few years the demand began to overtake the supply and the, result was brought home pretty forcibly to us last season, and now this.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS.
Hongkong, 3rd December.
SIR. In your report of the meeting of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, held on the 18th-ul it is said that the three months' adjournment from the 18th August last was settled solely by our advice and suggestion and was not an idea originated by any of the Directors themselves. As we only advised upon the legality of the adjournment, and neither originated the idea thereof nor suggested its adoption, we shall be obliged by your inserting this letter, which
circumstances
have preventel our sending earlier, in your next issu4 and also in the
next issue of the Hongkong Weekly Press. We may add that we are informed that the state- ment referred to in the report was due to a misunderstanding.-Yours, etc.,
DEACON & PASHINGS.
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Another thought has now arisen in Cio miuds of shareholders. At the meeting on the 18th August thi÷ sam> Chair nan can duded his speech with the following rymarks, which, though suppressed in the Company's official report, duly a peared in th' of one ई
He said: --` loral journa's
hope, that under the circumstances gentlemen. and with the sound busin es reasons' before
I can you. and in which
tell you bankers concur, as they also do in the dividend
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that we recommend." &c. &c. In the face of what has just been brought to light, Mr. D. E. Brown would surely ex uss the shareholders if they a-k now; Is this insinuation a fact. or is it another misunderstanding between him and the Co's bankers ?—Yours, etc..
TO THE EDITOR OF THE
REFORM,
*DAILY PRESS,” Hongkong. 4th November. SIR,-- In a few days we shall be called upon to decide whether the new dock scheme is to be carried through or not. Befo e the decision becomes irrevocable I would like to say a few words to my brother shareholders.
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One of your contemporaries published the Local other evening a long letter from a Engineer" giving a very full aud. I must say, more rosy view of the scheme thau 1 had been accustomed to regard it, and pointing out how the present No. 1 Dork was opposed by shortsight d shareholders fourteen years ago. I had intended arguing some of his points. Tut last evening's paper contains a letter from Investor which covers exactly the some ground and with whose opinious I cordially agree except on one or two particulars, Up to three years ago I myself was strongly in favour of the construction of a new dock. The present No. 1 Dock is admittedly th most useful of the series, and if only to relieve it of the congestion of work another similar dock was required. and while about it, it should
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large enough to fake in Any vessel afloat; the trade of Chius vet very small compared with a similar length of seaboard in Europe or America with an equally dense population behind it, and Hongkong is very far from having reached its zenith. It is therefore essential that the docking gecommodation should not only keep pace but be in advance of the growing needs of the port. I disagree with "Investor's" opiniou re
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