THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE
TITAN
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
RHESUS
PASSENGER SERVICE.
LONDON SERVICE
MENTOR MACHAON LAOMEDON TEIRESIAS
4th Nov. 8th Nov. 15th Nov. 2nd Nov. 8th Dec. 13th Dec.
(Direct)
London, Amsterdam & Antwerp Landon, Amsterdam & Antwerp London. Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp
LIVERPOOL. SERVICE (Direct or via Continental Ports)
ANTILOCHUS PELEUS ORESTES
8th Nov. Genoa, Marseilles & Liverpool 15th Nov. Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool
Liverpool 6th Dec.
PACIFIC SERVICE
PROTESILAUS
IXTON
TALTHYBIUS
(via Kobe and Yokohama)
1st Nov.
22nd Nov,
10. Dec. I
Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver
NEW YORK SERVICE
TYDEUS
MENTOR
TEIRESIAS
(via Suez or Panart a)
12th November,
via Suez
PASSENGER SERVICE
15th Nov. for Singapore & London for Singapore & London 13:h Dec.
For Freight and Passage Rates and all Information Apply to:-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
AGENTS.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
COPENHAGEN.
The M.S. "MALAYA'
will be loading for Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and other Scandianvian Ports about 30th November.
Further Sallings:--
S. 5. "RHODESIA “* M. S. "JAVA"
PERU "
M. S.
due here about 3rd November. ere sibling of Duvember.
For further particulars please apply to
17
end of December.
MANNERS & BACKHOUSE, LTD.
Hongkong. 18th November, 1921.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD.
24 Des Voeux Road, Central. Agents in South China for :--
Locomobile, Mercer. Chandler, Cleveland. Hudson. Essex. and Dodge Brothers motor cars. Ace Motor cycles and Dunlop Tyres.
SPECIAL OFFER FROM STOCK
The 1921 CHANDLER 7 passenger Touring car, $1,600 Mex.
The Chandler motor is noted for its power and flexibility and economy in running costs.
Eaquires invited. Demonstration arranged for prospective
purchasers. Lelepuous 482 or 1552.
JUST ARRIVED,
Shipment of the ACE Motor cycles and sidecars. ipe ace s acknowledged to be
"The finest thing on Two Wheels." Enquiries invited and demonstration arranged. Telephone 182 or 3552.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD.
Des Voeux Road, Central,
Tel. 182 and 3552.
Tel. 482 and 3552.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP.CO., LTD. AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1921.
CONSIGNEES. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
From EUROPE & STRAITS, The Company's Steamship
*KAGA MARU” Consignees per Company's Steamer
having arrived from the above ** MENTOR "
parts, Consignees of Cargo are are hereby notified that the Cargo hereby informed that their Goods will be disobarged into Holt's are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongtong and Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie Kowloon Wharf and Godown at Consignees' risk and subject to Company's Godowns at Kowloon, terms and conditions of storage where each consignment will be at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will sorted out mark by mark and be ready for delivery from Go-delivery can be obtained as soon down on and after 31st OGL
as the Goods are landed.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless nolice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafed, and damng- ed goods are to be left in the (odowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am. and noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3th November, will be subject to
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary bafore Noun To- | day.
Goods not cleared by the 4:5 Nov., 1921, will be subject to
rent.
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examin- ation by the Consignees' and the Co's representatives at an ap pointed hour on Tuesday and Fri- day. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized. Nə All Claims against the Steamer claims will be admitted after the must be presented to the undergoods have left the Godumus, signed on or before the 19th Nov.. or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
funt.
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong. J:1 () :, 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ADMIRAL LINE.
The Steamship
Consignees of cargo must pro- duce an Import permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports
signed.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
Agents. Hongkong. 8th Oct., 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
From SOUTH AMERICAN. via SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU AND JAPAN PORTS. The Company's Steamship
the
**SËIYO MARU **
all where
SHIPBUILDERS. SHIP REPARERS. BOLER MAKERS. FORGE MASTERS.
OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
ENGINEERS
in, Apes — TAIKODDOCK
TELERICHT W 22
-DRY DOCK-
LENGTH 787 FRET. LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 FRET
DERTH ON CENTRE OF
SILL (HW.OST) 34 FT. 6 INS.
-THREE SLIPWAYS-
CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.
ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL, CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS,
HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
MONGKONG
WI FLAG "C" OVER "ANS, PENNANT.”
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.
The Steamship
"GRACE DOLLAR"
INSECT PLAGUE.
A Mosquito Mystery, The prolonged drought has had an extraordinary effect on insect life at Home.
summer.
it must go, usually, about mid- This year these weeds have been absent and the green fly is consequently wiped out.
A MIXED BLESSING. *This appears at first sight to be a bensfit, but probably is not. When the green fly is scarce, its Professor Lefroy, of the Im natural enemies, which normally perial College of Science and keep it in check, are also wiped Technology, South Kensington.out. The ladybird beetle, the vis Vancouver, B.C. and ports.an eminent authority on 03-
hover fly, the lace-wing fly, and the parasite, which check the
having arrived from New York
Tines said that certain classes of
serious than usual.
Dext
year
consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed omology, in a statement to The at their risk into the hazardous insects had bred more extensively green fly in a normal year, will be extraordinary Godowas of the Hongkong and [than usual this summer. The scarce, and we may anticipate Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co-codlin moth, for instance," be
an enormous disturbance in what Lid, and stored at consignees said, "has had three broods this is known as the balance of life. “COAXET"
year, whereas in a cold summer There will be several years. baving arrived from Portland, Ore. The above-named steamer hav. risk.
All broken, chafed and damaged it has one and last year it had abnormal ontbreaks of pests via ports, on 28th inst. consigneesing arrived on Sunday, the 30th are hereby norified that their October 1921, consignees of cargo cargo is to be left in the Gosowas twa. For that reason this pest of owing to the disturbance in the normal balance. The peculiarity cargo is being landed at their are hereby notified to present until Monday, October 31st, at the apple tree has been more
of this year has been thai, owing risk into the Godowns of The their Bills of Lading for countex-2.30 p.m. when they will be
"Another class that has bred to the dry conditions, it has been immediate examined by Messrs. Carmichael Hon Shan Godown Co.. Nos, signature, and take
excessively, owing to the extreme a healthy year for everything and 2, Dundas Street, Yaumati, delivery from alongside steamer & Clarke at 2.30 pm:
Claims will not be accepted up heat, is the mosquito, Where that could find food. For in- Hongkong, and stored at cou-or
Company's Godown,
cargo impeding less cargo is so examined by said there are lakes or other large stance, the codlin moth, which signees' risk.
immediate discharge will be Surveyors, prior to the above supplies of water the mosquito has had abundant apples, has
date. All claims must be pre- has become exceedingly aban-had no disease to cope with. landed at Consignees risk.
sented within a mouth of the dant owing to the fact that it has "During this year there hav Storage will be assessed on snd Exports. Hongkong, before cargo remaining undelivered after steamer's arrival here, after which bad mora generations than is or been quite an abnormal number they will not be recognized. No claims will be admitted after the flies. The house-fs, which breeds or the bites of the brown mos- goods have left the Godowns. in manere, bas also been able to quito (which does not convey breed more rapidly, and is there- malaria) or from the bites of flies All goods remaining after
been identi- Tuesday. Nov., 1st, 1921 will before more abundant than in which have not
normal year.
fied. To some extent this has subject to rent.
been due to the fact that the "A further example is the case heat and dry conditions have led obtained much freely; but we are ignorant of the of wasp. In the early part of these insects to attack man more insect food for their young, and reason why the bite of a harm being now extremely abundantless brown mosquito can cause are attacking fruit The drought death within two or three days, has caused weap to be exceptional-when we know that no specific Is destructive, because, being 20-disease auch za malaria has been able to obtain water or insects introduced. It is extraordinary daring August, it was compelled that coroners should pass verdicts tges its liquid from fruit, which of Accidental death in such is quite unusual. I have even, on cases without emphasising the several occasions, seen wasps need of investigation into the NATURALIST'S EXPEDITION TO
drinking at a tap this summer-actual cause of death when a THE FAR EAST.
thing I bave never seen before. healthy person has been btttan It is stated that an expedition On the other hand, many in- by such an insect as a common John Wilson, an ex-soldier, will leave England towards the sects have been largely extin-brown goat or mosquito. This is a who lost his legs in the war, is end of the year for the Far East guished owing to the drought subject which undoubtedly re- to lay one of the foundation under the leadership of Mr. C.preventing the growth of their quires investigation, and yet is stones for the new bospital wards Lockar: Cottle. The main par-natural food plant. Many roths tacitly accepted as the cause of which are constitute the pose, it is stated, is to make ex-lay eggs ia sammer on weeds death in quite frequent cases.” Ashington, Northumberland, wartensive zoological and museum which this year have been wiped memorial.
No fire insurance whatever will
All broker, chafed and damaged All broken, chafed and damag-packages will be landed into the ed cargo is to be left in the Go- Company's Godown, where same downs where it will be examined will be examined on Tuesday, at 10 p.m. on 2nd Nov., by the the 8th November, at 10 am. Company's Surveyors, MeseTY.
No claims will be recognised be effected. Goddard and Douglas.
after the goods have left the steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented later than three weeks after arrival of steamer.
All claims must be presented within thirty days of the steam er's arrival bere, after which they cannot be recognized. No claims will be recognized after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Nov, 3rd will be subject to rent.
No fire insurance whatzver will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.
PACIFIC 5. S. CO.,
United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation. Managing Agents,
THE ADMIRAL LINE.
5th Floor Union Building. Hongkong, 29th Oct., 1921.
No fire insurance whatever will be affected.
Y. TSUTSUMI, Manager. Hongkong, 31st Oct, 1921.
LEGLESE SOLDIER TO LAY FOUNDATION STONE
CROSS FOR PARENTS OF DEAD BOY HERO.
Awards of the Boys' Brigade SCOTS GIRL FOOTBALLERS LOSE Cross for heroism have been Fally 16,000 persons watched a made to Cyril R. Chamberlain match a: Aberdeen between a and Frank L. King of the 1st local team of girl footballers and Exeter Company. Chamberlain the Dick Kerr eleven from Free-sacrificed his own life in attempt The latter won by six goalsing to save a comrade from to nose. The takings were near-drowning, and the cross is to be
presented to his parents. ly £800,
ton.
Consignees are requested to send in their bills of lading for countersignature.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.
Agents.
Hongkong, 27th October, 1921.
GENERAL NEWS.
WASPS.
summer wasps
collections, and a special endes-out by the drought, except along
FLOOD SUFFERERS. vour will be made to secure first- the borders of streams or in un-
A detachment of Chinese Red band knowledge, with photo-asual circumstances. This ap graphs, of the life history of the plies particularly, from a fruit-Cross workers is being sent to siamang. For this purpose the gtower's point of view to those the flood districts of Anhui in Another report party will, if necessary, penetrate weeds which are the alternative response to a call, states the unexplored Sumatra. The mem food plants of the green fly Chinese prees. bers of the expedition, about 11(sphides), which attacks cult at states that the North China in number, will leave in a smailed pisate. Nearly every green Famine Raliaf Committee has schooner. It is proposed that a fy, which is a pest to a cultivat-allotted $150,000 for flood relief cinema operator shall accompany ed plant, has an alternative food, work in Kiangsu, Anbul and the party.
which is a wred, and to which Chekisng,
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS ¦
BUNKETY.BLANK BLINK !!! CRACK!
CREEEEK
·BY BLOSSER
This is a Sticker for Pop!
THERE! I NEVER HAVE ANY TROUBLE WHEN IT
IS DRY WEATHER,
OH,
IS THAT WHẤT
THEY CALL A WEATHER BUREAU,
POP?
IT'S FUNNY, WHEN IT'S
DAMP THESE BUREAU DRAWERS
WILL NOT OPEN=THEY
SURE DO
STICK!
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