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DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR IN PEDDER STREET.

THERE is no longer any reason why you should leave your car out in the street all day. Sunshine and rain alike cause deterioration, while moddling fingers aro liable to intorfore with it.

Within a few seconds of the contro of the City, a now garago has opened where you may leave your car or cycle with the assurance that it will be well looked after. It is locatod in the old Fire Station Building where there is ample accomodation.

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Furthermore, an expert staff of mochanies ie rondy to effect any repairs quickly and efficiently.

Daytimò, Storage (during business hours)

All Cars. $15.00 per month or $1.00 a day" Motor Cycles $ 7.60

THE CENTRAL MOTOR GARAGE. Old Fire Station Building. Des Voeux Road. Telephones C. 2196 and 1821.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CHINESE NAMES.

MR. LINDSELL'S LECTURE,, ·

"There was"a" large gathering at the Holena May Institute; läst evening, when Mr. R. E. Lindsoll delivered a lecture on the 'subjécr'| of "Chinese Names" Mr. Lindad was briefly introduced by Sir Honry Gollan.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1926.

Carp based on a legend of 2,000 years, which had it that a carp. Jumping a certain river barriar would be turned into dory. dragon.

Meeting of East and West,

known be The Rock of Mutual A rock above Bowen Road was

Passion," where 80 years ago, it la sal, a British youth and a Chinese mald, having loved not In his opening, the speaker ro- wisely but too well, committed sul- forred to the presence of a numido, Even now wives and ber of prominent members of the maidens, the one to retain and the Chinese community, who were bot-others to secure, good and loving ter qualified to give the lecture husbands, visit the place to pray,

thin hc.

Talnwan was shown to be a place of great historical interest. It was the scene of the burlal of the Fong Dynasty, where one of the descen dants of the lie once unearthod

Touching on Kowloon, Yuumati.. Chinese names as applied local said the lecturer, was the "Pince ly were usually associated with of Oll Bearing Millet." Other prominent physical features he spots were named after well said, while in other parts they re-known physical fentures, which inted frequently do legend. It was still existi not until 100 years ago that Hong kong took any part in the languago. Then it was known by the term which indicated "The place of the road like the waist girdle of a petticoat." The Peak probably appealed as the jacket and the stone tablet," bearing. the pro- lower levels as the skirt worn by phecy that in the future a great Chinese ladies on ceremonial oc-scapart would arise in the close cusions.

vicinity. This is now read by the Chinese as being Hongkong. as A digression by the lecturer at this point was unusually intercal- ing, it being devoted to geomancy or as the Chinese term it, Fung- shui and its ramifications.

Morrison Hill Gap Road was known amongst the Chinese

the road which cut the dragon's back." Happy Valley was "b3e" place of galloping horses" and Wongneichaong the "Creek of yellow mud." The outlet of the creek now known as Bowrington Canal, was a natural waterway known as "the Goose's Neck"

The Seven Sisters.

Kum-ti Village, Fanling. Kwanti, He next referred to Castle Peak,

Shautaukok-in the latter place there being a village bearing a name which establishes the right of cultivators to pay a yearly Causeway Bay was "Brass gongrental of nine plculs of rice. The Bay" or the "Lantern Lake. At interesting and well known legend n village, beyond Whitfield, at North Points according to Chinese of The Bride's Pool was also

quoted. legend there were oncé acven sister virgins, who took a vow not to marry. One of these sisters indicated a desire to break this vow but on the eve of the marriage; the seven drowned themselves in the village washing pool. Since then the spot has been known as the village of the Seven Sisters.

Reference was then made to the

Contrary to belief, there is no legend attaching to the woman shaped rock which is such a dis- tinctive feature of the Kowloon heights. This amongst the Chin-1 ese, is "The Woman, watching and waiting for her Husband" or mere ly "The Woman with a child on her back."

Vote

was

legend of Wat fun and the origini Shou-son Chou then proposed This concluded the lecture, and of the Drayon Boat Festival. Other place names to Taikoo und eastward, were without particular interest, but gave the lecturer an opportunity to introduce amusing anecdotes from his Court ex- periences, ilustrative, of Chinese mentality.

Shek-O meant "Ročky Barrier;" Tytam, the "Great Lake;" Stan- ley, in Chinese, the Red Pillars, the significance of which is lost. Aplichau was known as "Ducks Tongue Island", Poktulum-was the forest of 100 paces. Some of the big trees still remain. It was generally regarded as a place of consignment of the wicked. A sampan woman's emphatic damna- tion of an opponent was to "Go to

Pokfulam." •

The Old Clock Tower.

Pedder Street still is known amongst the Chinese as Big Clock Tower, owing to the fact that there stood in early days, the old time- piece. Something of the same Idea prevalled in Queen's Garden, the surviving Chinese name. being "The Place of Growing Horse Graps." At one time there was here a luxuriant stretch of ver dure, but there was an associatica to grasshoppers in the lecturer's mind, owing to the defence put for ward by a prisoner who claimed that he was only feeding chickens when arrested there.

Local islands had various names associated with their characteris-

ol thanks; which heartly endorsed, saying that, Mr.. Lindsell had handled the subject so interestingly and at the same time 30 ably from the Chinese point of view, that he had nothing to add to the bare proposal, it carrying its own justification,

CHILD WELFARE IN INDIA.

In India, as in most other tro- pical countries, the healthy "rear- ing of children is a difficult task, there are so many "dangers" a880- ciated with the climate, the food supply, milk, sanitation, and so on, Parents in India ind

Baby's Own Tablets

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ties. Green Island was Theof exceeding helpfulness. Green Coat Stonecutters as "The is what Mrs. Irene. Place of Upright Junks," Taimo doza, of Rose shan was "The Place of Mist" of Parl. "The Hill with a cloud cap.". them:Thanks to Baby's Own Reference was made to climbing Tablets my baby Josephine has the heights on the 9th day of the been cured of constipation" and 9th moon, when, said the lecturer, worms. They were wonderful natives would sooner climb Táimo during her teething period, this shan than the Peak, except for its lady writes. Your chemist selle inaccessibility.

Baby's Own Tablets. or post free, Capsuimun meant "The Place 60 cents per vial, from The Dr. Medicine Co., 00, where water is sucked in" and Williams' Lyemun, "The Gateway of the Kiangse Rond, Shanghai.

SALESMAN SAM

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