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No. 23095. 號伍拾玖仟参萬式 日牌初月柒年申壬

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY END, 1931, until Further Notice (ali previous

Time Tables cancolled).

UP TRAINS

STATIONS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 12 0 10 8 12 14 18 23 18 24 24 25 AM, AM, AM

4.M. NOON P.X. T.M. P.U. FM P.M.| 2M.

[20]

Kowloon Dep 6.40 8.05 8,28 9.15 10.10 12.00 1.182.35 402 441 595 7.40

Yaumati....... Dep. 649. Shatin.................Dop. 7.00,

Taipo......Dep.) 7.14)....

Taipo Market.....Dep. 7.19

Fanling....... Dop. 7,0

9.24 10.24 12.08) 1,20

9.87 10.86 19.30 1.86...

952 1060 12,13) 1.41|

114

0.87 10.64 12.87 1.55 ... 10.00 11.04) 12.47 2.05 ...

9.05 10.14 11.00 12.52 210 3.14 A. 7.41 6.44 0:11 10:20 11,18 12.58 2.10 3.30

Sheung bai Dep. 7.85 6bumahan

Canton

Chotoa

4.40 5.43 7.48

| 5,02 1.55 8.00 5.188.00 6.72

6.106.13 8-11

5.34 6.27 5.31 5.40 6.888.38

....20 0.23 8.17

4.40

17.28]

11.92

6.40

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

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

18

16 17 A.M. F.M.

A.M.

No. No. No. No. 19 | 91 | 18 | 23 P.M. (P.M. [P.M." |PO,

4.13

Shurmahu...

Sheungakuinkimas

Fanling

Taips Marks

Talpa .......

Statin

Yauma,

Kowloon

Dep...

7.50

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BRY

Dap. 7.17 8.03 9,85 10.84 1136 2,25 4.236.10 7.01 718 .Dep. 7.25 5.10) 10.08) 11,40243 4.30 0.17..

711 Dep.) 7.20.6.14) 10,08) | 11,50| 2,40

4.35 6.32 .. .Dep 7.40 8.23)70,18) 12012564.45 0.32 12,068.02 4.490,86 12.30 8.186.03 8.49] ... 19.33 3.27 15.14 (7,01) ... 1938 8.33 5.20 17,07| 7,39|7,56

Dep. 7.46 8.30 10.22 ... Dop, 7.58 8.48) 10,86) Dep. 8.11 8.56 10.49

..AFF) 8.17| 9,01) 10.84 11.13|

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OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

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(August 6)

Lammort's Sale of Furniture at

6, Chservatory Villas, 10.30 a.m.

Kowloon,

Dr. John Aglionby, Bishop of "In some of these places you feel in fat once an overpowering sense of

Lammert's Auction 'Sale of Post- Accra, Gold Coast, believes

evil. It may be the beat, the bunge Stamps, Sales Room, 3.15 p.m. witchcraft

midity, the terrible silence of the forest-wliatever it is there is a terrible fealing that you are in a devil-possessed country.

After a severa attack of malaria the Bishop in convalescing at his mother's home at Tonbridge, Kent. Hu has revealed the secrets of the black magic of the Gold Coast. Ha said:

"Some of these people, too, are expert conjurers. It is eney to "At home in England it is easy imagine the impression which could to scoff at African witchcraft and be made on a deeply spiritual, call it just foolish superstition, highly imaginative and' superati- But in Afrien wizardry has such a tious people by some really good hold that millions and millions of | tricks. people are absolutely in the power of spells and charms.

"There is one bright spat. When people turn to Christianity they They live their lives shadowed seem to put off the terrible feur in by a wall of fear as their fore-which they used to live. Yet be- fathers have done for centuries lief in witchcraft is still in the past.

background, and it will take liter- "Surely it is not possible that ally centuries of work, of educa such an unholy sway can be main-tion, before witchcraft is, wiped tained by fraud alone?

out.

D

"Sorcery and witchcraft are the "We in England scoff too lightly monopoly of a vast secret society at those things. You know the say- which has ramifications all over ing, There are more things in hea- Africa Meetings at midnight, ven and earth, curses, spells and charms are the stack-in-trade of the witch and the wizard.

"It is very difficult to obtain evi. dence. Even the lips of my own churel members are sealed. They often profess complete ignorance| Although they have become Chris- tians, in times of stress tradition often becomes too strong, and they still appeal to witches for help in their trouble.

"Power of Evil."

PRECIOUS: MARBLE

PAVEMENT.

SECRET ARCHIVES FOUND

IN ST. PETER'S

Whist Drive on board H.M.S.

Tamar, 8-45 p.m.

King's Theatre: ***One Hour With You."

Queen's Theatre: "Leather-Neck- ing"

Central Theatre: "Madonna of the Streets,"

Star Theatre: "Just A Gigolo." Oriental Theatre: "World And The Flesh." Garden

David,"

Theatre: "Tol'able

World Theatre: "Their Own Desire."

Majestic Theatre: "The Common Law."

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel and King's Res taurant.

Tides:-High at 10.57; Low at 4.15 and 17.85.

Home Mails: Inward from Europe via Suez by Hakone Maru; Outward for America and Europe vid Siberia by Pres. Cleveland, & p.m

SATURDAY.

(August 8.)

China Light and Power Club Concert, p.m.

Lawn Bowls:-Senior Division: Craigengower v. Taikoo K.C., Kow- oon C.C. v. Civil Service, Kow. loon Docka v. Police, Kowloon D.G.O.

Y. Club de Recreio;

Rome:-Work of great artistic importance has been completed in the Basilica of St. Peter's. The vast interior shines. like new. The "I have been on the Gold Coast great pavement surrounding, the Junior Division: Taikoo RC. v. Craigengower, Civil Bervice v. Kow. for right years now and have learns tomb of St. Peter-an area of overloon 0.0., Club de Recreio v. Kow. | just a little of this fearful power of 1,000 square yards has been relaid loon B.G.C., Yacht Club v. Hong

evil.

"I have considered carefully all the evidence I can get.

"Though a great deal of so-called witchcraft is undoubtedly just fraud and quackery-simply play- ing on the credulity of a supersti tious people-yet beneath all this I am quite sure is a substratum of truth.

Kong Electric.

Lawn Tennis-"B" Division:

with rare and precious marblea. This work coat over £3,000, but had it been done in any building out-South China v. Army T.C., Univer- side of the Vatican and Italy it would have cost ten times as much.

The marbles come from the great Vatican City stores and from a A Sicilian rediscovered vein in quary-a mixture of arcient and moderní àtone. The renovation has

"When everything possible has been carried out with funds speci- been explained, there is still a great ally dedicated for the purpose by deal that cannot be accounted for the late Cardinal 'Merry Del Val by antural means.

"I knew a strong man, well and hearty, who had a spell of death put on him. He sickened and died without any resistance,

Doctors

could do nothing for him; they, anid there was nothing wrong. He just gave up hope and died,

This work, great as it is, forma only a part of expensivo alterna- tions made in the Basilica of St. Peter's in readiness for the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul on Wed- nesday.

Quarry Secret.

To make the pavement a thing of "It may have been poison, it may specially rare beauty the Vatican have been fear, or it may have been authorities, following ancient indi- name occult power of which

weextions found in the secret archives know nothing.

of the Vatican, sent special experts And

to Sicily, where they rediscovered the lost vein of Sicilian marble, known to architects of classic and renaissance times, and secured fine specimens for the church.

nity. v, Civil Servico, Hong Kong C.C. v. Chinese N.C.

Aquatics.-V.R.C. Night Fete, 9.15 p.m.

Central Theatre: "Flood." King's Theatre: "One Hour With You."

Queen's Theatre: "Leather-Neck-

iog."

Star Theatre: Just A Gigolo." World Theatre: "Their Own, Desire,"

Garden Theatre: "Tol'able David."

Majestic Theatre: "The Com mon Law."

Oriental Theatre: "World and the Flash,"

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel, Peninsula, Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides: High at 24 and 11.43; Low at 5.04 and 18.31.

Home Mails Inward from America by Pros, Hayes; from Lon- don by Meranon; Outward for Europe via Suez by Katori Maru, 0.30 m., Soudan, 10.30 am, and

"Auto-suggestion

inbred fear, I believe, have a good deal to do with people dying like this.

Government Intervenes.

"Spells of death and blindness the often used and sometimes when things get too bad and there are marble of barbaric splendour, tong Conte Rosso, 0 p.m. many deaths in some particular dis-treasured in the Vatican stores, and trict the Government has to inter-

This marble has been in turn em- bellished with old. African black

fore. This is very dificult. for the entire surface has been polished usually the prestige of the witch to mirror brightness.

goes up-by-leaps and bounds wher

he becomes aufficiently notorious tó warrant the attention of the Gov- crnment.

Vatican-Steeplejacks Busy

The Vatican steeplejacks have "Cattle and crops may be cursed. also reburnished the whole of the "I have scen some extraordinarily queer cases where cattle died for no buge Bernini Baldacchine so that it particular reason and blight affect can now be seen in brilliant refac ed the crops of the man bewitched tion on the pavement and forms a while loaring those of his neigh-

new vision of beauty. Sacristane hours absolutely clear,

are busy decorating the altar of the Confession with elaborate candela bra,

"It may be natural causes; it may not..

There are some villages to which I go that are notorious the baunts of powerful . witches and wizards.

tion of the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament. The new baldacchino, i -covering -&-surfaća-öf-60-—équare: yards, has been set up in position, and the interior of the Chapel has been recovered with gold leaf of 23 carat To get, the desired richness of effect the has relief decorations have been gilded over eight times apart from the laying on of gold leaf.

The bronze doorways of Bor romini and the roof of the latera! arches have been reburnished and regilded. The bronze ciborio of Other work completed in St. Bernini from the marble steps to Poter's is the long overdue restora- the angels has been entirely restor (Continued at foot of next column., | ell.

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