HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HONGKONG HOTÈL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL¦ Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,”
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KOWLOON HOTEL.
LOCAL SHIPPING.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
All arriving ships aro reporting light southerly winde and fine clear weather,
now
T/T. Domand 3 d. 3 d/s.
J
were
The following vessels alongside the Kowloon wharves this morning the Doller linor President Lincoln, the Jardino Matheson steamer Hing Sang. the Lima Maru, Argun Maru and Wakasa Maru, the latter two being now arrivals.
The Chinese Maritimes. Cus toms' cruiser Hwah Shing ar- rived this morning through the eastora entrance of the harbour all spick and beautifully, clean. It is reported that she has finished the preliminary inves- tigations regarding the now lights and other aids to navigation in Hainan Strait.
An interesting arrival at a West Point wharf (from Kan Chi Wan) this morning was the little steamer Wah. Shau, a sturdy
"THE PREMIER HOTEL KOWLOON, locking vessel formerly belonging
First Class Billard Room & Baloon Bar. Electrio Lift and Telephons to sach Floor,..
Toi K.608 and K.609, Osble addres :--KOWLOTEL, Hongkong.
Under the Personal Supervision and Management of
FRANK L. COOKE, Proprietor.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELEOTRIO LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR, HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Telographic Addrosa "Viotonia”.
Tel. Central 373.
J. WITCHELL,
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
FOR
COMFORT-FOOD-MUSIC-DANCING
Terms A la carte or Inclusive.
The after-dinner dances are held every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Telephones in every room.
The Europe Orchestra plays nightly during Dinner,
and for Tiffin on Saturdays.
GRILL
Telegrams "Europe Singapore".
Telephone 2740.
ROOM
to Admiral Stark,
.4 m/s.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1925.
EXCHANGE.
(Opening Rate: closing Rate on Page 1)
30 d/s. San Francisco and Now SELLING.
York -
T/T Shanghai...
T/T. Singapore
T/T Japan
2/31 2/3.7/16
2/2
.Nom.
..974
136
T/T. India
*
Demand, India...
...1511
***
T/T. San Francisco and New
Ynrk T/T. Java... T/T. Marka **T/T. Francs
653
.136)
Nom.
Demand, Paris...
4 m/. L/C
4 m/s. D/P 6 m/s. L/O
***
BUYING.
...11.80
... 2/4.7/16
... 2/4.9/16
2/11
30 ds. Sydney and Melbourne 2/41
4 wja. Macke
4 / France
6.m. Franc
***
Demand, Germany
་་
Deavond, New York T/T. Bombay Demand, Bombay TIT. Cal
Calentts
Demand, Calcu
Calcutta
On Yokohama
Manila... Singapore
Demand, Demand Belavia Demand,
Ăn Haiphong
On Saigon
On Bangkok Bovereign
Gold leaf per Tool
Bay Silver, ready
forward
Bank of England rates Now York/London
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Hongkong 50 conta piecos @
Cantan sub, coins Gold leat
***
Hongkong Juno 10' 1975.
POST OFFICE NOTICES.
+
...... 561
**
...Nom 12.50 ...18.70
561 由申哥
...1612 ...1812 ...Nom.
..135)
971
...136]
Nom
...Now.
017
8.67
..31.11/16. ..31,11/14
3%
4.85
...43.20
рас
3% dis.. 328.00% dia.
$47.20
The tennamission of Radio Telegramès to Canton has bien resuméd,
Wireless Communication with Swatow is ruumad bai Mesenger ora subject lo
From
Captian C Wilkes has now left the Swatow trader Batareia and Captain 0. Seaton has baoni appointed master in his place.
The Norway-Australia Diesel delay. motor liner Thalatta, Captain O.; Nilsen, which had been discharg- Straito ing cargo at the Kowloon wharvos Japan sailed Fosterday for Shanghai. Saigon Her commander interviewed by a Manila representative of the Telegraph Straite yesterday stated that he had been Japan. 43years in the service of the Com-Straits pany and the last 25 years as Australja & Manila... maator. When he joined the Com-
pany as an apprentice 43 years
ago; in one of their sailing ships,
JAYU
For
Heibow & Fakhoi...
INWARD MAILS.
Per Tolanda Hakuoan M...
Siakiang
***
***
Emprens of Asia Fooksang Tango N Tinonadari Kalori M. St. Albans
OUTWARD MÄILS.
it was known as the Wilh. Wilh- Foochow elmsen Co. of Tonsberg, Norway, Straits, Gaylon, India, Mauritius, E. and in fact a great number of
& S. Africa, Egypt & Europo
thoir vessels are still sailing un-| » via Marcilles...
der the old name of the Company.
Captain Nilsen said that his Com-
Hothow, Quinhon & Touran Amoy ...
watow, Amoy & Formora Swatow & Bangkok Swatow & Bangkok...
pany, which by the way is the Strails, Ceylon, India, Mauritiui, ✅ largest firm of shipowners in Nor- E. & S. Africa way, are great believers in Diocel Bangkok
Fort Bayard motor ships. They are gradually Saigon replacing all their old coal-burn- ing steamers by new Diesel motor Vossels. For instance, two of their best steamers, the Atna and the Rena, have been said for that
Swalow very reason. Although the initial Sandakan... cost of having a Diesel motor ship Swatow built is so much higher than an Manila ordinary steamer, this step is in Swatow, Amay & Foochow his opinion, more than justi-Baigon, "Straits, Ceylan, India,
"
JAY
*Swalow & Bangkok
*
Due. ...19th June
...10th
...21st
21at
22nd
23rd.
28th
..29th
Date.
6th July
..Sat., 20 inst., 8.30 . ...Sat., 20 inst., 8.30 ..
Per Tailen
Yue Ying
Wa
Hakusan M. ...
Sat., 20 inat.. Registration
Argun M.
Imatan
Sunti Yuan Lee...
Fjeldstrand
Talumbo Hozan M.
ozan
Yatabing... Kingyuan Hinzung ... Hydrangea
Prøv. Adams Yats!ring Haiching
ARTHUR (E. 'O DELL', Managing Director.
Th
fiable on account of the very small fuel oil consumption of the motor boats and also because of
Manritina, E. & S. Africa, Adeni Egypt & Europe via Mareuilles
Porthos
QUEEN'S THEATRE
TO-DAY AT 5.15 & 9.15 p.m.
HONGKONG'S.
Favourite Soubrette
IVY NICHOLLS
in
Charming Irish Soubrette
Chorus Hits
also
GRACE DARMOND AND
GASTON GLASS
in"
THE SONG OF LIFE"
A FIRST NATIONAL ATTRACTION
གསུངང་སཁ་གས་ད་ས
Prices of Admission:
At 5.15 p.m. $1.20, 80 cts & 40 cts. At 9.15 p.m. $1.50. $1.00 & 60 cts.
COME AND COOL OFF
AT
the added cargo space which a motor vessel will give. That Amoy
there
undoubtedly must be Mania, Australia & New Zealand
wisdom in the business methods
via Tharaday Island
of the firm is evident from the " fact that it paid its shareholders 20 per cent. last year, notwith-walow
Manila
&S. America & Europe via Vancouver B.Q.
standing the present depression gangbai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., O. all over the world in shipping, and dividends in this neighbour- hood have been paid for the last ten years,
WEATHER REPORT:
June 19d. 11k. 17m.-Pressure has increased slightly at Shang- hai and decreased slightly to moderately elsewhere; it ja highest in the Pacific to the east of Japan and relatively low over China, and from Tongking across the Visayas, to Yap. There are slight indications of the formation of a depression to the east of the Visayar.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to day, 0.00 inch... Total sinoo January 1st, 40.38 inches, against an average of 33.04 inches.
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,
District.
Forecast.
8. winds,
1 Formosa Channel light to
I moderate.
2 South coast. of
China between
H.K. & Lamooks S. winds,
3 H'kong to Gap moderate;
Rock.
4 South coast of
China batwoon
H.K. & Hainan
fair.
C. W. JEFFRIES, Director. Hongkong, June 19..
BIDEFORD BRIDGE,"
Lotters
9.45 40 10.30 1,13...
(Due Marseilles 20 July.)
•
Sat., 20 jant., 10.30 am. ...Sat., 20 inst., 12.30 p.m. Fat., 20 inat., 3,30 p..
......Sat., 20 instí, 4.30 pm.
Sat,
a.m.
20 inst, $p.m. Hat., 20 inat., 5.m. ...Sun., 21 inst gá.m.
...Sun., 21 inat.. ..Mun., 22 inst., 8 30 cm. ...Mon., 22 inst.. 10.30 am." ...Mon., 22 int., 1.30 p.m. ...Mon., 22 inst., 3.30 pm.
Mon, 22 inet, 5 pm. ...Tues., 23 inal., 10.30. ...Tues., 25 inst, mean
...Tues., 23 inst.. Registration 1.45 p.m. Leliers 2.30 p.. (Due Marseilles. 25th July.)
...Tues., 23 inat., 6pm.
(Due
Fookeang
Tango M.
Seochow... Yuansang
Emp. of Asia
(Due
Hoihow, Pakhoi & Haiphong
Straits & Calcutta_... Swatow, Amoy & Foochow 'Amoy
Chinhua
Kutsang Haining Anhui ...
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E&S. Africa, Adon, Egypt & Europe, via Marsoilles
Motwa
THEOSOPHY.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE
INNER LIFE.
cries
...Wed., 24 inst., Registration
8.45.
Letters 9.30.a.m. Thursday Is 5th July) | ...Wed., 24 in., 12.30 p.m. ...Wed., 24 inst., 1.30pm.
Parcels 24th 5 p.m. Thurs., 25 inst.. Registration 9.15 am. Letters ·10.10. Vancouver R.C. 13th July.)
Thurs.,! 25 inst., 12.30 p.1.
Parcela non
...Fu.. 26 ust. 1 p.10, ...Fri.. 26 inst., 2.30 p.m. ...Fri., 26 inst., 5 pm.
26th Parcels 5 p.. ......Sat., 27 inst.
Registration 9.45 1. Letters 10.30 L. (De Marseilles 25th July.)
"I think", "I feel", "I want".
DESIRE AND THOUGHT. As evolution proceeds, man learns to know himself to be life, not forms, bliss pot desire, know- ledge not thought, and then, first At last Wednesday's public he becomes conscious of unity; meeting of the Hongkong Lodge thon alone he finds peace. Con- of the Theosophical Society, aaciousness, at the present stage lecture was given on "Some of evolution, has its centre Difficulties of the Inner Life". normally in the astral (emotional The lecturor suid in part:-The and desire) body. The first thing difficully one experiences iu the then to realise, is that the desire- innor life is that there seems to nature is not our self, but its be a want of attractiveness in our instrument, a most valuable ideals, oven though our may have instrument which is only badly intellectually decided thas their used. Desiro, emotion, is the realization is desirable. There motive power in us, and stande arise two questions :-Why do we over hetwoon the thought and the
mike ourselves want that which e
loftiest
ENTERTAINMENTS
THE CORONET-
TO-DAY, at 2.30, 5.10 & 9.30
WILLIAM FOX
presents
The Motion Picture Version of
A. S. M. HUTCHINSON'S FAMOUS NOVEL
IF WINTER
COMES
By General Desire this picture will
be shown again TO-MORROW
I.
at the same times.
-TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 7.30-
HOOT GIBSON in “THE RIDIN' KID"
TO-DAY till MONDAY, 5.15 & 9.15.
C. E. BLANEY'S GREAT BROADWAY SUCCESS
"MORE TO BE PITIED THAN SCORNED"
with an all star cast including
ALICE LAKE, J. FRANK GLENDON, ROSEMARY THEBY, etc.
Also
JACK DEMPSEY
in
“THE TITLE HOLDER”
(The 7th of the wonderful "FIGHT & WIN" Series.)
TO-DAY, 2.30 & 7.15 p.m.
"SLAVE OF DESIRE'
Also
"RUTH OF THE RANGE”
Ep. 4.
EVERY SUNDAY TO WEDNESDAY, 2.30 & 7.15
FANTOMAS" ·
WORLD THEATRE
-THE
STAR-
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
HAROLD LLOYD
in
"GIRL SHY"
IN WHICH HAROID LLOYD IS SEEN AT THE VERY TOP OF HIS FORM AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST
LAUGHTER MAKERS
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nature, and to carry thesb sont- encos with us through the day,
creating around us thus atmosphero that is protective to ourselves and beneficial to all those with whom we come in
Another absolutely"
not want that which we see is netion. Intellect goes, but it does goodness is something to love, powerful aide to the dsaire-
something to reverenco. To i desirable and prúductive, of hap-not move, and a man without
piness, and what can we do to destres and emotions would stimulate the desire-nature as a mere spectator of lifting force we should seek the we know ti ho tan hast for our life. Тво self must have company of any who are more advanced in tho apirituallifo selves and the world? When waevolved some of its turn our lantion inwards, we powers ore it can forego the use than we ourselves.. Their very see a bewildering multiplicity of of desires and emotions; the ques- presence will be to us a benedic- contact. "", and are stunned by the tion is how use to them instead tion, harmonising, raising and essential thing is daily medita- clamour of opposing voicos, ali of boing used by them, how to inspiring. Happy the man who tion-a quist half an hour in the The famous bridge at Bideford, coming apperently from our-discipline them; not how to ensh can find one more advanced to morning during which we de- has boon formally oponed solves."
But consciousness is a them out. We are held back by whom he could direct his love liberately draw ourselves away after repairs which includo alunit, and it appears in the outer wanting to unite ourselves with and reverenco, for such finding from the lower nature, recognise will give him the most important it as an instrument and not the widoning of the roadway to cope world as inuy, simply because it objects transitory, maan and with the requirements of modern presents tself there through dif- | narrow;
condition for turning emotion self, and contre ourselves in the can We not, then, traffic. Bideford Bridge carries forent media, as an electric cur- push ourselves forward by want from a retarding fores into a bighest consciousness we can aurose the River Torridge the rent in platinum wire may appearing to units ourselves with the lifting one and gaining the noed-reach, and feel that as our real main road from North Devon to as light, in iron as heat, round a permanent, the noble and the ed power to want" that which self.
he knows to be best.
No heart that aspiros can over the latter developed to normal North Corwall. It was originally bar of soft iron as magnetic wide ?
It is a usofal habit to read every fail to riso, no heart that lovos In demonstrating that, broad size and strength of maturity, built in the fourteenth century, energy, or in a solution as a power DIRECTING THE EMOTIONS. Curusta kavo small food value, while the orust-fed companion and has already boon twice to decompose and recombine. As What we need is to cultivate morning a few sentences from can ever be abandoned, The such books as the Bhagavad difficultios on the Path exist only Prof. R. H. Shaw, of the Ame romained puny and weak, reach widened-in 1810 and 1867-80 consciousness works through the the emotions and to direct them Gita," "The Voice of the Silence," that in overcoming them we may rican Instituto of Baking, has fine scarcely more than mouse that aven before the recent alter. intuitional, mental, astral or in a way that will purify and Light of the Path. "The Im-grow strong, and they only who averturned another firmly rooted. This was not an exceptions it had lost something of its physical body, it becomes blinded annoble the character. The basis -ulit. Of two albino rats fumtional instance, various other ex- original appearance; but the old by the material that onwraps it, of all emotions on the side of itation of Christ," which are most have suffered are able to sorve dre same brood, one was fed on uriment giving similar evidence work in the arches might be woll and by illusión identifies itself progress in love, and that is the to orusts and the other on the of the lack of nutrition from the scon from the river or the river, with the craving of the sensos, power which wo must cultivato. -gantros of the same loaves, and much-lauded crusts of bread.
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