THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE
**REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICE.
LONDON SERVICE
HELENUS RHEXENOR "AUTOLYCUS
PYRRHUS
(Direct)
3th Mar. London, Rotterdam & Hamburg 19th Mar, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg 19th Mar. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp
2nd Apr. London & Rotterdam
SERVICE
LIVERPOOL
(Direct or via Continental Ports)
TITAN
9th Mar. Miles, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow, TALTHYBIUS 13th Mar. Gecoa, Mles, Liverpool & Glasgow. ANTILOCHUS 6th Apr. Miles, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow.
PACIFIC SERVICE
ACHILLES PHILOC reres
(via Kobe and Yokohama) /7th Mar
27th Mar Vistoria, Seattle & Vancouver
NEW YORK SERVICE
(via Suez or Panama)
15:b Mar.
5th Apr.
AGAMEMNON
BURYBATES
PYRRHUS
16th Mar for Shanghai
PYRKIUS
MENTOR
via Suez
via Suez
PASSENGER SERVICE
Bad Apt. for Singapore & London 7th May. for Singaporo & London
For Freight and Passage Rates and all Information Apply to:-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
(JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.)
AGENTS.
NOTICE.
REMOVAL SALE
OF
JAPANESE
ART
CURIOS
3 WEEKS
ONLY
From 15th. January
AT
NIKKO
HONGKONG HOTEL‡
BUILDINGS
Tel. No. 1259
JUST ARRIVED, NEW SHIPMENT OF THE FAMOUS
TOCCOS'
-- AND
NESTOR
Cigarettes
GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO CO.
12 A. Quein's Road Central.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
PRIZE FOR P、YCHIC
PHOTO.
*Scientific American Will Give $2,500 for Genuine
Picture.
MINERAL WATER
SECRETS.
Claim by Caldbeck, Macgregor.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 29. 1923.
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE BUCCANEER.
Bold and Bad But Popular
What is the reason for the immense and enduring popularity
Secrets Learned by Heart, In his opening, Mr. Reader Har- ris said the facts of the case were largely admitted. The secret re Miss Dora Ellen James was cipes were dictated to defendant, married at Holy Trinity Cathe- who took then down in a book and dral, Shanghai, on February 10th. learned them by heart. They were to Mr. James Maffat, MC, Croix An action to enforce a trade of great value to plaintiffs. De di Guerra, late Capiais, Northam of the pirate, as exemplified, of Further details concerning its agreement entered into between. fendant had had no previous ex-berland Fusiliers, and son of Mr. late, on the boards of the London
theatre? prize spook coolest are given in employer and employee was begun!perience of the work, and when he Thomas Moffat, of Whitley Fay, { the January issue of Scientific in H. M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, left them he entered the service of Northumberland. The Very Rev. Polls," whose hero
In De Dean C. J. F. Semons was the American. The magazine is offer on 23rd- Feb., before Sir Skinner a funicipal Council. ing $5.0 for the first paychic Turner, Chief Judge, plaintiffs cember last, be wrote asking plain officiating clergy man. · photograph made in accordance being Messrs. Caldbeck, Margrete permission to join Watson's with the conditions it imposes gor & Co., Ltd, and defendant Mineral Water Co., and permission
was refused. and a similar prize for the first Mr. R. B. Word,
His clear-cut paychical pbano- turnon."
of
An Indian watchcan was murs dered and an Indian policeman boldly badly wounded by armed robbers, Lordship.-You According to the statement of
secrets" things who eatered a dwelling house at are wine allege as "trade claim, plaintiffs, who "A strong feature of the work merchants and manufacturers of which can hardly be held to be 940 East Yabang Road, Shanghai, which it is planned so do with the aerated waters in Shanghai, in trade secrets-the cost mediums who may apply." it is June, 1921, entered into an agres terials, for instanca. said, in a statément given out by ¦ ment with defendant, appointing A. C. Lescarboura, managing | him assistant factory, manager for exiitor. "is the instrumental a term of three years, at a salary cheek of all ounces. At all
of Tis. 250, rising to Tla 300. mes thers will ha scales. There was a clause that the agrez-
Phonographs, microphones, gal vanometers, etc.. connected with automatic graphic record. ing devices in such a way that permanent record will be made of everything that goes on during the seance. Thus it will be poss- ible to guarantee that any results which may be produced really happened and were not due to hallucinations on innocent ob servations.
The membership of the com- mittee of judges gives every guaranty of a proper investiga. tion. Dr. William Me Dougall, professor of psychology at Har vard and president of the Ameri- can Society for Parchical "Re- search; Dr. Daniel F. Comstock, who recently retired from Mas- sachusettes Institute of Tech- nology to give his entire time to his own laboratory and is on the advisory scientific council of the S.P.P. Dr.Wallet Franklin Prince.
ment might be determined on pay meat of three months salary, and also the following clause, which the matter in dispute:
maon the night of February 11th. and decamped with jawellery to the value of $200
Mr. Reader Harria-Cost and source. The source where the material comes from is secret.
His Lordship. Is it?
The conviction of a Malay student, Mahomed Zaid__Ariffin, who was sentenced on Dec. 3 to
Mr. Reader Harris-It may be of importance to rival manufaco months' imprisonment in the turers to know where we get our landlady, was quashed at Loadon second division for assaulting his
ingredients.
Sessions on Jan. 12.
is
buccaneer, has been greated with an outburst of delight; "Treasure Island," a dramatised classic of piracy, stirred the Press to almost equal enthusiasm; antene of the raast striking of recent successes is "Ambrose Applejohn's Advou- ture," which Dies the Jolly Roger at the Savoy Theatre,"
Doubtless these plays, every · ace of them. have other astrac- tions than their irrebooting incl. dents and atmosphere; they ate well brisk and
constructed, exciting or amusios, and pic. taresque in setting er in dress,
the pirate, as playgoing public takes kindly to a pirate: finde pleasure in the lost of him, bic threats and strange carbs, in his violent and bloodthirsty habits.
a pirate in the cast of a play in So much so, that the presence of
But the fact remains that the
"The assistant factory maz-
His Lordship.-You have got to ager shall not during the above have something very special in a mentioned term or any prelonga-business before you can prevent an tion thereof, or within 10 years employee selling his knowledge
elsewhere, even if it is to a rival Master Wu Chang-ming (Tommy) itself is an omen of success. from the expiration thereof, carry on or te concerned or in-
What is a Secret?
terested in any capacity what- In opening the case for defen ever, or in any manner whatso-dant. Mr. Macleod observed that ever, in the like or any other this was the first case of the kind trade, business or Occupation that had come up in Shanghai fer whatever, whether for profit me time, and it was obviously or otherwise, either in China. one of some importance in this Hongkong. Japan, Singapore, or
country.
On the face of it.
the Straits Settlements; and in Counsel went on to say, the mak casa of any default in the obing of serged water was no secret servance of the terms of this at all. There were hundreds of manufacturers all over the world.
When one comes to think of il
We (North China Peily News) Tagtet to announce the dasth of
aged 15 years, the second son of Dr. and Mrs. Wu Lien-teh, at the Peking Union Medical College in real life as in legend, the to law-breaking. Outǝarly ballada Hospital, after a shor: illness of popular idol is frequently addicted four days. In spite of every AP
BIK mosk of them written tempt made by the doctors of the the folk tales that have lived- hospital to save his life, the
round the exploits and achieve patientcould not survive bis acute
of ments
if outlaws:
LOT attack of meningitis following
mediaeval poet endeavoured to pneumonia.
counteract the soli-social effect of the Robin Hood ballads by an Mr. T. J. Bourne, the well-epic in praise, of the Sheriff of
clause, he shall forfeit and pay He was not saying for a moment known railway engineer who is Nottingbe, s circulation wH
to the company the JUXIL of 320,000 2.3 ascertained and liquidated damages."
quality freshly mined Silimpoponits scientific work for savezal maceration. His employment wasing of cakes involved violation of Pakow Railway and is regarded the sort of man you sing about Sebattik or Sandakan Britian remembered from the Antigonish he was paid three months' salary things to be done in the manufac-China, has been in the country on |
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO, LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL THE undersigned are prepared principal research officer of LO quote prices for beat the society, who has conducted years and will be particularly Loal, trimmed into Bunkers at North Borneo!, and to contract investigations of lat spring: Dr. Hereward Carrington, writer on of cargo 10: regular Supplies
psychic subjects and member of lots at cavoursome rates.
numerous investigating com. Olesales calling at Sebattik
mittees and Houdini, the magi. Sandakan exclusively Icr Bunkers are exempt from paycian, are the fire mer who coa- ment of ordinary Port Charges.stitute this committee." The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Whart
DOLES" at Şebattik is 16 feet at low wrter
Unemployed married men re- Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie celve a larger "dole or ua- Bay (Debatt Harbour) and any
employment pension from the required information concerning Governmen: then single ones. tae Part may De bad on So all the unemployed are get- application to
ting married to get the extra GIBB, LIVINGSTON & money and London mistresses
CO. LTD.
can't keep their servant girls.
ar
Axents,
The Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ed.
PEAK TR.MWAYS CO., LTD.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
MARRY FOR
SHERIFF BROTHERS
BIRTH MONTH STONES,
Jazzary... February
+1
Karch
April
7 54
* la
May
3 Da
NO 1212
**
15.21
So 11:00 am
13 ■
15 116
11 ta
t.it . m. to
o 13.34.
1.30
ka 4 30 3. M
NIGHT CARS.
.. 25. 6117 09 9. c. **** 30 mixa 1.15 to 11.45 every 15 mingle
SATURDAYS.
VITRA CAR 12.58 mldəłęki
SUNDAYS.
1
10 1.35 .
Start 1 mi
Is 11
am
11.25
0.
in 12.30 a 》
11.99 DOOR
15 mia
$40.00
to
4. p.
8.11.
12. 14
00:04
NIGHT CARS.
154 pm. à 50p sa î 30 p.m. 3.50 p m. Lo 11 30 p m. dvacy 30 m 11.45 p.m.
SPECIAL CARS.
KALLASTENS AT TAN DOMAISTE OPPIKS, AL RXANDRA PUILDINGS, ARE YORUZ 101D.
THE VICTORLA
is superior,
We can coariase by demonstration, MUTRIE'SO:-Sole Azent
aly ... $12
September Octobs:
No7 mor
December
Gar Amethyst
Sapphire.
Emerald Agate. Rabj. Moonstone. Crysolita. Opal.
apar. Turquois
67, Quses't Road Central
A
MARTIN'S
PIOL AND STEEL
for Ladies PILLS A Franch Bemedy for all Irreg larities. Thousands cá Ladies kiways keep a box of Markin'a Pull in the house so that on the Erst sign of any Irregularity of the 571'em a timely dose may be siministered. Those who we them recommend them, hence task: @pormous sale. All Chemists and Stores sell them throughout
he World.
past free 5, MAR TIN Chemist, Southampon, Bag.
MARTIN'S - PIOL AND STEEL for Ladies PILLS
A
HIS FRIENDS
wholesale connections, and become acquaint- ed with valuable secret recipes for the manufacture of aerated waters and other trade secrets, the pro-
brother of Sir Frederick Bourne, that each maker bad not got some formerly Assistant Jadge in probably mited, and the next secret recipe: but then, nearly
M. Supreme Court, left Shanghai Beneration had forgotten his well-
intentioned effort In September, 1921. defendant every cook in the world had some on February 12th. by the RMS.
OFFICIAL DOM AND HEROICS., was appointed acting manager of secret recipe, and it would be Empress of Canada, Mr. Bourne,
surprising to learn that the mak-who was formerly oaths Tien-impossible to raske a real here, It is not eass-perhaps it is the factory, at an increased re-
as one of the foremost railway out of a representative of law and terminated in August 1922, and thing in the nature of a trade
seeres. There were a good many engineers who has ever been in order. Likely enough, the sheriff and an additional voluntary payture of aerated water beyond:
was as sturdy and daring as the ment of six months" salary.
tbis occasion since last October. outlaw. bis Botagonist; but, During the course of his employ-mixing of a recipe, and it was real. It is understood that be is shortly because he was a sheriff, he could ly astonishing to hear anybody proceeding to Ep: where he ment, plaintifs alleged, he had become cognizant of plaintif calling it a secret, or saying it had will be in charge of important/ not be a hero-while Robin was
a greenwood thief!. dam construction works. customers and trade anything to do with secrecy.
At this point the hearing was
Whatever its origin, our refuas! to accept the official as baro is adjourned.
Judgment was given by bis persistent and uncommonly stub. Honour Judge Grain at H. Mbora: even in detective stories, Supreme Court, Shanghai. 90 where our sympathies Messrs. A. and Y. Nastaskesky order, the detectiv, to be popalar, 7. the Far Eastern Insurance Co. must always be an amateur-a Who has the longest sathentic Plaintiffs claimed payment of G. Sherlock Holmes who detects" this year, entered the service of pedigree in the world? It appears. 40,827 on a policy of insurance for the fun of it, not because it is Wasson's Mineral Water Company. that a Copt living in Old Care with defendants covering goods his bounden duty. a Chinese company carrying on the has put in a claim for the contents destroyed by fre at their
And our scexking predilection business of aerated water manu-of the recently discovered tomb Harbin factors, and defendants for the breaker of laws is not, ba facturers in North Szechuen Road, of Tut-ankh-Amen, on the ground alleged forfeiture of the benefits it noted. confined to any on and was still in their employment. that he is a direct descendant of of the policy by reason of breach class. Democratio dislike of a Plaintiffs accordingly claimed an the king, and has papyri to prove to the place where books should of a stipulation in the policy as
tyrannous caste may have aided lojunction - restraining defendant | it.
the cult of the Sherwood brigands for a period of 10 years from That would indicate a known made a false declaration relative Borders;
be kept; further that plaintiffs or their fellows of the Scottish but fashionable carrying on or being concerned in genealogy of over 100 generations to the value of the goods. this ladies of a later date, who wept any capacity whatever in the busi-as we count them. No family Honour found that there had and fainted at the aptare of ness of the destilling and manu-tree in Italy or Greece, where been both a breach of the policy famous highwaymen who sent facture of merated waters, whether records go back to very early and a false declaration of values, bouquets for profit or otherwise, in China, times, comes near to this. In our and gave judgment for defen
the alternative, 320,000 awa country the longest pedigree daats, with costs.
rarely begins before the Norman Conquest, though some vaguely indicate a Sazon origin.
perty of plaintifs and Bed by THE LONGEST PEDIGREE. February 12th. in the case of enlisted on the side of law and
them in their manufacturing busi- peas. In breach of this #gree- ment, defendant, on January 1 of
or.
damages.
In defence, it was urged that the restrictive provisions in the agreement were an unreasonable and unnecessary restraint of the defendant's freedom to trade, and were contrary to public policy, and illegal.
Fir plaintifs, it was atcled that the "other trade secrets" referred to were such matters as the prices of ingredients, the sources from which they are obtained, bottles and other gear used by the factory and all mater connected with the methed and cost of manufacture A regarded the specific waters for the manufacture of which plaintifa had secret recipes this applied to all waters manufactured by them, the most valuable being Aquarius water, Fosferado. Sanus water, dry ginger ale, toale water and ginger beer.
L
In his famous covel, She," Sir H. Bider Haggard gives his hero, Leo Vincey, so aabroken ancestry
a
on his way to the scaffold-they 10 console bim
were members of the class that the highwayman terrorised and preyed on!
Somewhere in all of us, duchess for dustman, is the lawless instinct that most of us decently repressTM an unconscious legacy from our rude forefathers, handed down from the old days of fistright! and perhaps there is no more innocuous method of gratifying
Records for snowfalls in Tokyo and neighbouring districts for the deluge of fiskes which started on last 10 years were smashed by a the morning of February 7th. and to Kallikrates,
continued with only short in- Egyptian priest of Isis, in B.C.479.
terruptions through most of the But even if that were fact and next day. Considerable delay to not fiction, it is a very brief span traffic was caused by the heavy compared with human existence blanket, while communications the instinct than a two hoa:
Every reader of these lines may, with
ware outlying districts
traffic with the piratical stage-
if he feels so disposed, reflect interrupted. More than 20 snowblowing of our lawlessness in proudly on the fact that his plows were put into operation on make-believe combats and retura- ancestry dates back 40,000 years, the Tokyo tramlines and a force ing, sated with other persons and perhaps longer, and that in of 7,000 workmen was employed crimes, to the hundrum of order. bis line of descent there bave i clearing the more important ed existence.-Cicely, Hamilton undoubtedly been kings as well thoroughfares of the city. Despite in Ex.
as slaves-O.B. in Ex.
SEIZE WOM ER GAMERS.
Police raided a gambling house Mr. M. Reader Harris appeared and arrested seven persons, in for plaintiffs, and Mr. R. N. Mac-London recently. Ten of those
leod for defendant.
seized were women.
Well Directed
this effort to keep the lines open to traffic, officials reported that more than 100 cars were forced out of service due to the slowness with which the cars could be moved. The city appropriated 25,000 for additional labourers in clearing the stress.
LIVING COSTS.
It costs you 80 per cent, more to live in London now than la
July, 1914, when the World War broke cut, 917 figures just com piled by the ministry of labour.
BY BLOSSER
DENNISON'S DECORATED
PAPER PRODUCTS.
Lunch sets for picnics and parties
Crepe Shelf Paper.
Tissue Napkins.
EFFECTIVE YET INEXPENSIVE
Sold by:
DER. A. WING & CO.,
60, Des Voeux Road. Central.
FRECKLES AND
WERE BONG THAT BACK VERE!!
*THAT AINT
YOURS
I-GUESS "HAYS" MY HORN! DAY DON'T YOU EQ ROME. ANY PLAY
WTU VER ONN
STUFF?
ALL RIGHT YA OLD MONKEY
FACE, YOU!!
I CANT CALL YOU A DUNG-BELL
'CAUSE MY MOAA WOULD VELIP ME!!
Blocke
VERA SERVICE
Page 5Page 6