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MASON'S

DELICIOUS

O.K.

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Fost Office in the United Kingdom.

N. LAZARUS. Hong Kong's Only European

Optician..

· Established Over Forty Yours. Manager:---RALPH A. COOPER. Begistered Optometriať (Canada).“

No. 21.391 LESTINA BOZƑËЯT HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 1927. BARFLATER PRICE: 3 PER MONTE

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

Kowloon Tarmati Bhatin

TIME TABLE.

Dep 8,40

7,09

Taipo ...Dep. 7.14 Talpo Markat Dep. 7.21 Faning

...Dep. 783

Bheangakai...Dep. 7.30 Bhamphun ...A, 749 Canton ...AM.

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Canton ...Dep. Bhramchan.Up. 7.19 Shaungthai Dep. 238 Fanling Dep. 7.51 Tipo Market Dep. 7,61 Tripo ...Dep. 7.45 ...Dap. 7.48 ...Dep. 8,19

Yazmati Rowloon

Fanling Shazamkok

Our London Letter.

AN ARTIST'S EMPIRE MAP:

OEPETITION AGAINST PETTY

8.05 8.30 9.18 10,50/12.00 118 24,556,29 1,21 9.24 10.39 12.09 194 2.81 45.38 7.30 9.36 10.3118.21 1,80 243 456) 5,51) 7.4% 9.4011204 1954 1.45 1.58 3,09) 6,04 7.55 9.53 11.00 12.36 13.00 518 6.08 7.59 10.08 11.18 12.48 708 3.11 534 6.19 8.02 9.07 10.07 11.22 13.5 1.07 215 6.28 6.23 8.13 8.45 9.1301311,2312,58 9.15 3.81 8,846.29 815

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8.30 10.15 1.08 2.05 7.95.

11.10 2.00 3.00 5.55 8.10 E SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS EXCEPTID. C=Sundays AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS "ONLY. Further information may be obtained at the RAILWAY OVIDE, Kow. ICOM, or bom. Masera. Thos. Coax & 8, Lab,, Horetone, or from THE AMERICAN EXPLIN COMPANY, HONG Koru,

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H. P. WINSLOW, Manager.

RESTRICTIONS.

REGISTRATION FOR ARCHITECTS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PEACE BRIDGE AT NIAGARA.

FRENCE MAY OPEN CANADIAN END.

NORTH AMERICA'S. FORTLESS FRONTIER.

THE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

Chinese New Year Day. Golf: China New Year Meeting, Fanling

Cricket: United Services Hong Kong, H.K.C.C ground

Interport Football: Hong Kong

p.m.

H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.30

hotels.

Chinese New Year Carnivals at

A new Niagare bridge will be opened this year which will events. Shanghai, H.K.F.C. ground, 8.30 ually become pubke roberty as a free gift. There are at present two vehicular bridges nyar the gorge in which the falls ruu,and beside these there are only two other vehicular bridges in the 2000 miles of the Great Lakes and their con- necting rivers that stretch from the the ses to Duluth, the western end of the lakes.

Pantomime: Little Red Riding Hood, Theatre Royal, 8:15 pm.

Dance for Interport football teams, Laos, Crawford's Restaur mat. 9 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Go West," World Theatre: Chinese Pic

ture."

Loxtos, January 1st The Empire Marketing Board has commenced the great advertising campaign promised for the New Year with a great coloured map, "Highways of Empire," which is being exhibited on the principal The new bridge is at the outlet of Lake Erio and will connect the hoardings in London and the big City of Buffale and Fort Erie, the cities. It is a splendid artistic pro-site of the last battle between the Star Theatre: "Dempsey-Tunney duction by Mr. Macdonald Gill. English and the Americans on the Fight," and "The Runaway Ex- Other well-known artists are also Niagara frontier in the war of 1819. press

The theory of the fortless

Mrhursday. at work on poster pictures. The frontier -between Canada and Golf China New Year Meeting, "Highways of Empire" is so at the United States is of course

Fanting. ** Not gut has been tractive and arresting that crowds correct.

Point to Point race for Mounted fired along

the international have been assembling in London to boundary for 112 years, but mili-Infantry Company, Fanling.

Cricket: United Services such an extent as to interfere with tary posts have been kept there for Hong Kong, H.K.C.C. ground.

quartering troops and with the Interport Football: Eastern the free passage of the streets.

possibility of civil disturbances in This first poster is twenty feet by view. The Fort Forter post, main-Chinn v. Southern China, Sookum ten, and is a spirited drawing full taiped for nearly 100 years by the poo, 3.20 p.m. of entertaining details. It has an United States, was abandoned this years and the grounds have been edd and arresting look, for the purchased to make an American ap artist has escaped the usual projec proach to the bridge.

HONG KONG, CANTON AND of the atlases in which the

MACAO STEAMERS.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT Co., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION Co., Læð.

CANTON LINE.

Sailings from Hong Kong: Daily, at 8 AM)

Sailings from Canton: Daily, at 8 AM Sunday, NoSailing.

ADDITIONAL BAILINGS: Steamer will leave for Canton on

FRIDAY, 4TX Fxx SATURDAY, 5x Pza.,)

{at 9 AM., and from Canton at 3 P.M. Same Day,

MACAO LINE

FROM HONG KONG: 5 AM. and 2 P.M. daily. (Sunday: 9 LM. only),

FROM MACAO: BA.M. and 2 P.M. daily, (Sunday: 3.30 P.M. only).

CURTAILED SAILINGS. (CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS).

No Sallings to or frota Macao on Chinese New Year's Day, 2ND FEBRUARY. 3D FEBRUARY-To Macso-8 AK only. From Macao-2 .M. only. ATX FEBRUARY-To Macao-2 x only. From Macao-8 AM only.

SUNDAY EXCURSION:

'SUL AN" wil depart from A, and from Macao

DE SUNDAY, 6TH FEBRUARY, 2.1. Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 at 3.30 T..

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THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

TWO BOHEMESS

round world is rolled out Bat and distorted in the process. Mr. Gill's projection, or point of view, is somewhere high in the sky over London. This gives him England painted a vivid red, and ridiculous ly small as the heart of the world which, however, is exactly what is

wanted.

"Bootleggers Blessing."

The piers of the new bridge will be based on the solid rock of the river bed. The bridge itself will be a steel girder construction. A span of 360 feet will cross the Erie canal on the American side, and five steel axches will ergas the river, which a-1,90 et vid There will be six-foot causeways either side for pedestriana.

H.K. Hotel ten dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tes dansant, 4,30 p.m.

HK. Philharmonic Society re- hearsal (H.M.S. Pinafore), Cathe dral Hall, 8.45p.m. Ladies' Night,

Europea YM.C.A., Kowicon, 9 p.m.

Queen's Theatre:

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Old Clothes." World Theatre: "Chinese. Pic-

tures."

Star Thestro & The Wife. Who Wasn't Wanted

Principal Mag etc., and Europs (President Taft),

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HONGKONG

Harazona Borals Bauen Bay Hotel

Paix HOTEL

Telegraphis Addrese :

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AND

SHANGHAT

Arron Horus Hotel'; Palace Ho 21;

MARIO HOTEL

Telegraphic Address i "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI.”

HOTELS, LIMITED.

In arociation with the GrawD HOTEL DE WAGONS Lrts, Paxis.

KING

EDWARD HOTEL. CENTRAL LOCATION,

Electric Lifts and Lighting," Telephones on each floor.

Hotel Launch meets all Steamare Telephone: Central No. 373 Tel. Address:: VIOTORIAL

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J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL. Siberia.TEL: E. No. 3. Tel. Ads" PALACE

Three Minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Terry Wharf and Railway Station. Entirely under Eriglish Mans en Electrin Light and Fans Toron

Throug

Friday. Interport Football: United Ser Shanghai, E.K.F.C. ground, 4 p.m.

H. K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.30 P..

Interport Football dinner, Hotel Savoy, 8 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Old Clothes." World

The map is semicircular, with the

At each end facilities coxners filled in with a hold, degration and Customs officials will corative design of the heavenly be provided. Cynical people assert bodies. Acrcas the blue seasho highways of Empire-the British that the bridge in certain circles ships swarm and cluster round the will be known as the "Bootleggers Blessing. Its official name will bes great parts like bees, on the threa the Peace Bridge, and efforts are hold of the hive. The catches

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being made to secure the presence the eye, which is the main thing, of the Prince of Wales on his visit sad once caught the eye is kept

to Canada to open the Canadian busy hunting out all the bright

end of the bridge, while it is hoped and amusing vagaries of the artist that President Coolidge will at the This is the beginning of the came paign urging people to

Star Theatre: "The Wife Whe Buy Emsame ceremony open the American tures," Theatre: pire Products,' and a very good The financing of the bridge fol- Wasn't Wanted.". beginning, too.

lows a practice which has been used Principal Mails:Inward: Europe in the erection of other large vid Suez (Mantua), Outward: bridges in the United States. It Europe vid Siberia (Patroclus), overcomes the difficulties of appor. 10.30 a.m.; U.S.A., Canada, etc.. tionment between different authori- Europe vid Biberia, and ties and falls in with the American Victoria (President Jackson), 3.30 preference for private enterprise p.m. against public action.

Too Many Restrictions.

A campaign has been started to get rid of the irksome restrictions on the sale of tobacco after 8 p.m. in hotels and public-houses. There is something Gilbertian in the situation. You may, for instance, find yourself in a hotel bar at, say, 8.15, and the Hebe behind the coun ter dare not sell you a packet of. cigarettes although they are on the shelf behind her. The reason in that tobacconists close at 8 o'clock under the Shops Act, and the sale of tobacco everywhere in prohibited

after that hour.

approach.

To Ugat £1,000,000.. The charter for the bridge was granted jointly by the Dominion of Canada, the United States Govern ment and the State of New York, in which Buffalo is situated.

Saturday.

EVERY ROOM WITH PRIVATE BATH

Lomage Bar and Billiard Boome Carivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietress.

TERMS MODERATE, Special Terms to Families on applica-

Mas. J. E. OXBERRY, Proprietress.

Chinese Picton for

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Golf Final Governor's Shield, Fanling.

Yachting Racing Claases." Football and Cricket: Details in Saturday's issue.

Fanling Hunt meet Hunters' Arms, 3 p.m.

Royal, 3.10 p.m.

Boxing Tournament, Theatre

which is building the bridge has. The company of 25 directors

Interport Football: China . issued shares for the cost, which Shanghai, H.K.F.C. ground, 3.30 The idea was, no doubt, to pre- will be nearly £1,000,000. Interest Hotel tes dance, 4.20 p.m. vent the public-house or restaurant will be paid on this sum from tolls

Hotel Saroy tea dansant,” 4.30 from reaping an unfair advantage. charged for crossing the bridge, This may be excellent in theory, but and the scheme provides that the P in practice it is a source of con- tolls may be fixed so as to provide stant annoyance. Besides, most to a sum from which investors may be (1) The OBILDREN'S EARLY PROVIDENT SOREME. Combines the

bacconists when they close instal paid back and the bridge will then very latest and best features of Assurance and Investment for the benest

an automatic machine outside their become the property of the public at Your Child..

premises, and from these machines Its A plan of Aardranos sppealing to

final ownership will be decided tures."

Star Theatre: The Wife Who cigarettes can be obtained. This of

by t the three bodies which issued the course makes the.

Wasn't Wanted," prohibition as DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

charter for its erection.

Mails:Outward: Principal public-houses especially regards A.GXXTS,

silly.". There are similar restric tions over the male of chocolates,

10.30 a.. sweets and ice-creams.

(2, PARTNERSHIP ASSURANCE.

business men.

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2, QUEEN'S BUILDING,

KOWLOON HOTEL

TEL. Nos..

K. 608; 809,

KOWLOON.

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL

CABLE ADDRESS:

KOWLOTEL, Hong Kong.

With a wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak

Three minutes from the Ferry and Station. Six stories of modern Rooms and Bathrooms Under the Personal supervison of an Experienced European 'Manager.

Excellent Cuisine.

Daily Rates from $5. Monthly from $120.

Recently renovated throughout..

W. E PERRY,

Manager.

Patty Annoyance.

The Only Hotal in CANTON.

Directly under European

Management.

THE VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN

Guides

And Trips arranged for and Special Care

Taker of TOURISTS Cable Addreat: "VICTORIA"

Queen's Theatre: Old Olothes. World Theatro: "Chinese Pic-COLLECTION OF POSTAGE

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STAMPS MOUNTED IN BOOKS CONTAINING BOTH MINT AND USED STAMPE.

WHISKY from the WOOD!

MACGREGOR'S

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in 4 gallon casks.

Ideal for a Mess.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,

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Paverparated under the Compealin' Ordes 2000s

at Box, Xog] •

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The new building was planned in 1914 to celebrate a hundred yearn of peace, but the war delayed the project. It is intended to open it next spring.

On behalf of the public-houses the Federation af British Industries is urging that licensed premises can only be open during fixed hours, while the retail tobacconists are

Registration For Architects. able to sell their goods throughout

orenins I hear that with a view to safe- the day, and that, further, Host" has to pay for the licenca guarding their profession from in- which allows him to sell tobacco, competent practitioners the archi- One point made about the restrictocts are promoting a Bill in Par tions is that, apart from the domes-liament for registration. A mera- tic vexation they cause, they are ber, President of the RL.B.A., and orandum signed by Mr. Gay Daw- not likely to help the " Come to the presidents of kindred socia Britain" movement, for foreigners arriving in London are not likely tions, gives an outline of the pro- to enjoy obstacles placed in the way posals. These are that all bura which must appear to them a mere era or nasistants, are to be placed of smoking, or eating chocolates, fide architecte, whether practition British eccentricity

on a register, but no one, will be deprived of any existing rights.

Sunday.

1,000

0.000

8,000

·5,000

Fanling Hunt meet, Mrs. Pater- 4,000 son's bringalow, 10.30 am.

Golf: Junior Championship 10,000 (second round).

Social St. John's Cathedral Hall, pam

Monday." Shanghai Interport football team leave on Haruna Meru.

HK Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p/IL Hotel Savoy tes dansant, 430 p.m. tralia and Marila (Panda).

Principal Mails:-Inward: Aus

Tuesday. Sanitary Board meeting, 415

p.m.

HK Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Batoy fea, dansant, 4.20

1.02

Annual meeting Hong Kong Horticultural Society, Jardine, Matheson's Board Room, 5.15 p.m. Annual meeting St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, 6 pato.

To Secretaries. [Secretaries of clubs and associa

It is not that any one restriction The idea is to set up a deânite is great hardship, but it in tre standard of architectural training secumulation of such petty inter and examination, and that ferences with ordinary freedom that tects, will, thereby enjoy the privi arouses a sense of irritation among the public. It is expected that a lege and prestige that Parliament Memorial which 167 M.P.' have has conferred upon the medical and presented to the Home Office will public utility and safety. Regis other professions on the grounds of lead to the Home Secretary being tration laws for architects, it is tions, etc, are kindly requested to advised to take action in order to pointed out, are in force in thirty forward any forthcoming events to sweep away some, at least of the one of the American States, and in the Daily Fress for inclusion in the childish restrictions that now, ham- Australia, Canada, New Zealand, above column, which it is our on- per us in our daily life.

Bouth Africa, and Singapore.deavour to keep as correct and H.B.

up-to-date as possible.]

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