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HONG
KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6th, 1928.
伍拜禮
日陸月登年八廿百九仟登英
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE..
WEEKS DAYS:
Our London Letter.
£1,100 PAID FOR A GREY- HOUND.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
Dep 201 Dop 7.15
A.X.A.M.!! AM, AM.
YN. .....M.T.M.
TM
Kowloon
Yaamat.Dep. 5.49
Bhatia
Taipe
Taipo Market Dep. 7.90
Fanling Dep. 7.30
beangsand. Dep. 7.35 Skumchun Arr. 7.43 8.45 Canton ...ATT
11.50
Dep, 8.40 8.05 0.10 10.00 12.00 1.15.15 4,3 5,43 0.20 10.07 12.07 1.22 9.83 10.19 12.19 1.84- 9.48 10.32 12.8 1.47- 9.53 10.38 19.36 1,51 10.08 10.46 1946 201 10.10 10.61 12.61 206 10.18 10.57 12.57 212 2.55
5.38
4.42 500
4.54 8.09
5,07 6,15
5.11 419
1.X. LX.
Canton Dop
4M AM.
8.05
2.M. PJ.
P.X.
11.44 5.05 4.48
8.20 5.49 6.2€ 3.56
11.49 3.10 4.52
6.00
12.00 8.21 5.09
8.10
...Dep 7,448,31 11.00
12.04
8.26 5.07
8.15
...Dep. 4.118.56 11.05
Dep. 2,57 8,44 13.19
12.19 9,39 8.20
6.98
Kowloon
A 9.17 9.09 11.31 11.69
19.81 8.51 5:52 12.37 8.57 5.38
8.40 8,48 7.01
Shamchun...Dep.7.18 80 10.34 11.09 11,37 3.58 441
Sheungehni Dep. 7.25 8.12 10.41
Taaling ...Dep. 7.30 8.16 10.44
TaipoMarket Dap. 1,40 8.26 10,68
Taipo
Bhatin
Yazmati
Kowloon Taumati....
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
...Dep. 6,40
Skatin
Taipo Market Dep Faning
Shaungahni..Dep
Canton...Ä.
Rhum Chun. Art. 7,41
Sheungshuik. Dep.
Fanling
7.2. T.X. P.M. P.M. MAX. A.MAM. AM. AM, 8.05 8.30 9,04 8,10 10.00 19.00 2.24 2.15 6.18 7.15 9.20 10.07 12.072,31 3.25 723 9.33 10.19 12.19 2.43 5.33 2,55 5.32 7,48
9.68 10.34 12.33 2.56
9.53 10.86 12.38 3,00
5.58 7.32.
10,08 10.48 į 12,46 1.3,10)
9.07 9.41 10.10 10,61 12,513.15
6.07 8,02 6,12 8,07
8.45 0.13 9.47 10.18 10.57 1257 821 255 635 BIS
1.38 11.50
8.03
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Canton ...Dep.
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AM.
8.05
Bham Chan..Dep
8,05 16,34 11.09 11,87
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8.12 10.41
11.44
V.M.
2.58 $.05
7.36. AM
5,00
5.34 5.56
T.
8.20 8.34
5.07
6.41
6.03
916! 10,48
11.49
8.10 5.11
6.07
Taipo Market Dep.
10,56
12,00
6.11
12.05 8.96
6.21
12,19
8.39
6,88
8.34
12.31 8.51
8.80
5:45
Ka lost ...A 9.03 11.81 11.49 12.97
3.57 5,58 6.17 8.52
7.04
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Taipo
...Dap. 8.31 11.00
...Dep, 8,45 11,13
Yanmat: Dep 8.57 11.35
Statin
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MUCH HIGHER PRICES IN PROSPECT.
SPECULATION BEGINS.
Frars of persible interference with greyhound racing have been oxmoved, for the mount at least and this, coupled wike the news that racing will take place at Wem- hley at an earlier date than that which was anticipated, has caused the price of greyhounds to advance beyond the wildest conjectures.
Waterweed, the damn of Golden Loxnos, December 11th. In recent years we have heard a Sna) (winrar of the last Waterloo let about the discovery of skulls of Cup) was inst week sold for the prehistoric people, and as is well-unprocedented gare för a bitch known the oldest to date is the of £540. Piltdown man, whose skull is sup posed to place him as belonging to a race of beings somewhere be tween the ape and the human.six ten months old. Now, the reported discovery of a tooth near Peking has sent the scientists here into all sorts of speculations as to whether this is, as alleged, part of a man older than any relic which has yet been found. There are some people rash enough to write to the papers saying that the discovery confirms the theory that Asia was the cradle of the
human race.
It is an interesting speculation at any time where the first buman beings lived. But there is no means
Twelve hundred and sixty pounds was the price paid at the same time for a famous litter of
The price paid for Waterweed is record, even for the dam of a Waterloo Cup winner. Hungweil, a winner of the Waterloo Cup, made £1.102 10% at auction, and, although higher figures for grey. hounds are discussed, Hungwell's price is the highest authenticated pries known.
The rise in the price of grex hounds since the racing boom be gan has been confined almost en tirely to the cheaper claw of grey- hound bat, iceking to the prices
of deciding the matter. The subject | jusf' quoted...it would appear that can be discussed without ever com the first-class stock was advancing ing a decision. A correspondent of in sympathy with the less valuable a London paper aptly observes that animals. if Central Asia were thoroughly ex- plored by archaeologists and a cnp-| ziderable number of remains were
found of great antiquity there might be something in it, but there are many ways of accounting for the teeth reported from Peking.
At present the evidence allows as to place the cradle of the human race where we plense, and frankly I cannot see why if I like I cannot,
argue it Epsom!
at Maida Vale or was
Broken Log.
A kresboupel with, a urcken is is not a promotion which at first.
sight would appeal to the majority. Nevertheless the announcement by an auctioneer at the greyhound sales in London on Saturday that a gresbound had broken a leg a fra works ago, did not deter pur chaters from spirited bidding, which went up to £31 Oy,
To-day.
Epiphany. Twelfth Day. Sight Cold (sian-has).
Chinese Chamber of Commerce Meeting.
30 p.m.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and p.m.; King Hotel Savoy 4.30
p.m. Lane, Edward Hotel, a Crawford's
Restaurant, 430-8.30 Cafe Regent, 5-6,30 p.m. Hockey: Navy r R.A.F. (Sim Shield): Club "A" 3/2 Pun- jabis; Marins Ground, 5 p.m H.K. University r. 5/2 Punjabis 2nd XI., Marina Ground, 5 p.m.
Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p. St. George's Society Ball, City Hall, a p.m.
Queen'a Theatre: "Out a!] Night."
Star Theatre: "The Show Of." Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe via Siberia (Morea); Aus! tralia, etc. (Taiping).
World Theatre: "The Eagle,"
Saturday.
Entries close far Fanling Hunt Steeplechase Meeting, noon.
Golf: Captain's Cup, Foaling, Annual Children's Sports" a: Kowloon Cricket Club.
Annual Yuletide Party for Chil; dren at Royal Naval Dockyard flecreation Club. ..Yachting:
6th
Championship
Cricket League:-Division "1.: Race for racing yachts. Civil Service CC. v. Royal Navy: N.G.A. I.R.C. "B"; University
Craigengower C.C. Division IL: Tamer v. H.K. Electric Co. Recreio v. Royal Engineers; Police 1.C.. Kowloon C.C.
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The demand for greyhounds is so grent that speculators will go to thirty or forty guiness for Bay Hotel dinner dances, & pam.
Cafe Regent and King Edward thing on faur legs, even if three
Hong Kong Boxing Association of these are not as good as they Tournament, Lee Theatre, 3 pm.
Out might be, al even dogs with very
Queen's Theatre: Night." obvious affectiona of the skin make
World Theatre: The Eagle" is up to the Scure named Belgium, with her unfavourable
Star Theatre: "The Show 08. rate of exchange (approximately
Principal Malle:Outward: via Marseilles, etc. 160 fruts to the pound) secas Europe greyhounds in England at the safe (orea), 10.30
Carada, figure, which means that at £30 America, etc., and Europe rid the Belgian has to pay 4,600 francs Victoria, B.C. (Tyndareus), 10 per dag.
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Smithfield Show. London has been invaded this week by an army of ruddy-faced folk from the country, farmers and stockbrecters and their men, who are here for the Smithfield Show at Islington. The Show has been held annually in its present form since the rear 1000, and it is the Historical successor of a market that began in the dim past of the Middle Ages. The experts on the subige do at purwent, and that will be Qualifying Round Junior Cham
It is entirely within the bounds of possibility that by this time next year greyhounds here will cost easily eight times as much as they'
have been pointing out that for many years after the Show was exactly in proportion with the rise started the average weight of the in price which has already taken ox was 250lb. and the sheep was place. no bigger than à terrier. A century Inter the ox had been bred to weigh about 850lb. and it is well-known
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Naval Day Theosophical Society: Lecture on
A rutiny of the prices realised A Spiritual Awakening," by. Mr. shows that the average price was in former years at October sales. Russell, Lane, Crawford's Re-
staurant, 8 p.m. that for many years past until quite as against the average £40 to recently these animals were of day. mountanous size.
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Dick Norton and his "Globe Trotters" in "Happy Moments," Star Theatre, 8.15 p.m.
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Yachting: 5th Championship. business to raise cattle for market bave to be an alteration in the law now finds it is more profitable to generally as it affects gambling be- Race for Ladies' Section breed two moderate-sized animals fore the "Tote can be set up in Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and 4.30 p.m.; King than one giant. There is the for this country. You cannot alter the Hotel Savoy,
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Dick Norton and his "Globe meat is cheaper and, of course, for the instance of Parliament,
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