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No. 21,227.
號七廿百弍千宜萬弍第
日登拾月鍌年實丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS ·
A.M. Noor
9.15 10.30 11.40 | 12.00 9.24 10.59
9.58 8,096,04 (7,4 9:00 6,186,08 (748 9.11 504 6.197.55 9.16 528 8.25 8,09 2133.216,94 6,29 8,06
Kowloon...
*F* Dep. 8.40
Yumadi...
Dep 650
19.09
Bhatin
.Dop, 1,03 9.36 10.51
1900
Taipe
...Dep. 7.16
9.49 11.04
10.54
Karkat...Dep. 7.31
9.5311.08
19.98
...Dep, 1.83 10.03 $11,18
12,48
Shengshui
Dep, 7.86 10,07 11,92
12.52
Shumobun
... Arr. 7.43 [10,13211.08.12.20
12.58:
Shamchan
...Dep. 7,31
8.05 10.98 11.40
1.58
Bheungani
Dep. 28
8,19 10.45 11,47
Fealing
...Dep
7.39, 816 10.40 11,51
Dep.
7.53
8.26 10,59 12.03
8.21
9,00 417 5.19 8,08 8,07 4,24 $.20 675 4.98 5.24 3.11
6:19 4.38 5.34 6.99
Dop, 7.46
8.30 11.04 12.07
8.25
8.43 11.17 13.41
...Dep 8.12 8.55 11.29 12.3
A R20
9.03 11,87 19.41
5,38 6,99 3,38
8.48 4.58 8.51 5.08 8.50
6,03 6,58 9.37 3.38 5.16 8.11 7.06
141
Taipo Market
Taipe
Bhatia
Yaumati... Kowloon...
...Dep, 7,59
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
WEEK DAYS.
A.X
A.M. I.X.
1.M.
Fanling Dop, 7.45 11.80 8.20 6.25 Bhatankok...Art,' 8.40 · 12,55 8,15 7.20
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, -- STATIONS
7., L PM
A.
Fanling ...Dep. 7.45 11,30 3,20 8.25 Shatankoka, 8.40 12.25 415 7.20
AMIM. "P.M
WEEK DAYE. -
Shatankok...Dep. 80 10.15 1.05 5.00 Fanling
...Am. 7.25 11.30 400 5.55 SUNDAYS Á PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
STATIONS,
124
LIG
Bataukok...Dep. 830 10,16 2,05 5,00 Fanling Art, 7.25. 11.10 8.00 5,55
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CIVIC DIGNITY.
AN EPIDEMIC OF POLITENESS.
TOWN'S CRAZE FOR HAT-RAISING.
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拾弍月七年五十國民華中
LONDON'S WATER-
WASTE.
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QUEER NIGHT-TIME TASK FOR DETECTIVES.
TELL-TALE "HISS."
Hat-Raising is becoming very popular A gigantic tank, the size of Trafalgar. Special Correspondent in the London in height, would have to be refilled with in the town of Huntingdon, says a square, and as deep as Nelson's Column Daily Express. The descendants of Crom- water two and a half times every day well's Ironsides, as the people proudly of the year to supply London with all call themselves, doff hats and caps, with the water it consumes. Every Londoner mack dignity.when they pass each other consumes from thirty five to thirty-six out of doors--and schoolboys on their gailons of water- daily, or a total of every twenty-five way to and from school bow and raise, 255,000,000 gallons their capa te one another in the Eigh hours. street. This epidenic started on a recent morning, when groups of the townsfolk discussed the "hat-raising" episode in the council chamber on the previous night.
Much of this enormous supply of water is wasted, sometimes through sheer ignor. ance or carelessness on the part of con- summers. Leaky water-taps are often responsible for great quantities of drink. ing-water running to waste.
LONDON, June 19th. I am told that there is keen compet tion among Socialist M.P.'s in par enlar "to get a place on the Empiro Parliamentary Delegation which is to visit Australia next Autuma. It will be a very pleasant trip with all expenses paid, and as the plans already made will involve absence from London and the grind of Parliamentary life for about five months anyone can understand the eager- ness to be included among the tourists. No selections have yet been made, but the general view is that fifteen members will be chosen, five from th of the three par- ties, and that the privileged band wili bo led by Mr. Amery, the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.
One little controversy which arose last year when a similar delegation went to Newfoundland is already beginning to manifest itself. Last year the delegates
These water detectives" do zacst of their valuable work at night, when most were forbidden to take their wives with
Londoners are lying saugly in their beds. them, and the wives made a good deal
Councillor Woodford is a Hunting Occasionally awakeful householder is They threatened that if it donian who has sat on the council for surprised to hear the thud of heavy happened again they would create a tre-
fifteen years. He and his father former-marching boots on the pavement outside ly carried on business in one of the prin- his house, followed by a peculiar top- mendous fuss. The point has not yetcipal shopping thoroughfares of the town tapping. Loise. been decided, but the feeling at West for half a century, but he wants to be
SCOUTING PARTY. minster is not on the side of the angels.
remembered for his public' work. When I called upon him at his pretty creeper sound up and down the street for an Sometimes the tap-tapping may re- THE LATE LORD STEVENSON.
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The feud from which this episode sprang began in November last, when Alderman Woodford lost his aldermanic office and became plain Mr. Woodford, He challenged the town council to find out if they had a mandate to drive him out of office. He also offered to fight on electoral duel with any member of the council, but Huntingdon was spared the excitement of a by-election when he was returned unopposed as a counciller. spoken a word to those who robbed " Since then, it is said, he has not him of the dignity of his office.
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The death is announced this week of glories of the town to..which he is pro-are, engaged on one of their important Lord Stevanson, known at home and abroad as the chief organiser of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. He was only fifty-three but had been ill for a long time at his home at Holmbury House in Surrey. He started a life as commercial traveller, but his capacity as an organiser brought him to the front
isolated. As the water-cock is turned off Hs.combined with his business activities as chairman of Mesirs John Walker and
the superintendent, or one of his detec Son, Ltd., the Kilmarnock whisky dis by trade. 1 removed my hat, as I had tives, listens for any leak, with the aid tillers, the post of commercial adviser been warned to do, when I visited him.of the stethoscope hollow metal to the Colonial Secretary. As chairman The hat-raising part of the business rod a yard long, with a telephone ear
foundly attached, and to which, DO doubt, he is quite ready to raise bis hat night inspections. A meter is installed But it is complained that he does not and a man left in charge to watch the raise his hat to the mayor, or stand when variations, while the scoating party goes addressing the mayor and corporation. ou a systematic tour of the district, ac He said to me that he was never in time companied by the tarocock.. to rise from his seat when the mayor and operation made their solen entry into
of the Rubber Investigation Committee he brought into being the much discussed Stevenson scheme for regulating the ex- port of rubber from British possessions in order to stabilise rubber prices.
Lord Stevenson's services during the war earned for him the title of "The greatest unpaid servant of the State." Unlike the vast majority he refused any pay for what he did to help the country in war time. He was Director of Ares Organisation at the Ministry of Muni tions from 1915 to 1017, and later became Surveyor-General of Supply at the War Office.
Mr. Winston Churchill, in an appreciation of Lord Stevenson, anys Among all the ablest business men stri ing under wartime, pressure to do their utmost for the country he was always first or among the first. My own obligations to him are measureless. In ten years public service for honour alone, he wore out the whole of the exceptional strength of his mind and body.
́the council "chamber.
Thayor of Huntingdon is a saddler
...
NO WORDS.
As each water-cock is reached it is
turned off, until the entire district in
is only a side show," he said. "Coun-piece at the end, which magnifies the cillor Woodford sccuses me of being at smallest-sound. the head of a team to push him out of It is possible for the detectives, by office, but I know nothing about the means of their charts, to tell the type of matter. Toat, is what is at the bottom household in say district. The charts of of the whole affair.
the poorer East End districts show how congested the area is, and how many of "Ever since I have been mayor he has the people are awake when the rest of London is asleep. The dayline-for some not spoken a word to me, nor has he opened his lips to the man who succeeded parts of the East End is almost the same him in office. He has never raised biss the night-line For this the "great. hat to my wife when I have been with army of night workers and the large her in the town As the wife of the number of lodging-houses which are alive mayor, I claim that she is entitled to throughout the right are chiefly respon respect befitting her office. I have the dignity of this office to maintain, and I waat to hand it over to my successor."
But what an office!" exclaimed the inayor, squaring shoulders upon which the burden of civic responsibility presses heavily. "Why, I am the keeper of the records of Oliver Cromwell's birth-yes, I am I am churchwarden of the old parish church here; I sit on the local I remember on one occasion hearing bench of magistrates; I am one of the him make a little speech which delighted managers of the local schools, as on
a company of business men. Once when the board of management of the County on the road as a commercial, Hospital-in fact, I am every blinkin'
he was
a traveller engaged by another firm said thing imaginable!
to him,
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MARCONI WIRELESS.
SAFEGUARDING BRITISH
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The new agreement between the Post- anster-General and Marconi's Wifeless Telegraph Compaby, Ltd., for a licence for the conduct of telegraph services be tween Great Britain and foreign coun tries was considered at "do extra- ordinary meeting of the company at the Connaught Rooms, London. The terms of circular, provide that the company shall
Ho do you and business? "The mayor paused to recover his the agreement, it was explained in a and he replied, "By running about and looking for it.
breath."I have a reputation to keep
up, as you can see. You don't blame me, continue under British control; that not do you ↑ "
I felt too conscious of the power and burden of civic majesty to do more, than seize my hat, and, humbly bowing to Huntingdon's mayor, I walked out of the shop. I've got to rush off to a very important meeting now-the League of Nations. Oh! this job of mayor!
more than 25 per cent. of the is ted share time be in foreign hands, capital of the company may a. say one
Marconi said that the directors immed In his address to the meeting Senatore lately and cordially agreed with the view of the Postmaster-General that the Government should have an absolute guarantee that the company to conduct the wirelem telegraph services between the United Kingdom and foreign coun- trics ought to be under British control,
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spent his money in founding schools all direct wireless telegraphic communica over England, and his grandfather went tion with the capitals of the Argentine on the stage. He took the name of and Brazil. A wide field will thus be Mr. Compton Mackenzie, the popular Compton, and the novelist's father opened for rapit interchange of witeless. author, is credited with the intention of founded the celebrated Compton Comedy telegrams between England, and the ↑ buying another island, this time remote Company which still exists. The Inte Sir whole of South America." from our coasta. He has a hobby of Morel Mackenzie, the famous surgeon On the proposition of the chairman buying islands." Bome years ago he was who attended the German Emperor the resolution submitted by the board about to make a long voyage in his yacht, Frederiek, was the novelist's grand dealing with the proceed alterations in
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