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HEIAN MARU (Starts from Kobe)
Tuesday, 28th Nov. at 10 a.m.
Wednesday,
The
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"Why 60?"
CONSIGNEES.
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
fine long needles you have seen me employ. From the tables we re- "But,” said I, "you are quite as moved the tops."
The fait in these investigations. Parisian police have done this thing: often before."
"Oh yes; and for this reason I furniture, is removed by the person did not despair. The habits of the wishing to conceal an article; then The Steamship
"Sometimes the top of a table, or other similarly arranged
piece of
From LETTE, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
Wednesday, 18th Dec. at 10 am minister gave me, too, a great ad the leg is excavated, the article de Consiguens of cargo are hereby in
Monday,
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10th Jan.
27th Nov.
13th Dec.
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Saturday,
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Saturday,
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All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on er before the 30th November, 1983, al they will be recognised.
vrstuge. He is frequently absent posited within the cavity, and the from home all night. His servants top replaced. The bottoms and tops formed that all goods are being land-
Innd/or They of bedposts are employed in the ed at their rink into the hazardous are by no means nutuerous.
extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and sleep at a distance from their massame way."
"But could not the cavity be de-Godown Co., whence and/or from ter's apartment, and, being chiefly
be obtained. wharves delivery may be the Neapolitans, are readily made tected by sounding?" I asked,
Ne claims will be admitted "By no means, if, when the art the Goods have left the Godowns,
and drunk. I have keys, as you know, with which I can open any chamber cle is deposited, a sufficient wadding all Goods remaining undelivered after three of cotton be placed around it. Be the 10th November, 1933, will be sub- or cabinet in Paris. months a night has not passed dur- sides, in our case, we were obliged ject to rent. ing the greater part of which 1jto proceed without noise."
"But you could not have removed have not been engaged, personally, in ransacking the D hotel. My-you could not have taken to pieces honour is interested, and, to meu-all articles of furniture in which tion a great secret, the reward is it would have been possible to make ed Warehouse Eegulations consignes
tendance
datimble when damaged enormous. So I did not abandon a deposit in the manner you men-mast have a Revenue Officer in at
You did not take to pieces all goods are examined. the search until I had become fully tion.
the chairs 7"
All broken, chafed, and damaged satisfied that the thief in e more
"Certainly not; but we did better Goods are to be left in the Godowns, I fancy Lastute man than myself.
where they will be examined on the that I have investigated every nook we examined the rungs of every 13th November, 1938, at 10 am, by and corner of the premises in which chair in the hotel, and, indeed, the Messrs, Goddard & Douglas.
of No Fire Insurance has been erect- it is possible that the paper can be jointings of every description
furniture, by the aid of most ed. concealed."
Bill of Lading will be countersign- |powerful miscroscope."
ed by letter "I presume you looked
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD. Agents. Hong Kong, 9th November, 1933.
"But is it not possible." I aug- gested, "that although the
to the
may be in possession of the minis-mirrors, between the boards and the ter, as it unquestionably is, he may plates, and you probed the beds and than the bed-clothes, as well as the cur-, have concealed it elsewhere
tains and carpets."
upon his own premises?"
sud
To comply with the General Bond-
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"TERGESTEA".
"That of course; and when we "This is barely possible."
"The present peculiar con- had absolutely completed every par Dupin. dition of affairs at court and es-ticle of the furniture in this way. pecially of those intrigues in which then we examined the house itself. Motor Vessel De known to be involved. We divided its entire surface intu would reader the instant availability (compartments, which we numbered, of the document-its susceptibility so that none might be missed; then scrutinised each individuai of being produced at a moment's we nolice-a point of nearly equal im-square inch throughout the
mises, including the two houses im- portance with its possession."
with mediately adjoining.
the "Its susceptibility of being pro-
microscope, as before." duced?" said I.
"You include the grounds about the houses 7"
"That is to say, of being destroy-j led," said Dupin.
pre-
PORT SAID, SUEZ, MASSAWAH, From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, ADEN, KARACHI, BOMBAY PENANG & SINGAPORE via SAIGON. CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd. at Row- loon, whenes and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 18 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from part to port to the final port of call to which the option p-extends
books!
"True," I observed; "the paper w
"All the grounds are paved with clearly then upon the premises. A brick They gave us comparatively We examined the for its being upon the person of the little trouble. minister, we may consider that as mass between the bricks, and found
ift undisturbed." out of the question."
"You looked among D "Entirely," said the Prefect. "He} has been twice waylaid, nå if by pers, of course, and into the 27th Nov. footpads, and his person rigorously of the library ?"
"Certainly: we opened every searched under my own Inspection."
"You might have spared yourself age and parrel; we not only opened Lurned over this trouble," said Dupin. "Devery book, but we
fool, every leaf in each volume, not con- presume, is not altogether a jand, if not, must have anticipated tenting ourselves with a mere shake, or according to the fashion of some of these waylayings, as a matter
jour police offlocera."
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No claim will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowe, and all pack-Goods remaining undelivered after the All claims against the vessel must 18th instant will be subject to rent. be presented to the Undersigned as or or they will before the 28th instant, recognized. not be
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns. where they will be examined on the 18th instant, at 10 am. by our ur veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
in the case of dutiable cargo. Con- ignees are requested to inform the Imports & Exports Office that they have such goods for examination.
"You explored the floors beneath
"Not altogether # fool," saiu G "but then he's a poet, which the carpets?" I take to be only one remove from #fool."
"Beyond doubt. We removed every carpel, and examined the "Suppose you detail," said 1; "the boards with the microscope."
"And the paper on the walls?“ particulars of your search."
"Yes."
"You looked into the cellara?” "We did."
"Then," I said, "you have been
the
"Why, the fact is, we took our time, and we searched everywhere. have had long experience in there affairs. I took the entire building. room by room; devoting the nights making a miscalculation, and of a whole week to each. We exsletter is not upon the premises, an mined, first, the furniture of each you supposa.” apartment. We opened every pos-
the Prefect. "And now, Dupin, sible drawer; and I presume you 24th Nov. know that, to a properly trained what would you advise me to do?”
"To make a thorough 8th Dec. police agent, such a thing as a secret
of the premises." 19th Nov. drawer is impossible.
"Any man is a dolt who permits
2nd Dec.
"I fear you are right there," said
re-search
No Fire Insurance has been effect ed.
Bill of Lading will be countersign- jed by
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
Agents.
Hong Kong, 13th November, 1933.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO. LTD. COPENHAGEN.
The Danish Motor Vessel
"JAVA" have arrived from
ONO, "That is absolutely necdices," re- Gothenburg,
Bamburg, Genoa and Algiers consignees a 'secret' drawer to escape him in plted G. "I am not more dure Antwerp, 16th Nov. a search of this kind. The thing that I breathe than I am that the so plain. There is a certain amount letter is not at the hotel." of bulk-of space-to be accounted
of
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"I have no better advice to alvein informed that all goods are}} “EUMAEUS"
for in every cabinet. Then we have you," said Dupin.
extra
landed and placed at inte the Hazardous and/or "You have, of hazout Wharf & Godown Co. Gollowns of The Hong Kong and
accurate rules. The fiftieth part course, an accurate description of Ltd., where delivery can be obtained of a line could not escape uN. Af-the letter?"
ter the cabinets we took the chairs.
"Oh, fel!"-And here the Pre-
The cushions we probed with the fect, producing a memorandum book,
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All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Undersigned with in ten days of the whip's arrivil, or they will not be recognised.
of the missing document. after finishing the perusal of this description he took his departure, more entirely depressed in spirits than I had ever known him before.
In about a month afterwards be paid us another visit, and found us occupied very nearly as before. He took a pipe and à chair and entered by ed into some ofdinary conversation. At length I said:
"Well, but G, what of the purloined letter?. I presume you mind have at last made up your
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"How much was the reward offer- "How?-in what way?" ed, did you say?" asked Dupin,
"Why put, puffyou might Why a very great deal a very puff, puff-employ counsel in the Do liberat reward-I don't like to say matter, ch7-puff, puff, paff. how much, precisely; but one thing you remember the story they tell of I will way, that I wouldn't mind giv- Abernethý ?”. ing my individual chéque for fifty-"No; Bang Abernethy!!! thousand france to anyone who "To be sure! hang him and wel- could obtain me that letter. The coms." But once upon a time, a per- fact In 16 is becoming of shore and tain rich miser conceived the design more importance every day; and the of sponging upon this Abernethy for riward has been lately doubled. If a medical opinion. Getting up, for It were trubled, however, I could do this purpose, an ordinary contefar- no more than I have done." The tion in a private company, he in- Why, yes,” said Dupin draw. (Continued on Page 11)...
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