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HONG KONG. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after Araz Sth, 1929, until further Nosite (ali pravions Time Tablas "cancelled.)

UP TRAINS

STATIONS No. No.

Nole

A.M. A.X.

..X.

- Kowloos.Dep. 840 8.05

Yanmati.Dep. $.43

Shatin...Dep. 7,01

...Dap.7,15

Market. Dep. 7.9€

Fanling Dep. 7,80

Sheang.

shui...Dep. 7,35

Shum-

chun ...år. } 7,42 8.45)

Canton... Arr.

12.05)

Bans, & Holis, only

8.30.

is

(A.X. · A.M. 3 I.X. P.M. FX FX FX LIŲ EM

9.18 10.00/12,10 15 9.91 3.30) 4,8€ 5,40; 7,35

9.25 10.08 12,13 1.23

9.88 10.2012.30 1,33 -

4.38 5,48 7.43

4.50 0.00 7.55

9 5310.33 12.43 1.43

6.04 4.13 8.06

9.58 10.8719.47 158

5,03 6.17) 8.1%

|10,1010,4712,57 2,09

9.07 10.35 10.52 1.02 2.07,3.09|

5.18 6.27 8.3%

1.5.23 8,32 8.26

9.13 10.21 10.58 1,08 2,19 5.15 4.00 5.39,6,88 6,33

5.49-

DOWN TRAINS.

4.

STATIONS No. 1 No.3 No.7 Ho. & Xo.15

A.M. AM.

A.M.

Canton ...Blog.

Sheungthai Dap. 7.25 811 10.41

8.10

7.18

Ke.17 No.19 No. 11 ( 26,50 P.X. P.M. | PML | FM.

3.25

Shumchun.Dep. 7.17 8.03 10.34 11.87, 31,47|2.58|4,89 | 5.47 | 6.42|

Fanling ...Dep. 7,30 8.15 10.47

TaipoMarket. Dop. 7,40 8.24 10.37 ...Dop. 7,44 8.31 11.01

Taip

...Dep. 7,57 8.44 11.14

SatiDep. 8.11.8.58 11.26

-

11,55 8,01 446 854

19.00 | 8.08 | 4.50 | 5.58

19,11 | 9,17 | 5,00 6,08

11.18 8.11 5.04 613

12.30 5,365.17 | 6.26

19.42 8.48 | 5.29 | 6.88

Kowloon ...Arr. 8.17 8.02 11.33 12.07 12.48 2,545,866.44 7.22

7.07

7.14

7.49

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“日叁拾伍年九百九仟安英

BACON, BOARDING HOUSES, BOWLERS AND BUSES!

WHEN DR. GRACE SMASHED THE CLOCK AT THE OVAL.

THRILLING RACES BETWEEN.“ BLUES AND GREENS "

HONG KONG'S LINK WITH BRIXTON AND BLOOMSBURY:

[By HERBERT FIELD.]·

A couple of elderly. " fans "ear- by-the one savvy waiting for a job and the other probably a soli citor or a Farson-would argue relentlessly, and in quite amusing terms, upon the merits or demerits of this or that player.

Te gods, how the old angs strain-drifted dreamily across the cobalt "Hallo, eggs and bacon for f breakfast again! Drat the cooked at the traces, causing the sky. boy-why the devil doesn't he get vehicles to rock from side to side, some, decent bacon and some fresh much, to the huge delight of the young law students, who crowded oggs!!!

the top of the Royal Blue, and the That is an age-old cry, For many years I have dwelt, a intense perturbation of the stout uachsor, in boarding houses. I re-elderly City gentleman who sat on member Mrs. Stockwell's "hone Old Bill'e other side. At a pace from home" at Brixton in the day's worthy of the London Fire Brigade, we would gallop along Whitehall, nf the horse-drawn buses and trams. Mrs. Stockwell bought scrapends and into the Strand. of bacon cheaply from Lipton's and

A Dignified Retreat, inflicted it upon her long-suffering" Well do I remember the foggy boarders. It wouldn't have been so

November morning when, continu bad bad she chargedia

scrap- end" prices, but she referred to it in the race as usual, the Royal Blue collided with the horse-trough asst Irish" or "Danish gam-(long since removed) on the corner mon" and charged us accordingly.

་་

of St. Martin', Laño! "Old Bill Barney.”

The green bus was getting the worst of the race up to that Talking of bacon reminds me of moment, but, taking advantage of Old Bill Barney" who drove a our opponents' mishap, we gained green Tilling bus from Brixton to speed and lumbered past him in the Bank. Five mornings out of fine style until the old City gentle six would see me gallop down Mrsman, unable to suppress his terror Stockwall's frant steps, clap my any longer, gave Bill & resounding bowler hat firmly upon my head, thwick upon the head with his snatch a ba'penny paper from the gamp!

wsboy, and take n fying leap oa to the old green 'bus.. I would then clamber breathlessly up the stairs and sink into my seat beside Old Bill.

Tehuck, tehuck !?

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Bill's language added much to the old gentleman's perturbation, Jabbing his Engers into his cars, the old gentleman rose to his feet, making strenuous efforts to retain

Perhaps one would roll lazily ou to one's side and take a glimpse at the clock over the pavilion. Sledpily noting the time,, the re- dection would come that Dr. Grace. in his strenuous days when cricket: was played in top hats, had thrice mashed the dial of the clock when driving to boundary.

Dreamily, one reached out for another pull" at the nearly A bite at the last empty bottle sandwich-

"By jingo, a 'boarding-house bacon sandwich!"

match waned.

Thereafter, one's interest in the I ask you. is it possible to take even the slightest interest in the efforts of a demon. bowler to displace a "Stonewall" batsman after the second bite at boarding-house bacon sandwich

我

Hong Kong Koopa Ti Up.

It is a far cry from Hong Kong.

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his dignity as he hurched to the to London, yet there is one power Old Bill would touch the backs of stairway. He preferred to leave whether one stays at a bourding ful bond between both places. his brown nags with his whip. ex-

the 'bus while it was in motion pectorats expressively into the rather than endanger his life and house on the Peak or across the road, nod a briet but cheery good-limh further by retaining his seat! harbour "in Kowloon, it is next to

obtain impossible to I usually contrived to rid my morning and on we would rumble

decent and jolt at a steady four miles an teeth of the last shred of bacon by rather of bacon. Because eggs and hour Citywards.

the Law Courts, but, on this occa- bacon form the staple breakfast While I sat probing, with sion, the excitement performed that diet of the average Britisher, one matchstick, the last shreds of Mrs pleasing function long before I will always find that item on the Stockwell's bacon from my teeth,reached the Star offices.

menu of every local boarding house. "Old Bill would maintain a running

But the "bacon "! We merely fire of talk. Sport, politics, the

renew acquaintance with our dear latest murder-all with the addi- Hong " Kong's boarding-house old friend the "boarding-house tion of his own views and theories, bacon reminds me of Kensington rough-end" with the exception of Old Bill wasp mine of informaOval. You've never been there the fact that, in this Colony, it is

Ye gods!

never fried, Cook-boys broil it, The Tuppenny Tube" had lost bake it, and grill it. Frying bacon its novelty when I first made a is an art they have yet to learn. practice of speading Wednesday I doubt whether such a thing as a afternoons beneath the shadow of gammon rasher ever enters the

gasometers * Kensington. Colony!

tion.

A Thrilling Race.

Thrills we had aplenty on those journeys.

"Cliprety-elop, clippety-clop." The iron-shod hooves of the horses winging upon the hard surface of the road was infinitely more musical than the wheezing, booking, grunt. ng motor hos of to-day. There was excitement often qnough, too.

Perhaps an old four-wheeled *growler would get in the way of the 'bus and the droway cabbie would disregard Bill's shouts until one of his nasty remarks would galvanise the cabbie into action. Then

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the

Bacon and Bowlers..

By sitting with my back to the "No matter in what fashion it is gasworks. I could forget Fleet cooked, the hoarding-house rasher Street and newspaper "copy." is the same the world over. Ita

To get the most out of an after-tang-far more potent than that of noon spent at the Oral, one needed the salt wares of the sea-is omni- to forget all about cricket. There potent and defes flame and flood was no enjoyment in the mere game to alter it one jota,

to the Oval fans. The real enjoy Taking all things into considera ment lay in being able to sprawl tion, I cannot find it in my heart to on the fresh green turf with one's wish that it ware otherwise. May straw hat tilted over one's eyes, hap, if it were not for the "gentle" watching languid batsmen, "block jog to my memory given by the ing the halls sent down by red- charred triangle of fat and strings, Well, if you've never heard a faced bowlers. There was same- pungent flesh upon my plate each reat hot argument between an thing inexpressibly pleasing in morning, I should forget, Old Bill old London cabbie and the driver watching the players cross aver, Barney, Brixton, the Oval, Dr. W. of an old-time horsebus, you've cor- their white facels gleaming in the G. Grace's terrife shots to bound- tainly missed something great! bright sunshine. London seemed ary, and the thrilling races between Then there would be the battle miles away on those occasions! the Royal Blue and its green rival. between the Greens and the Blues. One liked to take an occasional Times change and the mind of Every morning there was a race pull" at a bottle of beer, munch man changes during that constant. between Old Bill, of the green bus, an occasional sandwich, and gaze process of evolution which we call and Tom Smith, of the Royal Blue, dreamily up, from a prone posi. Life. Only one thing on this earth to be the first to swing into White-tion, at the woolly clouds which, remains analtered--the boarding-

like truant balls of cotton wool, house rasher!

hall.

Diary of Coming Events.

Today. (May. 13.)

Piano Recital: Mr. H. Ore's pupils, Cathedral Hall, 3.30 p.

Queen's Theatre. "Slightly Used." World Theatre': "The Patey." At 2.30, and 7.15, Chinese Picture "Lang Kwei Fos."

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Star Theatre: "The Danger Girl"

Ten Dances: EHK Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dance Peninsula Hoteli, 8.30 p.m.

Sanitary Board meeting, 4.15 F.m

ather Queen's Theatre: "No Woman."

World Theatre: "The Patay." At 2.30, and 7.15, Chinese Picture

Yang Kwei Foo

Star Theatro: "The Danger Girl.".

Tea Dances: E.K. Hotel and Peninsula, Hotel, 4.80 p.m.

Dinner Danca: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails:-Outward:. European Mails: Inword: Europe Europe vid Marseilles (Hector), vid Siberia (Amur Maru). Outward: 4.30 p.m.; Europe vid Vancouver, Europe vid Victoria, B.O., 5 p.m.; B.C., 5 pm; and vid Siberia, é and via Siberia, & p.m. (President p.m. (Empress of Asia). Taft).

Tuesday, (May 14).

1. Garrison Rifè, Meeting, Kowloon City Rango, 9.45. gum,

China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. (in Voluntary Liquidation) Extra ordinary general meeting, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Board Boom, con

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Wednesday. (May 15.)

Garrison Rifle Meeting, Kowloon City Range, 9.0 4.0.

Queen's Theatre: No Other Woman."

World Theatre: "Let Women Alone" At 230 and 7.15, Chinese Picture "Yang Kwei Foo."

"Stat Theatre:

Becky"

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m. Europe vid San Francisco. (Siberia Maru), 9.20-a ko

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Opening of New Billiard Room, Chince Sports Club, King's Build- 10, 6.20 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacks."'- World Theatre: Let Women- Alone" At 2,30 and 7-15,Chinese Picture "Yang Kwai Fod."

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