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PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

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DEALERS IN FEILATELIC GOODS, Retraises Books, Toys &c. &

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

H. O. Bax 520,

Hongkong,

THE CHINA 1 MALL.

THE NAME INSURES QUALITY.

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MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1971.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

Hotel Mansions.

Agents for :—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class. English Jewellery,

LONG HING & CO., PHOTO SUPPLIES,

Kodaka and Kodak Films, ds. 85. DEVELOPING PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174. QUIET ROAD CENTRAL, HoxuzDNG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING:-

-THE-HONGKONG HOTSIF"

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

J. E. TAGGABY, MAXARI

FARES FOR PUBLIC

VEHICLES.

CHAIRS.

I-In Victoria, with two Bearers.

Quarter hour...

10 cents

Half hour.20

One hour,

Three hour,

Sit boars

70

Day (8 am to 6p.)$1.00

If the trip is extended beyond Victorie, baif fare ex

Between the hours of 8.30 puu. and ệ to the above fars shall be increased by 50 per centum.

II-Beyond Victoria, with four Beaters. 0.70 cents. $1.00

HODE,

Three hoarsenes paren Six bears.................................................... 1.50 Day (6 s.. to 6 pm) 2.00

III.In the Hill District.

With a Bearers With 4 Bearers,

$0.50

Quarter bour,.0.15 Mbout, * ...(.20

0.40

One hour, 0.30 Two hours, omarrer 0.50 Three hours..... 0.70

0.60

0,80

1,00

Six hours. 1,00

1.37

Day (Ga.m. to 6pm)1,50 -

2,00,

RICKSHAS.

-

1.-In the Island of Hongkong, if engagi in Victoria

Ten minutes,

Quarter hour,

Half hour,

5 cente

90.

>

One hour,

Every Subsequent hour,

Note-If the rickshs be enred within the City of Victoria, and be dis- charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9 p... or be dis- charged to the East of Bay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City | of Victoria after 9 pro. an extra kaffi fan shall be chargeable.

II-In Kuriçon. Quarter host. Half bour.

5 cent

15

20

Every sulquert hoor, 10

III.—Tags Roni,

Twenty cents shall be added

u 4th zile

for each extra hot or part

of an hour if the birer causes

the journey so take longer than

single 75 cents...I bour. return......$100 hours."

Beyond 4th to 6th mile

single $1.20............9 bours return ......$1.50.50.

Beyond 6th to 9th mile-

single...$1.75

return....$2.00

Beyond 8th to 11th mile--

single

$9.00

return ......$2.50 ............7

Fares for journaya beyond the 11th

mile to be a matter of previous arrange

ment in each case.

The fures here set out to apply to ona rickala with three coolie from Tain Sha Tai

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Telephone Na 491.

Hongkong, March 10, 1814

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TERMS VERY MODERATE

COXSTLATION FAIL.

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THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.

IV THE ENIGMA OF THE

YELLOW DWARF.

BY SAKE: ROHMER.

(Continued from Saturday

(COPYRIGHT, 1916)

volver barrel, the man turned and ran swiftly off. I had scarce a glimpse of his pallid brown face ere he was gone, nor did the thought of. pursuit enter my mind. I turned to the old woman, who was dressed in shabby black and who was rear- ranging her thick veil in an oddly composed manner, considering the nature of the adventure that had be- fallen her.

She picked up her basket, and turn

drew well back in the corner of the

The woman with the basket was descending!

"Pull up a few yards beyond !" } } directed.

is, the taxi became stationary. I peered out of the little window 21 the back.

As the car restarted, and passed

direction of Waterloo Road!

The woman was returning in the

Drive slowly back along Warer- loo Road," was "my next order. Pretend you are looking for a fare; I will keep out of sight."

I was borne back again upon my course. The woman kept to the right and, once we were entered into the

"You say that, some one heard the sound of the shot?" I asked sud-ed away. Needless to say I was rather straight road. which leads to the denly.

shocked at her callous ingratitude, for bridge. I again raised the speaking- she offered no word of thanks did nube. not even glance in my direction, but

.

**Several people," replied Bristol; but no one knows, or 'no one will say, from what direction is caine.. I made off hurriedly toward Waterloo hand side is an old woman carrying Pull up. I said. "On the right shall go on with the inquiry, of Road. I perceived, as she passed a basket; fifty yards ahead. Do you course, and cross-examine every soul under an adjacent lamp. that her bas- see her? Keep well behind, but don't in Wyar's Buildings. Meanwhile, ket contained provisions such as lose sight of her." I'm open to confess that I am bear-woman of her appearance would

..

ta its history-and 1 feared to sui- mise what the future might hold for

of us.

.

scarcely be expected to purchase. I where, the mysterious assault had Just before she reached the place. When. some ten minutes later. I noted a bottle of wine, a chicken. taken place, the woman crossed the passed out into the noise of Water and a large pine-apple.

road and disappeared from view. loo Road, I leir behind me, an ER- The nationality of the assailant from solved mystery and took with me a the first had marked the affair for no-crown into the man's hand; and ran 1 leaped out of the cab, thrust half- great dread: for I knew that the quest ordinary onb, and now a hazy notion on to the, corner. The night was of the sacred slipper was not ended. of what lay behind all this began ro

now far advanced and 1 knew that the knew that another tragedy was added come to me.

chances of detection were thereby Keeping well in the shadows on the incressed. opposite side of the way, I followed have abandoned her fears, and I saw But the woman seemed to

the woman with the basket. Deep in thought respecting the in-came out into Waterloo Road; crossed ly past the lamp beyond which a short She her just ahead of me walking resolute- explicable nature of this latest mys over and stood waiting by a stopping time earlier she had met with a dan- ery. I turned in the direction of the place for electric cars. bridge, and leaving behind me an arranging a cloth over her basker in gate of a block of dwellings even more I saw het gerous adventure." She entered the ever-swelling throng at the gate of such a way as effectually to conceal Forbidding in appearance than those Wyatt's Buildings, proceeded west the contents. A strong mental excite which that night had staged a dreadful

ment possessed me. A theory, cover- drama. Then, in upon my preoccupationing all the facts of the assault inci-

As the figure with the basket was burst a woman's, sercem!

dent, DOW presented itself, and lost from view 1 erept on, and in tura. I aroused myself from reverie, look-stood back in the shadow, watchful; cautiously entered the evil-smelling ing about to right and left: Evidently in a degree. exultant.

hallway.

ward.

.

I had been walking slowly, for I was A Greenwich-bound car was hailed Footsteps were receding up. the less than a hundred yards from Wyatt's by the woman with the basket.

I could not see the Buildings and hard by the entrance could nor be mistaken, I felt sure, în woman, but from the sound of her

I stone stairs.

When

of an uninviting alley from which my belief that she cest furtive glancestread it was possible to count the thought the scream had proceeded. about her as she mounted the step. landings which she passed.

And as I hesitated, for I had no desire to become involved in a drunk en brawl, again came the shrill scream

"Help! help!"

But, having seen her actually aboard, she had reached the fourth, and 1 my attention became elsewhere en heard her step upon yet another flight, gaged. All now depended upon secur- knew that, she must be bound for ing a cab before the tramcar had pass the topmost floor; and observing every led from view!

precaution, simost bolding my breath in a nervous endeavour to make no slightest sound, 1 rapidly mounted the stairs.

I cannot say if I was the only passer-by who heard the cry; certain- counted it an act of Providence ly I was the only one who responded thiar a disengaged taxi appeared at that to it. I ran down the narrow street, moment, evidently bound for Waterloo which was practically deserted, and Station. I ran out into the road with I was come to the third landing in heard windows thrown up as I passed: cane upraised.

for the cries for help continued,

As the man drew up, I cried:

Just beyond a patch of light cast Quick! You see that Greenwich by a street lamp an" old woman, from car-nearly at the Ophthalmic Hos- whose hand a basket of provisions piral? Follow it. Don't get too near.

this secret fashion when quite dis- tinctly I heard the grating of a key in a lock!

of the landings, at all costs, I thought

Since four doors opened upon each

had fallen, was struggling in the grasp. I will give you further instructions I must learn by which door she en-

of tall Oriental! He was evidently trying to stifle her screams and at the same time to pinion her arms behind her b

through the tube."

I leaped in. We were off... The rocking car shead was round- ing the bend, now, toward St.

tered.

(To be continued.)

THE FRUIT SEASON."

I perceived that there was more in George's Circus As it passed the DOWEircomplaint is sure to be preve this scene than met the eye. And clock and entered South London Road Bent during the fruit season. Be since I carried a short sharp arguit stopped. I raised the tube. ment in my pocket I hastened to ad- .* Pass it'slowly 10 vance, it w

|ware to tres a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand. Then I Chemists and Storekeepers.

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