WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1932.

THE CHINA MAIL.

P. & 0.-British India THE LUCK OF ROARING LINERS OVERHAULED

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIÉS, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA. INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT,

CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE -

PORTS, EUROPE, že.

CAMP

(Continued from Page 10.).

paring a burlesque of the Church | olgnificance. in these trifles, which

AT SOUTHAMPTON

Winter Employment For Many Men.

+

service, with pointed local allu- they had so long trodden careless- Thousands of men will be pro- alons. The choir was properly ly beneath their feet.

vided with employment at Surrounded by playthings auch Southampton this winter over- trained, and Sandy Tipton was to

*****hauling stand godfather, But after the as never child out of fairyland had

the world's largest procession had marched to the before, it is to be hoped that Tom-

liners. grove with music and banners, and my was content. He appeared to famous liners, totalling 850,000 Nins of the world's most the child had been deposited before be serenely happy, albeit there was tons of shipping, have to be re a mock altar, Stumpy stepped be an Infantine gravity about him, painted, their engines examined, fore the expectant crowd. "It contemplative light in his round their hulls inspected, and any ain't my style to spoil fun, hoya,"

grey eyes, that sometimes worried said the little man, stoutly eyeing Stumpy. He was always tractable cary repairs and alterations the faces around him, "but it and quiet, and it is recorded that

carried out. strikes me that this thing ain't ex once, having crept beyond his Mauretania, the Cunard ve eran, Work began to-day when the actly on the square. It's playin' "corral"a hedge of tessellated which held the Blue Riband of it pretty low down on this yer pine boughs which surrounded his he Atlantic for over 20 years, baby to ring in fun on him that bed he dropped over the bank on was laid up. In shipping circlès he ain't goin' to understand.

"And of there's goin' to be any mained with his mottled legs in the Old Lady of the At antie," his head in the soft earth, and re- the is known affectionately as godfathers round, I'd like to see in that position for at least for it is 25 years since she was who's got any better rights than five minutes with unflinching gras mo." A silened followed Stumpy's',

launched. vity. He was extricated without a

Her total mileage speech. To the credit of all humor-marmur. I hesitate to record the must be in the neighbourhood of 1sts be it said that the first m many other. Instances of his saga-

7,500 000. to acknowledge ita justice was the city, which rest, unfortunately; will be employed in the over- More than a thousand mén satirist thus stopped of his fan. upon the statements of prejudiced auling of the Mauretania. More lowing up his advantage, "we're without a tinge of superstition his 30.600-ton giant into the here for a christening, and we'll I crep' up the bank just now have it. I proclaim you Thomas said Kentuck one day, in a breath-dry dock, and many hundreds Luck, according to the laws of the less state of excitement, "and dern more to chip and repaint the hull United States and the State of Ca- lifornia, so help me God." It was to a jay-bird as was a-sittin' on h's

my akin if he wasn't a-talkin nd bottom: the first time that the name of ap. There they was, just as fre the Diety had been otherwise ut- and sociable as anything you please tered than profanely in the camp. a-jawin at each other just like twhether to change the lay-out of The form of christening was per- cherry-bums."

'he cabins. In past years scores haps even more ludicrous than the,

Such was the golden summer off cabins have been reconstruct- antirist had conceived; but strange: Roaring Camp. They were "flush and modernised during these Bombay, M'seilles. L'don, Havre, ly enough, nobody saw it and no-times," and the lack was with them. overhauls.

body laughed.

Notwithstanding the number men engaged. it will be a enth before the Mauretania ill sail from Southampton ain. The day after she leaves Aquitania will take her plans a clean-up that will last until January 4, and will in turn be

oplaced by the Berengaria.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY | "But," said Stumpy, quickly fol-friends. Some of them were nothan 200 will be. needed to coax

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

**BHUTAN

RANPURA

KAISAR-I-HIND

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RANCHI CARTHAGE NALDERA RAJPUTANA CORFU COMORIN RANPURA

CHITRAL

Tons

From HongKon About

1932.

6:000 10th Dec.

17,000 17% Nee.

Noon 12,000 81st Doc.

1933.

0,800 7th Jan.

17.000 14th Jan. 14.000 28th Jan. 14 and 11th Feb. 17 ann 25th Feb. 15.000 11th Mar. 15.000 25 Mar.

Destination.

'burg, R'dam. A'werp & Huil

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Bombay, Marevilles & London:

17,000 8th Apr. Marseilles &. London. 15,000 22nd Apr. † Marseilles & London.

* Cargo only. - † Calle Camobla nea.

Every aquare inch of the ship ill be inspected by offcfils, who decide on the repairs and

Em-

The clairas had yielded enormous- And so the work of regeneration ly. The camp was jealous of its began in Roaring Camp, Almost imperceptibly a change came over privileges and looked suspiciously on strangers. No encouragement the settlement. The cabin assign was given to immigration, and, Bombay. Merscilles. London, Havre,jed to "Tommy Luck" or "The

H'burg, R'dam. A'werp & Hull.

to make their seclusion more per-ho Luck," as he was more frequently Bombay, Marseilles & London.

called-first showed signs of im- fect, the land on either side of the Bombay, Marseilles & London.

kept scrupu-mountain wall that surrounded the Bombay, Marsoillee & London.

provement. It was Bombay, Marseilles & Londen.

lously clean and whitewashed. camp they duly pre-empted.

With the prosperity of the camp

Newest Luxury Liner. Rombay, Marseilles & London. Then it was boarded, clothed, and

In other parts of the dock Marseilles & London.

papered. The rosewood cradle, came a desire. for further improve-. packed 80 miles by mule, had, in ment. It was proposed to build an lose unon a thousand men will Stumpy's way of putting it, "sorter hotel in the following spring, and overhauling thres well-known killed the rest of the furniture, to invite one or two decent families Canadian Pacific liners So the rehabilitation of the cabin reside there for the sake of Theress of Britain. Empress of became a necessity. The men whock, who might perhaps profit by Australia and Duchess of Rich- Cos-were in the habit of lounging in female conspanionship. The sacri-mond.

The engineers and chipwrights of the nt Stumpy's to see "how "The Luckice that this concession to the sex

got on seemed to appreciate the cost these men, who were fiercely are looking forward with interest. change, and in self-defence the sceptical in regard to its general to the inspection of the Empress rival establishment of "Tuttle's virtue and usefulness, can only be of Britain, to see how this, the grocery bestirred itself and im-accounted for by their affection latest and largest luxury liner for Tommy. A few still hold out. it by this country, is wearing." ported a carpet and mirrors. The But the resolve could not be car This is the ship that carried the reflections of the latter on the apried into effect for three months, "Inited Kingdom. delegation to pearance of Roaring Camp tended to produce stricter habits of per- and the minority meekly yielded in and from Ottawa.

the hope that something might turn sonal cleanliness. Again. Stumpy imposed a kind of quarantine upon up to prevent it. And it did. those who aspired to the honour The winter of 1851 will long te and privilege of holding The Luck. remembered in the foothills. The It was a cruel mortification to snow lay deep on the Sierras, and

Frequent connection from Port Said for Pamengers and Cargo stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers Khedirini Mail Steamship. Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

SIRDHANA

TILAWA TALMA

1932.

8,000 10th Dec. | Singaporo, Penang & Calcutta.

2.30 p.m.

:

10.000 24th Dec. | Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 7th Jan. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for Kentuck-who, in the carelessness very mountain creek became 1st and 2nd class passengers.

of a large nature and the habits of river, and every river a lake, Each frontier life, had begun to regard gorge and gulch was transformed all garments as a second cuticle, into a tumultuous watercourse that descended the hillsides, tearing

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) which, like a snake's, only slog-down giant trees and scattering its

NANKIN

NELLORE TANDA

1932. 7,000 31xt Doc.

1933, 7.600 1st Feb. 7,000 3rd Mar.

• Regular monthly anilings from

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sviney-10 days.

Equally well Imown are three' ather liners - that

will pass thongh the dock hare this winter the Majestic. Olympic and Homeric, of the White Stert *ine. The Malnatin, with her pang of 63 621, is the largest in the world, and the task dry docking her is a dellente Saja 915ft, lane 100ft. vide, with a denth of 58ft. Zin-

BRITISH AND FOREIGN WARSHIPS

The following warships were in

Resin Tamar. Marth Will-Sandwich, Verity,

ed off through decay-to be de drift and debris along the plain. barred this privilége from certain Red Dog had been twice under Iprudential reasons. Yet such was the subtle influence of Innova forewarned. "Water put the gold water, and Roaring Camp had been Wasila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & tion that he thereafter.

into them gulches," said St. Melbourne,

'poared regularly every after-"It's heen here once and will be port yesterday— noon in

a clean shirt and face here again," And that night the still shining from his ablutions. North Fork suddenly leaped over Nor were moral and social sanitary its banks and swept up the trian Wild Swan, Seamew. Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan laws neglected. "Tommy, who gular valley of Roaring Camp.

Fast Wall-Heral was supposed to spend his whole In the confusion of rushing existence in a persistent attempt water, crashing trees, and crackling, Whitshed, Veteran.

-North to repose, must not be disturbed by timber, and the darkness which west noise. The shouting and yelling, seemed to flow with the water and Wren. which had gained the camp its in blot out the fair valley, but little felicitous title, were not permitted could be done to collect the scatter Osiris. within hearing distance of Stumed camp. When the morning broke,

No. 2 Buoy-Medway and sub- py's. The men conversed in whis- the cabin of Stumpy, nearest the No. 1 Ruby-Hermes.

Prequent connections, früm Aurtz vla with the following:-

The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vẫn New Realand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P.&O. Branch Barvice of steamers to London via Buss

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and pers or smoked with Indian gravity river-bank, was gone. Higher up

London via Panama Canal,

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

RANCHI *RIDWAN

CARTHAGE

NALDERA

•SOMALI .. RAJPUTANA, CORFU *BANGALORE COMORIN .RANPURA CHITRAL

All dates cr

1932.

17.000 18th. Disc 6,500 20th Dec. 14,000 80th Des.

Shanghat, Koba & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama. Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama.

16,000 13th Jan, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

8,800 26th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 17.000 27th Jan. Shanghal, Kobo & Yokohama, 15,000 10th Feb. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. 0,500 23rd Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 24th Feb. Shanghal, Kobo & Yokohama. 17,000 10th Mar Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama. 16,000 23rd Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

ither salori

Calls Nagoya,

imals and subject to alteration without notion. ted with. Flectric Fans or Panka" -Louvre Bystem. adonandi Anit [fah" Lines are fitted with® Len than & cu fte"will be received at the

Falling.

reight. Handbooks, aid., apply to: ACKENZIE CO

f. & O. Ballding, Counargit Rd. C., Hong Kong,

Arenda

Arm.—-Keppol, Witch,

Wall-Kent, Wishart

Dock-Cleala, Oswald and

Talkoo Dock--Suffolk.

Profanity was tacitly given up in the gulch they found the bad of marines these sacred precincts, and

its unlucky owner; but the pride,

i throughout the camp a popular

form of expletive, known as the hope, the joy, Thu Luck, of the luck!" and "Curse the luck!" Roaring Camp had disappeared, They were returning with Bad was abandoned, as having, á new personal bearing. Vocal music hearts when a shout from the bank was not Interdicted, being suppos

recalled them.

d to have a soothing. tranquillis It was a relief-boat from down

No. 7 Rnoy-Whitehall. 8 ByBenc

118 Cunhaat Ashawilla". French river gunhost Arans, Portuguese crufser. Adamastor,

The time used in Standard, or mean

log quality; and one song, sung by the river. They had picked PP HONG KONG TIDES. "Man-o'-War Jack," an English they end, a man and an infant, sailor from Her Majesty's Austra- nearly exhausted about two miles Han colonies, was quite popular as below. Did anybody know them, me of the meridian of 120 de alullaby. It was a lugubrious re- and did they belong here? 20h, I midnight, 12hrs. Is com. The nital of the exploits of "the Are It needed but a glance to show heights are referred to the datum of thusa, Seventy-Four," in a mullied them Kentuck lying there craelly he largest seale Admiralty chert of minor. ending with a prolonged dy-crushed and bruised, but still hold age and should be added to the ing fall at the burden of each vers, fag The Luck of Roaring Camp in "On-b-00-0-ard of the Arethuse his arms. As they bent over the On the long, summer days The strangely assorted pair, they saw Luck was usually carried to the that the child was cold and pulse gulch from whence the golden store less. He is dead," said one. Ken- of Roaring Camp was taken, tuck opened his eyes. “Dead 1% he

There, on a blanket spread over repeated feebly. Yes, my man, Tues. pipe boughs, he would lie while the and you are dying, too. A emile men were working in the ditches if the even of the expiring Kentuck. Wed. below. Latterly there was a rude Dying he repeated; he's a-taktn attempt to decorate this bower me with Tell the boys I've g

lepths given on the chart unless pre- aded by an asterisk deh, when they Chould be entiended fagng the epths. December 8 to 12-1982, 24 Date High Water Lon

Dec. H MFH

00280 0.8-10 20

22

Churs & D

with flowers and, sweet-smelling got The Luck with me now and Frie 9. 01-

shrubs, and generally someone would bring him a cluster of Konpy-nuckles, azaleas, or the paint

ed blossoms of Las Mariposas. The men had fact tha

way

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drovn

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