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THE STORE OF
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WHICH CONTAINS THE VERY BEST EXAMPLES
OF
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ANTIQUE AND MODERN,
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1923.
UNIQUE JOURNALISM.
A Voice From the Pacific.
paper.
The box and its contents were what all good editors should, by THIEVES ASKED TO DINE, immediately pronounced contra advising his public to uH band and hoisted on to the wharf:ecessary discretion when read-Polite Armed Men Sorry for in vain did the shippar explain tong the opinions inserted in his In the year 1797 the London the captain that it was a box
Calling. Missionary Society purchased a containing a few articles of hard-to offer the mixture," he writes, Thompson, well-to-do building "We are glad to be able New York:-M William ship and freighted it with mis- ware all to po purpose, the box" poisonous though it may be to contractor, of Teaneck, Now sionaries for the Society Islands was left on the wharf," A sad the public mind. We send it not Jersey, on answering & ting at From EUROPE and STRAITS, in the South Pacific Ocean. Thus social catastrophe which doubt forth in an unlattered phial, but his door, found himself looking
commenced the Arst Protestant less benefited Mission to the Pacifio. Other, Honolulu. some
one in stamp it Be Careful, that justice into the muzzles of a couple of
may not be strangled by the revolvers. dose."-Evans Lewin, in the Uniled Empire.
The Company's Steamship
THE SOCIAL LIFE
islands and groups of islands "TAJIMA MARU“ were successively occupied, "and
Socially the life of the Sand. having arrived from the above the mission to the Sandwich ports, Consignees of Cargo are Islands was commenced in 1820'wich Islands was in full swing hereby informed that their Goods by the Americans, who for some and the missionaries were having are being landed and placed at time previously had been train a busy time marrying and giving ROADS TO THE RIVIERA their risk in the Hongkong and ing. at Boston, certain Hawaiian in marriage, as well as burzing. Kowloon Wharf and Godown youths in the principles, of On February 2, 1837, there was Motoring in Central France.
"married by Mr. Company's Godowns at Kowloon Christianity. Two years later a
Bigham.
The following article in the Connection Buikeaouli, King of the Sand-Times, contributed by when delivery may be obtained. printing press... în
into wich Islands, to Kalama, the Montagu of Beaulieu, will be of Lord Goods not cleared by the 19th.. with the mission, came
and in the year 1836 daughter of Waihekukua;" while special interest to those who met March, 1923, will be subject to use;
tbe first English -newspaper, on February 11, the funeral of rent,
Damaged packages must be The Sandwich Island Gazette the Princess Harista Naihiensina him when he visited the East not left in the Godowns for examinand Journal of Commerce," was took place, whed, "the King, the very long ago:
No one knows France who has ation by the Consignees and the commenced by Mr. Stephen D. Chiefs, and the consuls appeared not gone down to the south by any Mackintosh, who, in addition to in uniform, and the chiefesses road. I remember asking friend Co.'s representatives on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 230 being its editor and a local wit, were arrayed in robes and tar p.m. within the free atorage was also a merchant and auction. bang of black; the band period. All claims must be pre-eer. The first volume of this soldiery were likewise suitably sented within ten days of the paper, commencing on Saturday, arrayed in uniforms and badges of mourning." The following steamer's arrival here, after July 30, 1936, and ending on July which date they cannot be re- 22, 1837, is in the Library of the was the order of the procession: "Missionaries, Surgeons, Band of cognized. No claim will be ad- Royal Colonial Institute and is nitted after the goods have left not only extremely rare, and Music, Two Black Benners, the Godowns.
possibly unique, but is also in King's Bodyguards. The Body. teresting 63 evidence of the social The King, Field Marshale, Chiefs. conditions of Hawaii at the and Chiefesses [sic] British period.
K. KAMEI,
Manager. Hongkong 12th. March 1923.
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"We understand you've just received 10,000 dollars cash on a contract," the visitors told him. "We've come for the money."
"Well," said Mr. Thompson, you are right about my regoir- ing the money. Come in and lat us talk it over."
A FAMILY SCENE. ing at all to be scared about," he "Don't be frightened, dear; noth- said to his wife, who was at the. dinner-table. "Just step into: the parlour with the children."
Taken aback by the quiet courtesy of the husband, the men leak off their hats and put their revolvers out of sight.
who had habitually visited the
years whether Central France- Riviera for a great number of
"Be seated, gentlemen, and I this was in cold February was will explain about the money, still under snow. "I have never Mr. Thompson said, inviting seen Central France," be calmly them to help themselves. replied, for I have always been They sat down, but refused through it by night in the train." food. Then their host explained And hardly any visitor to the that he never kept money in Riviera who has not gone by large sums in the house, but he road has seen the picturesque had put the dollars in the back The editing of a newspaper uniform, eto." It is interesting between Lyons and Valence, the stocks. He had received the in that far-away portion of the study the order of precedence sun setting over the snow-covered certificates that day, and drew world was evidently a tour de sad to note that in those days force. In one of the early num- pre-eminence of soul over body outains of the Cevenne on the them from his pocket. If the bers is the following plaintive was recognized in the far-off right bank of the river, or the men insisted on taking the certi
evening glow on the summit offcates they could have them. notice: "Any of the subscribers' Pacific.
Mont Ventoux, some twenty miles The man said they wanted An interesting fact shown by east of Avignon. friends or acquaintances, having
only the cash, od, failing that, in their possession Webster's the notices of marriage that
Nowadays it is difficult to re-, would take nothing. Dictionary, and (with-frequently appear in the Gazette commend which route the "You're a good scoat, Mr. too much inconvenienc. is that the missionaries at this traveller to the south of France Thompson," said one of them, as
favour him period seemed to have been in should take, whether it be to the they rose. ing themselves)
"We're sorry with the loan of the same will by favour of mixed marriages. We Biscaya or Mediterranean area. troubled you, and we wish you so doing confe: an especial obliga. know that some of the earlier At present most main roads in and your family a very happy Hinnan-advertisement doubt missionaries in South Africa tookFrance, the routes nationales are new
less inspired from editorial to themselves native wives. The either indifferent or frankly bad, quarters, as the editor in apolo- Church was pot averse from the result partly of the war and gizing for certain mistakes hopes giving its blessing to
similar partly of neglect before the war that less important errors will unions in the South
Pacific.by the French road authorities, be excused without further The Datives were, of
course, due presumably in both cases to apology." Moreover, he has sof
-higher standard lack of funds for repairs.
and wonderful views of the Rhone and drawn on them to invest in..
out
Can
Shrine of Adonis! Johnson
Cuts, curls, and shaves
with taste and care
Rhone.
we
Same to you," responded the genial Mr. Thompson, as he show ed them out.
The visitors drove off in a large motorcar as the contractor re-. turned to his dinner.
fellow feeling for other sufferers than the Hottentots of South
The great motoring organiza. from the vagaries of printers and Africa; else the hoax that is re- tions, such as the Royal Automa forest of sweet-chestnut trees, proof readers, as in the same issue parted in the issue for April 15, obile Club and the Automobils well worth seeing, but tiresome English readers are acquiring he quotes under the heading 1837, could hardly have been so Association, naturally recom- and slow from a driver's point of Steamers calling at Sebattik an appetite for American novels Errors of the Prass," the follow successful box was practis mend the routes most easily to be view. or Sandakan exclusively for London critics say this is one of ing anecdote: And you can't ed on the Academy of Sciences, followed by the average motorist, Finally, there is another route Bunkers are exempt from pay-the marked and definite features think what havoc these demons Paris, at its last meeting. An and as a rule they suggest the to the south of France to the west ment of ordinary, Port Charges. of last year's fiction. Publishers' sometimes choose to make of unknown individual ushered in, route southwards from Boulogne of Paris which is quite worthy of The minimum draft of water lists and library reports showing one's sense and, what's worse, of while the Academy was sitting. Beauvais to Paris or Versailles, attention. Landing at Havre, you alongside the Company's Wharf greatly enhanced popularity of one's rhymes. But & week or fellow dressed as a South Sea or from Havre through Rouen to cross the Seine at Quilleboenf and at Sebattik is £6 feat at low water current American writings are two since, in my ode upon Spring, Islander. The latter performed Versailles. Thence there are three proceed by Bernay to Mortage, Spring Tides. Charts, of Cowie their proofs.
which I meant to have made a his part remarkably well, remain-routes which lead to the Valley of thence by St. Calaia to Blois, Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any
the easternmost where you are in the centre of the At first Main Street" failed most beautiful thing, where I talk'ded standing in the centre of the the required information concerning to meet expectations in England. of the dew drops from the freshly hall, staring wildly at those through Sons and Dijon, the Chateaux country. Then south the" Port may be had on Its author charged the English blown roses! the nasty things made around him, and even showed middle one through Seas, Auxerre, by Chateauroux to Limoges and with a snobbish disdain of con- it from the freshly blown noses!" saveral parts of his body that and Autun to Macon, and the Brive, whence you go on still GIBB, LIVINGSTON & temporary American productions. Evidently at this period Hono-had been tattooed. He, of course, third the road branching rightfarther south till you get to Mon- Portly now have to alter lulu was not without the social attracted much curiosity, but banded from Melun to Cosae, tauban. There, if you want to go his opinion for his more recent amenities, as the following adver- what was the disappointment of Moulins, and thence to St. Elienne to Pan or Biarritz, you sura right- the assembly when M. Geoffroy and Annonay to the Rhone banded by Auch, whereas if Babbitt is meeting with much (tisement testifies:
Wmde Hillaire announced that the valley road near Valence. greater success on this side.
you want to go to the Mediter- The Westminster Gazette's
Of these three routes, over all ranean side you go on through ́ savage was a European sailor." critic notes the mounting tide
It is not possible to give of which I have travelled many foulonse to Carcassonne with PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD. of this American invasion," and
illustrations of the varied and times, I think the Jast is probably its
"flaming towers," and And to bald heads res-elegant poetry that appeared the most interesting, but travellers by Narbonne, Montpellier, and declares "it is no accident. We
week by week in the Sandwich that way should remember that Nimes to Avignon and Cannes. Are actually
tores the hair!". approximating
Gazette. Occasionally, the Col du Grand Bois, the water- The Eastern Pyreness, where nearer and nearer to the char- His services must have been in Island acteristic American viewpoint.
great request on the occasion of however, even the editor refusedshed between the Loire and the lies Vernet-les-Bains, & English readers during the the dance mentioned below: to insert the poetical effusions Rhone Valley, reaches an altitude attractive spot, are much less year just ended have shown a "Dancing," it is stated, "is the that flowed from all parts of the of over 3,000fc, at the summit, and well-known than the Western
"We are grateful for that trouble from scow may at Pyrenees." marked reversion to sentimen- order of the day (should say order Pacific. tality, to the commonplace and of the evening). A brilliant enthe contributions of Q," be any time be encountered for a dis-
There are always those who the conventional in the choosing tertainment was given on board writes, "but Mr. U. who sent us tance of about six to eight miles are in a hurry to arrive and those In addition to these routes, who like touring leisurely. If of their books, observers say. the Sulphur the other night to the The Dying Horse, can do better
residents, the Consuls, and the by sending a living one, with a which all terminate southwards you want to get to the south of Philadelphia Public Ledyer.
French officers. The elegance saddle and bridle-it would be in the Rhone Valley at some France in the minimum of time and good taste of the arrange far more acceptable." It was point between Dijon and Avignon, possible one of the new blue ments were exceeded only by the probably the general excellence there is an Alpine. road through trains to the Cote d'Azur from If you do not ride one try Pin-hilarity of the guests." That of the Sandwich Island poetry Bourg-en-Bresse to Grenoble, and Calais or Boulogne direct will kettes instead. As gently as the materials for hilarity ware that prompted the removal of athence by the Col de la Croix serve your purpose. If " you nature these dainty little laxatives not then lacking is shown by a file of the Gazette from the local Haute through Sisteron, Digne, want to take only four or five dated June 7, 1837: clab: "The individual who took, and Casteliane to Grasse, whence days by road, one of the dispel constipation, banish liver-letter
"Oo Monday evening the the file of the 8.L. Gazette from you can branch left-handed to central routes I have described ishness, sick headaches, bilicus-
Reading Rooms, will Nice and Monte Carlo or right-will suit you, joining the Rhone nees, clear the skin and purity the schooner lufani sailed for the the breath. Chemists everywhere sell island, of Kaasi; gentleman of greatly oblige the undersigned handed to Cannes and St. Raphael. Valley at some point before them, or post, free, 60 cents the this place embarked a few pack. by returning it." In any case, THROUGH A CHESTNUT FOREST. Avignon. If, on the other hand, & pleasant There is also another road to you have more time and want to vial, from The Dr. Williams ages of goods; while taking them Honolulu Medicine Co., 60 Kiangse Road, on board one of the cases was place to live in, save constant the west of the Rhone Valley, get to know France better, go
suffered to fall on the deck and disputes between the rival re-good in surface, but between Lesouth by the Alpine road which I- Shanghai.
one of the bottles which it con-ligious factions as to what con- Puy and Nimes full of twists and have described from Grenoble, or tained
in consequence, stituted the proper spiritual train-turns, and therefore not much by the western road by Limoges broken. It was immediately dis-ing for the natives. The editor used by fast traffic. Between and take three or four days longer covered by the olfactory nerves himself steered & clear course, Villefort and Alsis the road wind, on your tour. And to enjoy your of thecaptain that the unfortunate opening his columns to all viswa, along the side of a series of hills journey thoroughly take good bottle happened to contain wine! Occasionally, however, he did outlines of the Cevennes, through maps and study them.
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