1922-02-24 — Page 12

12

THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Librarian.")

the Oxar was vary great and almost always unfortoamis;} she made politica a matter of seatiment and personalities.

THE HONGKONG

CANTON CONCERT.

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY FEHRUARY 24. 1922.

HOTELS.

The domestic life which he the In Aid of London Hospital. author which he describes is any CLOSING MONTHS OF THE of deep and charming affection,

ROMANOFFS.;

and everything in his diary after Many accounts have appeared blows of fortune were borne no the deposition indicates that the concerning the clasing months of unworthils. The figures of the the Romanoffs. As their sad four murdered princesses and history came to be known versions their invalid brother gain a more came to hand from many quarters. vivid pathos from the pen of one Among these have been a number who knew them so well. of coatlicting narratives. For quite a while reports were publish-

ed in refutation of the death of A breath from the old chivalric the former Imperial family; only world rustles through.

The

A mes cal Entertainment in to Theatre be held at the Canton Club

Hospital. Some features of the February, in aid of the London on Tuesday, 23:b.

(soprano). Mrs. Pegge (contralto). funcnon are:-At the Convent

chorus of Nuns, accompanied by Gate" (Grieg) Mrs. Tolliday

Mesdames Rossi at the piano:

N.Y.K. SERVICE.

Big Ships for European Line.

I

ngs by Madame Rotaste; violin soles by Mr. Nielsen, sccompanied a few weeks ago rumour had it Chronicles of A Gay Garden Griggs; songs by Miss Stobart- by Mr Bessell: songs by Dr. that the Czar was in Tokyo. (Cassell, 10s. 6d.) and lends it a Soprano, from Hongkong), con living under the protection of the piquancy such as can be claimed juting by Mr. Anderson; songs by Mikado. Unhappily, no deanite by for Volumes of modern Mesdames Tolliday and Pegge. evidence has been produced by memoirs. The author. Brigadier-There will be various other enter anybody in contradiction of the General J. M. Gordon comes of tainments, dancing &c. atrocious assasination of the branch of that celebrated family Committee comprises Mesdames The Romanoffs.

which bad settled in Spain, and Drevard, Brown, Harris, Tolliday. A volume that is probably the when he first visited this country Bessell, and Peggs. most authoritative to have made a boy of five knew nothing of its appearance in reference to the fits language beyond the words closing months of the ex Imperial"All right." But he became B family is "Thirteen Years at the pupil of the Birmingham Oratory Russian Court" (Hutchinson) by in Newman's time, learnt his Pierre Gilliard, who was tutor to cricket from John Lilly white, the Romanoff from 1995 titfpassed into Woolwich, and spent within two months of the gen. his vacation in 6ghting for the erally-accepted date of the assas-

Carlists. Spanish exiles were Cable information has come to sination. He is, therefore, a most plentiful in London in the seven competent witness

hand from the N. Y. K. Head ereats before and after te Restood well with both camps. for has been decided to

as to manys, and the author evidently

Office. Tokke, advising that volution, and bis fe sɔnal Jadg-

he was the first person in Eng ter ments have the backig of long land to be told by Alfonso of dis Line the four big steamers that are trans- back to the European observations. In so far as publis accession, and the first to receiv calamities were

Don Carlos (without luggage) & Katori begotten by

on the Trans-Pacific private causes, be finds the whole of the latter's prospects. There which steamers will replace the Line, viz. Charing Cross after the collaps Suwa Maru and Fushimi Maru

Mari Kashima Maru,) rout of the Imperial tragedy in the infirmity of the Tesrevitch a chapter of affaires de cerdas, Iya Maru, Shizuoka Maru, and the superstitions infatnation ich would make a capital light, Marindoshi Mars to which that action drove his drama in itself, and a breezy de-

seription of soldiering in Ireland said European Liners from Hong- The proposed sailings of afore- The Tsarina was in no sense the ocean with General Gordon in troublone times before we cros- pro-therman; M. Gillard wives to bus fresh act of experience.

koar for Europe will be as extracts from her conversation the Antipoles

follows:- sutficient to place that beyond doult even if it were not co-author find a happy outlet for here, aft.. a variety .of vocations. roborated by other authorities. But her obsession in he was the Defence Force and had rised to his militars bent in the Australian hemophilia (propensity to inter- be the Chief of its General Staff nai bumorrhage); which had ani to be retired under the age

ntratsmitted from her own limit at the outbreak of the Gres. Maru and Yek bama Mara.

mother.

the

family to her son.

It is a disease War. which descends only through

Tieneral Gorion has a females, and that circumstance and humorous sides of te an keen zeheh for the picturesit i Connecting mi-fortune timately with herself, ie eased all the qualibes suggested to sle in- his admirably-written bois dat its natural hold upon he emotions.)

tide

It we in this frame of mind that

she fell under the hypnotic power; of the unspeakable Rasputin, which

Katori Maru in or about 31 Mar.

Fushimi Mare on or about 9 June. Kashima Mar) on or about 28 Apr.) Suwa Mary, on or about #6 May.)

Raga Maru, Iyo Mara, Shizuoka and the Trans-Pacific service will hereafter be maintained by ss.

REST FOR MOTHERS.

HONGKONG HOTEL

PEAK HOTEL

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

HOTEL

fol. 373.

CENTRAL LOCATION,

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR

LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.

Telegraphis Address: “VICTORIA. "

J. WHICHELLing

Manager.

EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.

UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT,

THE PREMIER HOTEL FINEST SITUATION, EXCELLENT CUISINE.

ARTHUR E. ODELL,

(Late Grand Holst, Southelife, England and Royal Palace Hotel, London, W.)

KINGSCLERE HOTEL KNUTSFORD

MID-LEVEL HOTEL KOWLOON SACHSE LENNOX & Co. General Agents Are resident Managers.

EXCHANGE.

Opening Rate: closing Rate

How many babies wake up just but the mother's bed-time and Demand

p her busy for a good part of

30 dis hebt. The mother may not

10 dis

had been introduced to her and title when carries an eighteenth- jamanething apparently the mat as a "holy man." He told Jernej century history of that profession, tristhe child, but she may trust in his prayers, and c ridence seems to have linke drawings by Lovat Fraser (Caseje box

envellished with black and whiteld d upon it that when baby is some of his appearances with at je improvement in the hor's malety, sest not to disturbing or improving one is taking the only means he The artist has applied homi-isomething wrong, and the little and sleepless there 15

who became his with the Palae

on Page 11. SELLING

215 2/5.1.26

NT Shangbai

T Singapore. i mots

2/34 No

1942

Demand, India TIT Japan T/T India.

TIT San Francisco)

TIT Java IT Marks

112 184

& New York.)

53

133 6

No",

T Franc

3.85

1 m/s, 1/C 1 m/s. D/P

26

2634

A blind faith in his powers thus laur preconceptions of the pirate.[mas of telling it. became esta li hed ant nourished by the iniluedee of the with a fuller enjoyment.

was but to helping their visualisation neurstic Madame Weroubova, pirate is presented as all. and friend oepded. They contain no Under such circumstadres The B.by's Own Tablets are just, the intermediarymore than all, that our nurser This ar pears to have been the have him with blunderbuss, with cause of his sleeplessness and

imagination thought of him. We simply because they remove the Demand, Paris

quiates, but send haby to sleep origin of the Tsarina's ference in polities, for which she and without earrings: in curlslabte. They are recommended for inter-pistol and with cutisss; with make him feel well and comfort-

BUYING. had no warranting whatever. At vers fresh crisis ment and in stars deshabille. diarrhoea, colte, fever, indizession.dls. Saing and 2/7

capacity is id in pistall: 11 üre provoked by Rasputin's infamesPaser's instinct for redeeming in-and worms: theg proste ap

rai-freething troubles, constipation. 5 m/s. L/C she insisted on the dismissal or stead of flouting, the primary plea petite and trular development. 30d/e. Sas Francis- hanishment of those who hadures of the eye is charmingly aprused him As the war shown in the printing of full-pag-cents the vial. from the Dr. ceded her infatuation deepened.drawings upon

Sold chemists, or by mail at and she became more morbid, buff paper. Tag give the ol-Szechuan Road, Shanghai.

rose, green. 97 Williams' suspicious, oleneste, and med book that sense of wann which

Medisine Co d'esome. She worked for the slour-product often at- removal of the Grand Duke tempts the cost of debauching Nicholas, and her hold apostasy

the Tsar kit Ra putinin countenance, to the scadal oil all Russia, until he was sassinated i

וזי

29. Mr. & H. Ditebfeld, the well- He did not like to known antiquars, bas contributed send him away, for. if Alexis Nicolatesch had died, in the London" (4) to "The Story of volume од The City of Yes the mother. he would the English Towns". The author have been the murderer of his bas done well to get a coherent own son son." M, Gilliard in-outline of his subject, garnished dicates that of the eve of the with much effective detail, into Revolution it was the Tsarina the space of 120 pages. who wielded the political function Ditchfield is not disposed to of the tbrone, and it accept the the ry that London

wbo insisted

00 was a place of importance in pre- retaining Protopopoff(already suf- Roman times. "The only Celtic! fering from incipient paralysis of remains of London is its name. the brain) in office as being, on Not a single Celtic pot has been Rasputis authority, "the man fouad, "he says. The illustrations who could save Russia."

are particularly well chosen.

he

M. Gilliard, whose devotion kept him in the service of the

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE-

GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

Melbourne

co & New York!

4 m/s. Marks .....

Nom

95

tm/s. Francs

6.23

640

The following Unclaimed Tele- crams are lying here

Thurekawamarucio Okanokiku No. 18 Kaibogai, from Misumi.

Osaken, from Oeska. Bury Hongkong (lub. from Shangha, Osborne Mr.

Morgan Empress Russia, from Shanghai.

Moricho Chokagaras, from

19 Wanchai, from Shangbai.

Takes Shigeru elo Dr. Williams Honcheken Kwongfookseng. from Yokoh ma

L. Wabyik Waiyip. from Yokohama.

Wingeingchong. from Yoko

Osaka.

Chinese "bama..

from Amos.

Yeung useng Taitung Hotel,

Tientsin.

Taiseng Co. Shanghwan, from,

Voeux Road, from Yokohama.

Hay Cist Tunghing Co. Des Taibing Des Voeux Road West. Chunshunway, from Yinkow.

TH. KRING. Superintendent. Hongkong. Feb. 23, 1922.

Demand, Calcutta

3 m/s. Francs....... Jemand, Germany. Demand, New York 534% IIT Bombay

Som Jemand, Bombay... 189 !/T Caleutta

Nom. 198 11246 Jemand, Manila 109 Demand Singapore. 1042 Demand, Batavis ... 13942 )n Haiphong On Bangkok On Saigon

Fold leaf per. Tsel.... Sovereign

Bar Silver, ready... 33

form ard

3234 Yew York/London... 4.41's Bank of England rates 44%

SUBSIDIARY COINS. Hkong 50 ct. pieces

10 5

Canton sub. coins

Nom

B61% 8.00

par

12% pm. 45% dis 17.3% dia.

Hongkong Feb. 24. 1922.

METEOROLOGICAL

Pravious

Day

on date.

an dato.

A1 y... at 2.in

NOTICE

MITSUBISHI SHOJ KAISHA, LTD.

(MITSUBISHI TRADINU OD, LTR XAL, GENERAL IMPORTS &

XPORTS,

OLE PROPRIETORS OF

I TAKASHIMA, OCHI.

*OSHINOTANT HOJO.

GDAL

KOCHA

XIAMEN KANADA KAW265.

100 OTURARL

Agents for SAMITO CÓ;

HEAD OFFICE, TOM BRANCHES AND REPRENTA TVES:- NAGASAKI,

KATSU. FAKAMATSU, MOJI, KU KOBE, .BAKA. TSURUGA AGOTA “UKUMAMA, TOKYO, HODATI (URORAN, OTARU, ADIVOS. LOCE, PEKINO, TIENTADAIRES, TSINGTAO, HAŃSKO», (ANGRAI HONGKONG, SINGLE, BOERA- BAYA, SYDNEY, LONE, BERLIN, LYONS, PARIS, NET Yuna SEATTLE.

Cable Address:—-” FASAKISAL, " Codes -Al, A.B. 5TH ED., Western Union ad Bentley.

ม

AGENCIES-FOR-HEITSUBISH MARINE AND FIE NSURANCE

Co. THE OSAKA MARNE & FIRE INSURANCE CO.

For Particulars Apply to

5. OKUB Manager, No. 14. Pedder Stal Hongkong

PEAK TRAMAYS CO., LTD.

TIMETABLE.

WEK DAYS.

* 1.00/. m.

to 4,900.0

10 50 p.6.

Atery !! mis

NOHT CARS.

$00_p. m. 1.20 p.m.

30pm to 3.50 p.m. every 10 minutes

p..

SATURDAYS.

IENTE.

ENTERT

THE

CORONE

NORMA TALMADGE

in

"THE

PASSI

FLOW:"

KOWLOON THEATRE

J. WARREN

KERRIGAN

in

**THE HOUSE

of

WHISPERS."*

Black and White

Dance next Tuesday.

HOMKONG THEATRE

Tight at 5.15 and 9.15

FUITS

OF

PASSION.

Ordinary prices.

WORLD THEATRE

PHONE. 1337

PHONE

Hongkong's Mos Molera Pistare Palace. Eatirely Vader British Waxayo

TO-DAY 5,15 and 9.15 p..

LOUISE GLAUM

in

SEX

By C. Gardner Sullivan. Directed by Fred Niblo. LUXURY. SPLENDOR. RICHES. TEMPTATIJN. CONQUEST. REGENERATION."

230 ad 715 p.m. performanc

GEORGE B SETZ in "VELVE† FINGERS" 10 and 11 Epis BOOKING AT THE THEAT‹E.

Usual Prices

WEATHER REPORT.

i South coast of The same

Ching between

us No. 1.

H.K. & Hainen.)

Feb. 24d. 11. 11m.-Pressure. has increased considerably at Viadivostock and decreased con- siderably from Shanghai to Weihaiwei, a depression having formed over the lower Yangtze

over N. Annam. Valley. There is also a depression

T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

Observatory, Feb. 24, 1922,

TIME SIGNALS.

The time ball on Kowloon Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 am and 4 p.m. except on Satur- days when it is dropped at 10 a.m. and I p.tr, and on Sundays and Holidays when it is dropped The Mong liananticyclone has at 10 am. onl.. moved rapidly eastward.

he ball is hoisted half mast at the 55:b minate and full mast at Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 the 57th minute. Should the ball hours anding at 10 am to-day,fail to drop at the correct time, it 0.05 inch Total since January will be lowered at five minutes Ivt: 182 inches, against an

past the bour and the ordinary average of 4.83 inches.

routine repeated at the following hour, if possible.

District.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS

ENDING AT NOON TO MORROW,

Forecast.

N.E. or 1 Hongkong to variable Gap Rock......... & winds,

23 mip

15

A

11 ja

15 M

#.50 p.

11.

62

$8

97 100

E E.

$2

E

SUNDAYS.

3 3

1

1.30 ?,45 4.0,

orad ol

vtry is cia

C

11.30 am.

Formosa Channel

19 min

10 min

doomed family until forcibly re In "Colloquial moved from it, sams up the char(Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.. 3s acters of the Taar and his consort 6d. the author, Mr. A. N. J. in terns that may stand.

Whymant (lecturer in Chinese ar Nicholas II was modest and the London School of Oriental timid he had not enough self. Studies), points out that, difficult confidente: hence all bia mis- as is the written language, many fortunes. His first impulse was en of ordinary ability have. usually right. The pity was that acquired fluent conversational f.om Shanghai. be seldom acted on it because powers in Chinese., His treatise. he could not trust himself. He is a concise volume, and gives Bought the counsel of those he lucid explanations of the general thought more competent than principles of the language, with himself, from that moment he so extensive vocabulary in both

Barometer....29.87 29.84 29.81 could no longer master the Pekingese and Cantonese.

Temperature problems that faced him. They glance through the

Humility volame escaped him. He hesitated be- suggests that the purchaser may

In "Converting a Business into Wind Force

Wind Direction tween conflicting causes and acquire by this means in a com- & Private Company" Mr. Herbert Weather......... often ended by following that paratively short while a sufficient W. Jordan, very well known in Rain.. to which he was personally understanding of the language to the Old Country as a registration Highest least sympathetic.

be decidedly useful for everyday agent. has provided a handy little The Tzari a knew the Tzar's purposes, at the same time prepar-guide showing the advantages, Lowest irresolute character. As I haveling the way for closer study if procedure, and cost of incorporat- said, she considered she had a desired. The comprehensive ing a firm as a (private) joint- sate duty to b-lp him in his vocabulary by itself readers the stock company. The publication. heavy task. Her influence on book of distinct utility.

is a madel of compression.

A

0.19 0.00 0.00 оред

air Temperature on the 23rd 64

оред Temperature on the

24 h 61 T. F. CLAXTON, Director. "H. K. Observatory, Feb, 24

EXTER CAR 12,00 mīdaighs

11.30 1100

1.90 0.0 to -.4,10 p.m. 4.00 to 8.10.

le 12.00 neos

to 1.00 p.m

NIGHT CARS.

As op Work Daga

SPECIAL CARS.

BT FACERUNT AT DEN CAMOPLETE'S OF7252, ALUZJEDS), BUILDERNA ORE TOUS

moderate;

J fair.

· 3 South ́ count of) "Ching" between, H.K & Lamocks.)

Should the time ball be out of order the abure routine will be carried out with the flag "Z", on the storm signal mest.

Tim-signal are siso given at aight by means of three white lamps mounted vertically on the Observatory wireless mast. From 8b. 56m. Os. to 9h, Om. a. p.m.. The same

the lamps are "extinguished 6 No. 1.mamentarily at the even seconds, except at the 2nd, 28th, 50th, 52nd, and 54th of each minute.

The hourefer to Houstong Standard Time (8 hours of est Greenwich).

The same: as No. 1.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor, by Alfred Morley st 11, Too House Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong