PO BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
Taking Cargo For
Straits Java Burma. Ceylon. Africa, Queensland Partz, and India. Persian Gulf, West Indies, Red Sea. Ergypt, Constantinople, Margitius. East and South Greece. Levantine Ports, Europe, PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS UNDER CONTRACT WITH HM. GOVERNMENT
*P. & O. SAILINGS
$3.
Tors
From Hong Kong About
$1*BANGALORE
1934.
6,000 20th July
RAWALPINDI KAISER-I-FIND **EHUTAN
12,000 27th July 11000 10th Aug 6,000 17th Aug.
RANCEI +BEHAR
XALDERA
+SOUDAN
RANPURA RAJPUTANA
+ BURDWAN
CHITRAL CATHAY
+*SOMALI
i1,000 24th Aug. 6200 31st Ang-
16,000 7th Sept. 6,000 14th Sept.
1,000 21st Sept. 17,000 5th Oct
6,000 12th Oct.
15.000 19th Oct. 15,000 2nd Nov 1,000 9th New
Cargo-only. + Calla Casablanca.
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-
don, Rotterdam Antwerp Hul
Fombay, Marseilles & London,
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles Havre, London, Ham--- burg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Heil Borday. Marseilles & London. Sombay. Marseilles. Havre, Lon-
don, Rotterdam Antwerp HEI.
Bombay, Marseilles & Loador." Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon- don. Hamburg, Antwerp, Rot
terdam, & Hui. Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles, London,
B'bay, Mars. Havre L'don, Hibg-
P'dm. A'werp. & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Harn- burg Rotterdam, Antwerp & -Hall
-Calls Port Sudan. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship. Co.
* BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS
TAKADA
TILAWA SANTHIA ~TALMA
SIRDHANA
1935.
7,000 20th July Singapore, Port Swettenham,
Penang, Rangoon and Calcutta Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and
Calcutta
10,000
10 m 5th Ang 8,000 16th Aug.
10,000 30th Aug.
8,000 13th Sept.
* Calls Port Swettenbac
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"Well, I studied the enthes in
THE CHIKA MAIL, SATURDAYS- JULY
Ricardo Cortez plays the lead- ing part in Warner Brothers" latest thriller
A Thief” which is being shown at the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.
1935
OXYGEN WORKS AT CREWE WRECKED
InJured Workman Saved
RESCUERS UNDERGO GREAT RISKS
Grewe A series of explosions wreck- led the works of the British) Oxygen Company at Crewe re- ¡cently..
Residents in houses near by rushed from their homes in alarm s further explosions loccurred.
Only four men were in the works at the time. One of them, John Wharton, New- castle-road, Shavington, irescued by fellow-workmen. He was unconscious and severe- lr burned.
the Calendar, and "sure enough there was Lady Evelyn Cooper's Conty Rosso entered "for the seller on the following Tilday at New- market; and it seemed that that week would be my last with the 1 dishonourable. Tom. But-3 vé stold you, I was clean out of luck! Jand nervous as a cat, and I felt a presentiment that something was bound to appen to rob me of the race. Fair worked up I was, what with thinkin' of all the things that could appen and thinkin' of that! girl in Wiltshire What's more, the 'oss wasn't feedin' up proper, and seemed as listless as a cow. When we gave im is winding-up gallop. 'e went absolutely rotten; and Smart, the Tead lad said to Ime, "The guvor ought to ave
A portion of the roof of the bought the tonic as well as the
works was blown of oss when 'e went to France.”
to a h'owner nor trainer what
Reseners Courage porn What do you mean? sez L
foreman. I've worked for. The first duty of The
P. Lewis **This Joe zever won those a suliber is h'obedience, and the although suffering from shock, races in France on the diet 'e's first duty of a stable lad is keepin' gave the alarm to the Grewe "aving now," "sez "e. They uses is mug shut. I told Mickey it was Fire Brigade, and he and his different cats in that country when for Vespasian what ad broken colleagues went in search of they're on the job Unless the down that mornin' and wasn't Wharton, who had been work- sernor's got the dope as well as goin' to run again that summer. ing near the oxygen generating "Well, when I ad that powder plant, the scene of the first ex- of winnin' as you have of bein' and knew 'ow to give it all I ad plosion. made Lord Mayor of London."
At great personal risk-2D- to do was to watch the guvʼnor} "Well, this talk with the 'ead lad didn't slip 'im nothin' on the quiet other explosion was imminent worried me a lot. I'd never known if the guy'ner gave 'm h'anythink licked the oxy-acetylene
at any moment as the flames the savor give a 'oss any kind my responsibility was at an end. D' dope, and I couldn't very well me 'ands was clean.
tainers they rescued Wharton. I could ask 'im if 'e'd bought the tonic keep the dope for another "oss on who was taken to hospital in a along with the 'oss. The Honour-janother occasion.
serious condition. able Tom wasn't the sort of boss
Firemen warned the residents I never left the 'oss and right Bridge street and ito whom you could pit a question!
part of up to the time of my changing for Hungerford-road to leave. like that, without bein' booted all the race nothin' 'ad been given to round the stable yard. Yet, when im cept is ordinary feed. When I thought 'ow badly the 'oss 'adly came back from weighin in, I gone in his work, I felt positive asked the lad what was lookin' required something before 'e could arter im if h'anyone 'ad been near win a race like Friday's sellin and no one bad. So when the 'oss plate. Did the guv'nor know the was saddled and just goin' to be way the Froggies had worked the taken into the ring. I takes the oracle? Ad 'e got the stuff? That little apple from my overcoat poc- was the question. If 'e 'adn't. et and, when no one was lookin', looked like spending the rest
the 'oss, you've got as mach chance.
my days at Newmarket.
gave it im to eat..... "At evenin' stables that night his brow. "It's near forty years Nathaniel paused and mopped!
the guvnor stood watching me do
jago, but it still brings me out in the chestnut 'oss, with a sour look on is mug, and 'granted: "Well, Nat, what do you think of the aeroplane?"
WOMAN'S GIFTS
· TO VILLAGE
•
CON-
One Pound Each For. Choirboys
£100 LEFT TO DOCTOR
A gift of £100 to Dr. R. E a muck sweat when I remember Mounsey, of Camberley, "as 2 that 'oss a nuzzling at the apple in token of gratitude for saving me 'and, and feeling that at h'any my life from fire," was made moment a steward might tap me in the will of Miss Gertrude on the shoulder...
Maybury," of Frimley, Surrey- "But nothin' "appened. The Miss Maybury died in eoss ate the apple without so much December aged 80, and left but as spilling a grain of powder, and £14,958.
""Didn't exactly fly to-day did 'e Sir? sez L
"No, sez 'e. They said wasn't much good at home. l'e'll be all right on the day!
I mopped me brow while I saw '{m} Villagers benefit from her "Then very brave, I sez: 'Seems led off into the paddock. as if 'e needs somethin' to back I'im up."
"Yes, like some lads I know, sez the Honoswable Tom, with masty sinile, and moves on And
* EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (S.) improve the 'oss by three stone.
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
1935.
1,000 2nd Aug. Manila, Robaul Brisbane, Sydney 7,000 31st Aug. Melbourne & Hobart. 7,000 4th Oct.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
Cheap Holidays to Australia & N. Zealand.
SURFING FISHING SHOOTING MOUNTAINS
Here, your English money is 'worth 25%.
more.
CLIMATES TO SUIT ALL ! #1 No additional Charge for Deck Cabins. Sun Deck Swimming Fool Orchestra carried Laundry Surgeon Stewardess. E. & A. Cuisine and Service are unsurpassed. Frequent connections from Australia with the following: The Unica. S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc. The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and The P. & O. Branch Service or steamers to London via Saez The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for South ampton and London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
*BEHAR RANCE SANTHIA
TANDA
•SOUDAN. NALDERA TALMA
RANPURA
1935,
6,000 24 July
•-17,000 25th July 8,000 25th July
7,000 3rd "Ang.
16,000
6th Ang - 7,000 10,000
8th Ang. 8th Aug.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama, Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe &
Osaka
Shanghai, Koji, Kube Osaka
Yokohama,
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama Shai, Maji, Kobe & Tokohama Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe &
Ossica
17,000 22nd Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama,
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23 to each chairman of Frim-San Francisco & Los Angeles Panama Canal New York "Probably the money WES alright and there was no longer ley Church and E1 to each any mystery about who was train- choirboy; in' the 'oss; for I got me instruc $20 to Mr. Buckingham, tions from the Honourable Tom. organist at Frimley Church; a fat lot that meant. I didn't Don't get left farther than yon can
to Mr. Budd, sexton and know, for the life of me, whether help. Sit still and let the 'oss win verger; e'd got the stuff in "is pocket, or by as far as 'e likes
If you're $2 each to Mr. Stanbridge, inzocently hoped the sight of beat I'll cut the lites out of you, Mr. Cook, Mr. Dingle and Mr. racecourse would be sufficient to sez be, smilin' pleasant like. And Hall, sidesmeng
I thought, you poor h'innocent, if $25 to Roger Finch, church- "Well, I never was one to talk it weren't for me you'd be in the warden, and 35 to his mother; about the 'osses in any yard bankruptcy court to-morrow.
$25 to her gardener, Frede- worked in; but I was so desperate
"While 'e gives me a leg up, the rick Kent, and £5 to each other worried and anxious I decided to ss tarned his lead round as if ex-tenant of Maybury Cottages; take someone into me confidence. 1pecting something.
£5 to William South, postman The guv'nor didn't like to think that the pulls a carrot out of 'is coat pocket of Frimley, and £1 each to his gurnor. by "is innocence of French and gives it 'im and off we goes. two unmarried sisters; methods, was goin' to lose· "is
£to Mr. Fidler, motor-driver, "And 'arf way to the post I money nor did I fancy stayin" thought of that carrot. Was it a
of Frimley: on în 'is employment till Doomsday 'ordinary carrot or ad old Conty I felt that I ad to make sure of Rosso got a double dose?..."
£5 to Victor Wynn, “my old village friend,” £1 to his son John and £5. to Harry Wynn,
family friend"
that winner on Friday, and the With the artistry of the broj old and highly esteemed only way to make sure was to get story teller Nathaniel pansed, zaz hold of the dope myself, in case ing into his glass of gin while the the guy or didn't give him any full horror of the situation dawn-Mason, a faithful and devoted
"There was only one lad I knewed upon his listeners
$100 to Richard
Williard
friend of our family,” and £1,000 to him for disposal in
oo might know somethin' about "That" be continued calmly. “I those things; a lad what 'ad got never knew, The 'oss was trac-accordance with into trouble some years before, and tious at the post; but though I was dum. left the stables to be errand boy to left a length or two, I was soon in
a memoran-
She also gave £100 to the
ja chemist. E did a bit of touting front and goin' like a certain win-Rev. John W. Partridge, Rector as well, collected cigar-ends, and ner. The only question was whe-of Frimley, "for his kind and carried tofs bags. Mickey. the ther the 'oss would stay the dis-valued ministration to my be ferret they called 'im..
tance. But the further 'e went the loved sister. Lucretia and my- "Well, I found Mickey, and 'el'arder 'e pulled A furlong from self said 'e knew the staff what'd work'ome we was twenty lengths in the oracle all right. He said he'd}front and goin' faster than ever.
give it me if I'd give him a quid, 1sed to meself as we reached the and is eyes were just poppin' out and tell im the name of the 'oss. stand, “'ere's good-bye to the of is ead
"I met "im the next night and he Honourable Tom, so long as I can "Whether 'e 'ad 'ad a double gave me some powder screwed up stop the quod.".
dose, or whether the stuff "Mickey in a bit of paper; and I gave "im “And then I felt somethin' on had given me was too strong. I the quid.
use 'ande and, looked down, They didn't know. It was my first er« "But ow do I give it?' siz L was all covered with a sorf, of périence of dope...and my last.” *Give it im just before you sticky substance, pale
and “Then you didn't dare come goes down to the start, seze, in like, a spider's web made of toffee hack, and weigh in. Yer didn't L'apple. Cut out a bit with a Me breeches and boots and the ride yer wimer after all" said one cheese, scoop, put the powder in- 'oss's shoulde were smothered of his Esteners": side and put back the bit of apple
Natkaalel sucked his teeth and No one can say anything to you
then we regarded the young man with un-
andiegrised contempt
yer think 1 in after all that
for givin' the oss a bit of hi
Well, that seemed easy enoug So I anid, thank moved off
"Did you tell im the the ass, Nat” ask from behind the
but
Swas
Mr. Pull
slowed up I this Jong strin zostrils
watched his glass bein
Ive never been: disloyal
Corse I was one to
trouble:
deepest
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