1931-10-27 — Page 9

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1931.

WAI KEE JADE SPECIALISTS ANTIQUES AND CHINESE CURIOS

GOLD & SILVER SMITH.

Corner, Hong Kong Hotel Bldg. Queen's Rd. C. Pedder St.

PICTURESQUE HONG KONG.

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them bordered with bamboos and other delicately-fronded trees, and fringed with the luxuriant growth of semi-tropical vegetation. The temperature has a yearly range of fon: 45 to 99 degrees, but it occa- sionally falls below 40, and ice has been known to occur on the Peak.

Man Mo Temple-Hollywood Tytum Reservoir. Aberdeen Fishing Village. Repulse Bay Hotel and

Beach.

Road,

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54A, Queen's Road Central,

THE DRAGON'S POOL.

Telephone 27684.

other stands a solitary line of eu- calyptus trees, planted many years ngo by our late Governor Sir Cecil!

HE Pools are easily the most, Inge Nam Ching, which subsists Clementi when on his first period of Tspectacular sight in Hong Kong partly an

his,

Walks along Bowen and Kennedy or the New Territories (especially tracting lime from

Roads,

now in the rainy season) yet very few people know where they are and fewer still have visited them.

They lie tucked away Sohind the that jagged light Bathing Patain Range

penked range of hills facing one as one stands outside Taipo Market and looks along the causeway.

It is possible to rush them by boldly scaling and dropping down the far side of the Patain Range but it is a little arduous indeed more than a little.

Queen's

Pokfulum Valley. Chinese Restaurants. The Shopping Centre, Naturally you will be interested Talkic Cinemas King's,

and Central.. to hear about the City and the won- derful shops, both European and Victoria Peak-1,823 feet above

the tourist

city, Chinese, which attract from all parts of the world. The Chinese Amusement Quarter-West

Point.

The best, certainly the pleasant zentral areas of the City are well

Chair and Jinrikisha Fares. est method of attack is from the built, the ronds and streets are for

For chairs the tariff is-two police station just beyond Wa Hung the most part admirably made und kept up and many of the thorough-beavers-15 cents for the first ten and not very far short of Sha-tau- fares delightfully shaded with well- minutes; 20 cents for a quarter of kok. We return to our traîn "(if we grown trees. The European busi- an hour; 30 cents for half an hour; have not missed it) and continue on Fanling Station. In the old ness quarter occupies the middle of and 25 cents for every subsequent to

For four bearers the fares days the light railway made a plea- the City, from Poltinger Street to hour. the Naval Yard, but with the ex-are exactly double, with the excep

every ausequent hour ception of this limited area almost tien that all the lower levels, especially the after the first is charged 40 cents. western district, are covered by a dense mass of Chinese shops and tonements. On the mainland new industrial and residential areas are rapidly springing up.

For the lover of the by-ways, and for those seeking the unusual pur- chase (who does not?), we would suggest a trip that can be both in- teresting and profitable. Few tour- iste, even many residents of the Colony, have heard of n district in Hong Kong called "Paddy's Mar- ket." The origin of the name. Is obscure--some enterprising Irish. man was at the bottom of it, un- doubtedly. This section of Hong Kong is said to resemble the remote shopping sections of old Peking, or possibly the "Thieves' Market" of Shanghal.

Jinrikisha charges are: 19 cents for 10 minutes; 20 cents for al quarter of an hour, 30 cents for half an hour; and 40 cents for an hour.

Kowloon and New Territories. Kowloon has splendid motors' roads which lead to Castle Peak, Funting, Taipo and Shatin.

A good afternoon's outing can City, omni- be spent at Kowloon buses to which run from the Star Ferry at Kowloon Point (10 cents fare from Hong Kong to Kowloon). En route a glimpse is afforded of! the whole of the Kowloon Bay, the dis- with Lyeemoon Pasa.in tance.

Eventually the granite wall of the old city of Kowloon will be reached, containing the old-time residence of the official representa- tive of the Emperor of China.

There is also a School for the Blind, where dainty articles may be purchased.

Round the Island. What has been well described as one of the most magnificent drives in the world is that by motor car round the Island. The route fol

Returning by A bus marked lowed ia from Queen's Road Cen-

can alight tray thence into Garden Road, past "Yaumat!" the tourist 'Government House and the Botanic In Jordan Road and spend an en- Garden's, along Caine Road, Bon-joyable time in King's Park, where ham Road, pust the University of are laid out football, tennis, and Clubs Hong Kong, along Pokfulam Road, bowls grounds for various Aberdeen Road, and Repulse Bay, und institutions. where a stop can be had for re- freshments or the more enjoyable be Liffin. Leaving Repulse Bay Hotel which lies off the main bus and

motor road the journey is proceeded with to

As an alternative a. visit may

made to Kowloon

Tong,

Stanley Bay. Tytamiuk Reservoir, Nathan Road.

in Kowloon, namely, This is destined to

and Sal Wan Gap and thence to be a model settlement and garden Shaukiwan. Within a short time city combined, and the self-con-

The entire drive covers a dis- tance of 26 miles, but the scenery cannot adequately be en route described in mere prose. It has to be ecen to be appreciated as it de- serves. Next to the ascent and descent of the Peak It is a trip that no tourist should omit from his pro- gramme of sight-seeing.

TOBACCONISTS.

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA.

In this excellently fitted out em-

a species of coral in crude little home made kilns.

The road now turns inland. It is clearly defined and if in passing through the outskirts of a village it is momentarily lost it can always be regained if one has even a rough idea of where one is with regard to the Patain range and realise that one is now striking down almost get under its Northern S.W. to Slope. The path swings off and up, slightly left, after a time through a well defined cutting.

and turns It turns

up: a long sheltered valley and then again rather unexpectedly swings off for a moment sharp left to a higher and even more marked cutting. This is an important point as great care must be exercised if one is to avoid

Cement

only.

The road straight on gives no indication of a fall or break in the

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FAH LE FAH.

The Fairy of Disobedience,

army One of the most interesting Ivory father's

worked figure is about to 180 years old, name- the Chien Lung Dynasty 1736-1795, when Em-

defeated.

The

land until rounding a little bluff the pieces shown in Messrs. Komor & powers of the immortal Fah le Fah land suddenly falls sharply away to Komor's exhibits of art. is one solid were great and the Chinese loved. the right. Turning half round one ivory tusk figure, carved magnif- sees one of the finest sights in the cently and standing about 21⁄2 foet Colony. A magnificent fall of water high representing the fairy of Dis- from the top pool, full of reflected obedience, named "Fah le Fah" in light and the music of nature, drops Chinese. The age of this master- sheer to the lower or Dragon Pool fully a good 150 ft. below. Sheer be-160 cause it hae worn a huge well de-ly; fined hole in an outcrop of hard rock AD. that at one time broke the fall about peror Chien Lung. personally an half way down.

"Art Lover" ordered carvings liko Twenty yards or so further those for his palace in Peking.

опе takes a rocky path

To give the full story of Fah lu on

to the lower pool Fah would take too much time, byt down deep in whose depths slumbers we are assured by Mr. Komor that the dragon who makes periodic raids whoever wishes to see this gorgeous on the crops in the district and to figure and would like to know more whom votive offerings are still about it, should visit his Art Ex- hibition and he will gladly explain further details.

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Fab le Fah, the daughter of a great warrior, was made immortal through her bravery. The name Fairy of Disobedience she got as she disobeyed her father, who want led her to marry a great man in his army, but sho fell in love with the General of the enemy's army and

disobeyed her parents and married her bravery and up to this date aro her lover. Her father, being very Idollsing her.

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destroy

took his

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BARGAINS IN CURIOS.

Blackwood.

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ples. Jades is another commodity Blackwood furniture will attract over which the novice stands a good many. It seems marvellously cheap chance of being really well "done in Hong Kong, compared with down" and would be wise to seek Singapore and the small ploces are the help of a connoisseur before esaily carried back. It must be spending much money. confessed that much of the modern It is possible even in the three blackwood furniture being made days allowed, to go to Canton now is atrocious and too many The trip can be made at night drawing-rooms in Hong Kong are by steamer returning the filled with its funeral contortions following afternoon. There is to their utter confusion, neverthe- much to see there but most of us less much of it is well made, well will probably have had enough of designed and well carved and an travel by water for the time being ounce of taste on the buyer's part and be satisfied with bargain chas- will procure some charming examing in Hong Kong.

difficulty. Idenl for the non- strenuous walkers is to have

อ launch waiting at Wang Chong only half A mile or below the falls. The

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.

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4, Des Vœux Road Central, is, of

Taikoo Dock is reached, and from tained houses, each with a strip sant means of reaching the break-taking the wrong path. The road made at the little shrine at the there it is a very short drive back of garden, are a distinct change ing off place-not that it was any that continues on seems the better entrance to the glade. Ascending to launch effects the journey to Tai Po course, not a shop, but are included to the original point of departure. from the row upon row of flats

cleaner or less fly haunted than the one but after half a mile or so it the main path above and continuing in a very short time. For the very here because they are the friends visiting shoppers. which the vehicles pass in Nathan present buses but one could sit on dwindles to nothing. The real path one comes to a bridge spanning energetic It is possible to climb in need of the

not here and other ronds in Kowloon.

the little platforms outside and does not look so good as the one tributary just as it enters the main over the back of the Patain but this Tourists, of course, are dangle one's legs perilously near followed up to the point but it con- stream flowing away from the is liable to be too strenuous. The only to shop, they want to see the the ground.

rcal alternatives are to retrace one's sights too and enjoy all that Is tinues fair and one cannot really Dragon's Pool.

Sir Cecil Clementi was responsi-steps, than which nothing is more going, and often. they find them- Buses now serve the purpose very miss it if one's senses are on the well. They meet each train and the alert, as the cutting for which we ble for this bridge being bufit many hateful or the skirt round the cad selves at a loss to know how to

are making is very clearly seen on years ago.

of the Patain Range along the sand safeguard from loss and breaking fure is only 16 or 12 cents.

Before crossing the bridge we when one strikes a path or series of their purchases which accumulate At the time climbers alighted at the skyline a little to the loft. From

be no mistake. The turn left up a shady overgrown path paths which keep along between the fast at each new port of call. Here porium, you are assured fair prices, Wa Hang village and struck out now on can

foot of the range and Plover cove. is where the American Express Co., fresh stock, fine quality and faith- across paddy fields and streams to going le good until we enter the that follows the tributaries track.

Suddenly we are brought in full The path coalesce into a perfectly comes to their rescue, take charge of ful service, which has been their a good road but now that road atarts glade of Ching MI (named in hon- jealously guarded motto ever since just short of the aforementioned our of Sir Cecil Clementi). Here view of the falls into the bride's good road when Tolo Harbour le their treasures, pack them carefully reached and continues on to Tai Po and forward them home ahead of police station, well beyond Wa Hang the rond parts and continues on or Pool. they opened in Hong Kong.

Not so high and impressive as the Market. Unfortunately this makes the tourist, Once you have turned The stocka of smokers' requisites and so a start can now be made bending slightly right. The road

one through others but much prettier. A much rather a long dull and distinctly your things over to Amexco to for- carried in this store are large. and fram thero: actually the good road to the right takes

ward you can rest assured that they varied. They have all the best is the usual steny path. It skirts Ching Mi vilinge and so to the top broader sweep of a fall and in weary return.

The pools are undoubtedly one of will reach their destination safe and known brands of American tobae Sterling Inlet on one side and low pool (erroneously called by some strong sunshine the falling waters

make a brilliant tracory against the the finest sights in the Colony-sound. They also have special and lying marshy scrub land on the other the Dragon's Pool).

Wesleyan Methodist Church Quar- Traveller's cheques which are ex- cos and cigarettes In stock,

This pool is deep and quiet, well darker rocks. they are also famous for the lines hill until it reaches the end of the

The return journey presents some1terly.

tremely useful for Tourists, of Manila cigars which they carry. inlet. Here is an interesting vil wooded on one side while on the

Places of Interest.

Statue Square and Cenotaph. Old Kowloon City.

Paddy's Market-Hong Kong. Chinese Theatres (Ko Shing, Tai

Ping and Lee recommended).

Botanical Gardens,

Hong Kong University.

Peak Tramway to Peak Hotel Happy Valley Race Course and

Recreation 'Grounds.

Anglican Cathedral Grounds.

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