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TIME-TABLE.
4 WEEK DAYS
.Dep.4.40
AX. A.IS.
9.15 10.30-11.40 12,00
Dep. 6.40
9.24 10.39
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Shatin
Dep. 7,02 9.36 10.51
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.Dep. 7.16 9.49 11,04
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... Dep.
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Sheungahui
Kowloon...
Yaumsti...
Taipo
Farling
Skumchun
Shanahan
Bheungshal
Tealing
Taipo Market
Taipo
Shatin Yanmati... Komioon...
Dep. 7.36 10.07 $11.99
12.99
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12.52
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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
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...Dep. 7,32
Dep. 7,42
8.16 10,49 11,57
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IN FAR NORTH-EAST SIBERIA.
A HARDY RACE OF EXILES.
GREAT-WATERWAYS.
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If you get into the Trans-Siberian Rail- way at Moscow and travel towards China, on the sixth day you reach Irkutsk. This is the old capital of Siberia, and to day the chief town of the enlarged Govern ment of the same name an area nearly as big as Europe. It is a country where journeys are measured by weeks and dis- cances by thousands of miles, country of unending forest, extending almost from the boundaries of Europe to the Pacific, from the mountains of Central Asia almost to the Arctic Ocean. Through there is but a single line of communica tion, this Trans-Siberian Failway, which cuts across the whole width of Asia like a piece of string, and the great rivers the Obi-Yenisei, the Leno, and the Amur These are huge stresma indeed and the Lena is surpassed only by the Amazon and the Mississippi, but they all pave one great disadvantage. They lead nowhere. There are no great porta at their mouths no prosperous towns stud their banks, no factory chimneys spout their smoke. They just glide away silent ly, in their unending journey into the
Arctic.
Along these great waterways there are rows of settlements of hardly colonists, These are Russians, or of Russian origin. For sixty years or more, the Tsars sent hither the cream of the growing Liberal- ism of the country, and, especially sinco stream of exiles of gentle birth and high culture was sent into banishment to the remote hamlets of the east and north And so Siberia has benefited at the ex-
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THE MOST USEFUL GIRL.'
According to a report presented to the annual conference of the Association of Headmistreaacs, which opened in Lon- don, many of the girla recommended to employers by the Headmistresses En ployment Committee expected to work aereasonably short hours and objected to beginning work as early as 9 .. Good posts with good prospects had been frequently refused for ad trivial a reason as the latter.
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the weakness-of-girls-in-arithmetic In A second and frequent complaint was one case where a very important Wool wich firm offered an excellent opening selected six girls seat in for interviews in special 6gure work, all the specially failed in the tests.
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Usually she left school after an undis tinguished career, and struck cut for herself and made good in some line that they would never have thought of. It was this type of girl who got the least governed as they were by the university and Board of Education ideas of yes terday.
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WATERLOO BRIDGE AT ITS. BUILDING..
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The House of Commons put up a fair show when it was invited to, reject the Waterloo Bridge clause in the LC.C. Bill, writes J. C. Squire in the Observer, The defenders of the bridge were beaten, only by a three to two majority. The Government remained neutral—feelida, hat any expressed Govern- no doubt, that any
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Charing Cross Bridge, which all parties, imply a willingness to subscribe to the
in the back of their minds, know to be ultimately inevitable, but the cost of which all parties prefer to leave to their children. Rather than face it, Waterloo Bridge is to be sacrificed. A new bridge at Waterios will look like an attempt to do something and solve something. But there is no real conviction in the pretence that it will, or possibly can, relieve traf- fic congestion If the new big bridge is Fused up to capacity," the Strand un-18, QUEIN'S BOLD CENTRAL, TYL, 75 CENTRAL
gestion will be worse than ever. And the old rash assertion that the existing bridge | - is beyond renovation cannot be maintain- ed against the weight of expert opinion to the contrary.
FINEST BRIDGE OF CENTURIES. The bridge, which Lord Crawford re- cently described as the nest bridge belit in the last 300 years, is to go; and with the certainty that a generation hence we shall all be stigmatised as vandals for letting it go. Reflecting upon the absurd irony of the situation. 1 suddenly thought of "looking up" what was said about the bridge at the time of its open- 18 in 1817. 1 would provide an appen- dix to "The Vanity of Human Wisnes.
onths before the bridge was opened. The Times was announcing the prepara Many people regarded it as a superior tions for the festivities. They were to occupation if a girl spent her days adtake place on June 16th, 101, the an dressing envelopes, adding up columns of aversary of the memorable and glorious fgures and typing other people's letters, victory for the bridge was the war and an inferior occupation if she per- Memorial of the. Napoleonic wars. The formed the far more varied duties, in- Duke of Wellington was to be the first
natural result of a system of society of the eminent troops who distinguishe solved in the care of a house. This was person to ride over the bridge; "many in which the dignity of work as such themselves in the battle " would take had not been recognised.
part. These particulars were ampinica in The Observer · of · June 15th, which. stated that the Duko would be accom- panied by the Regent, and would ride the charger he rode at Waterloo. The King's State barges would receive the Regent at
A RIGOROUS CLIMATE. These colonistave in a state of pea petual warfare, and their enemy is pot mat, but nature; the poverty of the soil And the rigour of the climate are slow but relentless foes, and the man who can make a comfortable living here is a man indeed: Distances are so great that the colonists have little or nothing in com- mon with the towns, and care" little for. politica Whether Taar or Soviet "rule PORT SWETTENHAM PASSENGER'S half-past one, and "to add to the aquatic
them, the thermometer falls far below zero in winter, and neither the despotism of the Romanovs nor the strong arm of the Soviets can make the summer one day. longer.
These sturdy, independent people work like fiends during the short summer which, with spring and autumn combined is all over in five short months but during the other seven they have little to do but
COOLIE RUNS AMOK.
TERRIBLE DEEDS.
- NEGAPATAM, July 9th With reference to the tragedy on the Teesta further ecquiries show that Gan. gadharan, of Coimbatore, an Indian paa. senger on the Teesta from Port Swetten. ham, was admitted as an inpatient to the steamer's hospital on the way through
illness.
keep warm. This means the felling of timber, and, as trees grow like weeds He ran amok on Sunday, probably here, they have not far to go. True, in owing to a delirious fit, and stabbed and the townships, men are lazier and at killed Madarsa and Thopas, the ship's Verholensk, at Olekminsk, and at Yakutsk, there are vandals, who, in the cook and sweeper, and wounded 13 per
heart of the forest, have burat up wooden fortresses built by Yermark's daring licut, woman, whose, husband was being enants three-centuries-ago-to save thera attacked, foored and disarmed him.. selvas-the-trouble of cutting down a low Gangadharan was taken into custody trees in the forest outside the town. But by the Negapstam Police from the at Kirenek one antiquity has survived, steamer. almost the only one in Siberia. Here the superstitious poneers, something of the Viking and some thing of the Cortes built a monastery, somewhere about the time not only to please the eye, but to absorb when Cromwell ruled in England. It was the moisture that would otherwise freeze constructed of large logs, and so solidly on the windows and obscure the view. was it done that it stands well to-day and And to add a touch of colour, a scroll only near the ground do those stalwart of paper, wound round with narrow scari timbers show the need of repair. There let ribbon, gives a finishing touch to this was no glass bor oiled canvas to make, simple and useful decoration. windows, but a few hundred miles away
In every house there is in the granite, they found good books of mica and splitting the thin translucent wheel, and all their clothes, tools, and sheets, they built windows of irregular Implements are home-made; the very leaded panes, with, a most appropriate pipes that the old ladies enjoy are cut ecclesiastical appearance that stand to from the roots of the birch, and the to- day, scarcely touched by time or weather. bacco they smoke in them are from their And the colonists of to-day are as reliwn garden; the very vodka they drink gious as their fathers. The ikons still is samoganks, or home-brew, and poison fang in the corner of the rooms; and the ous stuff too; this they vary with braga, little lamp still burns in front; they still a herb ale that has its roots in ancient
bistory. bow and cross themselves before, it after their rough but heavy meal, or glass of The folk are sturdy, and strong as they scalding tex that keeps out the all-pene-nced be; the weakest go to the wall trating cold.
quickly enough, and an "ailing child will scarce outlive the first winter. But those who survive can stand the cold. One man
spinning
show, the Lord Mayor in the City State, barge, accompanied by the members of the Corporation, will, it is expected, grace the ceremony."
The ceremony took place. John Con- stable, painted it in one of the less suc cessful of his pictures. The picture, alas, will last longer than the bridge.
They knew what they were doing with
that bridge. The Times next day did
due justice to the ceremony," record- ing the fact that on this occasion the Guards wore their new pantaloons, of a claret mixture, striped on the outside with scarlet.
BEAUTY THAT MUST DIE.”
I recorded the fashionable ball, the vulgar fair, the monstrous charge, of 59. which people had to pay for seats on distant nousetops." But it paid fine tri- buté to the bridge itself, which, was to commemorate, "in the most noble man- per, the ever memorable battle," and per- "petuate great deeds." I extract a lew
passages:-
Monuments of this kind have stronger claims.on public respect than the costly construction of pillars, obelisks, and towers,
The bridges of Jena and Austerlitz, however elegant and convenient, are but trifies in civil architecture and engineer- ing when compared with that which was opened
The finest in the world... not think that any of the great Roman the Danube, bridges, such as that over can be considered with any comparative disadvantage to it.
We do
It gives the grandest view we have of the river in its beautiful meander, dis- plays the rising crescent of buildings on the north side, and brings out Somerset Terrace in the most favourable way."
A very high testimonial to the great
ROOMY HOUSES. Their houses are still built of larch logs, drove me for sixty miles without a break, abilities of Mr. Rennie, the architect.
starting oge in the morning, that night and, as land costs nothing and the labour
** This noble structure," concluded is their own, their rooms are big and my foot was almost frost-bitten, despite The Times, this noble structure in to go. punterous. After the alumlike overcrowd- thick wrappings of sheep skin, and a ing of Moscow, one breathes with relief bottle of vodka in the sleigh by me, in So is the favourable display of Somerset in these Siberian settlements; here you tended to revive a benumbed circulation, House. So is the fount of those civic can stretch yourself and walk across the was frozen solid, the tea in the thermes dreams. And so is the perpetual " room. The more numerous or proaper was turned to ice, and in the morning the memorial of the great Duke's wars, and ous families show their gethatic sense thermometer showed 04 degrees of frost. the "ominent" troops who died in them carpets of grey blue and red, home-Yet, our driver bad sat on the box all or survived them,
that long way, just in his felt boots or For if all things pass, in our cívilisa- woven in strips of hemp, cover the Boere katenki, and his dog skin wasp or deha, tion the best things seem to be in most the walls are often panelled into pleasing patterns that involve a deal of work in and he was not frozen to death: but constant peril. A hundred years hence, when we thawed the vodka he drank when they are palling down the Cenotaph the making the windows are, of course, down a tumblerful with such apprecia as an obstacle to traffic, it is quite likely double, and in places even triple, to keep -out a cold that we in Britain cannot tion. And behind us a second sleigh with that Charing Cross Station will still be understand; between them are little piles the baggage was driven all this way by where it is, and that the vile girders of an apple-faced youngster, his son, a boy Hungerford Bridge will still gloat over of 13, for children learn the responsibilis the reach which was once so majestically ties of life at an early age in the colonies, spanned by Rennie's masterpiece.
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