UNIVERSITY
BAZAAR
March 11 to March 16.
Open from 2.30 p.m. DAILY.
STALLS
For the Sale of Articles and Curios of every description:
EXHIBITION
A magnificent loan 'exhibition of porcelain.
MUSIC
By kind. permission of the Naval and Military Authorities music will be supplied daily by the following bands :—
EL M. S Minotaur ·
K. . Y. L L...
8th Rajputs.
126th Baluchis
·25th-Punjabis
26th Punjabis.
ontinuous Variety Entertainments inematograph (by Pathe Freres). onic Railway
C
afe Chantante Thinese Theatre omic Minstrels oncerts
"Up-to-Date Restaurants
Roof Garden
American Bar
Photo
Studio
Clubs for Ladies (beautifully equipped) EVENING
ENTERTAINMENTS,
MONDAY, the 11th, at 9.15
KHATTACK DANCE by men of the 12th Baluchis CAFE CHANTANTE on Roof Garden.
TUESDAY, the 12th at 7.30
STATE DINNER
The inha
THE CHINA MAIL.
the little peninania Plougsstal," E. Brittany, form a people altosh apart, with quaint old" customta sod traditions that have been handed down
„from father to son until they have almost
becomes law to the land."
Intimations.
MARIE BRIZARD AND ROGER'S
FINE LIQUEURS AND
Amongst these are the fixed daten for marriages, births,,, and, in a mensare, donthx From time immemorial every trae "Plougastel" man and woman who de [ACJENTS: cided on wedlock has presented himself, and herself before the maire and the dure on the second Tuesday in January. The second-class, weddings, which are the most numerous, take place at mine in the morn fog, and the more select Breb-class caro. monies are performal ister. The usual month for dying and burying, in Pongsatol is Septembar. There are, of course, some
wrongheaded couples who are determined
to many at any time, just as there aru
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A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS
Bangkor, January 11, 1912.
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obstinate old men and women who na P. O. Box 350.
the September facilities, but the gresi majority of deaths certainly occur in this.
[UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT):
SHIPPIN
MARCH 7 1912
La Liverpool Fab
P. CLDAI E. Marohi sphon, LA Liverpool Mazók, J. Calahan, L, Liverpool alszen De Not
Trerpool March
March 90. Darda Flavia BE March &
HK for Sai Tel. 21. Diomed? Staro H. Feb. 28
Jason, L. Kobo H, March 8. Laartes, L. Spora H. Feb. 21. Machaon, P. Canal 0. Fab 17. Patrocius,
Peleus Home March & Páraeus, In Liverpool híarch 23. Prism, Liverpool March 9: Promethem, In Liverpool March $0.
Stomboy + ST
LA Liverpool March 16.
A. S'mire O. March Y. Telemachus, L.
L. Spore for S'hat Feb. 12. Teucer, L. Manila for S'pore March 6. Thesaur, L. S'pore H. Fab. Tic
H. March 8.
A CHINA METHAL §. N. UN
Astyanax, In Spor H: Feb. 15:
Atreus, L. Kobe H. Marsh 7.
Hyson, L. Liverpool March 16.
Glenda Lomien. Feb. 25. Glentarg, P. Canal O Febr Glenivery, TB.K. O. Feb. Glenlogan, La S'pore H Glenroy, L.FF. for Japan Des Glenstra, Li, Exindon March 99% Glenburrat, A FK, O. March 7.
BE LINKS
Benalder, LHK for N'saki March 9 Benavon, P. Canal Q, Folk 27 Benaleuch, A. Spare from Vidicstock
Bandaran, L. E.F. fot Nagsiki Jan. Sie
Bongloo, IHE: 0. Feb. 10 Beniwers, L. II.E for Nagasaki Jan Benlomond, P., Canal O Fah 1 Bonvenue, H. for Nagasaki Feb. 18.
PACITOR. CORN SEA
Emprees of India, & Vancouver Fub. 16 Empress of Japan, A. Y'bama from Kobe
Mar 2 Montangle, HK for Shai March S
PACIFIC BLAIL
Keeman, L. Thema for Tacoma March Chian, A. Frisco March 1.
9, DUDDELL STREET. TELEPHONE NO. 688 Menon, L. S'hal H. March 10. (OPPOSITE LADIES'S AUerior Rooms)
month, just as must, marriagos are solemn SHIPPING, FORWARDING & INSURANCE AGENTS.
ised in Jatibary.
All these dates depend largely upon t crops, beginning with the stworzy gathering to the wheat harvest and pes picking which entail a series of extra- ordinary efforts, at the end of which tho. *Plougastele," who have been working at high tension for months, retire to rost well earned. But many of them profit by this "dend-sennon" to die for good, and that is why September and October are funeral months.
HYMEN AND THE CROPS.
Packing and Warehousing.
Meyins,
20
L. Kuchinoten for Boarabaya Jan.
Noles L. H.5,0. Feb, 29.
Ningehou. F. Canal O March 1. Pakling, A. Home March 5, Kingsuey, Liverpool Feb. 24. Protesilaus, A. Tacoma Fab. 18. the Rhesis, L. BE. H. March 5
WE accept shipinouts for any part in the World, with sunlar facilities to
Parcels Post without restriction to size or weight, and our Charges are Teanksi, A. Home Maroh 1. absolutely the lowest possible.
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Yangtan, Le Liverpool March
SHIRE LINE
Payments may be made in Hongkong or Destination. Baggage stored and transhipped a Agents for Contractors to Imperial German, Royal Danish, and Carmarthenshiro, L. H.K. H. March 6, Swiss Federal Parcel Post.
JOHN TAYLOR, Manager.
THOS COOK & SON.
Danbighshire, A Home March 1. Den of Glamis, L. H. O. March S Flintshire, P. Canal O. March 5. Glamorganshire, I Kobe H. Feb. 25. Monmouthshire, L. Columbo H. Feb. 11. Pembrokeshire, L. S'poro B. Feb. 19.
The crops also effect the marriage market, TOURIST. STEAMSHIP & FORWARDING AGENTS, deo, L. PRA LIN. 19. In 1806, on January 10, forty-six couples
marched up to the maite, and the much-;
BANKERS, etc.
tried mairo grew so tired of repeating the Head Office for the Far East: 18, Des V formula that he put a third off till the next SHANGHAI, . FoocHow. ROAL.
day. In 1910 thero were only twenty-two, but in 1911 the figure leaped up again to
forty-two. This year alas! the secon
week of January passed in Pidigaster with: out a marriage, a circumstance without. paliol, which might nevertheless · have beap partially foretold by the fewer deaths. last autumn.
In Plougastel marrying is not so much
a union of hearts and souls as the join
ing of a strawberry patch to two fields
of wheat, and, of course; if anything goes wrong with the fruit Hymen suffers.
in the Main Hall at which His Excellency the Governor There are always some pertinacious young will be present, to be followed by a
GRAND MUSICALE-
at which the leading amateurs of the Colony will take part. Entrance to concert $2.00; to the balcony $1.00.
WEDNESDAY, the 13th, at 9.15
PHARAGATKA DANCE by men of the 25th Punjabis.
folk, nevertheless, who, if they are nut able to marry for financial reasons in January, object to waiting a year, and the i good cure of Plougastal has told a corres pondent of the Paris Journal, who went to Brittany to look into this question, that those who missed their chance this munth have decided to have a general wedding day on February 13, the Mardi Gras, when st
RESTAURANTS EUROPEAN & CHINESE STYLE.st twenty five pairs will come up for his
Admission to University and grounds 60 ct. (fifty cents.) Thiere will be a service of rickshas running from Kennedy Road Tram Station. There will be n service of chairs from the corner of Western Street to which the lower trams run direct from the Hongkong Hotel.
Chancellors Tickets 8100 giving free ndinission to University and grounds and all
the many side siva daring the whole wook. ***** Members Tickets 250,00 giving free admission to University and grounds and all the
side shows daring the whole week,
Season Tickets $5.00 giving free admission to University and grounds during the
whole week; may be obtained from Mr S. W. Tao, 28, Das Voeux Road, and Mr L. F. Townend, c/o Union Insurance Society of Canton.
Dinner will he served in the Restaurants nightly, and for the sake of convenience those persons proposing to dine in the Restaurants (Chinese and Europeans) are request- ed to notify the Hon-Sees, in the affice of the University at least one day beforehand.
Hongkong, March 4, 1812,
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$14
bleasing. And the next Sunday after the Mardi Gras there will be" "bragaden," a trick not altogether unheard of in other communities. This menus that all to
newly married husbands, with their spouses in full finery, arrive at church a quarter of
affrontery to take the front seats, so as to an hour late for Mass, and proeced with.
enable all to admire their three variegated waistcokla-violet, green, and wbita teneath the scarlet wedding jacket.
MARRIAGE TRADITIO SE.
ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG. VOKOHAMA, 32, WAT ST.
TICKETS suplied to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP LINES
TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of th. Wärld. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED: and CASHED, FOREIGN MONTES exchanged
HALD OFFICE-LUDGATE CIROOS, LONDON, E.Ç. Hongkong: April 4, 1908.
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(FLOWER ST.)
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Hongkong, October 20, 1911.
THE
Indramayo, A/Home Feb. 9, Indrasamba, A. Kobe O, Feb. 28, Indrawadi, A Home March 5.0- Indravelli, P. Canal H. Feb. 9.
NIPPON YUSEN KADHA Abula Maru, F. Canal O. Feb. 20, Aki Mary, L. Shai for HK. March 8 A Man L Seattle March 1- Hirano Mari, P. Canal for Europe Mar. 1 Hitachi Mara, P. Canal for Colombo Mar.
G.
| Iya Maru, A. London Fab. 23.
funha Maru, L. Kobe for Yokkaichi Mareli
Kawachi Maru, A. Home Jan,30.
Kaga Maru, L. H.K. fur Kobe March 1. Kamo Maru, L Paning for Colombo Mar.
Kitano Mari A. England Feb. 9. Kanagawa Maru
Miyasaki Maru, A. London Fab. 2. Mishisis Maru, L. H.K. for Kobe Feb. 15, Sado Maru, L. H.K. for Stat & Seattle.
Fab. 13.
Tamba Maru, L. Kobe for Maji March 8. Tauge Maru, L. S'pore for Penang Feb. 20.
GREAT NORTHERN 8. 5. Co. Minnesota, H., for Ngasaki & Seattle
Feb. 6.
P. & O. 8. N.. Co. Arcadia, L. Spooro for Penang Feb. 2. Assaye, L. Spore for Penang March 7. Banca, L. S'pore for Kobe Feb. 15. Dergeo, L. London March 9. Curion, A. Penang Q. March 8.
Candi T
ha, I S'pore for
H.K. March 9
Delta, A. Colombo March 16.
138 Himalaya, L. S'pore for Penang Feb. 29.
Invia, L. Y'baine H. March 7. India
Malta, F. Carl H. Dec. 12.
Nile, LH.K. H. March 8.
P. Canal H. Feb. 2).
Nabis, L. Moji O. March 8.
LEEDS FORGE CO., LD., LEEDS. Namur, & Colombo 0. March 8
P. Canal H. March 5.
Specialists in the Manufacture of RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK of every demption Poohawur,
Pioneers in the design and manufacture or
Palma, Pork, L Kobe H. March A. Palawan, P. Catial H. Jan. 12. Palermo, Sardinia,
Sunda
Amongst the Bas-Brotona the Plongastela have stack the longest to their old costames FRESSED STEEL UNDERFRAMES AND BOGIES AND ALL-STEET Syria, P. Canal H. Feb. 9. and old customs, and a small volume might
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tions relating to marriage, which are stil observed in a large degree. Not the leat The Under gned have been appointed Sole Agents in Hongkong and China. curious of these is the office of the "Baz
eslan," or intermediary, who in ancient times was indispensable all over Brittany, but now survives only in Pluugantel. For.: mly the Bazvalans were recruited exclu
vely from amongst the guild of tailors," who then enjoyed great and peculiar privileges, though their reputation for morality was not of the highest Sixty years ago a violent sermon was delivered from the pulpit against the tailure, and nowadays it is the liquonsellers who act sa Batralans
When charged with a marriage offer couple of Bazyalats must repair toward midnight to the house of the lady and wak® up the Inmates, who, by a polite are supposed to be asleep, alt reality waiting for the event
mother who has to open the door, and
she answers nvasively the wink is taken.
For s nod, and the Bazyalans wish. good-night. If, on the contrary, she them in, and light a fire, it i good alm sud if he places s tripod on the bear
fa a better atill After weather and other pus medinera, Interest the Bastal
good qualities of
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MENAGERIES MARIKA. Australien, P. Casal 0. Feb, 15. Armand-Bebic, P. Canal H. Feb. 19. Caledonien, P. Canal H. Bob. 1. Dumben; 8'hai H. March 8 Ernest Simons LHK E 8.b. 27 Polynesien, E. Canal O. Feb. 194 Sydney, P. Canal E. March Tonkin, A. Hóma Marok, 1
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Buelow,
L. Marseilles March 10.
NORDDEULICHER LLOTE England March 1.
S'pore H. Feb. 28 Gneisenan, In Europe Goeben, P, Canal Hi March 1.
Derflinger, I
Kleisty In Europe
Laetzow
P. Canal O. Feb 27,
E. Friedrich, L: Manila H. March 8/ Frine Lazwig, A. Southampton Feb. 14. Prinzant Alion, 4 HH0, March 7. Food In Europe.
Korea, Yhans.frowe Hogelsin March 8. Manchuria, A Friso March. S. Mcügolia, La Nasaki for Kobs March 7. Nile, L'bama for Honolulu March. 6. - Persis, La Sagasaki for Shai March Siberis, Ja Fruco March 5.
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Chiyo Maru, L. lalafor Frisco March 8... Nippon: Maru, A. H. Feb. 27, Shinyo Maru, L. Hielu for 'bana March
Tengo Mara, J. H.K. March 4.
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