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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
POSITION.
MALAYAN FOREST SHANGHAI CUSTOMS BELL.
FOLK.
SUCCESSFULLY HQISTED INTO
Kowloon
Dep. 6,37). 8,00
8.95 9.1510.09 12.02 1.182.37 9.00 4,87 5.43 7.29
Yaumsti
-Dap.: 1.65)
4.44) 5,60| 7:30
THE "LANGUAGE" OF
APES.
Slatin
Dap. 8.57
4,56 8.08 7:AR
Taipo
Dop
7.11
5,09 8,18 7.35
Taipo Market Dep, 7,16
5,13 0,207.69
Fanling „Day, 7.27
Bheangahni Dep. 732
Bhumikaa Dep
840
Canton ...Art. 11,50
Canton
Dop ATT
9.3410.18 19.09 191
9,56 10,28 19.41 1,84
9.491042 19.84 2.47
9.5310.46 12.88) 1,41
10.0810,515.48 2.01
9.02 10.08 11.00 12.63" 9,06 8.1
5.93 4.818.09 6,298,258.3
9.05 10.1411.08 1260 2,12,318 9.40) 5,34 8,41 8.19
11.10
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8.05 11.06
3.43
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8.40 3,93
Bhumahan
Dep. 7.14 8.01 10.110.4811.09 11,40 3.00 417 4.43 5.9 Sheangahul Dep. 7.21 8.08.10.25 10.04-11.47 8,074.94 4.39 Fanling
7.36 8.12 10.29
11.51 9.12 1.28 4.38 6,03) Taipo Marks!
12,02 3.22 4.9 5.08 8.13 8,92 10,99 7.86 Taipe Dey 7.40 8.3710,43 11,06 →
-12.07 826 4.42 5.10 638 -12.20 3.39 486 5.33 - 19,32 3,515.08) 5,53 ...A 8.138,58 11.1411.31.49 12.88 3.57 5.146.43 0.17
Bhatin
**Dep, 7,538,40 10.36**** Yazmati.Dep. 8.07 86311.03 - Lowloon
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH,
Fanling Bbatankok
Dep. Arr.
L.M. 7.3. F.M. 1,48 10,15 3.90 6.15 8.40 11.10 4.15
A
7.10
Sestaurok Fasting
m Dep.
8.15
".. 5.00
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BIGGEST BELL OVER SIX TONS.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day.
Edward the Confessor's Day. Annual Sale of Work at French Convent, Causeway Bay opened by Mrs. W. T. Southorn, 10a.m.
Women's Workers' Guild: Cor- porate Communion in Lady Chapel writtee meeting in Cathedral Hall, of Cathedral, followed by Com- 10 4....
Legislative Council meeting, 2.20
Shanghai, Craigengower C.C., 3 Interport Bowla: Hong Kong s
p.m.
E. and R. Siganis v. R.A.O.c Garrison Football League :- 31st H. Batty. RA 1, "C Company 2nd K.0.8.B. (both mat- ches at Sookunpoo; 4.30 p.m.)...
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30
SHANGE, October 8th. Commencing at 250 p.m. yester In the Zoology section of the day the five bills destined for the British Association meeting, Mr. H. Customs House tower were boisted N. Ridley, who was in charge of the into position befare a large crowd | Piff. N Singapore Botanic Gardens for 15 of spectators who had gathered for years and had established in them the occasion on the Bund. The a collection of local wild animals, bella weighing, respectively, six and gave a fascinating account of some a quarter toni, nine ewt., 11 cwt., of the observations he had made is cwt and one ton 15 cwt. were He had kept the large orang-utan brought to the spot from Holt's alive for many years, and found it Whari shortly past o'clock by a to be intelligent and docile when G. E. Marden track, a representa young, but apt to be sulien and tive of which frm was there per- dangerous as it approached matu-sanally to supervise this branch of rity. Another anthropoid ape, the the work. agile gibbon, was remarkable, like all the gibborn, for its extremely loud voice, which, however, could be modulated until it could almost be described as singing.
Alter having waited to begin Hoisting under the supervision of Messrs. Innis & Riddle (China), Ltd., until 2.33 in the hopes that
an expected motion picture camera
would arrive, the work was begun, The big bell weighing six and a quarter tons was first placed into position on the truck, raised about 19 inches by the hoist and then dropped again until the hoist screw
was uuspun.
p.m.
Hong Kong Cricket Club annual meeting, 5.30 p.:
First of series of winter concerts
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After dinner dance at Lee GAT deos.
St. Peter's Yaung Men's Club: Community Singing, 8.20 p.az.
Ladies' Night,
European T.M.C.A, Kowloon, 9 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Song and Dance Man."
World "Theatre: The Prairie King."
Star Theatre: "The Air Mail." Principal Mails-Ioward: Europe
Mr. Ridley said: "They are famous for their sung at sunrise, and the marvellous thing is that the notes they utter run up and down the seale perfectly. To hear them singing in unison across a valler is a weird experience."
Many of the smaller monkeys, heThe hoisting took place on the continued, uttered a range of sounds Hankow Road side and traffic was, that seemed to convey states of suspended down this street. A mind and to be a rudimentary.kind cardoa of police in charge of Capt.rid. Suez (Vocedonia). Outward: of language. There were warning R. M. J. Martin formed to keep Europe vid Siberia (Macedonia), 3
Friday. cries, as at the presence of snakes, spectators outside the radius of the calls to the young, sociable chatter-work in case a cable rope might
Bowls: C.S.C.C. p. Shanghai. (Bandays
St. Andrew's Society "at home" MID-NIGHT. MN.only).ing, sex calls, and fighting chalanep and the bell-exash, downwards,
and sports meeting for Scottish lenges.
Twelve minutes by count were rc-Troopa, Happy Valley, p.m. Sailings from Canton: Daily, at 8 A.M. & 4 P.M. (Sunday
d.{{PM, only).
quired to raised the bell slowly up Tea Dances: EE Hotel and to the dial where it was held half Hotel Savoy, 4.20 P. King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. and Lane, way inside and half outside for a Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 considerable period while other p.m. motive apparatus was attached to
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Domestic Life Among Monkeys. "The language of monkeys can be very expressive indeed," said Mr. Ridley. "They make a noise like krah,' which the natives say means
p.m.
I see a man,' but they make quite draw it inward. The work was car-jabis, King's Park, 6.15 p.m
a different cry to represent I see ried out smoothly, without mishap, a tiger,' and in the forest camps this and shortly after the installation of ery of warning wakens you like an the big bell two smaller ones, mark alarm clock. In a tropical zoo eached on their packing cases 4,500 lbs. male monkey has a harem of seven
net (4,700 lbs. gross) and 2,450 net If we put a female monkey (2,000 gross) cach, were lifted aloft, "wives. into a cage of mixed monkeys it is the other two following during the the signal for an attack on her by afternoon. all members of her sex, just as the males would be similarly hostile if one of their sex were introduced. But let the intruding male win the battle and he becomes king auto antically. He has the pick of the harems and is permitted to take first choice of all food. The result is that they over-ent, and I had two king mondeys die from this cause. When the king becomes old there is a fierce fight with the younger monkeys in which the king is usually slain,'
Tiger Diet,
Tigers, if they were to be kept in good health, appeared to re- quire meals of fresh blood from time
The derrick used for, this work, which weighed seven and a half tona was the property of Sin Jinkee, main building contractor, and besides the baile a considerable amount of apparatus, such as the steel girders for holding cacir bell in place went up.
To, Chime Up La December. The bells will be stationary, their automatic action consisting of a hammer which strikes from the out- side, the latter being part of the mechanism of the clockwork which will be installed, it is thought, with-
Hockey Club "A" v. 5/2nd Pun- Naval and Military Y.M.CA. Cheer O": Community Singing, 6.30 p.m.
Scottish Concert at City Hall for Servicemen, 7.30 p.m.
Social gathering at St. Andrew's Vicarage grounds, Kowloon, 9 p.m.. Queen's Theatre: "The Song and Dance Man,'
World Theatre: The Prairie King."
Star Theatre: "The Air Mail." Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe wid Siberia (31alun).
Saturday.
Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. 4th Extra Race Meeting, Slacao. Bowls: Kowloon B. G. O. . "S'hai. 5.C.A.A. Cross Harbour Race: Kowloon Dock to Quarry Bay, 2 up.m.
Cricket League-Division I University .I.RO.; Chinese R.C.. Craigengower C.C. Divi- sion II.: Police R.C. II.K. Electric Co.; Recreio. Civil Ser- vice C.C.
Friendly Cricket: Kowloon C.c. T. H.E.C.C.; H.K.C.C. 2nd XI. v. in another fortnight after the tower.C.C.; Royal Navy. University clock's arrival. The chimes will not and XI., Civil Service C.C. v. be beard until sometime in Decem Cameronians.
to time, probably because of the ber as there remains a large amount H.K. Football League:-Division alts contained in it. They would of work still to be done in connec-1.: Queens Club, Chincee Ath. cat stale carrion of return to a large tion with putting the bells into prey for many days after the kill, working order. but that did not satisfy all their physiological
requirements, and hence from time to time they made ferocious attacks on cattle or ca
| human beings."
The Tapis.
GEISHAS AND FOREIGN STYLE CAFES
The Malay tapir when seon in a museum or in a zoo, either in the A TOKYO TURMOIL. adult or the immature date, was a very conspicuously caloared animal.
TOKYO, Oct. 4th. In nature, however, the colour- pattern was an effective, camou. Strong pressure is being brought flage. The adult had a great aad- by the powerful Shimbash and de-shaped block of whitish-grey other geisha guilds to close a large breaking up the dark colour of the proportion of Tokyo's 3000 foreign rest of the body. When the animals style cafes and beer halla Hay on the dry bed of a stream, one of their favourite haunts, the body seemed to be nothing but a rounded timestone boulder. The young were vividly striped and, when they were standing or crouching in a reed-bed, they blended completely with the back-ground. Tapirs, like rhinoce- TOSCA and other Largo ungulates, lived largely on the fallen fruits of trres and on shoots and foliage, and undoubtedly played an important oart in the dispersal of the seeds of treea, as these passed through their bodies not only unharmed, but with the early stages of germination fav óured.
Previous clorts along this same line have not been successful, but the geisha organizatione, which have been improving their already strong political, connections, are said to be faced with a steadily worsening situation.
!
According to the guild leaders, the beer halls and cafes now em- cya total of 8000 waitresses, whe
act as entertainers and keep male patrons from frequenting the ex pensive geisha establishments which must pay licenses. The competi Lion is proving too strong for the Hicensed dancers and songsters.- Manila Times
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Interport Bowls Dinner, Hotel Savoy, 8 p.m.
The Song
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Queen's Theatre: and Dance Man.??.."
Star Theatre The Air Mail,'! Principal Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles, etc. (šlal- wa), 10:30a.m.; Canada, America, ete, and Europe vid Victoris, B.C (Tyndareus), 10 am.
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