P. & 0.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND) Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading for Straits, Java and Burma, Ceylon India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, B. & S. Africa, Australasia, including, New Zealand & Queensland Ports, Red Sea, Egpyt, Constantinople, Greece, Levantino Ports, Zurope, Etc.
„ÎNINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT.)
Tone
From tiong-
kong (about)
Destination
10,953 | 3 Sopt. noon. | Marsoilles & London
Marseilles & Loddon
MOREA *NOVARA
KIDDERPOKE
6,989. 10th Sept.
5,334 15th Sept.
*DEVANHA
8,155
KHYBER
9,114
NYANZA
7,023
MALWA
10,986
KASHMIR
8,985
MACEDONIA'
MONGOLIA
11,120 16,504
17th Sept. 1st Oct." 12th Oct. 15th Oct.. 29th Oct. 12th Nov.
26th Nov.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay M'ios, L'don, A'werp & Hull M'ies, L'don, A'worp & Hull Straits, Colombo & Bombay Marseilles & London "M'les, L'don, A'werp & Hull
Marseilles & London Marsollles & London
*Calls at Port Sudan. Does not carry 2nd class passengers.
Does not carry passengers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
MEDINA AZ-ZAHRA ** BRISTÓL CHANNEL
OF OLD.
A RUINED MASTERPIECE,
There was once a. Bishop of Granada who acted as Ambassa- dor at Jerusalem for the Caliph of Cordoba.
knew
CLAIM.
A BRITISH "POSSESSION." Dr. Hugh Bellat writes to the Times:
CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
THE NORWEGIAN AFRICA
AND AUSTRALIA LINE,"
$.9. “RINDA”
subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined on the 2nd Sept. at 10 a.m.. No claim will be admitted unless notified and/or to say that there was no authority application for survey made in writ- for holding that the place of collling within seven days after landing of the goods, or in any case before sign was within the jurisdiction the goods are taken delivery of and stated that the Crown did not Claims will not be recoverabls unless claim this particular part of the complete accounts are sent in within fourteen days of final discharge of vessel..
No fire insurance will be effected
From time immemorial the Bris-
The above vessel having' arrived tol Channel has been regarded as from Norway via Ports on 18th April, Calipoeakness for washing within the King's Chamberg-.e., consignees of cargo are hereby 1011- and brought him back a great within the territorial jurisdiction fed that all goods are being landed golden bath, painted inside, and of the Crown. By the judgment at their risk into the non-hazardous, a smaller one of green jaspar pro- of the Court of Appeal in the S.S. hazardous and/or extra hazardous Fagernes, reversing the decision Godowns of the Hongkang and Kow- finely carved with human figures, which the Caliph placed in his of Mr. Justice Hill, this jurisdic-loon Wharf and Godawn Co., Ltd., new Summer palace of Medication has ceased to exist. In this whence and/or from the wharves de nz-Zahra, says a Times correspon case a collision took place between livery may be obtained. "Goods" not dent. The bath has disappeared, a British and an Italian vessel cloared by the 3rd Sept, will be and so has the Palace; all that is about midwr between Ilfracombe left of it are the ruins, which are and Oxwich Head, where the dis situated about three miles to the tance from the English to the north-west of Cordoba, on the Welsh coast is about 20 ses miles, side of a hill. You leave the town The Crown, by the mouth of the by the west, pass the Barracks, Attorney-General, asked the Court cross the railway bridge to the west of the two stations, and take a path to the right after the third Kometre-stone, after passing a Frequent connections from Port Said for Passengers & Cargo to Constantinople, bridge and an inn called San Fran Pyraus, Smyras and other Levant Forts by Stasmars of the Khedivial Mail 8. 9, cisco. The artillery has requisi-Bristol Channel as being within tiered every copy of the ordnance the territorial jurisdiction of the BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
map of the district, so that precise King.
This disclaimer of jurisdiction S'pore, Penang & Calcutta directions are a necessary.
The Palace has been excavated by the Crown appears to have been by us in any case whatever. 1 S'pore, Penang & Calcutta
and described. It was berin promoted by the fear of the Ad- about 936 by Abd-ar-Rahman III. miralty that the rule of the three-ed by, the first Spanish Caliph, In mile limit would be weakened by memory of az-Zahra, the fairest extending the width of the Manila, Sandakan, Thurs. lady of his harem, or (as another fauces terrae generally accepted→→ Island, Townsville, B'bane.account has it) it was built for e.. six miles. This fear is quite az-Zahra in memory of another unfounded. The rule of six miles Sydney and Melbourne.
favourite. Columns were import-inter fauces terrae has never been ed from all parts, particularly strictly or systematically applied from Tunis, Carthage, and the by any of the Powers. In fact, eaten up by the ex- ruined cathedral, at Sfax. The the rule amber of workmen employed centions. Indeed, as Mr. Justice suggests one of those fantastic Hill declared, no one had ever problems of elementary arithmetic doubled that, within limits, inlets which, invented to train the minds of the sea into the land were part of young children, might equally of the territory of the State which
owned the land on both sides. whole science of arithmetic WUS absurd. If it took 10,000 men, 2600 mules, and 400 camels to jay 6,000 bricks a day, while the quantity of lime required, was 1,400 loads every third day, how long did the Palace take to build, and what were the hours of work?
A road carpeted with flowers. entrance to which is 17 miles; the the Godowns for examination by the
*TALAMBA 8,018 TALMA 10,000
8th Sept. 12th Sept:
*Calls at Rangoon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
TANDA
6,956 2 Sopt. 4 p.m. ST. ALBANS. 4,500. 30th Sept. ARAFURA
6,000 1
28th Oct.
Regular Monthly Sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia
T&A. 8. 8. Co., Ltd. steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Gebus Colambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other porte en ronte se inducement offers.
Frequent connectious from Australia with the following:- The Union B.B. Co's Steamers to the United Kingdom New Zealand,
Vancouver Ban Francisco, sto.
The P. & D. Royal Mail Steamers to London via Enez Canal. The P. & O. Branch Service of Steamers to Londen via the Caps.
1
The New Zealand Shipping Oc.'s Stamers or Southampion and London via well be used to prove that the Panama Canal.
*NAGFORE
KHYBER ST. ALBANS
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
5,2832 Sept. a.m. | S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko 9,1142 Sept. 5 p.m. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko 4,500 6th Sept. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yoka 10,006
6th Sept.
Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe
& Osaka 10,986. 16th Sept. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko
7,023
Shanghai, Moji & Kobe 8,985
S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko Moji, Koba, Osaka & Yoko" S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yoko" S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yoko
22nd Sept. 30th Sept. 4th Oct. 15th Oct. 29th Oct.
TILAWA
MALWA NYANZA KASHMIR
ARAFURA
6,000
MACEDONIA
11,120
MONGOLIA
16,504
TANDA
6,956
MANTUA
KASEGAR
10,946 9,005
8th Nov. 12th Nov. 26th Nov.
*Cargo only.
N
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Parcels Measuring not more than 21 ft. x 2ft. x 1ft. will be received at the Co's Offico up to noon on the day previous to sailing For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights, etc., apply to
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Agents,
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GLEN LINE.
Fare Hongkong to London £82
LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG via STRAITS & COLOMBO,
21st Motor Vessel "GLENGARRY" (Via Oran)...
Sept, 19th Oct. Motor Vessel "GLENLUCE" (Via Oran) Steamship "CARNARVONSHIRE" (Via Oran) 2nd Nov. 30th Nov. Motor Vessel "GLENTARA" (Via Oran)
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SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VLADIVOSTOCK.
Motor Vessel "GLENLUCE"
Steamship
"CARMARTHENSHIRE
Motor Vessel "GLENBEG"
"CARNARVONSHIRE"
Motor Vascal "GLENTARA"...
Steamship
27th
Due Hongkong
7th Sopt. 18th Sept. 2911: Sept. 18th Oct. Oct.
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8.8. "CITY OF EVANSVILLE"
8.S. "GLAUCUS"
via Suez Canal 8th Sept.
via Suez Canal 24th Sept.
S.S. "CITY OF BOMBAY" ...
via Suez Canal 9th Oct via Suez Canal 23rd Oct. vis Suez Canal 6th Nov.
S.S. "THESEUS"
.8.8. "CITY OF EASTBOURNE"
Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at owner
option.
Subject to Change without notice.
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BTEAMAN
TAIPING
CHANGTE TAIPING
CHANGTE
DE HONGKONG ON OR ABOUT
'11th October
6th September
8th November
9th December
BAILA MENON ON OR ABOU1.
13th September
18th October 15th November 16th Decomber
For Freight & Passage, apply to-BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE) Tel. 0.-38,
Agents.
(were they the huge Mediter ranean pines which still grow in numbers on the slopes of the Sierra?) led from Cordoba to the entrance of.
Other Instances.
Bills of Lading will be countersign-
THORESEN & CO., LTD.,
Agents,
Hongkong, August 27, 027.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
From EUROPE and STRAITS.
The Steamship,
"TOYOOKA MARU,"
having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby in. formed that their Goods are being fanded and placed at their risk in the As instances of claims to terri-Godown Company's Godowns at Kow. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and torial jurisdiction over land-lock-toon, whence delivery may be obtain- ed waters the entrances to whiched, exceed six miles and which are not challenged may be cited the 1927, will be subject to rent. French claim to Cancale Bay, the
Goods not cleared by the 5th Sept.
Damaged packages must be left in
All claims must be presented
No claims will be admitted after tho goods have left the Godowns.
Norwegian claim to the Varanger
the tives on any Tuesday and Fridays, at Flord, which is 32 miles;
the free storage Swedish claim to Laholm Bay, 2.30 p.m. within which exceeds 12 miles; the Bri-period tish claim to Conception Bay, this sumptuous which is 20 milés; to Hudson Bay. within ten days of the steamer's Palace. When the Caliph passed one entrance to which is appro-arrival hero, after which date they by: the sunny parts of the road ximately 100 miles; to the Bay of cannot be recognized."
Chaleurs, which opens into the were shaded by awnings of searles Gulf of St. Lawrence through a silk. Through a marble gateway in a high wall he entered a court passage 16 miles wide; and to yard, on one side of which were Miramich: Bay, which is separated by a passage from the same gulf tree doorways with pointed ar- ches. Over the middle door the of 141⁄2 miles. So, too, the United States have successfully assert:d Caliph, disregarding the Prophet's injunction, or the representation their claim to include in their of the human figure, had caused territorial waters Chesapeake Bay, a statue of the favourite to be which is 18 miles: Cape Cod Bay, placed: within, the corridors and which is 32 miles; Monterey Bay le corridor and which is 19 miles, as well as other passages seemed
inlets of a similar kind. Belves in the distance.
A "Soint House.".
To suggest, therefore, that there
VICISSITUDES OF THE HAMSTER.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN ZOOLOGY.
No fire insurance has been effected.
NIPPON FUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, August 29, 1927.
manoeuvres
One hundred and twenty-six) French army tanks were prevent- ed from leaving for by a burglar, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by court-martial at Besancon. The culprit, a private soldier named Lucien Moußer, broke into the
1927.
NYKLINE
THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES.
$120, 6112, £110 £102 £83 via SAN FRANCISCO. ·
G$440 G$420 via JAPAN & SEATTLE. SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Porta & Honolulu
*Koros Maru *..........
Shinyo Maru
Siberia Maru ...
Tuesday, 6th Sept. noon. Tuesday, 20th Sept noon. Tuesday, 4th Oct..
*Calla Los Angelos, Omitting Honolul. LONDON via Singapore, Suer, Marseille & Ports.
Kamo Maru ... Katori Maru ....
Atsuta Maru.
Saturday, 10th Sept. at 11 a.m. Saturday, 24th Sept. at 11 a m. Saturday, 8th Oct,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
BOMBAY via Singapore &, Colombo.
Sado Maru
SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles Mexico & Panama Anyo Maru
SOUTH AMERICA (EAST COAST) via Singaporo,
Capetown & Ports. Kawachi Maru
!
Tango Maru
Wednesday, 21st Sept..
Aki Maru
Wednesday, 19th Oct.
Saturday, 10th Sept.
Thursday, 29th Sept.
Tuesday, 6th Sept.
Sunday, 11th Sept.
Lima Maru
Friday, 21st Oct.
Moji Maru
Saturday, 3rd Sept.
Friday, 16th Sept.
Friday, 2nd Sept.
Monday, 5th Sept.
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON vi■ PANAMA. -
Takotoyo Maru
LIVERPOOL via Singaporo, Colombo, Port Said & Ports.
L++
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
Aki Maru
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
Coylon Maru (Moji Direct)... Kashima Maru
Osaka Maru (Moji Direct).
Hakone Maru
For further information apply to:-
Sunday, 11th Sept.
Monday. 19th Sept.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Tal. Central Nos. 292, (private exchanges to all Depta.)
KP
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M. V. "CREMER"
||
will be despatched on 1st September.
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Detectives of the special branch Communist agent. When arreste is no authority for the Britianahed in which the tanks were of Scotland Yard arrested in Lon-ed the woman is said to have In the eastern part of the Palace claim to the Bristol Channel is housed by means of a skeletor key don recently an attractive young stated that she would return to stood a small domed "saint-grotesque. Mr. Justice Hill's deand stole the essential parts of woman who had failed to take England as soon as possible in de- house" or so it seemed at first. cision was in line with the prin- the magnetos from every one of notice of two warnings given her fiance of the police. She was It had a high, vaulted roof, adorn- ciples and practice of interna-the 126 tanks, selling them to a by the police to leave the country. taken by two detectives the next rut inside with reliefs and mosai tienal law and supported by pre garage proprietor in Paris by She was taken to Cannon-row morning to Harwich, where she on a ground of, blue and gold.vious decisions of the English whom he had been employed. The Police Station, Westminster. The was put on board a banding In the middle stood a fountain Courta based upon the commtheft was discovered next day woman, Marie Zentiva, who is for the Hook of Holland, Her
law. of porphyry, from which rose a golden statuette of the favourite, while round the walls ran a carved wooden frieze in which one word was indefinitely repented. This was a confession of faith; but it was faith, not in a most merciful God but in a most beautiful dy, for the word was not "Allah" but "az-Zahra." There was no prayer niche; the space was filled
Budapest: It is reported that by a gigantic couch on which the hamster-tranners on the edge the Commander of the Faithful of the Hungarian plain have sent might repose at that season of the petition to the Ministry of year when "it was always after- Agriculture, begging that steps a wron" season which lasts for taken to secure the artificial pro-- some months at Cordoba. A-pagation of the hamsters, as there other sleeping apartment consist+1|is every likelihood that these of a courtyard, and the pavilions rodents will shortly become ex- were supported by columns of tinet in the district. The hams- rock-crystal, and in the middle ter is a larger variety of the there was a basin of green jaspar mouse, distinguished from his with fantastic decoration in gold poor relation by having cheek- and precious stones-the same, pouches in which to carry grain to perhaps, which" the Bishop of his winter quarters. Granada had brought back from Hamster-trapping only develon- Jerusalem for the Caliph, while fed into a popular industry last not for away stood a huge black year, when some fur-dealers from basin 6lled with quicksilver which sparkled in the sun.
when orders were given for the known under several aliases in photograph and description have tanks to be taker out. The gar-this country, was arrested in her been sent to special police officers age keeper is to be tried by civil studio in Fulham Palate-road, at the ports with instructions to court for receiving stoler. goods. S.W. She is suspected of being arrest her should she return.
All this, the Palace and its dependencies, the enchanted gar dené which at certain seasons of the year were heavy with the scent
Leipzig visited those parts of Bihar which remain to Hungary, and bought up all the hamster skins they could find for next to nothing. The inhabitants were informed that Hamster fur fą to be the
of orange-blossom, ko Cordovan coming "craze" in America, and gardens to-day-all this was de- the Germans declared that they hundred thousand troyed within 50 years of its com required a pletion by fanatical Berbers (or, skins, and would pay three or four as others say, by Catalan mer- times as much for each skin cendries) who formed part of the in future.. army of an exiled Caliph strug- This offer dazzled the inhabit- gling to regain the throne of his ents of Bilar, and there was an in- ancestors. Efforts were made to stantaneous rush of unemployed rebuild it; but it was destroyed dairymen, bankrupt shopkeepers, again, once and for all, in 1025, and State employées dismissed and the ruins became eventually under the reconstruction scheme a quarry for Jeronymite monks.. to stake out claims on the land, The excavations carried out by where they proceeded to bait and Senor Velazquez Bosco have reset minute wooden traps. The vealed broken slabs of priceless farmers were jubilant at being marbles, reservoirs, and the re- rid of one of their most hated mains of a fine aqueduct, primi- pests, and expert trappers fot tive ornamentation painted in red which Balmazujvaros alone con- ochre in the ruined corridors, tertains over a hundred) were able racotta encrusted in grey stone to earn from seventeen to eighteen (as in the mosque down in the pengo a day.
The success of the hamster- town), and pieces of pottery with
a metallic lustre. But everything trappers in securing the males of has been broken, as if deliberate-the species has been so great that ly, into the smallest possible frag: they are now faced with the pro- ments, and the most obvious parts bable extinction of their quarry of the ruins are the drains. and the loss of their employment.
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E.S. "CITY OF PERTH"
AUSTRALIA
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4th November.
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to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and von VERSA. -
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BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE..... AKERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
8.8. "CITY OF EVANSVILLE" 8.8. "CITY OF BOMBAY
S.8. CITY OF EASTBOURNE"
via Suez Canal
vin Suez Canal
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SERVICES TO
via Suez Canal
From Hongkong
ป.
BOSTON & NEW YORK
S.S. "OLIVEBANK”. MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
'S.S. "TINHOW"
CO,
8th September. 9th October. 6th November.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE 27th September.
'OEIENTÁL AFRICAN EINE 25th October,
Landing for Mauritius, Delagoa Bay, Durbat, East London, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), Mossel Bay 'nd
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