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HOTELS
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,”
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL. Most Modora and Contral Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
Hotel launch meets all steamers.
($25 for thirty-Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office,
of the above Hotel,
Tel. Add. Victoria.
J
HOTELS OF
MOTEL METROP
Telophone C. 373.
J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager,
DISTINCTION
The Kowloon Hotel.
Kowloon.
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveni- ences. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharvoa and Rallway Station. Representative meets steamers,.
Daily Rates from
Monthly Rates from
11
3 6.00.
$130.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.
Tel. No. K.608 & K.609. Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.
PALACE HOTEL
all'
Tel Address PALACE” ful. Kowloon No. 8
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station: Entirely, andor English Management. Electric Light and Fana throughout Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Inrivalled Cuisine ander the personal supervision of the proprietress. Teams moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. E. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
EUROPE
Cables :-
** EUROPE "
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE P. & O. COMPANY.
ITEMS FROM THE ANNUAL
· REPORT."
The annual report of the Féni- nular and Orient Steam Naviga tion Co, states that after providing. for depreciation there is a credit balance on the year's Accounts, including £133,156 12s. 9d. brought forward from last year, of £918.001 Os, 11d., against £919,096 Gs. 3d, in the previous year.
Regarding the Company's feet,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2
THE PHILIPPINES CHILDREN'S TASTE
IN ART.
QUESTION.
1928
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON PAUCITY OF "GOOD PICTURES
IN SCHOOLS.
INDEPENDENCE.
JAPAN A DANGER.
"In our survey of existing repre- sentations we have been struck by the paucity of reproductions of good modern pictures of breezy landscapes, and seascapes.". This At the Pan-American Conference, statement is made by the Com-
Havana, Jan. 23. ·
4 pointed reference to Japan was mittee, appointed by the President
it is stated that the Nyanza has made by Mr. H. L, Stimson, Gov-of the Board of education to con- been sold at a price in excess of crnor-General Elect of the Philipsider the guiding principles in the her book value, and the difference pines, who said he believed in oven-selection of pictures for Public will be passed to credit of the de- tual self-government for the Philip Elementary Schools, in their re- preciation account for the rest, of pines, but did not favour absolute port which has just been issued. the fleet. The Narkunda has been independence. He said the islanda converted from coal to ell burning were crervated by the langerous British artists, including Arnesby | were over-populated and the people They mention a dozen or more as foreshadowed in last year's re
Lamorna Birch, Glyn port, and this ship is now on her mate, while neighbouring lands. Brown,
Robinson, aud first voyage after refitting The were populated by an energetic and Philpot. Cayley results of the change from coal to warlike people, faq Philippines David Murray, "more examples of all have proved to be entirely secured absolute independence whose work they would like to sec. satisfactory. The Naldera will be they would almost certainly be They state that there are many altered from coal to oil burning as annexed by a more powerful pictures hanging on the walls of soon as possible.
neighbour. Reuters American our schools that are nothing short of travesties of the artist's techni- Service...
que.
..
New 19,000-ton Boat. The Directors have recently con- tracted with Mesars. Alexander Stephen and Sons of Glasgow for an up-to-date passenger steameri of 19,000 tona, and they have deel:1- ed to fit this ship with turbo-elec tric driven engines, which it is con- sidered show greater economy than other types of machinery of simár power. The snap will carry a large number of 1st and 2nd saloon pas- sengers, and will have space for about 5,000 tons of measurement Smail insulated chambegs will be fitted in the same way as in Vessels of the Ranchi class
cargo.
·
FRIENDLY CRICKET.
TWO MATCHES ON
SATURDAY,
Arriving at Kowloon one man short, the University were heavily defeated by the home team. Dismissing them for the small score of 08 (Goodwin for 22), Kowloon went on to make.213 for the loss of seven wickets, Brace, (who hit 20 in one over, including a
tributed 49.
The Company's house at Brini, off Lee) making 71. Ramsey con- disi, Palazzo Montenegro, longer required, and which
ま
The Police defeated the Hongkong fact was a source of expense, has Electric by seven wickets. The. Ele been sold to the Brindisi Munici-tric were all out for 31, and the Police pality. The Agent's residence passed this total with three wickets and Assistant's house at the Peik town, eventually making 62 for nine. Alexander and Baker for the winners at Hongkong, also no longer ro
and Murdock for the Electric bowled quired by the Company, and which well.. were costly to maintain, have been sold, all without loss to the Com- pany.
Different Conditions. Business conditions generally) during the last twelve months have been difficult, and have called for unceasing efforts on the part of the Management to maintain the Company's position,
The trade to and from China has been seriously injured by the civil war which has gone on there for the past twelve months, and until this comes to an end there can be no revival in trade with that country.
As
in
The general trade to Japan has declined..
India, there regards nothing particular to report. freight carnings have been fo:r
SPIRIT OF RUGBY.
THE UNION COMMITTEE AND
PLAYER WRITERS.
The Rugby Union Committee at meeting in London recently passed the following resolution in regard to. players writing for the Press:
*1
Children, the report observes, are far more catholic in their liking for pictures than is often sap- posed, and the few experiments made go to show that their natural and unguided judgment is Aur- prisingly sound. It is only later that their taste deteriorates. “
Laughs and Thrills on a Liner!
with
́HE WAS ALL UP IN THE AIR.
Fore deck, storm deck, all around the boat-Denny tumbles in and out of com ical situations and loses everything but his brand new wife-and there's a $100,000
forfeit to keep him from
admitting she's his!
REGINALD
CARL LABMMLE SPENDIES
DENNY Out All Night
A
UNIVERSAL PICTURE
Produced by
WILLIAM A. SEITER
Much good work has been done MARION NIXON and A GREAT CAST
by voluntary agencies and various committees in the way of furnish- ing suitable school pictures, but the position, the present Commit- tee consider, is still far from satisfactory.
It will assist the teacher in cultivating understanding among his children, if the wall pictures are a plan corresponding chosen on roughly to the natural development of taste in children, the report states. The London Infants' School child, for instance, is not generally interested in the bold, decorative landscape poster, but loves the de- tail of a poster, such as "St. Pan- cras Station."
#
The picture which is to be used as an aid to the teaching of a sub- ject, the Committee consider, must scientific or be predominantly photographie in treatment, while the picture to be used as a means of training in, taste must be pre- dominantly imaginative.
That the practice of players writing articles and reports on mtches is contrary to the spirit! HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
of Rugby football; the Committee
hope that it will be discontinged,
and that it will not be necessary The for them to take further action.
The Scottish Rugby Union last
and the passage returns have bega season adopted a rule prohibiting maintained, but Bombay has lost any members of their affiliated some of its trade through certain clubs and Scottish players from thewriting reports of matches for arrangements with fiscal Kathiawar States having enabled newspapers. these States to get goods passed into British India at lower rates of duty than if they were import ed through Bombay. It is unde, stood that, this anomaly is course of rectification by the Government of India.
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
1. Skjellerup's new comet. 2. The lesten-
of Portsmouth, (b) Lord Ashcombe, Lord
dary site of King Arthur's Court . (a) Earl Says end Sele. (4) Lord Glenel (6) Lad Rayleigh Gtter has five toes, dog has four. fet Devon, (d) Gloucester. 6. Mesopotamian.
5. (8) Surrez (6) Lewisham in S.E Leachs,
king, probably about 3500 D.C.; "Good Hers of the Band.1. The wings underneath the larga outer cases are shaped, like an ear. Thu old name was "enr-wing." 8. A prayer for the souls of bettsfaciers #. An Act was pass- ed in the thirty-third year of Henry VIII.'"
Ping dilawful anmes;" atch games diminth-
The Company's revenue has been obtained by its widely-spread in-rein "for maintalaine arullers and delar interests, and what it may have lost in one direction it has gained others.
GOAT GETTERS.
DOESNT IT GET YOUR GOAT
"SAY, LISTEN TO THIS WOULD YA
S'OHLY A SHORT ARTICAL”),
COLUMN AND A HALF~"
at archery and shooting with the long bow. nin. The tight Hon. Viscount Craigavon of
Storment, .. 11. A Jockey. 11. 8. Cary- costum, breause of his eloquence,
A rollicking farce aboard an Atlantic liner where anything can happen and everything does. Laughs and thrills in the comedy of
a newly married husband who has to pretend he is a ship's doctor in order to travel with his bride!
A Farce Full of Snap and Fun!
AT THE
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.
VOLCANO
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday.
and Saturday,
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur R. Odell, Managing Diraptor.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
DINNER DANCE,
Up.m. to 12 p.m.
Start the Year
right by
driving away
your blues
The Footwarmers
We'll show
#
Red Hot
JAZZ
you how
with real peppy. Tunes
'WART DOES
p.m.
Tea Dances Monday to Friday Dinner Dance Saturdays
MASSAGE HALL
MRS. 8. UZUNOYE
Expert Massenge
37, Queen's Road--U 2nd.floor
5 p.m. to 7 8 p.m. to 12 in..
Mrs. MOTONO
fland and Electric
́· MASSAGE
No. 81, Top Floor Wyndham 81. Blangkong,"
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by -FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, "Wyndham Street, in the City of Historia, Hongkong,
DIDZY DY NEA, GERVICE, INC
・WHEN SOME MEMBER OF THE
FAMILY INSISTS UPON READING-
OUT LOID-
WITH
RICARDO CORTEZ
BEBE DANIELS WALLACE BEERY
The romance of a fiery French girl whose career is brought to an amazing climax by a Volcanic eruption.
AT THE
WORLD
At 12,
GIORIA
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 5.15 & 9.20 Only.
& 7.15-Chinese Drama, "True Love
wanson FINE MANNERS
KÖRBEN THE VILLAINED -
EP NO LIFT—mor)
ONLY TO ENCOSMET
NEW AND GREATER
OBSTACLES IN RES SEARCH FOR
"PEACE AND
ESCAPE:
SOME NICE
QUET MOVIE
・BAYS
Gicture
TILLIE THE BEARDED LADY
The amusing story of a chorus gid who plunges into the social swim with surprising results.
AT THE
STAR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Continuous 2,30 to 11.15