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ESTABLISHED 1857,

No. 22721, 號登拾式佰柒仟弍萬弍第 日月年未辛 HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1931.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous Timo Tables cancelled)."

UP TRAINS

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

* STATIONS

2

0

ย 10

| A.M.), A.,M. | 4,M,

12 14 1823 1824.20 28 A.M.A.M. NOON PT,M. P.M. F.M. F.M. P.M. TM;M

Kowloon

Dep. 0.40 8.05 8,29 9.15 10.10 19.00 1.18 9.35 4.02 4.41 5.35 7.40

0.24) 10,24) 12,09 1,20) .....

4.45 5.43 7.49

Yaumati

Dep. 0.45

Shatin.........

Dep. 7:00

9.37 10:36 12.20-1.88

***

15.02 5.468.00

Taipo .....

Den 7.14

9.52 101.50) 12:38 1,61

6.15 6.08 3.13

Taipo Market..

Dop 7.40

Fanting

Dip. 7.30

Dep. 7.38

€9,57 10.6119.37) 1,85) ... 10.09 11.04 13.472.06... 0.05 10.14 11,00) 12,62) 2.10 9,14 „AI | 741] 8,44] 0.11 | 10.20) 11,15) 12.68) 2.10 3.20

6.10 8.128.17

...5.29 0.22 8.27

5.34 0.278,32

$.40 5.40 0.33 8.38

11.32

5,402

7.28

Shoutgahui Shuachun

Cantou

DOWN TRAINS

114

STATIONS

No. No. No. 13

No, i No. No.

7

| A.M. A.M.) A.M

14 17 A.M. AM. 11.285.

No. 19

No. No. No, 31 1598

Castonhere Shuwchut... Shoungehuis Fanling...... Talpo Market..

Talpo'... Shatin......

Yaitmat

Kowloon....

Dop

7.50 www

Dep. 7.17 8.03 0.55 10.34 11.38 2.36 Dep. 7.34 8.10 10.03 Dep.) 7.298.14) 10,08)

Dep. 7,40 8.26 10,15)

Dep. 7.46 8.30 10.22

Dop 7.58 9.43 10.80

Dep. 8.11 8.65 10.48 ...Arr. 8.17 0.01 30.64/11,12

✪ Sundays and Public Holidays only.

...$435... 0.107.017.11

***

4.24 11,45 2,42 4.30 0.17 6.22 11.50 248 435 12.01 2.60 4.45 8.33 ...

| 12,00 3,02 4,49 | 0.30 ...

17.18

19.20 3.15 5.02 €40... 12.02 at 8.147.01... 12.38 5.33 3.90 7.077.307.64

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

PEN PICTURES

AMERICA.

OF

To-day.

(May 22)

Smail Pulness (tsino-man); Pentecost, (Jewish Calender),

Annual Meeting of Shareholders, China Underwriters, H.K. Bank

Bldg., noon.

Queen's Theatra: "Whoopee," World Theatre: "Desert Song." Central Theatre: "Young Man of Manhattan."

p.m.

Saturday.

(May 23.)

VII.--THE MODERN CATTLE RANCH.

REALITY, TRADITION AND "DUDES."

{BY J. E SEWELL. }

Many people have the oddest | are unable to get their own feed; Lideas about ranch lifo. in Ameries. or possibly the whole personnel of the ranch might be stacking hay for winter use.

The ranch is what you call in

To begin with they imagine that the cowboy of the West is the romantic figure of "penny dread- King's Theatre:"Feet Firat."

fulla"

and the older kind of England Farm-Buildings and the Dances; Tea Danes, II.K." Hotel motion picture. I hate to destroy private owned and around the Dinner Dances, Hong Kong and romantic ideas, but if anyone be buildings. The runge in where the Peninsula Hotels and Hotel Cecil.lieves all that the pictures show, cattle graze. There are two forms European Mail:-Outward: thoy are in for disappointment if of range, open and closed. Open range is State-owned lund over Europe via Siberia (Ranpura) 12.30 as little pen picture is read."

The average rider of the range which the ranch owner buys graz-" does not go about dressed in furrying rights by paying 50 cents a "chaps," bright coloured shirts, head. His cattle can be grazed. "Avo gallon" sombrero and silver on any of the State land. There mounted boots. The modern cowboy | is so limit except the State is usually dressed in soiled overalls, boundary, to the area over which Bowls-First Divinión: seft hat and ordinary riding boots, they can be taken. Thus the herde Kowloon Docka v. Civil Service; and he is mounted on as crawny ang mix together, and the Fulf and

that looks like the last of the ark's į spring, round-ups are Craigengower . Recreio; Police 1. Kowloon: Taikoo : Kowloon Bowl- original stock. He gets the work The cload range is a fenced-in or ing Green; Second Division: Re done, which is all that he is asked partially fenced in area over which to do, and for it he is paid the one ranch is the sole grazing crolo. Craigengower; Civil Ser- vice v. Hong Kong Electric; Kow- enormous tum of $60 per month. rights. loon C.C. Yacht Club; Kowloon Ranch owners cannot afford to have Bowling Greea, Taikoo.

their men going about the megé Racing-Sixth Extra Race Meet-rescuing beautiful ladies who have ing, Happy Valley, First Saddingt themselves ints perilous situn Bell, 2 p.m.

A Real Ranch;

Whitsun Eve,

Lawn

Queen's Theatre: "Mid and Bill," World Theatre: The Desert

tionis.

The Cowboy..

necessary.

Most of the men who work on the

ranches belong to the drifting. population, as the ranch cannot afford to pay the men during the suramer, and winter months. The fall and spring months are the Let us get away from the "drug only times that many men are store cowboy." Try to picture employed on the ranches. This is Song."

Central Theatre: "Young Man of ranch. Sometimes it is nothing but when the round-ups take place,

a log cabin and a few out houses and at other times it is fine

Manhattan."

King's Theatro: "Feet First."

Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.

Sunday,

(Mng 24)

Whit Sunday, Peritecost. Empire Day.

The spring round-up is not as large ns the fall one but it is very

Dances: Tea Dances at Honghome. The average one is a farm important as this is the time that house that the owner and his family the cattle are counted, branded and occupy, or, if the ranch belongs to separated into different herds. a cattle trust the ranch foreman This work is dons in March or lives there. Somewhere in the April shortly after the calves are vicinity is a pole corral and a large born. The calves must be brand- barn. Near these buildings in theed very soon after birth, or other- men's quarters, which consist of wise they will have left the mother a long log structure, with a cook and it would be impossible to tell house at one end. Possibly one who they belonged to. Any animals aces a Chinese cook cutting wood |

that, are found in the last round-ups Victoria Day (Canada).

but otherwise the place looks de-are divided among the ranches that Golf: Summer Cup Competition,serted most times of the day, The Kowloon Golf Club; Happy Valley men are out doing the thousand-have catilo on that particular range

and properly branded. and one different tasks that are r. Kowloon, Happy Valley.

Queca's Theatre: "Min and necessary for the proper care of the ranch and the stock. If the Bill."

visitor went out to the holds he might see one of the men feeding "nurser," a calf that has lost its mother and must be given a bottle, or tending weak enttle that

World Theatre: "Desert Song." King's Theatre: "Feet First." Danees: Tea Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel.

The summer months are taken up with a routing of the necessary ro pairs round the ranch, having, and doctoring sick or injured cattle. This fall roundup is the large one. Cattle that have reached the proper (Continued on Page 4.)

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