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Hongkong Daily Press.
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ESTABLISHED 1857
No. 23481. MENGUTÉIXA Ƒ HONG KONG. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after SEPTEMBER 30, 1933, until Further Notice (all previous.)
Time Tables cancelled).
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9.94 10.1911.41 12.10 ........
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5,09 8.15 7.50
5.15 6.27 8.03
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5.29 6.41 8.35
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1.58
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6.43° 6.67 6.20
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"A Good Place For A Village"
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NOW NEARLY A MILLION
INHABITANTS
ATTRACTION FOR VISITORS.
The centenary of the foundation will be in London and the finishing- of Melbourne will be celebrated point in Melbourne. Advices have next year and for some months been received that competitors are an organization under the desirous of hearing particulars, 50 directorship of Brigadier-General that the special machines may be Jess has been making the prepara prepared for events. Prizes for an tions People in the old world will Australian novel and short story not perhaps be able to appreciate have been offered by the sister of the importance which residents of the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the Dominions attach to the hand-i redth birthday of a city. Sydney and Parramatta have passed their one hundred and forty-fifth birth- day, but Melbourne was many years behind the original settlement in Australia. There is a lively dis- cussion to ascertain who was the real founder of Melbourne. The honour will be shared between John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, It was Batman who, rowed up the Yarra River from its mouth to where the city now stands, and wrote in his diary: "This will be
"village now has between 800,000 and 900,000 inhabitants.
AFT. 8.02 8.43 11.08|||1,47|||1.18) 3.43) 4.07 0.08 5.40 5.293,197,1172818.107.640.42 | a good place for a village." "The
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A-Stops at Sheung Ping.
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"EXCURSION TO MACAO SUNDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER, 1933 S.S. SUI TAI"
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SPECIAL SALOON 'FARES.
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-All Steamboat Company's Bbeamers are fitted with Wireless.
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Dancing every night from 10 P.M. to 4. "A.M.-12 Beautiful Chinese dancing partners & 12 Beautiful European dancing partners. Best Liquors & all kinds of refreshments served ALL ARE WELCOME.
The Englishmen among the visi- tors next year will find a city in which they will at once feel at home. Whether they dance in the fashionable quarter of Toorak or play golf at Sandringham or visit the theatres with their London pieces and London casts, they will find plenty to remind them of England Absence of natural ad- vantages has stimulated Melbourne to the finest efforts in town develop- ment and planning to be found in the whole Commonwealth. Beauti- fully kept parks surround the city, its streets are broad and well kept; wherever there is an open space a garden or rockery has arisen.
The site which 'Batman saw as unkempt buah is now a great metro politan area; from the river front rise the tall blocks of the business The people. of Melbourne are quarter; down the shores of Port noted for their hospitality even in Phillip Bay for miles stretch the Australing and of hospitality. gardens and red-roofed villas of the The visitor will find them also city workers; and the air of solid progressive, cultured, and liberal- confort and prosperity over all is minded. Perhaps the fact that their a testimony to the record of pro-city was for nearly 20 years the gress which the centenary celebra-seat of the Federal Government has tion is designed to mark.
helpd to give them a national out-
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EVENTS
The last great colebrations in look which is not found ter the DIARY OF LOCAL Australia wore those associated with same degree in all Australian cities; the foundation of the Common the happy medium of Australian at all events, they represent we'll wealth. The centenary of Melbourne life. Victoria is will be on different lines.
State sunall hoped above all that some perman- enough, also, to find in Melbourne a natural centre,, and both the ent addition will be made to the history of the city and ite outward amenities of the city. The beauty face, reflect a century of steadily of the southern entrance to Mel-
It is
Mel-
statemen have
bourne, along the St. Kilda Road, amassing wealth in wool, gold, and wheat. Its citizens take a justifi- for instance, has recently been able pride in the part the merchants. enhanood by the erection of the and business men of Melbourne have Shrine of Remembrance for the War dead on the eastern side of played in this rapid growth; as the road. The Yarra near
they take pride in the contribution which Victoriaa bourne is not a river about which made to the Commonwealth. the residenta are accustomed to boast, but every year, improvementa are made in it, and they usually take the form of an endeavour to restore to it some of its original beauty.
STATE PAGEANTS
PUSHING AHEAD IN SHANTUNG·
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT TRANGOHOW
There will also be a wide range of activities directed to reflecting the cultural and artistic life of the people of Melbourne. The resources of the whole State will, however, form a conspicuous part of the celebrations, because the desire is to remove the impression from country people that the celebrations will be of interest only to Mel- bourne. Pageante are already in process of preparation, and there la abundance of material for any one with imagination enough to depart from the themes to which farmers may see samples of the best
Tsangchow, Oct. 16.` History was made here last week by the holding of an Agricultural Exhibition, the first ever known in the District. For the past seven years the American Board Mission has been doing the fire work along these lines in certain market cen- trea round about Dunghsien near Peking. At their head at ation in Tanghsien, there is a well-equipped. experimental farm, where Chinese
TO-DAY
(November 3).
(IX Moon, 16th Day). Annual Dance, Hongkong Reel Club, Exchange Restaurant, 9 p.. Machine Gun Company (H.K.V. D.C.) Dinner, 7.30. p.m.
Miscellaneous. → Jumble Sale, Union Church Hall, Kennedy Road, 9.30 p.m.
Bishop Hall's Discussion for Wo- men, Helena May Institute, 10.30
2,41
For Mixed Group, Bishop's House, 8 p.m.
Route March, Machine Gun Co., E.K.V.D.C., 6.4 p.m.
Entertainments. Rehearsal for Philharmonic Society's Performance of the "Pirates of Penzance," Cathedral Hall, 8.45 p.m.
Theatres.
Queen's: "Fra Diavolo." King's: "Bondage." "The Michiight, Follies." Central "Mistress of Atlantia. Oriental: "Fast Life Majestic: "Eadies of the Jury?” Principal Mails.
Inward from America by Pres Grant; from Europe via Siberia by the managers of popular entertain-stock and get expert advice in re-Rawalpindi; from Europe via Suez ments have accustomed the people, gard to most of their problems, by Chitral.
Sports
Hockey. Mamak Tournament,
It is expected that there will be Year, by year these Fairs with ex- Outward for America” sad-Eu- visitors to Melbourne from overseas hibita drawn from a wide area have rope via Siberia by Empress of on the occasion of these celebra, stimulated increasing interest Canada, 10 am; for Australia by tions, and it has been hoped that wong the local population and Nellores p.. a member of the Royal Family will helped to create a healthy rivalry come to Australia. Those who re- among agriculturists in securing the call the celebrations of 1901 and best result from their labours. of 1997 are aware how the visit of Here in Tsangohow, where there Radio Sports v. Royal Engineers, the present King and Queen, and is a modest experimental farm4.15. p.m.; Mule Corps v. Twelfth later of the Duke and Duchess of under, the supervision of a young Battery, Royal Artillery; Friendly York, linger in the memory when Chinese, trained in the Nanking matches, R.AS.C. v. Club de Re- the details of the ceremony have Christian University, the fair took creio, op.a. become dim with time.
place on the premises of the Higher The celebrations will begin inand Lower Primary School in con- October of next year, the actual nection with the London Mission. date depending on the arrange ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT ments for the Royal visit. October The fair was opened on Thursday, and November will be the principal October 18, by the singshowMa- months of the celebrations. Novem-gistrate: Mr. Lá Hauch-mou ber 10 is the anniversary of the day thoroughly live official. V
of the settlement of the Hentys in Four schoolrooms were given up Portland, the western port of to the exhibitinn: as follows : Victoria which took place some
years before Melbourne was founded.
p.m.
Sunrise-6.28 am Sunset -5.45
Tides. High at 1090 and 91.43; Low at 3.- and 14.60.
This was in charge of the staff of the Roberts Memorial Hospital, Tsangchow.add
The abobe-rooms were open to the 1 Farm produce of every des-public at stated intervals during cription,
each day under the care of a num-
The Shrine of Remembrance will be. The results of new methods in ber of towards of both sexes. At
dedicated about the same time.
Great interest is being displayed
in the proposed air race, for which
a prize valued at £10,000 has been given by Sir Macpherson Robertson. Competitors from all over the world i are expected, and the starting-point
agriculture, samples of cotton, times the orush was tremendous but kaoliang, Indian corn, remedies by patient management all those to eradicate pests, etc. etc. who besieged the doors were admite
3. Exhibits of embroidery, ap-ted and gased their fill on the ex- plique and wool work of all kinds.hibits. There was plenty to see and 4. The care and diet of infants, happily: the weather was all that hygiene, simple remedies, etc could be desired.
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