WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
1932.
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CORFU *KIDDERPORE COMORIN **BHUTAN
1932.
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Noon 8,500 12th Nov.
15,000 19th Nov. 6,800 23rd Nov. 26,000 3rd Dec. 6,000 10th Dec.
RANPURA
KAISAR-I-HIND
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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1932.
8,000 11th Nov. 28th Nov. 9th Dec.
SANTHIA TAKADA SIRDHANA
7,000
8,000
1
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(Continued from Page 10.)
stirring the people to angers
HARBOUR OFFICE.
Good Freight Figures Yesterday.
The Harbour Office reports for
to the mark,
"But those who remain shall be in human tido. Hay Stockard alone re the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yester- peace, nor shall the word of strange gained the surface, Binging the telbes day gave a free movement ofj guds and the tongue of strange priexts men aside like yelping curà. He had vensala with 1 high tonnage. be buzzing their ears."
managed to seize an axe. A dark Both men shrugged their shoulders hand grasped the child by a naked Freights were up and turned away, the half-bred going foot and drew it from beneath Its both the inward and throughs back to his own camp. The missionary body circled through the air, dashing tonnage entered was 58,977.
mother. At arm's length its puny reaching five figures. The total called his two men to him, and they fell into prayer. Stockard and Bill to death against the logs. Stockard
There were 10 inward regla- attacked the few standing
the man to the chin and fell to pines
clove with their axes, felling them into convenient clearing space. The ring of savags tries, of which three were British Srenstworks. From
in, raining upon him and five of four figures, while of the opposing faces closed
arrows, the eight throughs, four were Brl-{ camp came the booming of war- spearthruste and bonebarbed drums and the volees of the pricats The sun shot up, and they swayed tish and six of four figures. One back and forth in the crimson shadows. Twice, with his axe blocked by too vessel in ballast.
but
Passengers entered during the rushes, Bill complained, as they walk-sach time he flung them clear. They period included 251 Europeans and under foot, and he trampled dead 1034 Asiatic deck, British vessels "And wait till midnight, when the and dying, the way slippery with carrying 151 out of the total in light gets dim for shooting."
blood. And still the day heightened and the robins sang. Then they drew all classes.
In back from him AWG
Details follow:-- and he leaned breathless upon his axe.
"Blood my soul" cried Baptiste Nationality the Red. "But thou art a man. Deny thy god and thou shalt yet live. British
Stockard swore his refusal, feebly American but with grace.
Italian "Behold! A woman!" Sturges Gorman Owen had been brought before balf-breed.
"Worst of it is they'll come. in
ad back with shouldered axes.
"Can't start the ball a-rolling too early, then." Bill exchanged the are for a rifle, and took a cureful rest. One of the medicine-men, towering above his tribesmen, stood out distinctly, Bill drew a bead on him.
"All ready?" he asked,
fell
of
Arr. H'Kong Dep. Through
Cargo Tons
Cargo
Tons
5 4,011 B 4,426
1,891
1
ROB
1.898
1.388
1,989
1,800
952
4,070
PRESEN
BALBOA
Weekly Sailings Transpacific
TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK. via PANAMA, Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays. Pres. Jackson...Nov. 8, 7 a.. Pres.-McKinley
Pres. Grant
Frea. Lincoln Pres, 'Coolidge
TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA. Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays.
Prea Madison
.Nov. 22
Pres Cleveland
.Dec. 5
Prez, Taft
.Dec. 20
Pres. Jefferson
Jari, S Fres. Madison
Nov. 12
Nov. 26
Dec. 10
:Doc. N
Jan. 7
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Fortuightly sailings on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suaz Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
Total
13 17,642
22 14,122
Pres Harrison
Pres.' Hayes
Pres, Pierce
Stockard opened the ammunition box, placed the woman where she could
the Danish... reload in safety, and gave the word.
Norwegian The medicine-man dropped. For a
Japanese moment there was silence, then a wild Beyond a scratch on the arm he was French hawl went up and a flight of bone ar- uninjured, but his eyes rovist about him Chinese... rows fell short.
in an ecstasy of fear. The heroic "I'd like to take a look at the beg-gure of the blasphemer, bristling with gar," Bill remarked, throwing a fresh wounds and arrows, leaning defiantly shell into place. "I'll swear I drilled upon his axe, indifferent, indomitable, superb, caught his wavering vision. him clean between the oyes."
And he felt a a great envy of the man "Didn't work." Stockard shook his who could go down serenely to the head gloomily. Baptiste had evident- dark gates of death. Surely Christ, ly quelled the more warilke of his fol- and not he, Sturges Owen, had been lowers, and, instead of precipitating an moulded in such manner. And why attnek in the bright light of day, the not ha? He felt dimly the curse of shol had caused a hasty exodus, the ance
the feableness of spirit which ancestry, Indians drawing out of the village be-had come down to him out of the past. pus, and Bridgewater.
and he felt an anger at the creative
yond the zone of fire.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following warships were In port yesterday- Basin-Tamar.
East Wall. Oswald, Osiris, Olym-
North Arm-Neuralia, Whitshed
West Wall-Suffolk,
In the full tide of his proselytising force, symbolise it as, he would, which fervour, borne along by the hand of had formed him, its servant, so weak-jand Verity. God, Sturges Owen would have venly. tured alone into the camp of the un- bellever, equally prepared for
miracie or martyrdom; but in the waiting which ensued the fever of conviction died way gradually, as the
"Where now is thy god? the half-and Wishart. breed demanded.
"I do not know." He stood atraight|
entechiam.
man asserted itself, Physical atural and rigid, like a child repeating
"Hast thou, then, a god at all?" * "I had."*
"And now?? "No,"
A
fear Te placed spiritual hope; the love of life, the love of God. It was no new ex- perience. He could feel his weakness coming on, and know it old time. He
Stockard swept the blood from hand struggled against it and
been i
his eyes and laughed. The missionary overcome by It before. It brought leaked at him curiously, as in a dream.
it of
TO
ŘE.M. J
.Nov. 13 Prea. Monroe
>
.Dec. 25
Nov. 27 Frea Van Buren ...
Jun 8
Jan. 22
Dec. 11 Pres. Garfield
MANILA
Next Sailing, Pres. Madison.. Nov. 5, 6 p.m.
Pres. Harrison Pres. McKinley -Pres. Cleveland
Pres. Hayes Pres. Grant Pres, Taft
Whitehall
Pres. Pierce
Dock-Witch and Wild Swan. Whampoa Dock-Hermes. No, 2 Buoy-Medway and sub- marines.
No. 3 Buoy
Cumberland.
No. 4 Buoy-Veteran.
No. 6 Buoy Devonshire.
No. 7 Buoy.Keppel.
Foreign warships.-French river |
shame to him that his spirit should be A feeling af infinite distance came gunboat Argus, sloop Bellatrix, and so weak and his flesh so strong. But
But over him, as though of a great remove. Portuguese cruiser Adamastor. the love of life! the love of lifel He In that which had transpired, and
could not strip it from him. Because which was to transpire, he had no
of it had his dim
ed their line;
his dim ancestors perpetuat part. He was a spectator at a dis- HONG KONG TIDES.
because of it was he de-
tance, yes, at distance. The words of stined to perpetuate his. His courage Baptiste came to him faintly:
if courage it might be called, was bred Very good. See that this man go time of the meridian of 120 deg. E.: The time used is Standard, or mean of fanaticism. The courage of Stockfree, and that no barm befall him. 008. is midnight, 12hrs te noon. The ard and Bill was the adherence to Let him depart in peace. Give him heights are referred to the datum of | deep-rotted ideals.
canoe and food. Set his face toward the largest scale Adairalty, chart of
They led
The missionary rose, for the-mo-the Rusginns that he may tell their the place and should be added to the ment swayed by the mood of sacrifice. priests of Baptisto the Red, in whose depths given on the chart anlass pre- He half crawled over the barricade to country there is no god."
ceded by an asterisk (*), when they proceed to the other camp, but sank
him to the edge back, a trembling mass, wailing, "As steep, where they pa half-breed
of the should be subtracted from the depths. Į paused to witness the spirit moves! As the spirit the final tragedy.
November 2 to 8, 1932. moveal Who am I that. I should not turned, to Hay Stockard. nside the judgments of God? Before "There is no god," he prompted. the foundations of the world were all The man laughed in reply. One of things written in the book of life. the young men poised a war-spear for Worm that I am, shall I erase the page the cast. or any portion thereof? As God wills, so shall the spirit move!"
Stockard, who had been talking' in
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for undertones with the 'Teslin woman, 1st and 2nd class passengers.
"Hust thou a god "
"Ay, the God of my fathers.'
Date
Wed.
High Water, Low Water Standard H. Standard Ht
Times.
Thaon. Nov, H M. F. H. M. F. 2. 18 09 5.0.06 04 1.0
3
23 20 8.3 16 81 4.2
07 09 1.2!
10 50 4.5
4
5..
01.
18 59
1
19 16 6.7
Tues.,
8..
04 50 6,4
He shifted the axe for a better grip. Thurs. Baptiste the Red gave the sign, and now turned to the missionary.
the spear hurtled full against his Fri. "Fetch him over here," he command. breast, Sturges Owen saw the Ivory ed of Bill.
head stand out beyond his back, saw Sat. "Now," he "rared, when Sturges the man sway, laughing, and snup the
shaft short as he fell upon it. Then Sun., he went down to the river that he might carry to the Russians Die mes-Mon. sage of Baptiste the Red, in whose country there was no god.
THE END
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). Owen had been duly deposited before
TANDA NANKIN
1982.
7,000 2nd Dec, 7,000 81st Dec
Regular monthly callings from
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney—19 days.
him, "make us man and wife, and be lively about it,"
The woman obeyed the beheat of her white lord. To her the ceremony was Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & motiningless. By her lights she was
Molbourne.
his wife, and had been from the day they first foxegathered. The converts served as witnesses. Bill stood over the missionary, prompting him when lie stumbled, Stockard put the responses
Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan in the woman'a mouth, and when the
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The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via 'Now Maaland, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P.&O. Royal Mall Steame
10 London eð~
The P. & O. Branch Bervice of steamers to London via Bues.
Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Bouthampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
TAKADA
COMORIN
†TANDA RANPURA SOUDAN MALWA 'KAISAR-I-HIND
RANCHI *BURDWAN CARTHAGE
7,000
1932
10 a.m.
time eams, for want of better, ringed
7.03 14 6.7
19 35 8.0
POST OFFICE NOTICE,
12 10 2.5
her finger with thumb and fore-finger CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR PARCEL MAILS FOR GREAT BRITAIN of his own.
"Kiza the bride!" thundered Bll},
Christmas and New Year, Parcel Mails for Great Britain will be and Sturges Owen was too weak to closed in the General Post Offee at the times given and despatched disobey,
"Now baptise the child!"
"Neat and tidy," Bill commented.
A cup of water served the purpose, and the child was Inld away in a (secure corner of the burridade. The men built the fire, and the evening meal was cooked.
The sun hurried round to the north; sinking closer to the horizon. The
heavens in that quarter grew red and bloody. The shadows lengthened, the light dimmed, and in the eombre re- cesses of the forest, life slowly died Even the wild fowl in the river way their raucou
chatter and feigned the nightly farce of going to bed... Only
the tribeamon Increased Yhama. their clamour,
4th Nov, Amoy, Mofi. Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 4th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
7,000
6th Nov. S'haf, Moji, Kebo, Osaka & 17,000 18th Nov, Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
Moj Kobs & Yokohama. 6,800. 25th
Shanghai 11.000 28th Nov. Shanghai & Kobe. 12,000 2nd Doc. Shanghai, Moji, Kolis & Yokohama. 17,000 16th Dece. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 0,500 29th Dec, Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama. 14,000 30th Dec Shanghat Kobe & Tokohama.
*Cargo only. Cells Nagoya.
All dates are approximata and subject to alteration withéut notios,
by the following steamers:-
Date of Closing
Steamer Rajputana Bangalore
Corfu
5 p.m., 4th November
5. a.m., 11th-November 5 p.m., 18th November
INWARD MAILS.
WEDNESDAY,
Shanghai and Swatow.
Swałow Manila
Calcutta and Straits-
→ THURSDAY, Shanghai and Amoy
Nov. 18 Pres. Lincoln Nov. 15 Pres. Jefferson Nov. 19 Pres. Monroe .Nov. 27 Pren. Coolidge .Nov. 29 Pres. Madiso
Dec. & Pres. Van Buren
.Dec. 11 Pres. Wlison
.Dec. 18
.Dec. 17
...Dec. 25
.Dec. '27
.Dec. 31
..Jam.
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war-drums booming and voices raised in savage folk-songs, But as the sun dipped they ceased thuật tumult. The rounded hush of mid- night was complete. Stockard rose to his knees and peered over the logs. pale and dis- Once the child walled in concerted him. The mother bent over it, but it slopt-again. The silence was interminable, profound. Then, of a sudden, the robins burst into
full- throated song. The night had passed.
A flood of dark bolled across Straits the oper
Arrows
Wetled and "bow-| thongs sang. The Amoy
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an ocean wave. Sturges Owen fed to
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