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No. 21,177 號七拾七百億千登鹰弍第ㄧ
日登拾月四年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Kowloon...
་་
Yamati...
Bhatin
Таро
Taipo Market
Fanling
"Shengshui
Shamokan 7.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
Shumchun Shenngahni
Taipo Market
19.49 12.39 11.22 Dep. 7.36 10,07 A17. 7,42 10131123 12201958
Dep. 71 8.05 10.38 11.40. Dep. 238 8.12 10.45 11.47 Dep. 7,838,18 10.49 151
Fanling
A.M. Noor
TJC
...DUD 6.60
9.15 10.30 11.40 19.00
1.15 4.85
5.29 7.10
6.50
8.24 10.39
12.09 124
5.58 7.18
7,02
9.80 10,51
1291 1.88 36
6.51
7.18
9.49 1104
12.84 1.49 5.09
6.04
9.59
11,06
19.38 138
6.08
Dep: 238 10.09 1213
2,08 521
6.19
2,07 5.9$
2.13 5.34
7,58 6.03 8.02 6.29 8,0F1
LX. P.M.
1.58
3.00
8.07
6,13 808 320 615
9.11
534 639
Tripo
Dep
Bhatin
Dep
7,42 8.26 10.59 12.02 7.46 9.50 11.04 19,07 2.39 8.43 11.17 12.91
Yeumati...
Dep. 8.19 8.55 11,29 19,53
8.50 6.08
Kowloop...
Ar 8.20 9,08 11,37 12,41
9.87 3.58 816 6.11
5.21 4.38 5.34 6.99 3.25 4.12 6,39 6.39
5,51 8.38 438
6.46 8.38- 1,06
6.03
dothe 4. Noo
Kowloon... Tsumati...
8,40 9,15 19,30 11.40 12,00
3.29
Depi 6,50
924 10.39
12.09
2.51 6.38
Bhatin
Dep.
7.02
938 10.51
12.21
2.43 5.51
Tripo
15
0.49 11,04
1234
2.56
8.05
2.44
7,91 9,53 11,08
1993
8.00
Fanling
...Dep. 7,83 10.03 11.38)
12.48
3.11 6.20
6.09 7.48
753
Shonagahni
...Dep. 736 10.07 1122
12.52
3.15 6.24
8.03
Shamalaun
7.42 10.13 11.28 12.20
12.68
8.21 6,30 8.06
Shamshun
Bhrangabai
...Dop. 8.12 10.38 11.0 1.56 ...Dap.8.19 10.45 11.17
8.00
4.17
3,17
40g
6.09 518618 620 4,38 6,01 6.30 3.95 442 8,05 634 6.47 8.83 4.551 815 360 507 8.30 6,59 7,07 8.886,15 6.88
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS
Taipo Market
Tarling**** Talpo Markat
Thipe... Shatin Yazmati... Kowloos...
Dep. 8.24
23 10.49 11.51
DES 13.02 Dep. 8.37 11.04 12.07 Dop 8.51 11.17 12.01 Dep. 9.02 1129 13
Dop 8.53 10.59
9.11 11.87 12,41 9.57
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
WEEK DAYS.
F.X. F.N. - STATIONA Fanling
...Dep. 7.4 11.30 3.20 6.25 Shatavkok...A 8.40 19.25 8.15.7.20
SUNDAYS AD PUBLIC HOLIDAYS/3 LY.
I.X. P.X. STATICES Fanling...Dep. 7.43 11.30 8.20 6.25 Shatanick.... 8.40 1998 415 720
-STAZIONE,
5.40
WEEK. DAYS, Shatankok...Dep. 6.50 10.15 1.05 5.00 Fanling
7.25 11.10 2.00 8.55 SUNDAYS AND FUBLIC HOLIDAYS. AX AX EM, IM
STATIONS. »
AF1
Statan kok...Dep. 6.30 10.13 2.05 5.15 Fanling A, 7.25, 11.10 8.00 6.10 Further information may be obtained at the BAILWay Orrické, Kowzoom, ex from Hamza. Tron Cook & 800, Leno, Howexone, or imam Tux Axxxinan. Karmas Oom- TANI, HOREXON#%"
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native State for the Australian abori LIQUEUR BRANDY
Een, the gale in China has bad, is one francet at least, a good effect, says the final is being discussed in Australia, ne-
cording to `n cabled report which has Guaranteed over 40 years old. Express and Telegraph. It has just reached London. The scheme, how brought much-needed enlightenment to
ever has been on the tapia for some time. this country. Hitherto, one paper says, Twelve months ago a public meeting was it has been less difficult to find well-convened in Adelaide by the originator informed opinion upon Chinese art or
LONDON, April 26th The critical observer could not help noticing that while the arrival of the Australian cricketers" occupied (columns in the newspapers, the arrival of the pottery than to discover. anyone who of the plan, Mr. J Genders, and it support. Dr. H. Basedow, a distinguish Earl and Countess of Reading from understands the political situation "erived a terinin amount of influential India is relegated to two or three porn That there are people in London as welled anthropologist, was present, also Pro graphs. It is an interesting comparison qualified to discuss present-day Chinese fesser Darnley Naylor, Dr. F. Ramsay
the art and pottery of its an Smith, and others. of news values" The ex-Viceroy and his affairs as
The main suggestion was that a large wife were met by a very distinguished tient civilisation has been demonstrated
tract of country "should be rigidly re- gathering at Victoria Station. To an in- very frequently during the past ten terviewer Lard Reading said his five months, but unfortunately they have served for the preservation of the rapidly preached in a wilderness of ignorance decaying race, and that a native tribunal, years in India were five great yents.
Some editorial writers have already and it has taken a long time to awaken assisted by a Federal Government. Resi been finding new positions for Lord the Press to the importance of the subdeat, should govern the territory. The
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Dews, however, goes further. Reading, including the chairmanship of a great business undertaking in the City. Hongkong. Shanghai, Tientsin and The South Australian supporters of the But this is altogether premature. Asked Peking have not been silent as to the movement have now petitioned. State and as to his future the ex-Viceroy replied, day-to-day happenings, but the need for Tederal members of Parliament to ad- detailed and accurate information in
vance the scheme, and even advocate a It is too early to ask about my plans.
native administratôr, and representation For the moment I am glad to have Tolving reference to the records of the nothing to do and nothing special to past has been acutely felt, and for these in the Federal Parliament, urging as an think about." The probability is that he reasons the City welcomes the newly argument the position of the Maoris in
will retire into private life.
founded Tientsin British Committer of Information." The purpose of this AN OLYMPIAN EDITOR.
Committee is to assist with direct infor Fleet Street is greatly interested in mation members of the House of Com the appointment of Mr. J. L. Garvin mons, certain Chambers of Commerce, as editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopaedia and others interested in Chinese affairs.. Britannica," because it is atated that The members are: Messrs. P. H. B. he is also to continue to act as editor of Kent, E C. Peters (chairman) British The Oherever, which serves as a pulpit Municipal Council, Tientsin) D. B. every Sunday for the vivid and the unWalker Chamber (British Chamber of equivocal expression of his opinions
New Zealand.
Australian authorities in London, while having every sympathy with a movement for the thorough profection and preservation of the ruce, were inclin- ed to smile, at the idea of a native tribunal aud-administrator.
60,000 NATIVES.
At the 1991 census considerable care was number of taken by the Federal Authorities to obtain the approximate Peking), and E. G. Waboriginals living in the different States, including wild and nonadie natives, with has been the curated (Editor of the China Year the result that the number wps.calamated an and affairs. It has been the cam to select as the editor of the Ency Book"). Their first memoranda, on at cer 9,000 This total reinded about Foreign Settlements and Concemiona in 10,000 us living outside the influence of Europeana The island State of Tas s.man of an academic and clopaedia " philosophic type of mind which in China" and The Protocol of 1901 in mania did not figure in this number, as the Tasmanian popular parlance means dry-as-dust; and Relation to Railways," what the appetite the last representative
aboriginals died in 1876, and his death it is almost revolutionary to have the far more and with the position as it is committee giving the job to a publicist they cannot give us too much., who has spent a long and busy working life in political journalism. "However,
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WAGONS LITE PIXING. This can be readily understood when it is recalled that the Australian aborigine is the most primitive type of man that extermination would be lamentable.
still survives upon the earth, and bis KING EDWARD
it is not always that pundits are dry, way that the Post Office now undertakes or great publicists biassed and unscho-to do it.
An American Nonconformist minister, This is obviously an excellent idea. larly.
visited the Commonwealth and investi- Presumably the main business of the Large quantities of soft fruit could be the Rev. T. B. Easton, of Texas, recently editor of the "Encyclopaedia" is to sent by rail expeditiously from the farm gated the conditions of the Australian select the contributors and to apportion to the consumer and doubtless the same native, and submitted a report to the declared that minsay of the natives were space. In this matter Mr. Garvin may thing applies to many other of "the Aborigines Protection Board. He boldly. be trusted to show a Catholic spirit. At
ready for citizenship, and for industrial young men might be utilised in the post any rate, when he was responsible for
opportunities. He also thought that the office and on the railways, and he also that remarkable publication; "The His
held the view that if New Zealand could FAMOUS ACTOR'S PASSING. tory of Our Own Time," be went far
Sir Squire Bancroft, the famous Vieuse Maoris for these activities Australia should be able to do likewise with her and wide for his writers, and chose, for instance, Mr. Bertrand Russell as the torian actor, who has just passed away, aborigines. authority on China in the war. I have was an intimate part of West Ead life heard the complaint made by those who up to within a few weeks of his death,
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These views caused Sir Baldwin Spen- use the "Encyclopaedia" habitually that despite bis 34 years. To see him stepping cer, one of the world's most eminent an its scientific articles are too scientific and out of the Albany, where he bad apart-thropologists, to make a public statement tioned that it was utterly impossible to can only be read by scientists, and that ments in that most exclusive retreat just in Melbourne on the subject. He men- its political matter is too one-sided. Mr.off Piccadilly, it was difficult to believe compare the Australian aborigine with Garvin will probably exercise better and that sixty years ago be hade farewell the Maori, who in New Zealand bad to the stage. He had started at the taken his place in the various civilised walks of life, occupied important posi more modern control in these subjects
Theatre Royal, Birmingham, at a guines tions in administrative capacity, and had I hear that the Cash-cn-Delivery system weck for "utility business," and after entered the Cabinet. To imagine that t few years in the Provinces came to any Australian aborigine could possibly
do likewise, was utterly absurd. Sired recently introduced by the Post Office is gradually becoming more popular, London and got an engagement at the Baldwin, declared that the Maoris were already explained, you order what you Queen's Theatre, in Tottenham Street, without the slightest doubt a very much ture and physique, than the Australian the want to buy and it is sent by post int was then a second-rate house known higher race, both as regarda mental cul- the ordinary way, the postman collecting as the Dusthole," and Society eschewed aborigine. He paid a high tribute the price of the goods at the door. Butt. But it had just been taken over Maori, and his ability to stand up the public have some misconceptions, it by Miss Wilton, a popular comedy against the white race and make them
equality appears, as is illustrated by the story actress of the period, and success crowned deal with its members on terms of her management, Later Squire Bancroft of a housekeeper who refused a parcel married her and they went to the Hay from Grimsby plainly labelled C.O.D., and summarily dismissed the postman market Theatre, where they made enough with the complaint that she had ordered money to retire and live happily ever afterwards," as the story books of our youth used to describe it.
halibut.
Two races differing so widely in cul tural level sa did the Australian abori Lo blend, and there was only one thing to gine and the white races were impossible be done, and that was to keep the lower race as far apart as possible from the higher race with which it was thrown into contact. The blacks dialiked con tinnolis work, and their nomadic in- stincts caused those who worked amongst the aborigines considerable difficulty.
Under present conditions the sugges tion that aborigines should be placed in positions in the railways and post-office, Bir Baldwin Spencer dismissed as un- worthy of consideration.
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Squire Bancroft was knighted by Queen in the cash on delivery system; but it has Victoria for his services on behalf of the been left to the National Farmers' theatrical profession. During his long Union to suggest a considerable improve retirement he appeared as an actor from ment. They have decided to approach time to time in aid of charities, and the railway companies with the proposal raised about £20,000 in this way. He always wore a monoele, an extraordinary that they should also adopt a C.O.D. hat, and clothes of a curious eat so that system, to that land produce new ac he presented an appearance of pictures. A high-Australian official expressed the cepted by the Post Office only under diff. que elegance la public. Many people of view that, as trackers in the bash and HONGKONG WEEKLY the present generation can claim ac elsewhere, Australian blacks did remark- cult packing restrictions may he trans quaintance with him through his books able work, but for any intellectual ac mitted by rail and paid for on receipt of reminiscences, especially On and Off-tivity their services were practically use. by the customer, the money being collect the Stage, which gives a very valuable leak. It may therefore be assumed that pictura of Victorian life both social and black administrators and the like will
never enter the realm of practical poli ed and remitted to the sender in the same Bohemian of forty or fifty years ago.
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