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No. 21,216

號六拾登百式千堂萬式第 日八廿月伍年實丙

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY,

TIME TABLE.

WEEKDAYS"

Dep 6.40 935 10.80 1140 19.00

9410.39

Bhatia Taipawa Tipo Market Fanling Shengshui

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NOON

2,43·|-10,1-3471,28-12.30 12.38213

4.88 5,99 7.1

5.38 19

8.08 17,45

Kowloon... Yamsti... Dap 8.50

12,09

...Dep. 7.39 10.03 17118

Dop 7.03-9.561,10,51 Dep 2.169.40 11,04 Dep. 7.97 9.39 11.08

12.21

13.34

12.38

12.48

8,19 7,58

Dep. 7.36 10,07 11.02

19.52

6.29. 3,02

3.21 5.34 16.99 8.08

doo Ka

P.M..

8:05 10.53 11,40 1.56 8.00

4.175,13

6.08

Shoangshai

8.13 10.45 11,47

3,07

404 520

6.15

Fanling...

8.16 10.49 11,51

8.11

4,98 5,24

819

Taipo Market

7,42

8.28 10.59 12.02

Tripo

7,46

7.59

5.43 11.17 19.01

8.30 11.04 1907

4.38 5.84 8.29

Yamati...

Komioon...

Shatin

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8,55 11.09 12.33 11.97 19.41

3.95 4.49 5.58 6.33

3,38 4,56 6.311 646 3,50 5.03 6.03; 6,58 37 8.58 -5,181 611 7,08

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYS. VECTIONS. Fanling

...Dep. 7,45 11.80 9.90 625 Skataukok.AT. 8.40 12.35 18 7.20

STATIONS

SUNDAYS-AND-PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

LX 1.XI. P.M. Frating Dap: 7.45 11.30 8.20, 6.25 Shatankokarr, 8.40 19.25 4,15 7.90

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ANEM P.M.

WEEK DATE... Shataukok...Dep. 6.30 10,13 1.05 5.00 Fanling

7,25 11.10 200 15.25

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIU HOLIDAYS,

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HONGKONG'S MOUNTED of mafcos from the time that those latter objected to doing anything for the white man's warborses in times of emergency. Thus does cavalry instruction become genuine, and-inspimog. It riskes service (~ GEORGE ENWARD: HOW COULD in the Mounted Infantry attractive to every man of intelligence who hai a true Man's interest in the most admirable of all Edimals.

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twenty others, and leave them or rejoin them at order. Even the born horseman benefits by regular regimental instruction Some such instruction is the Swedish gym- nastics of riding; it is necessary for the beginner, and it is never completely given

up by the most proficient..

KNOWLEDGE OF THE COUNTRY. There are of course some Jonabs in Hongkong who, with mystic references to

The sunlight was streaming through the

windows of the ward when an Evening Standard representative entered it. There

had received the Prince's gift. All inoks were directed to Mrs. Cann, an auburn, haired, fresh-complexioned-young-wOAD of 20, lying in a bed at one end of the room. She is the mother of the first child born in the ward, now four days old

THE QUEEN'S COT. ****The baby, was still in the "pretty" "cado" pied cot of white muslin and blue satin, which was given by the Queen, and forins

Mrs. Cana, who lives at Bobert Street, a sort of throne in the centre of the ward,

would be in great demand if an enemy threatened us by land or sea.. Nobody. who knew the European situation of twelve years ago, or who understands the world situation to-day, will dezy the possibility of such an eventuality. It in the Pampas, or the Belvoir, will tell you Hampstead Road, not far from the hos therefore re-assuring to know that the that it is not worth while, because Hong-pital, proudly took from her locker the Mounted Section of our Defence Corps kong is not a place for riding. The enter three golden faathers handed to her by bas recently been favoured with some prising and public-spirited gentlemen, or the Prince.

He came over to me,said, 'Mrs. Cann before I knew what was happen very practical support, and is enjoying a rather ladies and gentlemen, who last boom. The Mounted Infantry is enjoying year founded the Fanling Hent may be ing. He had been told, it seems, that I a boom not only because it is the most supposed to have settled that argument was the mother of the first baby born practical and cheapest avenue of approach by showing that there are miler and here, and he said, Now, get well again from his buttonhole and handed, them to to hacking, hunting, polo, racing and chismiles of Hongkong territory aver which 5000, and then he took, these feathers ing, but also because it now enjoys oppor. China ponies can gallop three or four me.

days a week for months, without a lame tunities for real efficiency.

leg. The fact of the matter is that there are huge tracts of our territory bore which only borsemen-know-Now and then you come across a human eccentricity who en his fat feet, making use of every cool day in the year, has been able after long residence to learn a little about the rare beauty and fine air on the other side Determined pedestrians have thus walked over Shatin Pass, and climbed Castle Peak or Tai Mo Shan; and if the day was warm have expected three days sympathy for their exhaustion, and been driven to much

CAUSEWAY BAY STABLES. New stables, specially for the use of the Mounted Infantry, have been erected at Causeway Bay. This is a tremendous asset to the unit. In the old days the ponies were kept in the Jockey Club Stables. When the members of the unit paraded, their pomies were brought out to them on the Polo Ground; they mount ed, did a drill, and then handed over their ponies to mafoos who led them back into the sacred and, to many, unknown

precincts. Recruits in due course learned

strong drink for their restoration. But

"I had hardly time to stammer out "Thanks, when he said to the sister. Now, where's the baby i' and crossed to the middle of the ward to see him.

Why, what a lovely baby he is, he said, coming back to me How old is he?!

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When I told him three days,” con- tinued Mrs. Cann, he went across and had a second look at the baby, and placed on his cot three feathers like these, which have since, unfortunately, disappeared.

GEORGE EDWARD

He asked me what I was going to call him, and, when I replied that he had already been christened, and that his names were George Edward, he answered, Splendid. New could you

beat that?"

When asked that she thought of the Prince, the young mother rather naively replied, He's such a nice young fellow, And was smiling all the time, but he seemed just a bit shy. In fact, I think he blushed when be first came up to speak to me.”

to ride through the usual cavalry move most people would rather do without the ments, and attended the usual field days joy of knowing the shapes of hills-and Enterprising members even undertook the valleys than set about it in that was adventure of unescorted rides across the Golfers see nothing beyond the fairway, Island. But what is the use of learning except the long grass, and have a world- to sit in a saddle, if you have never put. wide reputation for fancying the spirit

By this time the baby had been placed A saddle on! What is the use, for wax, rather than the air. Motorists are bound in his mother's arms, and the three fea- of being able to ride a horse, if you have to the road like Ixion to his wheel. But there which were the Prince's gift were Fnever fed him nor groomed him? How the horseman knows the fascinating placed in his tiny hand.

I then very carefully te can a man aspire to horsemastership, it tracks from Taipo to Un Long, and from said Mrs. Cann." It would be fine if he has no practical experience of stable- Failing to Chuk. Ying. He knows the 1 could give them to him, perhaps, when management? A horse is a peculiarly little hills between Sheung Shui and Lo he is 21 or when he gets married.""" unfortunate encumbrance to anyone who Shu Ling, and the whole length of the can't tell whether he is chead or dirty, frontier from Sha Tau Kok to Lok Ma fat or thin, lame or sound; to a man who Chau. He has ridden round Taipo har dogan't see a sore back or a girth gall hour and Plover Cove. He had been in till it has become an incurable sore; who the enchanted ground round Pineapple 'doesn't know how to look into a horse's Pass before the road went there, and had mouth or pick up its feet, and can't tell ridden through Leadmine Pass. Much of whether a bit fits or a saddle will slip off that is heart-breaking country for the That was the dissatisfaction and danger infantryman He is blind with fatigue of the old arrangerepte. The dissatis half the time. But the Chias pony goes faction for a sane recruit of having to merrily along, hopping over the half

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next the Mounted Infantry, by the invita tion of their brothers in mobility, the Armoured Car Boction, are taking part in a Gymkhaus which will be the local attraction for all lovers of military exer cises and things that have rapid motion. The M. items are Wrestling on Horse- back, Balaclava Malee, and Tent Pegging. Teat-Pegging it an exercise seldom seen in Hongkong There is a popular super- stition that if you get a China poar inta sufficiently rapid gallop to lift a pes say that if you brandish a dance near his about, of being scared by his ignorance those difficult little bridges of one stane head he will go mad. If such, in some instead of confident in his ability to learn. slab, and climbing steps where necessary, cases, proves true on Saturday, it will The danger of aiming at mobility on while the mounted infantryman scans the doubtless add to the gaiety of assembled nations: But it is not likely. Neither is horseback without opportunities for country at ease, and knows exactly where it likely that among the competitors there teaching stable-management. It was only the is.

will be many of that tiresome expert type during a few brief days at camp that most

who, spending their lives, tent pegging SATURDAY'S COMPETITIVE GAMES. at Military Tournaments, are never alle met bad any chance of seeing the horse.

to decide a competition until the peg has in stable, of living with it and caring for The Mounted Infantry Bection also been pared down to a tenuity resembling it. Now all that is changed. The new plays its part in organising mounted the willow wand that Robin Hood pierced with his arrow at the Tournament of stables at Causeway Bay belong to every sports other than racing. There seems Ashby. A broader mark will probably member of tia unit. Every member of to be no end to the competitive games suffice for our local amateurs to decide the unit has access there at all times, in which horses participate with huoan be those who will carry on at a rare who is the winner. There will doubtless

and can see for himself that the drains keenness. The China pony in this, as in gallop, with a fine sweep of the flashing are clear and the roof in repair, that his almost everything except size and speed, lance, and be content if they can score a touch on the peg now and then, while horse is getting his proper feed, and that is just like his cousins in Europe. Con- others will go slowly and make a care- bis saddlery is being attended to. He cansequently there have been Mounted In-fully 'calculated, jab into the very heart even add to his linguistic accomplishment fantry Gymkhanas in the past, and there of the peg as they pass. But the winner by learning Hindustam in questioning and will be more in the future. On Saturday with precision, and can take it clean and will be the man who can combine velocity

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