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STEAMER DISABLED.

TYPHOON NEAR GUAM,

STEERING GEAR DISABLED.

the

WEATHER REP

Sept 163

decreased considerably, ayer

depresion being central in the vicin of Tokio gît has decreased elsewhere Gradients are shallow over the major portion of the ares.

Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon on September 17th

A Tokyo dispatch to the Asahi says O.S.K. "Busbu-maru" (4,000 tons) was amuch knocked about Hongkong Rainfall for the 36 hours in a typhoon new, Guam on the 26th soding at 10 am.. to-day, 0·00 însă. affiro, when she was on the way to

Total atnes January Ink -90-67 inches, Australia from Yokohama. Her steer-akalast an average of 21-43 inches. Ing gear was disabled and she drifted for four days and nights. At last she managed to reach port, however, and is now under repair. It is uncertain whether the ship can pursue her jour- ney to Australia. Mr. Normura, the Head of South Seas Department, is quoted by the Osaka journal as con- finning the reWS The steamer, he says, was loaded with timber, corton yarn, provisions, etc.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS AND PASSENGERS.

VESSELS DUE

L-Hongkong 好 Gap Rock Westerly or variable winds, moderate; fir..

No. 1.

-Formosa Channel. The same - 14:

1-South coast of China between Hongkong and lanacks. The same se

Hongkong and Hainan, The same as -South coast of Chim between

No. 1.

No. 1.

2STÄL 43SERTATORY, HONGKONG, DALY WHETHER

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991-1

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17 CORONET

TONIGHT

at 6.15 & 9.15 p.m.

THURSDAY September 18

and Australia Per NIKKO

·MABU.

FRIDAY September 17.

Par GREGORY APCARS SUNDAY, September 19.

Sapan and Shanghai-Per YOKOELMA

MARU Bombay Pee SHINI MARU.

1748

PROW SHANGHAL

51

Sept. 19-B: F.

City of Dunkirk."

Mentor. Ajax.

Station.

Stentor.

Doners

Teiresias

Telamon.

Barometer

Jon Loral,

Temperature.

Vidivostock £32

20.-B. F.

-B. F

Oct. 7.-B. F.

34.—P. & Q 18-R F. 30.-B. F.

Nor. 1.-B. F.

&-B F.

A-B. F. 15.-B. F. 22-B. F. Dec. 5.-B. F.

G-R. F.

13-B. F.

19.-B. F..

Keemun

Helenus

Elpenon

Atrens.

Pyrrhus

Tokio Kochi

Antilochus

Hakodate

29.49

23.67 29.75

Kagashima. – 1973

Sagasski...

Oshima..

Bonin Island

39.50

Wind.

Humidity,

Direction

Foron

Weather.

THURSDAY September 15. *Swatow, "Shanghai, "and" "North Chins

-Per CHOYHANG, 3 pm:

Philippine Islands Fer 10B, 5pm Hubow and Parte-Fee KAM SING

-FRIDAY: September Java and Port Moresby

Par BORSKO MAHU, 9 A.DES- Japan via Nagasaki. Hoooiniu, Canada, United States, Central and South America- & *FUROPE » SAN FRANCISCO Per PERSIA MARU. Begistration: 9-m Letter 9m

Japan via Nagsinki - Fer. NIKKO

MARU, 10 am.

Straits and Bangkok-Por MELVILLE

DOLLAB, 11 am

Java and Fort Moresby ris Batavia

Per

THE WING ON CO., LTD.Banskok, Carlon, Mauritips,

Orestes Meinwon. Demodocus

53.80

29.75

29.67

Phones 188 & 193.

FROM JAPIX.

Wdhafwei .: 599.88 Bankow

Sept 19-N, Y, K,

·Fokohama Maru... Lyacon. Tinda Ebiva

Klokang

Shanghai

18+ F 2-B. I. 4. 23.—P. & Q. · -24-E. & A. Oct. 2-E. & A.

£-B. F. 7-P 0. 7-B. 1. A -B. F. 9.-B. I. A.

18.-B. F.

1.-P. $0.

*.-F.&O."

30.-E. & A. 30.-B. F. 31.-B. F.

NOT, B. F.

11.-P. & 0. 15.-P. & 0. 22.-B. F.

Dec. 8--B. E

Estowna St. Albans, Eatypylus Nuntia.

Terilla

Changaba »

Jutla

Sharp Pk...

Amoy 8

Talbot

Gregory Apear. Titan.

Taichu

Tainsa **,

Koel

Peleus-

Pescadores.

Kashgar.

Canton

28.78

Alipore.

Eengkong.

Easters. Jason.

Gap Rock

Agapenor." Idomenens. Novara Nellore. Telemachus. Agapenor.

FROM MANILE.

Oct. 10.-B. F.

Tercer.

FROM BOMBLY.

Sept. 19.-N. T. K. Oct. 1.-P. & 0.

2-P.&O.

Ship-i Maru Allpore..

Duners.

FROM GILGUTTA.

Sept 17.-B. LA.

19-B. İ. A.

-N. 1. K.

Gregory Apear. Torilla.

Kirin Maru.

FROM JAYA.

Sept. 18-J.CJ.L

20.---J.C.JL

Tjisendari. fjimancek.

FROM MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY,

Sept. 25-4.0.

Oct. 12--E. & Á..

Changsha Eastern

FROM SAN FRANCISCJ.

Sept. T. K. K.

Korea Mar

FROM SEATTLE.

Sept. 27 -B. F. Nov. 4.-B. F. 23-B. F. Dec. 19.-B. F. Jan. 6.-B. Y.

24.-B. F. Feb. 14.-B. F.

Syndarëve, Txion. Talthy bins. Tyndareas.

Tencet. Ixion. Talthybien

FROM LOS ANGELES,

Oct. 19.-LAP. Vinita Nov. 1L A. P.A. Wat Bizon. Dee. L-LA.P.F. West Moatop.

FROM LONDON.

Sept. 2.-B. Ise.

20-N, Y. K 10-P. & !!.. 29.-N. I. E. Oct. 2-G. L

11- P.&O.

—P. & O

BERATOD. Inaba Maru, Kashgar. Kitabo Maru Gleniffer. Novars -Fellore.

FROM LITERPOOL

*

Wachow. B2, Pakboi! Edito Fralien B Tounas.

C. St. James " Aparri 62 Dagupan... Kanila Legsapf.. Tacloban...

Bollo

Surigao

199.78

29.75

Game.

Cabuan..

$25.76

T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

Hongkong Obscrvatory, Sept. 16, 1820. 1. BAROMETER, reduced to 31 degrees Fabrenheft, on the level of the oes in

isches, tenths and hundredths.

1. TZAFIRATUR, in the shade in de crtas Fahrenheit.

1. Humor, in percentage of catura. dou, the humidity of de estarstod with

moisture being 100

DIRECTION OF WID, to two points. 6. For of WINE, according to Beadford Scale

HONGKONG EMPORIUM.

Phones 196 & 198.

PORTRAITS TAKIN A YOUR HOME.

For Ordinary Portraits-Special Home ortrait Grader Camera is used. Artistic Diffused Focus Pictures-Tilen by "Terito" Diffosed Focus Lense All Kinds of Fhotography Undertaken Prices Moderate. HIROSE STUDIO, Japanese Photographers. Telephone 3078.

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THE NEW SAIL SHIPS.

AUXILIARY ENGINES.

SUPREMACY OF CDẠI CHALLENGES.

#3, Praya East.

CRIMINAL A SPORT.

A SPECULATIVE BUSINESS.

LOATHING FOR WHINING.

of a sport. I mean the man-be he The professional criminal is a bit burglar, thief, or swindler who gets his living by crime alone.

Sailing ships, have ever beer the delight of sea artists. What marine picture would be complete without a sailing vessel, its sails either hanging With him crime is a sort of speca- idly by the masts, unstirred by the lative business. He may be caught wind; or billowed out to fullest extent and sent to prison very often, or he by a gale which seems to be driving may by chance or cleverness succeed the ship at breakneck pace through in evading trouble. His capital is his foaming seas?

writs, and be accepts the return on

Of course, there are sailing ships his capital, whether it be good or ill, and sailing ship. There is the sprit with philosophic calm. sail barge with its home on the

Thames Estuary and the shallow waters of the Essex coast, doing really wonderfully efficient service owing to its ease of handling and the smallness of its necessary crew.

Then all around the British coast;

danger to society and well merits He knows he is a pest and a grave every day of his sentence, which is frequently far too short.

ין

Yet he bears no ill will to the police. His business is to commit

as well as in the "home trade" me. The business of the police is to catch-if they can. He has a limits that is, between the United) Kingdom and the Elbe and Brest-eat contempt for the casual cri- one finds comfortable ketches and form of crime just for the sake of a minaba man who commits any saucy schooners everywhere, 'while]

6. STATE OF Wrata, b blue sky, big felrigged ships, 1,000 to (a)pot of beer or sheer devilment.

istached cloud, il drizzling rain, flog gloomy, h hall, I lightning, o overcast pasting showers, aquall, rain, mow thunder visibility w dew, wi 7. Bam in Inches tenths and hup iredits.

HONGKONG TIDES.

The tide table_diven below has been complied at the National Almanac Office in London from the result of the analysis observations taken by means of an automatic tide-recording machine in the Water Police Basin at Tsim Sha Te

Iuring the years 1905-8.

The zero of the table corresponds with the sero of the wounding in the Admiralty Geart which has been found to be test

inches below mean sos-leral

5,000 tonners, sail the main has an absolute loathing for the Above all, the professional criminal Australia, South America, and to the whining individual who pleads for mercy because he has "been, over the top."

very ends of the earth,

These are the days of economy, Irresistible circumstances are com

More often than not he has never pelling us to practise this unattrac been in the fighting Line. He is just tive virtue whether we will or not a coward seeking refuge in the hero's Sailing vessels stand for economy in

treach. Hundreds of professional charges, economy in carrying cap the war, so they know. prime cost, economy in transpon Criminals served with distinction in city, economy in manning, economy "It's all right, governor, it's a fair in "life."

Practically all the smaller sailing The assurance comes readily vessels are built of wood British is up. He gives the police no trouble, from the man who knows the game oak mainlyand "the wooden walls and, after a clean fight in the dock of England" are to-day as durable for a verdict of not guilty, takes his as ever. For instance, the average punishment-or his freedomas a life of a steel ship is some 21 year, matter of course.

To obtain the depth of water on the but that of a British-built wooden dde gauge at the Victoria Naval Yard add 3 feet 4 inches, and yo the gauge Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 feet 4 inches to the height given in the table

Ther. 15

Bet

September 18 to 22, 1930.

Hia WATER

Hongkong

Mean Height

LOW WATEL

Hongkong

HONGKONG REGISTER.

~NLK. N Mazo.

10-N.Y. Kamakura 10,BF

on September September 1

zulla fo-day

Baroccter

Temperature Haridity Direction of Wind...

West

day

How

ship is nearer 50 years, and the war speaking generally, a violent man, Nor is the professional criminal, saw not a few in service that has He does not carry firearms. If he reached nearly the "allotted span assaults a police officer it is not of three score years and ten.

It naturally follows, then, that if a solely with a view to getting away.

with the object of injuring him, but ship's prime cost is low, and that after a quarter of her life has gone raided post offices and at the point Some time ago armed ruffians she stands in the books at nothing of the revolver robbed defenceless she must be in a position to transport girls. goods economically.

The professional. 'criminals

the game.

South Africa, India via Dhanushkodi, Bombay and ADEN-Per DULWARK, 11am Straite, Bangkok, Calcutta and ADES-

KUMSANG, Noon..

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Per HAI-

LOONG, 1 p.m.

Philippine Islands-Per LOONGSANG,

1 pm

Shanghai and North China- Por

AJAX3 pe

Japta vis Moji-Fer ST. ALBANS,

31

Toanne Por KHAI

HAI DU Shanghai. and North Chins-Per

STENTUR, 5 p.m.

Fort Bayard-Per CHUESON, 5 pm. Pakhoi and Haiphong-Per CHONGVA

5p.th

SATURDAY. September 18. Japan via Nagasaki, Canada, United

PRĊITIS MITCHELL LEWIS

“JACQUES-6×aSILVËR NORTH” -

6 parts.

THONGKONG THEATRE. T

TO-NIGHT!

TO-NIGHT I

HAZEL DAWN

IN

2511,

"THE MASQUERADERS”

FEARSOME ANIMALS.

THEATRE

DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES.

The hog-nosed snake is only one of

States, Central and South HIDEOUS HARMLESS INSECTS. America EUROPE vis SAN FRANCISCO Per TJISON- -DARL Registration 11.45 am

Letters 12.50 p.m. Shanghai, North China and Japan vis Kobe-Per GREGORY AFCAR, Zp.m. Shaoghal, and North China-Per TRAN,

5 p.m.

a great number of creatures that may be said to live on their looks.

The harmless reptile, which terri- Swatow, Shanghai and Ford China-a cobra, has its counterpart in the fies its enemies by pretending to be

SUNDAY, September 19,

Per TJIBODAS, 9 m MONDAY, September 20

Straits,

Bangrok, Ceylon, Mauritius,

:

English puss moth.

"The puss moth, when approached,

L Marques, South Africa withdraws its bead into its first body India via Dhanushkodi,- Egypt

B

& EUROPE I MARSEILLES ring. In the upper part of this ring -Per YOKOHAMA MARU.

Registration 9.45 am. Letters are two intensely black spots

10.30 am.

TUESDAY, September 21.

Per SHANTUNG, 9am.

bling eyes, and the whole

*Swatow and Bangkok-Per KAN- Amoy, Shanghai sod North China is that of a large flat face possessing a pericly fearsome expression. To CROW, 11 8.m.

add to the malignity of its looks, the Swatow, Amby and Formoss via Ke-creature extends two feelers from its lang Per AMAROSA MARU, mail which, waving in the air, have a

II a.m.

HATCHING, I m Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Per nasty suggestion of stings.

The elephant caterpillar, employs WEDNESDAY, September 23 -similar tactics, and manages so strong. Philippine Islands, Australia and Newly to counterfeit, the appearance of a Zealand vis THURSDAY 18-6ake that even fowls are afraid of LAND-Per TANGO MARU. Registration 8.45 am. Letters it. As for sparrows and chaffinches, 9.30 4.3.

Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, Yet, like the puss moth, the elephant they will not go anywhere near . L. Marques, South Africa, India caterpillar is entirely harmless, and via Dhanushkodi, Egypt and

Straits,

“EUROPE VI SU Per possesses no means either of offence. MENTOR, Begistration 9.45 or defence. am. Letters 10.20 x m.

BOTAL

The Season in Hongkong

of the .

BANDMAN

COMEDY COMPANY

will commence.an

SATURDAY, September 18,

with

"NOTHING But The TRUTH”

From the Savoy Theatre London.

Acknowledged by the press everywhere as the most exhilarating comedy recent times.

Prices: $4, $2 · & $1. (Naval & Military half price).

Plans at MOUTRIE'S.

FIRE CALL.

DASH TO WANCH

The coral snake of South America, The Parcel Mail will be closed banded brilliantly with red and black. Filippins Lalands-Fer TAMING, 2p.m. is a most deadly reptile. In the same

-on Tuesizy, Zist #ept. at 5p.m. THURSDAY, September 23. tropical Forests is found another snake Swato, Amoy and Formoss via Taka- which so exactly resembles the coral

Per SOSHU MARU, 9.

Brake that it is almost impossible to Shanghai and North Chins-Per SUN tell the two apart. Yet the latter has

NING, 10 am Shanghai, North Chica, Japan vis no poisen tangs at all, and but for Baganki, Canada, United its deadly appearance would have little States, Central and South chance in the fierce struggle for life America and EUROPE is which goes on unceasingly in those town soon after 2 pm, when two VANCOUVER, BC-Per EM

PRESS OF ASIA. Registration sweating junglés. 9.45 am. Letters 10.30 sm. FRIDAY. September 24.

Swatow, Amoy and Focchow-Fer Hat

Swatow and Straits-Fer CHENGTU,

BONG, 1. SUNDAY, September 26.

SONLY A CHIMNEY ALIGHT.

Some excitement was caused in

The swallow-tail buttery has fire engines were seen speeding gained its name from the long-forked towards Wanchai. From enquiries.

and in no way resembles the malt. appendages which the male wears on made at the Central Fire its wings. The female has no fail, Station, it was learned that a call She is also of much slower flight

was received to Swaton Street, To compensate for these disadvanWanchai. lang, Shanghai, North Chins tages she has gradually assumed the On arrival there, however, it was Japan via Nagamici, "Canada, appearance of the helicon butterfly, discovered that the trouble was a *United States, Central, and an insect so nauseous that no bird or small chimney fire which was South Ameries and EUROPE Fzard will ear it.

$3.0

THURSDAY, September 30. Philippine Islanda. Formos vis Kee

Tia". VICTORIA B.C. — Fer KATORI MARU, 10 a.m.

To-day may be the day of the incensed. It was not playing Shanghai, North Chins, and Japan via of mantis, assumes the exact appear. saller, but tomorrow will certainly Moreover, the tendency was for |be the day of the “auriliary. "

Already in busy barbours and on criminals with the same brush and magistrates and judges to tar all quiet rivers one sees the exhae and to regard them all as in the same hears the pop pop of marine motori coming from picturesque sailing ships went up with a bound.

dangerous category.

Another tropical insect, a species extinguished by the police before the

brigade arrived," Kobe Per KIRANO MARU, ance of a pink flower, and so remains -30 2.3

wwmolested.

Harmless insects manage to look sponcience bearing vessel's name exactly like wasps or hornets. We citizen, was fined $15 by Capt. Row- ZA. B. Vaddock, an American have several instances of this kind in botham in the Third Court, Sinfa England, while in North America pore, on Sept. 6 for failing to register.

Punishments

as they glide over the surface of the A vendetta was declared Frofes

water

Clean, economical, liquid-fuel-is for the armed raiders, and one or sof Dr. G. B. Serie, who was ver.fully mimic various kinds of ante.

beginning to challenge everywhere two suspects are kown to have known, and very popular throughout harmless enough in themselves the supremacy of grimy, dirty com received a severe thrashing from men Malaga for many years and with him he hath ears to bear with more peaceful proclivities, pro

The sudden death from pneu-alone there are no fewer than seventy-himself within 48 hours of his residence donal criminals Joined in the hunt monis occurred to Scoband, on Augustave species of spiders which succese in the Colony.

Some creatures there are whuch,

The Earl of Athlone (formerly pend for safety on sheer hideousness. Prince Alexander of Teck

the most likely toLord Chebrist

and eyes to sea and brains to under The man who gets his living by Anugget of gold, weighing 29 Of these you could and no better definitely Plans dabe 22’On Auto 23 3 stand, the issue of that struggle crime has his good as well as he oz. and worth about 2185; was found simple, than the Moloch lizard com

not in doubt.-3. W. Eason, I bad points. He may be wicked and at Kamarooka, near Chairman of the British ship Owner's

28.51 20.78

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29,75 Association, in the Daily Mailouth, but he often congratulates Victoria, by Peter Hamad Moloch horridus- is its name, and Viceroy of India Lord Birkenhead

Bendigo, on South and West Australia: Further, as she has none of her the Police officer who has been too. The and was made in cultivation anything more horrid one could hardly having declined the space taken up by machinerye dever for him cially bulky steam machinery--the

You will have a harder job next paddock, and was unearthed by a conceive Covered from nose to tail understood that nothi is able to carry more than a power te, old man," he says with dete Dough. The ground has been under with sharp spines and horny warts, be heard of the ship of the same dimensions.

mination, as he goes away to serve OCDAY WE BOL Dously considered and fos appearance is such that no app

cultivation for 40 years, and--the it is a living nightmare on four, legs, 1 friends of the Bat still, in spite of all that has agre

his sentence. been wald, the days, of the -- pre sailing ship are-imperedig. In thấm sonor reitlén are captains and crews chafe which

mping idly at with ✨ for

Director

1990

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