THI MONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
PACIFIC
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
MANAGING AGENTS
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
FAST NEW AMERICAN STEAMERS TO
SAN FRANCISCO
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, & HONOLULU.
7.00 .. 730** 200
-
via
"PRESIDENT PIERCE"
"PRESIDENT, WILSON "
"PRESIDEnt clevelAND"
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
Week Days.
7.10.10
to 8.00
#
to "8.20
20
TIME-TABLE.
(Fran lat. June, 1923).
every 15 min 7.30 9.30 10 min
1.15
every 10 min
#
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1929.
every 15 min
*
H
10 mis
15 mia
Stopping.
TWENTY-TWO YEARS -
AGO.
A Glance at Our Files.
THE BAUK FIELDS.
Soviet Oil Deals and the **Shell."
the!
I have obtained, states the) writer of London Outlook in the (June 8-June 14, 1901) Manchester Guardian Commercial," NEW VOLUNTEER RANGE positive confirmation of the fact, The new Volunteer Range at press, that the Soviet Govern
not generally reported in 10 min Happy Valley was opened on ment has made important co- 15 min Saturday afternoon by H. E the tracts for the export of oil this 10 min Governor, who was accompanied year from the Bakit fields. A deal 15 min by Sir John Carrington, C.M.G..was first arranged between the 10 min Commandant of the H.K.V.C. Soviet agents and Messrs. Sale and Lisat!Bizko A.D.C. The road and Co. for the purchase of 30,000 | to the butts will evidently prove tons of kerosens. Messrs. Salo the endurance of the volunteers and Co. are anting presumably in marching uphill (very much for the Merchant Trading Co uphill) under a hot sun. Sir John who have been marketing prime Carrington asked His Exrellenor white Russian kerosens for some to declare the Range open, which time. he diú in a short speech, referring to the uphill walk to the butts and
The fact that an independent onl the character of the country as company was manifestingauch en likely to be of service, being someterprise mused the "Shell" Group! thing of the nature of conditions to aggressive action. The Shell in actual warfare. In fact, we marketing company closed with should think the amount of liquid the Soviet Government for 70,0.0 evaporated from the men could tons of kerosene at 655. per ton hardly be exceeded in service fob Baturo, with an option of conditions, as we hear (but do not 130,000 taas more in other words, vouch for the fact) that one man taking the whole exportable sur had his carbine washed out of his ply of Russian kerosene for at to 11.00 p.m. every 30 mised the opening of the butts by raused the indignation of various hands. His Excellency conclud-least a year. This, in turn, bas " 11.45 .
7.47 "
Non-stop. Stopploc. Non-stop.. 810 Stopping. Saturdays-Extra Car.
7.00 $.10.
Sundays 7.10 a..
Stopping
"
8.30
J
Noa-stop.
12.00 noon
8.57
H
Stopping.
1.00 p.m.-
" to 9.30
11.00 12.00 noon
1.00 p. 2.30 "
8.47 # 8.54
Non-stop Stopping.
2.30
430
H
M
H
9.04. 9.11
Non-stop.
4.30 # 5.30
20
5.30
6.30
18
Stopping.
June
20th
9.20
Stopping.
6.40
"
Non-stop.
July
4th
9.30 . 11.00
-6.47
to 11.00
.12.30 pm
时
15 mia
6.57"
Stopping.
7.04
"
12.40
"
Non-stop
12.47
Stopping.
12.57
-
Non-stop.
1.04
+
Stopping.
7.19 → 1.20 » 7.30 B 7.37
Stopping. Non-stop. Stopping. Non-stop
H
Stopping. Non-stop Stopping.
1.13
4
Non-stop.
1.20
En
Stopping.
7.54
8.03
£110
1.30 p.m. t. 4.00
every 10 min
+
1.00
4.30
H
4.30
$.20
6.40
H
·647
Non-stop Stopping.
Night Cars:
Weekdays and Sundays.
6.57
20
Non-stop.
3.50 p.za. 9.00 p.m.
7.03
Stopping.
9.30
11.15
7.13
Non-stop.
VISIT
7.20
VISIT
SAN FRANCISCO
CONNECTING WITH ANT
DIRECT TRANSCUSTIN-
ENTAL MAIL WAT AND
"
Stopping.
YOSEMITE GRAND CANYON
7.30
Non-stop.
7.37
Stopping.
FEATHER RIVER
7.47
ATLANTID
YELLOWSTONE PARK NIAGARA FALLS,
"
Non-stop.
7.54
Stopping.
-
103
Non-stop.
+
8.10
-
Stopping.
ANCIENT LINEAGE,
Humble
KAILING & FARES SUB ZOT TO ORANGE WITHOUT MOTION,
LOW FARES TO EUROPE
LOCAL EQUIVALENT OF
£120
FIRST CLASS THROUGHOUT
WITH STOP OVER PRIVILEGES AT PORIS OF CALL &
POINTS IN UNITED STATES.
LOS ANGELES
BALT LAKE
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
HONGKONG
"PRESIDENT WILSON" "PRESIDENT LINCOLN "
PRESIDENT PIERCE ".
HONGKONG
- UTRAMERS.
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MANILA
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June 25tb
July 9th
CALCUTTA
FREIGHT ONLY
CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.
"LAKE GILPEN "
June 19th.
For full information regarding rates, space etc.
APPLY TO;-
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COY.
Ist. FLOOR QUEEN'S BUILDING HONGKONG, Cable Address. Tel. Central 141.
Canton Agents. Solano
3372. Holyork, Massey & Co., Ltd.
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COMPANIA TRASATLANTICA DE BARCELOKA
(Spanish Royal Mail Line)
MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, SUEZ, PORT, SAID. BARCELONA & CADIZ.
SS. LEGAZPI.
Monday 21st. June. SHANGHAI, NAGASAK KOBS & YOKIHAMA.
8.8.0. LOPEZ Y. LOPEZ
Saturday 7th. July. For particulars of freight or passage apply.
BOTELHO BROS.
(Tel. 1331
PURE
Drugs
Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong.
PRESCRIPTIONS
when the doctor prescribes; he expects the druggist o HIII the prescription with pare drugs.j The quality of our Drugs, Medicines and Toilet Goods is „ot surpassed. Have the doctor's? prescription Alled here and the? result will be satisfactory
THE PHARMACY
gha Mad Bldg Opposite Le House St
11
~
15 min
10 mir
Stopping.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL
THE undersigned are prepared quality freshly mined Silmpopon to quote prices for best Coal, trimmed into Bunkers at Sebattik or Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contract for regular Supplies of cargo lots at favourable rates.
12.00 Midnight.
Special Cars
9.20 p.m
BY ARRANGEMENT AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE, Hongkong. 1st June, 1923.
Alexandra Bulldings. -
Tea
1-you pay a fair price for your tea and boy from a hrm you know, it ought to be a foregone. conclusion that the tea you got was good when it left the factory." No special credit is due to the tea-firm for that!
Most people are learning to reserve their eathusiasm for the tea which is still good when it reaches the tea-pot?"
They use Brooke Bond tea packed in the vacuum tin, which keeps the flavour in and, the tea- destructive climate out. Do you?
You are money by buying Brooka Bond res in the vacuum lia Your tes will always be in perfect condition.. Red Label-Best quality. Brooke Bond India Ltd. 10. Box 187 Caketta. Hong-Kong Agent :- ALEX Russ & Co, Hong-Kong.
DEATH OF MR. T. W. ROBERTSON,
Further Details. Particulars concerning the death
The "
15 min firing at the target at 200 yds.sociations of expropriated Rus- Stopping. kneeling, and the marker prompt-sian oil proprietors, who regard of Bir. T. W. Robertson, & furmer
ly signalled a bull.
the deal as "trading with the resident of Hongkong (an an. DEFENCE OF COLONY.
enemy." The Franco-Belgian|nouncement of which reached here Syndicate A garrison of at least five French and Belgian interests in 25th. May), came by the s.s. Pr
for the defence of by cable frem Victoria B. C. on thousand men is the very smallest Russia has voted a resolution resideat Jackeon yesterday. force that could make this Colony questing the Royal Dutch Shell cause of death was Boneurism of reasonably safe from a sudden to cesse dealings with the Soviet the heart. Mr. Robertson was in and determined raid, not neces Government. sarily for the purpose of coo-
bis usual health at the pier, meetingTM The quest and permanent occupation, brought before the
question bas been Hongkong friends on the evening but for the simple purpose of
ail com- of May 2nd. On returning home destruction. The south side of Committee,
[panies' International Defence that night be took to bed and quite this Island is absolutely with Dutch Shell is a member, and of following night.
of which Royal unexpectedly passed away
the out and defence, it is most easily which Sir Henry Deterding, if I
The following particulars are
Folk With Pedigrees.
Long
which
years,
Mr.
been
#
the
highly well-known re-
past twenty- where he bad ol Engineer
accessible and the hours between remember rightly, is chairman. sivet in one of the Victoria B. C. dark and dawn would smply All the members of that Com-papers.-There passed away at his & recently reported case of a suffice to make a clean sweep of mittee bad solemnly sworn in home, 1352 St. Patrick Street, Oak whose farin had been owned by for the same amount of enterprise in common, and by represents- place he had in one house for 91 years, and in the place. We surely ought negotiations New Forest farmer who had lived everything of any value to a fleet Paris, last September, that Bay, on the 23rd. inst
to give our possible enemies credit Government should be conducted of Kowloon, Hongkong, of which his family for over two centuries,
with the Soviet Thomas Watson Robertson, lately is quite remarkable, but instances of which we know ourselves to tives unanimously elected. of long ancestry in ranks of life
be capable and other than those within" Barke's bave often displayed. Will any technically correct in agreeing ine
Siz respected and we Henry Deterding is, however, sident fur classic pages" are not uncommon. Steamers calling at Sebattik
naval or military officer with any that this oath referred only to filled the position Not long agos Berkshire carrier knowledge of military history, negotiations for the return of oil Superintendent of the Kowloon or Sandakan exclusively for died in the house in which he was Bunkers are exempt from pay- ment of ordinary Port Charges.family's possession over
torn, and which had been in his was in the occupation of an of oil products.
venture to assert that if this place properties, not for the purchase Wharf and Gudown Co., and the The minimum draft of water
three
And he has Star Ferries. Retiring from this longside the Company's Wharf St. James' Park kiosk could claim
centuries. The late tenant of the war, a garrison of two thousand tions of sae independent oil com.in Victoria in day of the same enemy with whom we were a frankly declared that the opera position in April. 1922, he arrived at Sebattik is 16 feet at low water a family association with the park if from a crop de monn ?
men would be sufficient to protect pany make it impossible for the year, taking up bis residence at the Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie of about 300 years; & Kentish inn Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any had some years ago been in thar the best sketch of a project
We offer a prize of fifty dollars itself buying ol
"Shell" to refrain any longer from above address. Mr. Robertaus required information concerning hands of the same people for 400 for the capture of this island by a
was born in Dundee on January 5, - the Port may be hat 03
1865, and co completion of his applicat on to
bostite force, Russian or French
training as an engineer, cauis out to Cans la, making Victoria bis prior to leaving for the Orient. home for some two or three years Deceased leaves
wklow, Lwo sons, Kenneth, attending college
Akente,
years.
胡
or both combined, not with a view
8
at Sheffield; Allen, at home, and
A family at Stoke Gabriel, near G.BB, LIVINGSTON & Torquay, bave been tenants of the to permanent, occupation, bat| SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES.
same farm since towards the end CO. LTD.
with a view to the destruc- of the 15th century: five years Areenal and Barracks and the
tion of thre Naval
We are very pleased to eat that Yard, Mr. Frog Wa-chun has taken up had settled in Bruce's day affairs at the moment in Hong at changing the form of Chinese the suggestion that we made in blacksmith's forge in Shropshire bas been in the possession of its and the actual strength of houses to be erected in the Go owner's family for 500 years, and
our feet andita distribution being
the breaking up of long rows lony, it would be better to insist on and making them semi-detached. Semi-detached houses must be the
The Cowle Harbour Coal Co., Ld.`shire at a place where his ancestor its ships, the actual position of if the Governmen; were thinking home: coe brother, David, living
ago a farmer died in Roxburgh-retirement of the hostile force to these columns on May 31st, that one daughter Elinore, also
IF YOU APPRECIATE REALLY GOOD COFFEE Place a trial order with us- and you are then sure to become one of our regular customers.
Wo
are
regret that out of stock SETOS AMBAR CIGARETTES"
an ancestor abod Margaret of assumed, and war declared, or
Anjou's horse before Blore Heath; there are Purkises living who are direct descendants of the char-
in the Now Forest district.
we
of
HIMROD'S
at the moment-but we will announce the arrival of now Stocks in this Space.
GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE
12 & Queen's Rord.
about to be declared.
THE PLAGUE
800
Ms. Smith, of Seattle; Ma... m Vallejo, Calif., and three sisters, Pease, of Vatcouver, and Mrs. Anderson, residing in this city.
TELEPHONES IN AUSTRALIA.
The A motion agreed to by the Interstate Conferece. of the
Union held at
coal burner who pick up Rufus's of Chinese which is taking place of our presant difficulty.
We hear thai the great exodus most healthy and the best solution body, and descendante of Tyrrell from the Colony is affecting many Chinese, our oficial bugbear, Australian Postal Electricians I are also to be found, we believe, ofthe firms which employ Chinese are in favour of them and, there-
labour. It is the better paid fore, in a case in which the Chinese favoured
Melbourne men who can afford to go their hold sensible views for heaven's of telephone and telegraph the manufacture vilages to escape the plague, and sake do not int TILN bavo these men are the most valuable the matter shelved.
equipment, including telephones, Hongkong in Australia. Delegates main oaes to their employers and con, cannot be pulled down and sequently the most missed. It is rebuilt-in a day but with sensible unity by the provision of proper tained that if given the opport- a great pity that these people building regulations, a few good facilities, Australian postal elec cannot be brought to
typhoons, and the condemmation that they
tricians would be able to produce gain nothing by of existing insanitary dwellings going from one plague by an honest inspector of build-us article used in connexion stricken spot to another. inge, a few years may bring about that the proposal would involve with telephones. The argument high capital cost to purchase and set up the machinery "would not hold, as many industries against which the same argument had been used were now in a flourish. ing condition. If the policy of the union were adopted by the depart ment, the way would be paved to a flourishing industry;
My mother what TEOK
Asthma Cure
GIVES INSTANT RELIEF.
INFLAIRNYA, NABAL Sala Langana zaddy, & TASONTACTS POUse that is simply
FAMED FOR FIFTY YEARS. gold that all Chendats and Stover Chevegheal the C. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
It the inhabitants of villages to which they flea had a grain of sense, they would pack these very undersirable visitors back to Hongkong post haste, but then the Chivaman does not possÜSE common sense as regards sanit ation, and so the plague is spread far and wide.
Privileged Characters
great change for the better.
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