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Hongkong Daily Press.
號叁拾八百章千堂萬式第 日八拾月四年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Talpe Market ... Dep. Fanling
Kartuches
Shoungehui
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS ·
9,041 10.39
0,49 11.04 716
11.40 Dep. 7.5 8.12 10.45 11.47
A.M.
Noox A.35.
Kowloon Yauma...
...Dap 6.40
915 10.30
1.40/19.00
133
4,35
...Dap
6.50
12.09
124
5,29 5,39 7,19
Bbatio
•Dop! 7,02
0.28 1051
1001
1.88
Tripo
Dep 721
1.49
6,04 5,09
9.53 11,08 11.18 Dap 7:39 20,03 ..Dep. 7.88 10,07 11.02
7.43 10.19 11.25 1220 Art.
12.39 1.53
5.13 6,08 7,49 12.43 2,63 5.24 6.19 10.34 2.07 1938. 213 584
8.93
8.20
Shumchan
A.X.
221
PX.
8.05 10.38
Sheangabai
3,00 3,07
4.17
1.3.1 P.AC. 6.13 6.09 5.20 6,15
7.32 8.18 10.49 1151
Fanling
Taipo
Shatin
Youma...
Taipo Market...Dap. 7.0 3.26 10.59.12.02!
3.30 11.04 1207 ...Dap 7,48
Dep. 7.59 8.43 1137 1921 Dap R19 8,568 11.29 12.33
3.114.29 3.01
6.19
5.34
6.29 6.53
Kowloon...
4,58 3.51 8.46 3,50 3.08 86.03 6.59 3.58 5,16 6,11 1.06 9.934.09 11,37 12.410.87 · SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS
138
JM
Kowloos...
Yazmati...
Dep. 7.03 9.35 10.51
A.I. Noor
I.K. 7.X.
7.10 5.99 Dep. 8.40 9.15 10.30 11:40 12.00 .22
12.09 2.21 5,38 7.19 9.24 10.39 Dep 8,30
12.21
2.43 6.51 2,30
7.16
9.40 11.04
12.34 2.56
6.05 7.4%
Dep 7,21
9,53 11.08
12.38 3.00
12.49
Statio
Trips.
Taipo Market
Sheungshui
Fanling
Shumchas
Shamchun
Sheangehui
Fraling...
Taipo
Shatin
Yeumati...
Kowloon...
Dep
Dep. 739 10.03 11.18.
Dep. 7.38 10.07 1122
ATT. 7.42 10.13 11.29 12.20 19.38
8.33
10.69 12.03
389
8.09 7,48 3,11 6:20 7,55 3.15 6.24 8.01 3
6,30 8.08
A.X.
Dep, 8.12 10.38 11.40
1.56
Dep 8,19 10.45 11,47
...Dap. 8.23 10.49 11.51
12.07
12,41|
3.00 4.17 5.40
-8.16 3.07 4.24 5,46 3.11 4,28 5,51 6.20 3.91 4.38 6.01 6.30 6,05 6.24 3.99 4.55 6.19 3.47 1 8.50 5,071 6,30 8.59
9.58 5,15 4,39 2.37:
€,08
7.07
Taipe Market Dup 11,04
Dup. 9.37
.Dep 25} 11,17 1221
Dep. 9.03 11.29 12.33 Arr: 8.11. 11,37
SHA TAU KOK
AM 2.1. 1.3.
WEEK DAYS, MAJIDÍN, Fanling ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 2.20 5.25 Shstankok...AST. 8.40 19.25 2.15 7.20
SUNDAY: AD PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
2. 1.M
STATIONE
P.M.
Fanling.Dep. 7,45 11.30 3.20 8.25 Shatankok...A 8.40 19.25 415 7.20
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926 MAR
SNOW IN SUMMER TIME, QUICK CHANGE WEATHER FEATS
IN LONDON.
SUNSHINE AND HAIL Summer Tir started in England on April 1sth and on April 17th there was hail, snow, thunder, Lahtuing, and sua shine in various parts of the country.
Central London escaped the thunder
"WHEN I WAS EDITOR." JEROME K. JEROME'S AMUSING
REMINISCENCES.
Jerome K. Jerome contributes to Hars. per's Magazine an amusing collection of reminiscences under the title,When I was an Editor."
The Idler was a great sucress so far as circulation was concerned. 63. B. Burgin sub-editor. He was a glutton for
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̇就儿廿月伍年五十國民華中
THE UNMARRYING GIRL."
VIOLA TREE'S ADVICE. MARRY IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE.
I read nu article the ather day on the subject of a girl, who was afraid to marry, not for any old-fashioned reasons, but beetuse she didn't wish for self- denial, writes Vinia Trew in a Home
and the snow, but was visited by raim ? was then., and his appetite seems į paper. The Artiele was headed with the
* work, even "
to have growe
sunshine, hall, shine, more hall, ant more sunshine.
Darkness and light succeeded each other in the City with the ripidity of limelight
changes.
He thick nothing "of taring out three novels a year. I once wrote two thousand words in a single day and it took nie the rest of the week to
recover.
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Sudder showers on April 17th took people so much he surprise that even when near shelter they had to show good turn of speed to avoid being shaked.
Wells is even yet more wonderful. Fe An umbrella put upa: Buckingham Palace and soaked in the next sixty i writes a new book while most people are seconds was bone dry by the time i rending his last throws off a history of owner reached the other end of the Mall.
At one o'clock the shade temperature the world while the average schoolboy is in the City was 49 degere, while that in learning his dates; and invents, a new the sun was as much as 91.
teligion in less tiine than it nust have taken his godparents to teach him, his prayers He has a table by his bedside, and, if the spirit moves him, will get up in the middle of the night, make himself cup of coffee write a chapter or so, and then go to sleep again. During intervals hetween his more serious work he will con- test a Parliamentary election or conduct
"conference for educational reform.
MID-DAY STORM.
A mid-day storm bruke over Penge with extraonlinary violence. Bain and hait fell in blinding sheets, and vivid flashes of lightning followed in quick succession, The roar of the thunder for a
almost continuous, a minutes frightened dogs and cats were sera to run in all, directions.
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A house was struck, and a heavy brick- work chimney to and hurled to the ground.
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immoral device, "The Tamarrying Giel.” It ended with, "This is her point of view. Is it right?”
How could it ever be right, either from the point of view of morality or even of convenience and the mere enjoyment of life! By not marrying. if she has the chance, a girl misses quite three-quarters | of the duty and fun of life.
Being with an nr men is the only kind of education, the only development of character, otherwise one remains kind of warped schoolgirl or school- marm. That is why what in old days was known as the depraved" wonian is always said to be the best company. Men have made her not only good com pany, but unselfish, thoughtful, restful, and espeful of her appearance.
It is true that the slovenly wife can be Of Shaw it is Auid that he is never at the most unlovely thing in the world The storm passed quickly and within a Jew minutes the sun was shining again.
rest unless he is working. Shaw once | (except the slovenly husband), but the told me that he only had there, speeches: slovenly wife would make a still sloven- TWO STORMS MEET AT EPPING, Two thunderstorms, simultaneously up-
one shout politics (including religion), | lier spinster, and a noisy, restless,, fussy proached Epping Forest just before noon. One frore the east was accompanied by one about art (together with life in "gen-one at that, with her dog to feed, and her rain; the other, from the west, produced eral), and the other one about himself, friend's dog, and their tea to make every few hours. For women left alone always large bail stones. At the fringes of the He said he found there three-with varia- AM. I, 2.3.
forest each storm veered to the south, and
make tea. Freud, no doubt, would have appeared to meet over the Thames-side of Essex."
a special explanation of this, but I think it goes back to the old primeval witches' cauldron, into which deadly herbs were fung.
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Art. 7.25 11.10 9.00 5.55 SUNDAYS PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,
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Sunshine returned to Brighton, and the temperature jumped up to 00. In the very early hours there was rain, thunder and lightning.
Storms of snow and hail broke over North Wales, serious damage being dona te fruit trees. Much bloom was destroy ed by hailstones. Snowdon, the „sanges of Cader Idris and Blylimmon yet cap ped with snow for miles.
TRAIN SNOWBOUND.
COPENHAGEN, April 17th. A terrific blizzard swept the border railway of northern Sweden and Norway, causing snowdrifts 12ft. deep.
TO FIND THE TRUTH. UNIONIST M.P.'S TO TOUR
RUSSIA.
tions-served him for all purposes. “
"People think I am making new speeches," he said.
"I'm repeating
things that I have told them over and over again, if only they had listened. I'm
I have been married thirteen years, tired of talking. I wouldn't have to talk one-tenth as much if people, only listened." and during that time I have moved There is only one way of countering house six times. That is had, bad for one's Shaw on a platform. It is hopektus try possessions, bad for the children, bad för ing to cross wits with him. The only oneself; and it always comes from start thing is to forte him to become seriousing on too large a scale. Then I have known him to Bounder.. His mind works like lightning.
Conan Doyle used to be another tremen-
I began in a cottage in a wood, ideally happy; I never seemed to spend money on saything but bath salts. But it seem- A heavy electric snowplough which was sent to relieve a snowbound passenger dous worker. He would sit at a small ed too far away, and I next took an im- train at Abisco itself became snowbound desk in a corner of his own drawing room,
mense house in London, which 1 proceed as well as a subsequent auxiliary train writing a story, while a dozen people ed to do up from top to toe, and then Bechange.
round about him were talking and laugh found that I had to let ont bita of it to ing He preferred it to being alone in artists, doctors, and pianists. The com- his study. Sometimes, without looking munal life became too difficult, and with up from his work he would make are the greatest difficulty we succeeded in mark showing he must have been listen- Four Unionist M.F.'s left London oning to our conversation, but his pen had ridding ourselves of the white elephant. Barrie had the We then took a thoroughly modern and April 17th to enquire into trade condi. Lever ceased moving.
same gift." He was a reporter on a pro up-to-date house in Chelsea, but that ruin- tions in Russia.
vincial newspaper in his early days, anded us still more, us it had a dinner lift, while waiting for orders amid the babel so that the temptation to entertain was and confusion of the press room he would irresistible. Then came house in my curl himself up on a chair and, quite un- beloved Bloomsbury, which was still too Then we fled to the opposite extreme disturbed, peg away at something dreamy big, and "had many, too many, stairs. and poetic.
tiny flat with aerces the road.. one big room which was bedroom and living-room combined, half-bed and balf-
They expect to cover more than 3,000 miles in the course of their tour, and to include in their itinerary a flight of over 1,200 miles from Moscow to Baku.
The members are Sir. Frank Nelson, Captain Bourne, Mt.: Boothby and Colonel Moore.
They are anxious to avoid any ides of being shepherded," and it is frankly their intention, if their movements are restricted to a staged tour, to cut short their visit.
"THE PRECISE POSITION." Mr. Boothby, in an interview said :--
We shall see a good many people in Berlin to-morrow, shall spend three days in Warsaw, and hope to make a great many investigations. We want to see what is the precise position between Ger- any and Russia, and also between Poland and Russin.
Sir Frank Nelson and myself are very keen on currency problems. With introductions to the governor of the State Baak and to ministers of finance we should soon be able to get down to business.
under the new régime, je
:
From hiring examples of industry and steadfastness being a lazy man myself find it a comfort to turn my thoughts away to W. W. Jacobe. He has told me himself that often he will spend (the word is his own) an entire murcing in con- structing a single sentence. If he writes a four thousand-word story in a month
piano.
We were very happy here, but we could only get a very short lease, so once again we had to move. Then we had a wind- fall, and found our present bit of a house
he feels he has earned a holiday: and the here in Bloomsbury, where I hope we'll reason that be does not always take it stay. is that he is generally too tired,
But it's all been great fun, and great He told me that if it buds' n for experience, and men are known to he the Night Watchman he might have had long-suffering! Every day proves it. to give up writing. He had exbausted Girls, don't bang about! If you have all his own stories. For weeks he cud- the chance, MARRY geled, his brain in vain. Then suddenly in desperation he seized his pen and wrote:
Speaking of winnen,' said the Night
Watchman."
it is a Scotch trait. A gentle, unassum- ing man, he seemed to have no notion And after that it was plain sailing that he was anybody of importance—or if | He left it to the Night Watchman. The he had he kept it hidden. Nagu Watchman talked on.
1
It
To-day" was an illustrated paper, WORLD STABILITY BEED.
A Sectebman who signed himself Cyni Phil May was one of those who used to "Most likely we shall go through the Volga district as well. The trip is to last Cus. drew cartoons for The Idler-clever draw for it. It was difficult to get work sketches with a biting satire. He had a
ou of Phil May in his later years. He about Ave weeks. Certainly we shall 60 quaint studio in Drury Lane and lived would promise you would swear by all to Leningrad.
there with his sisters. One used to meet the gods he knew and then forget all "This will be the first time that a
He was about it.
had a useful office boy. He group of Conservative members of Par Ramsay AiacDonald there.
pleasant, handsome young man-so many iament has visited Russia to study poli-of us were, five and thirty years ago. He had a gift for sitting still and doing tical and social and economic conditions was fond of lecturing. Get it on the nothing. He could sit for hours.
subject of Carlyle, and he would talk for never seemed to bore him, James was
one of his names. We are going absolutely with open half an hour.
James," I would say, "you go round minds, feeling as we do that the pre-
Mr. Phil May's studio and tell him The Idler was not enough for me." ta. sent position is hopelessly unsatis had the plan in my mind of a new weekly you've come for the drawing he promised factory. "We cannot have world stability of paper that should be a combination of Mr. Jerome last Friday wetk; and wait
wasn't If Phil May
he would wait any sort or kind until we have some bet-magazine and journal. I put my own till you get it.".
in, money into it and got together the rest. ter arrangement with Russia.
To-day?"! I suppose is now forgotten; till Phil May did come in. If Phil May "Whether that can be done without
The only way of get- approving the principle of confiscation is hat though I say it who shouldn't, it was was engaged, he would wait till Phil May
4 wonderful twopenny worth Steven was disengaged. really what we are going to see. Our son's Ebb-Tide was our first serial. He ting him out of the studio was to give own Foreign Office have rendered us very came to see me two or three times. He him a drawing Generally Phil May gave great assistance, and I believe the Gov. was ill and looking forward to getting him anything that happened to be handy. ernment regards the trip as very interest out of England. It was always a difli- It might be the drawing he had intended ing
We are all very keen to get at the culty getting him to talk, but once started for me. More often it would be a sketch he would go on without a break: retind- belonging properly speaking, to wome truth, and when we have got at it, wing me, in this respect, of Barrie. Maybe other editor. Then there was trouble shall not hesitate on our return, to tell the country what our conclusions are."
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