THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
AUGUST 24, 1935.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. You cannot overcharge a Scotsman, but he can
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
25. WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID 50 cents for Every Additional Day Alternate Insertions 20% Extra.
If Not Prepaid a Booking Fee of '.
50 cents is Charged.
POSITIONS VACANT..
FOR SALE.
rooms,
MAY KEE HONG (H.K.), LTD.
will remove to their
new offices in
B. E. A. BUILDING
on the
1st September, 1935.
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.
WANTED AT ONCE-Experienced FOR SALE-By 31st of August, Europeas male hairdresser. Good completo furniture four salary. Please apply before 1st kitchen, etc, Kowloon Tong. Dwell- September to Romance Barber BRU Ing including garage car be taken Tho New School Year begins Beauty Shop, Ist finor, Pedder Build-over at reasonable rental. Write Box ing.
No. 286, "Hongkong Telegraph."
CHURCH NOTICES
UNION CHURCH
To-morrow's Service To
Be Broadcast
REV. J. FOSTER'S SERMON
The following are the forthcoming services, etc., nt Union Church, Ken-j nedy Rond:
Sunday, August 25
ROOMS TO LET
ROOMS, TO LET-Claremont Hotel begs to announce that they have a few rooms available at $100 per month.
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
The following quotations on the. New York commodity exchange are issued by Reuter
New York Cotton
The following services will be held | Docenter to-morrow:
10.30-Morning Service conducted March by the Rev. Jolin Foster. The sub-May will be "The July Parable of the Man who Stayed at Home." The service will be broad-Spot
Jeet of the sermon
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6 o'clock-Evening Service can-December ducted by the Rev. John Foster. January
7 o'clock-Social Hour in the March
Church Hall.
May
Aug. 22. Aug. 23.
Artober
11.20
10.67/70
11.08
10.56/58
January (193
11.001
10.60700
11.02
11.03
10.07
11.70
10.59/50, 10,58/61 10.67757 11.10
New
York
ork Rabber
September
04
12.00/05
12.25
12.25/25
19.41
12.33/33
12.40
12.45
12.68
12.40/40 12.50/50
Chicago Wheat
91
September December May
934 Thursday's sales:- -27,059,000 bushels Chicago Cora September
744 74% 76 55 50% 50% 1 December
58 May Thursday's sales,--5.971,600 bushela Winnipeg Wheat August
BD1, 8932 B14 017 93%
5724
86%
803
85 85
RSTM 85
New York Bilk
Tuesday, 7.30 p.m.--Soldiers and Tatal sales:-229 lots Airmen's Christian Association in the Church Hall. This devotional meeting is open to all.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Macdonnell Rond, below Bowen Rond Tram Station.
Sunday Service 11.36 24.117.
Sub- Jeet: "Mind."
The Sunday School is held on Sun- Otober day morning at 10 o'clock, Wednes-December day Evening Meeting at 6 p.m.
Reading Room at above address September open Tuesday and Fridny, 10 m. December
to 12 anon. Monday and Thursday, March
KJ
September 9th. Examination for now Students, Saturday September 7th, at 9 a.m.
For Prospectus, for Boarders and Day Boys, apply Li Hol Tung Esq., Menara. Banker & Co., Bank of China Building.
or
The Warden,
St. Stephen's College, Stanley.
BRITISH AIRMAN OUT FOR RECORDS
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service at luxury rates which the wealthy would pay to reach, say. Cairo or Cape Town in extreme urgency.
fast 1 viallse, therefore, a mail service, with perhaps relays of machines, which wil ultimately get the mails to Cape Town from London within 2 days, and in 'planes which can take a limited number of passengers paying specially high fare for the гол-
venience.
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This service, which must come
in the near future, would run
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Independently of the more leisure- THE CONNOISSEUR COMES TO CALDBECK'S
ly services, and ouder ideal condi- tonk should complete the run in three or four days,
The flight to Hongkong and back will be something of a different nature, for as yet there is no link . 80th in the Empire chain of airways tó
2614 | Hongkong. 80%
1.04 1.06 1.66 1.8 1.597 1.5914 1.67% 1.591 1.69%
6.30 to 7 pan. The Publie in cordial-; Tetaj sales:-68 lete ly invited to attend the service and
visit the Reading Room.
Branch of September
the Mother Church. The Grsi Church | December of Christ Scientist in Boston, Mass, January U.S.A.
March
Montreal Silver
65.37 45.45/50 66.10 38.00/50 65.00n 46.20 66.50 06.05/85
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Correspondents for Hayden, Stone & Co.
Telephone: 30244, 30245, 30246. Cable Address: Swanstock
9, Queen's Road Central
(Corner of Ice House Street).
A route is planned to extend to Hongkong from Singapore, which is served twice a week by air liners taking eight days for the 8,000 miles.
In the Comet it should be pos- sible to reach Karachi in 24 hours from London, Calcutta in 30, Singapore in 36, and Hongkong in
40.
A quick turn round should enable me to complete the 18,000 miles in four days,
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Perhaps, however, the Comet will show up to best advantage over the Atlantic.
It may surprise readers of the News of the World to learn that some 500 people have crossed, the North Atlantic Ocean within the last 16 years by airships, seaplane, and landplane, and as pilot, crews, or passengers.
They have taken from days to 80 hours,
three
In the Comet I shall try to reach Newfoundland from Ireland in con- siderably faster time than any yet registered.
If the round trip can be made in a week-end it will be something never accomplished before. The superior speed of the Comet alone makes it possible.
I hope if successful that atten- tion will be directed immediately. on the urgency and necessity for starting the Atlantle air service
soon as possible.
These days, weather reports for the North Atlantic route are issued
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From land stations on both sides of the Atlantic, and from ships on a selected list kept at the Air Ministry, messages are transmitted by wireless every 12 hours giving wind and weather conditions.
These tell the Atlantic airman practically all he needs to know except the actual fog conditions off the Great Banks of Newfoundland, August and September are the best months to face this obstacle. as fog is then at its lowest.
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Thus Canada and England need be little more than 14 hours apart, while New York and London can be brought within a day of each other:
The Canadian (ght, I hope, will stimulate Interest in the great economic possibilities of high speed and interest in the coming Atlantic air route.
Efforts are being made on both aldes of the great ocean to throw a bridge across, and unless we are quick we shall not be the 'firat.
There still remains South Ameri ca, where, although we have only
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Where stands Britain, who has spectacle of foreign countries and more capitai in bridging the South Atlantic with more trade France and Germany have vied South America than all of them British machines with each other, by Zeppelin, cata-put together? pulted seaplane, and land machine,
At present we stand nowhere,
to bring South America within because we have completely neglect
I hope that with the now Comet this balance will be redressed and
something done to keep the flag of British civil aviation flying in Unless we net promptly we may [South America armong the banners
compelled to witness the of the many foreign nations.
three days' Journey of Europe.
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