The World knows no other like it
Terrier
(perrier)
"The Champagne
' of Cable Waters"
NO ARTIFICIAL GAS
Perrier is Nature's chemistry, with which man cannot compete.
The fashionable, summer drink is Perrier and white wine. The life and delicacy of Perrier combined with white wine makes a delightful, harmless "champagne" much appre- ciated by ladies.
And Perrier perfects whisky..
OBTAINABLE AT THE FRENCH STORE 8 & 9, Beaconsfield Arcade, Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1930.
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A 100-YEAR-OLD RAILWAY.
TRAINS THAT RAN SIX MILES
IN 40 MINUTES.
THE OLD INVICTA.
nterbury and Whitstable have just celebrated the centen ary of the railway which connects the two towns. This was the first railway worked by steam in the South of England, and the first line to carry passengers In carriages drawn by a locomotive.
The undertaking was projected by Mr. William James, a Canter- bury solicitor and engineer..
An Act for its construction was passed in 1825, and Mr. James's estimate of the cost of the six miles of road was £25,000, but this estimate fell far below the actual
cost.
George Stephenson, then busy. In the construction of "the Stock- ton and Darlington line, was call- ed in, and on his advice the Act was amended and the estimate raised to £31,000. Further Acts were required to enable the com pany to raise fresh capital be- fore the line was completed.
Stephenson's Invicta.
were
When the line was opened in May 1830, the carriages drawn by stationary engines and ropes for the first four miles. On the last two miles, the traine were taken into Whitstable by the Invicta, a locomotive constructed by Stephenson.
AIRSHIP FLIGHT POSTPONED.
The flight of the R100, scheduled to begin this month, has been postponed until the end of July, following a request from the Canadian Government that the airship should not visit the country until the elections in July had taken place.
EVERYONE ON THE "PANEL!"
B.M.A. WANTS. STATE.
DOCTORS FOR ALL""
Every kind of service necessary The time for the journey was for the prevention and cure of 40 minutes; the fares-all
one disease and for the promotion of class were 9d.
full mental and physical efficiency should be at the disposal of, every member of the community.
The Manchester and Liverpool line was not opened until Novem-
In order to provide a nation- ber 1830, and the Stockton and wide medical service which would Darlington line carried its pas-fulfil so ambitious an object, the sengers in a horse-drawn truck, so that the Canterbury and Whits- table line may claim to be the pioneers of steam-drawn passen ger traffic.
council of the British Medical As sociation, in its annual report, has formulated proposals which would be acceptable to the profes- sion.
Every kind of preventive and curative service, excepting in- stitutional services, would be pro- 'vided.
Briefly, the proposals mean State) medical services for everybody:
Where people are too poor to pay their contributions it is pro- posed that these be made by a county council or county borough council through its Public Assis- tance Committee.
Among the services proposed
are: "
Dental services.
-Specialist service both for con- sultation and treatment when necessary apart from institutional treatment.
service for
A service of visiting nurses. Ancillary services as patholo- gical laboratory, massages, X-ray The scheme calls for the exten- department, electrical treatment.
Pharmaceutical Financially, the line was not a success, and in 1846, on the com- sion of the basis of contributory ing of the South Eastern Railway National Health Insurance, com- drugs, medicines and appliances.
The report makes no attempt to to Canterbury, the stationary en-pulsorily to include all insured gines were replaced by locomo persons as now defined, all their estimate the cost of the scheme, tives. In 1853, the line was pur- dependants, and all who have but the Association realises that chased by the South Eastern. hitherto been treated by district lack of funds may prevent the es The Invicta, its only locomotive, medical officers under the Poor tablishment of so comprehensive |
a national plan for some years. Law. is now preserved at Canterbury.
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COLOURED MAN IN RIVER DRAMA.
VAIN DIVE TO SAVE A WOMAN.
The coloured man, Hurry Free- land, who is employed as care- taker by Shanks and McEwan, of Badcook's Wharf, Poplar, dived into the river and succeeded in bringing the woman to the bank. A coloured man made a gallant Two constables applied artificial effort to avert a drowning tragedy respiration, but the woman was which occurred at Canning Town dead.
Just as the woman fell off the Mrs. Florence Maud Johnson, bridge her son, Alfred, aged 16, 41, who was the mother of nine was creling across the bridge.
He saw his mother on the para- he ran towards her, but was too children and who lived at Wight- man-street, Canning Town, was pet: Jumping off his machine, seen to fall from the iron bridge late to prevent her from falling
into the water.
into the water.
100% TALKING!
CENTRAL THEATRE
Paramount's Sound Pictures R
A
100% SINGING!
OPENING TO-MORROW, JUNE 14th at 2.15, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20.
New York's
Elite paid $11.00 a seat
to see and hear
"The Love Parade.'
Gorgeous singing,
dancing.
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HEAR !
Dream Lover" My Love Parade Paris, Stay the Same "Let's Be Common" Nobody's Using it Now
More Thrilling Than Ever!.
He sings, makes love for you. The entertainment idol of the world. Maurice Chevalier. Here's the production that amazed New York! The screen's first original musical romance. Tuneful! Sophisticated! Hilarious! The roguish romance of a beautiful queen. An engaging, exciting
cast. Dazzling costumes. Lovely
women.
MAURICE CHEVALIER
The Love Parade
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
PRODUCTION
WITH
JEANETTE MACDONALD LUPINO LANE. LILLIAN ROTH
a Paramount Picture
THE LOVE
Booking at Anderson's and at the Theatre.
Added
attraction:
Hear the Paramount
"Cat" Sing and
talk in a funny comedy,
You'll go wild
over her!
Beautiful Jeanette
Macdonald
sings and loves in "The Love Parade."
Hear her sing
"Dream Lover."
PARADE"
Telephone 25720.