PACIFIC MAIL
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
MANAGING AGENTS
UNITED STATES "SHIPPING BOARD.
TRANS-PAcific seRVICE
FAST NEW
AMERICAN STEAMERS TO
SAN FRANCISCO ·
via
SHANGHAL KOBE, YOKOHAMA, & HONOLULU.
**PRESIDENT- WILSON'
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
TIME-TABLE.
(From 1st June, 1923-)
FRIDA JULY 6, 1923.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM.. NAVIGATION CO. LTD.-
per
Company's
"AUTOLYCUS“'
that the
-WHITE ANTS."
build the nest, gather the food and do most of the work of the Notes On a Tropical Pest.
community. Amongst the workers may be seen a few of a different The following are extracts from shape, with longer bodies, large an article in the Juno "Silver beade and enormous jaws These Wolf" by Mr. R.W. Barney, are the soldiers. Although they which should interest a wider are blind their jaws make them pable
formidible creatures and they
During the month of May and have a strange habit of jerking Jung we are all annoyed by the their bodies when alarmed which flying white ante or termites gives them a threatening ap which come up.from the ground pearance. In some species the in vast numbers on still, warm solders secrete a little drop of are hereby notified
by the fluid from their mouths which Cargo will be discharged inte nights and, attracted Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, whore tights, a great many enter our they eject at the enemy, reminding will lie at Consignees' risk and
houses usually choosing the din-us of the use of poison gasi subject to torms and conditionsner hour to pay their call
THE KING AND QUEENS, of storage at Holt's wharf. The
On the 1st June this year there As well as the Soldiers, Cargo will be ready for delivery was an enormous fight of large Workers, and Winged forms, from Godown on and after 5th wbite ants in the University each nest posserres
& single July.
grounds, It was very wat day, king and queen, whlob live in a practically the first real rain we special royal cell. The queen is had had for the year and the more a monstrous creaturs two or it rained the more the termites ibree inches in length and of a
wesh Days.
Sundays.
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LOW FARES TO EUROPE
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£120
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every 10 min
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4,00
4.90
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15 min
6,30
10 min
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6.40
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6th
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ה
11.45
18 mix Stopping.
Special Cara.
BY ARRANGEMENT AT THR COMPANY'S OFFICE,
Hongkong, 1st June, 1923.
Alexandra Buildings.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,
COPENHAGEN.
Regular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok,
Hongkong, and return. Expected on or about .. Will leave for Bangkok
9th. July
14th. July:
M.S.BINTANG
(2779 tons)
July 9165 p.
9. S.
"BANKA" (1684 tone)
17th July
Por full information regarding rates, space etc.
APPLY TO :-
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP GOY.
1st. FLOOR QUEEN'S. BUILDING HONGKONG, Canton Agents.
Cable Address. Tel. Central 141.
Solano
3322. Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd.
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PURE
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when the doctor prescribes
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THE PHARMACY
The 204 Bldg Opposita les House 21-
For further particulars please apply to:-
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Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prici to eteamer's arrival.".
"
All brokon, chafed, and damaged to enjoy it. I first dead white colour Hot head ed goods are to be left in the noticed them at about 4 o'clock and body are small but her tail Godowns, where they will be in the afternoon fluttering about is swollen out like a balloon.. examed on any Tuesdays and close to the ground in small num-Bor sale duty is egg laying, Fridays, between the hours of bera As the evening came on and she will produce more than 10.45 8.m. and noon within the their numbers incrassed and they 80,000
eggs a day. She is free storage period..
rose higher and higher in the air, attended by a number of slavos No claims will be admitted in spite of the hoovy rain, until who fead hor, clean her and after the Goods have left. the the whole sky seemed to be alive carry away the eggs as fast as steamer's Godown, and all Goods with them as far as I could ase. they are laid. remaining undelivered after the It was a surprise that insects The king is more normal in; 11th July, will be subject to could attain euch a height and the queen the blessing of an with such feeble fluttering flight shape, but appears to share with rent.
All Claims against the Steamer remain So long in the air, unusually long life, It is probable" must be presented to the under. especially as it was raining so that the royal pair live three or signed on or before the 25th beavily the whole time. Their four years. The termites always July, or they will not be numbers seemed to be endless keep a number of reserve royal- | recognised.
giving the appearance of a re- ties, ie young forms which No Fire Insurance will be gular snowstorm.
are capable of rapidly developing effected.
into kinge or queens. If the queen dies her place is taken by several of those Tosarvo royal- ties, which are then termed "substitution royalties".
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta. Hongkong. 5th. July, 1923.
NOTICE.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL
One wonders.what becomes of all these flying tormites. For a while they disport themselves round an electric light and then if they oecaps the soup plato they light upon the table cloth A, dozen or more substitution where they race about for queena are necessary at first to few minutes and then discard produce the number of egge their wings. This is not done by required to keep the coloay (oon. accident but deliberately along sisting of millions of individuals) special line of weakness near the up to strength. As their fortility hase of the wing. In this wing- increases the extra queons ara less condition they chase ona killed off. another in and out among the dishes in twos and threes and finally disappear. Next morning there are a few wings blowing about but nothing is to be scen of fortnight in the summer, and of them? Vast numbers are no found all the furniture destroyed, their owners. What has become when the owners returned they doubt devoured by birds, bats, and nothing but the enamel or the lizards. The birds sometimes outside baing left. When dle
an covered the attack may be gorge themselves to such extent with white ants that they checked and ofton the whole cannot alose their bills. Termites nest destroyed by taking some appear to be very tasty morsels of the white ants, grinding
Describing the damage done by these creatures Mr. Barney states:-1 heard of one case where a bouse was closed up for
23rd. July. Subject to change without notice.THE undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quality freshly mined Silimpopon JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Coal, trimmed to Bunkers at
Agents.
Sebatlik or Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contract for regular Suppues of cargo lots at favouranle rates.
Swamers calting, at Sebattik nd in some countries are eagerly their bodies up with arsenic, Sandakan exclusively for eaten by the natives. They are and leaving the mixture said to be sweet and delicious as in the place where they are work Bunkers are exempt from pay well as highly nutritious. Those ing. The dead bodies are cagerly. Imant of ordinary "Port Charg08, The minimum draft of water after losing their wings creep into die of poisoning. Their bodies that. oecape being devoured, devoured by their comrades, who alongside the loapany's Wharf oracks and boles avoiding the are devoured in turn and so the ́at Sébattik is 26 feet at low water light which previously attracted poison is passed on from one to Spring Tide Charts of Cowls them. Here no doubt the vast Bay (Sebacks tarbour) and any majority perish, but it is believed required ique nation concerning that a few pairs more fortunate the Port ty ha had On
than the rest survive and "com. application t
mence new colonies.
COPENHAGEN.
The M. S. “PANAMA
will be loading for Valencia. Hayre, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, optional; London, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian ports, about 14th. July 1923.
Expected on or
Will leave for above Dorte on or about.
Further Sailings :-
S.S. "BOLIVIA'
about. 12th. July M.S." AUSTRALIEN" 19th."July M.S. "JAVA"
M.S. "AFRIKA
25th. August 10th. September
M.S." CHILE"...... 10th. October
1:
17th. August
30:h. August
30th. September
10. October
16th November.
Subject to change without notice.
Wor further particolars please apply to:-
Hongkong. 6sh. July, 1923.
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LT";
Agents.
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NESTS OF WHITE ANTS, Ia Hoogkong the termites take their nests underground in dome-shaped holos which they
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