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No. 21,178

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日叁拾月四年寅丙

̇號八拾七百章千萬弍第

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.«

WEEK DAYS

AAN | Noor

Sheungch ni Ahumchan

Taipo Market...Dep. 721

2,0% 12.48 19.30 07 ...ATT1 7.42 10.13 11.25 1920 1939 2,73

Fanling... ...Dop 7.32 10.03 11.18

Dep.! 721 8.05 10.38 11.40

LX.

Kowloon... ...Dep. 6,40

Yaumati...

Shatin

Титро

Dep ...Dep ...Dep.i

Dop.

9.49 11.04 9.53 11.08

7,36 10.07 11,20

938 10:30 11.40 $12.00 6.50 2.34 10.39 9.36 10.51 7.02. 7.18

12.09

1,15 4.35 6,29 7.10 1.24

8.38 7.19

1997

1.38 4,56 5,51

12.34

7.31 1.49 6.09 6.04 7,44

12.38

5,13 6.08 7,48 €19 7,58 5,99 6,23 3,02

6,59 8,061

417

6.13 6,08 5.00 616 5.24 6,19 6.34 6.29 4,43 3.39 6,33

4.56 5.51 6,48

5,08 6,03 6,58

Shamchan

Shengshui

Fanling

AM.

hhath

PM.

1.36

Taipo Market

Dep. 7.29 7.32 Dep

8.12 10.45.11.47

8.18 10.49 1151.

8.29 10,59 12.02

...Dep. 7,59

8.43 11.17 12.21

Yazmati...

· Kawinan...

Taipo

Shatin

Dop. 7.45 8.30 11.04.12.07

...Dep. 8.12 8.55 11.39 12.39

R.20 9.03 11,87 12.41 2.37 3.58 5.16 6.11 7.06 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC "HOLIDAYS

A.Y Noor 9.15 10.30 11.40| 12,00 Yazmati... ...Dep 6,509.24 20.39

Kowloon...

Bhatin

Taipo

Dep. 6.40

...Dep. 7.02

Dep.

7.16

Taipo Market Dep. 7.21

9.38 10,51

9.49 11.04 9,68 11,06 Fanling.... ..Dep. 7,32 10.03 11.18 Dep. 7.36 10.07 11.22

P.M.

1001 + 12.34 12.33

Sheargabai

Shumeban

AT 742 10.13 11.23 13.20 19.32

3.15 3.21

19.09 2.31 5.39 7.19 2,43 5,51 731 2,56 6,05 7.44 3,00 8.09 7,48. 32.48 3.11 6,30 7.58 6,24 8,02 6,30 9.08

M.. 7.10

Shumchan

Dop

Dep. 8.23 10.49 11.51

5.12 10.28 11.40 Dap. 8.39 10.43 11,47

P.X. 1.58

2.K.

3.07) 4.24 3.11 3.21

...Dep. 8.51: 11.17 12.21

Yatmati...

Dap. P.03 11.29 12.33

...Am 911 11.37 1241

9.37

4,381 8,01 6,50 44 6.05 6.34 3,38 4.55 6.18 6,47 3,50

6,59 6.07 6.30 9,59 6.15: 6.29

5.40 6,09

8.20

7.3. 6.16

Ahozagahui

Finding

Taipo Market Dep 8.33 10.89 12.02 Dep. 8.37 11.04 12.07

Taipo

Bhatin

Kowloon...

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYS.

F.M. 1 I.M. AX. AX STATIONS, Farling ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 2.20 6.25 Bhatankok...A 8.40 12.26 3,15 7.20

-SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

L.M. I P.M. STACIONE

...Dep. 7.45 11.30 3.20 6.25 Shstankok...Art. 9.40 19.05 415.7.20

Fanling

WEEK DAYS,

4.3.

LX.

7.M.. STATIONS,

5.00 "Shataukok..Dep. 8.30 10.18 1.05

Fanling ...AST, 7.25 11.10 2.00 6.55 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

ETATIONS.

AX. AM. T. IM

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LITERATURE AND CICKET.

THE MANUFACTURE OF JUTE.

SEOTS INVESTION TO REDUCE COSTS.

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There, is the old adage The greate

ples at Holland Park from April teth Guaranteed over 40 {FROM .org OWN CORRESPONDENT, Į the sinner the greater the saint." Dr.

to Sith. The leading frms exhibited, and Koch was a very conscientious servant of

EDINBURGH, April 2141. demonstrations of the weaving and knit. He the local Government for many years.

Sir James Barrie is to be a guest at ting, and also of the washing and iron, (no doubt. defended everything that was

the luncheon arranged by the Institute ing of artificial silk were given. Simul done in the name of the Governinent when.

of Journalists to welcome the Australian Staneously with this event the big stores his friends graehled about red tape

cricketers, to London. He will propose jin London and provincial towns arranged and inefficiency."

the toast of Cricket, and as one who special displays to demonstrate the wide Chet me the day when Dr. Kochheard him on a similar topie at Dumfries variety of fashionable purposes to which retired on a Government pension. It was about eighteen months ago F feel sure artificial silk goeds can be applied a ense of This Freedom." He did not the Aussies will have happy mem- Each shop made special feature of retire from the Colony, He was far too!ories of a bright and entertaining talk. British artificial silk goods, which are active in ody and mind to be content! The Barrie touch was delightfully reveal admittedly in the front rank.

& CO., LTD. with the prospect of a quiet corner in the ad in that swech to his old schoolmates

If, as has been prophesied, artißcial Thatched House Cluli and the petty per and friends at Dumfries, when he con- silk should become the cheapest of the Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances

of Hongkong.] sonal economies which are inevitable if fessed that the biggest moment of his life dress fabrics, its introduction so tro-

Itical countries will be an interesting 15, Qurzx's BOAD CENTRAL. TIL, 75 CENTRAL. jas is, the ease in the medical service, the had nothing to do with literature.

One manufacturer has Governurit pension is innilequate. Happened in the summer of 1924, when development... just transferred from the staff of the" was asked by a cricket eleveälready had considerable success with it Principal Civil Medical Officer to private or undergraduates playing against 4in edin. The fabric is admirably practice. As it that were not sufficient Gloucestershire village team, to fill a tem suited to hot climates, having the saine to use up his energies he entered public piorary acancy. The greater of Piter characteristics as cotton. Indeed, being! life. He had given so thany years of ser

Panas put on to bowl, and he did | light, absorbeat, and porous, and main-" vice to the public as a member of the the back! staff of the Government Civil Hospital that it had become a habit. He seems to the have en uile to ginger op! Government in his spare time.

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taining an even temperature, it has wor HonezDNG HOTU; REPULSE BAY HOTEL Crickby the way, is a game to which the favour of modern doctors as great parts bave hardly done justice,"healthy" material. One point about either layers ar

writers. Cowper artificial aifk that is little realised is that claims to have been a useful up." hut there are four varieties produced by four he gives details. Tennyson is super different methods of treating chemically Byron bowled the wood pulp or cotton pulp which con. Anyone in England who has ambitions Scial, and so is Hood:

schoolbey Walt stitutes the raw material. to serve the public has many opportuni- for Harrow while, u ties. There are the Tran District Coun-Whitmart has written a cricket poem that peculiar style, and Sir cila, the Town and City Councils, the

Bacaught the spirit of

"Artificin silk is likely in the future to play a most important part in fashion. able colour schemes, says the Daily Tele graph It has been found that Aber n

fabric is passed through a bath

of dye the artifcia) silk emerges one- shade and the silk. or cotton another The result has been a wonderful develop- meat in the use of colour combinations, and various experiments with colours now being made. This discovery

County Councils and, for the really Hence bitious individual the House of Coutorgame in the thich speaks of mons. There are the Boards of Guardians

Abumping pitch and a blinding light: that look after the administration of the

An hour to play, and the last man in. poor law, and there were Edvention

The first triolet believed to have been Boards, but the latter have disappeared and one hears little now of the former written about cricket came from the pen In addition to all these there are various of Mr. Coulson Kernahan, and when the political associations. A good speaker" great Ranji" was at the height of his are can, in England; usually collect an audi-power some one wrote a second triolet enables manufacturers to produce a cross erce somewhere if he talks politics. He beginning-Ranjis scoring to-day" and dyed or marl effect by simply dyeing the Formerly the to-morrow?" cloth after weaving it. may have to serve his 'prentier days at ending- Will he do so

fine Ballade of strands had to be coloured separately a street corner or in Hyde Park, but he Andrew Lang has

Cricket; but Kipling is disparaging before they were "woven in order to Eetg a chance.

when he makes a native schoolmaster say achieve this result.*' the English judge a scholar's worth

£4

. .

By casting a ball at three sticks, and

defending the same with a fourth.

If anyone commenced a political speech at a street corner or in Statue Square in this Colony the authorities might go ag far as to turn out the Fire Brigade. Even the religious enthusiasts keep away from Perbags the post surprising poet to find in this gallery is Francis Thompson, who the street corners in Hongkong.

There are, therefore, really only three was a most enthusiastic follower of the pitches" for the public orators. They gane, and writes of how pictures of are the Legislative Council, the Sanitary former, matches rise before his mind- Board and the Education Board. About

And once every five years we have a public meeting in the City Hall at which various orators let off steam.

THE SANITARY-DEPARTMENT,

in the good old days Mr. Shrizon; Hooper was the valiant champion of the

a khosty batsman plays to the Bowling of ghost, And I look through my tears on n'

soundless clapping host,

It is understood that the Companý, desire to secure the right of the inven tion for the whole of India. By Mr. Spalding's process, it is claimed, po ret- ting is required, and, further, the material can either be used in its green state or he de-gummed. Instead of taking the customary four weeks to rett, the pro- cess is said to be completed in as many hours. Manufacturers at the present time say that the material can only be de-gummed "by means of chemical treat-

As the run-stealers flicker to and fro. NEW TREATMENT OF JUTE. Mr. A. L. Spalding, 23, Shepherd's meat, but Mr. Spalding claims to be able to perform the operation by incans of a public at the meetings of the Sanitary/Loan, Dunder the inventor of the mineral treatment, the "nature of which Board. That lying jade Rumour declared machine for the treatment of flax, hem te does not divalge,

MOTHER OF ROBERT BURNS., that he used to sit up late at nights and jute, has received an offer from a studying thick tomes on sanitation. It leading Indian Jute Company to go to

India and demonstrate his invention, The attention of the Secttish Literary was even stated that he himself wrote n

which, it is claimed, would eliminate 23 world has been focused on the proposal treatise or a pamphlet on the subject.

During the last two or three years per cent of the cost of manufacturing of the Burne clubs in East" Lothian to erect a memorial to Agnes Brown, the "Koch has been the great questioner at the jute.

Some time ago the manager of the Com- mother of the poet. Agner Brown does Sanitary Board meetings. He finds it an easy wicket. Not only does he know all pany visited this country, and examined not figure much in her famous son's life the technical details because of his Mr. Spalding's invention, and as a result or writings, but she was a worthy woman, made the offer, which was repeated by and she has been commemorated in one minor poet, John mail this week. The firm offers to give little known poem that is worth recalling, Mr. Spalding a free hand in his denon-although it is by a stration, and to pay all the expenses in Russell, who, musing on Agnes Brown's connection with it. The inventor has grave in the churchyard of Bolton, near decided to go to India, though he has Haddington, turns from other memorials of the 'dead, "quaint-hewn gravestones," not definitely decided when.

and mausoleums, huge and hoary," and Foliloquises :-

medical experience and training, bat he knows the ways of the Government Departments that, to the crdinary citizen, Beem so mysterious,

Dr. Koch did great work during the typhoid scare of 1924. No doubt he had his rebuffs, but "he kept on keeping on," "It is dogged as does it." The story of the importunate widow is especially ap plicable to

Government departments,

(Continued on next Column): N

The one thing they like in to be left alone. powers. It requires not only considerable Dr. Koch knows that and they know that energy, but courage, to challenge the

he knows. Perhaps one day he will be a Government departments. member of the Legislative Council. I for

one wish him success.

There are those, who say that Dr. Koch

is just tilting at the windmills. He has, It is always an uphill fight if anyone at any rate, hit some of them without wishes to get a more on in this Colony. being unhorsed. He is too sure of his In the tropics human inertia is a tremen facta to make mistakes. He has done dous force. In a small Crown Colony the very valiant service for the general public local Government has almost autocratic who wish him luck in his efforts on their i

behalf (Continued at foot of next Column.)

Let peace be theirs! It is a fairer

meed,

A more enduring halo of renown

That glorifies this grave, o'er which' I

read

The name of Agnes Brown.

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