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UP TRAINS
STATIONS
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Yakmati...Dep. 048
Statio ...Dop. 7.01
Taipo Market Dep, 7.15
Tripe
Tarling Dop. 7,30
...Pap. 7.50
Bheangsini,Dep. 739
Canton
9.2010.08 12,59 1.21
98310.30 12.90 1,34
9481039 12.84 1.42
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4.58 6.50 7.40 450 0.03 7.33 5,04 8.15 8.08
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1.03 --
5.57
1
7.03
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| 7.25 8.12 10.49 | 11.47 Fanling Dep, 7.30 8.16 10.47 11.51 Taipolartet Dep. 7.40 8.26 10.57 12.09
Taipe
...Dep. 7,44 8.31 11.01 12.08
Shatin ...Dep.757 8.44 11.14 12.20 Yaxmad Dep. 8.11 5.56 11.28 12.39
3,054.46 5,56 8,10 4.50 8.00 5,916,00 8.10 3.265,04 8;15: 8,395,17 6.28
8,815.29 6.40
1.20
5.45 7 26 8,62
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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12th,
MORE JOBS FOR
MISS GLADYS COOPER MINERS.
HAIR IN RAGS IN NEW PLAY.
MISS BADDELEY'S COMIC HIT.
1928. 伍拜夜
日式拾月拾年入廿百九仟登英
DIARY OF EVENTS.
MEN WHO CAN DO ANYTHING.
PIT LADS BECOMING WAITERS,
TWO YEARS' WORK SCHEME STARTING.
A copy to hand of the Daily Mail states that a meeting of the Cabinet had been called at which certain aspects of the industrial situation would come under view.
Min Gladys Celper with her hair tied up frogs, wearing a slovenly dress, and with no style about her was the first act surprise for the first night's audience at the Playhouse, W.C., when "Excelsior" was produced.
It was the kind of audiance you expect at a Gladys Cooper Årst night In a fox was the actress's whom she married two months or husband, Sir Neville Pearson, so ago, and her children, Joan and John Buckmaster. In the stalls there were many prominent stage people.
Toned Down. "
The play is from the French--it "I gather""" says the paper's was dooc in London on a Sunday |
evening under ita original title. political correspondent "that the L'Ecole des Cocottes-but Mr. Minister of Labour, Sir Arthur H. M. Harwood has toned it down Steel-Maitland, will be able to re-sufficiently to get the Lord Cham
berlain's licence.. port reasocably satisfactory "pro-
It is the story of a woman, sim gress in the response, to the apple at heart, but ambitious, who peals made by the Prime Minister climbs up on men's shoulders. She to employers for co-operation in quarrels and then makes it up with begins in Montmartre, where she finding work for miners from the nice young man, played by Mr. distressed areas.
Denya Blakelock.
Officials from the Labour Ex- changes have been" canvassing er ployers at the rate of more than As a result, orders 3,000 a week. for additional workmen who will be required during the next few weeks are being booked at a brisk
rate.
It is understood that the men
will be drawn from the block of some 300,000 permanently unem ployed in areas such as South Wales and Durham.
A
From him she goes to a fiat in more expensive but not more happy-quarter with another nice man, in the person of that really clever actor Mr. Nigel Bruce; and from there and him to an Athole Stewart, whose beard is magnifi- cent.
All the time she is forced ahead by a professor of deportment, an elegant figure which Mr.. Ernest Thesiger revels in playing, and dogged by a little friend. As this little friend Miss Hermione Bad- deley made "the comic hit of the evening; the second act is hers, and Miss Cooper went alost into the background for a time..
Delicious Comedy.
To-day.
(October 18th.)
Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helens May Institute, 10.30 am.
Hong Kong and Canton Ice Manufacturing Co., 7th Ordinary Yearly Meeting, 11.30 am.
Land Sale: China Auction Rooms, Kowloon Inland Lot. No. 1610, 3
p.m.
Hong Kong Cricket Club, Annual General Meeting. Pavilion, 5.30 p.m.
ing: Scandal Point, & p.m.
H.K. Referees" Association "Meet-
Queen's Theatre: "London".. World Theatre: Bardely's the Magnificent."
Star Theatre; "Love's Greatest Mistake," at 9.90. The Wilbur Black Birds.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hotel, '5
p.in.
Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe vid Siberia (Morea). „Outward:. Europe via Siberia (Macedonia),
30 p.m.
Saturday.
• (October 13th.) Bazaar, Convent of the Frecious Blood, 3 p.m.
"Craigengower C.C. "At Home" and Sporta, 3 p.m.
Volunteer Sports, Cricket Club Ground.
Kowloon
Golf: Captain, Cup, Fanling, Queen's v. 2nd Bn. K.0.8.B., R.A. Football: 1st Division: 1st Bn.
r. Chinese Athletic, Recreio v. Kow- loon, H.K. Club v. Police, South China . Royal Navy.
2nd Division: Navy e. South China "A", South China "B" ". 2nd Ba. K.O.S.B., 1st Bn. Queen's . Small Units, Chinese "A" v. U. Eastern, R.A., University Recreio . B.A.F., Kowloon v. St. Joseph's.
It appears that Welsh mixers,
Cricket: Division I.; Navy 1. except in the cases of men, who
Indians (F); Chinese . All Schools It is a delicious exposition of (F); Division II.: Indiana. Hong] have for many years worked below comedy situation and writing: Mr. Kong Electric (L), Hong Kong ground, are proving remarkably Thesiger trying to teach Miss Bad-C.C Royal Engineers (L), adaptable, and willing to under-ely how to behave at the opera Recreio v. University (F).
and Miss Baddeley getting every- thing wrong is irresistibly funny. But there is 4 slight monotony "about the play..
take new forms of work.
Replacing Foreigners. Hotel proprietors are responding
Repetition of experience hap- to the suggestion that the lads peas apparently so inevitably that should be trained as waiters and there is very little surprise. Am- employed in place of foreigners.bition is the mourning role of hap
pinces sometimes and the last act Already a number have been given has its sadness.
i preliminary training and are showing promisc.
emo-
The character of the Climber gives Miss Cooper something that she has not done in recent plays. So far as possible the Labour Ex-There is very little drama, very change officials are seeking to little opportunity for tense place men from Wales in London Lion. She plays it all with ease, and in South-West England. Num-bat she is not extended by it.-
Daily Mail." bers of them on their own initiative. are travelling to London, where Ministry of Labour, officials racet then I am informed they guide most of the igen into directions, in which they find employment with- in a few days..
Only slight advantage is being taken by the men of the Govern- ment's recent offer to advance to them the cost of transferring their families and homes to their new place of business.
It is thought, however, that this part of the re-employment scheme will be largely used when the men find that they can settle down in. their new surroundings and that the Government will not be unduly onerous in its collection of the re- payment instalments. .
Lawn Bowls:-Division II: Re- creio "B" Civil Service, Kow- loon C.C. e. Yacht Club, Taikoo v. Recreio "A"!
Queen's Theatre: "London.”. World Theatre: Bardely's the Magnificent"
Star Theatre: "Love's Greatest Mistake," at 9.15. "The Wilbur Blackbirds in Variety."
Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4 p.. Hotel, 8p.m.
Dinner Dance: King Edward.
Principal Mails:-Outward Europe rid Marseilles (3/orca). 10.30 ..
Sunday. (October 14th.)
10th Sunday after. Trinity. Harvest Festival Service,
EIGHTH WONDER OF THE John's Cathedral:
WORLD.
ALLEGED MIRACLE · MAN. CHARGED.
Hundreds of people were unable to get into Blackpool Police Court when Abrahar. Cohen, aged 36, of Burlingten-road, South Blackpool, was charged with com
Shore, mitting &
breach of the Aliens Order and false pretences.
St
Bazaar, Convent of The Precious Blood, 10a.m.-10 p.m.
Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. Macao Races.
Queen's Theatre: "The News Parade."
World Theatre: "The Fall of Babylon."
Star Theatre: "Arizona Bound" and 0.15., the Wilbur Blackbirds in
Variety."
Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 pm.
Monday, (October 15th.)
The Chief Constable, Mr. Der- ham, said that Cohen signed, the registration book at a café as Max Sule of Crown Land 'Kowloon Conn, which was a false name. He Inland Lot Nos. 2144, 145 and described himself as a medicine 2140, 3 p.m. vendor and obtained 23. under faise pretences.
Cohen had a stand on the pro- menade and represented himself as the Great Max Conn-the man with £2,000 hands.
Fewer Unemployed, In another direction progress is being made with work which pro- vides considerable employment both
In a pamphlet he claimed to be directly and indirectly. This is on
the Eighth Wonder of the World, the national electrification scheme, and described himself as a mani- Tenders have been received by the pulative surgeon. He claimed that Central Electricity Board for the he was performing miracles. The erection of overhead transmission
deaf were made to hear, "the blind lines in the London and South- to see, and the paralysed to walk. Eastern area. This work will ex- Up to the present there were four tend over the next two years. Ad- Casca against him, and there would ditional employment will be pro- also be a chse for his partner, vided in the erection of sub- Lionel Cohen, who pretended to stations and the extension of exist-have a divine power of healing, to ing selected stations, and in their answer. equipment with
new machinery Cohen, added Mr. Derham, claim- where this is necesanry.
ed that he was the only man in the The contracts about to be placed world who could cure a cast in will total rather. tnore than the eye without surgical treatment. £1,000,000. The total work in this He used an oil which he said came area, which includes London, Mid- from Maunt Sinai. It was claimed dlesex, Hertford, Essex, Kent, that Cohen and his partner were Surrey, Berkshire, Buckingham able to cure people owing to having shire, Bedfordshire, Cambridge- zo much electricity in their hands, shire, Huntingdonshire and parts of Hampshire, Suffolk, and Bussex, will inspire expenditure of between $7,000,000 and £8,000,000.
A considerable addition in em- ployment in iron and steel, cable and electrical machinery works, as well as on the erection of the power lines, should result from these schemes.
Queen's Theatre: "The News
Parade.
World Theatre: "The Fall of Babylon."
Star Theatre: "Arizona Bound.'' Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4,30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Principal Mails:-Inward: Lon
don vid Straitaj parcel mai! (anfa), Outward: Europe vi Victoria, B.C. (President Madi- on), 3 p.m. and vid Siberia, & p.m.
p.m.
Tuesday,
(October 18th.) Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15
V.R.C. Annual Aquatie Sporta: Half-mile Championship and Mok Challenge Cup, p.m.
Hockey: Y.M.C.A. Ist Univer- sity, 5 p.m.
Fanling Hunt: Annual Meeting, Jardine, Matheson's Board Room, 3.30 p.m.
Theatre.:.
Queen's Theatre: "The News Parade."
World Theatre: "Too Many Believing that the oil wis from Crooks" the Holy Land, a person purchased
"The Dust a bottle for This on, never, had been bought in bulk from a To Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 local chemist for 24 12s. 6d. and
p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. contained ammonia, "water,
Dinner Dance: King Edward phor, and olive oil. There was Hotel, 8.p.... suficient for 285 bottles, and is much as 4s was sometimes charged.
A remand way ordered.
cam-
Principal Mails: Outward: Europe via Marseilles (Caléhas), 1 p.m
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