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MASON'S

DELICIOUS

O.K

SAUCE.

TODAY'S WEATHER

Hongkong Daily Press.

'Registered as's Newspaper at the General

Post Office In the United Kingdom.

No. 24178. 號叁拾柒佰壹仟赙萬弍第日伍拾月元年于丙

LOON

CANTON

RAILWAY

CANTON PASSENGER TRAFFIC

The Public are hereby notified that on the 7th` February, 1996, and until further notice the following fares by expresses and fast trains will be charged.

Kowloon to Canton · Canton, to Köwloon

1st Class

2nd Class 3rd Class

Single Return

84.00 H.K.C

$7.60

$2.00 $1.00

$5.60 €

0.0. $10.60. $2.80 $1.40..

The only alteration to trains involved is the can- cellation of the special-fare third class expresses which have been leaving Kowloon at 7.87 m. daily and Canton at 3.25 p.m. daily.

R. D. WALKER,

ESTABLISHED 1887

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1936. 伍拜疆 日月或年

Hector Cat About Town Notorious Gossip

An old country woman going into a large town saw, for the first time, an electric tram

Well," she said, in her amaze- ment, "I've seen 'em worked by horses, and I've seen 'em run by engines. but "I never seed 'em druv by a clothes-prop_before.”

▼

Little May's grandmother had an old-fashioned why of measuring a yard by holding one end of the goods to her nose and then stretching the piece at arm's length. One day May found a piece of ribbon. Carrying it to her grandmother, she requested gravely, “Grandma, smell this and see how long it in.”

YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS

T.T. ON LONDON 17. 3ld. (nom) TT. ON NEW YORK:—34).

TIENTSIN PORT ICE-BOUND

Vessels In Dire Plight

Tientsin, Feb. 0.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7.

Anniversaries "and" Holidays. -- Feast of Lanterns. (Shang-yilan- chich. 5. Borld Abbe

Auctions-Art Curios, at Komers Gallery, Chater Road, 5.15 Miscellaneous Goods," at

This port is girtually filed with pm shipping, owing to the ice condi-Lammert's HK Sales Room, 11 tions, unknown for many years, m which have resulted from contin- yous easterly winds of the past ging's several daya s

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The sea has frozen along the entire coast and Iceberges have been reported thirty feet high.

The worst conditions are thirty

Twqsoquaintances, who had not seen Macpherson for agme years, called at his house on Saturday evening, Mrs. Macpherson answer-miles to sea from Taru, ed the door.

"Does Macpherson live here?" they

"Ay was the woman's reply, "list carry m in"

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A man wanted" in Aberdeen was spotted by a new policeman on duty at the rallway station.

The policeman telephoned to the police station saying, “the man you want is on the ten o'clock

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS express for London Shall I enter

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT CO LTD. 'S THE CHINA NAVIGATION: CO, LTD...

CANTON

LINE

The public are hereby notified that on the 7th February, 1936, and until further notice, the following paskaga rates will be charged:-

From Hong Kong From Canton

TRAVEL THE

SHORT

SAFE

Day boat

SEA

(Taisban, Fatahan & Lungahan) $3.50 Day bost

(Bai Ao)

$3,00

$3.50

$2.50

Night boat

(Taishan, Fatshan & Lungaban) $5.00

$4.00

Night boat

(Sui. An)

$3.50

$3.00

WAY

by the

British Line

MACAO LINE

From Hong Kong:

Wook day 100 mm, Kimäent Week day: 5.30 p.m. 8i Tal Batarday 8. Bui Täl Saturday: 5.30 p.m. Kinslan - í SUNDAY 19.30, Kizeben;

*FICURSION.

From Macio

100-p. Xiuobus - 51,00 m. Bai Tai 3,00 am. Be Th 1,00 pm to Baillog 3.00 sm. Wingham 15.00 p.m.

Note:--All Steamboat Company's Steamers

are equipped with Werolom, QUEEN'S BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD Telephone 20101

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS. BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY

Under License From Messrs Parsons.

BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES

Under Special License

From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur,

Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable

For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.

DOCK & SLIPWAYS.

FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE AS WELL AS SMALLIR VESSELS,

ON ANY TIDE

ALL CLASSES OF SHIP ENGINE AND BOILER

REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE

WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND OXY- ACETYLENE SKILFULLY AND PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT.

BUTTERFIELD A SWIRE-

the train and shadow him, or wait for the cheap excursion to MOITOW?"

At the end of an examination the master gathered up all the papers. Among them he discover- ed one sheet, which, instead of being covered with historical names and dates, bore merely a crude drawing of a tombstone on which was written:--

"Sacred to the memory-which always deserts me on occasions like this."

lads.

A visitor approached two village

Is there ashing in this stream?" he asked

Butterfeld and wire's Buntien. which is one of the fastest and most powerful of the coasting steamers, battled through Ice to within fifty miles of Taku, but en- countered ice there to a thicknes

of ten feet and thereupon turned back to Tangku. She was asslated by tee-breakers.aka

** The pilots are compelled to walk over the Ice to ships outside the

bar and the Bath River is frozen hard from smith. The Ice bound "ships arealet of water and other supplies, "and- some are Frying distress signals -

Numerous ships put back to port upon learning, of, conditions in the Gulf and several Habo ice- breakers have been crippled owing the dimculties encountered.

: ་ ༦ Two hundred coolies, working the German steamer Ruhr, return- ed to Taku after walking seven miles across ice. Two Japanese and one Chinese steamer are in distress of Shalutten and it is re ported that a powerful ice-breaker from Dairer has been despatched

to then assistance

Cipantes

T's In The Aiz"

-"He Was Her Man

Oriental:- “She

Forld "Chinese Ficture. Alhambra Girl In Danger | Majestic-Diamond Jim.”

Star:-"Annapolis Farewell "

Meetings-Kowloon Chess Cluo, at Central British School, 5.30 p.m; 8t. Andrew's Girls' Guild. & pm.

Miscellaneous -Jumble Sale In

St. Andrew's Hall, 3 pm.

bola at HQRA Segts Mesa, Queen's Road, 8.45 p.m

Social-Whist Drive and Tom-

Sports

Badminton-Mixed Doubles, Fire

Brigade Chinese R.G., St. John's Crab da Recraio at Anderw 3-

* Taikoo BC; Ballors and Soldiers Home v Kowloon Tong.

Billiards, Junior Championship, & A. Lewis v. R. E. Lee (Club Lusitano); Mul Chan-jeg v. F. R Zimmern (Civil Service C.C.), Sidney Chan v.. LamKa-buen (Club de Recrefo), 8.30 p.

Hockey Crib de Recreio V Hong Kong Hockey Club seconds (King's Park Ground), 5 p.m.

Lawn Tennis-Ladies' Singles

Championship, Mra Kayll v. Miss Hancock; Mrs. N. Wilson v. Mrs. Dowling (U.SRC.), 3.30 pm

Moon Moon, 15th. Day. Full

International shipping represen- Moon, 7.19 p.m. tatives gathered at an emergency "Yes, plenty," replied one of the meeting this morning to consides Jads

"Why did you tell him there was plenty of fishin' when there aren't two trouts. In the stream?" asked the other lad after the visitor had gone.

Well, the less shes there is, the more shin' to get 'em, ain't there?" retorted his companion,

AUSTRIAN MONARCHY

RESTORATION

the problem,, especially the supply of food and other necessities to the ice-bound vessel Bester.

BRITAIN'S DEFENCES

London, Feb. a♫

The Government's defence plans are now understood to be practi- cally complete, and will be com Paris, Feb. 5.sidered at the next meeting of the Hopes that Archduke Otto will Cabine reclaim the Hapsburg Throne in is learned that the prospect Austria have been somewhat dash ed to the ground by conversations between Mandin French For eign Minister, and Prince VOL Blashembers, the Austrian Vice- Chancellor,

Sunrise Sunset,—6,15

m

Tides. High at 10.40 and 21.33; Dow at 347 and 1448.---

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8..

Anniversaries and Holidays St. John of Matha, C.

Cinemas

The Littlest Rebel” Va-He Was Her Man.

She

King': Que or

"Chinese Picture

The Littlest Rebel? *Diamond Jim.” Cardinal Richelieu-

Miscellaneous New Boys Teat

Sporta

of the rotation of a loan in order at Diocesan Boys Echool, 9 am to repair the deficiencies in the three defence services is now re ceding the Treasury is opposed thereto.

It is understood that Prince von

The view is held that short term Starhemberg gave an assurance borrowing by means of Treasur that Austria would not consider | BBs will be able to provide the question of the restoration of stent, finance as the defenca sci

the monarchy until she had con- }ƒ proereda---

sulted" Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Bla-Meuter

via and Rumania, who are "meur- bers of the Little Enfente, and who have hitherto been Atzonglyr

restoration.

This declaration has been re- Batisfaction.

celver

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