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July 21st, at 5 pm,
Por full information regarding rates, space elc.
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EMBROIDERED & DRAWN WORK
YOU WILL FIND OUR STORE,
CHEAPEST AND BEST.
Swatow Drawn Work, Embroideries. Silks, Laces, Ivory, Beads & Carvings and other works of art.
PK w} NG & CŨ.
Astor House Hoti Balding
Branch HOK LONG & CO., No. 5 Phagte Street, Bangoon,
THETHONGKONG TELEGRAPE, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923.
NOTICE.
THE COWIE HARBOUR- COAL CO., LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL THE undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quality freshly mined Silimpopon Coal, trimmed into Bunkers at Sebattlk or Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contract for regular Supplies of cargo lots at favourable rates.
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Steamers calling at Sebattik or Sandakan exclusively for Bunkers are exempt from pay. ment of ordinary Port Charges The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Whari at Sebatuk is 26 feet at low water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowic Bay (Sebastik Harbour) and any required information concerning the Port may be had on application to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON &
CO. LTD..
Ascenta The Cowie Harbour' Coal Co., Ld.
NEW STOCKS, HERS OF NESTOR CIANACLIS *MOYEN SALONICA AND SIMON ARNZT Egyptian Cigarettes,
All famous brands stocked at the
GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE
11 A Queen's Road.
"For the Blood in the Life.”
DYING ACTOR IN FARCICAL COMEDY.
Last Words Spoken in Pain
Taken for Fun.
When William Rokeby, the principal comedian in a farcical comedy at the Palace Pier, Brighton, exclaimed, "I'm suffer. ing, I'm suffering," the audience, convulsed with laughter, did nel know that he was speaking the truth.
A few minutes after he left the theatre, the comedian was found dead some 15 yards from the stage door.
He was ic great agony during the performance, but pluckily refused to abandon his part.
SCARLET PIMPERNEL
OF SCIENCE, -
Inventor Who "Bluffed " French Troops.
A soientific romance of the Rabr is revealed by Mrs. Philip Snowden in a letter to the Daily Chronicle
It concerns an invention by a Gorman chemist-Dr. Hermann Wolf-by which the yield of bebzing and motor patrol from raw oils is doubled. This inven tion, it is understood, is to be ex
loited by a British firm which has recently purchased the Muni- ions Ministry's explosive store. nd refining plant near Chester. How the invention was nar rowly saved from seizure by the French is told by Mre. Snow. don
By a fragio coinotdence, Rokeby, whose own name, war William Henry Dowdesw, took the part of a railway porter So romantic has been the in- with an ambition to become a oident," she says, and so elusive. great singer, who had heard that that the inventor might well be the pathway to success in art lay called the Scientific Fimpernel. through suffering
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'I'm euffering," were the last words be uttered on the stage, and so far as is known ho did not speak again.
AROOPS BLUFFER" "From 1914 onwards Dr. Wolf had his apparatus installed, and was working towards ils perfec- tion, at Neuss, on the left bank
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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,
COPENHAGEN.
Regular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong, and returs.
Expected on or about": BANKA"
20th July
1st. August
(1684 tons) M.S. "BINTANG"
(2779 tons)
-Will leave for Bangkok
24th. July.
6th. July.
Subject to change without notion.
For further particulars please apply to
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.
Agents,
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
COPENHAGEN.
The M. S. “ BOLIVIA
will be loading for Valencia Havre, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, optional, London, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian parts, about 10th. August, 1923.
Expected on or Will leave homewardbound
On or about. July) "
of the Rhine. Owing to the ex Further Sallings →→→ igencies of the war he was unable
about.
25th. August
to obtain raw oil, so work was re- M.S. "AUSTRALIEN". (Arrived 19th tarded until recently. Soon after M.S. “JAVA”. this difficulty was overcome, however, a more formidable one M.S. sprang up in its place.
SEA MONSTER.
Recent Capture Off Florida. Miami, Fla., June 11-A 40,-
The sudden appearance of the 000 pound sea monster, caught by French troops on the bills outside Claude Nolan off Long Key on the town necessitated ita instant Saturday, after an all-day strug-dismantling. This was carried gie, has been classified by L. Lout auccessfully, but not without Mowbray, founder of the Miami Aquarium and Vice President of recourse to ruso. the New York Aquarium, as be ing of the species tynondon typeus. Mr. Mowbray said to day that the big fish was of the same species as the one captured by Captain Charles Thompson
· several years ago.
The Thompson fish was forty five feet long, but weighed only 30,000 pounds; while that captur ed on Saturday by Nolan is thirty-five feet long, 23" foot in girth, with a tail span of twelve feet.
The Nolan capture was the third largest fish to be taken in South Florida waters in recent
"In order to persuade the French troops to forgo its seizure or destruction it was deemed necessary to persuade them that the plant was nothing more in-
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teresting, or less like machine, than a boot-blacking manufacturing apparatus."
A transfer to Dusseldorf fol- lowed. Unfortunately the French followed also.
SPIRITED AWAY. "More inquiries ensued, morë investigations, more suspicion, and eventually under cover of the same tale, Dr. Wolf epirited his invention into the quiet of the
Sufferers years, another, thirty feet long Hinterland away from French
from Bad Legs, Alscesses. Ulcers. Piles. Ĝiangular Swellings, Eczema, Doils, Pimples and Eruptions, Gout, Ehecanatism, masi realise that the enly sure way to comph te and justing relief Is to free the blood of the poisonous waste matter, the one, cause of such trool Clarke's Blood Misture contains ingredients which soon over
come and expel The impurities,
that's way so thaay lasting cures trend Lo its credi
Pleasard to take.
Of all Chemista. and Stores
Refuse Substrates.
Clarke's Blood Mixture
"Everybody's Blood Purifier.".
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If the French had not ben decoived in this matter, this i vention would have been lost, and the enormous potential benefits 'n tho industry with it. Is not conclusion significant?
and weighing approximately 25-interference. 000 pounds, having been captured early in June, 1919, by Dr. H. Schlegel off Cape Sable.
Preparatione are under way to skin the fish. It has been bauled up on the shore at Lorg Key after Nolan and his associates had harpooned it and pumped fifty shots from a rifle into lbe mons- ter's body before it was eabdued. The skin, vertebrae and antrails will be held pending the arrival of experts from the American Muscum of Natural History for examination.
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Hongkong, 20th. July, 1923.
KING BUYS CANADIAN CATTLE After travelling 6,000 miles, Canadian, cattle were sold in Norwich Market recently. Som 2. 7.01 of these beasts which fotched high 7.30 prices, are to go to his Majesty's 800. estate at Sandringham,
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BY ARRANGEMENT AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE,
Alexandra Buildings.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1923.
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