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SPORT NOTICES
HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
RUGBY INTERPORT.
HONG KONG v. SHANGHAI on Saturday, 14th February, 1931. SHANGHAI v. UNITED SERVICES
on Tuesday, 17th February, 1931. Club Ground. Kick-off 3.38 pm
on Wednesday,
Booking opens
Membera (Covered Stand) at Moutrie's.
COMPANY MEETINGS
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
with children and rata which scut-
BOW CREEK HAD A scurfers, and its cottages crowded GOLDEN AGE ONCE?tle about the river bank at night,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN A Quaint Little World of
N°
that the ORDINARY, YEAR-
LY MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS in this Corporation will,
Their Own.
I have been
and the warm, comfortable glow from the windows of the Steam Packet and the Crown!
Can you picture. this obscure set- tlement, as remote and quaint as
any forgotten island in the ocean?
There are few excitements
is
in
and come the
te held at City Hall, Hong Kong. LOST VILLAGE OF LONDON. Now Cheek. A funeral of course, jon SATURDAY, the 28th February,
big event; and the poorer the 1931, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the
family, the more spectacular it will Board of Directors together with a
to London's lost be. Four pall-bearers walk slowly 4th February, Covered Stand for Statement of Accounts for the year village-a little place at the back beside the hearse, in long black
o' beyond, whore no buses ever go, coats and shining silk hats, Interport game only (Members ending 31st December, 1930.
and a station is
after tha hearso an unheard-of The REGISTER OF SHARES of Section) at the Club House. Nonthe Corporation will be. CLOSED thing, and the people stare at you of the houses stand
mourners' carriages. At the doors the house- jirom MONDAY, the 16th February curiously as you walk along the Price of Admission. Interport to SATURDAY, the 28th February, tiny main street, and the inhabi wives of Bow Creek, rocking their Game, Covered Stand $3.00; Un-1931. (both days inclusive), during tants are all relatives, and the babies in their arms; the doors of TO LET-Ground Floor of No. 8a,
which period no transfer of shares sound of an electric plano comes the Crown and the Steam Packet Des Voeur Rond Central; at present covered Stand $1.00; East, and
tean be registered.
with mechanien jauntiness from are respectfully barred. In the necupation of the Netherlands West Stands 50 ets. Including
the old tavern, the Crown. I have "Poor Liza f" say the house India Commercial Bank, availably | Tax. Service's Game, Covered By Order of the Board of Directors, been to Bow Creek. You know the
wives. from 1st Apr 1, 1931. Apply to David Sassoon & Cr.. 1d.
old tag-"the world forgetting, by the world forgot." That is Bow Creek, writes James A. Jones in the Evening News.
TO LET.
TO LET-To prospective visitors to England ideal accommodation in the West End of London, Centre of Good English fare hentre land, etc. Moderate ebarges. Al, Clarendon Road, Holland Park, London, W.il. G. R. Colson,
TUITION GIVEN
AN ENGLISH WOMAN, cultured and much travelled, gives LESSONS in ENGLISH CONVERSATION, RAPID TUITION and PERFECT ACCENT GUARANTEED. Might one-hour Jessons $12, Write Box No. 677, c/o “China Mail,”
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVEN AGE, Within an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS A few Bourders received in the House of the Principal Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb, Higher Local), Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher Certificate).
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed."China" Mail" Office. No. 3A, Wyndham Sl. Tele- phone 20022,
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE
BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger and Marcel Waves, Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5. Tel. 25169. Opposite entrance H.K, Hotel
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Kong.
25%
SPECIAL
DISCOUNT
FOR 2 WEEKS
Only on our already low prices..
New store with large and varied up-to-date stock. Our moito is small proft and Quick return.
LOVELY SILK STORE
No. 2, Stanley Street, Tel. 22100. (Adjoining D'Agullar Street)
Stand, $2.20; Uncovered Stand 60 ets. East ud West Stan:is 40 cts. Including Tax.
H. M. McTAVISH,,
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 2nd February, 1931.
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from forry
Suites of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.
by bus.)
EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily, accossible. Terma very moderate. Rexer- vations by lotter or cable.
CLAREMONT
Tels.: 57389 & 57385 (Private). Telographic Add.: "Fern" H.E. Our motto is "SERVICE.”
Just Unpacked New
WOVEN EMBROIDERED BRIDGE COATS
at:
KASHMIR
V, M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th February, 1931.
They all, of course, knew Liza. Yes, there are few excitements now. But once upon ilme-well, Bow Creek had its Golden Age.
That was when the really big It is not easy to get there. Event HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
the people who live within a mile liners used to come into the docks close by. Stewards from the ships, FINANCE CO., LTD.
of it-the people on the noisy,
of the ships' crowded East India Dock Road and the other men N
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN have never heard of it. You wan- Crews brought all the wealth of a that the ANNUAL ORDIN-der down the wrong streets, until long voyage to Bow Creek. Wealth! ARY GENERAL MEETING at last someone scratches his head beyond the dreams of avarice. SHAREHOLDERS will be held at thoughtfully and says, "Ah, I think They speak of stewards now the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong,
I know the place you mean. Then Bow Creek as you or I speak of on TUESDAY, the 24th February, you walk down a narrow road to Rothschild; men rolling in money! 1931, at 11.30 am. for the purpose Wards the Thames with the forbid-Then the mechanical piano in the of receiving the Report of the ding wall of the docks on one side Crown would work overtime.
The Good Old Days. Directors together with
and the forbidding sweep of the A State-
River Lea on the other, until in the
of
in
Then the rich fellows would
ment of Accounts for the year end-end you turn the corner, and there treat all comers, and sometimes
ed 31st December, 1930.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY. 16th February to TUESDAY, 24th February, both daya inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 9th February, 1931.
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
INT
is Bow Creek.
The Forgotten Village.
things would get noisy, and Land- Hord Stock would have to be firmly
It is hard to believe, in Bow diplomatie.
It Creek, that this is London.
But all that is the Good Old
"The liners don't seem to come
might be a fishing village in Scot Daga land or a bleak hamlet somewhere
in Lancashire. The place in hud-to the docks like they did," said dled in the last muddy curve of the Landlord Stock, mournfully. "The River Len, and
banana boats are the biggest now. the 220 men,
used to stop at women, and children who live there The boats we sedm utterly cut off from the world. Tilbury, or go up the river. I wish
There are women in Bow Creek they'd come back again. who hardly ever leave it. To them were the days!" the gay and glittering pleasures of the East Indlo Dock Road are al-
They
Those
He sighed rather heavily. "What daya they were!" he said,
Old Mrs. Sarah Malpas will tell you about the Golden Age of Bow
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
most as far away as Paris; and sadly, that the ORDINARY YEAR-s for Piccadilly-circus-why, that LY GENERAL MEETING OF
is just a legend, a dream. HONG KONG TRAMWAYS,
say that if the buses came down to Creek. She has lived there all her LIMITED will be held at the bow Creek they would adventure fe, and her six strapping suns offices of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-
out more. They hate that long have been the pride of the village. son & Co., Ltd.. Hong Kong, on walk round by the Wall. But no he will tell you how, when the FRIDAY, the 27th day of Febru buses ever come along the winding dock was being built, the huge ary, 1931, at 12 o'clock Noon, to road from Town. transact the ordinary business of the Company.
AND NOTICE
IS HEREBY
By Candle Light.
bones of a whale were found burf- od fourteen feet deep in the poat
Thames.
The main street, which with508: and how the men dug out a grim humour is called Orchard canoe 27 feet long, in which the ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER Place, is a dral and narrow lane of men of prehistoric London used to OF MEMBERS of the Company grey cottages. The two old taverns, iravel up and down the prehistoric | will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the Crown and the Steam Packet, the 18th to FRIDAY, the 27th stand in it, and on one corner is,
Things are not what they were, February, 1931, both days inclu-the little general shop. But you Creek has gone to the dogs. Bow says Mrs. Sarah Malpas. Bow will And no milk-shop, no green- grocer, no bakery, no butcher Creek-why, she remembers when those foodstuffs have to come in
Bow Creek was lively. the little tradesmen's carts which building, where the canarles were I walked back along Saltors- jingle along by the Wall.
give.
༔
By Order of the Board,
W..F SIMMONS,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 6th February. 1931.
F
THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Leading from Orchard Place, singing, and down Orchard Place, down to the banks of the river, are and round by the Wall to the East The roar of Boat Street and Salters-buildings.ndia Dock Road.
On the walls of some cottages are traffic was a little unnerving after bird cages, where in the greyness the quietude of Bow Creek. the canaries sing like imprisoned sunshine. At the doors the women
stand nursing their babies-for all THE HABITS
families in Bow Creek are large
ONE HUNDRED AND families.
TELEVENTH ORDINARY
To the children the muddy river
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS bank is what Kensington Gardena
On winter nights they say
-+
OF
PLUMBERS.
in the Company will be held at are to the children of the West Waiters Who Wait in the Office of the Company, 1,End. Garen's Building, Victoria, Hong to their mothers, "Can we have a Kong, on THURSDAY, 5th March, candle?"
SILK STORE 1931, at 11 am, for the purpose
36A, Queen's Road, C. Opposite Queen's Theatre.
(Just Published.)
SILVER
and the
DOLLAR
complied by
James Dalziel, M.I.MechE.
Gives the Reasons for the Present: Crisis, with Tables of the World's Production & Consumption, from which you are able to predict the Future of Your Present Currency.
"Why?" ask the mothers. "To look at the rats," BAY children.
the
Their Spare Time.
of receiving a Report of the Direc-
About walters and tips and the tors, together with a Statement of
distinction between "residential Accounts, and Electing Directors The rats on the river bank aro
hotels" and mere "boarding houses" and Auditors.
large and formidable rate, well-things said at a catering trade in- The TRANSFER BOOKS of worth seeing by the light of a
quiry: the Company will be CLOSED from candle.
By Mr. George Reeves-Smith, vice- FRIDAY, 20th February, 1931, to But now the children of Bow the Savoy Hotel, Ltd., The "trone" chairman and managing director of THURSDAY, 5th March, 1931, Creek have another paradise. Mr. both days inclusive, during which George Lansbury, the Firat Com (pooling) system is in operation in period NO transfer of shares can missioner of Works, has made the Savoy, so that it is known the restaurants and grillroom at be registared,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary.
playground for them on a piece of
and given by the Port of London exactly what tips the workers re- Authority; and there they laugh ceived. Fifty-five per cent. of the shrilly in the sec-saw and soar men in the trade receive ne tips. ecstatically on the swinga.
Hong Kong, 6th February, 1931. to each other in one way or
Most of the children are related
STANDARD TIMĖS.
50 cto. At All Booksellers. 60 ct. Sunrise and Sunset in
and the Publishers
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Colony.
an-
At present my staff is willing to
work twenty hours a day if circum-
stances demand it.
By Mr. A. G. Chifferiel, chairman other. The people in the lost vll- lage-marry in their own circle. and managing director of Holborn There are whole tribes of Scanlans and Frascati's, Ltd:
and Jeffriesca-but the biggest
Some of my waiters engaged in
tribe of all are the Lammina. Out the luncheon trade go to City com
of the 160 children on the school
reglater 100 are Lamumins,
A neighbour is not "Mrs. Smith" to Bow Creek.
She is "Auntie Kate."
Mr. Smith. le not Mr. Smith. He is Uncle Bill.
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for February 1931, (Stan- dard time of the 120th. Meridian, East of Greenwich)
are as fol-
The people of the Forgotten Vii- lows:-
lage have their own way of getting Feb.
pany and other dinners at night and
earn very good wages ther-£3 to
a week.
Mr. Robert William Turier, as- sistant controller of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway
Hotels, was asked:
"Although it is dimcult to obtain
servants in private houss, is It a living. Many of the men work difficult to get domestic servants for in the factories which are scatter-an hotel?" ed about or in the docks; but some 6.57 0.19 of them are "toskera.” A "tosher"?
Sunrise Sunset.
6.58 6.17 6.58 6.18
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FOR 1931..
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12
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Daalers in Postage Stamps and 28. Philatelic Goods, Post Cards, Prayer Books, Garden, Seeds, Toys. 25
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46.50
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6.24. 6,25
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"Not at all," said Mr. Turier.
Another question was: "Is there
Mr. Turler: Yea. The former goes
is a man who searches the river any difference in regard to the mi- for anything he can sell or make Kratory nature of their work use of lumps of coke or coal,, bits between a plumber and a valter 7** cf wood, floating odds and ends, flotsam and jetsam. He bears his treasure proudly back along Or chard Place.
A Dream of Riches. Some
home at night to the same home presumably-(laughter) — whereas
a waiter has often to be "slipt" for three or four nights.
Miss Edith Biddle, president of of the youngsters are the Residential Hotels and Caterers'
"ecurfers."
A "scurfer" is a lad who wrig- ment was really a boarding house, Association, said her first establish- gles his way into a ship's boller, although, she liked to hear it called and scrapes away the encrusted der
an hotel
"I suppose that was more or less
posit.
Can you imagine it, can you sinful, pride," she added laughing- nagine this stringe backwater of
Ay
a great capital, with its toshers and
3
REPULSE BAY HOTEL SPECIAL DINNER DANCE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1931.
CARL FISCHER
AND HIS GLOBE TROTTING
ORCHESTRA,
on board S.S. “BELGENLAND”
on a World Tour.
Do not miss this wonderful opportunity
of hearing these
Masters of JAZZ
Dinner $6.00 Per Person. Book your tables early,
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