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12,19 8,39 4.33

12.31 $.51 5.30

13.37 3,57

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21st, 1927. •伍拜望

EDUCATING A CROWD IN

PICCADILLY.

OBJECT LESSON IN MODERN

ROAD MAKING,

WORK WELL UP TO TIME.

The work of relax Piccadilly is well up to schedule, and it is ex- pected that, should nothing foreseen occur, the road will be open BLAIR DRUHON (Perthshire)

ior traffic again in November ac- Count Rilski, a tall, slight marcording to the original estimate.

Th

rather dark, with an air of melan éhely relieved by a pleasant smile, bade farewell to his host and hostess at Blair Drummond, step ped into a motorcar, took the wheel, and drove off.

The car stopped eighty miles away ut

the doors of Balmoral Castle, and there Conat Rilski emerged from his incognito and be came King Boris of Bulgaria, the guest of King George and Queen

Mary.

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However, there is many a slip as one of the officials in charge of the work said, and with a work of this magnitude, which em bruces twelve frms and more than 100 men, anything may happen. yaw, however, the work is going even better than was at first anticipated.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day,

Nelson Day (1805).

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingiora.

Tea Dance H.K. Hotel and Hote! Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Ed ward Hotel, 5 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30 6.30 p.m.

CO

Hockey: Clab "A" University, Pokfulam, 5.15 p.m.

日登廿月拾年七廿百九仟登英

"Cheer O": Concert, 7 p.m.

Naval and Military YMC.A. :-)

Dam

The Quaints " present. "One Thing After Another," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

cert, Queen's Theatre, 9.30 p.m.

Navy League Nelson Day Con-

Queen's Theatre: "The Cat and the Canary."

Pirate.

World Theatre: "The Black

Star Theatre: "The Golden Bed." Principal Mails:-Inward: Maru); Europe via Negapatam, Europe ría. Siberia (Kashima letters only (Falamba). Outward Europe via Siberia (Sarpedım), 10.30 am.

Saturday.

8th Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong and Canton Ics

Lower Albert Road, noon. Manufacturing Company, Limited,

A mile and a half of new water mains are being laid, several miles of electric cable, and great lengths «f telephone cables. At the same

time the gas company are taking Et. Peter's Church Young Men's the opportunity of examining their Club walking picnic to Telegraph | mains and effecting any necessary repairs, and, should any of these Show Committee meeting, Sheung New Territorios Agricultural undertakings find more extensive Shui. 30 p.m. repair work than anticipated, the Season, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Official Opening of Yachting opening of Piccadilly may well be Club. postponed.

He is remaining at Balmoral for a few days, says a London paper. From Britain he will return to his modest court it Sofia-to the moun tain kingdom ruined by the disas trous policy of his father. King Ferdinand, and restored by his own constitutional rate.

This is but the eccond time that Boris III. has gone beyond the irontiers of his country sided he ascended the one-too-secure throne in September, 1918. Here in the Trossachs be bas had his frst real holiday for years.

F getting Politics. At Blair Drummond he was the guest of Sir A. Kay Muiz and Lady Muir, Lady Mair is the daughter of a former Bulgarian Minister in London, and a dip lomat of genius herself.

Attack On Concrete. Watching the new Piccadilly come into beng grows as a public entertainment every day. At 6rst,

messenger boys, Americans, and anybody who had nothing better to do and enjoyed the sensation of watching somebody else work, made up the audience, but w large and really interested crowds and all is undoubtedly day and watch what an educational experience Blair Drummond is an ancient Yesterday every phase of the house secluded in woods overlook-breaking and making of a modern

ng the River Teit. Here Boris or rather Count Rilski had roadway, was on view, and a walk

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Annual Swimming Sports of the H.E. Boy Scouts Association, VRC., 3-5 p.m.

Hockey Y.M.C.A. で。 Helens May Institute team.

I.R.C. "A" R.G.A.: Royal Navy Cricket League: - Division I.: v. L.R.C. "B" Division II.: Uni- versity Kowloon C.C.; Police

R.C. v. R.A.0.0.

Friendly Cricket: H.E.C.C. RA F.; Chinese R.C. v. Univer- ity; Kowloon C.C.. K.O.S.B.; Gegengowar CC. v. Civil Service "2nd; - Club de Recreios. Northamptonshire Regt.

H.K. Football League:-Division I: Scots Guards . Becrcio; Club * R.A.; Police v. Kowloon; R.A.F. Queen's; South China Chinese Ath. Division II. Chines

South China "B"; South China

Ath. 1. Recreio; St Joseph's . K.O.S.B. Division II "B" South China B

the best of times possible. For from the Ritz to the Circus provid". R.A.: University v. Club; whole days be was able to forgeted & gratuitous addition to any Chinese the perplexed politics of the Bai-tody's education. kanson the beautiful moors of F'erthshire,

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South China

Joseph's . South_China

Chinese Ath. v. Boy Scouts; St

SL At one point the old wooden Joseph's; Kung Woo . Kowloon; This young man he is only a few blocks were, being pulled up, re- Moslems

FAR months senior to the Prince of veaking the broken and pitted re- Wales is said to be the loneliest inforcements beneath; a few yards Sailings from Hong Kong: Daily, at 8 A.M.& 12 (dandiye monarch in Europe. He is depict.

MID-NIGHT.12 KN. only).ed, when at home, as sitting all brought the student to the end of

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eligible bachelor who cannot find a twelve pneumatic drills roared and vile. However true such pie-1

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The Final Stage."

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Queen's Theatre: "The Cat and the Canary"

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He is never happier at any time like the heavy artillery of the ad than when he is in the open air, Vance, all warking continuously

and

few minutes pouring and is a great lover of nature iù her wildest moods. Botany is one their contents on to the wire frames of his chief hobbies. He found which gangs of men were stretch- mang plants in the Achray wilds across the roadway. A little

Principal Mails:-Outwarda round Ben Venne--the "Lady of further and the concrete was being the Lake country-to add to his fattened and made smooth by Europe aia Marseilles, etc. (Marai niready large collection at home.

sort of ironing process, whereby two Mu Maru), 0.30 a.m.; Europe via men puxbed & baulk of timbar | Siberin. (Gientära), 10.30a.m. Lcross the surfac

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His Dream.

"I dream," he said once, "of having wife and, cottage some where amid, my flowers."

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At Swallow-street was the largest crowd of all, for are the final stage was in progrees and some twenty

of the brand new Pic cadilly were on view. Wooden

It may have been that he dream-Jards

ed of such bliss that is denied to locks were being laid and bound kings as he roamed about the with tar, to the accompaniment of solitudes here.

comments from some of the regular The bachelor King is a picture-road-making audiencct. Morning sque and rather sad figure. He has Post. been represented as offering bis heart and crown in every court and excourt in Europe.

His departure for a European.

No Sinecure.

tour, which has now brought him It is said that he has decided in to Balmoral, at once prompted the his chivabrous way that it is mot question: With what purpose? fair to press any high-bom girl to To marry The Bulgarian For- share his difficult position. "A eign Minister replied: "Maybe."monarch's job is no sinecure these Then it was reported that Boris days" In any case, Sofia, has cam- was to marry Princess Giovanna, Paratively little luxury or gaiety youngest daughter of the King of to compensate for a decided amount Italy. The Prime Minister was of uncertainty, and the King is not naked whether the report was true rich, as his father was. He is more He answered: King Baris is of or less dependent on the State, and an age to marry King Victor Em- the allowance of a few thousand manuc has a daughter to marry a year is barely enough to keep the

royal palaces gang, Nothing more can be said."

Only on one occassion during his stay at Blair Drummond did King Tloris's reported search for a bride come un in conversation. Then he

Sunday. 19th Sunday after Trinity. Theosophical Society: Lecture by Mr. H. H. Lancpart on The Power of Thought," Lane, Craw- ford's Restaurant, e p.m.

Cheer Q" YMCA.:-Men's.

Meeting, 7.45 p.m.«

After dinner dance at Lce Gar- dens.

Queen's Theatre: "Peter Pan." World Theatre: "Kin Me Again," also Chinese Picture "Man Lec Chun" (Part II.).

Star Theatre: "The Prairie King."

Principal Maila:—Inward: U.S.A etc. (Tenyo Maru); Europe via Negapatam, papers only (Kutsang), Monday. Queen-of-Spain-Born, 1887. Frost's Descent (Shuang-Ching). End KO.S.B. Regimental Sports, Sockumpoo, 3 p.m.

Tea Danoes H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 430 p.m.; King Ed- ward Hotel, 5 p.m., and Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30

p.m.

Steel and Coulson's Billiard His people clearly wish that be will find a consort fer dyanetic League: R.A v. D.RO, KO.S.B reasons. His Minsters have made. R.E. and R. Sage. St. Patrick's several attempts to help, but match Club Wardera. making in the Balkans is by no id, with rather wenry jocularity means an eary husness; polities Letitre, 8.30 p.m.

in the way;

(he sneaks fluent English):

have a habit of getting in

St. Peter's Young Men's Club

HI.K. Male Voice Chor Tehearsal,

"I am on holiday my first for Apart from these considerations. 1St John's Cathedral Hall, 9 p.in, a long time. I want to go shoot am told, King Eoria would make ing over your moors, and to an ideal husband. He is undesum-

study your flora. Peace and ing, high-minded, considerate, de quiet-that's all I'm looking mccratic, and physically brave, as for."

h has demonstrated on more than (Continued on next Column) one occasion.

Queen's Theatre: Peter Pan.' World Theatre: "Kiss Me Aguín," also Chinese Picture "Man Lee Chun" (Part IL).

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