MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930;-
THE MOST RELIABLE JADE DEALER
IN HONG KONG.
Jade Necklaces, Pendants, Rings, Pins, Bangles, Bracelets, always in stock.
Moderate Prices.
THE CHINA JADE CO.
China Building, Queen's Road Central.
WE WELCOME YOUR INSPECTION. CHUNG WAH DRAWN WORK CO.
(NEXT TO QUEEN'S THEATRE) 33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. (2nd FLOOR)
GENERAL WHOLESALERS OF SWATOW HAND- MADE DRAWN WORK, MOSAIC ART EMBROIDERIES, FILET IRISH LINEN, & GRASS- CLOTH.
FINEST QUALITY GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES.
CONDUCTED CRUISES
BANKING & EXCHANGE
SHIPPING & FORWARDING
AIRWAYS
COOK'S WAGONS-LITS
RAILROADS
STEAMSHIPS
INDEPENDENT TRAVEL
MOTOR-CARS
THOS. COOK & SON, LTD.
THOS. COOK & SON (BANKERS), LTD.- WAGONS - LITS.
Hong Kong Office :- 1st Floor, Pedder Bldg.,
Pedder Street
(OPPOSITE HONG KONG HOTEL).
HONG KONG
Facts About The Colony
THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL TOURISTS' SUPPLEMENT.
THE CHINESE BAZAAR
ESTABLISHED 1905.
High Class Specialists in Raat Hand Made Swatow Drawn Work.
^^ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
SWATOW DRAWN WORK.
CANTON SILK EMBROIDERED
SHAWLS
•
LADIES' SILK UNDERWEAR
KIMONOS, SCARFS
Cable Add. "BAZAAR."
TEN TIPS
Which Tourists Should Observe
TRADE MARK.
HOURI COATS
HAPPY COATS
❤
PYJAMA SUITS
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LACE, ORIENTAL FANCY GOODS
►
❤
IVORY and AMBER WARE
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CHINA BLDG., QUEEN'S ROAD C., HONG KONG. Phone. C.4744.
I made to Becure same, but no BLACKWOOD
guarantae can be entered into thereon.
Cheaper in Hong Kong| Than in Straits
ADORABLE CURIO SHOPS
Tel. No. 3820.
Established 1841.
WHOLESALE SILK STORE
KWONG WOO
DEALER "IN CHINESE GOODS
ALL KINDS OF SILKS, CRAPE SHAWLS EMBROIDERED LINEN BLOUSES AND TABLE CLOTHS IVORY, LACQUERED AND CHINA WARES, GOLD & SILVER WARE MANUFACTURER. JADE STONES — CHINESE CURIOS.
JEWELLERY.
No. 66, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.
IMPERIAL SCREEN
Presentation Screen of the Chieng Lung Dynasty Exhibited at"
MESSRS. KOMOR & KOMOR
Optional Shore Excursions Members holding Exchange Orders issued ashore for Optional Shore Excursions are respectfully HELPFUL ADVICE
requested to turn them in at the
It is a rare occasion to be able to buy a Presentation Screen Cruise Office promptly when called
These PORT REGULATIONS-ARRIVAL for,, in order that final arrange-
Hong Kong's chief attraction le as such are kept by the families with great devotion.
screens are on a wonderfully carved blackwood stand and frame ments may be made in respect of its adorable curio shops. As you made of the celebrated Chieng Lung Lacquer ornamented with Landing at most ports is pro- each party.
step out of the revolving door of cloisonnee of the same period showing the seven coloured rock, hibited until after the ship has As the Optional Excursions are the Hong Kong Hotel into the dry the 3,000 year old peach tree with the peaches on it, the Stag been passed by the Health, Imml-imited in respect to numbers, cold which is so stimulating to /and the Bat, the seven colours on the rock denotes "Beauty," the. gration and Police authorities. Members desirous of availing them-
Peaches which bloom only once in 3,000 years means "Long Life" Due notice will be given regard-selves of such, and who have not the visitor, the Arat object the Stag means "Wealth and Longevity" the Bat means "Happl- ing attendance of Cruise members already purchased orders for them attention 19 perhaps the ness." and delay and discomfort to all ashore, should enquire at the Cruise flower market, whose wealth of The colours of the cloisonnee have a wonderful lustre, It seems will be avoided by prompt atten- Office na to vacancies available. tion to these important matters.
colour catches the eye at once, but, the secret of mixing the colours of Ching Lung has been lost and Meals on Board
as you make eagerly in the direc tion of Flower Street, the fascinat-
of
Party Registration
Two sittings will be arranged for Cruise Members are respectfully meals on board ship, to be served requested to note the following.at fixed hours. Necessary altera- which will apply generally when tions in meal hours to conform withing shop windows buzat upon you making up parties for shore excur- shore excursion arrangements will in their full glory each one more be notified on ship's Bulletin entrancing than the last. The
sions:
Regular meal hours on board will
money from the pocket of a Scrooge is amazing and what is still more! so is that in all this wealth of choice there is scarcely an un- beautiful object.
What can one buy? For the col- Breakfast .... 8.00 a.m. 9.00 am. lector there is porcelain, old and Luncheon ....12.30 pm. 1.80 p.m.new, carved ivory, Japanese and Dinner.
6.15 p.m. 7.30 p.m. Cantonese, enamel work, lacquer, Port Departures
First Second Sitting Sitting
It is roalised that Cruise Mem-Boards. Where a continuous or variety of articles made to tempt bers will wish, when travelling running meal is notified,
Cruise ļashora, to move with friends. For Members should take any sext this reason it is not desirable that avaliable and not wait until their allotments to Party A, B, or C, etc., own becomes vacant. should be made at the Cruise Office without giving members an oppor-jbe as follows: tunity to voice, their preference for one party or another. Prior to reaching each port, ahore pro- grammes will be distributed, to study shore and party arrange menta. Members should then de- cide with whom they would like
Cruise Members are respectfullyjade, paintings an allk and on rice to go sightseeing and reglater for requested to advise their Room paper, and among modern work the party of their choice. As the Stewards of their re-embarkation trifies in Chinese silver and the various parties are restricted on the ship preparatory to its sail-
number, party allotments will beings. Sailing date and departure rather beautiful clear glass made in the order in which applica-hour from each port will be con- fashionable just now. The house tions are received.
spicuously posted. The ship will proud may revel in blackwood Timely notice will be given mem- sail promptly at the hour advertis-
bers of the date, place and houred to meet tidal or other urgent furniture, Foochow lacquer, lovely at which each part party registra-reasons of operation and the Com-Tientsin carpets, or silk embroider, tion will be opened. When registra pany cannot accept any responsi-ed cushions, while the merely vain Ition is made party allotment cards bility for members falling to re-will sigh for necklaces of Peking
will be issued.
Non-Attendance at Party Registrations
Shore excursion features are identical for all parties. To many, therefore, it will be a matter of indifference with which party they move. Should Cruise Members not register for any party. It will be assumed by the Cruise Office that the matter of party allotment has been left in their hands and allot- ment will be made and party card sent to member's room.
are
re-
Shore Excursions To avoid congestion and confu- sion and to ensure their own com. fort, Cruise · Members quested to adhere to the hour shown for the movement of their party and to move only with that party.
Disembarkation
Hong Kong is an island about | Government. A light railway runs Members will best study their - 10 miles long and from 2 to 64 through the fertile valleys of the own comfort and convenience by north-cast portion of the New avoiding crowding in the corridors
Climate
Motor Cars
join the ship.
Crates Office
crystal, jade, ivory and amber, for The Cruise Office will be open gorgeous Canton shawls or for de- daily from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.licately carved ivory toilet sets, except while the ahip is in port,There is somathing for every taste when the Staff is engaged with and for every purse. It is, however, shore excursion duties.
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NEW SILK STORE
TAJMAHAL
SILK STORE
Flower St. Opp. "China Mall"
SHAWLS, + HOURI COATS
KIMONOS
PATRONIZE
SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO. AND BE PLEASED.
miles broad, with a total area of Territories from Fanling to Sha- at the gangway. Fifteen 32 square miles; it lies close to tau-kok, a distance of 7 alles minutes before the assembly hour the mainland, being separated at Good roads connect the principal for each party, a gong will be the ship. sounded throughout one point by A narrow straft districts with the railway.
Members should remain on deck or (Lyemoon) not more than a quar-
other convenient place pending
SPECIALISTS IN ter-mile wide, and was first occupi The island is broken in shape auch notification.
TABLE LINENS, SILK SHAWLS, ed by Great Britain in January, and mountainous, the highest point
being Victoria Peak, which is In filling motor cars for shore | LADIES' SILK UNDERGARMENT, 1841, and was formally ceded by about 1,820 feet high. The Peak excursions, the Cruise Manage- and great varieties of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842; | District is a favourite place of ment work, wherever possible, on
CHINESE NOVELTIES & FANCY British Kowloon was subsequently residence, and is reserved for the rale of placing four persons in
GOODS Europeans... The new Territories each neven-seated car and three acquired by the Teking Convention contain peaks from 1,800 to 3,000 persons in each five-seated car, in of 1860; and the New Territories; feet. The hot season lasts from addition to the driver. Cruise being a peninsula in the southern May to October. During the win-Members constituting themselves part of the Kwangtung province, ter months, from November. to Into small party groups for motor by a lease signed June 9, 1898. March, the climate is cooler, drier, car trips should proceed ashore · The whole colony comprises an and more invigorating. The aver-promptly together to give them area of about 891 square miles, age, dally maximum temperature selves every opportunity of secur with a population (1921) of 662,200 ranges from 37 degrees in July to ing the desired space, keeping in (1925, est. 874,420), The non- 63 degrees in February, and the view car loading as already stated. Chinese residents, excluding naval: average daily minimum tempera- It is respectfully notified that and military, numbered about ture from 78 degrees in July to 55 conveyances cannot be held for 15,200 (1925, est, 18,600), degrees in February. The average those arriving late, as the common”
A Free Portmanual rainfall is 84 in, of which comfort and convenience of all no less than 75 per cent. falls be must be studied by the Manage
The capital of the colony letween May and September, when ment. Victoria, which-lins - along the norther
iare of the Isl facf
the mai maint
the
and.
ween the
prevails
the S.W. monsoon
Vast Trade
The co-operation of Members of the Cruise is earnestly, solicited by Hong Kong is the centre of a vast convenience, comfort and pleasure the Management, looking to the rada in many kinds of produce, of all concerned.
camphor, coal, cottons, "four, gunnies, hides, Iron and steel leather, matches, oile, rice,
far, tea and tin.
angli
A Hotel Accommodation When hotel accommo ashore is ided In tlakZE regard w nt id given by practic ment to education in the for
1024 there were 1,079 with
Govern
SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO. 14 PEDDER STREET, HONG KONG
K. K. MAHTANI O
SILK & CURIO MERCHANT
94, ON LAN STREET
SHAWLS, HOURI, COATS & LADIES UNDERWEAR LADIES DRESSES, & PYJAMAS MADE TO ORDER IN 24 HOURS
emphatically a case of "Caveat Emptor" for whatever place of porcelain the unwary visitor ad- mires promptly becomes Ming or
Sung, very cheap, $50. Now it has cannot be brought out again, it is possible the age has some to be remembered that Chinese thing to do with it, or that the mixing of the enamels is a lost porcelain is a life study and not art.
to be lightly undertaken by a The pair of this beautiful screen are even better preserved novice, that real Ming or Sung and show the Pine Tree, the Stork, the Stag and the seven colour- would cost nearer $500 than $50, ed rock in a most artistic arrangement.
and that experts from all over the
The roof ornaments of the old temples show mostly the eight
world are commissioned by the big Apostles. One of them "TUNG FUNG SZO" (the apostle of lon dealers to buy Ane pieces as they gevity) is represented with a peach of life (SZEEN TAU) in his come on the market. In the cir-hand coming to the earth to reward all those who have been cumstances it is unlikely that the charitable and believed in him so that they may have long life and amateur will make any sensational happiness. There are two figures of "TUNG FUNG SZO” ex- bargains, and the best line to take hibited at KOMOR'S which are life like and interpret the idea is to select something you really of the peach tree on the screen. There are also other apostles to like and, disregarding the fancy be seen and temple roof-ornaments of all devises, and price asked, offer what it is worth We do not know of any museum or private collection which to you. You may not get all the could pride Itself on anything as beautiful and rare as these two lovely things you covet but you screens are, and recommend all who are interested in old Chinese will get a proportion of them. art to visit Messrs. KOMOR & KOMOR'S art gallery, St. George's There is one shop, however, where Building, near the landing of the Hong Kông-Kowloon ferry. prices are more or less fixed and one may obtain a piece of genuine Sung for $900 or so; it contatas specimens of every kind of objet de vertis that China produces and is well worth a visit even from those who have no intention of buy- Ing.
ALL ABOUT HONG KONG
For the guidance of those whose time is limited, the following.
Itinerary is given. to
(Continued from Page 8.)
One Whole Day In Canton Leave Hong Kong .... 10 p.m. For other useful information Arrive Canton
7 to 8 am Well Designed
concerning Hong Kong the tourist Leave Canton
4.80 pat Blackwood furniture will attract may be recommended to purchase Arrive Hong Kong (about many. It seems marvellously cheap copy of the "Dollar Directory"
11 to 12pm. in Hong Kong compared with published at SA, Wyndham Street.
Passengers should keep in touch travel tickets, breakfast, lunch and The fare provides first class Singapore and the small plecéz ara
It must be with Home and local affairs by pur dinner, service easily carried back
of competant confessed that much of the modern chasing the Chins Mall-the oldest
private Guide, for sightseeing by blackwood furniture being made newspaper in the Colony-which is sedan chair to City of tife, Dead, now is atrocious and too many published daily at 10 cents per copy Flowery Fagoda, Ancestral Temple, drawing-rooms in Hong Kong are or the Hong Kong Sunday Herold filled with its funereal contortions published early on Sunday mornings. to their utter confusion, neverthe-
etc.
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Canton Tours of longer duration and including passage by 8 a.m. steamer less much of it is well made, well The commercial Capital and
Fares on ap designed and well carved and an most Interesting City of South may be arranged.
plication. ounce of taste on the buyer's part China, is in direct communi- will procure some charming exam-cation with Hong Kong by ples. Jade Jo another commodity steamer and railway. There A Portuguese Colony and the over which the novice stands a good are daily services of steamers both pioneer settlement of the Far East- chance of being really welf "done directions. The Journey is about down" and would be wise to seek 61⁄2 to 8 hours by steamer, accord- being founded in 1557, 11-1 the help of a connoisseur before ing to steamer and tide, and 43⁄41⁄2 picturesque spot at the modis sponding much money hours by train. A
the Canton River, with the ruins
possible even in the three: On arrival in Canton visitors are of San Paulo,... Camoe
go to Canton where met by an experienced and com- and Grotto, and Fan-tía Gambling
arving is carried petent guide who has conducted the Saloons.
the present principal vialtors through this fas
sble to the cinating City for many years. The
Steamers leave Hong
bés made tour usually embraces. Chun-ka-chi week
Ancestral Termi
Temples of
the 600, Genil, City of the Dead.
ather