SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.
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RANCHI CARTHAGE
NALDERA
RAJPUTANA CORFU COMORIN RANDURA CHITRAL
From Hong Kong About
1932.
6,000 10th Dec.
Noon 17,000 17th Dec,
Моод 12,000 Slax Dec.
1933.
6,800 7th Jan,
17,000 14th Jan. 14.000 28th Jan. 16 000 11th Feb. 17.000 25th Feb. 15,000 11th Mar. 15,000 25th Mar, 17,000 8th Apr. 15,400 22nd Apr.
Destination
Bombay, M'seilles, L'don, Havre, 'H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Bull; Bombay, Marseilles & London,
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre,
H'burg; R'dam. A'werp & Hull. Bombay, Marsellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay Marseilles & London. bay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London... Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.
* Cargo only. Calla Casablancs,
THE MAN WHO
HATED FLIES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(continued from Page 12.)
"Janything from ten to twenty dollars a pound in New York, three years aftor Aumonjer's great discovery had been given to humanity, If the dlacuse bad affected house-flies only.) It would not have mattered. They perform little or no work as pollen- carriera. But no one could have foreseen that every form of insect life would be involved.
There could be no question now that the world was faced with an unprecedented calamity. A form of scrofula was becoming endemic among the poorer clasaea; and a wasting anemia; both due to the lack of the vitamins provided by fresh fruit and vegetables. Some- thing was being done in the erea tion of a new industry, and a few Years later it became a common sight to see men, women and chil- dren armed with long-handled camel- hair brushes, Industriously carrying pollen from flower to 'flower of fruit trees and vegetable plants. But, immense labour was required to do
POST
OFFICE NOTICE.
INWARD MAILS.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10.
Europe via Negapatam (Paper only) London,
November 10 and Parcels, November 3..Patroclus Shanghai and Swatow,
..Sunning Japan
,Kaga Maru
US.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San
Francisco, Nov. 11) Japan and Shanghai ...
SUNDAY,
Amoy and Shanghal Shanghai and Amoy
Shanghal Japan
MONDAY, DECEMBER
13
PRESIDENT LINER
sail 1,591.000 miles every year.
Weekly Sailings Transpacific
vis PANAMA.
Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays. Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays
¡Dec. 24
Jan. 7
Jan. 21
.Feb
President Pierce
TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS
TO SEATTLE
DECEMBER
„Tatsuta Maru
11... .Tjinegera
ANGELES & NEW YORK
and VICTORIA,
.Tai Yuan .Conte Rosso
Dakar Maru
12.
Pres. Lincoln .....
..Dec. 21 Pres. Jefferson'
Pres. Coolidge **...
....Jan. 4
Pres. Madison
Pros. Wilson. Pres. Hoover
Jan, 18
Pres. Cleveland
.Feb. 1
Fres. Taft
DECEMBER
DECEMBER
.Pres. Lincoln
13.
Changte
14,
DECEMBER 16.
..Kutaang
U.S.A., Honolulu. Japan and Shanghai' (San
Francisco, Nov. 18)
TUESDAY,
Australia and Manila
WEDNESDAY,
Manila
Calcutta and Straits
THURSDAY,
Empress of Japan .Talma
Calcutta and Straits- Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) Lon-
don, November and Parcels, November 10 Ranchi
OUTWARD MAILS.
SATURDAY.
East and South Africa, Eggypt and Europe via Brindisi
in a week what the myriads of busy Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, little winged creatures had uncon- sciously performed in an hour. And. fruit and vegetables, from being the natural food of the many, had be- come a luxury for the few.
K.P.O.* Registrations.....Dec. 10, 8 p.m. Letters ...............
4.80 p.m. Australia -(except places North of Brisbane) and New Zealand via Singapore and Brisbane
It was, indeed, a strangely altered world in those dayal Gone were the majority of the sweet wild. Bowers that had made beautiful the Northern Spring; and gone, too, were many forms of bird life de Pendent for their food either upon flying insects or their grubs. And with the loss of insects and birds, something of music had gone from the Earth. The world was stiller than of old, less beautiful,.noticonbly Amoy moribund. There was leas colour.*Manila less variety. feas vitality.
Amoy
*
Professor Aumonier had taken to Bangkok via Swatow living in retirement in his old age. Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Honours and degrees had been
DECEMBER 10.
Conte Rosso.
(Due Brindisi. Jan. 1, 1938.)
G.P.O. Registrationa ..Des. 10, 4.15 p.m. Letters
Conte Rosso
5 p.m.
(Due. Brisbane, Jan. 8, 1988.)- (To connect with the 5.5. "Nieuw Zealand" at Singapore: leaving Singapore, Dec. 19.): Registrations
ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA.
Special through rates to Europe via United States. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of. rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privi- leges for sight-seeing. Full particulara upon application.
Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America
Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays via Manila, Straite, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Aleexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
18
Pres. Monroe .... Pres. Van Buren
TO
Dec. 24 Pres. Garfield ....Jan. -7° Pres. Polk
MANILA
A a.m.
.Jan. 21
Feb.
Next Sailing, Pres. Lincoln, Dec. 1a m.
Pres. Jefferson
Pres. Monroe .....
Pres. Madison
Dec. 17 Pres. Wilson Dec. 24 Pres. Cleveland ..Dec. 27 Pres. Garfield .Dec. 31 Pres. Hoover.
Jan. Pres, Taft
10
Jan. 14 .Jan: 21
....Jan. 24-
Jan. 28
CONNECTING WITH S.S. MAYON TO CEBU, ILOILO,
ZAMBOANGA.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL L
LINE
Pres. Coolidge
Pres. Van Buren
8.45. p.m.
Letters
4.30 p.m.
Anhni
...5 p.m.
Prea.. Pierce Anhui
Ď.p.m.
6.p.m
SUNDAY,
DECEMBER
11.
Hiram
8.11.
Hozan Maru
9 a.m.
MONDAY,
DECEMBER
12:
but he was not, he knew it all too
showered upon him; he had in Bangkok via Swatow crossed his already ample income; Swatow
Kaying
Hydrangea
10.80 a.. ..3. p.m.
TUESDAY,
DECEMBER
13.
Hai Ning
Changking
.9.80 a.m. 2.p.m. 8.80 p.m.
Pres. Lincoln Fooshing
4.80, p.
5. p.m
Correspondence only:
well, any longer a popular figure. *Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya Tjinegara.
There were active A.A. (Anti Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ... Aumonier) Societies in most civil, Bangkok, ised countries; and their alms, be. Manila
Swatow
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Conside the apparently hopeless task of stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the re-establishing insect life, included Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
BIRDHANA
*TILAWA TALMA
1932
8,000 10th Dec. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
2.30 p.m. 10,000 24th Dec. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, 10,000 7th Jan. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Calls at Rangoon.
forms of virulent propaganda de- |signed to asperse the famá af "the best-known scientist of the century. So Aumonter kept apart from the world. In his thoughts it seemed to him as if the activities of the A ̈Â. Societies were a form of persecu- tion very like that he had once et- dured from flies. He was getting old, and his mind was apt to return to memorica of his youth, skipping all the period that had Intervened. He was little stirred when one day! his son- Bertrand came to see him
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for after an absence of over three years. 1st and 2nd class passengers.
Bertrand Aumonier, whose name now rivals that of his father, was not then, famiqua, although he, too,
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). had been for twenty years a patient,
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
1932. 7,000 31st Dec
1933. 7,000 1st Feb. 7,000 3rd Mar.
devoted student of science. But that day when he called upon his old father he had the great anbounce-
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & ment to make which soon but him
Melbourne.
on a level with other celebrities of his time.
Aumonier, half-dozing. In his| chair, with his wife, incredibly
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan atout now but still placid as ever,
and Hong Kong to Austraila.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days..
Frequent connections from Australia with the followingti
beside him, was sitting in the gar den when Bertrand found him.
"I have made the great dis-
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newcovery," he announced quietly when Kaaland, Vancouvar, San Francisco, stei
The P. & 0. Royal Hall Steamers to London and
The P. & 0. Branch Barvice of steamera to London via Buss.
he had greeted his parents. "I have discovered a rare fly on the Upper Amazon that, although it stings
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and human beinga, is a boney-eater and
London via Panama, Canal
TALMA
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
RANCHI *BURDWAN CARTHAGE
'NALDERA
SOMALI
RAJPUTANA 'CORFU.
BANGALORE,
·COMORIN RANPURA CHITRAL
All datad
1932.
10,000 16th Dec, Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000/16th Dec, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,-- || 6,500 | 2vtb - Dec.] Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.. 14,000 80th Dec. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
16,000 0800
12th 26th
Jan.
Jan.
17000 27th Jan, 15,000 10th Fab. 0,00 din Feb. 15,000 - 24th* Fob, 17,000 Tata Mar 15,000 23rd Mar,
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe' & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.” Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe a Yokohama.
apollen-carrier. And it lo, almost certainly, immune to the Aumonier disease. In a few years I hann to acclimatise it all over the world. It broeda rapidly, and I have every
· hope that it will soon become" E8 numerous and as widely distributedi as the old house-fly!”
Professor "Aumonier" roused him- self a little, shook his head, and with a half-mechanical movement began to flap about him with his handkerchief
His wife chuckled complacently. Ah, you litle Bertrand,” she said, "you want to Improve the world too much. - No doubt Providence had some good purpose in letting all the fles be killed. And we have all the vegetables we want here.
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