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17, ICE HOUSE STREET

BRUNSWICK

PHONOGRAPHS

AND

HOTELS

LEADING FAR EASTERN

HOTELS.

HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel,

Peak Hotel.

Repulse Bay Hotel..

SHANGHAI:

Astor House Hotel.

Palace, Hotel.

Grand Hotel, Kalee.

PEKING:

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits.

The name Ham (a, b) in e ninaction with. The Shangha Homel- La

The Amand Ex

13.

KOWLOON HOTEL

Telephone K. 600 and 802.

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Color Anime Kowloon THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON. Electric Lift to all Fhors and it of Garden.

Telephone on all Floors.

Daily, Monthly & Family Rates.

Apply Mrs. M. BLAKE

FIRST CLASS SALOON BAR AND BILLIARD ROOM.

Proprietor: FRANK L. COOKE.

PALACE HOTEL. KOWLOON.

Tel. No. Kowloon D.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

Tel. Add. Palaez

Five minutes

Two minutes from Ferry and Railway Station.

by Ferry from Hongkong.

A in clase Hotel in every respect and under English manage-

meat.

Luisine under personal supervision of the Proprietor. Loung Bar and Billard Ro

Terms moderate.

Spezial arrangements for families on application to

J. H. OXBERY.

Proprietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL-LICATION.

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING.

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUSCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.

Telegraphic Address *VICTORIA “ Tel. Central 373.

THE

EUROPE

SINGAPORE.

J. WITCHELL

Manager.

HOTEL.

DANCING AFTER DINNER: EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY,

TEA DANCES

TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS,

The Hotel Orchestre under the Direction of

Mr. F. H. Martens.

Telephones in every room.

Telegraphic Address: "EUROPE. SINGAPORE” Telephone No. 2740 (9 lines).

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD. ARTHUR. E. ODELL, “Manager.

WEDNESDA

THE PASSING OF THE ZE "BUS CONDUCTOR.

QUILL

No One Left Who Can Make Them.

War French for Visitors From Paris.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1923.

WEATHER REPORT.

Sept. 5d. 18h. 28m. Warning to Hongkong. Coast Ports, deže 16 N. Lang. 115 E direction Depression or typhoon in La ? unknown. position uncertain.

Sept. 264. 11h.. 46m.--Pressure

Bus conductors who speak Quill pens are gradually dying foreign languages are shortly out. The last example of their be placed on routes most used by diminishinense is found in the foreign visitors to London.

Sept. 284. th. 45m. Warning decision of the Treasury to dis-¦. The scheme, it is expected, will to Hongkong. Coast Ports, &c.-- pense with thein at the South. The started by taking a census of Depression or typhoon in Lat. Wark County Court, where they bi-lingual bus conductors. So far|16a N. Long 1153 E. direction have lingered long after dis the only classification attempted | unknown, position uncertain. appearance inom other otheial has een languages other than precincts. The cheaper steel pen Bargh," which includes every-has increased slightly over . and the fountain have taken thing from Irish to Chinese: their place.

It yet remains to be seen what And no one nowadays is learn-depths of erudition lie beneath ing to make them. Mr. Philip some mudest uniforms. |Cooper, the head of the firm in The promoters of the scheme } A feeble anticselone is shown i

the City (Cooper. Denison and may get better result- than they over N. China. Walkden, Lad) whose predeces-¡dream of, for ex-officers who sors supplied H.M. Stationes have traveled widely, but who There are still indications of a Office about a hundred years have been unable to obtain em-depression in the China Sea, but! ago, and used to send out two eployment since the war. have its position of motion are uncer- three million quills at a time to been signing on as conductors in jain.

the Indian Government, inform considerable numbers.

Formosa, Kwangtung. N. Indo) China, and over the Visayas. It is nearly stationary elsewhere.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24

ed A representative of the French learnt in the battle hour ending at 10 a.m. tn-day, | Ofserver last month that theylares may be polished up again [0.00 inch. Total since Jannary had just given up making quill[for the benefit of French guests Ist. 81.63 inches, against un Ipens because they have not got [in Londen.

average of 74.50 inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District. Forecast.

2 South

Chast of China between H.K. & Lamecks.

fresh

la workman left who knows the | About 2,000 new bus conductors

art of making them.

[who have joined the London Real craftsmanship is required|Genera} Omnibus Co, within the for the work. - I could have past few months have studied, as taught people to cut the pen."|part of their training, the general he said, “but I could not teach lief the land' in London, so them to "dutch. This delicate that they may be able to set it Formosa Channal ¦ N.E. winds, delicate art of "dutching," it strangers on their way," was gathered, consists in re | moving the tough outerskins and leaving the transparent surface and in drawing out the p th from the hollow of the quill. fis done by plunging the quill into a little fire at the workman's side and drawing it adroitly across al Est of knife, after it has been nitted for the process by being kept for a time in a damp cellar. There are different grades of ecutrix, and he left all his pro quill-, and each grade requires perty to her absolutely.

its own proper amount of firing. And that is where the art came jia.” Mr. Cooper remarked.

HUDSON BAY QUILLS.

After the "dutching" comes the cutting, and it takes month-

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ALKERT CHEVALILE'S WILL Mr.

Chevalier the

Albert

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famous coster comedian, left a 'kong to Gap E winds

os estate of 27,164, with net personalty of £4,013. His widow, Mrs. Florence Isabel Chevalier, South coast of some rain. to whom he sometimes affection- lately referred as the original of My Old Dutch." is the sole ex-

Sbange

China between

HK. & Hainan.

T. F. CLANTON. Director. H.K. Observatory, Sept. 26, 1683

EXCHANGE.

Opening Rate: pirsing Plate you Page 13 SELLING

man to leam to cut geodet pen- properly. And finally there! Armand

the tying them up int hundles f twenty-five. You would think this simple enou but often a visitor to the firm has Sic zapore been offered a five-pound note if

ΤΙ without instruction he could tie Dead India

India Just four bundles of quill pens in T.T. San Francison and Man

dis. No one ever succeeded

York..... in winning the prize. I could I I. Jara.....

T.T. Marks not-have done it myself." Mr.1 T. Frases Cooper admitted.

Demand, Paris

All the quilis used to come frum Russia. Latterly

some

Came

4. L;C.

from Germany, but the war &D P. Stopped the importation. There 6 L/C

BUYING

3. San Francuco sul Saw

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE

CORONET

TODAY

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

- in

ROBIN HOOD

Prices

.

3.15 p.m. $1.20 & 60 cts. 5.15 & 9.15. $2.00 & $1.00

THE

STAR

Monday to Wednesday

Frank Mayo

The First Degree

WORLD THEATRE

KONE. 1337

! PHONE

:337

Wednesday, 26th-to Saturday, 29th.

FLORENCE VIDOR

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ALICE ADAMS

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Romance of a girl who lost her popularity. MOUNT ETNA in ERUPTION

Pathe Camer man risks Life Filming Phenomenon Admission: 9.15 p.m.

$1.20 & 80 cts. $1.00 & 60 cts.

Pearl White in "PLUNDER”

5.15 p.m.

Fort

45. Max

France........

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Demand, Germany.

Demari. New Tork

2.30 & 7.15 p.m.

T/T. Bombay

Demand, Bombay

Booking at the Theatre.

Demand. Calestia

T. Calcula

la Yokoham

Demand, M. nila

Demand, Singapore

Demand, Balaria

On Mananng

Da Saigon

1 Bangkok Sovereign

fold leaf per Tasi

Har Silver

forward

ready

Bank of England ra New York/Londos SUBSIDIARY COINS.

Hongkong 56 cant pisces @

5

is also a special kind of quil!|20d/. Sydoay and Helbourne. 2.4) that come from the Hudson Bag. For anyone who knows how to use, it it is regarded as the finest instrument for writing in the world. Its texture is very much hater than that of the jordinary gone qrill and "the

feather is black in-tead white.

L'endur et conta

From

192.

POST OFFICE NOTIES.

INWARD MAILS.

When Lord Beaconsfield was Prime Minister he used these! Hud-on Bay quill. Queen Victoria was supplied by the firm sa ga with ordinary goose quilis. Some USA.. Japan 3 duanghai of the old aristocracy used swan apas

Landon Letter via Brindisi (24th Jan 1 quills, the very finest of which

and via Negapotom (30th ang) were sold to the trade at prices Japan tanging from forty 10 fifty Manila

Shilling, a hundred.

OLD DUKE AND NEW.

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Thirty years ago or more a traveller from the firm in thei West End would bring back

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Europe via Nogapatim Papers only

London 30th Ang:)

€ 9.3. Unnada, Japán & Shanghai

OUTWARD MAILS.

For

orders once or twice a month. for shazhai & Jepan ren, fifteen, add twenty thousand tow...

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quill pens. When, as time wore swatow...

m, certain special orders used to Manila drop off it was explained that Weihaisi

they were for the old Duke:" the new Duke doesn't write with quill Bushong pens.

There

andikan. Duke ia iL Victoria days who could not get

Ymatʊw, Amợp & Fooctow 31am Ja on with his quills at all. The haughti firm sent one of their men to see Hojho him.

He found the floor of his study strewn with quills that he had tried to use, and thrown aside. It was suggested that he should have a special pattern cut, and that was found to suit hím perfectly. A quil is not to everyone's liking. It should he cut to suit the hand that uses it.

traits. Ceylon Maurition L Marquee, S. Africa. India via Dlanoskodi, & Bomb-y

awalow, amy & Formoss

Shanghai, Japan Canida, USA., C

South America à Europe via Victoria B.C.

Many special patterns were cut Saigon Strait, Ceylon, Maurition. L

for the great Victorians, some very broad, and others very fine.

The best quills were sold to the trade at about twelve or fourteen

Margo S Africa, India via Dhsauskbodi. Aden. Egypt * Europe via Mazueillan

shillings a hundred. That prob-Shanghai

ably meant five or six shillings & Swatów, Amoy & Foochów bundle of twenty-five to the castan hai, Japan, Canada, USA.C

tomer. No wonder that when

South America & Earpe via Vancouver B.C.

steel pens came in, and as many could be bought for a few pence, the quillbegan todecline in favour. Mr. Cooper's verdict is that the

Sestow, Amoy & Frockow fountain pen and the dearth of Straits Ceylon. Mauritia L Margo,

dutchers" has given it its coup de grace, and that it will become in a few years an extinct in- dustry.

But Hongkong's Legislative Council still has its quill pens !}

Manila

Date.

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#1 soat

Per Graceho

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Thurs 27 out

Pree. Wilson 20.7 m

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Thurs-23 inas. 3.30 pm

Thore 27 inst. Spo

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Fri 22 10.

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Fri 28 inaz Fri 20 inst Fri 28. Fri, 28 Dat ... Sat., 29 in., 9.

pm

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9 30 a.

OCTOBER:--

Prin McKiring... Mime. 1.inat,

An. 17.

Parrels 29 5 pm.

Butration Bam.

Letters 8 a.m. ¿Dae Victorian 20th Oct)..

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(Hongkong Hotel Buildings.)

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Mon. 1 int.. Biration 145pm. Letters 230.

Due Marsellen 2. d N. v Soudan

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. These 1300.

Parce's 3rd & pm Express at Rasis Thurs 4 10-1

Registration 3 am

Letters 8. Due Valcouver BC. Tad Out) Pras Jckios ... Thurs float. 330 pm Buiteng ...

Fri., 5 inst., Doon.

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