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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after MAY END, 1981, until Further Notice (all
Time Tables Dancelled),
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
To-day.
(October)
FEAR ON THE ROAD.
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Reel Club Practice, Helena May Institute, 5.15 p.m.
UP TRAINS
STATIONS
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Sundays and Public Holidays only.
For First Class Passengers only, Will stop at any station on request. Sundays and Publis Holidays excepted.
Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offcos, Kow- loon or Canton, from Mosers. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Hong Kong, The Amercian Express Co., Hong Kong, or The China Travel Bervica, 6 Queen's Road, Hong Kong.
By Order,
GEO. A. WALKER, Manager,
BRITISH SECTION, KOWLOON-CANTOn Railway-
N AND
HONG KONG, CANTON
MACAO STEAMERS.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MAÇÃO STEAMBOAT Co., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., L
HONG KONG CANTON LINE." SAILINGS From HONG KONG--Daily at 9 mm, and 10 p.m. (8nndays 10 p.m. only).
SAILINGS From CANTON-Dally at 8 am, and. 4.30 p.m. (Sundays 4.30 p.m. only).
HONG KONG MACAO LINE.
SPECIAL SERVICE,
SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 8, and 5.30 p.m.
(Sandays 9am, only)..
BAILINGS From MA CA O-Daily at á am, and 9.00p.m.
(Sandaya 4 p.m. only) EXCURSION TO MACAO-
ON SUNDAY, 117 OCTOBER, 1981-
... 8.5. "SUI TAI"
Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 A.M.
and from Macao at 4.00 PM:
CURTAILED SERVICE
MONDAY, STH OCTOBER.
From HONG KONG-8 m, only: From MACAO-8 am, and £ pm.
GAN SUAMI TUESDAY, 821 OCTOBER.
From MACAO-2 p.m. only. WEDNESDAY, 7TH OCTOBER.
From HONG KONG-8 Am. only,⠀⠀
From HONG KONG-8 am and 5.00 p.m. From MACAO-3 pm, only.
SPECIAL SALOON FARES.
WEEK DAYS-Single: $3.00 Return $5.00.
BUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS Single: $50; Beturn 34.00. NorsAll Steamboat Company's Bicamere are atted with Wireless,
Hong Kong Fencing Club Meet, 3.15 pam
FAMOUS MOTORIST TELLS HOW HE MET IT
RENDEZVOUS WITH TERROR IN A
FRENCH GORGE.
He must have been in grim mood, ed as the top of the left band pre- the Editor, when he asked me to | cipice, looking north. describe some of the worst things that had ever happened to me on the open road, writes John Prio leau in a London journali
Queen's Theatre: "Daybrenk World Theatre: " The Viking." Star Theatre dame X. Central Theatre: Iron Man" King's Theatre Woman."
What he was thinking of special Prince's Theatre: The Trial of ly he said, was Fear Fear, with a Mary Dugen
capital T.
I Take This
Majestic Theatre: The Light of Western Stars"
i Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels
European Mail:-Outward: Europe via Siberia (Hikawa Maru)
Tides-High at 115; Low LL
10.31.
Tuesday.
(October 6.)
Disagreeable things happen to one always, even with care of such health and strength as we buy to-day but it was not discomfort or in convenience that interested him. Danger was the stuff, danger and
rror.
are
Below us, very tiny lay the village of Sie. Enimie, where it was our iden to lunch in full view of the rampaging Tarn much as you would lunch outside a cage of starv ing lions. We proceeded towards that imaginary omelet and that visionary camembert, reflecting with pleasure, sharpened by the keen hill air, how good camembert can be in its own country,
There were only two bairpin bends on that devil's trail, two, in about a mile and a half. My car, an ancient but respectable, virgin Personally I think both
of uncertain years, had a low-comp- extremely - "unpleasant, and
pressioned engine, three-speeds, wish I could forget the times rather high geared, no brakes to bave, met them as, non-Lapenk of, and the road was 8 ft. Rotary Club Tifa, Lane, Craw chalantly as the Editor asks me wide. The first bend required me ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.
to remember the sort of times to reverse three times. The surface: Whist Thrive at St. John's Cathe when your joints were like paste, consisted of loose, fint shingles dral Hall, 8.45 3.DL
your heart dried up within you like which the spinning wheels hurled a shrivelled - walnut, your speech in showers into the abyss Over taken from you because your mouth coats were laid down with the unal was like sand, and you knew, ab- results. The coats were torn to solutely for certain, that this time it, ribbons and the car remained more was it—that you bad driven for the or less where she was r last time.
United Photorlay Service, Ltd., Mecting, 3 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: World Theatre
Daybreak."
The Viking."
Star Theatre: Madame X Central Theatre:* Iron Man," King's Theatre: "I Take This Woman.
Prince's Theatre: The Trial of Mary Dugan,"
Majestic Theatre: The Storm." Dinner: Dances at Hong Kong and Penininia Hotels
Mail-Outward: European Europe via Sibarin (Glancus) 10,30
Tides:High at 2.23; Low at
a.m.
11.39.
Wednesday.
(October 7).
Whist Drive at Helena May I stitute, by Police Branch of Minis toring Children's Teague,
Queen's Theatre: "Daybreak.” World Theatre Among The Sexes" (Chinese film).
Star Theatre: Madame X King's Theatre: Three Girls
Last
Central Theatre; "Tron Man" Prince's Theatre: "The Trial of Mary Dugan, AM
Majestie Theatre The Storm." Ten Dance at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant: Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.:
Tides: High at 4.03 and 8.35; Low.st. 12:30 and 1.29.",
Nervest I dare say? It's a stupid word, much used by those who know nothing of them. Imagination Much more likely. The longer you drive the more inconvenient your imagination becomes.
There was no parages to that road. Its edges just turned down at right angles and became, with out preamble, the perpe sides of the gorge. On my right there was room for a man to squeeze past the wings and the rock sides!
If you did not drive in an ab solutely straight line you either hit the rocks, or you fell off the edge. It was a matter of choice.
The Supreme Moment. The worst, the absolute worst t Yes, I think I remember that one. There is a place in the middle of France, called the Tara Gorge, narrow canyons between which the river Tarn fights its way, as if for the vary life. Rising almost sheer an either side are stony precipices, and from the top of them you like down n clear two thousand feetmento upon the array-drenched rocks which the Tarn is always trying to: push out of the way. It is very picturesque if you have a head for heights.
centuries had
A Frightful Moment. After
several passed we arranged the car so that she faced downhill, by which time the things they called brakes in the catalogue had become purely, orna- mental. So we went rather briskly down to the next bend. We got round that one with four reverees, one rendered a little out the final one" of the common by the interference of a large boulder which twisted
I thought it, was very picturesque the wheel out of my hands and. that summer's day when, after took the car the last inch of carefully studying a map full of the outside edge. unaccountable reserve, had arriv
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