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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1930. # **** Price Per Month, $3.
No. 22,441
號登拾肆百肆仟式萬弍菊 日玖廿月伍年午庚
THÀ
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
On and after APRIL 7tu, 1939, until Further Notion (all previous
Time Tablas cancelled).
TP TRAINS
STATIONS No. No.
...
No. 1.14 a. 18
P.M. T.. A
No 13 Nals No.11 No.25 10,33
P.M. IM P.M., Z.MG| FM.
Kowicos.Dep. 6.35; 9.00
Yasmxti. Dep. 6.44
Shatin.. Day 8.56
Taipo...Dep 7,10 Taipo
Market. Dep. 7.15
8.31 4.05 10,00 12.241.13 232 3.90 4,30 5.43 7.35
8.15 10.08) 11
9.28) 10,20) 12,30 1.88
__948_10.39 19.43 1.51
9.49 10.37 19.47
4.89 5.48 7.43 4.50 6,00 7,55
5.06.13 2.09
3,03 6.178.19
Fanling. Dup 7.25 -
- 15.00 10.47, 12,57) 2,0
6.18 6.97; 8.91
Shenag
shai.Dep. 7.30
5.23 6.32 8.28
Sham-
chut...Am. 7.36 9.40
Canton
Art.
11.391
2.01 10,05 10.53 1.02.2.193.11
0.07 10.11 10.39 1.01 2.18 3.171.00 5.29 6,58 8.39
www.
5.4
DOWN TRAINS
17.38 -
No. 1 X0.3 No. 7. Kt. 6. No.15 M. 17 No.12 No. 21. 11 | No.23
.A.X A.M. A.X. A.M.
4.X I. P.M. F,M.P.M.
STATIONS
Cantoa ...Dop.
A
8.01
3,25
7.K
Shamchan... Dep. 17.13 7.59 10,341.21 11.49 2.83 4.39 5.47 6.42 7.07
Sheungahui Day. 7.20 3,1 30.42
Fanling
11,55 2:40 4.46 3.54
...Dep.
725 9.10 17.47
13.03 2.444.50 5.58
7.93 3.21 10,57
19.11 2.54 5.00 | 8.08
7,459.23.1101
14.16 3,00 5.04 8.13
7,538,93 11.14
12.30 8,135.17 6.28
13.42 3.17 5.29:6.83
Taipo Market. Dep. Taipo Shatin
...Dop ...Dap,
➤ Yaumati ... Dep.
Kowloon ...rr.
8.068.5111,26,
THIRTY DEGREES HOTTER THAN
HONG KONG.
MOTORING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
BEER FOR DISTINGUISHED BUT BLISTERED TRAVELLERS.
We take the following interesting narrative from the lay number of the Toc {l Journal.
It is witten by the son of the President of Toc H in Australia, and gives a very lively description of the joys of motoring in Western Australia.]
On December 13 of last year_Sir of William Campion; Lovernor, Western Australia and President of Toe H Australia, left Perth for Geraldton by road, & distance of 320 miles, in a shade temperature of well over 100 degrees. At a time when the people of the Old Coun- try are wondering whether Father Christmas coming this year in a Cloud of snow or driven before a south-wester gale to the accom- paniment of falling, trees, we in this part of Australia are hoping to get outside the plum pudding somehow, even if the mercury tops the century mark. Ob yes, we do it all, turkey, plum pudding, crack- ers and the rest, and I trust it will always be so, a link with home, along with other old customs, which
8.12 8.57 11.32 12.01 13.49 3.35,356.44 7.22 749 helps to keep the Empire one, per-
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RESTAURANT. MENU.
From the Joint Waggon Bonst Leg of Pork, Apple
Sauce and Vegetables...95 cts. Today's Tiffin-$1.35.
1.-Scotch Broth
2.-Prawn Salad
3.-Calve's Liver and Bacon
4-Fan Kei Kai Fan #### 5.-Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding 6.-Cold Bologna Sausage, Potato Sulad
7. Eqaat Potatoes
8.--Boiled. New Potatoes
9.-
-Hashed Brown
Vegetable Marro
11, Prince Fritters
12-Fruit 187
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1
Welcome Bottle of Baer.
heart of the bush, an oasis in the Forty miles from Perth we struck midst of the wild lands. During the a Nor-West Friend with a bottle of last three or four years a hostel bear; we drank it haashamedly, for travellers has beca erected; Lady Campion assisting
It was this is also run by the monastery and a very welcome addition it is somewhere around 119 degrees by
too. Lying on the best overland this time with a hot, blistering wind from the north-east Cuthbert's route to Mallewa and the North- metal parts were a danger to the West, many a travel-stained party touch, and the gear shift could pulls up here to find a comfortable hardly be moved so great was the bed and the sherry much to their expansion Lady Campion was now liking. sitting with her feet propped on the half-opened windscreen in a most urladylike aptitude; the next drink she had was two stiff doses of a volatile and she needed them badly. Thick bush all the way after the frat fifteen miles and parts of the track like a badly shelled road in France didn't improve the tempers of either Cuthbert ar his passen gers.
haps more than we realine.
Well, I set out to tell you about our overland trip, so I'd better cut Lady Passenger Weakens. out the cackle and get down to the A few mes from New Norem 'osses. The reason for the trip was and it became "obvious that we must the occasion of the lighting of push on in spite of Cuthbert's ten Geraldton's Rushlight; they had perature, for the lady of the party emerged from the chrysalis stage didn't look too good. So we let and we of the Country Trustees her rip a bit those last few miles reckoned it was time they could
and came bubbling into sight of use their wings. So about 9.30 am. the Monastry where we were met of a Sunday morning we set off, hy the Lord Abbot who had been the President, Lady Campion and expecting rival since 19.30 myself. The first stage of the jour-Round to the hotel, where Lady ney was to be New Norcia, 80 miles Campion was taken charge of by up the track, where the party were the lady who runs the place, while to spend the right as the guests of the President and I had lunch with the Spanish Benedictine monks. the Lord Abbot and one of the other priests, washed down with some excellent sherry of their own Manufacture and topped up with Benedictine.
A Boiling Radiator.
This section of the journey, which usually takes about three hours, was not completed till 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
A boiling radiator
1
Hotter Than Ever!
די
The next morning, leaving Lady Campion to await our return, the President and I took the track again for the 210 miles stretch to Geraldton. The heat was worse. than the previous day; half an hour after the start at 3 a.m. Cuth-
Bert hegan to sweat and we had to cool hioi of two or three times before reaching Moora, 30 miles from New Norela. Here we picked ip Badre King, hereinafter referred to as Kingy" State Padre of Tor HW.A. From Moors to Geraldton and back to Moors the next day" Kingy held Cuthbert's rear portion firmly on the road, being in buid somewhat ke another padre who I think decribed himself as tallest when he's lying down" Kingy having settled in the back along with the suitcases, a few bottles of beer wrapped in a wet bag, and some sandwiches for lunch, tac journey was begün in earnest.
The President and I drove in spells of about two hours apiece. Kingy being a wash-out except as ballast. A very bad by-pass track for about 20 miles along the rail- way to Coomberdale, a few miles A Remarkable Monastery,
on to Waterloo and then the blis New Norcia is really a very re-tering hot sandplain of Marchagee. that was the trouble; my wordmarkable place. Founded by a some 30 miles across. Entil quite was all how that car boiled! I reckon you; Spanish monk named Salvado in recently the track here could have boiled egga in it any 1840 as a mission to the blacks, it deep sand and it is said that two time on the run to Geraldton. A has become in the course of time commercial travellers set their 'bus six cylinder, 16 horse-power Aus a great deni more than that. To- at 15-20 m.p.h. and sat in the back tin. hereinafter referred 10 as day, besides the monastery and of the car! Did I hear anyone "Cuthbert." was the chariot, and church there is a large convent and murmur Tripe " Well, as they by the same token the best, almost giris college under an Australiaa say up North, mundiwi (perhapa). the only, car of British make that Order of Siastra as well as an im- Anyway, now there is a good dirt can compete in the bush with the portant college for boys, second road, and. had it not been for productions of our friends across only to the Christian Brothers' Cuthbert's peevishness, we should the Atlantic. Later we found the College in Perth. The library is have made good time. As it was, Fan belt was perished with the ex-known all over W.A. and the organ, hevond 25 miles an hour he de- cessive heat; we had not the out- bonght in Germany and "assembled | finitely refused to be driven and. vize fun we now have, and hence nt New Narcia by Father Moreno, we became quite expert in oursing the extreme peevishness of Cuth- is for its size as good as can be him over the rises and cooling him hert whose thirst was nearly as heard anywhere. Some 2,000 acres off on the downward slopes. Ahout expensive as ours.. Roughly every of land are owned and cultivated half way over Marchagee we camp- ten miles of that first day Cuth-by the monks as well as a furthered for lunch; fruit sandwiches and best had a drink from his water block of some thousands of "acres beer. bag while we had one from ours. further north. All this right in the
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Diary of Coming Events,
*To-day.
(June 25.)
Queen's Theatre: "A Song of Kentucky."
World Theatre: "5 and 10 Cents Annie."
Star Theatre: Rogue."
The Beloved
Lammerts Auction of Household Furniture at 4, Lochiel Terrace, Cameron Road, commencing at 11
B. M.
Lecture for Members of The Hong Kong Flying Club at Volunteer Headquarters, 3.30, p.m.
Tennis:-"B" Div.: M.B.K. v. Recreio, S.C.A.A. v. R.E.S. "C" Div.: Nippon Club v. K.C.C., LR.C.. O.R.C., University T.C.
. Filipino Club....
Water Polo: 1st Div. Chinese Bathing Club . Royal Navy; 2nd Dig: V.R.G. v. University.
Meeting of the Chinese Chamber
of Commerce, 2.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: H.K. Hotel,
p.m."
Tides: High, 7.42 a.m. and 9.33 p.m.; Low, 1.18 a.m. and 3.23 p.
European Mail:-Outward: prime rid. Marcilles (Diomed)
Thursday, (June 28,). Queen's Theatre: The Lucky Star
World Theatre:"5 and 10, Cents Ataie."
Star Theatre: "The Beloved Rogue,"
Lammerte Auction of Watches, Clothing, etc., Sales Boom, 11 a.m. Tides: High, 8.29 a.m. and 10.30 p.m.; Low, 1.32 a.m. and 4.03 p.m. Europe vid Siberia (Coblenz).
European Mail:- Ioward:
Star Theatre: "The Beloved Rogue."
Ordinary General Meeting" of Mesars. Wm. Pawell's, at Exchange Building, noon.
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JUNE TO SEPTEMBER SPECIAL REDUCED RETURN TICKETS
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TO KOBE: £21. TO YOKOHAMA: £23. 10%. Od.
Tennis:-"B" Div.: S.C.A.A, 1. K.C.C.; "C" Div.: Nippon Club
ซ. B.C.A...A... Recreio, I.R.C. C.8.0.C. v..K.C.C.
Lawn, Bowls-lat Div.: Police R.C. v. Taikoo R.C., Kowloon C.C. *. C.C.C., Kowloon Docks R.C. v. Kowloon B.G.C., C.8.0.C. r. Re creio; 2nd Div.: Taikoo RC. v. Queen's Theatre:"The Lucky Kong C, Kowloon B.G.C..
C.S.C.C., Recreio v. Royal Hong FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS! Star."
Kowloon C.C., 0.0.0. ซ. H.K. World Theatre: Man, WomanElectric R.C. and Sin."
Friday. (Juže. 27.)
Star Theatre: "The Beloved Ragde." At 9.90 p. R. B. Salis- "The bury's Company presents. Girl Friend
Tea Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8. p.m.
Water Polo: 1st Div. RA. Europe vis Negapatam (Seang European Mail: Inward: Kowloon S.C.; 2nd Div. 12th Bee)." Heavy Battery v. Somerset L.I.
RETURN PASSAGE MAY BE MADE IF DESIRED BY B.LEN, Co, o E. & A. 8.8. Co.'s STEAMERS.;
FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS AND SAILINGS, APPLY:
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
THE HON. TREASURER, Tides: High, 9,53 a.m.; Low, 3.16
Dinner Dance: Bepulse Bay [6.m. and 5.24 p.m. Hotel, a p..
European Mail-Outward: Europe. vid Marseilles (Hakozaki Maru), 0 p.m.
Saturday,
Queen's Theatre; Star."
World Theatre : and Sin."
"The Lucky
Man, Woman
Bunday.
(June
Queen's
Theatre: "Girl from
World Theatre:
Homesick.
Star Theatre: "Clear the Deck?' at 5:30 p.m."
Tides High, 12.37 am and 10.44 4.m.; Low, 401 a.m. and 6.93 p.m.
AGENTS:
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY,
THE PEAK
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Enclosed please find cheque for twelve dollars being subscription to your Society for the current year.