Page
MASON'S
DELICIOUS
O.K
SAUCE.
Hongkong Daily Press
No. 29,235 號捌黄百弍仟弍萬弍第日戳廿月玖年巳己
TRADE
THE SIGN
WW ww
MARK
OF PURITY."
We beg to announce considerable reductions in
the prices of
AQUARIUS
WATER
AQUARIUS WATER
Aquarins Soda
Dry Ginger Ale
Lemonade
Tonic
Ginger Beer
LIMESODA
Send for New Price List !
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
WINE MERCHANTS.
PRINCE'S BUILDING, IOR HOUSE STREET. Telephone-Central 75.
HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND THR CHINA NAVIGATION CO.,LTD.
HONG KONG-CANTON LINE.
Bondays
Bailings from Hong Kong: Daily, st8AM. &10.00P.M.,
(10.001.x.only) Sailings from Canton: Daily, at 8 AM, & 4.30 P.Mnly)
HONG KONG-MAÇAO LINE,
Глом Ново Коно
8.00 AM.HUI TAI" from Wing Lok Wharf.
(Bundays Excapled)
4.00 BUI ‘AN"
(Sundays Excepted}
do.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
NO AFTERNOON SAILING TO MACAO on
SATURDAY, 267H OCTOBER.
(Sondays
FROM MACAO 8.00 . "SUI AN " (Sundays Exceptad) 2.00 F. SUL TAÍ" (Sundays Excepted)
FRIDAY, 15 and
NO MORNING SAILING From MACAO on FRIDAY, 25TH and
SATURDAY, 26 OCTOBER.
EXCURSION TO MACAO:-
On SUNDAY, 27TH OCTOBER. 8.8. "SUI TAI"
Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 A.M., and From Macio at 4.00 P.M.
"SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS,
BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS,
OXY-ACETYLENE AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS,
MECHANICAL AND
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS.
-DRY DOCK
Length 787 Feat. Length on Blocks 750 Feet.
OF HONG KONG. LIMITED, THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING
SALVAGE TUG “TAIKOO" WIRELESS CALL
V.P.G.N. 600 METERK
COMPANY
Depth on Centre of
SMM (H.W.0.S.T.) 84 ft. 6 Ins.
-THREE SLIPWAYS,
Capable of Handling Chips Up to 3,000 Tons Dispizcement
Electric Grans at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons
at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,
HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN,
TEL ADDRESS: "TAILOODOCK, HONG KONG."
TELEPHONE: No. 218 CENTRAL
CALE FLAG: "O" OVER. "ANS. PERNAME"
ESTABLISHED 1857.
Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.
Longhong Daily Press,
B.J. Waup
Managing Directar
SOCIAL
SIGHT-
Qualified Europsku ditaution, Medora Kyseighs Trotter Kesźgment at LAZARUS,
13, QUERY'S ROAD CENTRAL, Established over 40 Years
For Appointment-
Phone MR. COOPER, C. 2203.
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929. ## !R+A#41+LF PRICE: $3 PER MONTH
UNDER
од
THE PUNKAH.
known."
By J. PENN.
They call it the Isle of Fragrant Streame, but they're always bor. rowing money for waterworks."
F.CO. Could you tell me where it is, old man f
Voice: "I should shay sho.
What : do you a garden-party with fairy lampa- It looks as though autumn has way, too, eh?" arrived. I have not consulted the think
topthat's the place, old boy.” S.0.0. I dan's Engwy old min) 12 TCU (telephoning): That the calendar, but there are signs and
Colonial Office? Do you know any. portents observable which to the why should we t initiated tell quite a lot. For F.C.O.: Some of the blighters thing about Hong Kong in your example, "I see sundry verandabs wact us to; they have been com- Department " alled with woollen coats and trou-plaining about the malis lately, you sers being given an airing. I see careful wives dabbing the spots of 3.0.0.Have they, old man ?" mould that have developed hubby's pants and waistcoats dur Interval of a werk. ing their summer retreat. I see
F.C.O. I say, old man, about the flappers on the ferry carrying coats, scarves, and jumpers to pro those Hong Kong mails!" tect their frail bodies from the 5.0.0. What about them, old chilly blasts at eventide. I saw boy Bottlethwaite in a store inquiring i F.C.O. The Siberis route, old about eiderdowns and hot water chap. If the mails come to us that bottles. I see reminders of the way, we can send them that way, coming of Christmas, and sugges. I can't we?"
tions for useful gifts to send home. S.C.O. I really don't know; I notice many of my friends aban-old bean."
go the other."
S.0.0. man"
Voice: Well, you know the Suez Canal? Yes Go straight through, bear to the left, and you'll see Colombo, but that's not it; carry on to Singapore; turn left Good. again and you'll come to it. bye."
Interval of still one more week.
--
run along to Woolworth's and get me ad allas, will you???..
Interval for lunch.
doning shorts" for "longs," and F.C.O. But my dear old chap,F.C.O. (to office boy): "Sonny, the topee for the Trilby-as it used if they can go one way, they can to be called in my young days. Yes, autuma is just about bero and soon the voice of the mos- quito will be hushed, and the flying aats will fold up their wings and steal silently away.
It's a sad season, is autumn, especially when you survey the havoc wrought upon your wardrobe since the spring-the holes and the spots which somehow always, ap- pear in the most prominent places, I am having some leather pockets to my winter pants, in anticipation of having to carry a few silver dollars around with me instead of those greasy but beautiful steel engravings, to which we have got so accustomed. For a time it will seem quite stränge to walk around with real money clinking in your pocket, but cheer up. I don't sup- pose you will have it there for long.
I suppose the shrous will have ta take to three-piece rickshaws now, They will never be able to carry about thousands of dollars in silver. This will mean another increase in the cost of living. Since it will be mare expensive to collect accounts, it will be necessary to pass on " the post to the consumer, so what? with depreciated dollate and appre. ciated prices, I don't know what we shall do.
*Not necessarily, old
F.C.O.: "How' so!"?" S.C.O.: "Ever seen water run up a hill, old boy?"
Interval of another week.
F.C.O."There's a lot of grow log in the EC. district about the China maile, old boy."
S.C.O.: "Zat so, old man F.C.O.Here's a firm wants to
know why we can't send to Hong Kong vid Siberia
S.C.O. "Billy an
F.C.Q. Where is Hong Kong, old fruit.
5.0.0. "How the deuce should
know, old chap? Ask the bally Foreign Office."
F.C.O. (picking up threepenny atlas): "Now then-Europe, India, al-here we are-China. Umphi Let's see-umph-China, yes. Quite a lot of it, eh, old man "
S.C.O.What's that, old boy.?”
F.C.O.I may there's quite a lot of it,"
S.C.O.: "Lot of what, old thing
F.0.0. Lot of China." 9.0.0.Where, old chap?" F.C.O.Why here оп the
S.C.O..Oh, I thought you meant at Woolworth's, old man!"
F.0.0. Dashed if I can sec
Map."
.
F.C.O. (ringing through): "Hul this infernal place. Here is Shang 10! G.P.O. speaking Can you tell hai, and here is Singapore, but us where Hong Kong is where the deuce is Hong Kong
Voice: Onk On Clozor'c1" F:C.O. He is nobody it's Voice: Art a mo'; I'll put you through to the Archives Depart ment."
place."
Interval of an hour.
wwwC
Voice:
"There appears to be nothing on our official records re- lating to the propinquity of the territory mentioned 20 your in
Interval of yet another week,
And pity the poor little book-quiry." maker, who will be compelled - to struggle home with about a ton of silver dollare on hia ehoulder in stead of being able to toddle along with the day'e "doings" in a neat little suitcase. It's a chamo, it really is, to impose such a burden, and somebody ought to draft an Ordinance about it,
So we are to get our mail from home by way of Siberia once again. Can you imagine the discussions which preceded the official decision to resume the service? I can.
-0-
F.C.O.. "They are still worry ing about those Hong Kong mails, old man.” ·
SC.O. Let 'em worry, old bird,"
F.C.O. "Wish I knew where the dashed place is "
S.C.O.: "Try the Colonial Office, old chap.
F.C.O.: Why Colonial Office, old boy?"
S.C.O. Let me see old man. Now, let's find Siberia first, eh? Now, here we are Siberia Magno-, in-China--it can't be far away now, old bird. By Jove, it's four o'clock ! I'll help you find it in the morning, old man? Cheerio!"
to door. F.CO. (next day. keeper): "Good morning, Smith. I say you have been in the Navy and travelled quite a lot. Do you know where Hong Kong is ?"
Doorkeeper: "Yes, air; it's' a libtle speck off the coast of China; ain't art a bad place, neither!".
F.C.O. "I wish you would come up to my office for a moment."
"Doorkeeper: "Very "good, sir.
Yen, air; that's it, sir. Yes, sir, it do look like a bit of dirt on the map, sir, but it ain't really. Thank you, sir."
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL; HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTELį PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;' MAJESTIC HOTEL
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEI GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONE, LITS, PEPING.
The Only Hotal in CANTON
- Directly under European
Management.
THE VICTORIA HOTEL
SHAMEEN
Guides and Tripa arranged for
and Special Care
Taken of TOURISTS. Cable Address: "VICTORIA."
-HOTEL CONSTANCE,
23-24, Lancastan" GATE; -
LONDON,
A beautifully appointed. Hetal for o guests. Delightfully situated at corner, facing South and South-West, in full row of Hyde Park, but standing euf, ficiently far back from the main road to ensure perfect quiet. Within
**Miles' walk of Tube Station, and
throw of buses to sil
parts. The spacious, public rooms · Are EX- quinitely furnished. All bod-rooms have gas fire, and bedside reading lamp. Running h, and c. water, already in many rooms, is being extended to all,
Electrio lift Night Fly
The cuisine will be found
ratialactory
Single rooms from 3 to 6 gna., double from 7 to 13 gns, woskly, including. fall board, attendance, bath, sta Some rooms have Privato bathroom,-`
ROYAL RICHMOND LONDON'S LOVELIEST SUBURB
"BINGHAM · HOUSE HOTEL FETERSHAM ROAD, RICHMOND. West Delightful Oldworld Town, WONDERFULLY ·situated in this
A Few Minutes from the Famous Pixx, TERRACES, and BRIDGE. Station Omnibus passes the Door.
· Interval of just one more week.
"Dear Sirs,I am instructed by the Postmaster-General to present S.c.b: "I fancy there was his compliments and to inform you First Circumlocution Officer:-" I something about Hong Kong at that as the result of very patient see they are sending letters from Wembley."
and prolonged negotiations with the Hong Kong vid Siberin' again." F.C.O. By Jove, so there was various authorities concerned, mails Second C.O. (languidly):-" Zat | Lot of fellows playing mah jongg for Hong Kong will be forwarded so, old boy 1,
and selling ginger."
ria Siberia, and will be collected F.C.O.: Yes, old chap. I sup 6.0.0.: Yes, and a model of every thirty minutes from the E.C..the Hotel Hardins, Vezadah, Publio pose we can send them mail that some bally mountain all lit up for pillar-boxes,”.
Diary of Coming
To-any.
(October 28.)
Extra Race Meeting. Lawn Bowls: Fimals of Spey Cup and Open Singles, C.S.0.0. 'ground, 3 p.m
Baseball: U.S. Navy . Kineras, 3 p.m.
Cricket.-Interport Trial, Hong Kong C.O ground; Division IL: University RE and S. (L) Royal Artillery v. Hong Kong C.C. (F.); Civil Service v. Recreio (F); Navy. Kowloon C.C. (F.).
|
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel,
Events.
Queen's Theatre: "All at Sea." Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, and "Gay Retreat."
World Theatre: "Grip of the
·9.30 p.m.
Tides High, 230 am; Low, 11.16 cm...
European Maila - Outward Europe rid Marseille (Kalyan), 10.30 am Europe vid Siberia (Txión), 10 am.
Sunday.
(October 27.) ... Twenty Second Sunday After Trinity,
Baseball: 8. China . Japanese. Football-Division I. South Cricket: Combined League # China v Police; Club v. £.0.8.B.; Schoola, C.800. ground, 11 am Royal Artillery . St. Joseph''; Queen's Theatre: All at Soa." Somersete r. Recreio; Kowloon v World Theatro: "Grip of the Navy Division IL: Royal Artill-Yukon and "Gay Retreat," ery, South China "A"; Club . Star Theatre: "For Wives Only:" RAM.C.; Nary v. Chinese "B" Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, Chinese "A. K.OS.B.; Eastern 5 g..
St. Joseph's; Ewo v. Someracts; Tider: High, 4.29 a.m. and 7.38 Recreio . Kowloon; University ep.m.; Low, 12.18 p.m. and 11.40 South China "A.
1 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Zanzibar."
"West of
World Theatre: "The Last Frontier.
Beware of Mar
Star Theatre: ried Men"
Warwick Horne: "Airy Noth inga" Theatre Royal, 8.15 p.m.
University Arts Association, Theatricale, 8.43 p.m.
Monday, (October 28.)
St. Simon and Et. Jude. Auction: Household furniture, Chinn Light and Power Co., Ltd., Hok Un, 11 zm.
Sale of Crown Land Laland Lot No. 2960, and New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 123!, P.W.D. offices,
Ladies' RO. Teonie Semi-final.
Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peain-3 p.m. sula Hotel, 4:30 pm.
Star Theatro: "For Wives Only." Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel," and Peninsula Hotel, & p.m..
Dinner Dances: HE Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8:30 p.in.
European Mails. Outward:
B- Europe vid Victoria (President Mindison), 5 Tim
Tuesday,
(October, 29.)
Stock Exchange Settlement Day. Banitary Board Meeting, 4.15
RH.E, Yacht Club annual meet- ing. Chub House, 5.45 p.m.
Miguel Ficta (tenor) Theatre Royal, 0.15 pat
Ladies' C. Tennis Semi-fual, Queen's Theatre: "Honeymoon Flat
World Theatro: “Love Me, and the World is Mine"
Star Theatre: "Lovers" Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 6 p.m.
Dinner Dances: HE Hotel, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 2:30p.m.
European Mails Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Aeneas), 2.30
nm.
Overlooking the River, the View from
Booms, and many. Bedrooms, in inson- parable. The Elvaz. View is Admittedly. Unexcelled in EUROPE.
SPORTING.
GUNS by W. W. GREENER WEBLEY and SCOTT, and Other Makers-British, French and Ame-
ricar
B.8.A. Air Rifles, and Miniature Rifies, 92, Calibre, Repeating and Automatio
SPORTING
descriptions
CARTRIDGES of
"Agents, "for. W. W. GREENER, LAD, BIRMINGHAM.
HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION STORE,
4. BRACONSFIELD ARCADE -
JUST RECEIVED.
FRESH SUPPLY OF RELIABLE AND TESTED FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEED'S
Frox Mia, SUTTON & SONS, READING,
The opportunity of serving you will be a pleasure and your commands will have our best attention.
GRACA & CO.,
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, F.O. Box No. 620. BONG KONG
Two London Hotels
Rembrandt
Rubens
These Hatzis aru sitanted is the most desirable positions' swy at accets lewm all parts of London. Under one, tongagement and highly recomenda! they ofer", the matines di Intarioes rednement contíand with the Istenb hotel improvements si very reasonable rates. Bedroom with Private Bathroom. All rooms are heated and Ears hat and cold running
water, wie.
HOTEL REMBRANDT, South Kensierton, facing the Victoria and Albert Museum, HOTEL ROSENB, Buckingham Palace-road, incing Buckingham Palace, TABİFF ON APPLICATION TO MÁNAĠNE,
LONDON BUYING AGENTS
We offer you car services as buy- ing agents for British or Conti. nental” goodı Eştablished in 1844 but thoroughly up-to-date, our success attained by
rob- our gout eustomers
sima. Five expert
строк bayar, with capable staffs, maragu Husrent departments, buying, with greatest care every class of goods giving our customers all the advan- tage of wide experience, and exaurang their requirements being rightly sup plied at lowest prices and best discount
KEYMER, SUN & CO. Whitehairs, London. Talag.:Key, London." Est. 1864
ON SALE. HONG KONG HANSARD RE
PORTS of the MEETINGS
The Hotel is Well Furnished and enjoys a Happy Home-like Atmosphere. of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL All Public Looms are Spacious, Gas for the Benlon 1928. Vires in Bedrooms, Calins claimed to be Quite Exceptional
ཏ, རྕོ' .
Terms From 3 Quincas Single Per Week: NO EXTRAS,
by RESIDENT PROPRIETORA
Inspection invited
REVISED BY MEMBERS.
PRICE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESA OFFICE.
Courtesy, Comfort, Service
and Luxúries of Modern Hotel Construction
THE HOTEL RIVIERA
MACAU
Cable Address "Riviera, Macau.”
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
TWO SCHEMES.
(1) The CHILDREN'S EARLY PROVIDENT SCHEME.
Combines
the very latest and best features of Assurance and Investment for the benefit of your Child. PARTNERSHIP ASSURANCE. A plan of Assurance appealing to
businem`man.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
AGENTS, T
2 QUEEN'S BUILDING.