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The Steamship "ROSANDRA.”. FROM TRIESTE VENICE, BRINDISI PORT SAID, MASSATA, ADEN, COLOMBO, PENANG AD
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CONSIGNEES
Cargo are hereby inforin- their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and ed that all Goods are being landed at Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, at Now oon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery ay be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unles oties to the contrary be given befors 1st instant
1924
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
SHANGHAI vis ̈ SWATOW MANILA via AMOY TELAGTAU is SWATOW &
BHANGHAI HAIPHONG in HOIHOW
BANGKOK via SWATOW
STRAITS & CALCUTTA TSINGTAU via SWATOW..
SHANGHAI SANDAKAN TIENTRIN BAIPHONG
a HOIBOW
KOBE via MOJI MANILA via AMOY
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Sunday,
"FOOSHING" "LEESANGTM* "HOFSANG" "NAMSANG"
.. Sunday,
Monday,
Tuesday,
4th Dec,
8th Dec, Noom
7th Dec, 7
7th Dec, 9in
6th Dec, 102-
9th D., 1
"NINGSANG „Wednesday, 11th Dớc, 7am.
"UHEONGSHING Friday,
"HINSANG
MINGSANG"
"LAISANG
Friday,
13th Dec, Noond
18th Deo Noon.
Sunday,
14th Dec. 9am
Tuesday.
16th Dec 7***
"YUENSANG " Saturday, goth Dec. No
As one wanders up and down the London streets, marvelling at the extra ardinary autburst of building "activity revealed on all sides ous seeks rather vainly for that reticence and chasm which can be as effective, in the combina tion of bricks and mortar as it is. in manners. Everywhere huge, erections are COMPANIA TRASATLANTICA DE BARCELONA elimbing to the stars and obliterating the
Spanish Royal Mail Line
aky. Streets that once seemed
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods wide in our city of carrow and devious bave left the Godowns, and all Goods ways have assumed an air of relative remaining undelivered after the 7th instant. exiguousness, in consequence of the height!
will be subject to Rent of the buildings which now line them; presented to the Undersigned en or befor CALCUTTA HONGKONG,JAPAN LINE. EVERY TEN DAYS
All Claims against the Steamer must be
REGULAR SAILINGS ARE MAINTAINED AS FOLLOWS- and we creep about between their the 17th inat,, or they will not be recognized. pendent bulks like Lilliputians in a city! All braken,
chated and damaged Goods are to of giant warehouses. The unfortunate be left in the Godewas, where they will be HONGKONG-MANILA LINE
SHANGHAI HONGKONG LINE part about this wenthes nedificandi is ramined on the 6th instant, as 10 am, by HONGKONG-HAIPHONG LINE that it is not chly blatant in itself, but our Surveyor, Meurs, GODDARD & DOUGLAS, HONGKONG-BORNEO LINE it has caused the destruction of so much No Fire Insurance has been effected.. that was to our city's architecture what Bill of Lading will be countersigned by urbanity is to daily existence.
DODWELL & 00., LTD..
Agents. Hongkong, 1st December, 1924 1558
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Nor is it only in such architectural; changes that a drastic alteration is creep ing over London. There is a tendencs, slow but sure, to convert private houses into shops and fats, and even the squares are gradually assuming a commercial air. foreign enough to their builders, and quite sufficient to make their many former illustrious inhabitants turn 11 their graves,
THE SQUAREX.
It was centuries, as indeed in some cases it is, since certain squares--Golden-
sunare, Scho-square, and Bloomsbury
square once su fashionably inhabited.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
ELLERMAN LINE. FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND
CONTINENT,
St OF KARACHI * -- THE Steamship
fell from their high estiste and became na having arrived. Consignees of Cargo by her we know them today; or nearly as we are informed that all Goods are being landed at kuow them. There was a special reason their risk into the hazardous and/or extra- for this in the migration of fashion west. hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence wards. But it is yesterday, as it were, delivery may be obtained. with no such reason, that Cavendish have left the Godawas, and all Goods remain
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods square and Hanover-square went the same way, a way on which even the arising delivered after 6th December, 1924, will
be subject to Rent tocratic St. James's-square has travelled far.
pre
All Claims against the Steamer must be December, 1944, or they will not be recognized. seated to the Undersigned on or before 13th
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Gedowns, where they will
tween the hours of 1045 s.p1, and Noon, within the free storage period of one week.
No Fire Insurance has been effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents Hongkong, 1st December, 1934 (1558
The number of great house in these squares (to say nothing of the lesser re sidences which have been converted into shops and flats, hotels and elubs) that be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays be have entirely disappeared, and on whose sites business preinises have arisen, is only too significant of this gradual-meta- morphosis. One penetically the better, part of the west side of Cavendish-square was occupied by the splendid Harcourt House; and where is it now? A huge block of flats, deminates the site of the: mansion in which Queen Anne's Lorü Chancellor lived Harewood House, in Hanover-square, and Cleveland House, in St. James's-square, have been replaced by the inevitable Blocks of" fats and offices. Shops and hotels have been'ven- tured into the illustrious, seclusion of Berkeley-square; and, indeed, so insiste ently has trade ousted and is ousting private owners. that we may expect the day when," rectucar.' the latter will be forced to take business premises and ture them into dwellings
THE GREAT HOUSES..
But such changes are by no means con- fined to the quadrates (to us, the uld term) of the, Metropolis. Great houses in all parts of London are gradually experi
Being a similar fate. Once Whitehall, for instance, was full of them; Richmond House, with its famous picture gallery; Gower House, with its glorious double staircase; Portland House; Pembroke House; Carrington House, where the. beauty of Chambers's design was power- less to prevent its being swept away to make room for the new War Office; Fife House, with its ample gardens stretching
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Further west the same thing is occur
to the river's edge; Rochester House; and ring., and Kingston House, where the rest. All have disappeared; and amazing duchess disported herself, one those that are left-Montagu House, cannot but anticipate will one day follow Dover House, Gwydyr House, and Wai Noel House and Rutland House, and lingford House-have been absorbed as Gore House of another gorgeous indy Government offices; while one remains into the limbo of forgotten landmarks hidden away in Craig's-court, the Har-which have been destroyed by the devour- rington House, until recently used as an ing hand, not of Time, but of them. annex to Messrs. Cox's bank, apparently awaiting for it is advertised for sale the pick-axe of utilitarianism, whose slaught nothing-historic interest, the memory of famous owners, the beauty of architectural achievement-seems able to avert.
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OLD 9' BALCONY. At this moment, too, Devonshire House, where Kent's many-sided artistry dis plays itself still in the glowing colours of the ceilings and the Venetian audacity of the decorations, is on the point of disappearing; and who shall say how long Lansdowne House, that remarkable nebievement of Robert Adam, will be immune! But, after all, the fate of Devonshire House has been that of Nor- thumberland House, which a regardless generation allowed to be destroyed, and Clarendon House, whose memory is with so many dead yesterdays. As one wah- ders along Piccadilly one receives series of shocks to one's historic sense. The block that one housed Sir Francis Burdett and the Famous white parrat of his benevolent daughter is covered with those hoardings which are a building's equivalent to the coffin-boards of hu manity. Cambridge House has been so long a club that the urineries of its royal dake and imperturbable. Prime Minister have long since ceased to haunt it. Gloucester House has grown into a architectural exotic, and the notorious balcony of Old Q1 has become the balcony of a lading' `elnb.
To only the last half-dozen houses or so in Piccadilly de private residents cling desperately; but is it too daring to prognosticate that some of us may still ace that block between Hamilton-place and the Park, not excluding "No. 1, London itself, converted into a gigantic hotel larger than the Carlton and rival- ling the Ritz in picadouri
'Norfolk House is let, and Grosvenor House to let; and Carlton Hous-terraen has opened its hitherto exclusive arms to u club, and bas actually (prah pudor!) begun to regard the coming of residential fiats with equanimity.
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