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MASON'S
DELICIOUS
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SAUCE.
TODAY'S WEATHER
Hongkong Daily Press.
'Registered as's Newspaper at the General
Post Office In the United Kingdom.
No. 24178. 號叁拾柒佰壹仟赙萬弍第日伍拾月元年于丙
LOON
CANTON
RAILWAY
CANTON PASSENGER TRAFFIC
The Public are hereby notified that on the 7th` February, 1996, and until further notice the following fares by expresses and fast trains will be charged.
Kowloon to Canton · Canton, to Köwloon
1st Class
2nd Class 3rd Class
Single Return
84.00 H.K.C
$7.60
$2.00 $1.00
$5.60 €
0.0. $10.60. $2.80 $1.40..
The only alteration to trains involved is the can- cellation of the special-fare third class expresses which have been leaving Kowloon at 7.87 m. daily and Canton at 3.25 p.m. daily.
R. D. WALKER,
ESTABLISHED 1887
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1936. 伍拜疆 日月或年
Hector Cat About Town Notorious Gossip
An old country woman going into a large town saw, for the first time, an electric tram
Well," she said, in her amaze- ment, "I've seen 'em worked by horses, and I've seen 'em run by engines. but "I never seed 'em druv by a clothes-prop_before.”
▼
Little May's grandmother had an old-fashioned why of measuring a yard by holding one end of the goods to her nose and then stretching the piece at arm's length. One day May found a piece of ribbon. Carrying it to her grandmother, she requested gravely, “Grandma, smell this and see how long it in.”
YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS
T.T. ON LONDON 17. 3ld. (nom) TT. ON NEW YORK:—34).
TIENTSIN PORT ICE-BOUND
Vessels In Dire Plight
Tientsin, Feb. 0.
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7.
Anniversaries "and" Holidays. -- Feast of Lanterns. (Shang-yilan- chich. 5. Borld Abbe
Auctions-Art Curios, at Komers Gallery, Chater Road, 5.15 Miscellaneous Goods," at
This port is girtually filed with pm shipping, owing to the ice condi-Lammert's HK Sales Room, 11 tions, unknown for many years, m which have resulted from contin- yous easterly winds of the past ging's several daya s
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The sea has frozen along the entire coast and Iceberges have been reported thirty feet high.
The worst conditions are thirty
Twqsoquaintances, who had not seen Macpherson for agme years, called at his house on Saturday evening, Mrs. Macpherson answer-miles to sea from Taru, ed the door.
"Does Macpherson live here?" they
"Ay was the woman's reply, "list carry m in"
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A man wanted" in Aberdeen was spotted by a new policeman on duty at the rallway station.
The policeman telephoned to the police station saying, “the man you want is on the ten o'clock
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS express for London Shall I enter
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT CO LTD. 'S THE CHINA NAVIGATION: CO, LTD...
CANTON
LINE
The public are hereby notified that on the 7th February, 1936, and until further notice, the following paskaga rates will be charged:-
From Hong Kong From Canton
TRAVEL THE
SHORT
SAFE
Day boat
SEA
(Taisban, Fatahan & Lungahan) $3.50 Day bost
(Bai Ao)
$3,00
$3.50
$2.50
Night boat
(Taishan, Fatshan & Lungaban) $5.00
$4.00
Night boat
(Sui. An)
$3.50
$3.00
WAY
by the
British Line
MACAO LINE
From Hong Kong:
Wook day 100 mm, Kimäent Week day: 5.30 p.m. 8i Tal Batarday 8. Bui Täl Saturday: 5.30 p.m. Kinslan - í SUNDAY 19.30, Kizeben;
*FICURSION.
From Macio
100-p. Xiuobus - 51,00 m. Bai Tai 3,00 am. Be Th 1,00 pm to Baillog 3.00 sm. Wingham 15.00 p.m.
Note:--All Steamboat Company's Steamers
are equipped with Werolom, QUEEN'S BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD Telephone 20101
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS. BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY
Under License From Messrs Parsons.
BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES
Under Special License
From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur,
Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable
For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.
DOCK & SLIPWAYS.
FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE AS WELL AS SMALLIR VESSELS,
ON ANY TIDE
ALL CLASSES OF SHIP ENGINE AND BOILER
REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE
WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND OXY- ACETYLENE SKILFULLY AND PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT.
BUTTERFIELD A SWIRE-
the train and shadow him, or wait for the cheap excursion to MOITOW?"
At the end of an examination the master gathered up all the papers. Among them he discover- ed one sheet, which, instead of being covered with historical names and dates, bore merely a crude drawing of a tombstone on which was written:--
"Sacred to the memory-which always deserts me on occasions like this."
lads.
A visitor approached two village
Is there ashing in this stream?" he asked
Butterfeld and wire's Buntien. which is one of the fastest and most powerful of the coasting steamers, battled through Ice to within fifty miles of Taku, but en- countered ice there to a thicknes
of ten feet and thereupon turned back to Tangku. She was asslated by tee-breakers.aka
** The pilots are compelled to walk over the Ice to ships outside the
bar and the Bath River is frozen hard from smith. The Ice bound "ships arealet of water and other supplies, "and- some are Frying distress signals -
Numerous ships put back to port upon learning, of, conditions in the Gulf and several Habo ice- breakers have been crippled owing the dimculties encountered.
: ་ ༦ Two hundred coolies, working the German steamer Ruhr, return- ed to Taku after walking seven miles across ice. Two Japanese and one Chinese steamer are in distress of Shalutten and it is re ported that a powerful ice-breaker from Dairer has been despatched
to then assistance
Cipantes
T's In The Aiz"
-"He Was Her Man
Oriental:- “She
Forld "Chinese Ficture. Alhambra Girl In Danger | Majestic-Diamond Jim.”
Star:-"Annapolis Farewell "
Meetings-Kowloon Chess Cluo, at Central British School, 5.30 p.m; 8t. Andrew's Girls' Guild. & pm.
Miscellaneous -Jumble Sale In
St. Andrew's Hall, 3 pm.
bola at HQRA Segts Mesa, Queen's Road, 8.45 p.m
Social-Whist Drive and Tom-
Sports
Badminton-Mixed Doubles, Fire
Brigade Chinese R.G., St. John's Crab da Recraio at Anderw 3-
* Taikoo BC; Ballors and Soldiers Home v Kowloon Tong.
Billiards, Junior Championship, & A. Lewis v. R. E. Lee (Club Lusitano); Mul Chan-jeg v. F. R Zimmern (Civil Service C.C.), Sidney Chan v.. LamKa-buen (Club de Recrefo), 8.30 p.
Hockey Crib de Recreio V Hong Kong Hockey Club seconds (King's Park Ground), 5 p.m.
Lawn Tennis-Ladies' Singles
Championship, Mra Kayll v. Miss Hancock; Mrs. N. Wilson v. Mrs. Dowling (U.SRC.), 3.30 pm
Moon Moon, 15th. Day. Full
International shipping represen- Moon, 7.19 p.m. tatives gathered at an emergency "Yes, plenty," replied one of the meeting this morning to consides Jads
"Why did you tell him there was plenty of fishin' when there aren't two trouts. In the stream?" asked the other lad after the visitor had gone.
Well, the less shes there is, the more shin' to get 'em, ain't there?" retorted his companion,
AUSTRIAN MONARCHY
RESTORATION
the problem,, especially the supply of food and other necessities to the ice-bound vessel Bester.
BRITAIN'S DEFENCES
London, Feb. a♫
The Government's defence plans are now understood to be practi- cally complete, and will be com Paris, Feb. 5.sidered at the next meeting of the Hopes that Archduke Otto will Cabine reclaim the Hapsburg Throne in is learned that the prospect Austria have been somewhat dash ed to the ground by conversations between Mandin French For eign Minister, and Prince VOL Blashembers, the Austrian Vice- Chancellor,
Sunrise Sunset,—6,15
m
Tides. High at 10.40 and 21.33; Dow at 347 and 1448.---
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8..
Anniversaries and Holidays St. John of Matha, C.
Cinemas
The Littlest Rebel” Va-He Was Her Man.
She
King': Que or
"Chinese Picture
The Littlest Rebel? *Diamond Jim.” Cardinal Richelieu-
Miscellaneous New Boys Teat
Sporta
of the rotation of a loan in order at Diocesan Boys Echool, 9 am to repair the deficiencies in the three defence services is now re ceding the Treasury is opposed thereto.
It is understood that Prince von
The view is held that short term Starhemberg gave an assurance borrowing by means of Treasur that Austria would not consider | BBs will be able to provide the question of the restoration of stent, finance as the defenca sci
the monarchy until she had con- }ƒ proereda---
sulted" Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Bla-Meuter
via and Rumania, who are "meur- bers of the Little Enfente, and who have hitherto been Atzonglyr
restoration.
This declaration has been re- Batisfaction.
celver
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BRITISH RED CROSS FOR ETHIOPIA
London, Feb
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