SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
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Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST. AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT. CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE
PORTS,-EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
From
8.8.
Tone Beng Kour
About
1912
Noon 1938.
KAISAR-1-HIND
Destination.
12,000 81st Doc. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
0.800 7th Jan. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hall. 6,700 10th Jan. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. 17.000 14th Jan, Barseilles & London. 14,000 28th Jan.
Marseilles & London.
6,100 4th Feb,
+*SOUDAN
MIRZAPORE
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
+*BURDWAN
NALDERA
CORFU
16.000 11th Fab. 17.000 25th Feb. 4th Mar. 6,800
15,000 11th Mar.
COMORIN
15,000 25th Mar.
**BANGALORE
*RANPURA
CHITRAL
RANCHI
RAJPUTANA
*SOMALI
GARTHAGE
NALDERA
Bombay, Márasilien, Havre, London,
H'burg, 'dam A'werp &
Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London.. Bombay, Marcilles & London, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Bombay;
Marseille & Hull.
Marsellles & London.
London.
THE CHINA MAILA
THE BLACK CAT
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from the old, and with this I very carofully went over the new brick work. When I had finished I felt satisfied that all was right. The wall did not present the alightest appearance of having been dis: turbed. The rubbish on the floor was picked up with the minutes! care. I looked around triumphant- ly, and said to myself: "Here at least, then, my labour has not been in vain."
My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness; for I had, at length, armly resolved to put it to death. Had I been able to meet with it at the moment, there could have been no doubt of its fate; but It appeared that, the crafty animal had been alarmed at the violence of my previous anger, and fore- bore to present itself in my pre- sent mood. It is impossible to describe or to imagine the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the
detested absence of the
POST OFFICE NOTICE
NEW YEAR HOLIDAY.
On Monday, January 2, 1933, the General Post Offee and the Branch Post Offices will be open from 8 am to 9 n.m.
There will be one collection from the pillar-boxes and one de livery of ordinary correspondence as on Sundays and one delivery of registered correspondence at 9. a.m.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
SAIGON-MARSEILLES AIR MAIL SERVICE.
Letters (Ordinary and registered but not insured), Postcards, and "Autre objets" (Commercial papera, Printed papers and Samples) will be accepted for transmission by this Service.
A
The rates specified below are inclusive of the regular postage rates.
oz. will be
The oz. letter rate is special, Letters exceeding charged at the 14 oz. rate for each 1⁄2 oz. or part thereof.
Postcards must be the standard Postcard on sale at the Post Off ces at 2 cents per card with a surface printed stamp of 1 cent or 5 conts per card with a surface printed stamp of 4 cents.
Destination
creature occasioned in my bosom. Siam (Bangkok) It did not make its appearance Burma (Rangoon) during the night; and thus for one 'India (Calcutta) night at least since its introdue Persia (Djask) tion into the house I soundly and Persia (Bushire) tranquilly slept: aye, alept even · [rnq. (Bagdad) with the burden of murder upon Palcatine (Beyrouth)
Greece (Athens) my soul.
6,100 1st Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, premises. Secure, however, in the
Rotterdam,
Antwerp
Marseilles & London.
Marseilles & London.
Hull
17,000
8th Apr. 15,000 22nd Apr. 17,000 0th May Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14,000 20th May Bombay, Marsefiles & London. 16,000
3rd Juge Bombay, Marseilles & London. 12,000 17th Jaña | Bombay, Marseilles & London. Calls Casablanca, Calls Karachi and Marmagoa, Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Go stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khodivial Mall Steamskip Co
KAISAR-I-HIND
*Cargo only,
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TALMA SANTHIA TAKADA
1983.
10,000 10th Jan, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 22nd Jan. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 7,000 4th Feb. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.L. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for lat and 2nd class passengers.
president liners
Weekly Sailings. Transpacific
TO-SAN FRANCISCO, LOS
ANGELES & NEW YORK.
via PANAMA.
TO SEATTLE
VICTORIA
Fortolghtly sailings on Wednesdays. Fortnightly sailings on Satur
·Pren, Coolidge' ‚‚‚ Jan. 4,3.a.m. Près. Madison:
Pres. Wilson
Free. Hoover Prea Jackson
Jan, 18 Pres. Claveland A Feb. 1 Pres; Taft win .Feb. 15 Prea #Jenèrson
ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA Special through rates to Europe via United States, Direct connections with all Atlantic linos. Chalce of rail lines across, United States and Canada, liberal stop over privi leges for eight-seeing. Full particulare upon application.
Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America
Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays yla Manila, Straits, Colomba, Bombay, Suez Canal, Aleezandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
Inclusive rate.
Letters.
A. 0.
P.C.
Special 1⁄44 oz.
Per 1 oz.
14 02.
Each
$
$
0.20
0.35
0.12
0.12
0.25
0.60
0.25
0.28
-0.40
0.70
0.25
0.25
>
> 0.60
0.95
0.80
0.30
8 a...
0.65
Pres. Van Buren
-0.75
1.05
0.95
0.35
Pree. Garfield
0.85
1.20
0.40.
0.40
1.40
0.45
0.45
Europe other countries
) 1.00
.1.60
0.55
0,55
(Marseilles for onward mission by rail)
Pres. Van Baron
Jan. 7 Pres.
Pres. Wilson
Pres. Cleveland
Jan. 14 Pres. Jackson
Pres. Garfield
The air mail for each country will be landed at the place nam. in brackets.
INWARD MAILS.
DECEMBER .31.
JANUARY
.Sunning
The second and the third day Italy (Naples) passed, and still my tormentor France (Marseilles) came not. Once again I breathed Great Britain (London) as a free map. The monster, in terror, had fled the premises for ever! I should bahold it no more My happiness was supreme The gult of my dark doed disturbed me but little. Some few inquiries had ed
The Air Mail Service from Saigon to Europe is weekly, Tho Hong been made, but these had been readily answered. Even a search Kong-Saigon connection will be maintained by the regular fortnightly was instituted but of course noth saillag of the French mall steamers and on alternate weeks by any ing was to be discovered. I looked available steamors that can make the connection at Salgon
1. Letters exceeding 1 oz. will be marked "Saigon-Marseilles Air upon my future, felicity as secured.
Upon the fourth day of the, Mail Service" and handed in at the G.P.O. or Kowloon Post Office. assassination, a party of the pollee came, very unexpectedly, into the house, and proceeded again, to make rigorous Investigation of the
inscrutability of my place of con- cealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever. The oflcers bade те accompany them in their search. They left no nook or corner unex- plored. At length, for the third or fourth time, they descended into I quivered not in 2
Straits the cellar. muscle, My heart beat calmly as
Manila that of one who slumbers in in nocence. I walked the cellar from end to end. I folded my arms upon Į my bosom, and roamed easily to and fro. The police were thorough- ly satisfied and prepared to depart. too The glee at my heart was strong to be restrained. I burned to say if but ono word, by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltless- ness.
"Gentlemen," I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, "I delight to have allayed your suspl cions. I wish you all health and
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). a little more courtesy. By the bye,
NELLORE TANDA
1983, 7,000 1st Feb. 7,000 3rd Mar.
Eegular monthly sailings from
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Gyduvy-10 days.'
gentlemen, this--this is a very well-constructed house" (in the. |rabid desire to say something Manila, Exbaul, Brisbane, Sydney easily, I scarcely knew what I
uttered at all)-"I may say Bxcellently well-constructed house. These walls are you going, gen- tlemed?-these walis are solidly
Holbourne.
an
Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan pat together"; and here, through
› Frequent sconnections from Australia with the following:-
the mere frenzy of bravado, I rap- ped heavily with a cane which I held in my hand upon that very
The Union B.B. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom, via New portion of the brickwork behindj inland, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
"The P. &. O. Royal Mafi Steamers to London, and,
"The P. & 0. Branch Bervize of steamera to” London via Buen.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Bouthampton and ondon via Panama Canal..
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
NELLORE TAKADA WALDERA
*SOMALI RAJPUTANA: CORFU
BAN
NGALORE
COMORIN FRANPURA
ABHUTAN
SOUDAN
CARTHAGE NALDERA {"BURDWAN
KAISAR-1-HIND
PINDI
MA
7,000 7th Jan. 7,000 18th Jan. 16.000 18th Jan, 17,000 27th Jan. 15,000, 10th Feb. 0,500 28rd Feb. 24th Feb.
17,000 19
Shal, Moji, Hobo, Osaka & Yhama. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Shanghal, Moff, Kobo & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama. Kabe & Yokohama. Kobe &
Yokohama.
‚0,000. Mar Shangha
20.000 23rd Mar 17,000 6th Apr. 6,809 15th Apr.
16,000
th May
Apr.
Shanghai, Kopa 4
which stood the corpse of the wife; of my bosom.br
But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch! Fiend. No sooner had the rever beration of my blows sunk into silence than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb-by a ery, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child,, and then quickly awelling into one long, loud and continuous scream, utter- ly anomalous and inhuman--a how! awailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, con- Jointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damna- tions
Kobe & Kobe &
Of my own thoughts it is folly. 14,000
Kobe & Yokohama.
to speak. Swooning, I staggered Moji, Kobu & Yokohams to the opposite wall. For one 6,100 13th May
& Yokohama. instant the party on the stairs re 12,000 18th May
Kobe & Yokohama. 11,000 1st June
Moj
Kobe
Yokohama,mained motionless, through ex- 17,000 15th Jane Shanghal, Kobs. & Yokohama, tremity of terror and awe. là the 17.000 29th Jane Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama next a dozen stout arms were toll- 17,000 13th July Bhangtal, Kobe & Yokahoma..
ing at the wall: It fell bodily Cargo only +Calls Nagoya and Yokkaichi G
The corpse, already greatly decay. ed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the specta tore. Upea its head, with red ex- tended mouth and solitary oye of fire, eat the hideous, beast, whose craft had seduced me int and whose informing voice consigned me to the hangman, Eadwalled the monster up within the tomb
All dates ar All-Cab
System
CO
Kong
THE END.
SATURDAY, Shanghai and Swatow
SUNDAY, Shanghai and Amoy ....... Straita
Shanghai
1. Ninghai .Conte Verde
OUTWARD MAILS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 31.
SUNDAY,
Hong Peng -Pres Madison 'JANUARY : 1. Conte Verde
*Superscribed Correspondence only.
Oberland China Mail.
A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE
2.p.m. 4.80 p.m
9 a.m.
The matter of aviation, formation of a flying club, the waterworks scheme and the currency question were among the matters discussed by Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, during his six- day stay in the Colony. Interviewed immediately before their departure, Sir Samuel and Lady Wilson said they were greatly impressed with Hong Kong. We think it is a' most beautiful place," said Sir Samuel, and what impresses me particularly is the rapid structural development that has been made. I can safely say that Hong Kong compares very favourably with other British Colonies,"
The departure is fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
A serious motor smash occurred on Christmas night in Victoria Road, when Gunner C. Ball, stationed at Mount Davis forts, was gravely injured through being thrown. from a car when it struck a tree,
He was returning to barracks from a picture house with two companions in a hired car when the driver is alleged to have failed to take a bend properly, and the car, cutting across the road-way, ran into a tree.
A full story is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
"A good Christmas" was the general anticipation in the leading of Colony
were optimistic and stated that business, on the whole, way. brisk. Business is not at a standstill by any means," de- clared, the manager of the leading Chinese, departmental store in Hong Kong. Although figures are not better materially we have spent much to the interest of the cus- tomers who are thronging the departments."-
A full Christmas story is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAILANN
There is no phase of the life of the Colony or of China that does not receive attention in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL the weekly paper that YOU MUST ORDER NOW."
Jan. 7 Pres. Polk Jan. 21 Pres. Adams
TO MANILA
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Feb
Next Sailing, Pres. Madison Dec. 31, 61p.m.
Pres. Hoover
Jan. 10. Pres. Polk
¡Jan. 21 Pres. Jefferson
Jan. 24 Pres. Adami
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Fob.
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