Prayers for Water Followed by Deluge: Swimming Delights:
Rale-Cutting te Canton after the five vice. A section of posed on their supply. were answered wil Their prayers From Monday to Friday 10.84 inches was registered at the Royal Hongkong Observatory. Of this total, 5.81 inches were recorded during the 24 hours from Thursday to Friday morning. The Colony was not exactly flooded, but it was certainly saturated and the five days' consistent vain provided a typical being of x tropical wet season.
wus Iandslide came to the notice of the P.W.D., though there were several minor collapses in the Kill district. The vacos—an extra meeting—were held despite the swampy atate of the course. Within an hour of the opening, the rai had steadily fallen yet the jockeys through i programme. and ponies Zaced the bog and went
Coolies were working most of Friday afternoon und Saturday morning clearing away the mud, with the result that when starting. time came, the state of the course was declared to be better than it was at the annual meeting. Former Shanghai ponies again proved their stamina and good training.
Chinese householders in the lower levels of the island wrote indignant letters a few days ago to the newspapers about the restriction of thei water supply, an expedient which is found necessiiry eve They protested that even who Water Department cut down their supply to two hours a day they were deprived of a certain portion of that period by enterprising tenants who monopolised the one tap or diverted the flow into their own pipes, stored up the water and later sold it. Shortly after their complaint was made, it was announced that a constant' supply would be turned on in all rider main districts east of Eastern Street, the Chinese quarter, til further notice.
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