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From
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1932.
1933.
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17,000 17th Dec. 12,000 81st Dec.
6,800
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Destination.
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the
WATER STORAGE.
DECREASES.
Constant Supply Maintained.
The monthly return of the Island
down like the wings of a bat and full right,” he whispered, feeling down settled on the landing. Others began the squatting figure until he captured to put out the lights at the edge of a clenched hand. "It's only me. Water Works for the month of Oc- the hall, til the children were all stay with you." And grasping the gathered in the single, central radi- other Lightly, he listened to the eas-tober this year, shows a decrease of auce of the chandeller, while the bats ende of whispers his utterance had 57.9 millions of gallons in the total squatted
round on hooded wings and caused to fall. A hand touched waites for that, too, to be extinguish
and Asidų,
Francia are on the hiding a tall girl said, and then the was lens intense, more bearable, he The total storage is 2,040,94 this light was gone, and the carpet wavered hoped, but it retained. He knew that year, as against 2,098.88 for Octo-
der his fest with the sibilance of it was his brother's fear and not, his footfalls, like
like small, col draughts, own that he experienced. The dark to her last year. creeping away into corners.
him was only an absence of light; the
With an estimated population of "Where is Francis?" he wondered. groping hand that of familiar child.
384,250, the consumption of gallons join him he will be less frighten Patiently he waited to be found. ed of all these sounds." "These soundly” He did not spenis again, far between per head per day was 31.5, as were the easing of silence, The squeak Francis and himself touch was the of a hose board, the cautious closing nost intimate contmunion, By against an average of 32,3 for Oc- of a cupboard door, the whine of
the joined hands thought tober last year, with an estimated nger drawn along polished wood, could
cour flow more swiftly than Peter stood in the centre of the lips could shape themselves round population of 381,250. dark deserted fluor, not listening, but words. He could
experience the The Mainland Water Works re- waiting for the idea of his brother's
Whale progress of his broliter's whereabouts to enter his brain. But emotion, from the Benp of nie turns for October show a total Francis crouched with fingers on
the storage of 627.44 millions of gallons ears, eyes uselessly closed, sind numb steady pulse of fear, which now went as compared with 665.92 last year, ed against impressions, and only sense of strain could cross the 5
on and on with the regularity of dark. Then voice called "Coming" and, as though his brother's self pos- session had been shattered by the sudden
cry, Peter Morton jumped with
What in his brother was
bookcaso close to Peter's head, and he storage, as compared with, last આરોગ aware of how Francis's fear con-year's figures for the same month. tinued, in spite of his presence.
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SANTHIA
TAKADA
SIRDHANA
1932.
8,000 13th Nov. Singapore, Penang & Calentta.
3.30 p.nl.
7,000 28th Nov. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000
9th Doc. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
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SASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
panic, that admitted no
no ideas except those which ministered to the flame, was in him an altruistic emotion that
Way of
the unexpected contact
cause he was, if not Prancis himstairs.
KL leust
go OR
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h intensity heart beat. Peter Morton thought a decrease of 38.60. am here. You
With an increase in the estimated novin't
be Afraid.
The
lights
population from 291,900 last year will
rain soon. That to 305,700 in October this year, the utle
tha movement, is no- average consumption Increased 1.6 his four. But it was not his own four.
Only Joyce, only a burning Mabel Warren." He bombarded
theper head, from 17.6 to 19.2. drooping farm with thoughts of safety. A constant supply throughout the but he was conscious that the fear con-hill and high level districts was tinued. "They are beginning left the reason unimpaired. "Where, if whisper together. They are tired of those houses where connections to to given during the month, excepting I were Francis, should hide?" Such, looking for us. The fights will go on roughly was his thought. And be soon. We shall have won. Don't be rider mains have already been cut
afraid. That was only someone on the off. A constant supply was main-| a mirror to
the anawor
I helleve it's Mrs. Henne-Fal-tained in Kowloon. immediate. "Between the oak con. Listen.. They are, feeling for bookcase, on the left of the study door, the lights." Feet moving on a carpet rainfall was recorded at the Royal During October 87.255 inches of and, the leather
settee," Peter Mor- hands
brushing wall, a
a curtain pull-Observatory as compared with 74.87 unsurprised by the swiftnessed apart, a clicking handle, the open- Car Was of the response. Between the twins ing of a cupboard door. In the case inst year. there could be no jargon of telepathy, above their heads a loose book shifted They had been together in the womb, under a touch. "Only Joyce, only and they could not now be parted.
Warren,
only. Mrs. Henne-Fal- Peter Morion tiptoed towards Fran-
A crescendo of reassuring cis'x hiding place. Occasionally a thought before the chandelier burst, board rattled, and, because he feared Ike fruit
2
tree, into bloom. to be caught by one of the saft.
quea The voices of the children ters through the dark, he bent
"Where's and shrilly into the radiance. unlied his laces. A tug struck the Peter?" "Have you looked upstairs 7" flour, and the metallic sound set a "Where's. Francis?" but they were host of cautious feet moving in his silenced again by Mrs. Henne-Falcon's Kut Sang, British str., 3,643 tons, direction. But by that time he was in scream. But she was not the Arst 'to his stockings and would have laughed inwardly at the pursuit had not the noise of someone stumbling on his abandoned shoes made his heart trip in the reflection of another's surprise. No more boards revealed Peler Mocton's
progress.
Mabol con,'
rose
notice Francis Morton's stillness, where he had collapsed against the wall at the touch of his brother's hand. Peter continued to hold the clenched fingers, in an arid and puzzled grief. It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realise yet wondered with an
On stockinged feet he moved silently the full paradox why it was that the
and unerringly towards his object. Instinet told him that he was near the wall, and, extending a hand, he laid the fingers across his brothers" face.
Francis did not cry out, but the leap of his own heart revealed to Peter a proportion of Francis's terror.
14's
obscure-
pulse of his brother's four went on, when Francis was now where he had been always told there was no more terror and no' mere darkness.
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1932.
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0800 25th Nov. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 11,000 26th Nov. Shanghai & Kobe. 12,000
2nd Dec. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 16th
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1938. 16,000 13th Jan. 0,800 25th Jan. 17,000 27th Jan.
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Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
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NOVEMBER
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!..4 p.m.
Panama Maru Halvard NOVEMBER (10..
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6 p.E.
Tinhow Hydrangea
THURSDAY, Hoihow, Pakhot and Haiphong Salgon Mauritius Reunion and
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Sunday, November 6. Halvdan, Norwegian str., 761 tons,
Capt. Roseholdt, from Bang- kok, buoy No. C3.-Thoresen & Co.
Capt. F. Mooney, from Amoy,
Co. buoy No: B1.-J.M. Phasianella, British str., 393 tons,
Capt. J. Y. Lee, from Tamsui, Taikoktsui Anchorage.-A.P.C. Planorbis, British str., 3,406 tona, Capt. W. Fretwell, from Balik- papan, North Point Wharf, A.P.C.
Monday, November 7. Atagosan Maru Japanese str.,,
2.487 tons. Capt. S. Imai, from Milke, buoy No. A12.-M.B.K. Bencruachan, British str. 3,750 tone, Capt. Riddle, from Singa- pore, Kowloon Wharf-Gibb, Livingston & Co.
Chengtu, British str., 1,338 tona,
Captain - W. J. King, from Swatow, buoy No, B20.-B. & S. City of Lille, British str., 4,052 tons, Capt. H. Parry, from Iloilo, Holt's Wharf-Bank! Linc. Daviken, Norwegian str., 1,775 tons, Capt. G. Svane, from Canton, buoy No. BZ.-J.M. & Co. Halvard, British str., 1,217 tons,
Capt. A. Hall, from Saigon,} buoy No. B13. Wo Fat Sing. Kuefchow, British str., 1,222 tons, Capt. E. H. Histed, from Can- ton, buoy No. 05.-B. & S. Kiungehow, British str., 1,545 tons, Capt. J. S. Anderson, from Can- ton, buoy B15.-B. & S. Kwangtung, British
Btr.. 1,572 tous. Capt. J. H. Hodgkiss, from Swatow, buoy No. BB.- B. & S. Mannawili, American atr, 4,580 tons, Capt. P. F. Johnson, from Osaka, buoy No. A6.-States 8.9. Co.
Mainam, Danish str., 1,789 tons, Capt. V. L. Relater, from Swa- tow, buoy No. A5-John Man- ners & Co. New Mathilde, British str., 842 tone, Capt. R. Mitchell, from Canton, buoy No. B10-YIk Tal & Co.
Pong Tong, British str., 1,001 tons; Capt. R. E. Freckelotn, from Salgon, busy No. 87.-Sheung Lee & Co.
President Jackson, American str., 8,877 tona, Capt. J. Griffith, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.. Dollar Line.
Soochow, British str., 1,594 tons,
Capt. H. Gifford, from Canton, buoy No. 821.-B. & S.
CLEARANCES.
:
Monday, November 7. Chekiang, for Shanghai.. Chengtu, for Canton.. Hirundo, for Swatow. Hydrangea, for Swatow, Klungchow, for Pakhol. Kwangchow, for Bwatow. Lyecmoon, for Swatow. .10.80 a.m. Phasianella, for Amoy.
Taiyo, Maru, for Manila. 1.30 p.m. Tanda, for Shanghai. 3 p.m. Tenkal baru, for Hongay.
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