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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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STATIONS

UP TRAINS

No, No, &

8.10. AM. 4.30 ||| ..

50.K.0.14 No.11 No.2 N=18{Modi No, ze1ÑOLIR 4.3.4... P.X. 2.X., P.M. P.M. P.M PARK.

Kowloon, Dap. 6.40 9.05 8.30 | 9.15 10,00/12,10′ 1,19) 2.333.50

Yaumati, Dep. 640

Shatin... Dep.

7,01

Taipo

Dep. 7,15

H

Taipo

Market. Dep.7.20

Faaling Dep. 7.30

Sheang-

shai...Dep. 7,35

Shum-

chuo...A.7.41 8.45

41

Canton...Arr

12.05

STATIONS No. 1

Canton ...Dep.

1.Y.

7.23-10.0812.16 120

*.38 10.212.30 1.3

9 63 10.30 19,43 1.48

4.30 5,40 7.35 4.39 5:49 7.43 4.50 6.00 7.55 5.04; 8.12 2.08

9.63 10.87 12,47 1,59

10.10 10.47 12.87) 2,02;

6.06.179.12 5,13 6.7 6.12 6.23 6.92 6.26

9.07 10.15 10.52) 1.02 2.07 3.00

9.13 10.1.10.58 1.08) 9.13 3:15.4.00 5.99 6,39 8.39

5.49

DOWN TRAINS

7.18

No. 3,7 A.3. A.M..

A.M.

8. No.15 Xa, 17 Ja.19

4.30. · P.M.¦ P.M

No 11.3

PL. P.M.

No.23- T.M

8.10

3.25

11.27 11.479.5814.89 5.47 6.42

11.55 9.01 4.46 | 5.54 | -

7,07 7.14

12.00 8.064,50 | 5.58

2.11 3.17 5.00 6.03

18.6 3.91 5.04 6.13

12.30 3.35 5.17 | 6,26 |

12.42 3.496.29 - 6.38

Shamchun...Dep. 717 9.03 10.34 Shengshui..Dep. 2.25 8.11 10.4 Fanling ...Dep. 7.30 8.15 10.47 Tipo Market. Dep. 7.0 3.36 10,57 Тигро ...Dep. 7,443,21 11.01 Shatin

...Dep. 7.57544 11.14 Yazmati.Dep. A.1908 11.28

Kowloon ...Arr. 8,179,02 11.32 12.07 12.48 304 5.35 6.44 7.00

7.49

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Α MODERN ROMANCE OF SAILS.

93 DAYS FROM MELBOURNE TO QUEENSTOWN,

HOW THE OLD ARCHIBALD RUSSELL WON THE GREAT 1929 GRAIN RACE.

LAST SAILING SHIP BUILT BY BRITAIN.

Mr. Kenneth Attiwill. n Mel- hourne journalin who served be fore the must, tells in the Daily Jews the following interesting story of a present-day race" in sail ing ships around the Horn:

11-

Archie the Hustler.

But when

and

one and and

the Cape Horn stream, which rad | 45min, witnessed what to-day is a

rare spectacle-the glorious like a mad thing, took it where it would. Fortunately this was to inspiring sight of two becanvassed sea dosens sailing close abreast on safets.

from the Horn" we had a rot-the broad ocean, exchanging flag- ten chance, as the skipper Captain signalled greetings and each telling Let me see the ship of this Sjogren. complained. And so it the other of her hazards and adven year's grain fleet that can beat me Was The average speed, through tures over the 17,000 miles that lay

in their respective wakes. the south-east trade wind and up to Europe-baly let me see her,

The incident passed all too quick- neross the Line was little more thanly, or rather, Archibald Hustle did. challenged the skipper of the famous fear-masted Finnish-owned 100 miles a day-half the average and upwards and across she rated barque Herzogin Cecilie, just be speed of the whole passage.

to Ireland. fore the capstan-heavers began to

Before her masts were young rattle up her anchor bains to re-

Finns and

Swedes. we hit two degrees (men, lease her to the whim of the winds north we caught the north-east Frenchanan,

Londoner, a which blow up and down Spencer's

That trade wind that fairly shivered the the captain, three mates, Gulf, in South Australia.

timbers of Archibald. She then be writer, an Australian. Then there was five months ago.

came Archibald Hustle. This trade steward. And what a motley mix- To-day the boastful captain will wind was not unusual, but it was

ture! We al hated the sight of each other two months before it see that ship if he peeps inside the exceedingly lucky. While we were heads of the green-fringed pictures doldrumming by the Line for five ended. The average age of the crew was 21 years. The captain que harbour of Queenstown County days, the captain said to me:- Cark, for the ship which took ap You will have something to write was the eldest, being 34 years, but his challenge and won the race lies about. This is going to be a record he had an older face, which betray there resting like a marine grey-trip, remarkable for its prodigiousd 22 years of hard experience. He hund at the anchor's leash.

She length. But I don't care about beat the fleet, sweeping all before anything. The passage is spoiled" her in a grand rice around the Eighteen days later we were with Born and up to Ireland.

in two or three days of the order And that little rusty, grey-paint-port, Queenstown. What about it ed ship was laid at Scotts yards, how, Captain " I ventured. **Do Greenock, in 1903, the last square you care!" rigged ship built by Britain. I am wid her name is Archibald Russell, and although now she also, belongs to Finland, every Briton whose se wrinkles with delight at the tans of the salt should feel proud of the old four-masted barque wbib rah from Melbourne to Queenstown in 93 sailing days. In her holds is nearly 4,000 tons "of Australian wheat. She was not the As to reach Europe, but she was the quickest.

as a fine navigator, and could judge the augmentation of the moon's semi-diameter, or measure the right ascension of the mean sun or sidereal time, to a nicety.

A Fascinating Llie,

It is a dirty, confortless, fasci. He took a sight of the sun, order- nating life on Finnish sailing ships a sounding to be made, apos among the Scandinavians. It is trophised me for deviating from the glorious to lie in the tropics at curse, and refused to answer. A night on the anthrobbing decks of Swedish captain is the most dismal the engineless ship. It is madly mouner on earth when everything thrilling to race past another goes dead wrong and the most non-sailer, or to outstrip steamer. committal soul when it is all dead | But there is nothing to it. My right and easy going,

salary was at the unhealthy figure There was not a bitch up to of a shilling a month. If I kept on Queenstown from the Line, except for another three years. I should one perfect golden day of doldrums probably qualify for £5 a month. on the Medeira latitude, and it Nils, who is in this exalted class. was so glorious that nobody mind when I asked him what he should ed it. This section of the long trip do when they reach the unloading was the most delightful that a port, answered with bated breath

There have twenty-five shillings in sailing ship could make. was a thrill on the morning of the my chest, and when we come ashore eighty-fourth day when the blurred I shall eat it up."

At some filthy little joint outline of a three-masted barque

No Land Sighted, Between Melbourne and Cape Horn the brave 'westerlies behaved extraordinarily well, and the deso late Cape was passed 31 days after the pilot cast her off outside the brads of Melbourne's Port Phillip Hay We didn't, see Capa Hora,

was seen ahead on the port horizon.in Antwerp, probably. And what By dusk Archibald Russell had left after that. Oh, it is roman- lor it was a.m. when we ran 60 miles below it, in the teeth of a the stranger: far behind with astie, indeed..

Now the Archibald Russell

freezing gale, sharpened,by a slash-clean a pair of heels as the Cutty swinging at anchar in Queenstown,

awaiting her orders. The crew must chip and chisel; they cannot go ashore, but must just look and ong for solid earth. They worked like madman to bring her her or- ders. And then they work like madmen to take her out again.

Just as the work inished on the

ing, driving rain. For that mat- Sark ever showed her contempor ter, we saw no land between Mel-aries. She was the Finn, Penang, bourne and Queenstown, except four months out from South Aus- Deal Island, in Bass Strait, and tralia. She had left 5 days ahead another island with the discour of our fourmaster.""" aging title of Skull Rock. It was The Lolloping Mozart. such a bleak island that I forget

Eight days afterwards there was where we saw. We made "no wild craitement aboard when an- ports during the run, and saw no other sailer popped up on the star- evening of Archibald Russell's ar- ships until we were well up north, board for rard view and was quick-rival at Queenstown the tall top- somewhere near the Sargasso Sea, y overhauled. This time it was a sails of the vanquished Mozart through the eastern fringe of four-masted barquentine, Mozart, came into view. The next morn which our course led us. The lone which had left South Australia on ing, Penang came limping in. And liness was the more acute because the same days as Penang. Our so the great race is over and won. The old rusty Archibald Russell is the sailor's hero this year, for

Just a pack of rotten plates put-

tied up with sar,

our ship was not fitted with wire-square-rigged canvas bellied heau less, either sending, or receiving. ifully in the strong aft wind which By Cape Horn all hande were Bew, but that wind was useless to called on deck, throughout the aw Mozart's fore-and-aft rig, so that It

I watches, and canvas had to be the lolloped along listlessly. shortened until only. five Sails were

was perhaps, this fact which de left standing. These were the bigcided the captains to come along- Teresail, three lower top-gainsails, ride and so, just after luncheon, on and one jib. Their only effect was June 3. latitude North 40deg.

to steady the sea-battered barque; mia., longitude West 13deg.

In we canie, and time enough,

'cross Bilbao Bar... Overloaded, undermanned, meant

to founder, we

Euchred God Almighty's storm, bluffed the Eternal Sca!

Diary of Coming Events.

Tocay..... (August 7:).

Water Polo: V.R.C. "B". Chi- nese "A." V.R.C., 5.30 p.m.

Concert: St. Patrick's Hall, 9

Uncle Tom's

p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Cabin,"

World Theatre: 13 Washington Square."

Star Theatre: Wickedness Pre- ferred."

77

Dinner Dances: HK. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 6.30 p.m.

Tides: High: 10.40 a.m.; Low: 3.53 a.m. and 6.34 p.m.

European Mails:- Outward: Europe vid San Francisco (Tanya Maru), 830 a.m

Thursday, (August 8.) Queen's Theatre:"

:"Wild Orchids."! World Theatre: "The Boxer Bride.".

Friday.

(August, B.)

Clab, Yacht Club . Electric R.C.

Queen's Theatre: "Wild Orchids" World Theatre! "The Boxer Bride."

Police, Bowling Green Club v. Re- creio Div. I: Taikoo v. Crai- gengower, Civil Service . Kowloon Christian Fellowship meeting,C.C., Recreio v. Bowling Green Helena May Institute, 10.20 a.m. Billiards League: Bufaloes K.O.S.B., Garrison Mess v. Royal Artillery, Craigengow v. Royal Engineers, St. Patricks v. C. and P.O.' Club. Police v. Police Res.

Queen's Theatre: "Wild Orchids." World Theatre: The Boxer Bride,

Star Theatre: "Red Lips." Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Tides:-High: 12.42 a.m. and 12.25 p.m.; Low: 5.29 a.m. and 6.45 European Mails: Inward: Europe vid Negapatam (Dalgoma).

P.

Star Theatre: "Red Lips." H.K. Football Association Dia- ner to Mr. E. W. Black, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant.

Tides-High: 1.18 am, and 1.20 P.m.; Low: 6.27 a.m, and 7.91 p.m. Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Fushimi Maru), 9.30 s..

Sunday, (August 31.), Eleventh Sunday After Trinity. Lawn Bowls: Education Depart- ment . P.W.D

Saturday, (August 10.) Extraordinary general meeting of subscribers to Kowloon Tong Build- ing Scheme, 69, Kowloon Tong, 3 p.m.

Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, Y.M.CA. Bathing Picnic 3 p.12.. Tides:-High: 12.30 am and Lawn Bowls:-Div. I.: Craigen 4.30 p.m.

Tides:-High: 1.53 a.m. and 2.29. 11.39 ; Low: 4.40 a.m. and 6.13 xower v. Taikon, Kowloon C.C. v.

Civil Service, Kowloon Docks .p.m.; Low: 7.38 a.m. and 7.57 p.in.

Star Theatre: "Red Lips." Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m....

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