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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEKS DAYS.

Kowlood

Bhatia

9.10 10.00 12.00

213°4,25], 5,43

3.20 10.07 12.07 1.92441 5.00 R83 10,19 121913-

715 7.38 Z.35

0.53 10.58

E11 6.19

10.05 10.48 12.4

1.5911. 6,30

10.10.10.87 1251

| 8,26 6,86

18,0% 8.07

Shamchun Canton

8:45 10,19 1087 12,57

2,55 5,39 6,41

8.12

11.50 5.38

103).

Canton

Dep

8.03

8.30

5.49

1134 8,05 | 4,48

··11.49 2,10 - 4,39

5.56

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14.00 821 5,02

6.10

12.05 898 8.07

-

19.39 | 3,398.20

Shamohua Dep

7.18 8.06 10.34 11.00 11.37 9.384,47 Shrungakui,Dep 7.358,14 10.41

8.16 10.46 7.30 ...Dep Tipo Market Dep 7,40-820 10.58 11.00 Тіро Dep. 7,44 8.33

Fanling

Yement Kowloon

13.18 „Dep. 7,87 8,44

Dep.11 RIO 11.25

18.51 8.51 5.32 Arr. 8.17 9.02 131 11,49 12.87 3.67 6.18

0.40 7.04

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

Dep 8,40

Kowloon Ysamati ·Dep 6,49

Bbstin

Таїро

Татров

Market

Fanling

Bhengah

Bana Chan

7.41

Oinfon

Canton

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5.88

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8.05

Bham Chan, Dep

8.08 10.34 11.09 11.37

Sheringhal.

819 10.41

Tanling

8.16 10,48

8.36 10.56

1144 11.49 12.00

1.X.

2.68 ·5,00 -8.05 6,07 3310 8.11

FIG.

5.41

Taipo

12.0592

9.28

Shatin

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Yeumati

Dep

12.31 | 3.51

Kowloon

T.

9.03 11.81 11.49

12.57 8,37

Talpo Market Dep

11,00

Dep. 8.31 Dep, 6.45 11:18

8.57 11,95

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LONDON, Feb. 15th.: Old political animosities are for- gotten this week for a space on the announcement of the death of Lord Oxford. Friends and foes alike pay tribute to the statesman whose namo will be remembered in history as the Prime Minister who was in power at the outbreak of the Great War. The newspapers contain long accounts of his career, which was He certainly a wonderful one. started life without influential friends, or money, and by sheer ini. tellectual strength and industry won a foremost place in the life of his age..

Lord Oxford was never the type- of man to become popular with the crowd. He was too aloof, some what frigid, and very reserved; and he despised the arts of the platform Grator. I have listened to him with sbean delight because of the even endence of his diction and the close logic of his argument; but to be quite frank, he left his hearers cold. You"admired the speaker for his 17 intellectual gifts, but it was at a

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distance. He neked the warmth in speech that draws people and wins tüeir hearts, and is the supreme test of true oratory

Hours Of Commons Man. But although Lord, Oxford wae. never popular Span di the plak form he was a good House of Com mchs man. "He was without a rival as a debaten. You would see him apparently half asleep on the Transury Bench when in office as speaker after speaker addressed the House; and then when he judged the time opportune be would get up without a note and in measured phrases sim- ply pulverise his opponents. In all his speeches he was dignified, and believe it is true to say that in the whole-course of his career he never once indulged in person- alicies, of said anything that left a wound. Considering how high party passion is sometimes ant, to run in Parliament this is praise indeed,

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LONDON, Feb. 10th.. There was a sequel yesterday at Tottenham Poles Court, N, to the committal to prison at the same. court last week of the Rev. Gilbert Watling, vicar of St. John's, Ed- monton, N. for non-payment of his rates, amounting to £10.

Mr. Richard Green, the magis tratą, said:

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Tee Dances: H.E. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.300 p.m.; • King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. Lane Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-0.30

The man comes before, me twice. Queen's Theatre: "Two Arabian a year. He treated, the court | Knights." with absolute contempt last week and never put in an appears. I had no alternative bus to com “mit this man to prison, as I have done before over and over again,

for 8 weeks,

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mitted to prison he talks to news- paper correspondents and tells them ho i waiting) at home to be arrested and go to prison. That may be so, but my point is this the last time he was con: victed after he had been at Brix

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No doubt he is a rich man as a resuit of the many remittances he has received in answer to these requeste im the newspapers, In conclusion Mr. Green asked: Has this man been arrested yet

The Warrant Officer No. Jr. Green It is a thousand chances to one he has the money three, four, or five times ever. Let him go to prison at once,

Mr. Green then gigued the com- mittal order.

led to Mr. Asquith's resignation of the Premiership in 1916

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Fanling Hunt Drag, meet at Mr. Pott's Bungalow, Fanding, 4,45.

Cricket: Kowloon O.C. 1# XI. . Army, C.S.C.C. 1st XI. v. Craigen- gower; HK.C.C. 1st XI. v. R.G.A.; University 2nd XI e Royal En- gineers; HEC.C. 2nd XI. .. Recreio 0.8.C.C. 2nd XI v.

On The Eve of The War, Lord Oxford's chief claim to the remembrance of his fellow-country- men rests on his conduct on the eve of the war. He then showed strength of character im quite ex- ceptional measure. The Cabinet was divided. Half of the members So far as its origin is concerned were for keeping out of the strug the explanation is quite simple. gle, and for making the best of both Twice in ons day on April 4th, worlds by selling to the force on 1910-in reply to questions concern both sides. But the Prime Ministering the Budget and the House of arwar wavered. He saw clearly Lorde he twice replied, "I am where the path of duty led, and afraid we must wait and soc" that Great Britain was bound in Lord Oxford has recalled in his honour to come out against Ger autobiography that the same words AOC

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were used by Lord John Russell and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain to damp down inquisitive questions, and he remarks that it is curious that the phrase should have pass ed for a time into the slang of politics and even been caricatured into a maxim of policy.

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Sunday,

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In the Cathedral at Evensong the Rev. H. V. Koop, M.A., on God in the form of a man. "

In St. Peter's at Matins the Rev. N. Evans, V.A., on Christ, the soures of forgiveness

is a story of the kind of man he was in great emergencies. It was at a crucial moment in the Cabinet what resignations were be ing given and withdrawn and life long lovers of peace were faced with momentous decisions. The Prime Minister surveyed his dismayed colleagues in silence for me Lord Oxford's domestic life was ment. It looks as if I shall have to carry on the Govers extremely happy. As is well known ment alone," he said, with a bug wife, a daughter of Mr. Frederick be was married twice. By his first terselves the top Milland, of Manchester, who died Mr. Lloyd George in a speech in 1591, he had four song and one this week disclosed that it we daughter. One son, Mr. Raymond owing to Mr. Asquith, de he then Asquith, was killed in the war, and was, that this country went into the be left a boy now eleven years of age who succeeds to the title In war with united front-

1894 bis second marriage took place united Cabinet, Parliament, and

to Emma Margaret (Margot) Ten- nation. This note is struck by most speaker, and writers here, and not daughter of Sir Charles even old political opponents of the nant, and sister of the first Lord Gunconner By this marriage dead stateeman confess that it was there were two children Elizabeth, fortunate that the country had a man of such even temper and cool now Princess Bibesco, and Mr. GUNS by WEELEY and SCOTT, and Other those dark and terrible days Alm industry

WW GREENER judgment at the head of affairs in Anthony Asquith who has recently Girl

mado a neme for himself in the Makers British,

Spot wait And See Lady Oxford records in the Famerican

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