At the opening of the Court jon Monday in H. M. Supreme Court, Fudge Peter Grain paid high tribute to the late tinghai.
The Judge said that the tinghai had been associated with him and with the Court for several years and that he would be much missed, The tinghai had been a loyal and devoted. servant and, knowing burden of work which fell on (the Judge's) shoulders, had every effort to assist him, Deceased was a man of exceptional powers. He had learned English auch hotier than most men of his class and there remained in his vocabulary scarcely a vestige of hat was commonly known as pidgin." He had a charming disposition and displayed the manners fof a gentleman, He was a gentleman, and possessed a fine sense of humour. He would be a great, loss to the Court and to his Lordship.
Mr, Mossop, the Crown Advocate, fon behalf of the Bar, associated himself with the remarks of his! Lordship, Tue situation having returned to something more nearly normal the tram service to the Shanghai North Station has been resumed, managers, then awarded the diplomas, Following the exercises the var-fous scholarships for the year were announced.
On behalf of the Shanghai Rotary Club, Mr, G. E, Marden presented Mr. John H, Gray, 3R., with the Rotary Club Scholarship.
Drs. C. E. Patino presented Miss Martha Lacy with the scholarship of the American Association of University Women.
The Pomona College Scholarship was presented to Mr, Robert Elliott by Mr. C. L. Boynton.
Mr. Anderson then announced that the five highest in scholarship were Mr. J. Rhett Wilson, Miss Martha Lacy, Mr. Benjamin Fason, Mr, John H. Gray, sri, and Mr, Samuel Mellman. He also an-anuriced that the Ellis Kadoorie cup for the class of the school had been this year by the pupils of sion was pronounced by the Rev, J, Bf, Blain, \A letter, which is published below, has been addressed by Dr. H. Liu, Senior District Health Officer, the management of the Chapel Electricity & Waterworks Company, indicating that Dr. Liu is deters mined that there shall be fundamental reforms in the work of the Readers will recall that, last year, the "'North-China Daily News'? published a series of articles req ferring to the Chapei Waterworks fand a demand was made by the Chinese people of Chapei that reforms should be instituted immediately. All sorts. of germs were found in the water which was distributed to consumers; small fish, shrimps, frogs, ete. }were constantly seen cither swim: ming or floating about in the water so distributed, A kang of water, left standing' for a day, would be half full of mud, Dr, Noel Davis, the Municipal Commis: sioner of Public Health, in his official report, referred to the water supply in very uncomplimentary, terms, The Shanghai Taoyin ordered an investigation and a report in order that he could take action against the management in the event of the charges being true, but that was the last heard of the matter until Dr, Liu took ove his present appointment, The latter personally visited the place on Several occasions and demanded that reforms should be made at once bury fon visiting the place again Frid (as pointed out in a letter from Chinese correspondent Dr, Liv's Letter has now addressed the following letter to the company:—"With reference to your letter dated the 9th instant in regard to my 11 recommendations, you made use, I notice, of a number of flowery terms which would seem, at. first sight, to lead me to believe that you lad taken steps to put my recom mendations into practic"
visited your works again on the 10th instant and found that the position was the same and that conditions were unchanged, No steps were taken to enforce my feommendations and no attempt to distribute a clean water supply was made, On inquiry, your repre sentative told mo that reforms of necessity took some time and so the company would like to have the period for the enforcement of these "In compliance with your request therefore, I agree to extend the date to June 17, after which date I shall tolerate no excuses but adopt vigorous action against you im: mediately {reforms are not then made."
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