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Dutch East Indies should be able to nouried approximately as many people per square mile as Java A similar density “of population would fill these files with 500,- 000,000 people, a number larger than the teeming population of China Tho development these colonies has been greatly hampered by the mallness of the Insufficiency of motherland.
of
“THE PILGRIM OF
ETERNITY."
Byron as 19th Century D'Annunzio.
A RAMBLE-THROUGH LONDON'S "CHINATOWN:
Selbare Society in Unknown. London.
A curious mixture of a kind of) Three Musketeers" melodrama, night ramble, and on another Having recently had an all- with a really fine portrait of occasion visited the scene ass-
their concentrata
*SADO MARU." having arrived from the above parts, Consignees of Cargo are moan and of means has caused the Byron at his best as the poet, ciated with Guy Fawkes, the
prophet and hero of the liberties Salborne Society recently con hereby informed that their Goods Dutch to Consigness of Cargo are hereby are being landed and placed at energies upon Jasa, which is of Europe in the aighteen- tinned their exploration of Un- informed that all Goods are being their risk in the Hongkong and rightly called the garden of the twenties" "The Pilgrim of Eter-known London by having a walk
nity produced at the Duke of through Chinatown. } landed at their risk into the bazar-Kowloon Whart and Godown East.
York's Theatre last dous and/or extra hazardous Go-Company's Godowns at Kowloon, Java produces an abundance of
month. These of the party who had dowas of the Hongkong and Kow-where each consignment will be rice, sugar, coffee, rubber, tea, thoroughly deserved its entbu-
anticipated going into an opium loos Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., sorted out mark by mark and tobacco, cocos, coconuta, fibres of siastic recortion, saga the Duden or having a meal with chop-
Chronicle. The play is written whence and or from the wharves delivery can be qbtained as soon various kinds, quinine, pepper, by Mr. K. K. Ardaschit, husband sucks in a Chile restaurant delivery may be obtained.
and many other spices. Agricul
were disappointeḍ, bat it w.5 an of Miss Gladys Unger. ture is scientifically and Dutch enterprise has in- managed
interesting experience paveride- troduced
It is not quite "another Abra-less era to ramble through this crops which formerly wore
namerans valuable ham Lincoln' and is not all little bit of Limehouse that bas up-conceived on the plane of the been seized upon by the Yellow known to the natives.
bigber seriousness. But it is a raçe.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining dalivered after the 30th inst., will be abject to rent.
as the Goods- are" landed.
Optional Goods will be carried an unless instructions are given to the contrary before Noon To day.
after
All claims against the steamer Goods not cleared by the 214 It is not generally known that, once a scholarly, original, and must be presented to the Under-Jan 1923, will be, subject to owing to Dutebinitiative, Java bas lively little biographical drama, signed on or before the 6th Jan., | rant.
become one of the principal sugar and though, it makes Byron 1922, or they will not be rec Datonged packages must be producers in the world. As every mach the hero he wished to cognized.
left in the Godowns for examin-cards cane sugar. Java ranges
be at the end of his life, it has All broken, chafer, and damaged |stion by the Consignees' and the immediately
Cuba and plenty of reality in it Goods are to be left in the Go-Co's representatives at an ap- British India. Sugar production downs, where they will be examin- pointed hour on Tuesday and Fri- in Java has increased from 531,- ed on the 30th inst, at 10a.m.
day. All claims must be presented 000 tons in 1834 to $1,778.000 tons No Fire Insurance has been within ten days of the steamer's in 1918. That extraordinary eflected.
arrival here, after which date island has become one of the they cannot be recognized. No most important rubber producers claims will be admitted after the in the world, and it furnishes goods have left the Godowns.
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JARDINE, MATHESON
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about 90 per cent, of the world's
|
Yu Rinh Kwong Chang. Ng Yong, Lum Yat Wan--these were some of the typical names appearing over the shop windows, and above these and sometimes at the sida, appear other boards with the name and calling in Chines characters.
NEW VIEW OF THE FOET. To those who have been in the babit of looking upon Byron in
All the party were on the look his last phase as a gloomy debau-out for one symbol-something of view. Ws see the post as the over a small circle. choe, it will give quite a dew point resembling a big inverted "y" active, vigorous, thoroughly mao- ly man he undoubtedly was in his baller moods.
"There it is," someone at last quinine. Its agricultural pos
called, and the whole party of sibilities are by no means exhaust-
70 stopped to look at the sign. ed. Lazze portions of the island By way of making a play out The inverted "V" (as the guide are jungle, swamp and forest. of Byron's efforts for the libera-had mentioned before the ramble) During the last 40 years Java's tion first of Italy and then of represents a roof; the "O" is an population has doubled, and it is Greece, Mr. Ardaschir pits him open mouth, and the combination not inconceivable that it will against a sort of Richelieu of the means “a house where you eat," doubla again during the present Austrian domination--Cardinal In other words the shop was a century with the growth of Java's Riverola We find Byron first at restaurant. mineral, industrial, and com-Venice, defying the Austrian mercial enterprises, which are police and openly helping the THEIR ENGLISH WIVES. Potentialities of the Dutch only in their infancy.
Carbonsri in their premature Incidentally amusement wa E. Indies.
Java. Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes struggle for freedom from the caused by the guide mentioning Dutob Naw Goinas, and the in- Austrian Foke. Previously_we that the Chinese sign for "gossip" Those who remember that numarable smaller islands bars bad heard of Byron at the Em-is two women; for "scandal," North and South America, the been Asian mainland, and Africa were
prolifically endowed peror of Austria's council, where three women; sod for marriage," with vegetable And mineral Metternich had decounced him a roof,s woman, and a pig. colonized by the Dutch, and that New York was formerly called Large portions of the
riches of every kind. as the "most dangerous man in
Datch Europe."
What perhaps surprised the New Amsterdam, consider that
| party most was that about 2,000 are practically unex Holland has preserved only a few
Then we go with the poet to Chinamon could live' lo such a almost worthless fragments of its Indies are very important pro-is in full swing, and the central streets, but the lecturer (the Rev. Yet the Dutch Eas: Ravenna, where the insurrection small district-inst two or three glorious world empire. The dacers of mineral oil, tip, and scene of the play shows Byron Datch colonies are small if com-other minerals. The Dutch have turning the tables on the great pared with Holland's possessions come to the front la the petro-Cardinal himsel of the past. However, they are leam trade owing to the oil wealth of their East Indian colonies. The predominant pos ition of the Royal Dutch Com. pany is due to the rapid develop mant of oil production in the East Indies.
of the very greatest valus and they are well worth the attention of British business men, says the Times.
islands
plored.
the
Between
EXPEDITION TO GREECE. Afterwards we see Byron start ing off on hia d'Annunzio-like expedition to Greece, and are left to understand the sacrifice of his life that followed.
E 0. James, formerly vicar of
the parish) explained that hun- dreds of them live in the boarding- houses. He had seen 50 to 100 men coming out of a little house that ordinarily would not have accommodated more than two of three families.
"They teem Out," he said; "I. bava seyer seen anything like
"
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined in the presence of The Dutch colonial empire may consignees by Messrs. Goddard, not unfairly be compared to the and Douglas. on 3rd, January British Empire.. While the area 1922. at 10 a.m. Claims against under the British dag is fully their colonies only producers of great merit of the play is In the past the Dutch saw in For enduring purposes, the the steamer, including those for hundred times as large as the foodstuffs and of raw materials. its invigorating championship cargo short delivered must be Motherland, the area of the Dutch Manufactured articles required of Byron's character. The only two ago there were only two Yet in all Chinatown a year of presented on the special formEmpire is 60 times as large as the by Dutch colonists and provided and must also be sub-morberland, and
while the natives were
poetry that we get is in the Chinese women; all the Chinese mitted within 30 days of arrival population of the British Empire Holland and elsewhere. Recen:ly in which Byron indulges. The list wives pot from Limehouse, Imported from plentiful quotations from himself who had settled bere had Eng- otherwise they will 00: be is about nine times as great as manufacture on European lines only two of his lady-lovers pres-for the people of the district are
that of the United Kingdom, the No Fire Insurance will be effect-population of the Dutch Empire considerable success.
has been begun and has proved a ented are Marianna Segatti, who averse to marrying the Chinese- ed by us in any case whatever.. is approximately eight times as 1910 and 1913 the value
proves to be a spy in the pay of but from other parts of London or Bills of Lading will be counter-great as that of the Netherlands.machinery and of steam cogines who is shown as (not quite.
of Austria, and Countess Guiccioli, rom Cardiff or SwansSK. Bigned by
Little Holland has its bands full, imported into the Dutch East accurately) as just an adoring ase my influence to avert such a "I have often been asked to and more than full, in trying to Indies bas increased from 12,285, and plaintive ingeauz develop its oversea possessions. 000 florins to 30,180,000 farins. By far the most important Naturally the war interrupted colonies of the Dutch are the this development. Dutch East Indies. They cover The Dutch Indies are worth an area of 3,000 miles' from east the attention of the British to west and of 1,200 miles from financier, merchant, and ship north to sooth. The equator owner. The exports and imports Mr. C. J. W. Simpson and Mr. passes almost through the centre of these wonderful isles are W. S. Cruickshank, who are ap of the far-lugg islands, Abun- certain to increase by leaps and pointed by the British Cover-dance of sunshine and of rain bas bounds. They occupy & most ment to arrange the terms on made the Dutch possessions favourable position in the world. which leases in the old British veritable hothouses, the most and their harbours will become of Concession will be renewed, prolife producers of foodstuffs increasing importance to arrived in Hankow recently on and of commercial crops of the utmost value. The pearl of the Datch East Indies is Java. That extraordinary island. which is less than half as largs as the
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THE VALUE OF GOOD SIGHT
You
marriage," said the Rev. Mr. exceedingly well played by Mr. managed to dissuade a girl from Happily. Byron himself was James,” but I don't think I ever Cowley Wright, whose make-up marrying a man if she had set was perfect, and who managed ber'raind to do so. to suggest the fire of genius and with a power and skill. Mr. the pathos of the lame lion " Eugene Leshy, as the Cardinal, gives us a dignified, formidable, sometimes slily bumorous figure. Cannot be over-estimated. Sight Miss Yvonne Arnaud speaks ber stands for everything that is vaÏD broken English very sweetly asable or enjoyable in life. world's shipping. In anticipation much chance for more, and Mr. you may see. well yet have de Countess Guiccioll-sha bas not
cannot tell if your eyés are right; of future progress the captions Dutch have improved and are Halliwell Hobbes, as the old fective eyes. If you wish to hav improving the principsi Karbours Count Guiccioli, and Mr. H. R. and preparing them for increased ignett as Fletcher, Byron's Room of the Hongkong Optical your eyes tested, the Refracting
ATO valeh, altogether United Kingdom, bad is 1917's traffic.
memorable The story of the pro-
Co, Successors to Clark & Co. characters. one hundred and seventy-two population of 34,157,383. In that gress of Java reads like a fairy
Refracting and Manufacturing thousand two hundred and twelve year there were in Jars almost tale. A similar advance will no The "production" is beautiful Opticians, the most competen) families in Peking which included twice as many people par square doubt be effected by the other particularly the сепа of optical establishment in South nine hundred and twenty-two mile as there were in the United islands of the Archipelago, and Byron's palace at Venice and Cbins-located in 53, Queen's thousand five hundred and forty. Kingdom, and almost four times British business men may benefit the whole play fall of appropriate Road Central is at your service: adults. The census has been as many as there were in France greatly by the expansion of colour Mr. Faraday responded to They have the equipments to test submitted to the Ministry of In- and in India....
businasa which will undoubtedly the call with a speech, referring your eyes accurately. Testing terior for registration.-Sin Wan In the opinion of well-informed take place throughout the whole to the play as a little melodrams the sight and fitting gilases is
Datchmen, the other isles of the group.
their specialty.
the I-C.S. Loong-wo.
NEW PEKING CENSES.
According to the winter census of the Metropolitan Police Hend
quarters, there are
Poo
ather
out to entertain.”
1
FRECKLES
AND HIS FRIENDS
GEB.I HOPE POP DON'T SEE MY FACE BFORE
I GO UPSTAIRS AN'
PUT SOME OF MOM'S
POWDER ON IT
•HMM»WHO GAVE
YOU THAT NICE CUT
ON THE SIDE OF
YOUR FACE, FRECKLES
NOBODY
GIVE IT T
ME, POP
He Paid in Full for it!
BY BLOSSER
NOBODY? BE
· CAREFUL NOW --
WHO GAVE IT TO YOU? QUICK!
NOBODY GIVE ITT' ME-I GOT IT IN EXCHANGE FOR A BLACK EYE AN' A NOSE BLEED!
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