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Kowloon...

Taumati.

Bhatia.....

Tapo Market.

•Taipo

Farling

Shumubun

Carton

Sheungahul

UP TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, mazingā zīme N12 A13:10:29 18 1976 |26|20 {"AM"A" AM|AX. | AM, [NOON T.ML. F.ML| YM. P.M. F.M. IN

Dep. 8.40 8.05 828

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Cap. 7.19

0.1510.18 13.00 1.18 235 408 4.43 8.857.40.

- 1:24) 10.24|| 13:08:120...

4:49 8,43) 7,48

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10

1.87 10.80 12.20 1,38 ...

...

5.02 5.55 8.00

146..

9.52 10.50 12.38 1.41

5.16 808 8.13

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9.67 10.54 13.97 1.55 ...

416

5.10 0.138.17

Dop. 7,80

10.00 11.04 12.67 2.08)...

...

Dop. 7.354

9.05 18,14,11.09) 13.50 2,103,14)

...A?? | 7,4]|| 8,44

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No. ..10

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Talpo: Skatin

Taumatl

Kowloon....

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TH

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO DAY.

(October 21.)

Nelson Day (1800).

Navy League Ceremony at Cono-

One Romantic

Hockey Club v. Argylls, U.S.R.C. ground, 6.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre; Night."

World Theatre: The Mark of Zorro."

1.

1

HEIR OF THE AGES.

ROBERT LYND (LIKE SIR ARTHUR

KEITH) LOOKS AHEAD.

AND SEES THE MAN OF THE FAR-

DISTANT FUTURE.

Sir Arthur Keith is, for a man of, semblance to ourselves. It is easy science, unexpectedly reassuring in chongh in the present world for a his vision of the man of the future, fow rich people to enjoy a life of Star Theatre: In Gay Madrid" writes Robert Lynd in the London completo leisure, But, for the most Central Theatre: Man Without Neira Chronicle. He does not pie part, the world is populated by hu Women.""

turo, the man of the future as a man beings who are moulded by tho King's Theatre: "Six Cylinder being who has become "all head struggle to earn a living, and who Love.?

and no bedy, and who lives on have only enough leisure time to Majestic Theatre: **Anybody's

"peptonised energy." And he even recuperats for the next day's Womin

Repulse Bay Hotel, Les Dejobansanggests that the man of the future, struggle."/ et William Rimels.

Some people hold that the leisur with all his progress towards per- Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel fection, will still remain recognised citizen of the future, relcased and Repulse Bay Hotel.

ably like the man of the present. from the need of struggle, will de- Tides:-High at 4:30, and 8.13;

vote a large part of his life to the acquisition of knowledge, and to Low at 12.34.

the practice and enjoyment of the arts. And that is extremely prab- New worlds of "knowledge able. will have been opened to the idea. list. New goals among the starş will lure the adventurer.

THURSDAY.

(October 22.) Legislative Council Meeting, 2.30

D.m.

Stock Exchange Settlement Day. Golf and Bridge Tournament, Shek-O Country Club by May Road Branch of the M.C.. Lectura on "The Pound Sterling" by Prof. Robertson at Y.M.C.A.

the

Queen's Theatre: "Eyes of

World."

World Theatre: * Mark

of

Zorro,

Star Theatre: "Navy Blues."

Central Theatre: "Virtuous Hue- band."

On the whole the most comfort able thing to believe about the man of the future is that, while he will be a better man than ourselves, he will be fairly like us. Robert Browning, if I remember a poem of bis correctly, expressed the hope that life in Heaven would in some respects resemble life on earth, and the inhabitants of Utopin never Boom sa charming to us as when they are men and women who share our own interests, enjoyments and

ecatnaios.

At the same time, if human na- ture is so little changeable as Bir Arthur Keith believes, the ordinary man will have only a limited appe- tite for knowledge, idealism and dentare. He will be more inter

ested in the weather than in theor

No prosacct could be more horries about the atom. He will care as ble than that of a world populated much about food as about the latest

King's Theatre Six Cylinder by intellectual machines in semi developments in the arts. He will

Love,"

Majestic Theatre

of Orange."

Mr. Lemon human form. It is as remote from be is player of games.

our warmer (yupathies na a world

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotels ne Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room, Len Dojobans et William Rimels.

European Mail:-Outward; Europe via Vancouver (Empress of Russia) 5 p.m.; Europe via Siberia (Empress of Russia) 6«p.m.

Tidea: High at 6.01 and 8.28; Low at 12.01 and 1.08.

FRIDAY.

(October 23.)

Hockey Club "A". Kowloon British School Former Pupils' Asso ciation, King's Park, 5.16 p.m.; "i Volunteer Promenade Concert, Kowloon Cricket Club.

Queen's Theatre: "Eyes of the World."

World Theatres ** Mark of Zorro."

Star Theatre: Navy Blues." Central Theatre: Virtuous Hus band."

King's Theatre: "Six Cylinder Lore."

Majestic Theatre: Br. Lomon of Orange."

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

Tides: High at 7.06 and 8.38;

Low at 1255 and 1.35.

a man a world of too much leisure would be a world of boredom-that games and food would become tedi- ous if they filled too great a part of his existence.

Cricket Leads the Way.

populated by Fortunatelyt might be thought that for such there is no reason to believe that the inhabitants of Utopia will be any more intellectual than ourselves, though they will be more intelligent. And the intelligent man does not cultivate the intellect to the exclu- sion of the body and the soul.

It is my own belief, however, What Will They Do With Leisure? that, as man acquires moro leisure, he will gradually longthen his Que of the most difficult things to

games, plays, books, meals and a imagine about the world of the forth to meet the new conditions. future is the uso men and women The "fight-to-a-finish" cricket match will make of their enormously in-

es which have made their appear- erensed leisure. We have been told ance in Anglo-Australian sport are by many of the prophets that a time

an anticipation of the games that is coming and coming fairly soon will be played by, posterity. I fore- when science will have conquered

see a time when our great-great- the forces of nature to such a point grand-children will take the greatest that no one will have to work more pleasure in sitting through a day's than two or three hours a day-not cricket in which two batsmen stay more, perhaps, than two or three in all day and score only one rum be tween them. Many complaints have days a week,

been made recently about slow-scor." How can men and women accus- ing cricket. The complaints are "D- just, Cricket is wisely preparing n tom themselves to live mainly in advance for the leisured civilisation state of leisure without evolving of the future. into a race bearing very little re

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