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號拾六百弍千萬式第
日拾弍月七年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Kowloon...
Yaumati...
Shatin
Taipo
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TIME-TABLE.
AIM
WEEK DAYS
A.M. Noor
Dep, SAO 25 10.30 1.40 12,00 Dep. 6.50 9,94 10,39
Dep, 7.02
9.36 10,51
Dep. 7.18 8:48 11.04
Tipo Market...Dep. 7.41 9.53 11,08
Fanling
Dep, 7.33 10.09 11.18 |
...Dep. 7.38 10.07 11.22
Ar, 7,43 10.13 11,29 19:20 12,58
Shrungahui
Shamokan
Shumahan
Sheung bat Fanling Tipo Market
Tripo Shatin
Taumati... Kowloon...
12,09,
12,21
12.38
12.4
Excert
PUBLIO HOLIDAYS
SUNDAYS
SUNDAYS & PUBLIS
ZINE GAUCTOJI
3.47
halk.
7.21 ... Dep. ***Dep. 7.33 DA 7,32 Dep
8.05 10.88 11.40 8.13 10.43 11,47 8.18 10.45 11.51
1.58 8.00 417
8,25 10,59 12.02
Dep. 7,48
8.80 11.04 72.07
Dop. 7,59
8.43 11.17 12.21
Dep. 8.12
8.55 11.29 12,33
742
5,13 6.08 8.07 $24 5.20 6.15 311 4,29 8.01
5.34 6.29 4.40 5.53 6.33 9,3$
6.48 4.38 5.51 3.50 5,08 6,03 6,59 ...Art. 8.20 9.03 11.37 12.41 437 8.58 5.161 811 7.06
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
P.X. P.M
WEEK DAYE. STATIONS, Fanling Dep. 7.45 11.80 3.20 6.25 Shatanke,Art, 8.40 12.25 8.16 7.80
STATIONS
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
2.M. .. P.X.. Tanking...Dep, 7.45 11,30 3.20 6.25 Bhatankok...Art, 8.40 13,25 4,15 7.20
STASIONI,
AM
1.M.
7.K.
WEEK DAYS.
Shataukok...Dep. 6.30 10.15 1.08 5.00 Fanling AT. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.56
SUNDAYS AD PUBLIC HOLIDAYB,
STANIONA,
7.3. TM:
Shatankok...Dep. 8.30 10,15, 2,05 5,00 Fanling...Ar. 7.95. 1110 3.00 3.85
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 1926 伍拜禮
FISH, FRUIT AND FOWL WELL-KNOWN NAMES IN
A VISIT TO CANTON,
BUS RIDE ROUND THE CITY.
A TRIBUTE TO BRAVE COOLIES.
[BY A CORRESPONDENT.]
In these calm and uneventful days the seeker after change and thrills enn nut do better than take a trip to Ganton. Why should he rest content with brief newspaper reports when for an outlay of thirty dollars and two days he can get first-hand information and provide material for superior conversation over two of the best "for weeks afterwards. What can be more soul satisfying than to be able to say in reference to some
PENSION LIST.
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, AND THE CHURCH.
Civil List pensions granted during the year ending March 1926 are detailed in White Paper. They amount in all to $1,200,d are granted to:-
Mr. Lewis Saul Benjamin (Levis Melville), in recognition of his litera ya services, £75.
Miss Helen Loisa Margaret Burge and Miss Amy, Rachel Watson Burge, in recognition of the public, literary, and ecclesiatical services of their brother, the Right Reverend Hubert Murray Burge. M.A., D.L., formerly Bishop of Oxford,
£50 each.
the scientific work of her husband, the Mrs. Marian Dibdin, in recognition of late Mr. William Joseph Dibdin, F.I.C., F.C.S., £125.
Mre. Isabella Jane. Frith, in recogni picte by a Canton correspondent. "Oh husband. the late Mr. William Silver
tion of the services rendered to art by her j that is all nonsense. Now, when I was Frith, £126. in Canton.
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Bridge only unless you are tall and muscular with a good straight left or useful right hook"-or else are very meek and gentle and slow-to-anget" do not carry a parcel with you." Hero we are in Canton. Now it is essential, in view of our future claims, to go for a ride in a 'bus. If you have not ridden in a haton bus you have missed one of life's joys. The sight and sound-and | feel of them is sufficient to make the most hardened member of the bome-sick.
A DRIVE THROUGH THE CITY. Now for a short run through the City— on the left, the barred doors of the Canton Hospital,then the banners of the headquarters of many of the Labour Guildson through streets crowded, smelly, noisy, and in all stages of dis repair and "under-repair.' Change buses here, and on again to Tung Shan Here, on the left is the National As sembly-where all the Government is carried on opposite is the East Parade Ground still covered with bamboo plat forms from which a few hours previously, speakers have been addressing crowds of people on the occasion of the commemo- ration of the death of Liu Chung Hui. We still see the banners with the in- scription Support the Centon-Hong kong strike and oppose Imperialism. to the end" Net to the Parade Ground
M. Borodin's residence. Then further along on the left, the sad old Kung Yee Hospital.
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Lady Dorothea Hesie, in recognition of the public, literary and scientific services rendered by her husband, the late Sir Alexander Hosie, M.A., LL.D., F.R.G.S., 2100.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Japp, in recognition of the services rendered by her husband, the late Professor Francis Robert Japp, F.RS.. LL.D., to the advancement of organic chemistry and chemical educa- tion, £100.
Mrs. Marian Charles Treborth Jones, in recognition of the public, theological and literary services of her father, the late Rev. Thomas Charles Edwards, D.D., £75.
Mrs Maria Lacy Alice Longford, in recognition of the public and literary services of her husband, the late Pro- fessor Joseph Henry Longford, D. Litt., £100.
Lady Mabel Waldron Piggott. In re- ecgnition of her public services and of the services rendered by her husband, the Inte Sir Francis Piggott, M.A., especial- ly in the study of international law, £50.
Miss Constance Isabella Stuart Smith. In recognition of her valuable services in the promotion and advancement of social "welfare, £150.
Mr Edith Mary Westlake. In re- cognition of the literary, archeological, and ecclesiastical services of her husband the late Reverend Herbert Francis Wast- lake, M.V.O., M.A., F.S.A., Minor Canon and Custodian of Westminster Abbey, £125.
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HARBOUR FERRIES.
THE RECENT STRANDING OF
STEAMERS.
SURVEY OF HARBOUR BED TO BE UNDERTAKEN.
ENGINEER TO BE APPOINTED.
At the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday the Hon. Mr.D. G. M. BERNARD asked:-
1:
1. What is the present position and what
are the Government's intentions with! regard to the establishment of a Farry Service across the Harbour capable of handling vehicular traffic which was referred to in Mr. Duncan s Report laid before this Council in December, 1924 Y
2. Will the Government explain how it
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was that two large vessels recently CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
grounded in the Harbour off the Kow- loon Railway Station 1
Will the Government take steps to dredge the sandbank at an early date?
The COLONIAL SECRETARY read the following replies:-
"I. A sessional paper is in course of pre paration and will, it is hoped, soon be published giving full particulars of the scheme.
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2. (a) The two vesseds réferred to, the 8.3. Danmark and the sa. President McKinley, Aying the Danish and United States Aags respectively grounded of Kowloon Point owing HONGKONG HOTEL: RAYLAR BAY HOTEL to the fact that they attempted to pass over a portion of the Harbour Red where, as was clearly shown in the chart, there was insufficient depth of water.
There was in both cases, actually more more water than is shown on the chart.
(b) The Harbour is not silting up ati the spot where the two ships-referred-t to grounded. This is shown by surveys made in 1917 and 1924 and by observations taken after the recent Sroundings
It is proposed to undertake a further survey this year and the matter will be brought before the Finance Com mittee this afternoon.
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Subsequently at the meeting of the Finance Committer, the COLONIAL SECRE TARY said: There is one thing I should like to bring up and that is this question of dredging the harbour. The Director of Public Works has represented to the Government that although these two ships went aground through no fault of Ang silting in the harbour it is expedient KING EDWARD
that the mind of the public should be set at rest, and be therefore-anks for the appointment of an engineer, who will undertake a survey of the barbour bed. We have no engineer available on our staff who can be detailed for this work." If you agree to the expenditure it is proposed to appoint the engineer at once
And so the day passes. Canton is calm and peaceful, the streets filled with people going about their business. Herc and there are soldiers, an occasional picket, groups of strikers and their families being fed at Government ex pense-n sad lack of thrills. But wait Evening is falling.
Let us spend the night on board our steamer. Remembers of London Vacation Course in Education. 1927- it is a British bout, travelling to The Prince said: from Hongkong and therefore boycotted. And yet, do you remember that, as soon as the boat tied up to the buoy on its arrival in the afterdoon, a sampan was alongside two sampans-laden with fowls which were rapidly transferred, squawking, to crates and passed on board. Occasionally one had its ardour damped by Ruttering into the waters of the riverf Fowls! and no pickets inter- tered 1
E.C., welcomed more than 300 teachers, other vetes until the end of the year. The Prince of Wales, at the Guildhall, and to pay him from the savings on who have come from all parts of Britain He will appear on the estimates for and the Dominions to attend the City.
Hon Mr. BizD: Will he be a In school games, in which I take specialist, qualified for harbour surveys? great interest, and in many of the modern forms of school work, your
Hon. DIRECTOR "Or. PUBLIC "WCRES:
pupils will learn the invaluable lessons The officer who has been selected to carry of comradeship and co-operation, of out the survey is not the officer for whom playing and working for the team we are now aaking We are asking for rather than for themselves alone. If another engineer to relieve this officer as this view of education is right, and he cannot be spared from the work he I believe it is, then I say give us more is now doing until we can get some one and more education. (Cheers.)
to take his place. The officer who, when During my travels to all parts of relieved, will undertake the survey work this country and in the Dominions has had considerable experience and has overseas, I have been struck by the in- already done a good deal of work in the creasing eagerness of all classes of the harbour.
emmanity to obtain for their children far better education than they there- selves were able to secure. This better education is only possible through your co-operation.
part to whom you refer recommends Hon. Mr. Lang: Supposing this ex- harbour dredging in certain places, what is the position 3 "No dredger is available. The only one here belongs to the Dutch Company working at North Point. from Macao.
Hon. Mr. BIRD: We can borrow one
pany are not working at Macao, what Hon. Mr. LANG: If the Dutch Com- will be the position then.
Hop. Mr. Brno: They will be thero for some years.
A MIDNIGHT SCENE... Midnight Suddenly the silence is broken by a volicy of shots just up the river. The reports and their echoes con 'tique intermittently for a few minutes. A green Nerey light flares from "the "Onslaught" stationed at that part of the river to say all is well. Then, out of the gloom, a dark shadow gradually Lord Eustace Percy, Minister for resolves itself into the shape of a boat, Education, said rowed by four men, who draw alongside, pamphlet distributed among elementary the authors ot A
talking excitedly. One catches the school children said: Just as your words" ta sz, ta sz" (kill) and wonders. father is compelled to work for the boss A few minutes later the voice of the so are you compelled to obey the teacher, officer of the watch is heard, hailing the Our first demand is no caning," and H.M.8. Moth which lies a hundred yards no stopping-in after school hours."3 away. Then come the words "One of (Laughter.) the Gahermen wounded!" And while the amuggled fish are being transferred to the tanks on the Langshan, the doctor from the gunboat, comes across and examines the wound-a glancing shot] has cut a six-inch long furrow across. the man's chest-a narrow, escape-and initiates the poor coolic into the healing. Of course, they are strike-breakers Finance Committee, and the money will -and other-propensities of iodine. these coolies and boatmen. They are have to be found to carry out the dredg Hearing a noise on the other side of the setunted by the desire for monetary gain ing whether it be done by the purchase boat, we look across and see that &Yes! But say what you will there, is an of a new dredger- large boat-load of cucumbers has put in element of courage and daring-perhaps,Hon. Mr. LANG: Which is experience. An hour later, three even of fatalism-about them that one, The CHAIRMAN: "or by employing a boat-loads of ginger come alongside and cannot but admire. Let us take off our contractor. The question will have to be so it goes on, all through the night. And hats to these men who, poor and ignorant considered when we know the extent of so Hongkong gets its fresh-water fish, though they be, refuse to bow to the the dredging to be done. its poultry, its fruit and vegetablės.
arbitrary decrees of the Canton Strike (Oontinued on nezi column.) Committee.
an appearance.
That sort of thing, whether done by Communists or Tories, would be the death et education.
"STRIKE BREAKERS.”
The CHAIRMAN: How long have wo been without a dredger!
HDD. Mr. LANG: The last dredger be- longed to the Dock Company, and that was sold in 1910 I believe.
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The CHAIRMAN'If the report of the survey discloses the need of dredging, we shall have to bring the matter before the
The appointment of the additional ngineer was approved
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