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YKLINE
N.
General Passenger: Agents in the Orient for
Cunard Line.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.
CHICHIBU MARU
TATSUTA HARU
ASAMA MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
Wednesday, 4th April at 10 am. Wednesday, 18th April at 10 am. | Wednesday, 9th May at 10 a.m.
HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe)... Saturday, HEINAN MARU (start from Kobe). Monday,
THE CHINA MAI
MORE DIVORCES
BULGARIA
IN
As Mexican Chief Reviews Army
15 Per Cent. Increase
In Year.
HUSBANDS MOST TO BLAME
Bucharest.
Divorces in Bulgaria have in- creased by nearly 15 per cent. in a year.
Most of the people concerned were between the ages of 20 and 30, drunkenness and cruelty. being of the the most frequent causes petitions.
In 45 per cent of the cases the husband was at fault and in 35 peri cent, the wife, while in 20 per cent. the responsibility for the divorce was divided.
There is a growing demand for the transference of jurisdiction in divorce cases from the Ecclesiasti- cal Courts to the Civil Courts.- Reuter.
7th Apr.
30th Apr.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM
HAKONE MARU
Saturday,
31st Mar.
SUWA MAKU
Saturday,
14th Apr.
FUSHIMI MARU
Saturday,
28th Apr.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
24th Mar,
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
28th Apr.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang & Colombo.
†TOTTORI MARU,
Thursday,
29th Mar,
INAGATO MARU
Friday,
6th Apr.
"TANGO MARU
Wednesday,
11th Apr.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. RAKUYO MARU
Tuesday,
10th Apr.
NEW YORK via Panama.
†TOBA MARU
Wednesday,
18th Apr.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul,
Piraeus, Genoa
and Valencia,
+LIMA MARU
Monday,
16th Apr.
NEEDED.
Eliminating Home
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
Accidents.
†BENGAL NARU
Thursday,
29th Mar.
+YAMAGATA MARU
Sunday,
9th Apr.
MORIOKA MARU
Sunday,
15th Apr.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
GINYO MARU
Monday,
+MURORAN MARU
HAKOZAKI MARU
TERNKUNI MARU
Telephone 80291.
26th Mar, Monday,
26th Mar. 30th Mar. Friday, Wednesday, 11th Apr. (Private exchanges to all departments). For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
↑ Cargo only
O. S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
For the first time since his election to the Mexican Presidency, President Abelardo Rodrigues donned his military
uniform
and reviewed his land forces. Above the Mexican President is shown mounted on his horse, as his army passed in review nexe Mexico City,
NON-SLIP BATHS THE PERSIAN SPELL
[Continued from Page 9).
of
put a motor together or make a at all, but only of the beauty of the wireless, then any more than I could snake, a brilliant green on the grey now, but whenever I came across roots of a tree, and bars on it like anyone who knew anything Chicago.
shadows falling op grass, and little machinery I used to talk to them of Why I was 50 What the modern American home else that was green to be seen for such things, for I was burning to
I pointed it out, and ap-get them started.. needs, more than anything else, is miles. a non-slip bath-tub, said Mr. pareatly just in time, for the Arab keen I can't make out.
" "Those were beautiful times, Frederick J. Kiesler, furniture de got the idea that I'd been sent to algner, to buyers attending the Na-Africa for that purpose; and so he and we've spoiled them; we've spoil- gave me his greasy, bundle of beau-fed them with too much noise and tional Furniture Show.
like words too much hurry; we've let machinery Furthermore, he said, designers tiful manuscript, all are at work attempting to prefect among flowers. And I could read loose on them. I'd seen it all; J a "smooth" but "non-slippery tub. Peralan. But I must have read that knew the mistake we'd made; yet "It is a matter of life Insurance spell four times over, before I-aud-the moment I got back there I felt bound to teach them, bound to com- statistics, that 35 per cent. of all denly saw its amazing import. accidents in the home occur in the bath-tub," he said.-Reuter.
CONSIGNEES.
CONSIGNEES NOTICE.
"It was nothing less than mit them to the very course I often charm to take you back through so much deplore. Luckily for them but time. I need hardly say I was they couldn't understand me, surprised, when I understood it as that only goaded me on to fiercer a pigmy of the Congo forest would efforts.
be at a first-class ticket of Cook's ***I explained wireless and X-rays from his home to Victoria Station, and flying to them till I thought if he could have understood that they must understand, and yet I Well, I have not come here to ex-knew no more of these things than cite your wonder, but to tell you the average man of to-day knows, what happened to me when the spell if he is not an expert at any of Yes, it worked right them. And another great difficulty THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, - worked.
LIMITED.
enough, I went back.**
I had was to expres the little I "Now, I had had some experience knew to the folk of an age in which of apells, though only African ones, none of the technical terms of motor- far cruder affairs than the Persian: ing, wireless or flying had yet been and I was anxious to get from him invented.
NEW YORK via Japan, Los Kinat Maru
Sun.,
Direct at Cristobal, Puerto,
Angeles and Panama. Call, Kwansei Maru
Thurs.,
1st Apr. 16th Apr.
Colombia, Boston Philade}-
phia & Baltimore ........
BIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS., Buenos Aires Maru
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS
Wed
25th Apr.
AIRES TİL Singapore,
Colombo, Durban, Port
Ellinbeth and Cape Town .
The Steamship,
MOMBABA, ZANZIBAR Arizona Maru..
Tues.,
LOURENCO MARQUES.
DARES-SALAAM, BEIBA Arabia Maru
Sal
Erd Apr. 5th May.
"BENNEVIS"
BETH, CAPE TOWN,
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA
& SOUTH AMERICAN
PORTS via Singapos &
Colombo
MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Brisbane Maru
SYDNEY; WELLINGTON
Melbourne Maru
Thurs., Sab,
6th Apr. 5th May.
& AUCKLAND direct ..........
BOMBAY & KARACHI via Celebes Maru
Singapore, Penang and Hara na Maru
Tues., Thurs
Colombo
CALCUTTA via Singapore, | Hague Maru
Belawan Deli, & Rangoon
Bun
JAPAN PORTS
JAPAN vis Takso & Keelung KEELUNG Tia Swatow and
Amoy
TAKAO via SWATOW and
AMOY
Hozan Maru
Sun.,
For Further Particulars Flea se apply, to:-
-OSAKA SHOSEN. KAISHA.
Telephone 28061..
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP. LONDON AND STRAITS.
the most accurate details. He, on "I had my living to earn, but I the other hand, after being thought somehow couldn't even get started Consignees of Cargo are hereby in-¡mad for years, yearned now for the at that until I'd told them the things formed that all Goods are being land- (commonplace, as much as I did for knew. I couldn't even see a rut- ed at their fisk into the hazardous wonder. At any rate, he would tell ted road without criticising it. It and/or extra hazardous Godowns of
The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf me next to nothing of the magical would have been quiet and happy and Godown Co., Ltd, whance and/or part of his story, frankly saying days; a little of them remaina In from the wharves delivery may be ob that he feared I might think him the corners of old gardens, where |tained.
No claims will be admitted after the mad if he did; as though one could they look as though they were hid- Goods have left the Godowns, and all brush aside the entire history of ing; but not much. And he looked Goods
remaining undelivered after spells with the simple remark that wistfully at a blackbird that had the 29th March, 1984, will be subject a man who belleves one is mad. slipped in the stillness on to the top ard Apr. to rent.
"Well, back he went. I could get of the wall. 19th Apr.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on little more out of him than that."Well, I preached against that ar before the 12th April, 1934, or He went back about the year 1925, ancient calm that we had,' he con- 1st Apr. they will not be recognised. and he went back forty
'I must have been awed years. Hinued. To comply with the General Bond Rack to antimacassars and over by the power lying there," naknown ed Warehouse Regulations consigosos must have a Revenue Officer in attend, mantels, and a lot of things we have by man's hand; or, perhaps, it was
dutisbla unce when damaged
goods ost; and the high bicycle, that was vanity that drove me to tell of my jare examined.
already threatening the world with knowledge, or irritation, at the All-breken, chated and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, change, but with only the faintest childish arguments that they always 1st Apr. where they will be examined on the hint which nobody saw; and railway would bring against it, or perhaps March, 1934, at 10 am. by trains, and many other machines it was mere fally. Whatever it Messrs. Goddard & Dongles......
No Fire Insurance has been fact that already held the field, though was, I preached of the new wonders, few guessed yet that they had con-till there came a day when T-noticed Bills of lading will be countersign-quered and that they were victorious that people were getting odd ideas
about me fed by,
tent even then over man.”. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD, Agenta. Hong Kong, 22nd March, 1984.
28th
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS.
"I imagine that he made friends and found his circle. very much as 10-man might do who arrived England from some far colony.
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Ideas "It's wonderful how an sprea within a day or two of noticing that anyone had queer iden about ma beraz to see that "PROTESILAUS"--ar. Victoria, Seattle he had just grown up. But cross taking it once I had noticed it. I'm
they all had. There was no mis- transakenda examination I daren't attempt, not quite sure what started it, but || “HECTOR" that it made him the least excited what clinched it was a rather to be questioned at all closely, but
it clearly alarmed him, his object curious thing, and it told against me being to tell me things that I could more than anything else,
dow not doubt rather than risk any nua- picious in the direction in which be was so sensitive,
I was just past sixty,' he said. "And I went back to twenty-one You know, ons's liable to be a
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blt
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED. SALVAGE TUG "TAIKOO****
GAN 600 Met
that onë knows, nothing, one-
because and people with any scients. nowledge, always went for it, the and it was what did for
This was a thing1 had said
wireless
would
had told thems
to get the
the whole
at sound
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