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MILK COCKTAILS.
Hint to Those Who Want to Drink.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1924.
AURORA BOREALIS STRANDED CROCODILE.
Norwegian Professor's
..Discovery.
П tonuous
Walks Through Jungle and
Forest.
NOTICE
NOTICE
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE.
Bowls of bread and milk will Until now there has boon no
TE.is ho eby given that bo Borved instead of cocktails as satisfactory explanation for the Pitman in Blackwood are am-Ewo Cotton Mills Ltd, in the Crocodiles (says Captain C.R.S. Į scrip No4 2. for 300 shares, a proliminary to the well thought phonomenon known as the Aurora phibious, and often make long name of Mr. Ezra Abraham of out banquet of the future.
Careful diners out will be seen For a long time they were regand from choice,, but from force of oxcouted transfor deed purporting Boralis or the Northern Lights journeys on the dry land, not Hongkong together with a duly drinking big glassos of milk at as the spectra of a hypothetical circumstances. I am quito sure to assign the said shares has the bar before they move towards gas, the table where the red and white hydrogen and bellum, which was who are, wall acquainted with
mixture. of that but few of the people been lost. bubbly temptations await thom.
The said shares aro' the pro- assumod to oxist in the upper those orcatures realise that when party of the undersigned and That le, if they take the official atmosphere. This gas was called moving on land they do not application has been duly madeMay, 1924, at NOON for the pur and State-aided hint given in goocoronium hoca uso the spoc-crawl along with bellies on the to the Company for the issue of "Alcohol. Its Action on the trum bore a close resemblance to ground, but move at a sort of a duplicato scrip Human Organism," drawn up by the spectrum of the sub'e corona, waddling run, just like the large the Advisory Committee of the
The public is therefore warned Central Control Bourd, and pub Beguri, Professor of Physics at bodies right off the ground and shares without reference to the In the winter of 1912 Lara desert monitors or iguanas with against dealing with the said lished at Is. by his Majesty's tho University of Christianis, legs nearly straight, and this undersigned. Any person having. Statlandry Oflice. A now and madó oblarged edition has just beon investigation foto the Northern pearance. The tail slono drags abouts of the said scrip is asked special photographie gives them rather a comical ap-any knowledge us to the whore-
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After it has been pointed out that on the extent and rapidity of the absorption of alchol into the blood depends its action, the milk hint is given thus:
was
Meat was found to have only a very slight influence in retarding absorption.
CAUSE OF JOVIALITY,
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- ING of the Society will be held at its Head Office, Union Build: ing, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 16th nose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statemonta of Account to 31st. Docambor, 1923, and of doolaring Dividenda atcotora.
THE "RANSFER BOOKS of May 2nd to May 16th, both days tho Society will be closed from
By Order of the Board,
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General Manager. Hongkong, 20th April 1924.
conclusion that the pale blue and is soft leaves a track, which is igned.
came to the on the ground, and when the oil to communicate with the underclusivo.
ELLIS & CO., Share and Gonoral Brokers,
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violet rays wore due to nitrogon not unlike that made by a native that was being bombarded by plough. A friend of mine who electric rays unitted by the sun. Was
keun sportsman and darker greep line for which he credit many years of experience Hongkong; 9th. April, 1924. But the spectrum also had a naturalist, and who had to his was unable to necount,
mado
CONSIGNEES.
fron'
above
Alcohol swallowed within 21 hours of a ment of milk or of bread and milk was absorbed
In the Chanda jungles of the more slowly and reached a lowor
About a year ago he again took Contral Provinces told mo, that level in the blood, tiran
up his investigations and received
ho. onco actually mot M observed under any other ex-Government which enabled him dry weather, and that it was evi a subsidy from the Norwegian rocodile in the hourt of the perimental conditions.
forest at tho ond of the to carry out some vory elaborate dently making its way back to "ucceeded in identifying at least the plough-like track made by the and expansive research. Ho
wator. He noticed particularly NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES thirty out of thirty-five lines in the tail, with the quite unmistakable SERVICES CONTRACTUELS Why people get jovial at ban-petras being due to nitrogen, footprints on either side, though I quets is thus explained:
No that the geucuronium theory have no doubt that these tracks
DES MESSAGERIES. Alcohol undoubtedly dinini-that the green ling reached its would puzzlo' most peoplo, and could be abandoned. He found
MARITIMES. shes the control of the intellect greatest intensity nearest the possibly result in their conjuring The Steamship und the will over the emotions, earth but its true nature remained the vision of some fearsome and it appears not improbable that
"AMBOISE "* this passing phase of excitement
a mystery.
probistoic monster. On anothor may be sufficiently accounted for nitrogen gas of sufficient density from the nearest ry, though this occasion ho came across a similar
Consignees of Cargo As be could not conceive that track in the jungle many miles Marseilles, &c. by exciting iniluonnos of the could exist at such a height as to time he did not see the boust Steamer aro horoby informed that
In connection with onvironment, the jovial company. the bright lights, the unrestrained produce a luminosity so brilliant itself.
as the Borealis, he he came to:
their goods with the exception of talk and song, the genoral sense the conclusion that the nitrogen like this. In the rainy season, are being landed and stored at bf festivity which are the common
What happens is something plum, Treasure and Valuables solting of the foust. What is there was not present in the form of a whoh the large rivers are in high thoir risks into the Godowns of about alcohol that, in the words of as but in the form of a tine dust flood, the crocodite finds life rather the Hongkong. Kowloon Wharf this book constitute "tho secret
up of infinitesimally minute hard. There is an abundance of and Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloon Its charm, its well-nigh universal Crystalline particles that were water everywhere, and the game whence delivery may be obtained attraction for the human race kept suspended by electric char: neither comos to the rivers to immediately after landing.
It is that it gives a sense of ges. The temperature ono careless well-being or of bodily surface of the earth approaches the islats or
two hundred miles above
or drink, nor does it any longer le Optional Cargo will be forwart - the up in the luxuriant cool grass on od on unless intimation is recolt- and mental comfort" :--
"In so far. as this sense of
tho absoluto zero-that is to say, river-bod. It is true that putrid noon to-day requesting it to be in the low-lying ed from the Consignoos before ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷È+=+=+=+▪▪▪▪well-being is of bodily origin, it is 273 dog C. In such a tampera- carcasos como floating down the landed hero.
no doubt due to a lushing of the tre tenuous nitrogen would con- river; but they are often faw and skin with blood that abolishes all denso inta crystals such as those very far between, while unless signed by the Undoraigned. Goods Bills of Lading will be counter. imagined by Bogard, senso of chill,
But it is due also in part to a To find confirmation of his or hold stationary
actually caught up in drift-wood romaining unclaimed after the blunting of the sonsibility to the tentativo assumptions, Bogard waters, they are more likely subjoot to
in back 19th. May 1924 at Noon will be small aches and pains and a tried to reproduce artificially the to
and lading. thousand hardly distinguishable conditions on which they were Women may also occasionally be
bo missed than captured, obarges,
All claims must be sent in sonse-Impressions which, except based. He went to Leyden and seized when filling their water to me on or before the 22nd. inst. in those in perfect health, con- worked in the famous laboratory pots, but, again, this is also a very or they will not be recognized. tribute to tip the balanco of of the Dutch scientist, Heike precarious method of existance, All damaged packages will Pe bodily fooling-tone to the Kamerlingh Ounes, a winner of besides which human beings also examined on Monday the 19: negative or unpleasant side. Nobel Prize, who in the your 1903 are not easy to obtain when the May 1924 at 10 a.. by Messre.
There is a stage in drunkenness, succeeded in liquefying helium at river is in flood,
Goddard & Douglas. it is remarked, whom the mana temperature of 271.95 degree C. lends a double life-"his innor,
No Fire Insurance has boon In consequence, the crocodilos Nitrogon fronzes ut minua 210 begin to make their way up
Effected. solf, a dotuched observar with degreo C. With the help of liquid tributary streams and nullahs, folded hands, watches his bodily hydrogon Begard was able to renol which are dry at uthor_seasons, factions-not-seldom-with-surprise, this temperature, and produced a but which during the monsoon consternation or amusement. Ha thin plate of solid nitrogen. "Ho load them far inland to loonlities may become aware of wearing subjected this plate to cathode where they have a better chance facial expressions, of making rays of varying swiftness, and of capturing game. The crocodilo gesturos, or of uttering remarks found that with a cortain swift-thon takes up his abode in some which he did not intond and cab-nose the spectrum was indentical favourablo spot whore be doos not wholly repress, but which with that of the Northern Lights. not have to go hungry, and pos- soom to him to be executed by Even the green line, which may sibly later on discovers that the mombers of thoir own now be taken as characteristic of nullah ho is living in is fast initiativo.
the solid nitrogen spectrum, was drying up. His next move is]
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