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8,8. "CONTE VERDE" for Shanghai
'S.S. "CONTE VERDE for Italy & London
6th July,
16th July.
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M.V. “BILDA” for Italy via porte
9th July, M.V. TERGESTEA" for Shai & Japan, . 12th July.
Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents
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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.
ASAMA MARU
TAIYO MARU
CHICHIBU MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
Wednesday, 5th July at 10 a.m. Sunday, 16th July at midnight. Wednesday, 2nd Aug., at 10 am
17th July.
30th July.
HIKAWA MARU (starta from Kobe) Monday,
HIYA MARU' (starts from Kobe) .. Sunday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
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CONSIGNEES.
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THE BEN LINE STRAKERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', "ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
There were souvenirs enough to, up so quietly. Each time he came stock a bazaar. A parched fern home I could see a difference-le |drooped helplessly over a bottle of was more grown up, more sure of Jordan water; dust had mellowed himself. Looking at him, I'd say the tints of a pyramid of wax "Nothing can disturb our John" fruits; vases and candlesticks stood and nothing human could. He'd like beggars at street corners.ja way with him-way of looking at The Steamship, {volcanic eruptions seemed to have you that scraped sway all the muck,
"BENVENUE" taken place inside the couch and in your brain........
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby chair seats. The wallpaper was "He made this beautiful ship on informed that all Goods are being faded into the likeness of columns of his last voyage. I can see him now, landed at their risk into the hazard- Ethiopic script, corners everywhere coming home and mounting it on my of The Hong Kong and Kowloon ous and/or extra_hazardous Godowns hanging down as if marking the floury pasteboard. There, Mum, Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd, whence place of student. Something he said. "Your ship's come home at and/or from the wharves delivery moved in the chimney from time to last," and he laughed like a true son may be obtained. time-memories perhaps causing of God; and told us to unload. No claims will be admitted after little showers of soot to rain upon Tucked away inside, Michael and the Goods have left the Godowns, and the paper flowers filling the fire-me" found a
all Goods remaining undelivered after packet of
money the 10th July, 1933, will be subject to place. Curtains hung like crucified enough to keep us afloat for five rent saints.
rears-with some tobacco for father All claims against the steamer One object only held the attention and a fine brooch for me. Bare must be presented to the Undersigned by its beauty. Upon the window-dreams we had that night. Three or before the 24th July, 1939, or
they will not be recognized. ledge was a model of a fifteenth-weeks he was home, laughing and
All broken, chafed and damaged century galleon, a perfect piece built singing and saying things so beauti- Goods are to be left in the Godowns, of some smoky wood, with saila belly-ful they hurt. And then it was time where they will be examined on the ing as if under wind pressure. A for him to go. He went one morn- 8th July, 1983, at 10am, by Messrs.
Goddard & Douglas. tall, knife-bladed cactus flanked the ing, and we went with him as far To comply with the General Bond- model; the calceolaria beneath the as Portsdown. He told us to looked Warehouse Regulations consignees window rose like a sandstone bluff; out for his ship as she passed down must have a Revenue Officer in at- damaged duttable beyond was the sea, a great blue-the Channel In the early morning, tendance when green patch with a boat resting like told us how she'd be dressed, how sods are examined. a fallen leaf on the rim-the galleon soon he'd be bome again. It wased. might have been skirting a tropic all too true. On the day he sailed, Bills of Lading will be counter- coast....
a terrible storm broke the windadaigned by,- Splashes of sound came from the were right out of temper, you could
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. kitchen before the survey was done hardly hear yourself speak. Father
Hong Kong, 3rd, July, 1933. the mellow chiming of glassware and me, we told ourselves everything commingling with the profound would be all right with our boy. We grumbling of a tray and a brittle watched for the ship-the Spinning waterfall of music from a dropped Cloud it was named--but not a sign woman entered could we see. We thought all was spoon. The little suddenly, unfolding starched to the stiffness of buckram.
a tablecloth well-Michael still thinks so.
"A handful of days went by. On With quick, futtering movements, a Saturday, it was, that I noticed she cleared the trembling table of how excited the gulls at Kinsey ornaments and spread the cloth Point were. All morning they
SUWA MARU
Saturday,
FUSHIMI MARU
Saturday
HAKOGAKI MARU
Saturday,
8th July. 22th July 6th Aug.
KAMO MARU
Saturday.
2
22nd July.
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
26th Aug-
BOMBAY via Singapore. Penang, & Colombo.
TANGO MARU
Tuesday,
+ TOKIWA MARU
Saturday,
11th July. 29th July
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles. Mexico and Panama.
NEW YORK, BOSTON vis Panama.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genna
and Valencia.
↑ DURBAN MARU (calls Barcelona) Sunday, CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
+ PENANG MARU
16th July.
Saturday,
+ MORIOKA MARU
Saturday,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YUKUHAMA.
TERUKUNI MARU
Tuesday,
+ LYONS MARU
Wed.,
KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direct) Friday. HAKUSAN MARU
Friday,
8th July. 15th July
4th July 12th July 21st July, 21st July.
Telephone 30291... (Private
exchanges to all departments).
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SAILINGS FROM HỌNG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
NEW YORK vía Japan, Los Hokkai Maru
Mon.
Angeles and Panama. Call |
Direct at Cristobal, Puerto,!
Colombia. Boston Philadel
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RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS. Santos Maru
Wed.,
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Rio de Janeiro Maru Tues., AIRES Saigon. Sin- ;
Expora, Colombo, Durban,
Port Elizabeth and Cape
Town
MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR Arabia Maro
DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Manila Marn
LOURENCO
MARQUES,
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-
BETH, CAFE TOWN,
SOUTH AMERICAN
POETS in Singapore. A Colombo
MELBOURNE,
No Fire Insurance has been effect-
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as carefully as if she were dressing screamed and aquabbled, flying night From SYDNEY & AUSTRALIAN an altar, staring fixedly as I com-like bits of paper in a wind. I'd my mented on the arrangement of the work-I didn't think what they folds.
could be at Just afternoon, two The above named vessel having ar- "Indeed they are," she murmured young stranger men came and asked rived, Consignees are hereby informa- thoughtfully. "Just
like
wings, for a plank and some sailclothed that delivery of their cargo must be taken from the ship's tackle im- gulia' wings, 15 you say they'd found all that was left of a mediately the vessel is ready to dis
at pair
cach corner of drowned man out at the Point. They charge same, and as fast as the ves- the table." She was silent for took what they wanted. Presently set can deliver. moment, soft eyed, contemplating they returned, all mucked with If the Consigneer fail to take de- something deep within her soul-sweat and a little sickened, and laid time and at the rate aforesaid, the livery of the said goods within the "My son, he was used to say things their find in the outhouse. I hung vessel shall have the liberty to like that," she said, very slowly, and some flypapers over it, for the flies charge and store the goods in Godown hurried away, returning almost im-were ravenous that year. A rag of at the risk and expense of Consignees. mediately with a laden tray. "My shirt dragged like a torn
All bro
broken, chafed and damaged wing goods are to be left on board and shall son, he always used to say that When they'd gone, I screwed myself be examined by our Surveyors, Mesers, spiders' webs were the ghosts of to lift the cloth. I knew that shirt, Goddard & Douglas, on application. wheels, of old-time
shields and for I'd washed and stitched it so their Bills of Lading for countersigna- Consignees are requested to send in baskets..."
thin hands! few days before. Our John haditure immediately. trembled as she set jug, glass, ex come home again. I picked the land cruet within reach.'
lirapets from his boots, and thought
" Her
dis
Aš Agenta.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Hong Kong, 30th June, 1933.
"A keen comparison that surely of father, praying to God to help me is. I should like to meet to talk keep the secret. He heard me. with your son. There are few who There was nothing to tell that it was! walk with open eyes..."
our boy, except the shirt, and to be apologising to Someone un- Her hands came together and held Michael wouldn't be remembering) each other tightly, and I wished the that-he's not a remembering man: iseen.
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words unsaid.
"I met him when he came home,
I spoke of a similar fish met with "My son, he is buried over the and told him some poor sailor had in the Caribbean Sea, and be eyed hill." She watched the words been taken by the sea and washed me thoughtfully, piling words, like diminish and vanish, grown sudden ashore. He looked-I'll never for so many bricka, before speaking. ly very old. "Buried over there he get how he looked-but he didn't His jersey had been darned in many She pointed uncertainly know it was our John. I was fear- places with a bright blue wool. His "Sa quiet no one knows but me."ing the news of the shipwreck would faze visited the heat patches as un- Words seemed to form against her come to him. I wrote to the agents systematically as a bee visits flowers. will. "You're a stranger, But notasking for a true word, and they in a garden. matter. Sometimes I feel it is too told me all was
**ANTENOR" well, naming the "She've been mentioning our boy,
5 July Mailles Loa'on Rotterdam and
Glupr much for just one to know. Yet ports the Spinning Cloud had al- haven't she?" He nodded towards
*MENELA 6 12 ful, Cariblancs London Hotterdam Hamburg who can I share a soreful secret like ready called at I've tac letter the cottage. "Aye, I could tell by
and Inli that with. There's only Michael somewhere--it was nicely put, the model being moved from the sill my husband Michael-and he must knew then that our John had been She's that proud of 't. She've like- never know-his heart would surely washed overboard, perhaps when he ly been telling how he's making 10th July shrivel . . .
Same-headway out East, maybe asked you was trying to sight home. Her lips moved on, but no words how the news hadn't reached the to inquire of your friends for news came Her eyes wavered round the agents. They and Michael wouldn't of a John Swan? I'm thanking room from face to face, as if she know until the ship came home with you, but you needn't be bothering. [sought permission to shell her a new mate. But God was kind. Our boy's home already, but she- 19th July secret. Rising suddenly, she moved for she never came home again, the wife-don't know it. She's only 22nd Aug. across to the window-ledge, lifting she was wrecked in a foreign sea, a weak little body, and if she but the galleon with great care, a fleet-thousands of miles away, everyone knew that John was lying over the ing, broken smile lighting her face, being saved, so they said.” The crew hill in the Strangers' Corner, she'd
Dan 7 July From UK viafíngapore as a candle lights an empty room scattered. Michael thinks John is not be long for this earth. He was
Das 13 July From New York vis Philippines She stood the model before me, and trying his hand at a job out East. washed overboard on the outward | SUMMER CRUISES. Spacia round trip rates from Hong 6th July sank into a chair like one exhausted that he's doing well, and won't write voyage nigh on two years ago. The Kong to Shanghai, North China Forts and Japan and re- 7th Aug.. by a great labour.
until be's made a fortune. Please tides played with him and flung him turn from June to September
man Specially reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamer "My son, he made that he'd God he may always think that...». on the Rocks below the Point. with limited passenger accommodation. clever hands. His head was full of The ears of the white cat twitched found him in the early morning, and beautiful growing things. He saw irritably as I passed out of the yard, took everything that proved who things with his soul. He'd tell but it did not wake. It knew all 'twas, buttons, tabs, everything--- Michael and me of wonders he'd seen but affected to know nothing. The and went straightway to Portadown, in his travels, things that no one but Bay was empty. The boat seen meaning to have him carried there. 6th July him would notice. It was like read-earlier on the rim was now drawn But, while I was gone, two young 5th Auging the Bible to listen to him. It up on the beach, very like a dead sters found him and brought him wasn't fair that he should dle-he whale with the harpoon yet project-home, She never knew 'twas her loved too well--God ought to haveling. Michael Swan was fettering a own flesh and blood lying out there. seen. But I mustn't say such skepful of lobsters. I crossed and She greeted me sadly enough: 'Sobe things. John, he always used to say he nodded distantly, Dafternoon poor fellow has been washed up, 20th July that to dle was better than being to you. Ay, 'tis a pretty day" He We must do all we can to find out chipped the words of very de who he is his mother will be 1st Aug. bora-he knew."
She stroked the flowing shape of liberately. He was a big man, grey wearing her heart Sum
9th July the galleon, wandering beyond her as a badger, and with curiously news,
grief. Her voice became very low: gentle hands. His eyes were so Motiv
10th July she might have been, talking to her deep set that looking at them was Sun.,
self, each word a primrose laid upon like looking down twin corridors into} 2nd July Bunday, 9th July & grave:
velvet hung rooms. A priest would "It was natural he should want to have found it a difficult inatter to 15th July, be a sailor-sea salt was in his interest him. A torn angler fish lay The Ms. Conte Verde sailed fram blood. When he was a wee spillikin, in the bottom of the boat. He plek Singapore on Sunday and is due
Thurs.,
Mon
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4th July 19th July
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be used to talk to the waves as ed it up, and, noting my interest, here on Thursday at daylight. She TAIPING though they were his brothers. made slow comment:
will berth at Kowloon Wharf and] CHANGTH Call them by name, he would “God do father some queer shapes, sail for Shanghaf, at 11 am the TAIPING Kalehead, Eight Tooth, -Lazer to be sure. It was caught in one of same day
He'd sailed all the seas of the world the pots-its Jaws broken "and its The my, Tergesten has salled before he was twenty-five. He was fishing rod gone. I killed it as from Penang and is expected in second mate he'd worked his way quickly as I could," He seemed Hong Kong on July 12.
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