1923-10-26 — Page 12

BY THE-

S.S.

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON"

WE have just

received

a large selection of-

THE LATEST

DANCE RECORDS.

MAKE YOUR SELECTIONN EARLY.

THE

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HOTELS.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

Hongkong Hotel,

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HONGKONG:

Repulse Bay Hotel. SHANGHAI:

Grand Hotel, Kalee.

Peak Hotel,

Palace Hotel,

PEKING:

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits.

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

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KOWLOON

Telephone K. 608 and 609.

HOTEL

Cable Address Kowlotel THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, Electric Lifts to all Fibors and Roof Garden

Telephone on all Floors.

Daily. Monthly & Family Rates,

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FIRST CLASS SALOON BAR AND

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PALACE HOTEL. KOWLOON. Tel. No.. Kowloon 3.

Tel. Add. Palace

Two minutes from Ferry and Railway Station. Five minutes

by Ferry from Hongkong,

A first class Hotel in every respect and under English manage-

meat.

Cuisine under personal supervision of the Proprietor.

Loung Bar and Billiard Room.

Terme moderate.

THE "BLANKOSOUR.”

A Humeurist on Fossilising.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923

NEW GAPITALS

Lessons by Example.

WEATHER REPORT.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"The Idol Dancer,"

Oetobar 26th 11h. 45m-Pros: sure is stationary at Chefoo and has decreased moderntaly to" Broken Blossoms, slightly h other reporting

Way Down East," stations.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDINO AT NOON TO-MORROW,

District.

Forecas

2 South coast of

China between H.K.& Lamocks

moderate.

"TOL'ABLE DAVID”

That is the starring record

RICHARD

of

BARTHELMESS

Who now rivals Doug. Fairbanks

83 the most popular romantic character on the screen.

The rebuilding of Tokyo'lsays a writer in a Homo paper) will be Miss Kathleen O'Brien, the the biggest job of its kind in I humourist, contributes this some-history for no other town of

Gradients are shallow from the and now [what "topical" article to the equal size bas ever met with Yangtze to the S. China Sea,

Daily Chrticle. It is of course, equal catastrophe. The Landon: Hongkong rainfall for the 24 not to he taken as referring ta of the Great Fire was small by hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, the recent important inds remodern standards, and Chicago. 0.00 inch. Total since January corded in Mongolia: -

when it was burned down in 1871. 1st, 89.44 inches, against un I excavated him in the geran-was a place of anls 200,000 in average of 30.12 inches.

The damage to San fium bed, white I was extracting habitants.

the geraniums for potting.

Francisco by the earthquake of I felt my fork grate against 1906 was more serious, but in something hard, and would have that case the devastation was taken it for some mineral sub- jonly partial. The town of St. stance have disposed of it, light-Pierre, which was annihilated r. as a plece of Fundamental by the eruption of Mont Pelee in Formosa Chano-1 NE winds, Gneiss, or a fragment of mere 1902, remains a mass of ruins to cale-rufa if the upturning of this day. London lest its op- clod of earth had not revealed a portunity in 1668, but Tokyo will rit-like curve of fossiliferous bone.no doubt take care that it is re- Tense with excitement. I worked erected on a scale worthy of a! at the over-lying soil until the capital. Most capitals have reach-3 H'kong to Gap moderate; entire rib about six feet fromed that status by accident and end to end.'lay exposed before me. Jevoltion, and so retain much F It took me about two hours of the mean and haphazard. altogether to uncover the entire Washington, with its large spaces, remain of that long-extinct is one of the few cities designed It was perhaps a pity as a capital from the beginning. that I had in uproot the carna-and Petrograd, bailt to royal tions. hollyhocks, and delphin-order, has always been conscious' iums I had tended with such of its dignity. But probably no patient cares that one of them capital in history has been the had inadvertently burst into subject of so much thought, argu- bloom and that the rather ex-ment, selection, and pensive Japanese chrysan-crimination, as the Canberra. themums I had planted had to which is now slowly rising from be unplanted again and put on the bush of New South Wales. the marrow bed. But, after all. snch a find as that was not to be ignored for the sake of a few vegetable organisms,

saurian.

even r

CRUELTY TO 14-YEAR-OLD SON.

And when I saw him lying

At Hull recently Arthur Mid. there, wrapped in the sleep that gley was sentenced to six weeks' has no waking; lying there, his imprisonment for cruelty to his small, fragile head (it was only fourteen-year-old son by twisting about 10 Teet long) pressed to his sprained ankle. Mideley was the heart of the enfolding earth: also fined 40s, for assaulting the I would hardly repress my emo-police, whom he pelted with fire tion as the fleeting nature of all irons when they were trying to life was borne in upon me.

arrest him.

Rock..

4 South coast of

China between H.K. & Hainan ›

E winda

fine.

T. F. CLAXTON Director. H.K. Observatory. Oct. 26, 1923.

A ROMANTIC ABANDONMENT.

Attracted by the wailing of an infant, a pedestrian recently | tarned aside into a cemetery out- sida xichimen, one of the prin- cipal western gates of Peking. and found a new-born boy wrap- ped in red silk and with a silken cord about its neck. An envelope attached to the cord contained $300 in cash and a note asking the finder to use the money for the care of the youngster. The finder was further instructed to appear at a certain place, Wufusu. on July 15, three years bence. when, the note said. be would meet with good fortune.

EXCHANGE,

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30 ds. San Francisco and Nam

"Tol'able David" won the Gold Medal for the best film shown in 1922.

It is showing

TONIGHT till SATURDAY

THE

THE

CORONET

STAR

TONIGHT

"THE J. C. WILLIAMS COY.

i

-in-

A GRAND VAUDEVILLË SHOW

A 5.15

* SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT."

BELLING

York

511

#13;

Am/& Marc

„Nom.

7/35/15

4/1 Franos

9.40

6 /*.

a55

Demand, Germany.

2/3

Demand, New York

511

Shanghai

T/T. Bombay

A laughable comedy.

Owand. Bombay.

153

2045

T/T. Calcurta

Démand, Calpusta

Un YokohamĄ,

51

13.5

He must I supposed, have got stuck in a bit of the Portland beds while cambolling over the Inferior Oolite with his little Mesozoic playmates. His mother) had probably said to him, as she tidiet his front scales and wash- ed the lower lias from his face,

Now, Georgie, promise mother T/T you won't go 100 near those Demand

30 3/1 horrid beds

be 07 you'll

60 d/ turned ing

fossil before 3

theriomorpha Singapore you Can Fay gigantus." And Georgie promised, T/T. Japan But with the thoughtlessness of T/T. India childhood he forgot his mother's Damand India warning and went playing leap- T/T. San Francison and New triceratops too near the dreadful stratum, and leaped right into iL And the stratum, closed over him and had him fossilized in a trice. while the other little scalybacks went home sobbing with the news) to his mother And I hope, for my part, they were well spanked and put to bed without their milk and dinosaur.

ONLY A YOUNGSTER. For, that he was the mercs fchild at the time of his death was

not to be doubted. He was only! 60 feet long from snout 30 Itail. I measured him with

my

lefti tupe measure. His hind thigh bone was little more! than nine feet in length and about five in girth. I shuddered to think how easily that delicate little limb might have snapped asi its owner slid happily, down the calcareous limestone. Something in the position of his tail, as of a frolic suddenly cut short, con- vinced me that he had been in the habit of running round after it, playfully.

York T/T. Javsma T/T. HER T/T. Franci Demand, Paris

Nom

8.80

¡BUYING.

4 m/..L/0.

2,41/15 4 m. D/P.

2/4 3/16 2/42 6 m/s L/C. 108/. Bydney and Melbourne 2/47

Demand, Manila

Demand, Singapore

Demand.

Baisia

θα εξεύρεσης

On Saigon

On Bangkok

Soverign

Gold leaf per Tas!

Bar Silver ...............ready

forward.

Par

8.67

49.40

Bank of England rast names 3% New York/Loadoa

SUBSIDIARY COINS.

Bongkong 60 cent piases @

10

Canton sub. coin.

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Hongkong October 25 1323

POST OFFICE NOTICES. INWARD MAILS.

From London Letters via Brindisi (25th Sept)

and via Negapalam (27th Sept). Shanghai U.8.A., Danada, Japan & Blangbai Europe via Nagapalam (Papers only

London 27th Bapt.) 0.5.3, Japan & Shanghai Japa

--

Canada, U..A.. Japan & Shangbal

I couldn't quite place his Japarilla. (Letters & Papers family. I knew his face, but Europe couldn't remember his name. So London 4th Oct. & Parcels 25th Sept.)...

Australis & Manila

I called him Blankosaur pro tem, and resolved to send him in a paper parcel to the Natural His- tory Museum in the morning.

Per

Giocos.. Saiyant

Pro Grant

Stor Pro. Pierc Kitane M.

Ex. of Australia

Mishima M

Devacha

Victoria

OUTWARD MAILS.

J. H. OXBERY.

Proprietor.

For But thinking it over in the fading daylight, I realised that I Japan, Canada, 1.8.&., O. & Bouth America Europe via Victoria B.Q. could not commit the sacrilege. How desecrate the bones of the departed and disturb the last

Fer

H

Tyndareas

M

verently I replaced the earth over!

*0.3.A.. *0. & *8. America & *Europe via Sea Francisco

-

Tanyo M.

Special arrangements for families on application to

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1.1/2% pr

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192.% dia.

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Due.

with

At 9.30

FIRPO T. MCAULIFFE. WILLARD Y. JOHNSON,

As good as being at the ringside.

WORLD THEATRE

PHONE 1337

ONE. 1337 ĺ

25eb Des.

1st Nov.

Wednesday, 24th. to Saturday, 27th. October. at 5.15 and 2.15 p.m.

A Dramatic Mystery Picture

The MYSTERY

of the YELLOW ROOM

Six Reels of the most Fascinating Mystery Ever Screened

Admission :

9.15 p.m. $1.20 & 8 cts.-5.15 p.m. 80 cts. & 50 cts.

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DANCING. AFTER DINNER,

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TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS,

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Telephones in every room.

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sleep of the dashing young? Re-Shanghai, *Japan, Rennialu "Canada,

the lifeless body, and planted a

daisy, and left him.

Straits ...

***

Haibow & Haiphong...

water & Bangkok... Shanghai

The garden did look rather & bombardment in the morning, Java via dataria. certainly. And I was a leetle Straits bit sorry about the carnations Bhanghai and the others things. But, after Saigon all how would you like to be dug up and have silly, gaping people come and stare at you, and point their umbrellas at you, and laugh noisily? No; I'm sure I did ends right to leave my baby Blanko- | Swalow..

Amoy saur in peace.

Japan Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, Mauritias, L Varzam, 8. Africa, India vis

Aden, Egypt Dbaankhodt Europe vis Marseilles

NEGRO BOY'S GIFT OF TONGUES. Travelling with the Duchess

of Aosta, who arrived at. Liver- pool recently by the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose, isi "Sambo"

Wan

Keshow Pukhoi & Flaiphong...

watow, "Amoy & "Farmoss me

trait-

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Date.

Petals 25th 5p.m.

27 ist.. Registration 9.45

Letters 10.30. (Das Victoria B.O. 19th Nov)

Sat., 27 inst Registration 5.m. "Letters 10:00 1.1.

(Due San Francisco 23rd Nor) Tjimaseck....... Bast., 27 izak, 10 a

Fan Overstraten -Sat 27 Inst., 2pm

Tiikerbing

Prosper.. Lokang... Kroogung

Obengin ... Yuzan Amakusa M. From Grant Hydrengen... Butyang... Arjo K. Atrwar

н

8 27 inst, 3.30 p.m.

· Sat 27 inak.‹ $5 p.m.

-Jun, 28 Inst. 8.30%

8., 28 in. 8.30a.m. Bun., 28 lost, 8.30 am.

-8, 29 inak., 9 a.m. ...Su, 28 inch,, 96.za. ...Gun., 25 Insk, 9.00

Bus. 23 inst.. § .. ... Mon., 29 inst., 2.30 p.m. ... Mon., 29 inst., 5p.m.

Tam, 30 inst, 10. ...Tom., 20 font...s..

Tues., 30 Inst

Begistration & 45.00.

Letters 10.20) a.mx/ (Duo Marseißes Let Dec)

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