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No. 22707. 號柒零佰柒仟萬弍第日拾月叁年未辛 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931. ̇参拜禮

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1031; until Further Notice (ali previous Time Tabies cancelled).

STATIONS

Kowloon ........

Yaumati

Shatin

Tripo

UP TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

2 0 10 B 12

10 22 182420 29 14 AM, AM, AT, A., A.M. NOON T.K. P.M.P.M.P.M...P.M.

„Dep. 1140 8.05 8.28 9.35 10.10 13.00 1.182.35 4.02 4.43 5,95 7.40

Dep. 0.49) Dep. 7.00

--

Dop! 7.14

Ф

Taipo Market

.Dop 7.10 ...

+44

Dep. 7.30)....

Sheungshai

Fanling

Shumebun

Carton

9.24 10.21 12.09 1.20

9.37 10.30 12.20 1.88

4.48 5.43 7.48 |5.025.56 8.00

0,52) 10.50) 12.33) 1.51] ...

5.16 0.08) 8.13

0.57 1.6 12.37 1.63)...

6.10 4.12 8.17

[6.296,228,97

0,34 0,27 8.84

5,40) 0.33) 8.38

•

Dop 7.35

| 10.00 11.04) 12.47) 2.05)...

0.05 10.141.00) 12,59) 2,10) 3.14)....

Arr:7.41 8.44 0.11 10.20 11.15) 12.58 2.10) 8.20) 4,40)

DOWN TRAINS

11.920

5,301

Ful

17.281

No. No. No. No. No. No.

STATIONS.

3

4,35. A. A..

15 7 &

17 A.M. A.M. P.M.

No. No. No. No. 10 2113

21

Canton Shumchuq... Sheungsbul... Faling............ Taipo Market..

Talpo Shatin Yaumati....

Kowloon...

Do...

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Dop. 7.208.14 10.08

·

4.15- 7.50 Dop 7.17 8.03 9.65 10.34 11.38 2.36 4.236.107.01| 7.11

4.30 0.17 ... 11.48 2.42

7,18 .Dep. 7.24 8.10, 10.98)

11.50 2.40 4.05 6.99) ... Dep. 7.40 8.25 10.18 12.01 2.58 +45 6.32) ... .Dop. 7:14) 8.30 10,0...12.08 3.02 4.45 (4.36). ... Dep. 7.58 9.43 10.30 ...12.20 3.16) 5,02 0.49) ...

..12.82 3.27 6.147.01) Dop. 8.11 8.55 10.48

ATT. 8.179.01) 10,84 11.13] 12.38 8.33 5.20 17.07.30 7.61

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EVENTS.

To-day. (May0)

Beginning of Summer (La-haia) Assension of King George V. (1910),, Hong Kong Cricket Club, EX hibition Tennis, E. D. Andrews, 4.30 p.m.

Football:-Division

Cham- 1.: pions (South China) . The Rest, Cinb ground, 5.13 p.m.

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日陸月伍年登世佰玖仟登英

MAGICIAN AND MEDIUM

DIVERTING STORY OF MME. BLAVATSKY.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THEOSOPHY.

THE MYSTERIOUS MADAME A Life! They would have been in dre

of Madame Blavatsky, By C. Eperate straits but for the patronage. Bechhofer Roberts. John Lane, 7. Bd, net.

of Mr. A. P. Sinnett, then editor Helews Petrovna Blavatsky,

of the Piacer, who introduced them, founder of the Theosophical Society, to various influential people, and in return. Madame Blavatsky in- trodnoed Mr. Sinnett to the "Masters." She also introduced

Queen's Theatre: New Moon" had an amazing career, which has

already become a legend. World Theatre: 404 Hernes (Chinese film).

Central Thentre: "Ladies Love Brutes."

King's Theatre: "Playboy Paris."

of

Majestic Theatre: "The Shan- none of Broadway."

Lee Theatre: The Cruise of the Jasper B,"

Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing Theatre, 8 p.m.

In

hinir (and the elite of Indian 30- siety) to a series of marvels so audacious that the chief marvel is how she got them “across." this she was greatly nesisted by an old friend, whom she had met in Cairo-4 certain Madame Cou- lomb, who had arrived in India with, M., Coulomb (a Frenchinan

1 and carpenter). These good people, not feeling theinselves suf- ficiently rewarded for their pains, gave the show away very badly.

She had the temperament of a Rossinn, no doubt inherited from her mother, Helena Fadeer, for her father, "Captain Peter Hahn, although in the service of the Tsar, was German by descent. She was born at Ekaterinoslav 'in the year 1831, was married, at the age of 17, to a General Blavatsky, a man. much her senior, ran away from his house with an English sen captain three or four months after, and for the next twenty-five years wandered over the world-as a bare-back rider

In a Madras Missionary paper in a circus, as the mistress of an

(the 'Christian College, Monthly) opera singer from the Balkans, as a music-teacher, and in many other they published a series of articles, eapacities, including a liaison with as well as letters of H.P.B., and ather documents, all going to show Baran Nicholas Meyendorff (by whom, me she assured him, she had how the tricks were done, as, for a son), and a visit to America with example, by a head out out of card. an Englishman. In these circum-board and painted, by a stances, it is, perhaps, a little opening into the, shrine at Adyar, difficult to believe that she remain through which messages, etc., could to he opened by H.E. the Governor, the innocent state of virginity be smuggled, and by belegrams sent

to the end of ber’days.

Dances: Tea Dauce, H.K. Hotel Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.

European Mail-Inward: Europe vin Siberia (Kidderpore).

Thursday.

(May 7.)

Hong Kong Cricket Club, Ex- hibition Tennis; E. D. Andrews, 4.30 p.m.

4

New Wing of European Y.M.C.A

7

Qua.

secret

by collusion as thus far example:

5.30-13.m.

It appears that after the Ciril Queen's Theatre: New Moon."

War, when she happened to be in

How It Was Done, World Theatre: "The Mysterious Atuerica, there was (5 is

tomary after wars a wave" of

***Incob Sassoon, the happy pro- Rider,"

spiritualism, on the crest of which Central Theatre: Ladies Love swam the Davenports and "Colonel prietor of a crare of rupees, with whose family I dined last night, Brutes,

Olcott, the forner as mediums, is anxious to become a. Theosophist. the latter as journalist reporting He is ready to give 10,000 rupees King's Theatre:. "The Playboy

the results. In to these activities to buy and repair the headquarters, of Paris."

H. P. B. threw herself with such he said to Olcott, if only he saw entusiasmo that she was at once

a little phenomenon " (and then promoted to the centre of the nave-follow explicit directions about the Ken-ment. As for Olcott, who became despatch of a telegram from

her devoted adherent, she boasted she had so psychologised him that he did not know his head from his heels."

Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing Theatre, 3 p.m.

Jumble Sale, Union Church, nedy Road.

Dances: Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinarr Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

European Mail.-Inward: Europe rin Suez. (Kashmir); Ontward: Europe ria Siberin (Empress of Russia), 10 a..

Friday.

(May 8.)

Cher Clark Cup (Hockey) Com petition: Winners (H. KL.H.C.) « The Rust, King's Park, 3.15 p.m. and-presentation of prizes.

Queen's Theatre: "Now Moon," World Theatre: "The Mystérious Rider,"

Dances: Tea Dance. II.K. Hotel.' Finner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, and Hotel Cevil.

Lane,

Unhappy Experiment,

Ramalings Deh," one of the Masters, tined to arrive while she was conversing with Sassoon).

These revelations rather damped the enthusiasm of European India for the cult, but the Hindu bàs a The materialistic relations be tween Colonel Oleatt and Madame more tolerant mind, and was fir- Blavatsky would be rather diffenlturably impressed by Olcott's Re to define: but it is certain that the publican scorn of the British Itai latter found time in America for 6 well as by Vadne Blavatsky's an unhappy experiment in bigamy, hatred of missionaries and Chris. and that when America became H. P. B. had found wealthy and Moreover, by, this time Linnity. wise" to Spiritualism the two partners resolved to try their fortem-cathusiastic patrons in London, Ps in Indin. To that end they where she ended her days in case established relations between their and comfort, a triumphant vindica Theosophical Society and the Arya tion of the Napoleonic maxim,

"Toujours l'audace!" Samaj, a Hindu Society recently launched upon its national career. Mr. Roberts has deall faithfully They were received with open arms but not uncharitably with Mme. by the Hindus of Bombay (in 1879), Blavatsky, and the result is a book but were rathor dashed to be preso illuminating (and amusing) that sented with a bill for all the costs we hope he will be encouraged to of the reception, including the hire write a sequel-a no less admiring of chairs and the east of a cable biography of H. P. B.'s successor, of welcome..

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