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Hongkong Daily Press

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No 22016, VERKTAAZO BAÐA¶*** HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932. ****

DIARY OF LOCAL

SOLE AGENTS

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SAILINGS From CANTON-Daily at 8 am, anit 4.33 p.m. (Sundays 4.30 p.m. "only),

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(Sundaya 9 m/only}, BAILINGS From MACAU -Daily at 3 a.m. and 2,00 p.m.

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EXCURSION TO MACAO:-

Sunday, 10th January, 1032

8.S. "SUI TAI"

will depart from the Company's Wing Lor Street Wharf at 9 a.m. and from MACAO at p.m.

9.8. **SUI AN“

will sail from Hong Kong at 4.30 p.m. instead of

5.30 pan. on Saturday, 9th January, 1982.

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SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYA— Singles. $3.00; Beturn: $5.00, BXCURSIONS.-8inglo; $9.50; Return ‹ $4.00!

Nor-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wireless;

BRUNSWICK-MELOTONE

RECORDS

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Obtainable from

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EVENTS.

>TO-DAY.

(January)

MANawspaper at the Gezers

Post Office in the United Kingdom."

PORT OF SPAIN IN TRINIDAD

日月燮年式卅佰玖仟变英 Price)

Helena May Institute, Miss Luba GREAT LAKE OF PITCH-FOR ASPHALT Pocker's pianoforte recital, 8.30

p.m.

Mesting at Sailors' and Soldiers" Home, Speaker Rev. W. W. Rogers, 5.30 p.m.

Golf: Complation of second

round, Taggart. Cup" (Ladies)."****

Hoorey: Radio Sports Club

German Club.

ROADS.

THERE was a faint morning mist enshrouding the three peaks of the Trinity, the mountains

Photographia Exhibition at The University 9 m. to, e p.m.

King's Theatre: Hor Wadding Night.

Queen's Theatre: The Lyons Paria in the little steam launch Mail"

and tied up at the wharf of Bort Contral Theatre : "Mother's

of Spain, the fog lifted and we Millions"

World Theatro: "High Society could look back to see the moun Blues."

tains of Venezuela looming. hazily in the distance.

Tos Dances at King's Restauraat and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Danco at Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant.

FRIDAY,

(January 8.)

Lammert's Salo of Housshold Furniture, 53, Hollywood Road,

10.30 a.11.

Hockey Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" v. Recreio (King's Park) 5 p... Radio Sports Clab v. St.

Andrew's Club.

supply-Pitch Lake. Our steamer anchored off La Brea Point (Bros is the Spanish word for pitch), and

which caused Columbus to give this wo took small. boats GYB # island the name of Trinidad. But, treacherous sea-that pitched us as we rode nercss the Galf of unmercifully to and fro in an of fort, apparently, to give us the proper feeling for a lake with that name. After the dock wo, walked up a gently sloping read to a gate, beyond which is the lake- lake. on which you can walk, your heels. sinking quickly into the soft sur face, as if it were a hot day on a city street; a lake on which men- are working, waist deep in the black stuff; where they have been working for years and will be working for many more years to

The town, smote us with colour Under a truly tropic, sun the vage tation was green and brown, the white houses threw solid black shadows, the huts had masses of flowers clambering over them.

COLOUR!

There is a greater aimount of colour in the natives, too, than one finds on any other island of the West Indies group-colour with all

come.

Some little boys ran toward us beseeching here, as overywhere, for penales, with the ingratiating smile of carefree children. Negrees were digging out. lumps of pitch

NOTICE

We have removed GLOUCESTER BUILDING

(South Arcade)

N. LAZARUS

Ophthalmic Opticiana..

Single Copy, 10 cts. Per Month, $3.

KIWI

BOOT POUSH

BLACK

Very Convincing is the Appreciation: of KIWI THE QUALITY BOOT POLISH whether in BLACK any shode of TAN or PATENT LEATHER"

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Sole Datributors:-W. B. LOXLEY & Co.

Photographic Exhibition at The white man (including the Portuge putting it in barrels to be loaded THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL

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Kowloon Cricket Club Extra ordinary meeting, 6 p.m. -

Rocial Welcome to Rev. Allan at its amazing mixtures and complica with their picks; these were loaded Union Church, Kowloon, 9 pm,tions attendant ∙upon the con-in. small cars and run on a narrow

Hong Kong Ladies Hockey Club; glomeration of races. For here railway to the "fastory" Annual Dance at Lane, Crawford's

whore Restaurant.

there is not just the Negro and the the pitch is boiled, preparatory to

University, 9 am to 6. p.m.

Queen's Theatre:

eso and the French), but the Chin in the helds of countless ships "The Lyons Mail

ose, the Hindu, and all the con plying from here to the northland. Contral Theatre: "Mother's coting pages. Strangest of all, Millions."

THE BOTTOMLESS PĪT! King's Theatre: "Her Wedding perhaps, is to hear English- Night

English, this is, as it has survived. That is, all there is to it-the World Theatre : High Society in Trinidad-issuing from to

men work: all day digging them- Blues."

Ten Dances at King's Restaurant mouths of the ebony Negro, the selves into trenches; and, when ad Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner yellow Chinese, the mahogany they come back again next mora- Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen-Hindu, and the countless half-ing, the crevices have filled to insula Hotel and King's Restaur-breed urchins of all thesa. The the surface. again, so that they can.

language takes

the literally, dig for years in the same puzzling charm of a foreign spot without gatting below the tongue, so twisted, so slurred and top abbreviated. has it become; and the Pitch Lake in Trinidad is great- utter disregard of all natives ferly similar to a pitch lake in the correct use of pronouns causes-Venezuela which, however, is on a more than car visitor to look blank higher level, and some people be- and then to laugh,

ant:

SATURDAY.

(January 9.)

New Territories Agricultural Association Annual Exhibition.

Prize-giving at the University Photographic Exhibition, 3 p.m.

Rugger: Triangular Tournament, Club Army, Happy Valley,

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almost

Long ago Port of Spain was the lieve that the Trinidad lako zaust Hockey Radio Sports Club.

Puerto de los Espanoles of the be fed from this distant source Police.

Spanien; but it fell into the hands since, in all these years, it bas Cricket. First Division Kow of the English and has emerged as maintained its surface at the same: loon C.C... Hong Kong C.C. (L.), a new and handsome town, with level. Indian R... University (C.), polectric trams, lovely homer, «n_¡m- Craigangover C.C.. Royal Artil posing Governor's Palace, modern lery (L), Navy . Civil Service O.C. Hotels and business buildings, and (L) Second Division: University good selection of excellent

Indian R.C. (L.), Recreio .nsphalt roads. Craigengower C.C. (L.), Hong Kong CC. Kowloon 0.0...(L.), Police Borderers. (L.)..

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ASPHALT ROADS.

Surely this is more than a lake of pitel-it is a lake of gold. Here were all our highways in the mak ing; and, as we stood on the rather isolated wharf, looking across the water to Port of Spain, across the Gulf of Baria to tho Bocas Islands and the mountains of Venezuela, we seemed to see even beyond them to the shining, gray ribbons of road that would carry

Football-Lai Wah Cup Com- The asphalt reads, so many and petition: Navy . Army at 4 p.m.; so excellent, that lace the island Chinese League South China "A" of Trinidad" are really to be ex

Chinese Athletic "B" Southposted when you remember that us to all the beautiful, the China "B" 21.

Chinese Athletic Trinidad is the possessor of that romantic, and the out-of-the-way "A"; Eastern Yes Woo.

amazing, unlimited

Bource of places of the world.

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